Xie Xuan and the others could no longer see the RV of Team 18. The RV of Team 17, which arrived later, was already covered with dense leeches crawling up the body of the car, like dark red mycelium spreading.
The function of the protective shield device is to isolate spores in the air, but it actually has no blocking effect on infected organisms.
The lights of Team 17's RV were turned off, and Xie Xuan and the others didn't know if there was anyone else in the car.
Within the limited range illuminated by the headlights of their RV, they seemed to have stepped into a dark red ocean that was constantly wriggling.
This open space is actually not very big, but Team 17, which had just said it would go first to carry out the rescue, is nowhere to be found.
Xie Xuan had a bad feeling and said to Chongming, "Don't go any further. You, Ding Qiaoyun, and Yang Jiayue stay in the car and make sure it doesn't get damaged. Xiao Yao and I will go down."
"Yang Jiayue and I can stay here," Ding Qiaoyun said. "Let Chongming go with us."
Before Chongming could say anything, Xie Xuan refused. "No, I won't die that easily. Even if the rescue fails, I can come back alive. But if we lose this car, our journey will become very difficult."
Ding Qiaoyun pursed her lips and nodded, "Okay."
Although Xiao Yao really wanted to say that he was not as easy to die as Xie Xuan, Xie Xuan got out of the car as soon as she finished speaking, and Xiao Yao could only hurriedly follow.
This place is about ten meters away from where the 18th convoy is stationed, but there is already a layer of mycelium-like leeches on the ground.
The feeling when you step on it is slightly different from that of mycelium, and you can clearly feel that you are stepping on something sticky and flexible.
There was an unpleasant smell in the air, not only the smell of rotting mushrooms, but also a pungent fishy smell, like the stench of some rotting aquatic product.
Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao turned on the lights on their helmets. The communicator next to their heads, which had always been a faint presence, began to broadcast, "The current spore concentration detected is 50%."
This concentration is quite high even in the field.
The further Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao walked, the thicker the sea of leeches on the ground became. It started with a thin layer and then grew to the point where they would sink into the water if they stepped on it.
Xie Xuan didn't have trypophobia but she didn't dare to look down.
If they didn't know where Team 17 and Team 18 were, Xiao Yao could have just burned the place down.
Now, even through the protective suit, Xie Xuan could feel the leeches on the ground biting her protective suit.
Xie Xuan did not save her special powers any more. She put herself and Xiao Yao into her transparent cage and used manipulation to move the cage forward on the ground.
"Why didn't you use such a useful superpower earlier?" Xiao Yao complained quietly while pulling the leeches off his feet and Xie Xuan's feet and stepping on them to death.
But the leeches that were stepped on quickly turned into a pool of blood, just like the giant wild boars that were parasitized by them that they had seen before. It was obvious that these abnormal leeches were infected organisms.
Xie Xuan did not respond to Xiao Yao's words, but said: "Xiao Yao, look ahead."
Xiao Yao raised his head, but he only saw dense leeches that blocked their sight, not just in front of him, but all around him.
This was not right. They could clearly see the entire outline of the RV before getting off the car, and the cage was two meters wide. If they were approaching Team 18's RV normally, they would not be surrounded by so many leeches.
And they were drowned as if they had suddenly fallen into a pool full of leeches. Xie Xuan was sure that she had been moving the cage close to the ground, and it was still moving now.
"We've entered the realm." Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao said in unison.
Xiao Yao looked at the leeches everywhere and asked Xie Xuan, "What should we do now?"
Xie Xuan felt that things would be easier once she entered the field. The vitality of the infected creatures in the field would be easier to devour, and this place would become her home ground.
"Let me try it first." Xie Xuan stretched out his hand and placed it on the cage.
Her cage looked fragile, but in all the areas inside the wall, it had never been broken. But now, in just a short while, the countless leeches biting the cage had caused dense cracks on it.
Xie Xuan activated her special powers without hesitation, and black mist escaped from her side. Xiao Yao, who was standing next to her, instinctively felt a dangerous aura and subconsciously took a step back.
These weapons continued to spread out after penetrating the cage. Although the leeches outside were also a black mass, when the black mist touched them, the stacked lines began to twitch violently.
If they could make a sound, they would be screaming shrilly by now.
Xiao Yao watched calmly. The surroundings were still dark, but after a few minutes, the leeches surrounding them disappeared.
But the cage had already been overwhelmed, and although the leeches had disappeared, it suddenly broke apart.
The cage turned into nothing the moment it shattered. Before Xie Xuan could react, she was swept away by the sudden surge of water and lost her direction.
They actually were at the bottom of a pool.
The protective suit has thermal insulation function, but Xie Xuan felt that the water here was icy cold, so cold that even her hands and feet were a little out of control.
The small oxygen tube built into the protective suit automatically began to work, and Xie Xuan instinctively began to swim upwards, but after swimming a short distance, her ankle was suddenly grabbed by something.
Xie Xuan subconsciously wanted to fight back, but Xiao Yao's voice came to her ears, "It's me, don't go up there yet, there seems to be something up there."
Xie Xuan lowered her head. Xiao Yao had turned off the light on his helmet at some point, so she could only see a dark outline.
The light from the floodlight in the water also became turbid. Xie Xuan looked at the blurry outline for a few seconds, then grabbed the dagger with his backhand and stabbed it in.
"You..." Xiao Yao's voice in his ear became distorted and blurred, and finally dissipated.
The thing that was holding her revealed its true form. It was a leech as long as a person. It had already bitten Xie Xuan's leg with its mouth, but Xie Xuan didn't feel any pain at all.
The black mist on Xie Xuan's body found its target and quickly devoured the leech. The health value on the system panel that had just dropped to 90 quickly returned to 100.
When Xie Xuan closed the system panel, she discovered that the system did not seem to have issued her the so-called task this time.
It seemed that since her special ability was activated, the system's presence became much weaker.
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