Volume I, Section 152, Haig
In my memory, Su Xiao, a girl who has not had much contact with herself, is always very lively and cheerful.
She actually died like this.
Five or six meters away, there were several severed human limbs scattered on the ground. The incision is rounded and smooth, identical to the remains seen in room L16
Next to it, there was a puddle of pus-yellow liquid.
The shape of the pus is weird, like a person lying on his back. The skin and muscles have all melted, leaving only about a third of the pelvis, as well as part of the spine and thorax. There was a lot of pitch-black slime sprayed nearby, and several pieces of bulletproof ceramic armor plates were submerged in them that could not be corroded
Su Hao silently stared at the soldier nameplate made of tempered porcelain tiles in the middle of the rotten liquid. This thing is so hard that neither acid etching nor rolling can destroy the figures formed by the lamination.
KHRUU078415, this is Liu Han's military identification number.
As for his body...... It has been dissolved, leaving only a puddle of foul-smelling pus.
Su Hao picked up Su Xiao's head, collected a part of Liu Han's body solution with a glass test tube, and continued to walk forward.
Disembodied human corpses were everywhere, and the ground was littered with countless bullet casings, various gun parts, and metal fragments scattered from grenade explosions.
Haig controls all the mutated creatures in the field hospital. Once the damned worm was captured, the consciousness guidance that the mutated creatures had gained through the overgrown flesh came to an abrupt end. They have reverted to being mentally retarded monsters with no independent thinking, no ability to cooperate, let alone cooperative attacks.
It took time for Haig to extract blood from Su Hao's body and digest it. Before walking out of the room, Su Hao didn't know what was going on outside the corridor from beginning to end.
Bai Yuncong sat slumped on the ground, his back against the wall, his eyes staring at the limit, extreme fear frozen on his face.
His body remained intact, his abdomen and chest had been torn apart, and his entire heart had been dug out raw, with a large mass of vascular tissue coming out of his body. The tips of the ribs, which protruded like sharp fangs, hung pink lung lobes, scattered pieces of flesh, and unnamed organ fragments. The intestines were dragged far away, and dark yellow feces were squeezed out of the fracture, trampled everywhere, trampling on a few clear shoe prints.
Su Hao watched quietly for a long time.
He pulled the test tube containing the worm from his pocket, staring at the curled white worm, his eyes glowing with ferocious flames.
Suddenly, an unfamiliar message appeared in Su Hao's mind.
"Master, I will obey any of your orders, including death."
It's Haig.
This humble and obese insect has no vocal organs, and its body is so fragile that it can be crushed to death with a single finger, but its thinking ability has evolved to the point where it is not weaker than Su Hao, or even stronger.
Su Hao's pupils suddenly constricted, but his gaze was still cold and full of murderous intent.
"You can actually feel my mental consciousness?"
"We are one. You are my king, and I am your worker bee. Sorry, I found the words "king" and "worker bee" in your mind. β
"You killed my people. Do you think I'll let you go? β
"As long as you want, master, I can die now. But strangely, in your mind, I don't perceive any command to kill me? β
Su Hao twitched the corners of his mouth and gritted his teeth fiercely.
Damn Worm Haig doesn't feel wrong.
Although he was angry, Su Hao really did not show his desire to kill this bug.
The preciousness of purple spar is self-evident. Even in the future realm, Su Hao had never heard of any mutant creature with more than two spars in its brain.
Five full pieces appeared in Haig's body at once.
The value of this fat white and fat bug is self-evident. You can't go wrong with the choice of black particles. Su Hao even felt that the real reason why consciousness induced him to enter the central control room was probably not the purple spar, but Haig.
Now, it has become my "worker bee".
"Master, allow me to take the liberty of figuring out your intentions."
Haig's consciousness was clearly confused: "I find that you hate me very much, and you have a very strong desire for revenge. But why have you been struggling to control your emotions? β
Su Hao snorted coldly, and his thinking was full of sarcasm: "It seems that you are not a hopeless fool, and your brain is smart enough."
"I used to be human."
Hagrid twisted his round body and replied earnestly, "I'm a researcher here. According to your thinking, this place should be called the field hospital of the 915 Infantry Division. But as far as I know, this is not actually a hospital, it is just a disguise of a surface building. In fact, it is a well-equipped base with a large reserve of supplies and production equipment, which can operate independently. β
"Base?"
Su Hao's eyes wandered, and a trace of doubt flashed in the depths of his eyes: "You mean, the research function is only a part of this?" β
"This base is bigger than you think, host. The picture of your mental memory does not match the structure of the base. Only about one-fifth of the actual part of the base. I don't know how you got this information, but it's certainly incomplete. β
Su Hao was silent, raised the glass test tube to his eyes, and sent out an irresistible strong consciousness.
"Haig, you just said that you are a researcher here?"
"Yes."
"What is your status level?"
