After leaving the safe area of the nest, the road became difficult to walk on, there were caves and acupuncture points everywhere. Moreover, these caves and acupuncture points were large and small, wide and narrow.
Sometimes, the search team walked into a tunnel that was quite spacious at first, but as they walked along, the tunnel began to narrow and finally the entrance was so small that only a rat could crawl in.
When encountering such a situation, everyone can only retreat first and then use instruments to find other channels.
The deeper we went into the nest, the more clearly we could feel that the temperature was dropping significantly.
You know, this place is in the desert area, and it is daytime now. When Tianyang and his friends first came in, the surface temperature was very high. However, when they came underground and went deep into this evil lair, they felt that the temperature was dropping.
When the light was shone, Tianyang saw with his own eyes that many rocks in the cave were faintly blue in color and covered with a thin layer of ice.
Fortunately, the people participating in the search operation are Sublimators with superhuman physiques and are not affected by the low temperature. Even a Sublimator like Alice who is not good at combat can operate in such an environment.
As for ordinary soldiers, their full-body protective suits have a constant temperature system that can automatically adjust body temperature to ensure the safety of the soldiers' lives.
After walking for a while, Tianyang gradually heard the sound of water and felt that the entire terrain was going downwards. Not long after, they came to a natural stone cave as big as a square.
Stalactites can be seen everywhere in the cave, and the ground is not uneven. There is a small underground lake in the middle. A rock rises in the lake, like an island in the middle of the lake.
As the crowd got closer, they saw under the light that the rocks in the lake were covered with a dense layer of insects, the number of which was estimated to be at least 8,000.
They seemed to be molting, and one by one the grayish-white insects crawled out of their shells. They gently stretched out their new wings, and it seemed that they would be able to fly into the sky soon.
At this moment, a column of water suddenly exploded from the calm lake, and a vague figure jumped out of the water and pounced on the rock in the lake, greedily devouring the insects that had just shed their shells.
Under the light, you can see that the thing that is sweeping away the insects looks like a wolf but has no fur. Its entire body is smooth and even has scales like fish.
It is one-third larger than a wolf, with a particularly large head and a short snout, but can open its mouth very wide, very much like the mouthparts of a python.
Its front body is extremely sturdy, and even a simple movement can activate the muscles of its front limbs. Its two hind limbs are like reptiles, with thick and webbed feet.
The creature had long, messy teeth in its mouth, thick claws, and a bunch of glowing whiskers flying around its neck.
But what attracted everyone's attention was the irregular, large and small black and blue bacteria growing on the back of that thing!
Obviously, this was a monster parasitized by the anti-world fungi, but it was not known whether it had been controlled by the fungus. The monster ate all the flying insects on the rocks like a whirlwind, then suddenly turned its head and looked at everyone.
This thing has several eyes on its head, but at least half of its eyes have been occupied by protruding and overlapping fungi.
The remaining eyes were glowing red, with hyphae flying at the corners of the eyes, and it looked like it was not far from being completely controlled by the fungus.
Roar!
This evil roar
With a roar, it turned around and jumped into the lake. The people on the lakeside quickly retreated. At this moment, the wolf beast jumped out of the water, roaring, opening its mouth, and pounced on the soldier closest to it.
The warrior was suddenly pushed away. When the wolf closed its mouth, its messy sharp teeth bit a long sword with rising star energy. Then the long sword vibrated violently and swept forward.
Hiss, hiss, the wolf's head was cut off by a sword. The long sword came out from the side of its body, and suddenly there was a sound of splashing, and the blood and internal organs were smeared all over the ground.
The thing fell to the ground, nearly half of its body cut in half, but it was not dead yet and was still twitching and trying to get up.
When the light was shone, fungi were seen covering the organs and bones in the creature's body cavity.
boom!
A flame fell and sprayed on the creature's body, blood, and internal organs around it, burning everything related to the creature.
"It seems that the anti-world fungus has invaded this area."
Tian Yang said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I suggest that you split up into teams to search. The 'Devil's Brain' is very cunning, and it will hide itself in a safe enough place."
"And this nest is so big. If we work together, I don't know how long it will take to find the 'Devil's Brain'."
Although he was in charge of the overall situation at the base, Xiao Hanling, who was always paying attention to the movements of the search team, immediately said through the instrument: "Mr. Tianyang's suggestion makes sense. Let's do as he says and divide the team now."
"Everyone, search separately. If you find anything, contact headquarters immediately. I will make adjustments in time. Don't act alone. Please remember this."
