Chapter 73: Baba, You Are So Nice
Jiang He was walking among the colorful red flame bones. He heard the sound of a gray rat approaching and reached out to pull it from the pile of red flame bones.
Pulled out a person.
It's not a gray rat, it's a consumptive.
Jiang He was a little surprised. He didn't expect to see the other person here.
This guy always looked like he was about to die at any moment, and Jiang He thought he had died a long time ago.
The other person was lying in the red flame bones, as if he was sleeping soundly, and there was no sign of being bitten by corpse worms on his body.
Jiang He stared at his pale face. His breathing was weak, but sounded normal.
He didn't look like he was about to wake up.
Jiang He reached out and pinched the flesh on his face.
The meat feels quite realistic, and the bones underneath don't look like mechanical components.
What the hell is this guy?!
The consumptive patient always looked like a lifeless ghost, with his back hunched and head lowered, coughing constantly, making it difficult for people to pay attention to his facial features.
Now, Jiang He was very close to his face.
The portrait of his face on the wall is exquisite, perfect, and fragile!
She was a little surprised, and then she suddenly realized that a consumptive with such a face could survive in the training camp for so long. The three words "consumptive" were his disguise.
Everyone else is pretending to be beautiful, only he is pretending to be ugly.
Her hand touched the other person's eyelid.
The other person's eyeballs didn't twitch at all. Jiang He lifted his eyelids and looked into his seemingly motionless eyes.
After a long time, she finally let go and opened the other person's eyelids.
Jiang He stopped trying to drag the consumptive patient out.
She let go of the consumptive ghost's arm and reached for the pile of red flaming bones in front of her.
This time, a gray rat was caught, its body covered with gnawing maggots.
The Red Flame Bone wanted to hold the gray rat back. With the food in their mouths, they were reluctant to let it go. Jiang He swung the long knife in his hand and chopped all the Red Flame Bone beasts that tried to stop them into powder.
She dragged the gray rat up the wall. Its body was covered in blood and flesh, and dense swarms of corpse worms were scrambling to drill into its body.
Jiang He looked around, cut a piece of Jun from the top of the tunnel wall, smashed it into powder and sprinkled it on the gray rat. Jun was like the natural enemy of corpse worms. After sprinkling Jun powder all over the gray rat's body, the corpse worms scrambled to escape from the gray rat and slipped back to the bottom of the pit.
"Please give me a hand."
There was a weak voice coming from the bottom of the pit next to him, accompanied by a few dying coughs.
Jiang He stuck his head out and looked at the consumptive ghost at the bottom of the pit in surprise.
The consumptive ghost was surprised, startled and delighted, but when he saw Jiang He had no intention of extending her hand, he coughed a few times and greeted her: "Ba Ba, it's great to see you, can you pull me up?"
Jiang He was much calmer and glanced at him calmly. He did not have Jun powder on his body, but the red flame bones and corpse worms around him did not attack him.
The Red Flame Bone Pit was quite safe for him, no wonder he could fall asleep in it.
She lifted the gray rat's eyelids. Fortunately, the eyelids looked normal, with no maggots crawling in. She then asked the consumptive ghost at the bottom of the pit, "Why are you here?"
"It's a long story. Baba, can you pull me up first and I'll explain it to you slowly?"
"Tell me first, I can wait no matter how long it takes."
The consumptive ghost touched his nose helplessly, raised his head and said to the people above, "The robot team took me by force as I passed through here, and I fell into the Red Flame Bone Pit and passed out. When I woke up, the robots were gone. I can't get any help from anyone in here, and I'm too weak to climb out. I can only wait for someone with a destiny to pass by and help me."
Jiang He: "What is the robot going to do?"
The consumptive: "My neck hurts from tilting my head back, and my throat hurts from speaking too high. Cough, cough, cough..."
He begged: "Can you pull me out first? I'll tell you everything you want to know, cough cough cough!"
Jiang He stuck his head out and stared at him: "My arms are not long enough to pull you."
The consumptive ghost glanced around, found a long red flame bone, and handed the other end to Jiang He: "Ba Ba, please give me a hand, thank you."
He had a perfect grasp of Jiang He's preferences, calling her "Baba" affectionately and saying "thank you" frequently.
But he still didn't know Jiang He very well.
"It's too dirty." Jiang He stared at the red flame bone, unwilling to touch it: "Climb halfway first and I'll pull you up."
