336 Tadpole Mole (VI)
◎Bai Cheng handed the knife to Lin Xiaofeng◎
Although Lin Xiaofeng followed Zhu Ning out of the city, she has always been well protected. In addition to Zhu Ning, Bai Cheng and Pei Shu would also subconsciously look after her. They didn't say it explicitly, but they probably thought in their hearts that it would be better for a ten-year-old girl not to die outside the city. This was their instinct as seniors.
Song Zhizhang was inside the wall, and there were three people looking after her outside the wall. Lin Xiaofeng had never directly encountered the death of a close person, including the death of Song Zhizhang. She only saw the wall.
She was not familiar with Xin Baicheng. At most, she had observed him through the rearview mirror and exchanged a few awkward words with him. They had only known each other for two days.
But she always felt that if Xin Baicheng died, he would be dead, and every Baicheng was different.
There was a light flickering on Xin Baicheng's neck in a very regular pattern. It was this light that attracted Lin Xiaofeng just now.
Lin Xiaofeng was originally holding Xin Baicheng's head carefully, but when checking, he suddenly felt that her head was a little loose.
It's very similar to playing with a Barbie doll. The toy's head and limbs are separate, so you can remove them and then reinstall them. You can also rotate the head 360 degrees.
Lin Xiaofeng was not used to that feeling, so she turned Xin Baicheng's head ninety degrees. The head was connected to the spine, but at this time the hard spine became soft and turned into a dark brown tail.
The new Bai Cheng was about to turn into a tadpole man. Lin Xiaofeng felt a chill in her heart. The new Bai Cheng suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes flashing with brilliance. This was definitely not the Bai Cheng she knew.
Xin Baicheng opened his mouth wide and immediately rushed towards Lin Xiaofeng. It became even more obvious after he came out. Baicheng's torso remained in place, and his head had become some kind of creature.
Lin Xiaofeng was knocked to the ground. The water surface was turbid when the two were fighting. Pei Shu couldn't see the figure clearly and was afraid of hurting him by mistake, so he couldn't help immediately.
In the chaos, Lin Xiaofeng blocked Xin Baicheng's mouth with his left arm. He felt pain in his arm and heard a cracking sound. His left arm was fractured and blood leaked out from between his teeth.
Xin Baicheng tore at Lin Xiaofeng's flesh and blood, wishing she could eat her whole. She was no different from other tadpole people.
After being knocked down, Lin Xiaofeng immediately fought back. Even though her left hand was bitten, she did not cry out in pain. Instead, she raised the gun with her right hand. The incident happened so suddenly that she had no time to think. She put the muzzle of the gun against Xin Baicheng's mouth and fired with a bang.
Pei Shu originally wanted to rescue, but when the gunshots rang out, he knew that Lin Xiaofeng had fired and the outcome was decided. At this time, the water surface became clearer and Pei Shu could see the current situation clearly.
Lin Xiaofeng threw away the tadpole man's body, his left hand was injured, and Xin Baicheng's body had fallen into the mud.
It is easy to encounter this situation outside the wall. The dead teammates will be assimilated into the contaminated area. Maybe this person is your close teammate, your lover, and your only support.
But pollution is pollution, and the moment the transformation is complete she is just a simple monster.
He was surprised that Lin Xiaofeng fired so quickly, but he also felt a little suffocated. He thought Lin Xiaofeng would remain innocent for a while.
It's hard to go back after you've killed someone.
Pei Shuyou came to Lin Xiaofeng. She was surrounded by blood. She killed people underwater, and the blood was everywhere.
If it were a peaceful world, at Lin Xiaofeng's age, she should have gone to the child psychiatry department, but at this moment, Pei Shu didn't have time to care about his teammates. His pupils shrank, "There is a way."
Shinbaicheng is not attached to the "blood vessels". To be precise, she is buried in the hole of the blood vessels.
The opening of the blood vessel is like a water pump, making a muffled thumping sound, and the blood vessel is contracting.
