Suddenly, from the depths of a cross-sectional pipe in front of me, there was a low rustle.

The hard-shelled insects that were eating quickly scattered and fled, burrowing into the cracks in the nearby walls, revealing only their elongated antennae and terrified eyes, staring at the direction of the source of the sound.

Yang Pingfan also heard this voice, he turned sideways, leaning on the barrier formed by the corner of the wall, hiding his entire body in the darkness, while Leonard bent down and slashed in the mud with his hunting knife, so that the mud covered the blade and prevented reflection.

With the sound of a clear rope, a black figure slowly appeared in the hole that was flush with the pipe wall.

Judging from the back of all four limbs, it should be a human being.

He was thin and tall, more than a meter long, a somewhat outrageously long coat or cloak or something that covered almost his entire body, his head hung down on his chest as if he was looking intently at something, his arms were curled up on the front side of his body, his legs were covered by the hem of his clothes standing in the middle of the pipe facing each side, and his head and arms occasionally shook slightly, as if he was looking for some unknown target.

Yang Pingfan looked at the person who suddenly appeared in the way, and he didn't have the slightest idea of stepping forward to talk to him.

He held his breath, his body was clinging to the cold wall, the whole person seemed to have completely integrated into his surroundings and become a part of nature, he suddenly had a very strange feeling, déjà vu, but he couldn't remember, he just felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it, he reached behind his back with one hand and drew a gesture in Leonard's hand.

Leonard clenched his hunting knife in his hand, leaned down, and pulled something out with his other hand.

The black shadow moved, and slowly walked towards the two of them step by step.

His movements are light, his steps are slow, and he is silent.

If it weren't for the body moving, it would be impossible to detect him moving forward, and the positions on both sides were gradually getting closer, thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters...... Yang Pingfan felt a burst of depression for no reason, "DO it!"

Leonard pressed the flashlight that had already been adjusted to the strongest light point, and a strong white light shot out in a cylindrical shape, completely covering the entire black shadow in the center.

The black shadow was caught off guard by the bright light, and burst into a piercing scream, and he covered his temporarily blind eyes with both hands, and slammed into the position of the two of them.

The moment the flashlight shone brightly, Yang Pingfan's heart was full of shock, and he saw the true face of the other party-

It is indeed a human being, but it is not a normal person, but a transformed person.

Two strong hind limbs stand upright on the ground, the long and narrow body is a layer of exoskeleton similar to plate armor, and a group of elytra behind it, in the dark, it looks like the cloak or coat that humans often wear, in addition to the hands that normal humans should have, there are also two pairs of arthropods extending from the outer outline of the chest, thick and long, like the mantis arms of a large scythe, and there are sharp serrated hooks and claws on the surface, and black body hair as hard and sharp as a steel mane, and the head is the head of a normal human, and even in a glimpse of the white man can be recognized as a white man, but two slender and flexible tentacles extend from the top of the head。

Yang Pingfan flew up and kicked the insect man back, this kick tried his best, but it felt like a kick on the iron plate, the insect man flew out upside down, hit the wall, shook off countless cement blocks, and then let out a hoarse roar.

Leonard's scream like a rooster crowing sounded behind Yang Pingfan at the same time, "What is this?"

The insect man recovered from the confusion of being attacked by the strong light, rushed over again, the sewer space was narrow, and Yang Pingfan was in a battle, Yang Pingfan did not fall behind at all, but found that his claw blade could not break through the plate armor of the insect man, but the scythe arm of the insect man made a sound whistle in the air, and the knife beckoned to him.

"Attack its head, that's its only weakness. ”

“Fuck off！”

Yang Pingfan's claw blade stabbed out like lightning, and the sharp dagger tip cut along the Wormman's short neck, drawing a standard circular trajectory in the air, the Wormman's head and body were completely separated into two disconnected parts, and the stinky blood water of unrecognizable color splattered violently from the bare shoulders, coating the cold walls with a layer of viscous coagulation.

