Wasteland Survival Code

Chapter 882 Dormant Volcano (two in one chapter)

Qi Lin continued to grope forward in the underground forest. Due to the existence of the Frost Dragon, there were no large-scale mutant creatures living in this forest, but a brightly colored beetle the size of an egg was almost let Qi Lin capsized in the gutter.

It is not entirely correct to say that they are brightly colored. When these beetles land on the black soil, their carapaces will turn into a dark color similar to the soil, and only when they attach to the leaves of those colorful mutant plants When the carapace becomes colored.

This ability is very close to that of a chameleon. Qi Lin just didn't pay attention, and was attacked by a beetle that fell from the top of his head. Although the beetle is small in size, its mouthparts are very sharp, and it directly tore Qi Lin's arm The clothes on Qi Lin left a very obvious bite mark on Qi Lin's elbow.

Although the beetle was slapped to death by Qi Lin immediately, Qi Lin only felt that his consciousness began to become blurred along with the tingling sensation at the wound, and his vision seemed to be covered with a blur. Mist... Immediately afterwards, a large number of beetles emerged from all directions, frantically rushing towards him!
This scene will not be unfamiliar to those who have watched the "Mummy" series of movies. These colorful beetles are like the scarabs in the movies. Wherever they pass, any living thing will be doomed...

Qi Lin had already taken out a plasma grenade from his pocket, but just as he was about to pull the tab and throw it out, the mastermind's voice suddenly rang out.

The voice of the main brain seemed very far away, as if it was hundreds of thousands of miles away, and it seemed to be talking to Qi Lin through a dimension, and it was vaguely inaudible... But Qi Lin's ears were It has successfully captured a very key word - "illusion".

"These beetles...are hallucinations?"

Looking at the beetles that had already rushed in front of him, Qi Lin took a deep breath, put the plasma grenade back, picked up the assault rifle, and smashed it at the beetle closest to him with the butt of the gun!
"puff--"

The butt made a small dent in the soft soil, but otherwise hit nothing.

There were no beetles on the ground at all, and the sea of ​​insects that rushed in like a tide just now disappeared at some point—if Qi Lin hadn't resisted the pressure and threw the plasma grenade just now, I'm afraid the only result he could get was Awaken the Frost Dragon deep in the forest ahead of time.

"Is it really a hallucination?"

Qi Lin immediately thought of what he had just been bitten by a beetle, and looked down, only to find that the wound on his arm was gone... Not only that, but even the torn sleeve had recovered.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

At this moment, the ground trembled violently. Qi Lin thought it was the Frost Dragon, but when he looked up, he saw a huge Frost Dragon that was ten times bigger than the Frost Dragon. The beetle, the back of this beetle is almost tightly attached to the roof of the volcanic cave, and every step it moves will bring a shock no less than a magnitude [-] earthquake.

But this time, Qi Lin didn't panic anymore. He knew that he was still in a hallucination... Quickly found an antidote serum from his backpack and stuck it into the muscle of his arm, and slowly injected the serum The body and all illusions began to disintegrate, the ground stopped shaking, the giant beetle disappeared, and the mist that had been covering Qi Lin's eyes gradually dissipated.

Qi Lin glanced at his arm again. The damage to the sleeve hadn't healed, and the wound bitten by the beetle had scabbed over.

"It's a phantom beetle."

The mastermind Qi Lin said, this time, its voice rang directly in Qi Lin's ears, and it no longer seemed so distant and illusory as when Qi Lin was in a hallucination just now.

"A beetle that causes hallucinations?"

"This name has two meanings. First, part of the phantom beetle's gene sequence is very similar to that of a chameleon, so it can change the color of its carapace at will, thus forming an excellent camouflage. Second, the phantom beetle's The venom contains a large amount of hallucinogens, which will gradually drag the poisoned prey into the abyss of madness, allowing the prey to fend for themselves in hallucinations. Of course, people with strong enough spiritual awareness will not be affected by hallucinations , and can get rid of the illusion on your own, but because your energy-gathering vortex is restricted, your mental power is at a lower than normal level, so you will be recruited."

