Chapter 2725: Star Core Rescue (22)

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"Sorry." A man's face leaned close to the lens, still with lingering panic on his face. He looked behind him while showing a panicked expression, and then he looked at the lens and said.

"I am Justin Bark, the head of the software security engineering department of the Star Core Space Station. Out of the need for self-rescue, I have to release this recording to you. There are monsters in the space station!"

The screen flickered a few times, and then the perspective was cut to the camera above the corridor.

Jala was running for his life in the corridor, and chasing behind him was a thick fog. He was panicked and ran without choosing a path, soon being caught up by the thick fog. The fog behind him enveloped half of his body.

For some reason, after that thick fog spread, it seemed to be poisonous. As soon as it touched the black man's arm, he let out a scream, and then fell to the ground twitching as if he had been electrocuted.

In the corner at the end of this corridor that no one noticed at all, a small circular device was thrown over. Accompanied by a slight hissing sound, some chemical agents were released, and soon spread in the corridor.

The black man's pupils dilated somewhat. When he stood up again, his expression was also a bit unnatural, as if he were controlled by some monster, swaying toward the end of the corridor.

Finally, he was completely surrounded by the thick fog, and his figure disappeared completely at the end of the corridor, as if he had completely become a walking corpse controlled by a monster.

The screen was cut back. Bark's pupils dilated, swallowing his saliva constantly. It was clear he was very afraid. He lowered his voice and said, "I don't know why my superiors wanted to block the news, but now there are monster figures everywhere in the space station. We have been hiding, some people died, some people disappeared..."

"My companions and I found some astonishing secret experimental data in a certain laboratory of the space station. We don't know if the appearance of these monsters is related to this experiment, but we believe the public has the right to know the truth of all this."

"I know I can't let things go on like this anymore, so we decided to take some action. We must do this, although this might cause us to be injured and bleed." A tragic despair appeared on Bark's face, but in an instant, it was full of courage. He said.

"We will do our best, and no matter the result, I hope people like me won't be kept in the dark. We will fight the evil to the end. At the same time, please don't forget to think about who brought the evil."

After speaking, the communication screen turned pitch black.

The video quickly became popular on the global internet.

Because no matter what, it seemed that Bark's theory made more sense. Someone carried out evil experiments on the Star Core Space Station, leading to the appearance of monsters, and someone discovered the evil data of these experiments, leading to the mastermind wanting to destroy the space station directly to kill people to silence them.

Then who else could be conducting evil experiments?

In an instant, the government and the public stood in opposition. The public accused the official government of being the mastermind behind this series of conspiracies, not only the culprit but now also trying to cover up the truth and whitewash the peace, which is why they didn't see rescue actions for a long time.

Although quite a few technical personnel stood up again to say that those things were completely effects, and you could even see the same effect traces as the last flame monster, conspiracy theories had already become prevalent, and the voices of clarification were a drop in the bucket.

At the same time, another mainstream view was that the official government delayed the rescue. The public didn't know how many calculations and studies were needed for such a large spaceship to get so close to Earth, and how much risk they had to take without preparation.

They just felt that if the rescue spaceship didn't appear above the space station in the next second, then this confirmed that it must be the official government's conspiracy. No matter how much you say, it's useless.

There were even more pessimistic people who thought that even if a spaceship were sent over, it wouldn't necessarily be for rescue, but more likely to silence them.

Countless internet media people and ordinary people who could go online began to pay attention to the information of this account called Justin Bark, asking him to strive for self-preservation, and clamoring that if something happened to the account, he must have been silenced.

Once this rumor came out, the ones with the most pressure were the United States and China, because the United States had indeed done this kind of thing before and was discovered, while China was always the big demon king in Western media propaganda. If something happened, it was automatic scapegoating. Other countries either didn't receive attention or didn't have this ability. Netizens almost pointed the finger at China and the United States.

As the managers of the supernatural organizations of these two countries, the directors of S. P. E. A. R. and S. H. I. E. L. D. had to hold an emergency meeting. But for some reason, when facing inquiries from domestic high-level officials afterward, neither of them looked very nervous. Even if someone threatened that if this matter wasn't handled well, they would be dismissed, they just dealt with it perfunctorily, as if they didn't take it to heart at all.

Schiller was in the office helping a female staff member bandage. The power outage just now did indeed cause some chaos. This young female researcher accidentally kicked the leg of a fallen stool while running out, and her ankle and lower leg were scratched.

The wound wasn't very deep originally, but because the female researcher was nervous, she didn't discover the existence of the wound and accidentally touched water. After more than an hour, it had already started to become inflamed, causing her to start having a low fever.

It just so happened that their department mainly studied materials science, and no one had a medical background. They looked for several offices nearby, but no one could handle this situation. They took the bandages in the medical kit but didn't know how to wrap them, and didn't dare to take medicine casually. It wasn't until Ben Parker gathered everyone to check the situation that they discovered it had already developed into a high fever.

There were at least a dozen people in similar situations, mostly injured accidentally during the process of evacuating the power outage area. Among them, besides this female researcher, there were two with fractures. It just so happened that everyone in the emergency medical department was on the other half of the space station. This half only had some scientists with medical education backgrounds, and the most professional one was Schiller.

