Since Professor Lan Zhu had told them to remain on standby where they were, Ronan and the others had no reason to risk going up to the Upper Three Decks.
That area might not have "fallen," but it had undoubtedly already descended into fierce battle.
Lieutenant Hong Kai assessed the situation and decided that a light armored vehicle, standing still, would only become a live target and was unsuitable for such a complicated situation. He had everyone disembark and find a place along the passage where they would not obstruct the flow of people and vehicles too badly.
But resting was impossible.
The information Professor Lan Zhu had sent over was extremely sensitive and alarming.
As a professional, Doctor Xiang Chai immediately got into work mode. "The Alertness Agents currently issued by the military all act directly on central nervous system neurons, accelerating the flow of neurotransmitters and electrical signals to form a temporary enhancement Configuration. They do have a slight stimulating effect, but if personality changes appear..."
He lowered his voice even further. "Then it's very likely that some other connection has already formed."
Doctor Xiang Chai had already put it quite euphemistically, but Ronan was half a professional himself. He knew that these so-called "other connections" referred to aberrant changes in the human nervous system, or even in more organs.
In an Evil Poison environment, that was absolutely not a good sign.
If these aberrant "connections" formed a "system" attached to—or even independent of—the original Form and Spirit Framework, then the trouble would be immense.
Blue Arrow Doctor had said they were withdrawing to the Fourth Deck. Now it seemed that might not be because the battle on the Upper Three Decks was so tense and unfavorable that they had to retreat temporarily, but rather because there was