Foundation: I am recruiting crickets from all dimensions to fight

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Onru paused. "Keep going. Look there."

She pointed at the wall.

"what?"

"Some substance is seeping out of the wall. Has it been there before?"

"No," Onru shook his head.

As the captain approached the wall, the audience finally saw what it was.

I saw that the cracks on the wall were constantly oozing out some kind of thick black liquid.

More tiny creatures were wriggling in the cracks.

At first glance, it looked like oil was flowing out of cracks in the wall.

But take a closer look,

The audience's scalps suddenly went numb.

Because these black things are not oil, but a bunch of wriggling leeches!

"It's a leech!"

Onru pointed to the spot of light illuminated by the shoulder strap light.

She smashed the cracks open.

Suddenly, a small, struggling leech appeared inside.

It gushed out and fell to the ground.

"Well, they are leeches indeed, so that means something."

"It's not a good thing anyway."

During the conversation, the leeches that fell to the ground actually began to crawl towards the team members' feet.

Small leeches crawled into the mud under the team members' feet, seemingly absorbing the substances in it.

Then its size actually grew at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The audience in the chat group suddenly held their breath!

This thing can actually swallow mud and grow?

Everyone subconsciously looked towards the wall.

Some black liquid flowed along the various cracks on the wall surface.

Countless smaller leeches are wriggling in these cracks.

Seeing this scene, the Samsara Squad also realized that something was wrong.

"Onru, what did you see?"

Onru, who was squatting on the ground, seemed to have discovered something. She paused:

"There are things down there, really huge, covering us in the blood of others, these things are like fingers that transmit information to the master-"

She looked at the team members and said, "Catch me a leech."

"what?"

"Are you kidding me?"

"No, catch one for me. There is some kind of induction between them. They are communicating. I want to catch one and see."

The captain rushed through the inner room and grabbed a leech that had fallen to the ground.

As he pulled it out of the liquid,

The leeches struggled and squirmed, and even took a few big bites of his hands.

"Strange." The captain stopped to look at the leech, and handed it to Onru with a strange look on his face.

Onru stretched her left hand toward the leech,

Open your palms,

A sharp, long and slender metal rod was revealed.

Close to the base of the organism's brain.

Seeing this scene,

The audience in the chat group looked at each other in bewilderment.

Is it possible to read the leech's memory through contact?

Isn’t this technology too outrageous?

In the light curtain,

"Okay, let's take a look." Onru adjusted his posture and closed his eyes:

"They heard the incinerators activate, they're hungry, so they come to feed, lots of them. The leader is below us, but I can't see that far."

She paused and said:

"If we can monitor neural activity throughout an entire organism, maybe we can map out where they are located. Let me see if I can do that."

After another pause, she raised the corners of her mouth and said, "Ah, it works. It should be transmitted to your retinas now."

"Well done."

"So this is a map? It seems too distorted." Nanku frowned as he looked at the crooked green frame that appeared on his helmet.

"There's a terrain shift going on. This means that while the structure of the site has changed, it's still in our current reality, it's just extremely unstable."

"Where is the Thresher device?" T-5Munru asked.

"Maybe it has something to do with this area. Here. According to the design logic inferred from the map, there should be an additional wing here, but no leech has ever reached there."

Onru pointed at the map and explained to everyone.

Finally, she pointed to a blank area on the map. "Well, I see the pipeline reaches that area. That's where the Thresher device is."

Looking at the distorted and long map in front of me,

Everyone was silent for a while.

The captain couldn't help but ask, "What about our rescue mission?"

Onru pointed to the deepest part of the map.

"Damn it!"

"What's the quickest way to get there?"

"There are three paths to choose from, each with its own potential dangers. The first is that we can continue along this pipe and go straight to the waste treatment facility on site. This is the longest route, but given the structure of the facility, it will lead directly to our destination. The second path is through another water tank below, leading to this large room."

Onru paused. "The leech is there. I can hear its confusion now. I don't know why this one hasn't returned."

"What about the third one?"

"Go through this area. Strangely enough..." Onru frowned.

"I can hear the leeches moving around the site, noisy and uncoordinated, moving on instinct without much thought. But here, they're all very quiet, moving in and out of…something…but they're all very, very quiet."

The audience subconsciously thought of the endless black rivers in the wall.

Everyone's scalp suddenly felt tingling.

Aren’t all these things hiding in the walls?

In the screen,

The captain also realized that he had to race against time, so he asked, "Which way is the fastest?"

"Article 3!"

The captain made a prompt decision: "Let's go from there."

T-5Nanku looked at the leeches that kept seeping into the wall and smacked his lips in regret. "What bad luck! I thought I could go leech hunting."

"We had plenty of opportunities when we got out, now we have to rescue these people quickly."

As he spoke, the captain looked at Onru Onru and asked, "Will these leeches enter the research wing where the survivors are?"

"Yes, there is a lot of blood on site, but it's not all warm. It will be here soon."

Upon hearing this,

The audience in the chat group also became anxious.

Because the Master Chief and the survivors are still there!

In the screen,

The team secretly sped up.

While running,

The spotlights on everyone's shoulders illuminated the entire tunnel.

The sticky black substance covered the surface of the wall and the word "blood" was written all over it.

Onru turned to the left and illuminated several mummies in the corner at the end of the tunnel, their skin oozing with the same liquid.

Even the members of Samsara felt an inexplicable uneasiness.

"Come on, don't waste time." The captain urged.

The team opened the emergency door and quickly entered the stairwell.

The steps above them were intact, but those below were destroyed.

at the same time,

The walls were riddled with cracks through which black liquid seeped.

chah~

Munru fired a flashbang and watched it fall.

After a moment the light flickered slightly, illuminating the ground below.

"How big is this site?" Munru couldn't help asking.

"Site-19 has at least 50 underground floors and no fewer than 80 separate wings. Based on what we know about Site-13, it's probably at least twice the size of that site, and probably larger. The Euclid containment unit alone is as large as the entire Site-81."

Hearing this,

The audience all gasped.

Only then did they have a rough idea of the size of the site.

The thought of not only having to run to the deepest part, but also bringing out a group of unarmed researchers,

The audience just felt their throats go dry.

“This means that something worse may happen that no one knows about.” T-5Munru’s face was solemn.

"I suppose so. 240" After saying that, Captain Irantu jumped up.

Bang!

It landed right near the flash bomb.

His leg implants absorbed most of the impact.

The other members followed closely behind.

At the bottom of the stairwell was a door leading to another hallway, and the team went inside.