Chapter 20: Mosquito Monster vs. Fly
After rescuing the old man Guo Cheng, the group turned back and sneaked towards the base city, stopping and advancing along the way. Under Ye Chen's seemingly unintentional but actually intentional guidance, they avoided many powerful monsters.
Buzz...
Suddenly, the sound of flapping wings was heard from the front. Everyone who was walking in the ruins was startled and hurriedly stopped, hiding in a building and lying in wait.
Then, everyone saw the sky above darken, and countless "buzzing" sounds came quickly and flew away into the distance.
Ye Chen looked up and immediately saw a large group of evolved mosquito monsters flying by. They were densely packed, numbering tens of thousands. Each one was five inches long, with sharp mouthparts harder than steel. As they flew by, some zombie dogs and zombie rats on the ground rushed in from dark corners, and their bodies were pierced by their sharp mouthparts.
Behind this group of mosquito monsters, there was a dark cloud moving away. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that there was actually a large group of strange monsters with extremely large heads, like watermelons. Their mouths were not grown horizontally but vertically, with ferocious teeth and claws as sharp as knives.
"Zombie flies!" Ye Chen's eyes focused. This large group of monsters, numbering more than 100,000, turned out to be zombie flies. Judging from their ferocious appearance, they were obviously chasing this group of mosquito monsters!
“Buzz——”
The zombie flies swarmed over and caught up with the mosquito monsters. The two sides became entangled and fought each other.
Ye Chen and others who were hiding in the building below held their breath, fearing to alarm these monsters, otherwise they would definitely die. You know, although a mosquito monster has only level one physique, the impact of tens of thousands of them is definitely more powerful than a rocket launcher, and even the city walls will be hit and pierced at once!
The zombie flies only have the strength of five people. In the past peaceful times, these two monsters were as weak as ants, or even stronger than ants, and were more difficult to kill. But after the end of the world, the ants evolved a little bit, and their strength increased by 400 times. In terms of strength, they are much stronger than flies and mosquitoes, but their own defense is still very fragile, only about the strength of three people. However, they have a layer of carapace on the outside, which has been strengthened many times with evolution, adding a lot of defense, so it is quite difficult to kill.
In simple terms, an ant has the vision and hearing of three people, but its strength is increased 400 times to one person! Strength also affects the speed of movement to a certain extent, so the speed of an ant can be comparable to that of a monster of level 6 to 8.
Who would have thought that a level 12 ant's vision and hearing were only at the level of three people?
The evolved ant, although it only looks many times bigger and has no other special changes, its internal structure has quietly changed, and its nerve reaction speed has increased many times. Although it only has the strength of three people, its nerve reaction speed is not weaker than that of a level 8 monster, so it can avoid some bullets. This animal, which was originally the most humble and weakest animal in the world, is now far superior to those dogs, mice and other animals.
Vision and hearing are its fatal weaknesses!
However, in most cases, the hearing and vision of ants are dispensable. As long as they can clearly see the enemies within the attack range, it is basically enough.
Therefore, ants become one of the most powerful monster groups in the later period.
If anyone thinks that a body with the strength of three ants would be crushed if it were to lift something with the strength of one person, they are very wrong.
Because during evolution, the body has certain requirements on the arrangement of muscles and bones in order to accommodate the special structure of the body. Just like humans, they only have two legs and are easy to fall, but their feet are wide and long, which prevents them from falling and also enhances their sense of balance.
If the ants only increased their strength but their bodies remained as fragile, then this would not be evolution but degeneration, and a fatal degeneration at that. In that case, the ants in the world would be crushed to death by the objects they lifted because they "overestimated their own abilities" before they could be killed by others.
Therefore, the muscles and bones of ants have been strengthened with evolution, so they will not be crushed by bones. The only disadvantages are vision and hearing.
These zombie flies in the sky only have the strength, hearing, vision, and physical defense of five human beings, but unlike ants, their advantage is their nerve reaction speed.
The reaction speed of flies' nerves is many times that of humans, and the reaction speed of their eyes is 60 times that of humans. Fluorescent light flickers 60 times per second, which humans cannot perceive at all, but flies can see it clearly. Moreover, flies' hearing reacts more quickly to the source of sound. When a fly swatter is waved, it often creates a slight sound of wind, which the fly notices and flies away immediately.
Under the transformation of the virus, the body structure of the fly has changed a lot. Some abilities have been optimized, while some have directly degenerated, just like ants. Today's ant monsters, any species, whether evolved or zombie-like dark ants, have no wings, as if they have been deprived of the ability to fly by God.
For example, termites originally had a pair of wings on their backs, but as they evolved, these wings gradually degenerated and turned into two hard armor shields with extremely strong defensive capabilities.
