137 The Company I Can’t Leave (End)

◎Hello, my name is Caracal◎

The red tentacle stopped wriggling, and there was still Zhu Ning's blood on it. After it loosened slightly, Zhu Ning found that there was a wound on her abdomen. A mechanical tentacle had pierced her lower abdomen.

The tentacles passed through from behind, leaving a part of them still wriggling. Zhu Ning was in so much pain that he forgot about many of the injuries when the pain reached its extreme.

One of her calf bones was shattered, both of her arms were broken, and her protective suit was completely torn.

Zhu Ning's absolute power of metal manipulation showed its effect. Blood flowed from the inside of the helmet, and the red tentacles showed a hint of fear.

The aliens feed on fear, they smell the scent of fear.

Rustling——

The aliens were making eating sounds. They poured out from the gaps in their protective suits at such a fast speed that the black slime had already touched the surface of the red tentacles.

[Only 36 HP left] The system issued a cold reminder. The hardened skin was severely damaging her HP. She could no longer hold on.

Black slime and red tentacles were swirling. Zhu Ning gritted her teeth. One end of the black slime was connected to her spine. She didn't feel anything when she ate a tiny insect last time.

This time, Zhu Ning was clearly aware that he was eating, just like a cheetah on the grassland that spent thirty minutes chasing a buffalo. Compared to antelopes, buffaloes are larger and have horns on their heads. A cheetah will only attack a buffalo when it is extremely hungry.

When a cheetah catches up with a buffalo, even if it has already bitten the buffalo's body, it dare not relax at all, because the prey may struggle to escape at any time.

You have to bite your teeth hard, penetrate the opponent's tough skin, and find a way to bite its throat.

Never let go, even if you die.

Zhu Ning is doing this now. She is trying every possible way to control the alien species and prevent the black slime from retreating.

Because there was no way to retreat, Zhu Ning refused to let it retreat, insisting on dying together.

This is a parasite that lives on her. Zhu Ning is Zhu Ning, and it is her own servant.

Zhu Ning wanted it to obey him.

She wanted to kill the red tentacle at all costs. She ignored her own pain and wanted to strangle it. The alien was her sharp blade.

Click, click—

The mechanical metal buried deep in the red tentacles began to twist and was controlled by an unquestionable force. The tentacles that had penetrated Zhu Ning's abdomen were forcibly pulled out.

It stopped squirming and twisting, probably because it had not experienced such absolute control since the day it was born.

Puff——

After the red tentacles withdrew, they brought out a large amount of blood. Blood was flowing from Zhu Ning's abdomen, but she did not even relax at all, but just gritted her teeth.

She could sense the other's fear, initially like a small flame, detected by the black slime.

Then the small flame fell on the pile of firewood, and fear spread quickly like a fire.

The more frightened the red tentacles were, the more excited the black slime became. They were entangled with each other and inseparable, and the black slime covered the surface of the tentacles.

With a "puff", the red tentacle was crushed by the black mucus, as if a hole was torn, and the bright red mucus overflowed.

The black mucus suddenly drilled into the hole as if it saw blood. They were soft liquids and had never tasted such delicious prey.

Under Zhu Ning's unbreakable control, the mechanical parts inside the tentacles were twisted into a pretzel.

Zhu Ning is a qualified feeder. She subdues her prey and just waits for the black slime to eat.

They drilled into the tentacles, and wherever they passed, the red tentacles collapsed quickly like jelly being sucked.

Snap——

They bit off the core parts of the tentacles, sparks flew, and the strength to compete with Zhu Ning was disappearing, as if someone had been arm wrestling with you for a long time, and you were always about to be pushed to the table, gritting your teeth and holding on with your last breath.

At this moment, the force suddenly disappeared.

Zhu Ning's body was freed from its shackles and fell to the ground boneless. Her back was covered in shattered bricks, her body was covered in blood, and nearly half of her bones were broken.

The helmet was broken and deformed, revealing her face. Her face was covered in blood, like a ghost.

She lay quietly at the bottom of the ruins. The black slime ate the food and then vomited out a bunch of indigestible mechanical parts, which contained gears, wires, and some parts that Zhu Ning could not understand.

The black slime wrapped around Zhu Ning's body like a puppy begging for reward. Seeing that Zhu Ning had no time to pay attention to it, it slowly retracted.

Zhu Ning did not stop it, so it went back to where it came from, entered from the back of the neck, and slowly sank into the gaps in Zhu Ning's spine.

