Chapter 62: The First Upgrade
After releasing the black tentacles three times, Eren finally reached the entrance to the Licker's cave. Looking back, the corpses of the lickers were almost piled up on the ground. The mitochondria in the body are being processed by the viral power machine, and they are rapidly transformed into the prototype virus mitochondria that Allen needs.
Taking a deep breath and temporarily suppressing the boiling killing intent in his body, Allen's scarlet eyes gradually returned to their original blackness. He focused his gaze on the massive lair in front of him!
The licker's nest is strangely shaped, like a giant sand sculpture emerging from the sand. Stacked with many irregular circles, it looks like a tall tower with a strange shape from a distance. The diameter of each irregular circle reached a terrifying hundred meters, so it looked extremely shocking from Allen's point of view. And each irregular circle had countless holes of various sizes exposed on one side, which Alan guessed was supposed to provide a passage for the licker to enter and exit.
The huge sphere that Alan was facing was the color of sand, but the scarlet viscous liquid on the wall could be seen wriggling like a living thing. Alan couldn't help but frown as he looked at the entrance to the black hole. With such a big movement outside, this nest not only did not send out more lickers, but fell silent like a pile of dead things, which is also too abnormal.
Alan hesitated for a moment, but after all, he couldn't resist the temptation of mitochondria and burrowed into the dark hole!
In the sight of the infestation, the darkness did not hinder Eren in any way. Instead, he had a clear view of the entire interior of the lair. What surprised Alan the most was that the inside of the nest was very different from what he had in mind. He had expected the lair to be filled with carrion, debris, sarcoma, and the like. But it was unusually neat, and the spacious floor was empty, and it was a little too clean.
The walls are covered with green vines, which looks like a monster's lair and more like an idyllic cottage. Alan was a little confused, and could only look for the entrance to the upper floor. He had just taken a step, but suddenly found that the green vines above his head were actually squirming, and Alan couldn't help but stop and watch, and the pitch-black claw blade in his hand had already drilled out.
Qingteng seemed to be stimulated by some kind of stimulation, and began to squirm faster and faster, and the green epidermis between the friction began to leak, revealing the scarlet color inside, Alan carefully identified, and found that the body inside Qingteng was actually made of flesh and blood. As the area of friction increases, so does the color of scarlet. Eventually, protrusions appeared on it, and then it quickly grew into objects that hung upside down like flesh eggs, as if a layer of flesh membrane was filled with air. There are even thick blood vessels on it!
"This nest doesn't make its own lickers, does it?"
Alan suddenly had an idea that startled him, but as if to confirm what he said, the huge fleshy egg suddenly burst and a sharp claw poked out.
"Damn!"
Alan jumped up violently, and the sharp claw blade directly split the licker who struggled to get out of the meat egg in two, but he couldn't be happy, all the meat eggs broke at the same time, and in an instant, countless lickers screamed and pounced on Allen. The first floor of the nest, which had just appeared empty, became crowded in an instant.
Alan roared angrily, killing the lickers who pounced on him one by one, and at the same time he began to absorb and regain his strength, looking at the bulging flesh and eggs on the top of the nest, Alan suddenly found that these lickers had completely turned into mitochondrial ATMs, so he was even more motivated. The only thing that didn't satisfy him was the pain of the attacks of the lickers that made Alan break out in a cold sweat. But for the sake of mitochondria, for the sake of oneself can become stronger. Alan gritted his teeth and slashed!
As time passed, the frequency of the meat eggs on the top of the nest became less and less, and finally when Alan crawled out of the licking corpse pile naked, the meat vines on the top of the entire nest were all dead, and he could no longer feel the slightest smell of the virus.
The Licker's corrosive slime and attacks destroy all of Eren's clothes. And for the time being, he could only sit naked on top of the pile of corpses and gasp for breath. Eren had to take a break, even the virus power machine began to overload, his body temperature began to rise, his consciousness was blurred, and the storage of mitochondria had greatly exceeded the limit that Eren could bear, so he had to stop and digest all the mitochondria in his body.
The Licker's Lair wasn't a good place to rest, but Eren couldn't even bother to move his fingers these days. The hot body made his skin red, and even the pile of corpses under him was burned with white smoke and a pungent smell.
Alan gritted his teeth and endured the chaos in his body, and after half an hour, his consciousness gradually became clear, and his body temperature began to slowly fall.
