Chapter 210: Biochemical Monsters
"Pay attention to these corpses on the ground, and burn them all if possible."
"But this is an underground environment, and I don't know if the ventilation system will work, and we may all be smoked here. And we don't have enough fuel to burn these things ......," objected the Mechanical.
"The ventilation system is working."
Su Jing licked his fingers and raised them into the air, and after a while he put his fingers down. The silent breeze was amplified in these conditions, and the saliva on one side had dried while the saliva on the other remained moist.
"At least the air exchange system is still working. Otherwise, with the oxygen consumption of this monster below, we will feel dizzy due to the lack of oxygen as soon as we open the elevator door. β
ββ¦β¦ Do you already know how this monster works? β
Gai Qi's eyes widened, and even the dark elf turned his head to look at Su Jing.
"Simply put, we're walking between its limbs now." Su Jing stepped over a pile of semi-liquid corpses and kicked the pile of slime on the ground with his boot, "I hope you have noticed this: the corpses on the ground are distributed very regularly. They are not very far apart from each other. If you are interested in dissecting the abdominal cavity of these corpses, you may be able to find that they are still alive...... Although it is impossible to wake up again. Their internal organs are still alive. β
The three women all stopped and subconsciously looked around. The sheer volume of corpses clearly exceeds the capacity of this level. The Dark Elves live in the shadowless realm of light, and are inherently able to switch to thermal sight. Drow blinked slightly, then his face turned ugly. She nodded, "They do have a very low level of biothermia. β
"Do you remember that claw that was cut off in the elevator? I double-checked. The claw has a harder shell though. But it is clearly a product catalyzed at high speed, that is. Its cellular activity can reach at least the level of rapid deformation. Then I saw the corruption on the ground β to be honest, it wasn't the smell of corruption. It's the pus of some kind of filthy creature that is born with it, the smell of tissue fluid that has collapsed internally because of crazy mutationsβthese corpses are not rotten, but genetically broken by disordered mutations. As far as I know, no amount of physical corruption can become such a semi-liquid state. β
Su Jing paused for two seconds to let his companions sort out their thoughts.
"But...... Where is that thought wave......" Sadako Yamamura tried to refute Su Jing's argument, after all, this kind of monster was somewhat beyond her acceptance, and it also reminded her of the first adventure.
"That's where the heart of it is." Su Jing snapped his fingers, and he pointed to the pile of corpses on the ground, "My inference is that." This is a monster that can assimilate corpses, it can absorb corpses as its extended limbs, and it is extremely aggressive. The only reason why it's still here may be ...... Plant. Yes, it may possess certain plant properties and cannot leave the place where it was born...... Or maybe it doesn't like the environment above ground, preferring it to be in a dark, damp, cold place...... It's like a giant slug......"
Gage shuddered and looked disgusted. Without hesitation, the girl unscrewed the opening of the fuel tank and began to sprinkle the corpses on the pile.
"Why would it let us in? The answer is simple: it wants to lure us to the deepest part and then eat it in one bite. Su Jing couldn't help but jump on the pile of corpses and start a tap dance because of the pleasure of extending his thoughts. This proves that it has a certain wisdom, but that wisdom is very primitive, very instinctive...... God, I can't imagine if it had human intelligence. How powerful it will be......"
"How do you know it doesn't have the intelligence of humanoids?" Drow asked.
"If it had wisdom, it wouldn't have done nothing when I spoke now." Su Jing massaged her temples. "If it's playing tricks to lure enemies deeper, then except for the pile of corpses on the ground. There must be a second line that watches our actions. And this second line ...... The air exchanger is still in operation. Is this disgusting smell still so strong? β
Su Jing vaguely gestured with his eyes, and there was a vent at the top of the passage where there was an exit every three meters.
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Lu Mengyao, who was in the outside world, took a deep breath, and being in tune with Su Jing's thoughts required her to concentrate, but she was still working on the second job, which was also the real purpose of her purchase of this crystal ball. Compared to this purpose, providing thinking and information support in virtual games is only an incidental task. After all, her mental power is limited, and it is impossible for this double-synchronized thinking mode to last long. If she was given controlled support at the current rate of mental power consumption, she would probably be able to hold out for sixteen hours.
Her real purpose is to enter the deepest part of Su Jing's thoughts and find the love spell planted by Sadako Yamamura.
