The number of zombies has dropped sharply
Last time, the car was stuck in the city center and they had to walk, so this time Wen Yan called in a higher-level armored vehicle that could produce three long forks in front.
All the abandoned cars on the road were pushed aside, and soon the originally messy road was cleared and a path was created.
Jiang Lin sat in his seat. This time he finally didn't have to travel so hard. It was so comfortable.
She adjusted the back of her seat to take a nap, but out of the corner of her eye she saw a small black dot behind the ruins.
"There seems to be someone there." Jiang Lin picked up the telescope and looked towards the ruins. There was indeed a person, and it was an old acquaintance.
“It’s Shen Congyu!”
"Minister Cui just sent us a message that Shen Congyu escaped from prison." Wen Yan turned off the virtual screen of the intelligent brain.
"Do you want to go down and kill him, Minister?" Wen Yan's two men looked at him.
There was a brief silence in the car.
"Go at full speed. He can't cause any trouble by himself. The matter of the jump test base is more urgent. There is no need to waste time on him." Jiang Lin thought for a while and expressed his opinion.
The armored vehicle started again.
Shen Congyu, who was standing behind the ruins, had a gloomy expression on his face. He watched the armored vehicle leave without looking back, and turned on the communicator he carried with him.
"They didn't stop to catch me, they just left."
"Got it. Be careful and reunite with the base as soon as possible."
Shen Congyu turned off the communicator, successfully found the means of transportation left by Chen Guanghai, and sped towards the base.
Passing by the supermarket where a large number of zombies were hidden last time, Jiang Lin looked inside with a telescope. It was empty. He didn't know whether it was because the glass was too dirty to see clearly or because all the zombies had disappeared.
"What are you looking at?" Wen Yan exchanged positions with another team member and came to the back to rest.
"It seems there are no zombies in the supermarket anymore."
Wen Yan also had an impression of this supermarket. He picked up the telescope and looked carefully, and there was indeed no sign of zombies.
Sheng Wei: "Isn't it a good thing that the zombies are gone? Why are you so sad?" Several of her teammates died at the hands of zombies, and she wished that these disgusting creatures would be exterminated as soon as possible.
"The annihilation of zombies is a good thing, but it's a bit weird that they all disappeared at once." Jiang Lin felt depressed, as if something was going to happen.
The weather was a bit gloomy and it started to rain soon.
Jiang Lin felt a little sleepy, so he closed his eyes and fell into a short sleep.
Everyone in the car except the driver was resting because they didn't know what kind of monster was waiting for them and they had to conserve their energy.
[Warning, mission completion rate reduced to 20%.]
Jiang Lin was startled awake by the system's notification sound: "110, why is the task completion rate dropping so quickly?"
[Rain increases humidity, which is beneficial to the growth of fungi and accelerates the reproduction of spores.]
She looked out the window. The sky was gloomy and it was still raining. The driver was a little tired, so Jiang Lin exchanged seats with him.
The view from the driver's seat was much better. On the display screen, they were not far from the red dot of their destination. They would almost be there if they went around the foot of the barren mountain in front.
There were no more warnings from 110 regarding mission reduction, but Jiang Lin couldn't relax and drove very fast all the way.
Sheng Wei: "I didn't realize you have a talent for racing."
As she spoke, she poured the nutrient solution into Jiang Lin's mouth.
"Thank you, Lord Sheng Wei, for feeding me." Jiang Lin joked.
The rain had basically stopped, but Jiang Lin didn't dare open the car window, fearing that the air outside might already contain a high concentration of spores.
She redeemed two new masks from the system mall and handed them to the new members.
"Bring something that can isolate the spores from harm to the greatest extent possible."
The two of them took it without any suspicion. It was already completely dark. This time they had a car for the whole journey, and they arrived at the entrance to the underground base smoothly.
Wen Yan looked at Jiang Lin who was standing beside him: "Do you want to go in directly?"
"Wait a minute, someone seems to be coming."
Everyone pricked up their ears, as if they heard the roar of an engine. Fortunately, the armored vehicle was parked far away, and the six people hid behind a mound to see who it was.
The car lights illuminated the area near the cave entrance, and following the light, Jiang Lin saw Shen Congyu riding a black motorcycle.
It's him again. It seems that the time he was in the ruins was probably just a pretext for delaying the process.
Shen Congyu looked around at the surrounding environment and entered the underground passage from the cave entrance using a fixed rope.
About ten minutes later, Jiang Lin and his group came out from behind the mound.
Jiang Lin: "It seems that this passage has been discovered by them. The plants that control people in the underground base should not be dead, otherwise Chen Guanghai would not let Shen Congyu come here, let alone let him delay our progress."
Wen Yan: "Follow him in and take a look."
The dark underground passage still stank of a fire. The six people didn't dare turn on the lights and could only grope their way through the darkness.
"Boom, boom." In the low visibility situation, Jiang Lin felt that her hearing had become much more sensitive, and she seemed to hear a dull heartbeat.
There was a faint light coming from the front, it seemed that the underground experimental base was approaching.
"Cong Yu, you're here. Are you ready to accept its transformation with me?" Chen Guanghai's voice came, and the six people lowered their breathing at the same time.
