Chapter 316 Another Face
"Let's go, let's go." Lilith raised her hands above her head and patted her head, "It's best to finish everything here before this waste pool melts... Tsk, I don't want to be a humanoid refrigerator again. ”
"Do you want... to take a rest?" Jiang Yu asked.
She suddenly had a bad feeling.
"No, hurry up." Lilith strode towards the open door of Factory No. 5. After walking a few steps, she suddenly turned back to look at Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao, "I also made an appointment with my person in charge to get off work today. Let’s go to the sauna together... Do you two want to go together?”
"Sauna?" Jiang Yu was startled, "But aren't all the public baths in Tianfu City closed now? Where are you going..."
"Can't you just take a hunter's license and commandeer a sauna in a certain bathhouse? Everything is ready. As for the energy supply, I can solve it with the snap of a finger! How about it? Do you want to come? I'll tell you You tell me, every time I finish a mission and I’m full of sweat, it’s so nice to go to a sauna..."
"Forget it...forget it." When Jiang Yu thought that the red-haired witch in front of him was once a man, he felt a little uncomfortable...
If he really wants to go to the bathhouse, should this guy go to the men's bathroom or the women's bathroom?
"Complete the mission first." Ling Xiao said coldly. He put the "God-killing Spear" back into its holster, and then picked up a severed limb of a fluorescent spider from the ground.
This broken limb is about thirty centimeters long, slightly thicker than chopsticks, and has an irregular octagonal cross-section - except for the sharp tip of the limb and a small row of barbed saw teeth near the tip. , the surface of the limbs is very smooth, and even has a "shining like jade" feeling. The grip can't be said to be good, at least it can be said to be very comfortable.
"Are you going to use this thing as a weapon?" Lilith glanced at Ling Xiao and asked.
Ling Xiao waved the spider's ring towards the street light pole nearby, and the sharp front end instantly cut a smooth-edged hole in the metal light pole. There was not even a moment of pause or blockage in the whole process.
"Tsk, it's quite sharp." Lilith nodded, "I feel like you can throw away your standard dagger."
While talking, Lilith had already entered Factory Building No. 5.
A layer of pale golden shield enveloped her whole body.
Although Lilith has always given people a careless feeling, she can be regarded as a veteran hunter who has experienced hundreds of battles... If she is as neither reliable nor as good as the first impression. To be cautious, no matter how powerful she was, she wouldn't be able to survive until now.
If Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao check Lilith's files, they will be surprised to find that... this "female" hunter who looks to be in her twenties has the earliest publicly available mission record seventy-five years ago. .
Excluding those mission records that have been sealed for various reasons, there are more than 300 completed missions that can be found under Lilith's name. Even if Zhulong is here, he has to respectfully call out "Senior" .
"Safe." Lilith stamped the metal floor with the heel of her boot, "Come in."
Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao guarded the left and right sides respectively, alternately covering their way into the factory.
"The tactical movements are completely substandard." Lilith commented nonchalantly, "Even if you are a newcomer, you won't be so bad, right?"
"Ah?" Jiang Yu was a little confused, "We followed the standard actions in the CQB tutorial... Why did we fail?"
"CQB? Who taught you CQB?" Lilith asked.
(Note: CQB, CloseQuarterBattle, an acronym for indoor close quarters combat.)
"Tianfucheng Emergency Tactics Team..." Jiang Yu replied, "They should be considered relatively strong among Tianfucheng's special forces, right?"
"Emergency tactical team? Haha." Lilith let out a burst of disdainful laughter, "This group of people may be able to deal with kidnappers and KB elements, but in operations against strange objects, they can only be regarded as a group of thugs at best... …The CQB tactics they teach you are not applicable to monster hunters at all.”
"Why?" Ling Xiao asked immediately.
