Chapter 055 Fall
Jiang He easily broke the handcuffs in half. When she turned around and ran, the ground beneath her feet had turned into a vast desert.
Both the guards and the prisoners in the training camp were running at full speed.
But in the desert, a person's two legs are no match for the deformed insects with countless sickle tentacles.
Sensing the sound of wind behind her ears, Jiang He suddenly jumped up and turned in the air, kicking the distorted insect's head and avoiding the poisonous stinger sprayed by the other party's tail hook. After falling, she slid into the opponent's abdomen, grabbed one of the opponent's sickle tentacles and tore it off, and kicked the opponent's stomach with both feet.
She took the sickle tentacles in her hands and swung them like a machete, cutting the limbs of the deformed insect into pieces.
Too brutal, but very useful.
Not far away, the police officers protected Teacher Song in the middle and retreated while fighting under the command of Captain Meng.
Most of the prisoners in the training camp had to deal with the mutant bugs on their own. The long sword shape transformed from 7039's mechanical arm made Jiang He miss the mechanical sword she brought out from the park.
What surprised her was that A, whose mechanical components looked very advanced, did not change the form of mechanical components in the distorted insect tide, but only used two small black daggers to fight against the distorted beasts.
Although the dagger was small, his body was extremely agile. As he dodged, he easily inserted the dagger into the deformed insect's vital point. The pitch-black dagger in his hand became like a peerless treasure, and it could accurately penetrate the deformed insect's vital point every time.
Jiang He's eyes were filled with contemplation.
This guy's dagger was obviously not picked up casually, but carrying weapons is not allowed in the training camp. It was for this reason that Brown Bear gave her mechanical broadsword to Shadow Hand.
Could it be that A's dagger is hidden in his mechanical body, or is it part of his mechanical components?
A group of people were retreating while walking. When they retreated into a group of earthen wall buildings, the deformed insects that had been chasing them stopped.
Jiang He took a quick look and saw that the mutated insect stopped about three meters away from the earthen wall building complex.
They stared at the humans who entered the earth-walled building complex with vigilance and fear. Although they looked unwilling, they still went into the desert and soon disappeared.
No one expected that these deformed insects that almost covered the desert would suddenly burrow into the desert and disappear.
They were surprised and extremely relieved, and sat down on the ground exhausted and panting.
"Iron Fist Tyrant, I'm so glad you're okay." 7039 walked up to Jiang He and looked her up and down. "A and I were lucky enough to be alright, but two of the prisoners were torn to pieces and eaten by those deformed bugs."
He leaned closer to Jiang He and whispered, "One of them was also eaten."
Jiang He glanced at the guards. They were sitting together, looking depressed.
Although they were quite strong, they had never experienced being eaten by mutants. In comparison, the prisoners were much calmer. They had just fought with the mutant insects, treated their wounds, and then lay on the ground leisurely to replenish their energy.
"Strange, strange." Teacher Song kept clicking on the screen of his robotic arm, his expression becoming increasingly worse. "My energy detector can't detect the position of the core. How can this be? Even if the scene changes more and more, we are still in the same place. How can it not be detected?"
Dr. Xu next to him said: "Is the detector's signal blocked in this place? I'll build a signal tower and try."
Jiang He was quite far away from them. She glanced at them and then looked away. She turned to ask 7039, who was treating a wound on his leg, "Do these deformed insects look like Zerg?"
"I don't know." 7039 shook his head. "The Zerg are found on planets outside the Redstone Galaxy. I heard there are Zerg specimens in the exhibition hall, but I've never been there."
He thought for a moment and said, "I've seen videos of the expeditionary forces fighting the Zerg on Starnet, but they don't look like these mutated Zerg."
Jiang He nodded and looked at the earthen walls around him.
Although the visibility is poor at night, you can still vaguely see that these broken walls have experienced countless storms and the years have left traces on them.
"It's really strange. How can there be such a mud wall in the desert?" 7039 followed Jiang He's gaze and stared at the mud wall. "The desert can swallow everything, so how could these mud walls be left behind?"
As he finished speaking, he suddenly realized, "There must be a loophole in the simulation."
