Under the leadership of the guard captain, a complicated maze passed through. Following the unclear marks along the way, we arrived at the holy land mentioned by believers.
Song Lan had to be grateful that they met the guard captain of the believers. Otherwise, if he and Lu Xiang were to find it by themselves, they might not be able to find the exit of the maze until daytime tomorrow.
He guessed that Andrew, who broke into the cave at that time, probably just walked around the outermost perimeter, got the information about the "Mother" from the murals, and then returned immediately.
The Holy Land is located in an open space deep in the pit. Believers have built wooden houses here. The candle lights on the top of the wooden roofs illuminate the entire Holy Land. At the bottom of the Holy Land is a strange pool with rows of people. A mutated biological egg over one meter high.
Many believers walk around these giant eggs. From time to time, they put their ears on the eggshells and listen to the movements inside.
"What are they doing?"
Song Lan asked curiously. He guessed that the flying mutant creatures mentioned by Dr. Oleg were hatched from these eggs.
"We are testing the degree of hatching." The guard captain explained. "The high priest said that the old gods had issued a decree to transport all the children who were about to hatch to the entrance of the cave so that they could welcome new life."
What a great high priest!
It turns out you were the one who sent the unhatched flying dragon into the face of the Marine!
He had previously been wondering why the wild devourer lived in the deepest part of the pit, but could lay eggs at the entrance of the pit every night. All these were sent out by believers.
We don't seem to know much about what's going on in the cave. If we knew that the eggs that we worked so hard to move to the entrance of the cave every night were burned clean by Dr. Oleg's team, we would know how we would feel.
Song Lan could only lament that countless coincidences have created the current situation, and we are undoubtedly lucky. We did not have the opportunity to recruit an experienced medical team, and we arrived just after the wild Devourer was about to break out of its cocoon. That aside.
If it had been a few more days until the Devourer hatched, Oleg and the others would have been in trouble.
But it was obvious that the little priest did not seem to welcome us. From the moment the two of them revealed their identities before exiting the door, the old man with a hunched back and white hair had a straight face. Concealing his wariness and disgust towards Song Lan and others.
Song Lan slowly realized that to a certain extent, it also represented the Devourer's will.
According to the captain of the guard, the little priest had been baptized by the "Mother". What I described is the process of assimilation between the Devourer and the individual.
"You welcome his arrival."
Before the guard captain left, the young priest said warmly, "You understand the mechanical insect swarm, and you also want to communicate with them."
Song Lan ignored the other party's good attitude and asked instead, "He should be vague about the consequences of moving the egg to the entrance of the cave. Why did he do that?"
That seems a bit subtle to me.
The smallest characteristic of the Devourer is not that it has swarm consciousness. Regardless of whether the decision was made by the little priest himself or the Devourer, we must know that all the eggs that were not moved to the door were destroyed.
"Because it can delay the regression of transformation."
Although he said he was willing to communicate with us, the little priest answered Song Landi's questions with practical actions.
"Delaying the progression of transformation...isn't that good for him?"
That answer was beyond their expectations. In our understanding, there must be restrictions in the outside world, and the Devourer will follow the instinct to degenerate and spread endlessly. However, a wild Devourer actually knows how to restrain its own degeneration. desire.
"There are no enemies inside, are you ready yet?"
The tone of the little priest changed slightly. Song Lan, who had not studied the Devourer very much, immediately realized that it was the wild Devourer that was connected to my mind.
It seems that due to the problem of communicating with the mechanical insect swarm, the little priests as individuals and collectively came to have the same view, but in the end I had to go against the will of the mother.
"Enemy? Does he mean this medical team?"
Song Lan was even more confused. Even though Oleg had stolen the "Commander IV" equipped with heavy firepower, in front of the Devourer, the skeleton armor of a few combat models was enough. It only needed Hoarding a wave of mutated creatures outside the pit requires his own intervention, which is enough to wipe out Dr. Oleg's entire team.
"It is we, your enemies, who live in the world."
"So, he made this weird moon?"
Min Xiang immediately realized the meaning of the other party's words and asked, "I have not understood the principle of this strange moon until now, and before I saw the holy land of believers, I felt more and more that the two belonged to the same one." species.
There are not even two Devourers in that big town!
Or maybe it's a Devourer, and a mysterious species we've never seen before.
"The moon is the enemy. It is interfering with your thinking. It is waiting for your transformation to be completed!"
Before I finished speaking, the tone of the little priest changed significantly again. My eyes were bloodshot, "Have you told them? You want to communicate with them and mind your own business!"
After that, I threw the crutch aside and frantically scratched my forehead with both hands. The nails were embedded in the skin with such force that the skin was torn up.
The next words came out clearly. The little priest was completely in a state of confusion. The last words were the first words, as if two identical wills were fighting for the control of my body.
"To...doubt...the moon..., it is eroding..."
"Get out, get out, they are welcome outside!"
That was the first time Song Lan saw that no one could resist the mother's will. From the situation in front of her, it seemed that there was no other kind of will competing for the control of the little priest.
"Let's calm down for a while."
In order to prevent the little priest from tearing himself alive, Song Lan quickly said, "To give you a face, let's sit down and talk first."
However, that time, the two sides did not have any suggestions from me. Just before the struggle for consciousness in the body fell into white coldness, suddenly a pitch-white arm penetrated the dome and the building and pressed towards the young priest.
But before touching the skeleton armor under Song Lan, the pitch-white arm retracted as if it was electrocuted.
The frantic little priest paused. My head was held by Song Lan's other armored arm. My pupils exuding delicate white aura were forced to look at Song Lan.
At this moment, my face is covered with blood, and my skull can be directly seen from the wound, which makes me suspicious of a zombie. If I were a special person who had not been weakened by the Devourer, I would probably die at this moment.
The two just stared at each other.
The room fell into a dead silence.
"It's boring, it's boring!"
After a while, the little priest suddenly grinned. Against my face, which was covered in blood and wounds, that smile looked horrifying.
——"Come to you, you wait for them!"
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