Chapter 76

When Xu Jiu left the strange machinery shop, the cart was full of newly purchased items.

The store manager's refining array scroll is also among them.

Don't get me wrong.

Although she attached great importance to this scroll, Xu Jiu did not buy it by force, but bought it at a price much higher than the original price. At the same time, she also entrusted the store manager to continue to help her purchase.

After all, the black market is full of counterfeit goods. If there is no reliable channel to buy this kind of thing, it is too much money.

The latter is happy to accept this. Anyway, after the test just now, his idea has been disillusioned. He would like to change hands and make a profit from this chicken rib scroll.

As for the intelligence of the refining array and its connection with the relics in the special area, the store manager doesn't know much. Most of them are the news spread outside, but they have completed their agreement.

Moreover, these news is undoubtedly of great significance to Xu Jiu, so Xu Jiu gave a 11% discount when buying other things later

However, this price is not a loss in Xu Jiu's view, because the things sold in this strange machinery shop are really of great help to him.

Source energy equipment!

This is the general name of the three pieces of equipment sold to Xu Jiu by the store manager, and also represents a kind of special equipment that is gradually emerging in the pioneer team.

It has been said before that the magnetic field environment in the special area will hinder the operation of scientific and technological equipment. The more intelligent things are, the less they can play a role in it. In most modern individual combat weapons, the powerful equipment, such as power armor, will basically involve intelligent systems.

This contradiction seems to have no solution in the past. However, with the exploration of specific areas, they have found a crystal officially called source stone in some specific areas.

In fact, Xu Jiu had seen this kind of thing in Chengzhai before.

Yes, the spar used by Colonel dunfei for strange objects is a high-purity source stone.

The specific nature of this ore is very complex. Xu Jiu has no interest or energy to study it carefully, but one thing is certain that this source stone is a very special new energy!

At first, humans only used them for the charging of specific wonders. However, with the passage of time, the source stone energy extraction technology has been rapidly developed and continuously improved under the research of scholars day after day

Although the large-scale application has not been popularized due to the small number of source rocks and high mining difficulty, they have been used to power some special equipment in the hands of some people, and the application of this kind of equipment in special areas will not be hindered.

Of course, the price is definitely not low.

It was evening when the two people who completed their procurement in Huanshi and black market met.

Vanessa wanted to return to Yu Sui town first, but she was finally dragged by Xu Jiu to the restaurant in the middle-level area on the grounds that she could see everywhere. Instead of rushing on, she might as well watch while eating and learn about the situation as soon as possible.

No way. At other times, Vanessa left.

There was only one car out of the car, and Xu Jiu didn't want to run to the wasteland to drink the northwest wind at dinner time.

Not to mention that the northwest wind is mixed with broken snow. You don't have to think it's delicious!

Fortunately, Yu Sui town was very safe and didn't need Vanessa to go back immediately, so they simply put their things in the car and then find a place to have dinner.

Compared with the upper and lower floors with large markets as the core, the middle-level area of the trade city still focuses on entertainment and catering, with many patterns, and Xu Jiu came for this.

It's always a little greasy to eat the meat of alienated animals all day. It's just for a change.

"Unexpectedly, there are craftsmen who can make source energy equipment in the trade city. Such people are also the object of competition among major forces in the static city."

Relying on Vanessa sitting by the window, Cha frowned and looked through the information that the bureau had just sent to her mobile phone. She didn't have time to look at it before. At the same time, she responded to Xu Jiu about the strange machinery shop.

"Come over all the items on the menu on this page. You actually have lobsters here. Are they serious lobsters... Or those in the special area? Interesting. Let's try two."

Xu Jiu finished ordering, handed the menu to the waiter next to him, heard Vanessa's words, and then asked,

"Listen to your tone, can the different tune bureau be equipped?"

"Of course, it's just that the personnel configured are different. I and the team you saw in the stronghold are responsible for affairs outside the special area, and the characteristics of source energy equipment are doomed to be more applied to the exploration of the special area. It's a waste of resources to put them in our hands."

