"Let's have a meal first"

After thinking for a while, Ouyang Junlin decided not to continue to get involved in this issue. The mercenaries around him also dispersed and ate their own simple food.

"The army will not intervene in disputes between civilians and tycoons. The lack of signs and clothing means that they are just a group of refugees... No matter what, they should contact those people. Maybe they can know some useful information. Anyway, our mission is just to find people, not kill people."

Ouyang Junlin chewed a piece of meat and spoke to Feisha vaguely. The latter agreed with his usual silence. When Ouyang Junlin smiled proudly again, Feisha looked at him unhappily: "Can you stop laughing?"

"Why?"

"You look stupid when you smile, really."

Ouyang Junlin's expression was a little stiff. He subconsciously touched his face and asked in confusion: "...Isn't this one?"

"When did I lied to you?"

Feisha's expression was more serious than ever. He looked at Ouyang Junlin with pity: "Especially when you open your eyes and express your surprise, your silly look is no different from Mr. Bean who has eaten too many spoiled oysters."

Half an hour later, the mercenaries left the camp and walked towards the castle.

The nearby mountains and forests are dense and the roads are rugged.

Ouyang Junlin walked in front of the team, carefully observing the movements around him, and listening to any noteworthy sounds. The sunlight fell from the gaps between branches and leaves, forming a bright yellow spot of light on the ground.

After climbing over the hill, the vague outline of the castle appeared in the field of view. The straight line distance was about 500 to 600 meters. Ouyang Junlin raised his right hand and signaled the mercenaries to stop for a while, then raised his tactical telescope and looked at the building with concentration.

All the mercenaries were not reinforcers, and Ouyang Junlin and Feisha had never injected reinforcement potions. That thing was very precious and was a key control material for the military. Although they belonged to the periphery of the "Gao Consortium", their identities were very ordinary and it was impossible for them to obtain such valuable things.

Fei Sha squatted down and picked up a large piece of stain stains on the ground with his fingers.

It is a gray-brown translucent mucus. It is very thick and extremely sticky, like a lotus root powder paste that has not been eaten overnight after brewing hot water.

He put his fingers stained with mucus close to his eyes for a while, then sniffed them with his nose———There are various types of this strange liquid along the way.

At first, Feisha thought it was the glue secreted by Needle, but this thing was very smelly and even had a hint of blood.

"Everyone is alert———"

Suddenly, Ouyang Junlin issued a rapid and low warning.

He turned around and said nervously to Feisha as he raised his right hand, which was clenched into a fist. "We seem to be tracked by something. It should be near us.

Feisha nodded silently, quickly checked the assault rifle magazine, and pulled the bolt hard.

A few minutes ago, he felt something was wrong———————The surroundings were too quiet. There were no birds singing, and there were no signs of insects on the grass and the ground. This mountain road was dense with weeds and few people walked around... This was abnormal.

Also, what exactly is that weird slime?

Three people were arranged in front of the team to be responsible for the alert. They were about two hundred meters away from the team.

Now, no messages were sent back in front, and the call communicator did not respond.

Thinking of this, Feisha raised his head and looked at Ouyang Junlin standing opposite him. Both of them saw the tension and fear in each other's eyes.

Mercenaries are also humans. They are also afraid.

Suddenly, two black shadows rushed out with a "whisper" sound from the grass.

They were extremely fast, and two close-range mercenaries were caught off guard and were "swept" by the black shadow and suddenly screamed terrifyingly.

The black shadow is two people.

To be precise, it should be a mutant creature with human bodies at both ends and insect appearance.

It is an arthropod called "tideworm" or "watermelonworm". Their genes merge with zombies. The back of a human should be covered with soft carapaces stacked on each other. The hands become short, thick and powerful, and seven new pairs of foot limbs grow under the left and right ribs and abdomen. These foot limbs are only half the length of the arm, the joints in the middle can be bent, and the front section is extremely sharp and very sharp.

They hugged the two mercenaries tightly, and tied their prey like ropes. Seven pairs of feet were deeply inserted into the target's back and side abdomen, and large masses of blood were squeezed out from the edge of the wound. That scene could easily remind people of the staples bound in the staples and the edges of the paper sheets that were neatly punched in.

The two mercenaries screamed desperately. They struggled with all their strength, pulling the insect-like mouthparts tightly with both hands. At the same time, they tried to turn their heads to the side at an exaggerated angle, trying to avoid the bloody mouth covered with sharp teeth like a terrifying cage.

Ouyang Junlin roared, pulled out his dagger and rushed over in an instant, aiming at the back of the insect man who was closest to it. The insect man and the mercenaries on the ground rolled in a ball. In this case, there was no way to aim. Shooting rashly would only hurt one's own people.

The sharp knife cut the soft carapace on the surface of the insect human body and penetrated deeply into the muscles. Ouyang Junlin's strong arm controlled the dagger and tried to cut the insect human body downward. However, the body structure of the mutant creature was far beyond imagination. The blade seemed to be inserted into semi-cured rubber, tightly clamped, difficult to move, and unable to pull it out.

The assassination from behind made the insect feel abnormality in its body. It raised its head and burst into a harsh and weird scream.

The sound does not belong to the category of humans at all, it is very similar to the whine of a mouse under the claws of a ferocious cat.

This shows that they have left the concept of "zombies" and have sensory nerves and in vivo conduction systems. They will cause pain, reflexes, and completely evolve into another new creature.

"What are you standing there? Shoot quickly and shoot quickly————"

A thin and tall mercenary screamed in horror, aiming at a worm man and pulling the trigger hard. The close-range shot made the bullet penetrate the worm man, and then continued to drill into the body of his companion pressed down. Blood was spurted out from his mouth, widened his eyes, screamed, and soon lost consciousness.

