Chapter 138, Giant Python
After the last word was spoken, Si Xu suddenly raised his hand and pointed the gun at the camera in the corner.
In the monitoring room, Qin Huai only saw the man raising the gun, and then the monitoring screen turned into a blackboard.
Qin Huai: “…”
The young man sighed deeply, leaned back in his office chair, propped up his face with one hand, and muttered, "Such a powerful ability, to die here like this, what a waste."
In the shadows behind him, the slender figure of a woman slowly walked out, bathed in light.
"Do you think that with those hundred or so zombies, you can trap Si Xu to death?"
The woman's voice was low and hoarse, and her tone was sexy.
"You don't seem like such a careless person, Qin Huai."
"Of course." He pushed his toes against the ground and turned around with the chair. Qin Huai looked at the woman's face that looked like Si Xuxiao and smiled gently, "S."
S is obviously a code name, not the woman's real name.
The woman gathered her hair, and when she smiled, tiny wrinkles appeared at the corners of her eyes. "So, what are your plans?"
"Me?" Qin Huai didn't answer directly. "Surprises should be revealed at the end to be considered a surprise. Telling you in advance would be pointless."
He turned back to look at the dark screen and murmured, "S, guess how many minutes Si Xu can hold on?"
Under the siege of more than 800 zombies, can a man without superpowers make it out alive? If not, how long can he hold on?
"Three hundred? Well, at least half of them should be eliminated. That's Professor Si's style. Even if they die, they can't die in a humiliating way."
He knew in his heart that a superpower who had lost his superpowers was no different from an ordinary person, but he would be very disappointed if Si Xu was bitten to death without being able to deal with even four hundred zombies.
…
Jiang Ran was standing at the entrance of Beihe Base, looking at the dark corridor and the endless road ahead, and swallowed his saliva.
"Captain Chu and his men have been inside for a day and a night, and there's still no news." Beside her, the team members who stayed behind in the camp knitted their brows together, rubbing their hands constantly, very anxious. "I don't know what the situation is..."
Pei Xiao asked, "How many people did Captain Chu bring in?"
"Not many, twelve people, and with Deputy Captain Guo, there shouldn't be any big problems..."
"Guo Zhehao?" Jiang Ran suppressed the urge to roll his eyes and looked at Qi Yao. "You go with them to the camp and wait. Captain Pei and I will go in."
"No." Qi Yao refused firmly, "I want to go in."
"I heard from Deputy Captain Guo that there seem to be some very powerful mutants in this base." The team member looked at Qi Yao and said tentatively, "Miss Qi, why don't you come back to the camp with us?"
"Ranran." Knowing that Jiang Ran could make the decision, Qi Yao held her hand tightly and begged in a low voice, "I'll go in with you. I promise I won't cause you any trouble. I promise."
Jiang Ran: “…” The young lady pleaded softly, and she suddenly couldn’t say the words of refusal.
Seeing her embarrassment, Pei Xiao said, "Let's go in together—if you let her stay here, she might just slip in on her own."
Jiang Ran: "..." You really understand her, Captain Pei.
The girl made a concession: "After we go in, you must follow me closely and can't fall behind, understand?"
Qi Yao nodded repeatedly: "Of course!"
…
On the third underground floor, in a narrow storage room, there was a faint smell of blood. From time to time, painful groans were heard, which were immediately covered up.
Gently lifting the blinds and taking a peek outside, Chu Yuan didn't have time to treat the wound on his forehead. He turned back to the remaining four team members and said, "There's a staircase leading up to the west side of the corridor. I'm going to lead that thing to the fourth underground floor. You guys take this opportunity to go upstairs and meet up with the other teammates. Leave here immediately."
The remaining team members were seriously injured, and one of them had lost consciousness.
After hearing what Chu Yuan said, they looked at each other and shook their heads: "Captain, we can't leave you alone."
"If we all stay here, we'll all die." Chu Yuan said coldly, "If you leave, at least you can leave me a glimmer of hope."
Without waiting for them to continue, he bluntly said, "The mutant python's ability level is estimated to be level six. I can still protect myself alone, but if I bring you along, we'll all die."
