Chapter 90: The Devourer

The 100,000-ton "Dragon King" can be regarded as a giant beast in the river, but in the vast ocean, it is no different from dust.

The storm was still raging, and there was darkness between the sea and the sky, and the waves of chaos were erecting dangerous peaks on the surface of the ocean, and then smashing into deep ravines, like angry djinns tearing at toys to their heart's content. The whole ship was tossed up and sunk suddenly, and the foaming waves washed over the deck again and again, and the wind and rain obscured all the sound.

"Brother Chen Mo, Brother Chen Mo!" Bai Xiaoran's voice was already hoarse, his whole body was soaked, and he couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears flowing on his face.

She was huddled in an open-air container compartment in the middle of the ship, tied to a bollard by a thick cable. Before Chen Mo left, he pulled the rope many times, tying her tighter, and said something loudly.

Bai Xiaoran couldn't even hear a word clearly. She was cold and scared now, making the torrential rain shiver, and she couldn't help but cry when she thought of the situation when Chen Mo broke out with her.

She didn't know if he was dead.

At the same moment, at the entrance of the bridge, more than a dozen heavily armed gunmen flashed out, and as soon as they left the hatch, they were struck by the waves that rushed onto the deck. One of them hesitated a little and shouted through the radio talk headset: "It's such a ghost weather, let's go back!" Even if he doesn't come up to search, that kid will be swept into the sea sooner or later to feed the fish! ”

"Didn't you hear a few of them negotiating in the bilge? Miss Luo Li hinted that the thing was in the hands of that kid, and even if he died, the body would have to be found! The Western man who replied had a strong physique like a bear, waved his hand, and led everyone to fan forward.

He was the head of the operations team that later boarded the ship, and in addition to bringing a large number of individual equipment on board, he was accompanied by two combat teams. This group of people is really elite, and they are not at the same level as the subordinates who Luo Li brought to infiltrate. The team leader originally complained about the company's fuss, and he finally had a chance to take a vacation, but he was urgently recruited and transferred here, and had to leave behind the pair of stunner sisters who had just got their hands on.

In the words of the Orientals, the team leader felt that this task was killing chickens with a knife. A few minutes ago, his arrogance had vanished in the face of a bloody reality.

The kid who broke through the penultimate cabin took less than two minutes to get out of the bridge. The sound of the previous gunfire alarmed all the team members, and the team leader was ordering to search the bilge floor by layer, but his sudden appearance disrupted the deployment.

The team leader saw with his own eyes that the boy had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the intertwined tongues of fire and the red of the explosion formed a picture of death, but he fought his way out of the smoke and led the girl straight to the deck.

Not having time to lay down firepower to intercept it, and the fact that his own personnel were not in position, was the biggest premise for that kid to break through. But at the same time, the team leader was also shocked by the terrifying power of the other party, he had never seen this kind of person, even Luo Li, who was implanted with a super bud, was completely incomparable.

The boy did not hesitate to go to the deck desperately, obviously knowing that staying in the cabin any longer would only become a turtle in the urn. The team leader didn't think it was a brilliant idea, and of course, maybe the hillbilly from the ancient country of the East had never heard of the existence of a thing called a "night vision device" in the world.

Tiny red dots flashed in the dark green vision, and after a long and difficult search, I finally found something in the middle of the cargo ship. After his subordinates whispered, the team leader first saw the girl in the warehouse, and then ordered to scatter and search, believing that the boy was nearby.

As he expected, another silhouette of a human body soon appeared in the large-diameter shot. The team leader adjusted the night vision mount on his helmet, raised his gun to aim, and pulled the trigger after taking a deep breath.

The man shuddered, and rolled down the side of the cargo slide, soaking in the water on the deck.

"Take the corpse and the chick away!" The team leader smiled and spoke, thought about it and added, "Don't hurt the chick, keep her strength, it's not fun to be like a dead man." ”

"Boss, there are so many of us, can she make it to the end?" From the headset came the excited questioning of his subordinates.

"I'll be the first in line, and as for whether it's your turn or not, it's up to God." The team leader laughed a few times, feeling a little swollen and painful in a certain area, and it was quite uncomfortable to be pressed against the wet crotch. Naturally, someone else would do the finishing work, and he whistled and turned around happily, wanting to go back to the bridge first and wait for the chick to get to bed, but he almost bumped into the person who was standing quietly behind him.

