There was a scream of disbelief in the horror, which sounded in everyone's headphones.

The crew member who had been loudly reporting the location of the ballast tanks at the last moment had suddenly shouted in horror when he saw something terrible.

Hearing this, Meng Lei's heart jumped, and he felt a little nervous inexplicably.

At this time, what he was most worried about was hearing this strange exclamation from the team members.

After all these experiences, everyone's psychological endurance has generally been greatly improved.

Whether it's the corridor of flesh and blood in front of you, or the weird fungal monsters raging overhead, they are all existences that can cause strong sensory stimulation to people.

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to have anything that can have too strong a psychological impact on them.

Unless, it's a scene that's even more terrifying than before!

This situation is undoubtedly the worst at the moment, and it is also the last thing that everyone wants to see.

As the exclamation sounded, there was a sudden noise in the headphones.

"What's the situation? Lao Liu, what do you see?! ”

"What the hell is in the ballast tanks, is it more terrifying than those vegetative people?"

"Lao Liu, you are talking!"

……

In the dimness, the water rippled and rattled.

Several other combatants, who were frantically slicing the bulkheads around them, turned their targets one after another.

Shouting loudly, the water gathered towards the flickering light at the end of the passage.

Meng Lei was also full of doubts, dragging a half-useless arm, stepping on the flesh and blood tissue composed of countless mycelium under his feet, and striding forward with great difficulty.

He was also curious about what was in the ballast tank that could cause the crew to be so frightened.

"I can't describe it, this thing is so weird, you'd better come and see it with your own eyes!"

At this time, the crew member who was the first to discover the ballast tank shook off all the lighting rods he was carrying in his waist and stuffed them into the hole in the deck that had been cut under his feet.

The bright fluorescence was like the bright moon in the night, dispelling the fog that shrouded the sun.

Meng Lei is not too far away, but he is not the closest among the people.

Before he reached the ceiling of the sliced ballast tank, someone else had already taken a step ahead of him, stumbling closer.

"The Sword Comes"

"I'll go! What the hell is this?! How is it like a special-shaped hatching room! ”

"What are all those bulging things, could it be that all those large cell bodies we just encountered came out of here?"

A familiar exclamation rang out.

The first few to arrive were buried in the water, looking through the dimly lit holes in the deck into the depths of the ballast tanks beneath their feet.

Suddenly, they were also shocked.

Meng Lei hurriedly quickened his pace, rushed to the vicinity as fast as he could, pushed away the crowd around him, buried his body in the water, and cautiously looked into the hole.

Several lighting rods are like chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, bright and bright, clearly reflecting the scene inside the ballast tank.

Although the entrance to the cave is not large, the water quality is quite clear.

Meng Lei attached the hood of his diving suit to the edge of the hole, and at a glance, his scalp suddenly went numb.

I saw that the huge submarine ballast tank was like a flesh mill.

As far as the eye can see, endless mycelium wriggle and entangle, forming a complex network of veins, completely transforming the entire ballast tank into a paradise of flesh and blood.

Thick, nerve-like creatures, connected horizontally and vertically, took root in the bulkheads around them.

They are like hideous blood vessels, constantly turning electricity into nutrients and delivering them to a huge terror organ in the center of the ballast tank.

Meng Lei couldn't describe the structure of that organ, but felt that it was extremely distorted and terrifying.

The point is, it's so big that it almost fills a quarter of the cabin.

As the blood vessels around him surged, they continued to beat in the dim like a heart.

Looking at it for a long time, it seems that even the frequency of the heartbeat will be inexplicably affected, bringing people a strong visual impact and a sense of oppression.

Other than that

Large vesicles that are more than half a person tall are like the ovaries of some kind of creature, densely growing around.

These vesicles are all connected by vessel-like hyphae, and eventually converge on the enormous, giant organ that seems to be drawing energy.

And the sheer number of them is simply numb, nearly a hundred!

The previous crew member said that it was a lot like an alien hatchery.

For this sentence, Meng Lei expressed a high degree of agreement, which is too appropriate.

