He came from the bell tonight

Chapter 43 Greedy Wolf

The black car passed through the bumpy road, and the Gobi desert was all around.The scorching sun hanging high above the head made the glass windows burn hot.

"There are still five kilometers left. We have to go around the northern intersection to get down to the closed departure port." Wang Yunxi looked at the rearview mirror and was relieved. "These bugs don't like places where the sun is too strong, and there is no shelter in the north." , they seldom gather."

She noticed Su Ling's expression looking out the window, and smiled: "Of course, you don't have to be afraid, even if they catch up, there are guys in the car who can deal with them first."

Seeing that Su Ling was puzzled, Wang Yunxi was immediately happy: "You really don't look like you can fight, that little boyfriend of yours is so relieved to let you out."

"...Boyfriend?" Su Ling looked even more puzzled.

"Who knows what you young people are called now, lover, good friend, roommate...? What else is there?"

Su Ling extracted one of the words and affirmed, "It's a roommate."

"Okay, roommates are roommates. Who the hell is that kid? He talks like two to five or eight thousand yuan. He seems to be older than me. Why do you all listen to him?"

Su Ling still looked out of the window, and the endless Gobi was covered with golden sunlight. He said calmly, "He's not a kid."

"Tch, are young people so nasty when they fall in love now?" Wang Yunxi joked with goosebumps all over his body, "He's interested in you... Wait, a bug is chasing you! Don't be afraid——"

Before the words were finished, Su Ling pushed open the car door and rolled out of the fast-moving car.

In just three seconds, Wang Yunxi's car stopped, and the dark thing was lying on the ground, forming a soft puddle.

After Su Ling confirmed that it was dead, he asked for a lighter from Lian Xiao and burned it.Then he sat back in the car as calmly as if nothing had happened, and closed the door.

Wang Yunxi looked at the burning tentacles in the rearview mirror for a while, then turned his head to look at Suling for a while.She was silent for a moment, and then suddenly realized who was sitting quietly beside her.

It was the same as the rumors she had heard.

... No wonder she looks so, so beautiful.

Su Ling didn't seem to care about her shock at all, still staring into the distance.

"The bugs are here," he said suddenly.

Lian Xiao fell asleep in the back seat, and woke up suddenly: "What, who? Mimics are here?!"

In the rearview mirror, several black dots appeared in the distance.

Wang Yunxi immediately raised the speed to the highest.

The whole car made a "chug chug" sound instantly, as if about to vomit.

"Our Toyota Star's cars are all like this. They are too old and have never had the funds to replace them." Wang Yunxi adjusted the parameters skillfully and waved his hand. It has become a tidal flat. If you have the opportunity, you should go to the next few districts, relying on the good ecology of the lake, and tourism is also our latest focus."

While speeding up crazily, she spared no effort to introduce to Su Ling: "If it weren't for this damned mimic, there would have been traditional sacrificial activities in S District today. Well, it's in the Hongsha Mountain in front, and the entrance to the underground tunnel is also there direction."

On the desolate Gobi, the earth not far away arched, forming a red rock pillar, standing upside down on the surface like faded spring bamboo shoots.Under direct sunlight, densely packed small holes can be seen.These rock pillars keep some distance from each other, forming a winding path.

Wang Yunxi stepped on the brakes and stopped at the entrance of the underground tunnel a few kilometers away from the rock pillar.

"arrive."

She used the binoculars to observe the place where she came, and murmured: "Those bugs probably didn't catch up so fast."

There are still obvious black spots in the distance.

"They didn't come after them," Su Ling said.

Those mimics seemed to have encountered a barrier, and stayed at a certain position on the Gobi, lingering.

"Damn," Lian Xiao cursed, "This group of bastards are probably holding back some bad water again, just wait and punish us!"

"It doesn't matter, it's important to close the navigation ship first." Wang Yunxi glanced again, and opened the heavy door with face recognition at the tunnel entrance downward.

