Chapter 8: Facing the Experimental Body
It was quiet in the woods, with the occasional chirping of birds coming out.
Other than that, there is only the sound of wind.
Zhou Ming and the other three were walking in the forest. Mottled light and shadow were cast from the tree crowns, mixed with fine dust and swaying slightly in the air. Everything around them was quiet and peaceful. It even gave him the illusion that he was out for an outing, and even his nervous mood relaxed.
A lot.
But when they arrived at the entrance of the air-raid shelter, the atmosphere changed. As the smell of blood and putrefaction gradually became stronger, they passed through the last bush and came to the gravel ground in front of the air-raid shelter entrance.
Pieces of red blood stains were scattered around the entrance, exuding a rotting stench. The soldiers' bodies had been removed, but the cleaning of the scene was obviously not thorough enough. Some fragments of meat were scattered on the ground, bitten by flies. The ground at the entrance
dyed red.
Zhou Ming raised his head and looked at the dark entrance. A cold wind with the smell of blood blew out of the cave, making him shiver.
"Let's go in." Zhou Ming said in as calm a tone as possible.
He held the flashlight and led the way into the cave. The straight beam of light continued to shine into the distant darkness. As he gradually deepened, the sound of the forest disappeared, and everything around him became silent, except for the sound of water dripping from nowhere.
, a continuous, non-stop wind blew from the end of the passage, carrying a stomach-churning smell... as if this was the nest of some kind of animal.
Zhou Ming asked Huang Tao and Zhang Qian to get their weapons ready to deal with sudden enemies.
No one spoke after that, and the air became eerily quiet.
After walking about two hundred meters in, forks in the road began to appear, and square holes appeared on the wall. Some holes had remaining living facilities, and some holes had nothing at all.
Suddenly, there were rapid footsteps coming from the front.
"Notice!"
Zhou Ming's nerves tensed up instantly and he assumed a fighting stance.
Huang Tao and Zhang Qian also immediately entered a fighting state and looked ahead nervously
Zhou Ming held a knife in his right hand and a flashlight in his left hand to shine forward.
The sound of rapid footsteps gradually approached, and a figure suddenly emerged from the fork in the road at the end, exposed to the light of the flashlight!
The other party had no clothes on, his pale skin was mottled with blood, and his head was bald without a single hair.
It moved very fast, its legs moving alternately, and it was attacking them like a lizard running upright! It was like a ghost that was rapidly approaching in a horror movie!
At this moment, Huang Tao and Zhang Qian felt a pressure they had never experienced before.
Although they had received professional training in school and had seen many pictures and images that were much more disgusting and terrifying than the monster in front of them, facing a monster in real life was different from facing a monster through a screen or an iron fence.
The feeling is different.
Zhou Ming had read the information and already knew what the monster looked like, but after seeing it with his own eyes, he still felt a kind of rejection and disgust coming from deep within his genes.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,!!!"
The experimental subject suddenly let out a sharp and hoarse scream, opened its mouth and rushed toward them with its bloody mouth exposed.
The high-decibel screams became extremely harsh in the closed channel, as if someone turned up the volume of the speakers playing a horror movie to the maximum and then placed it in their ears.
Nothing could be heard in the passage except the constant screams.
In the blink of an eye, the distance between the experimental subject and them was only twenty meters, and the other party's appearance could be seen more clearly.
The face has no eyelids, and the round eyes are like glass marbles. The upper and lower lips of the mouth have been bitten clean. The bright red gums and crooked teeth are exposed to the air without any obstruction.
The mandible opened widely at an obtuse angle, and the cheek was torn from the corner of the mouth to the position of the wisdom teeth.
The moment Zhou Ming saw the face clearly, the experimental subject also looked at him, and he felt that his eyes and eyes were in contact with each other in the air.
Although its appearance was enough to make people feel frightened, what frightened Zhou Ming the most was the look in its eyes... an extremely sober, yet extremely excited look.