Pei Shu and Lin Xiaofeng's instinctive reaction was to go up. After all, they had no idea what this thing was, and going down would be suicide. It would be better to observe first. But after the blood vessels twitched, a huge suction force came from below.
For example, when a swimming pool suddenly releases water, there have been such accidents before. After the swimming pool is released, tourists are sucked into the sewer, and the huge suction force crushes people's flesh and blood alive.
They felt the same suction force, and the protective suits did not have enough upward force. They tried to control their bodies, but they were simply unable to do so. Their heads and feet switched positions, and they were almost spinning in the water.
There are holes on the surface of the blood vessels, and some of them spray out a large number of tadpole eggs due to peristalsis. It is here that the eggs hatch into tadpoles and finally evolve into tadpole people. This place is considered the "place of origin".
They gradually restored Xin Baicheng's route. She fell to the bottom of the pond and was attacked by tadpole people. She resisted and searched at the same time, and finally she found the blood vessel.
Shinbai Cheng was seriously injured and was unable to resist alone. She knew that she was going to die, so she turned on the neck signal light before she died, leaving enough information for other teammates.
When the blood vessels contract, more and more holes open up on their surface, and some even grow fine and dense fangs, making them easily minced like a meat grinder.
They didn't have time to think about that. Lin Xiaofeng grabbed a small hole on the surface of a blood vessel with one hand, which had no teeth, and quickly grabbed Pei Shu with the other hand.
Her immense strength was still usable; as long as she held on, no matter how strong the suction was, it wouldn't suck her away.
Pei Shu, with the help of Lin Xiaofeng, managed to stabilize his body with great difficulty. He did not dare to challenge the tooth-growing hole easily. Going there with his weakened ability would be tantamount to seeking death.
They searched around and saw the axe gleaming in the sewage.
The axe was the clue left by Bai Cheng. It was cut on the surface of the blood vessel. The cut was at least one meter long. Bai Cheng must have gone in.
As if in response to their guess, the blood vessels began to move faster. They initially thought that the blood vessels were attacking people, but now they felt that this thing was struggling because of the severe pain.
With a puff—
A hand broke through the blood vessel wall, right next to Bai Cheng's axe. The inner wall was thicker than an ordinary wall, which was extremely amazing. Bai Cheng's arm stretched out, and then dense eggs flowed out.
Bai Cheng came down first. She knew where her other self was. When she saw the corpse, she didn't even go up to say hello. She immediately went to continue searching for clues.
This pipe is used for spawning. To make an analogy, don't think too much about it, and think of the waters of this Fengyu Village as a human hand.
This hand is quietly hidden underground, and all its structures are still intact. The blood vessel is at most a short section on the back of the hand. Usually, an incision is made there to inject the medicine for infusion.
During the "infusion" process, it's like the blood vessels are opened temporarily.
The metaphor is not accurate, but this is probably the truth now.
Bai Cheng has experience and did not follow the old path of the new Bai Cheng to avoid the attacks. She is the only "expendable" person here, so she must seize the time to find a way. After entering the blood vessels, she finds that it is more complicated than she thought.
This blood vessel seems to be similar to a "road".
If they follow the blood vessels, they can only reach the heart at most, but they will always be wandering inside and have no idea what kind of organism these blood vessels are used to provide nutrition for.
The further you go, the more dangerous it may become, and you may end up in other polluted areas.
Bai Cheng thought it through and didn't feel scared. Instead, she found it very interesting. She understood more about the truth of the world.
All contaminated areas have meaning. Human exploration outside the wall is like a blind man touching an elephant. Only by entering contaminated areas more often can we better understand the world. This is the consensus of every adventurer.
If one Bai Cheng dies, she can let more Bai Chengs come in to consume her. After all, they will not consume her completely, and she can get more information in the process.
After Bai Cheng entered the blood vessel, the huge monster became quiet temporarily. Bai Cheng was just groping for the door when he suddenly heard something strange around him. It should be Pei Shu and the others coming in. Bai Cheng returned to reunite with his teammates.
There really is a way, and the message that Shinbaicheng conveys with his life is correct.
