Chapter 360: The Polluter
In the early morning, the cold fog had just faded, and the refugees who had been tossing all night were rudely kicked awake by a large group of heavily armed guards not long after they fell asleep, and last night in order to avoid a few shadow corners of Lanyue, the refugees were beaten to the death, and there was a posture of simply ending up together, and finally those guards got impatient, so they escorted the refugees to a covered room, but unfortunately there were still four refugees who died in the brawl, and the others were injured one by one.
Lin Ze was painlessly beaten several times, but he never waited for a chance to escape, and those members of the Knights didn't care about the lives of the refugees at all.
"Get up, line up, and follow me," the impatient little leader motioned to the guards to gather the refugees and escort them out at gunpoint.
"I, I'm not feeling well, I'm not ......," a refugee lay on the ground clutching his stomach.
"Bang!"
"If you don't feel well, you don't have to come out, you will lie here forever!" The little leader put away his pistol, "Who else is uncomfortable or something, hurry up~"
"Ah~" The smell of blood was permeated, and the refugees hurriedly screamed from the ground and got up and squeezed together, for fear that the movement would slow down and cause misunderstanding.
The machine roared in the workshop, although the power was light energy, the conveyor belt and other components were not much different from the cosmic civilization, this is an automated production line, and the finished light pressure bombs were transported to the collection box by the conveyor belt, and finally the manual boxing.
"Don't look at it, this way, let's go!" The small leader urged the refugee group forward.
Lin Ze also retracted his gaze, but unfortunately, what he wanted to know most now was what was the optical material used in the light pressure bomb, which he couldn't see here, he already had a rough guess about what the refugees were doing, but he had been watched closely by the guards, and he could only take one step at a time.
The refugees were taken to the ground floor of one of the main buildings, and through the staircase leading to the basement level, they entered a basement with many shelves, one of the walls of the basement had been dug by brute force, and several improvised wooden supports were supported on either side of the diagonal downward opening, and about 30 members of the Order stood guard in the basement with their guns raised.
"That's what you call preparation? A bunch of refugees, what can they do, cannon fodder? Bait? In the distance, Oni stood beside Feng Jin and shook his head slightly, "The polluter is not a brainless deviant, let it hit wherever it wants, it will only attack the targets it thinks are the most threatening, cannon fodder and decoys are useless." ”
"Naturally not", Feng Jin smiled smugly, then stepped forward and came to the refugees, "This is an underground water source for our Knights, a few polluters accidentally ran in a few days ago, your task is to go in and destroy them!" ”
"Polluter! No, I don't want to be eaten by polluters! A refugee shouted in horror.
"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, and one of the guards put away his gun and stepped forward to drag his body out.
"Of course, I respect your right to choose freely", Feng Jinchong nodded, a friendly smile on his fat face, "Now you can choose, whether to side with our knights and help us, or choose something else." ”
"No way, the Polluter is a scepter-level mutant creature, no matter how many of us there are, it is impossible to kill such monsters with our fists, not even to injure them!" Another refugee shouted angrily.
"Aha~ I like your attitude of wanting to solve the problem, that's right, how could our knights let you deal with the polluters empty-handed", the fat man clapped his hands gently, and the guard behind him bent down and opened the two wooden boxes, "This is the firearm I prepared for you, and there are grenades", saying this, Feng Jin smiled and narrowed his eyes, "However, there are not many of them, first come, first served, of course, you can also try to get the weapon and turn around to deal with me and my knights, but you may not be able to afford the consequences." ”
The refugee who asked before didn't know what to think, didn't hesitate much, quickly ran over, picked up the iron tube gun, grabbed two grenades by the way, and didn't dare to go back into the underground cave next to him, and the other refugees were stunned and suddenly reacted, rushed over to grab the weapon, and followed into the cave.
The corners of the fat man's Feng Jin's mouth turned up proudly, and he slowly walked back to Oni's side, "Haha, won't this be solved~"
"It's really a solution, but I'm afraid those refugees won't play a big role~" Oni said tepidly.
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The entrance to the cave is not big, just one person, the wooden frame supported on both sides does not look very strong, it seems to be put together from a dismantled wooden stick, and from time to time there is dust falling down from the top of the head, and a fishy smell wafts out of it.
Limited by the infection of nothingness and the slow reaction of his body, Lin Ze belonged to the kind of unlucky guy who couldn't grab food and food, and he and a few other refugees who didn't grab any weapons followed him to the last to enter the hole dug out.
"You shit, come here!" Obviously, the refugees also have to be divided into one, two, and three classes now, as soon as Lin Ze and the others came in, the refugees who had grabbed the iron-barreled guns before were waiting at the entrance with their guns.
