Chapter 30: Life and Death
Asha's time stop can only take effect on her alone, and it has a significant effect when it is "against people", and in the face of such a large-scale over-the-horizon strike, it can only be a live target.
I'm afraid that as the god of speed and hunting that gives her power, she didn't expect that humans would one day be able to develop weapons that would make the gods tremble.
But with her speed, it shouldn't be difficult to escape from the bombing zone.
Although Asha's mind is similar to that of a beast, her awareness of danger is quite keen, she knows that if she stays, she will definitely die, but in the face of Su Ling's order to let her flee quickly, she actually shook her head and whimpered twice in her mouth:
"Woo, woo!"
Su Ling didn't understand the leopard's language, but Menes understood: "Asha said she couldn't leave you...... Because I told her to follow you closely. ”
The missile was about to explode in a second, but Su Ling still had the leisure to chat with the queen: "You won't be unprepared for this, right?" ”
"Our people will be there soon! I didn't expect them to dare to attack Zeta's warriors with massive weapons, and their actions this time will be a leverage! Menes's tone was a little anxious, "But will you be able to resist this wave of attacks?" ”
"Of course you can," Su Ling turned around and hugged the leopard girl beside him tightly, "If the kitten doesn't want to escape, then stay quietly by my side." ”
He hugged him so close that he could feel how touching the beast girl's skin was and her beautiful figure.
The leopard girl quickly adjusted her body and roared, trying to break free of his embrace, but she immediately gave up on this move, and instead fell into his arms trembling.
From this nasty man, there was an aura of fear that made her afraid.
"What the hell is that?"
The pilot who was observing looked at Su Ling in the laser telescope and couldn't believe his eyes.
The guy who was supposed to be a human actually grew a hideous bone armor that covered his whole body, looking like an indestructible iron arm.
The most terrifying thing is that countless tentacles have grown from the position of the back spine.
Su Ling urged Paradise Lost with all his might, every cell was squeezing energy, the mitochondrial factory was overloaded, and the intense heat caused a mist to evaporate around him, that is, sweat was evaporated by body temperature.
The tentacles behind him swelled rapidly, and the exoskeleton armor on his body began to grow, and his hands turned into one or two large, hard shields.
Scarlet tentacles wrapped around the bone shield, forming a wall of flesh and bone, protecting him and Asha behind him.
This all happened between the lightning and flint, and when the tentacles and bone armor formed a protective circle, the missiles exploded.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The continuous explosion sounded for nearly a minute, shaking through the sky, even from tens of thousands of meters away, you can hear it clearly, if it were not for the mushroom cloud, I am afraid that all the satellites that captured this scene would think that a small nuclear bomb test explosion had just been carried out here.
"Don't let up, keep an eye on the other person's position!"
The leader's instructions came from the headset, and each pilot held their breath and stared at Su Ling's location, for fear of missing a little detail.
Cutting-edge technology and a battle of top hunters, everyone is looking forward to the result.
When the smoke cleared, through the laser telescope, the pilot saw only shattered bone armor and charred tentacles all over the ground.
"It seems that the transformation is just a bluff," everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but still didn't dare to slack off, "machine gun the surrounding area!" ”
A new round of attacks began, but the pilots probably didn't know that they had been abandoned by the headquarters, and the Queen's guards would soon arrive on the scene, and they were about to face several times their firepower.
The biggest disadvantage of humanity is the fragile flesh, and the Awakened who are not capable of defending themselves are vulnerable to heavy firepower, and they are better suited to infiltration and assassination than to harden the army on a frontal battlefield.
It's just that in Zeta, it has always been tacitly accepted that civil wars will not use technological weapons, Zeta's rules, disputes need to be resolved with blood and swords, and it is shameful to use forces outside of oneself, of course, not externally.
This is like a samurai decisive battle, one side abides by the rules and holds a knife, but the other side sneaks out a gun to shoot, and the samurai who has practiced martial arts all his life falls into the hands of a despicable villain who has been practicing guns for less than three months, which always makes people feel disdain and a kind of sadness of the times.
