Chapter 4: Monsters
After drinking enough water, Zheng Rui lay at the entrance of the basement, feeling that the large and small veins in his body were quickly refilled.
She was going to take a nap, and she usually felt a little sleepy after resurrection, probably to reduce energy consumption.
So she really fell asleep.
Then he woke up with the pain of a tear on his left wrist.
Zheng Rui reflexively withdrew her hand in pain, and then saw a pair of sky-blue eyes.
"Ah!!!h
Zheng Rui was stunned for a second—maybe only half a second—and then hurriedly rolled in the opposite direction, dodging the sudden monster. However, the monster was faster than her, with elongated, dark red claws shaped like the forelimbs of a praying mantis poking straight into her abdomen. Zheng Rui relied on proprioception to judge that this time it was directly pierced through the body wall into the abdominal cavity, and the terrible thing was that the adrenaline level reached an extremely high point at this time, and she didn't feel any pain.
She just felt very angry, and even more so that she was being disturbed by someone taking a nap — no, it wasn't anyone who bothered her at all.
Zheng Rui's intact right hand grabbed the monster's claws in turn, and subconsciously felt that he definitely couldn't compete with it, so he used his greatest strength. To her surprise, she had removed the monster's claws alive and brought out a large bundle of blue-blue-green, slimy things that seemed to be nerves and musculature from the monster.
The monster was about to grab her with another claw, but Zheng Rui, who had already reacted, raised his leg and kicked her away. Then she rolled over and jumped up at a speed she couldn't imagine before, grabbed the monster's other paw, and stomped its head to pieces.
The monster doesn't move anymore.
Zheng Rui knelt beside its corpse and gasped violently until the adrenaline level dropped. She felt a terrible pain in her abdomen, and the laceration on her left hand had begun to heal.
No, the injury is secondary, mainly because the hormone level goes up and down, and she really can't bear it.
Zheng Rui lay down on her back, hoping that the organs in her abdominal cavity would return to their original positions, and then waited quietly for a while for the opening in her abdomen to heal on its own. Now her body is repairing much faster than it was at the beginning—and it can be calculated according to the quadratic curve formula she summarized.
When the wound on his stomach healed, Zheng Rui stood up and took a second look at the monster's corpse.
With her aesthetics, this monster is strangely good-looking. It resembles some kind of arthropod enlarged to a body length of more than two meters: the head is like a grayish-purple rounded tetrahedron, and the mouthparts are not obvious, but a pair of beautiful sky-blue eyes with round pupils. The thorax is also similar to a tetrahedral, but it is covered with a strange pattern and a thin layer of light yellow hypertrophic outer armor, the upper part protrudes the first pair of large appendages, the first segment is slender and slightly curved, but the second segment suddenly swells and is dark red - that is, Zheng Rui's broken claws - the second pair of large appendages protruding from the lower part are unremarkable, with a slender structure at the end, which looks very flexible. The abdomen is covered with dark blue hypertrophic armor of another strange pattern, and there appears to be healing between the chest and abdomen, with the last two pairs of large appendages protruding from the healing site. Its last two large appendages are very long, presumably mainly used to walk on these two pairs of appendages, the last segment of which is swollen into a paddle-like shape, showing a very smooth brown color.
But no matter how good-looking it is, Zheng Rui can't forgive the fact that it even tore off her left hand before she died. But either it is "before death", the bugs that dare to bite her will definitely be shot to death by her.
Next, you might be able to drag the monster into the basement and study it. Zheng Rui leaned over and sniffed the dead monster corpse, but there was no trace of strange smell.
It dawned on her that this thing was probably not a mutated arthropod, or even a product of Earth's life system. Its chemical structure should be so different from hers that the olfactory system that made up her, which had evolved over hundreds of millions of years, was completely indistinguishable from the chemistry of this creature.
It's an alien, ......
No way.
The first reaction was to make a fortune, and then immediately thought that this kind of weak chicken alien creature that looked so powerful that she couldn't even beat one of her student creatures was definitely not the only one who came to Earth. It is estimated that there have been big guys who have already seized other studies.
Zheng Rui even regretted that she had killed it. If she hadn't died, she would have studied it, but now she didn't even have the right tools to dissect it, and she couldn't do anything to look at the corpse she had shattered.
But then she realized that it was the right thing to do. This thing may be brittle, but its claws are really sharp, if it weren't for the fact that she was immortal, it would have been ten days and a half months since her left hand was torn by it, and it would even cause infection and be life-threatening. If she couldn't control the monster and let it escape to the neighborhood opposite, it wouldn't be easy.
But maybe she was transformed into an immortal, and maybe someone else would be even more transformed. Even if it hasn't been transformed, it's absolutely wilting to kick this claw that even a little girl can break for her, so that the adult male who is very likely to exist in the opposite neighborhood is absolutely wilted. After all, there are many people in the opposite community.
In the end, Zheng Rui did not study the monster's corpse, but just carried her backpack back to the basement. In order to prevent the monster from entering, she vacated a shelf and blocked the basement entrance. Then Zheng Rui looked at the pile of garbage he had created, and took out the drink bottles and other things that could hold liquids, and filled them with water at the mouth of the water pipe.
The presence of monsters still scared her a little.
It is unlikely that a monster of this size could have fallen from the sky in this vicinity without a sound, most of them from a relatively distant place, and she still had no idea what was going on in the distance. If it was true that the surface buildings in a radius of hundreds of kilometers had been flattened, and there were monsters outside, she would have to save some water in case she ran out of drinks when she could only stay in the basement.
Putting the stored water back in the basement, Zheng Rui walked up and looked at the monster's corpse again.
Why would a murderous monster look so good? But she also thinks that this is probably just a human brain circuit that is not normal for student creatures, and there may not be many insects in normal people who like to magnify N times.
And it is also incorrect to judge things by appearance, although the formation of human aesthetics has its evolutionary adaptability, but this thing should not be life on earth, so it did not evolve with humans. According to this theory, even if it looks aesthetically pleasing to humans, it doesn't mean that it's harmless to humans - obviously, it's extremely harmful to humans.
But its claws are quite sharp and hard to the touch.
Zheng Rui also removed the other claw of the monster, and took this pair of claws back to be used as a knife.