Chapter 163
Lu Jiamu poured two more barrels of gasoline on the side exiting the cave, then walked back and put on a single-layer protective suit for Wei Xiaoyan.
"Be careful not to suffocate." Lu Jiamu handed her the portable oxygen bottle again, "I'll carry you on my back later, and we'll rush out together."
After eating half a bag of nutritional supplements, Wei Xiaoyan felt that she had regained some energy and a rare sense of being alive.
She tremblingly took the oxygen cylinder, and Lu Jiamu helped her put the oxygen mask on her head.
Lu Jiamu put the incendiary bottle back into the pocket of his protective suit, gave the rest to Wei Xiaoyan, covered her with a layer of flame-retardant blanket, and carried her on his back.
Although Wei Xiaoyan looked particularly bloated, her weight was much lighter than expected. She might even be heavier than all the miscellaneous equipment combined. It was probably because she had some osteoporosis due to long-term lack of nutrition.
Lu Jiamu asked her "Are you ready?"
Wei Xiaoyan said tremblingly: "Ready... ready."
As soon as Wei Xiaoyan left the tattered chair, the strange face on the top of the cave seemed to sense something. As the sea of blood turbulently moved, its low moan became sharper and sharper: "Little...little princess..."
"Where's my...little princess?"
The sea of blood began to climb onto the table, and several tentacles condensed to try to hit the table, but they were all scared away by the fire-breathing gun.
Seeing that the gasoline had almost been poured out and was transported far away by the winding sea of blood, Lu Jiamu identified the general direction and unscrupulously threw a little spark at the gasoline.
Wherever the gasoline passed, it was instantly ignited and flames rose.
A small portion of the blood sea mucus was directly burnt.
Screams and curses that were beyond the limits of human voice could be heard from all directions.
Out of instinctive fear of fire and high temperature, the sea of blood was frightened and quickly retreated to both sides. The ones that retreated slowly had already begun to burn.
But the ignited gasoline would not go out so quickly, and it was still burning even when it had fallen to the bottom. The flames were like a knife, cutting the sea of blood directly.
This path is a scene of mountains and seas.
In addition to protective clothing, the base also gave Lu Jiamu an inflatable insulating material similar to an umbrella, which he turned upside down and placed on the sea of blood.
Seeing the right moment, he jumped onto the parachute with Wei Xiaoyan on his back, and went downstream like a whitewater rafting player, spraying a fire extinguisher and rushing directly into the vacuum zone.
There are towering seas of blood on both sides, and at the bottom you can clearly see that they are five or six meters high.
Lu Jiamu folded up the inflatable umbrella and started running wildly.
There were faint sounds of people talking in the earphones, as if they were estimating where he would most likely appear if he could break out of the sea of blood and get close to the cliff, so that they could reach him as quickly as possible.
He was halfway through his mad run when the gasoline in the front had already burned out. The sea of blood on both sides and the red slime clinging to the treetops began to surge.
They screamed and muttered something in confusion. A few puddles of slime had already jumped down eagerly, but they were all burned by the flamethrower.
Lu Jiamu took out the incendiary bottle and threw it out, reigniting the fire, and then opened the inflatable umbrella.
Mucus kept falling on the inflatable umbrella like rain. Every time he threw away a lump, new mucus would keep coming up, making his movements increasingly difficult.
Wei Xiaoyan didn't dare to cry at first, but she soon broke down in this endless feeling of oppression and kept begging: "Brother, please let me go, please let me go!"
Her health was already in poor condition. In great fear, her ears kept buzzing and she gradually lost her mind. She even wanted to reason with the monster: "Didn't you say I was your little princess? If you do this... If you do this, I will die too..."
But the surging sea of blood certainly wouldn't pay any attention.
They raised her only because some vague consciousness that they couldn't explain prompted them to act. But that vague and chaotic consciousness before death was certainly no match for instinct.
She is no longer their "little princess", she is just food.
They just want to devour, digest and assimilate the two people together, turning them into mucus and making them the same existence as themselves!
The slime that dripped down was like deadly acid rain, winding its way to find holes in their bodies so it could infect them.
The optical fiber was also burned by the flames during the run, and the wireless communication signal was not very good.
However, the two sides were still able to communicate and roughly understood the route.
Although there is a compass to refer to the direction, there is no reference point, so running still feels aimless.
After running for an unknown amount of time, when Lu Jiamu was about to use up all the incendiary bottles, the terrain finally began to rise and fall.
Soon, he rushed out of the woods and reached the edge of the cliff.
Several drones were flying around the cliff. When they detected that someone seemed to be coming out here, they all flew over immediately.
The team members above knew their position and began to move quickly, nodding and throwing ropes to support them.
Lu Jiamu smashed the last □□ against the cliff, igniting a large flame, and grabbed the cable.
The sea of blood instinctively feared fire and did not dare to attack directly. Only a few scattered pieces of blood jumped into the fire.
Lu Jiamu was climbing up from below and the team members above were also pulling him up, and he soon got out of the trough.
Fearing that the abnormality below would rush up again and cause them to fail, the team members also poured two bottles of fuel from the side to intensify the fire.
The sea of blood continued to surge, and the waves tried to reach upwards several times but always failed.
They could no longer touch them, so they began to hum in a low voice among the screams: "Little...Princess..."
