Life as a mercenary turned into a girl is a bit difficult

Before Hiiragi could say her complete thanks, she was interrupted by a violent impact behind her. The red-bearded spider queen, who was impacting more powerfully, had no external force to pull her to a stop. She was blocked by her tentacles. The eyes were also unable to determine what the road conditions ahead were like. This huge body naturally hit the concrete wall in front of the railing without any suspense.

The air wave set off by the powerful impact knocked people to the ground just a few meters away from the impact point. The narrow passage gathered strong pressure, pressing everyone to the ground and unable to move. The roar of the explosion poured into everyone's mind. It surged inside the small skull again and again.

The strong wind that lasted for several seconds was slowly receding. The people who had regained control of their bodies did not dare to neglect at all. The red-bearded spider queen who resisted dozens of grenades would not lose her threat because of this impact.

Sure enough, when all kinds of people got up from the ground one after another, the Red Bearded Spider Queen, with most of her body sunk into the cement wall, had already begun to struggle to get out of the hole where she was hit.

"How hard is this thing..."

One team member expressed the shock in everyone's heart.The black carapace was covered with white scratches and was covered with a layer of dust, but everyone could see that the carapace showed no obvious signs of damage and was still extremely strong and had its original defensive capabilities.

"Leader! Come up quickly."

At this moment, a voice came from far behind them, and the figure standing not far from the passage was the team leader Ping Gaochi who had left the team before.

Chapter 54 Overwhelming

There was no time to make any repairs, and everyone who had just escaped had to get up and flee again, and it turned out that such tension was necessary.

Before they could run very far, the Red Bearded Spider Queen had already adjusted her condition. Her huge body was able to escape from the pothole and completed the turn. She hit the narrow passage and intersection crazily one after another, exerting all her strength every time. Each blow was destroying the obstacles to her. The repeated setbacks had driven her into a deep mania. The so-called need to hunt had long been replaced by the desire to kill these humans at all costs.

"Follow me, go this way!" Pinggao Chi, who had already completely surveyed this area, led the way and quickly passed through the narrow passage and arrived at another distribution area.

The space of this distribution area is obviously much larger than the distribution area where the mother nest is located. It is roughly estimated that it is more than half the size. Six load-bearing columns are distributed in a regular circle around this space, which just makes Hiiragi feel strange. What's interesting is that the decoration here is very different from the previous passages and distribution areas.

The walls and floors are no longer monotonous blue-gray cement, but are paved with marble floors and ceramic tiles. A large number of ceramic tiles have been separated from the walls, but it can be seen that they once occupied the entire wall, and the wires and water pipes are not simple. They were bundled together to give a rough treatment, and they were buried in the compartments of the wall. There were also benches, patterns and other decorations placed in the surrounding corners.

The scene here is really incompatible with the military underground network system. It does not look like a distribution area for the purpose of rapid circulation of materials. Those decorations may also hinder the transportation of materials.

But Ping Gaochi's next words soon explained the sense of dissonance in this area.

"I did a little research: this was originally an underground facility that was used as a shelter when this town was first established. Later, when those underground network tunnels were built, this place was also included in the network tunnel system." Ping Gaochi was fast and He clearly stated the information he had obtained here, "However, it has also been reinforced here, so we encountered a lot of trouble during the execution."

"Stop talking nonsense, how is the mission going?" Jiaheng didn't care about these, what she needed was another more precise answer.

"Yes, everything has been deployed." Ping Gaochi immediately changed her words and gave the answer she expected most.

"Everyone, prepare high-explosive grenades!"

From the conversation between the two of them, it seemed that they had already figured out how to deal with the Red Bearded Spider Queen and decided to use this place as the decisive battle location to kill the Red Bearded Spider Queen in one fell swoop. However, looking around, Hiiragi didn't understand the reason.

Hiiragi Jing didn't know exactly what they planned to do, and the same was true for the other team members, but they still resolutely carried out Jiaheng's orders. After Jiaheng gave the order, they quickly stopped their steps and turned around to aim at the place they had just escaped. intersection.

"You guys go to the intersection behind to meet us."