So under Xiao Hanling's adjustment, the search personnel were divided into teams, and then left from different directions and different cave passages, continuing to go deeper into the evil spirit's lair.
at the same time.
In the Castle of War, Moonlight looked out the window and saw military vehicles moving back and forth in an orderly manner on the street.
She, Xitong and others had been taken to this military management area by the War God Fortress, where they would be under strict protection. Moreover, this area was completely isolated from other parts of the city in terms of water, energy and even underground sewer systems.
It can be said that this area is the safest place in the War God's Castle.
The people who were brought here were basically the families of the personnel working on the front line and the families of the fortress officials, so that those who were still fighting on the front line would have no worries.
Moonlight left the window and turned on the projection screen. Information was scrolling on the screen, informing people in the management area about the progress of the current infection in the city.
From the scrolling information, we can see that the reaction of Fort Ares was still very quick. After they discovered that the initial source of infection was the organisms in the river, they cut off the river water, quickly drained all the rivers in the city, and cleaned the rivers.
In addition, in order to prevent the rats in the sewers from becoming the medium for the spread of the anti-world bacteria, the Ares Castle has now sent troops into the city's sewer system to hunt and kill the rats there.
"The Castle of War is still quite reliable. I hope all this will be over soon." Moonlight sat down with her sword at her feet.
Liu Ya and others also keep their weapons at hand so that they can respond in time if any incident occurs.
Sewer.
In the darkness, a rat was running along the wall, about to get into a sewage pipe. Suddenly, a gunshot rang out, and the rat exploded. Then a stream of flames spurted out, burning the rat on the spot, turning it into a pile of charred bones.
Two soldiers in full body protective suits came over, one of them holding a rifle, and the other carrying a metal box and holding a powerful-looking gun.
That was a flamethrower that could spray out high-temperature flames and burn the mouse into charcoal in just a few seconds.
The two soldiers continued to move forward, and the one holding the rifle checked his position on the tactical board on his wrist from time to time. When they reached the end of the passage, they looked at each other and reported using the communicator: "This is Group 7 of the Belly Viper Squadron. We have completed the killing work in the area we are responsible for."
"Thank you for your hard work. Please confirm again and then go to the supply point to rest. There will be new tasks for you later."
After the call ended, the soldier holding the rifle sighed and said, "I heard that several people from Team 8 were attacked by parasites while they were maintaining order this morning. They have all been sent to the observation area. The captain said that the chances of them being parasitized are very high."
"Don't worry, we will definitely make it through this."
"We have discovered the original source of infection. The rivers have been diverted and cleaned. Now we just need to clean the sewers to cut off the transmission chain of those bacteria. The rest is just to deal with the parasites in the city. I don't think it will be a big problem." The soldier with the flamethrower said optimistically.
The two soldiers were walking back while talking, when suddenly they heard a slight sound.
The sound came from the left wall. The two soldiers quickly shone the light there and saw tiny cracks appearing on the wall.
Crackling, crackling, the cracks gradually widened, and it looked like something was squeezing them from behind.
The two soldiers looked at each other, and then the soldier with the rifle contacted the command center: "This is the 7th group of the Belly Viper Squadron. We have found something unusual..."
Before he could report it, he heard a creaking sound and a black mass squeezed out from the crack in the wall.
It turned out to be a rat, but its body was covered with black and blue fungi, its eyes were white and gray, and it was drooling. It suddenly rushed towards the soldiers.
"Damn it!" The soldier didn't bother to report and quickly raised his rifle. After three shots, he finally killed the rat.
The colleagues nearby quickly sprayed flames, burning the mouse's body and the bacteria on its body.
Just after doing this, the two men heard the sound of the wall cracking getting louder and louder. They saw the cracks on the wall increasing in size, and black rats squeezed out from them, as if there were thousands of rats behind the wall, which made the two soldiers' scalps tingle.
"Group 7 of the Belly Viper Squadron, please report your situation, please report your situation." The anxious voice of the liaison officer sounded in the communicator, but at this time, the soldier forgot to report.
There was a buzzing in their minds, and then rifles and spray guns opened fire at the same time, sweeping away the swarm of rats that poured out from the cracks in the wall.
Suddenly, the passage was filled with thunderous gunfire and billowing flames.
Only then did the soldier cry out: "Rats, so many rats! They are all infested, they are bursting the walls, my God, they are pushing the walls down. They are coming out, there are too many of them, we can't kill them all."
"Requesting support, requesting support!"