With a "click", the hard cocoon shattered to the ground. A black shadow suddenly shot out from the cocoon shell, and it rushed straight into the dark upper space of the cave with a strange emerald green light. Then, as if he had hit something, Ling only heard the soft cry of a little animal being hurt. Following that green light fell down again.
It fell to the ground, bounced, hit the mountain wall, and rolled to Zero's feet.
Zero looked at it in surprise.
In sight, is a chubby body. The exposed part should be the belly, which is as white as snow. There are four small fleshy claws growing on the belly, and they are constantly scratching at the air. Then the thing rolled around very hard, letting its four paws touch the ground. Unlike its snow-white belly, it had a light yellow body. The head is completely connected to the body, and the little thing shaped like a ball has a pair of exaggeratedly large eyes.
The eyes are as round as the body, looking at Zero "watery".
Zero felt ominous for a while, but he had heard that some animals would regard the first creature they saw as their mother. Zero doesn't want to be a baby daddy, but it seems that reality can't help him choose. This little ball-like thing has a pair of "Z" shaped strange ears on its head. Let's call it an ear, but Zero doesn't know what kind of organ it is.
But as soon as the pair of ears opened, the membrane-like wings popped out. The thin wings vibrated at a high frequency, causing the little beast to fly. It flew high, and only then did Zero see clearly that there was a green diamond-shaped mark on this guy's forehead.
"Lala—" the little beast let out a joyful cry, and suddenly flew into Zero's arms.
It seemed to be very attached to Zero, its chubby body shook vigorously, and kept arching towards Zero's chest.
Zero picked it up with one hand and threw it directly to the other side of the cave. In this era when his own survival is a problem, Ling Ke has no time to keep a strange creature as a pet. The ball-like beast was thrown to the mountain wall and bounced back to the ground. It uttered an aggrieved cry at Zero. Then it continued to fly up, and threw itself into Zero's arms again.
Zero frantically pushed out, but this guy is really clingy. Zero was so annoyed that he grabbed it and pressed it against the wall, trying to make it stop for a while. Unexpectedly, this thing is really like a ball, and its body is extremely soft. Zero pressed slightly harder, and the little beast's body was immediately flattened.
"Lala—" it let out a low cry, but it sprayed out a stream of yellow ** from its mouth.
As soon as the yellow liquid touched the mountain wall, the hard rock melted quickly as if corroded by strong acid, and a pungent smell like sulfur wafted.
Ling Yizheng, thinking of this thing, it seems to be a new life evolved from the gold swallowing bug. The stomach acid of the gold swallowing bug is the most powerful corrosive liquid in the world, it can dissolve the composite armor, and it is only a child's play to melt the rocky mountain wall now.
However, this made Zero think of a possibility.
Zero carried the little beast back again, and the little thing that had recovered its round shape looked at Zero, and suddenly shivered.
Hans opened his eyes, his body is recovering. Although due to the decline in energy in the body, the recovery speed is much slower. But as the bones healed, Hans stood up from the ground even though his blown left hand hadn't regenerated.
Because Zero was right in front of him, the smell of flesh and blood on Zero stimulated Hans' senses like a stimulant. Hans was so hungry now that he just wanted to tear up the bits and pieces.
But he also found that there was something extra in Zero's hand. That thing is round and has a pair of big eyes. It doesn't look like a weapon, but it looks like some kind of creature.
Naturally, Hans could not tell what it was. He didn't care, whether it was a weapon or a creature, Hans didn't even care about zero, so why would he care about this little thing.
He grinned grimly and walked towards Zero.
Zero looked at him blankly, raised the little beast in his hand, and then clasped his hands together vigorously. The little beast's body was immediately flattened, and it let out a "la la" cry, and immediately ejected a yellow water arrow from its mouth.
The water arrow landed on Hans without hindrance, and Hans was taken aback, obviously unable to judge the significance of Zero's move. But immediately, he found that the body part sprayed by the water arrow melted quickly like ice and snow under the sun.
Hans hadn't realized what happened, but Zero kept squeezing the little beast, spewing out high-concentration strong acid. The little beast was like an acid machine gun, squeezed to tears by Zero, but unexpectedly sprayed acid water all over Hans' body.
As soon as those yellow liquids touched Hans' body, they dutifully decomposed Hans' muscles, bones, blood vessels and fibers. Hans finally panicked, he found that his strong body did not recover as quickly as before. Day after day of consumption makes the energy in the body unable to be replenished, and the speed of body regeneration cannot keep up with the corrosion of concentrated acid. This made the monster that Zero couldn't kill no matter what, but now he was cornered by a new life form evolved from the gold swallowing bug.
This reminds Zero of an old saying in Eastern countries: One thing is one thing!
Hans roared in despair, and he threw himself at Zero. Unexpectedly, the legs were already rotten, and the force broke immediately. His legs were rotten like mud, and Hans fell to the ground. He was like a brittle ceramic doll, and when he touched the ground, his whole body was instantly smashed to pieces.
Blood and flesh sprayed all over Zero's face, and Zero finally stopped squeezing the little beast. This little thing was also sprayed by Hans' blood, it seemed very disgusted, it immediately broke free from Zero's hands, floated in mid-air, shook vigorously, and flung the blood away like a puppy.
Zero wiped his face and looked at Hans with some sighs. This monster has an infinite regeneration physique, and it can be called a perfect creature, but it doesn't want to be corroded alive with strong acid by the new life form evolved by the gold swallowing bug. But no matter what, he was able to kill Hans, and Zero finally completed the last commission of Old Jack, and he was also relieved.
