Infinite Throne

   Chapter 452 Evolve again! (6800 word chapter)

   Six in the morning.

  Cangyang City.

   The first ray of dawn did not have time to appear.

   The night has not yet dissipated.

   Yi Rin and several others, their hair was covered with morning dew and white flowers. From a distance, it looks like a frost covering his head.

  Oda Mai and Gu Sinan were in a corner, closing their eyes and resting.

  Wang Bing carried a miniature submachine gun, several incendiary bombs buckled at his waist, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked around vigilantly.

   His subordinates, the field team, are also trying their best to keep their spirits up and be on the lookout for monsters that burrow out of nowhere at any time.

   But in fact, since they were far away from the city center and backed away from those monsters, they haven't been attacked by the insect wave for a long time.

   half an hour ago.

  Irin and the others could vaguely distinguish the wailing from the direction of the city center.

   But for half an hour, there was gradually no sound coming out of Cangyang City, where the lights were gone.

   Not only the screams of humans, but also the neighs of monsters, everything was silent, like an empty city.

   Even so, Wang Bing had received professional training and did not dare to relax his vigilance.

   Yuan Zhiye and other investigative teams, as well as several young criminal policemen from Cangyang City, were exhausted both mentally and physically.

   Among them, there are occasional people who twitch all over and breathe quickly in their sleep, and I don’t know if they are having nightmares such as “Wan insects dance without misery”.

   In mid-air, a white figure looked down, overlooking the dead city.

   After walking around in a limited range for a while, Bai Xiaoyi returned to Yi Rin's body with no end in sight.

   "Take a break, the bugs won't come."

  Irin's field of vision switched back to the deity, and saw Wang Bing's tired gesture, and smiled.

"how do you know?"

   Wang Bing's eyes widened, subconsciously and subjectively wanting to believe what Yi Rin said, but he didn't dare to believe it... The ghost knows what he experienced tonight.

   "Whoosh whoa whoa-"

   In the distance, there was the sound of the helicopter's propellers turning at a high speed.

   The awake people raised their heads and looked at the helicopter team in the distance.

   In the darkness, the searchlights of the helicopters, staggered projections, searched for the survivors on the lonely earth.

"finally come!"

   The tense nerves suddenly loosened, and Wang Bing's feet softened, almost kneeling on the ground. But his two rows of teeth clenched violently, and he stood up again. Wang Bing skillfully pulled out the signal gun from his waist, raised his hand and fired a bright red signal bomb into the sky.

The light of the    signal bomb exploded high in the sky. The searchlights of the helicopter team gathered at the position of several people at the same time, and soon they gathered towards Yilin and several people under the signal light.

  On the outskirts of Cangyang City, there was no one, but the ground was flat, and the military helicopter groups landed one after another when they found a suitable location.

  In the helicopter closest to Irin and the others, an old man walked down with an unremarkable posture.

  —is the enemy.

  Irin frowned, feeling a bit inconsistent.

   Why did you just... walk down?

  According to Mo Rendi’s habits, don’t they all like to jump in?

   Such a strange thought flashed through Irin's mind.

   "What's the situation now? Have those bugs escaped?"

  Behind the Mo people, Yu Meng and Zhao Yulong stepped out of the armed helicopter one after the other.

   In addition to Zhao Yulong, there were also several casually dressed crew members who got off from different helicopters.

  yo, and acquaintances.

   After Hu Sandao got off the helicopter, he saw that Yi Rin just nodded and did not approach him.

   The other members of the team also seem to be apostles, but Yilin has been in the team for a short time and does not know each other.

   There are about a dozen of the official team members who came to Cangyang City along with Zhao Yulong.

   Zhao Yulong didn't talk nonsense when he saw Yi Rin, and immediately asked about the current situation.

   "Kakakaka."

  Mo Rendi closed his eyes and said nothing, but he took two steps away, and started to move his muscles and bones happily, his huge fists squeezed together, making a crisp sound.

  How do you feel... Mo Rendi looks very happy?

