Chapter 48: A Sea of Fire
One or two o'clock in the morning, the coldest hour of the night.
Opus took the lead and rushed out of the encirclement.
The flashlight fell into the mountains and seas of spiders and went out.
Opus held the steel bar in his hand, and like an invincible god of war, swept away, and the broken limb bones shot in all directions.
The short distance between the factory and the scientific research office building had been run countless times in the previous chase with the spider, but Opus had never felt that it was so long.
Behind him were hundreds of spiders, their hissing sounds clearly audible.
One of the largest mutant spiders, it is probably the king of mutant spiders, and its arthropods are moving rapidly, and the distance between it and everyone is getting closer and closer.
Everyone was running with adrenaline, and the distance was covered in a few minutes. When passing by the scientific research office building, Si Tan saw the time and pushed Si Moxue into the door.
As they expected, the spiders' eyesight had deteriorated greatly from the long-term increase in size, and under the cover of the night, the spiders did not notice that there was no one missing from their pursuing team.
Opus led the group around the factory, and once again rushed into the research office building through another entrance, running to the hole where they had entered.
The tank lit the earthen bomb that he had been holding in his hand and threw it into the hole early. The strip of cloth used as a fuse on the earth bomb burned rapidly, and just as the last man rushed out of the wall, the bomb exploded.
Large chunks of prefabricated cement slabs fell like raindrops of rubble, cutting off the path of the mutant spiders.
Soon after, a loud bang came from the far end of the half-collapsed scientific research office building, and the ground shook, and the rubble piled up on the ground after the collapse of the building rose into the sky again, like a bullet fired in four directions, piercing the spiders trapped in the building.
The few people who had just run out of the wall were knocked to the ground by the shockwave, and their backs and arms were cut by the fierce rubble.
The aftermath of the first wave of explosions was not yet over, and the flammable and explosive gases that had already permeated the chemical plant caused a second round of explosions. The explosions were concentrated in the central area of the factory, and by the time the team members broke free from the dizziness and tinnitus, the buildings in the middle of the factory had been almost completely destroyed.
Before they had time to check the casualties, several people who had just gotten up from the ground heard the sound of rubble falling behind them-
The largest mutant spider shuddered to its feet from under the rubble.
The last two appendages of its body were smashed from the roots, three of its eight eyes were blind, and a pit the size of a human head was smashed out of the top of its abdomen, and blue-green blood oozed out of the fracture little by little.
The spider rubbed its chelicera, hissing and crawling towards the team members who had fallen to the ground in front of them......
Si Moxue slipped into the office building and found the basement in the mouth of the tank - it was indeed buried by the collapsed rubble of the building, leaving only a small hole in the middle.
Hands and feet drilled through the narrow hole, and the sharp section of the stone pulled long white marks on her body, swollen, and then quickly healed and disappeared.
Si Moxue went into the basement that Si Tank said and carefully turned on the flashlight.
There was no light source in the basement, it was dark, only a patch of light appeared where the flashlight was shining.
Si Moxue snorted, and here, the smell of nitric acid volatilization became stronger and stronger.
The light of the flashlight swept through the corner of the wall, where there was an overturned wooden box, and a yellowish liquid flowed to the ground.
It seems that mutant spiders have come in and knocked over an entire box of nitric acid, which is probably the source of the smell of nitric acid they smelled along the way.
Si Moxue touched the dust on the box next to her with her palm, and the flashlight shone over, and she vaguely saw the word "calcium carbide".
That's it.
Si Moxue didn't dare to delay, held a flashlight in her mouth, used both hands, pushed all the stacked boxes to the ground, and used a knife to cut open the seal.
The gray-black lump rolled out and hit the liquid on the ground, instantly producing a large number of bubbles.
Large and small bubbles scrambled to escape from the surface of the lumpy surface, pushing it to roll in the liquid, rattling and wafting a foul smell.
Everything was in order, Si Moxue took advantage of the fact that there were no spiders outside, and hurried out of the cave again.
"Bang!"
There was an explosion in the rear right, followed by the sound of falling rocks rolling—
Opus's side is ready.
Si Moxue ran desperately into the distance, trying to get a little farther away from the basement before the explosion, a little farther away.
"Boom-"
There was a loud bang in the office building behind him.