Everyone agreed with Teacher Song's speculation, thinking that whether it was the previous lake jungle or the current desert deformed insects, they were all scenes simulated by the ruins under the operation of the core.
"What the hell!" A prisoner suddenly jumped up from the ground, shook his clothes vigorously, and fumbled around in his pants with his hands. "What's crawling in my pants?"
There were many small insects in the desert. When everyone saw him shake his clothes a few times and then sit back in his original place, as if he had shaken off the insects, they ridiculed him for making a fuss and stopped paying attention to him.
But Jiang He discovered that A, who was originally not far from the prisoner, walked in another direction, and the distance between them was maximized.
"A's personality is a bit unpleasant." Seeing Jiang He staring at A, 7039 whispered, "Do you know how he came to the training camp?"
Jiang He tilted his head slightly, showing a hint of curiosity.
"He killed a lot of people."
Jiang He rolled his eyes, speechless at this statement. Every one of these prisoners who entered the training camp had killed many people.
"The people he kills are different," 7039 said hurriedly. "They're all Inhumans. It's said that he disguises himself as a wealthy young man, but secretly he's a killer who specializes in killing Inhumans on commission. Look at his mechanical components. They're the latest Q18 from Shanda Technology. Not only are they expensive, but they're also rare. There are less than a hundred robots in the entire galaxy that have these components."
He continued sourly, "He used his disguise as a rich young man to pick up countless girls. Before he was arrested, several women got pregnant and gave birth to his children. You know Qin Wei, who was named the most beautiful actress in the league last year. It's said that she was also A's lover and secretly gave birth to A's child. There were also two female police officers who arrested A. Not only did they become his lovers, they also kept him company."
Jiang He: "Why do you want to kill strangers?"
Shouldn't we ask how A could get so many women to do this willingly? He was already preparing an answer, but 7039 was stunned. He felt that Iron Fist Tyrant's focus was always different from that of ordinary people. He swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth, "I guess he works for some organization. Some organizations hunt Inhumans for experiments, hoping to transfer their abilities to others."
"Fuck, you're fucking sick!"
A prisoner jumped up from the ground, turned his head and stared angrily at a prisoner not far behind him.
Jiang He noticed that the prisoner behind him was the same prisoner who had just jumped up and shaken his pants.
"Shut up and sit down," one of the officers shouted impatiently. It was truly speechless that these undisciplined prisoners could actually fight among themselves under such circumstances.
Teacher Song beside him murmured in confusion: "Why is there so much energy here?"
His voice attracted the attention of the guards.
"If you touch me again, I'll chop your hand off," the screaming prisoner warned the pants-shaking prisoner in disgust. "That piece of shit is really disgusting."
The prisoner who was shaking his pants didn't say anything. He stood up slowly, staring at the other person without moving his eyes.
The next moment, his body collapsed to the ground like a pile of loose sand, and the dense sands squirmed in all directions at an extremely fast speed.
Everyone was shocked at first, until the sand began to move, and then they were shocked to find that what fell to the ground was not sand, but sandworms of the same color as the sand. These worms were less than one centimeter long and long. Although they had no eyes, they were all rushing towards where there were people.
The prisoner shaking his pants must have had one of these bugs burrow into his trouser legs. It was so amazing that this thing could silently devour a living person in just a few minutes. Everyone's faces changed drastically, fearing that these bugs would burrow into them, and they all rushed towards the outer earth wall.
The first prisoner to rush out reacted quickly and was agile.
But he forgot that there were many mutant insects under the desert.
He hadn't run far when several deformed insects suddenly appeared, biting his hands and feet. He was torn into countless pieces and dragged into the sand.
After a few screams, he completely fell silent. His body was dragged into the sand by the deformed worms, and not even a drop of blood was left on the sand.
Sandworms are scary, and mutated worms are not much worse. Compared to those sandworms that bite people silently, everyone wants to fight the mutated worms head-on.
The tragic death of their companions did not stop everyone from leaving the earthen-walled building.
Jiang He turned his head and glanced at A who was also standing still.
"Iron Fist Tyrant, why don't you run?" 7039 ran a few steps and then turned around, looking at Jiang He in confusion, "Go!"
