Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 722 Planting the Seeds
The other soldiers were horrified, but the muscle memory developed from long-term training allowed them to pick up their weapons at the first moment and pull the trigger at this "woman" without thinking.
Unlike the semi-automatic shooting used by the sergeant just now, these soldiers adjusted their weapons to full-automatic mode - at this distance, this level of firepower is enough to shoot a human body into a sieve or even a ball of minced meat, but what shocked the soldiers was that the speed at which the bullets tore through the woman's body was not even as fast as her self-recovery. The steel-core bullets were squeezed out of the bullet holes by the madly squirming and growing granulation tissue and spit onto the ground. The next moment, the originally bloody bullet holes had completely disappeared.
"Restraint equipment! Bring the restraint equipment!" A soldier turned around and shouted to his colleagues behind him.
"Get out of the way, everyone else, retreat!"
"Get away from here, the farther the better!"
Two soldiers in power armor ran over quickly, and their heavy mechanical boots made a dull "bang bang" sound when they landed on the ground.
In their hands they held riot-proof steel forks that were more than four meters long - to be precise, the "military version" of the riot-proof steel forks.
The standard anti-riot steel fork generally used to deal with rioters is 2.2 meters long and made entirely of high-strength aluminum alloy. The military version is used by the strong, thick-skinned and indigenous creatures in the wilderness. Not only has its length been more than doubled, the material has been replaced with titanium-aluminum steel mixed with 16% nino alloy, a material that is also used to make bulletproof armor for aircraft and airships.
Although titanium-aluminum alloy is considered a very low-density armor material, the weight of a riot-proof steel fork that is more than four meters long still reaches nearly sixty kilograms. For non-enhanced soldiers, they must be equipped with power armor or mechanical exoskeletons to use this tool.
The restraining claws at the front end of the two military riot-proof steel forks opened under the drive of the hydraulic device, accurately clamping the woman who was lying on the corpse of the non-commissioned officer and swallowing flesh and blood.
The two soldiers in power armor breathed a sigh of relief, but just as they were about to activate the electrode device attached to the riot fork to subdue the woman, the woman made a move that no one present could believe -
"She" raised her hands, grabbed the restraint claws around her body, and then pried them open little by little.
"This is impossible!" the soldier holding the riot fork exclaimed, "Even if it is the container of the Seed of Corrosion, its power cannot be so great!"
"Is there something wrong with the restraint claws and why they're not locked?" asked another soldier who was holding a gun to support them.
"No...it's locked. Look carefully, the restraining claws have been deformed...this woman used brute force to pry them apart!" The soldier holding the riot fork took a deep breath, and a layer of white mist suddenly covered the transparent face mask of the helmet, which then quickly melted away. "We can't control this guy, quickly ask for support from our superiors!"
Before she finished her words, the blood-soaked woman had already torn off the restraining claws on the front ends of the two riot-proof steel forks.
Then she pulled out a leg bone of the dead sergeant and smashed it hard at the soldier wearing power armor and holding a riot fork.
“Bang!!”
The thick leg bone hit the helmet of the power armor accurately. With a loud crisp sound, the bone broke, and a very obvious dent appeared on the helmet of the power armor.
Although the soldier in the armor was not injured, he was dazed by the huge force on his bones, and a "buzzing" sound kept echoing in his ears.
Before he recovered from the dizziness, he felt a huge force hitting his chest. He lost balance along with his power armor instantly and fell on his back with a bang.
When the soldier opened his eyes again, he saw the woman's devil-like face pressed against his mask. Her fingers were covered in blood and filth, and several of them were broken and bent at strange angles.
She seemed to have lost her sense of pain and kept hitting the visor of the helmet with her ten fingers. With a teeth-grinding sound, fine cracks soon appeared on the visor.
Fear was brewing in the soldier's heart. He tried to get up and get rid of the woman, but he found that the power armor had lost control at some point. In desperation, he could only call for help from his companions: "Help me get her away... She... She wants to eat me!!"
