Chapter 289 Parasitic Tentacle
"Is this strength... very high?" Wang Xiyi squeezed it casually, and the steel pipe formed an irregular-shaped iron lump in her hand.
"Sister, is your strength comparable to that of a mere mudslide?" Sun Hang was speechless.
"Then it can only be done by the weird thing." Wang Xiyi spread her hands and said. "Observation Post No. 5 was attacked by a strange creature and the whole army was wiped out. This is in line with the previous guess... Also, you are not allowed to call me eldest sister."
"What do you call me?"
"Code name, full name, and the 'Lao Wang' you used to call...or sister, it's not like you haven't been called me before anyway." Wang Xiyi glanced at Sun Hang, "Of course, I will call you mom if you want. Don’t mind.”
Before Sun Hang could speak, Zhong Ling's weak voice suddenly came from the earphones: "You...do you have such fun in private?"
"Want to come together?" Wang Xiyi turned to look at Zhong Ling and said in a teasing tone, "I'll take you with me next time."
"Uh... next time, next time?" Zhong Ling was suddenly speechless and her face turned red.
Although she has been thinking about what happened in that dream, the untouched girl is still thin-skinned after all, and she is naturally incomparable to Wang Xiyi who "looks down on life and death and will do it if she doesn't accept it".
"If you're shy, forget it." Wang Xiyi flicked her tail, sweeping away the rain curtain.
"I..." Before Zhong Ling could finish her words, her expression suddenly changed and she whispered: "There is something!"
About a hundred meters away from where the three people landed, Skeleton No. 001 suddenly broke out of the ground. On its long arms, there was a humanoid body wearing a mud-covered protective suit.
The five fingers of No. 001's palm were pressed together, and the sharp fingertips penetrated from the heart of the humanoid body and emerged from the back - this kind of injury should be extremely fatal for humans at this time. But this body is still struggling desperately.
"It's a field operator who has lost contact." Wang Xiyi immediately stopped smiling and said with a stern face, "Has this guy been dormant in the mud?"
"Either, this guy's heart is on the right side." Sun Hang said lightly, "Or, it is no longer human."
Before he finished speaking, the protective suit on this special service operator had been torn open from the inside, and countless tentacles poured out from the protective suit, frantically wrapping around the treacherous body No. 001!
These swollen and pale tentacles look like spoiled chicken feet with pickled peppers... Not only are they similar in appearance, but for Sun Hang, from a food point of view, this thing can indeed compete with the standard one that can be opened once the package is opened. The expired chicken feet spurted out a smelly soup.
To describe it in four words: no appetite.
Skeleton No. 001 reacted very quickly. It directly pulled its right arm out of the opponent's body and danced its fingers quickly, forming an airtight barrier in front of itself - those who came into contact with this barrier. The tentacles will instantly turn into minced meat flying everywhere, unable to touch the body of Skeleton No. 001.
"There are more than one." Sun Hang's eyes twitched. In the next second, several giant spikes made of white mycelium sprung up around him. Each spike was strung with a string. A strange object transformed from a lost field operator.
Sun Hang had no desire to absorb these monsters at all. After analyzing their memes, he directly cut off the connection between these giant spikes and himself, and these monsters whose memetic structures were completely destroyed The object turned into pus and blood in an instant and mixed into the mud flowing on the ground.
"Can you determine what kind of strange thing infected them?" Wang Xiyi asked, "Is it Chimera No. 17?"
Although Sun Hang has not had direct contact with Chimera No. 17, he has had "more intimate" contact with Wang Xiyi, who has had direct contact with Chimera No. 17. From Wang Xiyi, Sun Hang has obtained enough information about Information about Chimera No. 17.
For some reason, this strange thing gave Sun Hang a feeling that was both familiar and strange. Vaguely, he always felt that he had come into contact with similar things somewhere, but when he recalled it seriously, his brain was confused. It fell into a void again.
Sun Hang estimated that he should have had contact with Chimera No. 17... However, the memory related to the contact was sealed in the depths of his mind due to his "amnesia".