Yang Pingfan gasped, and Leonard walked up to him, "What is this, don't tell me that cockroaches have evolved into human heads in just four years." ”

Leonard turned the wormman's head over with his boot and looked at it, "Runaway super human, this should be a half-finished product." ”

Yang Pingfan was stunned for a moment, although this insect man looked terrifying and his defense was okay, but his combat effectiveness was really not good, "It's just that hundreds of them forced the federal army to use nuclear bombs?"

Leonard shook his head, "This is supposed to be a survivor, the strong nuclear radiation forced them to hide in the sewers, and at the same time seriously damaged their physical functions, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to deal with him so easily...... Well, this place is not to stay long, the strong smell of blood will attract all the dark creatures in the vicinity. ”

Deep cement pipes stretch all the way to the dark ends.

In this underground world where there is no light, there is always a faint trace of blood in the cold air.

The insect man that the two of them bumped into by chance seemed to be a signal, and then all kinds of strange-shaped creatures continued to attack the two, mutant rats, mutated leeches with thick arms, and a sea of cockroaches like a wave, which made the two people tired, and in front of a crossroads, Yang Pingfan stopped, stretched out his palm, and a faint airflow fluctuated, gently caressing the surface of his smooth and sensitive skin.

"I felt the wind and the exit was very close to us. ”

"But the mutant rat colony is closer to us. ”

Leonard's voice was crying, Yang Pingfan turned around, and at the end of the flashlight, a group of mutant cockroaches the size of a hound squeezed together, surging towards the two like a tumbling gray wave.

The shotgun had run out of bullets in a previous chase.

Yang Pingfan closed his eyes, felt the direction of the breeze, opened his mouth slightly, the ultrasound echoed in the passage, and quickly drew a map in his mind, pointing to the passage on the right, "There is a shaft at the end, climb up and push open the manhole cover, I will break the back." ”

Leonard stared at him, "Are you sure?

"Why don't you come?"

Leonard threw the flashlight away, jumped up like a frightened rabbit, and disappeared into the darkness in the blink of an eye.

The sea of cockroaches is swarming, waving sharp hooks and gaping beaks and palate slices, and any organic matter that stands in its way will be torn to pieces and swallowed into their stomachs.

Yang Pingfan waited until Leonard disappeared from view, slowly squatted down, put his hands into the silt, and two blue arcs suddenly appeared like swimming dragons into the silt, illuminating the entire water, and the sea of cockroaches that surged over was like a mosquito hitting the electric mosquito swatter, making a crackling and crisp sound, and the mutant cockroaches were squeaked by the electricity and shrunk into a ball.

The high-voltage current was still surging, and the nearest cockroach burned, emitting a smoky burnt smell, and the membranous wings covering it were completely burned through.

The high-voltage electricity was still being output, and it was not until the entire pipe glowed with blue light that Yang Pingfan stopped releasing it, and reflexively ran quickly in the direction where Leonard disappeared.

Without Leonard's drag, Yang Pingfan gave full play to his advantages, he was like a ghost, and most of the footholds he chose were dry ground, occasionally stepping on the wet silt surface, and would also reduce the footsteps to a minimum with the contraction of his leg muscles.

It didn't sound like a human running at all, more like an agile lizard navigating through the cracks in the rocks.

With the help of the inertia brought by the high-speed movement, Yang Pingfan rushed directly from the ground to the center of the vertical pipe wall from time to time, and after flexibly winding a beautiful arc, he instantly accelerated his speed and jumped more than ten meters away like a bullet out of the chamber.

The soft rubber soles lightly touched the concrete pipe walls, making a dull and hollow sound of stepping and silent tipping, and the sound of strong and weak footsteps mingled with each other, and passed far in the dark pipe.

Curved circular channels can refract long echoes, and stampeding in different directions and footsteps of varying degrees can disrupt the frequency of sound wave transmission.

It is difficult for the tracker to pinpoint the exact location of the sound source, so they can only scurry back and forth in the labyrinthine underground pipes like headless flies, eventually losing track of their prey.

