Chapter 450: Behind
I've seen a lot of strange things, and this kind of small scene doesn't scare me at all, not to mention that they didn't jump up and bite me, and even if they all jumped, they wouldn't be my opponents.
The hole went straight up and down, like a well, and there was no other way out of the space below, except for the white bones at the bottom of the pit, nothing worth noting.
After looking around and making sure that the source stone mine had been drained by me, I set up a black cloud and prepared to return to it.
And as I went up, I noticed that the heads of the bones were moving with me, or rather, their eyes were moving upwards with me.
It felt like they were watching me go, and they didn't make any other moves, they didn't get up and chase me.
Since they are not harmful to me, I don't need to do anything to them.
I stepped on the black cloud to rise to the mouth of the cave and then smashed the entrance, the collapsed rubble obscured the entrance, and I don't think anyone will find it again.
Those moving bones, dead or alive, are not things that should appear on the ground, so let them rest in the ground!
I walked down the hill to the parking place and saw Teng Rui walking back and forth in front of the car.
"Are you alright?" When he saw me returning, he immediately greeted me.
But the smile on his face vanished before it could fully bloom, and his gaze was fixed on me.
"What's this behind you?" Teng Rui asked nervously.
I turned my head to look back, but I could only see my shoulder, so I asked, "Is there anything?" ”
"There's a strange thing lying on your back!"
I didn't feel any living creatures on me, so I was calm, and I was curious about what he was talking about, so I walked over to the rearview mirror and took a picture.
What was lying behind me wasn't some goblin, but a rather peculiar blue conch, like a loudspeaker from an old-fashioned gramophone, with many holes in it.
It's about the same size as a desktop phonograph, and I don't feel any weight when I'm carrying such a thing.
At this point, the tabby man sitting in the car through the window started yelling again, still calling him 'Big Head', but his eyes circled outside the car and finally landed on my back.
He must have realized that the voice wasn't coming from someone he knew, and his expression was full of surprise.
Now it seems that the source of the auditory hallucinations is the large conch on my back, which emits sound waves that ordinary people can receive, and can also imitate human voices.
"It's a snail." Teng Rui said, wanting to reach out and help me take this thing off, but I quickly stopped him and told him not to touch this thing.
There are so many white bones under the pit, which means that there may be something extremely corrosive, Teng Rui's recovery ability is not as strong as mine, if he has less skin and less flesh, he will have pain for a long time.
I released the black cloud tentacle to pull the conch behind me, but the black cloud caught the air, this conch is not an entity, just a shadow.
The black cloud tentacles can penetrate it, but they can't grasp it, and my mental power can't detect its brain waves.
Maybe it doesn't have a brain at all, but how did it get behind my back?
I suddenly thought of the white bones below, and it turned out that they were not looking at me, but at this thing.
The exploration team heard human voices a few times, presumably from it, and this thing lured people into burrows in the ground, and after falling to their deaths, it corroded them, and it felt like a way of hunting.
Is it trying to corrupt me now?
"Boss, get rid of it!"
"It can't be removed, it has no substance, and it has no spirit, it must be a strange thing radiating from the source stone."
I don't think it can do anything to me, the question is what it can do to other people, especially the tabby man, if he continues to hallucinate, I'm afraid he's going to have a mental problem.
The tabby man rolled down the window at this time, stared at the conch behind me, and said urgently: "The big head is in there, and they are trapped by it!" ”
"Those people are dead, and the sound you hear is the sound wave of this thing, which is used to confuse you."
"No, no, I heard them calling for help, they said they were trapped inside and couldn't get out, so find a way to get them out."
"You see, it has no physical body, and it can't trap the living."
"He must have trapped their souls so that they could not be reincarnated."
I was just worried that something was wrong with the tabby man's spirit, and the more he said, the more outrageous it became, the source stone radiation can only change the structure of the creature, but it will not make it become a soul-binding artifact.
Speaking of soul arresting artifacts, I once got an item from Tuya, which has the function of collecting souls.
But at the moment, this phantom conch definitely doesn't have this function, and I think it should be a mutant that can simulate the human voice.
Teng Rui looked at me nervously, interrupted the tabby man's words, and asked me if I felt uncomfortable.
I didn't feel any discomfort, my mental strength didn't change, and it was currently hanging like a backpack on my back.
The tabby man has long lost his cool judgment, and his mind seems to have stepped into a strange circle, stubbornly believing that those who die can still be saved.
I was about to knock him out so he could shut up, but he stopped before I could do anything.
I asked Teng Rui to watch the tabby man in the back seat, and I was in charge of driving, but when I sat in the cab and was about to start the car, the tabby man suddenly pounced and reached out to grab the conch behind me.
When Teng Rui reacted and wanted to stop him, he suddenly broke out with a scream.
He withdrew his hand like an electric shock, and the flesh of his entire palm quickly disappeared, but in the blink of an eye, the bones were exposed.
