Chapter 18: Sprouts
During this time, Ye Lin rarely participated in the actions of the firm again, and he had always been keen on hunting activities because he liked the thrill of fighting before. Now that he is idle, Ye Lin is still quite uncomfortable, but the increase in strength is faster than before, which is why the elders often ask him to pay attention to Zhang Chi.
In the time to rest, the happiest is of course Wei Jiayue, the sweetheart is finally no longer elusive, and can always accompany him, even in class, happy can't help but hold his hand all the time. Ye Lin also likes this feeling, but some strange thoughts always pop up in his head.
Thinking of the blind that day who calmly went to death, Ye Lin's heart became very complicated, he thought that he was just a monster that ate people, but perhaps, there will be some, and there is still human nature.
Wolves eat sheep, tigers eat deer, the law of the jungle is just the rule of nature, human beings never feel that there is anything wrong, but when they come to the place, people will be afraid and want to kill them. The root cause of this is simply that the eyes are transformed from humans, have the physical appearance of humans, and treat humans as food.
No one wants to be turned into food.
However, all these problems, ordinary people living in the sun will not know, Ye Lin looked around, the students in the classroom were listening to the lecture very quietly, only the teacher's lecture echoed in the classroom.
The sound from the earphones broke the calm atmosphere, Ye Lin's face changed slightly after listening to it, and then he said a few sorry words to Wei Jiayue, and left under her unhappy gaze.
It was the signal for help from the special operations group, and it was the people of the second group who sent the signal, and the location was not too far away from Ye Lin, so it was not too late to arrive. The people of the second special operations group were defending in a group, but the strange thing was that they never fired, but only used weapons such as sabers and daggers to defend against counterattacks.
There were two targets, and one of them didn't look right, and it was stopped by the people of the second group several times, and it also drew a lot of wounds, bleeding nonstop, but it still kept rushing forward.
In the defensive circle of the second group, there was a person lying down, who was also a member of the special operations group looking at his clothes, and he was seriously injured.
The instrument quickly scanned and distinguished the strength level of these two insects, the one who shrank behind and waited for the opportunity to move was only the fifth rank, and the one that looked crazy was the sixth rank, when he learned their strength, Ye Lin was stunned, the strength of the fifth and sixth ranks would never make the well-trained special operations team ask for help, under normal circumstances, they were completely able to deal with any blind below the third rank.
Not firing all the time also made Ye Lin very puzzled, after all, the special operations group operations rely on the lethality of these firearms, and those who practice internal skills are useless in the early stage, and they are completely inferior to these thermal weapons.
With so many thoughts turning out of his mind, Ye Lin's movements were not slow at all, and he pounced on the fifth-class eyebrow, which was heavily armored and had strong defense, but after all, the gap with Ye Lin's strength was too big, and the hard outer armor was quickly cut out of a few wounds. Seeing that this was wrong, it wanted to escape, but the speed was not fast enough, and it didn't take long for it to be nailed to the ground by Ye Lin's sword.
When Ye Lin turned around and was about to deal with the sixth-rank insect, the members of the second group opened their mouths to stop it, and in his surprised gaze, one of them explained the reason with a wry smile.
That's their team leader, Ling Mu!
An hour ago, the instruments in the Tianyang District detected the signs of the insect's life, and the people in the second group immediately set off in full gear and came to the Tianyang District to look for the trace of the insect, but the process was not smooth at all.
Searched the building where the worm was probably located, but found nothing, those houses that no one responded to they opened and checked, they were all ordinary, but the owner of the house was out and away.
However, the signal displayed was within this area, so they had to divide into four teams, and a team of eight people began to search separately.
They disguised themselves as property personnel, knocked on the door, talked to the people inside, and left after checking to make sure the worm was not there, so the process slowed down, but they had similar experiences before, and they had the patience to find the bug hiding if they could determine the approximate location.
In fact, it is true, although this insect is very good at hiding, but they still found it, and the team that found it happened to be a few people led by Ling Mu, and after discovering it, Ling Mu quickly notified the other team members to come here to rendezvous.
This insect is also a resident here, living alone in a room, after knocking on the door, his expression was still a little surprised when he saw them, the instrument still did not react, but Ling Mu instinctively felt that something was wrong with this person, and after careful observation, he found that the stove in the house was covered with dust, but the refrigerator was plugged in and running.
Ling Mu pretended to lean in casually, and the insect's face changed slightly, and then he decisively stepped forward and opened the refrigerator door, which was full of human stumps wrapped in layers of plastic wrap.
It seems that this insect likes to store food very much, and after being uncamouflaged, it will reveal its true nature and fight with the people of the second group, because it is a heavy armor eye, and the lethality of the weapon is not as effective as before, but it can also be slowly worn to death by time, and the second group even has the spare strength to isolate the battlefield to prevent ordinary people from entering by mistake.
