"Shoot at the head, the vital location is under the brain stem, and shoot the bullet in the face of these parasites!" Qi Lin said aloud in English, and then Ivan quickly repeated it in Russian.

Although it is not known why the parasitic worm controls the corpse, it is obvious that the gray-white paste-like brain in the corpse's skull is no longer functional, and Qi Lin has also tried to attack the parasite's brain with a bullet before, but it has no effect at all.

The function of the human brain is to control the higher functions of hearing, vision, movement, language, and emotion, but the parasitic brain has been completely replaced by parasitic worms in the body.

The parasitic worm is the brain of the parasite, through thermal vision, Qi Lin can clearly see the surface of the parasitic worm's body, spreading out many extremely long root-like filaments, some of these filaments pierce the parasite's cerebellum and brain stem, and some of them are entangled with the parasite's original spinal nerves, all the way down, covering the entire spine.

The parasitic worm is very fragile in itself, but the entire skull that protects it is unusually hard.

It stands to reason that after a person dies, due to the gradual loss of calcium in the bones in the body, the strength of the bones will generally decline slowly, but the parasite is completely different, Qi Lin suspects that it should be the parasitic worm that can secrete a substance that enhances the bone strength of the parasitic corpse, and makes the bones produce a change similar to petrification.

Although the AK47's 7.62mm bullet can still penetrate the skull of the parasite, it can only pass through, and it is completely unable to smash a head into a rotten watermelon with a single shot, as in the battlefields of the old days.

Moreover, the biggest problem is that due to the size of the 7.62 mm bullet, it is difficult to tumble in the target body after penetrating the skull, while the small caliber bullet that causes a large cavity effect cannot penetrate the skull of the parasite.

This requires a very high level of marksmanship, unless it can directly hit the parasitic worm hiding in the head, no matter how many bullets are spilled, it will not be able to completely kill a parasite.

These mutants have only the most basic shooting training, and in actual combat, at a distance of fifty meters, it is already very rare to be able to hit a bullet on a parasite, let alone a target as small as a head, and it is not necessary to hit the head accurately, but also to accurately hit the parasitic worm in the head.

A person who is 1.8 meters tall is not as tall as the nail of his thumb when he looks fifty meters away, and the head on his shoulder is not even as big as a crosshair.

The cacophony of gunfire rang out incessantly, and two bullet casings, brass and iron, were scattered all over the ground, but few of the parasites had fallen.

There was also a scene that made Qi Lin even more shocking - a mutant who was seriously injured and fell to the ground, two parasites dragged his legs over, and then the other parasite held the head of a parasite with a broken neck in front of the mutant, and within a few seconds, the milky white parasite worm crawled out of the nostrils of the parasite's head and quickly burrowed into the mutant's nostrils.

The mutant looked terrified, screaming like madness to pull the worm out of its nostrils, but his limbs were pinned down by several other parasites.

A few seconds after the parasite worm burrowed into his nostrils, the mutant's screams stopped abruptly, and within seconds, he also struggled to get up from the ground like a parasite, and took stiff steps in the direction of Qi Lin and them.

"The speed of parasitism is so fast!"

Qi Lin was secretly shocked, from the time the parasitic worm burrowed into the mutant's nostrils to the complete control of the mutant's corpse, the entire process of changing the host took less than a minute.

In other words, as long as there are enough corpses, then these parasites will not be able to kill them at all, and it is not known whether the corpses of mutated creatures can be controlled by this parasitic worm.

"Shoot! Shoot! Suppress the fire, and hit me where the bunch is most dense! Ivan shouted hoarsely, but everyone was a little horrified to find that the number of those parasites was actually increasing!

"Damn, 9527, you tell me, why are so many parasites pouring out? Did you poke their mother's P in the eye? "The AK in Ivan's hand has started to turn red from the barrel, and as for Qi Lin's one, it has long been unable to continue shooting because of the bullet jamming and the barrel bursting.

"I suspect that these parasites are all 'newborn'."

After seeing the whole process of parasitism just now, Qi Lin pondered for a while, and then came to this conclusion.

"Newborn? What do you mean? ”

"When I entered Warehouse Nine, I saw only one parasite, and I fought it for at least a few minutes, and after I killed it, the other parasites came out one after another - if these parasites were in the warehouse, why didn't they come out and surround me before? In that case, I wouldn't be able to get out. ”

"And when I escaped from the warehouse, the number of parasites was only a few dozen at most, but now, not counting the ones we killed, the number of those parasites has exceeded two hundred."

"So, I suspect that these parasites are probably 'new' - for some reason, there are many corpses implanted with eggs in the warehouse, which may have been dormant before, but we alarmed them, so the eggs hatched, and the bodies that had been sealed were standing up one by one."

"I guess there will be more later-"

“Ебать！” Ivan couldn't help but curse out a classic Russian swear word, which is almost the meaning of Fack in English and "" in Chinese.

There were more than two hundred parasites, and there were still an unknown number of parasitic worms that had not yet hatched, which made Ivan feel a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart, and after using up the last magazine, he finally ordered everyone to retreat.

The parasite moves slowly, so they don't have to worry about being overtaken, and after running out of the tunnel in one go, the mutants immediately turn around and aim their guns at the exit of the tunnel.

After waiting for more than an hour and not seeing the parasite chase it out, Qi Lin and Ivan were both relieved, it seemed that either these guys couldn't leave the tunnel, or they preferred an environment with high radiation concentrations.

"It seems that you need to have a plan for the parasites in order to have a chance of getting your hands on the contents of Warehouse Nine." Qi Lin said.

"Alas-" Ivan smiled bitterly, this plan is not so easy to say, except to blow up the parasite's head from the worm body one by one, they have no idea that there is a way to completely eliminate this group of parasites.

At this moment, a mutant suddenly ran over with a frightened look on his face, and said a lot of words to Ivan in some incoherent language, and only halfway through hearing it, Ivan's brow furrowed tightly.

"What's going on, so panicked?" Qi Lin asked a little puzzled.

"An hour passed, and Tarkov, Peter, and Varikin were not resurrected." Ivan said with some solemnity.

"Isn't that normal? Maybe their resurrection point is far away, and they won't be able to catch up for a while, right? Qi Lin asked strangely.

"No, this is not normal, we are not like you, due to the intervention of the mastermind, we mutants have a fixed resurrection point after death, which is in the city of Nerozsk - I must go offline to check it out now, please wait for me for a while."

After saying that, Ivan and the other two mutants gave two more orders, and then hurriedly went offline.

……

After several hours, Ivan appeared in front of Qi Lin again.

"What's wrong? What happened? ”

"Tarkov, Peter, and Varikin are all dead." Ivan's voice trembled slightly.

"...... dead? Is it death in reality? Qi Lin was stunned, obviously, the death that Ivan said could not be death in the game.

"Yes......"

"How did they die? Don't you mutants have countless chances to resurrect? Why did you die? Is it a sudden deterioration in physical condition? ”

"No, their physical condition is very stable, and there is no trauma on the surface of their bodies, but in the records of the game cabin, it shows that their brain waves have been very strongly fluctuating and disordered before."

"Brain dead?" Qi Lin guessed that there had been cases of players with fragile minds being stimulated in the game, and in reality, they had a mental breakdown and became crazy, but this was the first time he had heard of brain death.

"It should be...... But there's worse news, do you want to hear it? ”

"What's the news?"

"Tarkov, Peter, and Varigin, the three people who have just been parasitized by that parasitic worm."