In the darkness, pupils of two colors, green and bright red, light up. Under the light of the reddish radiation cloud, a two-headed monitor lizard emerged from the underground waterway and began to forage for food.
It was a mutated lizard the size of a hound. The surface layer is covered with scales that can refract ambient light, and can integrate the color of its own body with the surrounding environment. This ability has a high degree of concealment, but it is still far from the complete invisibility of lurkers.
A mutated double-headed monitor lizard with a sac-like organ in the mouth of each head. Venom and fuel are stored in this organ, and there is a small hole in the organ, which has the function of compressing and squeezing. When the monitor lizard needs it, the two big heads can spray out poisonous mist and flames.
The two-headed monitor lizard is not a very powerful mutant beast. Due to the limitation of its body structure, its combat radius is limited to an arc-shaped space within three meters in front of its head. For hunters familiar with monitor lizards, this mutant beast can be easily killed by cutting in from behind.
Right now, the monitor lizard sprints into a building. This is a residential building with more than twenty floors. However, due to the baptism of meteorite rain in the past and years of weathering, the buildings with more than six floors have tilted and collapsed. Now the body of the building is embedded in a supermarket across the street, stretching across the street, becoming a huge barricade.
Monitor lizards have sharp noses, and they are born with short-sighted eyes. The limit of vision is equal to the combat radius. Especially in the middle of the night, the monitor lizard's vision is greatly reduced. But they have degraded eyesight, but they have a keen sense of smell. Especially for the smell of blood, the monitor lizard was very familiar with it.
It swam into this abandoned building, just because the imperceptible smell of blood in the air attracted it.
Bloody means having fresh flesh, and fresh flesh means food. For monitor lizards that have not had any food for three days, this is no different than a big meal. Monitor lizards have thick pads on their feet that make them move silently. In this way, the giant lizard quickly came to the fifth floor along the corridor. There are four doors on both sides of the long corridor. The monitor lizard is like a hunting dog. Every time it passes a door, it arches its nose and sniffs the air inside the door to identify the source of the bloody smell.
In front of a door on the left at the end of the corridor, the monitor lizard's two pairs of eyes lit up at the same time, and it has already determined that the food is in this house. So it arched its head and pushed open the vacant door.
Half of the house was piled up with collapsed waste soil and masonry, and a shallow bloodstain started from the window of the room facing the street and continued towards the bedroom. The monitor lizard followed the bloodstain to the bedroom. In the well-preserved bedroom, there was a figure huddled in the direction of the corner. That fresh smell of blood came from this human being.
The monitor lizard swam over, and only after getting close did it see clearly that the human seemed to have passed out. The constant ups and downs of his chest showed that he was not a corpse. For the monitor lizard, a fresh living person was enough for it to eat for several days. And beside this human being, there was a strange creature.
This chubby creature looked very weak, and the diamond-shaped coat of arms on its forehead was flickering with faint green light once in a while.
Although the monitor lizard would eat other mutated creatures when it was extremely hungry, but now that there was a big living person in front of it, it was not willing to try the strange meat quality of mutated beasts. Compared with mutated creatures, human flesh is more delicious, which also makes human beings the common food for almost all mutated beasts.
So it swam silently towards the human in the corner. The man was sitting on the ground, so the monitor lizard could easily reach the height of his neck. One of the giant lizard's mouths opened, and the sharp inverted teeth would easily bite off the fragile neck of a human.
But at this moment, the human being who was still in a coma a moment ago suddenly opened his eyes.
The monitor lizard instinctively sensed the danger, and before it had time to retreat, the upper and lower jaws of its open mouth had already been grasped by the man with both hands. His seemingly weak palms were not scratched by the sharp teeth of his mouth when he grabbed the monitor lizard tightly.
The human in the corner suddenly opened his mouth and exhaled a burst of hot air, followed by a sudden burst of force from his hands. He moved to both sides, and unexpectedly broke off the monitor lizard's big mouth. The torn muscle spattered turbid yellow lizard blood, and a few spots splashed on his lips. The man inadvertently licked it with his tongue, and then his eyes lit up.
Seeing this look, the other remaining head of the monitor lizard suddenly panicked. It is very familiar with this kind of eyes, and whenever it sees the food it likes, it will show such eyes. But one of the heads fell into the hands of others, and the monitor lizard had no way out.
The person who was still sitting on the ground suddenly jumped up. He stepped heavily on the other head of the monitor lizard, and lifted his hands vigorously. The monitor lizard only felt severe pain, and the muscle between its two big heads was torn immediately. As the lizard scales splashed, more lizard blood flowed out.
The man let out a low cry, but bit the monitor lizard's wound with his mouth like a beast. The next moment, the monitor lizard was horrified to find that the blood in his body was continuously flowing into the man's mouth.
The roles of hunter and prey were immediately reversed. The monitor lizard did not expect that it would fail to hunt, but would end up being someone else's food.
It struggled desperately, but the man's hands and feet were like cast iron, and with the strength of the monitor lizard, he couldn't break free. And with the loss of blood, the strength of the monitor lizard became weaker and weaker. In the end, it finally gave up resistance and quietly waited for death to come.
When he found that there was no more fresh blood to suck from his mouth, Zero slowly let go of the monitor lizard. The giant lizard was already dead, and the corpse that lost almost 90% of its blood lay limp on the ground.
If someone saw Zero now, he would find a crazy look in his eyes, like a hungry beast. It took a while for this look to fade away. When his eyes returned to their usual indifferent look, Zero looked at his hands and the corpse of the giant lizard on the ground in disbelief.
He only remembered that when he woke up just now, he suddenly saw the monitor lizard, and with the consciousness of self-protection, he broke the monitor lizard's mouth. However, when the monitor lizard's blood entered his body, and the fishy and sour blood rolled down Zero's esophagus into his body, Zero's instinct sent out a requesting signal.
He had lost too much blood and desperately needed fresh blood. So the instinctive reaction immediately overwhelmed the reason, which made Zero suck up the monitor lizard's blood like a vampire bat. And after eating a full meal of lizard blood, Zero clearly felt that the vitality in his body was constantly recovering.
There was a slight itching from the wound on the left arm, which was a sign of the wound healing. Zero unwrapped the bandage on his arm, and the lost flesh and blood had grown back. The new muscles and skin are still slightly flushed, and this color will fade within 24 hours. By then, Ling's arm will look as if it has not been injured.
He moved his left hand, and the signal from the arm to the brain told him that in fact the function of the arm had not yet fully recovered. Both the strength of the muscles and the response of the nerves have dropped by about 10% to 20% compared to usual. Although the lost blood essence was supplemented to a certain extent, the lizard blood was a foreign substance after all, after zero's body absorbed and decomposed it, only less than 30% of it could be used.
This is not enough for Zero to recover all of his vitality. Now he only seems to have recovered roughly, but when he wants to fight, he can't even display half of his usual combat power.
Zero looked at the tactical watch, which showed the words 4:23. Looking out of the window, the eastern sky is brighter than other directions, and dawn is coming. But before dawn, the world is plunged into the deepest darkness. And during this period, which was also the most dangerous moment in the wilderness, Zero could feel the needle pricks clearly coming from his skin. These dangerous signals came from unidentified creatures that were almost everywhere in the ruins.
Now is the time when these creatures are the hungriest. Zero picked up Lala and prepared to leave. He didn't intend to be the food of the mutant beast, even if he was still weak.