No wonder the previous Deputy Chief Engineer was unreliable. After such a thing happened, he didn't come out to organize, just letting everyone stay in their offices, which led to the injured personnel who weren't very seriously injured not being checked and treated in the first time, dragging on and becoming more serious. Now Schiller was also a bit too busy.

Fortunately, most of them had external injuries and no seriously injured people. Schiller first cleaned the wounds, bandaged them, then let the female researcher take antipyretics, sent her back to rest, then proceeded to put splints on another one with a fracture, working for almost an hour in one breath.

He looked up and saw the electronic clock hanging on the wall of the space station showing it was just 12:01. There were only 59 minutes left until the space station's oxygen ran out.

After dealing with the wounded, Schiller began to provide psychological counseling to those who had collapsed psychologically. Fortunately, the vast majority of employees who could enter this space station had space work experience and wouldn't be too panicked. Most of them were just emotions like anxiety and tension, which were easy to handle.

Parker isolated those who had this need separately, let colleagues and friends who had good relationships with them stay in separate offices, and then went in one by one to conduct psychological counseling.

Originally, these people were a bit resistant because it would make them look a bit cowardly, but ever since Ben Parker told them Schiller's usual consultation fee standard, there was a long queue at the office door.

Just after treating a patient, Schiller's communicator rang. As soon as he opened it, Nick's roar came from the other side.

"Didn't you say you wouldn't add to the chaos? Schiller?!!"

Schiller was slightly stunned, but he still said leisurely, "Add to the chaos? How did I add to the chaos? You shouldn't talk nonsense..."

"Look at this!"

Schiller opened the video Nick sent over, which focused on the appearance of the fog monster in the video Bark released on the internet.

"You don't think this is me, do you?!" Schiller raised his tone and said, "Is your only remaining eye blind too? How could gray fog fly so unnaturally? And how could it be such a small ball??"

"Don't think I don't know, this is what you performed!" Nick insisted, saying, "When you turn into fog, you can originally change into many forms. You are just making trouble under the name of this Bark, just to muddy the water. This is your usual means!"

"I guaranteed to you before that I wouldn't make trouble. Am I such an untrustworthy person in your eyes?"

"Do you dare to touch your conscience and say you didn't?!"

"Of course I dare!" Although Schiller didn't touch his conscience at all, he indeed didn't make trouble.

But Nick still looked like he didn't believe it and warned Schiller that they were going to execute their plan next. If Schiller dared to wrap another ball of yarn that would wrap them all in, he would never let Schiller participate in such plans again.

Schiller felt wronged for the first time.

Just now he had been staying in the office dealing with patients, staying under the eyes of so many people, how could he have time to make trouble?

Besides, that ugly fog monster in the video wasn't him at all. Even if gray fog turned into fog, the surging posture was very beautiful, full of indescribable weird beauty, rather than like entering some video software, making an effect video by setting a template. Nick was really blind!

Schiller found Parker and asked him to testify for himself. He had clearly been conscientiously treating patients just now. Nick actually misunderstood himself like this. No salary increase next quarter, this matter isn't over!

Parker was also a bit embarrassed. Schiller had indeed been under his eyes just now, completing the doctor's work very well. Even if he hadn't, he had so many people watching. Nick's guess was indeed a bit unreasonable.

What's more, it was already this time, and doubting one's own people was really not good. Now there was only one capable doctor. If Schiller quit, he wouldn't know how to handle wounds and fractures.

Seeing Parker go to Nick to theorize with the communicator, a strange light flashed in Schiller's eyes.

He shouted at the door, "Next!"

The person who walked in gave him a somewhat reluctant smile. Schiller stood up gently, then asked him to sit down, and began to conduct psychological counseling for him. Soon, this person's nervous emotion was visibly eliminated.

Finally, Schiller also said to him, "Sorry, we are pressed for time now, otherwise we could chat for a while longer."

"It's already very good, doctor. Usually, I don't have the qualifications to enjoy this level of psychological counseling." This short man smiled at Schiller and then said, "I'm afraid my annual salary couldn't pay for your consultation fee for one minute."

"Now is not the time to talk about money. I came here to do this. No matter what some people say, people on Earth have never given up on you."

"Of course, I know. Thank you very much for being able to come. You and Parker are heroes. We firmly believe in this point."

Before, when bandaging the female researcher's wound, someone raised this question, that is, why Parker had already gone down to recuperate but came back again. Parker wasn't a person who would lie, so he told the truth.

The fact was, they came back to appease people's hearts and provide medical help, and at the same time to tell these people the situation on the ground, let them believe that the governments of various countries were trying their best to find ways to save them, and they themselves shouldn't give up either.

Currently, it seems that this kind of action has a very good effect, because the eyes of the masses are discerning. These scientists who can be selected to work on the space station are often more cautious and rigorous than others.

They all understand that at a critical moment, it's not about looking at what people said, but looking at what they did.

Even if Parker and Schiller were indeed ordered by the government to come over to appease them, at least they came, chose to stand with them, stood in a dangerous situation, tried to help them, and really played a role. That was enough. ===== CHAPTER 2726 =====