Wu Qi silently digested the explanation Lao Hu told him. Of course, he didn't know Lao Hu's inner evaluation of his appearance. Sister Ruorong had told him a lot about the plague species, and he had also heard the "explanation of cruel nature" mentioned by Lao Hu. At the same time, Sister Ruorong also told him that a plague species with excessive viruses in the body may infect a large group of mutated animals or even pioneers, dragging them into the abyss of the virus and causing them to assimilate.
There was not a single plague species in the mountains where Wu Qi spent his childhood, and if there were, the number would definitely not be small.
Thinking about this, the noise of the engine next to my ears suddenly became much quieter, and the light suddenly disappeared. Entering the tunnel door, the armored truck slowed down.
"Everyone in the back, please be vigilant at all times. Otherwise, a monster will come out of the darkness and take your lives!" Wang Sheng, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, said loudly, leaning on his right hand by the window. Throw an unsparked cigarette butt out the window.
The cigarette butt fell to the ground of the tunnel, and after a small bounce, it lay down quietly. Only a dim spark on the butt of the cigarette became the only light in the dark tunnel.
The tunnel was very dark and quiet, except for the much smaller sound of the armored truck's engine. The air in the tunnel is not fresh, and dust accumulates on the tunnel walls, filling the environment with a strong smell of dust. The mercenaries were all on alert. An Yi, Gao Yuan and others who had been sitting in the back warehouse also stood up and paid attention to their surroundings.
Black Gun's mercenaries put down the face shields of their explosion-proof helmets and turned on the night vision function to see clearly every move that might happen in any corner of the tunnel. Not everyone has enhanced vision abilities.
In the back warehouse, An Yi looked around nervously, and Zhou Qing's legs were trembling faintly. He closed his eyes tightly, wishing to use all his sensory abilities. It's a pity that he didn't sense the individual emitting the dangerous aura, but the entire tunnel was faintly exuding a dangerous aura.
"Captain, this is just an exploration mission, you should be fine." Young Dayong grabbed An Yi's arm and said fearfully.
An Yi gave him an encouraging smile, although he was unsure. He patted Dayong on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, even if there is danger, Black Gun's mercenaries are well-equipped, and it won't be our turn to resist the monster."
"Um... ... "
The armored truck drove for a while and then suddenly stopped. The driver and Wang Sheng simultaneously saw a huge hole with a radius of three to four meters on the right side of the tunnel ahead. Part of the concrete tunnel wall collapsed, and the edges of the hole were ragged. There were all fallen cement-like things underneath, as if they had been destroyed by huge force.
"Prepare to search." Wang Sheng gave the order. He opened the car door and stepped onto the ground of the tunnel with his dark brown boots. Most of the people in the back warehouse got out of the car, and Wu Qi, An Yi and others got out of the car one after another. The Black Gun mercenaries raised their guns to guard the surroundings, while Wu Qi silently untied the animal skin wrapped around the long knife and put it into his luggage. Even July was stuffed in by him.
Wang Sheng and others walked to the hole on the right side of the tunnel and observed carefully. He touched the ash powder scattered on the ground, rubbed it in his hands, and tried to see some traces of living things in the pile of holes. A mercenary next to him took out a pen and paper to draw pictures and record.
Wu Qi walked around, and his eyesight could see the surroundings very well, even more naturally and clearly than the mercenaries who used night vision equipment to observe the environment. He stepped on the track and keenly felt the unevenness on the track.
Wu Qi squatted down. He was good at observing complex jungles and was equally good at observing details here. Soon, he saw a picture that surprised him.
There were countless irregular dents on the ground of the tunnel, and even on the surface of the track. Looking closely at the large number of dents, Wu Qi discovered that their edges all had a special and consistent outline. If his eyesight were not good enough in the dark and his field of vision was wide enough, it would be difficult to see the whole thing through traces.
"Could it be... the footprints of a plague species?" Wu Qi muttered to himself with great concentration. This was a guess he could make instinctively based on his nine years of experience in jungle life.
Suddenly, a slight electric current ran from the top of his head through Wu Qi's whole body, making his skin and even muscles numb for a moment. Wu Qi's pupils suddenly contracted, and he knew this was a sign of danger coming.
The tunnel is surrounded by gray concrete walls, and because of its purpose, the construction is very strong and safe, and the soil is tightly sealed. In terms of hardness, a 5.56mm rifle bullet can only leave a gap less than the size of a fingernail. The same goes for the ground.
During the journey of the armored truck from the outside to the inside, the humidity of the air in the places it passed was not high. It was a normal humidity where ordinary people could not feel dry or wet. However, after going 800 meters deep into the tunnel, Wu Qi clearly felt that the humidity in the tunnel was The humidity has increased vaguely.
With Wu Qi's rich experience in jungle life, he is extremely sensitive to the smell of moist soil. Even though Wang Sheng was carefully observing a broken cave wall with a diameter of more than three meters not far away, Wu Qi could not see inside, but he could feel it on his skin; this moisture did not come only from the soil at the broken wall. The humidity emanating from the inside, from the front, back, left, and right, gave him the same feeling.
In other words, every corner of this tunnel is not completely sealed with the soil layer. This conclusion drawn by the body's instinct was so absurd that Wu Qi couldn't even believe it.
In the complete darkness, a small piece of concrete wall at the top of the tunnel suddenly moved strangely. The wall soil in the small area bulged slightly, and then naturally flowed away in all directions. A piece of black-purple skin emerged from it, and then the area expanded as it protruded from the wall, and finally the black-purple thing broke free from it.
It was a strange head, about the size of a human head, without eyes. The nostrils had degenerated into two short lines. There were many wrinkles on the skin, and the whole body was ugly black and purple. The mouth occupies half of the entire skull. The monster opened its lips, revealing an extremely ferocious bloody mouth. There are densely packed dark red teeth that are as long as a finger. Their shape is more like the claws of a beast, and there are more than one row. There are multiple groups of teeth of inferior size in the cavity, just like shark teeth, which is terrifying.
The monster's head came out, and its small nose smelled the human breath underneath. Its skin color became a natural protective color. In this dark environment, even if humans have night vision, unless they keep staring at the top of their heads, they will definitely not be able to see. Unable to discover it. And this is exactly the case. The dozen or so people below, not even Wu Qi, noticed its existence. Its lizard-like body flowed out of the concrete wall bit by bit, as if it was born to swim in it without making any sound.