Thirteenth month of death

Chapter 145: Insect Plague

Chapter 145: Insect Plague
Tang Lun looked around vigilantly. This mission was extremely dangerous, but someone had to do it.

The prophet said that a mutant had appeared in this area, and when it became king, the surrounding human gathering places would be massacred.

Tang Lun came here this time to find out who the mutant is and its specific location.

Sweat flowed down Tang Lun's forehead. It was summer.

If there is still summer, it is indeed summer now, July.

And summer also means that all the pests can move quickly.

"Pests," ranging from flea-sized to giant enough to obscure the sky and the sun, suddenly appeared without cause and nearly destroyed human civilization with overwhelming force.

They are difficult to kill with thermal weapons, and their reproductive capacity is extremely strong. Just one can reproduce tens of thousands in less than a day.

At the same time, their body fluids carry viruses that are deadly to humans. Once their body fluids come into contact with the air, they will evaporate quickly, enter the human body through the pores and skin, and quickly spread into a plague, causing large-scale deaths of humans.

This was also the biggest loss humans suffered in the early days of fighting against pests.

After finally killing a pest, human casualties were even greater.

A long, narrow cloud drifted across the sky, blocking the sun's scorching heat and casting a shadow over the wooded area.

Tang Lun did not make a sound and continued to grope deeper into the forest.

There were two other people coming out with him this time. They had the same mission, which was to explore the existence of the mutant.

Tang Lun wiped the sweat off his forehead carefully. There were many relics from before the destruction of civilization, and the goggles on his forehead were one of them.

Currently, there are very few gathering places where humans produce this thing.

The production technology exists, but the materials are precious and cannot be wasted on such places.

Tang Lun carried two guns, an automatic rifle and a pistol on his waist.

Thermal weapons have little effect on insects. First, they are fast, and second, their shells are the best bulletproof material.

But later, there was a breakthrough in technology. After a long period of research on the corpses of insects, the gathering place has developed a special sabotage bomb. As long as it can hit the insects, this sabotage bomb can cause quite effective damage to them.

However, attention must also be paid to their body fluids after death.

Tang Lun reached the top of the jungle alone. The view there was good, but also very dangerous.

But he didn't care. As long as he could find the location of the mutant and as much information as possible, he could send the message before he died.

Everyone who accepted this reconnaissance mission had a similar awareness.

This is an age where anyone can die.

There was a sound of flapping wings in the dense forest ahead, and Tang Lun immediately crouched down. The smell on his body was covered by a special spray, and his breathing was almost reduced to an inaudible level.

The only thing that might give it away is body temperature.

Some species of insects can sense the specific location of humans through temperature.

However, in this hot summer, this can be almost ignored.

Unexpectedly, what Tang Lun saw was not insects, but monkeys?

How could a monkey possibly make a buzzing sound with its wings?

His pupils shrank. Not good...

It's a parasitic insect!

Tang Lun saw the appearance of the monkeys.

They were covered with wounds, but the flesh and blood had long since dried up and even carbonized.

But at this moment he was still walking, but his walking posture was very strange.

It turned out to be controlled by parasitic insects.

This type of insect is fragile and can be killed with one shot even with pre-improved thermal weapons.

But they are too small and can penetrate into the bodies of organisms and control their behavior.

Some species of parasitic insects can even read the memories of the host and then perfectly imitate the host's behavior, which is extremely terrifying.

Because all the parasites died the moment they were parasitized.

Everyone would feel a chill at the thought of their body being manipulated by insects like this after death.

That's what happened with these monkeys.

They were heading towards the bushes where Tang Lun was hiding.

Tang Lun's eyes grew colder and colder. Compared to the era before the plague outbreak, the humans of this era no longer resembled the same race except for their appearance.

The most obvious change is in the blood.

All humans in this era have green blood and are extremely resistant to bacteria and viruses.

Not only that, humans can also improve their combat effectiveness by killing insects and obtaining their hearts.

The current leader of the human settlement is a powerful warrior who hunted down the royal pests.

After obtaining the heart of the royal pest, his level of evolution was far beyond Tang Lun's imagination.

However, an elite scout like Tang Lun has already digested no less than ten insect hearts.

To put it simply, digesting ten ordinary insect hearts can roughly equal the strength of five ordinary insects.

That sounds great. Not only do humans have the means to fight back, they even have a direction for evolution.

However, unless they are on the verge of despair, almost no one is willing to eat the insect heart.

This isn't evolution, it's gambling.

Every time you eat a bug heart, it is a test of life and death. The probability of maintaining sanity and human form, and the probability of transforming into a bug, a monster with a human head and a bug body, are both fifty percent.

There are some factors that can affect this probability, such as personal will, but... the impact is not significant.

