Chapter 7 Section VI

The first person to rush over from the camp was Captain Hao. Seeing Mr. Lei fainted, he became even more nervous. He hugged Mr. Lei off Da Zhang's back. He stared wide-eyed and yelled loudly: "Medical soldier! Medical soldier! Hurry up!" Wang Hao came over in a hurry, touched Mr. Lei's breath, and took his pulse again, and then began the intense rescue. Captain Hao came over and yelled at Dazhang and me: "What are you two doing? Can he be on duty at such an age? I don't know how to persuade him to go back. What a bastard! I want you two to look good! Is there another dead grasshopper? Hurry up and take someone to chase it! What are you staring at?"

"Old Hao, stop shouting, don't blame the two of them," Mr. Lei slowed down, "I'm fine, don't chase after dark. Hurry up and call Director Zhou..." "Do you have any instructions, Mr. Lei? I'm here." Director Zhou squeezed in from the crowd. "Director Zhou, how long will it take to get to the hot spring in the mountain?" Mr. Lei asked with his eyes closed. "If it's fast, we can arrive at noon tomorrow." Director Zhou quickly replied. Boss Lei raised his wrist with difficulty, and glanced at his watch: "Get ready, we will leave on time at six o'clock. You must be fast, and there must be no delay."

"Da Zhang, Xiao Liu, carry me into the tent, I have something to tell you..." In Mr. Lei's tent, he called out the others, leaving only the two of us. "This time, I thought I could completely control the monster, but unexpectedly, it was much more difficult than I imagined. I can clearly feel that the guy is much more mature than the previous two, both physically and mentally, and Still growing. Also, there seems to be something unknown in the depths of the mountain that is helping the monster get rid of my shackles. This is the first time in so many years that I feel that something can oppress me." Mr. Lei took a sip Hot Water, continued, "It's very troublesome. I'll assign you two a task. The weirdness of this incident must have come from the hot spring, but the spring water cannot have life and consciousness. You should pay attention to the surrounding environment there. After arriving at the location, other unimaginable things will definitely happen. If we can’t complete the mission, you two must blow up the surrounding area. As for what to blow up, I can’t say, and you will definitely find out by then.”

"Also, I will send a report to my superiors in a while, and list this area as a military restricted area. Before our science and technology have advanced to a certain level, no one can step here for any reason. And even if our mission is completed It was relatively successful, and we definitely can’t go half a step deep into Kunlun from here. That hot spring is the end of our mission. None of us can continue searching from there! Remember! You must use your life to guarantee the completion of the mission!” "Yes!" Dazhang and I nodded firmly... "Let's go!" Following Hao's order, we began to continue our trek.

Dazhang and I wanted to support Mr. Lei, but he refused.Overnight, we realized that our somewhat unreasonable leader seemed to have aged a lot and had become kinder. The snow has not stopped, and now it is heavy again, and the wind has picked up, making the road ahead even more difficult. Until noon, we finally arrived at the legendary mountain hot spring. The hot spring is located on the edge of a small high cliff. The pools are not very big, scattered over tens of square meters, and steaming hot.And there is a towering tree growing by the pool, I don't know what kind it is, and there are many vines hanging from the tree.This tree is surprisingly thick, and I estimate that at least 5 people need to surround it.

We walked around cautiously and searched the surroundings carefully. With his hands behind his back, Mr. Lei looked and looked around, turned and turned, not knowing what he was thinking. "What kind of tree is this?" President Lei asked Director Zhou, "It's a bit strange." "Don't tell me I didn't pay attention. Mr. Lei, I don't know what kind of tree this is, but it seems a little strange..." "Huh? What is this?" Mr. Lei seemed to have noticed something, and hurriedly called us over. We went to beat the snow off the thing, and found that it was a hard egg shell the size of a water tank, with a hole in it, and it was obvious that something had hatched from it.

"Pay attention, see if there are other things like this around?" Mr. Lei ordered us. Sure enough, after a while, two eggshells were discovered one after another. We dragged the three egg shells together, Mr. Lei was holding his hands on the side, staring at these things, and Wang Hao was busy sampling them there. "Could it be that the praying mantis hatched from here?" I asked Da Zhang. Da Zhang glanced at me: "It should be. My mother's calf is a little cramped, and I'm in a particularly bad mood today." While we were searching, Director Zhou made another surprising discovery.

Director Zhou and two militiamen leading the way were surrounding an eggshell. Unlike the previous three, this one turned out to be complete. "How did you find it? It wasn't here just now." Mr. Lei asked. "It fell from the tree." Director Zhou pointed to it and said, "It just happened." And at this time, the eggshell actually broke... "Stand back, raise your gun!" Mr. Lei ordered us.At that moment, the air seemed to freeze, and everything around stopped, only the cold wind mixed with snowflakes kept hitting us. "Crack", a human head protruded from the place where the egg shell was broken—yes, it was a human head—the head was covered with egg white-like mucus, struggling to move outward.

