After completely abandoning Yu to Luoyu, Chu Guang disappeared and went somewhere else, never showing up on the B6 floor again.
And at this moment on the B6 floor.
Luoyu, who had no experience in raising babies, was staring at the mother body that was modeled after him, staring at it for a long time.
Anyway...
Let's just give it a new name as usual.
Luoyu cleared his throat and spoke.
"Hey, can you change its name?"
Yu tilted his head.
"Yiwu?"
Luoyu: "For example... how about calling it Yiwu?"
Yu: "Yiwu?"
Luoyu: "..."
There's no way to communicate at all!
Luoyu sighed in giving up and gave up the idea of changing this guy's name.
"That... Yu."
"Yu!"
Hearing his own name, the tentacles floating on the back of Yu's head danced happily.
It can be seen that he likes this name very much.
Luo Yu thought for a while and proposed a compromise.
"Xiao Yu, how about your nickname Xiao Yu from now on?"
Compared to a one-character name, this nickname is easier to pronounce and more recognizable than before.
"Xiao... Yu!"
It was still a little difficult for it to pronounce it continuously, but it looked like it understood what I meant.
Luo Yu smiled and rubbed its round and smooth head.
This little guy...
It turns out that he can understand what I say.
At this time, a mean voice suddenly came from the direction of the elevator entrance.
"Why is your nickname longer than your real name?"
Looking back, it was indeed Mosquito. Seeing that playful look, Luo Yu rolled his eyes.
"What do you care."
Mosquito walked up with a smile and hooked his shoulder in a friendly way.
"Haha, let's not talk about this. Come on, I'll show you a treasure."
"Wait, what are you going to show your dad?"
Luo Yu got nervous when he heard that this guy was going to show him another treasure.
According to his past experience, anything that Mosquito made casually should be of some use, and anything that was made seriously is probably useless.
These are all lessons learned from blood!
"Let me make it clear first, the task given to me by the manager is very critical. I have to be a little bit more cautious these days. Do you want to find someone else to test it?"
When Mosquito heard this, he was immediately unhappy, and his serious eyebrows stood up.
"Gan! What do you mean by this? Is the accident rate of the things I made high?"
Luo Yu's face showed a subtle expression.
"How dare you ask such a question."
After saying that, he took Xiao Yu to the elevator, intending to take the little guy outside to get some fresh air.
Seeing this, Mosquito became anxious and hurriedly followed.
"Hey! Wait, give me a chance brother... No, give me a chance brother! I promise you, I won't cheat you this time! Otherwise, you can take a look first. If it's useful, you can take it away for free. If it's not useful, I'll keep it for myself!"
Hearing that it's free, Luo Yu stopped and turned back with a hint of doubt in his eyes.
"Really?"
Mosquito nodded quickly.
"Really! When have I ever lied to you?"
"..."
Although he didn't think Mosquito could make anything good, Luo Yu still followed him with a doubtful mood.
What if?
Mosquito can occasionally make two "god costumes", but the performance is not very stable.
Soon, Luo Yu took Xiao Yu and followed Mosquito out of the shelter and came to the hut in the south of the base.
I saw a humanoid mecha about three meters high standing at the door of the hut.
It has a heavy chest armor and a sharp outline. The two mechanical arms are like Blitzcrank's hands, like big pliers. The connecting parts on the shoulders and back seem to be able to mount other weapons, but they probably haven't decided what to mount, so they are still empty.
It's like a smaller version of "Titan", exactly the same as the illustration hand-painted by Mole Brother on the forum.
Luo Yu was stunned for a few seconds, and then burst out with a swear word.
"I'm blazing!"
Xiao Yu, who was standing next to him, tilted his head and echoed.
"Brazil?"
Luo Yu hurriedly looked at it and said.
"Don't learn this."
Xiao Yu nodded.
"Brazil!"
Luo Yu covered his face with his palm.
Mosquito walked to his side with a smirk and poked him with his elbow.
