Chapter 122 Researcher: Fang Zhi

She followed the trail all the way into another room.

The thing in front was fast and hidden in the darkness. When Jiang Ning caught up, it had already disappeared into the house.

She stopped and paused for a moment, carefully observing the surrounding environment.

Swish—

a sound of breaking through the air came to her ears, and a black shadow rushed towards her, and its claws stopped just less than a centimeter in front of her.

At the same time, Jiang Ning's defense barrier seemed to tremble as if it had substance.

The black shadow didn't seem to expect that she had a defense barrier. After being discovered by Jiang Ning, he did not choose to attack again, but quickly hid in the darkness.

Jiang Ning narrowed his eyes, the black shadow looked very similar to a human.

It's a contaminant!

And this contaminant knows how to take advantage of the environment and use the surrounding darkness to hide its body.

This is the third time Jiang Ning has come into contact with a contaminant.

The first time was in the back mountain of the school's flight training ground, and the second time was in the contaminated area of ​​Red Star N001. This is her third time facing a contaminant head-on.

The first time, the contaminant was dead. Si Yuan was the first to discover it, and then it was handed over to the school teacher for treatment. She had no contact with it throughout the whole process.

The second time, the contaminant was controlled by a mutant plant, so it couldn't be considered a real encounter.

The contaminant is very smart.

After they mutate, they still retain some human consciousness, but their subconscious will not regard them as humans, but will try their best to contaminate you, kill you, and turn you into one of them.

Putting aside the idea of ​​thinking about the contaminant, there is a more critical question: How did he become a contaminant?

Logically, if there was an emergency during the monitoring process, all researchers should have received the news in advance and evacuated B22 in an orderly manner. How could he stay here and become a contaminant?

Was it because what happened at that time was too sudden that he had to stay here?

Jiang Ning couldn't think any further because the contaminant soon launched a second attack on her.

This is the territory of the contaminated body. He has a natural advantage here. Jiang Ning was completely unable to locate his specific position for a while, and his attacks failed.

The contaminated body was still wandering in the monitoring room.

Every sound he made seemed to be a provocation to Jiang Ning.

After several attacks failed in succession, Jiang Ning stopped releasing her supernatural powers rashly. She stopped and listened carefully to the movements made by the contaminated body.

This room should be very large, at least twice as large as the hall they just entered. The contaminated body was moving along the walls all around, and he was walking directly on the walls.

The hard rubber soles stepped on the metal steel plates, making a "thump thump" sound.

The sound was getting closer and closer to her.

Jiang Ning glanced sideways at the wall next to him.

He came again.

Jiang Ning raised his hand, summoned rose petals from his palm and shot them towards the wall.

The contaminated body was very alert. As soon as Jiang Ning attacked, he stopped and shot the petals into the metal plate.

The petals swept along the edge of the wall.

The contaminated body had to give up the wall and move to the ground area.

Jiang Ning had already seized the breakthrough point, so she would not let him go.

Her petals attacked continuously, and no matter where the contaminated body hid, her petals would track him to his front.

But none of the petals hit, and the contaminated body dodged them every time.

Jiang Ning raised her eyebrows, not knowing whether her accuracy had weakened in the dark, or whether the contaminated body was too agile.

Since the dark environment prevented her from seeing clearly, she had to light up the surroundings again.

Jiang Ning concentrated and imagined the appearance of a lantern tree in his mind.

The lantern tree got its name because its fruit looks like a lantern. Its leaves contain a large amount of phosphorus, and it can emit a light blue cold light in a dark environment.

Unlike fireflies that will cover people with spores, the function of the lantern tree can only be used for lighting.

When there is no danger, this dark environment can be adapted, but now that a pollutant has appeared, the situation is instantly different.

Jiang Ning raised his hand and summoned a lantern tree in the center of the room.

The shape of the lantern tree is of a certain size, and the mature lantern tree completely fills up the room.

As Jiang Ning's spiritual power was continuously released, a light blue light gradually appeared on the leaves of the lantern tree.

The room was lit up by the faint blue light, and Jiang Ning easily captured the figure of the pollutant.

He was wearing a white coat with his sleeves rolled up to his arms. There was not a single piece of good flesh left on his exposed skin, which was pitted and red.

His face was even worse, with sunken features and sagging skin, like an apple that had been left for a long time and rotted.

The pollutant had nowhere to hide, so he decided to burn his boats and came towards Jiang Ning with a fierce face.

Passing by an operating table, he picked up an iron rod as a weapon.

His right foot was a little lame, and he limped when he walked. The iron rod dragged on the ground and made a rough sound.

Jiang Ning did not rush to take action, but observed him.

The contaminated body was getting closer and closer to her. Jiang Ning could even see the words on his white coat clearly, Researcher: Fang Zhi.

In a moment, Fang Zhi had come in front of Jiang Ning. He raised the iron rod in his hand and swung it down in Jiang Ning's direction without hesitation.

The moment the iron rod fell on Jiang Ning's head, she finally moved, and her body flashed to the side to avoid the attack.

Before Fang Zhi finished the second transformation, Jiang Ning clenched his five fingers and threw a quick punch. Fang Zhi's wrist joint was triggered and he opened his palm reflexively.

With a "clang",

the iron rod fell to the ground.

Sometimes the advantage in combat is completely superior to the attack of supernatural power.

A white ball of light danced between Jiang Ning's knuckles. She circled her wrist, and several bright red petals appeared. As she moved, they pierced through his clothes and skin smoothly, and pierced into Fang Zhi's heart along his ribs.

No blood flowed out, and Fang Zhi didn't even feel a trace of pain.

