After finalizing the final plan, everyone began to prepare.

Leiden dismantled some pretty intact parts from the wreckage of the equipment on the ground, repaired everyone's power armor, and then pieced together a light armor for Ivan that could barely be considered to be able to run and jump. As for Akira Asano, who had just woken up, he politely declined Leiden's proposal.

"My abilities are relatively...well, special, power armor will limit me." This is the original words of Akira Asano.

The Hound, Ke Lan and Zhuoligetu supplemented the ammunition on the spot. Since the electromagnetic bullet for the Gauss gun could not be found, the Hound simply replaced the weapon with a dual-held Gatling machine cannon, and then hung a full six large boxes of ammunition chains behind it.

"Hehe, when I led the troops to clean up indigenous creatures, I often worried about insufficient firepower. I am afraid that this problem will not be able to be corrected in this life." Facing Ke Lan's speechless eyes, the hunting dog said with a embarrassed smile, but fortunately, his armor was powerful enough to carry nearly one ton of ammunition.

"Actually, I hope you don't use any ammunition at all... If the gunshot attracts monsters that have left the base, if they are surrounded in such a place, they will be dead."

"I know I know...I just want to be comforted." The Hound said so, but in the end he gave up the Gatling machine cannon and chose a light assault rifle.

"Ke Lan, things are not good." After cleaning the battlefield, Leiden came over and said to Ke Lan, "I counted the number of corpses and equipment. It was not the same as it was. It was too bad... At least more than half of the corpses were missing, and the remaining ones were basically some corpses with serious damage."

"It seems that... those monsters are indeed 'mass-produced' from human corpses. The purpose of these monsters slaughtering humans is to obtain as many corpses as possible to strengthen their own numbers... We have to speed up the action, otherwise there will be more and more monsters."

...

There were originally three checkpoints on the passage between the base and the entrance of the mine, but now, the situation of these three checkpoints is simply terrible. Even the steel tower as a communication antenna was broken in half under the attack of acid, and the two small booths built with foam interlayer steel plates were directly razed to the ground.

"There is blood, but no corpse was found. It was probably dragged away by those monsters." Leiden, as a pioneer, said after taking a quick glance.

"We can no longer handle the matter here... Even the Soma Consortium may not be able to deal with these monsters."

"Ninety-one is the military who sent a fleet directly to throw in a dozen small tactical nuclear bombs and cleared the field directly - by the way, Ke Lan, can the safe house on the base withstand the nuclear explosion?"

"The nuclear strike protection capability of this level of safe house has hard indicators, so don't worry." Ke Lan said, then activated the jet backpack of the power armor and jumped to a small hill in front of him in one breath. Looking from here, you can barely see a corner of the Soma Consortium mining base.

"As similar to what we expected, the base fell, the energy shield disappeared, and many buildings were emitting thick smoke." Ke Lan turned around and said.

"Where did you see that monster?"

"Not yet." Ke Lan shook her head, "Continue to move forward."

...

After they climbed over the last pass and entered the central valley where the base was located, an unbearable smell of blood quickly occupied their nasal cavity. Ke Lan only felt a wave of discomfort in her throat surging upwards. Fortunately, it had been a long time since the last meal, and the esophagus and stomach were empty, otherwise she would have to vomit it into her helmet at this time.

"I can't stand this smell anymore." The hound with the keenest sense of smell in the team had already closed the mask of his helmet, and his face turned extremely pale. "How many people died in this fucking...?"

"According to the data given by the Soma Consortium, including mercenaries and miners who have taken turns to rest, the permanent staff of the base ranges from 2,400 to 2,800 people... It is estimated that most of them are here."

"I'm afraid it's not the only one." Yifan frowned and shook his head. "If those monsters have the habit of dragging the corpses away, then the smell of blood here shouldn't be so strong... and we have no traces of monsters returning to the mine along the way... I doubt..."

Hearing Ivan say this, the Hound's eyes widened: "Damn, no, right?! Doctor, don't scare me..."

"Although I can't confirm for the time being, I think those monsters may have stored the bodies they have obtained here. Old dog, can you please smell it? This bloody smell does not have the stinky smell unique to fermentation and corruption in the corpse?"

"You are simply torture me..." The Hound sighed helplessly, opened the mask again, brewed for a moment, and then took a big breath with force-

Suddenly, his face turned pale.

"Cough cough cough cough... vomit..." After retching for several seconds, the hunting dog said with some difficulty: "There is indeed a very strong odor mixed in the smell of blood, and it is the odor emitted by the dead."

"The facts should be almost the same," Ivan's face was quite ugly. "Generally speaking, even in places where microorganisms are extremely active, the corpses that just died will not smell rotten. Only corpses that have died for a while will... In other words, the corpses who were killed in the mining area were brought here by monsters."

"These monsters concentrate the corpses at the base. Are they planning to 'transform' here? Ivan, you have just dissected the corpse of the 'anemone head'. Can you tell what conditions are required for this transformation process?" Ke Lan looked at Ivan and asked.

"There is no clue at all. This transformation method... is even more incredible than the erosion type. The erosion type simply uses the container as its own nutrient, and this monster is almost perfectly integrated with the human body... From a certain perspective, those corpses came alive again after being transformed, and even the apoptosis of the original tissue cells was reversed... This is simply impossible from a biological perspective."

"But no matter what, since those monsters will choose to gather the corpses here, even if their large troops have left, they will definitely leave a few as guards..." The hunting dog had already developed a desire to retreat at this time, "Even if there are only a few, we can't beat them, why don't we... change the action plan?"
Chapter completed!