Chapter 184 Giant Human Brain
"Are you all okay? Did you fall? Xi Hen, Chu Xiao Chi? Cough cough..." Dust was flying in front of his eyes. Xiao Yan inhaled a mouthful of dust as soon as he opened his mouth and quickly fanned it away with his hands.
When his vision cleared, he saw that Chu Xihen and his sister had stood up not far away and were looking around.
"I called you Chu Xixie. If you call me that wrong again, I'll tear your mouth apart!" After beating up Xiao Yan, she changed to a gentle tone and asked Chu Xihen, "Brother, are we falling underground? Why is it so empty down there? Did I not finish exploding?"
But she was afraid that there would be some fish slipping through the net, so she used heavy explosives. It shouldn't have failed to blow it up, right?
"It's over. Look at these undamaged walls, they all have traces of the explosion. It's obvious that they were hollowed out by something later." Chu Xihen said as he touched a handful of dirt on the wall.
The underground is not frozen, but rather not as cold as the surface.
"I'm glad you're all okay." Xiao Yan got up and looked around, "Where are those three country kids?"
As soon as Xiao Yan finished asking, the dirt pile next to him was broken open and three people came out from inside, "Mr. Xiao, we are here!"
They are earth-attributed mutants, and they used the soil to protect themselves when they landed. Otherwise, they would have been crippled if not killed after falling from such a height.
Seeing that they were all fine, Xiao Yan raised his head and glanced upwards. They had fallen more than ten meters deep. Light shone through the gaps, so they could barely see the situation below. They seemed to have been hollowed out by something around them into crisscrossing caves. In some places, the walls of the original research institute could be seen.
"What is this hollowed-out thing? Is it a mutant animal or an alien species?" one of the earth-attributed psychics questioned.
"Looking at these marks, they seem to be very long sharp claws. Is there any animal that meets these characteristics?" Xiao Yan asked Chu Xihen.
But it was Chu Xichi who answered him, "This is the end of the world. Even little cats can transform into giant monsters. How can you tell what it is just by looking at its claw marks? If you want to know what it is, pick one and go find it."
She acted decisively and chose a direction as soon as she finished speaking. "Go this way."
Chu Xihen didn't say anything and followed her silently. Seeing that he had left, Xiao Yan could only follow with three earth-attributed psychics.
"There's dirt everywhere here. Can you use your supernatural powers to sense if there are any alien species nearby?" Xiao Yan said to the earth-attribute supernatural user.
Chu Xihen walked while thinking about what happened just now, "Were we brought down by that ice tree?"
"Yeah, brother, you were frozen... cough cough... Were you frozen badly? I shaved the head of that ice tree, and it got angry and lifted the ground, causing us to fall from it." Chu Xi was used to being rude and almost scolded Chu Xihen, but fortunately he changed in time.
"No, it seemed like the ice tree didn't want to push us down on purpose. It wanted to fall down on its own, and we happened to be standing on top of its roots. It pulled out the roots in the soil, the ground loosened, and we fell down." Xiao Yan said.
Although they were more than ten meters underground, the ground was less than one meter thick. The ice tree was huge, and if it wanted to pull back its roots, the more than one meter thick ground would certainly collapse.
"Does it want to come down on its own? Is it scared by my beating and wants to go home to find its mother?" Chu Xi asked sarcastically.
Xiao Yan shrugged, "This is your hometown. Perhaps you know it better than I do."
Chu Xichi thought what he said sounded so reasonable and thought he had discovered something, but then he said this, which made her so angry that she grimaced.
"You're such a disgusting man. I'll persuade Dr. Xie to dump you when I get back." Chu Xi said angrily.
The little girl is very good at picking on people's soft spots.
Xiao Yan coughed guiltily, then said, "I mean, let's think about it. Doesn't this institute only conduct human experiments? They haven't done any animal gene fusion or limb grafting experiments, right? If they did, that thing survived your explosion and hid underground for so long. Who knows what kind of monster it would evolve into?"
"Who would know? For more than a decade, we, the test subjects, have only been active on the -11th floor. We don't know what's above the -10th floor. They are so perverted, so it's reasonable for them to raise a few deformed animals, right?" Chu Xichi asked Chu Xihen, "Brother, what do you think?"
"It's hard to say. Their main purpose is to stimulate potential, but we cannot rule out the possibility that they will find some animals with strong vitality to test drugs. And I also suspect that the ice tree on the ground just now is integrated with the thing below. The ice tree on top is like it has put an eye outside." Chu Xihen's face was not very good-looking.
Because they had been walking in the cave for several minutes, the cave was very wide, high and dark, and after leaving the place where they fell, the light became dimmer and dimmer, and they could only take out flashlights to illuminate.
“It has strong vitality, so it probably won’t be killed by the explosion. It’s also merged with the ice tree. This thing seems a bit difficult to kill.” Chu Xi commented.
As soon as she finished speaking, an earth-attributed mutant walking behind her suddenly shouted, "Mr. Xiao, I heard something!"
Chu Xihen and the other two immediately turned to look at the earth-attributed mutant.
"What's going on?" Xiao Yan asked.
The face of the earth attribute mutant turned pale, as if frightened: "It should be a heartbeat."
The other two earth-attribute esper also nodded.
"Heartbeat? Let me listen." Chu Xichi lay directly on the wall.
Seeing her like this, Chu Xihen and Xiao Yan also found the wall and put their ears against it to listen.
After a dozen seconds, the expressions of the three people became solemn.
"There really is a heartbeat, with such a heavy frequency, it feels like it's of considerable size." Chu Xichi spoke first.
Chu Xihen frowned slightly. The heartbeat in the wall reminded him of the lion's mane jellyfish that separated Beijing City. Although they were eventually blown up by explosives from the Bureau of Special Powers, the vast sea area could not be filled.
What's more, those lion's mane jellyfish are not good at attacking. They just erect ice walls on the ground to hunt for themselves. If they take the initiative to attack, humans are no match for them.
And listening to the heavy heartbeat of this thing in front of him, whose full appearance he still didn't know, he felt an inexplicable sense of crisis.
"I suggest we don't go forward. We should go back the same way. I have a paper man that can't die. If you die here, Dr. Xie will definitely break up with me." Xiao Yan said to Chu Xihen very seriously.
Chu Xihen also felt pessimistic. If a fight really broke out, he would be fine, but it was hard to say about others.
But before he could say anything, the three earth-attributed esper started to panic again, "It seems like something is running towards us from behind, very fast!"
The speed was indeed very fast. Just as the earth-attributed mutant finished speaking, Chu Xihen and the other two felt the ground shaking, as if something was running wildly in the cave!
"It seems that thing has discovered us and won't let us go back. So let's not move forward and keep running forward to see what it is!" Chu Xihen said and took the lead to rush forward.
Chu Xishi followed closely behind, and then came three earth-attribute esperians, and Xiao Yan brought up the rear.
Being chased by something from behind, Chu Xihen did not deliberately choose a direction. Seeing a fork in the road ahead, he ran all the way to the right. After running for a full five minutes, the cave in front became wider and wider.
The six people rushed out of the cave and saw a huge black object appearing in the open area in front of them, surrounded by crystal clear leaves emitting a faint blue light.
"This...is this a giant human brain?" an earth-attribute mutant asked with a trembling voice.