82. Centipede
The military personnel who had infiltrated the area organized the crowd to escape while attacking the strange beasts.
But all kinds of superpowers and weapons had no effect on it, and even its extremely shiny "armor" could not leave even a scratch.
It was silent for dozens of seconds, and after adapting to this huge body, it suddenly swam along the ground at lightning speed. The hundreds of pairs of dark red tentacles corresponding to the hundreds of segments of its body made a terrifying chopping sound on the ground.
The venue could not accommodate its huge body at all. The building that could withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake broke and collapsed like thin paper. Many people who did not have time to escape were crushed into meat paste while screaming.
What's worse is that people in the venue keep mutating. Like big stars, after their heads fall off, their internal organs are eaten by small centipedes covered with tentacles and their bodies take over.
Yan Ziyan staggered and was pulled by Su Liu to escape, but the small centipedes rustling all over the ground gathered into a black tide, leaving no place for people to step.
While fleeing, she did not forget her duties as a military academy student. While crying, she picked up a lost two or three-year-old child, held him in her arms and let him scream.
"That thing is a centipede, right? How can a centipede be so terrifying after mutating? Did you see its mouth? It's as terrifying as the abyss chasm inside! Liuliu, can't you purify it?"
In front of them, a mutant centipede as big as an elephant broke through the wall and swam towards this side, with a broken human limb wrapped in its bloody mouth.
Su Liu swung his fan, and green light enveloped it. The mutant centipede struggled and twisted violently, causing the floor to break and collapse.
"There are over twelve thousand species of interstellar centipedes today. How can I tell at a glance which species that giant centipede is?"
Low-level exotic beasts can be roughly purified, but those that are too large, deeply infected, and almost capable of becoming natural disaster beasts are difficult to completely purify without knowing their specific species and characteristics.
Besides, it is now wreaking havoc on the venue, with steel bars, concrete, glass, etc. falling down like rain.
Su Liu didn't have the ability to put aside all the troubles in the collapsing world and calmly think about what kind of centipede it was.
Yan Ziyan cried out, "Red dragon centipede? Ha's centipede? Puerto Rican giant centipede? Or the chasm shell centipede, Kuro long-legged centipede, desert tiger polymorphic centipede? What the hell is this!"
She was mentally strong. Although she was screaming, she was holding the child in her arms and running nimbly without any delay in escaping.
Su Liu continued to purify small centipedes along the way. After saving some people, he shouted for them to follow him. Soon, a group of survivors followed him like a tail.
While fighting, Su Liu did not ignore the unusual situation.
It had been at least five minutes since the mutant centipede appeared, but the military hadn't come in to help. Only a few psychics who had been lurking inside were attacking the giant centipede while rescuing the civilians.
This is totally unacceptable. The military should have known that there might be a suicide attack and should have taken precautions long ago.
Especially in such a large occasion where tens of thousands of people gather, disaster relief should be carried out as soon as the disaster occurs.
Where did everyone else go?
It was not until Su Liu led a group of people to escape from the center and saw the city in flames that he resolved his doubts.
The prosperous Tianji City area has long since collapsed into ruins.
Countless hordes of strange beasts emerged from sewers, the sky, and even rivers and pools, launching brutal attacks on peaceful humans.
The military's fighter planes, tanks, and psychics were all deployed, but they were still unable to stop this irresistible disaster.
Especially the twin skyscrapers, known as the iconic buildings of Sky City, which were still shining with a blue sense of technology a few hours ago, like a guiding light sweeping away the haze on the sea surface, bringing the light of hope to the people of Sky City.
However, at this moment, the poor Twin Towers were entangled and squatted by a giant centipede as big as a train. The iron walls built with high-tech materials were squeezed by the body of this strange beast, and the entire towering building creaked under the weight.
When its endurance reached its limit, it finally collapsed in despair.
When the outer skin peeled off, the special steel bars that constructed the skeleton popped out one by one, and at the same time the glass windows all burst, along with the furniture and ornaments in the building, falling from a height of ten thousand meters to the ground when the building tilted and collapsed.
The people in the building who had not had time to escape fell down one after another, wailing in despair, like uncontrollable butterflies in a storm.
Some died from being pierced by steel bars, cut by glass, or crushed by heavy objects, while others fell directly into the tide of strange beasts and were brutally eaten by them before they were completely dead.
There were also some lucky ones who were rescued by military psychics, but perhaps before they could escape this hell on earth, they were torn to pieces by the beasts that pounced on them.
This was not the first time that Su Liu had witnessed this purgatory filled with death, but Yan Ziyan had never experienced it firsthand.
She was trembling so much that she couldn't even utter a scream, and her arms around the child tightened tighter and tighter until she was awakened by the child's crying and then she loosened her grip slightly.
If she became a purifier, she would have to follow the army, repeatedly traveling through the battlefields teeming with death, either dying at the hands of strange beasts or from falling heavy objects.
So scary.
Yan Ziyan's face was pale, and she just kept running behind Su Liu, but she couldn't ignore the painful wails coming from her ears.
Wave after wave of strange beasts kept attacking, and Su Liu was unable to spare the energy to observe the beast master who was perched on the twin towers and was rapidly evolving by constantly absorbing strange factors.
The emerald fan shone with meteor-like light. Su Liu protected Yan Ziyan and the other survivors and said, "Ziyan, go observe the beast master and identify its species!"
"Me?" Yan Ziyan looked confused.
While fighting, Su Liu encouraged him, "You're ranked ninth in the Zoology department. How can a mere centipede faze you? I'm too busy right now. Only if you can identify what species it is, I can find a way to purify it!"
Being so "trusted" by Su Liu, Yan Ziyan was almost in tears.
Although she did very well in her final zoology exam, the exam didn't cover a total of 12,000 centipede species!
But now that things have come to this, she can't hesitate to refuse.
At this moment, the military has launched flares into the sky, and the city that has been without power has regained its light, as if it were daytime.
Yan Ziyan tried her best to eliminate the surrounding distractions and focused on identifying the species of the giant beast.
It has mutated to such an extent that if it weren't for its numerous distinctive tentacles, it would be almost impossible to recognize it as a centipede.
However, no matter how much it mutates, it will still retain some of the special characteristics of the organism.
During class, the teacher said that we should try to search from the knowledge we have learned and restore the original appearance of the alien beasts and plants from the characteristics of deep mutation.
Its long, flat, branch-like body has a slightly golden head and first dorsal plate, and the second dorsal plate transitions from golden to dark green...
After a moment, Yan Ziyan had a flash of inspiration: "It's the Centipede Lesser-spined!"
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