Chapter 223: "The End of the Hungry Ghost" Snake Scales and Green Feathers
Jiang Qian inside the door looked at the suddenly arrived Monat, and the subtle expressions and reactions of the other party gradually formed a logical loop under his insight:
The other party has something to ask for, probably very urgently, otherwise he would not have come here to invite him at night.
Therefore, Jiang Qian changed his communication ideas with the female militia and directly put it in a bad position:
"I'm sorry, I'm so hungry that I can't work."
He swallowed his saliva and took two steps back, sat down on the legs of the chair, put his wrists on his knees and raised his chin, and put on a posture of "Lao Tzu has no strength to take care of you".
Monat looked at Jiang Qian, who refused to cooperate, and his sharp eagle eyes showed a hint of suspicion, and at the same time dispelled the concern that this person was preparing to escape from prison.
Jiang Qian, including Xue Yang's physical state on the bench, confirmed that what he said was true.
Camille next to him said sensitively: "How can you still be hungry after eating so much every day?!" ”
Her flustered tone attracted the attention of both Jiang Qian and Monat.
"What did they eat today?" Monat said coldly.
"Rice cereal, ham, pickles...... Pointed bread. Camille's eyes wandered, and her tone revealed the weakness of her heart.
Jiang Qian chuckled: "How can you be convicted of stealing food in Ideal Town?" ”
"Nonsense! You, don't wronged good people! Camille jumped up suddenly, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and cold sweat came out of his forehead.
"I didn't even say it was you."
"You~!"
At this point, anyone with a brain can guess what's going on. What's more, Camille City Mansion is not enough, any emotions and thoughts are written on his face, and he can't hide old drivers like Jiang Qian and Monat.
"Stop arguing!"
Monat sternly stopped Camille's argument and glared at her fiercely.
Then he turned to the militia behind him and ordered: "Now go to the kitchen and apply for food, use my share, let them have enough!" ”
The situation is urgent, he must hurry up to meet Jiang Qian's needs, and Camille's dereliction of duty can be reversed and settled.
In Ideal Town, where supplies are desperately scarce, stealing is second only to betrayal, even if it's just two pieces of bread.
"Yes!" The militia received the order and ran away.
Camille shook in frustration and grasped the barrel of his gun before he could stand still.
But no one pays attention to her performance anymore.
Monat approached the door and patiently explained to Jiang Qian: "I'm really sorry! The food is already being prepared and is sure to keep you full. ”
Seeing that Monat was still on the top, Jiang Qian took advantage of the situation and asked the motive: "What's wrong, what do you need me to do." ”
"Refreshing!"
Monat gave a thumbs up and began to give a brief description of the anomalous infections that were currently taking place.
When he mentioned the names of the mission team and the three people who were injured, Camille suddenly gasped and was shocked: "It's my brother-in-law's team......"
She looked at Jiang Qian, who was expressionless, and looked at Monat, who was glaring at her with a bored face, her mind buzzing, experiencing the double torture of fear and guilt.
At this time, a sufficient amount of food was also brought in.
Jiang Qian called Xue Yang, brought the bread and soup to his mouth and fed them, and began to eat on his own.
Monat watched Jiang Qian eat and drink to his heart's content, and then urged tactfully:
"Is there anything you can do? As you mentioned, those players may choose to be the antithesis of humans, and will they cause creeper-like infections to humans? ”
Jiang Qian methodically swallowed the last slice of bread and answered Monat's question:
"Possibly. Your so-called 'infection' has a very similar concept in our world, called 'mutation', which is a deformed way of development among superspecies players. In our world, there is no effective cure for this condition. ”
"But whether the three people you mentioned were poisoned or infected by factors other than creepers, I have to see them before I can tell. If it's just poisoning, I'm still a little sure of it. ”
As he spoke, Jiang Qian stood up, and the chain in his right hand rattled.
Monat's men had quickly untied the other end of the chain, holding it firmly.
Jiang Qian's right hand was still chained, although at the moment, it was impossible for this chain to restrain him.
At the same time, Monat's mind still echoed the "incurable mutation" mentioned by Jiang Qian, as well as the sentence "If it's just poisoning, I still have some certainty of making a move".
Two sentences, a huge amount of information.
It's all something that Jiang Qian hasn't mentioned before.
"Let's go? Aren't you in a hurry? Jiang Qian approached the door.
He was in a relaxed state, as if the chains in his hands and the muzzle of the gun aimed at his back were not in his eyes.
Monat was stunned for a moment, then turned in silence and walked away.
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near the gate.
After the mediation of the leader Elizabeth, the two sides of the dispute have died down.
But the families are still anxious. Because their relatives had already begun to develop symptoms of high fever, one of the poisoned young men had foamed at the mouth.
