Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 159 Poisoning
Umbrella-shaped fruiting bodies over 10 meters high stand densely on the ground, and the diameter of the umbrella cap reaches an astonishing 5 meters.

The white ribs are translucent bundles that look like blood-like tissue fluid flowing through them.

The ribs of the umbrella flickered with a faint fluorescent light near the ground, and the handle was covered with an array of pores. When the umbrella opened and closed, gas was expelled from it, mixed with a large number of spores that looked like dust.

When seeing this scene, Chen Jian realized that he could not go forward any further.

The fungal creature before him was beyond his understanding. Before he understood the characteristics of this thing, any reckless action would be tantamount to seeking death!

"Stop!"

Chen Jian opened his mouth and gave the order:

"Lei Jie, pay attention to the environmental testing information."

"He Shuo, operate the drone and continue to scout forward."

"Shen Yue, put on your air purr and go forward to take samples."

"Everyone else follow me and spread out to guard. After obtaining the sample, evacuate quickly."

"understand!"

At the command, everyone took action immediately.

Chen Jian activated the exoskeleton and scanned the surrounding environment with a gun.

What made him feel a little relieved was that neither the anti-sniper radar nor the drone's thermal signal monitoring found anything abnormal.

The surroundings were as quiet as ever. Apart from the slight explosion caused by the bursting of the fungal sacs storing spores, no other sounds could be heard.

"According to the intelligence you know, does the Mechanicus have any records of the fungal forest ahead?"

Chen Jian asked Ji Xing.

The latter shook his head and replied:

"I do not know."

"But I'm sure they must have regarded it as something insignificant."

"But is this thing so dangerous?"

"At least for now, it seems to be just a group of special plants, right?"

"You also know that it is a special plant?"

Chen Jian clicked his tongue twice, then explained:

"We have seen quite a few monsters. The living environment of most monsters is no different from the normal living environment of humans."

"But these things in the Jinling ruins are really weird."

"There are fungi everywhere, so many that they have even taken over the living space of the original plants."

"Moreover, extending from here to the core of the Jinling ruins, the density of fungi is getting higher and higher."

"You said the monsters have nothing to do with these fungi. I don't believe it at all."

"Maybe the monster and the fungus have a symbiotic relationship."

"If that's the case, then our battle plan may have to be completely overturned."

"why?"

Ji Xing was surprised and asked:

"Does this have any impact?"

"The impact is huge!"

Chen Jian slightly adjusted the grip on the 191, and then replied:

"As for other monsters, no matter how strong they are, our battle with them is fair."

"Find a good venue, set up your stance, and then fight to the death."

"But if this is really a fungal symbiotic monster, then the situation is completely different."

"We are fighting in someone else's home. Even the environment is our enemy!"

"No wonder this thing is classified as a Level 2 monster. I can already sense its threat before I even see it."

As Chen Jian finished his words, Lei Jie also reported the latest environmental monitoring data.

"Oxygen 19%, carbon dioxide 7%."

"Hydrogen cyanide 6 ppm, hydrogen sulfide 2 ppm."

"The air here is indeed toxic, but the concentration of toxic gases is still relatively low now."

"Shen Yue, how is the situation over there?"

"Hydrogen cyanide 11 ppm."

Shen Yue replied briefly:

"The closer to the root of the fruiting body, the higher the concentration of toxic gas. It should be the toxic gas formed by the decomposition of some special substances."

"I suspect that the poison gas recorded by the Mechanicus was not produced by monsters, but was purely deposited in the environment, just like the carbon dioxide we blasted out of the lake in Lower Horse Town."

"Understood. Take samples quickly and then retreat."

Chen Jian gave the order again, but at this moment, a dark shadow suddenly flashed across his sight.

A very small, very fast black shadow.

He even thought it was just a flying insect.

But his fighting instinct made him quickly raise the muzzle of his gun and point it in the direction where the shadow disappeared.

At the same time, several Holy Blood people around him also responded quickly.

"There are enemies!"

Ji Xing shouted loudly to warn, and Shen Yue quickly returned after hearing the sound. Without any hesitation, Chen Jian fired a series of short bursts in the direction pointed by Ji Xing.

"Bang bang bang-"

The bullet broke the fungal sac containing mycelium and spores, and a pink-white mist diffused out, which was then blown away by the wind in a direction away from the people.

After a moment's silence, the sparse bushes mixed with lush fungi suddenly moved again.

A black shadow flashed by, and this time, several members of the team opened fire at the same time.