Si Moxue's feet were empty, and she was carried by the shock wave, and she lost control of her body when she landed, and flew away into the distance, slamming into the ground.
She screamed, a mouthful of blood spurting out. Her ears and nose were bleeding now, her back was covered in skin charred by the explosion, and her whole body hurt as if she had been hit by a cannonball.
The ribs must have been broken, and the chest was like a knife, and every breath was a sharp pain.
She'd never been so badly injured since she had healed herself.
Si Moxue covered her injuries and barely got up from the ground.
Just two steps away, another round of explosions. Like a rag doll, Si Moxue was carried by the shock wave and tossed around in the air. Flying rubble hit the ground, and the dirt was more than three feet high.
She was lying on her back on the ground, her left leg and arm at an eerie angle.
Si Moxue coughed dryly, blood bubbles came out of her nasal cavity, and her throat was full of the smell of blood.
She had known that this was going to be the end, from the moment Stanken was going to sacrifice her to save everyone, and she stood up and said, "I'll go." But why, why is she still unwilling, she still has to run, even if she knows that she can't run.
The explosion ignited the dead grass in the factory, and the fire quickly spread, enveloping Sim Xue.
Si Moxue's eyes were wide open, and her hair curled up in the heat. Under the firelight, a small face was dyed red.
No, no, I can't die here.
I'm just, just living the life I want—Thor, Uncle Kaito, Mia, they're all waiting for her to go back at the Oasis.
Si Moxue struggled to get up from the ground, moving forward step by step, her broken left leg, every time she stepped down, it was a heart-piercing pain, like walking on the tip of a knife.
Drops of blood fell on the path she walked, boiling rapidly in the heat.
The scars on Si Moxue's back were slowly healing, but it wasn't enough, the blood loss was still accelerating, and she felt her consciousness withdraw little by little......
The mutant spider got up from the ground, its badly injured abdomen resting on the ground, and its injured feet dragged its huge body forward little by little. Clear digestive juice oozed from the tip of the chelicera, which fell to the ground and immediately corroded into a shallow pit.
Opus pulls out the steel bars that have been inserted in the side and confronts the mutant spiders.
Si Tan stood a little behind him, his hair turned gray-white after genetic liberation, a pair of straight antelope horns on his head, and a snow-white goatee on his chin comically, looking like an old pedant who was stubborn and full of "Zhihu Ye".
The spider raised its mutilated chelicerae and charged towards Opus.
Opus glanced at the two blunted steel bars, and threw them away, and met the mutant spider with his bare hands, holding its two wielding chelicera.
Brown bears are one of the largest mammals of the land carnivore, with powerful forearms and great force when swinging.
Although Opus needs weapons against the spider swarm, he now fights alone, and he has few opponents.
I saw that he was holding the spider's chelicera with both hands, and with a mistake in both hands, the mutant spider was firmly fixed and couldn't break free.
The abandoned factory in front of it burst into flames, and the orange-red tongues of fire licked around, dragging everything they touched into the flames.
Crushed to the bottom of the ruins, the mutant spiders were scorched by the flames, squeaking, and their carapaces cracking in the heat.
When the mutant spider heard the screams of his clan before he died, he was ruthless, broke free from the shackles of Opus, and raised his chelicera high.
Just when Opus retreated in shock, thinking that the spider would take advantage of the victory and pursue. The mutant spider actually turned around and rushed into the sea of fire without hesitation, and was burned into a huge fireball by the surrounding tongue of fire.
The last mutant spider died, and Tank finally breathed a sigh of relief, and was in the mood to count the casualties-
The original team of thirteen people, after this catastrophe, only four people remained: Si Tank, Opusi, Liang Wenruo, and Yuichi Nakura.
The rest of the people were either caught by the spider early, or they were killed in the spider's mouth in the breakout just now.
Stanley saw the team members carrying Newton on his back being bitten by a venomous spider, and he lost his strength and fell to the ground, being eaten alive by the spiders that came up from behind.
His eyes fell on Yuichi Nakura, he actually survived, since he woke up, he has always been white-faced, and he can't fall, and he actually followed the large army and fought his way out of the encirclement.
Opus did not relax, as soon as the mutant spider died, he pulled Liang Wenruo to run around the factory that was completely trapped in the sea of fire. Finally, on the top of a half-complete three-story factory building in the north of the factory, Si Moxue's figure was found.