Seeing those eyes, Zhou Ming's head buzzed, and he lost consciousness for a moment.
This is not like something transformed by humans at all. Human imagination is really amazing, Zhou Ming thought to himself.
Compared to Huang Tao and Zhang Qian, Zhou Ming actually lacks experience. He even has no experience at all. The most exciting adventure he experienced before time travel was going to a haunted house, and he was even scared in the haunted house.
But now, what he faced was not the staff of the haunted house, but a real monster with extremely fast speed and infinite strength!
But strangely...he knew what to do.
At this moment, pieces of information on the file suddenly appeared in Zhou Ming's mind.
It is recorded in the files that these experimental subjects were covered in bruises due to self-mutilation, like living corpses, with only the heart, lungs and diaphragm left, and all other organs were missing...
They are extremely powerful, extremely fast, and remain excited, hungry for poisonous gas...
These monsters have no sense of pain and are not affected by fatal injuries. Even if they lose their organs, they can still maintain quite strong combat effectiveness. Therefore, simply attacking the heart and other parts may not instantly eliminate the opponent's combat effectiveness, but the opponent's counterattack is
Extremely powerful.
So, do you want to be the leader?
The difficulty may be too high, but as long as you cooperate properly, it will be fine.
"You two are responsible for cutting off its left and right hands, and I will cut off its head." Zhou Ming said coldly.
"Understood!" Huang Tao and Zhang Qian said in unison.
The running figure has already come closer, and two figures behind him quickly pass by Zhou Ming's left and right sides, and Zhou Ming's eyes are locked on the opponent's eyes. He wants to read the opponent's attack intention clearly, and then kill it!
The subject's eyes rolled and he looked at Huang Tao on the right, and his arm like a thin bamboo pole went straight towards Huang Tao.
The long knife with magical power struck the opponent's arm, cutting off the experimental subject's arm in one fell swoop.
Zhang Qian swung the knife on the other side, but her progress was not particularly smooth. It seemed that due to the angle of the knife, the blade cut into the muscles of the subject's arm, but failed to cut off the arm smoothly.
"What's going on? It's like jerky!" Zhang Qian said in surprise.
The experimental subject screamed and punched out at such a fast speed that there was no room to dodge. Zhang Qian's whole body seemed to have been hit by a meteor hammer and flew backwards three meters.
The weapon fell to the ground, hitting a few sparks in the darkness. The flashlight fell from his hand, and the beam of light circled on the ground, then reversed direction and hit Zhang Qian's face.
Her face turned pale, and the dazzling light made it impossible for her to see. The screams of the experimental subjects came from the darkness behind the white light. The source of the sound kept changing its direction, as if it was very close to her.
No, no, no! There are seniors and Huang Tao blocking it in front, so it can’t come here like this!
Zhang Qian's mind went blank, and the rapidly beating heart in her chest made her feel breathless.
At this moment, all the combat knowledge she had learned over the years was completely forgotten.
Finally, she stumbled to pick up the flashlight and began to look for the lost weapon in a hurry. Huang Tao's curses came from the front... She couldn't imagine what happened.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeize and yell at Huang Tao, throwing out his other arm and striking at Huang Tao.
"grass!"
Huang Tao originally wanted to block with his sword, but after briefly calculating the distance and angle, he finally gave up blocking and chose to dodge.
A hand with a fishy smell passed over Huang Tao's head. He relied on his strong reflexes to avoid the bullet-like sweep. His fist hit the wall of the tunnel, shaking off the dust accumulated on his head for many years. It opened its mouth and rushed
Zhou Ming and Huang Tao roared angrily, their breath mixed with rancid blood coming towards their faces.
The instinct coming from deep within the body made Huang Tao's muscles tense and his movements became a little sluggish.
Is this the lowest level of weirdness? The sense of oppression is too outrageous!
"Back off!"
