Updated: 2012-07-15

With a "snap", the hard cocoon shattered to the ground. A black shadow burst out of the cocoon, and with a strange emerald green glow, it shot straight into the dark space above the cavern. Then, as if hitting something, Zero heard a soft cry of a small beast hurting. Then the green light fell.

It fell to the ground, bounced, hit the mountain wall, and then rolled to Zero's feet.

Zero looked at it in amazement.

In sight, it was a round body. It should be a belly that is exposed on it, as white as snow. There are four small claws on their belly, and they are scratching at the air. Then the thing rolled hard to get its four paws to the ground, and unlike its snow-white belly, it had a pale yellow body. The head and body were completely connected, and the small thing shaped like a ball had exaggerated eyes.

The eyes are as round as the body, and they are looking at zero "watery".

Zero felt a sense of foreboding, he had heard that some animals would think of the first creature they saw as their mother. Zero doesn't want to be a daddy, but it seems that reality doesn't have a choice for him. It was a small ball-like thing with a strange pair of "Z" shaped ears on its head. Let's call it an ear, Zero doesn't know what kind of organ it is.

But when the ears twitched, they popped out of their wings like a membrane. The thin wings vibrated at a high frequency, sending the little beast flying. It flew high, and only then did Zero see that this guy had a green diamond sign on his forehead.

"Lala-" the little beast screamed and suddenly flew into Zero's arms.

It seems to be very attached to Zero, its round body swaying vigorously and arching towards Zero's chest.

Zero picked it up with one hand and threw it directly to the other side of the cave. In this era when its own survival is in question, Zero has no time to keep a strange creature as a pet. The ball-like beast was thrown against the mountain wall and bounced back to the ground, letting out a cry of grievance towards Zero. Then he continued to fly, and threw himself into Zero's arms again.

Pushing out in a sloppy way, but this guy is really clingy. Annoyed, Zero grabbed it and pressed it against the wall, trying to make it stop for a while. I don't want this thing to be like a leather ball, and its body is extremely soft. Zero pressed it with a slight force, and the little beast's body was immediately flattened.

"Lala—" it whispered, but a yellow liquid erupted from its mouth.

As soon as the yellow liquid touched the mountain wall, the hard rock melted rapidly as if it had been corroded by strong acid, and a pungent smell like sulfur wafted.

Zero One Sign, remembering that this thing seems to be a new life evolved from a gold-swallowing worm. The stomach acid of the gold-swallowing insect is the strongest erosion fluid in the world, it can dissolve composite armor, and now it is only a child to dissolve the rock and mountain wall.

However, this made Zero think of a possibility.

Zero brought the little beast back again, and the little thing that had returned to its round shape looked at Zero and suddenly shuddered.

Hans opened his eyes, and his body was recovering. Although the recovery rate is much slower because of the decrease in energy in the body. But as the bones healed, Hans stood up from the ground, even though his left hand, which had been blown off, had not yet regenerated.

Because Zero was right in front of him, the smell of Zero's flesh and blood stimulated Hans's senses like a stimulant. Hans was so hungry that he just wanted to tear the pieces apart and swallow them.

But he also noticed that Zero had something more in his hand. It was a round thing, with big eyes, and it didn't look like a weapon, but rather a creature.

Naturally, Hans couldn't tell what it was. He didn't care, whether it was a weapon or a creature, Hans didn't even care about Zero, how could he care about this little thing.

He let out a sinister grin and walked over to Zero.

Zero looked at him expressionlessly, raised the beast in his hand, and then put his hands together. The beast's body was immediately flattened, and it let out a "lala" cry, and a yellow water arrow immediately erupted from its mouth.

The water arrow fell on Hans without any suffocation, and Hans was stunned, obviously unable to judge the significance of Zero's move. But immediately, he found that the parts of his body that had been sprayed by the water arrows were like ice and snow under the sun, and they were rapidly melting.

Before Hans could understand what was happening, Zero continued to squeeze the little beast, constantly spewing out a high concentration of strong acid. The little beast was like a strong acid machine gun, and it was squeezed into tears by Zero, but unexpectedly squirted sour water all over Hans's body.

As soon as the yellow liquid touched Hans's body, it dutifully broke down Hans's muscles, bones, blood vessels, and fibers. Hans finally panicked, and he realized that his strong body was not recovering as quickly as it used to be. The energy in the body cannot be replenished due to the continuous consumption, and the speed of regeneration of the body cannot keep up with the corrosion of concentrated acids. This makes the monster that Zero can't kill no matter what, but now he is being forced to a dead end by a new lifeform that evolved from the Gold Swallowing Worm.

This reminds Zero of an old saying in the Eastern Country: One thing descends one thing!

Hans roared in despair, and he lunged at Zero. Unexpectedly, his legs were already rotting, and this force immediately broke off. His legs rotted like mud, and Hans fell to the ground. He was like a fragile ceramic doll, and while touching the ground, the whole person suddenly fell to pieces.

Blood squirted with flesh foam on Zero's face, and Zero finally stopped squeezing the little beast. The little thing also sprayed Hans's blood, and it seemed to be very disgusted, and immediately broke free of Zero's hands, and floated in the air and shook vigorously, throwing the blood out of its body like a puppy.

