Chapter 370: Deep Despair
Eggs?
Hearing this word, Jin Jie and Geng Yong were confused. How could there be eggs in this icy and snowy land?
But when everyone went to check, they couldn’t help but be shocked by the scene before them. A large patch of snow was covered with eggs the size of iron barrels. They even had a temperature, able to melt the snow.
“What is this thing?”
“I don’t know.”
“Have you guys seen it before?”
The team members discussed among themselves, but they couldn’t figure out any clues. Geng Yong, however, recorded all of this with his head-mounted camera. He felt this was a major discovery.
“Could it be the eggs of some mutated creature?” one of them exclaimed softly.
To be fair, everyone felt this possibility was there.
Just then, a gunshot broke the silence of the dark night.
The entire squad immediately looked around with vigilance.
“The gunshot is a bit far. It should be another squad in danger!” Jin Jie said in a low voice. What danger have they encountered? And we can’t even contact them. Damn it!
However, the gunshots grew more and more dense. At the same time, gunshots also sounded from another direction.
“There’s an ambush!” Geng Yong immediately felt something was wrong.
Jin Jie decisively ordered, “Retreat!”
They had found quite a bit. It was enough to go back and report.
However, one of the team members actually tried to carry away an egg, pulling hard.
“What are you doing? Let’s go!” Jin Jie shouted.
“If we take one of these back, it will be enough to make the company’s scientists ecstatic. We’ll also get a reward.”
Jin Jie was stunned for a moment. What he said made some sense. He slung his gun over his back and helped pull the egg.
The two of them actually managed to pull it off.
“Hurry up and go! There are gunshots everywhere!” Geng Yong urged. At a time like this, you still care about an egg? You really don’t want to live.
The New Human holding the egg was about to die laughing. “You’ll all thank me later. We’ll be rewarded collectively.”
“The egg, the egg… the egg has opened!!!”
A female New Human beside him pointed at the egg, dumbfounded. It was like a fleshy flower petal, slowly separating into four.
The boy holding the egg looked down. Something seemed to be wriggling inside.
With a splat, the boy only felt his face being held. “Ah!!!”
“Fuck!”
The New Humans beside him were startled. They all turned on the lights on their helmets.
A white, spider-like creature had latched onto his face.
“Don’t shoot!” Jin Jie hurriedly pressed down on Geng Yong’s gun muzzle.
“We don’t know what’s going on yet. Don’t kill our own people!”
Soon, the facehugger was thrown off by the New Human. It fell to the side as if dead.
“Are you alright?” Jin Jie hurried over to ask.
“Damn it, you scared me to death. This damn thing is disgusting,” the man spat. He felt he had swallowed a lot of liquid just now.
“Retreat!”
Even so, the man still put the facehugger’s corpse into a bag. He was really working hard.
However, before he had run fifty meters, the man suddenly felt his insides swell, as if something were moving.
“Ah!” A pain from his chest made the man fall to the ground.
“What’s wrong now?” Jin Jie turned his head and shouted in a low voice.
“Squad leader, he seems to be in great pain.”
Geng Yong went to check. Just as he turned the person over, he saw his chest was heaving. In front of everyone, his chest suddenly exploded.
A cute little thing instantly shot out, climbed up a large tree in the blink of an eye, and disappeared into the darkness.
“Did you see what it was?” Jin Jie was a little dazed.
Geng Yong frowned. “Although I didn’t see it, the camera recorded it all. This is definitely an unknown creature. It can actually parasitize a body.”
“Squad leader, let’s hurry up and go. I feel if we don’t go, we won’t be able to leave.”
“Mm, let’s leave here quickly.”
“Hey, we’re missing one person.”
Suddenly, someone discovered that the number of people was not right. Besides the one who had just died, there were only 8 left.
They didn’t even know when he had gone missing.
Geng Yong glanced at Jin Jie. Now was definitely not the time to go looking.
Although Jin Jie wanted to go and search, at this moment, he could only be ruthless. “Retreat!”
The remaining eight couldn’t care less. They directly turned on their headlamps and ran. From time to time, a strange “jie jie jie” sound echoed in their ears.
And over a distance of a few hundred meters, inexplicably, only four were left. The ones who had disappeared didn’t even seem to have screamed.
“We’re still in the interference range. We have to keep running!” Jin Jie looked at his communicator. Large beads of sweat were forming on his forehead. The excitement from the beginning was gone, replaced by panic.
Let alone him, Geng Yong was the same. He had thought it was just a simple mission. Who knew they would discover this kind of dirty thing?
“I don’t want to be a New Human anymore.” The only girl’s face was filled with despair. She had thought she was very formidable, but everyone had inexplicably disappeared. This sense of fear could simply destroy anyone’s confidence.
Geng Yong said in a low voice, “Pull yourself together! As long as we successfully retreat, we can still live!”
“Retreat, heh heh.” The other man sneered, as if he knew he was going to die. He actually took off his helmet and lit a cigarette.
He took a deep drag and said, “Now I know why those reconnaissance people from before didn’t come back. I naively thought it was a good mission. It turns out it was a suicide mission.”
Just as he finished speaking, his chest was suddenly pierced. A black, sharp tail appeared in his chest. His whole person was instantly pulled up into a large tree.
Jin Jie violently raised his gun and aimed at the tree, but he didn’t find anything. Too fast. It was as if he had had a hallucination just now. Only the blood on the ground proved that a person had died.
Jin Jie grabbed the dazed Geng Yong.
The awakened Geng Yong roared at the girl, “Let’s go!”
However, the girl seemed to have had a mental breakdown and was actually giggling foolishly.
Geng Yong saw a black shadow come down from the tree. Its head was very, very long. Its tail mercilessly pierced the girl’s neck, and it let out a low roar.
“Ahhh!!!” Geng Yong suddenly roared, firing wildly at the black shadow. However, the black shadow actually used the girl’s body as a shield. All the shots hit the girl’s body. It even let out a mocking “jie jie” sound.
“Let’s go!” Jin Jie pulled Geng Yong away again. The two of them ran frantically on the snow, as if they were back on the university’s running track, running laps. The sun that day had been fierce. He had almost run out of breath.
Jin Jie looked up and only then discovered that those black shadows were all moving in the trees, simply playing with him.
He looked at the communicator on his wrist. Still no signal.
“Geng Yong, I’ll cover the rear. You hurry and bring the important intelligence back.”
“What are you talking about! I’ll cover the rear.” Geng Yong pushed Jin Jie aside and fired at the trees.
Jin Jie was moved. This was a real brother. To cover the rear for such a brother was worth it.
“Geng Yong, don’t let everyone die in vain. You must bring the intelligence back. Don’t forget, Shu Jia is still waiting for you.”
A gentle smile appeared in Geng Yong’s mind, like a ray of sunshine.
Farewell, my love.