Another soldier wearing power armor immediately dropped the scrapped riot fork in his hand and reached out to grab the woman who was kneeling on his companion. However, just as he grabbed one of arms, the other turned around and hugged the wrist of the power armor with her other arm.
"What does she want?"
As soon as this thought appeared in the soldier's head, an unimaginable huge force pulled him to the ground, and his right arm was torn off from his torso along with the armor!
After a second, the sharp pain finally came from my shoulder.
"ah--!!"
He let out a scream and quickly gritted his teeth to start the emergency self-rescue procedure. Two needles protruded from the hidden grooves on the inside of the armor and injected powerful painkillers and stimulants into the soldier's body, and the piercing pain was relieved.
“Hoo…Hoo…”
The soldier, his face covered in sweat, raised his head and was shocked to find that the monster had already pulled his severed arm out of the armor and held it up...
It opened its mouth... Human teeth are not actually suitable for tearing flesh, but in the face of terrifying power, these factors are no longer important.
…
The monster's originally flat belly has now become bulging, just like a baby that has been pregnant for ten months... But even so, its appetite still seems unsatisfied... It raised its head and looked at the soldier with eyes full of greed and desire.
"Don't, don't come over!" The soldier subconsciously reached out to cover his broken arm, but he knew very well that in the face of the opponent's terrifying power, any resistance would be futile.
I'm about to be eaten... just like the leader of the Third Mobile Team.
He glanced at the corpse of the sergeant not far away with the corner of his eye. It was called a corpse, but it was just a skeleton. Only some muscles and fascia that were more difficult to chew remained on the bones. Everything else, including hair, skin and internal organs, were all eaten by the monster.
(Note: The feeding methods of the seed container and the fusion body in the violent stage are very different - the container still retains human characteristics, and the feeding method is mainly through biting with teeth and swallowing through the digestive tract, but the digestive tract of the container is one of the first organs in the body to be transformed by the seeds, and it has a very strong digestive ability; as for the feeding method of the fusion body, it relies on the tentacles to secrete digestive fluid to melt the food and then absorb it through the mucous membrane on the body surface. This way of eating has a higher utilization rate of food, and not even bones will be left.)
"Help... Can someone come and save me..."
The soldier shouted frantically in his heart - just as the woman pounced on him, he saw a gray knife light flash, the woman's face suddenly froze, and the chiseling action in her hand also stopped.
The soldier was stunned for a moment, and looked back over the woman's shoulder.
It was a young man wearing brown sunglasses and holding a long knife. He just shook his wrist lightly a few times, and the monster's body was cut into several pieces. A large amount of undigested "food" rolled out of the monster's stomach, and a sour and unpleasant smell immediately spread in the street.
"Thank you, thank you!" The soldier looked at the young man with a knife in shock, covering his broken arm and struggling to get up from the ground.
The young man was wearing casual clothes, but a military communicator was hanging on his ear. Coupled with his terrifying strength and the extremely unpopular weapon in his hand... the soldier who escaped death couldn't help but feel a little curious about the identity of his savior.
"Excuse me... are you from the Security Bureau?" The first thing he thought of was the Security Bureau agents who also participated in this operation. Although he had hardly ever dealt with Security Bureau agents, the rumors about these agents have always been very popular in the army... Most regular army soldiers don't have a good impression of Security Bureau agents, but they have to admit that there are many extremely powerful "monsters" in the Security Bureau. These "monsters" even have the ability to kill "real monsters" such as the Seeds of Erosion with one hand.
The young man in front of him seemed to have only one hand holding the knife from beginning to end, and the other hand did not even move... This should also be considered "one-handed killing"? What's more, that "woman" is much more terrifying than the Corrosion Seed.
Just standing in front of these people, one can feel an immense amount of pressure - fortunately, they are friendly forces in one's camp, not enemies.
The soldier just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the young man wearing sunglasses and holding a knife say, "It's not dead yet. Take your companions and retreat quickly."