Zero wiped his face and looked at Hans with some sighs. This monster has an infinitely regenerative physique, which can be called a perfect creature, but it does not want to be corrupted alive by the new life form evolved by the gold swallowing worm with strong acid. But no matter what, he was relieved that he was able to kill Hans, and Zero finally completed the commission of Old Jack Zuihou.

But he didn't notice that a tiny part of the Hans blood that was stained all over his body was absorbed by his own capillary blood pores. The anomaly that requires a high-powered microscope to observe, Zero Nature will not notice. He just wanted to get back to the base now and get a good night's sleep.

All told, he hadn't closed his eyes in three days.

And after the battle between sniping and being sniped, Zero felt that there seemed to be an extra evolution point in his body, and the ability to enhance agility also showed signs of breaking through to the second order. Sure enough, liliang in the new era can be obtained with potions, but the more direct and convenient way is to hover in the battle between life and death!

"Lala-" Behind him, the ball-like little beast saw that Zero was leaving, and immediately flew over, looking at Zero pitifully.

Zero looked at it with a frown, then at Hans's corpse, Zuihou sighed and said, "Okay, count me in debt to you." ”

The implication is that he agrees that this little thing will follow him. I don't know if I understood Zero's meaning, but the little beast screamed in joy and flew to Zero's shoulder and lay down.

Zero shook his head helplessly, hoping that this guy's appetite wasn't as huge as that of his parents.

When he raised his feet and was about to leave, his heart pounded. There was an indescribable sensation that swept through his body like electricity, and Zero's eyes suddenly widened, and he fell straight to the ground. The little beast was frightened, looking at Zero on the ground and bewildered, it flew to the ground, trying to arch Zero with its body.

I didn't want my body to touch zero, but the little beast shrank back.

Zero's body is exuding an unnatural heat.

By the time Zero woke up again, it was already two days later. When I woke up, I felt very energetic, and my body was never in better shape. He was a little confused, and this was the second time he had suddenly fainted. The first coma occurred two years ago, after the butcher was dealt with during a mission in Silvertree City, and Zero suddenly fell into an unexplained coma as he left the hospital.

The only thing that the two stuns have in common is that after the drama, I want to fall into a coma after every violent battle, which is not a good phenomenon.

But now is not the right time to study this issue, and I have been away from the base for five days, and I don't know what is happening now. With this question in mind, Zero walked back to the base with the ball-like beast along the passage opened by the Gold Swallowing Worm.

Two hours later, Zero arrived at the operating mine area at base Z7. The mine area is surprisingly quiet, and it seems that production at the base has not yet resumed due to Hans's sabotage. This also indirectly illustrates another problem, which is that the Parkland chaebol has not yet taken over the base, otherwise it must be a different story.

Luckily, the base's power supply has been repaired. The gate that separated the base from the mine was rumbling open after zero clicks.

However, after opening the gate of the base, there was a strange scene.

The bodies of those who died have been swept away. The entrance platform to the work area was as clean as ever, but now it was surrounded by dozens of surviving miners. Zero saw the person in charge named Jetto, who was raising his hands and saying something to everyone.

But none of that mattered, what mattered was that Leah appeared in the middle of the crowd. Everyone, including Jetto, stayed away from her, as if she were a terrible monster. Leah lowered her head, a familiar figure, but without the familiar vigor of the past. This scene sounded familiar to Zero, and it was similar to the scene two years ago when Hans and Lida were about to be expelled.

Zero's heart thumped heavily.

His appearance naturally attracted the attention of others. When the door opened, all eyes fell on him. Only Leah remained with her back to him, motionless.

"What's going on?" asked Zero in a deep voice.

Jetto's gaze first fell on Zero's body, then moved to the two large-caliber revolvers at his waist, and Zuihou whispered, "Sir, we're going to expel Leah......"

"Why?"

"Infected! Virus infected!" said Jetto, excited, "Sir, look at Miss Leah's face. We didn't want to do that, but the people from the Parkland head office didn't arrive for a long time. In order to ensure everyone's safety, we are also forced to do so. ”

Zero silently walked over to Leah's side, Leah with her head down. Her blonde hair hung down, blocking her left cheek.

Reaching out his fingers, Zero gently ruffled Leah's hair. Beneath that hair, the skin that had been fair was now a strange dark red. There were black lines on the dark red skin, like the veins of a monster. Leah's left eye also changed, the whites of her eyes were abnormally large, and her pale golden pupils were now completely black.

The black pupils were more than twice as small as normal, and they were embedded in the whites of her eyes, making Leah look indescribably terrifying.

His hair hung down, obscuring the demon-like left side of his face. Zero sighed, the beautiful girl of yesterday was gone. Old Jack's death, an inexplicable virus, has buried Leah's heart in the grave.

"You saw that, sir. She had to leave. Jetto emphasized.

Zero nodded: "That's right, she has to go." ”

Hearing Zero's words, Leah's head hung even lower.

"I'll go with her, though. Zero seemed to be saying something inconsequential, and his tone was as flat as water.

Leah looked up in amazement and looked at Zero. Zero squeezed her hand and said, "Don't worry, I'll cure you." I promise!"

Zero's eyes, calm and determined. In those golden pupils, half of Leah's still beautiful face was reflected.

Just like when the two first met.

Leah discovers that Zero's eyes have never hesitated or blurred. She saw her clear figure in Zero's pupils.

"Hmm. Leah nodded softly, but just as firmly. Today, at this moment, she put her fate in the hands of this man!