Chapter five hundred and ninety seventh red light in the dark
When he first looked at it, Ling Mo couldn't help being startled, and the hairs on his body suddenly stood up.
The figure in this slime looks like it's alive!
If it weren't for that layer of slime, it would be no different from the zombies we usually encounter.
But he calmed down quickly... If he was really alive, wouldn't he have pounced upon him sooner if he smelled human scent?
But even so, a corpse appearing in the slime is weird enough...
"Brother Ling, come and see." Shana half-crouched and took a look before shouting.
Ling Mo moved his steps with some difficulty and walked over, frowning and shining the beam on the figure.
Although it's still a little unclear, you can already vaguely see what's going on in the mucus layer.
The thin white mucus was like a large spider web, completely covering the figure inside.
The figure wrapped in it kept its upper body raised, its neck stretched forward, and its legs were firmly fixed on the ground.
His movements are a bit like those of zombies with missing limbs, preparing to pounce on their prey.
For example, among the zombies Ling Mo saw in the industrial area of City A, there were many of them with this shape.
The face of this figure is unclear, but its blood-red eyes can clearly tell that it is a zombie.
The biggest difference between zombies and humans is their eyes, which are highly recognizable.
But how could such a good zombie appear in a place like this?
Ling Mo stared at it in confusion for a while, then suddenly handed the flashlight to the side: "Here, hold it for me. I'll take a look."
A soft white slender hand took the flashlight. Then a strand of long hair hung down.
Ling Mo turned his head and saw that Ye Lian was helping him illuminate the light while looking at the figure curiously.
"You don't know this kind of mucus, right?" Ling Mo asked.
"Of course, but the taste is a bit familiar." Li Yalin interjected.
Ling Mo nodded understandingly. When she said "familiar", she probably meant that it also contained viral components...
After rolling up his sleeves, Ling Mo pulled out the tactical knife from his leg, stared at the figure and looked left and right, then found a position to cut the knife and started cutting.
However, after taking action, Ling Mo discovered that the filaments formed by the mucus were not only very sticky, but also very tough.
But fortunately, the tactical knife in Ling Mo's hand was not an ordinary thing. After a few cuts without much effort, a gap was made.
As soon as the gap appeared, a strange smell came out of it, almost killing Ling Mo on the spot.
"Cough cough cough..."
No wonder I can't smell it, the love is sealed inside.
But this sealing performance hides the human nose, but it cannot block the zombies' powerful sense of smell.
Of course, the main reason is that he can't stop the leader-level zombies. I don't know if ordinary zombies can smell him...
"What does this smell like? It's so pungent that I'm almost crying..."
Ling Mo covered his nose. Holding back the sour feeling, he opened his eyes wide and looked into the gap.
Under the light, the zombie sealed here was finally exposed directly in front of Ling Mo, and came face to face with Ling Mo.
But as soon as he took one look, Ling Mo almost vomited.
When I looked at it from the outside, the corpse didn't look like a mummy. On the contrary, the skin was quite plump...
But now when I look at it, I can see that it is not full at all, it is simply filled up.
That mucus came out of his body, and it seemed like there was more fermenting in his body.
The hot flash smell was caused by this, but this way the integrity of the skin surface could be maintained without any rot, which surprised Ling Mo.
Is it possible that this mucus also has antiseptic function? It is indeed a product of virus evolution. Compared with it, even formalin is weaker...
Ling Mo suppressed his nausea and scratched the zombie's body with his tactical knife.
"puff!"
A stream of turbid white liquid immediately burst out, and the skin deflated rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"What's going on!"
Ling Mo has never seen such zombies, let alone such a situation.
Sure enough, the more evolved the zombie race becomes, the weirder it becomes. I wonder if this is another mutated zombie, or simply a mutant species.
"Hey, there are more here."
Shana found another one not far away and shouted.
As we searched all the way down the stairs, there were more and more of these weird zombies, and eventually the walls were almost full of them.
At first glance, both sides of the stairs seemed to be made of corpses piled into walls, and these wax figure-like figures were blocked inside by a white film.
This hazy feeling is even more frightening, making one's hair stand on end even at a glance.
Ling Mo also finally understood that these zombies were not sealed in the mucus, but the mucus constantly flowing out of the body covered their bodies.
Judging from the amount of mucus, it is probably the kind that is constantly regenerating...
When he thought that the stairs, ceiling, and even the handrails were stained with the body fluids of these zombies, Ling Mo wished he could hang himself all the way there.
But he doesn't have enough mental energy to waste it so extravagantly at the moment, so no matter how disgusting he is, he can only endure it...
Ye Lian and the others didn't seem to mind at all. On the contrary, they seemed to be very curious about this situation.
If it were any other girl who came down, she would probably be screaming into a ball by now, right?
Ling Mo suddenly felt a little embarrassed. He didn't expect that the most nervous person in the group was actually him...
"They're all zombies like this...but what's the use of this?"
Shana looked up at the ceiling as if visiting, even scraping it with the tip of a sickle, and asked curiously.
"Eh...right!"
Xia Na's words immediately reminded Ling Mo that such zombies would appear here, and these zombies were rotting here and secreting mucus continuously. It couldn't be a mass suicide, right?
There must be something more secret behind this situation.
Ignoring the evolutionary causes of this zombie, just looking at the efficacy of this mucus, isn't it just concealment?
Whether it is mental detection or smell, it has a certain shielding effect. Especially in terms of mental shielding, the effect is simply ferocious.
This was definitely not done to prevent others from discovering their corpses, and when viewing the situation through Heisi's perspective, it was not difficult to find that Yu Shiran and the others were not focused on these zombies at all, but on...
"under."
Ling Mo turned to look at the bottom of the stairs. Judging from the structure of this shopping mall, the lower level should be the parking lot...
The route they took with Yu Shiran may not be the same, Ling Mo has already discovered this.
But their goals should all be there...
"Walk!"
Ling Mo waved his hand and said.
No matter what is down there, since Yu Shiran and the others are down there, he has to find them back.
Apart from anything else, Xiaobai and Heisi are his corpse puppets!
As for that zombie loli...
"Watch me pull out your other front tooth this time!" Ling Mo said through gritted teeth.
As soon as the speed increased, two minutes later, Ling Mo and the others completely got rid of the stairs and came to a corridor.
The situation on both sides of the corridor was the same as on the stairs. When the flashlight flashed over, there were densely packed figures on both sides with different postures.
The slime layer on the floor was thicker. Ling Mo visually inspected it and roughly estimated it to be at least five or six centimeters.
"This is really made of water... let's just call it a water corpse." Ling Mo raised the soles of his feet and looked at it with disgust, and said.
"That's not accurate, it should be called white corpse." Li Yalin corrected her seriously.
"...No matter how weird they look, they still have dignity, right..." Ling Mo's eyes suddenly twitched.
After bypassing this corridor, another iron door appeared ahead.
When I put my hand on the door handle, the palpitating feeling that I had experienced before suddenly became stronger.
His heart couldn't help but beat wildly, as if there was some monster at the door watching him through the keyhole...
"Gulu..."
Ling Mo swallowed, took another deep breath, and then pushed open the iron door.
Squeak——
In the silence, the sound of the iron door slowly opening broke the deathly silence, and behind the slightly opened door crack, a flash of red light suddenly flashed... (To be continued...)
ps: In the title of the previous chapter, the word "Li" was strangely missing... I swear I typed it, but it was hidden as soon as it was released. "Li", where have you been!