The medical team next to him is also full of sadness! They couldn't cope with the situation, and they were always afraid that the three people lying on the ground would mutate and kill indiscriminately at any time......
The militia kept order in the surrounding crowd: many nearby residents had already heard the news and gathered around the perimeter to wait for the results.
Facing the same kind lying in the grass and about to be abandoned, everyone's mood was inexplicably heavy, as if they saw their possible future ending.
Until Monat's party and Jiang Qian appeared!
Seeing Jiang Qian, who was marked as a "new variant", appear here, the crowd suddenly let out an exclamation:
"Look! It's that guy, he's been let out?! ”
"Please see clearly, that guy has chains in his hands, and we have guns, what are we afraid of?"
"Oh my god, I'll never forget how greedy they were!"
"To be on the safe side, let's stay away......
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The current attitude of the residents of Ideal Town towards Jiang Qian is: they are both curious and full of fear, and the fear is far greater than curiosity!
Therefore, when Jiang Qian approached the scene with Monat and his party, the surrounding residents quickly retreated.
There was a certain degree of restlessness in the scene, and even Elizabeth's skirt was stepped on several times!
"Monat!"
The leader, Elizabeth, called in a low voice, and at the same time looked at Jiang Qian, who was handcuffed with one hand, with one hand in chains.
Jiang Qian walked straight to the three people lying in the grass.
"Get out of the way!"
Monat opened the way beside him with a cold face, and at the same time, he didn't dare to leave Jiang Qian for a second. He didn't even bother with Elizabeth's greetings.
Jiang Qian crouched down beside one of the wounded, his gaze scanning the symptoms of his body, and fixed on his arm wrapped in thick gauze.
He reached for the gauze to remove, revealing a clear bite mark inside.
From snakes.
Jiang Qian stretched out his finger to touch the festering and blackened wound.
The family members next to him were about to say something to stop them, but they were so frightened by Monat's glare that they didn't dare to say more.
Poisonous, poisonous and similar to the guy who killed little Allen's companion in the first place, it is the handiwork of the black trench coat...... Jiang Qian then turned on his spiritual vision and observed the injured in more detail.
A microcosm of the flat, but distorted energy structure immediately appeared in front of his eyes!
“?”
Jiang Qian frowned slightly: How could humans show the phantom of the energy structure that only super species players can have?
He continued to observe the phantom, which manifested itself as a "deviant" in the stage of monomorphic cognition.
But obviously, this injured man, who has relatives and a wife, is unlikely to be a pretense for a super-species player.
He must have been a native of humanity, and had been infected by the Black Trench Coat's attack: he didn't die or be eaten on the spot, perhaps by luck, but it's more likely that the Black Trench Coats had deliberately sent the three humans back to the settlement in an injured state for some ulterior purpose......
To be precise, he returned to the settlement as an "infected person".
Why?
Jiang Qian was silent, connecting the details observed in his eyes with the chain of clues he had obtained from days of observation and reasoning.
A bold speculation has since emerged: super-species players may be able to create their own race by infecting humans, just like creepers.
As soon as this idea was struck, the injured person under him suddenly began to twitch violently and roll his eyes!
The poisoned and blackened skin cracked rapidly, revealing the amazing "snake scales" inside in an instant......
In the exclamation of the people around him, his rolled eyes suddenly gathered into vertical pupils, and he stood up violently with an unbelievable posture and speed, and opened his mouth to bite Jiang Qian, who was closest!
Inside the gaping mouth, two hook-like snake teeth appeared.
This sudden change shocked even Monat, who was not far away, and a cold sweat broke out behind him!
But the next moment, an even more incredible scene appeared.
Jiang Qianqian did not move, his arm, handcuffed with iron chains, was stuffed into the mouth of the "wounded" with fangs, and the scales were armed from his wrists, and they were wrapped in rows towards his arms; With his other hand, he drew a gun from the hand of the militiaman next to him at a faster speed, and slammed it across the neck of the "wounded man", flattening his entire body to the ground!
The whole process is seamless.
The attack happened to the time when the "wounded" were subdued, but it took only two or three seconds to do so, in the blink of an eye! It's so fast that the initial exclamations haven't fully stopped.
Jiang Qian's expression remained unchanged, and the fingers that penetrated deep into the wounded's mouth protruded with poisonous fangs, piercing into the flesh and blood, frantically grabbing the toxins in the other party's blood.
"Hey...... My gun! ”
The militia whose rifles were removed had just reacted.
But he didn't dare to step forward, and no one dared to interrupt Jiang Qian at this time, because his hand was still in the mouth of the infected!
The fangs of the infected who are stuck in the chains can bite off the chains almost at any moment, piercing Jiang Qian's wrist that is not yet scaly.
After a few moments, the infected person stopped struggling.
