Strange Lover

Tang Xiaoyan calmed down and dodged Ashin's next attack.

"No, no!" Shen Congyu let out a shrill scream. The vines on the sacred tree twisted into his body like water snakes, sucking his blood like leeches.

Shen Congyu's face turned pale in an instant.

"Damn it." Wen Yan cursed inwardly and ran towards Shen Congyu. Jiang Lin noticed his movements and attacked the vines near Wen Yan, allowing him to reach the other side smoothly.

Wen Yan: "Give me your hand."

Shen Congyu stretched out his hand tremblingly, and Wen Yan pulled him up and burned all the vines on his body.

"You can't leave." The sacred tree whispered like a demon from hell.

The concentration of spores in the air surged, accompanied by the stench of zombies. Within a few breaths, Shen Congyu's face suddenly turned pale, with a faint green tint.

Jiang Lin keenly sensed the change in the air and looked in the direction of Wen Yan and Shen Congyu.

Behind Wen Yan, thorny vines whizzed towards him.

"Be careful!" As soon as she finished speaking, it was not the vines climbing up Wen Yan's body, but Shen Congyu.

Shen Congyu blocked the attack for Wen Yan.

A stream of blood spurted out of his mouth and fell on the green vines. Those vines seemed to have eaten some tonic soup and twisted excitedly like a huge and disgusting worm.

"I don't want to live like a monster. Wen Yan, I'm sorry. Please help me tell my mother that I was wrong. I was really wrong." Shen Congyu fell into Wen Yan's arms exhausted.

Until there was no breath left.

Even Jiang Lin, who had hated him so much before, couldn't explain his feelings in his heart. It seemed as if he had not expected that this person would suddenly die in front of him.

Wen Yan, holding Shen Congyu's body, ran towards them, with thorny vines covering the sky behind him.

Jiang Lin and his group wanted to retreat, but Ah Xin stayed behind to guard them. His abilities became much stronger as the sacred tree grew stronger.

The growing thorns directly blocked the way out.

"Tattattatt." The sound of regular footsteps came from outside.

"Here they come, they are the army we trained." Chen Guanghai shouted excitedly, his eyes bloodshot and looking a little crazy.

Shenmu: "Now if you behave yourself and become my subjects, you will suffer less."

Jiang Lin is now under attack from both sides. Judging from the footsteps, there must be a lot of people coming. Can they really get out of this base alive?

A group of people with green faces finally arrived, blocking the small experimental base. Their mouths were filled with smelly rotten meat mixed with dried human blood.

"These are people from the southern base." Wen Yan was very familiar with the attire of the personnel in several bases. He recognized the origin of this group of monsters by their clothes that were so dirty that their original appearance could not be seen.

"It fell so quickly." Jiang Lin was a little bit unbelievable. It was too late. They arrived too late.

Shenmu: "Have you made your choice? Will you accept my transformation obediently, or will you endure painful torture and become my people?"

Shenmu was a little confused as to why Jiang Lin and the others had not been infected by the spores yet, but that did not prevent it from feeling the joy of victory in advance.

Once it controls Jiang Lin, it can allow her to recover more land. Its roots will spread across the entire planet, and it will be the only king here.

"I would rather smash my brains and commit suicide than be enslaved by you." Jiang Lin said this calmly. It would be worse than a miserable death to let her become like this, neither human nor ghost.

"Oh, really? Shin tied her hands."

"Ah Xin, Ah Xin?"

Shenmu called many times, but Ashin still didn't move.

Tang Xiaoyan was a little surprised: "He seems to be helping us block the group of people outside."

The vines in Ashin's body that allowed him to maintain his human form began to stir, and his body was shaking as if he was enduring great pain.

"Xiaoyan, I'm sorry." A weak voice came from Ashin's throat.

Tang Xiaoyan hugged him excitedly: "You, you remembered me."

"Don't get too close to me. I'm a monster now. I will hurt you. I'm sorry, Xiaoyan." Ashin said something in Tang Xiaoyan's ear, then pushed her away.

Jiang Lin watched as Ah Xin's superpowers surged, and the sharp wooden thorns pierced into the bodies of the monsters behind him.

"Go quickly, you must survive." Ashin's voice was a little broken because of the pain.

Tang Xiaoyan took one last look at him.

"Jiang Lin, we can get out of this underground river." After saying that, Tang Xiaoyan jumped into the water first.

Jiang Lin jumped in without any doubt, and the six people jumped into the underground river one after another.

She opened her eyes with difficulty in the water and saw the well-developed root system of the sacred tree below, but the water was her home.

Jiang Lin controlled the water flow away from her eyes and nostrils, and the water near the roots of the sacred tree became turbulent.

Like a knife constantly cutting its lifeline.

"I want you to die!" The sacred tree felt pain, and its vines began to search underwater, but as soon as they came in, they were cut off by the current.

Wen Yan kept gesturing to Jiang Lin, asking her to leave quickly.

Jiang Lin felt like he was suffocating, so he had to retract his special ability and swim quickly towards the depths.

"Huh." After holding her breath for almost five minutes, Jiang Lin felt everything in front of her eyes go dark, and finally she surfaced. They should have reached the depths of the cave.

