Chapter 069 Chapter 69 I will

The remaining members of the special teams that were on missions today all gathered together, packed up, and set off with rice balls of lard or beef jerky, heading towards the direction of their respective team members.

White Tiger Team Captain Yang Tian drove his team out of the base.

Under the leadership of Huang Ke, they approached the place where the previous four groups of people parked. It was getting dark, and the rumbling and banging sounds in the distance became more and more obvious, accompanied by the hissing of snakes.

Black snakes are phototactic, so all the cars turned off their lights. At this time, several cars slowed down and approached where Mingyi and his friends had parked.

Mingyi and the others had already gotten off the car and were hiding beside it, watching the snake in the water in the distance.

The mutated black snake has a very long mating period, which lasts about 3-5 days at a time. After mating, the female snake will lay eggs ten days later, and those eggs will basically hatch within 20-30 days.

This is the data obtained by a special team through continuous observation in the dense forest.

But now, this information needs to be updated.

Mingyi noticed that the captain had brought his men over, and quickly reunited with the captain, reporting in a low voice their previous observations.

Because there was a team going out to the edge of the dense forest to collect soil, air and some plants the day before yesterday, there were no black snakes here at that time, so the black snakes may have come here the night before yesterday or yesterday.

According to the four groups' previous observations, the black snakes' mating time is not as long as before. From this morning till now, the male black snakes have completed mating with at least three females, and about an hour after mating, the female snakes will lay 5-30 eggs nearby.

Moreover, the female snakes completely changed their previous habit of mating only once. This time, after they finished laying eggs, they returned to the snake group and sent mating signals to the male snakes.

Mingyi's face looked very ugly. There were too many black snakes in this group, and it was impossible to count how many females and males there were. Since they came here, the female snakes had laid a lot of snake eggs.

There are now estimated to be hundreds or even thousands of snake eggs around the group of snakes.

Mingyi reported with great difficulty, "It's been over a month since the beast tide broke out. Captain, I suspect these black snakes came here to gnaw because they don't have enough places to lay their eggs."

When you think about it this way, how many black snake eggs are there in the dense forest now?

According to their current feeding situation, the number of snake eggs laid by all the black snakes during this period could be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

In the dense forest, the black snake's eggs are coveted by other mutant animals or plants, but what about around the base?

If we really let these black snakes continue to lay eggs here, it won’t be long before the little snakes in these eggs break out of their shells and crawl out. Will they return to the jungle or run back to the base?

Yang Tian took out a telescope and switched it to night vision mode, looking at the black snake over there.

There were so many snakes that when he looked over, a female snake just broke away from the group and crawled to the edge of the snake eggs, waiting to lay eggs.

After a while, Yang Tian put away the telescope. "Besides this side, different mutant animals have appeared in other directions of the base. There are five-colored spiders in the north, triangular wolves in the northwest, giant bulls in the west, and silver-armored mosquitoes in the southwest..."

Different mutant beasts appeared in all directions and occupied an area as if they were occupying a chassis. These mutant animals were considered strong even among the many mutant beasts in the dense forest.

They left the jungle not because they were driven away by other mutated animals, but because - they wanted to.

The more Mingyi listened, the uglier his expression became. He even had a feeling that these mutant animals had surrounded the base with premeditated plans.

Yang Tian called all the team leaders of the White Tiger Team to hold a meeting.

Snakes have a natural advantage at night. Although it is not known whether the vision of these snakes will become the same during the day as at night after this mutation, the night has too many disadvantages for them, so they have to be prepared and take action at dawn tomorrow.

What they had to do now was to have people take turns to be on guard to prevent the Black Snake from finishing its mission and heading towards the base while they were resting.

After the discussion, the team leaders went to arrange their respective team members, while Yang Tian continued to observe the black snake with a telescope.

The black snake's scales have very strong defense and lethality, making it very difficult to deal with. Unlike the fatal points of other mutant animals, the black snake's fatal point is in its throat.

Unfortunately, black snakes are extremely large, and the fatal point in their throats is hidden very deeply. There is also a curtain of flesh in front of their fatal point. It is impossible to shoot the fatal point from the outside when the black snake opens its mouth wide.

To kill a black snake, you must enter its mouth to have a chance to stab the weapon into its fatal point.

This is undoubtedly difficult and dangerous, not to mention that there are so many black snakes this time.

Yang Tian was in a heavy mood. He heard the sound of footsteps beside him. He turned his head and saw Mingyi coming.

Yang Tian asked, "Is it arranged?"

Mingyi nodded: "It has been arranged."

He frowned and looked worriedly at the place where the black snake was. It was already completely dark, and Mingyi couldn't see the black snake at all without the night vision binoculars. He asked, "Captain, do you think the base can hold on this time?"

Part of the material of the outer wall of the base is the scales of black snakes, but those scales were accumulated bit by bit. Before the mutant animals mutated for the second time, they only dared to deal with the black snakes one by one. Now they are facing the second-mutated black snakes, and they have to fight so many black snakes.

Could it be that humans have done something that is intolerable to heaven and earth? They are already living such a difficult life, but God still cannot tolerate them and must insist that all humans die out?

Yang Tian frowned as he looked at Ming Yi, who was radiating a depressed mood. "Did you take any tests before leaving?"

Ming Yi was stunned for a moment, then nodded, his lips moved for a moment, and he slowly said, "I have done it, the values ​​are normal."

