Chapter 80 Gene Invasion 6
Wait a minute, Lin Xia paused. If all these people were to become animalistic, would they be as powerful as these two...?
Well, it's all a personal choice. She can't just go and kill everyone now, can she? The world is already in such a mess anyway...
Seeing the dog-faced man staring intently at her from the roadside, Lin Xia frowned. She had been caught in a lizard's tail and thrown out, yet she was still alive; she was quite lucky.
"Have you mutated? Did you mutate during this mutation?" The dog-faced man asked excitedly.
Lin Xia ignored him and continued walking forward. He was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "I really know the location of the safe base. I can take you there."
"This mutation? You don't seem surprised at all by this mutation?"
The dog-faced man looked conflicted, glanced around, and said, "Come with me."
Lin Xia didn't move. She glanced at him and continued walking forward. How this world had mutated was none of her business, and she had no desire to investigate it.
The dog-faced man took two steps, looked back, paused, and immediately caught up, saying in a very low voice, "Are you really not going? It's safe there."
Seeing that Lin Xia really didn't want to talk to him, he looked around and said in a low voice, "Okay, I don't know much either. I'm a... second generation. I only know that they are conducting gene fusion experiments. The establishment of the safe base only took this factor into account. It wasn't specifically built, but it can indeed resist the invasion of mutated plants."
"You mean this time it was caused by humans themselves?"
The dog-faced man nodded: "I only know that someone is indeed conducting this experiment, but I don't know how it was leaked."
Lin Xia didn't believe this person's words, but she still found it somewhat unbelievable that the apocalypse was created by humans.
At this point, she also gave up the idea of going to the safe base. If she were accidentally captured and used for experiments, it wouldn't just be a question of whether she could survive until the game time ended.
Lin Xia ignored him and continued walking. After a while, the sky darkened and the smell of earth filled the air.
It's going to rain.
"It's going to rain, we'd better take shelter." The dog-faced man said from behind, "The acid rain was already bad enough, and with this unknown mutation, it's best to take shelter."
Lin Xia extended her mental energy to examine the surrounding buildings. The commotion from the fight had scared away many people, and many houses were empty.
She hurried on, wanting to get as far away from the place as possible, since what was attracted by flesh and blood might be something else, and there were also animals in the zoo behind her.
Before getting soaked in the rain, Lin Xia ran into a relatively intact building and chose an empty room.
Recalling what that person had just said, Lin Xia was a little confused. The zombie virus was airborne, so it was normal for it to spread all over the world. Here, all the plants and animals mutated together, so it couldn't be airborne as well.
Does that really have no impact on humans at all, or are there actually mutated individuals who are unaware of it due to a lack of communication?
I can't figure it out. My mental energy saw that the dog-faced man's nose was twitching, and he actually followed me. He really does have a dog's nose...
Lin Xia still vividly remembered how this person treated his wounds and struggled with his mutated body when he first appeared, and he felt that this person was not the same as he had just appeared.
She was just a mission taker and didn't want to get involved in anything complicated. She genuinely didn't sense any malice from him, so whatever his purpose was, she should just stay away.
Thinking of this, looking outside, Lin Xia suddenly remembered her earth ball and immediately exchanged for one. However, she felt that a pure earth ball wasn't very safe here, so she exchanged for two [Gold Element Cards].
A thick layer of metal was wrapped around the soil ball, and a fine mesh was made at the window opening. Insecticide was crushed and applied along the edges of the doors and windows and the mesh, with the remainder sprinkled in the passageway between the inside and outside of the window.
Looking at the ball and thinking of the prop he had seen before—the space cabin—Lin Xia suddenly became interested. He looked around the room, took out a magnifying camera, and magnified the ball of earth twice its size.
It was much more spacious inside, and indeed much more comfortable. I put the mattress, blankets, and pillows that the hotel had put away inside.
Inside the earthen ball, a sliding curtain was added to the small window. Pushing the entire metal sheet through left only a small gap for ventilation, lying on the bed, I felt much better wrapped up like this.
[Insect-proof safe house: Improved item, can repel insects, but ugly, needs improvement.]
Backup successful: Backup of the insect-proof safe house, requires 10 survival points.
Lin Xia was satisfied with the backup; at least it provided shelter from the wind and rain, and kept out insects.
The rain poured down, and Lin Xia put away the clay ball and began to exercise. She worked up a sweat and was wiping her face with a wet towel when she suddenly felt a slight itch on her hand.
She looked down at her hand and saw a small red dot, but it disappeared slowly after a while, and the itching sensation subsided.
She scanned her body inside and out with her mental energy and found no problems. Then she turned her attention outside.
To the naked eye, there was nothing but the pouring rain; it was eerily quiet except for the sound of the rain.
Lin Xia swept her mental energy over and saw that the rainwater contained tiny particles that, as the rainwater fell to various places, caused clumps of fungi to grow on the ground and trees.
In just a short while, it was as if the speed had been accelerated, and clumps of spores sprouted from the ground. Therefore, these particles are spores.
More and more spores mixed into the rainwater, flying everywhere with the rain and the wind.
Lin Xia saw the dog-faced man not far away, huddled in a corner, staring at the outside with a wary and puzzled expression.
The other mutated people were the same, looking wary and suspicious, as if they didn't know why they were so tense, but they were all far from the window and had blocked it with something.
Meanwhile, the small animals outside and the rats underground all stayed obediently huddled underground, not showing their faces at all.
Looking at the broken window of her room, with spores falling in with the rain, Lin Xia moved her hand, and the [Wind Element Card] appeared. A gust of wind blew through, sweeping all the spores in the room outside.
A thin metal shield appeared on the broken window.
Thinking about the itching sensation on her skin earlier, Lin Xia had a bad feeling. Even mutated people were afraid of it, and its growth rate was too fast.
Looking at the [Waterproof Boots] on my feet, my toes were indeed kept dry. Fungi need a certain temperature and humidity to grow. I checked my survival points and used 1000 points to exchange for a complete set of [Waterproof Suit].
The waterproof boots were already in place, so Lin Xia put them away for now. She checked the room again and found no spores. She took out a soil ball and wiped herself with a damp towel inside before changing into the waterproof suit.
The clothes looked bulky, but they felt very light when worn, and she still wore glasses and a mask on her face.
Suddenly a scream rang out, and Lin Xia's mental energy rushed over. She saw a room full of people, all screaming and hiding from the person in the middle, their faces filled with fear.
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