Unleash the Slaughter! (Continued)

She could feel her voice traveling to a distant place, following the call.

But there was no response.

Not only was Maria gone, but her companions were also gone.

At the same time, she heard a strange chirping sound in her ears.

'Messenger...'

'Comminicate...'

"Envoy? Communication?"

Heratia repeated the source of the sound, but a moment later, her mind went blank again.

Because she realized that the voice used an intonation and pronunciation she had never heard before... it should be a foreign language to her.

But...

She understood its meaning.

"Just a homonym?"

An idea popped into Heratia's mind.

But soon, she dismissed it from her mind.

Unlikely.

She could sense that this was the message the other person was trying to convey.

Only...

How do I know all this?

Heratia frowned.

But soon, she felt a warm sensation on the top of her head again.

Then, intense pain shot through her; she felt a sharp pain in the back of her neck!

How?!

Heratia was suddenly stunned, as if something had detached from her face, and she regained the ability to breathe!

"Ha ha..."

She instinctively began to pant, and her face turned pale.

But this panting caused a sharp pain in the back of her neck.

Only...

"Wait a minute..."

Just as Heratia was feeling unwell, Maria reached out and gently pinched Heratia's nose.

As her face flushed red with discomfort, Maria let the blood from her wrist flow onto the manta ray-like creature.

With the contact of blood, the tentacle embedded in Heratia's nape began to retract rapidly, and finally, under Maria's watchful gaze, it was gently withdrawn...

"Forehead..."

Heratia's throat wound, now unobstructed, gushed blood.

But Maria said nothing. After a few moments of silence, she took a dab of her own blood and gently smeared it on the other person's wound.

In just a few moments, Heratia found that the wound on her neck began to itch and feel hot.

After a few moments, signs of healing began to appear!

"This..."

Heratia touched the smooth back of her neck, then looked at the bizarrely shaped creature on the ground.

She discovered that there were many similar creatures around her and the others.

However, they had all been neatly divided in half...

"What's this..."

Without the fear of escaping death or the dread of the unknown, Heratia lived up to her title as consul. Upon seeing the scene, she immediately realized what she had just encountered.

After a brief examination, her expression changed.

"This thing... I've never seen anything like it before."

Although Heratia no longer practices marine ecology, she did study it in her earlier years.

It wasn't that she didn't try to understand what those parasitic life forms were like.

But she was certain that these things were definitely not the result of natural evolution!

"The ganglia at the tail are specifically designed to connect to the human brain... and the arms are also just big enough to completely encircle the human brain. This thing was created specifically to parasitize humans!"

Although Aegir has lived in the ocean for thousands of years, that is still too short in the context of the evolution of life!

Such a creature specifically targeting humans may have emerged, but before that, there must have been many more primitive forms!

Something's not right...

This is very wrong!

Heratia immediately turned her head to look at Maria beside her.

"What's this?"

Heratia frowned. Although she didn't know what this thing was, Maria seemed to know how to deal with it.

This means that Maria at least had some understanding of this thing.

If some terrifying, highly skilled enemy had appeared here, or if there were any bombs capable of destroying the entire continent, Heratia might not be so panicked.

Because she knew that those who came here were mostly top scholars from various fields in Aegir, and that through exchanges among themselves, there might still be solutions.

But this creature...

"Only eight hundred natural hours have passed since we first came into contact with this place..."

Heratia whispered, her fingers slowly tracing the bodies of these creatures once more.

After seeing its internal structure, Heratia was even more certain of her idea.

It has no mouth for eating, no internal digestive organs, and almost everything about it serves to parasitize humans.

Such a creature, from the moment of its birth, is destined to live for no more than a few minutes.

This might even be considered a long life.

"This is an existence specifically designed to target humans."

After eight hundred natural hours, this result was achieved...

If Heratia wasn't mistaken, the voice she had just heard wasn't a hallucination, nor was her understanding incorrect.

The other party did make a sound, and I certainly couldn't understand it, but...

The nerve endings that pierced the back of his neck triggered his senses, forcing him to understand these things!

Just 800 hours! And the secrets of the brain have already been unlocked?!

Heratia couldn't imagine what kind of creature would emerge if the other side had been given more time!

These things... are called "Seaborn"...

Maria glanced at it, her fingers lightly sliding through the air a few times.

Soon, several ripped monster corpses fell to the ground, causing Heratia's brow to twitch.

"Seaborn... offspring of the ocean... Ha, this name is really quite unsettling."

Heratia took a deep breath and immediately picked up the pager next to her.

"How are the wounded here in Heratia? Repeat, how are the wounded?"

"Sizzle--"

There was no response, no audio; only a deathly silence.

Heratia persisted, switching channels several times and calling again.

Only after she had tried every last channel did she finally lower her head and sigh.

"**Is this a disturbance?"

Heratia rubbed her temples, clearly this was the first time she had encountered something like this.

But she knew that she couldn't panic at this moment.

She exchanged a glance with Maria, then immediately turned and walked back the way she came.

Fortunately, they hadn't strayed too far and quickly rejoined the group.

Here, the Swarm of people sat on the side, looking for a good place to rest.

"Command..."

Everyone was quite surprised to see Heratia arrive, wondering why she had come back.

But Heratia spoke up immediately upon seeing the group.

Does anyone else have a communicator?

"Um... I do."

One of the people who approached Heratia spoke as he took out an instrument.

Heratia called out several times, but there was still no response.

Clearly, it wasn't that her equipment was broken; rather, the location simply restricted communication.

This silenced Heratia.

The others also realized that something seemed amiss, and after a moment of silence, they cautiously spoke up.

"Commander... what's wrong?"

"... Something happened."

Heratia remained silent for a few moments before finally revealing the whole story.

When the scientists present heard Heratia mention life forms that specifically target humans, their first reaction was singular.

"That's impossible, Commander, we need to be scientific..."

"Even if such a creature exists, it should have undergone a long evolutionary process, and it might even have existed alongside us... But you're saying it only took eight hundred hours..."

Everyone shook their heads, thinking Heratia was joking.

But when they saw Heratia's expressionless face, they realized things might be getting serious...

"Is... it really true?!"

Everyone's faces were contorted in pain.

They stared at each other, their gazes sharpening.

But Heratia didn't say much. She just took a few deep breaths and looked at everyone.

"This is just a reminder. Because of the wounded, you cannot move your positions arbitrarily. But on that basis, I require all trained personnel to be extra vigilant, especially around corners and ceilings... If nothing unexpected happens, they should be attacking from these areas."

Heratia warned the group a few more times, asked the others about their direction of travel, and then turned around and resumed their work.

Maria simply followed silently behind, her expression calm.

It didn't take long; Maria and Heratia quickly located most of the researchers who had split up.

Many of them, oblivious to the danger, wandered around in areas that were clearly high-risk, just to conduct a thorough search of every place that might contain valuable collectibles.

This left Heratia somewhat helpless.

But she was also grateful.

Despite their reckless actions, at least these people are safe and haven't encountered any attacks.

The team quickly regrouped.

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