"Bang bang bang bang -"

Dense rain of bullets flew towards the fungal forest. Chen Jian did not need to give too many orders. Lei Jie and He Shuo, who were operating the cat car, quickly turned the car around and retreated in the direction they came from with the team.

"Return the drone! Lower the altitude and monitor the enemy's movements!"

"understand!"

After the order was given, He Shuo immediately made the corresponding operation on the smart eyepiece.

However, due to the obstruction of the umbrella cover, the drone cannot carry out effective reconnaissance from any angle.

The hunter hiding in the woods was moving around like a ghost. Apart from the occasional swaying bushes, the few people had no way of capturing its location.

At this moment, in Chen Jian's sight, the environmental monitoring system suddenly began to alarm.

The toxic gas content in the air was rising rapidly. He put on the air breathing mask without hesitation and signaled several Holy Bloods to hold their breath.

Don't try to be heroic at a time like this. The biggest enemy is the environment, so just get out of that harmful environment first!
The two cat cars were driving at high speed, and the filth in the active sediment layer on the ground kept splashing, but fortunately, several people had taken protective measures in advance, and the protease that could dissolve organic matter did not pose a threat to them.

After tens of seconds, the concentration of the poisonous gas dropped to a safe range.

Chen Jian breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could issue new orders, something suddenly jumped out of the woods.

This time, it's a real monster.

"Fire!"

Chen Jian's gunshot and command rang out together, and the bullet flew out of the chamber and hit the small monster that was rushing towards them.

He didn't even have time to see the monster's appearance, and the same was true for everyone else.

The reason is very simple, there are definitely more than one monster rushing out.

But dozens of them.

The dense sound of gunfire covered everything. Chen Jian's heart was pounding and sweat began to form on his forehead.

For some reason, he felt fear for the first time.

And this kind of emotion had never appeared before, even after he traveled through time and faced the huge level three monster.

Perhaps, it is really because of the so-called "away game".

In all previous battles, they had the advantage of terrain and information.

And this time, the advantage is completely on the enemy's side!
The greatest reliance has been lost and our own combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced.

He even didn't dare to use explosive weapons rashly, for fear that the explosion would stir up more toxic gases and further worsen the situation!
His combat means were severely limited, but after emptying a magazine, Chen Jian quickly calmed down.

“He Shuo Lei Jie keep the speed, don’t worry!”

"Everyone else, hold your positions and use long-range weapons to conduct interception fire!"

"They can't run far!" "As long as you hold on, you can win!"

"understand!"

The sound of gunfire suddenly became more frequent. The bullets, carrying unstoppable power, penetrated the bodies of those monsters that could not even be said to have any "shape", and splashed white juice mixed with blood-red all over the ground.

Chen Jian took off the 191x scope on the 3, aimed with the red dot sight, and fired rapidly while constantly switching targets.

At the same time, on the weapon rack that had been deployed on the shoulder, Flight 201 was constantly spitting out flames under the tracking and guidance of the intelligent eyepiece.

The monsters that were swarming in behind them were unable to get close due to the powerful fire suppression.

However, there are really too many of them.

From dozens of heads at the beginning to hundreds of heads now.

At first glance, Chen Jian even felt his scalp tingling.

Where do these things come from?

Where did they hide in the first place? Why didn't even the drone's infrared reconnaissance system detect them?
Chen Jian subconsciously pulled down the thermal fusion night vision goggles, but in the field of view of the night vision goggles, those things did emit weak infrared signals.

Definitely a living thing.

There was no time to think about it. No matter where they had been hiding before, they were definitely being targeted by them now.

Get out first!

Chen Jian quickly glanced at the map. They had withdrawn two kilometers and were 34 kilometers away from the core area of Jinling City.

"How long will they catch up?"

Chen Jian asked loudly, and Ji Xing answered while aiming and shooting with his clumsy movements:

"I have no idea!"

"There's never been any record of this kind of thing in my intelligence!"

"But the fungal blanket should be the key. As long as we run to a place without fungal blanket, we will be safe!"

"understand!"

This vague judgment is no different from having no judgment at all, but now, Chen Jian has no other choice.

The good news is that the speed of the cat car has gradually increased.

The enemies chasing from behind gradually could not keep up with them.

But the bad news is that the wind has changed.

The concentration of toxic gases began to rise again, and the time that the air breathing could last was less than 11 minutes.

If they couldn't get rid of the monster's pursuit and move upwind to avoid the poisonous gas within 11 minutes, their team might be suffocated by the poisonous gas.

Chen Jian became more and more anxious. He kept giving orders to dispatch the firepower resources of several people, trying to destroy the monster in front of him as efficiently as possible.

