Origin of Mars

Chapter 71 Underwater Shadows
Harqui's voice echoed in the squad channel, but Black didn't answer him immediately.

Black was only a meter away from it, and he could carefully observe every detail of the creature.

This is a creature that does not belong to natural cognition at all. Its body structure is awkward and awkward, like a toy made of different kinds of building blocks.

At least in Blake's knowledge, it is impossible for such deformed reptiles to exist in this beautiful forest.

It's a very strange feeling.

Black couldn't see anything on it that matched the characteristics of a blue star creature.

It has a body shape of about one meter, lying on the bark, with a flat body and a monkey-like head. Blake can clearly see the position of the eye sockets, nasal bones, or cheekbones, and the two protruding huge eyeballs are It trembled irregularly, and because there was no distribution of pupils, Black couldn't tell where its line of sight was.

Especially the six appendages extending from the waist to one side, three on each side. The end of the appendages is a finger-like organ. Blake watched these dozens of dense finger-shaped organs tightly clinging to the bark , I don't know why I suddenly felt a sharp nausea.

"Professor Harkui? Are you sure this is a parasite?"

Blake asked, out of breath.

"Yes,"

"Its body has the same characteristics as the previous two deformed monsters, that is, the irregular black tissue entangled on the torso, which is completely different from the composition of muscles, like a bundle of entangled branch."

Haruki's voice rang in his ears.

Everyone stood still in place, confronting this pitch-black creature, not daring to act rashly at all.

Harqui's explanation was straightforward, and Blake understood it quickly.

Indeed, on the surface of this pitch-black monster's torso, there are also streaks of black, muscle-like strips of tissue.

But unlike the closely intertwined muscles, these black strips of tissue squeezed each other, like poisonous snakes with countless threads entangled together.

"Mr. Harqui, we didn't carry any tools, what can we use to capture this guy?"

Blake licked his lips, and suddenly said, "This thing may be surprisingly fast, and we don't know if it's aggressive!"

Black's words brought the excited Hakyu ​​back to reality.

Indeed, they only carried equipment responsible for collecting terrain data, without any tools to deal with this pitch-black monster.

And judging from the speed at which it avoided Black's sharp knife, it was simply impossible to get close to it.

"But this is a unique sample!"

Hakui said eagerly.

"No, not unique."

Black suddenly narrowed his eyes, allowing the monster's head to be completely accommodated in the scope, and his body tightened slightly.

But at this moment, the monster suddenly opened its flat mouth wide, and let out a strange sound that fluctuated up and down.

"Woooo~oooo~"

The sound was so high in decibels that Black could even see the missing dark teeth between the bones of its wide mouth.

Those are human teeth! ?
Blake suddenly felt a chill, killing intent flashed in his eyes, and the rifle in his hand suddenly shot out a bright flame!

"boom!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Almost at the same time, clusters of flames flickered in the dark forest, armor-piercing bullets pierced the air, and flew towards the monster at high speed! !

The first armor-shattering hollow point bullet hit the monster's huge head in an instant!The head of the cartridge case deformed and cracked immediately, and the plastic explosive in it exploded immediately! !

Black only felt that his shot was hitting a steel ball, and the bullets covering it from different directions in the next second instantly engulfed the monster's torso.

The strange chirping stopped abruptly and was completely covered by the sound of violent explosions.

I saw the huge, pitch-black head smashed to pieces in an instant!Viscous jelly flowed out from the broken gap, and the monster's entire body fell to the ground, struggling crazily. The six withered limbs that resembled arms wriggled, driving trembling fingers one after another, like It is the two rows of legs of a centipede.

This scene already made Black feel extremely uncomfortable, and he even wanted to shoot the corpse twice, but Harkui behind him had already rushed up, and Black didn't even have time to stop this crazy guy.

The ground was covered with oil-like black gum, which slowly flowed out from the monster's completely shattered head, covering some small weeds and engulfing a large area of ​​green.

"You are crazy! Why did you shoot!!"

Ha-kui obviously couldn't accept Black's actions, raised his hands and yelled at him, blushing.

"Each one is an extremely precious sample!! You completely destroyed it!"

Harqui's roar resounded through the team channel, making Black's eardrums feel very uncomfortable.

He calmed down his mood, put the gun back on his chest again, pointed at the corpse and said:

"This is the third one, then there will be a fourth one, and a fifth one. My mission is to ensure your absolute safety. The ultimate goal is to collect the data of the ruins. No matter what happens in the middle, we can only Follow my orders."

"But it didn't show obvious aggression! If you can catch it"

"This is the thing!! Three of them have been torn apart in one control room!! Stupid and conceited fellows like you have been torn to shreds!! Even the dead bodies can't be pieced together!!"

Blake suddenly pointed at him and yelled: "I blew its head off!! Do you understand!!"

"Your self-righteousness will destroy you!! You don't understand what it's going to do!! If you want to die!! Think of your family! Your children! Get it idiot!"

Black's voice was as loud as thunder, and Harqui was frightened to stay where he was, and Cohen, who was just about to come up to dissuade him, did not dare to step forward.

Black stared at Ha Kui silently, making one even think that he would pick up the gun in his hand and punch Ha Kui in the chest.

And the other soldiers just stayed where they were, without any intention of stepping forward to dissuade them, as if nothing happened.

After an unknown amount of time, Ha Kui picked up a large pile of fallen leaves, covered the wreckage, and inserted a thick branch as a mark.

He didn't bring any tools that could carry the corpse, so he could only place it here first, and return here to take it away after all the tasks were completed.

He didn't want to say anything more to this reckless soldier, but just shook his head, picked up the black bag on the ground and put it on his back again, looked at the locator in his hand, and walked forward.

"Follow him, don't let him die."

Blake glanced at him and said to a soldier beside him.