"Let me think about it, the fragments of memory are a little scattered, and a lot of things have become blurred...... Well, the rank seems to be captain, and the identity is an ordinary researcher. β
"With your identity authority, how can you know so much? Also, why did you get into your current worm form? β
"I don't know exactly why. I only remember that the base information broadcast that there was a virus storm in the outside world, and many civilians were infected and mutated. The soldiers began to capture the mutated zombies, ship them in metal cages, and send them to the base in bulk for research. All staff here have been given immunizations. Some time before the incident, it was reported that Laboratory 11 had developed a berserk potion that tripled the injector's bodily functions in half an hour. I don't know exactly what kind of experiments they conducted. Two days later, the commander of the base suddenly issued a total isolation alert, asking everyone to flee to the ground area and wait for rescue. But at that time, the elevator gates were all blocked, and a large amount of toxic gas was released from the ventilation pipes......"
Su Hao took a deep breath and looked solemn: "Do you know who Lu Dao is?" β
Haig's answer was unusually calm, undisguised and devoid of emotion.
"That's not man-made, it's an automatic protection measure for the base. The base commander hurriedly did not turn off the main control program of the computer, and the self-defense system determined that there was a large-scale infection of the virus, so he released poison gas, killing everyone here. β
Su Hao frowned: "What does this have to do with you becoming a worm?" β
"I don't know. According to my speculation, it is likely to ...... It is a condition of xenogenesis caused by a virus. β
Haig thought for a few seconds and replied, "Flies and mosquitoes will always lurk in a corner somewhere. Creatures such as lice also have a habit of sucking blood. They lay eggs on human surfaces, such as hair, between fingernails, and on the surface of the skin. These things are tiny and difficult to detect with the naked eye. The virus will actively seek out a suitable host. Human bodies, fly eggs, viruses, a large number of dead human corpses, plus the power of the base has not been cut off, the environment is kept at a constant temperature, and there is enough oxygen and humidity...... In this case, it is not difficult for the parasitic larvae to burrow into the brain of the carrion and control the body with residual nerves, and even absorb part of the residual consciousness of the cerebral cortex. β
"Absorbing consciousness?"
Su Hao couldn't help but look sideways: "How much do you remember about these things?" β
"Not a lot, about five or six percent, maybe less."
Haig's consciousness was calm, and he could feel enough humility: "The deceased's mind was confused, mixed with too many memory sections, and even my own original memories were basically erased. All I remember is getting up from the pile of corpses and walking into that room by feeling.
Following the guidance of Haig's consciousness, Su Hao turned around and saw the smashed door of the main control room behind him.
This bug is not lyingββββ the main control room is indeed the operational core of the control base, and it is the most important department.
"Your performance doesn't look like the result of piecing together memory sections."
Su Hao moved his gaze back and asked with doubts: "You actually know how to use corpses to transform into wombs and create mutant creatures in batches." This is not the result of residual consciousness. β
"Master, your wisdom is indeed worthy of the greatest king."
Haig, the damn obese bug, actually knows how to flatter: "Residual consciousness led me to turn on the central computer." There, I found a lot of unexpected things, including various skills and materials, as well as essential wisdom. β
"You mean, you learned everything from the computer?"
"Exactly."
Looking at the white fat worm shaking his head in the test tube, Su Hao couldn't help but have an extremely weird and absurd feeling.
Haig...... Everything it says is logical.
Viruses, Mutations, Crises, Environmental ...... These things sound like nothing short of absurd fairy tales, but they are impeccable in their reasoning. And it is a "worker bee", it is impossible to deceive yourself.
Su Hao stopped talking. He stared coldly at the fat worm in the test tube, emitting powerful brainwave energy.
Since Haig is able to explore his own mind and find useful information for him, Su Hao can also copy this action, or should it be a skill.
"Honorable master, I am ashamed of your ability to comprehend, and your wisdom is unmatched. In front of you, even the sun loses its light. I am your everlasting, lowliestly servant. I will spare no effort to resolutely carry out your every order, every word, even if you let me die......"
Haig's mind is extremely informative, the most obvious of which is flattery such as these. These words seem familiar, as if they were lines from one of Shakespeare's works...... I have to admit that the fat worm does have a talent for sycophancy. It is well aware of its location and is even more like a "worker bee" than other "worker bees".
Of course, there is impeccable when it comes to loyalty.
Although, it's not human.
The feeling of consciousness exchange is amazing. If there were outsiders present at this time, they would definitely find this scene very weird.
A man stood silently in the middle of the passage, staring intently at a worm in the test tube...... If it were in peacetime, Su Hao would definitely be imprisoned in a mental hospital as a fantasy madman.
Su Hao "saw" a lot of strange and familiar scenes.
On the eve of the outbreak of the virus, the field hospital of the 915th Infantry Division was in order, military trucks carrying various supplies slowly drove into the underground warehouse, researchers in white coats were busy going back and forth in various rooms, and the most elite armed soldiers stood on the ground guard tower.
This is a secret research institute of the military, and there are no records of the official archives or the Academy of Sciences. Their main research interests are stimulants and force-amplifying agents, and their experiments have been successful, including a collective award for Haig's research group.
