Chapter 2048 The Parasitic Monster
After Lomus 3 was forced to land, Xincheng followed the emergency plan and first checked the damage of Lomus 3. The result was very dismal.
Originally, the Lomus 3 was designed and manufactured for long-distance voyages. The emphasis was on a large belly to carry more materials and fly farther. It was not as thick as a fighter jet. It fell from the sky and fell very miserably.
Although it has not been torn apart or broken into pieces, it is not intact either. There are hundreds of red alarms representing failures on the light screen. The power furnace has stalled, the engine cannot start, and communications cannot be connected. The antenna was also broken.
Xincheng made a prompt decision and sent people to survey the surroundings to see if there was any danger. At the same time, he carried out emergency repairs on Lomus 3. He wanted to restore the power of Lomus 3 so that he could fly again and recover. Communication function, find a way to contact the headquarters, and send a distress signal no matter what.
Then bad luck struck. After the two crew members who went out to survey the surroundings came back, they all gathered together to eat, but when one of the crew members named Ito reached for something, there was a bright red and pink mushroom on his exposed wrist. Enoki mushrooms are not much bigger.
"What is this?"
Another crew member for Matsuda curiously stretched out his hand and pulled it, which made Ito feel a sting. His arm subconsciously shrank back, and the mushroom was suddenly pulled. It fell off, leaving a small red mark on the wrist, and it was obvious that a pencil-sized piece of skin was missing.
The two of them studied together and confirmed that the mushroom was really growing on the skin. They felt something bad and quickly took the mushroom to Xincheng.
After Xincheng learned about it, he also took it seriously. Mushrooms growing on the skin were not a good thing no matter how you thought about it. Don't be infected with an alien virus. Isolate and check quickly.
Fortunately, the medical equipment was still usable, but before the results came out, Matsuda felt itchy on the back of his right hand. When he raised his hand and looked at it, he was shocked because he didn't know when a hole with the same appearance and color as Ito was drilled out of the back of his hand. , but a much smaller mushroom, and this hand was the mushroom that grabbed Ito's wrist.
Things are serious.
There is no need to worry about anything else. The safety of the two crew members is the most important thing.
Xincheng asked Taguchi to treat the two of them, while he tried his best to repair the communication system in order to restore contact with the headquarters as soon as possible and ask the headquarters to send people over as soon as possible.
But before he could put up the communication antenna, Taguchi reported bad news. More mushrooms grew on Ito and Matsuda, like bamboo shoots after the rain, very fast. Ito and Matsuda were also in a daze.
When Shinjo rushed back to the medical room, he was shocked by the scene in front of him. More than ten mushrooms appeared on the faces and necks of Ito and Matsuda. However, Ito and Matsuda were lying motionless on the bed, their eyes staring straight at them. Staring at the ceiling, Xincheng called them several times before they replied vaguely. This look was abnormal.
Taguchi suggested moving them outside to avoid infection inside the spacecraft, so Shinjo and Taguchi put on protective clothing, moved them outside, and set up a temporary tent.
During this period, Taguchi also told what he learned from Ito and Matsuda. When Ito was surveying outside, he collected samples along the way according to the past situation, and discovered something he had never seen before. The object is about the same size as a marble pillar. If you look closely, it is made up of several gray-white vines intertwined. The gaps are filled with a translucent substance like rosin.
Ito poked it first, but there was no movement. Then he touched it with his hand. It was soft like jelly, and then he collected the sample. The hand that grew the mushroom first was the hand that touched the mushroom. .
Xincheng also looked at it from a distance, and the thing that was probably the culprit was still there. The vines were intertwined inside, and they emitted a faint light like a filament, but flowed like water.
Xincheng followed the light and saw that the light came along the vines, exchanged with other vines in amber, and then went away into the distance.
I don’t know what it is, but it’s definitely not simple.
Knowing this, Xincheng quickly stopped him when he saw Asuka Shin approaching the thing. After listening to Xincheng's story, Chiba Cheng immediately said: "Where is that thing?"
"There, just over this slope." Xincheng raised his finger and pointed behind.
"Let's go and have a look."
Qianye Cheng said and walked over quickly at the lead.
The others hurriedly followed. Xincheng looked back at the crew members he had brought out but could not take back. He clenched the Brest gun in his hand and strode to follow.
Soon, Chiba Makoto saw the thing that Shinjo mentioned. It was bulging like a bag growing from the earth, but there was no brilliance flowing.
“It only lights up occasionally,” Xincheng followed up and said, “I have tried placing detectors and monitors, but they quickly failed, as if there was electromagnetic interference, which caused extreme damage to electronic instruments. Big damage.”
This was indeed the case, because Qianye Cheng saw that there were several expensive instruments and equipment near the 'pier', but they were stuck on the ground dimly like scrap metal.
Because it may be the source of infection, we can’t get too close, so everyone just watches from a distance, but what can we tell from this.
Seeing that the matter seemed to have reached a deadlock, Feiniao Xin, who was still angry in his heart, raised his hand and aimed directly, saying: "Why do you keep such a bad thing, smash it."
When he finished speaking, he had already pulled the trigger. From a distance of dozens of meters, he shot the strange big bag and exploded immediately.
"Asuka, you." Yumimura was shocked, but it was too late to stop him. He suddenly had a new understanding of this guy's recklessness. He didn't know anything, so why did he act so rashly? The shot was fired.
Xincheng and Chiba Cheng also turned to look over, and saw the anger still lingering on Asuka Shin's face, as if he felt that this was not enough to relieve the hatred in his heart, and then the ground shook.
It was rumbling up and down, shaking people to the point of losing their balance.
"What's going on?"
No need to wait for anyone to answer, the eyes told everyone the answer, because the ground in front of them cracked, and then a huge head came out of the ground.
The gray-black triangular head is covered with vines. Some vines even penetrate the nose, ears and even eyes, giving the impression that the head is also covered with vines.
Then the body that climbed out was also covered with vines, which could be seen with the naked eye burrowing into the flesh, and these vines also had a fleeting light, like lightning, running through the vines.
Although it disappeared in the blink of an eye, you could see that some streams of light came out of the vines connected to the head, while others flew from the limbs to the head.