"Don't run, don't run," Dr. Xu shouted. "The sandworms won't attack us. 4001 is a worm-type mutation. These sandworms won't attack anything other than worm-type creatures."
4001 was the guy who had been bitten by the sandworms before. Dr. Xu shouted a little late. Almost everyone had already rushed into the sand outside the earthen wall building complex and was surrounded by the deformed worms in an instant.
Dr. Xu turned his head and looked at Jiang He: "Go and rescue Teacher Song."
Teacher Song was also taken into the desert by the guards.
Jiang He glanced at him.
"Go by yourself." 7039 rolled his eyes speechlessly, "We can only kill people, not save them."
Dr. Xu's face turned as red as liver under his arrogant gaze. "You, if you don't listen to me, I will shut down your suppressor."
He was obviously not very good at lying, and his threats were halting and lacked momentum.
"Hahahaha." 7039 grinned at him, "You idiot! You can't even use your mechanical instruments, and you think you can control the suppressor?"
Jiang He suddenly rushed out of the earthen wall building complex. She dismantled the sickle tentacles of one of the deformed insects and used it as a machete. She rushed all the way to Teacher Song, picked him up in the air like a chicken and threw him into the earthen wall building complex.
The guards and prisoners around her followed her momentum and returned to the earthen walled building complex.
It seemed like those sandworms had burrowed into the sand. When I scanned with my artificial eye, I couldn't see a single one.
Captain Meng walked up to Jiang He and looked her up and down. "Why didn't you take action at the beginning?"
If 0112 had taken action earlier, one of their companions would not have been torn to pieces by the mutant worm just now.
Without waiting for Jiang He to speak, he continued, "You knew from the beginning that the sandworms wouldn't attack us, why didn't you tell us?"
He was covered in blood. The previous round of fighting had made his nerves tense and seemed like they would collapse at any time. He stared at Jiang He with bloodshot eyes.
Every police officer was like Captain Meng at this moment, covered in blood and on the verge of emotional collapse.
Although they are guards, they have always lived a life of luxury. Even if they encounter emergencies occasionally, they are nothing compared to the life-and-death battles in the ruins.
Jiang He met his gaze and replied calmly, "I'm the one in danger, will you save me?"
"We are different from you." The police officer next to him roared, "You are a bastard. You deserve to die. Why should we save you?"
Jiang He raised her lips and glanced at him with a half-smile. She said to Captain Meng, "I'm a bastard. I only know how to kill people."
All the police officers were so angry that their veins were exposed. Thinking of their comrades who had died in vain, they wanted to rush over and punch 0112 in the face.
"Captain Meng," Dr. Xu said anxiously, "The teacher's condition is not right. His mechanical components seem to be damaged."
Captain Meng ignored Jiang He and quickly walked over to Teacher Song, squatting down. He used his fingers to lift Teacher Song's tightly closed eyelids and discovered that the teacher's eyeballs were moving uncontrollably.
Since only Teacher Song can lead everyone to find the core and complete this historic mission, the police officers are doing their utmost to protect Teacher Song.
In the fight with the mutant insects, each of them was injured, but Teacher Song was well protected by them and had almost no wounds on his body.
But now, Teacher Song has fallen into an unconscious state. Judging from the movement of his eyeballs, his neurons must have been damaged.
how so?
Dr. Xu turned to Captain Meng and said, "I need to access Teacher Song's neurons, but I cannot be disturbed by any external forces while I am trying to wake her up."
Captain Meng nodded solemnly and said, "We will defend it to the death."
The remaining guards surrounded Dr. Xu and Teacher Song in two circles inside and outside. They had all changed into mechanical forms and would attack without hesitation if there was any unusual movement.
A rustling sound was heard at this time.
It was very slight, almost inaudible. Jiang He lowered his head and looked down at his feet.
The sand beneath my feet was sinking.
The speed is very slow.
She lifted her foot and the sinking sand stopped, but when her foot landed on the surface, it began to sink again.
The sand on the bottom of my feet that touched the sand surface was slowly sinking.
Jiang He took two steps and changed his position, but the situation was the same as before, with no improvement.
