Chapter 377: The Plague of the Rat Tide
A single skyscraper can accommodate thousands of people living and working at the same time, and if it collapses, the consequences are unimaginable.
What's more, the Binjiang Financial District is full of high-rise buildings, and the collapsed buildings are very likely to hit other high-rise buildings, triggering a chain reaction, and no one can calculate how many innocent people will be killed or injured.
Fortunately, before the other party could completely erode the foundation of the building, it was discovered by the vigilant transcendent.
Due to the timely reinforcement and evacuation of the population, there were no casualties in this attack.
But after wasting too much time, the attackers fled through the intricate underground passages.
Another attack three days later, not so lucky.
It was rush hour.
On the No. 5 rail transit line, the busiest underground in Longcheng, a subway full of nearly 1,000 passengers is speeding at a speed.
Suddenly, the tunnel in front of it collapsed, and the unprepared subway crashed head-on, the front of the train was completely destroyed, and several carriages were all off the tracks.
And that's not even the scariest of all.
As the survivors wailed in pools of blood.
A behemoth emerges from the back of the paralyzed subway, opens its bloody mouth, bites open half of the subway car, and devours the passengers in a frenzy, and then burrows into the mysterious underground cavern before the transcendent arrives, disappearing into countless black and dark forks.
The attack killed and injured hundreds of citizens, and dozens more are missing.
The so-called "disappearance" is basically buried in the mouth of a fierce beast.
From the surveillance in the subway tunnel and the analysis of the footage taken by the citizens in a panic, the other party is Takano, who has disappeared for more than half a year.
After half a year of hibernation, his body became even larger, his body was covered with dense thorns, and his mouth contained more than a dozen rows of steel-like teeth in front and back.
Judging from the speed of tearing the carriage, the bite force and the grinding machine can be quite amazing, far exceeding that of a large shield machine of the same volume.
The biologist also discovered a special acid in the cave he had drilled, which instantly made the hard rock crunchy and brittle.
Another type of mucus, which seemed to emerge from the vents, was like a powerful binder, binding together the loose earth and turning it into a concrete-hard substance.
It's hard to imagine that he could evolve such incredible abilities on his own in the wild.
The experts of the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau were highly suspicious, and in the past six months, he had accepted further concoction from the Alien Beast.
Meng Chao also felt that such a high field was becoming more and more similar to the "demon god" in the memory fragments of his previous life.
Of course, due to his own interference, Gao Ye still had not reached the level of "the complete body of the nine demon gods".
If it's a demon god in the memory fragments of his previous life, I'm afraid he can swallow seven or eight subway cars in one go, right?
There is also an attack that erodes the foundations of skyscrapers, which will not be so hasty, but there is a real possibility of collapsing several buildings and causing an earthquake-like tragedy.
In fact, Meng Chao vaguely remembered that the demon god transformed from Gao Ye in his previous life was called "Earthquake".
It's too late to stop him now.
Gao Ye's case has always been in charge of Ye Xiaoxing's nine groups.
Nine groups of elite soldiers formed several hunting teams to track and prevent Takano's next attack day and night.
Although Meng Chao is not an official investigator of the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau, as the last person to see Gao Ye, plus he himself wants to solve the "mystery of the demon god", as soon as he is free, he will join the hunting team to track down Gao Ye's clues.
They tracked it for a full ten days.
Although he failed to capture Takano, he was able to prevent him from causing further damage.
Several times, he almost grabbed his tail in the downtown area or near people's livelihood facilities, but he used his powerful burrowing ability to stand out from the encirclement.
But over time, the hunting team also figured out a set of his action patterns, and from the degree of dilution of his acid and mucus, it was analyzed that he was also in a state of exhaustion and on the verge of collapse, and this battle of will and wits seemed to be coming to an end soon.
It's the eleventh day.
In the south of Dragon City, inside a large-scale abandoned pipeline.
Dragon City is a three-dimensional city that accommodates tens of millions of people.
Before you even crossed the ground, the ground was filled with bomb shelters, shelters, and passages that connected to secret facilities.
After half a century of continuous construction, destruction, abandonment, reconstruction, destruction, and abandonment, the underground has been dug out of the dense holes like beehives, and even the person in charge of the urban construction department and the engineer can't say how many abandoned pipelines and how many collapsed shelters there are underground in Dragon City.
Takano has a strong ability to drill into the ground.
But drilling into the ground consumes a lot of physical energy, and he is overloaded with acid and mucus, and if he doesn't get food and hedron for a long time, he won't be able to last long.
Whenever possible, Takano will try to use the abandoned pipes underground in Dragon City to "hide and seek" with the hunters.
This is especially true after ten days of intense fugitive.
And he dragged his huge body through the abandoned pipe, which was sure to leave a trail.
