Chapter 74: Snake on Desert Island (13)
Tao Xing walked into the cave and held up the snake's face: "How do you feel now?"
The snake's face was red, and its eyes were also red and blinking.
Tao Xing understood the words in its eyes. It was saying: [It’s okay. What do you want me to do?]
They could communicate smoothly at this time because, in the early morning, when Tao Xing kissed the snake, he gave it a bite of jellyfish mushroom, and of course, he ate it too.
Although this fungus makes people feel lustful, it can also make him resonate with the snake and facilitate communication. In an emergency, he will not have too much energy to gesture and guess.
Snakes also react, but from observation, their reactions are not as strong as humans'. Snakes are more impulsive because they can sense human desires.
But this time, Tao Xing spoke to it very seriously and it listened carefully.
Tao Xing told it that since so many people had arrived, the security on the sea area would inevitably be reduced. Now, they had to break through the obstacles and run away.
The snake listened and nudged Tao Xing's neck: "Sit on my back and I'll carry you."
To cross the vast sea, human swimming skills are naturally inferior to snakes. This is indeed the most appropriate method. Tao Xing nodded: "Okay."
"Host." 080 said, "Are you sure the number of guards outside will decrease? What if there are still many?"
Tao Xing smiled faintly: "Look at those swaying shadows, they are crooked, what do they look like?"
080 Looking back, the approaching crowds of people and beasts all had lifeless eyes and open mouths. The rich expressions that were no different from those of humans were long gone.
"Like zombies." The system said, and it reacted instantly, "Someone is controlling them. Who is it?"
"Bai Sheng."
"What! Isn't he dead?"
"Now it seems that he just faked his death."
He was able to pass so much information to Gao Qi and others, and these people obviously followed his instructions. He was the one who invented the synthetic experiment and the first person to succeed in the experiment. I think he was also the leader of all synthesizers. He would not die so easily.
When Gao Qi and others arrived, Tao Xing had some guesses about their identities and doubted whether Bai Sheng was dead. But he also knew that since this monster was not dead, he could not be killed by just a few more stabs.
Bai Sheng's target is the snake. He wants the snake to work for him, and he needs the snake to swallow its partner voluntarily. His first step is to lock the snake and Tao Xing together, but the plan fails, so he fakes his death to escape and summons people.
These people were pretending... or maybe they really were from that technology company, but no matter what their identities were, they arrived and first gained Tao Xing's trust, letting him relax his guard, and then, they all released a certain smell.
Since their arrival, the island has been filled with a strange smell. Tao Xing didn't actually sense it, but the snake did. According to the snake, it was a pheromone that stimulated animal instincts, and these pheromones have been purified and are specifically targeted at the Golden Dragon Python.
The sound waves that Bai Sheng created alone were ineffective against snakes, so he summoned so many synthetic humans to extract animal pheromones.
However, unexpectedly, it still didn't work on the snake. This time the snake's eyes didn't even turn red. The snake had resisted instinctively and would not be disturbed again.
Bai Sheng couldn't figure out why the snake was so determined, so he had to increase the dosage and summon more synthetic humans. This time he decided to change his strategy and extract human pheromones. He covered Tao Xing with human pheromones, turning him into a delicious "delicacy" in the eyes of the snake.
Therefore, Tao Xing was invited to participate in the live broadcast, and a large number of synthetic humans were summoned. These people approached him in the pretext of being fans, just to let him be contaminated with more human pheromones.
Tao Xing knew that the live broadcast was a summoning signal, but he agreed to participate. He wanted to attract the synths. The more synths came to the island, the fewer guards would be outside. And the reason why he was sure that the guards outside would be reduced was because Gao Qi said that the live broadcast was very popular, but in fact, he saw that there were only a few hundred people in the live broadcast room.
All information is blocked, calls cannot be made, live broadcasts cannot contact the outside world, and all communications are under the monitoring range of synthetic humans.
A lonely deserted island with only human being.
