What the hell is that?
Before the smoke had cleared, Tan Meng was the first to rush in, the assault rifle in his hand spewing out flames. Behind him, more than 400 miners poured in like a tide, and shouts of killing echoed in the narrow tunnel.
The fishy smell mixed with gunpowder smoke enveloped everyone. Soon everyone found that the deeper they went, the stickier and slipperier the ground became. They even slipped involuntarily while running and had to slow down.
The further in they went, the more stagnant the air became. Even more terrifying was that there used to be a wall lamp every ten meters, but now only a few were still burning. As the miners went deeper, it became darker and darker. The bulbs were covered with spider-web-like black velvet, and the light they emitted turned into a sickly dark color.
If most people weren't wearing tactical headlamps, I probably wouldn't even be able to see the road clearly.
Every time Liu Xia took a breath, the strong smell of blood in the air and an indescribable fishy, sour and rotten smell rushed into his chest, making him want to vomit.
The tactical boots had sunk into a layer of sticky black substance, making a "gurgling" sound when the foot was lifted, and even pulling up translucent mucus threads when the sole was lifted.
"Fuck, what the hell is this thing?" The miner next to him cursed and swung his feet, and mucus splashed on the rock wall, and it slowly slid down like a living thing.
Tan Meng wiped the sweat from his face and swept the flashlight across the ground. Where the beam reached, the black slime had a strange oily sheen, and you could vaguely see broken bones and hair wrapped in it. "Watch your step!"
Just as he finished speaking, a miner slipped and fell into the slime. He pointed at the flashing light in the distance and shouted in horror: "What is that!"
Liu Xia's temples were throbbing. In the shaking beam of the headlamp, he could see a strange blue fluorescence crawling quickly towards the miner at the bottom.
“Bang, bang, bang!!!”
The fallen miner was frightened and screamed, pulling the trigger quickly. The bullet was quickly submerged in the fluorescent light that was crawling towards him. Unexpectedly, he was knocked to the ground quickly, and then the fluorescent light seemed to melt and mix into the black substance on the ground.
Before the miner could catch his breath, he suddenly felt his hands being corroded at a speed visible to the naked eye. The slime was climbing up his trouser legs, and the protective suit made a "hissing" sound of dissolving wherever it passed. His screams of pain soon disappeared in the white smoke of corrosion.
Liu Xia's eyesight maintained a certain advantage in the darkness, and he could see clearly. He pulled Song Xuan beside him and grabbed the rock wall together, shouting, "Everyone, walk on the rock wall. The slime on the ground is alive!"
The mucus suddenly surged violently, and sticky bubbles bulged like boiling asphalt. The ground of the entire tunnel seemed to be activated and began to wriggle slightly, like the esophagus of some giant beast.
"Fuck! This thing is pulling me!" The miner who didn't have time to hang on the rock wall screamed in horror and struggled desperately to lift his legs, but the slime kept wrapping around him tighter and tighter, even climbing up along his calves, and his protective suit made a "hissing" sound of corrosion.
Tan Meng then realized that the soles of his shoes were being corroded by the approaching slime, making a sizzling sound. He pulled out his gun, and with a flash of cold light, he cut the slime threads on the soles of his boots. He immediately shouted, "Flame team, get in position, burn these damn things to death!"
Three miners carrying explosives on their backs quickly squeezed to the front row, and a blazing orange-white fire dragon roared out, illuminating the entire passage.
The scorching flames burned the tunnel mercilessly. The mucus screamed like a baby crying under the high temperature, and twisted into blurry human faces in the fire. It twisted madly like a living thing and shrank back into the depths of darkness again.
"Be careful on the right!" Song Xuan, who was hanging on the rock wall, shouted a warning, "There are tentacles in the slime!"
A purple-black tentacle covered with suction cups suddenly broke through the slime layer and swept across. Liu Xia, who was hanging on the rock wall, dodged the tentacle that attacked her face, and was then pulled in front of her by Song Xuan with a silver thread. The tentacle returned and stuck to her protective suit again. The strong suction cup tore off a large piece of cloth on her shoulder with a "snap".
The two miners were not so lucky. They were wrapped around the waist by the tentacles that passed by. The suction cups instantly sank into their flesh, and blood was drawn into the tentacles along the grooves. With a sizzling sound, they were quickly sucked into two mummies.
Screams were heard behind him, and a huge wave of mucus suddenly rose from the ground, swallowing up five or six miners. Liu Xia watched them struggling in the black gelatin, bubbles bubbling up, and in less than ten seconds only a few white bones floated to the surface.
The purple-black tentacles came back again and rolled towards Liu Xia's waist, as if they were obsessed with her.
"court death!"
This time, Liu Xia no longer deliberately concealed his strength. He grabbed the slippery tentacles head-on, embedded his fingers deeply into the elastic purple skin, and suddenly tore it open with force.
The tentacle snapped with a sound, and the entire tunnel was filled with painful screams and tremors. The tentacles slapped the ground in spasms, and each slap caused a torrential rain of black mucus to splash everywhere.
Liu Xia's goggles were covered with mucus, emitting a crackling sound of white smoke. The world suddenly turned a blurry dark red. The only sounds in his ears were the squirming sound of mucus and the hysterical shouts of his companions.
The corrosiveness of this mucus is much less than that of the mutant queen ant, but it still poses a great threat to ordinary people.
"Change to thermite grenades!" Tan Meng's voice exploded in the corridor.
The tentacle pierced the chest of the demolitionist Lao Zhou. The old demolitionist who had spent his entire life in the mine grinned and used his last bit of strength to detonate the grenade in his hand.
The orange-red grenade drew an arc and exploded into a high-temperature fireball like the sun in the black slime. Lao Zhou's body and tentacles were quickly burned, emitting the smell of barbecue and grilled seafood.
The two consecutive huge injuries finally forced the tentacles to retreat with a hiss, and the surging black mucus was absorbed into the darkness.
With the help of the firelight, all the people in the front row could see the situation in the entire tunnel clearly.
The ground fifty meters away from the crowd was covered with broken human bones. These pale bones almost covered the entire ground, and the closer to the end of the corridor, the more broken bones there were.
Without the worry of the black slime, all the people hanging on the rock wall climbed down.
Zhao Dan's protective suit was severely damaged due to the previous battle. His entire arm was exposed and his skin was covered with scars.
"Shen Wanren brought at least 200 guards through this door. Aren't they all turned into bones on the ground?" Zhao Dan said with a grim expression, "I was the one who led the people to deliver the supplies."
Tan Meng did not answer, but focused his thoughts completely elsewhere, looking towards the end of the corridor with a serious expression.
At the end of the corridor, one hundred meters away from the crowd, a giant egg covered with vascular patterns was contracting and expanding regularly. The egg was more than three meters high and covered with a translucent film, like a huge, lifelike heart.
Dozens of creatures with blue fluorescent light all over their bodies were squatting around the dome, with thick, blood vessel-like tentacles extending from their backs. They were deeply attached to the mucus pool at the bottom of the dome, and the blue light flashed on and off with a pulse-like rhythm, just like fertilizer for nourishment.
It was the thing that had just pounced on them and then merged into the black slime.
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