Not only that, the memories related to "Anna" also gradually faded in Sun Hang's mind - as if there was an eraser erasing the images in his head every day, so that Sun Hang had to After a while, I would recall what happened between myself and Anna.
It's like retracing with a pencil those scenes that have been erased by an eraser until only a faint shadow remains.
But even so, the scene when he "first" met Anna has now become quite blurry.
Those pictures look like the perspective of a highly myopic patient who forgot to wear his glasses.
"No." Sun Hang shook his head, "It is a meme fragment that is completely unfamiliar to me... Of course, it is not ruled out that Chimera No. 17 has mutated, and the meme has become the same as when you beat it half to death. Quite different.”
"Well..." Wang Xiyi nodded, "It abandoned most of its body that day and escaped... At that time, its core meme was on the verge of collapse. It's a pity that I was unable to pursue it, otherwise, it wouldn't have There are so many troubles ahead.”
"Did you really plan to trade one life with it at that time?" Sun Hang asked.
"What else?" Wang Xiyi turned around and rolled her eyes at Sun Hang, "If I hadn't taken action, few people present that day might have survived."
"Do you care about their life or death?" Sun Hang asked again.
"I am a tool that was 'created' to deal with strange things. That is my obligation." Wang Xiyi said seriously, but the next second she suddenly laughed, "But it is not the case now. The last life I have sold it to them, and now I want to live it well.”
"You look so pretty when you smile."
Wang Xiyi curled her lips and muttered: "Have you said this to many girls?"
"Well, let me think about it... It seems that I have told Yang Qi and you since I woke up, but what I said is the truth. You two do look better when you smile than when you have a bad face... …”
"Let me believe you for once... Besides, don't you care about the lives of ordinary people? If you don't care, why do you want to participate in this operation again? With your authority, the Disaster Response Committee should not be able to force you to participate, right? "I just have a relationship with old man Pei." It's just a transaction." Sun Hang sighed, "But you also reminded me that it's time to go to Old Man Pei to cash in part of the reward. Just wait until the meme sample collection is completed. Three days should be enough for a round trip. ”
"Old Man Pei...Old Man Pei, what did he promise you?" Wang Xiyi asked curiously.
"He said that I can choose any of the weird things contained in Tianshu Tower."
"You can pick whatever you want..." Wang Xiyi was stunned for a moment, "You mean, after you pick them out... use Taotie's ability to devour those strange things?"
"Otherwise?" Sun Hang shrugged, "To put it bluntly, it's just a buffet coupon that never expires."
Wang Xiyi frowned: "Have you not considered the risks involved... The more powerful the monsters are, the more dangerous they are to absorb. They may even turn around and devour and assimilate your self-awareness... If If you really want to absorb it, I suggest you start with weaker monsters and do it step by step and be safer.”
"Do you think the black dragon is a powerful monster?"
"Forget it."
"I can even absorb the black dragon meme in your body. I think that even if there are monsters stronger than the black dragon in the collection of Tianshu Tower, they are probably only rare." Sun Hang said.
"You were just lucky that time... Besides, I only inherited part of the Black Dragon's meme. A complete Black Dragon can burn a city to ashes with just one breath. Even if you have no idea of strength, You can't just equate me with Black Dragon, right?" Wang Xiyi said helplessly.
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"The complete black dragon cannot be contained by Tianshu Tower, otherwise, Xiazhou Federation will not drop nuclear bombs." Sun Hang argued.
While speaking, Skeleton No. 001 had torn the strange thing into pieces.
Sun Hang stepped forward and inspected the remains of some monsters. He found that all that was left of the monster was a shriveled skin, and the organs, flesh, and even bones in the body had all turned into tentacles—these tentacles had The surface was covered with tiny holes, and with a slight squeeze, a corrosive liquid with a strong smell would seep out from it. Sun Hang just touched it, and a layer of skin was burned off the front of his finger.
"It doesn't seem to be infected." Sun Hang whispered.
"Aren't they infected?" Wang Xiyi was a little confused, "But these field operators... they have obviously turned into monsters?"