"What?!" The soldier was startled and turned to look at the "female corpse" that had been cut into pieces. He saw countless fine translucent tentacles emerging from the flesh and blood on the cut surface of the body, crawling on the ground, as if trying to gather the pieces together...
It was just like the bio-demon Zac who had his passive activated.
"Retreat." Asano Akira repeated the word again.
"Oh, okay!" The soldier nodded hurriedly, used his only remaining arm to pull up his companion whose power armor was damaged, and dragged him to the back.
Asano Akira raised the knife, took a deep breath of the air mixed with the foul smell, and pointed the blade towards the wriggling corpses.
The tentacles seemed to be crawling very slowly, but in fact, it only took a few seconds for the corpses to gather together... However, they did not combine in the original order, but as long as the cut surfaces touched each other, they would immediately stick together...
It's like a naughty kid comes to visit your house and accidentally breaks your plastic man. The kid plans to fix the broken plastic man before you go home and pretend nothing happened. But the way he repairs the man is just to smear a layer of glue on each part of the plastic man and stick them together randomly. As for why the legs grow on the head, the arms are connected to the stomach, the entire waist joint is rotated 180 degrees and there are a bunch of small parts, it can't be explained in a few words.
All in all, what appeared in front of Asano Akira was a thing with its body parts all over the place.
The people in the distance were completely stunned. Oh no, they were frightened. Some of the timid ones even sat down on the ground...
Anyone who sees this monster will be left with some psychological trauma. During this period of time, it is estimated that many people will have nightmares about this thing at night...
Except for Akira Asano.
It’s not that he couldn’t “see” the appearance of this monster, but to him, the emotion of fear seemed extremely weak - he adjusted his breathing slightly on the spot, then raised his knife again and slashed at the “reorganized” “woman”.
If it can be put back together after being cut into several pieces, what will happen if we just chop the body into minced meat?
Asano Akira was a very active person. He would do anything . The Nino alloy sword in his hand had already created countless afterimages. These afterimages wrapped the monster in a knife light that was difficult to capture with the naked eye... Half a minute later, Asano Akira stopped his movements. On the ground, there was a pool of minced meat that looked like vomit.
But even so, the pool of minced meat was still not completely dead. Tiny tentacles and buds emerged from the minced meat like seedlings... Before long, the pool of minced meat turned into a meat ball that was constantly oozing blood.
Some strange-shaped organs slowly grew out, but the limbs did not regenerate. Instead, a locomotor organ similar to the gastropod of a slug appeared at the bottom of the meat ball.
It seemed as if a brand new heart had grown inside this meat ball. As the heart beat, the fascia on the surface of the meat ball also contracted and relaxed rhythmically.
"What kind of monster is this?" The soldier standing about ten meters behind Asano Akira couldn't help but ask in a trembling voice, "This...this shouldn't be a seed of corrosion, right?"
"No." A somewhat hoarse female voice sounded next to the soldier asking the question - Aya also rushed to the scene. Her prosthesis had only undergone minimal maintenance and many combat functions had been lost, but as the commander of the evacuation operation, she could not leave this place yet.
"Remnants of the heretic sect also appeared at checkpoints one and two. One of them injected the seeds into his own body, and the other took advantage of the soldiers' inattention and inserted the needle into the soldier's neck." Aya said to Asano Akira, "But the two were not lucky. The seeds did not grow, and the containers died before they even entered the 'frenzy period'."
"This one is alive." Asano Akira said in a deep voice.
"Yeah, what bad luck." Aya complained, "Can you handle it? Do you need me to send some more reinforcements to you?"
"No need." Asano Akira shook his head with his back to her, "Just evacuate the people nearby as soon as possible."
"That's right." Aya turned her head and looked in the direction of the New Star Chamber of Commerce. "I just don't know what the specific situation is over there with Ke Lan... I heard that the big guy was temporarily restrained by the fire extinguishing gel."