The twenty-two research team decided to conduct a bold experiment: they used death row inmates as consumables as the basis for the experiment, and simultaneously injected a force amplification agent and infected with a large dose of the virus. Within two hours, the subject mutated, and the strength of the death row prisoners controlled by the virus increased dramatically, and the muscle strength exceeded the average by more than 10 times. The frenzied test subject broke free from its cage and killed all the terrified researchers, and the urgently dispatched army was unable to stop the mutant test subject. As a last resort, the base commander could only order all the remaining section personnel to go to the ground area and wait for rescue. Unfortunately, the central computer scanned the air for a large number of mutated viruses, so it automatically closed the sluice gates and released the poison gas under the control of the prescribed procedures.
Field hospitals turned into hell completely.
The external power facilities are still running on their own, the base is fully energized, and the central computer is functioning normally, faithfully recording the whole process of people from panic to despair. In the surveillance scenes, there are corpses of the dead everywhere, and the captured zombies that were originally used as experimental consumables also come out of the cage and wander around in the dark and enclosed space.
For more than a year, reinforcements continued to enter the hospital to search. At that time, Hagrid the Worm had already taken over the central control room, and had evolved a special ability to transmit information through flesh and blood, and then control other mutated creatures. It obtains a large amount of nutrients through electricity, water, and the collection of plant seeds from the ground part of the field hospital, and the cultivation and harvesting complement each other, so that the overgrown flesh and blood can spread throughout the underground level of the central control area. This is also the real reason why no mutated creatures have been found in the rooms on the first few floors. Only here can they receive information and instructions from Haig through flesh and blood, and become a cooperating biological army.
The information stored in the central computer chip is far less than Hagrid's memory. Some of these images, which could not be recorded by the electron probe, were completed by Haig's self-reasoning. This is the difference between a machine and a living being: the former is rigid, the latter is intelligent.
Su Hao also "saw" some other things.
It was a fierce battle between the assault teams at the intersection of the passages.
The electronic probe recorded the whole process of the death of Bai Yuncong, Su Xiao, Liu Han and others, as well as the detailed pictures of Yang Junhao fleeing in a cowardly manner, killing soldiers, and fleeing to the ground alone.
After a long silence, Hag the Worm trembled and came to his senses in fear.
ββ¦β¦ Master, you must forgive me. It's not my fault. At that time, I had not yet become your humble servant. I never thought you were such a powerful being, and I definitely didn't mean to offend you. I was just acting on instinct and I had to find new sources of food and uterus. I can control mutated creatures, I can modify captured human bodies, but I can't create creatures with the ability to reproduce actively. Their physiology is so complex that I can't ...... it to my level of evolution."
"Enough is enoughββββ"
Su Hao's expression was cold, but his thinking consciousness was obviously filled with gritted teeth and rage: "You are not qualified to discuss and argue with me." Shut up or die"
Although Haig did not speak, he was well aware of what the words "shut up" really meant at such times. So it ceased to be conscious, curled up with a trembling body, cautious, nervous and timidly falling into the silence of its thoughts.
Su Hao calmed down the furious flames in his chest and exhaled a long breath.
Except for Yang Junhao's despicable guy, the entire assault team died en masse. As the captain, he is still alive...... This matter is very troublesome, and if you explain it to the above, it is a very tricky problem.
How to solve it?
Su Hao pursed his lips tightly and fell into thought.
Suddenly, heavy footsteps sounded from the depths of the passage.
The cold lights on the walls emitted a dim blue light, illuminating the dark shadows that slowly approached from the depths of darkness.
It was a bloody corpse.
Its face was an eerie dark red, its eye sockets were deeply sunken, and its skin muscles contracted tightly from dehydration, but it looked stronger and had a terrifying strength. The tips of the hands and feet are sharpened with claws, the arches of the feet are arched upwards, and the curved surface of the foot is suitable for running, and can climb any terrain.
The bloody corpse's breasts had shrunk, but a dirty, tattered skirt was tied around her waist. This shows that she was once a woman, but she had no human beauty at all, only a fearsome savagery, tyranny, and toughness.
Blood corpses have evolved vision. Its blurred eyes kept staring at Su Hao, who was standing dozens of meters away, and the slightly open lips continued to flow with fishy and foul-smelling saliva.
Su Hao had already discovered this bloody corpse.
In addition to it, there are five or six humanoids of different forms roaming around the nearby passages. They don't cooperate with each other, and most of them are concentrating on eating the limbs of the dead soldiers.
A trace of cruelty flashed in Su Hao's eyes.
He twisted his neck, slowly clenched his right fist, and stretched it out again, the joints of his bones clashing crisply.
Now, Su Hao needs to kill to the fullest to release the anger that has accumulated deep in his heart.
Just as he was about to leap forward, Haig's tentative slight consciousness suddenly came to his mind.
"The host...... Please, please wait. β
Su Hao lowered his head suddenly, and looked at the test tube held in his left hand with a fierce and cold gaze.
The consciousness transmitted by Haig was very brief, but the content shocked Su Hao.
"You don't need to do it, it doesn't pose a threat to you. Absolutely not."