Chapter 1343: Wings of Freedom (2)

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Although I was a little suspicious of Ariel's connection with this secret federal base, the information here was originally given by her, so it's not like a thief shouting to catch a thief.
Renault looked at the vine a few more times before, but couldn't find anything because of no professional knowledge.
"It seems quiet outside, let's go," he said.
"Wait." Tosh raised his hand to stop Tycus from opening the door, then put his finger in his mouth to whistle.
call out--
A flying sword with a dark red light appeared out of thin air, and then drilled out of the door, and Tox closed his eyes and started remotely controlling it.
"Man, there's nothing to eat here." Tycus spread his hands.
Hiss--
Renault vaguely heard the low hum of the lightsaber breaking through the air outside the door, but nothing was cut.
"...Okay, they did leave," Tosh opened his eyes again, then took out a piece of dry military food from his armor storage compartment, and turned his face to Teckis while gnawing, "If it's not a long time use It’s enough to consume these things as needed."
"Oh..." Ariel looked at Tosh with a surprised look.
"Huh, psionics is really convenient." Tycus turned and pushed the door open.
Renault walked out of the door of the resting place in a standard low posture of "entering the enemy-occupied area" and looked around quickly.
The vines that smashed the door crazily before have disappeared, only the rust marks on the door and other metal surfaces prove that they have come.
"Safety." He gestured to Jimmy and Teckis who were ready to pick up at any time inside, and continued to walk quickly until he reached the corner of the mine turning to the rest place, and then found that there was no trace of vine monsters either.
This is a bit weird, Renault thought, if it is attracted by noise, it will have to stay nearby for a while after it stops, but now it seems that they are more like being "called" and are useless. After that, he was directly "driven away".
He quietly turned his head and glanced at Ariel. The only botanist who could do this kind of thing was the only botanist who had been acting strange, but how did she do it?
"Ms. Hansen, those vine monsters have already launched an attack, so the next trip may be dangerous at any time," Renault didn't intend to guess, and decided to test directly: "Since you have gained, for safety considerations, whether to return to the ground first Okay? I can ask Jimmy to you."
"Okay~Uh, no, I mean, I listen to the commander's arrangements." Jimmy cheered for a while before explaining.
"That's not really a gain, Sergeant Renault," Ariel pushed her glasses: "As for this little vine, I have roughly guessed the purpose of the experiment on it, but more is needed. Don’t worry about safety issues, I will protect myself.

"If you insist." Renault nodded and continued to walk deep into the pit.
There is no need to test. In the face of a vine attack of that scale, she can confidently say "Can protect herself". It is strange that she has no contact with those monsters.
For the same reason, if she wants to be unfavorable to this group of people, and she doesn't have to do such obscure things, then there is only one answer:
She wanted to obtain certain research results stored deep in the base by the Federation, and those brainless vines couldn't help her at all in this matter, so she went there in person.
Since she wanted to maintain her "human" identity so much, she didn't need to deliberately expose it when she obviously didn't intend to harm Haiwen.
The only question is, where are the Union soldiers and researchers?
If she ordered the vine to kill, then...

A few hours later, dizine was deep in the mine.
Renault and his party found the second laboratory, but the contents...
"Wow..." Jimmy covered his mouth and retched.
"Hey, these things seem to be edible, how about asking, do you want to bake them?" Tykes was not affected at all.
"Even if I starve to death, I won't eat this stuff!" And Toxu expressed firm opposition.
Renault was knowledgeable and not guilty of nausea, but he didn't care about or even talked about eating as much as Tykes, he thought he couldn't do it.
In the laboratory discovered this time, a group of peculiar
hybrid organisms
are displayed. They look like pigs, cows, and sheep as a whole, but some plants have grown out of the body inexplicably, except for vines. In addition, there are herbs and even woody plants.
There are many kinds of "hybridization" of these animals and plants. For example, "pig nose with green onion" is not just a parody here, but there are indeed pigs growing green onions from their noses.
Of course, whether it is an animal that grows grass or the grass that grows from an animal's body, it is all dead. This is why Jimmy has been retching but never really vomited.
"Ms. Hansen, what are you going to do?" Renault turned his gaze to Arielle, who had been walking around since spotting this laboratory: "I sincerely hope you don't trigger any more alarms."
"I plan to find someone alive, but it seems unlikely," Ariel sighed. "Don't you think these animals are cute? Sheriff Renault?"
"Not at all." Renault answered without hesitation.
"Um... It's really hard for ordinary people to understand the beauty of this natural harmony." Ariel sighed.
"I'd rather never understand," Renault replied again, deciding to change the subject: "So did you find anything? What is the Federation doing here?"
"They seem to be conducting experiments on the fusion of plants and animals. The main objects are those vines," Ariel turned over the experimental records left in the laboratory: "In most cases, vines fused with animals will become other species. Plants, and experimental animals will die quickly, but they found that animals with higher intelligence have a lower probability of death after fusion."
"...Don't say that they finally chose'people' for the experiment." Renault's eyes twitched.
If that is true, it is not hard to guess what the Federation, which does not regard clones as humans, will do.
"Perhaps, but at least not in this laboratory," Ariel collected the experimental records: "Their final conclusion is that animals with low intelligence cannot accept plants growing on their bodies, so the rejection reaction caused The death of both sides, and the higher the intelligence of the animal, the easier it is to accept this fact. If you change to an adult, there may be no rejection at all."
"I can already foresee what will happen at the bottom of the mine." Renault smacked his lips and decided not to imagine what the "finished product" of the experiment was for the time being.