"But this bug's illusion is a bit clumsy. How could such a huge beetle make such a huge noise until it appeared in front of me? Anyone with a little brain will know it's fake, right?" Qi Lin said with some disdain.

"The illusion created by the phantom beetle's venom is not fixed, but will be randomly generated according to the memory fragments in your brain. At the beginning, the sea of ​​insects all over the mountains and plains seemed very real? If I hadn't reminded you, I'm afraid your The plasma grenade has already been shot."

"Uh... It's true to say... That scene feels very similar to some clips in the movie "The Mummy" I watched before. That scene once left a lot of psychological shadow on me when I was a child. This illusion should not Is it an illusion from these clips? By the way, if I hadn’t watched that movie, I wouldn’t have such an illusion, right?”

"Not necessarily. After all, this kind of lens is not limited to "The Mummy". In various sci-fi movies and even games, there are scenes of monsters all over the mountains and plains everywhere. How can you be sure where the hallucinations that appear come from? Phantom beetle The venom will discover what you fear the most in your heart, and gradually escalate this fear, allowing the prey to take some destructive actions spontaneously. When the prey is exhausted or commits suicide, that is the time for the phantom beetle to enjoy a big meal It's time," said the Mastermind.

"But when I woke you up later, you already realized that you were in a hallucination, so the second hallucination that appeared was so unreal... because you subconsciously put the The 'Giant Beetle' is an illusion."

"That is to say, if you didn't call me, I might have fallen into madness now, right?" Qi Lin said with some fear.

"Yes, human beings never know how terrible it will be when their inner fears are fully unearthed. In that case, even the most determined people will do some extremely crazy things."

"Then I think the venom of this phantom beetle is very useful." Qi Lin nodded thoughtfully, "By the way, this kind of insect is not only found in this underground forest, right?"

"More than that, in China alone, I have found this phantom beetle in four areas with high radiation concentration. Of course, compared to the rare phantom beetle, you should be very familiar with its subspecies—Nightmare Sky Cattle."

"Huh? Is the nightmare beetle a subspecies of the phantom beetle? But speaking of it, there seems to be nothing wrong with it..."

Of course, Qi Lin, the famous name of Nightmare Beetle, has heard of it. Not only he has heard of it, but any slightly experienced player in "Wasteland Survival Rules" knows that this kind of beast is the size of a palm, has a black appearance, and has two white tentacles. mutant insects.

As we all know, one of the raw materials of the famous drug "Jeter" in the wasteland world is the hallucinogenic mushrooms that can be seen everywhere in the radiation area. The hallucinogenic mushrooms are chopped up, and the squeezed juice is mixed with double-headed cow dung that is ground into powder. After being steamed and cooked at high temperature, the finished product, Jeter, only needs to take a small sip to make people enter a state of ecstasy.

However, this was only Jeter's formula in the early days of "Wasteland Survival Rules". Later, after a pharmacist discovered the mutated insect, the Nightmare Beetle, he tried to replace the hallucinogenic mushroom juice with the body fluid secreted by the Nightmare Beetle. As a result, the new type of Jeter that was formulated was more powerful and lasted longer, and the hallucinations it produced were extremely realistic and terrifyingly addictive.

It's just that there is one most obvious difference between the new Jet and the original Jet, that is, after the original Jet sucks, what it produces is just a hazy illusion, but the new Jet will make people fall into a nightmare that they can't extricate themselves from. In the first group of people who tried the new Jeter, two of the five committed suicide, one went completely insane, and the remaining two took a long time to get rid of the horrible dream—even so, in For a long time after that, both of them were in a state of depression, and their personalities became very strange.

Although the new Jeter cannot be sold as a consumable like cigarettes, players quickly discovered another use for this potion...intimidation, torture, torture, etc...