It seems that the problem is not the location, but the sand.
The noise of her movement attracted the attention of the guards. One of them glared at Jiang He fiercely, "Don't move."
Jiang He glanced at the soles of his feet.
The sand under the other person's feet was also slowly sinking.
The sinking was so slow that neither the guards nor the prisoners noticed it.
Jiang He moved to the side again and said, "I'm observing the mutant insects."
As she spoke, she looked out toward the desert, her body shifting constantly as if she were truly observing the quiet desert outside.
"Iron Fist Tyrant, what's wrong with the mutant bugs in the desert?" 7039 approached Jiang He and curiously followed her gaze toward the sand outside. "Is there a problem?"
Everyone had psychological trauma from the brutality of the mutant insects, and 7039's words made them all prick up their ears, waiting for Jiang He's response.
Jiang He did not respond, she continued to move silently.
Because he was facing the desert with his back to everyone, the guards relaxed their vigilance towards Jiang He. Comparing him with the prisoners lying on the ground, they looked at 0112 who was standing guard and felt that the other person's life could be saved for a while. However, this guy killed several of their companions, so they must kill him before leaving!
"Alright." Dr. Xu opened his eyes and said weakly, "Teacher Song's neurons have begun to reboot. I haven't found any issues with his onboard systems. He should wake up soon."
The moment he finished speaking, Jiang He also said, "Move away from where you are."
Her voice was so sharp that it made people shiver. They subconsciously felt that danger was coming and immediately moved away from their position.
Nothing happened.
It was quiet all around, nothing was happening.
Everyone looked at Jiang He with dissatisfaction, wondering what he was shouting about.
Captain Meng's expression turned slightly cold. He asked Jiang He, "0112, what's going on?"
Jiang He: "The sand under my feet is sinking."
Everyone lowered their heads. Their artificial eyes were sharper than ordinary people's eyes, but in their eyes, the sand was still in its normal state and did not sink at all.
In fact, the sand did not continue to sink after Jiang He spoke. Facing everyone's distrustful gazes, she simply stopped explaining and turned to look outside.
"What are you yelling about? It's frightening me to death," one of the prisoners complained loudly. "What nonsense is this? You're yelling about it!"
He felt that the guards all regarded Jiang He as a thorn in their side, so he dared to speak so loudly.
Another guard was also staring at Jiang He, "Are you kidding us?"
"It's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding." 7039 hurried to smooth things over. "0112 was thinking about everyone else and had no ill intentions. Misjudgment is inevitable. Everyone, please don't be angry."
Jiang He had already turned her back to these people, too lazy to pay attention to their voices. She was a person who always liked to fight, so she was too lazy to waste her saliva on these people.
Suddenly, the prisoner who had just complained about Jiang He shouted angrily, "Whoever hits me is looking for death!"
He was hit by a stone in the calf, and after cramping up his calf and falling to his knees, he was hit by another stone on the back of his head, and his face fell to the sand. "Fuck you, you're looking for death! I'm going to kill you! Help me, pull me up!"
He thought it was Jiang He's sneak attack, but after cursing for a while, his voice turned into a miserable cry, "Hurry up and pull me up, help!"
He was lying face down on the sand, the side of his skin sticking to the sand seemed to be stuck to it, and he couldn't move at all. His body was sinking rapidly, and he could no longer speak. He could only make painful "woohoo" sounds from his throat. He tried his best to twist his body to break free from the control of the sand. The mechanical components of his body had also changed shape, but his body stuck to the ground could not be "pulled out" at all.
Soon, his body completely sank into the sand and disappeared.
The guard went forward to check and found nothing unusual in the sand. This absence of any abnormality was even more terrifying.
They turned to look at Dr. Xu.
"It's a sand trap. I've seen it on a sand planet." Dr. Xu's face was grim. He said to Captain Meng, "Everyone, keep moving. Don't stand in one place for too long, or you'll be sucked down by the sand."
When he said this, everyone glanced at where Jiang He was just now.
Even 7039 was surprised, but when he turned his head, he found that Jiang He, who had just stood beside him, was gone.
Dr. Xu: "Where did 0112 go?"
