by Chen Ran
In the living room, Antony sat on the sofa. After hearing what his sniper Betsy said, he opened his eyes and said: "Very good, let this idiot Rankin attract living corpse's attention for us. "We just need to follow the path this idiot opened up."
Chapter 240 - Insect Sea (I)
The dim room was illuminated by the faint white light provided by the electronic lamp. The light shone onto Antony's face, causing his face to look so pale. On Antony's face, there was a fresh blood clot. It was given to him by a lacerator when he was trying to break out of the encirclement of the two-tier base. If it wasn't for the Blade Soldier Luca who cut off the monster's claws in time, Antony wouldn't have only left a simple scar, but his entire face would have been ripped apart by the lacerator.
Antony, in his rage, gave the monster a mental impact, causing the lacerator's brain to be completely disintegrated. The monster then suddenly spat out two blood arrows from its nostrils, and then died silently.
Until now, other than Bridge who died in the first wave of the living corpse's surprise attack, the rest of the members of the vanguard team had only been severely injured. Among them, the one with the worst injuries was Olam. This firepower hand was hit on the right shoulder by a butcher using a heavy weapon. Olam's shoulder was crushed on the spot. Even though she was being treated urgently, her entire right hand was hanging down and she had lost consciousness.
However, the Gun Master Olam possessed a fourth stage strength enhancement. With just his right hand, he was able to lift up his heavy machine gun. As a result, he did not try to take the team's hind legs. Otherwise, it was hard to imagine that Antony would sacrifice this burly man to serve as the driving force for the team.
To Antony, other than Luca, who completed various missions together before entering the army camp, the other teammates could be considered as resources to be sacrificed. Of course, it was not impossible for Luca to sacrifice himself. It was just that as the strongest in the group, Antony would not let him sacrifice himself without any value.
It was just that now, Antony did not need to sacrifice his own resources, because he had the blasting team to do it for him.
After entering the two-tier base, Antony quickly found out where Rankin and the others were. At that time, Luca had proposed to join forces with Rankin's team and use their powers to break through the layer base. However, Antony rejected the suggestion and started with a simple and practical method.
That was to let the blasting team be the bait and attract the attention of the living corpse in the base. As for Antony and the others, he followed behind them from behind. And with Antony's area scanning abilities, it was enough for them to stay five hundred meters behind the group without worry of being discovered by Rankin. Moreover, Antony was suspicious of whether Rankin had the ability or not.
Now, Rankin's team had once again attracted the attention of living corpse. In other words, it was also the time for the vanguard team to take action.
Antony stood up, the others knew that it was time to make their move. Without waiting for his orders, everyone stood up from their resting corner, and after a simple self-examination of their equipment, they prepared to set off.
"Let's go." Antony said indifferently, although he had Rankin to lead the way, he was actually quite impatient. After all, he didn't have zero information for nearly twenty hours. On the way, Antony encountered a few simple and effective traps. Judging from the large number of corpses in the vicinity of the trap, it seemed that Zero's party had gotten closer at an even faster speed.
Originally, he had planned to guard the exit. No matter if it was Su or Rankin's team that obtained the quest diary, they could directly snatch it with ease, or even kill the other party's team members to achieve their goals. However, a surprise attack from the living corpse caused Antony's plans to be thrown into disarray. They had no choice but to enter the huge and dangerous underground base as well. Because it was ten minutes from the second floor to the entrance of the first layer base, Antony had no choice but to race against time to obtain the first item to complete the quest.
However, he now cared more about Zero's whereabouts.
The visible enemy was not scary, the invisible enemy was the scariest!
In a room on the third floor of the medical center that was currently being occupied by Eva, Eva said after hearing their mission, "Underground five-tier base, where are you guys actually going? "It seems like the person who assigned the quest is not trying to make things difficult for you guys. It's just that his head is filled with water."
Eva sat at the only table in the room. She was still wearing the same dress that she had worn the day before, which looked like an office lady. When the long legs wearing meat colored stockings were coiled together, it was filled with a tempting smell, which made Feng's eyes bulge out.
She said indifferently: "Other than the second floor being occupied by the living corpse, every single layer base below is filled with all kinds of monsters. If he wanted to carve a path of blood from the nest of these monsters, he would need at least an army. However, you chose a suitable time. Now, other than the living corpse, all the monsters in the main group have entered into the hibernation period, so you all have a chance. "
"You have lived here for two years, and have also entered the first five-tier base. I wonder if there are any shortcuts or not, in the end, you can avoid those bugs." Zero asked.
Eva revealed a smile: "There aren't any shortcuts, but I know that I won't be able to step into the nest of those bugs."
"In other words, you will come with us."
"Of course, otherwise even if I told you all, you wouldn't understand." Eva continued: "However, you can only until the first five-tier base. No matter the reason, you cannot enter the Sixth layer base. There resides a large reptile, which is not an opponent that you can afford to offend. "
"What is it?" The potential danger was because of Su, so it would have been fine to find out about it earlier.
