"Don't fall into the same pit twice! Watch me, watch me!"
Zhang Xiaojuan excitedly pulled a jar of children's modeling clay from her pocket, and colorful little clay figures fell out like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
These little clay figures charged proudly into the dazed crowd, swinging their tiny fists and punching them in the face.
After a few punches, the bespectacled guy and the others finally came to their senses.
"Brother Zhang, you really went all out..." the bespectacled young man complained, covering his swollen and red cheek.
Sensing that everyone seemed to have regained their senses, the mournful song from the bushes suddenly rose in volume. Accompanied by the rustling of leaves, countless birds and beasts were startled by the song and darted out of the woods.
"Old wine in new bottles, still the same old friend." Zhang Xiaojuan rolled two small balls of clay into her ears and gestured loudly, "Remember that idiot who used to call me uncle?"
"Are they sirens again?" Han Rui planted a few lemons in her palm, sliced them, and shared them with everyone.
The moment the tooth-grinding sour taste entered their throats, everyone's muddled minds instantly cleared up considerably.
A rustling sound faintly drifted from the surrounding dense forest, which, combined with the disturbing singing, made one feel irritable.
The team members, whose mental state was unstable, had just regained their senses when they were soon curled up in pain, clutching their heads again.
"You charlatans! Get out here!" A middle-aged man with a full beard, one of Zhao Mujia's men, was so angry that his face turned red. He grabbed a sharp axe and rushed into the bushes.
"Come out! Get out of here!"
He swung the axe wildly, then suddenly parted the bushes and peeked inside.
Through the dark, dense foliage, the burly man could only see a pair of grayish-white eyes with bloodshot veins.
The large pupil in the gray-white eyeball suddenly contracted into a tiny black dot, and the big man's heart skipped a beat, as if the blood in his body had frozen in an instant.
Then, all the muscles in his body contracted violently as if out of control, and his hands and feet instantly spasmed and tightened.
"Aww!"
In the brief moment when his body lost control, a gust of evil wind rushed towards him.
The big man seemed to freeze, only feeling a sharp pain on his face as warm blood gushed out and instantly flowed back into his mouth.
The next second, the tall, sturdy body swayed twice and then lay heavily on the ground.
Hearing the sound, Ma Dongmei turned around and saw a burly man lying on the ground, his face covered in blood, with a ping-pong ball-sized gash on his nose! The monster in the bushes had bitten off the burly man's nose!
"Cover your ears, and don't make eye contact with any living creature!"
In their panic, the group lost control of their vision, and soon several people lost their footing and began to wander uncontrollably into the dense forest.
"Niannian!" Lu Sheng immediately pulled Shi Nian, who was engrossed in eating snacks, "Get rid of this noise pollution!"
Although it is called a siren, it is actually just a type of mental mutation.
Sirens can interfere with the minds of superhumans and control their bodies through their voices, eyes, or even a fleeting glance.
Even with high combat strength, one will find themselves powerless against mental monsters.
But Shi Nian is different. She is a half-zombie with a mental constitution, and naturally has a strong resistance to such mental fluctuations. It would be best for her to handle it!
"Okay! I'm going!"
Shi Nian hurriedly wiped the sugar crumbs from her mouth and skipped and hopped into the lush and dense forest.
The mournful singing suddenly surged in like a tide.
Shi Nian's sweet face was as resolute as if she were joining the Party. She took small steps and charged straight in, sweeping aside the dense bushes in front of her.
Deep in the grass, a monster with a fish head and a human body huddled among the crowd, making furtive noises.
Shi Nian curiously squatted down, picked up a small stick, and poked the mutated fish head of the sea monster. The grayish-white eyes on the fish head rolled around blankly, giving the impression of being quite unintelligent.
What are you looking at?
Shi Nian pursed her lips and poked the fish-headed monster's cheeks with a small wooden stick, looking fierce in her cuteness.
The fish-headed monster still retained a trace of human memories, and instinctively blurted out, "What are you looking at!"
"???"
Shi Nian raised her little fist and slammed it twice on the fish-headed monster's lifeless, dull head. "You can't just stare at me!"
The girl's powerful punches smashed the fish head to pieces, and she also stomped on it twice.
The onlookers: "..."
Relying on her natural and super-strong resistance to mental interference, Shi Nian charged through the dense forest like a small tank, leaving sparks and lightning in her wake, and punching the fish-headed monster twice whenever she saw it.
In less than ten minutes, he ran back to Lu Sheng's side with great enthusiasm.
"Sister, it's all taken care of!" Shi Nian linked arms with Lu Sheng, a fine layer of sweat glistening on her delicate nose.
Lu Sheng touched her chubby face and took out a bayberry popsicle as a reward.
After the brief interlude, everyone ate something simple and then prepared to continue their journey.
The river current was swift, and fragments of human limbs and bones floated downstream from time to time. Some parasitized strange birds landed on the corpses on the river surface, pecking at the bits of flesh from time to time.
As the road gradually became smoother, more and more mutated animals appeared by the roadside, even standing in groups to watch Lu Sheng and the others.
“We look like monkeys in a zoo,” Zhang Xiaojuan said, deliberately raising her fist to scare the wild rabbits by the roadside.
But the charred, decaying rabbits merely rolled their grayish-white eyes and let out a hoarse squeak.
The Zhou Shan base was gradually taking shape, with highly decomposed corpses scattered along both sides of the road. Among them were mutated animals and some human corpses that were unrecognizable.
As they walked, a chill ran down their spines, and they instinctively moved closer to each other.
The air was filled with the stench of rotting protein, making everyone frown.
"This place is even scarier than a horror game. It feels eerie everywhere. Could it have completely turned into a parasite paradise?" Sun Tiantian cautiously used ice walls to protect both sides of the team in case of a sudden attack by mutated monsters.
Xiao Yu picked up the binoculars and looked around, then suddenly turned her head with a strange expression, "There...is someone inside?"
Everyone felt a chill run down their spines.
The outside is littered with corpses, so who could possibly be inside the base?
Lu Sheng picked up the infrared binoculars and looked in the direction of the shelter. He saw a highly decomposed and bloated corpse leaning against the door.
The corpse's arms hung limply at its sides, its head was like an inflated balloon, and something seemed to be wriggling and rising and falling inside its stomach.
Soon, a thin slit appeared on the corpse's belly, and a slippery tentacle suddenly darted out, dripping wet mucus all over the ground.
The tentacle, seemingly saturated with blood and flesh, slowly crawled outwards, dragging its bloated body, and finally burrowed into the corpse of a mutated animal nearby.
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