Many structures of the fly have also been changed. Although its strength and speed are only that of five people, its reaction speed, vision, and hearing are extremely powerful, increasing 100 times and reaching the reaction speed of a level 50 human!
Ye Chen couldn't help but think that if the genes of flies and ants were fused, he wondered how powerful they would be, as the two would make up for each other's shortcomings.
“Puff!”
From the sky, corpses fell like raindrops, and blood splattered everywhere.
The mosquito monsters and the dark flies were fighting each other, creating a chaotic situation where they could not distinguish between the two sides. In this narrow space, and in a group fight, the flies' advantage in reaction speed was not brought into play, and they were pierced through the body and sucked into jerky.
In the whole world, only the mosquito monster can absorb any blood without any scruples!
After the evolution, the structure of the mosquito monster's body has been strengthened and changed. Even if the blood of these dark flies contains a large number of viruses, it can absorb them, digest them, and then discharge them.
Other creatures would not dare to be so rampant, unless their own physique was many times stronger than the other party, they would not be afraid of being infected by the virus contained in the other party's blood.
“Squeak…”
The two monsters entangled with each other and fought fiercely. Corpses kept falling down. Before long, as the number of corpses became fewer and fewer, the area above became larger and larger. The fly, which was at a disadvantage at the beginning, was able to dodge everywhere and even counterattacked in the end, showing signs of turning defeat into victory.
About ten minutes later...
Phew!
The last mosquito monster had its stomach ripped open by a few flies, and blood gushed out, and it fell miserably. Tens of thousands of mosquito monsters were slaughtered just like that! Of the hundreds of thousands of dark flies, only about 10,000 were left, paying a heavy price. However, these dark flies did not care about this, and almost instinctively felt excited, pounced down, and began to devour the bodies of the mosquito monsters.
The people hiding under the building were almost suffocating. They held their breath and dared not move.
Four or five hours later...
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This group of dark flies had a full meal and were preparing to rest when suddenly a strange sound was heard in the distance. These dark flies turned their heads to look and suddenly flew up, dragging the remaining bodies of the mosquito monsters and flew far into the street.
Seeing this scene, Ye Chen frowned slightly. For the dark flies, they can live anywhere. Why would they go to the trouble of moving the corpses and migrating to far away places?
Could it be that... there is a dark fly king in the distance, calling them?
"Finally left." The others stood up and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go, it's getting dark." Mu Baifeng urged, leading the way out of the building. The others rubbed their legs, which were numb from squatting, and followed closely.
Ye Chen glanced at the corpses scattered on the ground outside with a hint of indifference in his eyes. Similar things happened in every corner of the world. Humans were not the target of all monsters, and these monsters would also attack each other.
Especially in the early days, countless monsters died in the ocean, and there were corpses everywhere and floating like mountains.
Next, everyone carefully moved towards the base city. They encountered some minor dangers along the way and often ran into single zombies, but they were all shot and robbed. Finally, they successfully returned to the base city.
When Ye Chen and others entered the city gate, the inspecting soldier just took a look at their clothes and did not stop them, and let them pass.
"Damn, we need genetically modified meat to enter the city, what a bullshit rule!" Suddenly, a burly man at a nearby inspector soldier looked at the soldier angrily. It was obvious that he didn't have any genetically modified meat on him and looked a little exasperated.
The soldier said indifferently: "If you don't have genetically modified meat, you can join the army. According to your personal qualifications and potential, you will be assigned to a suitable department. At worst, you can enter the production department to help grow crops!"
The burly man shouted angrily, "Bullshit! Is this still a base city? It's already this time, and you don't give us food to eat, and you want us to do hard labor? What a rubbish base city! I loved the country in vain!"
"Another fool." Mu Baifeng took a look and sneered.
"Although the base city has more rules and fewer favors, in this situation, being able to give you a support is pretty good." Another man sneered, "Does this guy think the food in the base city is free? If such a large base city is run for nothing and it feeds a bunch of rubbish, it will collapse in a few days!"
"This guy is still talking about patriotism. What era is this? What an idiot!"
"You have to adapt yourself to the world, not make the whole world obey you. This person doesn't even understand such a simple truth. Does he still think it's the peaceful times of the past? Is there any emphasis on morality and ethics? Now, as long as you can get strength and survive, that's the most important thing."
"Last time I saw a great general who was visiting a prostitute on the street, but who dared to say anything about him? His power is there. Although the general was just a chef in a hotel before, he has now become a big shot who controls 5,000 people!"
A group of people whispered and looked at the strong man mockingly.
Ye Chen looked over casually, only to see the soldier pull out his pistol and said coldly: "If you continue to act unreasonably, don't blame me for punishing you by military law!"
The burly man's face shuddered and changed color slightly. Finally, after being persuaded by a few familiar faces, he found an opportunity to step down. He groaned a few times, but finally chose to surrender.