Chapter 16: Mutations

George walked back and forth a few steps, and finally made a decision, he pointed to Angel and said, "Kill her." ”

The natives dragged the woman in the cage to the dry well, and a bright axe was placed around her neck. The men next to him each held a bone knife in their hands, waiting to come up and cut the skin.

Under the gaze of the crowd, the axe slowly rose, paused at the highest point, and was about to cut it down, when a daredevil, and the axeman had to stop.

"Blackie, what are you doing?" George stared at him dissatisfied.

Blackie pointed to the cage, where Kaiming was lying motionless on the ground.

George took everyone to approach carefully, and found that the blood vessels in Kaiming's body were swollen like earthworms, and his eyes were wide. George pulled out his pistol and stabbed him with the muzzle, "Hey, don't play dead. ”

Almost instantly, his skin turned gray, and everyone ran out of the cage in fright, and when he turned back, there was already a figure half taller than a human standing inside, and the mutation had not stopped, his fingernails had stretched three inches, his hair had turned silvery-white, and his whole body had grown metallic scales, and his eyes had found an evil red light in the darkness.

George pinched Blackie's face and said, "Oh my God, is this a dream?"

The blood in Kaiming's whole body was boiling, as if he had infinite strength, and looked at the already metalized body, which was extremely hard, and his nails were as sharp as sickles.

The small cage could no longer accommodate the tall body, and with a light lift, the sturdy wooden stake collapsed in an instant.

"Don't be stunned, everyone takes up arms. ”

Under George's loud reminder, the natives took out their bows and arrows, and the dense arrows flew towards Kaiming. Hearing the ding-dong sound, the arrows were all blocked by his metal body and fell to the ground.

With a slight jump, he jumped over a distance of ten meters and stood directly in front of the axe man and Angel.

Faced with a monster half a cut above him, the axe man was thrown into the air before he could scream.

Angel's whole body trembled, and Kaiming wanted to reach out to soothe, but her fingertips were already full of sharp nails, which frightened her to retreat again and again. He wanted to call her name, but his throat was a terrible moan, and he couldn't say a complete word for a long time.

Taking advantage of this, George raised his gun and shot him in the back, and the bullets hit the metal body and sent out bursts of light, and the bullets all rolled to the ground.

"Could it be that he is incorruptible?" said George, who couldn't believe his eyes.

Kai Ming didn't dare to take a step away, for fear that the bullets coming from behind would hit Angel, but it was not a way for her to stay in place all the time, and Kai Ming couldn't speak, so he had to yell at her, his red eyes and a mouth full of fangs, which scared her desperately to escape.

Until Angel's back disappeared into the night, Cumming turned to face George, lunged forward, completely ignoring the oncoming bullets, and in a blink of an eye he reached George, staring down on the Englishman.

George's mouth was wide open, not knowing whether to shoot or run away, but after a second of hesitation, the pistol was snatched by a sharp claw, put into a mouth full of fangs, and after a few chews, it shattered into metal parts.

"You must be hungry and don't have another one. Trembling, George handed over a dry twig. Chemin hit the ground and spat out a piece of his pistol, covering his head with just one hand, and if he pushed a little harder now, he believed that George's head would explode like a watermelon.

At this moment, there was a knock behind him, and Kai Ming turned around and saw Xiao Hei standing there with a broken bone knife.

It's funny, does this guy think that thing can deal with the Man of Steel?

Kaiming's iron arm swept away, and Xiao Hei rolled on the ground three times and fainted. When he turned around, George had already run into the village house.

I've long heard those adults say, don't touch foreign things, it will attract evil spirits, I didn't think that monsters would really come to the door. Could it be because of the gold necklace? He didn't have time to think about it, and ran home, a thatched hut that was empty, and his thin body could only hide under the wooden bed.

The walls crumbled, and the monster burst into the house, its big red eyes searching the darkness.

He held his breath as he watched a pair of shiny gray feet walk outside the wooden bed, twice as large as a normal person, with exceptionally long nails that creaked the wooden floor with each step. He was so frightened that he threw the necklace out of his hand, hoping that it would let him go when he got it.

A sickle-shaped nail hooked the necklace off the ground, and it suddenly bent down to meet the eyes of the child under the wooden bed.

Wouldn't hurt him, Cumming took his necklace and returned outside through the gap in the wall, looking around the village and seeing no sign of George.

I wanted to teach him a good lesson, but I didn't expect him to run faster than a dog. Kai Ming sighed secretly, now that he has become like this, even Angel ran away when he saw it, and it was strange not to scare others to death when he walked on the street.

Where do we go from here?

The pickup truck was driving in the dark desert, and it was impossible to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, and seeing that the fuel mark was gradually approaching zero, the pickup truck finally stopped on a small hill.

