Chapter 97 Chapter 97 Fighting!!!
After cracking the maze, Chi Shuangliu and Yan Xunqing quickly arrived at the factory where the Giant Scorpion Queen was located. This was once a typical fraud park, covering a large area and with a mixed population, basically equivalent to a small town.
At this moment, tens of thousands of people in the factory have been parasitized by the queen's nematodes, turning them into monsters that cannot tire or feel pain, and they are constantly attacking outsiders.
The insect people stretched out like an endless wave. Chi Shuangliu and Yan Xunqing stood on the roof of the car, like reefs rising and falling with the waves.
Logically speaking, they were very close to the giant scorpion queen's lair, but Chi Shuangliu did not sense any trace of the queen.
Looking at the endless stream of insect-men beneath his feet, Chi Shuangliu raised his eyes and clicked his tongue impatiently.
Soon, the insect-men turned into a thin two-dimensional piece of paper.
Seeing him killing with such enthusiasm, Yan Xunqing moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something. However, considering that these people were indeed dead, he rationally gave up the urge to persuade them. He frowned slightly and changed the subject: "There are no survivors here. How can we find out the Queen's specific whereabouts?"
He had gradually accepted the fact that the insect people were not living people, and he became more and more adept at killing them. The Qilin phantom behind him raised its head high and sprayed a fireball at the place where the insect people gathered. Soon the insect people were burned to a crisp.
Chi Shuangliu was about to answer when his expression suddenly changed and he looked at the charred corpses.
There was no change in the corpse, but after each insect man fell down completely, a tiny milky white nematode would emerge from his ear. The nematode was less than one centimeter long and could not be detected at all without careful sensing.
The nematode, having lost its parasite, squirmed a few times and instinctively burrowed underground.
Chi Shuangliu looked at Yan Xunqing thoughtfully and said, "Burn it again."
Yan Xunqing did not hesitate and released another fireball. Soon another group of insect people fell to the ground twitching, and the nematodes burrowed into the ground again.
Chi Shuangliu nodded, suddenly jumped off the roof of the car, and casually pulled away a group of insect people in front of him with his tentacles, clearing out a piece of open space.
Several extremely thick black and purple tentacles suddenly emerged from the void and lashed towards the ground fiercely. This lash created an earth-shaking force and left deep depressions in the ground.
A low roar came from deep below, and two huge claws broke out of the ground, then suddenly dropped down and took root deeply in the ground.
Soon, the ground began to rise slightly, as if some giant beast was about to emerge from it.
Yan Xunqing was slightly surprised: "How did you know she was hiding underground?"
Chi Shuangliu glanced at him and said, "After each parasitic body loses its ability to move, a nematode that controls the body will emerge. After losing its host, it will burrow directly into the ground to find its mother."
Yan Xunqing raised his eyebrows slightly: "If that's the case, why didn't you notice it at the beginning?"
Chi Shuangliu never forgets to step on his rival: "Because my ability kills the parasite along with the nematodes, and your ability is only enough to kill the shell, so the nematodes have a chance to escape from the parasite."
While making sarcastic remarks, he did not forget to secretly note down Yan Xunqing's embarrassing incident, intending to tell Xiaorun about it when he got back. While stepping on his love rival, he could also establish his own image as an omnipotent and powerful person.
In most people's stereotypes, gods are symbols of neither joy nor sorrow. This is the first time I've ever seen a god with such a distinct and sarcastic personality like Chi Shuangliu. Yan Xunqing gave up trying to communicate with him and looked in the direction of the giant pincers: "...The queen has emerged."
Obviously, the giant scorpion queen has evolved again. Her height is now nearly 20 meters, and her face has basically completely lost all human features, with only the compound eyes and mouthparts of an insect.
When the main course appeared, there was no expression of surprise on Chi Shuangliu's face.
If the Giant Scorpion Queen was right here, why couldn't he sense her presence just now? Even if she was hiding underground, she couldn't hide from his perception.
Before he had time to think deeply, an extremely thick scorpion tail came towards him with great force.
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In the patrol unit, people with special abilities and ordinary clerks work separately, and even have different doors for entering and exiting. The only place they can meet is the cafeteria - after all, most people with special abilities have to eat, drink, defecate and urinate just like normal people.
Xiao Zhu is a programmer of the defense system. His ability level is only D. He has little combat power, but his work ability can be greatly improved. Therefore, he was recruited into the unit. He and Xiao Wei, who cooks in the cafeteria, are fellow villagers. The two are workplace partners, and Xiao Wei often prepares special dishes for him in private.