"I, I don't want to."
"Why not? That is the gift it gives us. You will have your wisdom and an immortal body." Green vines spread out from Chen Guanghai's body and climbed up Shen Congyu.
"Come, become like me, and we will become the masters of this world."
Shen Congyu used all his strength to shake off the vines wrapped around him: "I don't want to become a monster, please let me go."
Chen Guanghai, who had been kind and loving, suddenly changed his expression: "Monster? How dare you disrespect it? Considering you've worked for me for so many years, I'll give you another chance."
Shen Congyu shook his head firmly. He didn't want to become a monster that was neither human nor ghost.
A muffled groan was heard, as if someone was knocked unconscious, followed by the sound of a heavy object being dragged.
"Cong Yu, one day you will understand the benefits of eternal life."
The footsteps gradually disappeared, and Wen Yan was the first to walk out of the passage. This place was quite remote and there was no one around. He gestured to his teammates who were hiding in the passage to come out together.
It was not comfortable to stay in the dark and narrow passage. After Jiang Lin came out, he slowly exhaled and slowly recovered.
Because the original experimental base had been burned, the surrounding walls were gray in varying shades.
"Go directly to the mutant plant and destroy it." Jiang Lin made a quick decision. They didn't have much time left. The strange tree growing deep in the base was the source of all pollution. If they could completely eliminate it, Chen Guanghai and his group of mutants would not be able to cause any trouble.
Jiang Lin took the lead, followed by Wen Yan, and the six of them headed deeper into the base again.
"A few little mice have come in again." A sound slowly came from the tree with strange shapes covered with fungi.
"Lord Shenmu, do you need me to help you solve it?" Chen Guanghai stood aside with a flattering look on his face.
"No, let them come. I want their brains and outstanding superpowers." The sacred tree shook its branches. There were traces of burns on many parts of its body, but it happened to be backed by underground water resources and survived by chance. The purifier brought by this group of people before was very useful.
The sacred tree looked down at where it was standing and saw a small piece of living soil. This made it feel very surprised. It must keep the man named Jiang Lin here.
Let her give it more land to revive.
The deeper you go, the stronger the stench becomes, a bit like the smell of zombies, even stronger, as if the corpses of thousands of zombies are piled here.
"Hmm" Tang Xiaoyan covered her mouth. She almost let out a scream just now.
Jiang Lin looked in the direction she was looking, and saw many zombie arms scattered on the ground, all covered with fat white bugs, which looked very disgusting.
Why are there so many zombie remains here?
Wen Yan squatted down and suppressed his nausea to observe the condition of these limbs. They looked like zombies that had been dead for only a few days.
"Are they using the zombies' bodies as fertilizer?" Sheng Wei dealt with zombies a lot, and such a strong smell indicated that there might have been a group of zombies here.
Jiang Lin paused. It was indeed possible. There was a cruel and insane monster in here.
"We have to be careful, it may be stronger than last time." With Chen Guanghai's help, I really don't know how much the tree has developed.
"You are here, my friends." Just as Jiang Lin was about to step into the territory of Shenmu, he heard a familiar voice.
"I have been waiting for you here for a long time. I think there must have been some misunderstandings between us before." Shenmu's voice continued to sound, like a gentle persuasion and enticement.
A familiar figure was brought to the base of the sacred tree: "Get to know him, and I will show you how to grant him immortality."
Shen Congyu was hanging on the tree, his expression full of fear.
"Wen Yan, save me, I was wrong, save me, I don't want to become a monster." Shen Congyu saw Wen Yan trembling and asking for help in the crowd.
"Don't be afraid, young man. You will thank me later." The vines wrapped around Shen Congyu were getting tighter and tighter, and his face turned from red due to holding his breath to slowly blue.
Wen Yan still took action. A fireball burned a piece of vine, causing Shen Congyu to fall to the ground, gasping for breath.
The sacred tree was a little angry, and its overwhelming green vines roared towards them.
Wen Yan's fireball exploded and hit the vines.
Then tiny ice spikes cut the vines in mid-air.
"Be careful!" Sheng Wei erected an earth wall next to him. A familiar person was behind Jiang Lin, and the sharp wooden thorns were almost touching her back.
"Ashin?" Tang Xiaoyan was a little dazed when she saw her familiar lover again.
Ashin looked at Tang Xiaoyan with unfamiliar eyes. The wooden thorn quickly changed direction and pierced into Tang Xiaoyan's thigh. Even with the blocking of the combat uniform, it was still scratched.
The blood slowly soaked through the black combat uniform.
Ashin looked at Tang Xiaoyan with a dazed look for a moment, and he looked at his hands in disbelief.
"Axin, help me kill her." Shenmu's voice sounded again.
However, he did not respond to the sacred tree's command immediately, but continued to look at the wooden thorns spreading out from his hand, which were covered with a little blood.
"Axin? Kill her!" the order came again.
Her expression could not be seen clearly from his lowered brows. Tang Xiaoyan felt a little expectant, but when he looked up again, the brief clarity in his eyes was replaced by gray again.
He is still a controlled killing machine.
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