Updated: 2012-08-31

In the darkness, the pupils of turquoise and bright red light up. Illuminated by the faint red glow of a radiation cloud, a two-headed monitor lizard emerged from the underground waterway and began its own foraging work.

It is a mutated lizard-like creature the size of a hound. The surface is covered with scales that refract ambient light, allowing you to blend the colors of your body with your surroundings. This ability is highly stealthy, but not as good as the Infiltrator's complete invisibility.

A mutated two-headed monitor lizard with a sac-like organ in each of its mouths. This organ stores venom and burning fluid, and there is a small hole in the organ that compresses and squeezes it. When the monitor lizard needs it, the two large heads can spray poisonous mist and flames.

The two-headed monitor lizard is not a very powerful mutant beast, and due to the limitations of its body structure, its combat radius is limited to an arc of space within three meters in front of its head. For hunters who know about monitor lizards, this mutant can easily kill it by cutting through the rear.

Right now, the monitor lizard was crawling into a building at a rapid pace. It is a residential building with more than 20 floors. However, due to the baptism of meteorite rain in the past and years of weathering, the building with more than six floors has tilted and collapsed. Now the building's body is embedded in a supermarket across the street, which is a huge barricade.

Monitor lizards have very smart noses, they are born short-sighted, and the shili limit and combat radius are equal. Especially in the middle of the night, the shili of the monitor lizard is greatly discounted. But shili degenerate, but they have a keen sense of smell. Especially for the smell of blood, monitor lizards are even more familiar.

It swam into the abandoned building, attracted by the imperceptible smell of blood wafting through the air.

Gore means having fresh flesh, and fresh flesh means food. For a monitor lizard that has not had a bite to eat for three days, it is nothing less than a big meal. The monitor lizard's paws have thick pads of flesh on their feet, which makes it silent. In this way, the monitor lizard quickly followed the corridor to the fifth floor. There are four gates on each side of the long aisle, and the monitor lizards are like hunting dogs, arching their noses every time they pass through them, sniffing the air inside the doors to discern the source of the smell of blood.

In front of a large door on the left side of the hallway, the monitor lizard's two pairs of eyes lit up at the same time, and it had determined that the food was in the house. So it arched its head and pushed open the hidden door.

Half of the house was covered with collapsed waste and masonry, and a shallow trail of blood ran from the window facing the street to the bedroom. The monitor lizard followed the bloodstain to the bedroom, and in the bedroom where the haode was still saved, a figure shrank in the direction of the corner. The fresh smell of blood came from this human being.

The monitor lizard swam over, and when it got closer, it became clear that the human seemed to be unconscious. The occasional heaval in his chest meant that he was not a corpse, and that a fresh living person was enough for a monitor lizard to feed it for several days. And next to this human, there is a strange creature.

The round creature looked very weak, and the diamond-shaped coat of arms in front of its forehead was flashing with a faint green light.

Although the monitor lizard also eats other mutant creatures when it is hungry, but now that there is a big living person in front of it, it is not willing to try the strange flesh of the mutant beast. Humans' flesh and blood are tastier than mutant creatures, making them a universal food for almost all mutant beasts.

So it swam silently towards the human in the corner, and the man sat on the ground, so the monitor lizard could easily reach the height of his neck. One of the monitor lizards opened its jaws, and its sharp inverted teeth could easily bite through the fragile necks of humans.

But at this moment, the human being, who was still in a coma a moment ago, suddenly opened his eyes.

The monitor lizard instinctively sensed danger, and it didn't have time to retreat, and the upper and lower lips and jaws of its large open mouth had already been caught by the man with two hands. His seemingly weak palms were not scratched by the sharp teeth on the side of his mouth when he grabbed the monitor lizard.

I saw that the human in the corner of the wall suddenly opened his mouth and exhaled a hot breath, followed by a sudden explosion of great force on his hands. He split it to both sides, and he forcibly broke the monitor lizard's big mouth. The torn muscles splattered with cloudy yellow lizard blood, a few splashes on his lips. The man inadvertently licked his tongue, and his eyes lit up.

The only remaining head of the monitor lizard panicked when it saw this look. It's a familiar look, and it looks like it every time it sees something it likes. But one of the heads fell into the hands of someone else, and the monitor lizard had no way out.

The man who had been sitting on the ground suddenly jumped up, and he stomped heavily on the other head of the monitor lizard, and lifted his hands vigorously. The monitor lizard felt a sharp pain, and the muscles between its two large heads were immediately torn. As the scales splattered, more lizard blood flowed out.

The man let out a low cry, but bit directly into the monitor lizard's wound with his mouth like a wild beast. The next moment, the monitor lizard was horrified to find that the essence blood in his body was constantly flowing into the person's mouth.

The roles of the hunter and the prey were immediately reversed, and the monitor lizard did not expect that he would not be able to hunt caracals, but in the end it would become someone else's food.

It struggled, but the man's hands and feet were as if they were cast of iron, and he couldn't break free with the liliang of a monitor lizard. And with the loss of blood, the strength of the monitor lizard becomes less and less. When it arrives at Zuihou, it finally gives up resistance and quietly waits for death to come.

When he found that there was no more fresh blood to suck between his mouth, Zero slowly let go of the monitor lizard. The monitor lizard was dead, and its body, which had lost almost 90% of its blood, lay limply on the ground.

If anyone were to see Zero now, they would see that there was a madness in his eyes, like a hungry beast. This look lasted for a moment before it faded. When his eyes returned to his usual cold look again, Zero looked at his hands in disbelief, as well as at the corpse of the monitor lizard on the ground.

He only remembered that when he woke up just now, he suddenly saw a monitor lizard, and out of a sense of self-protection, he broke off the monitor lizard's mouth. However, when the monitor lizard's blood entered, and the fishy and sour blood rolled down Zero's esophagus into his body, Zero's instinct sent a signal to ask.

He had lost so much blood that he desperately needed fresh blood to replenish it. An instinctive reaction overwhelmed reason, causing Zero to suck the lizard's blood like a vampire bat. And after eating a full meal of lizard blood, Zero clearly felt that the vitality in his body was constantly recovering.

There was a slight itching sensation from the wound on his left arm, which was a sign of wound healing. Zero untied the bandage on his arm, and the flesh that had been lost had grown back. The new muscles and skin were still tinged with a faint flush, a color that faded within 24 hours, and Zero's arm looked as if it had never been injured.

He moved his left hand, and the signal from his arm to his brain told him that in fact the arm had not fully recovered. Both the liliang of the muscles and the response of the nerves have dropped by about 10 to 20 percent compared to usual. Although the lost essence blood has been replenished to a certain extent, the lizard blood is a foreign substance after all, and after the zero body absorbs and decomposes, it can only be used for less than thirty percent.

This wasn't enough to restore Zero's full strength, and now he only looked like he was roughly recovering, but when it came to fighting, he wasn't even half as powerful as he was usual.

Zero looked at the tactical watch, which read 4:23. Looking out the window, the eastern sky was brighter than the rest of the day, and dawn was coming. But before dawn came, Shijie was plunged into the deepest darkness. And during this time, which is also the most dangerous time in the wilderness, Zero can feel the pinprick sensation clearly coming from his skin, and these dangerous signals come from the almost ubiquitous unknown creatures in the ruins.

Now was the time when these creatures were at their hungries, and Zero picked up Lala and prepared to leave, he wasn't going to be food for the mutants, even if he was still weak.