Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Centipede's Nest
At this time, on the ground.
In the middle of tracking the traces of the demonic aura outbreak, Zhang Fucheng, who noticed a strange sweet and fishy woody fragrance, was coordinating with local officials to urgently evacuate hundreds of people in the three streets with patrols and fire brigades on the grounds of a 'large-scale gas leak'.
In the streets, the sound of sirens, the sound of people discussing, and the crying of children are mixed together, and it seems extremely noisy.
"This is miasma wood poison, we must evacuate the surrounding people as soon as possible, otherwise we can't afford the consequences!"
And this is the reason given by Zhang Fucheng for his urgent face, even if it causes a lot of chaos, he must urgently evacuate the people.
But in fact, there is no need for this professor of Zhengyi Academy to explain hard, many inspectors who smelled this strange smell have already had a sudden change in their faces - probably because they were in poor spirits due to the overnight case, and several patrols who were already at the scene were fainted on the spot and sent to the hospital.
Seeing this scene, no one would suspect that this was a lie.
In order to avoid causing large-scale casualties, Zhang Fucheng could only temporarily rely on the temporary authority given by the above bigwigs to mobilize patrols and local armed forces and vehicles to send away the people who did not know what was going on as much as possible.
"It's timely...... It's just a bit of a fuss. ”
After all this, it was already more than an hour later, and it was only then that Zhang Fucheng realized that he seemed to be overreacting.
The lethality of the miasma wood poison is actually not great, or rather, it is not poisonous at all, but it has a strong hypnotic and anesthetic effect.
According to the verification of the mice, the most consequence of inhaling this poisonous gas is that it is difficult to wake up on its own - except, of course, pollen allergies, because the essence of this miasma is actually the pollen of some unknown plant...... It may be a little slightly toxic, but it is never lethal, or rather, the means of lethality have nothing to do with pollen, and mainly play an auxiliary role.
It has been roughly determined that most of the victims of the 719 major serial murder case inhaled this pollen before they died, so they were arrested without resistance and quietly.
"Don't worry, it's the way it should be."
Although it is a bit of a waste of manpower, strictly speaking, it is even a panic, but it has been alarmed, and several big people who are paying attention here did not blame Zhang Fucheng for this, but praised him for his quick decision.
"This is an era of drastic changes, I would rather waste all my strength than ignore a trace of crisis, Fucheng, you did a good job."
"But we must eradicate that demon, and don't forget the most important core goal."
The voice that came out of the phone was being blown by the wind, it seemed to be on the surface of the lake or the sea, and there was even thunder, and the voice of the old and young could not be heard in a calm tone: "The demon who succeeded in opening the spirit before opening the heaven and earth will become a big disaster in the future, and other places will be fine, Hongcheng is one of the capitals of the thirty-four states, and this kind of monster cannot appear." ”
"I grant you the authority to mobilize the 'White Emperor Guard', don't live up to this trust."
The voice on the phone didn't say much, but only granted Zhang Fucheng greater temporary permissions, and then hung up the communication.
"Alas......"
Professor Zhang's mood is naturally extremely complicated, with both the pride of being trusted and rewarded, and the headache of the complicated situation: "It has been a long time since the initial aura eruption, and the demon may have left, and the movement of the people before is too great, and it is probably impossible to quietly surround and pursue it." ”
But even so, what should be done must continue to be done - at least Zhang Fucheng has been able to mobilize military troops and armed patrols in the past few days, and in terms of force, it can be said that he has improved a lot.
July 28, 2014, 5:35 AM.
Several figures wearing hermetically sealed gas helmets and white exoskeleton metal armor are silently walking through the pollen fog of the sewers.
On the back of the metal armor, there is a strange metal coat of arms that is flashing, flowing with spiritual light.
"Here."
One of them, who seemed to be the leader of the group, seemed to have noticed something, and he made a mouth shape in his helmet, and the automatic translation system passed on the meaning of the corresponding lip shape to the other four exoskeleton armor guards.
It can be seen that these soldiers are all armed with a strange firearm - this gun is not a large caliber, just the level of an ordinary submachine gun, but the sound of this gun is engraved with all kinds of strange cloud patterns, making the whole gun flash with spiritual brilliance.
Soon, the group found the spot that had been identified on the ground, and they also found the traces of the battle in the potholes located here.
The leader raised his hand and signaled everyone to stop advancing, he looked around vigilantly, and then all kinds of data flashed on the electronic screen in front of him, transmitting the video information here to the professional analysis troops on the ground.
- The target has fought an unknown enemy here.
- Unnamed Reiki plants discovered, unnamed Reiki fungi discovered.
- High spiritual influence has been detected and is resisting ...... Isolation is complete.
- Hypnotic pollen precipitation was found, and basic samples were collected.
Silently following the traces of battle, the team soon saw through another cloud of pollen fog, and at the same time, the other five teams of armored guards who were patrolling around the entrances and exits of other sewers also began to approach the team that had found the traces of the target.
But soon, the team stopped in shock, because a huge shadow appeared in front of their eyes, and the strong sweet smell and spiritual radiation reaction caused a large snowflake screen to appear on the electronic detection interface, forcing them to switch to the physical lens assisted observation mode.
Then, they found out.
It was the body of a giant centipede, which was dead but still wriggling.
hours ago.
Same location.
Su Sun stood at a corner in the depths of the underground waterway, beside the mouth of a waterchannel that had been completely covered by black moss and turned into warm and moist.