Before going in, Su Ling looked back at the red rock pillars.There are subtle wind sounds in the mottled shades.

After the car entered the tunnel, the gate was closed again.

"This road was used for military transportation hundreds of years ago." As soon as Wang Yunxi turned on the lights, the sensor lights on both sides of the tunnel also lit up.

She told a joke: "When it was said that it was going to be demolished, District S couldn't afford the money, so it just stayed there. Otherwise, we would be out of action today."

The [-]-kilometer-long tunnel is long and dark, very gloomy and cold.Occasionally, some rotting food or abandoned construction materials are piled up on the side of the road.

When he reached the end of the tunnel, his field of vision instantly widened.A huge circular square appeared under the surface, and several sailing ships of different sizes stopped there silently.The metal hull reflected silver light, and even the very old ships were still clean.

The large screen hanging on the east rock wall shows the types of ships that are about to leave port today.

"These are the earliest batch of unmanned ships in the empire period. Our planetary belt is located in a remote place and there are not many voyages. They were used for testing back then. There were no major problems afterwards, and they have continued."

Wang Yunxi jumped onto the center console, and closed the low circular fence after Su Ling and Lian Xiao also came up.

The light on the main control board turns green.The entire table began to rise slowly.Wait until you are high enough to overlook the entire site before stopping.

The whole design is like a sun—

A ring in the center, and countless scattered passages, reveal the glory that has long been buried.

At the end of every tunnel is darkness.

Suling heard the wind from deep inside.It seems that something is different.

However, it was interrupted by Wang Yunxi's voice.

"FT091——" Wang Yunxi followed the prompts of the main control board and began to look for the unmanned ship that was scheduled to fly to M27.

With the sound of "beep", the body of a sailing ship directly below was covered with light spots.

"That's it!"

Wang Yunxi hurriedly lowered the elevator, grabbed the manual and climbed into the cockpit of the sailing ship.

While she was busy tinkering with turning off the autopilot, Lian Xiao wandered around, groping here and there, as if she had picked up a warehouse full of treasures.

"Su Ling, come and see, this is the earliest military ship in the empire!" Lian Xiao turned his head excitedly, only to see Su Ling standing at the entrance of a tunnel with a stern expression.

"What, another bug is here?" Lian Xiao shuddered, and immediately moved behind Su Ling.However, the next moment, he immediately jumped away in horror.

A rustling sound came from the stone wall above the head, as if extending along the tunnel to the end.

As long as you hear such an unbearable sound for a second, you will feel that it is densely packed in all directions, enveloping your senses.

Lian Xiao was no stranger when he was at Imperial College.At this moment, he raised his head in disbelief: "Grass, this is full of bugs?!"

"They are heading in this direction," Su Ling said.

Whether it's the holosim experience or the previous night's head-to-head confrontation, the presence of mimetic swarms can only be the result of something very attractive to them.

But there are no fragments of the star sea in that direction, and there are no low-frequency sound waves.

Su Ling pinched the terminal and pressed it to Xiao Huaiyan.

But the other side never replied.

"It's done!" Wang Yunxi shouted excitedly, and jumped out before taking off the earmuffs, beckoning to leave here quickly.

However, at this time, a strange sharp sound spread from the rock wall deep in the tunnel, sounding like fine friction in the depths of the cochlea, just want to make people scream.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa——' Lian Xiao didn't even realize that he had hit a hard rock wall.

Three seconds later, he stood up suddenly, his eyes turned white, and he ran towards the end of the tunnel with all his strength.

"Hey, what is he doing?!"

Wang Yunxi looked at Lian Xiao's back in confusion, and was stopped by Su Ling when he tried to take off the earmuffs.She saw Su Ling's mouth shape clearly: "Don't pick it."

"Sound?" Wang Yunxi immediately became alert.

"Well. You can go first." After Su Ling finished speaking, he chased after the dark tunnel without looking back.

