Chapter 341: Weird Nest
The moment he saw the humanoid creature, Lin Xian's first reaction was to take action immediately!
He raised his hand and pointed, and the mechanical energy cannon and 25 Thunder Falcon drones simultaneously fired pulse beams, directly hitting the monster's twisted face.
call out!
Unexpectedly, the white shadow was so fast that it retracted into the tunnel in the blink of an eye. Dozens of pulse beams seemed to hit something, making a burst of sound and smoke and dust rising.
Afterwards, the strange crackling sound continued to come from the depths of the tunnel with echoes, as if attracting everyone to follow in.
When Ning Jing saw the monster disappear, she immediately looked at Abai.
Ah Bai shook his head strangely: "How strange, I feel like we are being watched, but there are no particularly obvious marks on our bodies..."
"Maybe in a place like this, there is no need for marking at all." Monica said incisively at this time.
"What's the meaning?"
Ning Jing looked at her: "Are you trying to say that this is originally the world of dark creatures?"
"How is that possible!" Qian Dele immediately retorted: "If there was no need for marking, wouldn't our position have been gone long ago?"
“This is our world.”
Lin Xian looked at the tunnel with a serious expression and said, "It's just contaminated by Xingyuan."
"Why didn't this monster attack us but just ran away?" KIKI suddenly became suspicious. It was the first time they encountered a strange creature running away, and there was no mark on its body.
“Go first!”
Without much thought, Lin Xian immediately set off and rushed towards the Baicheng Railway Station. The weirdness of Baicheng was beginning to show. All they could do was to hurry up to solve the problem and then get back on the train and rush out of Xingyuan!
Sizzle
As soon as they started to move, the signal frequency in the mecha began to become unstable. Even though KIKI Huoge and others were right in front and behind them, the communicator was full of sharp noises. Lin Xian in the holographic armor adjusted his breathing and completely tensed his nerves.
As we walked through the darkness, there were more and more people on the street, and it became more and more dense.
Lin Xian noticed that these "people" seemed to be gathering mainly in a central area. Realizing this, he immediately stopped and unfolded the map of the original White City, and found that the direction of the gathering was exactly the area in the center of the city.
Baicheng is a mountain city with a long and narrow urban layout, backed by mountains from north to south and wide from east to west. Except for the city center, most of the buildings are relatively low and old.
Looking at the map, it looks like an eye in the mountains, and Baicheng Rail Station is located in the eastern suburbs.
But at this time, the more Lin Xian ran, the more he felt something was not right. When Grace came here to investigate before, the journey was relatively smooth. Now that they came, they deliberately planned to avoid the sewage treatment plant in the north of the city and go around it directly, but the current situation vaguely made him feel that something was wrong.
"Everyone." Monica rushed after Lin Xian and said, "There are a lot of sounds getting closer and closer to us. This is not good."
Hearing this, Lin Xian looked at the densely packed mummies on the street below that were looking up at them, and immediately said, "Hide in the buildings, don't let these things stare at us!"
rub!
As he spoke, Lin Xian leaped directly onto the outer wall of a tall building, and flew vertically upwards with the acceleration of the boosters, and then went directly into the top floor. All the glass in the building had shattered and disappeared, standing on the ground like rotten fish bones. Others followed suit and all went into the corridor.
Clang.
All of a sudden, several heavy footsteps broke the silence in the corridor. It was pitch black all around. Under the night vision goggles and searchlights, the ground was covered with broken bricks, walls and rubble. It seemed to be an apartment building, only a dozen stories high. The house numbers on the apartment doors in the corridor had completely rotted and could not be seen clearly. The sound of footsteps echoed.
"Grace, go explore the way!"
The situation outside was really weird. The more they ran, the more people there were. In addition to Abai and Monica's investigation, to be on the safe side, Lin Xian planned to send Grace out first, and they would hide in the apartment building to observe the situation.
[Understand, you can trust Grace]
Rub, rub, rub.
Grace instantly made a running gesture, and with a few crisp sounds of her toes, she quickly disappeared in the dark corridor and ran towards the street outside.
Lin Xian and others simply found an apartment and hid in it.
The security door of the original apartment had rusted. With a slight push, the door hinges broke off and fell in with a plop.
Lin Xian casually built an alloy door to block it, and then said, "Wait a few minutes, let's see the situation before taking any action."
Ning Jing nodded, then gestured to Xiaoqing, who immediately went into several rooms with a knife to check.
At this time, Lin Xian made a few completely sealed iron windows to seal all the windows in the house, and then he lit a lamp in the living room.