We are all holding guns, and now if anything bad happens, this thing in front of us will immediately turn into a hive. "Hey, isn't that Wu Zhuzi?" At this moment, a militia leader spoke. "Looks like me!" The other seemed delighted. "Great, alive!" Before Mr. Lei could say anything, the two of them ran over directly. One of the militiamen was holding the egg shell, "Pillar, hold on! This will pull you out." The other was holding the man's shoulder, trying to pull the man out. At this moment, the man's eyes opened, and his eyes were dull.He looked around, his mouth was still moving, as if he wanted to say something.

I watched from a distance, half of the man's body came out, it seemed that there was no change, it was still a human body. "Stop pulling! Run quickly!" At this moment, Mr. Lei suddenly shouted. Unfortunately, it was too late. At this moment, the two militiamen had been divided into four pieces. The thing came out of the eggshell, naked and steaming with mucus.How to describe it?Basically still a person, but the forearm has been turned into a hand knife. I saw it baring its teeth, roaring "squeaky", and came towards us. "Shoot!" Before the order was given, the guy jumped into our team, cut off half of Qian Kai's head with a knife, and then stuck the knife in his left hand into a small hole. in the body of the soldier.The two fell straight down without leaving a word.

"Old money!" I yelled. At this moment, the vines on the big tree stretched into our team at some point, pulling up two soldiers in an instant. "Ah!" With the short cry of the soldiers, their bodies quickly disappeared into the darkness of the treetops. In an instant we were thrown into chaos in this near-perfect ambush.Watching the colleagues and comrades-in-arms who get along day and night sacrificed in an instant, at that moment, anger drove away fear. "I'll fuck you!" Da Zhang shot at the monster. Jumping, moving, although the monster in front of him hadn't evolved yet, its agility was much higher than its predecessors. In an instant, it jumped into the woods and disappeared. On the other side of Captain Hao, all kinds of firearms were greeted on the big tree. Mr. Lei stood between me and Da Zhang: "Calm down! Calm down! Feel its breath along my hand, I can control it for a moment, pay attention!" "It's now!" Mr. Lei's eyes turned red instantly, "Shoot!" Sure enough, in the direction of Mr. Lei's finger, that person, no, it should be said that the monster has fallen from the tree! "Tu Tu Tu!" Da Zhang's and I's bullets arrived in an instant. Mr. Lei seems to be able to control it only for a moment. When our bullet passed, it had already broken free from Mr. Lei's shackles and jumped backwards.Fortunately, a few bullets still hit its legs. Although one leg of the monster was sieved by bullets, it still moved towards us with its body upright.The mouth was still screaming "squeaky", the voice was extremely shrill. "Kill!" Mr. Lei ordered. "Tutu, chug", "chug chug", the sound of Captain Hao's machine gun came from behind us, and the blood on the monster spurted out in an instant. "Squeak——" the monster continued to move towards us ferociously, and the guy in Da Zhang's hand and I didn't stop for a moment, until the half of its body almost fell apart, and it fell to the ground unsteadily , leaving behind a large pool of blood. Strangely, when the monster died, the old tree also calmed down, and its vines did not come down again to pull people. "On the tree, on the tree!" Captain Hao shouted. It turned out that in the chaos just now, several comrades were entangled by the vines of the big tree. Mr. Lei looked up and saw that there were seven or eight eggs hanging on the tree. The person who was dragged up had been wrapped into an egg shape by the liquid secreted from the vine tree in a short time.In the eggs whose formation time is a little shorter, people can still be seen struggling. "Quick, blow up the big tree!" Mr. Lei ordered. "Then what about the people up there?" Captain Hao was unhappy, "Won't they all fall to their deaths if they fall?" "Do you have a better way? Blow up the tree and save people later. The egg shell is very strong, and you won't die if you drop it." Mr. Lei said to Captain Hao, "Hurry up, or it will be too late." Da Zhang and I and two soldiers quickly buried the detonators around the old tree. With a loud bang, the strange tree fell down.What's even more strange is that after the big tree fell, the trunk of the tree turned out to be in pieces like a glass bottle falling to the ground.A large amount of milky white liquid flowed out from the broken tree, and it also carried an indescribable fragrance.And the vines on the tree were more like kicking grasshoppers, twitching one by one. Everyone rushed to rescue the person who was entangled in an egg shape, but unfortunately no one was rescued.Taking a knife to peel off the outer skin, it was found that they had grown together with the eggs.The root-like fibers protruding from the egg shells all grew into their bodies, and the people died grimly, as if they had already become one with the tree. "Hey..." Captain Hao stomped his feet in distress, "What the hell is this?" We silently cleaned up the bodies of our dead comrades.Everyone was talking and laughing a few tens of minutes ago, but now it's a yin and yang separation.