Lu Yan and Mu Tang waited for the giant centipede to crawl back underground before leaving Tomorrow Base.
The two sat on Mu Ba's back and looked up at the towering walls of Tomorrow's base.
Although it is full of devastation, it still fulfills its due duties. As the last line of defense, it contains the biggest threat to mankind at present.
After they leave, peace will return to this place and it will become that dead city without life.
Mu Tang felt a little depressed when she thought of Qi Su, who was attacked by a giant centipede and whose life or death was uncertain.
She had a complicated understanding of this companion. He was not hostile to her, but hated everyone around her.
"What's wrong?" Lu Yan noticed something was wrong with her mood and lowered his head and asked.
Mu Tang shook his head, suddenly thought of something, and looked up at Lu Yan:
"That bug seems very timid?"
Lu Yan nodded:
"Yes, it seems that as long as it receives a little damage, it will feel that the other party is in danger, and then immediately start to avoid it."
"Why?" Mu Tang was a little confused:
"No one of us has the ability to kill it now. Even the harm to it is insignificant to it. Why is it so afraid?"
If this bug were bolder, none of them would be able to escape.
Lu Yan's eyes fell on the thick walls of Tomorrow Base:
"It should be due to incomplete understanding of the biological chain."
"What do you mean?" Mu Tang didn't understand.
Lu Yan rubbed her head and said with a smile:
"Animals will attack other different organisms in nature to determine their position in the biological chain, what natural enemies need to be avoided, and what food can be attacked."
"It's a pity that in this base, it can't see any foreign creatures except zombies and their kind. Zombies are something it has long understood comprehensively, and of course it can kill them without restraint."
"Those zombies should have no ability to resist. As for us, because we are not familiar with them, as long as we cause a little damage to them, they will feel that we are a great threat, so they will start to avoid them."
Mu Tang seems to understand:
"Isn't it capable of burrowing into the ground? Why doesn't it come out from below? And it should be easy for it to damage the city wall, right?"
Speaking of this, Lu Yan also looked solemn:
"The city wall of the Land of Tomorrow is about 30 meters underground, and this centipede can reach at least a hundred meters underground. If you don't get out, you probably... don't even think about getting out."
The giant centipede is already the unique king in this area, and the base of tomorrow is far away from the urban area and isolated in the wilderness.
Without external stimulation, it never thought about getting out from here.
For now, they are completely helpless against the bug.
There was no way to kill it, nor to strengthen the walls to keep it inside.
The first is that there is no manpower, and the second is to rashly alarm it so that it will no longer be afraid after it becomes aware of humans, and will actually let it walk out of the city wall.
There are still a lot of messes in the base that have not been resolved, and this thing was discovered outside, and countless troubles came one after another.
Even Lu Yan couldn't help but feel a little tired.
Mu Tang patted Niba's head, indicating that it could start going back.
Niba flicked his tail and ran towards the Tongcheng base.
…
On the other side, Qi Su lay on the ground and spent nearly three hours before his body healed enough to be able to move, and then he slowly got up from the ground.
Seeing that all of his body was covered with rotten flesh that had been smashed into mud by giant centipedes, he wiped it away expressionlessly, revealing the regrown limbs and cold pale skin underneath.
The rancid meat was also mixed with some fine bones. Qi Su picked up a bone and played with it casually.
There was no hint that the bones were his own.
The unused body will be discarded and a new one will grow.
Qi Su had a box full of his own bones.
Looking at the pool of bloody mud on the ground, Qi Su's eyes flashed with a chill, and he threw the bones in his hand, then turned around and walked back slowly.
Returning to the station, he still violently pulled out his eyeballs and put them on the identifier, and the door opened in response.
Unexpectedly, Gao Dongye was already waiting behind the door.
Seeing the mess outside, Gao Dongye couldn't help but frown. When he turned his gaze to Qi Su, surprise flashed in his eyes:
"Why are you in such a mess?"