Before the group leader could react, he collapsed.

When the real darkness hits, the only thought left in the strong man's mind is, "How did he see me?" ”

Chen Mo didn't take the other party's helmet, and he couldn't see the strange-looking night vision device at all.

The process now used to "see" is related to death.

Die.

When this concept, which only exists in the imagination, incomparably distant and incomparably illusory, suddenly becomes palpable, everything else becomes irrelevant. Extreme fear, unwillingness, anger, and mania were finally mixed into the most primitive and essential beast surname, and as the spirit of all things, he was no different from any animal that had been cornered, except for the hissing that overflowed from every cell.

I don't want to die.

Chen Mo had heard that when a human fetus was not fully formed, it would have a tail behind it. He believed it to be true, because man was inherently a beast.

It is not too much to describe the previous predicament with a dog jumping over the wall. Bai Xiaoran's appearance changed the status quo, forcing him to gamble on many things with a trump card that could only be played once a day. If Luo Li doesn't appear, this card will be meaningless even if it is played.

Now that Zhuo Yitian and Tie Niu have temporary life-saving chips in their hands, the only thing Chen Mo was thinking about when he rushed out of the bridge tower was how he could take Bai Xiaoran to live together.

He asked Bai Xiaoran about the giant gate switch, and he pressed it, but there was no movement. When they got outside, they didn't expect it to be this kind of weather, the lighting on the deck was completely destroyed by the storm, and the two of them could only rely on their memories to touch the central cargo compartment little by little. This is an indescribable process, every step is like walking on the edge of a ghost gate, Chen Mo originally thought that Bai Xiaoran would collapse, but he didn't expect the little girl to just hold him tightly, even if the whole boat tilted to a terrifying degree when the huge waves hit, she still didn't say a word.

The two men couldn't see anything, snuggling up to each other in the midst of the torrential rain and splashing waves. Chen Mo could clearly feel the body temperature on the little girl's body, and her sense of presence was so vivid and real.

Because he was worried that Bai Xiaoran would be swept away by the waves, Chen Mo tied her up and sat next to her for a moment.

The deadline has long been exhausted, and the head is groggy, the Ares robot focuses on stopping the bleeding, Chen Mo didn't count how many gunshot wounds there are, only feels that his whole body is sinking into the mire.

Ever since he snatched the ring, the robot began to transmit some kind of signal to the host's subconscious, and it was restless. Chen Mo touched the wet pockets, but the iron finger sleeves were still there, so he followed their meaning and pricked the sharp needles on the ring surface into his palm.

This almost reckless move resulted in the smooth return of the bud samples in the ring, which were reassembled into a complete Ares sequence. After sensing the boiling tide of the robot's almost cheers, Chen Mo found that the cold feeling that had been vaguely present all along, actually moved and merged into the circular undercurrent of the robot, merging with each other and indistinguishing each other.

The "Devourer" is a genetic virus, and it is also an evolutionary nanobot, which was cleaned up by Old Man Mo's crude but domineering antivirus, and it actually produced a variant that survived in Chen Mo's body. The learning and evolution of the Ares robots in terms of defense has made them no longer enemies, and now that they have re-achieved the full sequence, it is even more difficult for the mutant devourers to escape the fate of being killed, so they have to actively give up resistance and choose to be assimilated.

In other words, Chen Mo was chosen as the host, not the target of the invasion.

Chen Mo didn't know that this invisible war was a foregone conclusion, after he left Bai Xiaoran's side, he walked less than 100 meters, and suddenly stopped in the wind and rain.

It's a strange feeling, a bit like when you were a kid with your eyes closed, and you can point your finger at the center of your eyebrows, and even if you don't have to look at it, you will get itchy as you get closer.

The cold hairs all over his body stood on end, and he burst out, and the gunfire rang out, and a row of bullet holes appeared on the deck.

Chen Mo hid behind the container, not understanding how the other party found out. The great sense of crisis made him begin to breathe, such a passive situation undoubtedly brought death closer to an unprecedented level, he could fight in the cabin, but now he is completely blind.

The second shot exploded a puddle of blood on Chen Mo's shoulder, and he couldn't find where the muzzle flame came from, so he had to flee again.

The effective induction of the practitioner must be at close range, and the gunman's own strength cannot be compared, and he has almost nothing to do.

Is it just dead?