Wang Yunxi stayed on the spot alone, and after a few seconds of sluggishness, he came to his senses.She shook her head helplessly: "Young man, you are so impulsive."

She called up a holographic map and turned around.

That tunnel is almost parallel to the one they came from, the difference is that it leads to the red sand mountain.

At this time, an impatient voice from the control room came from her terminal: "Team Wang, according to the latest satellite images, there are currently at least [-] residents who have not yet evacuated gathered in Hongsha Mountain. If you are nearby, please Rescue as soon as possible."

"What's there?" Wang Yunxi frowned.

"There is a mimetic insect in the temple of Hongsha Mountain, and it has not been moved since it appeared. The location of other mimetic insects gradually disappeared after approaching."

...a mimic?

Wang Yunxi grabbed the gun tightly.

In the infinite abyss-like cave, the upside-down stalactites are covered with dark slime, exuding a strong stench.

Something that looks like a fluorescent jellyfish floats in the cave, emitting an extremely faint light.Once touched, it will burst like a bubble, and then disappear.

The deeper you go, the denser the jellyfish become.The disgusting stickiness on the ground will also be thicker.Those things will crawl over clean boots and trouser cuffs.

A golden eye opened in the darkness.Immediately afterwards, on that hill-like tumor, there were countless smaller eyes.They looked at the strange outsider with an extremely dangerous posture.

The surrounding air is filled with invisible oppression.In an instant, those jellyfish-like things disappeared.

Only those eyes remained.

and the feeble breath of a human being.

Xiao Huaiyan wore earplugs, Yin Hong flowed from his nose and ears.Every time he took a step forward, it seemed that he had exhausted all the strength in his body, and he was so heavy that he almost fell down.

Under the gaze of those eyes, he finally fell in front of the worm mother.

He barely stood up, half kneeled on the ground, and smiled in that dark direction.

Those golden eyes rested on him.As a fragile human being, he appears to have no fear.Even dare to face the abyss.

And the next moment, he suddenly took out a knife and rushed to the depths.

A tentacle restrained him easily.

Translucent polyps opened and closed to reveal sharp tusks covered in disgusting stuff.Some fluorescent jellyfish came out from there, illuminating part of the insect mother's body for a moment.

It is too huge to move in the tunnel.

Just as the polyps were about to envelop the human being and make him a precious nutrient, a piece of fluorescent material appeared in his hand.

He seized the opportunity and pulled the trigger.

A violent tremor made the tentacles involuntarily throw him away.

Xiao Huaiyan fell heavily to the ground, and the sniper rifle fell over ten meters, and automatically broke into three pieces.

When he raised his head, the worm mother uttered an extremely shrill cry at him.Pus-like stuff gushed out of the polyp.Unlike the dark green slime, this liquid is dark blue and cold when it comes into contact with the skin.

But still stinks horribly.

Xiao Huaiyan took a deep breath and couldn't help coughing violently.Within seconds, he felt dizzy and his vision was blurred.

It's time, he realized.

...Damn it, it's at such a time.

The terminal vibrated.

It's a pity he didn't hear it.

In the depths of Hongsha Mountain, the magnificent temple is almost integrated with the rock wall.However, unlike the solemnity and sanctity of the usual days, everything at this time is full of weirdness.

Groups of mimics entered the temple in an orderly manner, and the sound of "Kaz Kaz" eating echoed in the hall.After an unknown amount of time, the mimics outside all disappeared one after another.

A giant mimic is entrenched on the throne, and it is constantly picking up smaller mimics with its tentacles.Take it apart, stuff it in, and repeat it like you're hungry.

In the hall to the left of the throne, there were some motionless humans standing.They were dressed differently, their heads were lowered, their faces were dull, like a plate of food waiting to be digested.

In front of them, there was a pool of blood-red things, still fresh.

Wag stood in the last row of these humans. He was almost too frightened to hold on, and his body shook slightly.He gestured to the person on the right with his hand: "When will I be eaten?"