Everything in front of you is like a nightmare crashing into reality, which can easily evoke the great horror buried in the depths of people's memories!

"This thing...... Is it lymphoid tissue evolved from the thalamus?! It's scary! ”

Meng Lei took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the tremor in his heart, and stared at the huge organ that was suspended in the middle of the ballast tank by countless blood vessels.

At this time, the distorted golden text gradually appeared in front of him.

The gold finger no longer drops the chain, and a clear introduction is given in detail.

(Thalaure-lymphatic system: A mysterious organ formed by the evolution of thalamic fungi, after the energy is saturated, the thalamic core will actively evolve corresponding offensive means, this lymphatic system is one of the basic defense organs of the thalamus.)

In the process of continuous growth and proliferation, it will give birth to a large number of oocysts to store attacking cells, which is the most common hunting method while protecting the core organs of the thalamus from damage.

Note!

The lymphatic system itself is not aggressive, nor does it have any offensive means, and the body is very fragile.

The main weaknesses are open flames and high temperatures, as soon as a flamethrower-like weapon is fire-shot, it will quickly turn into a puddle of thick water and break.

Similarly, there is minimal tolerance for wide-range blast injuries and penetrating lacerations.

When encountering an environment where open flames cannot be used, it can be destroyed with explosives such as grenades.

Once the lymphatic system is damaged, those cells that have not been fully conceived and released will become inactive for a short time.

Of course, the thalamus is an extremely intelligent and intelligent creature.

The identities of the hunter and the prey often only take a few seconds to completely switch up.

While you gaze into the abyss,

As everyone knows, the abyss is also staring at you...... ）

It was another long series of short essays like a systematic introduction, and it took Meng Lei several seconds to finally finish reading the whole article.

At this time, before he could completely digest the content.

The dense oocysts in the ballast tanks suddenly seemed to come to life, and began to struggle and writhe desperately.

One by one, the blood vessels were broken, turning into tentacles twisting and wriggling in the air, swaying wildly.

At the fracture, a red liquid similar to plasma flowed out, like ink into water, and quickly rendered the whole space with that brilliant color.

And in the midst of a strange scarlet, those egg sacs, which were obviously not fully developed, exploded from the top.

Immediately after, one after another terminal cells and white blood cells the size of a human head were released in advance, like demons in red and green armor, and began to swarm towards the gap in the ceiling of the ballast tank!

The lymphatic system took the lead and started one step earlier than Meng Lei's side!

"Damn! Discovered? ”

Meng Lei scolded in his heart, and at this moment he finally came back to his senses, what did the so-called role swap of Goldfinger mean.

If he had been able to get the first step of the way, he would have taken the lead before the lymphatic system's defensive mode was turned on.

With just a few grenades, the battle could easily be declared over.

The bad thing is that the golden finger chattered for so long a long time, and it took a lot of time just to read it, resulting in the loss of advantages and the thalamic lymphatic system taking the lead.

The truth is exactly as Goldfinger describes.

In just a few seconds, the identities of the hunter and the prey have been completely reversed.

Although Meng Lei and the others discovered each other first, they fell into passivity at this moment.

If the sneak attack fails, he will be beaten by the group, who will this special mother talk to?

"The golden finger of this dog day, sincerely pit Lao Tzu! Next time Lao Tzu doesn't follow your routine, look straight from the back and look forward, so that you can be verbose again! ”

Silently complained.

The situation was critical, and Meng Lei did not dare to delay too much.

The army of cells that broke through the shackles of the oocysts and was rushed forward by the lymphatic system as a death squad to block everyone's sneak attack kept churning and jumping in the ballast tanks that were completely submerged by the sea.

Like a large field of alternating red and green alien jellyfish, it rushed towards the ceiling frantically.

Seeing this, Meng Lei immediately raised the shotgun that was slung cross-legged on his chest, and without saying a word, he directly stuffed the muzzle of the gun into the hole, and when he came up, he fired two vicious shots.

Holding the recoil of the gun in one hand, his body fell backwards one after another.

When the people who were around saw this scene, they immediately gathered around and hurriedly asked:

"Commander, what's next?!"

