Chapter 19 Devour

Zero walked forward in the cave, and his military boots stepped on the mucus-filled land. The mucus of the golden worm is slippery and greasy, and it will fall down if you don't pay attention. Therefore, Zero walked carefully and lightened his pace at the same time. However, the eyesight of all underground creatures has deteriorated due to environmental reasons, but their hearing is abnormally developed. Even the sound of falling needles will be detected by them, so Zero does not walk fast for fear that the sound will be found by the bugs.

The cave dug by the swallowed goldworm is curved, silently calculating its own footsteps and concluding that it has walked nearly a kilometer. However, the cave seems to be endless, but Zero doesn't pay attention to it at all. He walked alone in the quiet underground and dark abyss. Just like this completely strange world that has woken up, although there are many people in the Z7 base, Zero feels lonely.

After all, there is a gap between him and those people for nearly half a century.

Zero doesn't remember the past. Who is he? Where is it from? What have you done? There is no answer to all this, but Zero knows that as long as he goes on, one day he will approach and know the truth.

is so moment.

The end of the cave has arrived.

It is said to be the end, but it is not true, but after the passage arrived here, it turned a 90-degree bend and extended directly to the dark abyss.

Zero took out the cold fireworks, lit them, and threw them down. The firelight passed through the vertical passage, and some fist-sized iron beetles immediately dispersed away from the ice cooling bright light.

Fortunately, the drop of the vertical channel is only about ten meters. This distance has not been taken seriously. The cold fireworks continued to burn under the passage, using their hands and feet to climb all the way down through some uneven mud surfaces on the channel. When his feet touched the ground, the cold fireworks just went out. The ground returned to darkness, and soon a green light lit up, making the iron beetles gathering towards zero quickly disperse.

Holding a fluorescent stick in his hand, he continued to walk along the horizontal passage opened by the gold swallowing worm. The passage keeps tilting downward, as if it were going straight to hell.

But this time, Zero's journey will end soon.

Because he heard some special sounds from the quiet underground.

Zizi——

It's like the sound of alternating current, or the sound of something rubbing against each other. Zero can't be sure, just take out the M500*. This pair of large-caliber murder weapons, if shot at close range, is like the tough shell of a gold worm, and may not offset the impact of .50 bullets.

The sound is getting closer and closer.

In the green fluorescence, the passage reaches the end.

At the end is a larger cave, and the fluorescence does not reach the end. Zero estimates that the radius is about 300 meters.

The strange sound came from under the cave, and Zero squatted down on the edge. Under the green fluorescence, several huge insect bodies are intertwined, and those strange sounds come from the bodies of these insects rubbing against each other with mucus. The gold-swallowing worm is like a meat maggot that has been magnified countless times, and it is difficult to distinguish the head and tail. Now several big insects are entangled, which is even more indistinguishable.

Under fluorescence, the reflection of something slightly stung Zero's eyes. Looking at the light source, there is a thick layer of copper mud on the edge of the cave.

Those are food that swallow gold worms, with a thoughtful expression. Why did the gold swallowing worm ship food here? And judging from the amount of this pile of copper mud, these foods are enough for several gold swallowing insects to eat for several days. In other words, are they prepared food in advance? Why? Is it because of the "movement" below?

In Zero's mind, he quickly analyzed the things in front of him.

The golden worms are intertwined and look like snakes breeding their offspring. However, golden worms are asexual reproduction and do not need to reproduce their offspring through this behavior at all. Zero doesn't know much about this creature, and the information he knows is only seen from a chart when old Jack took over the task.

He can't judge, but he doesn't want to stay for a long time. The reconnaissance mission does not include the annihilation of gold worms. Zero can't do anything superfluous, but when he turns around and wants to leave, something new happens to the bugs in the cave below.

The largest gold-swallowing insect suddenly poked out its head. The fat white worm had two rows of six small red eyes on its big head. A cross crack appeared in the center of the worm's head, followed by the fat, revealing a mouth organ of the same size as the head.

In the green light, zero can see clearly. There are three layers of small inverted teeth in the mouth, which are these seemingly inconspicuous inverted teeth, but they can open mountains and dig stones. But now, the target of this mouth device is towards its companion.

With a plop, the big bug swallowed his companion into his mouth. The big insect kept sucking and swallowed another insect into its abdomen.

Zero pupil contraction.

What is this? Killing each other?

