Amid the deafening roar of machines, the rock cutting work finally officially began.

Mitsui stood at the edge of the square, watching the workers operating the "Lance of Longinus MKⅡ" not far away, and asked Ke Lan who was standing next to him: "According to the information you provided, have the monsters that attacked the Soma Consortium base all drilled into this giant cocoon?"

"Yes." Ke Lan nodded. "Mr. Manstein and his secretary saw it with their own eyes."

"Then what is the purpose of their doing this?" Sanjingjie continued to ask, "Mr. Ke Lan, what do you think about this?"

"Nutrients." Ke Lan said, "The revival of Leviathan requires a lot of nutrients. They not only sacrificed themselves, but also threw the bodies of all the victims of the attack into this giant cocoon."

Ke Lan originally wanted to show Mitsui and the others the "esophagus" formed by tentacles at the root of the giant cocoon, but just when the Mitsui Group's rescue team arrived, the blood pool that he had drained a lot of was filled up again, and the inky black crystal column exposed under the blood pool was also submerged in the plasma.

"Are you so sure that those monsters are dead?" Mitsui's tone was full of doubt.

On the outskirts of the excavation site, a team of fully armed mercenaries were standing by, each of them equipped with the "Ronin" power armor developed by the Mitsui Group. Behind them were three "Wolf Spider" all-terrain tactical mechas, all of which were special models equipped with energy shields and high-temperature flamethrowers.

Obviously, Mitsuisuke was also very afraid of the monsters that slaughtered the entire base of the Soma Group.

"If those monsters are not dead, we will have to rely on Mr. Mitsui's troops at that time." Ke Lan said with a wry smile.

In response, Mitsui just snorted coldly and did not continue speaking.

"If those monsters really run out, this amount of troops may not be enough to fill their teeth..." Ke Lan thought to himself. He had already made plans. If any accidents occurred during the excavation process, he would immediately take the initiative to seize a plane of the Mitsui Group and take his people to escape from this dangerous area first... As for what Mitsui's choice would be, Ke Lan was too lazy to care.

Asano Akira has been arranged by Ke Lan to be on standby in a room on the top floor of the main control building. As long as Ke Lan gives a signal, he will immediately rush to the roof, subdue the guards of the Mitsui Group who are guarding the plane, and then insert the memory card with the virus program installed into the control console of the plane. Within a few minutes, the virus will complete the rewriting of the aircraft safety program and transfer control to Ke Lan and others.

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The eight deep wells were quickly completed, but just as the workers were waiting for the cutter to cool down, something unexpected happened to everyone.

A large amount of blood actually gushed out from these eight deep wells. The blood overflowed the ground of the square and directly connected with the blood pool at the root of the giant cocoon!

Ke Lan felt her eyes twitching wildly, and she subconsciously took a few steps back... The scene before her eyes gave her an illusion: it was as if the laser was not cutting through the hard rock, but the flesh of some creature...

"What's going on? What's going on?" Sanjie asked loudly to Ke Lan, but the latter just shook his head: "I don't know either."

"Where... where does this blood come from? Could it be the bodies of those dead people?" Mitsuisuke looked at the bewildered workers in the square, and suddenly an unspeakable fear arose in his heart.

"No... not from those dead, at least not all of them." Ke Lan took another step back. "Even if we gather all the bodies of the victims together, we can't squeeze out so much blood..."

"Then this..." Just when Mitsuisuke wanted to continue asking, a shrill scream suddenly came from the square!

That was a worker operating a cutting machine. He was standing closest to the work area. The blood gushing out of the deep well quickly flowed to his feet, and then...

The blood seemed to be some kind of living thing. It crawled along his legs directly onto his body, and then drilled into his protective suit through the gaps!

The worker screamed, his body shook violently for a few times, and then he fell backwards.

After he fell down, the protective suit he was wearing actually deflated... The body inside that was supporting the suit was "digested" by this strange blood in just a few seconds!

"Run! Run!"

The other workers suddenly reacted at this time and rushed towards Ke Lan and the others.

But the blood on the ground was faster than them! Before the workers could run very far - the furthest one only ran about ten meters - they were caught up by the strange blood. The blood entangled their ankles, tripped them to the ground, and then used the same method to "eat" the flesh inside the protective suits...

"Mr. Ke, Mr. Ke Lan...what on earth is this blood?!" Mitsuisuke could no longer maintain his original expression at this moment, and a look of fear was revealed on his face without any concealment.

"I said, I don't know, but I suggest that Mr. Mitsui evacuate here immediately - these things are not something we can solve." Ke Lan said, and his right hand behind his back made a gesture. Seeing the gesture, Layton immediately sent an "action" signal to Asano Akira through the secret channel.

"Damn it! What on earth did you provoke?!" Mitsui yelled at Ke Lan hysterically.

As he roared, the blood finally spread to the edge of the square.

The mercenaries under Mitsui opened fire one after another, but the bullets only splashed blood and could not block the flow. Even the flamethrower on the "Wolf Spider" mecha could not have any effect on the "blood".

The Mitsui Group's defense line was almost swallowed up by the "blood" in the blink of an eye, and Ke Lan finally saw what was hidden in the blood.

There were countless tiny, red flesh worms!

It was these bugs that devoured all the flesh and blood of the former Leviathan monster, and it was also these bugs that, with the help of the remaining skeleton of Leviathan, rebuilt such a mountain-like body... These bugs are the real body of Leviathan transformed by the Alpha civilization!

Ke Lan turned around, exchanged glances with Hound, Layton and others, then ran towards the main control building.

"Retreat! Evacuate quickly and get the transport plane ready to take off!" Seeing the actions of Ke Lan and the others, Mitsuisuke suddenly came to his senses and shouted to his men.

But just when he wanted to lift his foot, he found that he seemed to have stepped on something sticky under his shoe...

He subconsciously looked down and found that the "blood" had spread to his feet...