In an instant, the light drove away the darkness, and the first thing that came into view was a completely gray living room. The sofa, coffee table, TV, TV cabinet, and wooden floor, except for the recognizable shapes, were all gray to the eye, and all the walls and floors were covered together.
"It was so scary just now. How could so many people suddenly appear on the street? I didn't even have time to react."
KIKI said as she reached out and patted a bookshelf beside her. Unexpectedly, the bookshelf fell into pieces of rotten debris, stirring up dust all over the ground.
Qian Dele was also looking at the situation in the apartment at this time, and then looked at Lin Xiandao
"Is it because there were no marks that you didn't attack those people?"
Lin Xian paid attention to Grace's information and said, "Those are obviously human corpses."
"The zombies won't mark us, but the monster in the tunnel will..."
"Anyway, there's something weird."
Lu Xingchen gathered fire with one hand, releasing a ray of warmth to cleanse the coldness in the space, and said seriously: "We humans still like places with light."
Chen Sixuan took the gun and checked around with Xiaoqing. Then they gathered together to discuss
"Lin Xian, do you think those fleshy tissues are very similar to those in Underground City No. 9?"
Lin Xian nodded: "That's why I'm worried that there might be a big monster in this city."
KIKI frowned: "It wasn't there when Grace came a few hours ago. How did it appear?"
"We are still 8 kilometers away from Baicheng Rail Station. If we can't get through the city, should we go around the mountain?" Ning Jing said at this time: "Or rely on KIKI's flying ability."
"Captain Lin?"
After Ning Jing finished speaking, she found that Lin Xian did not respond, so she spoke again.
At this time, Lin Xian suddenly said: "Abai is right, fortunately we didn't fly into the air."
At this moment, Grace had already sent back the image. Because the distance was not far, the information was not compressed and delayed very seriously. He immediately synchronized the received image to others.
"Now, there are all strange creatures outside!"
[Currently I am heading east on Elm Street, and there are many bodies hanging from cables. At the same time, I am being followed and observed by several "humans". Through biological detectors, there are no signs of life.]
In the picture, there were a lot of corpses like puppets hanging above the street, and in front of Grace, there were a few "people" who looked like human children, staring at Grace. Some of them were squatting on the car, and some were running. But when Grace moved forward, these strange children all quickly shrank back into various undercarriages or gaps.
Grace's voice was clear and cold on the communicator, as if she had no idea that she was on a dark and scary street.
When Lin Xian saw this scene, he began to feel more and more that something was wrong.
"Check for the light ahead, and if attacked, fight back!"
Grace understands
In the dilapidated apartment, several members of the exploration team gathered together, frowning as they looked at the images in the holographic vision.
“It seems like they are all human, but not human…”
Chen Sixuan said in a subtle tone that if some monsters appeared, perhaps their pressure could be slightly less, but this was their first time seeing the city in Xingyuan, and all they saw were ghost things related to humans, each one more bizarre than the other.
Ah Bai stood quietly aside, observing the rooms in this apartment, looking towards the door from time to time, his face a little cold. He seemed to be able to sense the sound of some kind of pacing coming from under the floor, and there seemed to be something strange breathing deep in the dark corridor...
The door panel made by Lin Xian isolated the light in this small room, and at this time everyone was paying close attention to Grace's information.
In the dark streets of White City, a silver-black female robot was moving quickly. She moved accurately and gracefully over vehicles and obstacles with agility and almost no sound.
But even so, there are many "existences" watching this robot at this time, and the entire city streets have a weird feeling of seeming empty yet bustling.
In Grace's system, more and more hanging corpses appeared on the street ahead. At the same time, the brown-red tissue-like objects on the street corners were becoming more and more dense. She noticed this situation, and quickly climbed up a tall building, deployed a new signal repeater, and began to climb over the roof.
At this time, her radar scan revealed that many of the surrounding buildings were beginning to be wrapped in this meat tissue. Gradually, the roofs and roads were no longer covered with concrete, and the entire block seemed to have become part of the tissue of some large organism.
After climbing to the top of an office building in the city center, Grace's night vision showed a dead city shrouded in darkness.
The asphalt road was covered with some kind of living tissue. The sticky flesh membrane was wriggling on the surface of the building like a layer of rotten skin. In the center of the meat tissue in front, the main body of the tissue finally appeared. It was a mother nest made of flesh and blood. It was as big as a large stadium. The surface was covered with pulsating black blood vessels, and dark purple veins spread like tree roots. The mother nest opened its bloody mouth, like a crater, and thousands of tentacles rose up, constantly decomposing many human corpses!
At the top of the mother nest, there was another more twisted existence suspended. It was like a "printer" made of flesh, blood and madness, composed of countless tiny tentacles and cysts, constantly spewing out half-formed monsters. Those reconstructed humanoid creatures fell from its bottom, fell on the meat carpet, and climbed up twitchingly.
