War Lord

Zero walked forward in the cave, her army boots stepped on the muddy ground. The mucus of the gold swallowing bug is slippery, and it will fall if you don't pay attention. Therefore, Zero walked very carefully and at the same time eased his steps. All the underground creatures have degraded vision due to environmental reasons, but their hearing is exceptionally developed. Even the sound of needle dropping would be noticed by them, so Zero didn't walk fast, for fear that the noise would be discovered by bugs.

The cave dug out by the Gold Swallowing Worm was twisty, calculating his own steps silently, and concluded that he had walked nearly one kilometer. However, the cave seemed endless, but nothing was taken care of. He walked alone in the quiet underground, in the dark abyss. It was as if this completely strange world had regained consciousness. Although there were many people in the Z7 base, Zero felt lonely.

After all, there is a gap of nearly half a century between him and those people.

Zero no longer remembers the past, who is he? from where? What did you do? There is no answer to all this, but Zero knows, as long as he goes on, one day he will get close and know the truth.

Just so moment.

The end of the cave is here.

It was said that it was the end, but it was not the case. It was just that the passage turned a 90-degree turn after reaching here, and it extended directly to the dark abyss.

Zero took out the cold firework, lit it, and threw it down. The fire flicked through the vertical passage, and some fist-sized iron beetles immediately dispersed, away from the cold bright light.

Fortunately, the drop of the vertical channel is only about ten meters. At this distance, the cold firework continued to burn on the bottom of the passage, and he used both hands and feet to climb all the way through the uneven mud surface on the passage. By the time his feet touched the ground, the cold firework just went out. The darkness returned to the ground, and soon, a green light lit up, causing the iron beetles that had gathered towards Zero to quickly disperse.

Holding a light stick in his hand, Zero continued to walk along the horizontal passage opened by the gold swallowing bug. The passage keeps sloping downward, as if it leads directly to hell.

But this time, the journey of zero ended soon.

Because he heard some special sounds from the quiet underground.

Zi Zi Zi-

It's like the sound of alternating current, and it's like the sound of something rubbing against each other. Zero couldn't be sure, but took out the M500 revolver. This pair of large-caliber weapons, if fired at close range, are like the tough shells of a gold swallowing bug, and it may not be able to offset the impact of the .50 bullet.

The sound is getting closer.

Under the green fluorescence, the channel comes to an end.

At the end is a larger cave. The fluorescent light can't reach the end. According to Zero's mind, the radius is about three hundred meters.

The strange sound came from under the cave, and Zero squatted down at the edge. Under the green fluorescence, several huge insect bodies were intertwined orthogonally, and those strange sounds were caused by these insects' mucus body surfaces rubbing against each other. The gold swallowing bug is like a meat maggot magnified countless times, it is difficult for people to distinguish the head and the tail. Now several big worms are entangled, making people unable to distinguish.

Under the fluorescence, the reflection of something slightly stung Zero's eyes. Zero looked at the light source, and there was a thick layer of copper mud on the edge of the cave.

Those are the food of the Golden Swallowing Worm, with zero thoughtful expressions. Why did the gold swallowing bug transport food here? And judging by the amount of this pile of copper mud, how many gold swallowing bugs can eat these foods for several days, in other words, do they prepare food in advance? Why? Could it be because of the "movement" below that?

In Zero's mind, he quickly analyzed what was in front of him.

The gold swallowing insects entangled with each other, looking like snakes reproducing their offspring. But gold swallowing bugs reproduce asexually and do not need to reproduce their offspring through this behavior. Zero didn't know much about this creature, and the information he knew was only from a chart when Old Jack took over the task.

He couldn't judge, but he didn't want to stay long. The task of reconnaissance does not include the annihilation of gold swallowing bugs. Zero can't do unnecessary things, but when he turned to leave, a new situation happened to the bugs in the cave below.

A gold swallowing bug with the largest body suddenly stuck out its head, and on the big head of the plump and white bug, there were two rows of six scarlet small eyes. A cross-crack appeared in the center of the insect's head, and the fat was rolled up, revealing a mouth that was the same size as the head.

Under the green light, Zero could see clearly. There are three layers of small inverted teeth growing in the mouth. It is these inconspicuous inverted teeth that can excavate mountains and rocks. But now, the goal of this mouthpart is toward his companion.

With a flutter, the big worm swallowed his companion next to him in his mouth. I saw the big worm constantly sucking, so he swallowed another worm into the abdomen.

Zero pupil contraction.

what is this? Cannibalism?

