"Fuck! Slime mold?!"
Ye Shi gripped the carbine in his hands and nervously scanned his surroundings, unconsciously blurting out a Human Alliance phrase mixed with Chinese.
At that moment, he finally understood what that intense sense of impending danger had been warning him about.
Jiang Xuezhou frowned.
Though she did not want to pay attention to this guy, her curiosity still drove her to speak.
"What does 'fuck' mean?"
Ye Shi looked awkward, unsure how to explain. He coughed and said,
"A filler word... Don't worry about it."
A filler word?
Jiang Xuezhou's frown deepened.
Ever since earlier, she had had the feeling that the people from the Enterprise and The Alliance were plotting something—or at least hiding something from her.
Especially when she saw Ye Shi chatting and laughing with Su Ming, the unease in her heart grew even stronger.
"Mutant slime mold does not exist separately from its mother body..."
After scanning the area, Meng Liang continued with a grave expression.
"There are spores and fungal plaques here. That means there is at least one mother body or a mature mother nest somewhere nearby. We need to be careful."
Yun You said nothing. She quickly walked to the terminal beside the main door and tapped away at the touchscreen with all ten fingers.
Soon, lines of pale-blue code flashed across the screen too quickly for anyone to read.
"What is that?" Ye Shi asked curiously after leaning closer for a look.
"Connecting to the vault's security system," Yun You replied succinctly. "The access cards gave us 'visitor' permissions. That is enough to do a few things."
Ye Shi froze for a moment.
"Visitors can connect to the security system too?"
"Normally, no. The security system is one of the Administrator's core permissions, but there is clearly no Administrator