"But……"
"Let's go lure that snake away. Captain, you go out first!"
"You guys?" Chu Yuan felt a warm feeling in his heart when he heard this. He patted his teammates on the shoulders and said, "If you try to distract it, you'll just end up like those other teammates before you and become its meal."
"team leader!"
"Alright! I'm the captain, the next steps will be based on my instructions. You are not allowed to disobey my orders!"
After a pause, the man added nonchalantly, "Remember to take off the cross lock on the gate after you leave."
The reason why the giant python stayed in the Beihe Laboratory was because the door was locked and it couldn't get out.
“…”
Understanding Chu Yuan's meaning, the team members gritted their teeth and nodded in response: "Yes! Captain."
When Chu Yuan arranged everything and was about to go out, Guo Zhehao stood up and followed him: "I'll go with you."
"Brother Hao..."
"Captain Chu, I'm your deputy captain." Guo Zhehao said solemnly, "I have an obligation to accompany you until the end."
The man looked determined. Chu Yuan moved his lips but failed to refuse him.
…
Unlike the Xiling Laboratory, the Beihe Laboratory didn't use humans to test the virus, but rather animals. Thus, just as the Xiling Laboratory had bred high-level mutants like Si Xu, the Beihe Laboratory had also bred their own high-level mutant beasts.
Hearing the noise, the giant python that was taking a nap on the water pipe in the ceiling opened its eyes, and its nearly ten-meter-long body flexibly passed through the exhaust vent, moving rapidly towards its prey.
The golden blade suddenly fell to the ground and slashed down along its moving trajectory.
However, as if it had predicted the attack trajectory of the psychic in advance, the giant python nimbly darted around on the ground, avoiding the attack of the sharp blade.
…
There were constant roars and sounds of metal clashing. The team members in the storage room opened the door and looked outside, then carried their unconscious companion and moved quickly to the other end.
As if sensing something, the giant python, which was forced to hide here and there by Chu Yuan's attack, suddenly swung its tail and slammed it heavily on the ceiling.
The team member who had just run to the stairs heard the noise and looked up to see the steel bars and concrete mixed together from the ceiling falling down on his head.
“Wow!”
Hearing the noise as well, the captain who was attacking the python with all his might turned around hastily and could only watch as three of his team members were buried by the falling debris.
"Brother Hao! Go save them!" After moving all the movable metal, Chu Yuan smashed a cage on the ground to temporarily trap the giant python. He called out to Guo Zhehao, "You take them out first. I can do it alone..." and kill the beast.
He didn't say the rest of the words as he felt something small and sharp piercing into his back. Chu Yuan subconsciously waved his hand to shake off the person behind him and staggered back two steps.
"Brother Hao, you..."
"It's finally over." Guo Zhehao's eyes flashed with a strange smile, and he threw away the syringe in his hand, "Chu Yuan, don't blame me. If you want to blame someone, blame Si Xu, blame yourself!"
After trying several times, Chu Yuan found that he could not control the metal at hand. He looked at his deputy captain coldly and asked, "A medicine to eliminate superpowers?"
"Right." Guo Zhehao sneered, "What Zou Yun gave me wasn't a weapon to fight mutant beasts, but a weapon specifically for fighting you!"
"You..." Thinking of what Si Xu said, Chu Yuan smiled bitterly, "Do you actually really like Min He, Guo Zhehao?"
When Si Xu mentioned this to him, he didn't believe it at first. How could his deputy captain, who had no connection with Min He, like him?
"Like? Haha, yes, of course I like her!" The man's voice was desolate, and it was unclear whether he was laughing or crying. "She is my sister! My only relative in this world! She is also your companion, isn't she? But Si Xulian is unwilling to avenge her!"
"Sister...sister?" Min He never said that she had any living relatives.
"In order to make a living and support my college education, my sister went out to work alone. Later, we lost contact. The next time we met was after the disaster... I thought that we could finally be reunited, that's what I thought! But, but..." But before Min He could complete the task of blocking the line, she died.
"My sister was also Professor Si's subordinate and companion, yet Professor Si watched her being killed by Qin Huai coldly and did nothing!"