"Destroyer No. 1, the cost is about 60,000 silver coins, the cost is mainly on steel... How is it? Is this equipment awesome?"
"It's really awesome," Luo Yu stared at the iron lump intently and swallowed his saliva, "I believe you if you say this thing is a power armor... By the way, what is its power supply device?"
Mosquito said bluntly.
"It doesn't have that thing."
"It doesn't have that thing?!" Luo Yu was stunned, and the whole person was dumbfounded, "What do you mean?"
Such a big iron lump weighs at least five or six tons. Without a motor structure to provide external power, it is just a decoration!
Just now he thought it was a metal hydrogen battery function, but the cost of 60,000 silver coins didn't sound like it, so he guessed that it was probably a gasoline engine or solid hydrogen, but Mosquito told him that it didn't!
Damn, a power-type animal can't run in this thing!
"Of course it means literally," Mosquito said with a grin, "I know what you're thinking. Don't worry, this thing is not meant for people to wear."
Luo Yu immediately looked at him alertly.
"What do you mean?"
Mosquito cast his eyes on Xiao Yu standing beside him, his fiery eyes shining, like a weird uncle who kidnapped children.
"Hehe... According to my observation, whether it is the evolved body in Qingquan City or the evolved body in Lost Valley, they essentially rely on the power of the organism itself to provide power! In this case, why don't we just abandon the design of the power components and let the slime mold that can be used by us dominate the entire machine! Use the purest power to drive our armor!"
Luo Yu stared at Mosquito in amazement.
Good guy.
According to this logic, as long as the car owners are all supermen, the car manufacturers can stop selling engines?
Just leave two holes under the seat so that the car owner's legs can stretch out to run, which is both energy-saving and environmentally friendly, and also exercises the body.
But...
It seems to have some truth in what it said?
Although he had never seen Titan in the game, he had seen the "Decay Knight" that corroded power armor.
That thing carried a chain saw, not only did it pierce armor with its hands, but it also killed a kid with one strike when fighting. It was like a human tank. No matter whether it was a T1 or T0 player, it was no match for it. Later, the manager took action and killed it in seconds.
It's not just the Decay Knight. I heard from Lao Bai and others that there are a lot of evolutions of similar strength in the city center. Those garbage from the prosperous era were played out of these slime molds.
Xiao Yu is also a slime mold, and it is a higher level mother than the evolution!
There is no reason why he can't do it!
Thinking of this, Luo Yu's eyes gradually became hot, and he looked at the little guy standing beside him.
"Xiao Yu, do you want to try this?"
"Hmm?"
Yu tilted his head and followed Luo Yu's gaze to look at the iron lump.
It leaned forward to take a look, and the tentacles on the back of its head floated forward, knocking on the hard breastplate, knocking on the arm, and then turned around, shaking its head like a wave drum.
"Ew!"
Perhaps because of the blood connection, although Luo Yu did not understand what it said, he unexpectedly understood its meaning.
Scratching his head, he looked at the mosquito with a subtle expression.
"Uh, it seems to think this thing is food... It's saying it can't be eaten."
"Puff!"
The mosquito couldn't help but spray, and hurriedly walked up to try to explain to Xiao Yu.
"Be good, little friend, this is not for you to eat, you try to get in first!"
Perhaps because he was scared by the impatient look, or perhaps because the way this guy spoke was not like a normal person, Xiao Yu took a step back in fear, and then quickly slipped behind Luo Yu.
"Eh!"
Seeing the pitiful look, the kind-hearted Luo Yu couldn't bear to force it. He looked at the anxious Mosquito and coughed lightly, reminding him.
"You scared it."
"I just want to teach it how to use it, hey... why is it so hard!" Seeing that this guy couldn't understand what he meant, Mosquito was so anxious that he almost scratched his head bald.
Luo Yu said patiently.
"Be patient, its mind is still a child, it doesn't understand anything... Even if you tell it that this thing is equipment, it can't understand what it is used for."