  Irin looked away from Mo Rendi, and answered Zhao Yulong's question truthfully:

   "As far as the current situation is concerned, Cangyang City is a little strangely quiet. Except for some of the 'peers' who were hiding in the city at the beginning, after they successfully escaped, no one escaped."

   When he heard "No one escaped", Zhao Yulong's face slammed and turned even darker.

   "But the bugs didn't come out either."

   Yilin smiled and pointed to the dead Cangyang City in the distance: "If I guessed correctly, those bugs seem to regard it as their home."

   "How are you sure the bugs didn't leave quietly?"

   The person who asked this was not Zhao Yulong, but Yu Meng.

Avoiding the eyes of ordinary people, Bai Xiaoyi's spiritual body emerged from behind Yi Rin. After Bai Xiaoyi made a "V" gesture to Zhao Yulong and Yu Meng playfully, it disappeared in a flash and disappeared again in Yi Rin's body. .

"You should know that I have a spirit-enchanted weapon. After escaping here, I use the 'spirit' perspective from time to time to observe Cangyang City from a limited distance. It stands to reason that those worms have formed a certain order of magnitude, no matter what. Whether it is transferred from the ground or underground, the movement should not be small."

   After a pause, Yi Rin added: "At least, in this direction, no bugs leave."

   Zhao Yulong listened without saying a word, put on the communicator in his ear, and began to direct the deployment.

   One after another, groups of armed helicopters gathered towards Cangyang City through the dark night.

  Irin initially estimated that the number of armed helicopters that arrived in Cangyang City in just 20 minutes was nearly 1,000.

  Most of the helicopters that came to Cangyang City from all over the country are about the size that can carry 10-12 people. But Yi Rin witnessed with his own eyes twenty people, including the main and co-pilot, jumped down from the hatch on one of the helicopters. It's a serious overload.

  Irin can't imagine how eye-catching the 20 fully-armed soldiers are stacked together in the small helicopter cabin.

   It can also be seen that Zhao Yulong was in a hurry, in order to mobilize as much power as possible to attack Cangyang City, it can be said that he did everything he could, no matter how old he was.

  All armed helicopters, under the command of Zhao Yulong, landed smoothly around Cangyang City. And at the fastest speed, they surveyed the surroundings of Cangyang City to see if they found any traces of "new species".

   "Report! In the 12 o'clock area of ​​Cangyang City, everything is normal."

   "Report! In the area of ​​2:00 in Cangyang City, a large number of civilian skeletons were found, but no 'target group' was found."

"Report…"

  …

   Seven in the morning.

   The sky is white with fish belly.

   When the first ray of morning light fell on everyone, Zhao Yulong had already completed the basic deployment.

   "Too quiet."

   Zhao Yulong frowned in combination with the information that was constantly being fed back, feeling a little incredible.

   On the side, Mo Rendi began to do the morning exercises for the elderly in a disciplined manner. He stood upside down with one finger on the ground, relaxed and happy, and seemed to be nothing special.

  Irin looked away from Mo Rendi.

  Ever since Zhao Yulong, Yu Meng, and Mo Rendi led the elite team to Cangyang City, Yi Rin has been watching everyone silently.

   From their attire and equipment, Irin can roughly tell the identity of each team.

  Can be mixed in with a small number of people who seem a bit strange.

   "That part of the people" seems too calm.

   Even when Zhao Yulong was deploying, they occasionally chatted and laughed in a low voice, and their eyes with hidden strange emotions fell on several official members such as Irin and Oda Mai from time to time.

   was incompatible with the apparent tension of the field team.

   But Yilin was sure that they were not apostles.

  The difference between them and the apostles is that they are wearing new thin and light body armor, and their waists and upper body are covered with a variety of modern weapons. There was even a strong man with a stature similar to Su Xiaosu not far away, with a heavy multi-barrel revolving Gatling cannon on his back and bullet chains hanging across his chest, but he walked lightly and lifted weights lightly.

