Chapter 37 NO0025: Why didn’t it explode?

Author: Sevenfold Body

Chapter 37 NO.0025: Why didn’t it explode?

Although now may not be the best time, with both of his arms disabled, this is probably the only chance.

The opponent was obviously a prosthetic type specialized in close combat, or at least a street warrior who had been practicing swordsmanship since he was old enough to wear crotchless pants.

Although I really don't want to admit it, my hand-to-hand combat skills are far inferior to those of the opponent... If I continue to fight like this, I will definitely die.

The moment before he realized that his arm was about to be chopped off, the veteran's eyes became void - as if his soul had been pulled out of his body.

Immediately, the "puppet circuit" buried in the body of the giant black man was activated, and the headless corpse stood up twitchingly as if being pulled by invisible threads.

For the "puppet" who has been successfully controlled by himself, losing the head on his neck has both advantages and disadvantages.

Fortunately, the "puppet circuit", the second brain, can completely take over all control of the body without interference in a short period of time - as long as the body has not completely cooled down.

The disadvantage is that the efficiency of this second brain is far from replacing the real brain. Under its control, the puppet can only complete some extremely simple actions.

Moreover, after losing the various receptors on the head, its actions still need to rely on the perception of the controller.

However, for the current situation, this simple action is enough...

The running headless zombie is like a crazy brown bear, carrying almost crazy primitive destructive power.

Jiang Zhou, on the other side, had used up all his offensive power in the moment he thought he had the chance to win, and had no time to turn around to counterattack or defend.

Therefore, after completely cutting off the opponent's other arm, Jiang Zhou felt as if he had been injured by a roaring dump truck. With the speed and power that could make someone reincarnate into another world and become a brave man,

He was slammed against the basement wall and couldn't move.

The plaster on the wall was knocked to the floor, and the smell of rust rushed into his nose.

Even with the reinforced muscle fibers as a buffer, he still felt like several of his ribs were broken.

But this is far from enough to kill him now.

Jiang Zhou could feel that even though the arms of the headless zombie in front of him looked thicker than his waist, the strength of the two sides was actually only about the same.

Previously, the opponent only relied on the huge kinetic energy brought by its own tonnage, plus seizing the opportunity to sneak attack when its sword power was exhausted, to be able to succeed like this.

Once he had his hands free, he could kill a dozen of these stupid, brainless people with a knife without even taking a breath.

It's just that the other party, or the guy controlling the headless zombie in front of him, doesn't want to kill himself through muscles.

The black box on the zombie's chest flashed red light rapidly.

This situation is exactly the same as the previous situation when Raven-66 blew itself up.

Once it explodes, at such a zero-distance contact, it will be a temperature that is enough to burn a person until no ashes are left.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou's hand immediately touched his waist...

At the same time, the veteran of the Lobe Gang didn't even have time to pick up his severed arm after Jiang Zhou was knocked away, and he immediately rolled and crawled away to stay away.

[detonate], [detonate], [detonate]

As he moved away, he kept giving commands to the puppet circuit to self-destruct.

Then, he turned around...

At this moment, the dazzling electric light began to appear out of thin air between the two people.

…………

After Liao Qi left, Booker leaned against the wall and breathed for a long time.

During this period, the self-repair function of the Aegis Type I individual combat module was continuously taking effect. However, because most of the redundant parts were used to build the monomolecular knife for Liao Qi, the current repair progress

Abnormally slow.

It took him a long time to recover to the point where he could stand up and walk with the assistance of a power device.

Limping through the broken corridor, while passing by a certain room, he also saw Xia Hu hiding.

Putting on a stern attitude as a parent, and instructing the naughty child to continue hiding here and not moving, Booker continued to move forward.

And as the combat module continued to be repaired, he was traveling faster and faster.

Until this time, he had almost figured out what Liao Qi said before, that this was a trap used to target him.

In the underground area of ​​the settlement area, military-grade heavy weapons like plasma bombs are very difficult to obtain.

Because if this kind of thing could be circulated at will, it would pose an immeasurable threat to the entire resettlement area itself.

After all, the resettlement area is a super artificial building. Although at the beginning of the design, according to the developer's propaganda, even if the foundation part was hit by a tactical nuclear strike, it would not affect the overall safety of the building at all.

The original resettlement area for people to live in was only the area on the surface. In fact, people at that time still retained some of the humanistic concerns of the old era - the 11th and 12th floors were designed as ecological parks and artificial beaches.

, for all residents in the resettlement area to enjoy the atmosphere of nature and sunshine.

But those developers back then did not expect that the two best-located strata would be divided up and acquired by many companies, and the enclosed land became the private property of the chaebols - they built the company's branches on strata with pleasant scenery.