"What do you want to do, there are still polluters inside, if you lure them in now, no one will be pleased!" A refugee beside Lin Ze stepped back again and again, warning as he retreated.
"Don't talk nonsense, come here, go to the front, or I'll collapse you now!" Another refugee viciously pointed a gun at the head of the retreating refugee, "You guys go ahead, hurry!" ”
The hole is not big, it is trumpet-shaped, the entrance is a narrow mouth, the sound of water comes from the darkness in front, there are two dim crystal energy searchlights in the cave, the vision is very poor, under the light, the dark green unknown objects on the cave wall reflect a faint fluorescence, and the humidity mixed with the fishy smell fills the entire space, and no trace of any monster is found at all.
On the ground, the soil mixed with water turned into wet mud, the closer to the edge of the groundwater, the more muddy it became, and the wet mud also had a dark green viscous liquid, Lin Ze and a few other refugees who were exploring the way slowly and cautiously advanced, the overall situation of the team was the same as those guards who held them before, but now the guards became refugees with guns.
Not far away, the underground river can already be seen, and there is a black shadow standing in the water, which seems to be a kind of water purifier, very tall.
What about monsters? On the other side of the underground river is an earthen wall, and no anomalies have been found on both sides, in the water? The refugees slowly approached the water's edge.
"Smack!" Several lumps of sludge on the ground suddenly exploded, and the stench splashed everywhere, and two tall black shadows quickly jumped out of the mud, the nearest one was even less than two steps in front of Lin Ze.
"Polluter, monster!" A frightened shout in his ears.
Immediately after that, a huge force came from behind Lin Ze, it was another pathfinder refugee walking beside him, he jerked Lin Ze towards the black shadow in front of him, and at the same time used his strength to quickly retreat backwards.
Without bones, Lin Ze fell directly on the muddy ground with the thrust, spreading the palm of his right hand upward, and lightly holding an angular stone in his palm.
The disgusting smell in his nose squeezed in, and even his face was still a little itchy when he touched the mud, Lin Ze didn't move, only his eyes were staring at the black shadow rushing over, closer, closer! His heart suddenly became nervous.
A black shadow flashed in front of Lin Ze's eyes and ran directly towards the fleeing refugees.
Whew~ Bet right!
As early as he was escorted to the basement, Lin Ze used his soul power to clearly capture the whispered communication between the merchant and the fat leader, he didn't know what the polluter was, he could only judge by his exploration experience, it should be a mutant monster with the ability to sense hostility similar to his own mental power, so that he could judge the threat of the target, and he couldn't grab any weapon due to physical reasons, so he had no choice but to gamble according to the judgment, even if the refugee behind him didn't push, Lin Ze was also going to be powerless to scare this routine.
Damn, gambling is really a particularly nasty feeling, as an explorer who goes in and out of dangerous areas of the universe all day long, the guys who love to gamble have basically become cosmic dust, and this kind of person can't survive a few expeditions.
What's more, even if the bet was won this time, now it was only to avoid the dangerous situation of dying when it came up, and the crisis was still not resolved, and the two black shadows quickly rushed to the back of the refugee pile.
"Fire! Fire on, they're coming! ”
"Help~"
"Don't shoot, let's get over!"
The cries were disorganized, and the refugees were in disarray.
Why does this look like a shrimp? Lin Ze lay quietly on the mud, carefully looking at the polluter with the corner of his eye, no matter how he looked at it, this was like a giant shrimp, a huge mutant shrimp that was nearly two meters tall and walked upright in a Z-shape, with a black and shiny shell, a huge chelicerae on the chest, that is, shrimp claws, several pairs of fast-moving feet on the abdomen, and a flat tail limb, why should it be called a polluter?
"Ding~Ding~" The crisp sound similar to the collision of metal was endless, and the firelight flashed in the darkness.
"Ah~" The refugee who pushed Lin Ze didn't run a few steps after all, and the mutant giant shrimp that was caught was clawed and cut off by his waist.
"Use grenades, bullets can't penetrate the polluter's shell!" The refugees in the back row screamed in horror and pulled the trigger of the iron pipe gun in vain, except for the flashing sparks, and the other refugees who were mistakenly killed by stray bullets, nothing else was gained.
Grenade! Damn, Lin Ze himself was lying three or four steps behind the polluter, and there were refugees with guns shooting next to the polluter, and the space here was not large, and all kinds of rotten wood support frames on the edges of the surroundings were actually used with grenades! Lin Ze was shocked.
