Ye Qi's most flexible card in terms of time control is "Piano Music Box". The control time of this card is related to the length of the piano piece Ye Qi plays, but mistakes cannot be made during the performance and the piece cannot be changed. Therefore, Ye Qi specially chose a piece that is more than 10 minutes long.
The 100-meter radius controlled by the piano is a large circle with a radius of 100 meters centered on Ye Qi's piano, encompassing many of the maze's branching paths. Just now, most of the Zerg, alerted by the sound, rushed towards the group, only to be controlled by Ye Qi's piano music. It can be said that Ye Qi's maneuver effectively controlled over 90% of the Zerg within the maze.
The time Ye Qi bought for everyone was extremely precious. Xiao Lou and the other three followed Chu Huaying and walked quickly forward. All the insects they saw along the way remained motionless, lying on the ground listening to Ye Qi play the piano.
Lu Jiuchuan stepped over an insect and couldn't help but say, "Xiao Ye has pretty good mental fortitude. Even with so many insects around, the music she played was completely in tune!"
Xiao Lou said, "He is from the Music Conservatory. He has been learning piano since he was a child and is very professional."
Unfortunately, Ye Qi couldn't control all the insects. Some of the slower-moving insects were more than 100 meters away from his piano, so Xiao Lou simply summoned Bai Juyi and had him recite " Song of Everlasting Sorrow ".
Inside the cave, Bai Juyi's voice slowly recited: "On the seventh day of the seventh month, in the Hall of Eternal Life, at midnight when no one is around, we whispered our vows: 'In heaven, we wish to be birds flying wing to wing; on earth, we wish to be trees with intertwined branches...'"
Bai Juyi's skills " Song of Everlasting Sorrow " and " Song of the Pipa " are both area-of-effect crowd control abilities.
Centered on Bai Juyi, the surrounding insects, brainwashed by his Song of Everlasting Sorrow, once again fell into a drowsy state. Xiao Lou whispered, "Hurry up, let's make the most of this time!"
The last batch of Zerg was successfully controlled by Bai Juyi. Chu Huaying swiftly bypassed the fork in the road ahead, while Yu Hanjiang activated his speed boots, grabbed Xiao Lou's wrist, and followed.
Ahead, another wide cave appeared, just like the one before.
I still remember the first time we followed the fake Chu Huaying into the cave. As soon as we entered the door, sharp crystals rained down from the ceiling, almost turning us into pincushions. The second trap was a bomb that had been buried underground beforehand. As soon as the door closed, it was detonated. If Xiao Lou hadn't reacted quickly enough, everyone might have been blown to bits...
There are too many traps in the maze.
The same scene inevitably reminds everyone of their previous thrilling experiences.
Yu Hanjiang gave his brother a look that seemed to ask, "Are you sure this Chu Huaying is real?"
Lu Jiuchuan nodded, reassuring Yu Hanjiang. He walked over to Chu Huaying and whispered, " Huaying, have you figured out exactly how big this lab is and how many rooms it has?"
Chu Huaying said, "I sneaked over when they weren't looking this morning and used the Invisibility Cloak to follow a Space Pirate inside to investigate. The lab is divided into three areas. The first area is the instrument area, which has a large number of complex and sophisticated scientific instruments. Next is the data storage area, which has many specimens being cultured. The innermost part is the underground factory that manufactures clones."
Xiao Lou looked at Yu Hanjiang: "To destroy the lab, we can only burn it down, but... such a large lab, producing alcohol bottle by bottle with alcohol brand, pouring the alcohol, and then setting it on fire, is too time-consuming."
Lu Jiuchuan laughed, "That's easy. It's time to summon my Vermilion Bird. The Vermilion Bird can set off large areas of fire." He turned to Chu Huaying and asked, "How do I open this door? Do I need to enter a password?"
Chu Huaying said, "I followed them; they used a pattern lock to unlock their devices."
She stepped forward and quickly drew a string of characters in the password area in the middle of the door.
Yu Hanjiang whispered a warning: "The Zerg just spotted us outside and have likely informed the Queen. She's on her way, so everyone be careful and destroy the lab as quickly as possible!"
He looked at his brother, quickly took a submachine gun from the card holder, and tossed it to Lu Jiuchuan.
Lu Jiuchuan took the submachine gun and magazine, and skillfully loaded a bullet. Yu Hanjiang took out another Baroque pistol. The two brothers exchanged a glance, made a gesture, and signaled their teammates to step back.
The moment Chu Huaying opened the door, Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan nimbly rushed into the room one after the other. The two stood back to back, one facing left and the other facing right. The black barrels of their guns covered the entire fan-shaped field of vision, allowing them to immediately pull the trigger and eliminate any threat if they detected any unusual activity.
The brothers, one a soldier and the other a policeman, worked together seamlessly, even though it was their first time cooperating.
The moment the two men burst through the door, seven or eight Space Pirates turned around simultaneously, staring at them in surprise—these Space Pirates all looked familiar; it was Chu Huaying. Companions on the dark night starship. At this moment, two Space Pirates are operating the instruments in front of them. The LCD screens in front of the instruments are filled with densely packed DNA fragments, and the double helix DNA sequences rotate on the screen.
The remaining six Space Pirates were all armed. They clearly knew that Xiao Lou had led his team into the maze, but they didn't expect that these people would arrive so quickly despite the Zerg army's interception!
The six men paused for a moment, then immediately picked up their guns—
However, when everyone has weapons, the competition comes down to who is faster!
Lu Jiuchuan shouldered the submachine gun and unleashed a fierce barrage of fire in front of him!
