"Bang bang bang!"

The sound of a loud crash echoed through the deathly silence of the ship's cabin.

The voice sounded very suddenly, inexplicably, and unexpectedly, without any psychological preparation.

Everyone present, including Meng Lei, suddenly felt like their hearts had been hammered, and they were shocked.

Cold sweat soaked his back in an instant, and the atmosphere around him instantly became tense.

"What's that sound?"

"Is there any living creature on board? How is this possible? ”

……

In the team, someone whispered in disbelief, and there was a look of panic on his face.

The sound was so strange, like a monster of infinite power, crashing wildly against the deck, trying with all its might to break free from its cage.

But everyone had obviously explored the entire area of the first floor, and they didn't find any living creatures at all.

So where did this terrifying crash sound come from?

"Is it a second-tier ......?"

Compared to others, Meng Lei is relatively calm.

He had seen too many strange things in this deep sea.

He'd even experienced scenes like Resident Evil, and it was hard to find anything that could make him emotionally flustered.

Onigiri reads a book

After a brief loss of consciousness, Meng Lei immediately noticed the abnormality.

The sound didn't seem to come from the first floor area, and the faint vibration beneath his feet suggested that the source of the sound seemed to be the second floor of the submarine.

"This way!"

Meng Lei immediately took a step forward and cautiously approached in the direction where the impact sounded.

"Commander, be careful!"

The accompanying combatants also reacted immediately, and hurriedly gathered Meng Lei in the center and walked forward around him.

Among these people, there is no shortage of well-trained soldiers.

If you really want to talk about it, the psychological quality is even more tenacious than Meng Lei.

It's just that in the face of more strange things, the reaction speed may be a little slower, but the chain will never fall off at the critical moment.

The group walked slowly through the flickering hallway, while raising their weapons with serious expressions.

After turning the corner of the two corridors, Meng Lei, who was walking in the forefront, suddenly raised his arm and clenched his palms into fists.

The next moment, everyone stopped and looked ahead in unison.

I saw that the ground deck, which was still flat when I explored just now, was actually bulging upwards at this moment, with shallow tear marks.

It seems, some kind of strong impact was suffered from below.

A large number of dark brown hyphae, like the roots of plants, are growing wildly on the ground.

It was like an endless stream of tiny tentacles, or some kind of soft creature, constantly oozing out of the cracks, accompanied by a strange hissing sound, which made the scalp tingle.

"Sure enough, the problem is below!"

Meng Lei took a deep breath and immediately took a step back, distancing himself from the group of mycelium that was spreading wildly in all directions.

"Division...... Commander, what the hell are these things?! ”

Someone in the team exclaimed in a low voice, feeling creepy.

Meng Lei said in a deep voice: "This is a deep-sea fungus, which can absorb nutrients from the power system of the submarine and maintain its own growth, which is very weird!" ”

"I'll go, so wicked?"

"There's something even more sinister!"

Meng Lei frowned slightly, subconsciously grabbed the shotgun in his hand, and said in a deep voice:

"Eighty percent of the infected and parasitic crew members on this ship have been completely assimilated by this fungus, so they will hide at our feet, and they will be vigilant and pay attention to safety when they go down!"

The voice fell, and the surrounding combatants agreed with a bang:

"Yes!"

As soon as the group reached the area, the crashing stopped, and silence returned to the surroundings.

Meng Lei didn't stop much nearby, and led the team to run quickly towards the shaft passage leading to the lower area.

What will become of humans who are infected and assimilated by thalamic spores, Meng Lei is still unclear.

However, if the impact just now was caused by that kind of "vegetative person".

At least one thing can be confirmed, the power of this mutant creature is absolutely incomparably powerful!

Otherwise, it would be impossible to deform and distort the solid metal deck, and almost fly off in place.

Such a force is simply not something that the human body can bear.

Even if you are wearing a heavy wetsuit, it will definitely hurt your muscles and bones.

And if you are unlucky, you will be directly smashed by the oxygen mask, once you inhale a large number of fungal spores diffused in the air, it will be even more lifeless!

Therefore, care must be taken and caution must be taken.

