Under the Deep Sea (5)

Gongye Jiwang went to the left passage, and since he hadn't met her before, it was very likely that she came from the right passage.

The landmark exit at the T-shaped intersection points to the right passage. Could it be that the place where he was trapped was not close to the exit?

Shi Jianxia was full of doubts. He always felt that the passage was too long. What's more, the entire passage was covered with black moss. Unless all the black moss was dug out, it would be difficult to determine the original purpose of the passage.

The black moss can absorb the energy of the mimicry silently. Digging out the black moss from the entire wall is a huge project. The number of mimics she can summon at present is limited, and she is not sure whether the mimicry power can be replenished with insect crystals after it is consumed. It is best to conserve her strength and make long-term plans after reuniting with Gongye Jiwang.

After making the decision, Shi Jianxia kept a distance of about fifteen meters from Shenshan, letting it lead the way in front, while he jogged forward.

After running about fifty or sixty meters, she could vaguely feel that the passage was semi-arc-shaped. The arc was not very large, so the turning point was not very obvious. She did not find any marks along the way, nor did she catch up with Gongye Jiwang.

The damp and thick feeling under her feet and the pervasive fishy and salty smell made Shi Jianxia feel a little uneasy, and not long after, she stopped in front of a T-shaped three-way intersection.

Faced with the choice again, Shi Jianxia's psychological pressure suddenly increased.

Especially after checking the black moss on the passages on both sides and finding no marks left by Gongye Jiwang, she couldn't help but have a negative premonition.

The passage is one-way. When she came here, she kept an eye on the walls on both sides. Meng Ji was also watching overhead, so it was impossible for her to miss a mark.

While thinking, Shi Jianxia suddenly heard an inaudible crunching sound, like sharp teeth chewing something tough, which made him feel uneasy for no reason.

She immediately grasped the water-repellent bead hanging in front of her collarbone, covering up the faint light it emitted.

As darkness engulfed them, the crunching sound of chewing became more pronounced. It came from the passage on the left, perhaps twenty or thirty meters away.

Shi Jianxia's heartbeat uncontrollably quickened, and his thoughts wandered uncontrollably.

Gongye Jiwang left no mark. Did he also hear the chewing sounds coming from the left passage? Did he go over to check? Was he in danger, or...

Before she could make a corresponding inference, a cold white hand reached out from the darkness and covered her mouth and nose.

Shi Jianxia instinctively elbowed back, but was blocked by the personality that walked out from the side.

A familiar cold fragrance entered her nose, and along with it, a whispered voice lingered beside her ear, "It's me."

Shi Jianxia breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head to look over, and barely saw Gongye Jiwang's face in the hazy darkness.

Like her, he was wearing the uniform issued by the military. He stood straight and had a calm expression. After meeting her gaze, he slowly released his hand that was covering her mouth and nose, and when he took it back, he also tucked the hair away from her ears. His movements were light and gentle, like a cool breeze.

When Gongye Jiwang was over, he saw Xia holding the Water-Repellent Pearl's hand, and the power of the tide poured in. The light emitted by the Water-Repellent Pearl gradually dimmed, and the energy contained in it transformed into a warm current that covered her eyes.

Feeling very comfortable, Shi Jianxia blinked, and the blurry scene in front of her gradually became clear. The darkness receded from her vision, and visibility increased from one meter to more than ten meters.

Can water-repellent beads be used like this?

If it wasn't the wrong timing, Shi Jianxia would really like to ask Gongye Jiwang about the specific uses of the water-repellent beads.

The chewing sounds continued to come from the left aisle, sometimes dense, sometimes sparse, or stopping for a few seconds, which was creepy.

Shi Jianxia calmed his breath and gestured quickly, "What's in there?"

Gongye Jiwang shook his head slightly. He had just arrived here and had not had time to check the situation over there when he noticed movement behind him. He hid in the shadows and then saw Shi Jianxia coming over.

"Would you like to go over and take a look?" Shi Jianxia continued to gesture.

This place was full of weirdness. They finally discovered some movement. If they didn't take the initiative to check the situation while the other party was still unaware of their existence, once that unknown thing discovered them, the positions of hunter and hunted would be reversed.

Gongye Jiwang obviously had the same idea as her and nodded in the dark.

After reaching a consensus, Shi Jianxia gently patted Changliu Mountain floating in the air, signaling it to go forward to check the situation, and return immediately if it could not sense her location.

Changliushan received the order and shrank himself to the size of a palm, then quietly floated towards the passage where the chewing sound came from. He saw that Xia and Gongye Jiwang did not act rashly, but waited patiently there.

The passage on the left was not very deep. After Changliushan flew over more than ten meters, Shi Jianxia saw the situation at the end of the passage from its perspective.

It was a broken metal door. A large piece of the black moss that had originally grown on the door had been scraped away, revealing the gray-black roots curled up, with teeth marks faintly visible at the edges.

Bits of moss were scattered all over the floor. There was a hole in the middle of the dull metal door, only the size of a millstone. A faint light shone through the hole. Judging from the scattering of the light, it should have come from the luminous ore.

An arc-shaped black shadow was illuminated by the light through the hole and was projected onto the top of the passage. The unknown creature was moving its body slightly, as if it was eating.

Changliushan approached cautiously and looked down at the situation in the cave from above. Almost the moment its vision fell on the metal door, the fine and dense chewing sound stopped.