The water here is not fast, and it is blocked by dense black moss, forming a black water area like a green algae outbreak, and it can be seen that there are a large number of gnawing marks on this large number of black moss, presumably as food for the wood centipede before.
"It's really a vegetarian...... No wonder it goes undetected. Su Sun subconsciously complained, and Yara smiled: "The arrival of demons will always affect the water and soil, no matter what you eat, it will not be too eye-catching-this is also a part of the revival of the aura, and the terroir of the other world will descend on the present world." ”
"Isn't that a pioneer in greening? If there weren't that kind of big centipede, this black moss that purifies sewage is really a divine thing. ”
When Su Yan said this, he had actually turned on his spiritual vision - today's frequent switching on and off spiritual vision, coupled with the consumption of the battle, he already had a bit of a headache, but it would be fine if it was just for a moment.
And it was at this moment that he saw the spiritual light in the centipede's lair.
"Hey."
With a chuckle and a big stride forward, Su Yan didn't care about the slippery moss, walked directly into the center of the nest, and then lifted the barrel of the gun, which was only more than a meter long, poked into a bulging black moss sac, and lifted it up.
And this time, what appeared under it was not a human corpse, but a large mass of dense blue centipede eggs that made people feel appetizing.
These centipede eggs are crystal clear and take on the characteristics of a plant – they all have roots, are immersed in water, and are entangled with numerous black mosses, which provide nutrients to the eggs and make them grow.
One can imagine how the original wood centipede demon 'grew' grew little by little on this layer of black moss when it came to the world.
"Centipede eggs...... Yara first looked up with interest, and then retracted into Su Sun's hair in disappointment: "None of them are talented, it's a waste of time to raise them...... It is estimated that this egg has not been born for a long time, and eating it is not very useful for spiritual growth, at most, it will supplement a little spiritual consumption and nutrition - similar to lobster meat. ”
"It seems that the reason why this wood centipede ran out to attack people should be that after laying eggs, it urgently needs to replenish its spirituality."
After all, in the era when the aura has not yet recovered, the few sources of spirituality, in addition to its own slow condensation, are gifted human flesh and blood.
Yara seemed to be uninterested in these centipede eggs, but Su Sun's purpose was not on these things—he brushed aside the round cyan eggs, then leaned down and reached out to scoop them out in the black water.
When Su Sun withdrew his hand back to the water, an extra black crystal appeared in his palm.
This crystal exudes a cold and dark aura, with a sparkling surface and a biting chill.
"What's this?"
Su Sun observed this crystal with great interest, and he could feel that the essence of the aura in this crystal was no less than the evil demon crystals in the body of the wood centipede—but it didn't have the breath from the great being.
"The aura condensation of the underground man-made yin leyline." Yara replied lazily, "Now it's just a Yin Shui attribute Yin Crystal, the same as the resentful spirit's aura fragments, but much larger than them. ”
"If you put it back now, maybe it will be able to condense into a negative aura source point in the future, and with it as the center, aquatic wood will give birth to a nest of such wood centipedes."
"That's it." Su Tian shuddered immediately, and immediately put this crystal in his pocket, letting it be accompanied by the demon core: "The aura of this thing looks a little dirty...... Can you eat it? ”
"Of course you can't eat it, even if you eat this thing, you will be poisoned, weak for ten days and half a month - the most important thing is that it tastes stinky."
Yara didn't bother to complain about Su Yan's peculiar Zhengguo people's thinking: "But it can be used as fertilizer for the Wisdom Tree, or as a raw material for weapon inscriptions—for example, one of the materials for refining centipede jaws and stingers, so that in addition to being poisonous, they also have powerful negative spiritual power to kill." ”
"When the time comes, you will find some positive materials to process, the yin and yang will be harmonious, and you can even forge a powerful spirit soldier that can carry many times more than your own spiritual power, which is enough for you to use the 'transcendent level' after awakening."
- That's a nice bonus.
That's pretty much the harvest of the centipede nest - Su Tian took away four relatively large and crystal clear centipede eggs, and prepared to take them back and cook them to see how they tasted, after all, it was Yara who said, it was the taste of lobster meat.
And the rest of it, he left it to the official transcendents who would surely come later. After all, the ecology of the wood centipede and the associated relationship between the black moss are quite wonderful, and it may have a good positive effect on the future sewage purification system - if a few can be tamed and cultivated, it can save a lot of resources for the construction of sewage treatment plants.
"Anyway, if I take that great aura away, the remaining wood centipedes won't be able to turn into new demons, right?"
"Pretty much, unless that Otherworld continues to project information disturbances - but in that case, it doesn't make a difference if you take it away or not."
Spiritual Blood, Spiritual Liquid, Weapon Materials, Advanced Materials, Weapon Inscription Materials...... Even the ingredients are complete!
After confirming this, Su Sun left satisfied, what Yara said was really right, the demon was full of treasures!
Kill one, and the whole family will be fat!
After making sure that the harvest on his body was preserved, he went directly to the gap in the sewage interception box culvert where the wood centipede entered and exited the Fuhe River, and plunged directly into the water.
It was only at this time that Su Tian discovered what the so-called 'because of the help of water, not because of drowning' means - it is not simply underwater breathing, but has a certain effect of avoiding water!
As long as he moves his mind, he can create a vacuum layer on the outer layer of his skin, blocking or 'rejecting' the approach of water.
"With the help of feng shui, the world is so big, I can't go anywhere!"
Hours after Su disappeared into the water.
Hurrying over, the 'White Emperor Guards' and Zhang Fucheng, who had collected the bones of the victims and the corpses of the giant centipedes, finally arrived at the demon's lair.