Looks like it's here …
Before Lin's eyes was a wall made of metal. ↑, ↑
The wall was full of cracks, which were caused by the explosion, but some of them were caused by sharp objects that had scratched it.
Lin looked at the middle of the wall … a door.
The round door was tightly shut. As long as one placed one's tentacle on the door, one would be able to hear the sound coming from inside.
'Gurgle …' That was what the sound sounded like. It was the sound of some kind of creature … the kind that Lin was trying to find.
Earlier, Lin had seen the contents of the camera. It was still recording even after the creatures had died. During the recording process, Lin noticed that many of the creatures that had died suddenly 'came back to life'.
Their bodies swelled up and their armours were removed. Although they had entered this strange state, the swollen creatures seemed to have stronger vitality.
They could live in an environment that would have killed them. They could also use their hands and feet to push against the walls to move around.
Thus, Lin decided to call them … 'swollen creatures'.
They looked like they had been infected with some kind of virus. Generally speaking, only a virus could cause such a huge change in them in such a short period of time.
There was another type of creature that could capture these swollen creatures. In the camera, Lin had seen this creature many times.
Now, Lin had reached the place where it lived. The slime it left behind allowed it to move around very clearly. Thus, it was easy for her to find this place.
This place could be called … a shop. The creatures here had formed their own small community. They excavated meteorites to obtain resources, then made things and sold them to each other.
But that was all in the past.
Now, because of a war … this place had become a place for a group of strange mutated creatures. Lin wanted to find out the reason for this. The war between the captors and the water ball … was it related to the mutated creatures here?
The mechanical octopus placed one of its tentacles on the round door. With a light touch, the round door made a sound. Then, it rolled to the side, revealing the contents of the room.
It seemed the door could still operate. The moment the room was opened, Lin could feel a large amount of gas gushing out from the inside.
This gas was very different from the gas in the corridor. It was mixed with a large number of different components.
Looking into the room from here, Lin could see a large number of things scattered on the floor. Most of them were packaged food.
This was a place where food was sold. Some of the packaging of the food had been opened, and a lot of the food inside had been eaten.
At the top of the room. It was more interesting than the ground because there were dozens of Swollen Monsters. These Swollen Monsters occupied the roof. They hung there like … fruits.
They were stuck to the surface and were still alive, so they were constantly struggling.
The creature that caught them was in the center of the room. Although Lin opened the door, it did not react much.
The creature was more than five meters long and was something Lin had seen before. Its body shape was very similar to … a centipede. It had a long body and many limbs.
It was also one of the unique creatures caught by the captors, but now it had become very strange. It did not wear any armor on its body. Instead, it was covered with a layer of mucus.
This layer of mucus stuck to its body like melted wax. If it moved, a large amount of mucus would stick to the ground.
Lin suddenly discovered that … it was moving.
It slowly raised its head and looked at a Swollen Monster stuck above it.
This Swollen Monster seemed to realize that the situation was bad and began to struggle harder. However, its short limbs that were almost squeezed into the Swollen Monster's body could not help at all.
At this moment. The centipede-like creature extended a sharp … claw from its mucus-covered head and used this claw to poke into the Swollen Monster's skin.
Slap!
The moment it was poked, the Swollen Monster's body exploded. All kinds of organs and a strong smell of gas spread out.
As for the Swollen Monster that exploded. In the end, only a pile of broken pieces was left.
So that was why a lot of strange gas gathered in this room. The main reason was that this creature … poked a lot of Swollen Monsters here.
But why did it do that? It seemed to be to obtain the gas in the Swollen Monsters, not to eat them.
Because Lin noticed that there were remains of the Swollen Monsters floating around. This meant that it did not eat. It ate the food that was originally sold in this shop.
This was very strange. Logically speaking, they were just mutated creatures. In this state, they did not know what abilities they had. But this … this creature was purposefully collecting the Swollen Monsters and then obtaining their gas. It looked very experienced.
Just as Lin was thinking about this, it looked over at her.
