mesbooks Chapter 287 Pupa
Chapter 287 Pupa
Two minutes ago, Miao Yin imbued her blade with molten fire and killed the snake woman with a single blow.
Meanwhile, the rest of the team was being chased by another mutant, and Tu Hao was fighting his opponent.
The noise is too loud. If those guys keep making explosions, monsters from other places will probably come to visit before they even have to go up there.
The guy in Tu Hao's hand is very likely a huge bomb. If you try to kill him at close range, you might lose your own life.
Miao Yin took off the cumbersome clothes she was wearing and came up with a solution.
It would be better to blow it up from a distance.
So she grabbed the rusty, deformed man, kicked off its legs and spine, pinned it to the ground, and aimed at Tu Hao.
She only needed to call out to him softly, and he would understand what she meant.
Then, with a single cannon shot, the battle ended.
Fang Ce and the others were gathered around bandaging Zhang Zhitong.
His waist was grazed by a shell, leaving a palm-sized wound from which blood flowed continuously.
Although it doesn't damage internal organs, a cut in the skin and flesh is no small wound.
Fang Ce quickly took out a military-grade spray to disinfect the wound, while He An used gauze to cover it and stop the bleeding.
Zhang Zhitong's lips were already pale from the pain. He leaned against the container, his gas mask lying to the side.
His gaze fell on Qu Fangfang's corpse, his eyelids twitched, and tears welled up in his eyes.
"If only I had pulled her away sooner..."
"Alright, it's not your fault," Fang Ce said, patting his shoulder to comfort him.
The unexpected attack by the mutants cost them a teammate, and his captain felt more guilty than anyone else, but the team's morale could not be broken.
He forced himself to stay alert and said to the woman beside him, "Yang Jin, go find Fangfang's name tag."
"Yes."
Yang Jin got up and went to find Qu Fangfang's shattered upper body. Amidst a pile of mangled remains, he shakily dug out her dog tag.
This is a plaque containing all of Qu Fangfang's information and name. Since they couldn't take her body back, they're taking this back to her family.
Miao Yin was considering whether she should put the protective suit back on.
She wasn't sure if the biological toxins hidden in the armory would pose a life-threatening danger to her, but the suit definitely hindered her movements.
In this treacherous arsenal, even a delay of just a few seconds could be detrimental to one's own safety.
Seeing that she held the clothes for a long time without putting them on, Tu Hao knew what she was thinking and said, "Can your superpower hold up?"
"Maybe."
The ghost body made Miao Yin's physical abilities extremely strong, but at the same time, she lost many normal human physiological characteristics and gradually became immune to all poisons.
However, as of now, Miao Yin is still a human being, so it's hard to say whether these deadly poisons will have any effect on her.
Forget it, I can just hide in the space.
Miao Yin took off the equipment that was clipped to her clothes and put it on herself. She then put her gas mask back on and threw the protective suit into her spatial storage.
Tu Hao wasn't as meticulous as her.
The fight was so intense that he didn't have time to carefully take off his clothes, so he just ripped them off. Now his clothes are so tattered that they can't be pieced back together.
Without this outfit, he would have to rely on his physical strength to endure it.
The minor injuries they sustained during the fight healed quickly, and they returned to their group, asking questions.
"Can we continue walking?"
Zhang Zhitong wiped away his tears and nodded: "Okay, it's just a superficial wound. It'll be fine once the bleeding stops."
He put his gas mask back on and was helped to his feet by Yu Feng: "Let's go, we won't waste any more time."
They hurriedly left this troublesome place and found the elevator.
Heaven helps those who help themselves; this elevator is still usable.
Fang Ce finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The group stepped into the elevator, and the small space provided a strong sense of security.
The elevator doors slowly closed, and he pressed the button for the 27th floor.
"We can only go up to the 27th floor. We need to take another elevator to get to the top. After we get off the elevator, we still have a long way to go."
The elevator leading to Room 1 is accessible only to internal administrators, and a unique key belonging to the administrator is required to activate it.
Although all the administrators are dead, fortunately, the key originally used to open the secret passage can also start the elevator.
Now, the key is on Fang Ce.
"Ding."
The elevator made a slight noise; we had arrived at the 27th floor.
It was still dark outside, but thankfully there were a few emergency exit signs lit up this time.
Tu Hao's face was rather pale. As the floors rose, he felt the unknown pressure more and more clearly, and even his head began to throb with pain.
The 27th floor is enclosed, and the floor, which has not been ventilated for a long time, feels somewhat stuffy.
Miao Yin sniffed and detected a faint, almost imperceptible bitterness.
This time, without needing any strategy, Miao Yin took out two measuring instruments first.
As expected, the readings on the gas detector rose by one point, while the radiation monitor remained unchanged.
However, so far, she has not felt any signs of poisoning. When she raised her arm to look at it, there were no signs of blackening on her skin.
If she doesn't react at all, then Tu Hao is even less likely to react.
"This way." Fang Ce led the way forward.
Along the way, the air became increasingly stuffy, accompanied by a smell similar to that of a corpse.
The expressions on their faces gradually turned serious, which was not a good sign.
As she passed an office, Miao Yin suddenly stopped in her tracks.
The office door was half open, with fine lines wrapped around the door frame.
Looking at the ground, it was covered with drag marks.
Miao Yin stood outside the door and peered through the crack. There seemed to be something hanging in the dark room.
"What's wrong?" He An asked.
Miao Yin pushed open the door, and in the spacious room, black silk covered every corner, with more than a dozen black cocoons hanging crowdedly from the ceiling.
The center of the pupa is almost transparent. When a light is shone on it, the light shines through the black pupa and reflects the life inside.
The strange creatures huddled together, their limbs clasped tightly, with murky liquid clinging to their sides. Upon closer inspection, they turned out to be several humans curled up in a ball.
Fang Ce felt a wave of nausea rise in his throat: "Are they mutants?"
"Not really." Miao Yin shone her flashlight across the room, scanning the entire space. "These are rations."
"Rations? Don't mutants usually just eat their prey whole?"
The stomach of a deformed person is a bottomless pit; they can never be satisfied no matter how much they eat.
The more you eat, the stronger you become. Even if you stop eating now, you'll come back and finish the food after a while.
They had never encountered the practice of "hoarding grain" before.
“This is a very rare situation. When a mutant evolves to a certain level and there is a lack of food around, it will realize that it needs to prepare for the future so that it will have nothing to eat when it is extremely hungry,” Miao Yin explained.
However, this situation is extremely rare. Mutants are beings that chase after flesh and blood, and they don't have the concept of restraint like humans do.
Unless this mutant had already evolved human intelligence before falling into a state of food shortage.
Over the years, she has only encountered such a situation once.
At that time, it was a pink crystal core-level mutant human who was trapped in a closed building due to an earthquake.
It couldn't figure out how to get out. Trapped and without food, it hoarded the people who were also trapped in the building and ate a few bites every now and then.
They wouldn't have discovered it if it hadn't been for the two subsequent earthquakes.
"These black threads that wrap around them are actually a protective membrane that prevents the corpses from rotting. The mutants can come back and eat them at any time, or even absorb people directly through these threads."
If the mutants could devour all these people from a distance during the fight, their combat strength would definitely increase significantly.
Tu Hao looked at the pupae and said, "If they are storing grain, they probably wouldn't be too far from their own food supplies."
Miao Yin smiled at him and said, "Of course."
A chill ran down everyone's spine.