Chapter 449: Auditory Hallucinations
The tabby man led us over the hill to the mouth of the cave on the back of the mountain, where the equipment and tools left behind by the exploration team were still there.
The tabby man said that he thought that these tools would be useful if someone sent them again, so he didn't dismantle them when he left.
It was convenient for us at the moment, but instead of using the equipment left behind by the exploration team, I used the black cloud to send us down to the cave.
There are indeed some fragments of source stones underneath, but the number is very small, and if you follow the trajectory of the debris, you will find the deep hole that the tabby man said.
When I came to the edge of the deep cave, the tabby man was obviously very nervous, but he didn't look at the hole, his eyes kept looking at me, as if waiting for me to make a decision.
I probed my surroundings and found no zombies, mutants, or human brainwave activity.
"There are no living human brainwaves, and the people of the exploration team ......"
"No one will survive a fall from such a height." Teng Rui said, staring at the dark deep hole.
"There are no Strangers on the exploration team?" I asked.
"Yes, but none of them have used the ability, probably because of the interference, and it has something to do with auditory hallucinations." The tabby man replied.
"You think the human voices they hear are hallucinations?"
"A normal human voice doesn't make people jump off and commit suicide."
"Then go down and have a look, and confirm it."
The tabby man's eyes darkened when he heard this, and then he picked up the rope on the ground and was about to tie it to his body, I released a black cloud to wrap around his body, and the rope is uncontrollable.
The tabby man's expression became even more desperate, but then the black cloud swept Teng Rui again, and the black cloud rolled them back and retreated from the deep hole.
The tabby man looked surprised, he obviously didn't understand why I had pulled him out of the hole as well.
I didn't explain, condensed a bucket-shaped black cloud and stretched into the hole, the black cloud went down to the bottom of the hole at a depth of 100 meters, and fished out a bucket of blue liquid.
Like the source stone sample in the lockbox, I reached out and dipped it a little to absorb it, and the energy was much stronger than the solid one.
I suddenly remembered the slogan of an old advertisement, liquid calcium, easy to absorb.
"Xiao Rui, these are all yours, eat quickly, don't leave a grain of food for the enemy."
"Boss? Can this thing be eaten? It looks like paint, does formaldehyde exceed the standard, and zombies will get leukemia? ”
"If you get it, you can't die, it's for you to absorb its energy, and you don't really eat it."
We were discussing the use of the Source Stone, and the tabby man was dumbfounded.
He only knew that the source stone was the poison of zombies, and he probably never thought that some zombies would rob the poison and eat it.
Teng Rui undoubtedly put his hand into the source stone liquid, obtaining energy is part of the nature of zombies, Teng Rui has no teacher, and in the blink of an eye, he will suck up the source stone liquid that I first fished up.
I brought him five barrels in a row, and the bottom of the cave seemed to be a source stone liquid pit, and I immediately fished 50 barrels in one go.
The tabby man looked stupid next to him, and Teng Rui's sucking speed was no slower than what I salvaged.
The black cloud bucket did not stop, and the upper layer of the underground cave was quickly filled with buckets, and Teng Rui knew that we were competing with Xindu for time, so he used the speed of participating in the foodie competition to quickly fill his body with energy.
But for those who don't have the sea of consciousness, the capacity of their bodies is limited, and Teng Rui probably swallowed three cubic meters of source stone liquid and couldn't eat it.
The tabby man watched from the side, I didn't want to hide it from him, and quickly absorbed the remaining source stone liquid from Tengrui, which was faster than Tengrui.
My sea of consciousness was like a bottomless pit, and in five minutes, the salvaged source stone liquid was empty.
I threw down a flashlight and saw countless dry bones at the bottom of the pit, some yellowed, some fresh white.
There are various styles of clothing worn on the skeleton, such as the military uniform of the warlords, the robe and horse jacket, the short cloth jacket, and the suit breeches worn by foreign explorers.
Fresh bones are worn with men's down jackets and blue and gray jackets.
They were supposed to be the prospectors, and there was no sign of the ability under the deep cave, and there were no monster poison insects on it.
Maybe the tabby men are right in their guess, the sounds they hear are just hallucinations, and it's the hallucinations that control them to commit suicide and jump into deep holes.
These people all fell to their deaths, but the exploration team members who had just died not long ago should not have turned into white bones so quickly, and the rate of decay was too fast!
Could it be that the source stone liquid is strongly corrosive, or that this place is corrosive, so the solid ore becomes liquid?
I couldn't help but look around, I didn't find anything unusual, it was just ordinary rocks around, the whole mountain was full of stones, and I couldn't find a single plant.
I went inward to examine the changes between the sea of consciousness and the various functional cells of the body, and I found that the liquid ore was harmful to the body.
On the contrary, it is well absorbed, and the energy is fused and digested without much effort at all.
"What level of zombie are you?"
I sucked up the entire source stone mine, and the tabby man's shocked expression was frozen on his face, and he couldn't take it back for a while.
"Alas~ Why label yourself, I don't grade, I am me."
"I know that you mine the source stone to produce vaccines, let's talk about it, what is the special medicine, and what are the diseases that zombies can infect?"
