118. Monster of the Institute (2)
"Oh? Woke up. A fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy walked in, and was also surprised to see Xia Qian's strange appearance, and then looked at the expressions of the two children beside him, and shook his head thoughtfully, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Excuse me, what is this place?" Xia Qian interrupted his train of thought and asked in a low voice.
"Here? This is the slum. The boy smiled, revealing a mouthful of white, neat teeth.
Slums, it seems to have gone in the wrong direction. Xia Qian bowed his head in some frustration, he wanted to go to a place called San'an Town in the south, but he ran completely wrong.
The young man saw her confused, and simply explained the current situation of the slums, before the invasion of the Zerg, this was originally a calm and peaceful small town, and the living conditions of the people were very good, since the appearance of the Zerg, everything has changed, overnight, the Zerg set foot here, and the adults hid them here in order to protect the children, and over time, only the children survived.
If you look out of the window, there are ruins everywhere outside, and you can hear the roar of the Zerg in the distance, they are not safe to hide here, and they will be discovered and eaten by the Zerg at any time. However, apart from here, there was no place to live within a hundred miles, and he had to continue to live in hiding, let alone seeing a living person, and when the young man saw Xia Qian fall on the road, he was very surprised.
The boy promised Xia Qian that he could live here, and he would have to work to help the children here.
"Na, na, Brother Xia, why is your hair white?" More than once, I was surrounded by children and asked with my sleeves pulled. As for the title of Brother Xia, Xia Qian cut her hair before coming here in the future, in order to prevent the people of the research institute from discovering her whereabouts, now she has become white-haired and red-eyed, and it should be difficult to recognize if she is not carefully recognized.
"It's a disease, have you ever heard of albinism?" Every time, Xia Qian replied with this sentence.
"Ah, what a strange disease, can it be cured?"
"It should work." Xia Qian smiled, since he agreed to stay, his daily work is cleaning, washing clothes, cooking, and playing with a group of children. The one who was a little older than her was going out with the young man Lin Jianhui to look for food.
"Brother Jianhui came back so slowly todayβ"
"yes, I'm usually back at this time."
"Will Brother Jianhui be?"
"What nonsense, Brother Jianhui won't die, don't mess around!" One of the girls got excited and shouted.
The little boy who was scolded glanced at the corners of his mouth, and couldn't help but cry aggrieved.
"Crying, crying for what!" A child cried, and other children also cried, the yard was crying for a while, Xia Qian sighed depressedly on the side, it was late, the sun was about to set, it was true that they came back a little slow this time, and they couldn't rest assured that something should happen.
"Don't cry, everyone, Brother Jianhui will be back soon, maybe there will be a lot of meat to eat tonight," Xia Qian patted a few children and comforted a few words, "It's getting dark, you go back first, don't run casually, close the door and lock the window, I'll go out and take a look and come back." β
"Brother Xia-" A timid little boy pulled out Xia Qian's sleeve and asked uneasily, "Will Brother Jianhui really come back?" β
"Yes." Xia Qian touched the little boy's hair softly, and said softly: "Brother, go and get him back now, maybe he is lost, you are good, you have to be obedient, Lu Cheng, you are the oldest here, you want to bring them back without leaking, you know?" β
"Got it." Lu Cheng nodded heavily and took the lead in bringing them back.
Hoping that Jianhui and them were safe, Xia Qian stepped on a remote path, and had the experience of picking mushrooms with them a few times before, so he probably knew the scope of their search for food.
Along the way, I didn't find them, and the uneasiness in my heart became bigger and bigger. Lin Jianhui is equivalent to the head of the children living here, everyone's trust in him is not clear in a sentence or two, if he suddenly disappears, what will happen to the children here, I really can't imagine, I can only pray that they are still alive.
"Hiss-" There was a sudden strange sound on the edge of the grass, and an unknown object was moving at high speed, straight in the direction of Xia Qian.
It's really unfavorable, and as soon as you go out, you will run into the Zerg. At the critical moment, Xia Qian suddenly stopped, and a bug about two meters tall sprang out of the grass, emitting a foul smell of rot all over his body, looking like a bug that had been magnified hundreds of times in front of him, but they had hard armor, the foot hair was clearly visible, and the appearance was very ugly, I don't know what kind of species, it had mutated beyond recognition, and what was even more terrifying was that their food was human, and she noticed that there was blood left on the side of the mouth of the insect in front of her, which had not yet dried up.