It unfolded along the spine, evenly wrapping Zhu Ning's broken bones, and fusing and regenerating the broken parts.

Zhu Ning's face was covered in blood. She quietly felt the whole process, feeling like she was dreaming. What was she now?

Mechanical contaminants?

She's like a giant garbage collector.

The three-dimensional defense space will only be effective for fifteen minutes. After the three-dimensional defense space fails, the ground will collapse and Zhu Ning will be buried by the ruins above.

But now she was too lazy to struggle.

The scene before him was a mess, with blood stained in the charred ruins and mechanical parts on the ground.

The alien species can only devour living things, and cannot digest many mechanical parts. There are many gears scattered on the ground, like tiny bones spit out by monsters.

A tiny gear rolled over.

Zhu Ning couldn't even lift one hand. He just took a look and saw a string of symbols written on it.

α:0057

Alpha? Is this another product of the experimental series? If Zhu Ning's brain collapses, will a part fall out with his own code written on it?

Zhu Ning reached down by his side and touched the gear, then pressed it under his palm with a snap.

Her protective suit was torn, and her hands were not covered with gloves at all. Her hands were covered in blood, and her knuckles were severely injured, even exposing her white bones.

Something is stirring within his hands.

Zhu Ning loosened his fingers, and something floated out from between his fingers.

It was a blood-red contaminated spore, like a firefly that had gained freedom from Zhu Ning's palm and was floating in the air.

Polluted spores, the core energy source of the wasteland world.

Hengsheng Machinery Company found the black crystal to replace the contaminated spores. It has energy inside because it is itself a contaminated spore.

In the end, this company is still pursuing the same thing. There is no new energy source to replace the pollution spores. They just hold on to a pollutant and think they have struck a rich mine.

They let their clueless employees make contact, and Wang Qinqian died at the hands of this unlucky creature.

Zhu Ning and this brain are both laboratory garbage discarded at will. The people who discarded them did not consider the consequences, because the consequences would not spread to the kingdom of God.

It’s just like in fairy tales, where the gods can casually throw a treasure into the human world and cause unrest in the world.

It is called a test of human nature.

First-class citizens are no different from gods.

Below the Kingdom of God is all hell, and Zhu Ning lives in hell, but this hell is packaged with technology, making you mistakenly think that you are in the human world.

The company's rules are wrong, and they are stuck in a wrong system and cannot extricate themselves. Zhu Ning can solve the problem by blowing up the company.

What about the system of this world?

What happens when the rules of the world go wrong?

Wang Qinqian chose peace. She didn't want to live anymore because this crazy world was not worthy of her.

There was no point in her leaving the company.

As long as the rules do not change, there will be countless Wang Qinqians and countless extreme temperatures of forty centimeters.

The blood-red contaminated spores continued to spread, like a fire, and they permeated the three-dimensional defense space.

Zhu Ning understood why the contaminated spores were flying around her in the deserted village last time, because they were of the same kind.

As long as Zhu Ning dies, she will become a pool of contaminated spores. Will there be cleaners to take her in?

bite--

The system seems to be having a seizure today, making a crackling sound of electricity.

System Announcement: [Congratulations, congratulations on upgrading the purification system. Some primary talents will be upgraded to intermediate level.]

[The Metal Manipulation talent has been upgraded to an intermediate talent, and the control range has been expanded to 20 meters.]

[Danger Prediction Talent upgraded to Intermediate Talent, predictable range extended to 2 minutes]

[Congratulations on completing the random task: Unable to leave the company, congratulations on being an outstanding employee, successfully leaving the company, purification level 100%]

[Reward settlement in progress...]

[Congratulations on receiving the basic reward, your spirit value has been restored to 100]

[Congratulations on receiving a purification value reward of 15,000. Current purification value accumulation: 15,001]

[Congratulations on receiving the Sheephead Employee Award: Rotten Sheep Head]

[Rotten Sheep's Head: S-level pollutant, can mentally pollute others, causing them to lose their sense of time and suffer a mental breakdown. Can also exert mental suggestion on others, causing them to follow your instructions invisibly, such as inducing suicide. The time affected is related to health points. Please note that this item will consume 150 health points, so please use with caution. This item is ineffective against psychic abilities and S-level mental points. Please confirm that the subject meets the requirements before use.]