It's just that in this process, an accident happened, during the battle they overturned the refrigerator, and the human flesh and blood inside were scattered all over the ground, and no one would have noticed this inconsequential matter, but Ling Mu accidentally stepped on a piece as he retreated.
Then he looked at what was under his feet and stood in place in a daze, his sudden distraction made the rhythm of the battle chaotic all of a sudden, but fortunately it quickly stabilized again, and the team members asked him what was wrong while covering up, but Ling Mu came back to his senses and did something that shocked them.
He crouched down and tore open the plastic wrap as if frantically nibbling on the contents.
At this moment, it seemed that even the heavy armor was startled, and stopped moving, and everyone just looked at Ling Mu blankly.
Ling Mu hadn't eaten for long, and he didn't seem to be very satisfied with the food, he fixed his eyes on a team member who was close at hand, and in his distraction, this team member had one of his legs torn off by Ling Musheng.
At this time, they all came back to their senses, quickly formed a defensive formation, and dealt with the injured team members simply, but at this time, the defensive formation was more than just the heavy armor.
After gnawing on that leg, Ling Mu completely turned into a blind, and frantically attacked the members of the second group, even if he only had the strength of the sixth rank after becoming a blind, but because the team members couldn't bear to shoot at him, the battle situation was very unfavorable, and he was stumbling.
Fortunately, the heavy armor seemed to want to see this good show, and did not rush to do anything to them, and when Ye Lin arrived, he died very aggrieved under his sword.
After learning that this was changed by Ling Mu, the leader of the second group, Ye Lin also hesitated, but after all, his strength had an absolute advantage, and after thinking for a while, he decided to temporarily capture it alive and bring it back to the branch to make a final conclusion.
After capturing Ling Mu, Ye Lin returned to the branch with the people of the second group. After they left, Su Xiaoxiao and Chen Xi suddenly appeared, they came very early, they were going to make a quick move to solve the heavy armor, but Chen Xi, who had a keen sense, noticed that something was wrong with Ling Mu.
So they decided to stand still and observe the situation, but they didn't expect that this person who didn't look right suddenly became blind, and they could clearly feel that this was a human being.
For a while, Chen Xi and the others didn't know whether to make a move, and then Ye Lin rushed over, and it didn't take long to solve the heavy armor and control this human mutation, so they couldn't hide it, fortunately, there were a lot of people here just now, and the environment was not quiet enough, otherwise maybe Su Xiaoxiao's disguise would be seen through by Ye Lin again.
For the situation just seen, the two of them are full of doubts, under normal circumstances, the blind can only be transformed after the death of human beings, just now the person is full of vitality, but suddenly went crazy to eat human flesh and became a blind, this is really unreasonable, unbelievable phenomenon.
Su Xiaoxiao had a hunch that this would completely break the pattern between the firm and the firm.
This sudden incident quickly attracted the attention of the senior management of the firm, especially when he learned that just half a day ago, Ling Mu had just checked his body, and there was no abnormality in all the data synchronized to the server.
All the personnel of the research institute moved, collected samples, and analyzed them, but the data obtained was no different from the normal ones, and they wanted to do further experiments, but they were stopped by the people of the second group.
Once a deeper experiment is carried out, Ling Mu may die, and the people in the second group are not willing to watch him die, so they stop in front one after another, but they are powerless to refute by the scientific researcher.
Because every sentence he says is a fact, a fact that cannot be changed.
Ling Mu has become a cannibal, it is completely impossible to turn back into a human being, he is no longer a warrior who hunts insects, and he will not want to live as an insect, let them conduct experiments to find out the specific reasons for his change, so as not to insult Ling Mu's sacrifice, otherwise he can only die in vain.
It is pointless to keep entangled like this, the people in the second group are silent and get out of the way, but their eyes are red, and Ye Lin can't help but feel a little sad.
However, even with more specific experimental examinations, they still couldn't find the cause of Ling Mu's mutation, only knowing that the human flesh he ate during the battle was the trigger, and Ling Mu probably died meaninglessly.
The branch leaders decided to check Ling Mu's activity trajectory during this time, and the people he had come into contact with should be detailed and connected.
This was undoubtedly time-consuming and labor-intensive, so they first reported the temporary situation of the incident to Headquarters, and then gave a detailed explanation to Headquarters when the results of the investigation came out.
In the age of technology, it is still relatively easy to check a person's whereabouts, but it is much more difficult to check the people and things that come into contact with in the process. Chu Xu also participated in the investigation, and the personnel of the branch quickly rushed to identify and rule out those who had been in contact with Ling Mu in the past few days.
The first thing he noticed was Chu Xu, but his first reaction was just that it was a coincidence, the third child's girlfriend and Ling Mu had actually met.
Yes, what a coincidence, the third child also suddenly became blind, but there should have been no human flesh inducement at that time.
Chu Xu hesitated for a long time, and decided not to report to the above for the time being, and went to her to find out the situation first.
First-year student of K City Medical University, Meng Xiaoxiao.