Chapter 198 - Fearow
Chapter 278 of "Player Reload" opens showing developments: Chapter 198: Chapter 182: FearowTo adapt to the script task, this exploration vessel of the... Keep reading!
Chapter 198: Chapter 182: FearowTo adapt to the script task, this exploration vessel of the Global Supernatural Alliance has been modified to be able to navigate automatically and avoid obstacles with only one or two crew members, or even without any crew.
The water flows briny, like seawater. The entire city is dead silent, with not a single Security Guard in sight.
Zhao Zijing sets the coordinates and lets the ship navigate on its own, then takes out a tablet computer and a Dragon Ball Capsule, releasing hundreds of small drones from the capsule.
All the drones take to the air and fly in different directions, scanning the entire city with laser rangefinders to construct a model on the tablet computer while
From the perspective of the real world, those taken away by the rift might as well have vanished into thin air. For scions of wealthy families like Mendoza, life is still comfortable upon return, but for ordinary people, four and a half years is far too long, enough to change many things.
"Is there really no way to return to the exact time when I disappeared?" the bandaged man asked hoarsely. "My family is waiting for me. I have to go back."
"Forget it, when something has happened you can only accept reality," Zhao Zijing said calmly. "Unless you’re extremely lucky and find an undiscovered, powerful Hidden Room that can grant wishes or time travel. But that probability is ten thousand times lower than winning hundreds of millions on a lottery ticket with a casual purchase."
"Everyone!"
A grave voice from the ship’s bow came from the Red Driver, "We have trouble now."
The incessant rustling noises were nonstop, and dense swarms of insectoid creatures emerged from the surrounding buildings.
These insects, nearly fifty centimeters long and with a body full of legs on each side, were extremely afraid of seawater and scrambled up the outer walls of the buildings to congregate on the rooftops.
Looking around, the tops of the remaining unflooded buildings in the entire city were crowded with these monstrous bugs, the number probably in the billions. It was hair-raising to behold.
Li Cheng rubbed his chin and murmured, "They actually look a bit like the features of the order Scutigeromorpha, a magnified version of the Pselliodidae family."
Midnight Howl said subconsciously, "You recognize these?"
"Just a little knowledge." Ever since the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method became available, Li Cheng had read a considerable amount of entomology materials and casually mentioned: "There are three families within the order Scutigeromorpha: the Pselliodidae family, the Scutigerinidea family, and the Scutigeridae family, also known as house centipedes.
The Pselliodidae family is the only one with antennae of similar width and length. The other two families have a width greater than length."
He paused and turned to address the Pidgey next to the Red Driver, "The prerequisite of becoming an excellent Pocket Monster Trainer is having sufficient natural history knowledge and a good memory, right, Pidgey?"
"Pidgey?" The Pidgey tilted its head, looking puzzled.
"I wasn’t talking about you."
The Red Driver grimaced and awkwardly patted his Pocket Monster.
Ant, the Pocket Monster, was talking about the Pidgey from the Pocket Monster cartoon, which appeared in the third episode and left in the 82nd episode on January 28, 1999.
At that time, the protagonist Ash left his Pidgeotto, which had evolved from Pidgey, in the forest to protect some Pidgeys and said he would come back to see it after finishing his work, then he forgot about it!
More than twenty years passed in the real world, the cartoon aired countless episodes, and only in the final episode of Pocket Monster did Ash return to Pallet Town to reunite with Pidgeot. He was arguably the earliest practitioner of a career PUA.
Zhao Zijing ignored the duo’s bantering and quickly pressed several buttons on the GSA tablet, comparing pictures of the monstrous insects taken by the drone with the offline database on the computer, retrieving information about the creatures.
"Dark Centipede, a species unique to killing field entities, with jaws and claws connected to poison glands within their bodies, containing corrosive toxins capable of killing large mammals. They cluster and are classified as Level 1 danger."
Zhao Zijing spoke rapidly, "This species’ danger level is similar to the Special Affairs Bureau’s anomaly fluctuation index, ranging from zero to five, with higher levels indicating more danger. We need to evacuate."
She rushed into the cockpit and pushed the ship’s acceleration lever to the fourth gear, moving at full speed.
Unfortunately, it was too late.
The water level kept rising, more and more skyscrapers were submerged by the flood, and the water was littered with the dark corpses of the bugs.
The remaining hundreds of millions of centipedes, using the corpses of their kin as stepping stones, surged towards the ship and began to climb its hull. The toxins at the tips of their legs immediately began corroding the surface of the ship, creating dense holes.