[Congratulations on obtaining the primary talent: God's Perspective]

[Reward Description: Open this perspective to overlook the surrounding terrain. No buildings can block your view. The viewing range is 30 meters.]

[Congratulations on receiving the random mission reward: Corrosive Potion]

[Reward Description: Corrodible objects and human bodies. Please note that this item will consume health points. The degree of corrosion will be calculated based on the remaining health points. When using it, the required health points will be indicated based on the object.]

[This quest promotes the side quest, searching for the truth behind the death. The key clue has been found and the search progress is 60%]

It turns out that swallowing pollutants can upgrade the system. Both of her primary talents have been upgraded. This time the reward is very generous, and her efforts are not in vain.

But what is the key clue to the truth behind the death? Is it the serial number on this mechanical part?

What series is Alpha? Is Zhu Ning also part of an experimental project?

Zhu Ning was originally thinking about how to get out of here next. Her health points were only 6, and exchanging purification points should be able to extend her life for a while.

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps from above, someone was coming.

…

Three minutes ago.

Xu Meng and Shanmao got out of the car. The noise was no different from an earthquake. People walking on it had to be careful to avoid causing a secondary landslide.

Xu Meng: "Be careful."

They didn't know where Zhu Ning was. If this place collapsed, they could escape on the ground, but Zhu Ning below might be crushed into a meat paste.

This contaminated area is so strange. The entrance has been opened, but they have not seen a single contaminated spore yet.

The bobcat was carrying a pollution concentration detection instrument, which showed that pollution concentration was continuously being emitted from a certain place.

Bobcat: "This way."

Xu Meng and Shanmao moved very gently. The main part of Building No. 3 had already collapsed, and there were not many piled stones.

The pollution level on the detection instrument soared. Bobcat: "It's down there."

As soon as he finished speaking, a contaminated spore suddenly floated out from the crevice of the ruins, as if there was a source of the contaminated spores below.

This should be it.

Xu Meng's body slowly melted and turned into a shadow in front of the mountain cat, like black oil slowly seeping through the cracks in the stone.

Zhu Ning was sitting under the ruins. A three-dimensional defense space supported a two-meter-high area, and the thirty-minute effective time was almost up.

She was still trying to figure out what was happening above her head. If it was another enemy, she might not have the energy to fight again.

Zhu Ning just heard a slight noise, and then saw a black shadow flowing down from the sky.

It looked very similar to the alien species, but not as dark. It was a shadow.

"Captain?" Zhu Ning spoke.

Xu Meng seemed unable to make any sound in this state. The black shadow stretched out a finger, like a cat stretching out a paw, and pointed downwards. She was blocked outside by an unknown space.

Zhu Ning allowed Xu Meng to enter his three-dimensional defense space.

After Xu Meng entered, she condensed into a human form again, like a stone falling into calm water, and the dense contaminated spores were instantly dispersed by her.

Xu Meng frowned and didn't ask what that space was. His first reaction was to wonder who Zhu Ning was. She was leaning against a rock, covered in blood, and her helmet was flattened on her face.

If you didn't know, you might think she was swallowed by some beast and then spit out. The ground was full of mechanical parts, covered with flesh and blood.

Zhu Ning had already stored several important parts into the card, so Xu Meng could only see the wreckage. It was hard to imagine what Zhu Ning had experienced here.

Xu Meng frowned even deeper when he saw Zhu Ning's helmet was damaged, but he had seen it once before, so this time he was actually used to it. Zhu Ning was an experimental subject, so he should be fine after being exposed to the contaminated spores.

Many mutants can also be exposed to contaminated spore environments.

Xu Meng really watched her seek death and asked, "How did you plan to get out of this?"

Zhu Ning could feel that Xu Meng was suppressing her anger. For a moment, she felt like she had been caught doing something bad by a parent.

Zhu Ning really couldn't think of a perfect solution. She thought that she could either use the bomb again to blow a hole so that she could get out.

Or she could just turn herself into a card, lie quietly underground, and wait for someone in the future to rescue her.

This is called lying down completely.

So when Zhu Ning saw Xu Meng, it was almost like seeing a savior goddess. She had been in the polluted area for so long, so long that it seemed as if she had really lived there her whole life, punching in and out every day.

She really felt that she was the same kind as the pollutants.

Xu Meng appeared under the ruins wearing a helmet, as if breaking the invisible barrier between them, allowing Zhu Ning to feel what it was like to be a human being for the first time in a long time.

It turns out that if she gets lost, someone will really come to rescue her.