As he said this, he suddenly had an idea in his mind.
Maybe I should take it to the edge of the city to let it learn how to hunt, at least know where the food it eats every day comes from.
This can also be regarded as teaching by example.
It is definitely more reliable than simple indoctrination.
However, Mosquito seemed to have reached a dead end. He gritted his teeth and walked towards the iron lump in disbelief.
"MMP! I don't believe I can't teach this guy! Wait, I'll show you!"
As he said that, he picked up the crowbar, broke the connecting parts behind the Destroyer No. 1, and then put his hands and feet in.
A muffled sound like a bell came out of the iron can.
"Go in like this, hold the two handles inside, and then twist them hard to switch to the sports mode--"
The voice has not fallen yet.
There is only a slight click.
Along with the sound of the hinge rolling, the movable door panel behind is heavily closed, and the locking structure of each joint is also unlocked, and at the same time, an uncontrollable chain reaction occurs.
The body of Destroyer No. 1 slowly tilted forward, and then began to fall faster. The two arms stretched forward were like upside-down green onions, heavily stabbing into the mud. While the upper body was bent forward into an M shape, the head also plunged into the ground.
Seeing the mosquito suddenly kneeling down, Luo Yu was stunned, but Xiao Yu next to him made an interested sound.
"Eh."
Luo Yu coughed lightly.
"... Even if you can eat it now, you can't eat it. You can't eat people."
The floating tentacles drooped down, and Xiao Yu's face was full of pity.
"Eh..."
Strange...
I clearly don't understand what this guy is saying, but there is no obstacle to communication.
But now is not the time to talk about this.
Luo Yu walked to the side of Destroyer No. 1 and shouted to the immobile iron lump.
"Hey, are you still alive?"
After a long time, the echoing voice floated out from the iron lump.
"... Damn, I almost got disconnected, cough cough... I'm still alive, help me."
Luo Yu stepped forward and grabbed the iron lump's shoulder, and pulled with all his strength, but found that it didn't move at all.
Five or six tons of weight is still a bit difficult for agile players.
Then he tried to move the movable door at the back to help Mosquito get out, but found that the door was like welded to the armor, and it didn't move no matter whether he pried it with his hands or with a crowbar.
As if he saw Luo Yu's intention, the iron lump floated out a weak voice.
"It's useless... The movable door is locked in combat mode."
Luo Yu couldn't help complaining.
"Then you fucking cancel the combat mode quickly!"
Mosquito was silent for a long time before he uttered a sentence.
"To cancel the combat mode... you have to stand up first."
Luo Yu threw away the crowbar in his hand, sighed, took out the VM and clicked it twice.
"... Anyway, I'll help you contact Lao Bai and the others."
After placing the coordinates for help on the map, Luo Yu took Xiao Yu away from here and went to the fifth ring road of Qingquan City.
Due to the large number of newcomers leveling up nearby and the fact that the gnawers can produce nutrient paste and active substances, the number of fruiting bodies in the northern suburbs has been greatly reduced. If you want to spawn monsters, you can only go deep into the city.
Originally thinking that Xiao Yu was at least SSSR level and the only divine pet in the whole server, he could help a little in the battle, so Luo Yu didn't waste too much time in the low-difficulty area. He directly locked onto an office building suspected of having creepers and took Xiao Yu to kill in.
According to the manager, this little guy likes to eat creepers the most among all the slime mold fruiting bodies, followed by butchers.
The latter is a bit difficult to deal with because of its high health and high defense, but the former is still relatively easy to deal with, and the number is not rare.
However, there is a problem here.
The area where the crawlers are active is usually close to the incubator. In addition to the crawlers, there are also many alien species such as gnawers, martyrs, and even terrifying tyrants.
As for Luo Yu, since he flies a plane every day, either training or on duty, he has not fought a foot battle for quite a long time, let alone in the city.
