"Rustle."

The sound wave seemed to stir up a ripple in the air. In an instant, Anzhe realized that it did not rely on eyes, but on sound to mark its position.

Countless legs and limbs moved, and it moved towards this side.

"Bang!"

Gunshots rang in the night sky. The wind blew past Anzhe. Lu Yu climbed up the high stone at an unimaginable speed and fired the first shot.

The rustling sound stopped. Its eyeballs slowly turned, and a dull and intermittent howl came out. Its trachea must be full of pus, Anzhe thought.

The first shot hit one of its eyeballs.

The howling sound became louder, and An Zhe suddenly opened his eyes.

Blood.

Dark red blood gushed out of the wound on the eyeball - not gushing, but gushing out.

Lu Xun fired several shots in succession, and the wound gradually became more and more broken, and blood gushed out from there like a fountain. The monster's howling sounded countless times louder.

An Zhe looked up at Lu Xun and saw that his eyes were calm, as if everything was expected.

He looked back at the monster - its wings were trembling, but its body was too heavy to fly completely - it flung itself forward madly, crashing straight into the stone where Lu Xun was. With a loud bang, the stone shook, and dust and debris fell down. Lu Xun stood on it, but he did not move at all - he was high above, looking down at the huge mass of flesh.

The impact with the stone made it bleed faster, it was like a water bag with its mouth opened. An Zhe looked at this unimaginable scene, and he suspected that the body of this monster was made up of countless liquids.

After the tenth impact, the sound weakened, and it fell to the ground.

Blood was not all, but tissues and strangely shaped organs flowed out from the breach. The heart and lungs merged into one, flowing semi-solid, and an indescribable fishy smell filled the entire area. Even the monsters in the abyss did not have such an indescribable structure of internal organs.

An Zhe: "......?"

His mind went blank, and he looked up at Lu Xun. Lu Xun raised his eyebrows slightly, jumped down and landed beside him: "What's wrong?" An Zhe:

"...Just like that?"

Lu Xun: "Just like that."

An Zhe: "It died so easily."

"Yeah." Lu Xun put away the gun, and the gun was gently rotated between his cold white fingers, and was put back into the gun box at his waist.

An Zhe was in great confusion, and even began to wonder what would happen if he was shot. He felt a little scared.

Lu Xun looked at him with a slight smile in his eyes, then turned around and walked out.

The ugliness of this monster was beyond An Zhe's imagination, and the speed of falling was also beyond his imagination. There are many giant and ugly creatures in the abyss, but the pile of minced meat in front of him obviously does not conform to the principle that the uglier the abyss monster, the stronger its anti-attack power.

The monster's body fell on the sand dune, and black and red pus flowed out from its body, dyeing the soil dark. The pus also stained the bushes next to it, first slowly drooping like a drop of dew, and after a minute, it shrank and recovered, merging with the branches and leaves of the bushes - absorbed.

Lu Xun glanced at his watch. Ten minutes after the monster was confirmed dead, he approached the monster, and An Zhe followed - although he was still a little lame.

Its strangely shaped body reflects a strange metallic luster under the aurora. Although all the parts of its body come from different organisms, they are firmly connected and grow from the inside of the body. Thinking about its previous swallowing of black bees, Anzhe realized that when it swallows the genes of an organism, it will immediately grow the gene-conducting organs of that part.

After observing the monster for a long time, Lu Xun said to An Zhe: "Let's go."

An Zhe said: "Where to?"

"There are still a lot of these things here." Lu Xun said: "Find a safe place."

An Zhe looked around, and there was nothing else in his sight, only a desert with flying dust. He said: "Where to?"

"There are ruins ahead." Lu Xun said.

An Zhe wondered why I didn't see the ruins when I was flying in the sky.

But he thought, he was riding a bee, and the colonel's means of transportation was an airplane, so of course his vision would be wider than his.

Then he heard Lu Xun ask him: "Are you leaving?"

An Zhe: "No."

He is not a mushroom that is afraid of pain.