Zhu Ning smiled: "I knew you would come to save me."

Xu Meng: “…”

It doesn't look like this was within Zhu Ning's expectations, but if Xu Meng doesn't take action, Prometheus might have other plans.

Xu Meng asked, "Can we go?"

Zhu Ning was like a mischievous little brat who saw his parents coming to clean up the mess. He didn't want to lift a finger and just started messing around: "No more."

"Don't act like a spoiled child," Xu Meng lifted her arm with one hand, "You can walk."

Zhu Ning: “?”

Before she could react, Xu Meng touched Zhu Ning's arm with one hand, and she felt herself suddenly become very strange, really very strange, as if her whole body melted into a pool of sticky liquid, and bubbles came out of her mouth as soon as she opened it.

It's like... a three-dimensional person was photographed as a piece of paper.

Zhu Ning followed Xu Meng and turned into a shadow on the spot. She was suddenly taken away by a suction force. The shadow passed through the gaps between the stones. She couldn't even feel her hands and feet, let alone where to put them.

It's a shame that such an amazing project is free.

About a minute later, she took a breath, and when she came to her senses, she was already on the ground.

It turns out that Xu Meng can not only turn herself into a shadow, but also turn people into shadows. She can probably turn objects into shadows as well. She is worthy of being the captain of the Cheetah Team. Her ability is even stronger than Zhu Ning imagined.

Xu Meng supported Zhu Ning, holding her waist with one hand. Zhu Ning's legs and feet had not fully healed, and she could not even stand steadily.

A black flying car stopped in front of them. The noise was too loud and might attract the cleaning center, so they had to evacuate quickly.

Xu Meng and Bobcat have cooperated many times, and when Xu Meng leaves, Bobcat is already ready to retreat.

Xu Meng opened the car door and stuffed Zhu Ning into the back seat. Her movements were very rough, as if she was throwing a suitcase in. After they got in the car, the car started immediately.

The ruined company had been left far behind by Zhu Ning, and the contaminated spores below were like sporadic flames in the middle of the night.

Zhu Ning hasn't completely recovered from Wang Qinqian's story and is still a little confused.

Zhu Ning leaned against the car window and looked for a while before asking, "What's next?"

Xu Meng said coldly: "Don't worry about what happens next."

Zhu Ning said "oh" and then really didn't care.

The driver was a man. Zhu Ning took a look and saw that he was wearing a metal mask. Her intuition told her that this man was Bobcat.

Bobcat appeared here to cover Zhu Ning, but it turned out to be completely useless. He turned on the automatic driving mode. Xu Meng kept rummaging around in the car, and Bobcat threw a medical kit over from the front seat.

Xu Meng opened a powerful healing agent and injected it into Zhu Ning's leg.

Lynx looked through the rearview mirror and saw Zhu Ning's body covered in blood. Her protective suit was torn in many places, with the wound on her abdomen being the most serious. However, she didn't make a sound or cry out in pain.

The blood on Zhu Ning's face was half dried, as if he had just crawled out of a pool of blood. It was impossible to tell what he looked like before, and all that could be seen was a pair of very bright eyes.

Shanmao and Zhu Ning had always been "chatting online", and now they met for the first time, and she actually managed to enter the S-level contaminated area alone.

Bobcat: "Congratulations."

Zhu Ning's news will be announced internally on the tomb post that day, and everyone will know her. Shanmao has been in this business for more than ten years, but was surpassed by Zhu Ning overnight.

This is how the demon hunter business is, there will always be new geniuses emerging.

Zhu Ning was receiving medicine from Xu Meng when he asked, "Are you the mountain cat?"

Bobcat: “Yes.”

Zhu Ning: "What's the captain's name?"

Xu Meng bandaged Zhu Ning's arm and was about to tell her not to tell her, but Shanmao had already said, "Black Cat."

When Zhu Ning heard this, she said "oh" and stretched out a bloodstained hand. "Hello, my name is Caracal."

Xu Meng: “…”

She knew that Zhu Ning had no good intentions.

Shanmao doesn't like to talk or interact with people. He is very dull. Xu Meng thought Shanmao would not respond to this conversation, but he hesitated for a moment and then held Zhu Ning's bloody hand.

Because he was afraid of touching the wound, the mountain cat just held it lightly, "Hello, caracal."

The author has something to say:

I saw the caracal in the comments section and thought it was very suitable, so I requisitioned it hahaha

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