Jiang Qian's hand withdrew from the mouth of the infected......
At the same time, the chain on his wrist snapped and fell to the ground.
Seeing this, the crowd exclaimed again!
People are retreating, away from the other two "wounded" and away from the "new variant" that has lost its chains.
But before they could retreat far, the other two also began to have abnormal reactions: convulsions all over, eyes rolling!
Almost as soon as this symptom occurred, Monat raised his gun and aimed it at the two!
Relatives of the two cried hysterically......
The figures flashed in front of everyone's eyes, and Jiang Qian appeared behind the two of them in turn, and this time he directly and neatly knocked the two down again with his fangs.
The shots did not ring out.
The whole scene was silent, and people held their breath as Jiang Qian gradually withdrew his pale cyan wings back into his body, and slowly withdrew his fangs from under the skin of the last injured person.
Monat's expression was stunned, and the muzzle of the gun slowly drooped.
Judging from Jiang Qian's movement speed and attack power just now, a chain and a few guns were indeed not enough to pose a threat to him.
It seems that it was a fluke to catch them that day...... Monat's hand holding the gun trembled slightly.
He looked at the militia holding Jiang Qian's chains, that guy was even worse! He was so frightened that he sat on the ground with a pale face, and he didn't know where the other end of the chain had gone.
The fear of human beings in the face of dangerous species is vividly reflected in this moment.
Jiang Qian withdrew his fangs, and the scales slowly faded, returning to the appearance of a normal young man.
He didn't seem to notice the stunned gazes of Monat, Elizabeth, and the others, instead focusing on the three injured who had been infected and mutated.
From the wound to the abnormal energy structure, the chances of survival of the three people are evaluated in turn.
However, his extreme operation just now has been seared into the memories of the residents of Ideal Town!
Snake scales and green feathers, mysterious and strange beauty of the alien body, agile and tricky attack methods, calm temperament when in danger......
It's like a ghost god in a mythological story.
In silence, Elizabeth swallowed her saliva and was the first to ask, "Can they still be saved?" ”
Avoiding Jiang Qian's identity and abilities, and focusing on the goal of this cooperation is Elizabeth's cleverness.
Jiang Qian had already made a detailed observation, raised his head, and looked at Elizabeth: "It's still alive." ”
These three words, like some kind of strange medicine, instantly made the family members who were guarding around wake up from their fear, and looked at Jiang Qian expectantly again, as if the other party had changed from a dangerous new variant to a miracle doctor who saved the world!
"What's going on? Do you have a way to save them? Elizabeth said urgently.
Jiang Qian sighed lightly and communicated frankly:
"The first question is complex. To explain it in words you can understand, the three of them have indeed been infected and have begun to transform into another dangerous species, and although I have just forcibly terminated their transformation, it has not changed their 'infected' status. ”
"The second problem, there is, but it doesn't necessarily work out and it's expensive."
As he spoke, Jiang Qian calmly looked at the families of the injured who were full of anticipation.
These residents, who are about to lose their loved ones and relatives, have long been crying and swollen with tears, and their faces are haggard, but their eyes are still stubborn.
"Maybe you should ask their families if they're willing to pay the price."
Without waiting for Elizabeth to speak, a thin young woman with an obviously sick face staggered out and knelt in the direction of Jiang Qian: "As long as I can save him, I am willing to pay any price!" ”
"We do, too!"
"Please save him, as long as there is a glimmer of hope......"
The family members have expressed their positions.
Finally, Elizabeth came out of the militia and asked solemnly, "What are the risks?" ”
"If they fail, they will die immediately." Jiang Qiandao.
"What else do we need to pay for this?" Elizabeth continued with a clear mind.
Jiang Qian didn't say politely to her: "Enough food!" ”
"I promise you!"
Elizabeth said decisively: "On behalf of the Ideal Town, I promise to provide you with sufficient food, as long as you do not try to harm our residents. ”
At this point, the female leader saw Jiang Qian's explosiveness and ability, and instantly understood that the negotiation advantage at this time was not on his side at all, so he complied with Jiang Qian's needs.
She then turned to the emotional family members of the injured and said:
"I would like to remind you that the treatment will not necessarily be successful, and the choice is up to you whether to let the dying loved ones accept the unknown fate."
"Please be careful!"
The crowd gathered again, and some people whispered in the ears of the relatives of the injured:
"People are dying, at least there is a glimmer of hope if you try!"
"But how can this guy save people? Look at the way he looked just now, his body was covered with scales, and poisonous fangs appeared between his fingers, which was obviously even more terrifying than dangerous species......"
"He's a snake, he's still a strange snake, maybe he's a dangerous species that bites people......"
"Conspiracy, this is definitely a conspiracy! Don't believe him! ”
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PS:
Typos and flaws are corrected first!
(End of chapter)