MTL - The System is Four Years Ahead of Schedule, But Weird is Still a Cub

Chapter 135 "LiXiang Type II Armor (Red Mist Form

Recently, there have been quite a few changes in the research department. After Li Xiang became the research director, Deng Yuqi also assigned many new people to him.

Li Xiang’s laboratory was also transferred from Laboratory 3 to Laboratory 1, which is the largest. Because he was responsible for too many things, Deng Yuqi even assigned Laboratory 2 to him.

When Shen Ge went to Laboratory No. 2, a total of thirteen people, including Li Xiang and Zhu Li, were crowded in the laboratory, surrounding a two-meter-high cylindrical glass culture tank.

Shen Ge put on the laboratory's exclusive protective clothing and walked in. When he took a closer look, he saw that the group of people were studying the heads floating in the culture tank.

This head is none other than the head of the young man who was beheaded by Shen Ge in the normal state of the twelve leaders.

At this time, the broken part of the head and neck was covered with a layer of red mist. His eyes were open, but there were only whites and no pupils in them, which looked a bit scary.

"What's going on? Are you alive?" Shen Ge asked standing behind the crowd.

When everyone turned around and saw Shen Ge coming, they greeted him politely.

 “Shen Tan.”

Li Xiang assigned tasks to others, and soon, only he and Shen Ge were left in Laboratory No. 2.

 Hey guys, internal injury recovery pill!

Li Xiang smiled and said: "Speaking of which, I have to thank your friend. He is indeed an expert in pharmacology. Without the data he provided, I wouldn't have made this thing so quickly. Gong Quan, Zhou Jing, you go to Experiment No. 1 The research room continues the research on the xtpa-9684 treacherous equipment."

“Indeed.” Li Xiang nodded in agreement.

"You also mentioned that when the twelve leaders are fighting, they would rather give up using the red mist to protect their heads and limbs, but rather protect their bodies tightly. So I'm wondering if his body is just an 'empty shell' ’, or a piece of treacherous equipment? His true form hides in this piece of treacherous equipment and controls his body. His head, hands, and feet are actually all treacherous equipment."

"This 'heart'... let's call it a heart. It should be a part of a certain weird body. The weird ones I'm talking about are not the people of the twelve branches, but the real weird ones. Based on my research and speculation for more than a month, combined with the sea Judging from the report of the Haiya Research Institute, the leader of the twelve branches was a member of the Haiya Research Institute and hid some strange corpses after the experimental accident."

“Then let’s make a long story short.” Li Xiang said calmly.

Shen Ge suddenly said: "The leader and the ancestor merged strangely, and the cadres of the twelve branches were transplanted with cell tissue from the leader. Although the human body rejects weirdness and strange abilities, it does not rule out 'half-human, half-weird' human tissue."

What's more, neither Tang Jinze nor Li Xiang can confirm its existence. Even if it has an impact, Shen Ge can only accept it.

“And the parts transplanted by the other members of the twelve branches, that is, the red tumors you see on their necks, came from the leader.”

Of course, the main purpose is to cooperate with Li Xiang to upgrade his armor.

Li Xiang nodded: "Yes, the headquarters has completed the anatomy of 'You', and indeed no red mist strange energy was found on him. However...according to the test results of the report, You's human tissue and strange tissue are still Separate, in other words, humans still reject the weird.”

 “That’s such a pity.” Shen Ge sighed.

For the past month, Shen Ge has basically been spending time in the research department. The euphemistic name is to give newcomers more opportunities to practice, but in fact it is just fishing.

Shen Ge struggled and said, "This matter is a long story."

"After several days of video research, the person in charge of the Twelve Branches at the headquarters and I came to the conclusion that this leader became the only one who merged with the weird, or created a 'body' through the remains of the 'ancestral weird' Case.”

With that said, Li Xiang asked a researcher to take out a bottle and hand it to Shen Ge.

"well."

“So what is the difference between this red mist treacherous energy and ordinary treacherous energy?” Shen Ge asked.

“Correct answer!” Li Xiang snapped his fingers.

"In other words, this 'heart' should be the 'first weird thing discovered' as mentioned in the Haiya Research Institute's report, or it could be the second weird thing that the institute found from the ground through weird energy detection."

"We have made many dissection observations and found that there is no normal human tissue structure in the head. In other words, there is no brain, but there is something like a heart that can produce red mist. If the cut-off head is fit together, these red mist The magic will quickly repair the wound."