, it can not only become a benefit for company employees that everyone is jealous of, but also facilitate them to tap into the rich human and mineral resources in the resettlement area. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

They also did not expect that after the end of the Third Cyber ​​War, the resettlement area would eventually have an influx of refugees five times exceeding its designed capacity.

The original seven underground levels are all self-disciplined equipment used to maintain the self-sufficiency of the entire settlement area - geothermal power station, water circulation and water purification system, hydroponic farm, krill and chlorophylla breeding pond. In order to maintain such a huge

For the device matrix, the developers even equipped it with three universal printers!

However, the number of refugees that was five times the maximum capacity design, and the company's rejection of the proposal to transform the 11th and 12th floors into residential areas, finally forced the interim government of the resettlement area to open the underground floors as temporary shelters.

In the end, although those refugees do not have legal status even today, they have actually become residents of the underground class.

In order to make room for refugees, geothermal power stations were dismantled, hydroponic farms were shut down, and krill breeding ponds were filled. In order to avoid a large-scale humanitarian disaster, the refugees even dug two floors down to avoid a large-scale humanitarian disaster.

placement.

But the price of doing so is that the lifeblood of the entire resettlement area is completely controlled by the company. Nowadays, most residents in the resettlement area use the power supply from the fusion bureau operated by the company, and eat food synthesized by the food factory.

Even after the water purification circulation system was contracted to the company for operation, half of the fresh water supply in the resettlement area came from the company's water purification plant.

These basic expenses may be affordable for residents with relatively stable jobs in the resettlement area. But for residents in the underground areas who lack employment opportunities and struggle in the quagmire of poverty and crime, they may not be able to afford it without some crooked thinking.

, I’m afraid it will be difficult to maintain basic livelihood.

As early as thirty years ago, the residents had sold off the valuable equipment underground in the resettlement area. In the later period, some people even began to dismantle the special steel of the main structure of the building and sell it for money...

Although this behavior was quickly stopped by the resettlement area government with thunderous measures, to this day, it is inevitable that some poor and crazy people will take the risk and do this.

There are steel thieves who persevere in destroying the main body of the structure, coupled with countless illegal modifications, digging out two more underground floors, and years of gang fires and damage to the building... Today's Nord resettlement

The area is no longer the engineering miracle it once was that could withstand a tactical nuclear attack and still remain standing.

Or looking at it the other way around, the fact that the Nord Resettlement Area is still standing today shows that it is an engineering miracle...

Therefore, although the underground level of the Nord settlement area used to be known as the "front line of the war zone", most of them only used light weapons and modern cold weapons to "fight". Almost all forces, including the company, would be banned.

Heavy weapons circulate underground.

Even a super enterprise under the Order of Olympus such as Pluto Deep Submersible needs to withstand a certain degree of political pressure when sending disciplinary troops with heavy firepower to the underground area. After all, they have to be in the Nord resettlement area.

They are not the only super enterprises doing business.

All in all, since the Lobotomy Gang can obtain prohibited weapons such as plasma bombs, it is enough to prove that there must be something huge standing behind the opponent.

Therefore, the opponent's attack on Chiron's House was definitely not a whim, but the product of careful planning.

Raven-66, a depth 3 adjuster, may be considered a figure in the Lobotomy Gang, but in the eyes of those beings who want to deal with them, he is just a disposable figure that can be discarded at any time... maybe even a chess piece.

It doesn’t even count.

Booker's speed is getting faster and faster.

If even the Raven-66, which is considered a good combat power at the bottom of the settlement area, can be used so casually, then the opponent must have a stronger reserve strength.

And Liao Qi, a young man who has just completed the adjustment and transformation of depth 1 and has almost zero experience in fighting with the adjuster, must be in trouble alone.

While running, Booker felt a familiar trembling sound coming from the direction of the basement, followed by the sound of a plasma bomb exploding.

An ominous premonition crept up his tail spine and into his brain.

Booker shook his head violently.

Now Liao Qi cannot die.

He is the binder of the universal printer's activation authority, the adjuster of Icarus' upgrade path, and besides himself, he is another witness to the mysterious existence of "Paradox"...

If he dies, if he is dragged into the abyss and dark web by "Paradox" again in the future, he will not even have teammates with whom he can discuss countermeasures.

Thinking of this, Booker hit his head in frustration.

Was his head blown up by a plasma bomb earlier?

Just gave him a knife and left him stunned?

Just because he said "For Icarus"?

What was going on in my mind at that time?

Touched? Passionate? Trusted? Guilty?
To be continued...