The three men stared blankly at the two elders before them, their backs soaked with cold sweat.
At that moment, looking at those two familiar faces, they felt only alienation and fear.
They weren't fools; the two elders had been waiting outside for a long time, and even the timing of their shots and sword strikes was incredibly precise...
This proves that the two of you did not leave at all!
And they!
They were used as bait to test the monster's true strength!
"This... this can't be real..."
Chen Xiaoyu trembled all over, shaking her head in disbelief, "Elders, how could you...?"
Sergei gritted his teeth, equally unable to accept this cruel reality.
"Smack!"
Li Tie slapped away Xing Wu's outstretched hand.
"Why?! You could have saved everyone!"
Why use us as bait?!
"Aren't we teammates?!"
Faced with Li Tie's questioning, Xing Wu's hand froze in mid-air. He opened his mouth, but in the end, he just closed his eyes and walked to the side.
Let me explain.
Novsky stepped forward, gun in hand. He glanced at Xing Wu and said calmly.
"He's not suited to be a bad guy; I'll play that kind of villain."
Then, Novsky glanced at the three people on the ground and explained in a deep voice.
"We locked you up inside as bait because we had to use the most extreme method to verify something."
"That monster, its specific methods of infecting humans and its incubation period."
"So you think you can just sacrifice us without my permission?!"
Li Tie roared angrily, "Even if there are so many healthy people in this team who haven't been infected at all!"
"Lu... Lu Ao is only twenty years old!"
"Sorry."
Novsky lowered his head, a rare occurrence, but his expression was one of resolute determination.
But this is a necessary sacrifice!
"Because if either Xing Wu or I gets infected..."
"You are no different from being dead!"
"Once a top-tier superhuman is parasitized by this monster, all our scouting efforts will be in vain!"
"They might even bring this world- World Annihilation plague back to our home planet!"
Upon hearing these cruel yet undeniably realistic words, Li Tie was speechless.
He collapsed to the ground.
Chen Xiaoyu and Sergei were equally ashen-faced, because they knew very well that Novsky was absolutely right.
The two veterans are the only backbone of their team; if the other side becomes a monster...
They had absolutely no chance of survival.
Seeing that the three people's emotions were gradually Suppression reality, Xing Wu finally sighed.
He turned back and began to recount the insights he had gained from this brutal experiment.
"Based on our observations, let's tentatively call this monster the [Flesh Demon]."
"This is a type of flesh tissue that can Disintegration into cellular structures."
They can seep in even the smallest wound or splattered blood!
"It can even silently integrate into your body through the anus, respiratory tract, and other acupoints!"
"During this incubation period, the host will be completely unaware!"
"The infected person doesn't even realize they've become a monster until their body is taken over and the mutation erupts!"
"Wound? Blood?!"
The three of them felt a chill run down their spines and subconsciously touched their clothes and minor scratches.
"Their current weaknesses are fire and attacks based on laws that strike directly at the soul."
Xing Wu continued, "Simply using physical slashes and bullets is completely useless against them; cutting them up will only cause them to split into more pieces."
"In addition, they will perfectly inherit the physical attributes of the infected!"
"That is, the bodies of you A-Class Reinforced Human."
"But since none of you besides Novsky and I have awakened Supernatural Ability yet, it's unclear whether it will be inherited."
"So... you need to be extra careful."
"In the following operations, everyone must maintain an absolute safe distance from each other."
"If we detect even the slightest abnormality in anyone, we will not hesitate to kill you."
"There's nothing we can do about it, understand?"
The three nodded in silence.
After learning about the Flesh Demon's insidious and pervasive infection routes...
They finally understood why the two elders had made that decision.
Infection can occur simply by touching blood or a wound...
This is simply an unpredictable nightmare!
"So... are we going to stay here from now on?"
Sergei, suppressing his fear, swallowed hard and asked.
No, thank you.
Novsky shook his head, picked up his gun, and said, "This place is no longer suitable for the living. We must..."
His words suddenly stopped.
"Xing... did you hear me?"
Novsky turned his head and stared into the darkness outside the window.
Xing Wu frowned and immediately closed his eyes to listen.
In the howling, eerie wind outside, he caught a sound.
About 100 meters away, heavy footsteps could be heard!
"Smack... Clang... Smack... Clang..."
"Look out the window!"
At this moment, Chen Xiaoyu suddenly pointed out the window and exclaimed.
Everyone immediately crowded around the window.
On the charred ruins outside the sanatorium, a strange figure was slowly moving in a southeast direction.
That direction leads directly to the medical university that Chen Xiaoyu had mentioned earlier!
The figure appeared bulky and was wearing a fully enclosed protective suit resembling an old-fashioned deep-sea diving suit.
"Besides us... there are other people on this Blue Star? Are they monsters?"
Li Tie exclaimed, his face filled with shock.
Novsky and Xing Wu exchanged a glance, and then Xing Wu immediately pulled out the Xiaomi 6 with a full signal from his pocket.
"Perhaps... this suddenly appearing figure can provide the answer to all these strange phenomena!"
Xing Wu made a decisive order, "Everyone check your equipment! Follow him covertly!"
But the word "he" had barely fallen to the ground!
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Suddenly, the entire sanatorium building shook violently!
Dust fell from the ceiling, and several cracks even appeared on the walls!
"What's going on?! Was it an earthquake?!"
Sergei was shaken so badly he staggered and quickly grabbed the wall to steady himself.
"No..."
Novsky turned around and stared at the end of the corridor.
The direction of the large ward where they had just stayed.
"It's them... they've arrived!"
As Novsky finished speaking, a stench of rotting flesh and blood swept down the corridor!
"Bang! Crash!!!"
The wall at the end of the corridor suddenly exploded!
Amidst the dust and cement debris, a colossal object squeezed into the corridor!
It was a gigantic ball of flesh, almost taking up the entire corridor in diameter, made up of countless severed limbs and internal organs Fusion together!
"That is..."
Chen Xiaoyu was so shocked by just one glance that her hands trembled.
On the surface of that enormous fleshy ball were embedded faces that were all too familiar to them!
There's Ivan who got his head blown off!
Volod, whose hands were bitten off!
Su Country soldiers, charred black by the bomb...
There was even Lu Ao!
These fallen teammates have somehow Fusion together!
The ball of flesh smashed through the walls on both sides as it rolled toward them!
The faces opened their large, slimy mouths and called out in various accents.
"Brother Tie... Brother Tie, why didn't you save me... It's so dark... I'm so scared..."
This was Lu Ao's desperate cry.
"Sergei! Come drink with me! The vodka here... is warm..."
That was Ivan's maniacal laughter.
"Don't go... don't leave us..."
As the fleshy ball crushed everything in its path, it stretched out countless arms, reaching out to grab them.
"Join us..."
"Embrace this magnificent flesh and blood..."
"Join this supreme Filth!!!"