As usual, Xiao Zhu stayed in the cafeteria's kitchen to eat and chat with Xiao Wei. "...Today is Monday, and the defense system needs routine maintenance. Do you think this thing needs weekly maintenance? Is there anyone so fearless as to dare to intrude on the patrol team?"
As he sipped Xiao Wei's special beef noodles, he muttered, "Maintenance inspections are time-consuming and laborious, and I have to write a summary after the inspection. Once a month is enough."
Xiao Wei saw him put the white rice noodles into his mouth one by one and grinned: "So what now? Are you done with the examination?"
Xiao Zhu shook his head. "The inspection will last a whole day, with three shifts responsible for different parts."
Xiao Wei kept a grin on his face and asked, "How do you usually check?"
Xiao Zhu slurped noodles while saying, "The operation of the protection system relies on several super-large computers, so we, the super-powered programmers, were hired. The computer room opens once a week on Mondays, and we go in to debug and maintain the programs."
Xiao Wei grinned. "Such a large system, isn't there any flaws or bugs?"
"Of course..." Xiao Zhu paused in slurping the noodles, suddenly realizing something was wrong, and couldn't help but look up at his partner.
Half of Xiao Wei's face was hidden in the shadows, and the smile at the corner of his mouth looked unusually sharp.
"I don't know about this, I'm just a low-level clerk." Xiao Zhu's fingers trembled slightly, and he instinctively sensed something was wrong. He wiped his mouth and stood up. "Well, I'm full. I'm going back to work."
It was obvious that something was wrong with Xiao Wei, but Xiao Zhu was not a combat-type psychic, so he planned to escape first and report Xiao Wei's situation to his superiors in a timely manner.
Xiao Wei didn't stop him, still maintaining a strange, exaggerated smile: "Okay."
Xiao Zhu had just walked to the door when his body swayed and he fell to the ground with a thud.
He crawled on the ground like a worm for a while before finally standing up slowly, revealing a smile exactly like Xiao Wei's.
A faint insect-like humming sound emanated from his mouth, and he answered in a tone devoid of emotion: "The defense system consists of a superpowered main unit and three backup units. Each of the four supercomputers uses a different circuit. If one computer fails, the other backup units will activate at top speed and take over the main unit's work. Therefore, the defense system is essentially indestructible."
"But..." Xiao Zhu's mouth widened slightly. "Once the main machine loses power or is severely damaged, it will take at least ten seconds to start up the backup machine."
During this time, the pickets will be completely defenseless.
Xiao Wei nodded at him: "Go."
Xiao Zhu slowly restrained his expression and soon became as lively and natural as an ordinary person.
After returning to the computer room, Xiao Zhu was quickly stopped by several psychic guards: "Didn't you come here this morning?"
Xiao Zhu smiled flawlessly: "A document was left in the computer room."
The guards looked at each other and, in accordance with regulations, took Xiao Zhu to another small room for inspection.
After about a few minutes, the guard with a creepy smile came out of the hut with Xiao Zhu. After going in, Xiao Zhu quickly came to the checkpoint on the second floor. After the routine search, he had unimpeded access to the computer room on the middle floor.
Chen Run was a temporary post holder, having only taken over the position of city captain for less than two days. He was not familiar with the environment of the city team unit. Fortunately, the deputy captain was there to remind him.
She was so busy that she was called upon by the deputy captain to deal with a mountain of cases as soon as she arrived at her post. She didn't move all night and didn't finish her work until after lunch time. She finally had time to eat lunch.
Just as he entered the elevator with his deputy captain, the elevator light above his head suddenly flickered, and then he heard a "click" sound, and the entire elevator car fell into darkness.
The elevator began to shake slightly, and soon, a scalp-numbing rustling sound like crawling insects could be heard from all directions.
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A huge, broken insect corpse lay on its back in front of Chi Shuangliu.
But his face was ashen, and he showed no joy of victory.
This battle was unexpectedly easy. When he completely defeated the Giant Scorpion Queen and wanted to cut her open to eat her, he found that he had defeated only a 'shell'.
This is a shed insect shell, without any flesh or organs, and full of wriggling nematodes.
"Is this her shed shell? Then where is the real Giant Scorpion Queen hiding?"
The Giant Scorpion Queen is cunning, brutal, and extremely powerful. The patrol team has been fighting against her for a long time.
Yan Xunqing hadn't expected to kill her so soon, so his emotions were quite stable.
Seeing Chi Shuangliu's face was ashen, he thought he was angry because he had no food, so he took out a few energy bars specially provided for psychics from his pocket and comforted him: "...Why don't you eat something else first?" - Yan Xunqing subconsciously took the method of appeasing the beast and filled his stomach.