"Did a monster rush up? Why the sudden shooting? ”

The changes in the ballast tank were not clear to everyone, the hole that was cut was only the size of a human head, Meng Lei put his head close to it, and the others couldn't see the situation inside at all.

"Those vesicles are the egg beds of the thalamic army of hatching cells, they're all alive and attacking them! Don't be stunned, quickly plug this hole, don't let them escape! ”

Hearing this, everyone immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.

All of these people present had fought with fully fledged cell bodies before, and they knew how terrifying this monster was!

Whether it's a thick acid enough to melt steel, or a poison that can paralyze and suffocate.

Any of them, as long as they get it, they will either die or be injured!

therefore

As Meng Lei's words fell, everyone gathered around and rushed to pestle the black muzzle into the hole.

Then, in the dim darkness, there was a chaotic burst of gunfire.

Everyone held their guns with serious expressions, and poured bullets into the ballast tanks on the ground floor as if they didn't want money.

For a while, the gunshots rang out!

The only thing that is fortunate is that these swarming cell bodies did not give birth to too high intelligence.

They will only instinctively move straight towards the gap in the top of the ballast tank, and will not change at all, choosing other routes to attack.

And the breach was very narrow, even if everyone gave up blocking and opened it up to let them drill outside.

If the sky is topped, only an incomplete cell body can be allowed to pass through.

Such an environment can be said to be a one-man affair.

A few people just stood on the outer edge of the cave and poured bullets out, and they didn't even need to aim to inflict massive damage on the army of cells!

"Winter Winter Winter ......"

A series of low, rapid gunfire erupted underwater, and the muzzle flames of the guns flashed wildly.

A large number of bubbles erupted from the hole along with the red liquid, and soon the sea water in the third layer of the passage was also scarlet.

The pale glow of the tactical flashlight swept by,

The flesh corridor is matched with the blood-colored seawater, and Zhou Tian is all a dazzling red, as if he is in a sea of corpses and blood.

The already terrifying environment has invisibly become a little weirder and more terrifying.

"Damn the hell, give Lao Tzu a death!"

"Ahhhh Kill them all, not a single one! ”

……

The crowd rose to kill, squatting on the edge of the cave and yelling constantly.

Due to the limited space, Meng Lei couldn't squeeze forward, but he didn't take advantage of this effort.

Finding the approximate location of the thalamic lymphatic system based on his memory, Meng Lei went to the middle of another corridor alone and began to cut the deck under his feet.

The number of those cell legions is too much, even if everyone is full of firepower, they will not be able to kill them for a while, at least in two or three minutes.

And, too, the issue of ammunition reserves should be taken into account.

With the amount of ammunition that everyone has left, it is a question of whether they can wipe out all the cells in the ballast tank before they are exhausted.

And their ultimate goal is not to slaughter all the cells.

In the end, the key is to dry out the lymphatic organs.

Therefore, Meng Lei didn't plan to wait on the side to join in the fun.

He was ready to launch a surprise attack on the lymphatic organs from the other direction.

A moment later, a burst of blue arcs shone frequently.

In the blood-colored package, the mycelium-covered passage deck was sliced open, and a scarlet shimmer rippled from the mouth of the cave like water.

Meng Lei looked carefully inside, and saw a distorted and shaking shadow, the constantly expanding and agitating lymphatic organs standing quietly on the oblique side of his feet.

The enormous mystical organs, entwined with countless blood streaks, hung between the ceiling and floor of the ballast tank.

The straight-line distance between him and Meng Lei was only less than fifteen meters away!

At this time, as a hole appeared in the ceiling again, the seemingly endless red and green cells in the dim darkness immediately rushed madly towards this direction.

Meng Lei didn't dare to delay, and pulled a grenade from his waist with his backhand.

After adjusting the launch direction in an instant, the safety pin took off.

The next moment, the round grenade carried Meng Lei's hope, and in an instant, it catapulted towards the lymphatic organs of the thalamus!

At the same time, Meng Lei's low roar came from the earphones:

"Die!"