Chapter 021: The Plague Lair
The deformed high-heat rays slammed into the walls of the tunnel, melting a massive mass of lava with a dark edge and orange-red interior that was more than five meters in diameter. The orange-red magma slid slowly down the wall, making a long-lasting sizzling sound, spewing a white mist that distorted the light.
The massive body of the Colossus Chariot of Destruction seemed to have lost its vitality to support its movements, and it collapsed with a bang in a second. Its long, magma-colored eyes were gradually covered in pitch blackness, and orange-red flecks of light disappeared from its dark red skin; The color of the armor and skin did not return to a pale beige, but became darker, turning crimson with dead ashes.
The cavity at the back of the furnace, which had always been shaped like an active magma furnace, was now evaporating and fading at an alarming rate, and the shape of the cavity was visibly collapsing. At the top of the Destruction Colossus's cracked skull was a crimson long knife, and the owner of the long knife, Wu Qi, knelt on the neck of the Colossus of Destruction, his waist always upright.
The hard crocodile leather boots were melted, leaving only the hard soles and flesh of the soles of the feet sticking together, and the animal skin jacket and clothes and pants were burned into ashes by the raging flames.
The skin below Wu Qi's neck was all charred, and there was a faint dark red in the black, and a white and clean face that made a woman jealous also turned red, as if it was cooked. His eyes were closed, and his hands were still firmly gripping the hilt of the long crimson knife, never letting go.
Blood-red steam slowly emerged from the corpse of the Colossus of Destruction, like a cloud of life, encroaching on the space of the tunnel fifteen meters in diameter. The blood-red steam was alien to the white mist of magma, and the interior resembled a world burning with life spirit.
Wang Sheng looked at everything in the blood-red steam world in horror, and suddenly realized that he had actually sat on the ground. He subconsciously rubbed his index finger and thumb, and his fingertips were covered with sweat. Wang Sheng took a breath of air gently, it was still scorching, but the temperature did not harm his lungs and trachea.
Wang Sheng finally had time to look around. The corpses of the large and small, complete or incomplete, strengthened humanoids, as well as the corpses of the black-gun mercenaries lay strewn across the grey concrete floor, swaying green and red blood mingling into a fishy-smelling variegated stream of blood. Dark red burn marks of various shapes spread throughout the pitch-black tunnel, glowing a frightening red light. The large molten wall on the left is the most intensely lit, orange-red throughout, like a microcosm of the distant sun.
Wang Sheng got up and looked at Wu Qi, who was kneeling on the corpse of the Colossus of Destruction and turned into a charred sculpture, his eyes flashed with gratitude and admiration, and there was a glimmer of hope. He slowly walked into the blood-red steam world, walked up to Wu Qi and squatted down.
He took off his tactical gloves and moved his index finger to Wu Qi's nose. To his surprise, Wu Qi still had his breath, but his breathing was very weak, and he might not be breathing at any time.
"Deputy Liu, bring the medical kit!" Wang Sheng shouted tremblingly with the expectation that Wu Qi would survive. However, after a while, there was still no familiar footsteps in my ears. He seemed to understand the answer, twisting his neck with difficulty, scanning the corpses of all the Black Gun mercenaries.
There were only three black gun mercenaries alive, but the number of corpses was not matched. Wang Sheng subconsciously moved his gaze to the vicinity of the huge and bright molten wall, and his heart twitched fiercely.
He looked away.
Gao Yuan took out a complete medical kit from several marching bags scattered on the ground and sent it to Wang Sheng. There was still a shadow of fear on his usually calm face.
Gao Yuan lowered his eyes, opened his chapped and bloody lips, and said softly, "We owe him a favor." ”
Wang Sheng took the medical box handed by Gao Yuan, opened it immediately without any extra words, took out a dose of green cytoactive agent from it, straightened Wu Qi's charcoal-like body, peeled off a large piece of charcoal skin sintered on his left arm, pushed out a few drops of liquid in the syringe, and pricked it with a needle against the black and red flesh.
After pushing all the potions into Wu Qi's body, Wang Sheng moved Wu Qi's body from the corpse of the Colossus of Destruction to the ground, because it took a lot of effort for many parts of Wu Qi's body to be fused together with the corpse of the Colossus of Destruction.
Seeing that Wu Qi was rescued, An Yi and Zhou Qing eagerly ran over to see his injuries. Wu Qi is not only their lifesaver, but also a member of the mercenary team in the safe zone, even if the time is short, this identity will not change in their hearts.
And the little red fox ran faster than them, and immediately ran to Wu Qi's side, whimpering and licking his face with his tongue, and then the wounds on his body.
"Heal him as much as you can." Wang Sheng placed the medical kit in front of them. Providing the best medical drugs and tools here is already the best they can do. Next, he and Gao Yuan were going to prepare to dissect the corpse of this second-order plague species.
With the strength of their Black Gun Mercenary Group, in the heyday of having armored trucks and anti-aircraft machine guns, they can still wrestle with a single second-order plague species, but there is no way to encounter hundreds of first-order plague species at the same time like this time. However, such a high level of danger, if overcome as it is today, the benefits are definitely not low.
Keep in mind that any second-tier ability requires one or more first-tier abilities as a foreshadowing. The first-order ability virus in the mutated organism has to go through a long and variable process of eating, growing, and devouring other first-order viruses before it can finally produce a second-order virus, and this second-order virus is equivalent to a second-order ability. A second-order viriogen that would be sold to the mercenary group's exchange would be a great fortune.