Chi Shuangliu: "..."
Veins throbbed on his forehead: "Do you think I'm a dog?"
He didn't know what he remembered, his cheek muscles twitched violently, and he grabbed Yan Xunqing's collar, tearing open the space to leave.
The space around here was very chaotic. Chi Shuangliu tried several times but was forced to retreat because he couldn't find a place.
Seeing his actions, Yan Xunqing's expression became serious: "...Did you discover something?"
Chi Shuangliu's expression grew increasingly grim, and he fiercely uttered a few words between his teeth: "We've been fooled."
Yan Xunqing was startled for a moment, then his face darkened. "Are you saying she deliberately tricked us here? Does she have other motives?" His expression changed slightly. "Chen Run."
The maze just now, and the body in front of me, were all just to buy time! The Giant Scorpion Queen must have already arrived in the Magic City by now—her real target is Shen Run!
He immediately said, "Let's drive away from this chaotic space." He opened the car door and comforted her, "Don't worry too much. The city patrol team has the best defense system in the world. The system is much more powerful than an individual. Even the Giant Scorpion Queen can't break through the system, let alone hurt Shen Run."
Chi Shuangliu was skeptical of everything human. He coldly asked, "You don't think the Giant Scorpion Queen is completely unprepared, do you? What if something goes wrong with the system?"
Then she will have to face alone a powerful man who has been transformed, has abilities close to those of a god, and has an endless army of insects.
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It was slightly different from what Chi Shuangliu and Yan Xunqing had guessed. The Giant Scorpion Queen came to the Municipal Patrol Team not just for Chen Run.
After consuming Dr. Jiang's power, Chi Nu also gained the ability to summon gods. In order to achieve immortality and become a true god, he made a bold decision to use his own abilities to summon and fuse with Alethea.
Alethea was the Outer God who was torn into pieces by Chi Shuangliu, but it was only his projection that descended to Earth at that time. The madwoman Chi Nu actually planned to let the Outer God descend directly, regardless of whether the Earth could withstand a complete Outer God.
Seventy to eighty percent of Chi Nu's available men had been wiped out by the patrol team, and he himself was being watched too closely by Chi Shuangliu. His plan to become a god had reached the final and most critical stage, so he ordered the Giant Scorpion Queen to create a chaos to help him divert attention.
The Giant Scorpion Queen did not intend to attack the patrol team. She just wanted to take advantage of the dozen seconds when the defense system was shut down to parasitize most of the patrol team members and let these patrol team create a huge massacre in the city center.
If the plan succeeds, the patrol team will be too busy to take care of themselves and will no longer be able to keep chasing Chi Nu.
On the other hand, if a tragedy shocking the world is created, the people with special abilities will be exposed to the public eye, and ordinary people will suffer heavy casualties. These official people with special abilities will definitely not let it go, and a war will surely break out. Once the situation is completely chaotic, Chi Nu will have an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Of course, Chen Run is also in the city patrol team now. If he can hurt her, he can also create trouble for Chi Shuangliu. In short, this is a good way to kill two birds with one stone.
As for Shen Run herself, the Giant Scorpion Queen heard that after she was killed by Chi Nu, she was resurrected by Chi Shuangliu in some unknown way. She deduced that Shen Run's strength was around S, and the highest was probably S+. She knew all of Shen Run's abilities well. She had an evolved lightning ability, invisibility skills, and very developed spiritual power - but these were not enough to make the Giant Scorpion Queen wary. The two had fought before, and Shen Run was very weak in both ability and combat awareness. At first glance, she was a dodder protected under the wings of a strong man.
Although she has now been upgraded, the Giant Scorpion Queen has also gained the shared power of Chi Nu.
Apart from the fact that the mother mushroom was a little difficult to deal with, the Giant Scorpion Queen didn't take Chen Run seriously at all, otherwise she wouldn't have barged in so directly.
In her opinion, Chen Run was just a pet kept by the gods, who had gained powerful superpowers by luck. However, Chen Run had no idea how to use this great ability, and was completely incomparable to her, a warrior tempered by battle.
The giant scorpion queen's true form was on Xiao Wei's body. Countless tiny nematodes crawled out of the cafeteria. The first few insect-people who were parasitized took advantage of the failure of the protection system and began to attack their colleagues and buildings wantonly.
The patrol team does not only have people with special abilities. At least half of them are ordinary people. Such an attack is simply fatal to them. The patrol team members with special abilities are afraid of accidentally hurting their companions, so they dare not take action.
The entire patrol team fell into chaos in an instant!