Consumption ghost:? ? ?
He suddenly became a little suspicious, wondering if the reason she was unwilling to drag him out of the pit at first was because he was lying and sleeping in the Red Flame Bone, which made her feel dirty.
Even just now, had she seen through his pretending to be asleep?
"I can't climb up, cough cough cough..." The consumptive ghost's face turned pale and he threw away the red flame bone in his hand, "I..."
"Stop coughing." Jiang He handed over the handle of the long sword in his hand, "Hold it firmly."
Consumptive: ...It seems I guessed right.
But why did the other party change his mind?
Because he has a pretty face?
The consumptive man was dragged up by Jiang He with a confused look on his face.
She pointed to the gray rat on the ground and said, "Look at his injuries."
Consumptive ghost: "Cough cough cough..."
So that's why I pulled him!!
He coughed for a long time before saying weakly, "I can fix robots, but I'm terrible at fixing people."
Jiang He: "Then I'll push you down again."
Consumptive: "We are old acquaintances..."
Realizing that Jiang He was really about to push him, he immediately bent down to check on the gray rat: "There's no difference between a deformed human and a robot. Let me take a look first. I'll tell you first, I won't be responsible if you break it."
The red flame bone pit suddenly caught fire. These colorful red flame bones were flammable and easy to burn. The flame was just a small cluster at first, but it turned into a raging fire in a blink of an eye.
"Oh my god." The unconscious gray rat sat up, his eyes wide open, staring at the crazy, beast-like flames. "It's over, it's over! These red flame bones are called red flame bones because they will be reborn when they encounter fire."
If the red flame bone could be burned with fire, it would have been burned by the prisoners who came here long ago, and there is no way it would have survived until now.
"Where are they?" The gray mouse hurriedly lay down in front of the pit, looking for the warden and his men.
The flames burning in the red flame bones are colorful and beautiful. The huge red flame bone pit looks like dancing colorful lights, beautiful as a dream.
The consumptive ghost stood beside Jiang He, "Ahem, Baba, do you know the origin of the name of the Red Flame Bone?"
Jiang He: "Hmm?"
Consumptive: "Look up."
Jiang He raised her head and looked towards the top of the red flame bone pit. In the light of the fire, she was surprised to find that what looked like an ordinary cave wall before was now covered with layers of transparent glass.
These transparent glasses reflect colorful light under the illumination of colorful fireworks.
Very beautiful!
Jiang He turned his head and stared at the consumptive man expressionlessly.
Such a large piece of glass has not been discussed by people in the training camp so far, which means that no one has discovered such a thing at all.
How did the consumptive know this?
"This is the death pit. Dead specimens that don't survive the experiments are dumped here from above," the consumptive ghost said. "Here, the specimens rot into bones, and then maggots sprout from the bones. The people up there are constantly observing, wanting to see what these red flame bones and maggots will eventually become."
Jiang He: "Basement level 1 or 2?"
The sample must be people.
Jiang He felt a chill in his heart. How many of the prisoners in the training camp were samples?
The consumptive ghost raised an eyebrow, as if he didn't expect Jiang He to know about the two underground floors. He smiled and said, "The first underground floor is the cultivation room, the second underground floor is the laboratory, and there is actually a third underground floor. You can go and have a look if you have the chance."
He said it very easily, as if it was some kind of tourist attraction that could be easily entered.
Suddenly, there was a loud "bang" in the pit.
Jiang He turned around and saw the warden and two other men rushing out from the flames. They all looked disheveled, and their hair was burnt off by the fire.
The gray mouse pulled them out one by one from the bottom of the pit.
The warden glanced at the glass above him with an interested look, "Red Flame Bone, so that's how it is."
Major Jiang asked her, "What is this place?"
"Have you ever heard of raising Gu?" the warden said, "The corpse worms in these red flame bones are Gu. Those people are so bold that they actually came up with such a sinister method."
Although she said this, her voice was somewhat excited, and her eyeballs were shining brightly under the reflection of the burning red flames of the bone fire.
"Get out of here quickly," Gray Rat said to her, "These red flame bones will transform into at least level five flame insects after burning."
Jiang He threw the mechanical knife in his hand hard towards the glass above the Red Flame Bone Pit.
She threw the mechanical knife at least twenty meters high, but it did not hit the glass.