This creature's whole body was covered in mucus, including the parts that were supposed to be its eyes. But it still saw Lin's mechanical octopus in the dark environment.
Then, it rushed directly to Lin.
The creature extended a pair of sharp claws from its head and slammed it on the mechanical octopus's head. A sound of metal colliding echoed in the surroundings.
The mechanical octopus was still motionless. The tip of its claws made a slight mark on its shell, but it did not pierce its head.
It seemed that the material was quite sturdy. It could not pierce through.
The creature seemed to have noticed this problem. It immediately retracted its claws and planned to retreat. At this time, the mechanical octopus stretched out its tentacles and instantly wrapped around the creature's head.
The creature immediately twisted its lower body, trying to break free from the mechanical octopus's entanglement. Lin let two tentacles hold on to the ground, and the rest of the tentacles tightly wrapped around its head, making it unable to break free.
While it was struggling, Lin also checked its structure. Under its mucus, there was a layer of hard shell. The surface of this shell could secrete mucus.
And its internal structure …
Lin felt that it might be easier to check if it was not moving.
"Gulp!"
It suddenly shook its head and broke free from Lin's mechanical octopus's tentacles. Then, it immediately turned around and ran into the depths of the room.
It seemed that it did not intend to continue attacking, but was preparing to escape. Looking at it, Lin also let the mechanical octopus chase after it.
Although this was an environment without gravity, the creature still moved close to the ground. It knocked away a large number of obstacles along the way and quickly rushed to the corner of the room.
Lin found a large number of cracks in the wall in the corner. The creature jumped from the ground and slammed into the cracks in the wall.
Bang! The wall exploded, and the creature rushed out of the room.
Lin chased after it. After passing through the exploded wall, Lin found herself in a … very spacious place.
It was like a square, about a hundred meters in diameter, and there were a lot of floating things everywhere.
It turned out that there was such a large area behind the shop. The floating things here were all the corpses of creatures, all kinds of metal scraps, machinery, and so on.
There were also a lot of captors, including the tentacles and objects of various shapes.
The creature rampaged among the floating things. Although there was no gravity, it would still be injured if it bumped into something hard. However, it did not seem to care about this at all. Instead, it ran wildly.
As a result, Lin, who was chasing after him, was left with an open path free of debris.
Lin slightly used the propelling ability of the tentacles, allowing the mechanical octopus to catch up to the target creature faster. As the distance between them closed, the creature looked more anxious.
Bang!
It slammed into an object in front of it again. This object was a large piece of metal. After hitting it, the creature instantly fainted and stopped in place.
Lin's octopus immediately pounced on it and wrapped around it. Then, it quickly pierced a tentacle into its shell and extracted a large number of cells inside.
Coo!
It suddenly woke up, twisted its body to break free from Lin's grasp, and ran in another direction.
Lin wanted to continue chasing after it, but before she could …
Boom!
Lin felt the whole room tremble.
Lin immediately stopped, and carefully sensed the source of the tremor. Lin discovered that there was a very large object below the square.
And this object was moving. It was quickly approaching the fleeing creature.
Bang!
The moment the object moved under the escaping creature, the ground under the creature suddenly exploded, and a large white object rushed out from the ground.
This was also a tentacle, but it was quite large, because this was … the tentacle of the Void Bus cub.
The moment the tentacle drilled out of the ground, it slapped towards the creature that was running away. Only a 'pa!' sound was heard, and the entire square shook.
And that creature was probably already smashed to pieces.
Then, the place shook again, and countless cracks appeared around the ground where the tentacle drilled out. The entire Void Bus behind the tentacle also drilled out of the ground.
This was a relatively small cub, with a total of six thick tentacles, with a diameter of more than 20 meters.
Lin thought that the Void Bus cub had all disappeared, but he didn't expect it to appear here.
And … it seemed to be preying on this centipede-like mutated creature. It was using one of its tentacles to absorb the corpse and its mucus on the ground.
Could it be … that the Void Bus cub had also mutated? (To be continued.)
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