Yang Pingfan got rid of the entanglement of the mutant monster, found the manhole cover, jumped up, the long-lost sunlight made him squint his eyes, and saw Leonard standing in the center of the street despite the scorching sun, looking into the distance.

The surrounding area is empty, as far as the eye can see, there is no building more than half a meter, here as if it has been cleaned by a large broom, any high-rise buildings or man-made objects have been swept away, clean, the ground is shiny, this is the solidified quartz.

"This is the battlefield of the day, the center of the nuclear explosion. ”

Leonard's voice came from behind the suit, the urn sounding the urn.

Without time to sigh, Leonard took Yang Pingfan to the location of the research institute quickly, the ground building had been destroyed by a nuclear explosion, leaving only the entrance of a black hole, like the huge mouth of a beast.

The two glanced at each other and rushed in without hesitation.

The underground space of the institute is more damaged than the underground pipeline, because it is located in the center of the nuclear explosion, even in case of nuclear standard construction, the huge impact pressure still collapses many places, Leonard took out a heavy box, the outside is a 10 cm back lead shell, inside is a tablet, carefully clicked open, "This is the map I got through the inner line......"

Yang Pingfan ignored him, "Hey, look there!"

Leonard looked up, only to see a thin layer of flocculent material at the fracture not far away, and in the pile of flocculents, silk threads hung down, and two sacs were hung, at first glance, it looked like spider silk, but the size of the two sacs was a little large, Yang Pingfan preliminarily estimated that the volume of the two sacs was not smaller than himself.

"Could it be a spider?" Leonard glanced at Yang Pingfan, as if asking.

Yang Pingfan said: "In my experience, it is indeed like spider silk, but ......" He stared at his head and said: "To hang such a big thing, the spider here should be bigger than we have ever seen." ”

"Put those two things down and see what they are. Leonard suggested.

Yang Pingfan glanced at him, and Leonard explained: "This is the center of the nuclear explosion, and any messy monster can appear, we must at least know what is here, so we can decide what to do next." ”

Yang Pingfan thought about it, so he nodded and agreed, Leonard asked Yang Pingfan to tie the stone with his own spider silk, threw it over to break through the sac, and then dragged it down.

With a "poof", a sac covered in spider silk fell to the ground.

Leonard cut it open with a hunting knife, and a rancid smell came to his nose, he immediately covered his mouth and nose, Yang Pingfan stood a little farther away, leaned back slightly when he saw this, and said, "This... Like a human being. ”

I saw that in the cobweb pocket was a half-decomposed corpse, and after they fell, the white bones were exposed in many places, but the hands, feet and heads were vaguely recognizable, which was very similar to humans.

"People indeed. ”

Leonard's tone trembled slightly.

At the center of the nuclear explosion, it was not ordinary people who could survive, but they were still preyed upon by spiders, and you can imagine the power of this spider.

The two of them couldn't figure it out, so they put this matter aside and moved on, but they didn't know that spiders are the most sensitive to their own food, and where they hang food, they often leave a silk thread to lead to the distance, and the slightest movement of spider silk can be sensed from a distance.

As soon as he walked a few steps, a rush of crowded chasing sound came into his ears, and the dense sound of advancing made him stand upside down suddenly, and he didn't have time to explain, so he had to pull Leonard and shouted: "Go!"

Leonard was still puzzled, and when he looked back, he saw countless spider-like creatures gushing out behind them.

Those guys are a man tall, maybe they have survived in the dark for too long, in the faint light, the whole body shows a kind of carrion white, the reason why they are similar to spiders, because their eight legs, far thicker than spiders, and the head does not have the eight eyes of spiders, but like crabs and shrimps, with a pair of bulb eyes, the pupils are flowing white, and it is estimated that the eyesight has long been degraded.

They have a pair of fat palates in front of their mouths, which swing up and down, and at the front of the palates are two large fangs, filled with black liquid and emitting a shiny black glow.