But precisely because their signals are cut off from real humans, even if the live broadcast room pretends to be very popular, it cannot produce many people. This also shows that there are only so many synthetic humans.
I’m not sure if all of them are on the island, but there won’t be too many outside.
Human pheromones still have no effect on snakes. No matter what, the snakes will not eat their partners and will not even struggle or hesitate.
Until tonight, Bai Sheng probably gave up and planned to capture him directly. He knew Tao Xing was powerful and didn't want to make any more mistakes, so he spared no effort to mobilize all the monsters on the island.
I don’t know how he controls these synthetic humans and beasts, but since he is the leader, he must have a way.
Those out-of-control human and animal figures swept over and were approaching the cave.
Tao Xing pulled up the snake and said, "Let's go."
The snake raised its upper body, looked at Tao Xing, licked a drop of sweat from his forehead with its tongue, and then followed him to the ground.
Tao Xing smiled and said, yes, there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead. It was a normal reaction after eating mushrooms.
Stepping out of the cave, the shadows slowly approaching in front of me were like ghosts, with fangs and claws bared. It was impossible to tell which were human and which were beasts. Various animal organs grew on the bodies that originally belonged to humans, but not in the right positions. They were messy and disordered, as if they had emerged from the human bodies at random.
On one human's neck, there were two bulging eyes like a frog, on one person's abdomen, there were dozens of thin pig tails growing, and on another person's face was covered with spider legs. Tao Xing realized that it was Gao Qi.
As for those beasts, their bodies also grew human organs in disorder. Human eyes grew on the belly of the black bear, and two arms stretched out from the leopard's eyes, waving their hands forward...
If these are the successful products of the experiment, then they are not as good as those semi-finished products.
Monsters of various shapes and colors all have one goal, to catch the snake, and of course, to kill the person next to the snake.
A blue-gray hand suddenly stretched out, and it was impossible to tell where it came from. Tao Xing shook his head. He was most afraid of such terrifying-looking things, so he dealt with it quickly. He raised his knife and cut off the hand.
Then, he winked at the snake beside him, and the snake nodded, and the man and the snake rushed into the monster's vortex.
The knife rose and fell, and countless organs fell down amid screams. There was a thick and sticky mass under his feet, and layers of it fell to the ground and surged up again. Tao Xing cut off these heads, cut a gap, turned around and said to the snake, "Go to the beach."
The snake slithered through the flesh and blood, but before it could move a few steps, it saw the headless monster stand up again, stretching out its sharp claws and stabbing its pointed fingers into the snake's eyes.
Tao Xing flew up and kicked them away, only to realize that these monsters would not die even after their heads were chopped off. He knew that he could not continue the fight, so he cleared a path and immediately pulled the snake forward.
The outstretched hand was scratched by a claw, leaving a bloody mark. Tao Xing's arm trembled, and suddenly he saw the snake raise its head, open its mouth wide and bite the claw, and then the body behind it, and bite it in two with a snap.
Tao Xing: “!!”
He kept watching the snake act cute and forgot that such a big snake is also a ferocious beast.
The snake bit the monster in half but didn't eat it because the taste was too bad. It couldn't eat it, so it spit it out and looked at Tao Xing.
Tao Xing gave the snake an affirmative look, and the snake got the approval and quickly joined the battle, opening its mouth and eating one at a time.
However, these monsters were still able to stand up even after being bitten in half. But with the addition of snakes, the fight became faster and the monsters that surged forward were beaten back again.
There were more monsters gathering ahead and the road was impenetrable. Tao Xing thought for a moment and said something in the snake's ear. The snake nodded to show that it understood. It immediately retracted its tail, rolled up Tao Xing, and swept rapidly around. Tao Xing used this power to rotate the blade and repel the besiegers.
"Hurry." Before the monsters stood up, they sped up.