Shen Ge picked up the small white pill with tweezers and brought it to his eyes to look at it. He then felt in his pocket, took out a small medicine bottle, and poured out one pill.

“Okay.” The researcher who was named responded, picked up his things and walked towards the next door.

Li Xiang glanced at Shen Ge and explained the question he just asked: "The current situation of this head is a bit complicated. At the biological level, it is not only 'alive', but it is also an independent individual, one that does not require other parts of the body. , an independent individual with only one head.”

Since the existence of the system could not be confirmed, Shen Ge simply did not think about it. After all, so far, the system had not caused any negative impact on his body.

“I am a super soldier of the M78 Nebula. I have awakened the mystery-killing system in my body and can accurately capture the location of the mystery.” Shen Ge looked serious.

The two of them sighed together, feeling a little regretful that they couldn't find anything from Shen Ge.

Li Xiang replied: "According to what you said before, you chopped off the leader's head twice, and this one was chopped off when he was in his normal state. Except for a very few creatures, most creatures will have their heads chopped off. Death. Unless, this head is not a head, but something like a gecko's tail."

"This is the 'self-healing bug' extracted from the carrion of the sly rat. Do you still remember it? I recently extracted the red mist sly energy from this head and fused it with it to enhance its healing ability. I combined it with After the drug treatment, I got this thing." Li Xiang picked up a small tray from the table next to him. On the tray was a small white pill the size of a fingernail.

"I remember you said that the leader of the twelve branches is close to two meters three. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a researcher to be that tall. So he should have been exposed to human experiments and mutated, or... the torso is his." Ontology'."

Shen Ge thought for a while and raised a question: "Assuming your guess is correct, what about the cadres of the other twelve branches? I have fought against several members of the fonts. Apart from their heads and hands, they are actually not much different from normal people. Even if the head is cut open, there is no red mist magic inside, right?"

Li Xiang made some manipulations on the console. Two robotic arms reached into the culture tank and controlled the cutting machine to cut open the head of the monster in the tank, revealing the red mist ghost energy inside.

“The weird tissue on ‘You’ is also different from the ordinary weird ones. After comparison, it was found that it came from the two heads you chopped off.”

"Everyone has left, can you tell me now where you found this pill? After my testing, the ingredients of these two pills are almost the same. If you didn't give it to me... I would even suspect that it was me. It's done." Li Xiang said seriously.

Shen Ge frowned when he heard this: "What do you mean?"

The bottle contains two blood-red leeches, which are somewhat similar to the "worm leeches" that Li Xiang extracted from the body of the sly mouse.

Then, Li Xiang injected several more medicines into the culture tank. The red mist in Jui's head slowly dissipated. In the center, there was a fist-sized thing that looked like a brain, but was somewhat similar to a heart. The red object is beating "plop-plop".

“Does it look familiar?” Li Xiang raised his eyebrows at Shen Ge.

"well."

Li Xiang adjusted his glasses: "You told me this before, but I forgot to tell you. I believed it, otherwise I wouldn't have let you cooperate with me in doing so many examinations. But unfortunately, all the research reports and experimental results confirmed , There is nothing related to weirdness in your body, at least, it cannot be detected with current scientific and technological means."

 “Shen Tan.”

Shen Ge was silent for a while, and then looked at Li Xiang with a strange expression: "So the solution you want to tell me about recharging the armor is..."

Li Xiang shook his head: "Unfortunately, you guessed wrong. After the temporary research team created by the headquarters and I came to this shocking conclusion, the superiors and the minister immediately had a call and strictly prohibited us from conducting human experiments. "

"In fact, we have tried to transplant the human tissue of the leader's half-human and half-trickster into mice and some animals whose genetic tissues are similar to humans, but all ended in failure. So the people of the twelve branches should have some kind of special method , or perhaps it was through a lot of 'sacrifice' that we achieved the current results."

"Then how to solve the charging problem of the armor?" Shen Ge is not interested in human experiments. After all, the system problem has not been solved yet. He doesn't want to stuff inexplicable things into his body, let alone the things on the twelve leaders. .

"Watch." Li Xiang continued to control it as he spoke, placing a piece of strange meat with black mist of strange energy into the culture tank.

Then, the "heart" in the head beat thumpingly, and the black strange energy in the strange body was sucked into the heart as if being pulled, and soon the heart "spit out" the red strange energy.

