Chapter 2: Helpless Life
At the edge of the gathering area, a thin man on night duty opened a bottle of potion and drank it all.
Hybrids living in human settlements outside the oasis generally have a low degree of genetic fusion, and different genes in their bodies are mutually exclusive, which is prone to genetic collapse, and then becomes a walking corpse that has no mind and only knows how to devour the flesh and blood of living people, which people call - desolate.
Becoming a desolate man means that even if life dies, the body still lives on until it decays into mud.
No one wants to be in such a situation, and to avoid this, hybrids with low levels of gene fusion need to take genetic stabilizers regularly.
The potion was developed by Oasis Laboratories and sold at a high price. Most of the meager income of the residents of the agglomeration area, except for the necessary daily expenses, is spent on the purchase of medicines. Even so, many families cannot afford to do so.
In order to save money and leave the medicine for their children, many elderly people often choose to leave the gathering area and go to the depths of the wasteland, which is full of dangers, and this is to die.
The man apparently didn't have to face such a miserable choice at the moment, but he carefully put away the empty reagent bottles---- Oasis would send people to recycle them regularly, and then he tiredly pressed his temples twice and rested against the fence of the lookout. This human colony is close to the oasis, and under normal circumstances, the creatures of the wasteland will not come to harass.
But tonight, it seems different.
In the shack, Sim Xue's mother suddenly opened her eyes and reached out to hold her chest.
What's going on with this sudden palpitation?
The mother looked at her daughter's clean and peaceful sleeping face, stretched out her daughter's arm and gently stuffed it into the quilt, then got up in her clothes, picked up the kitchen knife behind the door, and went out to investigate.
At the same time, the man on duty at night also realized that something was wrong, and in the dark wasteland, there seemed to be a heavy footstep coming from the gathering area.
More and more people went out to inspect, and fear crept through the crowd.
The man on duty at night set up a telescope and searched around with a searchlight, but there was no trace of the comer.
When the footsteps were loud enough to wake up all the sleeping people, the visitor finally saw it in the telescope.
It has a body like a hill, and the six legs that support it are actually made of human hands or human legs, and it travels extremely fast, and the dust raised by its body can be faintly seen; On his back were two or three rotting human heads, with their mouths wide open, as if they could hear a wail; The burned-out skin continued to ooze black oil, and the black black cloud blended perfectly into the night.
"It's a horde of corpse beasts!"
Composed of broken pieces of desolate people, corpse beasts are the greatest threat that humans can encounter in the wasteland, often only one of thousands of corpses, and they live alone in the depths of the wasteland. How did they come to the human gathering area on the edge of the wasteland today, or in groups?
In any case, this horde of corpse beasts is far from being able to deal with this small human agglomeration.
Before he had time to think about it, the man knocked down the alarm button.
Piercing sirens echoed over the agglomeration, and panic erupted in the crowd.
The huge bodies of the corpse beasts slammed down the rudimentary walls outside the gathering area, rushing into the agglomeration area as if they were no one, like hungry ghosts rushing to the buffet table, and the fleeing humans were just washing the dishes presented to them and letting them be slaughtered.
"No, no......" Mom muttered, standing there dumbfounded.
She watched as her former acquaintance screamed and was thrown to the ground by the corpse beast, biting off at the waist. Blood splattered everywhere, and a few drops even fell on her face, and the residual warmth remained.
The screams stopped, and the corpse beast turned to look at her.
A twisted and enlarged beast head resembling a human face, like a demon crawling out of hell; The glowing green light emitted from the sunken eye sockets is like the cold under the nine springs, freezing people's souls.
The corpse beast opened its ear-splitting jaws and let out a silent roar—Mother could even see the severed fingers stuck between its fangs. The human head on its back opened its mouth at the same time to let out a wail of grievances, which was the cry of the dead in Hades.
Mother knew she should get out of the way, but she seemed to be frozen, her muscles from her neck to her shoulders to her thighs were stiff, her lips trembled like fallen leaves in autumn, and she couldn't utter a word.
She just stood there stunned, trembling as the corpse beast opened its mouth and bit at her......
"Genetic liberation!" Someone shouted beside her, and her mother instantly broke free from her immobilized state and turned her head to look.
It's her neighbor Kaito, who is one of the few hybrids with a high degree of genetic fusion in the agglomeration, and he doesn't bully them as orphans and widows on weekdays, and takes care of Simxue's mother and daughter. Now that Si Moxue's mother is trapped, he is the only one who comes to the rescue.
Of all hybrids, only those who have a gene fusion rate of more than 70% can achieve genetic emancipation. Once the genes are emancipated, the appearance of the hybrid will be affected by the mixed genes, and the combat effectiveness will be multiplied.
I saw that the muscles of Kaito's upper body bulged terribly, and he broke through his shirt, his eyes gradually turned pale green, dense gray long hairs grew on his body, his palms gradually bent into claws, and his nails became longer and sharper, looking like a standing humanoid giant wolf.
"Take the snow with you and escape!" The giant wolf spat out human words, then raised his head and let out a wolf howl, and bounced to his feet and pounced on the corpse beast.
The mother responded in a panic, dragging her trembling and limp legs into the shack.
Si Moxue had already woken up, and was hiding under the bed at this time shivering.
Mother pulled Cheese Moxue and pushed the small bed aside, revealing a secret door under the bed.
"Go down!"
Opening the secret door, there is a small cellar that can only accommodate one person.
"No, I don't want to, I'm going to hide with my mother!" Si Moxue cried and shook her head, tears and snot on her face.
"Good boy, go down and hide." Mother held Si Moxue's face, looked at her, and said anxiously, "Mom will find another place to hide, and when it's safe, Mom will come to you again, okay?" ”
Si Moxue felt her mother's cold fingers on her face, trembling. She clutched her mother's arm tightly and cried breathlessly: "No, don't! ”
The mother glanced outside the house, and the screams continued, and the corpse beast that had been led away could return at any time.
Can't delay any longer!
She grabbed her daughter's shoulders with her backhand and pushed her into the cellar, and her tone became stern: "Obedient! Go down! ”
Si Moxue struggled to be pushed into the cellar by her mother.
"Mommy will definitely come back to you!" The secret door was closed, and Si Moxue heard her mother shouting.
The torture continues. Gradually, there were fewer people fleeing in the gathering area, and the incessant screaming stopped, and the dark red blood flowed quietly on the ground into a meandering river.
However, the disaster did not stop, and hundreds of desolate people followed the corpse beasts to this gathering place. They formed groups of three and twos, and with great patience, they burrowed into the unfallen shacks one by one, and dealt the final blow to the old, weak, sick and disabled who were hiding in the houses.
The screams rang out again one after another......
Si Moxue cried in the cellar until she lost her voice, until the sound outside died down in the second half of the night, she fell asleep, and her mother did not come to her.
In the former noisy gathering place, only ruins remain, and new clothes are torn into the gravel; Only half of the painting swayed in the air, and then plunged headlong into a pool of blood on the ground; The meandering river merges in the low-lying area, and from a distance, it looks like an unwilling dark fire, until the residual temperature dissipates.
What a ...... Scenes from the end times.