"Seventh Brother will avenge her..."
"No!" The man laughed strangely, "If it weren't for Wei Yage's arrangement, Professor Si would never have avenged Min He."
"Wei Ya Ge's arrangements?" Chu Yuan sat down weakly on the ground as the drug took effect. "You...what are you going to do to Seventh Brother?"
"Si Xu is unwilling to avenge her, right? Then we can only give him a push." Looking at Chu Yuan's pale face, Guo Zhehao nodded, "Captain, Wei Yage is right - the entire Xiling base can only achieve true peace when Si Xu dies - that man is a bastard! He relies on his own abilities to do whatever he wants! We have to kill him, only kill him..."
Before killing Si Xu, you need to cut off his left and right hands first.
Guo Zhehao pointed his gun at Chu Yuan: "Captain, I must avenge Min He, so I must kill Si Xu."
Si Xu would not avenge Min He, but Wei Ya Ge would. Wei Ya Ge promised him and she did it.
"Wei Ya Ge really asked Si Xu to leave Xiling Base and go to Yancheng to find Qin Huai. Haha, she did what she promised me, so I must also do what I promised her."
"So this was all your plan, Guo Zhehao, you idiot!"
A girl's cold voice came from far away.
Before the two people who were confronting each other could come to their senses, they saw a shadow flash over and hit Guo Zhehao hard.
Guo Zhehao staggered two steps after being knocked by her, the bullet missed the target, and he fell down the stairs under the momentum of the girl.
At the same time, the temporarily trapped giant python shook off the heavy object on its body and rushed towards the motionless Chu Yuan in a Z shape.
The sharp blade slashed through the giant python's body and nailed it to the ground with a bang.
Pei Xiao instructed Qi Yao: "Take Chu Yuan to the storage room over there. I'll go down to find Jiang Ran and Guo Zhehao."
"Yes." Qi Yao ran forward to help Chu Yuan up and whispered, "Can you still walk?"
"Yeah." Seeing the girl again, Chu Yuan had a complicated expression, "Why are you here..."
"Of course I'm here to save you." Pei Xiao interrupted their whisper, angrily saying, "Hurry up! If we delay any longer, I'm afraid Jiang Ran will be fed to the snake."
Qi Yao: "Yes!"
…
Sensing the danger, the giant python nailed to the ground twisted its body hard, pulled out the sharp blade stuck in its body, and swam down the stairs to the next level with a whoosh.
Pei Xiao followed closely.
This giant python is a metal mutant beast, and the scales all over its body have been strengthened by supernatural powers. Of the string of sharp blades he just threw out, only one pierced its scales... Tsk, this is a bit tricky.
…
The distance between the third and fourth floors below ground seemed particularly long. After tumbling for an unknown amount of time, Jiang Ran finally landed on the ground.
My body felt soft and there was no pain as I expected.
She sat up with her hands on the ground, and her palms were sticky.
"Huh?" The girl looked down and crawled to the other side.
Below the negative third floor is not the negative fourth floor, but a culture pool, which should be the place where mutant beasts were cultivated in the laboratory in the past.
At this moment, the breeding pool has been abandoned and has become the giant python's lair, because... the pool is densely packed with transparent snake eggs, and you can vaguely see the baby snakes swimming inside.
“I… holy shit!”
Hearing the rustling sound, Jiang Ran suppressed his nausea and shrank into the vent in the corner to hide his body.
The giant python followed closely and circled around the culture tank.
Jiang Ran held his breath.
Not noticing Jiang Ran, the giant python stopped beside Guo Zhehao and used its tail to toss the unconscious man around.
The man groaned when his wound was touched and opened his eyes.
“!!!”
The moment he opened his eyes, the python's bloody mouth bit down, ignoring the man's struggles and screams, and swallowed him whole.
The man's screams were incessant, and Jiang Ran carefully raised his hands to cover his ears.
I heard that snakes eat everything raw, and then use the friction created by crawling to digest the living things. If that's true...
She lit a candle for Guo Zhehao in her heart.
(End of this chapter)
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