Outside the special zone, although source energy equipment is also unique, it is still a little less meaningful compared with the mature modern weapon technology.

"I see. What about the formation? What's the extent of the internal research on this kind of thing?"

Finally, Xu Jiu didn't want to miss the opportunity to test openly.

Referring to the refining array, Vanessa, who had not raised her head, suddenly looked up at Xu Jiu, as if she was thinking about something. After a few seconds, she said,

"I don't know much about refining formation. Some of them are secrets inside the Bureau. I have no right to tell you. I can only say that such strange marks seem to have a great connection with the builders of relics in the special area. At present, several large organizations in the static City, including the official government, are investigating them."

Vanessa is undoubtedly a public-private person. She has a clear boundary between what she can say and what she can't say.

"It seems that there are many things hidden in the relics of the special area..."

Xu Jiu doesn't want Vanessa to steal information for herself, and whether the latter wants it or not, this behavior is not what friends should do, so she just leaned back on her seat and whispered to herself.

"At present, refining array largely belongs to the category of archaeology. Although it is rumored that it seems to contain mysterious ability, there are countless similar things in the special area. Why are you suddenly interested in this kind of thing?"

For most people who don't know about refining array, this kind of thing really doesn't deserve attention. It's like some antiques unearthed in archaeological sites. It's certain that they have research value, but if there's any function worthy of attention, it's bullshit.

"Nothing. I'm just going to a site in a special area soon. Maybe I can meet it, so I'm a little curious."

Xu Jiu didn't intend to continue this topic. After thinking about it, he raised his hand and pointed to Vanessa's mobile phone,

"Is there anything noteworthy in the autopsy report?"

"The body... See for yourself."

Compared with what refining array or source energy equipment, this topic obviously makes Vanessa care more, but she doesn't seem to know how to describe it. She turns her hand to push the mobile phone to Xu Jiu.

Looking at the autopsy chart on the screen, Xu Jiu's expression can be perfectly explained only by the picture of "subway, elderly, mobile phone".

Xu Jiu has not seen bloody or strange scenes. Even in the face of those disgusting parasitic animals, he can calmly drink nutritional soup, but the picture in front of him really challenges his limits.

The worms' control is cut out of the chest and abdomen, and there is no * * * human organ at all. Instead, it is a dense flesh and blood chamber, full of unhatched insect corpses and broken membranes.

He can't be called a man at all. He's more like a walking humanoid nest!

"Gee, can't you say in advance that you've seen this disgusting thing? How can you let me eat later?"

Hurriedly pushed the mobile phone back. Xu Jiu covered her forehead and asked Vanessa angrily.

Vanessa didn't answer. She just turned her head and looked at the screen hanging beside the restaurant, on which the ball game in the still city was playing.

Pretend you didn't hear anything!

"How did he move around in this state? You know, when I met him at the top of the valley, this guy was alive and lost so many organs. Why could he keep that state and even have reason?"

Recalling the situation at that time, Xu Jiu was more and more surprised.

"No doubt, the key lies in the insects in his body. I think you should remember the changes that have been caused by parasitic humans. * according to the information available, we have reason to suspect that parasites can coexist with humans and give them a very strong ability under controlled conditions."

"Only parasitize the body, not invade the will?"

There is no doubt that the difficulty of parasitic animals. If this terrible body is combined with human wisdom, the effect is obviously beyond imagination.

Xu Jiu realized this before. The difficulty of those two people is no less than those terrible monsters born in blood eggs.

* yes, except for the worm controllers, the other two people you meet are most likely to get the extraordinary ability through this way, but this is not the most important thing at the moment.

Cross out the photos on the phone screen to show the real analysis report, Vanessa continued,

"Our people extracted some of the dead bodies from the abdominal cavity and compared them with the living parasites that have been captured. * * the result shows that there is no difference between the two. Only the dead bug in the insect control is particularly special."

Xu Jiu raised her hand to stop Vanessa from going on. She looked at the waiter who was coming with dishes next to her. The latter turned his cell phone over and poured himself a glass of juice.

