64: [Brain-Computer Intervention]

[ Ding! ]

As the red light in the first spinning slot lit up.

Chu Hong's heart involuntarily skipped a beat.

He excitedly looked at the red collectible he had just pulled out.

It was a semi-circular ring that looked like a neck massager. Near its inner side were precision sensors emitting a faint glow.

[ Item Name ]: [ cobweb brain-computer interface ]

[ Item Tier ]: Red

[ Type ]: Electronic Item

[ Weight ]: 1kg

[ Inventory Slot Capacity ]: 1 × 1

[ Item Description ]: A neural interaction device researched by the Cliffside Epidemic Hospital research team to control experimental subjects, better synchronize detection, and extract experimental data. It maximizes the wearer's brain usage efficiency while connecting to the project team's experimental units.

Chu Hong's pupils constricted slightly.

Although the item description itself didn't give much information, he had after all run this map so many times.

He had already been to core areas such as the [ Exotic Beast Research Laboratory ] and the [ Main Hospital Building ].

He still had certain guesses about the pre-cataclysm research project described in the background of this [ Cliffside Epidemic Hospital ].

"So, apart from wanting to study the immortality gene, they researched these three phantom gods to also control this kind of biological weapon?"

Chu Hong muttered to himself.

Looking at the [ cobweb brain-computer interface ] in his hand, he hesitated for a moment before opening his armor visor and hanging the ring-shaped brain-computer interface around his neck like a neck-mounted headset.

"Hum!"

A slight buzzing of current accompanied a sensation like a mosquito bite on his neck.

Chu Hong's eyes glazed over slightly for a second.

A wonderful sensation, as if instantly entering a bird's-eye view, made Chu Hong's heartbeat quicken with tension.

Within his perception.

He felt like the center of a radar, with ripples continuously spreading outward in all directions from him as the center.

Then, within his perception, several highlighted figures appeared in his mind.

Three underground in the [ Main Hospital Building ]!

Two underground in the [ Exotic Beast Research Laboratory ]!

It was like having a wallhack enabled!

Chu Hong clearly felt that the two "highlighted" figures underground in the [ Exotic Beast Research Laboratory ] were a twisted, massive octopus and a dog or wolf crouching on the ground.

"It's 'Kraken' and 'Fenrir'!"

An absurd and bold guess suddenly arose in Chu Hong's heart.

Under the scan of his brain-computer interface "radar".

The entire [ Cliffside Epidemic Hospital ], including the sporadically remaining zombies in the parking lot area after being burned and blown up, were all within his perception.

But... these zombies were not in a "highlighted" state.

Instead, the three humanoid-looking ones underground in the [ Main Hospital Building ], which should be special mutant zombies, were in a highlighted state.

"Doesn't that mean all these highlighted targets are equipped with the project team's sensors?"

Thinking of this.

Chu Hong couldn't hold back for another second.

He casually stowed a two-by-two [ Mutation Core (Purple) ] from the search black box into his backpack.

Activating his jets, he rushed rapidly toward the [ Exotic Beast Research Laboratory ].

The closer he got to the building.

Within Chu Hong's perception, the highlights of the other two bosses, "Fenrir" and "Kraken," became clearer and more distinct. Vaguely, Chu Hong even felt as if he were already standing right in front of both of them.

Looking at the dead silence of the first-floor lobby.

Chu Hong walked over to the broken stairwell leading to the underground first floor, took a deep breath, and suddenly tried to issue an order through his mind.

"Come up!"

A sharp pain accompanied by an electric current suddenly struck from his neck, nearly causing Chu Hong to stagger off balance in his caught-off-guard state.

The [ cobweb brain-computer interface ] on his neck acted like a terrifying vacuum cleaner, instantly and frantically sucking away the Source Energy within his body the moment he issued this command.

In merely a second.

Chu Hong sensed with shock that thirty percent of his Source Energy had already been consumed!

He wanted to forcefully remove the brain-computer interface.

Just as he made the move, he suddenly stopped short. Within his perception, the [ Project Code Fenrir Matrix ] that had originally been crouching on the underground first floor actually crawled up like a miracle.

Then, it walked straight toward the elevator shaft in front of him.

Heavy footsteps, inside the dead-silent building, clearly passed through the elevator shaft into Chu Hong's ears, causing a thin layer of nervous sweat to break out on his forehead.

The consumption rate of the Source Energy in his body slowed down.

The instant Chu Hong lowered his head and saw the giant beast below poking its head upward through the large elevator hole in front of him, he couldn't help holding his breath at that moment.

"Come up!"

He issued the command through his mind again.

"Screech!"

Amidst the harsh scraping sound of claws scratching against metal, Chu Hong hurriedly retreated.

The next second.

That pitch-black, ferocious giant wolf standing a full three meters tall actually squeezed through the elevator shaft and climbed up.

It stood in front of Chu Hong.

"..."

Within the dead-silent lobby.

Chu Hong didn't move an inch!

Right in front of him, Fenrir, which was almost within arm's reach, didn't attack him right away. Instead, glaring with a pair of scarlet eyes, it sniffed him carefully all over with its foul-smelling nose.

Its steel-needle-like fur brushed against the armor on Chu Hong's body.

Hesitating for a moment.

Chu Hong suddenly made a bold move!

He opened the armor on his head, exposing his own bare head.

"Sit down!"

He tentatively issued the command once more.

To his excitement, without even the slightest delay, the three-meter-tall black wolf Fenrir in front of him actually obediently squatted down on the ground.

Chu Hong: "..."

If not for the accelerated consumption of Source Energy within his body.

Chu Hong would have almost failed to hold back his excited shouts.

Looking at Fenrir before him, he slightly raised the muzzle of the M14 in his hand, pointing it directly at the heart within his perception where a life was clearly throbbing.

This was a quite dangerous and risky action.

Ordinary animals in nature sometimes instantly become tense and agitated due to crisis instincts.

However.

Even with its heart pointed at by the gun muzzle, the Fenrir in front of him still quietly squatted in place.

Chu Hong abruptly pulled the trigger!

"Bang!"

But the bullet brushed past one of Fenrir's legs and hit the floor.

"Hiss—" The slight stinging sensation coming from his neck, along with the ten percent of Source Energy that instantly vanished inside his body, made Chu Hong immediately understand the principle behind so-called "control".

When all was said and done, it was actually a matter of issuing commands to the controlled target or preventing their actions by consuming Source Energy.

Once he truly issued any command telling the other party to commit "suicide" or something similar.

Chu Hong estimated that, not to mention whether this [ cobweb brain-computer interface ] could accomplish it.

At least, with his current Source Energy at stage five of the Qiyuan Realm, he definitely wouldn't be able to hold out!

Thinking of this.

Chu Hong suddenly had a new idea.

The corners of his mouth hooked up as he issued a command to the Fenrir in front of him once more.

"Go and kill all the zombies inside the [ Underground Anatomy Center ]!"

The command was issued.

Sweat broke out on Chu Hong's forehead. A thirty percent Source Energy consumption left the Source Energy within his body nearly exhausted. However, the moment he saw the Fenrir before him actually burst out running toward the entrance of the [ Underground Anatomy Center ].

Chu Hong smiled.

"Hhahahaha! What's the difference now between this [ Cliffside Epidemic Hospital ] map and my, Chu someone's, back garden?!"

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