Teng Rui pulled him back into the back seat and held him down, the tabby man's good hand holding the wrist of the injured hand.
Fortunately, there was enough space in the jeep to prevent him from crashing into the conch again while he was struggling.
The corrosiveness of this conch was far beyond my expectations, and thanks to the fact that Teng Rui didn't touch it just now, the pain of breaking my hand was heart-wrenching.
The car was full of tabby men's screams, and strangely enough, her hands didn't bleed, so she didn't lose too much blood
We didn't have painkillers, so I had to interfere with the tabby man's brain wave transmission, so that the pain signals could not be transmitted back to his brain to alleviate his pain.
It's also the first time I've used this method, but fortunately, this trick worked, and the tabby man quickly quieted down.
The pain irritated the nerves in his brain, and he woke up like a dreamer, annoyed at the stupidity he had just done.
"Why are you okay?" The tabby man let go of his furrowed brow and his gaze rested on my shoulder.
The conch was lying on my back, I was supposed to be the most corroded one, but I showed no signs of injury.
"He may only target humans." I guessed.
The tabby man looked at Teng Rui when he heard this, although he didn't say it explicitly, but his eyes had already revealed his thoughts, Teng Rui is also a zombie, whether the conch is only harmful to humans, as long as Teng Rui also touches it, it can be proved.
However, I didn't let Tengrui try, and it was stupid to use a method that could hurt me to verify the danger of the conch, so I wouldn't let others do it.
Who knew that Teng Rui took advantage of my lack of attention, and actually reached out and touched the conch.
I was about to say a few words to him, but he put his finger in front of me first, proving to me that he was not injured and that his finger was fine.
"Look, my boss is right, this thing only works for you humans." It only took a few days for Teng Rui to move himself from a 'human' to a 'corpse', and now he says 'you humans' are very smooth.
The tabby man looked at his fingers and stopped talking, his injuries did not worsen further, but only the white bones of the whole palm remained.
His eyes were indignant, the conch only harmed humans and not zombies, what an unfair thing it was!
I seemed to hear the voice of injustice in his heart, but it was a fact, and he was powerless to change it.
In fact, I still have an idea in my heart, this conch may not hurt the zombies, it was born from the source stone, and I am afraid that it will also have a restraint effect on the zombies, but Teng Rui and I can absorb the source stone, which can also be regarded as its nemesis.
The car drove out of the mountains and onto the national highway, but the snow on the road was not cleared, and the road surface was covered, and I could only identify the direction by the road signs.
The tabby man leaned against the car door, and he didn't come back to his senses until I stopped, and when he looked out the window, he saw that the road was somewhat familiar, and a trace of confusion flashed in his expression.
I opened the door on the other side of the car and said, "Your brothers should have woken up, they will definitely send someone to the mining area, you follow this road, you can meet them halfway." ”
The tabby man reacted for a second before he understood what I meant, but his expression was even more confused.
Teng Rui said at this time: "My boss never kills people for no reason, let's leave quickly!" ”
But the tabby man sat still, and after experiencing this series of ups and downs, his expression was calm.
"You're not a freshman." He was sure.
"It's not."
"Who are you?"
"A zombie, nothing special."
"High zombies don't have emotions, but you two are like friends."
When he said 'you', he meant me and Teng Rui, I was not surprised that he could see this, although Teng Rui called me the boss, but I and he were not really superiors and subordinates, we got along easily and naturally like friends.
Since it has not been deliberately concealed, it is not surprising that it is seen by others.
"We're friends, okay, let's go."
"Do you know what it means to be a zombie with feelings?"
"More like people."
"No, zombies with feelings are the real evolution, the correct form of evolution."
The tabby man's sudden appearance made me scratch my head for a moment, which didn't sound like a deliberate compliment to me, as if he was just stating a fact.
I wasn't going to talk to him too much, but he didn't seem to want to say goodbye, saying, "Having memories, being sane, retaining emotions and reason, and not relying on regular eating methods for energy, this is not illness, it's real evolution." ”
I have to admit that there is some truth in what he said, can a zombie that doesn't eat people still be considered a zombie?
I'm not human, and I'm different from ordinary zombies, so it's really hard to characterize me.
Perhaps from the moment I can absorb the Source Stones, I will already be an outlier among the zombies, along with my heirs.
"So?"
"Being infected by ordinary zombies and high-level zombies, humans will only turn into blood-eating zombies, if... The person you are infected with can be the same as you, and that's completely different. ”
"You're saying that I can infect all humans into zombies like me? So that they retain their memories, feelings, and reason, and become another form of human being? ”
"Haven't you thought about it?"
"Don't say... Not really. "Even if I thought about it, I wouldn't make it a reality, because the human heart is always the most unpredictable, and those who inherit my bloodline will have super resilience.
If a good person has this ability, it is naturally a good thing, if a bad person has this ability, the result is unimaginable, and people's hearts will change.