Chapter 162
Because of the high density of the sea of blood, the resistance is actually very large, and it is constantly wriggling. Swimming in it is almost like swimming in jelly.
Fortunately, with the protective clothing isolating him, Lu Jiamu could only feel the soft touch all around him, without feeling the sticky and disgusting feeling directly.
Although he had lost the concept of up and down in the spatial disorientation, Lu Jiamu checked with the compass several times. After struggling to "swim" upwards for a while, he saw some shaking spots of light appearing in the red.
He struggled a few more times and finally emerged from the sea of blood. In Lu Jiamu's vision, the bright red tree trunk swaying in the sea of blood reappeared.
A faint sigh of relief came from the headset, and someone was encouraging him: "Not bad."
Lu Jiamu looked around and found that he had been taken far away from the edge of the cliff.
And now the sea of blood was not still, but was carrying him towards a certain direction.
The bloody corpse-like thing was still strangling him, and it looked even uglier when he had a clear view.
This time, in order to prevent sharp objects from scratching his protective suit, he did not carry any weapons.
Lu Jiamu could only pinch its neck and kick its chest with his legs.
It seemed that this thing was not very resistant to blows. After a few hits, it broke into several pieces and sank quietly back into the sea of blood with its mouth wide open.
After solving this problem, Lu Jiamu began to observe his surroundings carefully.
The sea of blood no longer seemed as malicious as it did at the beginning, but was just surging in the forest in a very regular pattern.
There were a lot of messy things around him. If you looked closely, they seemed to be some rotten fruit cores, leaves or dead insects.
Lu Jiamu floated in the sea of blood for a while, and soon realized that these things, including himself, were not simply moving randomly due to the surge, but were moving in a fixed direction.
This was a conscious action, not simply some dirt falling into the sea of blood.
The people at the temporary command post seemed to have the same idea after seeing this scene. After a moment of silence, they asked, "Are they collecting something?"
They quickly began to analyze the current situation. "Their cognitive abilities may still be relatively low. You are now in their cognitive misunderstanding. Under normal circumstances, living things that are wrapped by them should be assimilated. You were not assimilated, so they thought you were not a living thing and collected you like those other objects. Don't panic, just hold on."
After following the surge of the sea of blood for a while, as he went deeper into the woods, a raised cave was no longer covered by the jungle and appeared in front of him.
The direction of the blood sea in front of the cave changed, with part of it flowing in and part of it flowing out.
When arriving at the cave, Lu Jiamu was thrown up by the sea of blood and thrown into the cave, and then sank into a large jelly-like sea of blood again.
“Little…little…”
Lu Jiamu heard low humming sounds coming from the cave from all directions.
"Little...Princess...My little...Princess..."
Before he could figure out the direction and swim upwards, the jelly below pushed him and helped him get out of the sea of blood.
The searchlight illuminated the dark cave, and Lu Jiamu saw a protruding rock outside the sea of blood, on which was an old square table and four broken chairs.
On the table were some stone tools that looked like plates and bowls, which were heavily made by employees. The two damaged and lost drones were also piled up randomly on the platform.
There was a tattered corpse on each chair on either side, and in the middle sat a young girl with a pale and swollen body and lifeless eyes, who seemed to be dead.
They were all neatly arranged, as if they were placed there on purpose. It looked strangely like playing house.
The sudden strong light in the cave dazzled the girl. She finally reacted to the outside world and immediately covered her eyes with her hands.
This is clearly a living person.
The sea of blood surged violently again, pushing Lu Jiamu onto the platform.
The caves on all sides murmured again: "Toys... fell... from the sky..."
Lu Jiamu looked around and found that it was not the cave that was talking, but a lot of flesh and blood stuck to the top of the cave, forming a strange picture that looked like a big open face.
The pale girl slightly spread her fingers, suppressed the discomfort in her eyes, and looked at Lu Jiamu.
When she saw him clearly, the girl was already in tears, not knowing whether it was due to the strong light or some other reason.
She was shaking violently, and the chair almost flipped over: "Lu..."
She was trembling and couldn't utter a complete sentence: "Lu..."
Lu Jiamu looked at her and examined her carefully.
Although the girl's body was so swollen that her facial features were out of shape, if you looked closely, you could still see a familiar feeling.
Lu Jiamu subconsciously gave a soothing smile: "Wei Xiaoyan?"
Hearing someone calling her name again, the girl burst into tears silently, nodded frantically, and said in confusion: "Still...alive...I thought..."
Their missing companion was finally found.
All the miscellaneous items wrapped in the sea of blood floated to the surface, surging and circling the platform like a revolving restaurant.
There were a few sticky pieces of flesh hanging from the top of the cave. I fished them up and piled them on a plate on the dining table: "Food...c...eat..."
Wei Xiaoyan was still trembling and did not take any immediate action.
The sea of blood began to surge, and it was trying to crawl onto the platform, loudly questioning, "Why don't you eat? Are you picky about food?!"
Wei Xiaoyan forced a twisted smile: "Brother...Brother, I'll eat right away."