"Fake. ”

Leonard shuddered all over his body as soon as he saw these guys, how many monsters did this Nima nuclear explosion produce?

The thick eight legs of these eight-legged monsters are not good-looking, they only jumped slightly, and jumped over one after another, some of them clinging to the outer wall of the alleyway, rebounding and jumping, for a while, like countless small white umbrellas unfolding in the air, which is very beautiful.

It's just that this kind of beauty has a fatal crisis, Yang Pingfan and Leonard have no intention of appreciating it, and the two have to run away again, running wildly in this labyrinthine underground building, while running, they also have to look at the map to get closer to the destination.

The attack of the white spider is quite simple, it is a jump, a pounce, and it is very easy to hide, but there are too many of them, stinging and jumping like locusts, overwhelming, and the space that can be dodged is too small, like walking on thin ice, like stepping on a tightrope, the two seem to have seen that the god of death is beckoning and smiling at them.

No matter how the two ran, ambushed, or hidden, they were found by the white spider, and Yang Pingfan yelled at Leonard, "Quickly think of a way, if we continue like this, we will not be caught, but exhausted to death." ”

Leonard was panting, but his brain was spinning at high speed, and those spiders were detecting their presence by sensing vibrations, so it would be better to give them a little strong vibration.

He dug up and down, really took out a flash bomb, pulled out the latch, and threw it back with force, followed by a dazzling flash of thunder, and the white spiders staggered as if they were drunk, and collapsed to the ground.

Seeing that it worked, Leonard wanted to take out another again, but Yang Pingfan stretched out his hand to stop him, "Don't, don't throw it again, I'm afraid this shock will cause a collapse." ”

Getting rid of the spider's pursuit, the two breathed a sigh of relief, and just after walking a few steps, a huge force suddenly came from the darkness, grabbing Leonard away, Yang Pingfan didn't have time to think about it, his hands flew, and countless spider silks shot out, tying Leonard and the attacker together, and dragging them over.

Hiss!

Yang Pingfan has seen a lot of monsters in this radiation area, but this one in front of him still gives him goosebumps, this is a person, an unmistakable person, his whole body is wrapped in dirty bandages, holding a piece of steel bar in his hand, he is desperately poking Leonard, his teeth are not idle, and he is gnawing on the protective suit.

Yang Pingfan picked it up, the quality of the straps was very poor, and he couldn't support his weight, so he broke one after another, revealing his body.

It was a terrible body, full of wounds permeated with turquoise pus, and worms wriggling like muscle fibers on it, which were picked up by Yang Pingfan, who let out a hoarse roar, opened his mouth and bit at Yang Pingfan, the teeth were sharp and narrow, and they had pierced the upper and lower jaws, like a row of short daggers.

In his sunken eye sockets, a pair of eyes are like mouse eyes, and the black eyes are so large that the white eyes are almost invisible.

The two of them stayed in place in a daze, the scene in front of them had an unprecedented impact on their hearts, their minds were blank, along the way, both of them were used to seeing all kinds of ugly and strange creatures, but there was no one, there was a scene in front of them that was terrifying, mutated like this, are they still human?

Yang Pingfan was stunned for a moment, his voice was bitter, "What the hell is this?"

Leonard said gloomily, "This is a human being, not a modified person, they used to be ordinary people." ”

"What are you talking about!" Yang Pingfan was stunned for a moment, shook the TA out of his hand, the man roared, his eyes were full of hatred, and he rushed over again desperately, and was stunned by Yang Pingfan's slap.

"Although most of the citizens were evacuated immediately, the complexity of the modern city ...... There are always some people who can't take care of it, they are abandoned here, most of them die in a short time because of exposure to nuclear radiation, a small number of them have withstood the cruel nuclear radiation, their bodies have undergone huge mutations in a short period of time, and they have adapted to the environment of nuclear radiation, they have lost their minds, only instinct is left, and there is a bitter hatred for normal human beings. ”