The glass was more than twenty meters away from her.
Seeing the mechanical knife fall, Jiang He turned around and left without any regret.
The consumptive ghost followed her and reminded her, "This is the direction leading to the middle and lower levels."
Jiang He asked him, "What are those robots doing in the middle and lower levels?"
"Look for brown bears." The consumptive said, "They're pretty powerful, even more powerful than Brother Huo."
The scene of Huo Ge's team being torn into pieces by Jiang He is probably a horrific scene that the consumptive patient still cannot forget, so he described it this way.
Jiang He asked, "Is he new?"
Although the consumptive ghost didn't understand why Jiang He asked this, he still recalled, "There were seven people, three of whom I had never seen before. I'm not sure if they were new. They probably wanted to avoid me. They hardly spoke along the way, so I don't know any more information."
Jiang He nodded to show that he understood, "How much do you know about brown bears?"
"He went to the lower-middle level to pick Star Grass, hoping to cure the unconscious Blue Tiger." The consumptive ghost said, "That's what people in the outside world say, but I've never seen him, so I don't know why he went to the lower-middle level."
This is because they don't believe that the brown bear went to the middle and lower levels of the mine to pick star grass for the blue tiger.
Jiang He: "What about you?"
The consumptive: "Of course I follow you, Baba. I am your number one little brother and must keep up with you."
Suddenly, there was another loud "bang" in the red flame bone pit, which was deafening and even the air was shaking.
Jiang He turned his head and found that the flames that shot up into the sky not only did not continue to spread, but after the loud bang, the flames quickly converged into the central fire of the red flame bone pit.
Like closed petals.
"Hurry up, hurry up." Gray Rat urged the warden and the others anxiously, "The flame bugs are coming out soon. The flame bugs are not afraid of Jun and can leave the Red Flame Bone Pit."
If you don't leave now, you will be chased.
After he pulled his sleeve, the warden pushed him away in disgust and said, "Get away from me."
Jiang He withdrew his gaze and left quickly.
The consumptive man didn't quite understand her behavior. "You're not going to take that little gray mouse with you?"
Jiang He asked back: "Do you know him?"
"Not really an acquaintance. He's quite weak and has been selling information at the bottom of the mine."
Jiang He glanced at him sideways, his eyes silently saying: Aren’t you weak?
Consumptive: ... "I'm much better than him!"
His tone was extremely hurt, probably because he felt that comparing himself to the gray mouse was a bit cheap.
"Bang, bang, bang" "Bang, bang, bang"...
There were loud footsteps coming from the front.
Every step felt like a thud on the eardrum, causing a headache.
"Cough, cough, cough, cough!" The consumptive man coughed even more violently, as if frightened.
Jiang He asked him, "Is your cough a sign of danger or an outward manifestation of excitement?"
Consumptive: ??? Look at what you're saying, is that even human?
"A warning of danger," the consumptive ghost said. "When there's danger, I'll start coughing as if my throat is irritated."
Jiang He understood, "Allergic constitution, allergens are dangerous."
As the question and answer were going on, the huge footsteps in front suddenly disappeared.
Black smoke rolled in from the front. As it approached the two of them, a huge black deformed beast jumped out of the smoke, opened its mouth wide and bit towards Jiang He.
Jiang He's flesh and blood are always particularly favored by deformed beasts.
The consumptive ghost's rapid coughing seemed to be unable to stop, one after another. Jiang He even felt that he had coughed himself to death before the mutant beast attacked him.
She punched the mutant beast on the nose, but unexpectedly, what she hit was a ball of empty black mist.
The deformed beast appeared on the side and gnawed at her head again. It looked at Jiang He intently, as if it was staring at delicious food and just wanted to bite it while it was fresh.
Jiang He dodged its bite and hit her head from behind.
Her fists fell like raindrops in the black fog. Every time a mutant beast emerged from the black fog, her fists would arrive immediately.
The consumptive man's cough became slower and slower, and finally stopped.
He still had his hand covering his mouth, but his eyes were fixed on Jiang He's lightning-fast fist.
"Ba Ba, since your fist is faster than it, why do you want to have the same frequency as it?"
Jiang He: "My punches weren't this fast before."
