Chapter 157
"Something's going on."
Kou Man, who was weeding and clearing the way not far away, heard it and immediately stepped back: "What's wrong?"
The team members have already started fiddling with their phones: "Just now the drone was shot down by an unknown object and lost signal."
Coleman looked around and saw that there was no danger, so he stood behind the team members and watched together.
The team members rewound the aerial video, slowed it down and carefully watched the scene before the shooting down.
It only took two or three seconds for the drone to be shot down, but as the video was slowed down, it could be seen that during the violent shaking, the drone suddenly illuminated a red object.
The team members slowed down the video several times again, and this time they clearly saw a blood-red humanoid creature flash by and attack the drone at close range.
The players quickly pressed the pause button.
This time, a large bloody face appeared in their sight.
Its skin had lines similar to those of a melted candle, and a few exposed muscle lines. If a person looked like this, they would definitely not survive.
The two men stopped in the woods and looked at this strange face, feeling a chill all over their bodies.
How could such a thing appear in this deep forest?
The team members were confused and asked: "Is there something wrong with the color channel of the camera?"
Coleman asked, "Where did your drone just fly to?"
The team member took out the topographic map they had made temporarily, pointed out their current location, and then drew a circle diagonally above: "We probably flew here."
When faced with this kind of emergency, the team members immediately began transmitting data to the command center, and then handed the phone to Coleman: "Sister, please check if there are any clues first, and I'll fly a drone to take some pictures."
The team member took out another drone from his backpack, launched it into the air, and set off along the route they had just taken.
Coleman took out his phone and slowed down the video.
This time she also saw clearly the strange mangrove forest that suddenly appeared, and it seemed to be breathing up and down as her perspective swayed.
Coleman looked at it for two seconds and had a bad feeling in his heart.
Her first reaction was not that there was something wrong with the color, but rather... something was covering the forest floor?
The outlines of the tree trunks are a bit distorted, and there is a lack of details such as fallen leaves on the ground. These are obviously not something that can be explained by a color problem.
Although there are few scenes captured in the video, if you look closely it looks like there are patches of red slime mold growing in that area.
However, this area is still some distance away from where they are, so Coleman is not in a hurry to retreat immediately.
After the image was uploaded, the phone quickly received a reply: Stay where you are and be alert.
The team member took a glance, replied "received", and continued to concentrate on flying the drone.
He flew along the old road, and after crossing the uneven terrain, he did not descend in altitude, but took aerial photos from a distance in mid-air.
Up high, the landscape below is still largely green.
The team members circled carefully twice, observed from different angles for a while, and couldn't help muttering: "What the hell? Where is the red? Why are they using such a broken thing? It scares me."
However, despite his complaints, he still ordered the drone to descend and tried to observe what happened to the previous drone.
But as the drone passed through the treetops and went deeper into the woodland, the strange red color reappeared.
This time, because it was falling vertically, the color change was extremely obvious.
"Something unusual has happened!"
The team member was startled and immediately controlled the altitude. He held his breath and moved slowly in the forest, trying to collect more images as steadily as possible.
This time they flew higher, so there was nothing to shoot the drone down, allowing them to see more clearly.
It was not an illusion, those red, slime-like things were indeed moving. Some of them flowed like liquid in the forest, as if they were carrying something, while others lay flat on the ground, rising and falling as if they were breathing.
It looks like a forest made of flesh and blood.
The team members flew for a while in the direction of the surging liquid-like monsters, and saw from afar a large cave deep in the woods, near the mountain, with faint signs of construction.
Suddenly, the drone's field of view moved significantly to the side, but did not go offline immediately.
Coleman asked nervously, "What's wrong?"
“It should be intelligent obstacle avoidance.”
But there was nothing in sight ahead.
The team members were almost sweating and turned their eyes back as quickly as possible.
A half-humanoid object slowly emerged from the strange red covering of the tree canopy. It also looked like a bloody person whose skin had melted like a candle, with some muscle texture exposed on its face.
It had lost its eyes, leaving only two shrunken holes.
But it is still alive, and it is "staring" at the drone with its neck stretched out, and it also seems to be "staring" at them behind the screen.
When the team members turned their view, it sprayed something out from the two shrunken holes, and seemed to be attacking the drone.
The field of vision moved drastically again. The drone was still offline, but there were some red things in the field of vision.
Obviously, it dodged the attack this time but not completely. It seemed as if it was pressed down by something, and its height was decreasing little by little. It might not be able to hold on for long.
