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"It seems that there has been internal strife here..."
Zero said that others acquiesced to his point of view. The cultivation room full of blood plasma, and the traces of the battle in the corridor, have already shown that they arrived before they arrived. There has been one or even many civil wars in this pyramid. Perhaps, this is also the reason why the two powerful alien life forms outside fought each other with their lives. The hatred for each other even made them turn a blind eye to the invaders like Zero.
"Anyway, this may be a good thing for us. Let's go, we can use the gap below to reach the lower corridor." Zero came to the gap and asked, "Is there any safety rope?"
Haiwei took out a roll from her backpack and shook it: "This is the last roll."
Visually measuring the length to be about 100 meters, he nodded and said: "It's enough, I'll go down first. Wait for my signal, then fix one end of the rope and throw it to me."
"Understood, head." Haiwei said succinctly.
The anti-gravity field was turned on, Zero floated up, and then slowly descended from the void through the gap. After a while, they arrived at the cultivation room on the floor below, and floated in through the gap in the wall. This cultivation room is filled with a faint yellow smell, and there are many corpses besides the blood all over the floor. The corpses were some alien species that hadn't had time to take shape, some had eight limbs and a head like an octopus; some were as big as a hunting dog but looked like a tyrannosaur; From the perspective of organs and claws, living beings are weapons for killing.
The corpse seemed to have been broken through the cocoon, and then flowed out, and then stopped growing due to lack of nutrient supply, and finally died inside.
One side of the cultivation room was dim, and a strange sound sounded from the depths of the shadows. Zero took the searchlight and flicked around. Wherever the light went, there were traces of soul-stirring battles. Suddenly, the light seemed to pass by something. Zero quickly turned back the lights, and in the corner of the cultivation room, there was a figure with his back to Zero.
It looks like a man, wearing a costume similar to that of a black owl. The black robe on his body was stained with blood, and the drooping head blocked half of the messy black hair. He picked up something on the ground and brought it to his mouth, followed by the chewing sound of "bazibazi". Zero glanced at the alien corpses around him, thoughtfully.
Perhaps sensing the light, the man froze. Followed by hand down. Beast-like hook claws had grown on the ten fingers of those hands, and some callus-like hard skin tissue appeared on the surface of the skin. He stood up and turned around slowly, revealing a hideous face. Under the black messy hair, there was no reason on this pale, distorted face, only primitive animality.
The man has a surprisingly large mouth, with a slit on both sides of the lip extending to the base of the ear, which allows his mouth to open and swallow the foot of a foreign species alive. When the big mouth was opened, it was not difficult to see a circle of sharp teeth all over the mouth. When he saw Zero, he spat out the half-chewed thing in his mouth, then opened his mouth wide and let out a sharp howling sound.
The invisible sound waves caused a gust of wind in the cultivation room.
Inside the originally silent pyramid, there was a subtle but dense sound. It seemed that something was awakened by the guy in front of him.
"Damn it." Ling An cursed.
The man stopped howling, closed his mouth, and even his expression was not as scary as before. Except for some yellow and red spots on his face, if you remove these, it is not difficult to see that he has a handsome appearance. This inevitably reminded Ling of Hei Xiao, the equally feminine and handsome Shadow Clan elder, and after careful observation, this man and Hei Xiao had other things in common.
Such as the pointed ears protruding from the black hair, and the eyes like black jewels.
Perhaps, the man in front of him is from the Shadow Clan. At least, it used to be!
The man lowered his body slightly, the big mouth was split open again, and a threatening growl like a beast came out from the mouth. A cloudy liquid flowed out of his mouth and dripped to the ground. It seemed that he regarded Zero as fresh and delicious food. This made Zero very uncomfortable, and he frowned slightly. At this moment, the man moved. He stomped on the ground with both feet, causing the entire cultivation room to tremble slightly.
A circle of powerful invisible impact swept across the surroundings, blowing some corpses of the alien species to roll. The next moment, the man disappeared. He turned into a cloud of black mist, quickly swept along the ground towards Zero's feet, and then suddenly turned and changed his trajectory in front of him. Sliding up the wall, came to the ceiling, jumped out of the black mist following the figure, and landed behind Zero!
The whole process was faster than lightning, it took no more than a second from when he charged to entering the attack state, and it was completed in the blink of an eye. The hand shaped like a beast's claw slammed towards Zero's back, and the man could even imagine the feeling of digging open the human body with his fingers and touching Zero's warm and constantly beating heart.
But he came up short.
Zero disappears like air.
In an instant, it flashed out from the secondary space on the left side of the man again, and punched the man's cheek heavily, shaking the entire cultivation room. Amidst the dull sound of blows, there was the sound of "cracking" fractures at the same time. The man's body whirled and flew out, slammed into the wall and bounced back to the ground, shaking the blood that had solidified like glue into the air.