His skin had long been dry, his heart had stopped beating, and no new blood was produced in his body.

The contaminated body had died when he mutated, and it would take a headshot to kill it.

Jiang Ning did not dodge, but summoned the plants again.

Fang Zhi seemed to realize that the man in front of him was really capable of killing him. So he stopped fighting and ran towards the hall at a very fast speed, trying to avoid Jiang Ning's pursuit.

When Jiang Ning was halfway through summoning plants, Fang Zhi had already escaped a few meters away.

She pursed her lips, thinking that the time to summon plants was still too slow.

Jiang Ning accelerated and rushed, trying to catch up with Fang Zhi.

The lighting of the lantern fruit could only illuminate a part of the room and the corridor, and it was dark again in the hall.

Darkness was Fang Zhi's best cover.

When Jiang Ning caught up, Fang Zhi disappeared again.

This was the most cunning mutant she had ever dealt with, even more cunning than the group of contaminated bodies controlled by mutant plants in the N001 contaminated area.

She took a deep breath and listened to the situation around her again.

Tick, tick, tick.

The footsteps came from the left, very dull, as if there was a wall between them, and the sound came from the other side of the wall.

Jiang Ning still hasn't figured out the full picture of this pollution monitoring center.

Could it be that there is another corridor leading to another direction, a space that extends infinitely like an anthill?

Jiang Ning thought for a moment, and walked along the wall in the direction of the sound.

She was not sure if there was only one pollutant here, as the footsteps just now sounded like several overlapping ones.

Of course, she could summon a lantern tree to illuminate each room, but there was no need to, as that would be a waste of mental energy.

Jiang Ning was the only one in the empty corridor. After staying in this dark environment for a long time, she could barely see the surrounding scene clearly.

This corridor is much longer than the room they entered. Jiang Ning didn't know how long she walked before she finally reached the end of the corridor.

Swish.

The same scene was repeated, and another black shadow rushed out.

Jiang Ning was well prepared this time. The moment the black shadow appeared, she released a light blade to hit the man.

"Ouch!"

Jiang Ning frowned: "?"

Can the contaminated body speak?

"There's another one here!" The speaker was a boy. He seemed to have discovered something and shouted excitedly to the back.

Jiang Ning blinked and felt that the voice was somewhat familiar.

Before she could come to her senses, a soil spike shot from the side towards her face.

Jiang Ning took a half step back and dodged to the side.

After stabilizing her body, she called out to the darkness, "Cheng Yao."

The person on the other side paused for a moment, and then she said in an uncertain tone, "Jiang Ning?"

"It's me," Jiang Ning said .

The boy who attacked Jiang Ning earlier stood up, and flames appeared from the tips of his fingers. He walked in front of Jiang Ning as a light.

"It's really you! Jiang Ning." The boy's expression became visibly happy, and he asked, "Why are you here?"

Under the light of the fire, Cheng Yao walked out of the darkness.

Jiang Ning roughly told the two of them how they got here, and then she looked around and asked, "Where is the other person among you?"

When talking about this topic, the light in the boy's eyes dimmed again.

"Eliminated." Cheng Yao also lowered his eyes, "It was because I didn't protect him well that the contaminant had a chance to take advantage of him."

Rustling.

Jiang Ning tilted her head to the side, interrupting the two people's next words.

"Now is not the time to talk, there is another contaminant here." She tensed her nerves and lowered her voice to the two people.

Cheng Yao and the boy nodded, and the boy extinguished the fire in his hand.

Jiang Ning re-established a sensory connection with the two people, and said to Cheng Yao through perception, "Guard the exit to prevent him from escaping again."

"Got it." Cheng Yao replied to her briefly and began to execute Jiang Ning's order.

The three people surrounded Fang Zhi in a triangle, and Fang Zhi was trapped in the middle.

The darkness was both his cover and everyone's cover.

Bang.

It was unknown who attacked Fang Zhi, but he finally hit his head. His brain exploded instantly, and his brain and skin tissues were scattered all over the ground.

Jiang Ning deliberately moved away to avoid being hit by it.

The surroundings became quiet.

After a long time, Jiang Ning summoned another lantern tree for lighting.

Fang Zhi's body was lying on the ground, his head was gone, his neck was broken, and there were black holes all over his body.

Jiang Ning glanced at the ground, and then quickly looked through the rules.

He saw that the rules stated that the contaminated body was a special mutant, and it counted as 2 points.

As long as they took Fang Zhi's body out, they could get extra points.

Thinking this in his heart, Jiang Ning walked up to Fang Zhi and squatted down.

Huh?

Jiang Ning glanced at the object casually and saw a black chip stuck in Fang Zhi's left wrist. The chip was violently inserted into the flesh, and there was dried blood on it.

From this direction... it looked like Fang Zhi had inserted it himself.

She pulled it out of Fang Zhi's wrist, wiped off the blood, and took it in her palm to look at it.

Cheng Yao walked over at this time, saw the extra thing in her hand and asked, "What is this?"

"It's in his body." Jiang Ning pointed to the contaminated object on the ground.

Cheng Yao didn't care about the chip. She said, "We should go out."

"Can we go out?" Jiang Ning put the chip in her palm and looked at Cheng Yao in surprise.

The door she came in through was completely blocked and could not be broken from the inside.

"Yeah." Cheng Yao nodded and said, "We followed the contaminated body in. There is another exit here."

Jiang Ning suddenly realized that the contaminated bodies she saw before were probably the observers and researchers here.

"Let's go." Jiang Ning picked up the contaminated body without a head on the ground with one hand, and followed Cheng Yao and the other two to get up and leave.