Chapter 73: Frozen Zone Insect Swarm (Part 9)
The streets of civilian areas have been thrown into chaos.
Amid the thick and choking flames, there were constant wailing and screaming.
The house was burning in flames. Some people rushed into the fire wailing, while others escaped from the fire screaming.
People who rushed into the fire were covered with dense leeches.
The leeches are as thick as an adult's arm, and their sticky gray-green bodies are covered with suction cups.
The entangled people frantically scratched at their skin, but only tore off flesh and blood. The leech secretions prevented their wounds from healing, and blood mixed with pus soaked through their clothes.
"Ahhhh, save me, I don't want to turn into a bug monster."
A man, his body covered in leeches, rolled frantically on the ground, scratching his skin. He pinched the leeches with his hands and tried with all his strength to pull them off.
"ah--"
Along with the leeches came his scalp.
"I don't want to die, I don't want to die, save me..."
The man forced his eyes open, and there was a sticky leech on his face from forehead to chin.
The leech's body continues to grow.
The soldiers around him held their guns tremblingly, their eyes filled with horror.
This man covered in leeches will soon turn into a bug monster.
People bitten by insect monsters cannot be cured and will mutate into insect monsters, just like people bitten by zombies in movies will turn into zombies.
"Shoot, shoot, he's going to transform into a worm!"
The young soldier holding the gun, his arm trembling, wanted to pull the trigger.
“I, I, I…”
Tears streamed from his eyes. No matter how many times he experienced it, it was difficult to shoot at his fellow human beings.
An older soldier saw this and started firing his gun continuously.
The man who was shot staggered forward two steps, making a grunting sound.
Because he was covered with leeches, the bullet did not penetrate his body at all, but only hit the leeches.
“Help…Help…”
Knowing that even these soldiers could not save him, despair flashed across the man's face, and he turned and staggered into the raging fire.
He wants to burn these monsters on his body to death.
Burn them to death.
…
From a manhole cover at the corner of the street, dense leeches kept pouring in, filling the entire alley.
The ground and walls were rustling.
Xie Mian swung his knife, and under the sharp light of the knife, a bloody path was cut in the alley.
Xie Mian ran in front, and the human-shaped goose Shifang followed closely behind.
When he was about to leave the alley, Xie Mian turned around and shouted:
"Don't follow me, you handle this."
Judging from the density of leeches in the alley, this sewer is the source of the leeches. Only by killing them all here can we reduce the pressure ahead.
With the strength of the humanoid goose Shifang, dealing with these leeches is no problem.
“Tsk.”
E Shifang stood at the entrance of the alley with his hands in his pockets helplessly, watching Xie Mian's figure gradually disappear.
His silver hair fluttered slightly in the night sky. He turned around only when Xie Mian was no longer visible. He put away the doting expression on his face and snapped his fingers.
…
Xie Mian ran all the way following the flames.
The civilian area was too large, and no one answered my brother's phone. He could only search along the path of the fire.
At this moment, Lin Heng was in a half-collapsed house.
In front of him was a leech more than two meters long, standing upright with its huge, smelly mouthparts open.
Behind him were three little kids about seven or eight years old.
The rose whip is like a hard steel cable, firmly embedded between the leech's mouthparts, preventing the leech from making the next attack.
Today he went to the civilian area, one to distribute supplies, and the other to see the children who had lost their parents.
He had been campaigning for the establishment of a relief home for orphans in the apocalypse, but for unknown reasons, the higher-ups had refused to approve it. Today, there was finally a turning point, and he was about to tell the children the good news when he unexpectedly encountered an insect plague.
Leeches are clearly not insects, so why do they transform into insects?
Looking at the black and sticky leeches in front of him, Lin Heng was puzzled.
Judging from the insect mutants encountered in the past, all of them are insects, or humans bitten by insects. There has never been any animal mutation other than insects and humans.
Leeches belong to the annelid family, are cold-blooded annelids, and mainly live in freshwater areas such as reservoirs, ditches, paddy fields, lakes, etc.
There is no suitable growth environment for leeches in and around civilian areas. How come so many leeches suddenly appeared here?
Another swarm of leeches swarmed in from outside.
These leeches are about the size of a palm and it seems that they have never sucked human blood.
Lin Heng raised his hand, and the moment he opened his five fingers, countless roses bloomed from the air.
The fiery red rose shot out, carrying with it a rich fragrance, and simultaneously pinned twenty or thirty leeches to the ground.
The thorns on the rose stem suddenly grew and twisted into the leech's nerves like living things.
“Puff! Puff! Puff!”
Leeches exploded, and the splashing mucus was caught in mid-air by the extended thorn net.
Because some of the insect energy was dispersed to deal with the newly arrived leeches, the rose whip in his hand softened for a moment.
The two-meter-high leech pressed down instantly. Seeing this, Lin Heng turned around and pushed the child behind him away:
“Run!”
The three children ran into a place where there were no leeches. Although Lin Heng reacted quickly, one of his ankles was still entangled by a leech.
The sharp pain instantly spread from the ankle to the brain, like countless steel needles exploding in the brain.
Lin Heng's mind went blank in an instant.
But it was only a moment, and there was no time to grieve that he was about to become one of the insect monsters.
Lin Heng burst out countless roses again.
Flowers rained down from the sky, clearing a safe path for the three children.
“Run! Run!”
"Wuwuwu, big brother, big brother..."
The three children wanted to go forward and pull Lin Heng, but were stunned by Lin Heng's eyes.
"Run, don't look back!"
The giant insect monster that had attached itself to his ankle was now crawling up along it. As it crawled, it opened its densely packed mouthparts and pierced into his body, sucking his blood.
Lin Heng's face turned pale instantly.
After seeing the three children run away safely, Lin Heng retracted the insect energy released in the air and poured all the insect energy into the rose whip in his hand.
He must get rid of this leech before he dies!
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