Lin Xiaofeng and Pei Shu immediately went down to help. Lin Xiaofeng almost pulled Pei Shu away. Under the suction, many hole entrances had teeth, so they could only use the holes without teeth to gain leverage. Lin Xiaofeng seemed to be playing rock climbing underwater, walking from one foothold to another.
Bai Cheng had already used an axe to cut a hole that people could pass through. Lin Xiaofeng directly stuffed Pei Shu into the hole. Bai Cheng was waiting below, and the next moment she also jumped in.
Bai Cheng was also seriously injured. She was not missing any limbs, but the situation was not very optimistic. Youku wanted to drill into her wound.
The skin of the three of them is completely black, and it won't be long before they completely turn into tadpole people.
And they are becoming softer and softer. Not only is the color of their skin changing, but even their bones are becoming softer.
Tadpoles are invertebrates and have no bones at all. Their spines are degenerating, so they dare not lower their heads, as if their heads will fall off if they lower their heads, and then be pulled out of their bodies along with their spines. However, the spine has degenerated, leaving only a limp tadpole tail. Having witnessed Xin Baicheng turning into a tadpole, Lin Xiaofeng can imagine the whole process of becoming a tadpole man.
Zhu Ning was carrying the alien species above, and they couldn't always rely on Zhu Ning to devour them.
The tadpole eggs invaded their bodies, and the three of them felt unfamiliar every time they took a step, like weaklings. However, this was underwater, and if they really became tadpole people, they would actually swim faster.
It was quite strange. As the pollution gradually deepened, they actually felt a sense of warmth. Even the fishy smell no longer felt bad to them. It was as if this was also their birthplace and the creatures around them were all of the same kind.
Pei Shu observed carefully. The tadpole eggs were all discharged in the same direction. What was in front of him? What was the exit that "Chen Qihang" mentioned?
Pei Shu made a gesture with difficulty, which meant that the road was ahead and the few of them were "going upstream" and walking very slowly.
At this point, they have become more open-minded. Lin Xiaofeng has long felt that he would die outside the wall, and he is very open-minded despite his young age.
When we got to a place, there was a narrow opening below, like a shallow puddle. Upon closer inspection, we saw a man floating there.
His limbs were facing upwards, like an underdeveloped frog, with his eyes closed. It seemed that he had been completely infected at this point and could no longer move forward.
Pei Shu checked his attire. It was old-world clothing, wrapping himself tightly in layers, even when he went into the water he was still wrapped in bandages.
This is "Chen Qihang". He listened to Lao Li's words and came down to find a way out. He knew he was wrong and shouldn't have gotten drunk and made things difficult for the waiter. This was an old habit of his and it was harmless at all. Except for the person who was made difficult for him, no one took it seriously.
But this was the first time in his life that he encountered an unknown creature that was giving him trouble. It seemed that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't escape. I was wrong, I know I was wrong, he apologized over and over again.
He always felt that he still had a chance to survive, so he mustered up the courage to go into the water. Perhaps the underwater environment was not so dangerous back then. As he walked along, he found a huge blood vessel at the bottom of the river.
He had a very strange question at the time: Does God eat beef offal soup? If the gods in heaven dropped a small piece of internal organs or blood vessels and it fell into the river, would it be this kind of thing?
Should he just kill this thing? He crawled into the blood vessel. At that time, the blood vessel was very narrow, squeezing his face so hard that it was distorted. He wondered if human birth was also like this, passing through a corridor and howling after falling to the ground in pain.
He walked to the farthest distance, apologizing as he walked, which was almost a kind of alternative mental pollution. His body became softer and softer, and he knew he was about to turn into a tadpole man.
This blood vessel is so long and there is no hope ahead. After all, he is still a human being and cannot hold on for long underwater. He can't walk anymore.
It was then that he suddenly realized, this thing didn't care, it had nothing to do with you if it wanted to kill you, it only existed to pollute.
People say that there is a revolving lantern before death. For a moment, he felt that he was already dead. He could remember that his wife's name was Chen Fen and his mother's name was Li Caijuan, but he could not remember his own name at all.
