The legend of Tiga

Chapter 2048: The Parasitic Monster

After the forced landing of Lomus III, Xincheng followed the emergency plan and first inspected the damage of Lomus III. The result was not optimistic.

Originally, the Lomus III was designed and manufactured for long-distance voyages. It had a large belly to carry more supplies and thus fly to farther places. In terms of toughness, it was far inferior to a fighter jet. It fell from the sky and suffered a very miserable fall.

Although it had not yet been torn into pieces, it was not intact either. There were hundreds of red alarms representing malfunctions stacked on the screen alone. The power reactor had stopped, the engine could not be started, and even the communication antenna was broken.

Xincheng acted promptly and sent people to survey the surroundings to see if there was any danger. At the same time, he carried out emergency repairs on the Lomus III, hoping to restore the power of the Lomus III so that it could fly again, and also restore the communication function and find a way to contact the headquarters. No matter what, he had to send out a distress signal.

Then misfortune struck. After the two crew members who went out to survey the surroundings came back, everyone gathered together to eat. But when one of the crew members named Ito reached out to take something, there was a bright red and pink mushroom on his exposed wrist, not much bigger than the enoki mushroom.

"what is this?"

Another crew member named Matsuda curiously reached out and pulled it, causing Ito to feel a stinging pain. He subconsciously pulled his arm back, and the mushroom was pulled off at once, leaving a small red mark on his wrist. It was obvious that a pencil-sized piece of skin was missing.

The two of them got together to study it and confirmed that the mushroom really grew on the skin. They felt something was not right and quickly took the mushroom to find Xincheng.

After Xincheng found out about this, he also took it seriously. Having mushrooms growing on the skin is not a good thing no matter how you think about it. Maybe it's an alien virus, so he immediately isolated and checked it out.

Fortunately, the medical equipment could still be used, but before the results came out, Matsuda felt an itch on the back of his right hand. He raised his hand and was immediately shocked, because a mushroom that looked and was exactly the same as Ito's, but much smaller, had grown out of the back of his hand. This hand was the mushroom that pulled Ito's wrist.

Things are serious.

There is no time to do anything else. The safety of the two crew members is the most important.

Shinjo asked Taguchi to treat the two of them, while he focused on repairing the communication system in order to restore contact with the headquarters as soon as possible and ask the headquarters to send someone over immediately.

But before he could put up the communication antenna, Taguchi reported bad news. More mushrooms grew on Ito and Matsuda's bodies, like bamboo shoots after rain, at a very fast speed, and Ito and Matsuda were a little dazed.

When Shinjo rushed back to the medical room, he was shocked by the scene in front of him. More than a dozen mushrooms had grown on Ito and Matsuda's faces and necks, and Ito and Matsuda were lying motionless on the bed, staring at the ceiling. Shinjo called them several times before they responded vaguely, saying that this looked abnormal no matter how they looked at it.

Taguchi suggested moving them outdoors to avoid infecting the interior of the spacecraft, so Shinjo and Taguchi put on protective clothing, moved them outdoors, and set up a temporary tent.

During this period, Taguchi also told about what he had learned from Ito and Matsuda. When Ito was surveying outside, he collected samples along the way according to past experience and found something he had never seen before. It was about the size of a marble pier. Upon closer inspection, it was made up of several gray-white vines entwined together, and the gaps were filled with a translucent substance like rosin.

Ito poked it first, but there was no movement. He then touched it with his hand and it felt soft like jelly. He then collected a sample. The hand that first grew mushrooms was the hand that touched the mushroom.

Xincheng also looked from afar. The thing that was most likely the culprit was still there, with vines entangled inside, and it emitted a faint light like a filament, but flowed like water.

Xincheng looked in the direction of the light. The light came along the vines, exchanged with other vines in the amber, and then went away into the distance.

I don't know what it is, but it's definitely not simple.

Knowing this, Shinjo quickly spoke out to stop Asuka Shin from getting close to the thing. After listening to Shinjo's story, Chiba Makoto immediately asked, "Where is that thing?"

"There, we'll be there just over this slope." Xincheng raised his hand and pointed behind him.

"Go and have a look."

Chiba Makoto said this and walked over quickly, taking the lead.

The others hurried to catch up. Xincheng looked back at the crew members he had brought out but could not take back, tightened his Brest rifle in his hand, and strode to catch up.

Soon, Chiba Makoto saw the thing that Xincheng described. It was bulging like a bag growing out of the earth, but there was no light flowing.

"It only lights up occasionally," Xincheng followed up and said, "I tried placing detectors and monitors, but they soon failed. It was as if there was electromagnetic interference, causing great damage to the electronic equipment."

Indeed, because Qianye Cheng saw several expensive instruments and equipment near the "pillar", but at this moment they were like scrap metal, dull and stuck in the ground.

Because it might be a source of infection, we couldn't get too close, so we just watched from afar, but what could we see?

Seeing that things seemed to have reached a stalemate, Asuka Shin, who was still furious, raised his hand and aimed, saying, "Why keep such a bad thing? Smash it."

As he finished speaking, he had already pulled the trigger. The bullet hit the strange big bag from dozens of meters away, and it exploded immediately.

"Asuka, you..." Yumimura Ryo was shocked. He wanted to stop him but it was too late. He suddenly had a new understanding of this guy's recklessness. He didn't know anything, so why did he shoot rashly?

Shinjo and Chiba Makoto also turned their heads to look over, only to see that Asuka Shin's face was still full of anger, as if he felt that this was not enough to ease the hatred in his heart, and then the ground began to shake.

It was rumbling and shaking up and down, making it difficult for people to stand steadily.

"What's going on here?"

There was no need to wait for anyone to answer, their eyes told everyone the answer, because the ground in front of them cracked, and then a huge head emerged from the ground.

The gray-black triangular head is covered with vines. Some vines even penetrate into the nose, ears and even eyes, giving the impression that the head is also covered with vines.

The body that crawled out later was also covered with vines, which had penetrated into the flesh visibly with the naked eye. Moreover, these vines were flashing with light, like lightning, running through the vines.

Although it was fleeting, I could see that some streams of light came out from the vines connected to the head, while others flew from the limbs to the head.