Only this one chance allowed her to enter the depths of Su Jing's mind without arousing suspicion, she needed to be distracted to follow Su Jing's train of thought on the one hand, and her attention needed to crack his mind on the other. The mind of this fantasy thing is like a large sailboat sailing in the wind and waves, and she searches the intricate cabins for a place to store the seed.
Captain's room...... Captain's room......
This is it.
Lu Mengyao knew that everything in his heart was a projection of thoughts.
In this captain's room, in addition to a telescope placed in the window, a huge rudder was piled with countless miscellaneous items, like the bedroom of a twelve-year-old child who wanted to become a pirate. A giant stuffy bunny doll sits on a large retro bed, a huge number of storybooks spread out on the floor, and there are numerous toys, models, plastic soldiers......
"You really don't grow up......"
Lu Mengyao quickly searched in the bedroom, and she found a doll on the cabinet that looked almost exactly like herself, a doll of Sadako Yamamura, a doll of the mechanical warlock, and even a photo of a girl who looked six or seven points similar to him in a very conspicuous position, but she looked younger.
"Tsk......"
Confirming what he had been guessing all along, Lu Mengyao shook her head and changed her puppet into a more handsome shape and placed it in the most conspicuous place. Then she continued to look for the seed, and she knew that the implied seed was definitely not an ordinary appearance, as long as she saw it, she would definitely be able to recognize it.
After finding nothing, she set her eyes on the big rabbit on the bed.
"When did he start liking rabbits?"
Lu Mengyao climbed onto the bed and dragged the rabbit down. She carefully examined the rabbit's needles and threads, and finally found a gap in the hidden pocket behind the rabbit. She reached in and fumbled for it, then pulled out a letter from the rabbit's belly, which was the psychological hint left by Sadako Yamamura. She sneered and tried to tear the letter to shreds, but some curiosity stopped her, and she couldn't help but open the letter and began to peruse it.
As the minutes passed, Lu Mengyao put down the letter, and then sat on the boy's big bed and pondered for a long time.
Eventually, she shoved the letter back into the stuffed bunny's belly and put it back on the bed.
Before leaving, she used her mental strength to make a cute giraffe doll, threw it on the big bed, and then left the captain's room without looking back, closing the door tightly.
She heard Su Jing's plea, he was in danger.
Only she can defeat him, no one else thinks.
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Twenty seconds ago, the corpse came to life.
Just as the boys were halfway through, a massive claw smashed through the hallway and struck at them with a ferocious force. This time, they finally saw the monster for what it really was.
An extremely disgusting monster born out of a nightmare. It is made up of countless carrion, half-melted limbs that resemble butter sculptures melted in the heat, fused together in a disgusting gesture to form the shape of a claw more than two meters wide, encased in a crystalline membrane. At the end of this claw, a fleshy columnar "arm" is attached to it that leads to nowhere. It looked rotten, but it had enough force to break through the concrete walls, and even more exaggeratedly, when it touched the pile of corpses on the ground, it only took three seconds for the corpses on the ground to be sucked in and become part of its huge limbs.
"Run!!"
Aside from explosives, none of the four had any weapons that could inflict effective massive damage on them. But instead of running the way they came, they went in the direction of the "arm", towards the direction of their central brain. They have all sacrificed a companion, and it is impossible to go backwards here! And Drow jumped up for the first time, and slashed open the ventilation duct window, cutting off the disgusting root system entrenched inside. Those wicked vines bore so many eye-like fruits that even by Drow's standards, this guy was an abomination.
Gage, on the other hand, was even more ruthless than her, throwing a whole tank of high-energy fuel into it, and then detonating it with a set fuse. A violent blast of wind carrying flames of up to 1,000 degrees swept along the ventilation ducts, wiping out most of the evil leech's scout organs.
In this extremely tense situation, all four of them brought out their best form. Su Jing and Drow are like the best gymnasts, dodging the catch of the Blind Claw with thrilling movements, and weakening the composition of the corpse's arm with a damaging melee weapon. Under the coordinated cutting of the saber and chainsaw, large chunks of tissue were cut off, which severely affected the flexibility of the giant claw, helping Gage and Sadako, who were not so good at skills, to pass.
There were a few bumps on the pillar of flesh, trying to differentiate into new organs to grab the four, but the speed of proliferation was obviously not comparable to the speed of running.
Forty seconds later, the boys finally reached the core of the monster. (To be continued......)