The team suddenly became fragmented. Cohen caught up with Harkui at the front, followed by two soldiers, and Black led the rest of the soldiers at the end, about tens of meters away from them. distance.

Silent all the way, Blake couldn't understand the guy's thoughts.

He really didn't need to understand anything.

The order he got was to send these two guys to the ruins safely, and no matter what happened in the middle, Black had the right to deal with it immediately.

For these mutated monsters, Black can only feel extreme disgust and hatred. In his opinion, these disgusting things should not exist on this planet.

He's trying to get rid of a lot of unnecessary thinking.

For example, the origin of these monsters, and what kind of secrets are hidden behind them?
These are not things that Blake should know, but he is just out of intense curiosity, and this feeling is biting his brain like a bug, which is very uncomfortable.

The road suddenly became flat, as if someone had opened up the rotten tree trunks and shrubs that blocked the road, leaving obvious traces.

They have finally arrived.

Black watched the two people in front of them open their huge black bags, and took out a portable device and placed it on a dry rock surface. An AUA miniature drone was warming up, with a bright green light flashing at the bottom.

"right here?"

Black stepped forward to look at this strange area and asked.

"Yes, below this rock formation is where the ruins are located. We need to enter it through these crude ventilation pipes,"

Ha Kui said flatly that he was adjusting the parameters of the equipment. In front of him was a hole dug out of the rock formation about one and a half meters. The inside of the hole was dark, and the twists and turns could be imagined.

"How did they create this ruin, dig a passage from the ground on the other side? Lead to this ruin?"

Blake couldn't understand, and asked with a frown.

"Do not."

Ha Kui shook his head and pointed to a certain area in front, "There are passages with larger specifications, and they transport materials from these passages into this pre-excavated underground area, using the most primitive construction method, which consumes a lot of time. It's been a long time."

"...where are the workers?"

Black seemed to think of something, "I mean those workers who are responsible for building the ruins underground, how did they leave this underground area?"

"Not only the workers, but also the most distinguished high priests, and countless upper-class people in Mayan society, they all scrambled to enter this underground area, lifted heavy stones, and piled them together. Most people don't understand these basic architectural knowledge, so the process of this ruin is very slow, and it took a very long time to build this rough underground temple."

Harkui said blankly that the debugging of the equipment is about to be completed, and Cohen is ready to put the miniature drone into the passage in front of him.

"why?"

"It's not clear, we know very little about the reasons behind it, and the only explanation that can explain this behavior may be that some kind of supernatural imagination occurred at that time, driving these Mayans into complete frenzy."

Harkui suddenly closed his mouth and said nothing more. Cohen had already sent the drone into the dark pipeline, and the display equipment on the side had already started working.

Harquey used a retractable sounding rope to follow this passage, proving that it was indeed the way to a certain area.

The buzzing drone successfully entered the pipeline. It has an automatic obstacle avoidance module, and there are no large rocks that can block its progress. The picture is still dark because this is the first perspective of the drone. This The pipeline is a bit more verbose than expected.

Ha Kui stared nervously at the screen, the drone was operating normally, but deep down in his heart he seemed to be afraid of something happening.

Finally, a gleam of light suddenly appeared on the screen, and the light magnified continuously in a very short period of time. The drone had already passed through this passage and arrived at this area.

"Pull down the perspective!"

Haruki suddenly trembled.

Without his reminding, Cohen had already adjusted the angle of the high-definition camera under the drone at the first moment the picture changed, displaying an extremely weird picture on the screen.

Like a reef surrounded by tides, the black water is slowly flowing. It is obviously a completely closed environment, but it can present a tide-like scene. On the stone surface, there seemed to be some strange movements in the waves.

When seeing this scene, Ha Kui, who was staring at the screen tightly, was completely stunned.

He couldn't describe this shocking and peculiar scene in words, which was completely inconsistent with the original image data.

"What is this?? A pool??"

Black raised his eyebrows, "Has this place been flooded with groundwater?"

"Black water. Black water"

Ha Kui murmured suddenly, his eyes were very complicated, as if he was thinking about something.

He didn't answer Black's question, and Black closed his mouth wisely, and looked at the underground ruins again.

The drone is hovering, gradually reducing the distance from the water surface.

The lighting system at the top was turned on, and a beam of light suddenly shot towards the weird tidal surface.

Only then did Ha Kui realize that the surface of this black tide was covered with densely packed skeletons.

Countless skeletons, of different lengths and shades of color, exude an extremely pale luster under the drone's illumination.

And in the depths of this layer of tide water, there seems to be some kind of strange thing slowly wriggling, pushing this dead tide water to move with strange laws, just like the tide moving under the gravity of celestial bodies.

"His grandma's."

After seeing the picture in front of him clearly, even Blake, who has always been brave, couldn't help but swallowed and cursed.

"The black water is phagocytic, and these skeletons are small beasts that fell through these pipes. Their bones look like they have been washed with sulfuric acid."

Ha Kui said hurriedly, "Can you get closer?! Cohen!"

"receive."

Cohen adjusted the flying height of the drone again, and saw that the details on the surface of the tide became clearer and clearer. At this moment, the tide that had been wriggling expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a black shadow completely broke through the surface of the tide. Thick black glue splashed all around, and at this moment, the true form of this black shadow also appeared on the screen.

It looked like a humanoid skeleton, but compared to the second humanoid monster, his proportions were more coordinated, and his face even had a rough outline. Ha Kui even saw the pair of empty eye sockets through the screen.

He shot straight up from the water and grabbed the drone.

In Ha Kui's perspective, only a pair of extremely slender fingers could be seen flashing in front of the screen for an instant, and then the screen disappeared completely, the drone's signal was interrupted, and everything returned to calm.

(End of this chapter)