The so-called 'you guys' naturally refer to Hiiragi Jing, Ling Jiu and Ujia Xu who don't have grenade equipment.The support was just another way of asking them to withdraw from the war zone. It seemed that Jiaheng had already made plans for how to deal with the Red Bearded Spider Queen next.

The intersection that Jiaheng was talking about was not far away. It was a door with an 'emergency access'. The stairs behind the door were the last passage from the underground to the surface. The door used to be where Ping Gaochi and I stood before. The two team members who came to perform the mission saw Ping Gaochi's greeting and they also rushed to participate in the grenade blocking mission.

"Does Lingjiu still feel pain?"

He found a relatively flat place and used his feet to sweep away the tile fragments and gravel on the ground. Then he slowly lowered Lingjiu behind him against the wall. After settling, he immediately took off the night vision goggles and turned on the flashlight to confirm the injuries on the opponent's knees.

"Her, what happened to her?"

"Wounded knee."

Ujiaxu, who was focused on escaping and nervous, only then noticed Lingjiu's injuries. Just four words were all Hiiragi Jing's reply. She didn't want to say anything more to the person in front of her, but hurriedly took out her pocket. Healing Spray began to treat Zero Nine's injuries.

'You obviously don't understand anything! Ujiaxu was angry in his heart, but in the end he did not say these words, but turned his eyes in other directions.

The cold medicine alleviated some pain and smoothed Ling Jiu's frown. After seeing the effect of the medicine, Hiiragi felt relieved. Just in case, Hiiragi consumed more than half of the bottle of medicine. It wasn't until the slipped potion soaked the pants on Lingjiu's thighs that Lingjiu's knees were bandaged for the final step.

Just as the bandaging was finished here, a new situation appeared behind them.

"Hiss hiss!!!"

The Red-bearded Spider Queen finally broke through the narrow obstacle, and used her body to carve out a path forward on its basis. Amidst the flying dust, the Red-bearded Spider Queen broke through the wall and looked ahead at a glance. The human team is ready.

Why didn't they keep running away?

Such doubts only stayed in her mind for a moment before being overshadowed by the surge of murderous intent. She had no time to understand the intentions of these humans. No matter what, she had to kill the humans in front of her here.

The red-bearded spider queen had already aimed at the target and rushed towards them. The distance between the two sides was less than a hundred meters and they were quickly getting closer. This should have been the best distance for launching grenades to block the attack. But Ke Jiaheng was slow to give the order to pull the trigger. The raised hand showed no intention of falling down.

What is she waiting for?

Except for Ping Gaochi and the two team members who were performing the deployment mission, the rest of the team members who maintained shooting postures were surprised and uncertain, but no one doubted her intentions behind her. Her stiff fingers pressed on the trigger anytime and anywhere, and her firm movements did not stop her. The influence of the red-bearded spider queen in front of her was not shaken at all.

What is she waiting for?

Hiiragi Jing, who had attracted all his attention, was also puzzled until she suddenly caught a glimpse of a small round hole on a load-bearing pillar. The fresh traces and debris were obviously not left before the war, but appeared not long ago. ……Could it be that? !

"emission!"

Jiaheng stared closely at the approaching red-bearded spider queen, as indifferent as a stone statue. Jiaheng seemed to have forgotten to wave his arms. Finally, when the red-bearded spider queen stepped onto the place he expected, Jiaheng exerted all his strength. Throw down your arms.

Everyone was waiting for this moment to come. Almost at the moment Jiaheng spoke, every finger threw a high-explosive grenade forward.

"Boom boom boom!!!"

More than a dozen high-explosive grenades with larger charges spread the explosion almost to the entire distribution area. The powerful impact also caused the red-bearded spider queen to stop her progress, and also caused the human side to stagger and fly fragments. It even scratched their masks and protective shields, but the human counterattack was not over yet.

"Detonation!"

Feeling that the chaotic air wave weakened slightly, Jiaheng issued a second command, and Ping Gaochi also pressed the detonator that was always in his hand.

Suddenly, the tops and bottoms of the six load-bearing columns erupted with a muffled sound accompanied by flying dust at the same time. The load-bearing columns that lost their upper and lower connections fell down, so slowly and so quickly, and they fell in the same direction. The red-bearded spider queen in the center of the distribution area.