"Chase them all!" A sharp roar came from behind. It was quite heartwarming to hear a human voice in this situation. Tao Xing looked back and saw Bai Sheng standing on a huge rock, surrounded by numerous monsters.
He was not dead. Not only that, his two severed arms even grew back.
Not only his arms, but also many of his densely packed limbs were still there. His tail was slapping the rocks behind him, his long tongue was curled up in his mouth, and there were actually several tentacles on his forehead.
He has more than three animals fused into his body. In fact, the number of animals fused into his body is unimaginable.
The tentacles swayed rhythmically, and with every movement, the monsters' attack speed increased.
"With him in control, these monsters are invincible. We don't need to attack forcefully, we just need to break out." Tao Xing said, "There may be more monsters on the sea outside, but not many. When the time comes, just carry me forward and I will fight."
The snake also turned around and looked at the tentacles for a moment. As if it was a response from nature, the horns on its head trembled unconsciously and it blinked at Tao Xing.
"You said that all the synthetics are on this island, and there are none left outside?" Tao Xing said.
The snake nodded: [Yes, I don’t know why I have such a feeling, but it is not wrong.]
"That's great. As long as we rush out, we'll be safe..."
After saying this, Tao Xing paused and touched a reagent in his pocket.
This was given to him by Wang Yuzhou.
When Wang Yuzhou died, he was in a cage and spoke to him through lip language. In fact, he only said two sentences at that time.
The first sentence: "You can't run away."
The second sentence: "Bring me the body."
That whole day, Tao Xing was surrounded by those synthetic humans who called themselves fans. On the surface, they seemed to be harmonious and friendly with each other.
However, the reality was that the other party was contaminating him with human pheromones, and he approached Wang Yuzhou's body in the process. The more lively the scene was, the less likely people would notice his deliberate actions. In short, he found a tube of reagent under the layer of rotten animal skin of Wang Yuzhou.
Wang Yuzhou closed the door and abandoned the snake and fled, but he also guided Tao Xing to discover the laboratory, and secretly kept a tube of medicine. It is unknown how he got it. He himself was a test subject, so he must have extracted it from himself or somewhere else.
Tao Xing didn't know what this reagent was used for, but since Wang Yuzhou asked him to take it, he should take it out, or perhaps hand it over to a real biological research department.
This was what he thought when he got the reagent.
However, at this moment, he suddenly figured something out.
Wang Yuzhou actually didn't trust him that much, otherwise, since he had been on the island for so long, the other party would have come to communicate with him a long time ago. But until so many people came in the end, Tao Xing was the only real human on the island. Wang Yuzhou had no one else to turn to, so he tried his best and hinted to Tao Xing to get the reagent at the last minute without even having time to explain.
Although he had never come to look for her, Tao Xing had caught him once. He looked like a complete monster. Tao Xing naturally didn't know that he actually had human thinking. She was probably sure that his body was not rotten at that time.
The decay started only after being caught by Gao Qi and his men. Gao Qi said it was because there was no care after the fusion. Maybe they really thought so, but Tao Xing knew it was not the case.
Of course, if Gao Qi and others think so, and this was not made by Gao Qi and others after they were arrested, then could it be because of this reagent?
This reagent was something active, activated by some external reaction, and attacked some body with such force that even through the test tube it caused those parts to rot.
Those locations are where the fusion takes place.
Therefore, this reagent can corrode monsters.
The monsters can survive even if their heads are chopped off or they are bitten in half, so if this reagent is released, can it destroy these monsters?
This reagent does not need to be taken out, and cannot be taken out. It is active and extremely aggressive. It is not good for real people. It is used to deal with monsters.
Moreover, it is to deal with monsters in this state. As mentioned before, this thing will only become active under certain external stimulation. Wang Yuzhou carried it on his body for so long without being corroded, but it was corroded in the past two days. I think it is because of the accumulated pheromones.
Therefore, if you want to kill the monster, you have to do it at this time, when all the synths gather together. After this time, the pheromones dissipate and the reagents become inactivated, making it difficult to kill.