"If there is a chance next time, I have to find a way to get some phantom beetles... The nightmare beetle is already so perverted. The toxin of this phantom beetle is much stronger than that of the nightmare beetle. Maybe it will be used at any time. Great use..." Qi Lin said with lingering fear—even though his energy-gathering vortex is suppressed, his mental power is still much stronger than ordinary people, and even he has been recruited, then If an ordinary person is bitten by a phantom beetle, it is estimated that there is no way to wake up.

"If you need the poison of the phantom beetle, I still have a few bottles in my inventory." The mastermind said, "But what are you going to do with this thing?"

"Poison, do you even need to ask?"

"This toxin is too tasteless, it can't be fatal immediately, and it can't make the enemy lose their resistance instantly. What's the use?" the mastermind asked.

"Just imagine, if one of the soldiers in a group is suddenly poisoned and he starts to attack everything around him, wouldn't the formation of this army be disrupted in an instant? And as the number of people in chaos increases, , the effect will also be greatly improved, isn't this much more powerful than directly poisoning people to death?"

"That can only work on humans or original mutant creatures, it has no effect on robots and biochemically modified bodies whose brains are controlled, and in the next mission, most of the enemies you need to face are The latter two."

"Okay, but..."

Qi Lin wanted to say something, but at this moment a violent noise came from the depths of the forest. Qi Lin quickly dodged and hid behind a thick tree trunk.

This time it was not an illusion, and the only one who could make such a noise was the Frost Giant Dragon.

The body of the Frost Dragon covered with pale scales soon appeared in Qi Lin's field of vision, and this made Qi Lin's heart almost hang in his throat - at first, he thought he had been discovered by the Frost Dragon But soon he discovered that the Frost Dragon hadn't noticed himself lying in the bushes less than 20 meters away.

Dragging the injured leg, the Frost Dragon limped to the entrance of the vertical passage. In the process of moving, its body broke countless trees, and its claws and abdomen were crushed. It crushed a large number of mutated plants——it didn't follow the "forest path" it opened up originally, but directly chose the shortest straight-line route.

This frost dragon... seems to be very panicked?
With a vigorous shake of its wings, the Frost Dragon rushed out of the vertical tunnel, but Qi Lin was surprised to notice that with the departure of the Frost Dragon, the vibration of the ground became more and more obvious!

It's not a hallucination... It's definitely not a hallucination... This vibration...

"Grass!"

Qi Lin couldn't help swearing a dirty word, jumped up from the ground, and started running towards the vertical tunnel - he finally realized the source of the vibration... This volcano is not an extinct volcano at all, but A volcano in a dormant state!
And now, the volcano is about to erupt!
The frost dragon had a premonition of this, and dragged its injured body to escape desperately.

"Damn it, this luck is so damn good!"

Judging from the lushness of the underground forest, this dormant volcano probably hasn't erupted for hundreds of years, but it didn't erupt sooner or later, and it started erupting after Qi Lin got in. Qi Lin couldn't help feeling Once again, I was tricked by the mastermind...

"You can't blame me, the volcanic eruption time has been fixed since the training program was written, you are just unlucky, and according to the original plan, you should not enter the belly of this volcano , This eruption of the dormant volcano had nothing to do with you at all." The mastermind seemed to know what was going on in Qi Lin's head, and explained in a very innocent tone.

"Forget it, I don't have time to talk to you about this—how long is it until the final eruption?" Qi Lin asked loudly while running.

"16 seconds—this number is the time it takes for the magma to rush out of the crater, and the time you are submerged in the magma will probably be about 5-6 seconds earlier than this basis."

"That is to say, I still have ten seconds, right?" Qi Lin didn't care about being discovered by the Frost Dragon at this time, and the power of the energy-gathering vortex was fully activated, and the running speed of the whole person was already as fast as possible !
"Standardly speaking, there are still eight seconds."

　Merry christmas everyone
　　
　
(End of this chapter)