Lin Sanjiu's voice was swallowed by the rumbling blue. She seemed to have heard a faint sound in the fog, but she was not sure whether it was Meme's reply or not. She glanced at the jelly-like minced meat by her feet. She did not dash into the fog. Instead, she squatted down and picked up a piece of broken black 'tongue'.
Different from what she imagined, it was not just a piece of minced meat.
It was wrapped in a plastic-like shell that held tightly the purplish-black, sticky, and grainy piece of meat inside like a prawn's shell. Lin Sanjiu endured the nausea and stuck a finger in. However, the moment her finger touched it, it immediately turned into a puddle of sticky meat juice, and her fingertip sank into it. Her [Defense Forcefield] instantly lit up, and her Higher Consciousness began to drain away rapidly. This meant that the [Defense Forcefield] was being corroded.
Lin Sanjiu pulled her finger back and picked up a few other parts. Finally, she managed to piece together a complete purplish-black 'tongue'. It was an arthropod with the shape of a long tongue. It had no limbs, and there were a few thin steel needles hidden in one end of the shell that could extend and retract freely. The steel needles were hollow, and the tube extended all the way into the meat. Lin Sanjiu observed it for a few seconds and finally understood its function.
The 'tongue' could inject the corrosive meat juice from its body into the hole on the human face before sucking out the melted contents from the skull bit by bit. Thinking about it, the 'tongue' that she saw drilling into the ground in a flash seemed to be bigger than the one before her.
In the mess in front of her, she also found a steel needle with half an eyeball stuck in it, as if it was silently confirming her guess.
Lin Sanjiu finally understood how the crawling heads turned into hollow balls, but a new doubt rose in her mind.
'These things are just low-level creatures with simple structures. They don't even have brains …' As she pondered, she carried the cannon on her shoulder and walked deeper into the fog quietly.
She didn't want to rashly call out again. After all, she didn't know when every word she said would be replayed. After taking two steps, she suddenly felt an itch on her arm. She looked down and saw that it was the cold-looking little machine that Silvan had given her. It stretched out a lot of aluminum alloy claws and quickly climbed up her sleeve. It sat on her shoulder and extended its aluminum alloy claws. With a snap, it stuck two metal plates on her temple.
Fortunately, this thing managed to expel the purplish-black "tongue" from her nasal cavity in time. It seemed that it was ready to shock her at any time. Lin Sanjiu smiled wryly. She felt a little more confident in her heart.
Before she could finish exhaling, a series of gunshots rang out in front of her. The sound of gunfire tore through the silent fog, followed by a faint roar, "Lin Sanjiu!"
Lin Sanjiu was startled. She quickly rushed out. The corpses on the ground had been lying there for god knows how long, and they had all turned into a pile of mud under the cloth. She stepped on the pile of bodies and ran over to Silvan. "Silvan!"
The fog dissipated before her eyes. Not far away, a tall figure with golden hair turned around abruptly as if he was startled. The gunfire in his hand also stopped for a moment. "You … Why are you —"
Before he could finish, Lin Sanjiu's eyes suddenly widened.
A black shadow suddenly pounced out from the fog not far away from Silvan. Before the two of them could react, the black shadow instantly dispersed. It was as if an endless swarm of locusts had descended from the sky and covered their vision in an instant.
"Don't hesitate. Fire!" When Silvan's voice faded, Lin Sanjiu gritted her teeth and gathered her will. She aimed the cannon at the storm formed by the "black maggots". However, at this moment, a shrill scream pierced through the storm and clearly entered their ears.
"Sir!" Meme's voice was shrouded by countless purplish black tongues as if he was being blown by the strong wind. "Sir!"
Silvan was stunned. The heavy and large gun in his hand paused for a moment.
That moment of hesitation had cost them the only window of opportunity to repel the storm with bullets. Lin Sanjiu raised her eyes and looked at the fog above her head being pierced by countless black tongues. They cast shadows on her body that looked like flying fishes.
She turned around and looked at Silvan, who was standing not far away in a daze. She made up her mind.
Lin Sanjiu kept her [Battle Item] and leaped at Silvan like a leopard as her body glowed with white light. When he turned around and saw her, he seemed to have forcibly held back his counterattack. In the next second, both of them crashed into each other and fell to the ground.
