Steel steam and flame

Trinya stared at her feet. The tan high-top shoes covered her calves and the trousers of the one-piece suit. There was a squeezing feeling on her calves after the metal zipper was fastened. The thick shoes did not give her the weight she expected at the moment. Likewise, the bulletproof clothing inside the one-piece suit, which was like the knight's armor in history, did not. Make her feel the weight.

While my body was relaxed, my spirit of tension and panic in the past few days seemed to be relaxed, especially after I took the silver-white glass bottle and followed Dr. Punos's instructions, wrapping it with a piece of tough thin wire to mount it. When you put it on your chest, the feeling of relaxation will naturally become stronger and more obvious.

But on the other hand, relaxation allows the body and mind to relieve stress, and memories begin to flow. Thinking is not affected by extra trivial matters and mood, and operates automatically and uncontrollably.

Unable to stop it with his own will, the memories that should have been gradually forgotten in the dream became clearer and the details became more prominent. In the first few hours, the original memories became vivid, and when I closed my eyes, I felt like I was back in a dream. Trinya, who had moved to another place and now returned to the hospital, soon discovered that the closer she got to this tent hospital, the higher the frequency with which new images without any memory appeared in her thoughts for no reason.

Until now, she did not dare to close her eyes, forcing herself to keep them open so that her eyes would not be exposed to the possibility of darkness for a moment. Because the darkness seen in the blink of an eye was not pure, thanks to her increasingly keen perception, in the blink of an eye, Trinya saw gray-white flowers and twisted tree roots covered with mold-like mucus. , saw corpses wrapped in flower cores one by one and held in the air.

She could tell these were new images. From the moment he put on the equipment and armor to when he came to the edge of the drill, the intermittent new images became clearer and clearer, and even his nose could smell the smell of decay. And along with the faint sound of heart beating that seems to be audible, a strange feeling of softness and smoothness can be felt under the feet——

The ground he was standing on turned into a mass of giant snakes that were entangled and twisted together. The giant snakes that were originally in hibernation were quickly waking up.

"Huh..." Trinya gently exhaled hot air, and followed Punos's instructions, occasionally explaining her latest situation and the new sights she had seen.

"It's completely true." The question just now was answered by Adena. Then Adena grabbed Trinya's unusually warm hand and smiled to relieve the tension that was building up. "But even if it is a real scene, there is no need to be afraid. .Punos and I are doctors, but what we do best is deal with what you see."

"Do you still remember what I told you about surgeons?" Adina looked at Trinya, and at the same time released one hand and pulled out the magazine-type pistol assigned to Trinya, and then let He held the cold gun body with both hands and spoke in a declared manner. There was a wonderful melody in his words, "It is cold, but it will bring you the warmth you need. When you feel that something is bringing you coldness, you will Just use it to send warmth. Believe me, everything in your dream is afraid of this warmth."

The syllables of each word Adena spoke deviated from the standard pronunciation, and the connected melody had the feeling of coaxing a child to sleep.

Trinya was not a child, but Adena's words were very effective, and the built-up tension was diminishing.

While the two were talking, the drill and machine had moved away. Other team members drove numerous fixed stakes into the ground, lowered long ropes from the drilled holes, and threw in bright fluorescent sticks.

When a slight muffled sound came out, but the wind with a faint mist rushed out of the drill hole and spread, everyone put on their masks, and Adena, who was quick and agile, also helped Trinya put it on.

"The situation is not pleasant." Shanerna, who was looking down at the hole, retracted her gaze and said to Kara beside her, "The underground holes are roughly connected into cavities, and the pollution has sporulated to a slight degree. The underground temperature is still However, thermal imaging at thirty degrees will not cause any hindrance."

"Are you sure you want to go down and have a look?" Shanerna was sure. Seeing Kara nodding, she made a gesture, and the other members followed the long ropes and descended from the holes one by one, and went to the hollow cavity under the ground to start this One node exploration.

Trinya was placed in the last few positions, sandwiched between Shanerna and Adena, and Shanerna personally led her down. Adena's hypnotic suggestion just now was not effective, and Trinya did not show any troublesome movements. It can be called docile and cooperative. But this appearance is even more worrying, because its increasingly rational appearance has an unreal feeling.

A woman with the characteristics of a surgeon has just appeared. It is speculated that she has some connection with the twisted tree root, and may have always been affected by the node. However, his apparent calmness is still doubtful. Trinya like this reminded Shanerna and Adena of children who would not cry after falling but could stand up on their own. This is not a sign of toughness.

At least in their remaining impressions, they were just pure children when they were children. They were exposed to firearms, autopsies, etc., and they were all approaching the eight or nine-year-old age group.

There is mist remaining in the hole, and the light from the light yellow fluorescent stick is blurry. Only a few tens of meters down, the first hollow appeared. Several hanging tree roots still maintained their original appearance as tree roots. They drilled out of the soil and continued to extend diagonally downwards.

More than 20 people landed on the nearby thick roots one after another. The gray-white mucus on them acted as an adhesive. Together with the short nails on the high-top shoes, it was enough to provide the strength to stand firm. When the fluorescent sticks were thrown in all directions to dispel the surrounding darkness, the team started moving again and headed towards a "ground" made of tangled tree roots that should exist further down. There would be the gray-white flowers of Trinya's dream, and the bulging cores held aloft.

The team is like squirrels on a big tree, showing stability and flexibility. However, within a few minutes, the tree roots became more and more twisted, and when the hole drilled above the head was also blocked by the intertwined tree roots, a silvery white light suddenly came from behind, causing the team to stop immediately, and they all turned around to make a warning gesture——

Trinya didn't know when to stop and stood quietly on the spot. Silver-white light came from her chest, which seemed to wrap it up. Shanerna, Adena and others immediately moved away, observing the sudden unexpected situation from about ten meters away.

Before anyone could speak, Trinya's bright red cross pupils suddenly lit up, causing most people to raise their guns. Then, it was Kara who looked over in the middle of the team and made a suspicious voice.

"Um?"

"Miss Kara, you look... still very healthy..."

",,," Kara was speechless, paused, and then sighed, "You can talk to Miss Hilary more and learn how to talk naturally with women."