What else could Li Shaoheng say? He had originally planned to take charge, but the person in front of him was obviously more experienced than him, so he could only obey his orders.
Just before leaving, an unexpected person came to see him.
"As I remember, your name is... Liu Qian?" Li Shaoheng frowned and asked.
Elsa nodded slightly and clenched her fists slightly.
She wanted to go into the hatchery with the team.
Originally, An Yu also wanted to join in, but she really couldn't overcome the psychological shadow.
"But no, you're too weak."
Li Shaoheng shook his head. Even if he possessed strange abilities, the strength of a mid-level awakener was still not enough.
Even Cen Xiangyun was sent back to the company branch, not to mention this little sister named Liu Qian.
"If you really care about the White Witch, then wait here for news."
Li Shaoheng sighed, then turned and walked towards the hatchery with the team.
"Perhaps, not knowing is good news," he muttered to himself.
... ...
"Xiao Ling? Is get out of class over so early?"
In the kitchen, the sister sat up and looked in surprise at the white-haired girl who walked in from the door.
Before her surprised expression was even half revealed, a cold sword light flashed.
It was cut in half in an instant.
Blood and flesh were splattered and corpses were scattered.
Luo Ling stood silently in front of her sister's body, looking indifferently at the blood flowing on the ground, counting silently in her heart.
"Three... Two... One..."
The blood turned into pus, and the body that was cut in half turned into broken fungi, lying on the ground.
The extended hyphae gently wrapped around Luo Ling's ankle, like a sister's gentle caress.
But Luo Ling knew that these were all fake.
It's a puppet rumor.
"The thirty-second one."
Luo Ling killed thirty-two sisters with her own hands, and each of them was as real as her memory, kind and gentle.
But they are all fake.
All... are fake.
She entered the game alone, competing with the most powerful "egg" of Puppet Rumor for nutrients in the hatchery. She would be affected by it, just like the last fight in the underground cave in Baiyan Village.
The "egg" wanted to eat her, so she had to eat the "egg".
Gnaw, tear, swallow.
Finish.
It was like a dream starting over again, and Luo Ling naturally went shopping with her sister.
Her sister held her arm, the familiar scent clinging to her, and they walked past a beautiful skirt, slowing down their pace.
Luo Ling recognized the skirt; it was the one her sister had been obsessed with the last time she and her sister were shopping in the mall.
Quite expensive for my sister.
She only looked at him a few more times and then hurried away, as if she was afraid of being seduced away.
"The thirty-third."
The knife fell with a sudden movement.
It was still the sister's body that fell down, and the people around who were fleeing in panic looked at Luo Ling, who was covered in blood, in horror.
This time, even after silently reciting it dozens of times, my sister's body did not turn into fungus.
Luo Ling stood there for a long time, and it seemed that the police had already arrived.
The noisy exclamations of the crowd mixed with the slight panic in Luo Ling's heart, as if to pull her away from her cold heart.
She squatted down slightly and picked up her sister's body parts.
He continued his previous actions woodenly.
All the sounds gradually faded away, the mottled colors dimmed, and there was endless silence again.
End again.
... My sister is dead.
All the sisters that appear are fake, no matter how real they are, they are still fake, they are all puppet rumors.
Only by eating them all and swallowing them all can we truly save everything and fulfill Ji Ying's last wish.
Luo Ling told himself this.
The puppet wanted to use her and her sister's memories to kill her, and it really thought it could defeat itself in this way.
That's ridiculous.
"The thirty-fourth."
"The thirty-fifth."
"... ..."
Unconsciously, the black ice seemed to have been melted into bloodstains that could not be washed away, and the tip of the strange blade was stained with dots of bright red.
Luo Ling raised his head and looked around, and found that there were only broken walls and ruins all around. High-rise buildings covered with fungi had collapsed, and broken corpses could be seen everywhere on the road.
The fungus strain that had grown to the point of reaching the sky was now showing an unprecedented decline. This "egg" filled with Ji Ying's hatred and despair had reached its end.
But the battle is not over yet.
It’s not over until it’s completely swallowed up.
Luo Ling held the sword in his backhand and continued to move closer to the fungus strain along the broken steel bars and cracked stones.
At this moment, some strange noises suddenly appeared behind Luo Ling.
She turned her head and vaguely saw some figures swaying.
In a trance, tall buildings seemed to rise from the ground again, and the endless stream of people and vehicles were moving in an orderly manner on the paved road again.
In front of the flashing red and green traffic lights, pedestrians were staring at her with strange and wooden eyes.
"Is this another illusion in memory?"
"You've learned your lesson. You no longer let your sister show up..."
"But the result is still the same."
Luo Ling raised the dagger slightly, pointed it at the passers-by who were staring at him eagerly, and said softly,
"No matter how many times it takes, I will accompany you to the end."
The silver-white girl stood alone on the ruins, her terrifying pure white eyes looking down at the people who broke into the hatchery.
