While Lang Hua was fighting the worm, a few people happened to pass by outside the botanical garden. They witnessed Lang Hua avoiding worm attacks and repelling strange root vines, without revealing his whereabouts from beginning to end.
These people pride themselves on being well-hidden and are unwilling to wade into Lang Hua's troubled waters. In the apocalypse, pig teammates are hated by everyone, but their powerful counterparts are even more terrifying. Human beings are often more cunning and cruel than black corpses. They will always do anything to survive, which makes people have to be on guard. Throughout human history, there have been many cases of cannibalism and repayment of kindness with hatred. Although they have no intentions of harming others, they have no obligation to help.
Therefore, several onlookers with this mentality watched indifferently until the "Ten Thousand Snake Vine" revived, revealing one human body after another wrapped in it.
"Look, those are people!"
The thin monkey had the best eyesight, and he was sure that it was a body of flesh and blood after just one glance. You know, even if it is a simulated dummy sculpture, there is a difference between it and a real person. Glasses, clothing, necklaces, as well as the pain and ferocity before death, these are not easy to imitate.
"Is it a living corpse or a black corpse?"
"I can't say, maybe there are both, but most of them should be necromorphs."
"Company commander, what should I do?"
Li Yishan realized the seriousness of the incident immediately. With so many corpses, he would never believe it if they appeared here by chance and were killed! You know, this black fog outbreak occurred late at night. How could hundreds of "people" show up to visit the botanical garden?
And if they were attracted after arriving in the future and died here, then the nature of this matter would change. The regular reefs and whirlpools can be defended against, but the sirens that actively use their songs to seduce sailors are obviously more terrifying.
No one knows what the end of the world will look like in the future. As the evolutionists on the front line of the battle, they have the obligation to report this matter as soon as possible. And if possible, it is best to find out the cause. Even if it is not possible, more data should be obtained so that the military region can make a correct response in the future.
Within seconds after the snake vine appeared, the situation took a turn for the worse. Lang Hua flew in the air, but was still swallowed into the "cage" by the snake vine. The takraw ball hanging in mid-air at the moment is connected to the ground through hundreds of vines, looking like a balloon that cannot fly or a green deep-sea jellyfish.
Without rescue, no one knows whether Lang Hua will become the next body on the lawn.
"Company commander!" Da Zhuang said anxiously.
"Save people!" Li Yishan said quickly, "Skinny Monkey is covering from a distance and protect Academician Zhang. Da Zhuang and I will go first!"
The person trapped by the snake vine is quite strong. Perhaps the two parties can work together to find out what the botanical garden is like. Li Yishan thought like this, and as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Da Zhuang hurriedly passing him with the Vulcan Cannon.
"This idiot." Li Yishan scolded with a smile and hurriedly followed up.
The small lake and lawn of Fuhua Botanical Garden are close to the south. The four of them were watching outside the south gate wall just now. They were only a hundred meters away from the incident site. While running, Da Zhuang lost his composure and stopped firing. There was just a crisp "click" sound, and the seven barrels of the Vulcan cannon rotated in turn. The machine gun warhead penetrated the barrel at a rate of 100 rounds/second, and flew forward with orange-red gun flames. But maybe it was because it was still far away, and only a dozen vines were interrupted.
"What's the rush? Come closer!"
By this time, the two of them had arrived at the Snake Vine area, but they did not dare to fire directly at the "Sepak Takraw" for fear of hurting Lang Hua. Perhaps the best way is to attack these vines on the ground. But these vines seem to be exceptionally tough, and even military daggers cannot easily cut them.
"Company commander, look!"
Li Yishan stopped and looked along the strong point. He saw that the sepak takraw ball in the air was constantly twisting, as if it had suffered some great pain. Then suddenly a red light appeared, and countless red lights as thin as silk threads appeared on the surface of the sepak takraw ball from the inside out at the same time. The entire sepak takraw ball seemed to be detonated from the inside, cracking into countless fragments in an instant. Each piece is a piece of snake vine, with smooth and smooth fractures, and some forest-green mucus. And where the sepak takraw ball originally existed, there was a young man holding a long knife floating in the air. His weapon was red all over and emitting a demonic light. His expression was cold, as if it contained untouchable majesty.