Soon, after the worm swallowed his companion whole, his body became fatter. Wrinkles were faintly visible under the worm's body, and it seemed that the swallowed companion was struggling. The gastric juice of a gold worm can melt gold fossils, so how can it be resistant to its own kind. Soon, the body of the worm stabilized. But it seemed to be very hungry, so he pointed the giant mouth at other insects.

The sound of sucking and swallowing kept coming, and Ling watched as the big worm swallowed the remaining two companions cleanly. After eating the same kind of three insects in one breath, the gold swallowing insect's body became extremely huge. It made a painful cry, the six red eyes flickered continuously, and the insect's body surface was making waves of flesh. It seems to be digesting, and it seems to be excreting something.

The body of the giant worm continued to twist, its big head began to sink, and its body curled up to form a meat cocoon the size of a small mountain. When the form of the meat cocoon was completed and stabilized, it resembled a human heart, trembling slightly with bulging drums.

Zero exited quietly, the reconnaissance mission was over.

This strange phenomenon of gold swallowing bugs should be a kind of evolution. By devouring other companions, perfecting one's own genes, so as to evolve to a higher level of life form. In this era, in order to survive, you must use all means to make yourself stronger. This is true for humans, and so are other creatures.

Zero's work has been completed. As for whether the gold swallowing bugs that evolve into a new form will threaten the base, professionals need to evaluate it. That's not zero work. How the base will deal with the gold swallowers, it can't control and don't want to control it.

When I returned to the mining area, it was already two hours later. Zero jumped out of the cave and heard the noise of people outside. He frowned, it was working time, it seemed that he shouldn't be so noisy, things were a bit uncomfortable.

Zero walked into the mining area. Nick, the miner who had been in contact with him before, was arguing with people about something. Seeing Zero appeared, Nick ran over quickly. While running, he used his fingers to draw the shape of a cross on his chest and forehead.

"Thank God, you are finally back, sir."

Zero nodded, and asked succinctly: "What's the matter?"

"Lost contact, sir." Nick took a breath and pointed in the direction of the base. "Just half an hour ago, we are going to transport the first batch of copper mines back to the base. But the door of the base is locked, and we communicate with each other by radio. The internal connection of the base was completely silent. Everyone was in a panic and didn't know what happened inside."

"Didn't contact old Jack?"

"How can it be? After the radio contact did not move, we directly contacted the boss through the internal phone, but no one answered." Nick hesitated: "This is incredible, it's almost like the base people suddenly disappeared. ."

After listening to Zero, his face was silent. He left Nick and got into the crowd, boarded the minecart, and drove to the entrance of the work area.

But no one knew, his hand was gently holding the handguard of the revolver.

The gate of the entrance to the work area was closed tightly, and the arrival of Zero made all the workers around him look at him.

Zero jumped off the minecart and asked: "Who is in charge."

"Me." A middle-aged man got out of the crowd and raised his hand. "Sir, I'm the person in charge of mining operations. You can call me Jetto."

"How is the gate?" Ling asked as he walked towards the gate.

Jetto reported next to Zero: "The electronic system is completely malfunctioning, and there is no response inside the UU Reading www.uukanshu.com base. The electrician is already working on it, but the possibility of recovery is very low."

Next to the stainless steel gate, a thin man was squatting on the ground checking the electronic circuit of the gate. Zero came to him and asked, "Can you open it?"

"No, there is no response at all." The thin man replied without looking back, and then saw a group of soldiers dressed up as Zero, and immediately jumped up and respectfully said: "Sir, I have done my best."

Zero asked: "Can't it be turned on manually?"

"Manual system? Should..." The electrician bit his head and said, "Damn, how did I forget the manual system."

He immediately turned around and called a few miners, and hurriedly ran to the other side of the gate.

It didn't take long for the gate that separated the work area and the base to open slowly after hearing only the sound of "card".

The people near the gate breathed a sigh of relief, but the skin under Zero's clothes felt like a needle prickling slightly.

Danger!

From the door, a dangerous smell came.

The door opened a crack, and a red, viscous liquid slowly flowed out of the door. They flowed across the brown ground, flowed across the shoes of zero and other people, and then gradually stopped ten meters outside the door.

The miners couldn't say a word, just by the door, an arm slipped out of the crack in the flow of red liquid.

This is just an arm, it is broken from the root of the shoulder part, and Bai Sensen's arm bone spurs out of that vague flesh and blood.

"This...what is going on?" The person in charge of the mining area was dumbfounded, and he looked towards Zero.

Zero took a deep breath and said quietly: "You stay here, I will close the door when I go in!"

After speaking, Zero one foot stepped into the blood, and another foot, he had already stepped into the base gate.

After a while, the door slowly closed.