   This is a humanoid self-propelled Vulcan...

"who are they?"

   Yi Rin pointed to a special group of people not far away and asked Zhao Yulong in a low voice.

"They are reservists." Zhao Yulong was busy deploying, but as soon as he said it, he felt a little inappropriate, and immediately added: "Oh, you are forgiven for not knowing. Over the years, we have screened a lot of special warfare departments from all over the world. Elite, the basic attributes are higher than many first-order apostles, and they have undergone all kinds of harsh training. It was originally used as a secret weapon, but this time there is no way to pull it out."

  Irin heard the words, her eyes narrowed and she nodded, but didn't ask any more questions.

   "Stomp, stomp, stomp—"

at this time.

  The sound of horse hooves is far away.

  A white horse with four hooves stepping on flames came in the air.

   This magical scene attracted the attention of many people.

   "That horse...is he?!"

The moment   Irin saw the horse, he remembered a person from the special group who was known to everyone in the circle of "future" apostles.

  A man in heavy armor jumped off his horse and came to Mo Rendi.

   "Team leader, Brother Zhao, Sister Meng."

  The man took off his helmet, and a face that was slightly vicissitudes of life, with a rough black beard, showed in front of several people.

   "You finally arrived, Marquis Lu."

   Zhao Yulong's tense chrysanthemum face relaxed a little and stretched out.

The man called "Marquis Lu" smiled helplessly: "You actually let me put down the matter at hand, which shows the seriousness of the current matter. If I don't come, I'm afraid of being punished by the team leader. Killed alive."

   While speaking, Lu Hou lowered his voice and quietly glanced at Mo Rendi, who was doing aerobics not far away.

   It seems that the glorious image of Mo Rendi in everyone's mind is surprisingly consistent.

   "Let me briefly introduce him, he is Marquis Lu, a high-level meat shield type, an elite in the group."

   Zhao Yulong briefly introduced the location and name of Luhou.

  Really simple introduction.

   "I'm an iron shield, not a meat shield." Lu Hou corrected Zhao Yulong's language problems, frowning: "I understand the situation. It's really hard to deal with, what about the others?"

   "Everyone who should come has come. What can't come, there's no way."

   Zhao Yulong's expression was a little helpless. After all, there are too many cases at hand recently, and it is a fortune to be able to mobilize more than a dozen official team members in a hurry.

"You are Yi Rin, Jiu Yang." Lu Hou stepped forward and shook hands with Yi Rin: "I'm not polite, because I've been on a mission, and you've heard your name mentioned many times by others. It was the first time we met."

  In Yi Rin's memory, there was a scene where Lu Hou was sorry that Mo Rendi was not an apostle.

It's him.

   After the death of Mo Rendi, he replaced Mo Rendi and became the leader of the "Order Faction".

   The man who once wore armor and blocked the scythes of the death knights wandering in the wilderness alone, and gave his companions time to escape.

   "I didn't expect to see Brother Hou at this time."

   Yi Rin recalled the scene when Lu Hou and the death knight were halfway to each other, and he was very sighed, but he pretended to meet for the first time and shook hands.

  …

  …

   Zhao Yulong surrounded the entire Cangyang City.

   The sky is already bright.

  Mo Rendi just finished warming up with a set of boxing techniques, and exhaled a long breath of hot air, which turned into a white mist that did not disperse.

"almost."

  Mo Rendi's wrinkled face instantly became as cold as ice.

   At the moment when Mo Rendi said these four words.

  The surrounding air suddenly solidified.

  Everyone seemed to feel that at that moment, there was a heavy mountain pressing on the chest, making it difficult to breathe.

   It turned out to be killing intent.

  Irin took out the "Redemption Revolver" from his waist and opened the magazine to check the bullets, knowing it in his heart.

   After Mo Rendi came, he said less than three sentences in total.

   seems calm and indifferent.

   But in the face of a city that once had a population of one million, but now it is silent, even Mo Rendi is trying to suppress the anger and killing intent that rippled in his chest.

