In the original movie, after the bloodworm wreaked havoc in the South Safety Zone, it was led to the North Safety Zone by 01 who followed Holland's instructions, and finally caused heavy casualties. Now, Qin Minghui wants to lead it to other places.
A red arthropod as big as a building gradually became clear. It landed on the cover above the safe zone according to its original trajectory, and violently hit the cover above the safe zone with its tail stinger and knife-like sharp feet.
There is a cover there to collect sunlight and heat on sunny days, and the outer layer is a layer of glass.
Qin Minghui stood in front of the control console in 01's body, using 01's perspective to observe the bloodworm, which was a hundred times clearer than the perspective in the movie. She saw many strange small nodules on the bloodworm's body. She guessed that it might be because of the disease that made it crazy, so it left the group and attacked humans.
It seemed to be attracted to the glass and kept hitting it.
This scene was extremely terrifying for the people inside the safe zone. The houses in the civilian area on the ground were built very high, and these people almost watched the huge shadows falling on their heads. The hideous and terrifying bloodworms hit the protective shield, as if they would rush into the safe zone and wreak havoc at any time.
They had seen bloodworms passing by nearby in the previous spring, but at that time, the bloodworms were flying high in the sky and would not fall. It was also the first time for the people in the safe zone to see the bloodworms clearly at such a close distance.
Qin Minghui was not aware of the internal turmoil, but she guessed that the bloodworms must have caused panic. After seeing the bloodworms' situation clearly, she commanded 01 to fire the laser cannon, hitting the edge of the bloodworms' membrane wings.
Sure enough, the angry bloodworms let go of the glass of the safe zone and flew towards this side.
01 Turning forward, as he passed the tightly closed bunker, Qin Minghui shouted through the loudspeaker: "I will lead it away, and will go all the way to the place I mentioned before, and will come back when I find it."
Although searching for the legendary kingdom of machines is a vague idea, and making people rely on machines to survive is an attempt that sounds like it will take a long time, Qin Minghui feels that he may not be able to do it, but letting the old man in the bunker die with hope is much better than dying in despair.
[Airplane mode, on. Miss pilot, please fasten your seat belts.]
After hearing 01's reminder, Qin Minghui couldn't help but smile even though there was a terrible bloodworm following her.
This control room has a virtual system and an anti-gravity system. No matter how bumpy 01 is, she won't feel it here and it will always remain stable, so there are no seat belts or anything like that.
But 01 created a virtual one for her.
"Okay." Qin Minghui cooperated with her robot to save face and fastened her seat belt.
01's body deformed, and he flew in the sky at the slowest speed - although he could fly very fast, the bloodworm behind him could not. The power of anger made it take off from the safe zone and catch up, but it landed here because it was tired and wanted to rest. After taking off again, it was even more tired and its speed was much slower.
They went one after the other, crossing the large fields of the South Safety Zone, flying over hills one after another, leaving the South Safety Zone behind. Qin Minghui exhaled, "Okay, now we lead it a little further away."
The reason why we have to lure it away instead of killing it here is because this bloodworm is huge. If we want to kill it, even 01 will inevitably make it burst out of body fluids. The body fluids of the dead bloodworm will attract the bloodworm swarm and make them crazy. If there happens to be a safe zone nearby, then it's bad luck, the bloodworm swarm will definitely attack humans.
—This is how the Northern Safety Zone in the movie was destroyed.
After flying for a while, the bloodworm stopped to rest. 01 also stopped not far away, Qin Minghui rubbed the scars on his arm, "This is still not far enough from the safe zone, let's fly a little further."
Who knew that after the bloodworm had rested, it stopped chasing 01 and turned around. How could Qin Minghui let it go back to the safe zone? 01 fired another shot at it, burning some of its membrane wings.
It's not that she doesn't want to attack other places. Attacking other places will cause body fluids to splash out. Only those pairs of membranous wings are the safest.
The enraged bloodworm started to catch up again, flying back and forth for a whole day and night. Qin Minghui felt that it was finally far away this time. When she was considering whether to get rid of the bloodworm here, 01 suddenly told her:
[Miss, a new human safety zone base has appeared ahead.]
Qin Minghui: “…?”
She hurriedly stood up to take a look, and almost fainted. She almost wondered if it was fate's guidance. That hexagonal fortress on the ground must be the North Security Zone! How did the bloodworms come here again!
"Hurry, hurry, 01, turn around and go the other way!"
The bloodworm no longer wanted to pay attention to their provocation and wanted to go to the northern safe zone hesitantly. Qin Minghui tried every means to lead it to the other side and get back on the road.
She was puzzled as to why large groups of bloodworms rarely attacked humans, but this lone bloodworm was attracted to places where humans gathered
But the bloodworm would not answer her, and the two sides fell into a delicate stalemate. Qin Minghui was very careful this time and asked 01 to go in a direction where there were few people, so as to avoid accidentally leading the bloodworm to other safe areas.
The flight was boring, time passed very slowly, and Qin Minghui fell asleep unconsciously. She was exhausted from the schistosomiasis and finally couldn't hold on any longer after not sleeping all night.
The "driver" fell asleep, but 01 still carefully carried out the orders given to him by the young lady and led the bloodworm to a more remote and desolate place.