She increased the speed of her punches, and the deformed beast in the black fog was hit so hard that it didn't even dare to show its head. But Jiang He didn't let it go. She rushed into the black fog, and amid the deformed beast's wolf-like howling sounds, the thick fog scurried left and right, trying to escape.
Major Jiang walked up to the consumptive and asked him, "Did 0112 get swallowed by this thing?"
The consumptive man kept his hand by his mouth, without coughing or answering.
"It's the distortion mist." Gray Mouse said thankfully, "If it hasn't distorted into a beast form, it should be less than level two. Baba can defeat it."
He turned his head to look at the warden behind him, who was playing with a long colorful firefly in his hand.
The ferocious fireworm was like a whip in her hand, and it didn't dare to resist even after being toyed with into various shapes.
"0112 was eaten by the aberration?" The warden said with a smile. "That's great. I don't have to kill her myself."
Her gaze paused when it fell on the consumptive man, and her smile vanished. "It's you."
The consumptive man hung his head, looked listless and unable to care for anyone.
Zhang Yue and Major Jiang would not pay special attention to the prisoners in the training camp. Apart from the mission target 0112, they were too lazy to bother with the other prisoners.
Major Jiang asked Gray Rat, "Can 0112 die?"
The gray mouse shook his head: "I don't know."
Major Jiang raised his foot and kicked the consumptive man: "Go in and see if he's dead."
The consumptive man raised his head and stared at Major Jiang with his gray eyes.
He was clearly a paper man that looked like he could be blown away by a gust of wind, but the moment he raised his eyes and stared at Major Jiang, Major Jiang's muscles inexplicably stiffened.
Even the leg he kicked out was retracted halfway.
The warden glanced at the scene with a half-smile, played with the colorful flame insect in his hand, and turned his head to look at the thick fog.
Zhang Yue said to the warden, "Will you leave Planet A62 with me?"
She probably thought that 0112 would die in the thick fog, and that she would have to leave after completing her mission, so she asked the warden this question.
Jail reached out and slowly tucked the hair on his cheek behind his ear.
She smiled and said, "Can you take me away? I don't believe it."
The thick fog exploded and dissipated in the next moment. Jiang He held a pitch-black level 5 distorted beast core in his hand and said with disdain, "It's really dark."
Most of the crystal cores were shiny and beautiful like gems. This was the first time she had seen a pure black crystal core.
"It's actually a level five fog beast?" Gray Rat was shocked. "This fog beast can transform into a beast, so why did it turn into a ball of black fog?"
Jiang He: "Oh, maybe I turned it into fog?"
Gray Mouse: ...Baba, don't use such an uncertain tone, be more confident in yourself!
Jiang He threw the crystal core of the fog beast into his pocket and continued walking forward. Major Jiang behind him suddenly said, "Will you sell the crystal core of the fog beast?"
Seeing that Jiang He didn't respond, he pursed his lips and said, "0112, how much do you want to sell the crystal core of the fog beast?"
Gray Mouse reminded him: "Money is not a circulating commodity in the training camp. Here, only points and crystal cores are hard currency."
Major Jiang: "Heh."
His disdainful tone almost had the word "backward" written on his face.
The gray mouse followed the consumptive ghost silently and asked him, "Do you need me to help you?"
The consumptive ghost turned sideways and glanced at him coldly, "No need."
The gray mouse knew what was going on and immediately distanced itself from him.
There are dangers everywhere in the middle and lower levels. The gray mouse stopped talking and looked around vigilantly.
Rustling sounds came from all directions.
Gray Rat's expression changed instantly, and he drew out his bone knife and looked around.
From the top of the cave wall, dense swarms of white caterpillars crawled out.
Each one is about the size of a finger, but each one is level three.
"How disgusting." The warden released the colorful flame insect in his hand and blew a whistle. The colorful flame insect pounced on the top of the cave and devoured the white caterpillar ferociously.
More caterpillars pounced on the people. They were afraid of their natural enemies, but they also wanted to take a chance and have a full meal before running away. In their eyes, the gray rats and others were food.
"What the hell is this?" Major Jiang asked Gray Mouse, "What the hell is this?"
There are a lot of mutants at the bottom of the mine, and these mutants are constantly evolving. Even the people in the training camp can't understand what some of them are.
Just like these white caterpillars, the gray mouse has no idea what they are.
Jiang He no longer had the mechanical knife, so using only his fists wasn't as effective.