  Mo Rendi's terrifying killing intent just accidentally leaked out a trace, which gave people the illusion of reality.

   "Di Di Di—"

  After the sky began to light up, the morning light was bathed in, but everyone's mood became heavier.

   Following Mo Rendi's words, Zhao Yulong, who was ready, didn't dare to talk nonsense. He immediately released a small reconnaissance drone in the communication channel and quickly entered Cangyang City from a high altitude.

  Not long after the drone flew out, Zhao Yulong noticed Yi Rin's movements and couldn't help but asked curiously:

   "Why did you change weapons?"

   He naturally knew that Irin's usual weapon... was the sword.

Yi Rin smiled, inserted the "Salvation Revolver" that had been inspected on his waist, and hid it under his clothes, patted the "bulging" part of his waist, and smiled: "Secretly asked someone to order one. Revolver, it's just to increase your means of output."

   "This works?"

   Zhao Yulong was puzzled.

   After all, according to the data, Yilin is a spiritual apostle with a wide range of AOE skills. No matter how convenient modern weapons are, and they cannot be brought into trials, how can there be an apostle's ability?

   "Isn't this useful?"

Yi Rin explained with a smile: "Those new species of monsters, an hour ago, the single-shot lethality was not high, basically one shot one, to a certain extent, increasing the output distance is better than close-range output. Much safer. And…”

   After a short pause, Yi Rin continued: "Don't you think that when everyone thinks I'm used to using knives and suddenly pulls out a gun, this kind of surprise can catch the opponent by surprise?"

   "Or, when the other party thought that I was an auxiliary mental side and could only use thermal weapons to increase the output, I suddenly took out a knife and stabbed him alive. Isn't this both a surprise and an accident?"

   Zhao Yulong was slightly startled.

   He faintly felt that there was something wrong with Irin's words.

   But thinking about it, there is nothing wrong with it.

   And, it makes sense!

   "As expected of you..."

   Zhao Yulong said with emotion.

   In the second half of the sentence, he didn't have the embarrassment to say it in front of other people, so he held back abruptly.

  —"Insidious enough."

   "Look."

  The aerial photography of the drone was sent back in high-definition without any code.

   Lu Hou's voice interrupted Zhao Yulong and Yi Rin's brief conversation. After Lu Hou's reminder, everyone's eyes were attracted by the picture sent back by the drone.

  Irin is better.

  's expression was calm.

   Zhao Yulong habitually took a breath of the fresh morning air, and exclaimed: "Is this what you said is a harmless...little bug?"

  Irin shook his head helplessly: "To be precise, an hour ago, they were still 'little bugs'. Besides, I didn't say that they are harmless to humans and animals, but they are relatively easy to deal with."

   But now...

  I saw on the surface of each building, a worm called "fat", lying on it, densely packed and motionless.

   How fat is it?

   If an hour ago, the new species that bit the buttocks of Irin and a few others, the strip-shaped body curled up and was only the size of a fist. Then the "bugs" that appear in the picture lie on the surface of the building, the size of a palm with five fingers spread out.

  The new species of monsters is only one point similar to the original "leech" in shape.

   That’s… strips.

   In addition, each bug is up, down, left, right, left, right, and no matter how you look at it, it is hard to think of a fragile soft-bodied creature like a "leech".

  The surface of the bug, with dense scales, looks thicker, reflecting soft light under the first rays of the sun. Those rays of light are refracted back, as if every building surface is coated with a layer of reflective metallic paint.

   Zoom in.

   Occasionally the insects wiggled a little, and when they opened their mouths, the circles of sharp teeth inside made the scalp tingle. It is hard to imagine how terrifying the situation would be if it was accidentally swallowed.

  Hu Sandao fiddled with his bangs with his fingers, smiled helplessly, and said a sentence, slightly diluting the grim atmosphere:

   "There's a benefit to these bugs having evolved so much."

  Others looked at Hu Sandao to see what he could say.