Suddenly a terrible thought flashed through me, could they be
"Buzzing" the insect instigated its wings, and the huge wings puffed up a gust of air, wanting to fly over and eat the food in front of him, Xia Qian stepped back, her eyes locked on the soft abdomen of the insect, she didn't notice it at this moment, the red pupils emitted a strange light, bewitching and intimidating.
When recalling the original owner's use of skills, there is no need for too many complicated movements, as long as the consciousness is still there, when the ability does not stop, although her body will be very tired after consuming the ability, and even shock, however, she has another ability, immortality, when the consciousness is not completely asleep, use suicide to get a new life, and the feeling of exhaustion disappears instantly. In the previous life, the original owner was such a day and night fighting zerg, and the people of the institute became monsters.
The original owner's ability has a wide range of uses, and with the undead, it's a bomb that can move at any time, and disasters can be brought there. Because her ability is that as long as there is air, it will become her sharp weapon, squeezing the air around her to the enemy until the other party dies, or concentrating the nitrogen and oxygen in the air to a certain extent, forming a powerful bomb that bombs the opponent will not be able to complete.
There is the memory of the original owner, Xia Qian quickly practiced, less than a meter away from the giant worm, froze in mid-air, only heard a click, a pair of transparent wings broke into several sections, and fell to the ground one after another, not only that, the body of the insect began to twist in a strange posture, and a big mouth hissed in pain, as if there was an invisible big hand constantly breaking its hands and feet, click, click, strange to hear. Xia Qian swallowed his saliva, not daring to relax in the slightest, the picture in front of him was very bloody and disgusting, and the strange smell wafting over was indescribable, and he couldn't wait to close his eyes and plug his nose at this time.
The insect was squeezed and completely deformed, getting smaller and smaller, and it was impossible to recognize the original appearance at all, the green liquid flowed out, submerged in the grass, and the color could not be distinguished, Xia Qian still did not dare to stop, as far as she knew, the cells of the Zerg had a very strong ability to recover, and if the pronucleus in the insect's body was not completely destroyed, it would soon repair itself, grow new hands and feet, and appear in front of humans again. It's like being hit by a zombie virus, attacking humans endlessly, although there is no ability to be infected, but the danger is not inferior to zombies at all.
"Disappear." Xia Qian wiped the cold sweat that slipped down his face, looked at the corpse compressed to the size of a football, and threw it out with the "bomb" he had prepared earlier.
"Boom-" The dust was flying, and there was not even scum left.
After using the ability, his body seemed to be hollowed out, Xia Qian took out a knife from his pocket, gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and swung it towards his heart.
There was a brief pause in consciousness for a second, and in the next second, Xia Qian regained consciousness, gasped for breath, and sighed, it feels good to be alive again. At the moment when I blocked my life just now, I was really afraid that I would suddenly not be able to come back.
"Natsu?" A familiar voice came, and following the prestige, Lin Jianhui's figure ran over, carrying an unconscious person on his back, it was Yuan Kai.
"Are you all right, what about the others?" Xia Qian hurriedly greeted him, glanced at it, and saw that Yuan Kai's left arm was scarred, mottled with blood, his face was flushed, and his consciousness was a little unconscious, he whispered: "Brother Jianhui, Zuo Jian and the fat man are still in the forest, you go and save them, don't worry about me." β
After hearing this, Lin Jianhui lowered his head sadly, tried hard to hold back the tears in the corners of his eyes, took a deep breath and choked up: "Well, I know, after rescuing you first, I'll go to them." β
Is Sami dead? Xia Qian subconsciously clenched his fists with both hands, and then let go again, when he saw Lin Jianhui's originally clear and transparent blue eyes, he expected that it would be a bad ending.
"Let's get out of here." Lin Jianhui stretched out his hand to wipe the eye water from the corner of his eye, and said to Xia Qian.
"Yes."
The two of them ran in the direction of home one after the other, but because of Yuan Kai's injuries, the smell of blood wafted into the air, attracting a large wave of blood-sucking zergs, chasing them closely.
A black spree of bugs flew over the heads of several of them, a few of them were slightly stronger, and they were very fast, falling to the ground to block their way, and the bugs behind followed closely, striking back and forth.
"Damn, surrounded." Lin Jianhui took out his right hand and took out a sharp dagger from his boot and pointed it at the leader of the menacing insects.
Bugs are already terrifying to magnify hundreds of times, just looking at their clearly visible hair, their mouths, and especially the unique pair of replica eyes, it can't help but be intimidating. After the original docile insects have been mutated, they are ferocious and abnormal, and the grass-eating ones have been changed to eating people, how can people not be afraid?