The wind mixed with raindrops swept his head and face, cutting his skin painfully. His eyes widened, scanning the intense darkness that filled the sky and sea, sniffing at the salty smell of the sea and the rust that permeated him, and in what might have been the last sensory experience, something deep in his skull was contracting and swelling more and more visibly, thumping.

Gradually, a faint shadow appeared in the darkness - in front of the left, thirty meters, about 180 centimeters, the outline of a strong male surname.

This person was looking around, posing with a gun, but Chen Mo couldn't see anything in the other party's hand.

He can only "see" flesh and blood.

The Mutant Devourer's greedy sensing of the [***] gene, combined with the combat defense function of the Ares robot, opened a new horizon for Chen Mo. As the two robots performed their own responsibilities and gradually adjusted to the best fit, Chen Mo's retina began to receive analog positioning signals, and the figure became clearer and clearer, and finally turned crimson, like a fire jumping around his body.

The gunner, who came out of the cabin alone, was the first to fall on the deck, and the group leader became the second.

More than a dozen members of the combat team soon discovered that the corpses of their own people had been shot by the team leader before, so they raised their guns and waited for them. One of the outermost people called the team leader repeatedly, but there was no response, and he only felt a slight numbness on the back of his neck, and he suddenly softened.

Tongues of fire soon lit up the deck, some roaring, some screaming, and some wailing in terror. The beast that can be captured in the night vision goggles has brought up a white waterline in the rainstorm, and it seems that they can also be seen.

Night vision devices can see through the darkness, but not through the rain, and the roles of the hunter and the prey have been reversed.

After emptying the deck, Chen Mo entered the bridge again and found that the cockpit was empty. Smoke billowed from the rudder panel and the centralized console, which had long been blown up by a rain of bullets.

The captain of the "Dragon King" does not seem to have a sense of professional honor to live and die with the ship, and he is obviously not loyal to Luo Li. Although cooperating with foreign forces over the years has brought him huge wealth, it has always been his heart disease, and every time he thinks of the possible price, he will have trouble sleeping. As early as when the sound of gunshots came from the bottom floor, he consciously deviated from the course, thinking that the domestic agent had boarded the boat, and then saw that the situation continued to deteriorate, so he took his henchmen and put down the lifeboat and fled.

The cargo ship was not far from the shoreline, and the wind and waves were fading, and the captain preferred to take the risk of sailing ashore than in a lifeless shootout. At this moment, Chen Mo saw that he was not doing any more and no more, even if he didn't understand the equipment on the ship, he could roughly see that this matter was in trouble.

Chen Mo walked out of the cockpit and found Mo Hongmei standing quietly outside the door.

The girl looked at several gunshot wounds on his body, and said lightly: "There is still a team of guards in the bilge, if you want to embarrass Luo Li, you have to pass me first." ”

"I'm friends with your grandfather, and that blue-eyed little girl isn't his friend." Chen Mo frowned.

Mo Hongmei stared at him, as if he hadn't heard this.

"Your dad died with someone, right? Your grandfather asked me to go to Zhanyang to find you, and he didn't want you to learn martial arts again. Chen Mo tried to communicate for the last time and mentioned the key.

He was answered with a wide open slap in the chest.

Chen Mo couldn't fight Mo Hongmei during the outbreak, and he had already become the end of the crossbow at this time, let alone an opponent. However, Mo Hongmei's palm made him look no different, but all the wounds hurt together. After a few palms in a row, all the bullets on his body were forced out by the majestic dark energy of the Great Open Monument Hand, and they fell to the ground and clanged.

"It's good that the bones are fine." Mo Hongmei stopped and smiled slightly.

Chen Mo's fist also paused in the air, looking at her beautiful face that was both familiar and unfamiliar, a little trance.

The hull shook violently, then again, and the ground shook, and many containers flew up and rolled out of the deck into the sea.

Chen Mo's face changed greatly, he couldn't care about anything else, and went to the central warehouse to find Bai Xiaoran. It was still dark, and when he got there, he only touched a cable, and he froze there.

After a long time, he suddenly sensed it, and looked at the distant deck in surprise.

A small figure was staggering over there, his voice hoarse, shouting the title he was accustomed to: "Brother Chen Mo!" Where are you, do you hear me calling you?! ”

With a sharp and piercing friction sound, flying sparks pierced the darkness, and the huge container that turned out of the cargo compartment not far away pressed down fiercely towards the girl.

The "Dragon King" began to tilt and sink.

(To be continued)