“Buzz buzz buzz—”
Qin Minghui fell asleep due to extreme tiredness. In her half-asleep and half-awake state, she was distracted by a strange sound. She suddenly opened her eyes and painfully covered her violently beating heart and her head with tinnitus.
The vibration in her chest was so intense that Qin Minghui panted and looked outside. 01 had stopped and was standing on a small island covered with green grass.
The ground in this area was all water, with only a few small islands protruding from the water. Not far from their island, bloodworms were resting on another island. The morning mist lingered on the water, blurring all the green trees and grass.
[Good morning, little lady. We landed here at midnight last night. According to my scan, this bloodworm is dying. Its current body function cannot support it to fly for a long time.]
Before Qin Minghui could say anything, she suddenly saw the bloodworm flapping its wings, looking very excited, and flying towards a certain direction.
"01, follow him!" Qin Minghui blurted out.
[Yes, little miss.]
"Buzz, buzz, buzz—" Qin Minghui heard that long humming sound again. The sound was too ethereal. Qin Minghui was not sure whether it was real or she was hallucinating. "01, did you hear this sound?"
[Miss, 01 heard it. The sound excited the bloodworm and stimulated its flight, just as Miss saw 01's human mimicry and showed stress behavior.]
Qin Minghui: “…” She was completely awake.
"What's making this sound? Could it be that this bloodworm has this reaction because it heard the voice of its companion?" Qin Minghui said as 01 had already taken her and followed the bloodworm to fly over a green hill that blocked the view.
Behind the mountain was a plain, and above the plain, a "white mountain" that could be seen at a glance occupied her sight.
That thing was so huge that it could only be described as a mountain. A bloodworm that big flew towards it and seemed like a mosquito in comparison. 01 also looked extremely small in front of that white mountain of flesh.
Its appearance is like a puffed steamed bun or flower roll.
Such a terrifying monster made Qin Minghui feel her scalp tingling and her whole body trembling the first time she saw it.
Without thinking too much, an idea came to her mind: this must be the nest of bloodworms.
She had only seen bloodworms in movies, but had never seen a bloodworm nest. Because she thought the body structure of bloodworms was a bit like that of bees, she had also imagined whether the bloodworm nest would be like a huge beehive, but now it seems that she guessed wrong.
The bloodworm flapped its wings hard and approached the white giant mountain. Qin Minghui and 01 stopped nearby.
They watched the bloodworms fly near the giant mountain, and the folds on the surface of the mountain, which were like shell patterns, suddenly opened up, revealing holes underneath. The dying bloodworms drilled into one of the holes, and the folds of the giant mountain closed again.
Qin Minghui murmured, "Is this a bloodworm's nest? But, this seems to be... a living thing?"
Although it was very slight, the snow-white mountain was wriggling. Especially when it unfolded its folds, it looked like some kind of fleshworm.
[Miss, there is an ancient city site ahead.]
Reminded by 01, Qin Minghui finally lowered his gaze from the giant to the ground. Although it was not clear, those tall buildings were indeed the product of human civilization.
At first glance, the abandoned city hidden in the trees showed an ashy silence. It was obviously a magnificent giant city, but it was insignificant in comparison with the huge bloodworms, so that people could not notice it at first glance.
"01, zoom in a little bit." Qin Minghui said suddenly.
She continued to zoom in on the scene in the distance. When it was zoomed in to the extreme, she saw many red plants growing in the abandoned cities occupied by plants, and a large number of bloodworms were wandering around those red plants.
"I can't see clearly." Qin Minghui hesitated whether to move closer. "Anyway, I'm in 01's body, it's okay. 01, come closer, we'll be quiet."
[Yes, little miss.]
01Falling into the forest, quietly hiding itself, treating itself as a large silver-grey stone. From this position, Qin Minghui could see more clearly. She saw red plants in the city growing from every corner, with slender flowers blooming. Bloodworms were busy collecting the juice of these red flowers like bees, and then flew up one after another.
The nearby white giant mountain once again unfolded the folds on its body, revealing holes for the swarms of bloodworms to enter.
After the folds closed, Qin Minghui heard the same buzzing sound again. This time she knew that it was the sound made by the snow-white giant mountain. All the folds on its body opened up, and air and white ash spewed out from countless holes.
The white ash flying all over the sky was like snow, covering the area within several thousand meters around it. The place where Qin Minghui and 01 were was also bathed in this "snow".
It’s actually a very beautiful scene, the quiet white snow in the green forest.
However, Qin Minghui had no intention of enjoying the beauty of the scenery this time. She smelled a faint scent and soon felt her throat itchy and she couldn't help coughing.
"Ahem... Ahem... Ahem, 01, let's go... Ahem!"
01 quickly took her away from that place and landed her beside a sheltered valley.
Qin Minghui kept coughing and saw strange blood clots on her palms and blood coming out of her nose. She came out of the control room and waited until she finally stopped coughing, then she quickly washed the blood off her face and hands by the stream.
[Miss, 01 scans show that your body is rapidly deteriorating.]
01 moved and stretched out his hand towards her. Qin Minghui looked up and saw a few white particles falling from 01's body, spinning and landing on her arm.
Almost instantly, Qin Minghui felt an itch. The place where her arm touched the dust started to itch, and in less than three seconds, deep red and purple marks quickly spread and began to fester.