Chapter 421: The Invisible Ghost (Gal. 40, 41)
Flickering daggers and broken throats arc sharply through the gray mist, severing the arm of the hanged man.
Link frowned slightly, when he cut it just now, he didn't have the pleasure of drawing the knife and cutting off the water before, but there was an indescribable sense of difficulty when penetrating the flesh and blood.
Link landed on his front foot, and the prophet and Tang Jiu fell on their back foot, falling and squatting with a big butt.
The macaw and chasing wind on the side saw the rotten arm on their arm that had been severed, and they were immediately frightened and took a few steps back.
"Squat!"
Where have Chasing the Wind and the macaw seen this kind of scene, not to mention squatting on the ground. Chasing the wind also skillfully held his head with both hands, like an old PK who was captured in the anti-pornography crackdown.
The macaw was the first to squat, but after squatting, he tilted his head and thought: Alas, no! I'm not tall enough to catch a monster in the gray mist, and even if I'm not tall enough for a camera chicken, why do I want to crouch down?
Then he immediately got up again and began to focus on shooting.
A severed rotten arm that looks like it's still sentient.
Broken and fleshy skin tissue can be clearly seen with blood vessels, muscles, and bones.
Chasing Feng fixed his eyes on the arm, the rotten position was irregular, the back of the hand was clearly exposed to the bones, but a piece of the wrist was cut, the flesh and bones were turned out, followed by the loss and hollowness of the large piece of the arm, and the strange dark green liquid that seeped out from the texture tissue from time to time.
It's hard to imagine that such an arm has the terrifying power to lift the player up with his bare hands.
The prophet and Tang Jiu, who had fallen to the ground, saw the forearm that was tightly clutching their arm, and they immediately got up in fright.
Just off the ground, he was pressed down by Link again, and his butt and the ground underwent a second "meat bullet impact".
At this moment, at the top of their heads, a lot of arms appeared in the gray mist, grabbing something randomly.
Only two meters high "low altitude", rotten arms dancing in the gray fog, and the temperature under your feet is like the red ground of the midday desert, the whole picture is extremely impactful and weird.
"What is this? Link, what did you just go up and see? The macaw asked, looking up to photograph. Although it can fly, when you see this strange sight, you don't even wave its wings when you kill it.
With a solemn expression, Link raised his hand to signal the macaw and the player to duck back.
Link jumped into the grey mist for the second time, as whistle arrows flew out of his cuffs, and this time Link landed with an upside-down hangman.
The upside-down hangman fell heavily to the ground because his feet were tied? An arm was also cut off by Link? At this point, after falling to the ground, it is like a maggot that begins to wriggle.
This upside-down hanged man has no mandible, and his tongue and mouth are completely exposed? It looks terrifying.
A third of the braincase is missing? One eye socket was extremely hollow, and the other eye was shaky.
The macaw on the side dared to come forward to shoot? He stood on tiptoe and glanced into his skull, shivering.
I saw—
Most of the inside of the skull is hollow? Has the real brain long since shrunk and dried up? Shrunk to the size of a walnut. There is also an obvious thing similar to a meat tendon, barely hanging an eyeball, and with the violent movements of the upside-down hangman, it gives people the feeling that the shriveled eyeball is about to break free at any time.
Besides? Can it be clearly seen that the left ribcage is completely hollowed out? Straight through.
"It's the Heartless." As soon as Link finished speaking, sentry arrows flew down from the gray mist, pinning the Heartless Man's feet and one hand to the ground.
The macaw was dumbfounded: "Heartless? This thing has a withered brain and no heart, how did it survive? ”
Link crouched down to take a closer look? The location of the left atrium of this heartless person has irregular fractures in the ribs? And the surrounding scabs also show a tearing feeling, it looks like it has encountered an external force? Straight through the chest and take the heart away.
"The so-called heartless? Infected with a puppet virus, to be precise. Don't need a brain to think? Don't need your heart to power it either? The entire body is completely dominated by the virus. The reason why it is called a puppet virus is because once infected with this virus, the brain will shrink sharply, and it will be carried by the virus, like a walking corpse. Link glanced up at the gray mist above his head, and slashed his waving arm with a knife in his hand.
Hearing that it was a virus, the macaw turned pale with fright, for fear that this thing would accidentally enter its body, and if such a wise brain shrank to the size of a walnut and became a walking corpse, it would be a loss for the whole universe!