He pursed his lips and found that he was thinking too much now than before and was not as stable as before. He didn't know when his mind wavered and he started to think about all sorts of things.

Yang Tian patted Ming Yi on the shoulder and said, "Don't think too much. Although black snakes were powerful in the past, they were rare, so it was difficult for us to obtain black snake scales. Now that they are breeding in large numbers, if you look at it from another perspective, we have the materials to expand the base, which is actually a good thing."

Mingyi smiled but sighed in his heart. It would be a good thing to get more black snake scales, but with so many black snakes gathered together, could they really survive to peel off the black snake scales?

base.

An Qing has gone home to rest, but the restaurant is still busy.

The people arranged by Wei Xunyi were divided into two shifts. One shift rested in the first half of the night, while the other continued to work, and they took turns in the second half of the night.

This is not An Qing's intention to exploit them, this is Wei Xunyi's arrangement.

An Qing was lying on the bed. She was very tired today, not only physically but also mentally.

She was actually a little uneasy and scared. The base was in a very dangerous situation. No one knew whether they could stop the monsters and protect the base.

If the base is breached...

An Qing closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and forced herself to calm down and not think about it.

But the more she tried to stop herself from thinking about it, the more her mind started to think about it uncontrollably, and she even recalled the scene before the original owner's death.

Even now, when she thought about how the original owner died, she still shuddered and couldn't help but be afraid of those horrible mutated animals.

An Qing stared at the ceiling with her eyes open. "001, this base should be able to hold on, right?"

001 appeared beside her, staring at An Qing with his mandarin duck eyes, and tilted his head, "Are you scared?"

An Qing twitched the corner of her mouth, "How could I not be scared?"

Her heart began to beat wildly with fear at the thought that the base might be breached.

001 lazily lay beside her and then yawned. "Don't be afraid. There's no point in being afraid. What's meant to happen will eventually happen."

An Qing: "..."

She reached out, grabbed 001, and stuffed it directly back into the system.

001 was stunned when it was suddenly stuffed back into the system. It stood blankly in the system supermarket, unable to react for a moment.

An Qing snorted coldly, "If you can't speak, then shut up. If you say something I don't like to hear again, your entity will be gone."

001: “…”

An Qing turned over and lay on the bed.

Although 001's words were unpleasant to the ear, they were indeed the truth. Now she could only try her best to help everyone in the base improve their combat effectiveness. There was nothing else she could do.

Being afraid here will only consume yourself, drain your emotions, and waste your time.

Boom boom boom——

There was a knock on the door.

An Qing sat up from the bed, walked to the door and opened it. Not surprisingly, she saw Tang Ming standing at the door. She looked outside and saw only Tang Ming, not Muchen.

"Captain Tang, what's going on?"

Tang Ming smiled and said, "I want to talk to you."

An Qing nodded. "Then let's go to the living room to talk?"

Tang Ming: "Okay."

The two of them sat down on the sofa in the living room, and Tang Ming picked up the kettle and poured her a cup of hot water.

An Qing held the hot water in her hand. The heat seeped through the wall of the cup into her palm, and then spread from her palm to every part of her body. She blew on the water and took a small sip.

Although there were many jokes in the past about telling girls to drink more hot water, sometimes a cup of hot water is really hard to soothe people.

Anyway, An Qing was completely relaxed at this moment. She leaned back on the sofa and looked at Tang Ming with a smile, "Captain Tang, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Tang Ming shook his head, "I don't know."

An Qing: "..."

She looked at Tang Ming speechlessly, "You said you wanted to talk to me, but you didn't know what to talk about?"

Tang Ming hummed, and he looked at An Qing, "I feel like you haven't been in a good mood today. Although you've been suppressing it, I can still sense your fear. I'm afraid you'll be even more frightened if you're alone now."

An Qing was stunned. She thought that she started to have wild thoughts and worries after she returned home and there was no one around to relax. She started to feel scared.

So, had she already developed the fear, but was just suppressing it without even knowing it?

She looked at Tang Ming with a strange expression. Wasn't this man too perceptive? She herself didn't notice it, but he saw it?

Tang Ming looked at An Qing's complicated expression, not knowing what she was thinking. He curled his fingers and said seriously, "No matter what happens, I will protect you until the last moment of my life."

He was so serious and solemn as if he was taking an oath before the party, which made An Qing burst out laughing. She leaned lazily on the back of the sofa, knowing very well that he said that because his current duty was to protect her safety.

Unless the base leader assigns him another job, he will protect her even if it means death.

Tang Ming looked at An Qing's smile, and his brows softened slightly. He pursed his lips, and a hint of joy quietly rose in his heart, as if her happy mood was transmitted to him.

An Qing sat cross-legged on the sofa, her hand supporting her chin, and looked at Tang Ming with a smile. For some reason, she blurted out, "Then, if I lose my system and can't get food, will you still protect me?"

As soon as she said it, she regretted it and wanted to slap herself in the face.

Is she out of her mind asking such a question? Isn't the answer to this question obvious?

Now the big boss and Wei Xunyi will give the green light to all her requests and arrange people to protect her closely. This is all because she has the golden finger of the system, which can provide food and is useful to the base.

otherwise--

The smile on An Qing's face faded. After discovering that she was not the original owner, her fate would either be death or becoming an experimental subject of the research institute.

"I can."

An Qing looked up in surprise and met Tang Ming's dark and serious eyes.