"What a fierce swordsmanship."
"careful!"
Da Zhuang raised his shield in time to block his and Li Yishan's heads. The severed snake vines sparsely fell on the shield, making a series of "clang" sounds. Although these broken vines are neither sharp nor heavy, they may be poisonous, so it is best not to come into direct contact with them.
Lang Hua landed on the ground after a while, then took off his coat and wiped off some mucus on his arms. These substances appear to be acidic and can cause burning pain when attached to the skin.
"Enzyme liquid?" Lang Hua snorted coldly and kicked a piece of broken vine away from his feet. "You want to digest me, but I don't know if you have the appetite!"
"Are you... okay?" Broken Tengyu ended quickly. Da Zhuang couldn't help but be shocked when he saw that Lang Hua had extraordinary combat power and would be fine even without their rescue.
Li Yishan went straight to the point and asked, "Brother, do you know what exactly happened here?"
"I was accidentally trapped too, thank you..."
Pure kindness is always rare in the apocalypse, but out of politeness Lang Hua still wanted to say thank you. It was just this thank you that stopped abruptly when I saw the other person's face.
"You..." Lang Hua knew that his eyes must be wide open at this time.
Da Zhuang thought he was frightened, so he hurriedly introduced: "Hello, hello, we are soldiers of the Nanqi City Legion, and this is our company commander. Our company commander's surname is Li, my name is Da Zhuang, and neither of us are What a bad guy."
Li Yishan also praised: "It's a pleasure to meet you. My little brother is very skilled."
"Ah, thank you...no no. No, no, that's fine."
With that said, Li Yishan stretched out his hand politely. The opponent's strength is obviously not inferior to yours, but the handshake is to show harmlessness and to make the other party feel your sincerity.
But the other party stared at the big rough hand in a daze.
At this time, Lang Hua was flustered, nervous, and confused, just like a young man dreaming about seeing his dead relatives again at midnight. For a moment, he didn't dare to respond or touch, for fear that if he touched them, they would break. Just woke up.
Memories of past lives came flooding in, instantly filling Lang Hua's mind.
Da Zhuang died three years after the end of the world, and was sacrificed during the operation of Lang Hua's team to annihilate a branch of the Black Blood Altar. Li Yishan lived until ten years after the end of the world, but was controlled by Jiao Rong Core during the counterattack and went berserk, eventually dying under his own Mo Dao.
Speaking of which, Lang Hua's swordsmanship and fighting skills were taught by Li Yishan. He would say that he has good skills... This feeling is really amazing.
Thinking of this, Lang Hua couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart. Five years have passed since humanity was completely defeated after the counterattack. During this period, people around him died and scattered one after another without saying goodbye, and the world around him instantly became deserted. How many late nights did he want Brother Yishan and Captain Yang to say "not bad" to him again, and also wanted Sister Xinyan and Brother Zhang to ask him where he was hurt this time.
Now that I have resurrected my life, I have spent two years preparing for it, and this is what I have been waiting for. Now the people around him are gathering one after another. Great, this isn't a dream. The dream has become a reality, he shouldn't cry, he should laugh, he has the qualification.
In just half the winter after the disaster, he had a base of his own, with troops, weapons and resources, and even the anonymous Sirius continued to exert influence around the world. He worked hard, tried his best, and tried his best to change everything that had happened.
But after seeing this hand, Lang Hua still hesitated.
It was guilt, the answer that I couldn't think of for a long time because I looked at the blood that had appeared on my hands. If, I mean if, I had done something before that, wouldn't he have died? If I hadn't taken action that day, would he have survived? If I had become stronger at that time, would everything have the second result...
It should be extremely rude to turn a blind eye to a stranger's extended handshake. But Lang Hua didn't turn a blind eye, but just stared in a daze, so it was another matter.
Zhang Cheng noticed that Lang Hua's eyes were moist, his cheeks were trembling slightly, and his whole temperament seemed to become small and rickety.