"Nothing." Qi Su put his hands in his pockets and staggered toward the door:
"Bitten by a heartless little animal."
Gao Dongye didn't understand what he was talking about, and had no time to dwell on it at this time. He grabbed Qi Su who was still about to walk in, frowned and asked:
"Where's the stuff?"
"Didn't get it."
If he had known this would be the result, Gao Dongye's face became increasingly ugly, and he stared at Qi Su, his eyes almost burning Qi Su's face even through the thick glasses.
Qi Su didn't take it seriously and just stood there carelessly, staring back at him expressionlessly.
Gao Dongye gritted his teeth, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth:
"What about people?"
Qi Su smiled evilly and shook his head under the burning eyes of Gao Dongye:
"I didn't kill her, I just let her run away."
"Qi Su!!!"
Gao Dongye finally couldn't help but growl, grabbed Qi Su's collar, and pushed him against the wall:
"What do you want? Do you have to let Li Si kill you to be satisfied?!!"
"He has already killed me!!"
Qi Su also yelled out, pushed Gao Dongye away, and cast a mocking gaze on him:
"You are also an accomplice, have you forgotten?!"
The chill that Qi Su had been holding back was released at this moment, and the walls and floor were immediately covered with white frost.
It had been a long time since I heard such words, but the lethality was still shocking. Gao Dongye stiffened and couldn't help but take a step back.
Seeing his actions like this, Qi Su felt dazzled and wanted to spit out all the vicious words from his mouth.
But he didn't. He knew that those abusive words had nothing to do with this person, but some words could make him feel ashamed.
Looking at Gao Dongye, who was standing there with a pale face and said nothing, the smile on Qi Su's face became even worse, as if he wanted to torture him, and then said:
"What are you pretending to do? You've done everything and now you're pretending to act like you're thinking about me. What, do you want to make up for it?"
Gao Dongye's shoulders trembled and his face became paler. The coldness on Qi Su's body turned his lips blue, but he didn't react at all.
Qi Su wanted to laugh when he looked at him, and his cold words turned into the sharpest knife, piercing Gao Dongye's body fiercely:
"Think about the things you did. You don't really think you can make up for it, do you?"
"I..." Gao Dongye's lips moved twice:
"sorry……"
"Ha." Qi Su seemed to have heard a joke and didn't appreciate it at all:
"Are you apologizing? Are you apologizing to me?"
Gao Dongye looked up at him with a confused expression. He opened his mouth to say something, but Qi Su interrupted him directly:
"Wrong, you don't want to apologize to me. What you saved was not me, but your shaky and condemned heart! Because you and Li Si, there are many people who are worse off than me, but they don't I am so lucky to have survived your experiment, so I have the honor to stand here and listen to you say that 'I'm sorry' that means nothing!!"
"No." Gao Dongye shook his head, and his words were feeble:
"not like this……"
"What's that like?!" Qi Su interrupted him directly, approached Gao Dongye's face, suppressed him, and looked at him condescendingly:
"Stop using me as a tool to save your conscience, Dr. Hao."
Gao Dongye looked at Qi Su's glowing red eyes and closed them, unable to say anything in the end.
At this moment, several crisp claps came from behind, accompanied by Li Si's high-spirited voice:
"Wonderful, really wonderful. I didn't expect that as soon as I came back, I would hear such a wonderful speech from our classmate Qi."
The sound, like a dull knife sawing wood, reached Qi Su's ears but made him freeze subconsciously.
Gao Dongye's expression also changed, and he whispered:
"Let go of me."
Qi Su, whose face was filled with hatred just now, now had a blank expression. After listening to Gao Dongye's words, he obediently let go of his hand and stood aside.
Gao Dongye straightened his clothes, took a step forward, and calmly stopped Qi Su behind him. He looked at Li Si, who had been standing behind them at some point, and whispered:
"Why did you come out? Didn't you say you were waiting inside?"
