Chapter 97: Another Mutation?
The sturdy ex-mercenary acts like a not-so-intelligent ADHD patient, shouting "1111" and rushing in that direction. Then he stood still in front of the two of them, but his gaze overlapped back and forth between Hengxie and No. 1 several times in an uncertain manner.
The group then arrived, Qiu Xuan's right arm was tense and ready at any time, for fear that Ji Da would lose his mind and hurt people again, while looking at No. 1 who seemed to be wrong all over his body with some confusion.
"What, Fu Zeqi made you stupid?" She raised her eyebrows, "Still can't accept our Mr. Ji's appearance?" Don't be so superficial. β
If it were a normal day, Number One might only frown lightly to show that he didn't understand or tell her not to talk nonsense. But now, after hearing this, his face was still stiff and metallic, and his cold pupils were staring in one of the directions, not knowing what he was looking at.
Although he usually always looks like this, there is something different. If there was still a soft human heart under his body forged by steel machinery before, now No. 1 is more like an unfathomable undersea whirlpool. He buried all his thoughts deeply, and even gave Qiu Xuan the illusion that he had completely abandoned the other half of "humanity", and the huge waves that were circling and brewing did not know which day would land in the world.
Did Mr. Fu really do some experiments with No. 1, or did he think of something himself?
Qiu Xuan guessed silently. Just then, another team that had gone on to find someone else brought in news of the others.
"Found the boss!" In the communicator, there was a sound that was intermittent because of a signal or some other accident. "But now it's ...... Well, how to say it, you can just take a look. β
The crowd looked at each other for a moment, and then decided to set off to join the main army. When they arrived along the way, they saw the scene in front of them, and finally understood why the mercenary who had passed the word was so strange.
I saw that in the not very bright moonlight, the black girl named "Susu", who was traveling with them during the Mencius period, was red like a boiled shrimp. She wailed and clawed her nails around her body in pain, and the rest of the people did not dare to step forward under the unknown situation, and watched in a circle from afar.
"She's definitely infected, that's a precursor!" Lin Mo suddenly poked her head out from behind Mencius, "I saw her touched by that Mr. Fu with my own eyes, she must have been cursed!" We can't take her with us anymore, she's going to be one of those monsters! β
Mencius sighed with an ugly face, "Xiaomo, don't talk nonsense. It's uncertain what the situation is going to be, so we'll ask Mr. Yang (the bald healing magician before) to take a look. We came out together, and of course we had to go back together. β
"You're good for her, Mencius, it's always been like this!" Lin Mo suddenly raised his hand and pushed him hard, and the man staggered two steps, just in front of Su Su, who had completely lost his mind. "In this case, you have been infected with her, and when the time comes, you are really mutated, and we will not show mercy. You're right, Mr. Qin? β
Mr. Qin was standing with his arms folded and watching the play with relish, and when he saw that he was affected, he only raised his eyebrows, and just opened his mouth to say something, he heard a sneer from the new crowd behind him. "With so many words, who is with you 'us'? If they do get infected, then we don't mind having you more. β
Mencius stood firm, first glanced at Su Su worriedly, and was temporarily relieved to find that her movements had stopped and she no longer let out painful exhalations, and then turned his head to look in the direction of the speaker.
In the dim moonlight, the girl, who seemed to be a little pale, stood there, her eyes indifferent, and she didn't know how long she had been watching. Beside her stood a tall, rotting figure, followed by a silent assault squad.
Lin Mo's rebuttal and abusive words had already reached his mouth, but when he saw this, he swallowed it alive, and he didn't dare to speak anymore due to the influence of such a momentum.
However, Shuying reacted, and the folds between his eyebrows finally loosened a little. She trotted toward it, whispering something around the crowd. Under the cover of the heavy night, no one saw it, and No. 1 stared at this side for a while, as if the cold and hard metal around him had all collapsed at this moment.
"Boss." On the other side, the mercenary group briefly did the handover and reporting work, and then retreated to the side and waited for the results of the discussion to come out. I don't know whether to say lucky or unlucky, Su Su stopped her self-harming movements and soon fell into a coma. Her skin was still strangely red and swollen, fainting but her heartbeat was gradually stabilizing.
"So, now we are faced with two decisions." Seeing that everyone had arrived, Ling You cleared his throat and said. "Everyone has seen it, it's this girl. As for the other ......" she coughed and gestured to the figure following Qiu Xuan.
As the shadows faded, a rotten and hideous human face was revealed, and the crowd except for the stormtroopers couldn't help but let out a few exclamations.
"It's really infectious!" Mencius said, "Why do you want to bring him to the team, something will happen!" β
"He won't take the initiative to attack peopleβthat's what Miss Qiu Xuan said." Ling You pointed in one direction, "So the problems we are facing at the moment are nothing more than two, deciding whether that girl and Ji Da will stay or not." Let's finish it early and leave early, I've been delayed here long enough, boss, what do you say? β
"What else can you say, follow the old rules." Qin Jiuyuan shrugged, "One head, one vote, in favor of keeping people and opposing driving people out, and finally the minority obeys the majority, let's start." I voted both yes. β
Qiu Xuan glanced at him, and the man winked at her.
"I'm in favor of both." She looked around at the different expressions on everyone's faces, and spoke after Qin Jiuyuan.
Of course, it was planned to let Ji Da stay, and she finally saw the dawn that infected people could gain reason, and she couldn't give up easily. As for the girl named Susu, others may not know, but for Qiu Xuan, the truth may be easier to obtain.
First of all, the simplest thing is that because it is not clear how the plague spreads, none of the people who are still alive have seen the mutation of the corpse with their own eyes, and they don't know that after being infected, your rotten flesh can spread to the soles of your feet in a single breath, and there will be no such flower heads at all.
Another point, when Su Su lost consciousness and scratched indiscriminately, Qiu Xuan saw the black totem on her arm. The eerie pattern was exactly the same one she had printed on him to scare the soldiers of Riverstream. Although I don't know what the totem does, at present, the totems will not cause any fatal irreversible damage to the human body, and if you take a step back, it will at least not make a normal person infected and turn into the appearance of the living dead.
ββ¦β¦ I voted, double against. β
In the midst of the overwhelming crowd, Ender said.