Tao Xing's hand was already at the opening.
But he hesitated again.
Can such a small thing really kill so many monsters? They are all over the mountains and fields, densely packed...
It’s not that there is really no other way to kill the monsters. For example, the experimenter who was eaten by the snake until nothing was left was really dead.
Although eating is not the solution now, and the snake doesn't want to eat and he doesn't want to let it eat, but it can prove that the reagent is not the only way to kill. If it is not the only solution, is it worth Wang Yuzhou's hard work to hide it carefully?
The monsters came one after another, and he and the snake thought about this problem during the fights. When this wave of monsters rushed towards him fiercely, and he saw the white rise in the high place shaking its tentacles, he suddenly realized.
Bai Sheng’s lost arm can grow back, his limbs can grow back, and perhaps as long as there is a cell left in his body, he can be resurrected infinitely.
The one who can't be killed no matter what!
So, this reagent is used to deal with Baisheng.
It is not ruled out that external technological means can make Bai Sheng disappear without leaving a single cell, but the process is bound to be cumbersome and the longer it is delayed, the more dangerous it will be. The most direct way at the moment is to kill him with reagents.
At this time, he and the snake had already dug out another passage and were close to the shore. They could escape by jumping into the water.
But……
By the time we see real humans and call them over, the monsters that were gathered together with great difficulty may have already flowed away. It will take a lot of effort to find them one by one. What's more, their identities have been exposed and they have become like this. Will they cause any harm to humans if they go outside?
They now look like zombies. What if they go out and bite people at random, causing an irreversible disaster?
This is just Tao Xing's speculation, but the mission mentions human extinction, so this speculation is not impossible.
For the sake of human safety, and to resolve the crisis as quickly as possible... no matter how you analyze it, it seems that now is the best time to use reagents to kill Bai Sheng.
But this makes them more dangerous.
What if... they weren’t killed and they didn’t escape?
The mission is to save snakes, not humans, but...
The sea breeze was cool, his eyes flickered, he smiled, and pushed the snake into the water: "Go first, don't wait for me... Hey, hey, what are you doing..."
Before Tao Xing could finish his words, he suddenly felt his body being lifted up, and the snake was pushing him back quickly, blinking as it ran: "You want to kill him, right? I'll go with you."
"No……"
[You are right. If we don’t kill him now, we will have no chance.]
"Well, you guessed what I was thinking?"
[All the monsters are on the island, and they are all controlled by him. Now if he dies, these monsters will die with him.]
"Really?" That was a good opportunity to catch them all in one fell swoop. Tao Xing smiled again and touched the snake's head. "But I... want you to go first, because you are my partner, and I don't want my partner to be in danger."
The snake was startled, his eyes became clear, and he ran forward again: [It is the nature of our race that we must live and die together with our chosen partners. If you die, I will kill myself.]
"you……"
[He is standing so high that you cannot reach him unless I push you up.]
Tao Xing was silent for a moment, nodded, said nothing more, and looked forward.
With the snake's rapid advance and his fierce fighting, they broke through layers of obstacles and arrived at Bai Sheng's feet.
Bai Sheng lowered his eyebrows, smiled contemptuously, and his tentacles shook violently.
Countless monsters around the rock rushed forward with their fangs bared and their claws bared, and other monsters also swarmed over at a rapid speed.
The man and the snake were instantly submerged in the wave of monsters.
The sea breeze is surging, the waves are roaring, and the bright moon is silent.
Suddenly, the monsters flew up in layers, and the snake heads that were submerged rose into the air. "Shua shua" chopped off a piece of the strange-shaped head and arm, and saw the broken limbs and flesh on the ground accompanied by gravel and dust. The golden snake tail swept away a large area.
The snake raised its eyes, stood up, and sent the man to a high place.
Tao Xing leaped onto the woodcutter's rock, his eyes flashed, and he grabbed Bai Sheng.