At this time, he no longer cared about any "potential threats".

If you have grenades, throw them. If you have grenades, fire them!
"Li Shi, fire a rapid round of automatic grenade fire at the 12 o'clock position!"

"Xie Liu, fire on Flight 201 at three o'clock, don't let those things get close!"

"Shen Yue, enemies approaching at 9 o'clock!"

"11 o'clock direction!"

Instructions were issued one by one, and the reaction speed of several people became faster and faster.

The killing efficiency of this team was improved incomparably in a short period of time, but the price was that the accuracy of the instructions continued to decline.

In just two minutes, Chen Jian had discovered three cases where two guns attacked targets in the same direction.

This was undoubtedly a huge waste of firepower resources, but Chen Jian had no choice for the time being.

He could only continue to increase the density of instructions. It was almost an instinctive reaction.
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However, just as he once again ordered to stop the blocking fire at the 3 o'clock direction, Shen Yue's voice suddenly exploded among the gunshots.

"There are no enemies at three o'clock!"

Chen Jian was stunned for a moment, then he quickly took off his smart eyepiece and observed with his naked eyes, and found that there was indeed no enemy there.

I put on the eyepiece again and got the same result.

Did I see it wrong?!

In an intense battlefield environment, such small mistakes are not surprising.

But it was this moment of calmness that suddenly made an idea pop up in Chen Jian's mind.

Depend on.

Is the situation really that critical?
We have vehicles, we have heavy weapons, we have powerful firepower and we are fast enough.

Those things were chasing us, but they never caught up.

What the hell am I in such a hurry?!

It was like a basin of cold water poured on his head, and Chen Jian immediately realized that something was wrong.

My emotions were affected.

No.

It is my own cognitive ability that has been affected!
Blurred vision may be a symptom of hydrogen sulfide poisoning, which may lead to a decline in cognitive ability.
It must be some other poisonous gas!

"Ceasefire!"

Chen Jian bit his lips hard, and then said:

"We're all poisoned! Hallucinogenic gas!"

"Take a deep breath! Use your air to expel the remaining poison gas!"

"He Shuo Lei Jie, just drive!"

"These things can't catch up with us!"

"understand!"

The two men immediately understood what Chen Jian meant. After taking a few deep breaths, their originally restless emotions immediately calmed down a little.

insidious.

Chen Jian looked at the monster that was still chasing him, and the hair on his back stood up.

He finally understood why the Mechanicus Church had allowed this monster to exist in the Jinling Ruins for decades.

With their technical level, it would be difficult to even get close to this monster, let alone kill it!
If it weren't for the time spent, I'm afraid all of them would have been caught! -
Wait a moment.

Chen Jian looked at Ji Xing beside him, only to find that the expression on the other's face had become increasingly crazy.

Even after she gave the cease-fire order, she did not stop pulling the trigger.

It's over.

They don't have time to breathe.

What's worse is that these Holy Bloods have a faster metabolism and are more deeply poisoned!
Without any hesitation, Chen Jian raised the 191 and hit Ji Xing on the back of his head with the butt of the rifle.

Immediately afterwards, Shen Yue and He Shuo, who had recovered, followed suit and knocked down Xie Liu and Zeng Yi, who had also entered an excited and manic state.

Only Li Shi, who had already put down his gun, subconsciously stretched out his hand to block when Shen Yue raised his gun to hit him. Then he widened his eyes and asked innocently:
"what?"

".fine."

Shen Yue took a deep breath and then said:
"He's fine. He's big and has a high resistance."

"clear."

Chen Jian answered calmly.

At this time, the pursuing monster had been left far behind.

And Chen Jian also saw the appearance of those monsters clearly for the first time.

They were a group of "humanoid" monsters.

Their bodies are covered with pustules and wounds caused by fungal parasitism, and small fruiting bodies like flowers emerge from their eye sockets.

They had obviously lost their sight long ago, but they seemed to be able to be guided in some way and move precisely in the direction of their target.

Expanded body, bioelectric pulse node
Chen Jian suddenly realized.

This thing is also part of the fungal blanket.

The fungal carpet under the team's wheels was becoming thinner and thinner, and their pursuit speed was becoming slower and slower.

It will be safe soon.

Chen Jian breathed a sigh of relief, but when he looked down at Ji Xing, he found that the situation was not optimistic.

Her body was twitching unconsciously, and it seemed that she might wake up from coma at any time.

Chen Jian hesitated for a moment, then said to Li Shi:
"Li Shi, come here!"

"Hold her down!"

(End of this chapter)