After a while, he propped himself up from the blood plasma. The man's head was tilted unnaturally, apparently Zero's punch just now had broken his neck. Not to mention ordinary people, even a capable person would have died long ago after being hit so hard. But he held his head with both hands as if nothing happened, and then turned it back. Then the muscles in the neck rose and fell, and there was a continuous light shock sound, as if there was no injury at all, and he looked at Zero again like a bloodthirsty beast.
Zero knew that the man used muscular tissue to fix the broken bone of the neck, which is no longer something that ordinary ability users can do. It is conceivable that some abnormalities must have occurred in this man.
An energy aura overflowed from the man's body, and gradually formed an energy brilliance like black mist. In Zero's perception, his strength has risen to the ninth level. The robe on the back of the man surged, and then five or six tentacles that looked like octopuses pierced out. The tails of these tentacles were aimed at Zero, and each tentacles opened a small mouthpart. These are the capture organs, one of the tentacles stood upright like a snake, followed by the electric shot. The black shadow pierced through the air and pierced Zero's chest with a sharp whistling sound.
Zero skidded to dodge, but then, the tentacles behind the man kept shooting towards Zero like a machine gun. They are fast and powerful. And the length of the tentacles seems to be adjustable at will. Zero's figure flashed in the cultivation room, leaving fragments of afterimages. But no matter where he appears, the tentacles can always reach him, which makes zero testing his attack distance a meaningless action.
Every time these tentacles hit the wall or the corpse of a certain alien species, a hole the size of a fist would be left. From this, Zero knew how the hollows he had seen in the corridor above came from. Obviously, the man in front of him is the best explanation.
After a series of fruitless machine gun attacks, the tentacles stopped suddenly. They all moved back slightly, and after recharging their power, they fired at Zero not far away at the same time. Zero snorted, his figure advanced instead of retreating. Probe forward and let the tentacle land on the empty space. With one step, he was already in front of the man when he landed. There was a faint golden light on the fists, and then the fists flickered, and the howling sounded like a heavy cannon piercing the air in the cultivation room.
The dull sound of piercing through the air resounded continuously, and the fists wrapped in heavy warheads landed on the man's body five to six times per second. The man's body kept shaking, and even his feet were lifted off the ground by Zero's high-frequency attack. He was shaking involuntarily like a puppet manipulated by someone. Every time it shakes, a mouthful of black and purple blood will be sprayed out from its mouth.
After the boxing lasted for nearly half a minute, Zero's right fist flashed for the last time, and four or five fist shadows were drawn between the fist and the man's body, and then overlapped and imprinted on the man's chest in an instant. A circle of pale golden ripples scattered away, setting off a gust of wind in the cultivation room. The man's back sprayed like a column of blood, and the tentacles were blown apart by the energy impact passing through his body, and they were still twitching as the blood scattered to the ground.
The man fell to the ground and finally remained motionless. A broken blood hole appeared in his chest, and the energy of Zero's final blow annihilated most of his body tissue, completely turning him into a corpse.
Zero finally breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly the man's head moved. Then the forehead protruded a little, and then sharp jointed limbs pierced out from it, bringing up a few bone chips. The joint limbs were pulled forward, and then three or four of these things protruded from the inside, and then branched to the two sides, and the man's head was cut open from the inside out. A zerg the size of a palm crawled out of the man's head, followed by creaking noises, and got into the blood plasma, disappearing immediately.
Walking over, he glanced at the man's head. There is no brain in it, only some unknown ** leaked out. From this point of view, the man is actually dead, but the zerg in his head controls his behavior, which is similar to some kind of parasitism.
After checking again and confirming that the cultivation room was not in danger, Zero turned the light upwards to signal safety. Haiwei fixed one end of the safety rope, and threw the other end towards Zero. Zero caught it and fixed it to the wall, thus forming a rope bridge. Hai Wei and the others relied on this rope to slide through the void between the two cultivation rooms. When they saw the dead man with an empty head, they all had ugly faces.
"Be careful, there seems to be some kind of parasite in this pyramid." Zero reminded.
Mo Ni squatted down next to the man's body and said, "This is a member of the Shadow Clan, why is he underground. Haven't all the Shadow Clan migrated to the outside world?"
"Who knows, but I believe that the answer is not far away." Ling patted her on the shoulder and said to others: "Let's go, I hope the road will not be broken again."
Leaving the cultivation room, there were still traces of fighting along the way. Based on the traces alone, they couldn't judge that the battle was fought from above, but broke out in the bottom space and spread upward. But as Zero said, the answer is already very close to them. There was no attack, and even the corpses of alien species were rare. But the comfortable time lasted less than three minutes, and the figure of a strange life wandering in the corridor came into everyone's sight.
In the light, this is a strange species that looks like a spider warrior. The upper body is humanoid, and the lower body is spider body. It's just that it's smaller, and its upper body looks like three people put together. Three heads and six arms, talking about the monster in front of me. When it found the team, it screamed and rushed forward. Mo Ni and Haiwei greeted it at the same time, and the six arms of the alien species held crude sharp weapons, and it had almost no dead ends for attacking. The body kept spinning, like a spinning top, rolling Mo Ni and Hai Wei into it.