Link looked a little dazed in his eyes.
In my previous life, I had never heard of a puppet virus in the quagmire of death!
It first appeared in a previous life in a public exhibition by a large collector of Faye, which featured funerary objects from an old burial chamber.
As a result, some of the visitors and staff who participated in the exhibition were infected with the puppet virus. Overnight, the puppet zombies of Faye broke out, the number once exceeded one million, all the infected people's brains atrophied, and their hearts disappeared, although in the end players and NPCs went out to suppress it by force, but in the end, how this virus came out and where it came from, has not been determined.
This plot takes place at the end of version 1.0, and it was not until the end of version 2.0 that a player received a task to return to Wasteland to investigate clues, and this "Law Night Massacre" was re-unearthed from the dust of history, leading to version 3.0 [Echoes of Doom: The Resurrection of the Plague God].
Only then did players realize that this puppet virus was a foreshadowing buried in the early stage of the game, which was used to activate the later version and lead to the "Cursed Sect".
However, at that time, the exploration of the quagmire of death was also in full swing, why didn't players hear about the discovery of the Heartless or the outbreak of the puppet virus during this period? Moreover, the player also searched a lot of Kaz crystals from the underground base, and they didn't hear anyone infected with the virus when they touched each other along the way.
It's weird!
Link had a lot of brains, and he didn't think of the reason.
Looking at the Heartless Man struggling on the ground, Link pulled out three throwing knives from his body and thrust them into the Heartless's legs and palms.
Throwing knives are just ordinary quality, and they can't pierce the muscles of the heartless with a single knife.
The macaw on the side is already stunned, and the skin of this thing is still so hard? It's as strong as Link, and he can't even be pierced with a knife.
"This thing is so hard that you can't even wear it with a knife?" The macaw exclaimed.
Link forced the knife down with his palm, piercing the Heartless's ankle and nailing his palm to the ground.
"Those who have no heart are infected with a puppet virus. The first effect of this virus is to shrink the brain and use the virus to manipulate the body. The second effect is to strengthen the body. Don't look at all kinds of decay on the bodies of these heartless people, all their internal organs are basically gone, but their musculoskeletal and even skin are extremely tough, and ordinary swords are difficult to hurt. And although the guns are powerful, the heartless ones don't feel pain and will continue to attack. ”
"So how on earth can we get rid of them completely?" The macaw faithfully records what it sees.
"High temperatures, fires. Throw them into a temperature of more than 3,000 degrees Celsius, and you can gradually kill the puppet virus. The burning will last for five hours, and when it is completely burned to ashes, it will be completely destroyed. Link said it lightly, but the three players on the side, plus the reporter Macaw, listened stupidly.
3,000 degrees Celsius, and another five hours to completely burn to ashes.
Even if it's metal, it's not so exaggerated, is it?
After nailing the Heartless, Link entered the [Swarm Commander] mode and took a look, and three kilometers in front of him was where Ah Fu was.
Ah Fu hadn't moved for half an hour, and if nothing else, it would definitely be the entrance to the underground base.
Link blew a whistle, the whistle arrow stuck in the Heartless One, flew up with a thud, without a trace of blood, and returned to Link's sleeve.
This scene made Tang Jiu and the prophet stunned again.
Tang Jiu didn't even have a chance to take a closer look at whether this gadget was a small robot or some kind of creature.
"The rest of the way, we'll bend over."
Link pinpointed the direction where Ah Fu was, and looked straight at it, which happened to be a pile of rubble.
If nothing else, the entrance to the underground base should be around there.
The macaw circled a little farther away from the Heartless One, stretched out its wings and pointed and asked, "Then, what should this Heartless One do?" ”
"Ah Fu is not around, nail it here first, and then take it away when he passes by when he leaves. Let's hurry up and find the entrance to the underground base. Link then pointed to a pile of rubble three kilometers away, which "towered into the sky" and stretched for hundreds of meters, looking like an abandoned and dilapidated stone fortress.
"Ah Fu's position is there, let's hurry up."
The group bent down and made their way towards the pile of rubble.
……
And at this moment, Ah Fu is standing in the corner and looking around.
The countdown to the underground building he suddenly broke into has ended, and he can only stay in this place now.
Ah Fu took out a flashlight from his backpack and pulled out an energy bar.
