"Isn't the 'core' of the Seed of Erosion growing in the heart of the 'container'?" Ke Lan regretted the moment he said this - Maginot had never told him about this, and the only Seed of Erosion he had "dissected" himself was the one on the strange deserted island. If the other party asked about it, it would be a bit troublesome to explain.

Fortunately, Victoria didn't seem to notice anything. She just glanced at the container on the ground with some disappointment, and said in an emotionless and mechanical tone: "That's why I mistook it for a mutant."

She took the injection gun from her subordinate, placed the muzzle against the surface of the "core", and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Okay, clean up this pile of rotten meat--" Victoria suddenly glanced at Ke Lan, and a very weird smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Do you think I'm a very cruel guy?"

"No, I'm just wondering... why such an expensive and high-end product looks so ugly when it smiles." Ke Lan said.

The high-end stuff naturally refers to the bionic prosthesis on Victoria's body - Layton had said before that a section of her trachea was worth half of his stuff. Although Layton has now upgraded his weapons, the prosthetic parts on Victoria's body are no longer the same as what Ke Lan and the others had seen in the exile camp.

As soon as Ke Lan finished speaking, the two agents beside Victoria looked at each other with horror, then took two steps back, as if they were afraid of being affected by something.

"Because before I got this prosthetic, 45% of my facial tissue was completely rotten." Victoria was not angry, but chatted with Ke Lan, "In order to save my eyes, everything below the cheekbone was removed, and 70% of the facial nerves were also removed."

Victoria stretched out her fingers and tapped her artificial chin covered with a layer of simulated skin, and continued: "I can't control these organs with neural electrical signals. Talking and eating are all preset program actions."

"Was it the Seed of Erosion who did it?" Ke Lan restrained his smile. For some reason, he suddenly remembered the commander of the First Fleet, the man who, at the very beginning of the battle, had resolutely led his flagship to crash into the Leviathan and perished together with the prehistoric beast.

In order to gain a foothold on this planet, mankind paid an unimaginable price - the Kirin of the First Fleet was part of the price, and Victoria's face was also part of the price.

"Yes, it's a mutant." Victoria's hostility towards Ke Lan seemed to have weakened a lot.

"At that time, I was the same as them," she pointed at her subordinates, "There were six groups in total carrying out the encirclement and suppression mission, and in the end, only three and a half returned alive."

"Half...half?" Ashkani asked stutteringly.

"The mutant's special ability is corrosion. The man only lost a leg at first, but by the time we lifted him onto the transport plane, everything below his waist had rotted away." Probably because her vocal structure had been completely replaced with artificial prostheses, Victoria's tone of voice did not change at all, as if she was narrating something very ordinary.

"Hiss..." Ashkani's face turned pale. Although their garrison had dealt with many "special incidents" related to the Seeds of Corrosion, in fact they were generally regarded as auxiliary units. The ones who actually carried out the operations were basically Security Bureau agents like Victoria. As for mutants, they had never encountered any before.

"Are mutants easy to kill?" Ke Lan asked, "I mean, can we kill mutants in the same way as we kill ordinary erosion seeds?"

Ke Lan's question made Victoria look at him more: "That depends on the mutant's ability. Different mutants have different special abilities... But no matter what its ability is, as long as you can inject active cells into its 'nucleus', it will die."

"That's good." Ke Lan nodded. "Things that can be killed can always be dealt with. The most feared thing is the kind that cannot be killed."

The fused monsters in the Abyss Hatchery, the giant creatures that were once imprisoned underground on the deserted island, the behemoth Leviathan whose resurrection progress has reached 100%... Compared with these things, the Seed of Erosion is nothing more than a dwarf.

"If you had really seen a mutant, I'm afraid you wouldn't say that." Victoria sneered and turned her head away.

Just then, the ground suddenly shook slightly.

"Boom", another one, and the shock was more obvious than the one to the ground.

"Something is approaching, and it looks like it's quite heavy." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, raised the gun, and placed the butt of the gun against his shoulder.

"Group one, group two, and group three, prepare to fight back. Group four, set up the heavy crossbow!" Victoria ordered loudly.

The agents who were called immediately ran to the equipment boxes they brought with them and put the modular parts in the boxes together. In just a few tens of seconds, a mighty "crossbow" was assembled.

The structure of this "crossbow" is very similar to the "harpoon heavy artillery" that Ke Lan and his team used to hunt deep-sea giant eels. The main function of this weapon is not to "kill", but to focus more on how to "restrict" the target and create a perfect window for others to concentrate fire.

The agents had just fixed the base of the "heavy crossbow" to the universal slot (Note 1) reserved on the ground when the guy who caused the earthquake appeared in everyone's sight.

This is a sumo wrestler, or rather, it was a sumo wrestler in its previous life.

But even the most burly sumo wrestler cannot compare with this "thing" in front of him - its height is over four meters, and its width is close to four meters. From a distance, it looks like an enormous ball of meat.

On the surface of this "meat ball", the skin was torn into countless cracks due to the huge tension, but what flowed out of the cracks was not blood, but yellow and white fat with bloodshot.

In addition to these fats, there are also many tentacles coming out of the cracks. Compared with the previous two erosion seeds, the tentacles on this end are even several times thicker.

"It's a mutant." Victoria said, "This Corrosion Seed has completely merged with the 'Container'..."

"Indeed, it is impossible for a normal person to grow to this size...but what is this guy's special ability?" Ke Lan asked.

"I don't know. I've never seen a mutant like this before." Victoria said, "Get the heavy crossbow ready. We can't let it get any closer!"