Angel didn't dare to go out of the car, rested on the back of the chair, opened the sheepskin brought out of the pyramid, and couldn't believe that Kaiming had become the monster in the picture, and a good trip was ruined.

After a difficult night in the car, the next day, near noon, a convoy passed by and saw a woman waving in the dunes, and six large motorhomes stopped.

The first to step forward was a French couple, the man wearing a pair of sunglasses and the woman wrapped in a sunflower turban, and Angel saw a long-lost smile on their faces.

They claimed to be on a round-the-world trip, six couples from different countries, departing from Tunisia to go to Asia via the Suez Canal in Egypt, and yesterday they were delayed by a sandstorm and happened to meet Angel.

Knowing that her pickup truck was running out of gas, they carried a spare oil tank to refill the pickup, and the French couple invited her to lunch.

Entering the RV, there are many sofas, kitchens, toilets, and living facilities.

"Mai, where is the satellite phone?" asked the hostess aloud as she rummaged through the drawers.

The husband was in the cab, and he patted the rotating compass on the center console and said, "Honey, I promise it's in the car." ”

The hostess rolled her eyes, and finally found it under the couch cushions, pulled the antenna to the longest, but never got the phone through. She stuck her head out of the car window and asked the two people on the other side, which was the case.

"Strange, have all the communication satellites fallen into the sea?"

Angel sipped her coffee and watched her busy, apparently unaware of the strange things going on here.

Seeing that people are happy, Angel really can't bear to tell them, even if they say it, they won't believe it, right?

"Girl, where are you from?" the hostess looked at the oriental woman, with big eyes and a small nose, and she had not smiled since she met.

Angel replied: "I am Chinese, and I also came to Egypt for tourism, because of yesterday's sandstorm, my companion and I were separated. ”

"Oh my God, you must be freaked, aren't you?" the hostess gave her a warm hug, "God forbid." ”

She was not a strong woman, and tears welled up in her eyes.

In the afternoon, the convoy packed up and traveled, due to navigation and communication failures, the sun has been hidden in the dark clouds, and can only rely on the shadow on the ground to guess the approximate location of the east.

Angel followed the team in a pickup truck, and they had plenty of reserves to get out of the desert.

Six hours later, the lead car saw buildings in the distance, but they were not sure, because they were shrouded in fog, and only tall buildings could show their heads, which felt extremely unreal, and who could guarantee that it was not a mirage.

The convoy gradually drove into a dense fog, and although visibility was low, it was a modern city judging by the towering buildings all around.

As the pickup truck drove through an intersection, Angel saw a crooked sign, Cairo, and she was back in the city of the dead.

A large truck was lying across the road, the convoy had to stop, and the people in the RV came out to check what was going on, the cab of the truck had long since melted, and the driver was still sitting in a chair, like a molten wax figure, his mouth was painfully stretched into an O-shape, and two round eyeballs were staring at the sky.

"Oh my God, what's going on?" Mai stepped forward to observe the truck.

"Was there a chemical leak?" asked the wife, as the truck was pulling large iron cans.

Mai looked at the fireproof pattern on the tin can and replied, "No, Lina, it pulls natural gas, and it won't even rot the steel of the car." ”

The truck was lying across the road, no one was watching, there was no one around the street, shoes, bags, and hats were scattered all over the place.

Everyone began to talk, and Lina looked back to see Angel sitting in the pickup truck, holding the steering wheel tightly with both hands, and she had a sense of foreboding.

The convoy detoured to other streets, and the city of Cairo was deserted, the billboards were not lit, the cars were not driven, and even the police stations and government buildings were empty.

In the evening, the convoy stopped on the banks of the Nilo River, where they decided to spend the night, the women began to prepare dinner, and the men were busy filling the RV with water and dumping the garbage.

Lina opened the windowsill of the living room and saw her husband walking to the river with his friends on his back, and he raised his hand to her, "Prepare the ingredients for the fish." ”

She just liked Mai's confident appearance and responded with an OK gesture. Turning her gaze, she noticed the pickup truck far away from the riverbank, and the disturbing girl had been staying in the car.

Lina put on her turban, her collar swaying violently in the wind.

Under the gloomy sky, only a faint light came from the RV camp, and Angel watched her surroundings vigilantly, when suddenly the car window clicked twice, and she let out a short exclamation.

"Angel, are you alright?"

It's Lina, she asked worriedly outside the car.

Angel relented and nodded reluctantly.

"It's getting dark, why don't you get out of the car and be with everyone? ”

Angel shook her head, the RV camp was too close to the river.

Seeing that she was a little nervous, Lina didn't say anything more, and went back to prepare dinner after a few words.