The idea of fighting mutant slime molds is completely different from the idea of fighting predators, alien species, and mutants.
It is not enough to have good shooting skills. You must use the terrain to pull and move to avoid being surrounded by groups of fruiting bodies.
Once surrounded by a sufficient number of gnawers, let alone awakened ones, even awakened ones wearing power armor will have their scalps tingling.
Luo Yu, who only brought some light weapons, fell into a hard battle as soon as he entered the ruins of the office building.
He was almost ambushed by the martyrs hiding in the corner.
Dodging the corrosive mucus and the spores with a sulfur smell, Luo Yu had no time to stand firm before a crawler rushed up from the front.
"Roar!"
The deafening roar echoed in the stairwell, and Luo Yu quickly shook out the bayonet of the rifle and stabbed it towards the head of the crawler.
The speed of the agility system gave him a considerable advantage, and this white blade directly pierced the eyes of the crawler.
The crawler screamed in pain, and black blood spurted out.
Luo Yu turned on the spot, avoiding the claws heading for the ground, pulled out the centurion pistol inserted in his waist, and fired several shots at the back of the crawler's head.
"Bang!"
The fire of the explosion flickered, and as the smoke dissipated, the crawler finally drooped its shoulders and fell to one side.
Luo Yu, panting, breathed a sigh of relief, put his pistol back into his waist, and walked forward to pick up the rifle wet with black slime on the ground.
"... I should have teamed up with two teammates earlier."
It was still a bit difficult to swipe alone in this kind of intensive monster-spawning dungeon.
Looking at Xiao Yu hiding at the exit of the stairwell and looking around, Luo Yu couldn't help but complain.
"Can you help me a little!"
"Eh?"
Xiao Yu tilted his head, not knowing whether he didn't understand or pretended not to understand.
But when it saw the creeper lying in the stairwell, its scarlet eyes suddenly shone.
"Eh!"
Luo Yu didn't need to teach it at all.
It dodged and pounced on the creeper, raised its head and bit it, happily eating it up.
Seeing the greedy look of this little guy, Luo Yu couldn't get angry, and smiled and shook his head.
Forget it.
After all, it is a newly acquired pet.
It is not realistic to expect it to have the ability to "punch the manager and kick Old White" immediately. Perhaps I should be more tolerant and give it some time to grow and adapt.
Imagining the appearance of this little guy who will amaze everyone after growing up, Luo Yu waited for it to eat and observed its eating habits.
I saw that the slender waist was bulging up and down, and the food eaten seemed to be sent below the waist and put into the skirt-shaped mushroom block.
Is the stomach growing in the lower body?
What a strange structure.
Speaking of which, it seems to have grown a little taller, but the change is about one centimeter, so it is not obvious.
At this moment, Xiao Yu suddenly stopped eating, raised his head alertly and looked around, as if he noticed something.
"Eh!"
Hearing the warning sound, Luo Yu's face changed slightly, and the rifle in his hand was loaded.
At this moment, the suppressed roars gradually became clear, accompanied by the tremors of running, and surged towards this side from the upper and lower stairwells like a tsunami.
Gnawers!
A drop of cold sweat crossed Luo Yu's forehead.
The number was at least one hundred - no, maybe four or five hundred!
Without hesitation, he reached out and grabbed Xiao Yu's arm, pulling it up from the side of the crawler's body.
"Run!"
...
Thanks to Xiao Yu's perception, they were not surrounded in the stairwell, but moved to the nearest floor to deal with the surging gnawers.
The gunshots and explosions continued for a long time.
It was two hours later when Luo Yu took Xiao Yu out of the ruins of the office building.
After using a grenade to get rid of the gnawers who were chasing him, Luo Yu breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on the hood of a scrap car on the side of the road, and raised his dirty sleeves to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
It was really close!
He almost died!
It was a bit embarrassing for him, an ace pilot, to die in such a place.
Time always slipped away silently, and it was dusk before he knew it.