"That's what he told you?"
"Well, he also said he could help me get a special medicine."
"The vaccine comes from a bacterium that mutates by source stone radiation, it cannot survive on its own, it must parasitize in a living body."
"It's a butterfly pattern."
"What did he tell you? Yes, butterflies appear on the host, and they are benignly transmitted among humans, but zombies ...... It is a malignant infection. ”
"How did you find this bacteria?"
"There was a woman who was injured and passed out in the woods, and our people rescued her, and when they found that her blood was blue, they did a test."
"Woman? What's her name? ”
"I don't know, she's in the laboratory in Xindu, and we don't have enough level to see her."
If this woman is Xiang Yiyi, she must have mutated, she just spit out the worm at the beginning, the butterfly bacteria should still be in her body, we didn't check her physical state regularly, so we didn't know that there was a change in her body.
"The forest area is not a Dawa flag, it is not a place where you can come and go at will." The tabby man said.
"I know, it's heavily defended, and there's space weapons."
"Have you been?"
"I followed others in, and now there are more people who want to go to Xindu to grab the vaccine, I can't, there are always people who can, you Xindu~ I don't know how long it can last."
The tabby man was silent, and I continued: "If you are strong, how can you run into the primeval forest, you have to do it!" ”
I've thought about this for a long time, the new capital has a base on the space station, and there is a means of transportation to fly into space, so they should have the best resources at their disposal.
The zombies in the three northern provinces are missing, and the big cities are idle and no one occupies them, even if the new ground base is to be built, the provincial capital with perfect infrastructure should be chosen.
So I guess that the Song family's choice to camp in the primeval forest must be a last resort and a last resort.
Speaking of this, the tabby man immediately showed an angry expression, and scolded in his mouth: "It's all those white-eyed wolves with no conscience......"
"The guys on the space station?"
The tabby man looked at me in surprise, but soon he sighed and nodded his head as if resigned.
"Now that you know everything, I have nothing to hide, the group of white-eyed wolves on the space station have formed a bullshit alliance of A-level abilities and driven out all the abilities below level A."
Last time, Fang Xu and Miao Xiaoran told me that the space station does not accept ordinary people, and now the space station has become an exclusive camp for Class A abilities, and it seems that the idea of space immigration has failed.
However, there is another important point in the tabby man's words, there is no new Grade A ability in the primeval forest!
Their defense relied on advanced weapons, and when they should have recuperated, why did the Song family release the news of the vaccine to lead other forces to fight?
Maybe......
"Boss!" Teng Rui shook his fist at me, "I feel like the strength has grown!" ”
"Normal, you-" Before I could finish my sentence, the tabby man suddenly turned his head, his movements were so amplitude that I even heard a click, but fortunately he didn't break his neck.
"Someone called me!" The tabby man almost jumped up like a frightened rabbit, but his body was tied up by a black cloud and he didn't jump.
"Who?" I asked softly, listening intently to what was going on around me.
"Big head?!" The tabby man tentatively called out a person's nickname, and he should be familiar with this person.
There was no movement around, but the tabby man's expression seemed to have heard something, and he pulled his head to talk to the void under the hole.
"Okay, I'll go down and save you right away!" The tabby man replied urgently.
"There's no one down there, only white bones, you should be sober." I reached out my mental tentacle and tapped the tabby man's brainwave.
"Boss, is there a voice? I didn't hear that! ”
"There's something here that's specifically for humans, and even if it's a hallucination, it's only humans."
"Then let's hurry up!"
"Wait, there's still a source stone mine down there, I can't get it up, I have to go down."
"It's too dangerous, forget it."
"You can't leave a drop for Xindu, you take him to the top and exercise his abilities by the way."
"No, I'm going up with you, I'm waiting here!"
"He can provide us with information about Xindu, now your task is to protect him, this place is very dangerous to him, you hurry up."
Teng Rui saw that I was resolute, so I reluctantly took the tabby man back to the ground.
All the exploration team members who went down to the cave heard the human voice, no, someone heard it on the ground, and it was this sound that led them to the hole.
This showed that it was not safe in the mountains, so I asked Teng Rui to take the tabby man down the mountain and wait for me in the car.
After watching them leave, I set up the ladder and went down deeper into the burrow.
This source stone mine is not as large as the ones we have found before, but it is a liquid mine, unlike mines embedded in the rock, which require specialized mining tools to excavate.
I stopped above the pile of bones, and there was a shallow layer of source stone liquid under the bones, and I wanted to drain this layer of source stone liquid as well.
This point of source stone thrown into the sea of consciousness was just a drop in the ocean, and soon the source stone liquid between the cracks in the rubble was drained by me.
There must be strange creatures in the source stone mine, but the mine is dry, and there are no snakes, insects, rats and ants crawling out to protest.
I looked at the bones at the bottom of the pit, and I wondered if it was my delusion, but I found that their faces were facing me, and their hollow eyes seemed to be staring at me in unison.
I didn't pay attention to the direction of their faces when I first came down, so I'm not sure they turned their heads after I came down.