The surroundings were dark and narrow, making it doubtful whether one could swim out.

Jiang Lin looked at the people around her. They were now in a relatively wide space. It seemed that everyone had swam out. Wen Yan even carried Shen Congyu's body, which was quite creepy.

Wen Yan: "The waters ahead will become increasingly narrow. We may have to travel in pairs, stopping to breathe wherever possible."

Back in the water again, we saw a black waterway with no end in sight. Everyone was silent, and the fear of the unknown tormented everyone.

The water ahead was getting narrower and narrower just as Wen Yan said, and it was barely wide enough for one person to swim across. Jiang Lin felt a tightness in her chest, and this cramped space made her feel a little uncomfortable.

I had to stop and hold on to the rock wall to catch my breath.

"Hold on a little longer, we should be out soon." Wen Yan swam to her side and observed Jiang Lin's face in the dim light, which was a little pale due to being soaked in water.

"Okay." Jiang Lin tried his best to calm himself down and continued to swim outside with Wen Yan.

There was a little light ahead, and the fear slowly dissipated, followed by great hope after resurrection from the dead.

The coolness of the underground water and the fear made Jiang Lin feel a little weak, but when he saw the little sunlight shining through, the discomfort seemed to dissipate a lot.

The space in front began to expand and could accommodate about six people.

Jiang Lin came out from the bottom of the water and took a deep breath of fresh air. The exit was actually above their heads, a round hole.

She fumbled with her equipment and found the climbing rope was in good condition. Jiang Lin threw the rope with the grappling hook to the top and it clung tightly to the cliff.

"Let me go up and take a look first." She really couldn't stand this enclosed space, so she climbed up the rope first.

His arms felt a little weak, but the desire to get out made Jiang Lin hold on to the rope tightly. The rock wall was very slippery because of the water, so he had to be very careful with every step.

It took Jiang Lin nearly half an hour to climb up the short distance. She fell to the ground, and the dirt still stained her clothes and cheeks.

Finally I came out. There was a flat open space above. It was not very close to the experimental base. I could only see a small dot in the distance.

Sheng Wei and Tang Xiaoyan also began to climb up. Wen Yan was the last one to come out, still carrying Shen Congyu's body on his back.

After resting for a while, a cluster of flames began to burn on Shen Congyu's body, gradually engulfing his entire body.

The fire brought a hint of warmth, making Jiang Lin's face hot. Wen Yan didn't say anything, just looked at the jumping flames.

"He wasn't like this when he was a child." He muttered to himself, as if missing the little Shen Congyu in his memory.

"I have to take him back." The flames continued to jump and the temperature continued to rise, and everyone had to stay away from here.

Wen Yan's fire could not burn his bones, and only a few small bones and some ashes could be contained. The remaining six people dug a pit and buried the man.

From dusk to dawn, Jiang Lin watched the sun set and then slowly rise again, and a new day came.

"Should we go back directly, or..." Jiang Lin didn't continue the rest of the sentence. Everyone was a little discouraged. They had experienced too much in one day, and their confidence in destroying the laboratory had almost disappeared.

Tang Xiaoyan looked at the laboratory in the distance without saying a word. No one knew what she was thinking.

After a while, Tang Xiaoyan stood up from the ground: "I want to go back. You go back to the base first. I want to bring him out."

Jiang Lin took a look and said, "I'll go with you. Without Ah Xin, we probably won't be able to escape. But we have to find a way. We can't go back into the base."

If they go in again, they will die and no one can save them.

"Same as last time, fire? This time the armored vehicle also carries a bomb, which is quite powerful." Wen Yan thought of the last weapon on the car.

Sheng Wei: "Then let's go, otherwise you'll be bullied for nothing, and it will be hard if you don't retaliate."

The remaining two people had no objections and said that anything was fine and they had no worries.

Everyone agreed to go back, leaving Tang Xiaoyan speechless. She wanted to speak but her throat felt like it was clogged with cotton.

Jiang Lin patted her on the back: "This is our mission, isn't it?" Their mission was to destroy the base, and now they had an additional task of rescuing one person if possible.

The plan begins.

Wen Yan and Jiang Lin chose to be bait. He stood opposite the base and threw fireballs in. Jiang Lin was beside him. The person Shenmu wanted most was Jiang Lin. It longed for Jiang Lin to bring it unlimited purification fluid. If there was a chance, it would never let her go.

Sure enough, after a while, Chen Guanghai came out with the monster army, but unfortunately there was no sign of Ashin.

"Chen Guanghai, I won't trade with you. Find someone else if it still wants the purification liquid in my hand." Jiang Lin took out a reagent bottle from somewhere and shook it.

Greedy desire appeared in the eyes of the controlled Chen Guanghai.

"The person you want to see has been transformed twice. He can only be a follower of Master Shenmu. Master Shenmu will not allow anyone to betray him."

"Give up, Jiang Lin. Even if he comes out now, he won't remember you." Chen Guanghai knew the character of this group of people. They must want to rescue Ah Xin who let them go.

It's a pity that Ashin is still conscious. Chen Guanghai has seen Shenmu's methods, and he thinks Jiang Lin's wish is likely to be unfulfilled.