The setting sun stretched the shadows of the man and the mother, blending them into the shadows of the steel and concrete wreckage.
Xiaoyu came closer.
A slender tentacle floated to his forehead, gently rubbed the black mucus on his forehead, and murmured softly.
"Yiwu."
Hearing the comforting voice, Luoyu smiled and replied.
"Thank you."
"Yiwu!" Xiaoyu made a happy sound in response, as happy as a little dolphin.
Luoyu scratched the back of his head embarrassedly, with a hint of shyness in his proud smile.
He suddenly felt that this burden was also quite cute, and the abstract facial features were not so ugly.
After all, it is based on himself...
Just when he thought so, the tentacle that had just wiped off the black mucus on his forehead retracted and stretched into its mouth.
The bulging cheeks seemed to be sucking.
Cold sweat and hot sweat broke out from Luo Yu's forehead at the same time.
I always feel...
The style of painting has become strange.
...
On the other side, at the south gate of the outpost.
With the help of Lao Bai, Mosquito crawled out of the iron lump he made.
Because the Burning Corps was doing a mission outside before, he was lying here with his butt sticking up for an afternoon and almost suffocated to death.
Looking at the embarrassed Mosquito, Ye Shi teased in a joking tone.
"Good guy, what kind of torture instrument have you invented? Automatic canning machine?"
Quit smoking laughed heartlessly.
"Hahaha, it seems to be used with a fishing rod!"
Mosquito rolled his eyes, too lazy to bother with these guys who don't understand art and appreciation.
"Get lost! This is my Destroyer No. 1! Tsk... It seems that the transmission parts still need to be improved, or at least an auxiliary motor needs to be installed."
Kuangfeng, who was standing aside, touched his nose.
"To be honest... falling down is a problem of the center of gravity. If the center of gravity is not on the central axis, no matter how you design it, it will fall forward."
Mosquito scratched the back of his head and smiled.
"... It seems so, I forgot."
Kuangfeng: "..."
In order to divert the topic away from himself, Mosquito coughed and asked.
"By the way, why didn't you go to the front line?"
Ye Shi said with a smile.
"We are a quick reaction force, not a filling line division. If we all go to the front line, who will do the homeland defense?"
Kuangfeng nodded.
"Well, speaking of which, we recently caught two spies... They came from the Bugera Free State. Someone bribed them to pretend to be refugees and sneak into the industrial zone of Dawn City, hoping to blow up our tank production line," said Mosquito in surprise.
"Damn, those people are still not honest?"
Old White said with a smile.
"Maybe they are angry, after all, the edge brother ruined their business worth hundreds of millions. The enterprise is stationed on the south bank of Tianshui. They can't come openly, so they can only come secretly... Speaking of which, what about you? Why did you stay back for so long?"
"That's right, it's been a week, enough for you to give up your head twice... and you made this thing?" Ye Shi laughed and teased, bringing the topic back to the iron lump that looks good but is useless.
Knowing that he couldn't get over this hurdle today, Mosquito sighed.
"Ah... I'm crying if I talk too much. I thought I could help Luo Yu's pet get a set of magic clothes, but I didn't expect that the mother was a retard and couldn't understand what I meant."
Kuang Feng said with a subtle expression.
"Is there a possibility that you misunderstood the use of the mother."
Even if it is understood literally, that thing is not used for war, right?
According to the clues they have found so far, hunting is basically the work of "fruiting bodies" and "evolved bodies".
These two are equivalent to "laborers" and "experts" in the slime mold society.
"It may also be that its power is too weak and it doesn't have the ability to eat such a big iron lump..."
Lao Bai reached out and knocked on the shell of the Destroyer No. 1, and an interested look appeared on his face.
"It would be better if this thing was designed to be lighter. If it only weighs one or two tons... Strength-type people can try to wear it."
Mosquito's eyes lit up.
"I'll think about it!"
...
The sun sets quickly.