Alan finally stood up and leaned against the wall to the outside of the Licker's Lair, taking a big breath of fresh air and examining his body, especially the number of mitochondria in the prototype.
"One thousand and ninety-five units!"
Alan was so excited that he just wanted to scream loudly, and after he confirmed that the numbers were correct, he excitedly opened the list of abilities in his mind.
"Virus ability, move, survive!"
Alan first ruled out survival, and after having damage avoidance, Alan was equivalent to one more chance to survive, so the gains in mitochondria were a bit more than worth the losses. Then that's all left with the two options of virus ability and mobile.
Although the virus ability can provide strong combat power, if Allen's bio factory is built, then the attack power can be completely compensated by the mechanical biofusion gun. So Alan finally decided to put all of his mitochondria into the mobility option.
Fasqi finally got rid of the headache after a good rest, and the constant roar and Ellen's shouts in the distance worried her. She began to regret that she had taken the risk alone, without the support of alchemy elixir, she was no different from ordinary people, but she would pull Alan back because of the weakness of her physique. The female group leader is very strong by nature, and such a situation that is completely beyond her control is also the most disgusting to her.
Just when Fasqi was thinking about how to play some role, he saw Alan running over naked. She turned her back to Allen, and then yelled angrily, "Stop me, why don't you get dressed?" ”
Alan replied with a wry smile, "Do you think I don't want to, my clothes have been ruined by the lickers." ”
"Then you can't be naked like this, can you?" Fasqi asked with a slight flush on her face.
"Remember those researchers' kits, all of them were wearing hazmat suits, you found one and threw it to me." Alan reminded loudly.
Fasqi hurriedly got up and began rummaging through the wreckage of the power train, and after a few moments, she pulled a plastic box out of the dirt and threw it to Alan.
"Okay, I'm dressed."
Fasqi turned around and couldn't help but laugh out loud. Because Allen's outfit at the moment is quite funny. Maybe the size of the protective suit is too small, bloated on Allen's body but hugging most of the calves and arms, like a doll with thin arms and thin legs.
"It's not funny at all!" Alan tugged at his neck, which was a little tight, "Did you mean it, this is definitely a women's hazmat suit." ”
"Everything else is burned, let's wear it alive." Fasqi looked at Eren and replied, "What, destroyed the Licker's Lair?" ”
Alan shook his head: "Where is it so easy, according to my estimation, if you want to clean up this place completely, it will take at least a month, I don't have so much time to spend here, let's move on, I want to see the deepest zombie graveyard, I need to confirm it." ”
Fasqi raised his head and looked up along the piers of the viaduct, and a hundred meters high was the entrance to the tunnel: "How do we go up?" ”
Alan smiled mysteriously, and then hugged Fasqi in his arms: "Hold on to me, let's run up!" ”
In Fasqi's exclamation, Alan suddenly accelerated, and saw that his feet were surrounded by black gas, and irregular black lines kept flying, Allen's speed was extremely fast, Fasiqi felt that the two of them were approaching the bridge pier in front of him, and Alan didn't slow down!
"You're crazy!"
In the midst of Fasqi's screams, Alan ran directly onto the bridge pier, his feet as if they were attached to the cement, and his speed did not decrease at all.
"This ...... Is it your ability to improve? Fasqi couldn't help but ask after coming back to his senses.
"Well, first-order speed allows me to run on any terrain, including vertical terrain."
Alan said excitedly, the speed increased again, and in an instant, he rushed to the mouth of the tunnel with Fasqi in his arms, and only after standing still did he put Fasqi down.
"There's still a long road ahead, don't mind letting me hitchhike, right?" Fasqi put his arms around Allen's neck, jumped up on his feet and lay in the other's arms.
Alan smiled slightly, this scene was familiar, he couldn't help but think of Alexia, and then sighed helplessly: "Hold me tight, let's go!" ”
Fasqi sensed the sadness that Eren had unintentionally revealed, and then asked curiously, "What, do you remember to be sad?" ”
"Not really, it's the best!" Alan said with a smile.
"Maybe she doesn't think so?" Fasqi asked slyly.
"You know that, too?"
"Didn't I hypnotize you?"
"Damn, can you ask some serious questions, this is my **?"
"Gossip is the preserve of every woman, it's common sense!"
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