Li Yishan wanted to withdraw his handshake as if it didn't matter. But before the hand could be retracted halfway, it was grabbed by the opponent and held tightly in the palm of his hand. The speed and strength made Li Yishan frown.
"Hello...my name is Lang Hua. Do you have any impression of me?"
Even Lang Hua didn't know why he asked this, and he didn't know what the meaning of this question was. Maybe he was just imagining something completely impossible.
Facing Lang Hua's sincere and expectant gaze, Li Yishan's expression suddenly softened. "Excuse me, have we met before?"
"Ah, no...no." Lang Hua lowered his eyes, "I once had a friend, an older brother, who looked very similar to you."
"That's right." Li Yishan nodded when he heard this.
When he thought about it, so many people died after the disaster, and there were not a few who lost relatives and friends like Lang Hua. So he sighed and patted Lang Hua on the shoulder to express comfort.
"My name is Li Yishan. If you don't mind, little brother, you can call me Brother Shan."
"Brother Shan..." Lang Hua hurriedly withdrew his hand and was about to say something, but he heard an explosion behind him.
"Wow!" The water column shot into the sky, and a giant thing emerged from the water.
"Company Commander, it's that worm!" Da Zhuang couldn't help but change his expression when he saw the mutated worm reappearing.
"Da da da."
"Back off!" Li Yishan covered the two men while shooting and retreating. A series of rifle bullets accurately hit the mutated worm's mouth. The metal slug penetrated the flesh and blood, but disappeared in an instant. The mutated worms were menacing and were not affected at all!
"Company Commander!" Da Zhuanghu stared wide-eyed, raised his shield and returned to stand in front of him.
"Strengthening——" The ability is activated, and the thick iron shield emits a glimmer of light.
"Dang!"
The next moment, the giant worm collided, and Da Zhuang was knocked away along with his shield. Li Yishan was protected behind him and was not spared either.
Although they flew far away, the two of them, Da Zhuang, didn't have any trouble. They dusted themselves off and quickly stood up again.
"Zhigu——"
The mutant worm looked up to the sky and roared, seemingly angry that its prey had escaped. There are scissor-like jaws on both sides of its terrifying mouthparts, which are like two giant teeth. They are shiny black and dazzling in the sun. They are definitely deadly weapons that can kill people.
"Bang." "Pfft."
A gunshot sounded from far to near, and a gap as big as a human head appeared in the upper body of the giant worm. The flesh and blood flew away, smoke filled the air, and the heavy bullet passed through, leaving a bright hole. Seeing this, one can't help but wonder that if the gun were fired two more times at the original position, the entire insect body might be cut off.
"Bang bang."
Just as he said, two more bullets came after him, hitting the worm's head one after the other. The worm brain with the red hard shell exploded instantly, and the worm fell heavily to the ground and died.
"is it him?"
Lang Hua looked towards where the bullet came from, and seemed to see a lean figure wearing a powerful suit. It must be Slender Monkey, he's here too. In his memory, he and Da Zhuang were inseparable partners at the beginning of the apocalypse. Shouhou usually carries a 10-round semi-automatic sniper on his back. Using 12.7mm bullets to penetrate long-range armor is his specialty.
Later, when Shouhou was promoted to an intermediate-level ability user, the regiment leader Yang Zhenghua specially found an LX-25 heavy artillery sniper for him. Until Shouhou's death, he still regarded it as a treasure and would never show it to others easily.
"Well done, monkey!"
Just as Big Zhuang grinned and rubbed his shoulders and cheered loudly, two giant worms emerged from the lake, one big and one small, with bristles all over their bodies. They looked exactly like the one that died before.
"Damn, these bugs live in groups!" Da Zhuang also uttered a rare curse word.
"It's not a good place to stay for a long time. You go first."
Lang Hua stood in front of the two of them, took a deep breath, and then rushed into the air without waiting for the two to reply. The long sword was raised high, its light was dazzling, and it was slashed fiercely with an indomitable momentum.
Finally, he was qualified to stand in front of these people like this. Behind you are past lives, memories, future, and hope. In this life, he would never allow anything to happen again.