The sparks of iron objects rubbing against each other, as well as the muffled sound of fists hitting the body continued to appear. After a quick attack, Mo Ni's Death Strike floated up, cutting off the other two heads of the alien species. But it still didn't die, and Haiwei rushed to him at this time. The girl leaped into the air, her legs contracted. After suddenly freezing in mid-air for half a second, he suddenly stepped on the chest of the alien.
There was a sound of fracture and flesh cracking, the chest of the alien species collapsed, and was kicked by Hai Wei's burst of force, smashing the wall of the corridor. Following the rubble, it fell into the dark void, and the screams faded away, before disappearing into the darkness.
"Learned very quickly." Zero walked over and patted Haiwei on the head.
The girl proudly showed a row of white teeth. The move just now was naturally learned from the battle between Zero and Berigorg not long ago. Although Haiwei's strength can't be compared with Zero, but she has learned a lot in the technique of exerting strength. This girl's talent in fighting is indeed outstanding.
Next, they encountered more and more alien species. There are more and more of these things as they go down the layer, but they all seem to be juveniles. Not only is it inferior to the Shadow Clan people parasitized by Zerg, even the ordinary batmen and dark blue giants outside the pyramid are far behind. Fighting them is not difficult, it just takes time.
The largest wave of aliens, hundreds of them were blocked in front of the corridor, and they frowned. It can be advanced here, not far from the ground. Looking from the gap in the corridor wall, one can already see an open space similar to a square below. Zero simply smashed the floor of the corridor with one kick, opened a gap and jumped down, directly coming to the square on the ground floor. But at the edge, I saw another corridor extending, leading to a deeper place.
Immediately after Zero, Leah and the others also descended from the gap to the square. A few alien creatures also jumped down, but they were smashed into pieces by Ye Liu in the air. After getting down to the ground, Jin and Alice jointly closed the gap, so that it would take some time for those alien species to catch up. Zero and the others have not been attacked for the time being. Looking at this square, it is surrounded by walls, and the ground of the square is covered with regular patterns. I don't know what it is. There are also corpses of different species here, but the number is relatively small. But the alien corpses here are all mature lives. In it, Zero saw the corpse of a giant.
Its biological armor is still there, but the flesh and blood inside has melted away, leaving only a skeleton. The bones are thick, densely textured, and have some metallic reflections. The bones of these giants have added a small amount of metal elements to make their skeletons stronger so that they can bear their own weight.
Zero checked around, and after there was nothing worth noting, he gestured, and the team headed towards the corridor leading to the lower edge. At this time, there were already alien species coming down from the corridor on the other side. They howled and launched a charge, and the ability users shot one after another. The golden ground thorns, Alice's ice flakes and Yeliu's energy threads form a deadly line of defense.
Once the alien species enters this line of defense, it will be torn to pieces by various abilities in an instant. The attack did not stop there, but suddenly, all the xenomorph larvae stopped moving, and then slowly backed away, as if they were afraid of something. At this moment, a delicate voice came from the corridor they were about to enter: "Help me, save me..."
It turned out to be human language!
Zero turned around and gestured for everyone to follow behind. Then, a small figure emerged from the corridor. It was a girl, about twelve or thirteen years old. With a delicate face and pale complexion, Zero almost thought that he saw Mo Ni back then. But this girl, with black eyes and long pointed ears, is also a member of the Mingying Clan.
Her delicate little face was filled with expressions of fear, pity, and surprise. With that small figure, it is calling everyone's desire to protect. Leah couldn't help but took a step forward, but was caught by Zero. Ling said coldly: "Ye Liu, do it."
As soon as the words fell, several intertwined black silk threads suddenly appeared on the girl's body, and then shallow but long wounds appeared. The wound was open, and black and purple blood flowed from it. The little girl's face was full of confusion, as if she didn't understand why Zero would do this. As the wound suddenly expanded and ruptured, the girl's body spread apart like a toppled building block, turning into several broken corpses.
"Head..." Haiwei couldn't help but want to say something.
"Don't be fooled by her appearance. As soon as she appeared, those alien species showed fear. Obviously she is not as harmless as she looks. If I guessed correctly, this Shadow Clan person was also parasitized." Zero said.
As soon as this side finished speaking, the little girl's head exploded, and another zerg the size of a palm crawled out. This time there is no plasma to hide with, the Zerg swipe its claws eagerly, catching a little spark on the ground and trying to escape. Zero looked at Alice, who pointed at the Zerg, and a blue light shot out from the fingertip. Rays of frost pierced the zerg, freezing it in its tracks.
After watching the Zerg turn into a mass of ice, Zero walked over. The Zerg has lost its life information, and the frost ray instantly froze its life. This kind of bug can parasitize in the living body, and retain its original strength and ability, and even stimulate the living organs like tentacles. However, the main body is unexpectedly fragile, which is a kind of wonderful natural balance.