Planet Philos, headquarters of Exgeno Corporation.
“[I am ‘Solian’, you mortals should kneel down and worship me.]”
"..."
After hearing the speech of the "plant", the members of the Normandy ground team uniformly lowered their heads to look at their multi-purpose tools. When they found that there was no problem, they looked at each other.
"I?" This was Ashley with an inexplicable look on her face.
"Mortal?" Liara was a little dissatisfied.
"Kneel down?" Grant looked like he wanted to take action.
"Offer?" Tully... couldn't see her expression.
"That makes sense, Shepard." Galax turned around and said, "If I were the geth, I would kill the guy who talks like that."
"No, for the Geth, using ancient language and rigid grammar does not constitute a reason for attack," Thanos looked at Siana: "You can tell the whole story now."
"Wait a minute, I have to prepare the 'offering' first." Siana nodded, raised the intercom in her hand and said something, and then several staff members came over pushing a flatbed truck equipped with a vibrator cage.
As the distance got closer, Wei Ren in the cage became more and more irritable and restless, banging against the cage. Finally, after the car stopped and the cage door opened, it shot out like a sharp arrow, turned around and ran away.
Swish--
Several vines protruded from the "green spider webs" all over the hall at lightning speed, accurately caught the wei blade, and ignored its frightened and threatening roar, and rolled it into the green sphere in the middle of the hall.
in.
When Wei Ren was wrapped by the sphere, the roar stopped instantly, replaced by a few slight "clicks", and then no more movement was heard.
Ashley raised her gun and aimed at the sphere: "Have you been living in the same room with this dangerous creature?"
"Don't worry, he doesn't eat intelligent creatures. That's why Fontaine and his gang haven't awakened him after living here for so long." Sianna said.
"Who sent you here?" Liara asked.
"A senior executive of the company, but I don't know exactly who it is. Maybe it's your mother?" Sianna replied.
"Impossible, she is only interested in the application of supernatural powers and knows nothing about biology. How much do you know about this 'Solian'?" Liara asked.
"Except that He has existed for tens or even millions of years, we don't know much, because He doesn't like to communicate with us. The sentence just now is actually similar to the response of an automatic answering machine, collecting 'offerings'
I only said this before." Siana replied.
"[Oh, there is a new visitor here, let me take a look.]" At this moment, the huge green sphere seemed to "digest" the blade and spoke again.
"How does He view...uh..."
In the middle of Liara's words, she saw an eye suddenly appear on the green sphere.
It is not an eye in the conventional sense, but an eye-shaped figure that is completely composed of intertwined vines and looks somewhat distorted.
Although it was just a prosthetic eye, it was able to rotate and look at the elite team present one by one, even blinking twice during the process.
"[Mantis, Agumon, Pangolin...there are so many beasts that have opened up their spiritual intelligence,]" Finally, "Thorian" stopped his "eyes" on Thanos: "[You can ask, mortal."
"
"So..." Thanos paused: "Have you ever met [Lin Hao]?"
Thorian ignored the question.
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A moment later, underneath the Exgeno Company building.
Different from the skyscrapers that have been modified in many places to suit "modern people", the underground facilities are basically still in the style of "ancient people" Protheans. All buildings are basically composed of large rectangular modules, roughly spliced into a wide waterway and
What the maintenance lanes on both sides look like.
At this time, the team led by Thanos was moving forward on one side. However, due to the passage of time, many sections had collapsed, and many detours were required before they could move forward.
"It's a shame that you were able to chat with that ancient-speaking 'Plant Ball' for so long, Commander," Ashley said while clearing the way: "I'm going crazy just hearing those weird pronouns, and they're so inexplicable.
inversions and modal particles.”
"Only a brief understanding." Thanos replied while observing the surrounding environment.
"So what are we doing in the Prothean sewers?" Grant followed behind with a shotgun raised: "I didn't hear a word of the conversation you just had."
"This is not a 'sewer', it is an underground irrigation canal built by Prothean to provide irrigation for greenhouses or farmland all over the planet." Liara corrected.
"This damp environment is bad for quarian health!" Tully complained.
"You don't have to come."
"I have to come!"
"The Reapers have installed a transmitter underneath this ruins," Thanos ignored the quarrel between the two alien girls and explained to Grant: "When the reappearance of the 'ancient civilization' is detected, the Reapers will be notified."
In the galaxy, the mechanical race that obeys the orders of the Reapers gives the order to attack."
"Geth." Galax sneered.
"No, this is still very strange, why would a...'vine ball' be regarded as an 'ancient civilization'?" Ashley asked.
"Because 'Sorian' is not the 'vine ball' we saw, but a collection of vines from the entire planet - at least according to what he said, and as time goes by, the vines controlled by him will become more and more
There are many, but the current scale has obviously reached the alarm standard left by the Reapers." Thanos explained.
"Well... this is too complicated. You just need to tell where to go and what to kill." Grant looked around.
"To put it simply," Thanos looked at the confused expressions of the krogan: "We walked along the maintenance channel of the underground canal, found the transmitter and destroyed it, and -"
Boom!
Thanos suddenly raised his hand and knocked down a Geth that suddenly appeared from behind the ruins bunker in front and tried to shoot: "Clear the Geth guards along the way."
The next moment, the geth, numbering about twenty or thirty, who had been ambushing in the ruins of the passage ahead, emerged one after another and opened fire on this side.
Thanos quickly dragged Liara and Tali behind the bunker, while Ashley had already started exchanging fire with the geth.
"Huh..." Gallas skillfully found another bunker nearby and set up his gun: "It seems that they are not confident in capturing Exgeno and that weird plant with their current strength, and they still need a transmitter.
Open, call for more reinforcements."
"What the Geth wants to do is what we want to stop." Thanos probed his head and shot down another Geth that was approaching quickly and seemed to be planning to engage in close combat.
"I like this!" Grant's body flashed with blue light, his body turned into a shadow, and he rushed out: "Kill them!"