Most people are unable to react before being densely packed with nematodes. The nematodes wriggle into the human body through the nostrils, ear holes, mouth and other parts. The invaded people soon begin to have difficulty thinking, and their movements become sluggish as if they were filled with glue. They are even unable to ask for help from their companions.
Nematodes cannot parasitize high-level mutants, and the highest level they can parasitize is only B-level. However, these people are like basic parts in the workplace. If a large number of basic parts fail, the operation of the entire unit will also come to a halt.
In just a minute or two, these people would be completely dead, transformed into insect-men for her to enslave. By then, the Demon City Patrol would be completely finished! !
The Queen smiled slightly.
However, the next moment, dense spores suddenly appeared in the air. The spores spread rapidly, and when they fell on people, clusters of gray-white mushrooms quickly grew out. The dense hyphae entered the nasal cavity, like a densely woven defense line, blocking the invasion of nematodes.
Only thirty seconds had passed since the accident, and the Queen was slightly surprised by Shen Run's reaction speed.
However, the queen was well prepared for Shenrun's ability. The milky white nematodes split in the moist and warm human body. Several times the number of nematodes gathered together and worked together to gnaw on the hyphae that blocked the way, ensuring that the parasitic path was unobstructed.
There were less than twenty seconds left before the complete parasitism was successful. The entire patrol team had already become a mess. The insect people and the patrol team members were fighting each other. Ordinary people were trembling and looking for places to hide. No one could tell whether the teammates fighting side by side with them would attack them. Even the shouting in the broadcasting room to maintain discipline had little effect.
The situation is over, the patrol team is completely finished.
As the acting patrol captain, Shen Run's performance can only be described as incompetent.
The Queen nodded with satisfaction, turned around and was about to leave the picket line to prepare for the next plan.
However, just as her left foot stepped out of the cafeteria, her chest suddenly felt cold. A million-volt electric blade pierced her chest, vaporizing the flesh and blood around the wound.
She didn't even see who attacked her before she felt a terrifying force on her neck.
There was a horrible crackling sound from her cervical vertebrae, and her head was forced to turn backwards, abruptly turning 180 degrees - she saw clearly that the person attacking her from behind was Chen Run, and there were several huge tentacle shadows behind her, one of which was wrapped around the queen's neck.
Shen Run leaned close to her ear and said, "I found you."
With a 'bang', the queen's head was crushed without any suspense, and blood spurted out like a fountain.
Because of the queen's fall, all the parasitic nematodes lost control, were forced to stop their parasitic activities, and were quickly wrapped and swallowed by the wildly growing mycelium.
The backup machine started up quickly and the power supply was restored. The secretary hurriedly brought people out to maintain order. Everyone was busy in an orderly manner, checking the procedures and treating the wounded.
"Is it over? Thanks to you for finding the suspect so quickly." The deputy captain slowly breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at Xiao Wei's body on the ground, he frowned tightly. "Where did this guy come from? How did he get in? No, I have to notify someone to investigate..."
"I always feel like something's wrong," Shen Run frowned as he looked at Xiao Wei's body on the ground, his eyes full of vigilance. "Send the people from the laboratory over. I'll personally supervise the autopsy and see what's wrong."
The people in the laboratory department were all psychics who had previously studied forensic medicine. They were very professional in examining corpses. Soon they were seen wearing white coats and white gloves, preparing to carry the corpse away.
As soon as it was placed on the stretcher, the headless corpse suddenly trembled slightly.
Neither of the two forensic doctors were combat-type psychics, so Shen Run's first reaction was to protect them behind him.
In just these few brief seconds, the abdominal cavity of the corpse was opened, and a monster with a human body and a scorpion tail crawled out from inside. It was about half a person's height, and some of the characteristics of a human female were still vaguely retained on its body. It was covered with mucus and blood, and looked very creepy.
Shen Run’s expression changed: “Giant Scorpion Queen!!”
The queen grew to more than 20 meters at an incredible speed, and with a swing of her tail, she knocked several unrelated people away.
While Chen Run was rescuing people, she didn't stop for a moment, crossed the wall and the electric fence, and headed straight to the west.
The deputy captain's face changed. "That's the direction of the city center. She's going to the city center!" He shouted, "Stop her quickly. Find a way to stop her!"
What would happen if an extremely large monster with terrifying superpowers ran into a crowded city center? Hollywood monster blockbusters in recent years have already given the answer, and the reality will only be more tragic than the movies.