Their limbs were dislocated, their heads were upside down, and their joints were twisted at impossible angles, but they could still walk, crawl, and even utter some kind of sticky whisper that was similar to language.
Afterwards, the decomposed human corpses and the half-formed monsters began to be stitched together. A large amount of black mist drilled into the monsters' bodies, like some kind of biological energy medium, which quickly caused these half-formed monsters to mutate, growing spikes, thick armor, sharp claws, and teeth...
So, there were three-headed spider monsters, white humanoids, huge black bodies, and monsters crawling upside down...
All kinds of strange entities were "created" through the decomposition of human corpses, and then crawled into the darkness in all directions.
The eyeballs are mutating and multiplying, the arms are twisting and deforming, the skeleton is expanding, and the muscles are dissolving...
The mother nest did not have any generation rules. It was like an AI generation system that was not restricted by any rules and was fed with a large number of disordered keywords. It strangely answered with "results" that had no logic at all.
Countless black smoke spewed out from the huge mouth of the mother nest, like an old gas engine running at full power. The black blood vessels spread throughout the city continuously devoured the dead human bodies.
Grace stood far away from the mother nest and tried to transmit information back, but the interference was too great and all the video information became mottled and distorted.
So from Lin Xian's point of view, the scene in the city center was like hell, which made his scalp tingle.
hiss!!!
In the closed apartment building, many members of the exploration team gasped and stared in stunned silence at the images in their holographic vision that were synchronized with Lin Xian.
A few seconds later, KIKI exclaimed
"Oh my god, those strange bodies were actually created like this?"
"I was wondering why these strange creatures are always related to humans. It turns out that they really used human corpses for stitching." Qian Dele was a little unbelievable: "How did these things appear on the blue planet? Are they from other cosmic civilizations?"
Ning Jing's eyes trembled: "It's just... like a monster factory."
"There must be more than one of this thing. There may be some in those star abysses. So after night falls, the monsters appear." Chen Sixuan also said in a serious voice.
Brother Huo remained silent, looking at the mother nest in the picture, and seemed a little shocked.
"If we solve this problem, will the end of the world not come?" At this time, the taciturn Xiaoqing suddenly asked this question, stumping everyone.
“It’s not that simple.”
Lin Xian said in a deep voice: "Didn't you notice that those who were stitched together were basically some C-level and B-level weird bodies?"
"How did the high-level A-level, special-level, and S-level appear?"
"Not to mention those behemoths that are tens of kilometers long, cover terrain areas, occupy volcanoes, deep oceans, and the sky. Those world-class disasters don't seem to be created like this."
Monica nodded: "I think there must be some kind of pattern between these creatures."
"What's the rule?" Qian Dele asked.
"Just like humans and the creatures on the blue planet, insects, microorganisms, animals, and even humans themselves, there are also different classes, and they control different social resources and means of production." Monica said in an analytical tone: "Isn't this obvious?"
"I don't think now is the time to discuss this issue." Lin Xian said at this time
He looked at the situation on the stuck screen and said solemnly: "Those strange creatures are coming from all directions!"
Outside the sealed apartment, there were more and more noises, movements, and climbing. Countless strange whispers rang out in the dark alley, and shrill roars echoed in the darkness. At this moment, everyone in the exploration team held their breath and looked at Abai.
There is no doubt that at this moment, once marks appear on their bodies, they will be caught in an endless tide of strangeness.
Facing the mother nest, everyone finally understood why humans could never kill all the monsters in the darkness...
At this time, the time came to 11:04.
Lin Xian watched as time stopped at 59 seconds again. At this moment, it seemed as if the time dilation effect around him was instantly stretched, and everyone felt their breathing stop for a moment.
The next moment, the time came to 11:05.
Suddenly, the noise outside disappeared, and a few seconds later, Grace's voice came over.
[The observed target disappears and no effective information can be obtained. This may be a visual effect caused by space distortion. ]
Hearing Grace's words, Lin Xian's heart shuddered. What was going on? Why did they all suddenly disappear? Wasn't it dark now?
The sudden situation caught Lin Xian off guard. He immediately arranged for Grace to look around. Sure enough, not only the mother nest, but also the human corpses and flesh tissues that were originally on the street had disappeared.
This strange situation made the exploration team a little confused.
"What's going on, hallucination?"
"Strange, Abai said that the aura of those monsters has disappeared."
"Disappeared in the dark?" KIKI looked puzzled: "Don't these monsters appear in the dark?"
The sudden change once again overturned everyone's cognition.