"According to our tests, the 'heart' can absorb trick energy and convert it into red trick energy. The red trick energy is completely harmless to human tissue, similar to a higher-order existence. The most important thing is that this 'heart' 'It can absorb weak treacherous energy that cannot be seen by the naked eye."

"The 'LiXiang Type I Battle Armor' has the memory function of the trick brain and the fusion ability of the trick turtle. I want to integrate this 'heart' into the battle armor, so that it can absorb ordinary trick energy and transform it into red mist trick energy. , to achieve the effect of charging the armor." Li Xiang said.

Shen Ge said: "This is indeed a solution."

"If this 'heart' can be successfully integrated, then your equipment such as the Fire Gauntlets can also be integrated into the armor. Of course, this is just my expectation, and the specific situation will be determined based on experiments. But you In conjunction with my work this month, I have simulated all the rough data, and only practice is left," Li Xiang said.

 Being able to integrate equipment such as the Artifact Arm Armor and the Bloodskin Bag into the armor can save Shen Ge a lot of trouble. He immediately said: "Then what are you waiting for? Let's start now?"

"OK."

However, the specific experimental process was much more difficult than Shen Ge and Li Xiang imagined. The two worked overtime in the laboratory for more than half a month, and finally used up all the strange corpses stored in the containment room in the past two months. Completed the Warframe upgrade—

 “LiXiangII type battle armor”

Its initial state is the same as Type I, which is a black watch. The difference is that it has changed from **** wide to three fingers wide, and the thickness has increased by 0.5 cm. It looks more like a black "protector". wrist". “LiXiang II type battle armor” has three forms—

 One is the split form, that is, different effects of the trick equipment.

 1, shield.

The specific shape of the shield can be controlled by Shen Ge. It is a circular shield with a total area of ​​about two meters in diameter. The shape can be changed as needed. It cannot be "enlarged" anymore, but it can be reduced. After the guile shield shrinks, its thickness will change and its defense will also increase.

 The most important thing is that according to Shen Ge’s choice, it can be attached and condensed on any part of the body, such as arms, back, chest, etc.

  2, treacherous tentacles.

 Shen Ge can control the carrion to cover his arms and turn them into tentacles. In the state of non-full-body covering armor, the length of his arms can reach ten meters, and if one arm is covered, it can extend to twenty meters. But as the length increases, the tentacles will become thinner and thinner, and their strength will also be greatly reduced.

 Through the control of Xiaoqi, you can also use the multi-tentacle state, but the length and thickness will change according to the number.

　　Including his own two hands, Shen Ge can transform into "one head and eight arms".

　　3, weird stomach.

 After upgrading, the stomach can be attached to both hands, which is equivalent to being divided into two. Although the size of the swallowing is doubled, it can swallow two targets at the same time.

If you use the Weird Stomach in conjunction with the Weird Tentacle, the attack distance can be extended from the original five meters to twenty-five meters, and the devouring effect remains unchanged.

 The fourth and fifth forms are sneaky gloves and sneaky boots.

 Shen Ge’s Secret Gloves are different from the Special Strategy Department’s standard equipment, the Secret Gloves. They have an additional feature of “holding on”, and there won’t be much change after the upgrade.

The sneaky boots can double the original maximum jumping height of 8-10 meters by consuming the red mist sneak energy, but the consumption of the red mist sneak energy is very large, and it also requires Shen Ge's body-attached armor. The experiment can only be done under protection, otherwise the body will not be able to withstand the load brought by the jumping force.

 6, gauntlet of devious fire.

 After the gauntlet was successfully integrated into the battle armor, the intensity of the devious fire increased a lot, but the consumption of devious energy also increased. In the state of consuming the red mist's trick energy, the black trick fire turned into red trick fire, which was less powerful, but consumed a lot less trick energy.

 7, sneaky backpack.

 After being integrated into the battle armor, Shen Ge can control the shape of the sneaky backpack at will, and can also switch between black and red. The maximum capacity is not much different from an ordinary backpack. But like the guile shield, it can be attached to any part of the body at will.

For example, Shen Ge turned it into a black shoulder bag and attached it to his back, and put the butcher knife into the bag. When Shen Ge wanted to use it, he only had to tell Xiao Qi what he needed, and he would kill it in the next second. The pig knife will pass through the carrion and the knife will be sent into his hand. No need to throw it casually, the carrion will send it into the bag.

The most important thing is that items placed in the backpack will be shielded by the armor. Currently, the most advanced scanners cannot scan the contents of the bag and can only detect that it is an empty backpack.

