General Mueller decided to divide the remaining Inhumans into six groups, armed with heavy weapons, and attacked the last three major tribes of the Faun rebels. Their main mission is to assassinate the chieftains of the Horned people, and as long as the leader is lost, this rebellion will soon fall apart and all terrorist attacks against the city will cease.
Ethan and Samuel were still divided into a group, joining the team led by Guard Chief Schneider himself. Although most of the rest of the non-human Ethan have seen each other, they are not very friendly and can't speak. What worried him more was that Tai Feng was assigned to the group led by Gray Mao.
But obviously it's no use worrying at this time. Fortunately, each team has some real soldiers following them, so Vasilev should not be too out of line. Before leaving, Samuel gave Taifeng a knife transformed from a razor, and asked him to hide it in his close pocket, and use it for self-defense if it was really a last resort.
Anyway, on the battlefield, even if you kill one or two guards, you can get away with it. Samuel said in a low voice to the Omega who was so scared that he was about to cry.
Thirty people, together with Schneider and another small group of soldiers, landed on a military transport plane on a hilltop exposed to bare rock. Under their feet there was a low-lying basin, and the haze formed a light gauze curtain, which could be seen faintly. The dense copper plum forest, a string of luminous copper plum fruit shimmers in the dark with a faint blue light.
It is said that in this forest lies the "Mouth of the Earth" that can devour all the Earth forces in the mouth of the two captured horned chieftains. Many of the Horned captives of different tribes tortured by the Earth Army mentioned this place, so General Mueller thought that there might be some kind of Horned secret weapon hidden here. Although he is also dubious, but now that the war is coming to an end, in order to prevent the resurgence of the Horned Rebels in the future, he decided to send a team of non-humans to search here.
The forest is very quiet, the air is stagnant and there is no circulation. The moist smell floats in the air, and occasionally, swarms of luminous flying insects can be seen rising from the depths of the woods, shining like scattered sparks.
If it wasn't for worrying about the horned man ambushes lurking in the dark, such a scene would be very moving. Ethan imprinted this picture in his mind, hoping that if Tanisel was just perceiving his mind, he could also see this beauty.
Since he parted with Tanisel, he had never heard the priest's voice again. He began to worry a little, would Taniser be in danger? Will he be caught by Roland? He was restless, but he couldn't find out where Tanisel was on his own initiative. He was absent-minded throughout the day, and even tripped over the tangled roots on the ground several times on the way, causing Schneider to give him a hard look.
At night, everyone slept in the open under the dense copper plum trees, silently eating the cans in their luggage. Samuel suddenly stuffed something into Ethan's hand as if nothing had happened. Ethan looked down and saw it was a pair of glasses.
Ethan looked at him in surprise, "Where did you get it?"
"Tor Schneider bought it at Earthman's supermarket. Not sure about your degree, but the guy should have it." Samuel said, gulping down the meat sauce from the can.
Ethan looked up at Schneider, who was talking to a soldier sergeant not far away.
"Thank him for helping me," Ethan said to Samuel.
"Hey, don't you thank me?" Samuel slapped him with his elbow in dissatisfaction, "I begged him for a long time."
"You're just talking. Isn't it because people like you?" Ethan sighed and shook his head faintly.
Samuel's eyes widened. "Can you fucking stop telling such a scary joke. I'm getting goosebumps."
Ethan glanced at him sarcastically, "You didn't seem to find it too scary when you were on top of others?"
"I'm just helping!"
"Okay, as long as you're happy." Ethan shrugged, "But don't tell me you really didn't see how much the chief guard took care of you. If you say a word, people will talk to him for me. Strangers you don't know come back with glasses. They smuggled some anti-stimulants for you before. You never thought about why he took care of you so much?"
"Because I helped him maintain order in the Forbidden City! Do you think he could manage so many thugs so easily without me? Besides, I also gave him a lot of the money I earned from reselling things in the Forbidden City. what."
"Hahaha..." Ethan chuckled as if he heard the innocent words of a child, "We are not human, and they have some means of controlling us. No matter how much they want to make trouble, they will kill us all, and they will not It will affect their moral value. Why does he want you, the so-called 'big brother', to maintain stability? As for the money, it is even more ridiculous, his dignified chief of guards, will he like your bribe?"
Samuel glared at him, not saying anything in response for a moment. Of course he doubted this possibility, but Schneider had always been cold and business-like in front of him, so he thought he was over-hearted. Maybe the other party is just sympathetic and sympathetic, right
But if Ethan thinks so...
Ethan put on his glasses and glanced at him, "There is nothing in this world without asking for anything in return. You should think carefully about what he wants from you. Didn't you warn me that way?"
Samuel fell silent for his words, and looked thoughtfully in Schneider's direction. Then, he shook his head, as if trying to deny himself.