The entire team became completely confused. Everyone's faces showed an extremely shocking look of fear.

They are the bravest soldiers and never fear any opponents on the battlefield. However, the unknown creatures in front of them are not humans at all. They are bugs, but they have the form of humans.

They are not zombies.

They...what exactly are they?

Fei Sha looked at the mercenary who was constantly twisting in the pool of blood.

He finally understood what the hembrella slime was?

That should be some kind of secretion from the insects. Just like the human beings expelled from the body, the insects need to excrete some indigested food residues.

There are liquids along the way. The huge number and complex distribution points are not something that can be created by just two insects.

This…which means there are many more of them.

Dozens, hundreds, maybe more...

"Go away————”

Fei Sha picked up his gun and swept around at the insect man who was pressed by Ouyang Junlin, yelling wildly in a hoarse tone that lost his normal voice: "Get out of here quickly, there are many of them, and there are still many-----"

Before he finished speaking, five or six black shadows rushed out of the woods, knocking down several mercenaries who were shocked and confused on the spot. The mouthparts controlled by strong muscles instantly expanded to their limits, and they covered their respective preys with their heads. The mercenaries smashed the insects with their hands and kicked their feet, but they could not break free.

After a moment, dense sounds of bone shattering came from the depths of the mouthpiece that the insect man closed. It was like walnuts crushed by gravity, bright red blood and white brains flowed out of the gaps of the mouthpiece. One of the mouths even spurted blood and eyes the size of a ping-pong ball. Those bodies that lost their heads twitched under the claws of the insect man, and their hands and feet were instantly stiffened like electric shock. After a brief nerve transmission, the tight muscles suddenly became loose, like dolls that pulled away their muscles and bones, gradually limping.

Screams and howls are everywhere in the pine forest, gunshots and curses are everywhere. The scattered bullets pose little threat to the insects. Even if they hit the head, they still hold the target tightly and refuse to relax at all.

They're hungry

Appetite completely overwhelms the threat of death.

Ouyang Junlin's eyes were covered with blood.

He looked dazed and watched Lin Feihu's legs being held by an insect man and chewed them all from his knees. Blood gushed out from the broken mouth like water, dyeing the soil under his body red and immersing the grass roots.

Lin Feihu's will to survive was obviously stronger than that of ordinary people. He screamed like a pig killing, crawling forward with all his strength. The insect man who had just swallowed his legs might think it tasted good, so he rushed up again, and his fine foot limbs pierced into Lin Feihu's body from both sides, pressing his whole body tightly below.

Although they were very close, Ouyang Junlin could only hear the dull cry for help from the gaps between the soil and the insects, as well as the desperate and painful wailing.

When the ferocious and sharp mouthparts bite down again, there was already any human shouting sound, with only the "creaking" sound like the ears of a chewing pig.

No one needed to remind you, all mercenaries were running wildly towards the front.

No one expected to retreat——The viscous liquid along the way indicated that insects were everywhere nearby. In the deep forest, humans were no match for them at all. The best way was to rush to the open area as soon as possible and then concentrate firepower to counterattack.

What's more, the castle is right in front.

Since those survivors dare to set up camps in such places, they must have ways to deal with such monsters.

At least, they have a wall, a weapon, and a lot of people.

Ouyang Junlin only felt a "whirring" sound of wind passing by in his ears, and his legs that kept running alternately made him feel like he was flying. His mind was blank, and he was running wildly towards the castle entirely by instinct.

Behind him, the screams and whine gradually disappeared. The shrill howl also seemed to be stuck in his neck and ended instantly. This shows that the companion caught by the insect man has died and has become the food chewed in the mouth of the mutant creature.

The insect man didn't keep up.

They have not evolved perfectly. The fusion between genes and zombies still has irreparable defects. They are like insects, but are not real insects. They inherit the zombies' greed for fresh flesh and blood, but they fail to gain the insect's agile ability to move quickly.

Behind, in front, beside... there are living companions running desperately.

Fei Killing alive, and there are some other people.

Five?

Six?

Or seven?

Ouyang Junlin didn't care about points at all. At this moment, the will to survive completely overwhelmed the other thoughts.

You can already see the alerters on the castle. They are living humans, just like themselves.

The castle guardians discovered these mercenaries who had escaped all the way from the mountain.

The duty officer on duty on the tower immediately blew his whistle and issued an alarm.

The team members who were active outside quickly gathered behind several pre-installed fortifications, including sandy cranes and steel and concrete cast towers. Under the command of several captains, the heavy machine guns at the battlements of the city wall turned the direction and pointed the muzzle at these strangers who were fleeing.

The fully armed old Song stood on the wall, looking at the edge of the clearing in the distance with a cold expression.

The mercenaries have rushed out of the woods. The soil pits and stumps on the clearing ground, and various artificial obstacles have quickly reduced their running speed. This is not just a terrain change caused by the difference in height. In the most suitable position, sharpened wooden stakes and bamboo thorns are often erected. They are densely packed like dog teeth, and they are scary in terms of density and quantity. Even on the seemingly safe flat ground, bamboo sticks are inserted under the thin soil layer. These things cannot be observed with a telescope at all. Only by walking closer and walking by yourself can you find that there are many murderous intents hidden.

All of these are the basic defenses set up by the outer periphery of the hunters and refugees in the future world, and are specially used to deal with various mutated creatures.

The mercenaries rushed in without any choice. Almost everyone, including Ouyang Junlin, was penetrated by bamboo sticks and lay on the ground with their wounded legs in their arms.

Ouyang Junlin gritted his teeth and pulled out the wooden sign that was inserted into the soles of his feet.
To be continued...