After a while, everyone followed Meng Lei's footsteps and came to the door of the shaft passage leading to the lower area.

The hatch here, like the Sea Locust, is embedded in the ground deck, with a ladder standing against the wall.

Meng Lei took a deep breath and looked around.

Under the affirmative and resolute gaze of the crowd, he easily pressed the start button of the hatch.

However, for some unknown reason, the closed hatch only shook slightly, and did not open completely, as if it was stuck by something.

Meng Lei frowned for a moment and tried again.

However, the result is still the same.

The hatch trembled, and the circuit system continued to try, but it couldn't break free from the shackles of that mysterious force, and the hatch was firmly locked in a fixed position.

"Get on the cutter and cut the whole door off! Fast! ”

Seeing that the hatch could not be opened normally, Meng Lei immediately made a decision and chose to violently dismantle it.

"Yes!"

The two accompanying armed men immediately stepped forward, untied the plasma cutter they were carrying from the armed belt around their waists, and slashed down along the gap in the edge of the hatch.

And at the same time that Meng Lei violently dismantled the shaft passage hatch,

In the headphones, Simon's shouting was also heard:

"They're rushing out, ready to go!"

The next moment, I heard a dull roar of guns suddenly sound outside the cabin of the ghost ship, under the silent dark ice ocean.

"Winter!"

"Winter!"

"Winter!"

……

The roar of the electromagnetic turret was mixed with the humming of the machine-gun turret, and it instantly rang out.

The dead silence around them instantly boiled.

Obviously, Simon's fishing plan has initially achieved its goal, and the cell legion in the beacon station has begun to attack.

Meng Lei breathed a long sigh of relief and was about to open his mouth to remind Simon to pay attention to safety.

At this time, I heard Simon suddenly shout again:

"Captain, below! Underneath your submarine, terminal cells have burst out of the holes in the ballast tanks, and the lymphatic organs of the thalamus are at the bottom! ”

Hearing this, Meng Lei's face suddenly sank, and he roared in a low voice:

"Roger, we're heading to the lower level now, be careful!"

After saying that, Meng Lei turned his head and shouted to the two people next to him:

"Hurry up, this ghost thing has really evolved a second lymphatic organ, and it must be cleared as soon as possible!"

As the words fell, another armed man stepped forward with a cutter and joined the team that violently broke down the door.

A burst of blue and white arc fire shone brightly,

In the air, a surging black fog of charred objects gradually rose.

Although they couldn't smell the scorched lake while wearing an oxygen mask, they could make up for the pungent smell of the smell based on the black smoke of the birds coming out of the cracks in the hatch.

Soon, a piercing sound of metal grinding sounded with Katsa.

The heavy hatch on the deck was finally overwhelmed, and it suddenly fell towards the second floor.

"Bang!"

A heavy muffled sound sounded, and the huge impact force lifted a cloud of smoke and dust.

The thalamic spores that were scattered in the air were immediately impacted by the air current, like a piece of crystal dust and sand that rendered a dreamlike effect, rippling wildly in all directions.

Without waiting for the dust to settle, Meng Lei approached the entrance of the dark hatch under his feet, and looked inside.

The power system in the second floor of the submarine is obviously more severely affected than the first floor, and it is also possible that the lighting equipment has been covered with hyphae.

In short, the passage was dim, and it was impossible to see the real and the false.

Meng Lei pulled out a lighting rod from his waist, shook it twice, and then threw it down.

The bright fluorescent light dispelled the black curtain, and the slowly falling light rods, like stars falling into the abyss, reflected the surrounding scene.

When he saw the scene in the passage of the second-floor area, Meng Lei couldn't help but gasp.

At this moment, he finally knew the real reason why the hatch could not be opened.

I saw that the entire passage corridor in the second-floor area of the submarine was now completely covered by countless mycelium.

The dark brown mycelium twisted and clinging to the bulkheads, ceilings, and floors, as Hans put it, filled all the space like creepers.

One after another, colorful and huge flowers, blooming on the intertwined bulkheads.

The edges of each petal are jagged, like sharp fangs, and there is a hideous smell in the beauty, which seems to be a man-eating flower in the depths of the tropical rainforest, which is daunting.