Chu Guang, who had been handling official business in the browsing room for a whole day, briefly learned about the mother's situation from Xiao Qi.
In order to prevent "Yu" from going berserk, he arranged a hummingbird drone to follow the head of the one and the mother after Luo Yu took it out of the shelter.
So far, Yu's performance is still stable, and no obvious hostility towards humans has been found.
Judging from the attitudes of other slime molds, they did not regard it as a fellow, but as an object that needs to be "purified" like other organisms.
The enemy of the enemy is not necessarily a friend, but can be an object of wooing.
Chu Guang extended his index finger to turn off the holographic window suspended in front of him, and leaned back on the sofa.
"Keep observing Yu. If there is no abnormal situation or change, you don't have to report everything to me."
Xiao Qi: "Okay, master."
Chu Guang continued to ask.
"What about the front line? Any news?"
"According to the players' reports in the game and the exchanges on the forum, the entire Oasis No. 9 is now under our control. There are occasional frictions on the northwest defense line, but there is basically no large-scale exchange of fire... According to the analysis of your army command, the legion seems to be waiting for us to go deep into the desert and enter their home ground."
After listening to Xiao Qi's report, Chu Guang's mouth curled up a faint smile.
"Then let them wait."
The Skeleton Corps has completed its assembly in the west of Oasis No. 9, and the Storm Corps has been training the Lion Kingdom Army for a week.
The five "Cloud Dragonfly" flapping-wing aircraft reinforced by the enterprise have been transferred to the aerospace base on the south side of the Tianshui tributary. They are only waiting for the pilots of the alliance to complete the training before they can go to the front line to fight.
And just yesterday, Chu Guang had contacted Yunsong.
The light infantry commando team consisting of more than 20 power armors and hundreds of exoskeleton soldiers will soon be reorganized into an independent thousand-man team with hundreds of android commandos sent by Kangmao Group, and will launch an attack on the homeland of the Falcon Kingdom, Oasis No. 2, while the front battlefield starts.
Oasis No. 2, located on the border of the Great Desert, is the gateway to the Great Desert.
According to the clues provided by Luo Hua, the Pioneer was captured by the Legion shortly after entering the Great Desert through Oasis No. 2, and it should not be too far from the western border of Oasis No. 2.
In order to prevent the Legion from jumping off the wall and completely dismantling or blowing up the Pioneer, they need to launch attacks in two directions at the same time.
"Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing."
If everything goes well.
Before the end of the year, Griffin will be reunited with his old friend McLen.
Just when Chu Guang was lost in his reverie, Xiao Qi's voice floated into his ears.
"Master, Prince Summer of the Honey Badger Kingdom wants to see you."
"Let him come here directly." It was already this time, and Chu Guang, who had already eaten in North Street, was too lazy to go out again.
Xiao Qi, who was sitting on the desk, nodded enthusiastically.
"Okay!"
...
At the same time, in the Lost Valley deep in the desert, Xiao Hong, standing on the top of the valley, looked motionlessly in the east.
After a long time, it made a very light murmur.
"Eh."
The white dove standing behind it heard it and showed a surprised expression on its face.
"You mean... the seeds of life that were sown disappeared?"
"Eh."
Xiao Hong shook her head and nodded again, saying nothing, but it seemed like she had said everything.
But the white dove obviously understood.
There are many media for transmitting information, and not every information needs to be transmitted through the media of the material world.
Although his Xiaohong could not communicate with the "child" thousands of kilometers away, the mysterious connection could make it sense its existence.
Now this connection was broken, but Xiaohong denied that it was "death".
So there is only one possibility.
That is, the "symbiont" in the young man was changed into something else.
What could it be?
Rubbing his chin with his index finger, there was not much expression change on the rotten face, but the scarlet eyes flashed with interest.
"I see, interesting... these juniors have something."
The mystery that he had studied for decades to crack was actually cracked by these people in just a few days.
In this world of declining civilization, there are people who know more about slime mold than him.
This is incredible!