The unique stench of mycelium mucus filled into his nasal cavity, and the bloody taste on the tip of Mou Xuan's tongue exploded between his teeth.
Four bruises were left on the back of Chen Yao's neck by him, and the two of them tumbled into a pile of broken concrete blocks. The whistling sound of the bone whip tearing through the air made their eardrums swell and ache.
"His umbilical cord is connected to the fungal mat!" Chen Yao suddenly opened the secret pocket of her tactical vest and threw out three silver balls.
The metal balls hit the suspended gene chain dome, and purple arcs of electricity exploded instantly - these were the biological batteries extracted from the mutant electric eels last month.
The fluorescent blue umbilical cord behind Jiao Toumu twitched violently, and the dome structure twisted for 0.3 seconds.
The silver-gray ripples in Mou Xuan's pupils finally broke through the obstruction of mycelial metabolites, and the seventeen bony arms of the human-shaped gallows were simultaneously frozen in an attacking posture.
"Old Liao!" Mou Xuan kicked away the steel bar that was pressing down on his right leg, and his alloy tactical boots brushed past Chen Yao's ear.
The investigation assistant was being entangled by three bone whips around his waist and abdomen. Upon hearing this, he suddenly threw the tactical tablet into the air. The three-dimensional modeling diagram on the screen was analyzing the composition of mycelium mucus in real time.
Chen Yao's tactical dagger drew an ice-blue arc of light, cutting off two sneak-attacking mycelium tentacles.
The mucus splashed onto Assistant Liao's tablet, and the modeling diagram suddenly flashed red - 92% of the composition matched the body fluids of the water-controlling mutant who disappeared three months ago.
"The seventh vertebra at the back of the neck!" Assistant Liao screamed as he was thrown away by the bone whip, and the tablet flipped in a parabola in the air.
Ice crystals burst out of Mou Xuan's tactical gloves, and the flow of time was cut into 360 frames in his retina.
Every tile of the suspended gene chain dome was shaking, except for the protruding metal interface behind Chief Jiao, which remained motionless.
Chen Yao suddenly pulled out the tungsten steel hairpin in her hair, causing sparks to rub against the mycelium column.
The bluish-white flames instantly crawled across the entire dome along the slime, and the scarlet lines on the scorched boss's mechanical arm suddenly began to overload and flash.
The time is now!
Mou Xuan flew into the air on the burning mycelium column, and the frost condensed on his tactical gloves evaporated into white mist in the high temperature.
The flow of time formed a three-fold acceleration force field around him. The bone whip raised by Chief Jiao still maintained the trajectory of one thousandth of a second ago, while his alloy brass knuckles had already hit the metal interface that was glowing with cold light.
“Crack—”
The moment the fluorescent blue umbilical cord broke, the entire warehouse area was filled with a scream like a crying baby.
Seventeen human-shaped gallows suddenly turned collectively, and their bony arms covered with mucus frantically scratched their chests until they pulled out the ribs with the chip embedded in them and threw them on the ground.
The scorched boss stumbled into the burning fungal blanket, and the scarlet lines on the robotic arm began to erode his body in reverse.
When Mou Xuan dragged Chen Yao to the safe area, he saw that the tiles of the gene chain dome, which were supposed to be indestructible, were melting into asphalt-like substances in the mucus that was falling like a rainstorm.
"Wait!" Chen Yao suddenly swung out a retractable hook and entangled Jiao's melting left leg.
An ice blade popped out from the sole of her tactical boots, slid in a zigzag trajectory on the surface of the boiling mucus on the ground, and her fingertips accurately probed into the opponent's vaporizing chest.
Clang.
The metal box covered with biological mucus fell at Mou Xuan's feet, and the combination lock on the box lid was being corroded by strong acid.
Assistant Liao limped over and pointed the tactical tablet at the keyhole: "This is encrypted with the cerebrospinal fluid of a mutant..."
"Get out of the way." Mou Xuan directly tore off the lock, and the hexagonal metal piece brought up blood beads when it passed through his palm.
Inside the twenty-seven cold storage compartments in the box, glass tubes labeled "NW-217" were oozing fluorescent blue liquid.
Suddenly, there was a loud sound of breaking steel bars from the ceiling of the warehouse. Mou Xuan grabbed the metal box and dragged the two of them out.
As he stepped over the half-melted head of the scorched leader, he heard the other's final sneer from his trachea: "You don't know... the real source of pollution..."
When the heavy rain extinguished the flames, a dozen faint lights suddenly appeared in the wreckage of the modified car.
The chips of the mutants whose cerebrovascular fluid had been drained were emitting distress-frequency pulse waves in the rain.
Mou Xuan stuffed the metal box into the explosion-proof box, and looked up to see Chen Yao using an ice blade to pry open a floor tile - fluorescent blue mycelium as thin as hair was floating in the water seeping out from underneath.
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The heavy rain washed away the mucus on the surface of the explosion-proof box. When Mou Xuan crushed half of the mechanical arm and stepped out of the ruins, the mycelium stuck to the soles of his tactical boots dragged a fluorescent blue trail in the accumulated water.
Chen Yao was using an ice blade to pry open the last few floor tiles. Crushed ice mixed with rain water dripped from the ends of her hair, leaving dark water marks on the collar of her tactical vest.
"Don't touch those hyphae!" Mou Xuan grabbed Assistant Liao who was about to bend down, and the lock of the explosion-proof box made a crisp "click" sound, "Put the samples in an electromagnetic isolation box."
Suddenly, sobbing was heard from the wreckage of the modified car.
The Pan family members pushed aside the steel bars blocking the road and rushed over. When the beam of the tactical flashlight swept across the twitching chips, a little girl with pigtails was digging out metal fragments with her frozen red fingers - the frequency of her brother's chip flashing in the rain was exactly the same as the brain wave waveform recorded by the tactical tablet.
"Carry the wounded onto the transport vehicle!" Mou Xuan shook off the mycelium stuck on his tactical gloves. The wounds on his knuckles corroded by strong acid were still bleeding.
Chen Yao suddenly grabbed the strap of his tactical vest, and the tip of the ice blade lifted up the mucus behind his ear: "This thing is imitating the activity of neuronal synapses."
When the searchlights of the alliance base pierced the rain curtain, Mou Xuan saw the medical tent crowded with swaying shadows.
The husband of the Pan family member was kneeling in the mud, holding the chip in his hand. The military doctor's tweezers were pinching out half of the spinal nerve from the bottom of the transport vehicle. The nerve bundles soaked in nutrient solution were now wriggling strangely with the pulse frequency of the chip.
"Mr. Mou!" The girl with pigtails suddenly came out from the crowd and scattered the rainbow candies in the pocket of her combat uniform at Mou Xuan's feet.
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