I was scared a lot just now, and I need to replenish my energy to suppress the shock.
Ah Fu didn't dare to take out a brighter searchlight, for fear of activating the "monster" in the bunker.
There are so many terrifying monsters out there, will there be fewer here?
Ah Fu turned on the flashlight in the dead corner behind him and looked at the wall.
The walls were wet, but clean, with clear visible polishing of the boulders, and there was nothing on them that resembled moss in the cracks.
Ah Fu touched it with confidence, and the cold feeling poured into his heart through his fingertips, and even the cutting lines could be felt.
With the light scattered by the flashlight on the wall, Ah Fu saw the pattern of the bunker.
He was located in the corner of a narrow corridor, about five meters wide and ...... deep Because the scattered light could not spread far, it was pitch black, and it was not clear how deep it was.
But when Ah Fu looked underground, he was suddenly frightened.
There were no corpses on the ground, but guns, sundries, and all kinds of things were scattered on the ground, and it looked like it had gone through some kind of chaos, and it didn't look like an underground base should be at all.
There were no biological traces, which made Ah Fu breathe a sigh of relief.
What he's most afraid of now is encountering monsters or enemies, and with his current powerlessness, he can directly GG any enemy who comes.
Ah Fu gently exhaled a breath of turbidity, and the pressure dropped sharply.
He didn't dare to pick up the guns on the ground, after all, they were all things of the old era, and after so many years, can you say otherwise. The point is that if you make a noise to pick up the gun and attract enemies, it will not be good.
But when Ah Fu turned his head back and the flashlight hit the wall in front of him, Ah Fu's head was suddenly confused.
On the wall directly opposite, under the light of the flashlight, dark traces of a clear color are clearly visible from the color of the wall.
Ah Fu shone the flashlight against the wall carefully, and finally saw clearly.
The wall with cut lines is covered with all kinds of bloody fingerprints, densely packed with messy marks of grasping the wall, and you can clearly see that the wall has been dug out of a shallow groove because of too much force. And such traces fill almost the entire wall. Those finger prints of different shades, Ah Fu could even feel what kind of despair the person who left these traces in the first place.
Ah Fu then weakened his legs, fell to the ground, and the flashlight also bounced on the ground, making a clanging sound.
The sound was amplified by the corridor, and the sound drifted far away and gradually disappeared.
And in the end, the flashlight rolled on the ground for a while, and was blocked by the debris next to it, and the beam of light completely hit the wall in front of him, fully presenting this shocking scene.
Just now, he was a leopard in the tube, and now the bloody fingerprints on the entire wall appeared, and Ah Fu felt that his fingers also had phantom pain.
What frightened Ah Fu even more was that the loud noise caused by the mistake just now had already reached far away.
Murphy's Law emerges, the more you don't want something to happen, the more it will happen.
Ah Fu now only hopes that this underground base is free of monsters and all scary things, and also hopes that the boss can find him as soon as possible.
Ah Fu looked at the "blood wall" in front of him and came back to his senses, quickly grabbed the flashlight next to him, and pressed the close button.
The whole swells to the only light weakened, and returned to darkness.
Ah Fu hid in the corner with three strikes and five divisions, shivering.
"Boss, you feel my cry for help, come and save me......"
Ah Fu thought silently in his heart, but he couldn't help but think of the blood marks on the wall in his mind, and the picture unconsciously reminded him of the fact that after the nuclear explosion in the old era, the gate fell, and the soldiers who fled in the underground base screamed and wailed, leaving blood marks on the wall with all their might, what a terrible will to survive.
Ah Fu didn't dare to delve into what caused such a situation, but the more he thought about it, the more terrified he became.
Ah Fu's heart was pounding.
But suddenly, outside of this heartbeat, he heard another voice.
The sound of water falling from a high place to the ground is stimulated.
In this corridor, it is very clear.
"There's water?" Ah Fu's first reaction lit up, according to the skills taught to him by the boss, but wherever there is water and falls, it means that it is very likely to be connected to the outside world.
Bang, bang, bang!
Just as Ah Fu was thinking, there were three loud loud bangs.
Bright light suddenly erupted in the corridor.
The lights at the top of the corridor lit up one after another.
At first, it was a lamp above Ah Fu's head, and then it was lit up all the way down the road.
It's like......
Something unseen ghost, in turn, pressed the switch, guiding him inward......
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