This was Jiaheng's last resort, using these two-meter-diameter load-bearing pillars as deadly weapons to completely defeat the red-bearded spider queen in front of him.

The smoke and dust caused by the explosion filled the entire underground space, and the screams of collapse were mixed with the collision between cement. Even if you couldn't witness this shocking scene with your naked eyes, the loud sound of the collapse of the load-bearing column was extremely frightening. Even the strongest armored unit in the entire Southern Federation would undoubtedly turn into a flat discus under such heavy pressure.

I don't know how long it took, the aftertaste of the loud noise gradually disappeared, dust fell in the air, and the landscape in the center of the distribution area gradually appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Six fallen load-bearing pillars piled up into a hill several meters high, and the Red Bearded Spider Queen was under this hill.

This time, the strong carapace that the Red Bearded Spider Queen was proud of could not withstand the heavy blow. The swollen and plump spider sac was turned into a piece of soft skin under the huge pressure, and all the internal organs in it were squeezed out from the back. , disgusting and sticky splatters on the ground or walls.

The red-bearded spider queen's tentacles are still twitching, but she is no longer much different from dead.

Everyone stared blankly at the red-bearded spider queen who was crushed under the rubble. The red-bearded spider queen, who had blocked countless grenades and crashed into countless cement walls, died in front of their eyes. This made Everyone has a sense of unreality.

Not only due to the shock before their eyes, but also to relieve their mental and physical fatigue, they collapsed on the ground and gasped violently. It was not until a few minutes later that Jiaheng whispered in a hoarse voice: "Go...get her Dig out the crystal core."

The corpse of the giant red-bearded spider queen obviously cannot be taken to a human base for research due to their strength, but her crystal core is still a very valuable research object.

The nearest team member stood up on his knees and walked step by step towards the red-bearded spider queen who had lost her voice.

Through the gap in the eye that was blinded by Hiiragi, it is not difficult to dissect the inside of the red-bearded spider woman to obtain the crystal core, but it is a little disgusting.

Not long after, a crystal clear crystal core the size of a knuckle was handed into Jiaheng's hands. In addition, he also took back Hiiragi Jing's short knife.

The short knife that was originally thought to be lost was still left in the red bearded spider queen's wound, and there was no obvious curl on its blade.Hiiragi, who has long been accustomed to the high-quality products of the institute, couldn't help but quickly put it into the scabbard hanging on her back and stored it carefully.

"Let's set off..."

Killing the Red Bearded Spider Queen does not mean the end, it is just a minor episode in this operation.

Leaving behind the body of the Red Bearded Spider Queen and the mess on the ground, the team silently climbed up the stairs leading to the exit.Until the people at the front pushed open the covered door, the sunlight shining into the passage awakened their long-forgotten view of time. It turned out that the life-and-death chase actually lasted throughout the night, and now - it was dawn.

Chapter 55 Confrontation between air and ground

Even just the glimmer of dawn can make people who have been in darkness for a long time feel uncomfortable. The nearly one-minute light adaptation process not only allows the cones to take on the task of receiving bright light again, but also reminds the body and mind of the state called fatigue. This A night of high-intensity exercise consumes a lot of energy and physical strength for everyone.

They are tired.

The best way to relieve fatigue is undoubtedly to have a good rest, but what is happening in the sinkhole does not allow them to engage in such extravagant behavior. For this reason, the team members took out a finger filled with unknown liquid from their pockets. Big and small plastic bottles and drink.

Without waiting for Jiaheng to wonder, Hiiragi had already reached out and handed the plastic bottle of the same style to her eyes and took the initiative to explain: "This is a refreshing drink distributed by the Confederate Army. Don't worry, the basic ingredients are only caffeine and taurine. , can put the brain into a state of excitement within two to three minutes, and the dose may be a bit excessive for your age group, do you need it?"

Yes, of course!

Hiiragi didn't want a possible life-threatening mistake to occur due to mental problems in the future. Compared with the side effects of excessive doses of refreshing drinks, saving lives was the priority.

