Swinging down with a rope, the cold wind made Theodore squint his eyes. He looked around and determined his position. After making a corresponding comparison on the map in his head, he looked in a direction in front of him.
He quickly jumped off the top of the mountain and got into the clouds and mist.
It was the same feeling that the communicator gave him in those brief seconds, relative silence. The thunder continued uninterrupted. Compared to a few hours ago, the heavy rain had indeed become lighter, and the color of the rain curtain had become slightly whiter, but
The impact on sight is still there.
Not long after, Theodore had arrived at the edge of the area where more than a hundred people had died in a short period of time. In fact, he was still lucky, thinking that it was just the influence of thunderstorms. The power of climate was indeed not something that his level could resist.
He has been to extreme areas several times, and with his knowledge and understanding of extreme climates, he himself believes that humans can barely survive there, even as a surgeon.
Approaching very slowly and gently, Theodore opened his cross pupils, and with the ability to sense temperature, a heat source that was different from the cold background appeared. The dim red was motionless, and the distance signal disappeared until he came over.
For about half an hour, even if you become a corpse, your body temperature will drop slowly.
"They are all dead for sure." Theodore used the vibration in his throat to explain what he had observed so far. His footsteps stopped in place. He was not sure whether the prey would hide inside under the cover of these corpses. Indeed.
It is possible to avoid the detection of temperature sensors and rush over, but there is a certain danger. Theodore did not believe that the prey would take such a big risk to hide in this area. But in the end, he did not go over, but retreated a certain distance.
"How many airships came down?" he asked at this time.
"Four ships have been defended at the foot of the mountain." Stian's voice came out.
"I need the help of an airship here. It only takes a few minutes." Theodore's attention has been focused on the front, "You should know my position. Use the analysis machine to calculate it. It is probably a different place."
To the two-hundred-meter circle, five hundred meters in front of me. Use the machine gun to fire once indiscriminately. The density is denser. I suspect that the prey may be hiding in it."
"It will take about five minutes for the nearest airship to get to your place."
"Be careful to avoid obvious thunderclouds. Airships are still something we are trying our best to avoid losses at the moment."
Hiding quietly behind a rock, Theodore observed all the subtle changes in the clouds and mist. Except for the body's rapidly declining body temperature, there was no moving object.
Five minutes later, multiple "buzzing" beeps fell from the sky, and then amidst the chaotic sound of "swooshing", the clouds and fog in front of Theodore began to struggle completely. The bright ballistic lines tore through the thick layer of
The surging clouds also boiled on the surface of the hard rock. The rocks splashed and spread out in a puff, like the surface of a lake under a heavy rain, sweeping and destroying everything above the surface.
It lasted less than a minute, and the blood from the corpse mixed with the rain and flowed down the hillside, dyeing the ground around Theodore red. However, the fishy smell was suppressed by the water vapor, and only a faint smell reached his nose.
His own perception made him feel something was wrong, and he immediately held his breath. Theodore put on his mask, and looked at the increasingly thick blood at his feet, and his face under the mask became serious.
Some kind of invisible substance was brought to him in large quantities through the blood. His skin felt a slight heat, and the air he just breathed in made his lungs a little hotter. It seemed that he knew how the prey did this.
More than a hundred people died in a short period of time. But it still needed to be confirmed, and there were many things he didn't understand.
"It seems that the prey came here for a purpose, but I didn't expect it to be so surprising." He sighed, and after waiting for news from Stian that the attack had stopped, he slowly and cautiously walked forward.
The corpses were all broken into pieces by the machine gun fire. Their bodies were far from strong enough to withstand machine gun bullets. This did not prevent Theodore from inspecting these corpses. The skins all had the same characteristics, the difference was in the degree.
.It is an ablation mark caused by high temperature in a short period of time. It seems to be burning from the inside of the body to the outside. It is also like the corrosion of chemicals, leaving behind a ferocious red spot.
"The concentration of germs here is very high, which is completely different from the values we tested back then." Looking at the concave hole in the rock in front of him, Theodore could imagine the scene of prey hiding in it. Not far away
, a charred rock surface caught his attention. Only high temperatures can create such marks. In the center, he even saw some vitrified gravel spots.
"Is it the 'germ' that caused the instant death of these people?" El and Stian asked after listening to Theodore's explanation of what he observed.
"If it were not long ago, I would definitely agree with this view. But now, I think it is not a 'germ'. No matter how high the concentration is, based on the data we have detected, it cannot kill the operator within a few seconds. There will be
It's a process. And judging from the situation here, it would be more appropriate to think of 'germs' as what remains after the use of a certain weapon, like the smoke remaining after a bullet is fired. They were killed by other things,
," Theodore walked among the broken corpses and spoke his thoughts. A slight squirming sound interrupted his words. There was something in the broken corpses. He crushed a piece of flesh and blood with his foot, and a bright red ball appeared.
The tissue was not dead, but was twisting like an insect larvae awakened from hibernation. It was dragon tissue that had regained life.
"Did the prey increase its strength during this period of time, or did it acquire certain abilities after surgery in a short period of time?" After hearing Theodore's explanation of the situation of dragon tissues after the influence of "germs", I thought of it.
at this point.
"It's impossible to tell, but no matter what the outcome is, we have to re-evaluate this mission. Knowing that the prey is illegally selling weapons in the black market is just an excuse, but the real reason is really surprising." He used his feet to remove the dragon.
The tissue was crushed into pieces. While talking about the latest situation here, Theodore turned and ran to the foot of the mountain, "I won't go back to the airship. I don't know what the special characteristics of the prey's body are, maybe it has to do with his ability to be immune to our biological poisons."
It has something to do with it. He was not far away from where the 'germ' weapon was made, and he was also injured by that weapon. I think no matter how strong the resistance is, it will be affected to some extent."
"There is a high possibility of going back to hide in the cave to recover, but it does not rule out that he will take this opportunity to escape from the encirclement. Maintain communication between us and report the encirclement information to me in real time. By the way, El, you also
We must be prepared, the next step is the one percent situation that we have been unwilling to see."
El didn't answer directly, just said "hmm".
The silence was too quiet. After a minute or two, Il spoke: "Theodore, after re-evaluating this mission, I think you and I have the same idea."
"Of course, I'm waiting for you to ask me." Theodore replied, "You want to pretend that this matter didn't happen? Do you mean to be a person who has nothing to do with it? It seems that there is no choice. To complete this mission, than
Let's just leave and let the mission end in failure. No matter how we think about it, the result will be much better." (To be continued)