Lin Xian was full of questions at this time. Although he didn't know the reason, at least the disappearance of the strange body was good news at the moment. However, out of caution, since Grace would not be marked or attacked by the strange body, Lin Xian asked her to go directly to the city center where the mother nest was just now to investigate first, just to be prepared.
So Grace immediately took action, quickly leaping onto the roof and then jumping down to the street and running towards the center of the hive.
Soon, a huge sinkhole appeared in front of them, splitting the original city square from the center, but apart from the ground, the surrounding houses did not collapse or be damaged. At the same time, there appeared several armored vehicles that looked relatively new and belonged to the survivors, but they were all covered in blood and there was no human figure.
Grace quickly patrolled and scanned various types of information sent back, while waiting for Lin Xian's next instruction.
At this moment, a strange and quiet sound of breaking through the air sounded above the square, and a black iron spear shot towards Grace Cave at a high speed.
rub!
Grace, who was doing the task, raised her arm and grasped the iron spear firmly and accurately.
[Attack detected, combat system activated! ]
In an instant, several more iron streaks flew over. At the same time, the two cars beside Grace seemed to be controlled by some force and suddenly closed in on it!
Grace leaped forward, turned her palm, and the plasma pulse ray generator in her wrist started instantly, cutting the front of a car in half while melting the iron grass that was controlling it.
But at this moment, a figure suddenly appeared from behind, with energy pulses bursting out from the mechanical power armor joints of his limbs. He ran as fast as an afterimage, and almost instantly rushed under Grace, grabbed Grace's neck, and then slammed her to the ground.
Bang!
In an instant, a concave hole was smashed into the ground. Just when the man thought he had controlled Grace, Grace turned her head mechanically and quickly scanned the man. Then her feet burst directly into the ground and she jumped up and turned. The black shadow only felt a huge force from the robot under his hand that was about to break his wrist. His eyes flashed, and he let go of his hand, turned his claws into fists and punched Grace's head.
But Grace just ruthlessly turned her head to avoid the heavy punch, while reaching out to grab the opponent's arm, flipping over and throwing him to the ground upside down.
The moment Grace attacked, something strange happened again. The rocks on the ground in front of her suddenly rose up strangely and knocked her away. At the same time, another car flew towards her and smashed Grace directly into another heavy steel truck, clamping her tightly.
At this moment, the black shadow who had made the move quickly stood up and spoke in a cold tone.
"What a powerful robot. It should be an intelligent alloy from the Crimson World. It is much rarer than ordinary robots."
This is a short-haired woman wearing black power armor, with two daggers on her back. She has a surging sense of power all over her body, which seems to be the energy change that can be felt when the genes evolve to a certain stage. She is wearing a set of black exoskeleton armor that is obviously some kind of special one, and there is a red symbol on her clothes.
She seemed to be using the intercom. As soon as she finished speaking, another man's voice came from the air.
"Lan, don't be distracted!"
In the sky, a man wearing a strange power armor with a hood and a Japanese samurai sword on his waist slowly floated down. He raised his hand and waved it, and all kinds of stones and broken metal fragments on the ground floated up, quickly twisted into sharp cones in the air, and then violently slammed towards the car that was pressing Grace.
In an instant, these objects were like exploding bullets, violently shooting at the jeep, and all the armor plates on the jeep exploded!
Bang!
At this moment, with a bang, a metallic figure instantly shot out from the wreckage of the car, swept over the roofs of several cars and rushed towards the Baicheng Train Station behind.
"Want to run?!" The man in the black hood seemed to have abilities very similar to KIKI. He quickly leaped in the air and raised his hand to try to control Grace, but Grace's power was too great, so he directly drew out the red samurai sword at his waist.
Seeing this scene, Amano Ran, who followed behind, immediately spoke on the communicator.
"Ryunosuke, don't break it. The quantum intelligent brain is very valuable. It's best to catch it and bring it to Shinji. We need it right now!"
"Shiori, follow me!"
"good."
At this time, in the corner, a petite girl wearing an expensive flying power armor quickly shuttled out and followed behind the two people. She spread her hands and a dark green energy film wrapped the three of them. At the same time, she followed up and said
"This robot still has some soul-shattering aura left behind by a very powerful psychic."
"Then it must be someone high up in the Crimson World!"
Hearing his companion's words, Ryunosuke put away his samurai sword while flying, and used his supernatural powers to grab the surrounding bricks, rubble and various metal objects to try to wrap Grace up.
As the three were chasing Grace, the girl named Shiori suddenly changed her expression and turned to look at the dark street behind her.
"Enemy's approaching, they're...very fast!"
(End of this chapter)
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