"Sky-blade-slash!"
The sharp blade collided with the worm's head without any loss of power, and cut the head of the worm, which was larger than itself, in half. In an instant, green juice flew out, and a fishy smell filled the air. The refined seedling knife combined with the empty blade slashing effect is extraordinary. With just one knife, one of the two insects was killed. However, everything has a price, and 1/5 of the crystal energy in Lang Hua's body was consumed.
"Kakaka-"
Another giant worm opened its mouth and bit it, its teeth rattling against the blade of Miao Dao. Compared with the slender blade and the huge insect body, it looks like a toothpick in the monster's mouth.
Although Lang Hua had already detected the second worm's attack with his domain awareness, he could not do anything other than block it at this time. The mutated beasts encountered this time were extraordinary, and even Lang Hua was unable to kill them continuously.
"I can't sense the level. What's going on?"
During the fight, Lang Hua tried hard to find the opponent's weakness, but was even more shocked when he accidentally saw the first dead insect corpse. An orange crystal core was clearly exposed in the tattered insect head. It's really strange that a second-order crystal core is as powerful as a third-order crystal core.
"Brother Lang Hua, let's help you!"
In order to avoid accidental injury, the gunfire stopped after Lang Hua fought against the worm. At this time, Li Yishan and Da Zhuang aimed their guns at the lower half of the worm's body, and the dense bullets quickly cut holes in it.
"Squeak-"
The worm suffered from pain and became even more ferocious and crazy. It even knocked Lang Hua away several times. Its vitality was really strong. Lang Hua seized an opportunity, flew up and rode on the worm, held a knife in both hands and stabbed it hard into a compound eye. Although the worm rolled and struggled, Lang Hua couldn't shake it off like brown candy. As time passed, the worm finally died under Lang Hua's knife, dragging its tattered lower body.
"Mom, this big bug is so difficult to deal with." Da Zhuang touched the hot barrel of the gun and marveled. The scene just now seemed to him quite thrilling.
"No matter how powerful he is, he still won't be beaten to death by you?"
It was rare for Lang Hua to joke with others, and Da Zhuang sounded very useful.
"No, my Vulcan Cannon can knock down even an elephant."
In fact, if it were a mutated elephant, Lang Hua didn't think Da Zhuang could handle it.
In this apocalypse, species other than humans have evolved crazily in an attempt to compete for the top spot in the food chain. In different periods of previous lives, various types of creatures have undergone major mutations many times, and many strange and powerful subspecies have emerged.
Thousands of years ago, the erect ape that evolved from primates once beat its opponents in the forest speechless. But after the end of the world, everything changed again. In terms of combat power alone, during the thirteen years of the Cataclysm, cats, canines and even insects were once at the forefront of evolution. Instead, the once glorious reptiles and birds were left behind. But even so, it is much better than human beings in an embarrassing situation.
"Brother Lang, are you interested in exploring this place with us?" Li Yishan asked Lang Hua for his opinion, "If there is more first-hand information, the military can also be prepared for similar incidents. "
"Brother Shan, I think this is just an example. And I just went through it, and I already have a guess."
Da Zhuang interrupted: "Yes, company commander, it's so dangerous here, so it's better not to let Brother Lang Hua take risks with us."
"Dazhuang, Brother Shan, it's not that I, Lang Hua, am afraid of death." Lang Hua smiled, "but if we don't leave now, I may not be able to protect you two at the same time."
At this moment, Lang Hua faced the two of them with his back to the depths of the botanical garden. Before Li Yishan could understand Lang Hua's words, he suddenly felt the earth tremble violently.
At the same time, dozens of meters away behind Lang Hua, the tall greenhouses covered with membranes shattered instantly. Countless green vines broke through the ceiling, stretched into the sky, and then rushed here as if by induction.
"Let's go, what are you waiting for?"
Lang Hua put the three worm cores he obtained in a sealed bag, grabbed Da Zhuang and Li Yishan and ran away.
Behind him, thousands of green vines were chasing after him, almost forming an airtight barrier.