For a moment, the sound of gunfire was deafening.
The man was already tall, and then he was in Plum Blossom J.
In the Nightmare Secret Room, a noticeable scar remained on his face. At this moment, a mocking smile hung on his lips, and his eyes were filled with a hint of ferocity, like a demon descending. As he walked, he frantically sprayed bullets in a fan-shaped pattern with his submachine gun, and bullets rained down on him. Several Space Pirates were shot down and fled in panic!
Such fierce firepower suppression left the enemy barely able to breathe.
Xiao Lou was deeply shocked to see him subdue several henchmen in an instant. But then he thought, Brother Jiu is a soldier, and as the captain of the Arrow Commando, the bandits he has encountered are probably even more ruthless than these Space Pirates he has met today —it's perfectly normal for him to know how to use a gun.
In contrast, Yu Hanjiang appeared much calmer than his brother's violence.
While Lu Jiuchuan suppressed several Space Pirates with firepower, Yu Hanjiang seized the opportunity. He narrowed his eyes slightly, aimed at the Space Pirate's hiding place, and pulled the trigger three times in succession. The hand-gun sound mixed with the fierce submachine gun fire was loud and clear. One shot hit the head, one shot hit the heart, and the third shot directly destroyed a Space Pirate's hand.
His shots never miss, they are incredibly accurate!
The Space Pirates raised their weapons to shoot them, but Lu Jiuchuan and Yu Hanjiang worked together to kill two of them. The third man had just raised his weapon when a bullet pierced his hand, and he screamed in pain as the gun slipped from his grasp.
The next moment, he felt his arm being violently twisted behind his back, dislocated by a powerful force—
It is Chu Huaying.
Chu Huaying moved with lightning speed. Although she wasn't as skilled with a gun as Lu Jiuchuan or Yu Hanjiang, she possessed the best mobility. She circled around to the back of the enemy like the wind, quickly taking control of the Space Pirate. Her pale fingers gripped the man's neck like eagle claws, and she coldly asked, "Tell me, where did the old captain go?"
The Space Pirate turned pale with fright and stammered, "N-I don't know!"
Chu Huaying frowned slightly: "Do you want to live, or confess honestly? It's your choice."
Space Pirate shook his head frantically: "I really don't know! The old captain left with some people, and the few of us stayed behind to help Uncle Qin take care of the underground laboratory..." As he said this, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes, and with his other hand, which hadn't been broken, he pulled out a sharp dagger from somewhere and stabbed it fiercely at Chu Huaying behind him!
But Chu Huaying's perception was so sharp that she was not easily ambushed.
Just as the opponent was about to launch a sneak attack, she suddenly pulled out the Spider Dagger and slit Space Pirate's throat with a single stroke!
The blood on the sharp dagger quickly disappeared, as if swallowed by the dagger, while a blood-red line appeared on the spider dagger's handle, signifying that it had ended another life.
Chu Huaying sheathed her dagger and winked at Lu Jiuchuan: "These people have all been brainwashed, don't leave a single one alive!"
Lu Jiuchuan understood and raised his submachine gun to continue pressing forward. Yu Hanjiang focused on dealing with the Space Pirates that were lying in ambush. The two of them swiftly took care of the remaining minions. Xiao Lou controlled the floating Compass to provide cover for his teammates, while Tang Ci quickly hacked into the Space Pirates ' optical computers that they hadn't had time to shut down, copying data from the database.
After breaking through the first line of defense, the group of five arrived at the second room and found that, as Chu Huaying had said, it contained a large number of cell specimens and a wall of freezers. The freezers contained countless frozen cells, each of which could potentially become a living humanoid weapon in the near future.
Xiao Lou said, " Hanjiang, give me the alcohol, I'll destroy these cells."
Destroying cells is much easier than killing clones with self-healing abilities, since cells don't move.
Yu Hanjiang handed the card to Xiao Lou, who conjured a bottle of alcohol, splashed it onto the cells on the lab table, and then lit it with Bai Juyi's charcoal fire. Tang Ci helped him open the freezer doors one by one and took out all the frozen cells inside.
The frozen cells, when heated by the intense heat, quickly turned into a pool of liquid.
Lu Jiuchuan and Yu Hanjiang stared warily at the last door.
Yu Hanjiang asked in a low voice, "Where is Uncle Qin?"
The Space Pirate just said that the captain had disappeared and that they were leaving a few of them to help Uncle Qin continue his experiments... However, when the group came from the first room, they did not find any trace of Uncle Qin.
Chu Huaying said, "I saw him just a few days ago. Did he know he couldn't beat us in a head-on fight and ran away beforehand?"
Xiao Lou and Tang Ci have already processed the frozen cells very quickly.
Roughly estimated, there are hundreds of thousands of these cells. If they had arrived a moment later, all of these cells would have been cultured into clones, and the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Xiao Lou quickly approached Yu Hanjiang and said, "No matter where Uncle Qin is, let's destroy the clone production line first. Xiao Ye can only control the Zerg for 10 minutes, we don't have much time left!"
Yu Hanjiang nodded and winked at his elder brother.
Lu Jiuchuan pulled the trigger, violently riddling the third door with bullets using his submachine gun!
The door was shot open, and everyone followed Lu Jiuchuan into the house.
However, the scene inside the room caused everyone's expressions to freeze simultaneously—
Inside the door, dozens of Xiao Lou, dozens of Lu Jiuchuan, and others stood densely packed together, along with Tang Ci, Chu Huaying, Shao Qingge, and Ye Qi.
Countless clones were giving them a uniform yet eerie smile.
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