Chapter 369: 'Hunter'

"How does it feel?"

In the office, Feng Peng had just finished reading a document, signed his name on it, sorted it out briefly, and put it aside.

Then he raised his head and looked at Aganthu, who had just come from the North Acropolis and reported to him.

This former researcher, the proposer of the Dandelion Plan, even Feng Peng did not expect that as the progress of the experiment continued to deepen, in a short period of time, Agantu became his confidant, and finally broke away from the research and ran to become the deputy leader of the patrol.

It's really a trick!

"I didn't feel the kind of feeling that adults feel. "Agantu stood up straight, still maintaining the style of the army.

Hearing this, Feng Peng frowned: "This is strange, could it be that what I felt at the banquet at that time was an illusion?" ”

"Maybe it's because I'm having a secondary parasitic relationship?"

Agami's eyes moved slightly, and a little gray-green spot quickly increased in the originally dark and normal-colored pupils, and in the end, dense gray-green spots of all sizes crowded out the small pupils, making people's scalp tingle.

But Feng Peng, who had long been accustomed to this, observed Agantu's eyes very carefully.

The dandelion project went well, after obtaining enough infection samples, through the efforts of many researchers, the secondary infection of the spores, or the secondary parasitism, the success rate was greatly improved, and the first person to be used as a test subject was Aganthu himself.

When Feng Peng knew that it was Agantu who took the initiative to become the test subject, he was a little surprised, and he didn't know what this northerner, who had become the chief scientist of the North Acropolis because of his meritorious service, thought about it, although the data showed that the secondary parasitic generation power was more than 80 percent, but there was still a chance of failure of more than 10 percent.

If you fail, you won't die, but you'll be in a vegetative state — a real vegetative — or, in other words, a humanoid.

Although alive, the whole person has been lignified, and even if it is buried in the soil, it will absorb the nutrients in the ground and grow.

There are already quite a few such losers, but most of them are the most ordinary soldiers. Just as a general who can fight never charges in person, scientists who engage in research rarely go into battle to be test subjects.

However, in the end, it was Agantu who persuaded him and agreed, and now, Agantu has become the first person in the entire North Acropolis military to successfully parasitize.

To be honest, Feng Peng was very curious about what it would be like after the second parasitism, but when he thought that it would not be long before he would also have a second parasitism, he felt that he had asked, and it was also in vain, so it was better to experience it himself, so he didn't ask.

Now a group of researchers are constantly collecting data from Aganthu's body to see if they can improve the probability of success again, looking for a more convenient parasitic method, and after it is confirmed, the secondary parasitism will quickly expand to all the North Wind Guards, and the work of primary parasitism has gradually expanded to the ordinary soldiers of the entire military region.

When everyone is parasitic, the army of the North Acropolis may be the most powerful of all the armies, right?

Unconsciously, a little distracted, Agantu noticed it, but he didn't alarm Feng Peng, probably thinking that the young colonel was thinking.

After a while, Feng Peng came back to his senses and saw that Agantu was still standing still, so he said, "You don't have to worry about this matter, I will investigate it clearly." You're just taking up your post, and you still have a lot of things to do, right?

"Yes!" Agantu gave a military salute and turned to leave the office.

After Agantu left, Feng Peng was the only one left in the office.

He took a pen and unconsciously swirled it in his hand.

He had thought about arranging a spy to approach Rob in order to find out the secrets of Rob, and was looking for an opportunity when he saw a recruitment announcement from Gemini, so No. 3 successfully applied for the job and became an employee of Gemini.

But what No. 3 didn't expect was that he thought that this job was responsible for taking care of the constellation or related people, and he would live in the Gemini constellation, but the nanny he applied for was to take care of Guo Chengbing and a few children in the outer city, which made people feel a little wrong.

In addition, Rob has already left the North Acropolis and has not returned for a long time, so there has been no news until yesterday, and it was not until yesterday that the third sent a message to report the progress, but it was only the first contact with the target.

But no matter what, this is a big improvement, and Feng Peng has no intention of aborting this mission, because he knows that any spy or undercover agent is a job that takes a long time to see results, so since he has been able to contact Rob, there should be opportunities in the future.

As for how to find out Rob's secret after contact, it depends on how Three does it.

After thinking about it, he continued to work on the paperwork.

…………

In the middle of the night, Rob was awakened by a deafening thunderclap.

When I got out of bed and opened the curtains, I saw that the night sky outside was cloudy, and there was a faint flash of lightning, accompanied by rolling thunder.

Soon after, all of a sudden, the sound faded away, followed by a torrential downpour of rain, smashing the glass and slamming against the walls.

A dangerous rainy night is coming, and tonight, whether it is the inner city or the outer city, I am afraid it will be a busy night, I don't know how many people can't sleep in this heavy rain, and I don't know how many people will lose their lives in this rain.

But none of this can be reversed by an individual. Now Rob only hopes that this rain will end before dawn, otherwise tomorrow's itinerary will probably be changed.

With a hint of concern, Rob returned to bed, and soon after, with the sound of dense rain, fell asleep.

At this time, dozens of kilometers away, in the open space of the destroyed Z Corner Cult Base, four hunters found this place before it rained, not knowing whether it was good luck or bad luck.

At the edge of the forest, where the trees are relatively dense, in the air between the branches and branches, they pulled out a very wide tarpaulin to shield them from the rain, and then at a distance of more than ten meters from the ground, they simply built a few shelves.