Samuel woke up suddenly during the night and heard a strange cry.
Like a person's painful moan, tossing and turning, in the deep dark night, there is a silent terror.
Schneider also woke up, and the two eyes met. Schneider quickly turned his eyes away and woke up a nearby soldier.
Ethan was also awakened by the scream at this time, and he suddenly felt a tingling in his scalp.
They had heard this voice. I heard such a voice before when I got lost in the woods outside Anas City. Before long, they were ambushed by the head-eating worms and horned men who descended suddenly from the tree. After a while, the chief of guard hesitated, called Ethan, Samuel, and two other Alpha non-humans, followed by two soldiers to search for the sound of the deep forest.
This time, the non-people have a laser gun in their hands, which is a lot more confident than the last time. They walked cautiously in the dense forest, the sultry moisture seemed to stick to their skin, and the scene ten steps away from the thick fog was empty, and the spotlight could only illuminate a straight line. There is water vapor lingering and rippling.
The fog gradually closed behind them, and they seemed to be swallowed up. The two soldiers stared at the thermal sensor and GPS locator in their hands to barely confirm that they were not lost. In the dampness, Ethan smelled a sickening rot, reminiscent of the filthy smell of maggots crawling on a rotting corpse. He paused in his footsteps, hesitant to move forward.
Samuel nearly bumped into him, "What's wrong?"
"There is an unpleasant smell."
"Is there?" Samuel sniffed hard. "Although it's a little damp and smelly, it's easy to smell like this in the forest."
"Every time I smell this smell, it's not good." Ethan's green eyes looked around, his beast-like alert eyes.
"You two, keep up!" Schneider warned ahead.
Ethan couldn't, so he continued to follow them through the luxuriant bushes. The cry became clearer and clearer, and the two soldiers in front suddenly made a stop gesture, causing everyone to lower their bodies and look for plant cover.
I saw a black shadow swaying leisurely in the light in the thick fog.
Is it a horn man
Two soldiers with guns walked towards the shadow step by step. Samuel and Schneider and the other two non-humans also followed a little bit forward, only Ethan stood behind, his brows furrowed tightly, and nightmarish memories flashed in the depths of his eyes.
Altar, blood, blue, red...
Suddenly, the movements of the two soldiers stopped. They lay on the ground and didn't move for a long time. Samuel and Schneider came to their side and heard them murmuring, albeit in a subtle tone, with a hint of bewilderment.
"What it is… "
At this time, the fog just lightened a little, Samuel took out a telescope with night vision function from his pocket, and looked towards the shadow.
There was an indistinguishable grunt in his throat.
He saw that it was not a human being who made the strange screams like people in the dark forest, but a fleshy worm coiled on the ground like a thick water pipe, with the top high. Then, the small mouth would suddenly expand in a disgusting way, revealing a circle of sharp teeth that were still hanging with flesh and blood, circling downwards. Then from that mouth came the hissing that they had heard.
The worm was just like the one that suddenly descended from the tree and ate several non-human heads near Anas City before, and now it looks like those huge worms that suddenly rushed out from the ground near the altar, only But it is only one-tenth the size of the big worm.
Could it be that these little worms are the offspring of those big worms? Samuel suddenly thought of the white and gray fleshy worms entwining and curling around each other, like a spread of intestines spewing hot acid from it. He shivered and felt a little nauseous.
Does the existence of such small worms mean that those big worms are nearby
The worm called a few more times, then suddenly stopped. Its head swung twice in the air, then twisted suddenly, and climbed to a depression on the ground not far away.
It was a flight of steps, a stone step that sank into the ground, and was heavily covered with moss and rotting blades of grass, leaving only a few places in the middle that were unusually clean, as if something was often dragged there.
In the depths of this deserted forest valley, an artificial staircase suddenly appeared... The two soldiers excitedly said that this must be the entrance to what the Horned people called "the mouth of the earth".
Samuel swallowed and whispered, "I don't want to go in... it might be full of those disgusting meat bugs."
Their task, however, is to investigate the Mouth of the Earth and destroy what they find if necessary. They even carried enough explosives to blow up a small building, and of course they couldn't stop there.
"It's not too late for us to go back and call the others," Schneider said.
The two soldiers agreed with him, and the group of seven hurried back, but when they returned to the camp, they were all stunned.
The rest, both non-human and military, fell to the ground without their heads. The crimson blood looked black at night, gurgling out of the bowl-sized neck, staining the ground black. The thick bloody smell turned into a crimson mist that filled the seven faces that had lost their blood.
An inhuman Beta screamed.
However, Ethan, Samuel and Schneider are not unfamiliar with such scenes, but everything happened so quickly and so quietly, it still makes people feel a chill from the bottom of my heart.
Ethan's eyes seemed to float into distant memories, and he murmured absently, "The call just now was an invitation, they are waiting for us underground..."