Just as Tang Lun was about to take action to eliminate these infected monkeys, an extremely subtle rustling sound came from behind him.

He quickly glanced back.

Tang Lun's eyes suddenly widened.

monkey……

Many of the monkeys’ bodies have dried up and carbonized!
At some point, these parasitic monkeys had completely surrounded him. Tang Lun's heart was pounding. This kind of silent encirclement tactic was absolutely impossible for the parasitic insects themselves to achieve.

It seems that the prophet's intuition was correct.
In this woodland area, a royal pest was indeed born.

Tang Lun reached for the pistol at his waist.

The biggest function of this gun is not to attack, but to send signals.

With all his strength, he could kill dozens of monkeys, but there were hundreds of monkeys here.

There are too many of them, and I can’t kill them all.

At least the word gets out.

Without hesitation, Tang Lun pulled out his pistol and fired a shot into the air.

But at the moment he fired, flares appeared in the other two directions around him almost one after another.

Oops……

The other two were also surrounded.

Almost at the same time, they surrounded all three people.

It's a trap.

The new royal family of plague insects born this time has extraordinary intelligence.

After launching the flare, Tang Lun gave up hiding and completely exposed himself.

Sure enough, after he fired, he immediately smelled a foul odor in his nose, the smell of a corpse.

The body reacted before the brain.

Tang Lun dodged with one hand on the ground and flipped backwards. It was the monkey, attacking him.

They are not as fast as him, but they have sharp teeth and claws, and there are many of them.

Several strategies came to mind in an instant, but none of them could help me escape.

Therefore, Tang Lun changed the direction of the battle to kill as many as possible to get his revenge.

The bullets that had been loaded long ago began to wreak havoc. The insects could withstand the bullets, but the monkeys whose bodies had been strengthened by the insects could not.

What's more, this is a specially made sabot-breaking bullet.

The powerful impact of the bullet sent the attacking corpse monkey flying several meters away, leaving a big hole in its body, but they were still able to stand up shakily.

They had been dead for a long time. To stop their bodies from moving, one had to either break their legs or find the pest hiding inside the corpse and kill it with a single shot.

Tang Lun could do neither.

His marksmanship has always been just okay, and he's much better at close combat.

The precious sabot-breaking bullets were used up, and more than twenty monkeys were knocked down. They had lost their fighting ability, but were still crawling on the grass.

Next is the time for cold weapons.

Tang Lun drew out the dagger. His body, strengthened by the insect heart, possessed extremely strong toughness and endurance.

He danced among the corpse monkeys, trying to hit their legs whenever possible.

Unfortunately, he was very good at killing insects with his dagger, so it was difficult to remove limbs.

The long battle quickly consumed Tang Lun's physical strength and his face began to turn pale.

Scars appeared on his body, and green sticky blood flowed out.

The monkey population in this woodland area is completely controlled by insects and cannot be killed.

Is that the end?

Tang Lun felt a little regretful.

He distanced himself, picked up his pistol, loaded it with live ammunition, and put the muzzle of the gun into his mouth.

Just one shot to shatter the brain should be enough to make these disgusting bugs give up parasitizing.

Tang Lun took a deep breath and was about to pull the trigger.

Suddenly, a snow-white arc flew forward from behind him.

The monkey that was hit by the arc was instantly split into two and cut in half.

what is this?
Tang Lun was confused and puzzled. A new bug?
He immediately turned the gun around and pointed it behind him.

The black muzzle of the gun was pointed at a young man.

He held a...

Is this a sword?

This person was Li Daosheng who had just arrived.

He was holding a long sword, alone, without Ren Ou and the woman by his side.

How come a human suddenly appeared behind me?

Tang Lun couldn't understand.

He was surrounded tightly by monkeys. How did this man get in?
Without having time to think about it, Tang Lun finally saw what the insects that parasitized these monkeys looked like.

It looks like a soybean covered with tentacles, and is only the size of a soybean.

At this moment, it was flying towards Li Daosheng at an extremely fast speed, and its target was... his ear.

It was trying to get in through Li Daosheng's ear hole.

"Be careful! There are bugs!"

Li Daosheng didn't look back. A swordsman's shadow suddenly appeared and slashed at him from behind!
The parasite broke in two and fell to the ground, and the swordsman's shadow disappeared.

Tang Lun was stunned.

Li Daosheng frowned and turned his head to look at the ground.

Bugs again?

(Today's chapter, I wrote nearly 3,000 words. I can't take it anymore. I have a viral cold. I feel dizzy, my nose is sore, and I can't stop crying. I can't take it anymore. I hope I'll feel better after a good night's sleep. Good night everyone, be careful of the flu.)
(End of this chapter)

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