Meng Chao woke up from ten minutes of deep meditation, swept away the fatigue of tracking for seven or eight hours in a row, and slowly opened his eyes, finding that Lu Siya was still pouting, putting her ears on the wall of the underground pipe, listening to the sound coming from the depths of the ground.
After a few days ago, after a lot of fanfare and ineffective encirclement and suppression, Ye Xiaoxing divided the hunting team into a "tracking group" and an "attack group".
The tracking team, consisting of two or three investigators who are familiar with the habits of monsters and the conditions underground, preferably with harvesting and prospecting qualifications, is responsible for monitoring the movement of the high fields underground.
The attack group is on standby at the central commanding heights on the ground, and once it receives the signal from the tracking group, it will race against time to reach the coordinates where Takano may appear.
With such a setting, lest all the members of the nine groups be exhausted, and before they can grab Gao Ye's tail, they will collapse first.
Meng Chao is still partnered with Lu Siya.
One has the skills of a senior harvester, the other is a prospector and a sensitive person, and after ten days, the cooperation has become more and more tacit, and he has passed by Gao Ye several times.
Today, it was also Meng Chao who touched Gao Ye's thorns and scratched the pipe wall in this underground pipe, leaving small scratches, and followed the faint smell of blood, and found a few body tissues left by ordinary sandworms, and it was seen that Gao Ye had stayed and eaten here.
Therefore, Lu Siya used the natural supernatural power of the sensitive, holding her breath and concentrating, listening to the faintest vibration of the earth within a radius of several miles.
Meng Chao took out two high-energy nutrients from his backpack, and took one first, originally not wanting to disturb Lu Siya, but seeing the strong suspicion on her face, he still threw the other one over and asked, "How is it, did you hear any movement?" ”
"Strange."
Lu Siya didn't look at it, she casually caught the high-energy nutrient thrown by Meng Chao, and muttered, "It's a very unusual movement, but it doesn't look like a super sandworm, it looks like some kind of smaller, more ......."
With the faint rancid smell rising from the depths of the abandoned pipes.
Meng Chao also sensed the danger, and his hairs stood on end.
Now, without the ears of the "sensitive", you can hear the "squeak" from the depths of the darkness, and the sound of claws scraping against the walls of the pipe.
"Prepare for battle!"
Meng Chao grabbed Lu Siya, pulled out a burning stick from the armed belt tied to his thigh, slammed it, and threw it into the depths of the abandoned pipe.
The incendiary rod made a "snort" sound, and the scarlet light reflected the depths of the pipe as if it were day.
It also illuminated hundreds of densely packed, scarlet-eyed, hairy mice.
Even if I had known that the depths of the abandoned pipes in the ground must have been crowded with snakes, insects, rats and ants.
The scene in front of them still gave Meng Chao and Lu Siya goosebumps.
The incendiary sticks they use are added with a variety of bone meal from fierce beasts, and when burned, they emit a pungent smell, which is supposed to have a miraculous effect on repelling snakes, insects, rats and ants.
These large, spiky rats, with their scarlet eyes, rushed at them like a tide.
"What's going on?"
Meng Chao frowned slightly, but he didn't pay too much attention to the rat tide.
Holding his breath, he picked up a few incendiary bombs from behind him and threw them over, immediately forming a wall of fire in front of him.
Countless rats were buried in the flames, and more rats' sharp arrow-like hairs were burned, scurrying around like rockets, and before they could get close to Meng Chao half a meter, they were torn to pieces by the chain blade he wielded like a whirlwind.
Lu Siya even levitated into mid-air, using the life magnetic field to form a resonance with the atomic energy layer of the rock, summoning tiny ground spikes and directly nailing the mouse to the ground.
After leaving behind hundreds of corpses, the rats realized that Meng Chao and Lu Siya were terrible, and did not dare to provoke these two "fierce gods" again, like waves meeting a reef, they separated around them and rushed out of the pipe.
Meng Chao and Lu Siya glanced at each other.
Both men had a sense of foreboding.
Rat-like monsters are usually not too powerful, but because of their large numbers, strong fecundity, and ability to spread a variety of diseases, they are often used by alien beasts to fight vanguards and disrupt the order of human defenses.
Could it be a coincidence that there was such a wave of rats in the place where Takaya had just flowed?
Meng Chao used the chain blade to roll up a mouse that had no time to escape.
In just ten seconds, it is broken down into a specimen that is almost a work of art.
It can be seen that the myelitis of this mouse is abnormally light blue, the brain is edema, and there are also dotted blue markings.
"It looks like I've got some kind of virus."
Meng Chao dissected another mouse that was nailed to the limbs by Lu Siya, and the symptoms were still similar, he muttered, "Sister Ya, do you remember that when we were looking for runaway sandworms in the No. 4 garbage dump, we also encountered a group of rats infected with the virus and went berserk?"
"That time, the rats were infected with a variant of the rabies virus.
"But this time they were infected with a virus that seems to be more powerful than the mutant rabies virus......"