In the snowy land, mental scanning and linear scanning were prohibited, and the Nameless Team suddenly lost their sense of direction.
To find the alien spacecraft under the snow, we must first find the human Antarctic research base. Therefore, Meng Xiang and Zhuo Luo can only climb the road of search alone.
Both of them can use the skill of subtlety, through the ultimate energy, they can walk on the snow as if it were flat ground. Through subtle observation, they can find buildings in the snow, so the two of them immediately searched in opposite directions.
However, the use of mental scanning skills is prohibited. Once a companion is lost, it is difficult to reunite in the desolate ice and snow. Fortunately, Fang Ru invented the locator, and Meng Xiang and Zhuo Luo can easily reunite with their companions through the fixed navigation pointer.
Meng Xiang was running in the snow. To Meng Xiang, the soft snow was as solid as rock. He walked on the snow as if it were flat ground and left no traces. This was because the force of his stepping on the snow was all unloaded into the snow. The entire snowfield was more than capable of bearing his weight alone.
It is a very lonely thing to fly alone in Antarctica. There is a vast snowfield, it is impossible to tell the direction, and there is no life at all. Only a strong person like the Reincarnator has the courage to act alone.
"Eh... there seems to be a building over there." The perceptive Meng Xiang discovered that there were some buildings that looked like houses a few hundred meters away, so he immediately rushed over.
Sure enough, several bungalows were built in the area surrounded by several icebergs, but the bungalows were a bit dilapidated, as if no human had set foot here for a long time.
Meng Xiang walked over slowly. He didn't underestimate the enemy. The plot mission was to survive. There must be ferocious monsters all around. It was not known how strong the monsters were, but the A-level difficulty showed that those monsters were not very fragile creatures.
Moreover, the Lord God also gave them the defensive power of B-level defensive items. Ordinary firearms could not break through their defense in a short time.
Meng Xiang stepped forward and came to the bungalow. Suddenly, he seemed to touch a hard object with sharp edges. He moved away alertly and squatted down to take a closer look.
Digging through the snow, a black object caught Meng Xiang's attention. He trembled his right palm slightly, and the snow around the object dispersed with a "spray", revealing the object buried in the snow.
When Meng Xiang saw the object inside, he couldn't help but shudder and took two steps back.
This object was a strange shape formed by two human-like creatures fused together. Although its entire body was burnt like charcoal, its facial features could still be seen clearly.
The tentacles, the limbs, the twisted muscles, the big mouth with teeth split open from the chest... none of these were the factors that frightened Meng Xiang, but the two faces of humans that were almost stuck together, the expressions full of fear, pain, panic, and helplessness, which directly attacked Meng Xiang's soul and made him shudder.
This monster was very specific. Meng Xiang naturally recognized it. According to the plot of "The Thing: Prequel", the researchers fought with the monster at the base, and one of the men was injured and fell to the ground. Unable to escape, he was directly glued to his body by another human parasitized by the monster, and was fused alive. In the end, the monster was burned to death by a musket.
However, the appearance of this monster also means that the plot of "The Thing Prequel" has reached its end, and judging by the dilapidated state of the bungalow, even the plot of the sequel "The Thing" has passed a long time. In other words, the horror movie experienced by the nameless team this time is definitely a plot change.
Meng Xiang immediately reported to Fang Ru. Fang Ru was silent for a moment, then said, "Meng Xiang, check the bungalow to see if there is anything unusual. Clear away any obstacles. Also, do not destroy the instruments and data inside. In other words, when you fight, put away your beast-like power to annihilate the enemy with the least noise."
"Hmph, that's so easy to say. Come on, come and fight." Meng Xiang hung up the phone angrily.
However, what Fang Ru said was true. With Meng Xiang's strength, even if he had B-level defense power, he might not be able to withstand his bombardment.
Attacks at the atomic level are indestructible.
Meng Xiang stood up, upgraded his potential lock to level 4, and walked cautiously into one of the bungalows.
"Zizi... Zizi..." An inexplicable sound faintly entered Meng Xiang's ears, just like countless termites gnawing on a dead tree, and a thick sense of terror filled the surroundings.
Meng Xiang walked into the door and saw that it was in a mess, covered with white snow marks everywhere, debris scattered all over the floor, and there were signs of damage and burns everywhere, exactly the same as the marks left by the protagonist in the original plot after fighting with the monster.