But Su Ling was not a warrior who could only use a sword after all.
In fact, he successfully resisted the attack.
Area bombardment looks scary, sounds scary, but it's not that scary.
A massive explosion means that the combined power is insufficient, and while a single Hive Missile is enough to blow up a building, it cannot penetrate a 1-meter-thick steel plate.
After opening Paradise Lost, the ability to tear matter apart can be released without contact, and it can be used with all its might, forming a tearing field around him, and anything that enters without permission will be torn to pieces, and missiles are no exception.
That is, he was not at the center of the explosion.
Then came the heat and shockwaves, and the mutated proliferating tentacles and bone armor of Paradise Lost did not disappoint him, and the defense that was not inferior to steel successfully blocked this terrible attack.
The price was that Su Ling ran out of energy and almost fainted.
In the desert, a slender figure ran across the sand with a bloodied man on her back, and behind her was the wind and sand stirred up by machine-gun fire.
After blocking the explosion, Su Ling had no power to resist, and it was Asha who took the time to stop and lead him to escape from the nearby area.
The sand beneath his feet was hot and hard at the moment, and the sand had been melted by the high temperature to form the rudiments of glass, which looked bright in the sun.
Asha ran a long distance with Su Ling on her back, and did not stop until she could no longer hear the propellers and strafing of the helicopter.
She found a large stone that was heavily weathered, hid in the shadows, put Su Ling off her back, and roared in a low voice.
Su Ling, who was covered in blood, couldn't answer her, and at the moment he was struggling with the side effects of Paradise Lost.
The wounds on his body were healing and cracking, cells were growing and dying, and he was trembling all over.
Compared to the loss of energy, the mutation caused by Paradise Lost is the deadliest.
In the past, he could still rely on his strong mental power to regulate his body, but now he can't, he is on the verge of death, and his body wants to save himself by mutating, but his strong willpower is still curbing the trend of mutation.
The solution to this symptom is simple, it is to eat.
When you consume energy, your body feels like it's able to repair itself, and you naturally give up on mutation.
But in the middle of the desert, what supplies are there?
Asha used her claws to peel off all the compressed dry food on the two of them, and stuffed it into Su Ling's mouth, causing the latter to cough violently and almost spit out the food.
The little leopard girl who was in a hurry hurriedly blocked Su Ling's mouth with a kettle, and the water and dry food were mixed together, which made Su Ling's cough even more violent, and she spit out at least half of it after eating it.
If he is conscious now, he will be sure to complain, fools know that feeding patients should be fed slowly with liquid food little by little, and you wish I would die if you stuff me like this!
Such an operation made Su Ling's body feel an external threat, and the degree of mutation became more and more violent, and different degrees of hyperplastic tissues began to appear all over his body.
First of all, eyes grew on the shoulders, spikes grew on the hands, and webbed feet appeared...... The features of various creatures appeared on him, and it looked like a deformed concoction.
There is a biological phenomenon called the Chimera phenomenon, which refers to the fact that an organism has four sets of DNA in its body, and often undergoes extremely terrible aberrations, which comes from the mythical Chimera, a creature that is not like the Chimera.
Paradise Lost was originally a product of evolution, but for some reason it became a terrifying ability to blend biological genes and promote mutations, and even fuse humans with weirdness, even if Su Ling got a weakened version, its side effects still did not disappear.
Perhaps this was not the original intention of Paradise Lost, but its creator must have gone crazy later to create such a terrible thing and cast it like a curse on the world, causing misfortune to those who obtained it.
Asha didn't know what would happen if she continued like this, but she knew very well that if Su Ling's mutation was not contained, the result would probably be terrifying.
If he continues to develop to the end, Su Ling will become a terrifying monster who has lost his mind and only knows how to devour living things, trying to supplement himself with various genes, complete the "path of evolution", and successfully ascend to the kingdom of heaven.
"Meow!" "Meow!"
The little leopard girl was so anxious that she was about to cry, watching Su Ling keep spitting out the food, she suddenly had an idea, leaned down and kissed the other party's lips that looked pale due to excessive blood loss.