Several high-level warriors in the patrol team also hurriedly put down their work and mobilized their special powers to stop the Giant Scorpion Queen. However, the Giant Scorpion Queen was too huge and too powerful. It could be said that she had high attack, high defense, and high agility. The special powers had no effect on her and could not stop her from moving forward.
"You stay here and guard against any invasion. I'll take care of the Giant Scorpion Queen!"
While chasing outside, Chen Run switched to the form of a demigod.
Under the shocked and horrified gazes of all the patrol captains, Shen Run's body suddenly grew taller, and dense tentacles grew from under his body. He moved forward rapidly by the wriggling of the tentacles.
The Giant Scorpion Queen gradually approached the city center, and the population became more and more dense. On the roads, in cars, and in high-rise buildings, countless people saw the two half-human, half-beast figures chasing each other on the main road. Many people screamed in fear and quickly hid in nearby shopping malls. Some brave people took out their mobile phones and tried to take pictures - there was no doubt that the matter of the superpower could no longer be concealed!
The Giant Scorpion Queen began to try to attack ordinary people, but was finally stopped by Shen Run who arrived in time. The two strongest humans finally collided with each other!
Chen Run had never fought anyone in demigod form before. Considering the strength of the Giant Scorpion Queen, she was very cautious when she started.
But it didn't take long for her to discover that this body was ridiculously strong. Even if the tentacles were cut off by the giant pincers, they would grow back within a second or two. No matter how big the wound was, it could heal at the fastest speed. The Giant Scorpion Queen could not cause too much substantial damage to herself.
After realizing this, Shen Run simply gave up using his supernatural powers and concentrated on fighting the queen in close combat.
Even though the Queen has rich combat experience, it is difficult to defeat her. The longer the battle lasts, the more power the Queen will lose.
A ruthless look flashed in the queen's eyes, and her body suddenly swelled up, ready to self-destruct somewhere near the city center!!!
Shen Run's expression changed drastically, and a thick tentacle pierced her chest without hesitation, crushing her heart!
The queen's body deflated like a balloon.
She opened her mouth, and a large amount of dark green mucus and internal organ fragments spurted out, and her eyelids gradually drooped.
The giant scorpion queen should be dead now. Shen Run was about to retract his tentacles to clean up the scene when the queen suddenly raised her head, opened her eyes again, and a strange smile appeared on her face.
"Before I die, I need to tell you a secret."
As she spoke, the expression on her face was soft and sinister, as if she were possessed, which was inconsistent with her usual majestic and indifferent expression.
Shen Run's tentacles tensed instantly, and he looked at her with extreme vigilance.
The Queen swung her giant pincers downward, pointing at the ordinary people still running about on the ground. She spat out fragments of internal organs and said with a smile, "You know, while superpowers certainly make some people powerful, the genetic diseases that come with them also make those with superpowers suffer. And superpowers themselves bring untold turmoil and pain to ordinary people."
She smiled vaguely: "Do you want to know where human superpowers come from?"
Even after becoming a powerful psychic, Shen Run still did not acknowledge psychic powers themselves. She always felt that psychic powers were more like a virus or a curse.
Her heartbeat quickened slightly, and she asked, "Isn't it that meteor shower..."
"...It's a curse." The Giant Scorpion Queen interrupted her and smiled mysteriously: "It's...Chi Shuangliu's curse on humans."
After saying this, she glanced behind Shen Run with a provocative look.
Chen Run turned around as if he sensed something.
She didn't know when Chi Shuangliu had arrived and was standing in the space crack behind her, as if he wanted to hide himself.
He lowered his eyes and avoided her sight.
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After the Giant Scorpion Queen died completely, Chi Nu slowly opened her eyes in a carefully crafted hidden space.
Looking closely, he had a lighthearted smile on his lips.
After the Giant Scorpion Queen died, he used his shared powers to possess the Queen's body and told Shen Run the secret.
Of course, he did this not out of some ridiculous jealous trick. As an ambitious man, from the moment Shen Run posed a personal threat to him, he gave up all his feelings for her without hesitation.
But at the same time, he knew Shen Run's character very well.
There is a crucial reason why she can get back together with Chi Shuangliu - Chi Shuangliu has not caused any substantial harm to humans for the time being.
Based on this premise, Chi Shuangliu's "reformation" can bring about reconciliation between the two.
But what would she do if she knew that Chi Shuangliu had cursed humanity?
They will definitely become enemies, and it would be best if the fight gets out of hand. Chen Run will probably break up with him completely, and Chi Shuangliu, the love-sick man, will hate her to the core for abandoning her. Only in this way can Chi Nu's plan proceed smoothly and she can take back some of his power from Chen Run.
The smile on Chi Nu's lips deepened again.
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