This earthen wall building complex is very large, like a small village that has been abandoned for hundreds of years. Due to wind, sun, and sand erosion, only some short earthen walls remain.
Jiang He walked around these earth walls.
Her eyes swept over the earthen walls, and her mind pictured how the low walls would look after they were restored.
"This should be a livestock shed." Jiang He said to the people following him, "The courtyard with three entrances and three exits is where the wealthy families in the village live. The other houses are not this big."
She never looked back, but she had already noticed A following her silently.
A was not surprised by her sudden words.
He corrected: "Tribe."
It's not a village, it's a small tribe.
Jiang He approached a dirt wall and stared at the symbols on it.
Due to its age, the remaining symbols were blurry, but she recognized that they were similar to the white symbols on the transparent screen in front of her.
Are these symbols the writings of the humans who once lived in the ruins?
She hooked her finger at A, motioning him to come over: "Have you seen this kind of symbol before?"
A glanced at the symbols on the earthen wall, but before he could answer, Jiang He's face changed drastically, and he grabbed his arm and rushed out of the earthen wall building complex.
On the screen in front of her, those white symbols began to appear quickly again. Several experiences were enough to make her understand that as long as these symbols no longer slowly moved up, but quickly refreshed the screen, it meant that trouble was about to happen.
Sure enough, before they could rush out of the earthen wall building complex, the sand under their feet suddenly sank, and she and A were swept down by the sand.
Jiang He stood up immediately after landing and found that there was a huge cave around her. There was only one way leading into the cave. She had no choice but to walk in with A.
The fall just now was so unexpected, but neither she nor A screamed, so it can be said that their emotions were quite stable.
Jiang He glanced at A: "What do you think is inside?"
A: "I don't know."
Not only did he not like to bark, he also obviously didn't like to talk, so Jiang He concentrated on surveying the road ahead.
The cave was winding and twisting, but after walking for a long time, it suddenly became open.
Entered a relatively large and damp cave.
Teacher Song, the guards, and the prisoners in the training camp were all there. They probably fell directly into the big cave and were curiously checking for insect eggs in the cave.
When Jiang He saw the insect eggs, her pupils shrank.
Teacher Song stood in front of the densely packed insect eggs with a look of disbelief on his face.
"They're Zerg eggs, Zerg eggs." His voice trembled. "Did those Zergs appear in ancient times? Planet A62 is within the 12 star systems. How could Zerg appear here?"
There are twelve galaxies within the Redstone Galaxy, and the planets in these twelve galaxies have not yet been conquered by the Zerg.
The expeditionary forces were stationed on the planets outside the Redstone Galaxy, repeatedly repelling the Zerg that tried to enter the Redstone Galaxy. When Teacher Song was young, he followed his mentor to the planets outside the Redstone Galaxy as a researcher and had a deep memory of the Zerg.
He came to an incredible conclusion: "Could it be that Planet A62 became a deserted planet because it was once occupied by the Zerg?"
Teacher Song looked down at the mechanical screen on his arm, then moved it towards the nearest insect egg. "Energy! No wonder there's so much energy! It turns out these eggs are actually energy. What's going on?"
Dr. Xu had never been outside the Redstone Galaxy and didn't have much experience with the Zerg. Curious, he reached out to touch the half-human-high Zerg eggs. "Are these really Zerg eggs? Why are there energy fluctuations within them? Could it be that the Core is hatching these eggs?"
Before he could finish his words, Captain Meng shouted, "Be careful."
The egg sac touched by Dr. Xu's palm suddenly split open, and a mouthpart emerged and bit Dr. Xu's entire face. Captain Meng's mechanical knife cut off the mouthpart, but Dr. Xu's face was already scarred and bloody, and he screamed in pain.
Under the vibration of the cry, countless insect eggs burst, and dense larvae attacked everyone.
When Teacher Song brought the mechanical screen towards the insect eggs, Jiang He pulled A backwards, trying to exit the cave, but unexpectedly a large pile of sand collapsed behind him, blocking the way out.
From deep within the humid cave, Lan Hu's cry suddenly rang out. "What the hell is this place? Hey, hey, hey, Brother Xiong, where are you?"
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