When they left, Xu Jiu reached out to pick up a piece of braised fish and put it into his mouth. He swallowed it and then said,

"You mean the relationship between these parasites is similar to that of ant colonies?"

"Yes, the mother insect itself doesn't have much combat power, but she can control all ordinary parasites. That's why, as long as she master the former, no matter how many insects are hidden in her body, she still doesn't have to worry about being eaten back..."

In the middle of the sentence, Vanessa put down the chopsticks she had just raised, and her expression gradually hesitated,

"What * * means that insect control is only a group of parasitic monsters whenever and wherever possible, and what are these people doing?

The voice fell, and Xu Jiu's expression couldn't help being severe.

He had seen the lethality of parasitic animals at the gathering point of Wushan. If it broke out suddenly in the crowd, the consequences would be unimaginable.

That's exactly the problem.

The dry port of Wushan gathering point is open 24 hours a day. If they want to make terrorist attacks in this way, they just send several humanoid nests to sneak in. Why wander on the wasteland all day?

To put it mildly, the number of refugees on the Wusu wasteland is extremely large, and the attacks made by those people before only killed thousands or even tens of thousands of people. It sounds terrible, but it is nothing for the static city.

You know, the heavy snow a few days ago will freeze tens of thousands of people to death, not to mention the ferocious animal attack on weekdays!

But those people just stare at the people on the wasteland, so there is only one explanation left.

They still have bigger plans. What they are doing now is just paving the way for the next action!

"What on earth is there in the wasteland worth thinking about?"

Biting the end of the chopsticks, Xu Jiu couldn't help whispering to himself. Suddenly, it seemed that he thought of something and said,

"Have you ever checked the situation in the B5 special area? If I remember correctly, these parasitic animals came out of it, didn't they? Since they had been transformed into parasitic animals at that time, it shows that the B5 special area is likely to be the real birthplace of parasitic animals."

"The investigation team has already entered it, but so far no news has come back. The internal environment of B5 special zone is extremely bad, and there is no remote communication. Our people are still waiting outside the security zone."

Xu Jiu can think of it, and the abnormal adjustment bureau can think of it naturally. It's just that B5 special area is so easy to get in and out.

Even if the bureau sent out three elite investigation missions, the progress of the investigation was extremely slow without a clear destination.

"The situation is not clear, and the Bureau has never seen such an enemy focusing on the invasion of the wasteland..."

Thinking of all the things that might happen next, Vanessa lost her appetite and sighed. Her mood was visibly low.

Xu Jiuyi, sitting opposite, was speechless. After a brief hesitation, she wanted to say something, but she saw Vanessa straighten up, first drink the juice in the cup, and then fill the empty cup. Her eyes were staring at Xu Jiu and said in a deep voice,

"Whatever their purpose is, we will win. Those who know what to hide * in the shadow of dirty worms will never win."

The depressed woman just now seems to have never appeared. At the moment, in front of Xu Jiu, it is still the woman who stood at the gate of Yu Sui town government and showed strong self-confidence in the face of public attention.

"Ha *, that's right. The worms will be so little after all. Until the day they really get it, they will be crushed to death."

Xu Jiu picked his eyebrow, pinched the fingernail of his little thumb with his right hand, and grinned.

As the dishes were served one after another, Vanessa picked up her chopsticks again, chatted with Xu Jiu about the next action plan, and ate the food.

When Xu Jiu had enough to eat and drink, they settled the bill and walked out of the restaurant. The street outside was full of lights and wine.

"Mario."

Put her hands in her pockets, Vanessa turned sideways and glanced at Xu Jiu. When the latter looked back, she took back her eyes, just looked ahead and said with a cold face,

"What happened just now is confidential. It's strictly forbidden to spread it, otherwise I won't let you go!"

"Do you mean the parasite or you..."

"Confidential!"

Emphasizing her words again, Vanessa's eyes glanced at the upper left corner for a moment, and then stepped forward.