Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

The corpses were covered in purple flower roots.

Some bodies had bodies on their bodies, others had purple flowers on their heads or backs.

It seems that these roots give them the strength to stand up again.

"Everyone put on flamethrowers."

Although the situation looked bad at the moment, Ham was unusually calm.

When the flamethrower was fired, all the corpses were enveloped.

But the flame went out faster than expected.

At this time, the living corpses did not fall down, and red flames seemed to be flowing in their broken bodies.

And the flowers on them also changed from purple to red.

A living corpse suddenly opened its mouth and spit out a mouthful of fire towards everyone.

"Damn..." Everyone hurriedly avoided.

Absorb energy, and transform properties through the absorbed energy.

Chen Zhao silently looked at the living corpses in the garden.

These living zombies are more agile and active than before.

It should be because the ultraviolet light absorbed initially can only carry out photosynthesis.

Therefore, the activity given by the flowers to the corpses is not enough, so the mobility of the living corpses is weak.

Then Ham and others used fire to attack the flowers and living corpses.

On the contrary, it made those living corpses more difficult to deal with.

Of course, if it were Chen Zhao, he would probably choose the same attack method.

After all, plants are restrained by flames, and normal people should think this way.

However, Chen Zhao also noticed that some living corpses and parasitic flowers were still burned.

This shows that the upper limit of their energy absorption is not high.

Chen Zhao caught a living corpse and found that the upper limit of living corpses was indeed very low.

This is understandable, as their bodies are already in dilapidated condition and cannot absorb much energy, nor can they be preserved for long.

However, this relationship between parasite and host is quite special.

First, the parasitic flower parasitizes the host's body. After the parasitic flower grows to a certain stage, it begins to feed energy back to the host.

They can maintain this pattern until the corpse is completely decomposed.

The parasitic flower should secrete some kind of substance that can slow down the process of decay.

But corruption is still an irreversible process.

A parasitic flower will lose its host sooner or later.

At this moment, a scream came into Chen Zhao's ears.

A soldier was knocked down by a zombie and then burned to death by the zombie breathing fire.

But Ham quickly stabilized the situation.

It has to be said that Ham's personal abilities and his on-the-spot command are more than one level higher than other soldiers.

Except for being a little caught off guard at the beginning, it didn't cause them much trouble at other times.

Even if the living zombies become faster and more agile, even if they have the ability to breathe fire.

Even if they are far more numerous than the soldiers.

But facing well-trained soldiers and sophisticated equipment, they still failed to pose much of a threat.

Soon, all the living corpses in the garden were cleared away.

Ham and the others were still on guard and walked carefully through the aisle.

Who knows if there will be a few living corpses standing in the soil.

Everyone let out a long sigh of relief after walking through the passage.

"Be careful, no one knows what else is here."

But at this moment, the ground beneath their feet suddenly collapsed.

Everyone slid down the trap under their feet.

Puff puff--

Everyone fell onto a piece of sand.

Fortunately, there is sand below, otherwise, this fall would probably make them lose their fighting ability.

Ham and others got up and looked at everyone: "Are you all okay?"

"fine."

"I'm fine too."

Everyone got up and began to observe their surroundings.

But they found themselves trapped in a field the size of a football field, with fine sand underneath.

It is surrounded by a circle of walls, and there are many seats on the high platform behind the wall.

It's like a colosseum down here.

On the seats next to him, there were more than a dozen experimenters in white coats sitting or standing.

The people in the center of the venue would not be able to attack the experimenters unless they used sniper rifles.

"Captain, what should we do now?"

At this moment, the sand in the distance suddenly rose.

"There's something in the sand." Ham's expression changed.

What was under the sand was quickly approaching them.

However, the weapons in everyone's hands cannot penetrate the sand at all, let alone attack things underground.

The moment the flying sand flew in front of everyone, a big mouth emerged from the sand and bit a soldier in one bite.

Ham was startled. This monster appeared right next to him.

If the monster didn't choose its teammates, but chose itself, then now it would be time for me to become its food.

It was a monster like a snake, but its head looked more like a viper.

There are many spores scattered on the back of the snake-like monster.

boom--

The soldier was also extremely decisive and pulled the grenade to explode himself without hesitation.

The bloody mouth was immediately blown to pieces, and the explosives and flamethrower fuel carried by the soldier also detonated, directly igniting the snake-like monster's body completely.

The snake-like monster's ignited body kept rolling.

At this moment, other snake-like monsters emerged from the sand.

They furiously bite their fellow creatures that were set alight.

"Free fire, shoot them, hurry up, don't give them a chance to crawl back into the sand."

Da da da--

Boom boom——

It has to be said that Hamm's response was extremely quick.

Having just walked away from the gate of hell, Ham used his strong heart to calm down, stabilize the situation again and fight back against the snake-like monsters.

Those snake-like monsters were attacked by Ham and others, and some of them rushed directly towards Ham and others.

Some want to burrow back into the ground.

The experimenters in the audience were taking notes.

Chen Zhao was also wearing a white coat at the moment and was sitting on the other side.

Looking at the live battle, the biggest advantage of these snake-like monsters is hiding in the sand.

Once out of the sand, they are much less of a threat.

I have to say that Hamm's ability to seize opportunities is really strong.

And in such a short and dangerous situation, he was able to grasp the snake-like monster's weaknesses and his own advantages.

"Who is that person sitting across from you?"

"I haven't seen it before. Are you new here?"

"There seems to be no new arrivals in the laboratory in the past three months."

Because there was a Colosseum across the way, the experimenters couldn't see Chen Zhao's face clearly.

"Forget it, leave him alone, let's continue recording data."

"After these vipers were parasitized by evolutionary spores, although their size mutated and became huge, their intelligence dropped significantly."

"Normally, after some organisms are parasitized, their intelligence increases, but their body shape does not change much. This shows that the evolutionary spores have redistributed the body's functions and energy."