"Don't move." She panted heavily beside his ear and whispered, "I'll block him. You shoot!" “
She leaned on Silvan tightly. The smell of smoke, blood, and figs filled her nostrils. She had never been so troubled by the size of her opponent before. She had no choice but to channel all of her Willpower into the [Defense Energy Field], and even expanded the layer of faint white light from her body. Finally, both of them were under the protection of the [Defense Energy Field].
"Hurry!" Her breath ruffled his golden hair. "I'm afraid I can't hold on for long!" “
Other than the rapid depletion of her Higher Consciousness, Lin Sanjiu was also fighting with her other Will. In just a few seconds, her two arms that were supporting her from the ground started to tremble. Silvan, on the other hand, seemed to be stunned. He did not move an inch under her. His body was frozen.
"Hurry up!" Countless purplish-black tongues rained down on Lin Sanjiu's body and the ground beside them. As soon as they landed on the ground, they swam towards the two of them, splashing sand and dust all over the ground beside them. Under the invasion of the countless purplish black shadows, she could not help but yell, "I —"
Before she could finish, Silvan suddenly extended his hand and pressed her weight against his chest. "It's okay. I can still shoot like this."
When he quickly retracted his hand, the back of his hand was already scratched by the needles of the purplish black tongues. Lin Sanjiu tried her best to use her body to block his movement. She felt him poke a muzzle out from her shoulder. "Cover your ears," he said softly. His voice was a little hoarse and trembling. "Hold on. It will take a while."
Lin Sanjiu used a part of her Higher Consciousness to cover her ears, but she could still feel the intense gunfire pouring out like a raging tide. The Munitions Factory's products were indeed different from normal firearms. The burning heat on her shoulder and the thick smoke lingered behind her for a full two to three minutes before it gradually faded away.
Once the gunfire stopped, she immediately flipped over and got up. She quickly turned around to take a quick glance. The mist slowly closed up. Amidst the purplish black liquid, broken shells, and flesh that were scattered all over the ground, she really did not see Meme.
"What's with Meme's voice?" Silvan laid on the ground with his elbows propped up on the ground. He stared at her for a few seconds. Lin Sanjiu's back was covered in a putrid stench, but his body was still clean. "I heard your voice just now. Just when I thought you were attacked, you appeared from another direction. Is there something here that can imitate our voices?" “
Lin Sanjiu shook her head. "I don't think it's an imitation." “
As she said that, she suddenly froze and couldn't help but stop.
"What's wrong?" Silvan stood up and asked.
"No matter what the thing that's making our voices is, I've never heard it say anything that we didn't say ourselves. In other words, I suspect that it recorded our conversation and played a part of it to mislead us. Or maybe it wants us to split up so that it can kill us one by one." Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath and forced herself to be nervous. Even though she knew the truth logically, her emotions felt like they were drugged.
As soon as her words subsided, Silvan understood what she meant.
"You mean, Meme did call for help just now, but we don't know when he did it." "He closed his eyes tightly and exhaled slowly.
"I've only been away from him for about seven to eight minutes. I've never heard him call for help like that before." Lin Sanjiu frowned and said.
"This means that he was in danger in the past seven to eight minutes." Silvan nodded and unbuttoned his collar a little irritably. His fingers were shaking as he picked up the machine gun on the ground. "Since it's like this, we don't have to worry about alerting the thing underground anymore. Just blow the mist away. We have to find Meme as soon as possible. " “
If the boy fell into the center of the purplish black tongue, he would have been dissolved a few times in just a few minutes. " Lin Sanjiu knew that she should be angry and anxious at the moment, but she did not have any emotions at all. It was as if Meme had just gone for a field trip.
She summoned her [Tornado Whip] and tried her best to whip up a strong gust of wind. The wind tore the sky and earth apart. It was so sharp that it made people panic. Under such unscrupulous wind, the fog could no longer gather. It flew away like strands of cloud, gradually exposing the bowl-shaped depression to the sunlight.
The two of them stood on the slope filled with human "mushrooms". After the fog parted bit by bit, there was suddenly no sound.
In the deepest part of this bowl-shaped depression, which was the bottom of the "bowl", a huge shadow the size of a small mountain was vaguely visible.
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