Chapter 226: The Heart of the Hive (3)
Kyungwon struggled to lift his legs, and the mold stuck to his legs like superglue, making it difficult for him to walk.
It was dark all around, and he walked against the wall.
Xiaobai was tucked into the clothes he tucked into his chest, and he used torn strips of cloth to hold it in place, so that it would not fall off and fall on the mold.
The little guy only showed a small head on his chest, and it waited quietly and obediently.
Even in the dark, Kyungwon could hear the sound of the wind and water flowing, as well as the droplets of water dripping from above.
He really didn't expect such a space underground, he knew that the sewer system in Shushan City was occupied by mold, but he didn't know that there was such a huge cavity, under the ground of the park.
He remained awake as he fell from above.
The feeling of weightlessness came very suddenly, but it didn't make him lose his balance, he had the experience of falling from a height, he could jump off a dozen stories of buildings without burden, and his physical fitness was already different.
When it fell, Xiaobai was at his feet, and he grabbed the little one, using mold, to shape the hook outside the body, wanting to hang on something.
But a large area had collapsed, and he had only scratched on to the dirt and dust that had fallen with him.
There was no way, he could only create a wind barrier like a membrane wing in the gap of his limbs, so as to slow down the speed of the fall, although he suffered some impacts, but he still landed safely.
He followed the direction of the wind for an exit, wanting to get back above the surface.
But the mold stuck to him like glue, and it took a lot of effort for him to take every step.
As he walked forward, he encountered large leech-like mutants that could slide freely through the mold walls with no signs of getting caught.
The mutant leech will take the initiative to attack him, and he has already killed three of them, three of different sizes, the largest one is five or six meters long, and the smallest one is about the same size as him, about two meters long, with ring-shaped sharp mouthparts, no eyes, no vision, and seems to rely on sound and smell to find his place.
Relatively speaking, the combat power is not very strong, compared to the mutants he has encountered on land in the past, it can only be regarded as the bottom layer.
They don't have a hard shell on their body, unlike pythons, which have scales that protect themselves all over their bodies, so their defense is low, and they can easily damage them, and the plastic blades of the flora can easily cut through them.
In addition to the sharp teeth in their mouths, their means of attack are very limited, at most they can slap you twice with their tails, which is less dangerous, and now Jingyuan can deal with it with one hand.
These leeches didn't seem to have evolved to fight, they were quite rich in nutrients and protein, and he tasted two bites to replenish his strength, and they were very chewy, and their meat tasted like they were chewing raw beef.
Because he had gone through security before meeting with the HSA, he didn't have any tech on him, not even a flashlight, and only a puppy with him.
Now, the interview is in vain.
He had seen the people in the tent with him fall, and if they were all dead, he would no longer be able to gain their trust.
So while looking for an exit, he is also looking for people from HSA, and if he can rescue one or two, go out with him, and let these people testify for him, maybe there is a way to continue to cooperate.
And the woman, if possible, he wanted to try to save the woman.
There was a rustling sound ahead, like an animal chewing.
He made his way through the hollow to a hollow foam space, and saw the leeches feeding in the corner, where there were three corpses, the heavily armed soldiers.
There appears to have been a battle here, with an open flashlight falling to the ground, shining a cone-shaped light.
There were two leech corpses lying sideways next to the flashlight, a total of three leeches, the only one surviving, eating, it was lying on one of the corpses chewing, the strong smell of blood, the combat uniform was stripped off by it, it had eaten half of the corpse, only the lower half of the body remained.
The guy raised his head and hissed at Kyungwon, his teeth hung with scraps of meat and bone fragments.
Jing Yuan pressed Xiaobai down with his left hand, shook his right hand, and the black and bright blade stretched out.
There are no too tragic battles, these leeches are not born for battle, and in front of the battle-hardened Kyung-won, they are as fragile as a piece of paper.
It was easily sliced open, split vertically from the middle, and its head split in half, and it swung twice on the ground before it lost its motion.
Kyungwon wondered why well-armed HSA soldiers couldn't defeat them if their combat effectiveness was so weak.
The guns were enough to kill them, and the leech corpse that fell over there was evidence, and it stands to reason that three leeches, against three soldiers, would only be easily killed.
He picked up the flashlight and looked closer to the corpse, which was only half of the corpse, and it was really miserable.
The light of the flashlight hit the other two corpses, and Kyungwon squatted down and turned them back and forth, and it was indeed dead, his heart and pulse were no longer beating, but he was not dead from trauma.
There were no obvious holes in their combat uniforms, there were no external injuries at all, except for some traces of muddy water, they were not killed by leeches, they were something else.
Looking back at the corpse on the ground, he immediately understood what had happened.
At first, all three soldiers were still alive, they may have fallen together, or they may have found their companions while walking in the passage, and they encountered two parallel leeches and shot them.
These weak mutants could not pose a threat to them, but an accident happened, and they lost their life reactions one after another as if they were paralyzed, and collapsed next to the leech corpse they had killed.
Soon after, another leech passed by, attracted by the breath of the human, so it lay down there to eat, and then everything that Kyungwon saw.
The soldier was not killed, but more like he was poisoned and then suddenly poisoned.
Is the air here poisonous?
Possibly, everywhere is covered with mold, the concentration of mold in the air is likely to be so high that they can't bear it, and they don't see oxygen tanks on the protective clothing they are wearing, indicating that they still need to breathe outside air, and there may be a filtration device, but this device can't filter out so much mold.
The filter was blocked, and they had to breathe the outside air, so they inhaled too much mold, and the excess mold made their organs stop working, and as for why they didn't turn into living corpses, maybe it was because the time was too short to transform.
Normal transformation takes fourteen days, and only ten minutes have passed since the accident, and their bodies are being transformed, so they have become immobile corpses.
But Xiaobai, it doesn't seem to be affected, is it because it has antibodies?
(End of chapter)