The consumptive man next to him covered his mouth and coughed, then took out a bone knife from his pocket and handed it to Jiang He.
There is a weapons inspection in the training camp, and no sharp objects or steel objects are allowed.
The Deformed People and Inhumans use the bones of Deformed Beasts to grind into small daggers to carry with them.
Almost everyone in the training camp has one of these bone knives.
Jiang He took the bone knife and returned the favor by chopping all the white caterpillars that rushed towards the consumptive ghost into two pieces.
The caterpillar that was broken into two parts grew rapidly after falling to the ground and soon became two complete caterpillars.
And they are all level three.
"Damn, these things can actually split." Major Jiang couldn't split, but thanks to Zhang Yue, he knew a lot about this. "How is that possible? The ability to split can only appear after perfect genetic evolution. Why can these things split?"
People in the training camp couldn't understand why he was so surprised.
There are many cases of distorted objects splitting, so there is no need to make a fuss about it.
Major Jiang looked at Zhang Yue and said, "Xiaoyue, look at them. Are they splitting the same way as you are?"
The third-level caterpillars were so densely packed that they could not be killed at all. Zhang Yue was already extremely irritated by the appearance of these white caterpillars and wanted to kill them all. Major Jiang's words seemed to have lit her fuse.
She turned her head and stared at Major Jiang angrily: "You compare me to these disgusting caterpillars, are you crazy?"
Although Zhang Yue with the afro has a more aggressive personality than Zhang Yue with glasses, she is far from being so violent.
Jiang He turned his head and glanced at her, and found that her eyes were full of red bloodshot and her breathing was very rapid.
His hands were shaking constantly, he was very irritable and excited, as if he had taken an overdose of stimulants.
She did not stop, but continued to move forward with the consumptive man.
We encountered more and more deformed beasts along the way.
The consumptive ghost followed her and coughed, "Are you going to the lower and middle levels to look for star grass or brown bears?"
Jiang He didn't even turn around: "Can you find it?"
If you can't find it, don't ask nonsense.
Jiang He doesn't like to talk nonsense. Compared to nonsense, she prefers to use her fists.
Consumptive Ghost: "For the star grass, take the right fork in the road ahead, but I'm not sure about the brown bear."
Jiang He: "Are you sure you want to continue following?"
Consumptive Ghost: "Ahem, ahem, I don't think I can go back alone."
"I'll try my best to keep you alive," Jiang He added, "but I can't guarantee it."
"Ahem, thank you, Baba, you are so nice."
Jiang He: ...
Not long after walking right from the fork in the road, there was another almost vertical slope. Jiang He stuck his head out to take a look and found that the bottom of the slope was covered with dense black silk nets, and he could vaguely see a lot of black cocoons.
"The aberrant spider also has a terrifying name: the Black Death Spider." The consumptive ghost covered his mouth and coughed for a long time before continuing, "The Black Death Spider is completely black and has several heads. The giant spider has spikes that are as sharp as blades, and the black silk it spits out can paralyze people instantly."
Jiang He, "Where is the road to this passage?"
All I could see below the slope were black death spider webs, and opposite were rock walls, so I couldn't find the way out.
"Follow the Black Death Spider's lair and keep going straight ahead. There's a road at the end." The consumptive ghost coughed again. "The Black Death Spider's lair is a full five hundred meters long."
Jiang He: "Does everyone who comes in have to take this route?"
"Not necessarily. If we take another route, we might not pass by the Black Death Spider's lair. The roads at the bottom of the mine crisscross, and crustal shifts often occur there. No one can predict which road leads to where."
Jiang He: "Have you been to this road before? How did you deal with these black death spiders?"
"With a team of robots, they wanted to venture into the inner layers and find some treasures." The consumptive ghost said, "There were twenty of them, but less than five survived. After reaching here, one of them went down to explore the way and never came back. The others returned the same way."
"There's no other way, we can only force our way in." Jiang He sighed.
The consumptive patient next to him suddenly started coughing violently, just like before, the coughing continued, as if he would die from suffocation from the coughing in the next moment.
Jiang He reached out and pushed his shoulder, pushing him towards the Black Death Spider Nest below. "Your danger warning is really on point."
Under the shocked gaze of the consumptive ghost, she also jumped down and cut off the claws of the black death spider that was flying towards her and trying to pierce the consumptive ghost in mid-air.
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