Chapter 321: Numb, Numb
So far.
A team of a hundred people was scattered by the vines in the dense forest before they could even divide themselves into teams. No one knew where their final destination would be.
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At the fork in the road, no matter how panicked the people around them were, Lan Jin and his group of nearly 20 remained motionless.
Whenever vines attacked, whether they had special powers or not, they could repel them. There was no danger at all, and an illusion appeared on their faces.
The vines flying in the air in the dense forest were not moving endlessly. After scattering these people away, they all stopped in an instant as if the spring had run out of energy.
Lan Jin asked doubtfully, "The vines are so neatly planted. Could it be someone's doing this?"
but--
Who could have controlled the mutated plants? Could it be that these plants could really understand human language?
Huang Jinghe laughed and said, "Could it be that aliens are controlling this?"
Unexpectedly, Huang Jinghe's joke attracted the attention of everyone present. I mean, this explanation doesn't seem so unreasonable.
In the end times, alien species are everywhere. If all this is not caused by humans, then it must be aliens.
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, humans cooperate with aliens -
However, Lan Jin felt that this possibility was unlikely.
I can't think about it anymore. If I think about it again, I won't know which direction to go.
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Looking at the team that had few members left, Zhou Zhi also asked, "Captain Zhang, what should we do next?"
Captain Zhang smiled bitterly. What else could he do? There were people everywhere. Even if he could go to rescue them, he might not even be able to find the way. After sighing, he said, "Anyone who can come here must be skilled. Besides... we can't rescue them either. Let's just go and carry out our mission first."
As long as there are no large mutant creatures like the above, they are just some mutant plants, which should not be that scary.
But Lao Gao reminded him at the right time: "Captain Zhang, how can plants not be scary? Back in H City, everyone was injured by the plants here, and then they mutated and gained superpowers. Even if it is a plant, we can't take it lightly."
Especially in this dense forest, if a mutation occurs and those who are not injured are injured, or even killed, it would not be good.
But where should we chase now? So what's the point of saying this?
Captain Zhang stroked his forehead and said, "Do I need your reminder? I don't know the consequences, but you tell me where to look and where to start."
Lao Gao simply turned his face to the other side and stopped talking.
Captain Zhang, after counting the number of people present and confirming that there were 20 people in total, was faced with the same decision as before.
Which road should I take?
"Call the troops and generals, and go wherever they are called." Lao Gao said bluntly. After saying that, he was worried that Captain Zhang would scold him, so he defended himself: "Don't criticize me, can you really choose like this?"
Can't choose.
But this is too much of a joke on life.
Just when Captain Zhang was about to curse a few words, a huge multi-legged insect suddenly emerged from the leftmost of the three passages facing them.
This multi-legged insect looks exactly like the one with eye-like patterns on its back that we encountered at the H City base, but after being placed here, its size is much larger. One insect alone is as long as an adult man. In addition, its body is huge, and it looks rounder and larger than an adult man's body.
But no matter what, Lan Jin was really afraid of this kind of insect. In a blink of an eye, she was frightened and screamed continuously. Her body kept dodging backwards, trying to keep the maximum distance from it.
After dodging for two steps, Lan Jin bumped into Zhou Zhiye, who was closest to her. She turned around and hid behind him as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw, using Zhou Zhiye's body to completely block her view of the insect.
Lan Jin's exaggerated reaction not only scared the team members around her, but also the insects that slowly crawled out from the fork in the road were frightened by her.
The insect suddenly stopped, and after everyone looked in its direction, it stood up half of its body. However, the standing insect was obviously even more terrifying. The legs crawling under its body were all facing everyone's eyes, and many of the legs that were not touching the ground were also scratching in the air. Anyone who saw it would get goosebumps.
What was even more terrifying was that there was an eye-like pattern on the insect's belly. Every time the insect moved its legs, it felt as if the eye was wriggling and staring in their direction, which made almost everyone present shudder.
Lan Jin's screams continued. Her reaction was entirely out of fear of the centipede. However, there were also girls in the team who were afraid of insects. Pei Xin was one of them. After seeing the centipede not far behind her, she ran while screaming. Soon she ran a long way and completely forgot about her cracked pelvis.
After the multi-legged insect had scrambled through the air for a while, it finally landed on the ground. When it looked at the 20 team members at the fork in the road, Captain Zhang immediately panicked, "Lan Jin, there's electricity!"
"Oh my god, what's with the electricity? I can't do it, I can't do it. I'm most afraid of these bugs. They have too many legs. I'm numb, numb."
Lan Jin was not exaggerating this time. The sentence "I'm numb" was a true portrayal of her at the moment. Not only her legs were numb, but her whole body was numb. She could use her lightning power, but since she couldn't see, how could she find the right direction to electrocute the other party?
This was the first time Zhou Zhi had seen Lan Jin like this. With her standing in front of him, he really didn't know whether to laugh or how to react.
After a final thought, he said calmly, "12 o'clock."
Lan Jin's mind paused for two seconds, and then he understood what Zhou Zhiye meant, and immediately a bolt of lightning struck towards the 12 o'clock direction.
The insect was frightened by the scream and was struck by lightning until it was burnt on the outside and tender on the inside before it could react.
Panicked, Lan Jin still didn't dare look across. She just clung to Zhou Zhiye's heat-insulating suit, unwilling to leave. But after the electric shock was over, she still asked about the result, "Is it dead? Is it dead? Is it dead?"
"Dead, dead, completely dead." Shen Zhiyan said helplessly: "Why are you so scared?"
Although she was also frightened just now, her reaction was not as big as Lan Jin's.
Upon hearing that it was dead, Lan Jin immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said, "There's really nothing I can do about this. I was afraid of this thing before the end of the world, especially the one with many legs. It was so big, I was really scared of it."
(End of this chapter)
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