Wasteland Survival Code

Chapter 289 Brain Death

"Aim at the head and shoot at the head. The vital point is below the brainstem. Splash the bullets on the faces of these parasites!" Qi Lin said loudly in English, and Ivan quickly repeated it in Russian.

Although I don't know the reason why the parasitic worms control the corpse, it is obvious that the brain in the corpse's head has turned gray and white and has no function at all. Qi Lin also tried to attack the parasite's brain with bullets before, completely no effect.

The function of the human brain is to control advanced functions such as hearing, vision, movement, language and emotion, but the brain of the parasite has been completely replaced by the parasitic worms in the body.

The parasitic worm is the parasite's brain. Through thermal vision, Qi Lin can clearly see the surface of the parasitic worm's body, and many extremely long root-like filaments spread out. Some of these filaments pierced the parasite's cerebellum And the brainstem, part of which is entangled with the parasite's original spinal nerves, all the way down, covering the entire spine.

The body of the parasitic worm is very fragile, but the entire skull that protects it is extremely hard.

Logically speaking, after a person dies, due to the gradual loss of calcium in the bones in the body, the strength of the bones will generally decrease slowly, but the parasites are completely different. Qi Lin suspects that the parasitic worms should be able to secrete a The substance strengthens the bone strength of the parasitic corpse, and causes the bone to produce a change similar to petrification.

Although the 47mm bullet of the AK7.62 can still penetrate the skull of the parasite, it can only pass through it, and it is completely impossible to beat a head into a rotten watermelon with a single shot like on the old battlefield.

Moreover, the biggest problem is that due to the size of the 7.62mm bullet, it is difficult to roll over in the target body after penetrating the skull, and the small-caliber bullet that will cause a large-area cavity effect cannot penetrate the parasite's body. skull.

This requires very high marksmanship, unless it can directly hit the parasitic worm hiding in the head, otherwise no matter how many bullets are splashed, it will not be able to completely kill a parasite.

These mutants have only received the most basic shooting training. In actual combat, at a distance of 50 meters, it is very rare to be able to hit a bullet on a parasite, let alone a target as small as a head, and hitting the head is still very difficult. It doesn't have to be a type, but it must accurately hit the parasitic worms in the head.

A person with a height of 1.8 meters is not as tall as a thumbnail from 50 meters away, and the head on his shoulders is not even as big as a front sight.

Noisy gunshots rang out continuously, and the brass and iron bullet casings were scattered all over the place. However, there were very few fallen parasites.

There was also a scene that made Qi Lin even more shocking-a mutant who was seriously injured and fell to the ground was dragged by two parasites, and then another parasite held the head of a parasite whose neck was broken. In front of the mutant, within a few seconds, the milky white parasitic worm crawled out of the nostril of the parasite's head, and quickly entered the mutant's nostril.

The mutant looked terrified, yelling frantically, trying to pull out the worm that had penetrated his nostrils, but his limbs were firmly held down by the other parasites.

A few seconds after the parasitic worm got into his nostrils, the mutant's screams stopped abruptly, and within a few seconds, he also struggled to get up from the ground like a parasite, and stiffly greeted Qi Lin and the others. The direction took a step.

"The parasitic speed is so fast!"

Qi Lin was secretly startled. From the moment when the parasitic worm penetrated the mutant's nostrils to the time when he completely controlled the mutant's corpse, the whole process of changing the host took less than a minute.

In other words, as long as there are enough corpses, these parasites can't be killed at all, but it is not known whether the corpses of mutant creatures can be controlled by this parasitic worm.

"Shoot! Shoot! Suppress the firepower, hit the place where the group of guys are most dense!" Ivan roared hoarsely, but everyone was a little horrified to find that the number of those parasites was actually increasing!

"Damn it, 9527, tell me, why are there so many parasites coming out? Did you poke their mother's eye?" The AK in Ivan's hand started to turn red, As for Qi Lin's gun, he couldn't continue shooting because of the bullet jam and the barrel burst.

"I suspect these parasites are 'newborn'."

After seeing the whole process of parasitism just now, Qi Lin pondered for a while, and then came to this conclusion.

"Newborn? What do you mean?"

"When I entered Warehouse No. [-], I only saw one parasite. I fought it for at least a few minutes. After I killed it, other parasites emerged one after another—if these The parasites are staying in the warehouse, so why didn't they come out and surround me? If that's the case, I can't escape."

"And when I escaped from the warehouse, the number of parasites was only a few dozen at most, but now, not counting those killed by us, the number of those parasites has exceeded two hundred."

"So, I suspect that these parasites are likely to be 'newborn'—for some reason, there are many corpses implanted with eggs in the warehouse, and these eggs may have been in a dormant period before, But we alarmed them, so the eggs hatched one after another, and the corpses that had been sealed up stood up one by one."

"It is estimated that more will come out later—"

"Ебать!" Ivan couldn't help swearing out a classic Russian swear word, which almost means "fuck" in English and "fuck" in Chinese.

There were more than 200 parasites, and there were an unknown number of unhatched parasitic worms, which made Ivan feel a deep sense of powerlessness. After firing the last magazine, he finally ordered all People retreated.

The parasite moved very slowly, so everyone didn't have to worry about the possibility of being caught up. After running out of the tunnel in one breath, the mutants immediately turned around and aimed their guns at the exit of the tunnel.

After waiting for more than an hour, Qi Lin and Iwan breathed a sigh of relief when they didn't see the parasites chasing them out. It seems that either these guys can't get out of the tunnel, or they prefer food with high radiation concentration. surroundings.

"It seems that you need to make a plan against the parasites before you can get the items in the No. [-] warehouse." Qi Lin said.

"Alas—" Ivan smiled wryly. This targeting plan is not as easy as talking about it. Apart from blowing the heads of the parasites away from the worm body one by one, they have no idea that there is another way to completely wipe out the group of parasites. wiped out.

At this moment, a mutant suddenly ran over with a look of horror, and said a lot of words to Ivan in Russian incoherently. Only halfway through, Ivan frowned tightly.

"What happened, so flustered?" Qi Lin asked a little puzzled.

"An hour has passed, and Tarkov, Peter, and Varikin haven't been resurrected." Ivan said solemnly.

"Isn't this normal? It may be that their resurrection point is far away, and they won't be able to make it in a while?" Qi Lin asked strangely.

"No, this is not normal. We are different from you. Due to the intervention of the mastermind, we mutants have a fixed resurrection point after death, which is in the city of Nerozsk——I have to check it offline now, please wait a moment I will."

After finishing speaking, Ivan gave some instructions to the other two mutants, and then hurriedly went offline.

……

After going offline, it took several hours before Ivan appeared in front of Qi Lin again.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

"Tarkov, Peter, and Varikin are all dead." Ivan's voice trembled slightly.

"Dead...? Is it death in reality?" Qi Lin was taken aback. Obviously, the death Ivan mentioned could not be death in the game.

"Yes……"

"How did they die? Don't you mutants have countless chances to be resurrected? Why did you die? Is your physical condition suddenly deteriorating?"

"No, their physical conditions are very stable, and there is no trauma on their bodies, but the records in the game cabin show that their brain waves have experienced very strong fluctuations and disturbances before."

"Brain dead?" Qi Lin guessed, there have been examples of players with weaker minds being stimulated in the game before, and in reality, mental breakdowns turned into lunatics, but it was the first time he heard of the situation that directly led to brain death. Say.

"It should be...but there is even worse news, do you want to hear it?"

"what news?"

"Tarkov, Peter, and Varikin are the three people who were parasitized by the parasitic worm just now."

(End of this chapter)