Chapter 18: A life-and-death struggle
The lieutenant and Coconut left Ke Junxia, and the two walked side by side into the tunnel where the monster might be hiding, only to look up and see a wall—a wall that could not be marked on the map.
The wall was by no means the original design of the drainage system itself, nor was it made up of cement bricks, but rather a pile of garbage, broken bricks, and animal bones, but with gaps below and below that allowed the sewage to drain freely without clogging.
The lieutenant and the coconut looked at each other, and the coconut shrugged, not commenting on it.
Although everyone calls this guy a monster, it is also a mutation of human beings in the end, and it is natural to have a certain amount of intelligence.
Coconut went up to check the wall and saw that it was rough but strong, and she tried to push it, but the wall didn't move, so she turned to the lieutenant and made an explosive gesture.
The lieutenant is a little embarrassed, if he passes the blast, he will definitely alarm the monsters, so the advantage of the raid will be lost, but the demolition of the wall is obviously understaffed, and it may not not disturb the monsters. The lieutenant pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth, and nodded at the coconut.
The coconut took out a piece of mixed ** from the glove bag, and was placed **, when the explosion point was placed, an ominous hissing sound suddenly sounded, and it was getting closer and closer to this place, and before the coconut could respond, the wall was knocked down by a huge force, and the monster broke out of the wall, and the coconut was crushed by the fragments of the wall in the sewage more than a foot deep.
The monster hit the wall without pausing, it continued to charge towards the lieutenant, who decisively pulled the trigger of the flamethrower, and a fiery dragon pounced on the monster, the monster caught fire, and it screamed and rushed to the ceiling of the sewer, over the lieutenant's head.
The lieutenant continued to breathe fire, and the fire dragon continued to chase and burn the monster, the sticky solidified fuel stuck to the monster's body and continued to burn, and the monster roared, splitting the burning parts of its body, shaking off the burning debris, and then rushed to the depths of the tunnel.
The coconut was crushed by the wall and forced to drink a few sips of foul sewage, but she was an experienced hunter after all and quickly regained her composure, struggling to poke her head out of the sewage and calling out to the lieutenant.
The lieutenant originally planned to catch up with Ke Junxia, but after hearing Coconut's call, he hurriedly returned to help Coconut get out.
Now, Ke Junxia can only face the monster alone.
Ke Junxia ran all the way to chase the monster, his adrenaline has been secreted to the peak, which makes him full of physical strength, and he has endless strength, but his running environment is getting worse and worse, the water under his feet is getting deeper and deeper, and finally it has been submerged to his knees.
It didn't take long for Ke Junxia to chase down the monster.
He now regretted throwing away the biodetector to lighten the load, and now he was starting to worry about the labyrinthine network of low-drainage.
But Ke Junxia is a smart and experienced young hunter after all. Chasing down the monster didn't frustrate him or panic him. He stopped, adjusting his breathing and began to think.
The interval between each feeding of this monster is three months, but it is a variant of humans, and humans as homeothermic animals need a lot of energy to maintain body temperature, which means that this monster cannot maintain a certain amount of exercise every day like normal humans, and the recent escape has consumed it a lot, so it does not have many options now, and finding a safe place to adjust sleep is the most energy-saving option.
This is Ke Junxia heard the sound of huge flowing water echoing in the tunnel, and he observed the speed of the water under his feet, which indicates that there is a water outlet nearby, and there is a large sewage excrement site near this area, which was originally an abandoned mine, which is the dirtiest place in the metropolis, and therefore forms a unique ecological environment, if you want to hide, it is a good place. It's just that this excrement field is also very huge, and it must be destroyed before the monster escapes there, and once the monster enters the excrement field, it will become the best hiding place for it!
Although Ke Junxia is not familiar with the pipeline system in this area, he has the pipe diagram given to him by Coconut in advance, plus he used to have a neighbor uncle who worked as a plumber, and he used to tell him the tips for finding and identifying the direction in the pipeline, but he didn't expect it to come in handy here.
Ke Junxia searched for four sinkholes in a row, but there was no trace of monsters, and there was no trace of destruction of the iron fence on the sinkhole. Ke Junxia used to worry that the monster would pass through the fence by "fission", but the water was turbulent and there was a drop of about ten meters, and if the monster cracked into a gecko-sized creature, I was afraid that it would be washed away by the water. Even if it's such a tough monster, it will be troublesome to be swept away by the water.
Ke Junxia began to feel tired, the adrenaline was no longer secreted, he had been soaked in sewage for a long time, the skin on his legs was itchy, the itch was unbearable, but he didn't dare to pick it, once the skin was broken, he was afraid that it would take tons of antibiotics to save him from the infection.
