Chapter 239: Encountering Leeches in the Dark River
Lu Chaoyang and the other three didn't hesitate at all. They were entangled by the vines and jumped directly into the water. A very small sound of falling into the water could be heard from outside.
The vines didn't follow, and they would continue to throw people later.
Ao Chengyi took out equipment for the other teammates and asked the other two teams, "Do you need it? Exchange it with supplies."
The two teams exchanged glances, and Situ Weikui and Ni Yueping nodded. "How do we change?"
"Twenty kilograms of rice or a set of equivalent supplies. You can keep a record of it and I'll give it to you when it comes out."
Twenty kilograms of rice is expensive, and diving equipment is completely useless waste in the current apocalypse. No one will collect it, so few people own it and few people need it, so it is very cheap.
But for this situation, they are necessities, so it's understandable that they are a little expensive. Neither team has so many supplies on them, so they can record them and exchange them. It's not impossible. "Okay."
Ao Chengyi took out more than fifty sets and gave them to the two teams. The two teams were already numb from the stimulation and did not want to delve into why they had so many diving equipment and carried them with them.
Lan Shiruo shrugged innocently, observing the compromised expressions on the two teams' faces as they stopped struggling. They hadn't done anything wrong. They just had a larger space than the others, so they could store more and carry more. That was all. All this equipment had been collected from the canal ports, factory areas, and large shopping malls in City B. It was indeed quite a lot, with tens of thousands of finished products and countless semi-finished products. Why had it become such a scourge in the eyes of these people?
After Situ Weikui and Ni Yueping's teams were dressed, they turned around and saw Duan Jianghe throwing something at the cave entrance. They had a hunch that these people were going to cause trouble again, "What is this?"
Duan Jianghe chuckled, "It's good to let the things inside come out to breathe. It's so suffocating to stay in the dark tunnel all day without seeing the sun. It's just right that we dug a hole, so we can let them move around and do some good things. We can also help them avoid getting lost, so we give them some guidance."
The two of them shut up completely. Sometimes it's not a bad thing to know less, so as to avoid feeling upset.
Five minutes had passed since Guo Zi and the other three left. Ao Chengyi asked the others to get ready and kissed his wife's hand. "I'll go down first. Be careful."
"I know, you should be careful too."
Ao Chengyi nodded and jumped in first. The four boys, tied to the men and women and also wearing diving gear, followed suit. Next came Situ Weikui and Ni Yueping with their teammates, and finally Duan Jianghe, Han Qingquan, and Lan Shiruo.
Situ Weikui and Ni Yueping subconsciously looked back and saw a soft ladder on the wall of the cave. They knew without asking that this was prepared for the unknown creatures to get out of the cave. These people were really thoughtful and considerate.
"Bang, bang, bang" the sound of people falling into the water one after another.
Lan Shiruo also tied Lebao in front of her, without putting a diving suit on him. She used her water ability to form a transparent water ball. Lebao felt cool and comfortable in it, and slept more soundly.
Ao Chengyi saw his young wife jump down and caught her steadily in his arms, "Are you okay?"
In the underground river, there is a head's length between the water surface and the cave ceiling. You can float to the surface for a short breath, but you can't go forward because there is no ventilation vent and there is no oxygen in the underground river.
Lan Shiruo shook her head and smiled, "The vines are very gentle to us. Don't worry, look how soundly your son sleeps."
Situ Weikui, Ni Yueping, and their friends, who were in complete freefall, knew they were being treated differently, but could they not say it out loud? It would hurt feelings.
Ao Chengyi smiled and kissed his young wife on the forehead. "Be careful. I just came down and encountered a mutant water snake. Although it's not high level, it shows that there are many mutant creatures here. Stay next to me and don't go too far."
"good."
The two men put on oxygen masks, sank to the bottom of the water, and called on others to act quickly.
The group gathered their thoughts, remained alert to their surroundings, and moved forward quickly.
The underground river was very deep, several dozen meters deep, and the water inside was extremely cold and pitch black. I couldn't tell if it was the water itself or the cave itself that was dark. Everyone was wearing several waterproof night lights.
The route from where they came down to the city gate was a straight one, shorter than on the ground, less than one kilometer, but the process was more dangerous than on the road.
"Hmm," a man groaned, reached out to grab, and pulled out a blood-red mutant leech, as big as a palm. It struggled desperately in the man's hand, "It's a leech, everyone, hurry up." The man emerged from the water with difficulty and shouted.
In the dim light, countless blood-red shadows could be seen converging in the dark water at incredible speed. Everyone didn't hesitate, swimming desperately forward. Leeches are not easily killed, and once they've burrowed into a blood vessel, they're even harder to remove. Mutated leeches even contain a fire poison, a poison completely incompatible with their natural habitat. When it accumulates to a certain level in the human body, the entire body will turn the same red as the leeches and experience a burning pain.
Fortunately, the diving suit has a certain toughness, so it was not bitten through in one go. The person who was bitten only felt pain and reacted quickly, so the leech did not take advantage of the opportunity to enter the body.
"Hmm" Someone slowed down and was surrounded by a group of leeches. In just a few breaths, his whole body was covered with leeches, which were wriggling into his body. No matter how he scratched, he couldn't get rid of them.
The diving suit was shattered into pieces, and blood-red leeches could be seen wriggling in the flesh. At a speed visible to the naked eye, the man turned into a mummy and floated to the surface of the water without a drop of blood flowing out.
Without blood, the leeches discarded the corpse and looked for their next target.
Everyone's faces were filled with fear and they swam faster.
Ao Chengyi and Lan Shiruo dodged left and right and gestured to Duan Jianghe.
Duan Jianghe nodded, took out a large bottle of ice-blue liquid and poured it into the water, gesturing with his fingers: Go quickly.
A group of people jumped out like swimming fish. The icy blue color spread rapidly to the place where the liquid had just been poured. Wherever it went, all living creatures turned into blood and disappeared with green smoke.
This is a strong sulfuric acid poison with great power. Because Duan Jianghe was worried that the mutant creatures in the water were too strong and ordinary poisons could not deal with them, he made it with the only things he had in a short time.
The main force of leeches was wiped out, but some of the remaining soldiers were still chasing them and were turned into mud and killed by the crowd.
During this period, one team member died and five were injured, but the entire team was fine.
The five injured people smelled of blood. Ao Chengyi frowned and gestured: Go quickly, other mutant creatures are coming.
Hearts pounding, everyone swam desperately forward. Encountering mutant attacks, their special abilities struggled in the confined space, so they drew their daggers and slashed. Fortunately, the current in the underground river wasn't fast, so they drifted downstream, saving a lot of effort.
As I swam blissfully, I didn't notice a black creature, the same size as the entire underground river, coming upstream. The black water and its black skin provided the perfect cover. With its mouth wide open, it swam silently forward. Wherever it passed, it acted like a filter, retaining only water and catching nothing but the dregs. It truly was like a waste recycling filter.
When they discovered it, one person had been swallowed without even a sound. Everyone realized something was wrong when they saw the light suddenly disappear.
(End of this chapter)
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