Soon, the bug swallowed his companion and gained a lot of weight. There is a faint wrinkle under the insect, and it seems that the swallowed companion is struggling. The gastric juice of the gold worm can melt gold fossils, how can it not withstand its own kind? Soon, the body of the big insect stabilized. But it seemed to be very hungry, so it pointed its big mouth at other insects.

The sound of sucking and swallowing kept coming, and Zero watched the big bug swallow the remaining two companions. After eating the three insects in one go, the body of the swallowing gold worm became extremely huge. It made a cry of pain, the six red eyes kept shining, and the body surface of the worms set off layers of meat waves. It's like digesting and excreting something.

The body of the giant insect kept twisting, and the big head began to sink. The body curled up, forming a mountain-high-sized cocoon. When the shape of the cocoon is completed and stabilized, it trembles slightly like a human heart.

Zero quietly withdrew, and the reconnaissance mission was over.

This strange phenomenon of swallowing gold worms should belong to evolution. By swallowing other companions and improving their genes, they can evolve to a higher level of life. In this era, in order to survive, we must exhaust all means to make ourselves stronger. Human beings are like this, as are other creatures.

Zero's work has been completed, and professionals need to evaluate whether the new form of gold swallowing insects will threaten the base. That's not a zero job. How will the base deal with gold- swallowing insects? Zero doesn't want to take care of it.

When I returned to the mining area, it was already two hours later. Zero jumped out of the cave and heard the noise of people outside. He frowned. It's working hours. It doesn't seem to be so noisy. Things are not simple.

Zero walked into the mining area, and Nick, a miner who had been in contact with him before, was arguing with people about something. Seeing Zero appear, Nick ran over quickly. As he ran, he also drew the shape of a cross on his chest and forehead with his fingers.

"Thank God you are finally back, sir."

He nodded and asked concisely, "What's going on?"

"Lost contact, sir." Nick took a breath and pointed to the direction of the base and said, "Just half an hour ago, we will transport the first batch of copper mines back to the base. But the gate of the base was locked, and we contacted the inside of the base by radio, but there was no movement at all. Everyone was so anxious that they didn't know what was going on inside.

"Didn't you contact Old Jack?"

"How can it be? After the radio contact did not move, we contacted the boss directly through the internal phone, but no one answered. Nick hesitated and said, "It's incredible. It's almost like the people at the base suddenly disappeared."

After listening to it, he looked silent. He left Nick and got into the crowd, boarded the mining truck and drove to the entrance of the operation area.

It's just that no one knows that his hand is gently holding on the handguard of *.

The door of the entrance to the operation area was closed, and the arrival of Zero made the workers around him look at him.

Zero jumped off the mining truck and asked, "Who is in charge?"

"I." A middle-aged man got out of the crowd and raised his hand and said, "stor, I'm the head of mining operations. You can call me Jeto."

"What's the situation at the gate?" Zero asked as he walked towards the gate.

Jetto followed Zero and reported: "The electronic system completely failed, and there was no response inside the base. The electrician was already dealing with it, but the possibility of recovery was very low."

Next to the fine steel gate, a thin man is squatting on the ground to check the electronic circuit of the gate. Ling came to him and asked, "Can you open it?"

"No, there is no response at all." The thin man answered without looking back, and then saw a soldier dressed as Zero. He immediately jumped up and said respectfully, "Ser, I've tried my best."

Zero asked, "Can't you turn it on manually?"

"Manual system? The..." The electrician patted his head with hatred and said, "Da Damn, how can I forget the manual system?"

He immediately turned around and called a few miners and rushed to the other side of the gate.

Not long after, the door between the operation area and the base finally opened slowly.

People near the gate were relieved, but the skin under the zero clothes came with a slight needle-like feeling.

Dangerous!

A dangerous smell came from the door.

The door opened a crack, and a red, sticky ** slowly flowed out of the door. They flowed through the brown ground, through Zero and other people's shoes, and then gradually stopped ten meters outside the door.

The miners couldn't say a word anymore, just by the door, an arm slid out of the crack of the door in the red** flow.

This is just an arm. It broke from the root of the shoulder, and Bai Sen's arm bones stabbed out of the vague flesh and blood.

"This... What's going on?" The person in charge of the mining area was dumbfounded and looked at Zero.

Zero took a deep breath and said quietly, "You stay here. When I go in, close the door!"

After saying that, he stepped into the bloody water, and with another foot, he has stepped into the gate of the base.

After a while, the door slowly closed.