"The target has been found! Everyone be alert, the target is showing strong aggressiveness!"
Chapter 90: Human Conspiracy (4k5)
This was not the first time for everyone present to enter a hatchery, but it was basically the first time for everyone to enter a hatchery like this one, which had just been formed and was highly dangerous and strange.
Generally speaking, the weird hatcheries are quite hidden. After all, they are barriers set up by the weird to protect the hatching process itself. Just like in Baiyan Village, it is more important to hide one's own existence than to restrict intruders in the hatchery.
Therefore, by the time a hatchery is discovered, it is usually some time after it has been established.
The stronger the monster, the longer it takes to hatch. Even dangerous monsters take as short as a few years and as long as several decades.
But a hatch as unexpected as this one... is truly unheard of.
Therefore, even though they are all high-level awakeners, everyone in the company is very cautious.
After forcibly breaking through the hatchery's barrier, Li Shaoheng and others carefully crossed the dividing line and finally stepped into the hatchery.
Looking at the miserable corpses and traces left by strange creatures everywhere, and looking further away, flesh, blood, buildings, and mycelium are intertwined with each other.
What's even more terrifying is that some of the strange creatures are still moving. Beneath their cracked flesh are wriggling mycelium, but their movements are the same as usual, just like ordinary humans walking and working in an ordinary city.
The machine numbly yet vividly repeats everything that happened in life.
Looking up slightly, I saw huge and ferocious fungal strains sitting on several collapsed buildings in the distance, and the radiating hyphae extended into the underground of the city. This was the destination of this trip.
Even though they were all veterans who had experienced many battles, the bizarre and terrifying scene before them still made several of the younger P7 specialists turn pale.
"... the scene is not much different from that of Baiyan Village."
Li Shaoheng stared at the situation in the hatchery. These hyphae absorbed the host's memory, imitated the host's movements, and even reproduced the host's emotions perfectly.
If it hadn't been damaged... it would be hard to tell the real from the fake.
“Don’t touch them. Although these monsters are only equivalent to the strength of fifth to sixth level awakeners, there are so many of them... Even if only one tenth of them are still there, it will be difficult for us to deal with them.” Li Shaoheng said in a low voice.
The incident happened on a weekday, and at least 20,000 people gathered in the center of the county. When the hatchery was launched, at least 5,000 or 6,000 people did not have time to escape. One tenth of them is 500 or 600...
There are five or six hundred fearless middle-level awakeners with special abilities. Even if they cannot overwhelm the squad with their numbers, after they are hard to deal with, they will basically not have much decent combat power left.
Don't forget, the real goal of this operation... not to completely eliminate the puppet rumor, but at least to find out the information about its capabilities.
The team carefully avoided these floating mycelium creations and continued to move deeper into the hatchery.
The reason why Li Shaoheng's spatial ability was not used was that he was worried that the place where he landed would be surrounded by the enemy.
However, as he went deeper into the hatchery, Li Shaoheng discovered that... the number of strange creatures was getting smaller and smaller, and even the hyphae that should have spread everywhere had become sparse.
It seems that it has experienced many fierce battles.
While Li Shaoheng was still estimating, a cry of surprise rang out from the team.
"Target spotted! Everyone be alert, the target is showing strong aggressiveness!"
So fast
Li Shaoheng was stunned. He looked up and saw the mysterious girl whom he had met once at the station.
The floating silver-white are all hyphae with will, the indifferent eyes are like dead ashes, and the delicate little face has no expression.
She raised a powerful sacrificial vessel with obvious signs of forging in her hand and pointed it at them.
"careful!"
Countless hyphae emerged from the surroundings, and the huge fungal strain entangled with the building in the distance swayed, as if it had noticed this side and greedily stretched out its tentacles.
For the weird, the awakened ones are a great tonic, and the higher-level awakened ones are even better tonics.
It takes at least a thousand ordinary people to match one upper-level awakener.
How could the company team that broke into the hatchery not know this? They were already prepared the moment they accepted the challenge. When the hyphae emerged all around, their abilities manifested and all were wiped out.
But what couldn't be stopped was the sword of the mysterious girl.
Just when everyone was distracted fighting the mycelium, a silver-white light flashed and three teammates were injured instantly.
If Li Shaoheng hadn't used his ability to pull them back in time, this sword would have been enough to cut off their heads.
"This is the way to fight..."
Li Shaoheng was somewhat surprised. This girl, whose ability was obviously that of a puppet, was using physical combat...
Shouldn't it be that the mycelium extends out, absorbs the flesh and blood and replaces it, thus creating a strange creation
Also... this dagger should be a sacrificial weapon, right
She seems to be using it as a normal blade...
At this moment, the girl's figure obviously paused, but she quickly turned around again and attacked again silently.
If the girl was alone, her speed would indeed be impressive, but not to the point of being exaggerated, and she could still handle it.