There was complete silence inside and outside the passage. Without warning, a pair of round eyes, the whites of which were completely covered by bulging capillaries, stared out from inside, staring straight at Changliu Mountain, which reflected an arc-shaped black shadow on the mountain.

Shi Jianxia, ​​who was observing from the perspective of Changliu Mountain, was caught off guard and looked into those eyes. His heart beat violently in shock and he raised his hand to cover his mouth reflexively.

It was a round human head with hair as messy as weeds, sticking to the face in wet clumps. The facial features were completely dislocated, and there were disgusting pits and holes caused by decay.

It had almost no neck, and below its head were disgusting and slippery tentacles, two of which were holding a human arm. White flesh shreds hung on its sharp teeth, and cold black blood dripped onto the dark silver metal ground, reflecting a cold and bloody light under the illumination of the glowing ore.

It’s the tentacle monster that appeared in Yuan Huai’s house!

After the tentacle monster died, it directly decayed into a pool of smelly sewage, without even leaving any bones. The Zerg Investigation Department had no way of studying how it was created.

As for the banned experimental data found in the secret laboratories of Dream Technology, Shi Jianxia had not read it and was not sure what kind of perverted experiments were involved.

Does the appearance of a tentacle monster here mean that this is the secret laboratory of the red spider lily?

Shi Jianxia held his breath.

The tentacle monster did not notice the uninvited guest hiding in the dark. Its two bulging eyes rolled around and it lost interest in eating. Instead, it stared at the motionless Changliu Mountain without blinking, as if trying to judge whether it posed a threat to itself.

Gongye Jiwang gestured to Shi Jianxia, ​​"The aura isn't strong, shall we take action?"

Before Shi Jianxia could respond, the tentacle monster suddenly jumped up, passed through the hole in the wall, revealing its densely packed sharp teeth in its mouth, and bit hard at Changliushan, who looked quite easy to bully.

Changliu Mountain had been on guard against its sneak attack since early morning, and the palm-sized mountain twisted to the side to avoid the ferocious and terrifying bite of the tentacle monster.

Unexpectedly, the tentacle monster was extremely cunning. Its mouth bit nothing, but the slippery tentacles under its head opened like a big net and wrapped it up. The suction cups on the tentacles immediately emitted a terrifying suction force, trying to eat Changliushan, an energy body.

At this moment, a sharp arrow burning with pale flames came through the wind and accurately pierced the tentacle monster's temple, piercing its ugly head and firmly nailing it to the thick moss covering the wall.

Changliu Mountain took this opportunity to grow bigger like a balloon blown by the wind. An invisible force vibrated from its body, and the terrifying force instantly pressed down on the tentacle monster, which had no time to struggle to escape, and pressed it into the black moss.

Suffering such a heavy blow, the slippery tentacles danced in panic, trying to free the head that was covered in pale flames and twisting in pain.

However, the star fire had a strong punitive effect on it. As soon as the tentacles touched the flames, they immediately caught fire like straw fed into an incinerator, and could not be extinguished no matter what.

There was a crackling sound, and Changliushan saw that the tentacle monster had no power to resist and turned back to the size of a palm.

Feeling the mucus on its body, it shook up and down in disgust. When it found that there was no way to get rid of the mucus, it spun in the air at high speed. Some of the mucus was shaken off, but some remained.

The pale star fire flowed over and covered it completely. The warm energy flow covered the surface of the mountain, and the mucus quickly evaporated and disappeared. Changliu Mountain happily turned in a circle, and even put the tip of the mountain against the tip of the flame, looking cute.

When Shi Jianxia and Gongye Jiwang walked over, the tentacle monster had been burned to ashes, leaving only a gray round crystal the size of a finger. It looked somewhat similar to the insect crystal, but also quite different.

Gongye Jiwang wrapped his hands with starfire and picked it up. He looked at it carefully for a few seconds but couldn't figure out what it was.

Shi Jianxia's attention was focused on the metal door. There was a millstone-sized hole that was corroded, with irregular edges. Silver-black liquid was flowing down, a mixture of metal and some secretion.

She half-knelt down and looked inside the hole.

Just one glance made her lose her composure and she took a step back in fear. It was Gongye Jiwang who supported her shoulders in time and prevented her from falling to the ground.

"What's wrong?" Gongye Jiwang asked with a frown, squatting down and about to look into the hole.

Shi Jianxia subconsciously grabbed his wrist, "No!"

Gongye Jiwang stopped bending his knees and did not look inside. Instead, he let her pinch his wrist hard until a red mark was left without saying a word.

The passage was quiet. A cold and astringent smell of blood slowly drifted out of the hole and penetrated into the noses of the two men. Shi Jianxia suddenly grasped Zhu Yan's long sword and slashed fiercely at the metal door with a hole in it.

The metal door's security system had long been broken, and it had been eroded by black moss. At this moment, it was impacted by the highly concentrated energy, and the door slowly cracked, and finally collapsed inward with a loud bang.

The heavy metal door pressed down on the half-eaten human arm by the tentacle monster. The rotten flesh made a crackling sound and oozed foul and smelly blood.

In the spacious laboratory, two-meter-high experimental tanks were neatly arranged one after another, with naked human test subjects floating in the tanks. They were all women, with their eyes closed, and all had the same face.

Gongye Jiwang's pupils contracted, and he covered Shi Jianxia's eyes without hesitation.