The area under his palm suddenly shrank, and Bai Sheng's body disappeared, sliding down like water, falling to the side and gathering into a human shape. A smile appeared on his face that was covered with wrinkles and various animal organs: "Hahaha, you want to catch me? You overestimate your abilities!"
Tao Xing said nothing more and stabbed his eyes with a knife. The eyes suddenly moved automatically, and a part of his head sank, avoiding the knife like mud.
Tao Xing frowned, kicked him over and then stepped on him to hold him down.
The body under his feet turned into flowing water again, and his voice was sharp and weird: "You knew you couldn't catch me this way just now, why are you doing it again, hahaha, bye, I won't play with you anymore."
The white sticky water was about to flow under the stone when I suddenly heard a dripping sound behind me. I turned around and saw that person throwing something down. It was also liquid, and that thing instantly merged with his body.
"What are you doing?" Bai Sheng laughed, "You don't think..." His voice suddenly stopped, and he twitched for no reason. The pool of water instantly changed into countless shapes, and flesh and blood gradually appeared, and an old figure flashed.
Bai Sheng looked at himself in astonishment as he returned to his original appearance: "What did you do?"
Tao Xing smiled coldly: "If you don't turn it into water, this reagent won't be able to blend so thoroughly."
The other party was shocked and looked down at the various organs in his body falling off bit by bit. The fused limbs, eyes, mouth, arms, tentacles... were peeling off inch by inch like the dry bark on a tree trunk.
"No, what's going on!" Bai Sheng couldn't believe it. He picked up the organs in panic, and felt a burning sensation on his hands. The fallen organs made a hissing sound and turned into thick liquid in an instant as if they were corroded.
The thick liquid shrank rapidly again as if evaporating, and a wisp of white smoke appeared. As the white smoke dissipated, those strange things completely disappeared.
There was not much left on his body. His modified eyes and nose had peeled off, but he still had a body that looked like a human yet not a human. It was extremely itchy due to the penetration of the drug. He could not care about anything else and kept scratching his body, leaving bloody marks but still could not stop.
Amid screams, the bloody body finally fell down, and then there was a hissing sound of burning. That body, perhaps, could no longer be called a body, but a piece of flesh, which was also corroded and turned into smoke.
This time, he really died.
Tao Xing jumped off the firewood stone.
There was a monster with its mouth open on the snake's tail, but before it could bite, its movements suddenly stopped because their leader died.
Despite this, Tao Xing still kicked it away.
The monster flew up and fell down again, its mouth still open, its hunting posture unchanged.
Everything around became quiet, and all the monsters stopped moving, as if time had suddenly stopped.
Tao Xing stroked the snake's face: "Are you okay?"
The snake blinked: [I'm fine, how about you?]
"I'm fine too, he's already killed."
The snake narrowed its eyes slightly, with a smiling expression on its face. It approached gently, and licked the sweat on his forehead with its tongue.
Tao Xing also smiled and touched its face.
The wind was strong on the sea, rolling up layers of waves, which touched the rocks and suddenly brought a noise.
“Crack…”
The monsters that were motionless around seemed to have their strings suddenly pulled away, and they fell down one after another and became limp.
The snake said: [They are all dead.]
Will not be resurrected again.
The moonlight dimly illuminated the corpses scattered all over the mountains. In the deep night, the grotesque limbs and muddy flesh could not be seen clearly. There were only dark shadows.
The island fell into silence again. The wind blew through the trees, and there was still only one man and one snake, staring at each other.
The snake arched its way into the man's arms and touched something hard. It looked closely and saw the scale it had given to the man hanging around his neck, under a thin straw rope, inside his clothes, close to the man's heart.
Yesterday they were still cuddling under the felt and did not see the scale, but today, people hung it on their hearts.
There were bloodstains all over the man's body, which might be his own or the monster's, but the scales that were gleaming with soft light were clean.
The snake was slightly stunned, and as it thought about it, something broke out of the ground.
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