The standing army in the Newborn City also has similar refreshing drink rations, and they are also sold in different types of markets in the Newborn City, but Hiiragi Jing has no experience of trying that kind of thing.

When she feels tired during missions, her most common method is to chew mint leaves, which is also a cost-effective way to refresh herself that most mercenaries often use.

But now that special refreshing drinks are provided for free, what reason do I have to refuse?

Hiiragi took the plastic bottle without hesitation, opened the cap, and drank it in one gulp. The taste of the drink was on the sour side, and at the same time, a refreshing sensation similar to mint gradually spread from the tip of the tongue to the mouth and even the nasal cavity. With every sip, His breath was stimulated by coolness, and it seemed that even the air had become cleaner. The effect of the drink had indeed dispelled the trance that lingered in his mind. The effect was indeed much better than chewing mint dry.

After drinking the drink, apart from the bloodshot eyes, there was no trace of fatigue. The people who had worked hard to regain their energy also had extra experience and turned to the world outside the passage.

Even though the night has passed and the sky has gradually turned white, the beam of light is still extremely clear, and its color is no longer biased towards light blue, but more transparent, and the blurred edges have become clear and sharp, almost splitting the sky in two.

"Lingjiu, can you still perceive the state of that ether-like substance?"

The change in the beam of light was extremely obvious to the naked eye. Needless to say, how much attention was paid to this change. After confirming that everyone had made arrangements, Jiaheng immediately turned back to Lingjiu and asked.

"Yeah." This time, Lingjiu's face was no longer indifferent when reporting on the light column. He looked at the light column that was not far away and frowned slightly, "It will... be mature soon."

The word description like 'immediately' may be too vague, but the change of expression on Lingjiu's face has conveyed enough urgency.

"Understood, let's go." Jiaheng, who understood that there was not much time, immediately waved his hand. After receiving the order, the team members left the hiding passage one by one and walked up the ascending steps towards the half-open iron door.

After a long journey underground, they finally returned to the surface of the town. Although the open ground environment should be more dangerous than the narrow underground network, no matter it was the psychological shadow given to them by the powerful Red-bearded Spider Queen, it was still underground. Despite the influence of the dark and depressing environment, Hiiragi still felt a sense of relief the moment she left the shelter of the congested concrete walls and returned to the ground.

But when she stepped on the cracked asphalt road and looked around, the scene she saw made her feel strange and questioning: Is this really a sinkhole?

The hundred-meter-high cliff and the compressed sky in the distance seemed to indicate the redundancy of Hiiragi Jing's question. However, this strangeness and question were not surprising. In fact, she was not the only one. The team members who emerged one after another were seeing clearly. The same confusion arose in the surrounding scenes.

Because the surrounding ground environment was completely different from what they had encountered when they first entered the sinkhole - it was not occupied by wildly growing vegetation at all.

Yes, the vegetation that should have coexisted with the cement buildings in the sinkhole actually did not touch this area. There are no giant trees rising from the ground, and there are no vines climbing everywhere and drilling through the ground. Those pervasive roots are not present. In every nook and cranny.

It is still pure steel, cement, stone, bricks and rubble. The green vegetation that originally existed in the town has long since decayed, and there is no sign of invasion from the human relics.

The tenacious vitality of the plants transformed by viruses and pollution in the apocalypse is obvious to all in the wasteland world. Even in the highly polluted nuclear wasteland of the abandoned city, a few plants can always be seen.

Areas that cannot be invaded by vegetation are either in desperate situations where the natural environment is extremely harsh, or they are heavily polluted areas where the pollution index exceeds the standard to the point where almost any species cannot enter. However, it seems that neither of the above two conditions can be achieved here.

But if this place had not been invaded by mutated vegetation, the degree of damage to the surrounding buildings would be so strange. How did the potholes on the walls and the depressions on the ground that seemed to be entangled by vines remain?Could it be that the plants in the area, those giant trees and vines, disappeared for some unknown reason?

"Report, I found the symbols left by those green-skinned monsters."

At this moment, a team member's soft voice interrupted Hiiragi's self-absorbed speculation.