But he didn't notice that such a tiny part of Hans' blood that covered his whole body was absorbed by his own blood capillaries. Naturally, Zero will not notice the anomaly that needs to be observed with a high-powered microscope. All he wants now is to go back to the base, take a shower, and get a good night's sleep.
After all, he hadn't closed his eyes for three days.
And after the battle between sniping and being sniped, Zero felt that there seemed to be an extra evolutionary point in his body, and the ability to enhance agility also showed signs of breaking through to the second level. Sure enough, the power of the new era can be obtained with potions, but the more direct and convenient method is the battle between life and death!
"Lala—" Behind him, seeing that Ling was about to leave, the ball-like beast immediately flew over, looking at Ling pitifully.
Zero frowned and looked at it, then looked at Hans' body, and finally sighed: "Well, I owe you a favor."
The implication is that he agrees with this little thing to follow him. I don't know if I understood Zero's meaning, the little beast let out a joyful cry, flew onto Zero's shoulder and lay down.
Zero shook his head helplessly, he only hoped that this guy's appetite would not be as huge as its parents.
He lifted his foot and was about to leave, but his heart beat suddenly. There was an indescribable feeling passing through his body like an electric current, and Zero suddenly opened his eyes wide, and just fell straight to the ground. The little beast was frightened, looking at Zero on the ground at a loss, it flew to the ground, trying to use its body to hug Zero.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the body touched zero, the little beast shrank back.
Zero's body was exuding an unnaturally high heat.
When Zero woke up again, it was already two days later. After waking up, Ling felt very energetic, and his physical condition had never been better. He was a little puzzled, saying that this was the second time he fainted suddenly. The first time he was in a coma happened two years ago, after he solved the butcher in the mission of Silver Tree City, when he left the hospital, Zero suddenly fell into a coma with unknown reasons.
The only thing in common between the two stuns is that after the dramatic battle, Ling Xin wanted to fall into a stun after every fierce battle, which is not a good phenomenon.
But now is not the right time to study this issue. I have been away from the base for five days, and I don't know what is going on now. With this question in mind, Zero walked back to the base along the passage opened by the gold swallowing bug with the little ball-like beast.
Two hours later, Zero arrived at the mining area of the Z7 base. The mining area is surprisingly quiet. It seems that due to Hans' destruction, the production of the base has not yet resumed. This indirectly also explains another problem, that is, the Parkland chaebol has not yet taken over the base, otherwise it must be a different scene.
Fortunately, the base's power supply has been restored. The gate that separated the base from the mining area was rumbling open after Zero tapped the button.
However, behind the opened gate of the base, a strange scene appeared.
The bodies of those who died unfortunately have been cleaned up. The entrance platform of the work area is as clean as before, but now it is surrounded by dozens of surviving miners. Among them, Zero saw the person in charge named Jieto, who was saying something to everyone with his hands raised.
But these are not important, the important thing is that Leah appeared in the middle of the crowd. Everyone, including Gerto, stayed away from her as if she were some terrible monster. Liya lowered her head, the familiar figure, but without the familiar vigor of the past. And this scene made Zero feel familiar, it was somewhat similar to the scene when Hans and Rita were about to be deported two years ago.
Zero's heart skipped a beat.
His appearance naturally attracted the attention of others. When the door opened, all eyes fell on him. Only Lia remained with her back to him, motionless.
"What's going on here?" Zero asked in a deep voice.
Jieto's eyes first fell on Zero, then moved to the two large-caliber pistols on his waist, and finally whispered: "Sir, we...we are going to expel Leah..."
"What's the reason?"
"Infection! Virus infection!" Jieto became excited and said: "Sir, look at Miss Leah's face. We don't want to do this either, but the people from the Parkland head office have not arrived. To ensure everyone's safety , we are forced to."
Zero silently walked to Leah's side, and Leah lowered her head. Blonde hair fell down to cover her left cheek.
Stretching out his fingers, Zero gently brushed Lia's hair. Under the hair, the originally fair skin now showed a strange dark red color. There are black lines appearing on the dark red skin, like the blood vessels of a monster. There was also a change in Liya's left eye. The white part of her eye was abnormally large, but the pale golden pupil before had now turned pure black.
The black pupils were more than twice as small as normal, and they were embedded in the large whites of the eyes, making Lia look indescribably terrifying.
The hair hangs down, covering the left face that looks like a ghost. Zero sighed, the beautiful girl from yesterday no longer existed. Old Jack's death, the inexplicable virus, has already buried Leah's heart in the grave.
"You saw that too, sir. She has to go," Gerto said emphatically.
Zero nodded: "Yes, she has to go."
Hearing Zero's words, Lia lowered her head even lower.
"However, I will go with her." Zero seemed to be saying something unimportant, with a tone as flat as water.
Leah raised her head in astonishment, and looked at Zero. Zero squeezed her hand tightly and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely cure you. I promise!"
Zero's eyes were calm and firm. In those golden pupils, the half of Liya's still beautiful face was reflected.
Just like when the two first met.
Leah discovered that Zero's eyes had never hesitated or blurred. She saw her own clear figure in Zero's pupils.
"Yeah." Leah nodded slightly but equally firmly. Just today, at this very moment, she handed her destiny into the hands of this man from now on!