"When the two of you came in, one stared at the left and the other stared at the right. The focus of your eyes was on the windows and doors of those rooms, followed by the baseboards close to the ground... But you think the strange things will come out of the windows. Will they stick out a gun and shoot at you, or will they set up trip mines or something like that on the ground?" Lilith gestured on her head with her right hand, "Do you know where you missed it? Above! Directly above the head! Damn it, CT has never looked up since ancient times!”
After Lilith said this, Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao raised their heads and looked upward, but it was better not to look up. Jiang Yu was shocked at this sight - the entire inside of the dome of Factory No. 5 was full of people. It is covered with a layer of fleshy membrane, and the surface of this layer of fleshy membrane is covered with large and small vesicles. These vesicles are beating rhythmically like breathing. Through the translucent membrane of the vesicles, You can still vaguely see something curled up inside the vesicle.
Near the door, the vesicles had burst, and the mucus inside hung down, condensing and hardening in mid-air, forming a stalactite-like landscape.
"What...what is this?" Jiang Yu was shocked.
Against the background of these fleshy membranes and vesicles, Factory Building No. 5 seems to have been transformed into a nest of some kind of alien creature... Moreover, it is the most scalp-numbing "living nest".
Jiang Yu didn't feel like he had walked into a factory, but like he had gotten into the body of a monster.
"It's a seedbed used to hatch those weird things." Lilith said without changing her expression. "Those small vesicles contain those little spiders just now. As for the big vesicles...it looks like they contain something like... People.”
"Human?!" Jiang Yu subconsciously turned back and looked in the direction of the waste pool.
"Yes, the 'Deputy Factory Director' should have hatched from these vesicles." Lilith nodded.
"Then...then if the contents of these remaining vesicles come out..." Jiang Yu had already begun to think about retreating.
"Not for the time being." Lilith shook her head, "I can feel that it will still be some time before they are hatched... Otherwise, after we got rid of those monsters just now, there will be more monsters running from the factory. Come out.”
"How long is a period of time?" Ling Xiao asked.
"It can take as long as a few hours, or as slow as ten seconds." Lilith said, "So from now on, we must seize every minute and every second! You two follow me closely, don't separate, don't look around, raise your eyebrows Use your ears to hear any sounds around you - Ling Xiao, if something goes wrong, just use the rune stone I gave you without hesitation!"
After saying that, Lilith ran directly towards the stairs.
Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu quickly followed.
Jiang Yu stared at Lilith in front of him, and couldn't help but have a question in his heart - why did Lilith stop using teleportation magic when she said she should seize the time?
Are you worried that the two of them can't keep up, or are there too many obstacles that will affect teleportation in this scene?
Or... Lilith's remaining magic value is running out?
Jiang Yu felt a little unsure. During the time she spent with Lilith, she realized that as a hunter, she was too immature. No matter in terms of experience, tactics or mentality, none of them could be called "qualified" ...She didn't dare to think about how she and Ling Xiao would complete the next mission if they lost Lilith.
No... instead of completing the mission, what she wanted to think about was how to leave this place alive.
Lilith ran all the way up the steel structure stairs, her leather boots making a crisp sound on the steel plate, and the sound echoed in the empty factory building.
Every time he ran a certain distance, Jiang Yu would raise his head and glance at the vesicles hanging on the flesh membrane of the dome, for fear that the things hatched in the vesicles would break out of the shell and rush toward him.
"Don't look at it with your eyes. These things are all weird things. You just need to feel their memetic fluctuations." Lilith's voice passed into Jiang Yu's ears. "When they are about to hatch, the memetic fluctuations will be enough." Because the fluctuations will have very obvious characteristics, I think you should be able to feel them.”
"Memes... fluctuations? Feelings?" Jiang Yu fell into confusion again, "How do you feel?"
"Calm down, for infected people, everyone has this kind of perception, but some people are stronger and some are weaker... They are like eating and drinking, no, they should be like breathing. It’s just as natural as your innate ability. Damn it, who is your direct responsible person? Didn’t he teach you anything?”
"I...I don't have a person in charge yet." Jiang Yu replied, "I just became a hunter not long ago."