She did not touch the black and moldy wild fruits of unknown species. Instead, she picked out the least disgusting-looking grasshopper from the pile of miscellaneous items and stuffed it directly into her mouth.
Tears started flowing again.
Lu Jiamu noticed that she had several missing teeth in her mouth, probably because of lack of nutrition and lack of sunlight for a long time.
Her health condition is precarious and she could die at any time.
It was actually feeding her.
However, this sea of blood has a very strong infectious power. Any living thing it comes into contact with will be assimilated. It is easy to imagine what kind of things can be taken away by it.
After she finished eating a worm, the sea of blood calmed down a lot and began to flow regularly again.
The face on the top of the cave also moved strangely to reveal a soothing expression.
Wei Xiaoyan raised her head and looked at the flesh-like face on the top of the cave. She forced a smile that was uglier than crying and said, "I'm full. Leave the food for my parents."
The flesh hung down and swayed slightly, without any response.
She overcame her fear and made another request: "Brother, I...I want to talk to my new toy..."
The flesh and blood in the cave murmured again: "Little...Princess...My little...Princess..."
Wei Xiaoyan was too weak to stand up.
Lu Jiamu just heard Xuehai say that he was treated as a toy. He didn’t know what kind of toy he was in the eyes of this monster, whether he was the kind that could stand up and run by himself.
He was afraid that he would overturn the monster's understanding of "toys" and stimulate the monster to go crazy, so he didn't dare to move rashly.
Fortunately, Wei Xiaoyan also considered this and took the initiative to say, "Brother, I hope my toys can come to me."
The monster stopped moaning, and the feeling of being watched reappeared. It stretched out its flesh and blood to push Lu Jiamu, trying to push him in front of the girl.
The monster murmured again: "Doll... doll..."
It seems to have been tacitly agreed.
Lu Jiamu took two tentative steps, and seeing that the sea of blood did not continue to surge, he walked directly behind Wei Xiaoyan.
Lu Jiamu first whispered: "We have some private matters to discuss, would you like to step aside for a moment?"
After a moment of silence in the headset, the voice of the man in black came from the other side: "I asked them all to leave, you can talk."
It seems that he doesn't consider himself an outsider and doesn't allow any conversation that he doesn't know about to happen.
Wei Xiaoyan sat there woodenly for a moment, unable to react. She roughly realized that he was hinting that someone was eavesdropping on her and that she should not talk about overly sensitive topics.
Lu Jiamu asked first: "Why are you here?"
"I... I've been here since I arrived, and that's it. I've been sitting here and can't even stand up." Wei Xiaoyan's tears were falling, and she was almost emotionally broken. "I don't know who it is, but it said I was its sister and kept feeding me strange poisonous plants."
"I can't get out either. I can't contact anyone. I don't know what's happening outside. It's all red outside... I thought... I thought this place was worse than last time, that the whole world was destroyed, and that you were all dead..."
She looked at Lu Jiamu hopefully: "You, are you here to save me?"
Lu Jiamu nodded: "Yes, I came to save you."
Wei Xiaoyan's tone was almost filled with pleading: "Take me out, take me out..."
Lu Jiamu tried to calm her down: "Don't be afraid, we will get out."
The voice of the man in black came through the headset again: "Wei Xiaoyan did have a brother, but he was declared missing and dead a long time ago. Take a closer look at that face, and let's see if it's a mutation of that man."
Lu Jiamu raised his head and the light from the searchlight shone on the strange face on the top of the cave.
The man in black at the temporary command post tried to identify the image for a while, but finally gave up helplessly: "…It has mutated too much, and I can no longer restore its appearance when it was alive."
Lu Jiamu was afraid that the strong light would irritate it, so he immediately looked away.
After receiving his affirmative answer, Wei Xiaoyan had calmed down a little. She stared at Lu Jiamu and asked anxiously, "What should we do? I dare not resist, otherwise I will be like them."
She was talking about the two melted skeletons sitting on either side of the square table.
Wei Xiaoyan looked at him hopefully: "How should we leave?"
Yes, how to get out?
Because Lu Jiamu's operation goal was to carry out search work, he did bring an extra set of protective clothing when he came in, but it was just a thin layer with a simple structure, which was not enough to allow him to swim in the sea without getting wet.
After all, a set of breathing apparatus was already quite heavy for him, and if he added another set, he would be completely unable to walk.
The man in black said in the headset: "We made some mistakes in predicting the situation this time. Why don't you find a way out first, and then bring her out next time you explore."
But Wei Xiaoyan’s current health condition gives people the feeling that she can survive today but not tomorrow.
Moreover, Lu Jiamu had already gone too deep into the forest, and it would not be easy for him to get out. If he wanted to swim out like he had come in, the blood sea would not allow him to do so.
Endlessly swimming in the opposite direction in the jelly would wear him out. Although the optical fiber and cable have not broken yet, it is nothing but a pipe dream to expect that these things alone can pull him out.
He had to choose a more proactive approach.
"It's not easy for me to go out now." Lu Jiamu said, "I know you can't get too close to the ground, but I need more equipment support from you."
