Chapter 578: Add a Little Extra for the Mechanical Miss
Chapter 578: Add a Little Extra for the Mechanical Miss
"Commander Losh, what's wrong with you?"
The Plague Doctors asked in confusion.
Lynn immediately seized control of this body from Alice, turned hoarsely, and looked at the surrounding walls, saying,
"This deployment is critically important. We absolutely cannot have any accidents. I need to recheck the bio-armament situation, just in case. Wait here for a moment."
"Yes!"
The Plague Doctors saluted at once.
With the doors closing, Corridor No. 2 was left with only Lynn.
Without another word, Lynn controlled that Plague Doctor's body, reached out, pressed his hand against the Leviathan's Flesh Wall, put on an act of closing his eyes, and then spoke to Alice in his mind:
"Alice, can you pull up his memories? Also, how he just used that method."
"I'll try."Only a few seconds passed.
Alice immediately shared a large swath of that Plague Doctor's memories into Lynn's mind.
Clearly, invading a consciousness like this was not difficult for an abnormal existence like an evil spirit.
[Ping! You have obtained memory fragments of Plague Doctor Losh.]
[Ping! You have learned the skill: Leviathan Neural Link.]
[Leviathan Neural Link]
[Category]: Special Skill.
[Current Permission]: Basic Permission
[Description]: After obtaining flesh-and-blood authentication privileges, one can gain local low-level control over parts of the Leviathan's internal flesh and obtain permissions to bio-arm and enter certain areas.
Lynn immediately used Alice's power to sift through the messy memories and found several crucial pieces of information.
"So that's how they control the Leviathan."
Lynn guessed some of it.
Put simply, they exploit the special nature of flesh-based organisms to link their nerves with the Leviathan's nerves. Once they obtain sufficient permission, they can employ part of the Leviathan's abilities.
And the structure of those abilities is pyramid-shaped.
At the bottom are the few basic permissions that this Plague Doctor held. At the top was Doctor 315, who had the supreme power to control the entire Leviathan.
"Let's try."
Lynn opened his eyes, controlled Losh's body, and pressed his hand against the wall.
As nerve fibers spread from his palm into the wall, following the method recorded in Losh's memories, the surrounding walls immediately began to turn viscous. The plague vessels that had just completed bio-arming also revealed themselves in his sight.
Lynn gave a sly smile.
Doesn't that mean...
he had already slipped into the enemy's interior with relative ease?
Lynn's gaze flicked over the plague vessels, and with the distant thunder of battle constantly arriving, normal thinking would say — shouldn't he move a hand now to help his teammates who were still fighting and relieve some pressure?
Lynn thought the same.
He sensed the information in the area through the neural link; finding no sign of snooping, he calmly approached one vessel and pressed his hand against its surface.
Then Lynn closed his eyes.
Then, instantly,
his pupils radiated a halo.
[Ping! You applied S&M Power to the Flesh Plague vessel, vessel current absorption rate: 80%]
With his injection, the blood-red fluid inside churned and glowed even more vividly.
Lynn smiled with satisfaction.
Then he repeated the method, pouring his S&M Power into every vessel.
He could do this because he'd learned from that Plague Doctor's memories the vessels' special properties: they could not only store the plague but also serve as carriers for cursed arts, electricity, blood qi, and various other energies.
If so,
then S&M Power could of course be stored too.
And he didn't worry about S&M charging efficiency; whenever he thought about how to kill that Mechanical Girl, his S&M charge skyrocketed.
Finally, after finishing all this, Lynn casually re-bio-armed the vessels.
Zuo Zuo mumbled, "Stupid Brain, isn't what you're doing a bit... unethical?"
Lynn adjusted the monocle inside his chest cavity and said seriously, "No, perfectly ethical. She just lobbed a nuclear bomb at me earlier, so giving her a little extra is only right and proper."
Zuo Zuo gaped blankly.
It seemed...
to make a sort of sense.
Lynn quickly adapted to the puppet body, then hurried to the door, used the neural link to open it, and strode in with all due solemnity.
As soon as he stepped through, the flesh-like suction-cup structures on the walls on either side suddenly spread out and aimed themselves at his body.
Lynn remained calm and motionless, waiting for inspection.
From Losh's memories he already knew these were the detectors set up at each regional node. They could use the pheromones released by tailworms to confirm a person's identity and screen intruders accordingly.
Alice asked softly, "Brother, can we pass safely?"
Lynn smiled faintly and answered in consciousness, "Watch your brother work."
[Ping! You released S&M Power to the tailworm, target lewdness +50!]
"Squeak—"
The already-unconscious tailworm shrieked as if a limp little girl suddenly had a rude awakening from a rough wake-up.
Pfft—
An immensely concentrated pheromone burst surged from the tailworm's body as it was about to be drained.
If pheromones had shape or color, one could clearly see the billowing smoke oozing off Lynn like puffs of vapor.
Ahchoo—
The suction cups around him sneezed one after another, shrinking back from the intense pheromones.
The firefly-like lamps embedded in the walls dinged and all lit up with green halos.
One even popped with a bang.
Absolutely safe!
Passed!
With the green lights on, Lynn walked in hands clasped behind his back, a self-satisfied expression on his face, and successfully rejoined his subordinates.
"Commander Losh, have the checks been completed?"
One Plague Doctor hurried over to ask.
Lynn held his head high, voice grave and hoarse: "No problems. Prepare to deploy the second defense line. If that mechanical girl breaks through the gate, this will be the new front."
Then he waved his hand and said coldly:
"Bring all the Ghost-Faced Screamers over here!"
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