The Colossus of Destruction has the second-tier ability "Strange Force", the second-order ability "Armor", and the second-order ability "High Heat Ray". The first two are "Body Enhancements" and the last one is "Mutated Organ." Mutant organ-type abilities are often more special and rare than body enhancements, and based on Wang Sheng's experience and experience, he has never seen a monster with a lava chamber growing on its back to use a "high heat ray".
Wang Sheng took four tubes full of 100ml of virus stock solution from the back chamber of the Colossus, put them into the sample box, and took out the saber to cut off the entire chamber and take it away before it completely collapsed. Originally, the best plan was to use an armored truck to transport the complete body of the Colossus of Destruction, and the unknown samples of the second-order plague species could still make a profit by selling them to the branch acquisition department of the Central Research Institute, but unfortunately, the armored truck had been blown up, and in the face of the corpse of the Colossus of Destruction of more than 3 tons, he could only choose to focus on dissection.
Wang Sheng had a headache when he thought that the truck was blown up, and then he thought that the original three sample boxes were estimated to have been blown up, and Wang Sheng was even more distressed. The more they experience life and death, the more they feel that life is precious, and the more they feel that the loot hunted at the cost of their lives is precious, but no matter how unfortunate it is, it will not help, but fortunately, a colossus of destruction can make them earn back several times, and the samples of enhanced humanoids can barely make up for it.
When Wang Sheng was cutting the cavity, suddenly a fiery red shadow jumped under his arm, it was Wu Qi's pet Qiyue. July's nose was attached to the surface of the Colossus's cavity, as if attracted by the smell of viruses inside, and he opened his mouth and tore off a layer of flesh in one gulp.
"This greedy little fox dares to eat the meat of the plague seed, and will eat it to death!" Wang Sheng grabbed the flesh on the back of Qiyue's neck, scolded angrily and lifted it up and threw it into Zhou Qing's arms. Next, he cut all the chambers and loaded them into the sample box.
There was almost enough time for the other Black Gun mercenaries to urgently treat the bleeding wounds, and the dissection work on Wang Sheng and Gao Yuan's side had also been completed. The mercenaries in the safe area surrounded the unconscious Wu Qi, and after spraying him with a whole tube of hemostatic spray and using up the hemostatic bandage hemostatic cotton, Wu Qi had become half a mummy, and was carried on the back of a weakly injured mercenary.
Everyone in the exploration team stood beside Wang Sheng, who took one last deep look at the corpses of his companions scattered all over the place, and resolutely led the team to speed out of this dangerous and boundless tunnel.
If the dead comrade still has a complete corpse, it doesn't hurt to take it back and bury it with a little effort, but only the stump and internal organs are left, so what difference does it make if you take it away or not. They are mercenaries, and in the battle against mutated animals or plague species, they can expose their corpses to the wilderness at any time, and they can not always take the remains of their companions with them. Taking the loot was already the longest delay they were responsible for the price they had paid for the operation.
Wang Sheng has thoroughly understood that this tunnel is very dangerous and mysterious! Plague species don't only appear in the depths, nor do they follow the general rule that "the deeper you go, the stronger the monsters". From the beginning of the return journey to the complete departure from the tunnel, Wang Sheng and the others did not see a place in the tunnel for the Colossus of Destruction to enter and exit, so where did the Colossus of Destruction come from?
Continuing to think deeply, Wang Sheng only felt the boundless cold invading towards him. Wang Sheng thought to himself, maybe the truth is just like what Wu Qi said at the beginning, this tunnel has completely fallen into the lair of the plague species, where will there be any monsters, the truth of the terrain is completely out of his own calculation, and it is already a blessing in misfortune to be able to come out alive.
The group finally walked out of the dark tunnel, and the sunlight sprinkled on their bodies was extraordinarily nerve-stimulating, extraordinarily comfortable and warm. The surviving members of the exploration team supported the wounded and carried the trophies, slowly walking on the high-speed rail tracks that had been abandoned for half a century.
In the verdant mountains and fields, there are countless dangerous creatures, a touch of gray. The colourful road stretches straight out to the depopulated SW04 highway or the starvation-ridden wilderness with countless homeless mobs, and the surviving mercenaries of less than double digits are extremely thin and helpless in this wild realm.
The tunnel occupied by the plague species fell silent again, and the glow of the orange-red magma remaining on the inner walls of the tunnel was completely gone, and endless darkness filled every inch of the tunnel once again.
In the depths of the dark tunnel, a blue arc of light suddenly passed, the arc of light flashed from the inside to the outside, and the two breaths flashed continuously for more than 20 times, flashing all the way to the exit of the tunnel from the tunnel that was thousands of kilometers away, and after reaching the remains of the destruction colossus, the blue arc of light finally stopped, becoming a blue ball of light with a diameter of 4 meters that could be continuously observed. The surface of the light sphere was covered with blue energy, and there were countless irregular white air currents moving at high speed on it, and the whole was very similar to the chaotic energy emitted by the electromagnetic pulse gun.
Suddenly, inside the blue ball of light. Shooting out two 3-meter-long thick flesh-colored tentacles, he tied up the corpse of the Colossus of Destruction and lightly grabbed the corpse of more than 3 tons back into the blue ball of light. The body of the Colossus of Destruction was originally smaller than that of the ball of light, but after being caught by the tentacles at this moment, it was completely submerged in the ball of light, as if it had been swallowed.
After devouring the corpse of the Colossus, the blue ball of light did not stay for a moment, and disappeared into the far part of the tunnel in a continuous flicker. This time, the tunnel finally fell into a long night.
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