The man in black immediately asked, "What do you need?"
"I need you to help me burn a path."
The other side immediately fell silent, and after a while, they said, "We will not use incendiary weapons rashly, because we cannot be sure whether the anomaly will cause secondary pollution after being burned by fire. Moreover, it is so deep that we cannot predict whether it will splash out of the pit after bombing it. And once incendiary weapons are used, it will be difficult for you to survive."
I always feel that the burning he talked about is not burning in the conventional sense, but something more lethal.
"I don't want to die that much, I mean the burning of gasoline."
Lu Jiamu explained: "Just drop a few boxes of gasoline and incendiary bottles. Also bring ignition devices, oxygen bottles, anti-burning blankets and so on. As for whether there is secondary contamination, haven't you already got the samples? Try burning one as soon as possible and wait for your good news."
"I'll arrange it as soon as possible."
The monster in the cave seemed to have fallen into a state of comfort, rising and falling slowly as if it was breathing, but no longer surging so aggressively.
In order to save oxygen, Lu Jiamu temporarily turned off the breathing device and secretly opened the protective suit.
Wei Xiaoyan is in poor health. She was too excited just now and is now starting to feel dizzy.
After briefly asking about the situation outside and learning that the world outside was safe and that everyone else had logged in with ordinary identities and had not encountered much danger, and that only her side was abnormal, her dizzy brain no longer allowed her to think about any more questions.
Wei Xiaoyan fell into a sleepy sleep while unconscious in the chair, and then she began to speak in a daze, "I am really grateful that you took the risk to come to me this time. I had already given up hope that someone would come to save me. I thought the rest of my life would just be like this."
"I don't know how long I have been in this hellhole. I feel desperate every moment and want to end my life. But now, you let me see you, let me know that everyone is fine, there are people out there who miss me, and the world has not been destroyed. Thank you so much."
"If I don't make it out this time, please thank them both on my behalf, especially Sister Kou Man. Thank you for taking care of me along the way. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be here today."
As Wei Xiaoyan spoke, she broke down and cried again.
She began to talk about where she went to school, where she lived, and what her parents' names were, hoping that Lu Jiamu would have the chance to bring news back about her.
It sounds like a suicide note.
It seems that she has completely lost confidence in herself.
Lu Jiamu listened for a while and began to comfort her: "The problem will be solved."
Twenty minutes later, a voice came back from the headset: "We have already set off. Do you have any specific requirements for the drop-off location of fuel and equipment?"
According to the behavior pattern that the blood sea had just shown, it seemed that it would first bring the strange things it picked up to Wei Xiaoyan in a flattering manner. So no matter where it was thrown, it would eventually be brought to the cave.
"Just throw it into the abnormal area."
After a while, the sound of propellers roaring in the sky was heard. Although it did not stay for long before flying away, the sea of blood began to boil again and began to roll and burst violently, as if trying to catch the plane.
But because the opponent flew too high, it failed.
Lu Jiamu quickly put on the protective suit again and turned on the breathing system. The protective suit quickly inflated again and became bloated.
He stood at the edge of the platform and looked out into the sea of blood.
A few minutes later, a pile of boxes were really swept over by it, and the blood wave pushed them onto the platform.
The open face on the top of the cave murmured again: "Toys... fell... from the sky..."
Lu Jiamu opened it and took a look. There were indeed several boxes of gasoline, a box of incendiary bottles, several flamethrowers, as well as flame-retardant items such as fire blankets and fire extinguishers, oxygen cylinders and other life-sustaining equipment.
Because the exploration images were always synchronized, Wei Xiaoyan was also seen at the temporary command point. This time they also considerately sent some medical nutrients.
The boxes were thrown down and smashed into the jelly-like sea of blood without suffering any damage.
Lu Jiamu first opened the nutrient solution and handed it to Wei Xiaoyan.
Although nutritional supplements are not something particularly delicious, the aroma of normal fat and protein still woke up Wei Xiaoyan who was half asleep.
Seeing that it looked like food, her eyes lit up and she immediately took it and took two big gulps.
Not moldy fruit, not leaves of unknown poisonous nature, not dead insects.
Such normal food tasted so sweet, she was so excited that tears came to her eyes.
Lu Jiamu took out another barrel of gasoline from the box.
Half of the blood flows from the outside into the cave, and the other half flows around the platform and then leaves the cave and flows out. It follows a regular pattern.
Lu Jiamu tentatively poured some gasoline towards the side of the sea of blood flowing out of the cave.
The sea of blood rolled over, and it seemed to taste something unusual, but it couldn't react to what it was.
The main behavior patterns of the Blood Sea are focused on instinctive infection and assimilation, and it does not have much ability to distinguish between seemingly harmless tricks.
Instead of mixing with the gasoline, it sped up in an attempt to get the pungent-smelling liquid out of the cave as quickly as possible.
Seeing that the gasoline was moving almost in a straight line, Lu Jiamu increased the speed of pouring.
No one commented on him in the headset, but someone made a "tsk" sound.
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