Volume 2: The Undersea City Chapter 71 Hatchery
Do you want to chase?
If the human-shaped shadow was Liao Zilang, why would he flee from the area illuminated by the flares?
And those long black tentacles...those tentacles...
Ke Lan knew very well that if that figure was Liao Zilang, there was almost no chance of survival... It was probably just a "body", and as for the thing occupying this "body"...
“Crack.”
With the bullet loaded, Ke Lan dived into the waters swallowed by darkness.
"'Erosion Seeds' have strong physical resistance and regeneration capabilities..." This is unknown information from deep in memory, but what happened before has proved the accuracy of this information - this is internal intelligence from the Alpha civilization. Although Ke Lan doesn't know why they appear in his head, there is one thing mentioned in this information...
The seeds of erosion are not ineradicable.
This is a creature with extremely strong vitality, but no matter how strong it is, it is just a creature. The shark hunter machine gun in Ke Lan's hand is equipped with 150 powerful explosive bombs, and there are 1,200 spare rounds in the backpack of the deep diving suit. In addition, there are two depleted uranium warhead torpedoes and 36 special incendiary bombs hanging on both sides of the backpack...
The weapons he carries have firepower that is no less than that of a heavy combat mecha!
No matter how strong the regeneration ability of the Seed of Corrosion is, as long as it is blasted into pieces and then burned thoroughly, Ke Lan does not believe that it can be reborn from a pile of ashes.
It's just a bunch of disgusting tentacles, not something like the Phoenix that only exists in human mythology!
Five meters, ten meters, twenty meters...
Ke Lan gradually went deeper into the shadow area. The visibility of the surrounding environment was dropping sharply. With both the low-light night vision goggles and the infrared night vision goggles failing, he was almost groping forward in the dark. Every step he took had to be taken with extreme caution.
The indescribable fear was growing wildly, and Ke Lan's breathing gradually became rapid. Every time he exhaled, a thin layer of white mist would form on the glass mask, and then quickly melt away...
An inhuman creature with the ability to kill instantly is lurking in some unknown dark corner. With every step Ke Lan takes, he is getting closer to the trap set by that thing... The other party is the predator, and he is the prey... This feeling is enough to drive a person crazy. If it were someone with a weaker psychological endurance, he would have dropped his weapon and ran away.
With every step, he felt that he was getting closer and closer to death... In the darkness, it seemed that there were things spying on him from all directions, approaching silently, waiting for an opportunity to strike...
The attack that could come at any time forced Ke Lan to be on edge all the time. The finger holding the trigger had become extremely sore, and the muscles all over the body gradually became stiff due to the long-term tension...
Each step he took was heavier, and his progress became slower and slower.
No, if I continue like this, I might collapse before I even encounter that thing...
Ke Lan stopped and closed her eyes.
That thing had the ability to kill him easily, but he was also armed to the teeth - he was its prey, and it was also his prey.
The reason why I stepped into this place with a machine gun was to hunt down the other party.
Being in darkness is a huge disadvantage for me, and if I fire flares, that thing will retreat into the shadows again. The only way... is to turn myself into a light source, leaving the other party with no escape!
This is a taboo in underwater diving rules, but in this situation, it is Ke Lan's only choice.
"Bang!"
Two high-lumen searchlights installed on both sides of the helmet turned on instantly, illuminating the area directly in front of Ke Lan. At this moment, two extremely long black tentacles shot out from the shadows on the left and headed straight for Ke Lan's front!
"I knew it!"
Ke Lan suddenly opened his eyes, and the thrusters on his right shoulder and right elbow started spinning wildly. Compressed air spurted out from the small holes. The strong reaction force immediately pushed Ke Lan one meter to the left, twisting his body nearly forty-five degrees to the left while avoiding the tentacle attack.
“Puff, puff, puff—”
The sound of underwater machine gun firing was dull and ambiguous. The arrow-shaped explosive bombs mixed with Nino alloy directly tore apart the two tentacles that attacked Ke Lan, and incidentally smashed a low wall at the left alley entrance... and the black figure that Ke Lan had been chasing all the way was finally exposed to his field of vision, and he saw it clearly!
That was indeed a human being, or rather, he was a human being in his previous life...
But not Liao Zilang.
Nor is it infested by the seeds of erosion.
He was wearing an orange diving suit, with a lot of black seaweed wrapped around his limbs, and the "tentacles" that had just attacked Ke Lan were actually part of these seaweeds.
"It turned out to be seaweed ..."
Ke Lan released the trigger, swam to the body, chopped up the remaining seaweed with the propeller blades, and then turned the body over with its back facing him...
"this!!"
What appeared in front of Ke Lan was a terrifying face - it had no eyeballs, and only two black holes remained in its eye sockets. Large patches of blue-gray skin on its face had collapsed, clinging tightly to its bones. The flesh under the skin had been completely drained, and its shriveled lips had turned outward, revealing two rows of white teeth...
This is a dried corpse.
Moreover, there was a large hole torn in the abdomen of the corpse and the abdomen of the diving suit...
"...flesh-eating worms..."
Ke Lan clutched the corpse's arm tightly, his heart beating wildly - the corpse looked exactly like the dead priestess!
Whether it was the images in the video or the statements from others, Ke Lan had always been guessing... But now, after seeing the corpse with his own eyes, he was 100% sure that this was definitely a "host" that had been parasitized by flesh-eating worms!
"really……"
Judging from the logo on the chest of the diving suit, the deceased was named Brun, an elite agent of the Security Bureau. He should be one of the missing persons in the previous underwater exploration operations.
The flesh and blood on the corpse had been almost completely sucked dry, and the flesh-eating worms that were parasitic in his body had burst out of his abdomen and disappeared... But since the second one appeared, there must be a third and a fourth...
This trip was not in vain. As long as they could capture a flesh-eating worm - no, they didn't even need to capture a whole living thing. They only needed to get a part of the flesh-eating worm's body tissue to neutralize the invading and alienated cells in Ivan's body that were eroded by the seeds.
Ke Lan suddenly had a feeling that the goal of their trip seemed to be within reach.
After tying the corpse to his back with a rope, Ke Lan decided to move on.
If it were just those black seaweeds, although this underwater city was very strange, it was actually not dangerous.
He had a feeling that if he missed this opportunity, he might never find the ruins again.
…
After walking forward for about half a kilometer and passing through densely packed buildings, a deep abyss-like crack suddenly appeared in front of him.
This crack is three hundred meters long and nearly ten meters wide at its widest point, with no bottom in sight. There is a three-meter-high fence surrounding the crack, and a huge metal net is covering the top of the fence, blocking the entire crack. However, the metal net is full of torn holes and has lost its original function.
There is a stone tablet next to the fence, on which is written a string of words from the Alpha civilization.
"Incubation...field?"