"What I mean is that these weird things are parasitic in their bodies and turn their bodies into nutrients... There is a medicinal material called 'Cordyceps sinensis', have you heard of it?" Sun Hang stood up and shook off his clothes. The corrosive liquid on his hand, the next second, his bloody fingers returned to their original shape.
“Furthermore,” Sun Hang continued, “I just found a piece of torn human skin. Although this piece of skin is stained with many tentacled creature memes, it actually has no traces of infection. ”
"You mean, those tentacle monsters got into their bodies, ate up their bones and flesh, and used these substances as nutrients... and retained the outermost skin as a disguise... But this disguise is too poor. It’s a soft, boneless humanoid creature... Normal people would know it’s a strange thing at a glance, right?” Wang Xiyi said.
"But it's hard to see after wearing heavy protective clothing and powered exoskeleton." Sun Hang raised his head and looked at Zhong Ling on the back of "Gargantel", "You said, there must be everything under Zhong Ling's skin. Can you tell whether these tentacled creatures are human just based on their appearance?"
"Why are you taking me as an example?" Zhong Ling protested softly.
"Then as long as you get closer, can't you feel the breath of strange things?" Wang Xiyi asked puzzledly, "Although my perception ability is not as good as yours, but at such a close distance, I can also 'smell' the smell emanating from them. That unpleasant 'stink'."
Sun Hang pointed at the fragments of protective clothing that had been washed away by the mud in the distance, "But these field operators can't tell the difference. The memetic fluctuations of strange objects can be detected everywhere in this area, and the instruments can't tell the difference at all." You can't tell who the person in front of you is People are still strange things, coupled with the bad weather, extremely low visibility, and the mud flowing everywhere on the ground will greatly hinder people's movements, this makes the seemingly weird movements of the occupied skin become 'reasonable'...< br>
Sun Hang continued: "I guess there must have been an unlucky guy who was attacked by this kind of tentacle monster at the beginning. After being parasitized, the monster controlled his skin and ran back to the observation post, and then parasitized more There are many people, and the first few observation posts are not large. They are suddenly attacked by their 'companions', and they have no chance to send the message. ”
"Then do we want to send this news back?" Zhong Ling asked.
"Send it, but I suggest you add a disclaimer at the end. This is just my guess based on the available information, and it may not be accurate. If the command headquarters misjudges anything because of this, it has nothing to do with me." Sun Hang instantly launched a famous For the magic card of "non-stick pans", take away all the responsibilities from yourself.
"I think your guess is very close to the truth." Wang Xiyi said, "In this case, we have already completed more than half of the first goal of 'investigating the reasons for the loss of contact between several observation posts'. Next, we only need to work on It would be nice to know the origin of these tentacle monsters.”
"No need." Sun Hang said suddenly.
"Ah? What's unnecessary?" Wang Xiyi couldn't react for a while.
"I mean, there is no need to explore the origin of these tentacle monsters." Sun Hang explained, "Apart from being deceptive in certain circumstances, their combat effectiveness is not strong. Even if they are not hunters, as long as they are equipped with Ordinary people with modern weapons can easily deal with these weird things... Our goal in this trip has always been one, and that is to get the meme sample of Chimera No. 17."
"But, there should be a connection between these strange creatures and Chimera No. 17, right?" Zhong Ling said hesitantly.
"Is this important?" Sun Hang asked, "As long as the meme sample can be obtained, what significance does the connection between these tentacle monsters and Chimera No. 17 have for the subsequent combat operations... Yang Qizhi So let us investigate the reason for the loss of contact at the observation post, because we are worried about some unknown changes in Chimera No. 17. Now that we know that these extremely weak monsters are causing trouble, it means that the previous worries are completely unnecessary. ”
After saying this, Sun Hang suddenly narrowed his eyes.
He took a deep breath and made a "silence" gesture to Wang Xiyi and Zhong Ling.
"Sorry, I take back what I just said." Sun Hang suddenly said in a very low voice, "Besides the tentacles, there seems to be something else here."
(End of chapter)