"I don't think you guys would like to provoke a Crypt Lord." Eva revealed her pure white teeth as she laughed.
However, the few of them could not laugh.
The Crypt Lord is a type of metamorph that belongs to the same giant as the Filthy phagosome, and belongs to the amphibious species. It had the shape of an aircraft carrier, with an omnivorous egg shape. The Crypt Lord's appearance was similar to a giant catfish, but it had hundreds of tentacles. On the other hand, the nutrients in the body would enter the Crypt Lord's body through the meat channel to nourish its huge body.
The moment they heard that there was such a terrifying giant monster on the sixth floor of the base, whether it was who was careless or not, their faces became solemn.
"That's it. Prepare yourself and we will set off. As long as we do not provoke that monster, the rest of it is not that troublesome. " Eva ended her speech with this sentence.
Half an hour later, everyone was gathered at the entrance of the hospital. The few of them were still the same, but there was an additional Eva. The woman was still wearing the uniform of an office, but there was a heavy sword "Black Dragon" on her back. The Black Dragon, which weighed nearly half a ton, was carried on Eva's back as if nothing had happened. As a result, with every step Eva took, a shallow footprint would be left on the alloy floor.
And Zero, who had seen Eva's fury, knew that when this woman, who specialized in cultivating in the Fighting Domain, had fully released her power, the weight of her body was already not one bit inferior to that of her heavy sword.
Other than Eva, Zero also had a lot of new members. This included nearly fifty living corpse shooter s, seven butcher s and five lacerator. In addition, there was also Eva's "Gemini".
The two-headed Giant living corpse was no smaller than a butcher in terms of size when he stood in this biochemical army. Furthermore, the Gemini s were ranked above the butcher and lacerator s. Therefore, although they were not the naturally formed leaders of the living corpse s, they could command this biochemical army
.
As a result, the few of them were protected by the biological and chemical army in the middle. Under the lead of the living corpse, they passed through Area B and C. Along the way, although there were many living corpse who had discovered this huge team, they did not dare to move because there were more than ten high-level monsters travelling together with them. As for the other butchers and lacerator, after seeing Gemini, they stopped their restless thoughts.
The few of them enjoyed the special treatment given to them by the living corpse Legion. After two hours of trekking, they finally saw the entrance to the underground three-tier base. It was a deep spiral staircase, and the damp, rotting air rose from the depths of it. The third floor of the basement was where the Fusarium lived. The Fusarium liked to eat corpses, so they often came to the two-tier base to prey on them.
After all these years, the living corpse had long learnt how to deal with their greedy neighbors. Within a kilometer of the passage, you wouldn't see any trace of living corpse activity. And once the Fusarium broke through this default boundary, then a large number of living corpse would bury these bugs that were out of bounds alive. The body within the carapace of the Fusarium possessed an extremely tight set of muscle fiber s. To the living corpse, it was similarly a delicious meal. Especially the butcher and lacerator, they were treated as treasures.
Other than the deliciousness, more importantly, Fusarium s were good things to a high level living corpse like the butcher that could raise the toughness of their body.
Furthermore, the size of the Fusarium was like a car. In the safe passage, only one would be able to enter and exit at a time, thus they were unable to attack the two-tier base in large numbers. After all, to living corpse who could not reproduce, Fusarium that had a production cycle of one month were simply biological weapon that were mass-produced. It was just that the survival rate of Fusarium was not high, and the growth cycle would require around five months for the larva to complete its evolution to an adult. As a result, the two layer base s from above and below maintained a delicate balance.
Right now, they were in the passage through which the Fusarium passed. In the night vision mode, they could see very clearly. The surroundings of the passageway was filled with already hardened insect manure, as well as human-shaped skeletons that were either sitting or lying down. They were the spoils of the Fusarium, the living corpse s that were dragged into the tunnel to be eaten alive.
"Find the way." At the entrance of the passage, Eva gave a simple command to the Gemini.
Countless numbers jumped out from Gemini's four eyes. Immediately, its two mouth issued different length and syllables. His voice echoed in the passage, but it was living corpse's voice that changed. As a result, the two lacerator left the group, ran, or crawled. They quickly entered the depths of the tunnel and disappeared into the darkness.
Moments later, a low cry came out from the depths of the tunnel. It was the howl of a lacerator. After the voice was recognized by the Gemini, it gestured towards Eva, indicating that it could enter.
Since the Gemini didn't know how to speak, he could only communicate with Eva through hand signals. After Eva understood, he turned to the few of them and said: "Let's go, there's no danger below."
Therefore, the team started moving again. Under the protection of the Bio-transformation Legion, a few of them headed deeper into the tunnel. There was no light in front of them as they walked into a bottomless abyss. Gradually, darkness enveloped their figures.
Chapter 241 - Insect Sea (II)
It was especially quiet in the dark. The safe passage was shrouded in a layer of black fog. Even with the infrared vision from their helmets, the visibility couldn't exceed 10 meters. Inside the helmet, they could only hear their own breathing. The atmosphere was so heavy that it made people go crazy. The darkness was like a prison, you couldn't see what was outside the prison. All you knew was that no matter how far you walked, you still couldn't leave this prison.