Several refugees hesitated slightly, but the guy who shouted had already pulled the grenade ring and threw it over, and Lin Ze hurriedly aimed his soul power at the grenade in mid-air and slammed it back.
"Oh no! There's something blocking the roof of the cave, get down! In desperation, a refugee dropped his gun and threw his head to the ground.
"Boom!" A violent roar echoed through the small cavern, and the grenade that flew back landed on the edge of the wall of a cave where everyone had walked, and the explosion blew off the wooden support frame next to it, followed by the dirt pouring down from the top, directly burying the corner of the cave.
The sound of the explosion angered the polluters, one of them made a strange noise, and the entire upper body shrank back slightly, and then suddenly bounced forward, and the overwhelming black shadow flew out of the polluter's small head, crashing head-on into all the refugees within ten steps in front of him.
"Ah~~"
Contaminator = vomit? Lin Ze understands in seconds, strong acids and germs! He suddenly felt the urge to get up quickly, touching the muddy face, which was a precursor to disfigurement? Disfigured and dead? Lin Ze still held back, now is definitely not the time to get up, he asked himself, for the enemy who suddenly appeared behind him in the battle and wanted to "outflank", he himself was definitely the first to get rid of it, although he didn't have the idea of outflanking the giant shrimp now, but he couldn't reason with the two shrimps.
The screams rang out one after another, and within a few seconds they disappeared one after the other, and it didn't take long for the strong acid to take their lives.
"Nope! I don't want to die! A few refugees in the back row, who had scrambled to dodge the spitting, screamed, turned around and ran towards the hole outside.
"Bang~Bang~" Several powerful gunshots rang out, and before they could reach the entrance of the cave, the bodies of several refugees fell to the ground one after another......
"The sound of the fragmentation grenade, but this is the first one, it's not the time~" The fat man Feng Jin and his gun-wielding knight blocked the hole in the basement, "Use guns to force the refugees back, those two polluters suffered last time, and they won't get close to the cave entrance, let the refugees go back to fight." ”
"Fragmentation grenades can't kill the polluter", Oni said lightly, he came for the polluter's shell, the shell of this mutated creature is extremely valuable, including the third-order light pressure gun in the hands of the knights now, he can't penetrate it, as a businessman, he naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to sell Feng Jin those high-grade weapons that can directly destroy the polluter's shell, and if it is broken, he will lose money.
"It's naturally not okay to blow up the shell, but not necessarily in other places, in the face of life and death, those refugees will surprise us, aren't they, of course, it's really not good, and my knights", Feng Jin looked at the heavily armed subordinates behind him, and a hint of gloom flashed slightly from the corner of his eyes, the money was spent, and if it didn't work, he could only use human lives to pile it up......
Lin Ze's face was ugly, even if he knew that those bullshit knights would definitely block the back road and prevent the refugees from exiting, but when it was really time for them to shoot the fleeing refugees, Lin Ze's heart was still tight, I am afraid that even if the refugees killed these two polluters, according to the current attitude of the knights, they would also exterminate the refugees, otherwise if the refugees go back and publicize the matter of coercing and killing the polluters this time, the strongholds in the territory of this knight order will move away one by one, the problem is big, what should I do?
The two polluters killed several other refugees who tried to go around their side in the direction of the groundwater, and then continued to chase the refugees in the direction of the cave.
Opportunity! Lin Ze's eyes lit up, it was a grenade that fell from the hands of a dead refugee, and at this moment, it happened to land on the path of a polluter, and he quickly estimated in his mind, it was now! The soul power gently wrapped the grenade's pull ring and pulled it outward.
In a second, two seconds, or three seconds, the polluter stepped on it, and his belly pressed against the ground just above the grenade, "Boom! "The force was so powerful that the mud was flying everywhere.
"Squeak~squeak~" The polluter slumped on the mud, his abdomen and feet connected to his body without the protection of the shell, and exploded like a flower, dark green gastric juice stained the ground around him, and the dying polluter danced in vain with the chelicerae on his chest and screamed.
"Well done, Remy!" One of the refugees cried out in surprise, Remy was the one who had fallen in front of the polluter, apparently the others thought that he had pulled the grenade before he died, and he had died with the polluter.
"The grenade is useful, I count three, two, one, we use the grenade together, even if we blow up the cave, there is still a trace of life!" The refugee who had taken the lead in the first snatching of the gun was still alive, he commanded in a loud voice.
Golden opportunity! Lin Ze's eyes were bright.
The time is almost up! Hearing this, the fat group leader, who had been listening to the movement outside, also squinted his eyes and signaled his subordinates to prepare......