——Although it is a bit painful.

The colonel glanced at him calmly and said, "Come here."

Finally, An Zhe returned to Lu Xun. He hugged his neck and buried his face in Lu Xun's shoulder. He could feel Lu Xun's breathing and the ups and downs when he walked. The hilly area is actually only suitable for four-legged reptiles to walk. The land is not hard. When the feet step on it, the sand sinks slightly, which is not suitable for bones and muscles to exert force. If it is a legless snake creature, it may be like a fish in water. There are many places in this world that are not suitable for human activities. They walk here, which consumes extra energy, and it costs more to carry a person on their back. But Lu Xun didn't seem to be stingy. He had limited memory, and the colonel had never been stingy except for not being talkative.

After a moment of silence, An Zhe looked back and saw a row of deep and shallow footprints on the snow-white sand under the endless dark sky, like some profound symbols.

He suddenly remembered the day in the Garden of Eden - that day he passed by an empty corridor, and several white military officers gathered in an empty room, reciting a beautiful poem, led by a man holding a silver cross. At that time, the geomagnetic field disappeared, the power supply was cut off, and everyone was in chaos and fear, but their expressions were very calm, as if they had gained a kind of strength to support them to move forward.

"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." He recited this peaceful poem to Lu Xun: "For you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me."

Lu Xun's voice seemed to be a little gentler than the cold one: "Anything else?"

An Zhe tried to recall: "Grace and mercy will always be with me all my life."

"And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."

"They believe in religion."

An Zhe said: "God?

He remembered that in the manuscript written by An Ze for the base, the words "God" or gods appeared.

Lu Xun said "hmm" lightly.

An Zhe said: "What about you? "

Lu Xun didn't answer.

Lu Xun didn't say anything, so An Zhe read to him the poems he had memorized in the children's textbooks or somewhere else, one by one, simple or complex, up to "Do not go gently that good night", and after reciting them, he repeated them from the beginning. He and Lu Xun had nothing to say, no days to talk about, he wanted to say something to liven up this dead and deserted night, that's all.

The wind was strong, and the sound was quickly blown away, but they were so close, An Zhe knew He heard it.

They had been walking for a long time.

An Zhe didn't know what kind of training he had received as a colonel in the army, but he also knew that this road and this night were too long. So

long that it seemed like a lifetime, to the edge of this world, or the end of their lives.

He quietly transformed part of his body into light fungus hyphae, fearing that this change would be too subtle, and after a while, he would quietly transform another part.

Finally, he heard Lu Xun say, "Do you know why that monster died so easily?"

An Zhe didn't know why Lu Xun suddenly mentioned this, he stopped reciting the poem and said, "I don't know."

"Low-level mutation is genetic pollution, and high-level mutation monsters are divided into two types," Lu Xun said, "hybrid and polymorphic. "

"After the hybrid consumes genes, it will possess a part of the original organism. Many biological genes and characteristics can coexist in it. But it has a buffer stage." Lu Xun walked forward and continued: "The original genes and the newly captured genes have a conflict period. During this period of time, its gene chain changes dramatically, conflicts with the original organ functions, and the body is in chaos. Therefore, the hybrid monsters are smart and have a long interval between consuming genes. It takes a long time for it to establish stable genes. The one just now... was greedy."

An Zhe: "What about polymorphs?"

"Polymorphs are the highest level of mutation observed so far. There are not many of them, and they are concentrated in the abyss. The mutation mode is not the coexistence of genes, but self-transformation. For example, from a bee to a plant... sometimes it can also be a partial change. "

"The gene sequence of polymorphic mutations is more stable than that of hybrids," Lu Xun said lightly, "but don't take too many at one time, it will affect your mind. The court once collected a case in which a polymorphic monster of plants and animals did not transform completely, and its organs were fibrotic and died on the spot. "

An Zhe was a little scared and hugged Lu Xun's neck silently.

But he always felt that the colonel had something else to say.

The one who said something said: The colonel taught you to be an alien.