"Gou Qian’er! Gou Qian’er! Can you hear me!"
Zeng Wu shouted towards the Virtual Cabin.
"Cangtian! Cangtian! Let us out! We’ve already been decontaminated!"
Gou Qian’yi roared angrily at the surveillance cameras.
Unexpectedly, the first team cooperation of Cangtian Team 3 encountered such an extreme situation, leaving both of them at a loss.
Chen Xuantian leaped into a corner, dashed up to the wall corner, supporting himself against the wall, silently observing the situation in the Virtual Cabin. His heart was as cold as a fishmonger in the supermarket.
Although he didn’t know exactly what happened, given the circumstances, he was somewhat prepared for something to go wrong with Gou Qian’er.
After all, after conducting experiments for so long, Chen Xuantian had his own suspicions about what this quantum communication project was all about.
The project was named for communication, but in reality, the only ones truly communicating were probably him and Tie Dan. From the other participants’ experiences, that Virtual Cabin was more like a fax machine or a printer, transmitting things unidirectionally.
Or rather, this was the project’s original goal: to perfectly align with the deviation from the original, seamlessly exporting things from one universe to another in order to grasp knowledge and information unknown in this world or elsewhere.
As for them, Fang Su Fifth Zeng, Zeng Liu, and Gou Qian’yi’er, they were merely consumables for replication, like paper in a printer.
Now, Gou Qian’er seemed to be experiencing some sort of data transmission error.
On her sheet of paper, there was supposed to be an ’imprint’ of a fierce woman with a tattoo of Xuan Nu on her back, but due to the influence of Heng Mountain White Jade, the error generated ’Ning Lingshuang’. And now, the deviation was growing larger, and it was entirely possible that it could print something else entirely.
After all, at that time, in that place, the things illuminated by the White Jade were not limited to Ning Lingshuang...
A loud crash interrupted Chen Xuantian’s thoughts! Gou Qian’er’s Virtual Cabin was being hammered by monstrous power from inside! The cabin’s lid was deformed and twisted! Half of the lid was suddenly blown off! Purple liquid sprayed out from the cabin, mixing with the dark blue LSL solution in the lab, instantly erupting into a mass of steam!
Zeng Wu, although unsure of the exact situation, quickly assessed it, shouting loudly, and leaped onto the cabin lid!
Another loud crash! The lid was nearly blown off again! It nearly threw Zeng Wu off!
Seeing that the door wouldn’t open, Gou Qian’yi quickly decided, grabbed a handful of LSL solution from the floor, smeared it all over himself like mud, then leaped onto the lid, gripping the cabin firmly alongside Zeng Wu, acting as human locks.
However, Chen Xuantian made no response, completely motionless, hiding himself in the thick smoke. Silent and motionless, like a humanoid statue.
As expected, they couldn’t block it. The cover was blown off entirely! Zeng Wu and Gou Qian’yi were thrown off, their hands scraped and bleeding!
The purple liquid from the Virtual Cabin gushed out, flooding the laboratory like a tide, quickly reaching waist-deep. More intense, scorching steam spewed forth, burning Chen Xuantian’s trachea, causing tears to stream down his face. Unable to see, unable to smell.
Yet he could hear it, something had emerged.
"Thump, thump, thump..."
Amidst the dense smoke, something emerged from the Virtual Cabin. It was undeniably not Gou Qian’er, or Ning Lingshuang, and judging by the sound of splashing liquid, it certainly wasn’t a bipedal humanoid.
"Splash, splash, splash... splash, splash, splash..."
That thing crawled through the lab, dripping with the purple and blue liquid.
"Huff, huff... huff, huff... huff, huff..."
It sounded like it needed to breathe, but perhaps not, possibly just resonant sounds of air and liquid from holes in its shell...
"All together now! Hah!"
"Crack, crack, crack!"
It seemed like Fang Su Fifth Zeng had charged in first. Perhaps he had charged straight in with a jab, seemingly hitting something, and then nothing more.
The crisp sound of cracking was likely the sound of a broken limb, as apparently, his near-superhuman physical reinforcement was of no use, and whatever emerged from Gou Qian’er’s Virtual Cabin, its physical strength was clearly far superior.
The following screams implied Zeng Wu was instantly crushed by that entity, and the cracking sounds indicated bones—arms, legs, or maybe the spine being twisted apart.
It couldn’t be fought head-on...
Gou Qian’yi shouted in anger, but there was no echo.
"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!"
It sounded like that thing struck nearby Virtual Cabins, and the person hiding behind quickly made their escape...
No, it wasn’t a person escaping, too lightweight...
"Splash, splash, splash... splash, splash, splash..."
Whatever it was escaping, the thing coming out of Gou Qian’er’s cabin didn’t chase it.
That thing headed towards the overturned Virtual Cabin.
Soon came Gou Qian’yi’s screams, indicating he was still crouched at the previous position. It seemed he attempted some trickery to divert the creature by hiding in the Virtual Cabin and feigning ignorance, but it didn’t work, he was discovered.
So it seems that cunning tactics would not work either, and whether it could be ’seen’...
"Splash, splash, splash... splash, splash, splash..."
Then the sound drew closer, the thing splashing through the water, heading directly for Chen Xuantian.