Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 446: The Second Offensive
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On the edge of the Molten Mine Area, a reconnaissance team support base.
After replacing the "active ammunition", it only took two rounds of concentrated shooting for the "corpse pieces" to stop charging.
The active cells of the flesh-eating worms were extremely toxic to the erosion species, even the mutants. The "corpse pieces" that were hit by the bullets squirmed and twitched, and the necrosis began to spread from the inside to the outside. In less than two minutes, the piles of flesh and blood covered with tentacles turned into pus, and then evaporated by the high temperature on the surface.
"Huh..." The soldier holding the sniper rifle breathed a sigh of relief, moved his eyes away from the scope, raised his head and looked at the battlefield below.
Apart from the fragments of protective clothing torn by machine guns, the containers of the Seeds of Erosion did not leave any traces - their bodies would become extremely , not to mention in the harsh environment of the Molten Mine Area, even in the sterile incubator of the laboratory, the corpses of the Seeds of Erosion would decompose on their own in a short period of time.
He remembered that an expert who studied the Seeds of Erosion once said that after the "nucleus" of the Seeds of Erosion cells completely died, the apoptosis program embedded in the genes would be activated.
Most of the creatures known to humans, whether on Earth or on Alpha, and even humans themselves, can survive for a period of time even if their brains die. The so-called organ transplantation and tissue culture operations are feasible based on this feature... But for the seeds of corrosion, as long as the "nucleus" stops functioning, all the cells of the individual will die within a few seconds . They are as determined as the martyrs of ancient times, and will end their lives without hesitation...
It is also for this reason that experiments to study the seeds of erosion must use living specimens. Almost every year, there are accidents of living specimens breaking out of containment in the institute. Just three months ago, their team completed a "specimen cleaning mission."
The expert also said that the reason why this self-destruction program- like was probably because the Alpha civilization did not want this biological weapon to cause too much pollution to the natural environment... Although this explanation sounded ridiculous to the soldiers, the expert looked very serious when he said this.
The expert also said something to the soldier, but the soldier could no longer remember it - he was just a soldier, all he needed to do was obey orders, pull the trigger, and kill these monsters. As for how these monsters were created and what their purpose was, it had nothing to do with him.
The soldier himself had no great interest in these things, and his talent was not enough to make him a research talent. Instead, because of his excellent shooting performance, he was assigned to the position of sniper by the army - first in the garrison corps, and later transferred to the elite combat unit of the field corps. His understanding of the Seeds of Erosion might not be as good as that of an intern who had just entered the research institute, but as many as nineteen Seeds of Erosion had died under his gun.
If the two pieces of corpse just now can be counted as two independent individuals, then there are twenty of them.
"Don't let your guard down." The officer held up a telescope in his hand. "Our position has been exposed , and the noise of the exchange of fire may attract more enemies. Stay alert and be ready to fight at any time."
Just as he finished saying this, more than a dozen figures rushed out from the mining area in the northwest direction of the support base.
They were on all fours, running extremely fast, and they were not wearing any protective equipment - "They are not humans! They are not vessels! They are mature seeds of erosion ! It seems... it seems that they are mutants!"
"It's a Type B mutant!" the officer shouted, "Use drone fire to suppress them and slow them down! Use firearms with 'active ammunition' to concentrate fire and kill them, and prioritize attacking those in the front!"
"Type B mutant?" The soldier quickly raised his sniper rifle and put the Erosion Seed that was rushing in the front into the crosshairs of the scope - this Erosion Seed was different from the common monsters that were mainly made of meat and tentacles and had a shape between an octopus and a sea anemone. They still maintained a human form, and the soldiers could even recognize the original appearance of the container.
This is a young man with dark skin and a ochre-red birthmark on his left cheek. His nose and mouth remain the same as before, but two transparent tentacles protrude from his eye sockets. Inside these two tentacles are embedded more than a dozen eyeballs of different sizes. While running at high speed, these eyeballs keep turning to capture the surrounding vision - the largest eyeball even has a brief eye contact with the soldier through the sniper rifle scope.
The soldier only felt his scalp suddenly numb, and the hairs on his back stood up... He didn't know whether the eyeballs of that thing could really lock onto targets hundreds of meters away while moving at high speed, or whether it was just a coincidence that their sights collided.
These Type B mutants have almost perfectly integrated with the container. While inheriting the advantages of the human body, they have also significantly transformed it, turning it into a more aggressive "weapon."
The length of their hind limbs was shortened by nearly half, but the length of the metatarsals increased several times, forming a structure similar to a recurved joint (Note 1). The characteristic of this structure is its extremely strong explosive power - it is said to be running, but in fact it is more like jumping. Every time the powerful hind limbs push off the ground, the body can fly nearly ten meters.