To be precise, Jiang Yu's direct person in charge is Sun Hang... However, Sun Hang himself was extremely busy some time ago, and it was impossible to have time to teach Jiang Yu something that Sun Hang thought was almost instinctive for infected people. matter.
"Fuck, breathe... Try breathing and try to get rid of distracting thoughts as much as possible. In the process of breathing, feel the 'other breath' of those weird things... The frequency of memes is like breathing, it has Rhythm, as long as you can find this rhythm, you will naturally be able to sense the other person's breath, understand? ”
"I...I'll try."
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As soon as Jiang Yu finished speaking, Lilith, who was running at the front, suddenly stopped.
"We're here," Lilith said.
In front of her was a solid wooden door with exquisite decoration. There was a sign hanging on the door, with the words "Reception Room" written in gilded characters.
Faintly, the sound of a violin can be heard coming from behind the door.
"You two, step back a little." Lilith said.
Lilith stretched out her hand and grasped the door handle.
She turned the doorknob gently - for some reason, she always felt that her action seemed familiar.
It seemed like it had been done somewhere before.
But Lilith quickly put this idea behind her - she just turned the door handle to open the door. Ordinary people don't know how many times they have to do this action a day. It's completely normal to have a feeling of déjà vu.
The door to the reception room was not locked, and the lock bolt came out of the keyhole smoothly. But when Lilith tried to push the door open, she found a resistance from the back door, as if something was pushing against the door panel from behind.
Lilith let go of her hand, took two steps back, then accelerated suddenly, flew up with a kick, and kicked the door hard.
"Pfft——"
With a sound like rotten cotton wool being torn into pieces, the door opened.
Only then did Lilith see that the entire reception room was covered with the same type of flesh membrane as the dome of the factory building. It was the flesh membrane that had adhered to the back of the door and blocked the door cracks and hinges, which made her feel the weird resistance. .
The fleshy membranes on the dome look very thin, but when you get closer, you find that they are actually five or six centimeters thick. When this layer of flesh film is spread in the living room, it looks like a Cthulhu-style indoor soft wall.
"The fleshy carpet feels good under your feet." Lilith sneered and stepped on it.
The fleshy membrane under her feet squirmed and made a "chuck" sound.
"A-live?!" Jiang Yu subconsciously took a step back.
In order to be able to crawl inside the ventilation duct, she and Ling Xiao both took off their boots, and both of them were still barefoot. To be honest, she really didn't want to step on this thick fleshy membrane with bare feet.
"Of course it's alive. If it's dead, how can it provide nutrients for the hatching monsters?" Lilith said.
As she spoke, she had already walked to the middle of the reception room.
On the coffee table in the middle, there is a retro-style vinyl record player. As the round record on the machine rotates, the melodious violin echoes in the room along with the light sound of the keys. Hear the harmonies of woodwinds and brass.
Compared with the "messy" reception room, this record player and the coffee table used to place the record player are exceptionally clean - the sofa next to it is almost completely covered with flesh film, and the dark red blood-like thing is even more It stained the surface of the sofa red and black, but not a drop of blood or a grain of flesh could be seen on the coffee table and record player.
"Strange... why is this room empty?" Lilith murmured to herself, "The projection of that strange thing should be here? Why is it empty?"
"Will it leave?" Jiang Yu asked tentatively, "Or...will it be hiding in a corner, waiting to ambush us? Just like it sneaked up on you before?" < br>
"Ah...yes!" Lilith's tone suddenly became very strange, "I remembered it, I remembered it!"
"What do you remember?" Ling Xiao asked.
I don't know when, he had already pulled out the "God-killing Gun" and pointed it at Lilith who was standing in front of the record player.
"It has not left, it is in this room now." Lilith's voice has completely changed into a rough male voice.
She turned her back to Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu and slowly lifted the hair on the back of her head.
Under the long crimson hair, there was a man's face.
Jiang Yu recognized this face - it was the missing director of Factory No. 105: Wu Zhiyuan!
(End of chapter)