Meng Xiang passed through the small door and walked into the corridor. Suddenly, through careful observation, he felt a black object behind the door approaching him rapidly. Meng Xiang hurriedly stepped back. A black shadow passed in front of him and a fishy smell hit his nose.
The black shape was a humanoid creature, with red flesh all over its body, like a human with the skin peeled off, its body was twisted and its head was cracked on both sides.
Strange shape.
The monster was like a spider, not walking on four limbs, but with two thick arms growing from its waist, moving along the ground. Its chest was split open like a mouth, filled with slippery mucus, and stretched out several thick, snake-like tentacles, making a very scary "sizzling" sound.
What surprised Meng Xiang was that, obviously, there was danger all around him, but he was unable to sense the enemy's attack through the sense of crisis of his potential lock. It was a sudden attack. If he did not have keen observation, he might not be able to avoid it.
The tentacles on the monster's chest kept twisting, like an arrow on a taut string, ready to shoot at any moment.
Meng Xiang kept in mind Fang Ru's instructions not to destroy the materials and items in the bungalow. He retreated carefully and sensed the movements around him through careful observation.
There were definitely more than one monsters lurking around, and there were at least several more eyeing him covetously.
Meng Xiang rushed out of the bungalow, and the strange shape came towards him. Suddenly, one of the tentacles in front of its chest stretched like a spring, and the tip of the tentacle opened and pierced Meng Xiang's heart like a sharp cone.
Meng Xiang was well prepared. He dodged the tentacle's attack with a light flash. Although it seemed easy, the attack speed of the tentacle was not much slower than a bullet. If he had not broken through to the third level of potential lock, he might not be able to capture such a high-speed attack.
The difficulty of level A is indeed extraordinary.
The monster missed the attack, and before its tentacles could be retracted, its entire body had already pounced towards Meng Xiang, with the muscles on its chest torn and two rows of fangs open, looking like a vicious shark.
Meng Xiang swept with a punch. This punch did not carry atomic-level attack power, but in terms of strength, it was enough to make a hole even in a steel wall.
"Bang!" Meng Xiang's punch was like hitting cotton, soft yet tough. When the whole monster was blown away, sticky flesh remained on his fist.
The monster rolled over on the snow, then got up again, roaring and seemed very angry.
The power of Meng Xiang's punch did not have atomic-level attack power, so it was normal that the B-level defense force could withstand a blow. However, what surprised Meng Xiang was that he felt something was wrong with his right fist. Even through the energy penetration, he was unable to control the energy particles on the surface of his right fist.
"Assimilated?" Meng Xiang was shocked. He punched out with his right fist and destroyed the alien energy attached to the body through subtle attacks. With a "pop", the entire skin of his right fist peeled off and rolled on the snow.
Meng Xiang quickly applied hemostatic spray to his right fist, secretly frightened. The monster's assimilation ability was so strange that even though his body cells were being replaced, he could not feel anything unusual. If he did not have the ability to penetrate energy, his whole body would probably be assimilated without him knowing it.
The monster's assimilation ability allows it to directly use its own cells to imitate and replace the parasitic cells, and work instead of the original cells. It's like a Ferrari sports car that is taken to a car factory for repair and is replaced with identical parts without the driver noticing.
Imitating cells, working in their place, evolving unconsciously, when these cells replace most of the cells in the original body, they break out of the shell directly. What's even more terrifying is that because of the cells' imitation ability, the monster can not only deform to a limited extent, but the brain of the parasite is not destroyed and it will not die immediately. They can only watch their bodies turn into monsters and kill, but their consciousness is still there, but they can't control their bodies.
The expressions of fear, grief, and a life worse than death will not disappear from the mind of the infected person until the strange cells completely control the body. At this time, the infected person is considered truly dead.
Because brain cells are the carriers of souls, and souls are the most mysterious substance in the universe. Even the strong ones with gene locks, even the main gods, cannot create or imitate souls, so monsters cannot replace brain cells. Their souls are imprisoned in the head. As long as the head is not destroyed, the parasitic person is not truly dead.
The person being parasitized is completely unaware, and only those with the ability to penetrate energy can discover that alien energy has infiltrated their body.
In other words, once a person with a potential lock level 3 or below comes into contact with these monsters, if he does not remove the blood and flesh attached to his body in time, he may be assimilated without knowing it.
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