In addition to the split form of the "LiXiang II type battle armor", the remaining two forms are the body-attached battle armor form. After integrating the devious heart, even if it is integrated into the seven sub-forms, there will be no additional deceptive power. Consumption, defense power is stronger, and deception energy consumption is greatly reduced.

The previous maximum trick energy capacity was 300%, but after being integrated into the trick heart, it was expanded to 600%. The normal knife damage consumed by the weapon almost consumes no trick energy. For ordinary pistols, submachine guns, and rifles, it takes several shots to reduce the trick energy by 1%. The energy recovery rate is still 10% per hour, which has not changed much.

 There is still not much change in appearance. The whole body is covered with melted rotten flesh. The "villain version" of venom gives people a more disgusting and terrifying feeling.

The third form is a state where the red mist's devious energy is fully activated, converting the black mist's devious energy into red mist, reducing consumption, making the armor enter "violent" mode, and enhancing various sub-state abilities.

As for the appearance... in Shen Ge's words, it's more weird than weird.

　　Two months have passed since the end of the Dajing disaster and the completion of the armor upgrade. In addition to completing the weekly tasks every week, Shen Ge spent most of his time in the laboratory to cooperate with Li Xiang's work.

The successful upgrade of the armor has greatly improved his strength, and the daily survival rewards plus weekly rewards have also allowed his mental power to successfully exceed 600% and complete the level 3 rating!

  【Congratulations to the host for successfully advancing to level 3, you will be rewarded with 1 characteristic enhancement point and system function upgrade! 】

“System function upgrade?” Shen Ge was a little surprised when he heard this prompt. After all, there was no prompt when he upgraded from level 0 to level 1, except that he could see weak ghost energy.

He was given a few strengthening points at levels 1 and 2, and he only discovered the appearance of [vehicle] in the lottery system when he was doing the lottery at the Seoul base.

This time, the upgrade from level 2 to level 3 directly prompted the system function upgrade, which immediately made him curious about what changes would happen.

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  Rating: Level 3

  【Basic attributes:】

 Power 157%;

  Agility 142%;

 Physique 139%;

  Spirit 601%

　　【Characteristics:】

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"Do not move"

 “Intangible”

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【ability】:

 “Invisible mysterious realm (Type I)”

 “Do not leave the mysterious realm (Type I)”

 【Owned sneaky (characteristic) equipment】:

 “LiXiang II type armor* (Classmate Xiaoqi)”

 Pig-killing knife (Characteristic: Not bad)

 Cunning Eye (Characteristic: Invisible)

 Slaying Revolver ("Sneak Energy Magazine" Feature: Unlimited)

Black Bone Dagger

  【System Points】：2369

  【Freely allocated points】: 0

  【Characteristic Strengthening Points】：1

 【Unextracted F-level recovery products】: 13

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Judging from the information panel, Shen Ge did not notice any changes in the system. After opening the system, there were still only three sections: [Panel], [Log], and [Lottery].

“So where did you upgrade the system?” Shen Ge asked.

 After waiting for a long time, there was no response from the system.

"Sigh. It seems that this upgrade is similar to the upgrade from 0 to 1. There should be some kind of change, but you have to discover it yourself." Shen Ge sighed. The system's intelligence was never as good as Xiao Qi's.

 Garbage system!

 …

 “Tan Shen!”

On this day, when Shen Ge was cooperating with Li Xiang on armor research in the laboratory as usual, he hurriedly found the spy Tu Doupi.

Since Tu Doupi and Yang Yuxin joined, Shen Ge's state in the past two months has been somewhat similar to Deng Yuqi's back then. Low-level weird incidents are all handled by them, and only those at level 1 or above will take action.

However, there is still Lin Yin, the scroll king, in the department, so there are one or two strange level 2 incidents occasionally, but Shen Ge's turn is actually not his turn.

Unless the weird materials in the underground containment area are exhausted, Shen Ge will be taken out of the laboratory and search the streets for weird materials.

At this moment, Tu Doupi came to see him. Apparently he encountered a problem that they could not solve.

 “What happened?” Shen Ge asked.

Tu Doupi said solemnly: "While investigating a strange incident, Captain Lin discovered a group of twelve people and followed them all the way to a high-end club in Shiyanqiao. They lost the pursuit, but the existence of a strange space was detected. Captain Lin I’m keeping watch there, and I’ll let you go over and have a look, saying there’s something wrong with that strange space. It seems like... it’s controlled by humans!”

 (End of this chapter)