"What is a masochist?" Xiao Yu, a straight man, asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"Just think of it as liking to get beaten up." Zhang Xiaojuan took out a handful of sunflower seeds and started cracking them open. "Anyway, these two siblings are both a little bit perverted."
Apart from the two troubled teenagers, K3 base was quite generous in sending two military vehicles and a medic.
"Li Mu, formerly a neurologist at the Armed Police Hospital, is now acting as a part-time guide with us."
Bao Jie took the initiative to introduce herself to Lu Sheng and the others, and then invited everyone to get in the car.
The Armed Police Hospital is about an hour's drive from the K3 base, and most of the streets along the way have been cleaned up.
The two vehicles traveled smoothly until they slowed down next to a tall, lush forest.
"This area used to be a sports park, but after the apocalypse, the greenery suddenly grew explosively and filled up several streets nearby."
After the car slowed down, Baojie took out several gas masks from the military supply box and distributed them to Lu Sheng and the others. "The forest is full of miasma. We came here a few times before but gave up in the end."
After instructing a few people to put on their gas masks, Bao Jie and Mei Jie got off the bus first to communicate with Su Zheng in front, leaving only Lu Sheng's group on the bus.
"The people at K3 base are really nice. They helped us find people, providing both manpower and effort." Han Rui leaned out of the car window, looking at the group of people having a heated discussion not far away.
Lu Sheng took out two children's filter masks from his spatial storage and put them on Penpen and Zhuangzhuang, saying in a nonchalant tone, "No one gets up early for nothing. They just want Uncle Xiao and his wife's medical skills."
Xiao Guozheng and his wife are a nationally renowned orthopedic expert and a top-notch gynecologist.
The attitude of the K3 base towards Professor Zhu Tao shows that they want to actively recruit these professionals.
But finding the right people is the most important thing right now; everything else is up for discussion.
After a while, having apparently reached an agreement, Lin Xiaobao and Ma Dongmei quickly ran back.
"Several roads around here are blocked by vegetation, so there's no way to detour. We have no choice but to go straight through the miasma forest."
Lin Xiaobao checked the windows and doors as soon as he got in the car, and stuffed some paper pads into the larger gaps. "Their car is leading the way, we just follow, but be careful not to open the windows."
Visibility was extremely low in the miasma-filled forest, so Su sent two of his strong henchmen to cut down trees and clear a path through the forest.
Both cars slowed down to a crawl, almost as fast as an old lady crossing the road.
Bang!
A loud noise startled the people in the car.
Lin Xiaobao squinted for a long time, then exclaimed, "Oh no, we've run into each other!"
"What kind of technology is that? How could they crash at that speed?" Ma Dongmei put on her mask in annoyance and rolled down the passenger window to take a look.
The two henchmen who had led the way had disappeared. Su Zheng's military vehicle had crashed headfirst into a huge tree trunk, and the entire front of the vehicle was flattened.
Both doors were completely deformed, and a clattering sound could be heard from inside the car, causing the car body to sway slightly from side to side with the sound.
"The car door is broken, they can't get out."
Lu Sheng was the first to spot the problem. He jumped out of the car and went straight to the driver's side of the car in front. He used a crowbar to pry the door open several times before finally managing to open it.
Visibility in the woods was too poor to see the extent of the damage inside the vehicle. To avoid a possible explosion, the people inside the vehicle had to be evacuated immediately.
"It's you?"
Before setting off, the two sides barely saw each other. Lu Sheng pried open the car door and discovered that the driver was actually Lü Song.
Before they could catch up, the two immediately followed Xu Yi and the others to open all the remaining car doors.
As soon as Su Ke got out of the car, she started whining and complaining to Su Zheng, while the rest of the people checked each other for injuries.
"We were attacked by an external force just now, and the car lost its balance and crashed." Lu Song frowned and squatted down to check.
Lu Sheng's expression suddenly turned serious. "Listen! There's a sound nearby!"
Everyone immediately perked up their ears.
From an unknown area in the forest came the sound of heavy breathing, interspersed with gurgling noises.
"Such heavy breathing, the creature must be very large." Lu Song cautiously surveyed his surroundings.
"ah!"
Su Ke suddenly exclaimed, instantly pushing everyone's nerves to their limit.
"Xiao Ke, what's wrong?" Su Zheng hurriedly pulled Su Ke to his side.
Su Ke's face was pale, and she pointed tremblingly to the dense canopy on the right, "A bird just flew by, and it was suddenly snatched away by a dark shadow..."
Everyone looked in the direction Su Ke was pointing, their hearts pounding in their throats.
Coo coo, coo coo.
The strange sound was coming from the direction of the tree canopy.
The next instant, a black shadow as thick as an arm swept past in full view of everyone, heading straight for Su Zheng and Su Ke.
A pungent, fishy odor wafted towards them along with the dark figure, causing Sun Tiantian to immediately burst into tears.
Fortunately, a sturdy iron shield was erected in front of Su Zheng and his sister in time, barely blocking the attack from the dark figure.
Only then did everyone realize that the dark shape was actually a tongue that was red to the point of being purple...
When its attack failed, the tongue quickly retracted, leaving a trail of sticky saliva that immediately created corrosive pits on the ground.
"The thing that attacked the car earlier was probably this one too."
Lu Song immediately raised his gun and secretly aimed it at the tree canopy.
Cough cough.
The sound grew closer, and suddenly a tall tree not far away was swiftly cut in half at the waist by a dark shadow, revealing a pair of huge, round eyeballs.
The eyes stared straight in Lu Sheng's direction, then slowly moved upwards until the entire head was revealed.
"It's... a frog?" Han Rui said in surprise.
This giant frog is as tall as a crane, and its entire body is covered with thick keratin, like it's wearing a hard armor.
Several gasps of alarm came from the group behind Su Zheng.
"This frog has already undergone a level five mutation, what's the point of fighting it?!"
Someone in the crowd cried out in despair, then dropped their weapon and fled frantically back the way they came.
"Don't move!"
As soon as Lu Sheng finished speaking, the giant frog's tongue wrapped around the fleeing man and swallowed him whole.
From Lu Sheng and the others' perspective, they could clearly see the frog's throat move slightly.
A chill ran down everyone's spine, and cold sweat instantly soaked through their inner lining.
The highest level of ability users at K3 Base is only level 4. When facing level 5 mutated animals, they are almost powerless in a head-on confrontation.
"Don't move!"
Lu Sheng said in a deep voice, "Frogs have excellent dynamic vision but poor static vision. The faster you run, the easier it is for them to lock onto you."
"Move as slowly as possible."
"So what do we do now? Just stand here and wait for it to get tired and go home to sleep?"
A young female officer in Su Zheng's team retorted in displeasure.
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