If not for the fact that they were all mentally Su's men, if they were ordinary people, they would have already gone crazy on this brainless journey.
Compared to the few of them, Eva was much more relaxed. If it wasn't for the black broadsword on her back, she would have looked as leisurely as if she was taking a stroll. It was just that at this time, if someone were to carefully look at Eva's eyes, they would realize that her pupils were constantly changing colors. It could be seen that Eva possessed a vision mode that was not inferior to none of their tactical helmet, and that her functions were a little more.
Switching between the pupils of these different colors, Eva was able to capture the traces of all the energy activities in the safe passage, thereby constructing a three-dimensional model. At the beginning, the 3D model in Eva's eyes was only a vague outline. As more and more data was poured into the model, it gradually became clearer. The only difference was that the Gemini's calculation ability was built on the help of the intelligence brain, whereas Eva's relied on the Wisdom Central in her head to do the calculation.
If Eva thought of his head as that of a intelligence brain, then Eva's full strength calculation would be equivalent to a comet level intelligence brain, and would be able to calculate a huge amount of data.
Very quickly, a 3D model was formed in front of Eva's eyes, and following the trajectory of the energy flow, it started to simulate the time in the safe passage.
Through this 3D model, Eva saw a large number of Fusarium entering the second floor of the base from the middle of the safe passage. They seemed to have gone through a bitter battle, and many of the bugs' bodies were injured to various degrees. But they succeeded in bringing back some food.
living corpse!
Over a hundred living living corpse s passed their sickles through their bodies and brought them back to the safe passage like they were burning. However, these big bugs did not eat the living corpse, but a smaller Green Whirlwind appeared in the passage. These Fusarium Evolutionary Insects used their scalpel-sharp forelimbs to cut open living corpse's chest, and then laid on his body like parasites. Following their rhythmic shrinking, living corpse seemed to be sucking something.
After the Green Whirlwind finished absorbing the blood, their bodies expanded by a whole circle. These fat insects threw down living corpse and followed him back to three-tier base. And the corpses of the living corpse s were left to the Fusarium to be eaten cleanly.
This was a scenario that the three-dimensional model deduced based on the energy changes in the passage. Even though there would be some discrepancies with the truth, Eva's error rate would definitely not exceed five percent. This meant that the error rate was already not far from the truth. The scene of the Green Whirlwind devouring the living corpse made the woman puzzled. She had lived in the underground base for two years and had also captured other insects as research objects. However, she had never seen the Green Whirlwind behave in such a way.
The Green Whirlwind s that were evolved from Fusarium ate the brain of living beings. These bugs had a round mouth, and when they ate, they would use their sharp legs to nail their prey. Then, they would open their mouth wide, and use the mouth organ to make a hole in the head with their broken teeth. Then, they would suck the brain paddle into the mouth of the prey.
However, the Green Whirlwind in the three-dimensional model was obviously not eating. It was more like they were sucking something from living corpse's body and then leaving as if they were transport workers. However, looking at the 3D model, he did not know where the Green Whirlwind sent the "goods" to.
A faint unsettled feeling swept across Eva's heart. Very quickly, this feeling was caught. After analyzing the data, and then going through a round of analysis, Eva came to the conclusion that her uneasiness came from the three-tier base which had quietly changed. Looking at the abnormality of the Green Whirlwind, the bugs in the three-tier base were probably not the ones that she was familiar with.
Could it be another evolution?
Eva th
ought silently and made a few hand gestures to be careful. She did not have any tactical helmet s, so she was not able to communicate with the rest through the communication channel in her helmet.
But they could all see the seriousness on Eva's face, and they knew that she must have discovered something, so they all paid attention to it.
When he walked down the last step and saw the fire door, Eva suddenly raised his hand and made a gesture of "stop". The few of them immediately stopped, the fire door to the exit was wide open, and the two lacerator s that acted as scouts were gone.
Although these two lacerator were high-level living corpse s, they would not act without permission under the orders of the Gemini. Moreover, there was a large pool of dark-red blood by the door. Furthermore, there was a trace of it on the ground, indicating that the lacerator were more likely to have been dragged away by something.
The Gemini was showing signs of unease, and the ordinary living corpse was not as quiet as before. Even the butcher was breathing heavily, holding onto their weapons tightly, looking nervous.
"Make way." Eva said coldly, as though she could not see the scene at the side of the door as she ordered the Gemini.
Gemini immediately pointed his finger at a dozen of living corpse shooter and roared at them. Although the living corpse who was called out was unwilling, under the might of the Gemini, he could only step forward obediently and put on a posture that he could shoot at anytime, towards the door.
When these living corpse shooter were alive, they were all soldiers from the base. After transforming into living corpse, they all retained a certain amount of instincts from before death. Although they could not judge the situation of the battle on their own, under the orders of the Gemini, they could still use the weapons in their hands to block the enemy.