Chapter 16: The Distorted Smile Is About to Be Destroyed
Fu Xue continued: "Are there any types of mutants that can change their body shape among the ones that have been announced?"
"No." Wei Yan replied.
He was silent for a moment, his voice muffled by the current. "But that's a public system. To avoid public panic, the White Tower hasn't announced the existence of intelligent mutants."
"Intelligent species don't fight on instinct, but possess a degree of self-logic and awareness. Only three instances have been discovered so far, all imprisoned in restricted areas. One of them can indeed change its size based on its own awareness, but it's only about the size of a car."
Fu Xue immediately cursed and switched the headset channel: "Notify all personnel on site to evacuate immediately! The Security Department has taken full control! Level 1 alert!"
The bus from the administrative center quickly turned around on the road and drove back at full speed.
"Intelligent mutants..." Fu Xue sneered, "The White Tower has hidden so much. Does it think everyone in the base is stupid? Even if they don't tell the people, shouldn't the base have preventive measures?"
There was only the sound of breathing on the other end of the headset.
Xu Nuo was uneasy: "If it can really shrink, is digging the pit to hide itself in the process of shrinking and reduce the risk of being discovered by security?"
Fu Xue's hands kept tapping away on the computer. "Not only that, it must have devoured the Phantom Walker's corpse as well. It was the Phantom Walker that made it risk its life and stay. Devouring takes time, and it was afraid it wouldn't be there before security arrived, so it adjusted its body shape while digging the hole and digesting it at the same time."
At this point, she gritted her teeth. "Being able to prevent risks and conduct three actions simultaneously—are you sure this qualifies as 'having a certain logic and self-awareness'?!"
Wei Yan didn't say anything on the other end, but the sound of the wind became even stronger.
The mutant's trajectory is already clear - it hunts the Phantom Walker, forcing it to turn around and crash into the city wall. To devour the corpse, it needs to become larger than the Phantom Walker, so it digs a pit to cover itself, absorbing the energy of the corpse while changing its size. When the security personnel arrived, some of it was not completely absorbed, leaving rotten flesh at the bottom of the pit.
For some reason, it chose not to attack the security personnel, but...
Xu Nuo felt uneasy: "So—after the mutant shrank, it was actually at the scene the whole time?"
Fu Xue did not answer, but stared at the computer screen with a frown.
"Reporting to the headquarters, personnel are now en route to evacuation," a technician's voice came over the noisy headset. "The pollution monitor reported an abnormality before the evacuation. The pollution level at the bottom of the pit has dropped significantly and is currently only twice that at the surface."
“When did it decrease?”
"It was after... the captain of the guard left."
"boom!"
Just as he finished speaking, there was a sudden loud explosion in the distance, followed by people's screams piercing his eardrums.
"F**k!" Fu Xue jumped up, threw the computer down, opened the door of the still-moving car, and yelled, "Song Ke, come pick me up!"
A sentry soon appeared outside the high-speed car. He was like a ghost. He reached out his hand to Fu Xue and took her out.
The two figures hugging each other moved forward quickly and soon disappeared from sight.
Xu Nuo looked at the wide-open car door in silence.
Jiang Chen, who had been driving in the front seat, stepped on the brakes and said, "L...Xu Nuo, please put the minister's computer on the seat. I'll take you back to school first."
As he spoke, the ground shook more violently, and a faint shrieking sound was heard. Wei Yan on the other end of the headset said nothing, as if he tacitly approved of Jiang Chen's actions.
Xu Nuo lowered his head and looked at the lines of information bursting out on the computer in his hand.
Jiang Chen turned the car around again and pulled the handbrake: "I'll drive faster. We're close to the scene and it's very dangerous."
Xu Nuo pursed his lips and gripped the computer tightly in his hand.
"Damn, why is it so noisy? It's like the end of the world..." Jiang Chen muttered, and started the car with a "hum".
Someone in the back row suddenly asked, "Do you have to go there too?"
He nodded: "It's urgent, I'll go after I drop you off."
"Then... take me along again."
…
Xu Nuo hurriedly got off the car, covered his ears, and his whole body was covered with mental tentacles.
People were falling to the ground with blood oozing from their ears and noses. A truck that had overturned halfway down the street was pinning silent corpses. The sentries who were still able to hold on were rescuing the wounded with painful expressions on their faces.
She tried to spread her tentacles to cover everyone she met, and moved back to the point where the crowd had fled.
“Beep——————”
She finally understood why the hero and heroine of the novel could not find the voice information of the mutant, and the remaining surveillance cameras in the city could not capture any footage -
It was a sharp, piercing sound that made the whole body tense and agitated, much like the alarm of a malfunctioning scientific instrument, but at a higher pitch.
The closer you are to the center of the sound source, the sharper the sound becomes. When it reaches the origin, the pitch rises to the top, as if it can pierce the eardrum in an instant.
At the same time, the pollution radiating from the center multiplied exponentially, and a group of twitching corpses were growing horns and rotten flesh again, almost completely deformed.
Xu Nuo stopped panting, warm liquid overflowed from his ears, blood flowed through his palms and dripped from his elbows, and the world fell into silence.
In front, the sound of explosion came from a humanoid monster only half a story tall, covered in pitch-black leather armor. It even had a complete brain growing on its head, with half of its face exposed, and a bloody wound on it was screaming.
It roared and fought with the giant wolf. The wolf kept biting the monster, but its leather armor was very hard and it was difficult to tear it off.
...The spiritual body is here, but where is the person?
Xu Nuo looked around but couldn't find Wei Yan, and a little blood was coming out of his nose.
A flash of knife light passed by, and Fu Xue's sentinel Song Ke mercilessly killed the human-lizard that attacked her from the side - that was the sentinel that had just been deformed by the pollution.
He glared at her and yelled, but Xu Nuo couldn't hear it and could only vaguely see his lip movements.
Mutant...Guide...Go...!
She suddenly felt a tingling sensation on her scalp. When she looked up again, she saw a monster half a story tall appear before her, its deformed facial features on top of half its exposed brain grinning at her in a twisted smile.
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