The person next to him also responded with gestures: "Wait a little longer. It's too dangerous now."

Through the cracks in the crowd, Wag saw the remaining blood.Just one look is enough to make people's legs go weak and sweaty.

Wag is very clear that from the moment the mimics appeared yesterday, the world has undergone earth-shaking changes.They will never go back to the way they were before.

All the past is nothing compared to the fear of the present.The blank stares and ridicule he received because of being expelled from school were insignificant at this time.

At this moment, he actually missed Fei Lianxing a little bit, at least those sensitive alarm devices wouldn't make everyone stand here.

But this is their home.

Wager was pretty sure that if he didn't fight for it, no one would.

Therefore, people in the village have refused to evacuate since yesterday.

When someone was attracted by that weird sound, the old village head, who was already an octogenarian, led them over.

But the determination to die is but a fragile glass in the face of death.

Some people would rather take off their earplugs and accept a cruel future without knowing it than to fight to the death.Anyway, the ending is the same, it's better not to know anything.

Wagga was also shaken for a moment, which was caused by despair.Yet anger overwhelmed the feeling.

"Bug, I'm fighting with you!!!" There was a sudden shout from the crowd, and one person held a laser gun and swept in the direction of the giant mimic.

The tentacles that were "choosing vegetables" were cut off by laser light.Immediately afterwards, several tentacles "clacked" and fell to the ground, shaking and shaking.

……It's now!Wag and the person next to him looked at each other, and took two steps back.

A smoke bomb exploded in the temple.In an instant, everything around was submerged in white mist.

—no sound at all.

...Is that giant mimic dead?No one dared to answer.

Many more still stood unconscious in the mist like statues.

"There is no movement." Wag saw the gesture of a person in front of him.They exchanged glances quickly and decided to go and check.

However, at this moment, a tentacle descended from the sky, sweeping away the people in front of Wag.When he saw the man's robe, he couldn't help shouting: "Village chief!"

He chased wildly in the direction of the tentacle, but he only had a dagger on him, which could hardly cause any real damage.

At the forefront of the crowd, the white mist suddenly disappeared.

Wag stood right in front of the mimic, seeing its countless eyes, limbs and feet.He wore earplugs, but the dark and treacherous voice still slowly seeped in.

The tentacle wrapped around the old village chief and stuffed it into his mouth without hesitation——

It was as if a bolt of lightning had struck Wag.He held his hair and screamed, then turned and was about to walk when he bumped into someone.

"... Lian Xiao?"

Wag was taken aback, but the big man in front of him had no sense at all, and when he hit an obstacle, he would only desperately push the obstacle towards the target.

"Wake up!!" Wag, who was pushed in the direction of the mimic, yelled wildly in his ear.

Just when he almost felt the chilling mucus on his back stained his clothes, a whistle woke up all the people whose consciousness was controlled.

Wag raised his head reflexively, and saw the old village chief who had been taken away was standing on the beam, blowing his whistle vigorously.Next to him was a heroic woman with a high ponytail and a rope tied to her body.

"Oh, why is it you!" Lian Xiao, who had come to his senses, hammered Wagga's shoulder in shock, and was about to reminisce when he saw the faintly angry mimic.

Tentacles surged from all directions, and amidst the screams, the ends were instantly sharpened.

...is it about to end?

Wag thought desperately.

However, at the moment when the tentacles plunged into his shoulder blades, a violent tremor came from the body of the giant mimic.

The tentacles broke off and fell to the ground.

The sound of flesh and blood came from close at hand, accompanied by a white beam of light.

——The giant mimic was cut in half by a light blade.

The man stepped lightly on the mimic's back and jumped onto the god's seat, avoiding the surging slime.He stood there quietly, his face was pale, his long hair was like ink, and there was an undercurrent.

Those eyes, which could be called beautiful, were extremely dull, looking down at the ant-like mimics.