But he can't give up, and once he does, everything in front of him will be in vain.
Ke Junxia encouraged himself and walked to a sinkhole marked on the map.
He was disappointed again, the inside of the sinkhole pipe was empty, and the waterproof railing was intact.
Ke Junxia sighed in disappointment, turned around and walked a few steps in frustration, and suddenly looked up, the scene in front of him stunned him, the monster was staring at him with its mouth wide open, its eyes were stunned, and its expression - it was indeed a human expression, its horror was no less than Ke Junxia's.
That's right, the monster is huge and powerful, and it can easily tear Ke Junxia to pieces, but its mind is only about ten years old, just a child, although it is fierce when hunting, but after being chased and killed one after another, it will also feel afraid, especially Ke Junxia is wearing the combat uniform of the Falcon Squadron, and the hunters of the Falcon Squadron have become the lingering nightmare of this monster.
But there was no way back for both sides now, and the monster waved its two thick front paws and roared as if it was going to attack. Ke Junxia used strong willpower to keep himself from retreating, his legs trembled in the water, but the whole person did not move as if he was nailed to the spot, and in the face of the beast, he must not show fear, otherwise the beast will attack without hesitation, and this principle also applies to mutants.
But this was not enough, Ke Junxia remembered that he had read the battle cry of the Maori people on Earth in an extracurricular book, so he mustered up all his strength and let out the loudest roar at the monster.
The monster was actually frightened, it coiled its body like a snake, which is the most common defensive stance of this type of creature, while its upper body was still condescending, and it let out a roar at Ke Junxia, the sharp sound almost pierced Ke Junxia's eardrums. At this time, her blood basin was less than two meters away from Ke Junxia, its rancid breath and saliva had sprayed onto Ke Junxia's face and body, and its two sharp claws had also become crab claws, attacking his neck from both sides, if it wasn't for Ke Junxia doing something at the last moment, then his beautiful young head would have been separated from his body in a few seconds.
Just when the monster opened its bloody mouth to Ke Junxia again, Ke Junxia took out the burning hand ** that the coconut helped him stuff into from the sundries, popped out the safety pin with one hand, and then threw it into the monster's mouth accurately.
The hand ** was stuck in the monster's throat, and the monster only felt an itch in his throat, and instinctively made a swallowing movement, and then he was stunned - it didn't know what kind of snack it had just eaten, but it was certainly not a good thing.
In an instant, time and air seemed to freeze, and both the monster and Ke Junxia maintained their last posture, and no one continued to move on to the next step. After a few more seconds, the monster retracted its claws and rubbed its stomach in pain, while Ke Junxia found that the monster's stomach had turned transparent red.
"Ah~~" The monster screamed in the sky, spitting out a ball of flame towards the ceiling of the pipe, and at the same time, the monster's body collapsed, the flames in its body met the air, and there was a second deflagration, and Ke Junxia's face was affected, so that he clearly felt the scorching heat of the flames, he fell backwards, and the whole person was almost submerged in the water, at the same time, he felt countless small creatures swimming and running past him, and several of them also scratched his face by the way.
Ke Junxia struggled to get up, but the slippery ground made him fail to get up twice, and in a panic he even drank two sips of sewage, but soon, a familiar feeling, a pair of powerful hands like red-hot iron hooks pulled him out of the water, and then he saw another familiar, strong figure rushing past him, and spewing out a fire dragon all over the sky.
The lieutenant and the coconut arrived.
The splintered monsters could not resist the heat of the flamethrower, and they were scorched in patches against the walls of the pipes, with only a very small part washed down the sinkhole by sewage.
While Ke Junxia was holding the ambulance and vomiting, the support detachment was under the command of the lieutenant, holding a copy net, looking for the bipedal gecko-like creatures involved in the fission of the monster downstream of the sinkhole, while the other detachment scraped the charred corpses in the battlering pipes.
Ke Junxia vomited darkly, not only because of nausea, but also because the coconut gave him an emetic, and the coconut has a theory about this that it is better to come out of the mouth above than from the hole below, because coming out of the hole means that you have been infected. Although theoretically it was passable, the amount she gave was too big, and Ke Junxia almost vomited out his intestines.
Fortunately, the coconut has been with him to vomit, and the vomit is not less than him.
After the two vomited, the two went to the van to take a shower, and then simply treated the wound in the ambulance. Ke Junxia was in good condition, but the original injury of the coconut did not heal, and this time he soaked in the sewage for too long, and he had symptoms of infection and fever in the ambulance, and his cheeks were red.