"There is a mutant creature ahead, please perform a removal operation immediately." The mechanized prompt sound sounded inside the shuttle-shaped metal cabin - due to space and weight constraints, the shuttle-shaped metal cabin itself did not come with any weapons and equipment, and this situation had to be solved by Qi Lin and them personally.

"I'll take care of it." Qi Lin said to the others through the walkie-talkie, got out of the hanging bag, and pushed open the hatch cover of the shuttle-shaped metal cabin.

According to the positioning data from the main brain, the mutant creature blocking the way is located within the pipe five hundred meters ahead, and from the scanned images, the body shape of this mutated creature seems to be a large irregular sphere......

But when Qi Lin really saw that thing, he was still deeply disgusted......

It was a large mass of maggots entangled with each other, and countless fat insect bodies were wrapped into a sphere with a diameter of more than two meters, and a large amount of fishy mucus dripped from the surface of this sphere - these mucus with not weak corrosiveness, corroded the concrete wall in the pipe into a pit, fortunately, the shuttle metal cabin uses air cushions to contact the pipe wall, which will not affect the forward movement of the shuttle metal cabin.

Each of these maggots was as thick as a thigh, and their disgusting bodies were constantly wriggling, and Qi Lin couldn't tell how many mutated maggots there were for a while.

"This is supposed to be a symbiote, right?" Similar symbiote mutant creatures, Qi Lin has not seen them, and the "Rat King" he encountered in the sewers of Steel City is a kind of mutant creature of symbionts.

Judging from the energy level, this large group of maggot symbionts together is at most about the level of E-class, perhaps to escape the cold above the surface to burrow into a relatively warm pipe.

The maggot symbiotes did not show any aggression, and even though Qi Lin was standing less than twenty meters away from them, they still did not attack Qi Lin, but instead taunted and wriggled on their own.

However...... It was an indisputable fact that they were blocking the way forward, and Qi Lin really couldn't feel the slightest pity for this disgusting monster, so even after retreating a few dozen meters, he took out his Gauss rifle and began to shoot at the maggot symbiote.

Streamers of light penetrated into this large mass of flesh, a large amount of fishy juice and indescribable internal organ fragments splashed everywhere, and they reacted violently when they were attacked to such an extent that this large mass of maggots actually scattered and separated, and fled towards the depths of the passage!

"Not a symbiote?"

Qi Lin was stunned by the sudden influx, but not all the mutant maggots escaped, and some of them still stayed in place, but the two-meter-diameter sphere suddenly only had less than one-tenth of its volume.

The remaining mutant maggots were even fatter and had a strange blue-green hue under their translucent skin, and it was clear that these bugs contained a lot of radiant energy.

And after a large number of maggots escaped from this "worm ball", Qi Lin could also feel a strange energy fluctuation seeping out from the inside of the worm ball.

"You won't be so lucky...... Could it be that this mass of maggots is gathering because of something? Qi Lin muttered in his heart and walked towards the much smaller insect ball.

Being able to attract such mutated maggots to gather together, and also emitting such strong energy fluctuations, Qi Lin didn't have to think much to know what it was......

Knocking these maggots off the ball one by one, the thing wrapped in their core finally appeared in front of Qi Lin.

It was a pitch-black stone, about the size of a face, covered in slime secreted by mutated maggots—and it was from this stone that strong energy fluctuations emanated.

"Shhh...... Seems to be some kind of ...... Hiss...... Rare associated minerals of radioactive ores...... Hiss...... According to preliminary determinations...... The proportion of energy content is about the same volume ordinary level...... Hiss...... About one-seventieth of the normal-grade pure energy crystal......"

Due to the strong radiation energy, even the communication between the main brain and Qi Lin has been seriously disturbed.

"One-seventieth of an ordinary grade pure energy crystal?"

Qi Lin looked at the strangely shaped stone in front of him, although this ore was not large, but it was at least equal to more than four hundred ordinary-grade pure energy crystals, and according to the ratio of one-seventieth of the scale, it was almost equal to six ordinary-grade pure-energy crystals the size of a quail egg.

Although the six pure energy crystals and the current capacity of the vast concentrating energy vortex can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket, at least it is better than nothing.

It took thirty seconds for Qi Lin to absorb all the radiant energy in this ore, and this piece of ore, which was originally as black as ink, had also turned grayish-white, and with a light touch, it directly shattered into countless small pieces.

As for those mutant maggots that fled in all directions, Qi Lin didn't kill them all, the individual strength of these mutant maggots was not even elite level, plus the giant insect ball that blocked the passage no longer existed, it was just a waste of time to hunt down those little bugs.

……

"Clear, move on."

The shuttle metal capsule was activated again, and this time, it finally reached its destination without encountering any more obstacles.

This is a small town in the Russian Far East with a population of less than 30,000, located on the East Siberian Plain, the whole town is the property of Gazprom, the world's largest natural gas extraction company in the old days, and a large gas processing plant covering an area of more than 150,000 square meters is located next to this town.

Although it was the first time for Qi Lin to be here, he was no stranger to this Russian Far Eastern Plain, which was covered in ice and moss all year round, in the "Wasteland Survival Code", when even the command team occupied a few relatively intact buildings located on the edge of the town, and then left Harvey and Ayakui, and walked towards the center of the town with George and 0592.

Next to the only main road that runs through the town, there are three Volga SUVs that are covered in gray and have a badly peeling surface of army green paint.

While the three vehicles look like remnants of an old era, the interior of the vehicle has been replaced with the most advanced nuclear-powered engines - vehicles specially prepared by the mastermind for the team, and they will travel across the Chukotsia Peninsula to the coast.

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