The voice came from behind, like a basin of cold water waking up Huang Tao.
His body regained its sensitivity, he adjusted the direction of his legs and kicked back hard.
At the same time, the cold blade passed three centimeters away from his left ear, shocking him into a cold sweat.
It was the most crisp and sharp slash he had ever seen. The trajectory of the knife was as straight as measured by a ruler. It was so fast that it was almost invisible. Only a dry and short syllable was heard. The blade had already drawn along the gap between the ribs of the experimental subject.
, like a paring knife cutting open a piece of dry cowhide, not even a drop of blood comes out.
Zhou Ming frowned slightly, feeling the feeling of the hand just now. The other person's body was really like dried meat, and it felt like there was no moisture in it.
The second time he swung the knife, the curved white light was slightly bent, like a whip that was thrown diagonally across the opponent's throat, and a sharp angle was formed at the top. It was aimed at the subject's neck and struck down with just one blow.
The opponent's head was chopped off!
The piercing screams suddenly stopped, and the body without its head fell to the ground.
Zhang Qian just touched her weapon and awkwardly got up from the ground, taking a deep breath to adjust her heartbeat back.
"Sorry, the angle is a bit off." She looked at the body on the ground with lingering fear.
"It's okay, it's not a big problem. Please pay attention next time." Zhou Ming comforted, as if he was really an experienced captain.
Huang Tao breathed a long sigh of relief, shook off the blood on the knife, and said in a brisk tone: "It doesn't seem to be very difficult. If you cooperate properly next time, you should be able to solve it directly. You just can't be hit by it. Its strength
too big."
"Well, I have to stay calm and collected, so I won't make a mistake next time." Zhang Qian seemed to promise, but also seemed to emphasize to herself.
Zhou Ming did not speak, but he also agreed with the two men's statements in his heart. Although the enemy seemed dangerous, it was indeed a trivial task for the original Zhou Ming.
Even a counterfeit like him can be easily solved. If it were the original owner, he should be more professional and faster.
Very good, just keep moving forward in such a steady state. As long as you don't encounter multiple experimental subjects, this mission should go smoothly. According to the intelligence, there are only five such monsters. Now one has been solved, which means there are only four left.
Already.
Zhou Ming turned the killed monster over with his feet and saw that a large piece of muscle was missing from the back of the monster's thigh. He guessed that it must have been eaten away by other experimental subjects.
Normally, it would be impossible for a thigh with this kind of muscle loss to run at that speed, but it did it. It was so weird that it couldn't be measured by common sense.
"Let's keep walking."
Zhou Ming led the people to move forward and turned into a passage leading deeper.
The passage was quiet again, but the mood of the three people could not return to the calmness before. The battle of just a few seconds made them understand that the difference between training and actual combat was huge, so huge that it was simply unimaginable.
The passage they were on now had more square openings than any previous path, so the inspection must be more detailed.
When passing by one of the square caves, Zhou Ming smelled a faint smell of blood from inside. Although the smell was very light, they all smelled it.
"Senior, maybe it's in here." Huang Tao said in a low voice.
Zhou Ming took the lead and walked into the house, shooting his flashlight in all directions.
Suddenly, there was a sound of chains being dragged from the corner. The three people all shined their flashlights in the direction of the sound, and a humanoid creature with unkempt hair and blood all over its body suddenly rushed towards Zhou Ming!
With a "dang" sound, the iron chain reached its end, and the opponent's figure was violently pulled, stopping only half a meter away from Zhou Ming. He staggered and almost fell. Huang Tao behind him did not hesitate to raise his knife at the opponent.
The person's body was chopped down. Zhang Qian cooperated tacitly and stabbed the enemy from another direction.
Zhou Ming had quick hands and quick eyes. He shook his wrist with his right hand and blocked Huang Tao's vertical attack. His left hand pinched Zhang Qian's wrist to prevent the two from counterattacking.
"Senior?"
Chapter completed!