The three of them are all old hunters, experienced, and have already spent an unknown number of dangerous rainy nights, so no one cares about today's heavy rain, they all sit silently on the narrow wooden frame, eat dry food, vigilantly observe the surroundings, and occasionally whisper a few words, but most of them are in a state of inquiry.

In this way, in the midst of vigilance, another rainy night was passed.

In the second half of the night, the rain gradually stopped, but the heavy dark clouds still remained in the sky, and they were reluctant to leave for a long time, indicating that the rain was not over, but I don't know when, it will start to fall again.

When it was still dark, the hunter in charge of the night watch woke up his two companions, and then the hunter of the night watch began to sleep, and the two hunters who had already slept, one of them went into the forest to hunt, and the other stayed in place to keep watch.

Soon after, the hunter returned from the hunt, and without waking up his sleeping companions, he began to make a fire and roast meat.

By the time the sky was getting brighter, the three hunters were ready to start a day of hunting.

However, before leaving here, the three of them decided to go to the suspicious object in the far side of the clearing, it looked like an empty shell left behind after the crash of the airship, although it felt a little dangerous, but as people living in the ruins of the forest, where was it not dangerous?

So, the three of them got off the ground, accelerated towards the target for a while, and when the distance was less than a hundred meters, they stopped, and chose to approach cautiously by walking.

The steps of the three of them were very slight, and only when the soles of their feet were exerted, there was a very subtle rustling sound when they rubbed against the mud and sand on the ground.

Such a voice should not be heard by normal people, but as an abnormal person, Zhang Ziyang can hear such a voice clearly.

He was lying on the ground, his body half-buried in the ground, dressed in tattered clothes, and gray-white bones and shriveled skin could be seen in several parts of his exposed body.

At first glance, this looks like a corpse that has been dead for a long time, but Zhang Ziyang knows that he is still alive and well, and even becomes a 'hunter', but compared to those hunters who mainly hunt demon beasts, his prey is mainly people.

Because of the dark clouds, the sky seemed a little overcast.

The rain that had only fallen last night, although it had stopped before dawn, naturally could not have dried up so quickly, and it was still wet.

He lay on the ground, feeling the water seep into the ground, and the plants around him, they were also sucking the nutrients in the ground, like a person sucking liquid through a straw.

There were also unknown beetles crawling over the ground, their slender legs moving in unison.

He could hear it moving, and for larger humans, the slightest drop of their feet would cause the slightest vibration and friction on the ground.

He could hear it.

It's getting closer.

It's three people.

He didn't say anything, and after two days of waiting, he finally waited for his prey—which he had expected to wait longer—and it was probably luck, he couldn't make a sound to scare people away, otherwise where would he have gained?

It's closer.

They were talking, reminding each other to be careful.

But it didn't matter, they didn't care about a person lying on the ground, especially if this person looked like a corpse that had been dead for three or four months or more.

What's more, he is not the only one who is a 'hunter'?

The three hunters had already noticed the corpse on the ground, but just by looking at it, they didn't care, because just by looking at it, they could know that this 'corpse' had been dead for a long time, and the bones were exposed, and it should have been gnawed off by the demon beasts in the forest.

However, it is a little strange that those demon beasts only gnaw meat and have not dismantled the corpses, but this is not something to be noted.

The three of them gradually walked in the direction of the 'corpse', and although they knew by looking at it that there should be nothing worth acquiring on the corpse, they wanted to know how the man had died, which might allow them to prevent possible dangers here.

They walked cautiously, neither fast nor slow, and eventually, they reached the 'corpse'.

The other two were on guard, and one of the hunters crouched down to do an inspection.

Everything was perfect, and seasoned hunters rarely made big mistakes, but this time, what happened was far beyond their imagination.

Just as the hunter crouched down, a hunter behind him suddenly saw a bony hand poking out of the ground.

Because it was too sudden, and too terrifying, even the old hunter couldn't help but let out an exclamation, but before he could react, the hand that was only bones was left grabbed the hunter's ankle at once.

The other two hunters were not frightened and reacted quickly, but by this time, it was too late to react, and the 'corpse' on the ground, which had been thought to be dead for a long time, suddenly moved, and grabbed the arm of the hunter who had already crouched down.

Frightened, almost reflexively, the hunter slashed the knife in his hand at the arm that still had dry flesh remaining. The blade sliced into the little flesh that was left, and then made a metallic crash with the bones below.

However, the knife in the hunter's hand was not a demon soldier, but just an ordinary steel weapon.

This is normal, some hunters like to carry around a long knife like this, which can be used to cut demon beasts and confuse enemies to a certain extent.

But this time, the hunter lost his only chance to survive because the weapon in his hand was not a magic soldier.

As he swung his knife down, a black object crawled down the withered hand onto the hunter's arm and quickly sank into his skin.

The hunter didn't know what these black-looking silt looked like, but that didn't stop him from being horrified.

He could feel a strange object burrowing into his arm, and then quickly spreading along his arm to the rest of his body.

Whatever it was, it had to be something dangerous.

At the critical moment, he thought of breaking his arm to survive, but the speed of the black mud spreading was too fast, and he raised the long knife, and before he could cut it, he already felt that the strange object had burrowed into his body and penetrated his heart.

He still maintained a squatting posture, but wanted to get up, and he still held the long knife in his hand, but he was already dead, as if he had stood in the desert for hundreds of years, and the surface of the weathered statue, the skin and flesh on his body, like silt, fell off one after another.

In just a few seconds, a large living person had shrunk several times and turned into a skeleton that was almost devoid of flesh.

At this time, Zhang Ziyang felt heartfelt joy.

He did it.

(End of chapter)