The team members suppressed their instinctive fear, focused their eyes on the monster, and flew over little by little, trying to collect more details in the last possible time.
A few seconds later, the second drone's field of view shook drastically and it also went offline. Without the assistance of the drone, they had no idea what was happening in this forest of flesh and blood.
The team members did not slow down the video again and directly sent the image back.
This time the message came faster, almost as soon as the video was received: The risk level has increased, please stay where you are, do not explore on your own, quick support will arrive soon.
Just after I read the news, I heard birds screaming in the forest in the distance. Then, all the birds in that area flew up with shrill cries.
Judging from the sound, it was the direction of that strange mangrove forest.
The birds kept chirping, making people panic. As they got closer, they even sounded like... screams.
Coleman felt even more uneasy, so she immediately climbed up the nearest tree and stood on the high ground looking in that direction.
There were indeed a large number of birds, and for some unknown reason, they were frightened and flew away.
But there was something wrong with their flying posture. One after another, some birds seemed to lose their balance while flying, suddenly flying left and right, and then quickly fell into the woods.
Same with air raids.
Coleman immediately called out to the team members below: "Retreat quickly!"
The team member looked up at her, seemingly disagreeing: "But the order I received was to stay where we are."
Time was urgent, and Coleman could not explain too much. He could only jump down from the tree and shout: "It's an infection, run!"
The team member was confused and repeated, "The order I received is to stay where you are. Support will be here soon."
At this time, the flock of birds was almost flying over their heads. Amid the tragic cries, they could faintly hear the sound of something falling to the ground with a "puff".
Coleman stopped talking nonsense, picked up his team member and started running like crazy.
Although the team members had been hinted that this person had powerful supernatural powers before entering the woods, he was still startled when he was suddenly carried horizontally for no apparent reason: "What are you doing?!"
"run!"
"Please respect me and put me down! I can't disobey orders!" The team member's stomach hurt from her shoulder and he shouted in panic, "I understand your fear because we don't have enough firepower, but our people will be here soon!"
"Tell them not to come."
The flock of birds had arrived right above them, and red and black objects kept falling rapidly around them.
Some of them almost fell on them. Although the team members were being carried and running, they could still see that they were dead birds from such a close distance.
He was still saying, “I’m going to get some samples to bring back!”
Coleman ignored him and began to run as perpendicularly as possible to the direction of the flock.
As they ran, the team members realized that something was wrong.
In addition to the strange sight of the flock of birds that were flying and dropping from the air, the red sticky liquid on the dead bird carcasses that had fallen to the ground continued to expand and spread, swallowing up the bodies until it turned into a large pool of flowing mucus.
The mucus seemed to be alive, surging and deforming, and even bouncing and splashing. After landing, it kept screaming and trying to pounce on them.
Corpses and mucus were splattered everywhere, as if it was a heavy rain in the forest.
It looks exactly like the anomaly in the flesh forest. These things can definitely devour more than just birds.
Thinking of the half humanoid body that the drone had just photographed, the team members quieted down and stopped shouting about going to get samples.
He didn't say anything like "put me down" because he felt that even if Coleman carried him, he would still run faster than he could alone.
The team members took out their mobile phones and turned on the video function, hoping to capture as much of the scene of the bird corpse's mutation as possible during the bumpy ride to provide information for subsequent exploration.
After dodging left and right for a while, Coleman gradually slowed down.
There was already the sound of propellers in the air in the distance.
The two looked up at the same time and saw a helicopter appearing over the woods. They must have been the so-called rapid support that had arrived.
But the helicopter also saw the strange flock of birds and flew away to avoid them, and no one descended quickly yet.
Coleman immediately said, "Quick, inform them that the situation has changed. Don't come down blindly."
After she put the team member down, he sent a message, then took out a smoke bomb and sent it into the air.
A helicopter in the distance noticed this, hovered for a moment, and made sure the birds had all flown away before flying towards them and dropping a cable.
In fact, the blood-red mucus in the forest is only most active when it has just devoured a bird corpse. After that, its vitality weakens. At least it will not accumulate power and burst out, and its aggressiveness is greatly reduced.
Seeing the cable, Coleman immediately carried his team members to grab the cable.
Seeing that they had grabbed the cable, the helicopter did not stay for long, but immediately raised its altitude and took them out of the woods.
Several heavily armed men were examining them carefully, then began shouting at them through loudspeakers, warning them not to come up.
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