The number of spores in the air in the second layer is also several times more dense than that in the first layer.

The brilliant fluorescent light fell, as if falling into the depths of a thick fog, and soon became hazy.

The light is blocked, and the view is greatly affected.

Such an environment is really a bit weird, which makes Meng Lei feel deeply uneasy.

But at this point, there was no other way to go, so he could only wave around.

"Everyone follow closely, the situation below is a little weird, let's act collectively, don't scatter anymore!"

As he spoke, Meng Lei threw the shotgun in his hand behind him, and cautiously followed the ladder on the side of the bulkhead to go deep into the area of the second floor full of mycelium.

Several other combatants followed, descending to the second floor of the ghost ship as fast as they could.

At this time, the gunfire outside stopped, and it seemed that the first round of the offensive had ended.

Calm returned to the surroundings, and there was a dead silence.

In this silence, the strange hissing sound emitted by the thalamic mycelium in the process of growth and climbing once again clearly transmitted into the eardrum, adding a bit of horror to the surrounding environment.

"Oh my God, how did this happen? Is this still the inside of a submarine, how does it feel like entering a tropical jungle! ”

"I think it's more like an alien monster's lair, isn't that what happens in the movies?"

"It's horrible, it's horrible......"

In the team, someone quietly looked around, constantly whispering.

For the first time, I saw the scene inside the thalamus boat, and the strange picture brought people a strong visual impact.

Everyone felt as if they had arrived in a monster's lair and felt inexplicably trembling.

"Don't be stunned, turn on the tactical flashlight, find the entrance to the hatch that leads to the next floor as soon as possible, our goal is the ballast tank, kill the lymphatic organs of this damn thing first!"

In the normal submarine construction, the ballast tanks are located at the lowest level of the submarine.

The size of the E-class transport ship is huge, and it is impossible to have only two layers of structure, and in order to reach the location of the ballast tanks, you have to continue to go deeper.

However, the ground deck of the second floor is now completely covered with a large amount of mycelium.

In addition, the surrounding environment was extremely dim, and the infinite spores turned into a thick mist, floating in the passage corridor, and it was impossible to see anything at all from four meters away.

It's not so easy to find the shaft passage downward.

Everyone followed Meng Lei's footsteps all the way forward, and the heavy diving suit stepped on the tough mycelium, making a snapping sound, like stepping on a muddy swamp in military boots.

Every step forward is very difficult.

These mycelium seem to have a certain consciousness, and will actively wrap around the sole of the wetsuit, and must be slow to move, and will soon be dragged down.

Therefore, everyone can only keep moving, or standing still, to avoid being entangled in the mycelium under their feet.

As you go deeper, more and more fungal growths appear in front of you.

The upside-down mycelium on the ceiling was like a swarm of snakes, twisting and swaying above everyone's heads, teeth and claws.

On the surrounding walls, the buds of the flowers that had not bloomed were like the organs of some kind of creature, surging and beating like hearts.

Everyone was extremely cautious with every step they took, for fear that those unknown organs would suddenly burst open and something strange would pop out of them.

And the gold finger, which has always been powerful, seems to have lost its role here.

When Meng Lei's gaze stared at the past, he didn't give any hint, and he didn't know if those unknown organs were still in the process of growth and evolution, and even the golden finger couldn't judge its final form.

In short, everything here is full of weirdness and variables, and Meng Lei has to be extremely vigilant.

At one moment, when they walked through a fork in the main passage.

The light of the tactical flashlight faintly reflected the depths of the passage on the side, and there was a humanoid shadow of a model lake, wrapped in dense fog, as if stretching its body in pain.

At the same time, a shallow cry for help came from that direction.

The hoarse voice clearly reflected the eardrums of everyone through the glass hood closed by the wetsuit.

"Save ...... Help me...... Save ......"

The voice was faint and slightly distorted, and it didn't look like it was made by a human.

However, it is incomparably true.

Hearing this, everyone present was shocked, and a strong chill rushed to their heads.

Meng Lei also held his breath, and his heart was shocked.

"What the hell?! There are still living people on this ship?! ”