Chapter 19: Jumping Worms
Zeng Hua told Sancang to go to the lobby of the office building in the factory area to listen to what the people who came back from the front line had to say, and he led Tang Yan to the back dormitory.
"Find me a quiet place, preferably in a separate room."
Zeng Hua glanced at the dog in his arms and suddenly turned around and walked towards the power distribution room in the north of the bar workshop.
"That's the house of the legion sniper Zabuha, but unfortunately he died two days ago, and no one lives there for the time being." He said that it was a pity, and his face did not show any change.
"Zabuha......" Tang Yan thought of the person who sniped at him outside Vault 1001 two days ago, and thought to himself that the person who killed him would occupy the other party's residence, and I don't know if that guy would die if he knew it.
The power distribution room is not large, the exterior wall is seriously damaged by wind, and the roof has collapsed, but fortunately, it has been repaired in the later period of Zabuha, which is enough to cope with the rain and snow.
There was a simple bed with a dirty mattress on top of it.
A few pre-war books were thrown under the bed, burned beyond recognition. There is a rusty sword at the head of the bed, and a tattered model of the J-35 fighter in the corner.
He placed the injured dog on the bed and checked the bite above the dog's leg by light.
Strange to say, since the dog was rescued by him, there was no struggle or barking along the way, and the whole process was very quiet, at most because of the pain, a few distressing whimpering.
Now on the bed, it just opened its eyes and looked at the thin face opposite, blinking from time to time.
"Rest early, and we'll talk about joining the group tomorrow." After Zeng Hua finished speaking, he closed the door and left.
Tang Yan listened to his footsteps getting farther and farther away, picked up a white porcelain jar with the barely visible words "Serve the People" from the table behind him, and poured the drinkable water into the bowl and fed it to the dog lying on the bed.
In the wasteland, drinking water is invaluable and can even be exchanged for food. Even the members of organizations like the Black Saints and the Pandaren Legion have a fairly limited quota per day, and basically no one will waste it on dying livestock.
In the old days, dogs were human companions and pets, and today, they are completely reduced to a burden for ordinary people, and only people of the rank of Governor and Senior Administrator of Gem City have the spare time to feed them.
If outsiders knew that he gave drinkable water to a dying dog, he would inevitably be scolded as a loser.
"You can follow me from now on." Tang Yan stroked the alienated black hair on the back of its neck and said, "If I have a bite to eat, there will be a bite for you." ”
"What do you call it?"
"Dawrstun? Momordica charantia? He suddenly thought of Amy's prompt for himself, the naughty and cheap-mouthed artificial intelligence who was shut down by the system for helping himself.
"Then call it dog meat."
Whew......
The dog, who was largely incapacitated, struggled to raise his head, barked, and wagged his tail twice weakly.
It seems glad that someone is willing to take him in, but the injury is too severe to express joy and closeness to its owner like a normal pet dog.
It simply didn't know that without the help of medicine and the right environment, it wouldn't even survive tonight.
Tang Yan swept over the fist-sized wound on the back leg of the dog, looking at the blood that had spilled due to the strenuous activity, and made a decision in his heart.
He decided to forgo exchanging CMC armor for the time being, and in any case, save the dog meat first. Anyway, now that the Pandaren Legion base is in the base, it's a big deal to repeat the Black Saints base again.
What's more, it only takes 300 bonus points to exchange for the mutant worm that carries the jumping worm gene, and the remaining reward points are not enough to exchange for CMC power armor, but they can be exchanged for reaper armor.
After the reward points exceed 300, the exchange conditions of the jumping worm are reached, and the system sends him a description of how to use it.
Unlike the exchange conditions for Terran equipment, Zerg units must be implemented in a parasitic way. That is, he must find a weak creature, preferably close to his pet. The mutant worm carrying the dyptocratic gene is injected into the target subject's body, causing it to evolve into a germbagoc posture.
This is also the reason why during the off-road vehicle escaping from the Black Saints base, the headlights shine on the dog meat fighting with the mutant dogs in the canal, and he urgently stops the vehicle.
Bring up the system menu in your head, swipe the interface to the Worm Evolution Tree, and press the button to exchange for Hopper.
After doing this, he walked to the door of the room, pushed open the door and took a look at the outside environment, made sure that there were no outsiders nearby, and returned to the house to release the mutant worm in the system space and put it on the dog meat.
The small purple bug, the size of a fingernail, burrowed under the skin with great speed and disappeared.
The dog meat, which was powerless to struggle, just let out a whimper and disappeared.
In just a few breaths, the flesh and blood of the wound on its hind leg turned out quickly agitated, and a series of flesh buds that could be recognized by the human eye grew from the edge of the wound, stretched towards the middle, and bit with other meat buds at an extremely fast speed, locking the wound.
At the same time, the dog's flesh secretes a brown mucus that spreads like a living creature and gradually turns into a pupa almost the size of a human body.
Those thick and thin purple meridians grow on the pupa epidermis, forming a dense web.
Tang Yan stared at the scene in front of him in a daze, always paying attention to the changes in the pupae.
I don't know how long it has been, his clenched five fingers have turned slightly white, and when he heard a pop, the pupa burst from the inside, and the biomass gushed out like water, and the jumping worm belonging to the StarCraft world showed its sharp teeth and sharp claws, especially the hideous hook and sickle on the upper body, which made people feel cold all over the body at a glance.
Even though he had known what the jumping worm looked like, had memories of the game StarCraft, and was still the owner of dog meat, he still couldn't help but take a big step backwards at first glance.
There was a bang.
The insect-like dog jumped to the ground, raised its pinprick-like tail and shook it.
It was obviously currying favor with him, like a pet dog seeing its owner.
The corners of Tang Yan's mouth grinned several times before a full smile appeared, and he tentatively touched the head of the dog meat (jumping worm) with his hand to show his intimacy.
He thought that his smile must be ugly, just like the well-behaved show of dog meat now.
His movements undoubtedly gave Dog Meat encouragement, and it arched directly forward and stuck to Tang Yan's body, apparently to further express his joy and gratitude...... Well, for example, a domestic pet dog will lick the owner's face with its tongue
Now the dog meat has a loyal dog heart, but its body is not the body of a pet dog, not to mention the pair of long hook sickles, the more slender forelimbs are used to tear the human body or something is not difficult.
"Hey, hey, dogmeat, you're going to hurt me like this." He hurriedly made a stop gesture to keep it from approaching him.
"Whew......" Dog Meat let out an aggrieved snort, lowered his head and took a step back, his eyes were very pitiful.
No matter how many mutant dogs it can tear alive now, it can only run away for its life before, in front of Tang Yan, it does not have the ferocity of alien insects, it is still the dog meat.