They imitated the previous words in a chaotic manner, as if they wanted to bewitch people again: "My little princess... give you a doll..."
Wei Xiaoyan had lost consciousness due to the high temperature and was barely brought up by Lu Jiamu.
She couldn't hear what they said, and she avoided another mental shock.
After pulling the two people up, the attitude of the team members above changed drastically. They stayed far away and were wary of them.
After Lu Jiamu put Wei Xiaoyan down and turned her around on the spot, letting them see that there was no red liquid on her clothes and that there were no obvious damages or leaks in her protective clothing, their attitude improved a little.
But they still didn't dare to come closer, so the leader said, "Check that little girl too."
After Lu Jiamu picked up Wei Xiaoyan and checked her, making sure that she was not stained with any red liquid, the fully armed team members were reluctantly willing to approach them. They sprayed disinfectant on them while bringing in two isolation chambers shaped like body bags.
The two people were put into bags one after the other and transferred back to the temporary command point outside the forest by helicopter. They were immediately isolated upon arrival.
The man in black glanced at him briefly, praised him and congratulated him for coming out alive, then left quickly.
Kouman ended her quarantine today. After hearing that Lu Jiamu brought Wei Xiaoyan out, she immediately submitted an application to visit the two of them.
In Wei Xiaoyan's isolation chamber, there were many medical staff in isolation suits busy with instruments.
Through the gap between them, Kou Man vaguely saw the swollen, pale, and unconscious girl on the bed. When she saw her for the first time, she didn't even recognize that it was Wei Xiaoyan.
Coleman quickly asked what was going on.
The medical staff took the time to glance at her, roughly recognized who she was, and said in a very concise manner: "Long-term food poisoning and severe malnutrition. You need to receive treatment as soon as possible, otherwise your life will be in danger."
Coleman watched for a while, but left quickly for fear of affecting their operations.
Lu Jiamu’s isolation room was much simpler, he was locked up alone.
Coleman hadn't found anyone to ask questions to, and it was still unclear what had happened to them.
When the other party came to visit him and asked what happened, Lu Jiamu was afraid of making people feel uncomfortable by saying too much, so he simply described that Wei Xiaoyan was kept in captivity by a monster, ate little, drank little, and had no sun exposure, so her body was not very healthy. He told them that they could ask about the details after Wei Xiaoyan woke up, and he didn't want to say anything else.
The people in the temporary command point became even busier after they came back. No one knew what they were doing, but they were even less willing to pay attention to outsiders than before.
By the afternoon of the next day, even though he was in the isolation room, Lu Jiamu heard several loud noises like firecrackers in the distance, and the ground seemed to tremble a few times.
Hearing the noise, Coleman immediately stood up and went out to check the situation. After a quick turn, he came back with a somewhat odd expression:
"They evacuated all the residents in the surrounding area and conducted some experiments. They found that the monster was not only extremely contagious, but also essentially made of flesh and blood and afraid of high temperatures. So they fired some incendiary bombs directly into the mountain. Now the whole mountain is on fire."
When Coleman opened and closed the door, Lu Jiamu vaguely felt that the brightness of the outside environment was a little higher than usual.
Lu Jiamu thought of the strange, restrained and reserved tone of the man in black when he mentioned the abnormal burning area. He put down the book in his hand and sighed half-jokingly: "Fortunately, I came out early."
It turns out that when they talk about burning, the other party has always been thinking of incendiary bombs. The limitations of the concept of force are actually due to insufficient firepower.
"I guess they have been busy with this matter these two days." Kou Man also looked a little frightened. "It's really thanks to you this time, otherwise Wei Xiaoyan would have been burned to death in there. Fortunately, we haven't lost her yet."
Lu Jiamu felt that there was an obvious sense of relief in Kouman's expression, as if he had put down some heavy burdens.
The fire over there was over, and the man in black soon had the energy to show his face in front of them and come to visit them.
He seemed to be in a good mood, and his steps were much more brisk. He walked in with two file boxes, nodded to Kou Man first, and then looked at Lu Jiamu.
"I believe you are aware of the recent developments." He explained, "We have been broadcasting in the woods for a week and have conducted some search and rescue operations, but have received no response. We have determined that there are no signs of human activity in the woods, so we have carried out some necessary physical strikes to deal with the problem."
"I won't feel at ease until we completely destroy them. Although the temperature of the flame can reach thousands of degrees, it is difficult to guarantee that the anomaly will not remain in places such as cracks in the mountain, so we may stay here for a while and carry out secondary disinfection after the fire is extinguished. If you have any questions during this period, you can come to us."
"Thank you very much for your help in this operation. Your outstanding performance in dealing with anomalies and your contribution in helping us obtain samples have enabled us to quickly conduct experiments and determine the weaknesses of the anomalies." The man in black put the box on the ground and opened it. "You have won our recognition with your actions, so the personal belongings that were seized from you last time because of the Internet cafe incident will be returned to you this time."
He took out the items one by one, some of them belonged to Lu Jiamu and some to Yu Leng.
The man in black picked out Lu Jiamu's personal belongings and sent them to the isolation room. Yu Leng gave them to Kou Man with a sneer, "And take them to the other person."
The diary that had not been seen for a long time also returned to Lu Jiamu's hands.
After Lu Jiamu took the diary, it lay motionless in his hands for a moment, and then a line of small words slowly appeared on the cover: [How have you been recently?]
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