Green-skinned monster?what is that?The substantive discovery was more meaningful than the brainstorming, so Hiiragi, who was interested, immediately stepped forward to check it out.

He originally thought that the 'green-skinned monster' the team member was talking about was another mutant monster that he had never heard of. However, when he saw the symbols indicated by the team members, he realized: It turns out that the 'green-skinned monster' was referring to those monsters. A humanoid monster who calls himself 'New Humanity'.

Aren't those symbols the same symbols on the photos of the new humans that Jiaheng showed before they left the team?They are painted on the rolling shutter door in front of a grocery store. The size of the characters and the arrangement of the combinations are unexpectedly orderly.

They don't know whether the circles outlined with some kind of red paint and the strange horizontal and vertical patterns are the words of these 'new humans' or what other meanings they represent. They only know one thing: these things are the masterpieces of those humanoid monsters.

In addition to the photos shown by Jiaheng, Hiiragi also saw it with his own eyes only here. Why didn't these symbols appear at such a long distance along the way? The range of activities of those humanoid monsters is obviously very wide. How could such symbols come about? So rare?

"It's blood. It's painted with blood just like the symbols found before." Ping Gaochi took a few steps closer to carefully examine the symbols on the rolling shutter door. "Although it has solidified, it has not completely shrunk. The color is also very fresh. The symbol should have been drawn at Within 24 hours."

"It seems that those green-skinned monsters have not withdrawn from this battle. They are still active in this town. Perhaps they are trying to make a profit just like us." Jiaheng seemed to agree with the title of 'green-skinned monster'.After all, if you use the self-praising title of a humanoid monster like 'New Humanity', wouldn't it be a disguised admission of the so-called 'oldness' of a normal human being?Furthermore, can that kind of thing really be called a 'human being'?

"Speed ​​up, we have to be ready before it's too late!"

Neither symbols nor plants and other anomalies could slow down the team. After a brief study, the team continued to advance in the direction of the beam.

The dead silence and blood in the air kept the team vigilant as they marched, but they did not see any living creatures other than themselves along the way.

One night of fighting and competition seemed to eliminate most of the participants, and more and more monster corpses with missing brains along the way also supported this conjecture.

Normally, even if the crystal cores of these monster corpses and their brains had been eaten away by the victors, they would still have considerable research value. However, in the eyes of the team and others, they are just a pile of rotten meat that emits danger signals.

The death of these corpses did not make the team happy, but instead made their hearts sink into the bottom little by little, and the confidence built up by successfully killing the Red Bearded Spider Queen also dissipated little by little.There are many high-level powerful monsters among these corpses. The strength of the monsters that killed them must be even more terrifying. So what kind of powerful existence stands out from this bloody fight.

"Be careful! Conceal!"

When the team member at the front turned the next intersection and the dangerous building beside him no longer blocked his sight, a discovery not far ahead made him immediately hide in the building regardless of the hidden dangers of the dangerous building. The team also hid as if facing a formidable enemy.

Is that...a strange corrosion bird? !

Hiiragi cautiously peeked out from his hiding spot to observe. At a glance, he saw not far ahead, a twisted and tall iron signal tower, where their old friends they were familiar with in the sinkhole were parked, and they were driven underground. Don't face the culprit being chased by the red-bearded spider queen - the strange bird of corrosion.

The huge body weighed down the signal tower under him to the point of collapse. With the white sky as the background, the slight shaking of the signal tower could be clearly seen, and the squeaking screams of the standing steel support could be vaguely heard.Perhaps because of the [-]-meter-high signal tower as a comparison, the depressing feeling this scene brought to everyone was even more shocking than the flying wings flying in the sky last night.

Relying on its own strength and flying advantage, the Corrosion Monster won the monster fight last night as expected, but it didn't seem to be the final winner in the fight.

The fluffy feathers did not relax, which was caused by tight muscles; the lightly opened wings did not shrink to the back, but opened a certain arc to surround the whole body, and looked towards the direction of the light beam with a heavy gaze. Wary and hostile, the Corrosion Monster's ready-to-go posture is obviously a confrontation with a certain existence on the ground. Unfortunately, from his quiet position, he cannot see the scene behind the layers of buildings.

So what is it?