His name was Chen Qihang, and at the moment of his death, he said he was Chen Qihang.
He didn't know that people more than a hundred years later would still be able to find him, nor did he know that someone would actually go into the water based on his information.
When Pei Shu saw the body of "Chen Qihang", he was certain that there might really be a road ahead. Because "Chen Qihang" was contaminated, he lost his life at this point, which was considered "natural death". However, his body did not evolve into a tadpole man, and it was not consumed and assimilated by the contaminated area for so many years, proving that this place is very different from other places.
Maybe the source of pollution or the way out is ahead. There is another strange possibility. In this special polluted area, the source of pollution and the way out mean the same thing.
Lin Xiaofeng's body felt a little weak, as if not only his limbs but also his body were constantly degenerating. He really didn't have the strength to walk here.
The camera inside the helmet showed her current body. She was not transparent, not because she could finally be seen by others.
Instead, tadpole moles grew all over her body, swimming densely. Her face had turned dark brown, her facial features were blurred, and she was gradually becoming like a tadpole.
She had never learned to "reveal her true form" and was forced to do so now. It turned out that she looked like this when she turned into a tadpole. It was quite ugly, but Zhu Ning would definitely say she was cute when he saw her.
When Lin Xiaofeng thought of Zhu Ning, his heart shuddered. He wondered what had happened to Zhu Ning. She hadn't come down for such a long time.
Bai Cheng was still moving forward, anxious to find a way out, not even knowing if there was a way out.
Lin Xiaofeng stared at Bai Cheng's back and thought of the dead Xin Bai Cheng. Bai Cheng himself didn't care, but she felt distressed.
So she took a deep breath, and with the oxygen becoming less and less, she caught up with Bai Cheng.
If you can't walk, then don't walk. It's also nice to swim over and become a tadpole.
Lin Xiaofeng didn't know how long he had been walking. There was only Bai Cheng's shadow in his eyes. They knew they needed a leader. When Bai Cheng got tired, Pei Shu would take this role and Lin Xiaofeng would just follow.
Suddenly, Pei Shu, who was in the front, stopped, and Lin Xiao almost bumped into Bai Cheng's back.
She tried hard to open her eyes and saw a black mole above the blood vessel. It was very large and had irregular edges, like something that had deteriorated on a person's body.
Can moles grow in blood vessels? Probably not, but in a polluted world, everything makes sense.
The mole rose and fell slightly as the blood vessels contracted, and there were even traces of human activity around it, as if someone had carved a rune here.
Lin Xiaofeng didn't understand. Perhaps someone had been raising this thing a long time ago? Who was it? Or perhaps the villagers worshipped a mole as a deity? So they knew there was a way out after entering the water?
Isn't that funny? A deteriorating mole becomes the patron saint of a fishing village.
Lin Xiaofeng's mind became more and more confused, and she couldn't think of an answer, just like she didn't know what this blood vessel was used for. However, this should be the source of pollution, so she just had to kill it.
Pei Shu had already taken out another knife in his hand. Because his body became soft, his wrist shook as soon as he swung it out. Bai Cheng caught the knife, but it was not very smooth and her wrist was cut slightly.
These people were obviously very powerful, but they were weakened to this extent by the fishing village. They couldn't even hold a knife. They were almost dying.
After Bai Cheng got the knife, he paused and handed it to Lin Xiaofeng.
Bai Cheng didn't say anything because he had no energy. Lin Xiaofeng was stunned. Pei Shu understood what Bai Cheng wanted to do. She wanted Lin Xiaofeng to come. The only thing that these humans who walked out of the high walls, no matter whether they were investigators or bounty hunters, had in common was that they attached great importance to inheritance.
Even those pilgrims had a ritual of leaving the wall. All human rituals are passing on something, some kind of emotion, some kind of will.
Zhu Ning is a devil, she doesn't need these, but the invisible man Lin Xiaofeng has always been missing a ritual.
Bai Cheng handed the knife to Lin Xiaofeng.
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