  Hu Sandao coughed twice: "At the very least, the targets of these insects are obvious. As long as they are not moving fast, they are living targets. Another point is that when moving on a large scale, there should be no small movement."

   Moderate opinion.

   But... Who can't think of it!

   Is the obvious good?

  No one answered, and the few people watching the screen turned their attention back to the drone transmission screen.

   As the drone moves towards the city center.

   The tragic situation in Cangyang City was noticed by several people from Mo Rendi.

  The killing intent in Mo Rendi's eyes almost condensed into substance and smashed the screen.

   There are corpses everywhere and bones.

  There are occasional open areas on the road, where there are many car wrecks, and there are still remnants of flames burning.

  Various pieces of clothing—the pieces of clothing that were once worn on humans and devoured their flesh and blood. Fragments are flying in the sky of Cangyang City with the morning breeze.

awful.

That's horrible!

   Zhao Yulong's teeth rattled.

   No matter who it is, seeing the once prosperous city turned into this purgatory-like scene overnight, it is difficult to calm down.

   Zhao Yulong didn't blame anyone.

   He saw it in just a few short glances. This matter is not something that one person, or just a few people, can solve.

   It was a "disaster".

   A disaster second only to the "Starfall Night" ten years ago.

   The evolution speed of these bugs is incredible.

  From leeches, evolved into monsters, and then evolved into bigger, thicker and stronger monsters... At this speed, even Zhao Yulong, who had become a veteran driver in the inner world, couldn't help but be shocked.

   If all this happened in the trial, in the inner world, he would never feel strange.

   But this is… the real world!

  Mo Rendi, Zhao Yulong, Yu Meng, and all the official team members including Yi Rin were watching the screen silently, with different moods.

   Fear... not too frightening.

   This scene is more terrifying and terrifying than this one, and I have seen it a lot in the inner world.

   It’s just that this situation happened in reality, which shocked them and made them feel at a loss.

   But now.

   Everyone is watching the reconnaissance screen carefully, trying to read more information about the "new species" from this high-altitude reconnaissance screen.

   Every apostle who has experienced many battles understands one thing.

  For unknown "BOSS" or "creature", intelligence is extremely important, the more the better.

   "The density of bugs seems to be getting denser."

   I don't know who said something.

   But it doesn't matter who.

  It is important that others notice this unusual.

  It was very unusual for insects to roam motionless in Cangyang City.

  The bugs are densely concentrated in a certain area, which is more unusual.

  I saw that when the drone moved in a certain direction, it was found that the density of monsters was terrifyingly dense. The layers are intertwined in various postures, twisting and squirming, looking down from the sky, it is like a red ocean, full of joy.

  …The premise of festivity is that ignore that they are bugs.

  The drone flew forward about a kilometer.

The density of    bugs is hard to describe in any words.

  It was originally a flat street, and even small hills were piled up by bugs. It looked like a red hilly area.

"what is that?"

  Lu Hou frowned and asked.

   He just arrived, so I don't know him well.

  In the picture, the style of painting changed.

   A twisted and wriggling "worm tower" appeared in front of everyone.

  The bugs here are far more active than the ones on the outside. Let this red tower composed of insects seem to come alive, like a huge tentacle, swaying in the wind.

Yi Rin closed his eyes and quickly compared the map of Cangyang City "before he was alive" with the route the drone flew over, and the "meat tower" in the picture, and said after a while: "That's Chenxi housekeeping...the original one. A ten-story building."

  Ten floors…?

   That meat tower made of insects is more than ten stories high?

  Others are a little unconvinced.

   However, Zhao Yulong and Hu Sandao, who knew Yi Rin well, did not doubt Yi Rin's memory.

   Lu Hou muttered to himself, as if asking himself, but also asking others:

   "Why, these insects are entrenched in this building in Cangyang City and refuse to leave? Could it be that they regard this as a nest?"

   Refused to go?

   "No, maybe..."

Yi Rin stared at the terrifying scene in the picture, a flash of light flashed in his mind, and slowly said: "Maybe what we should ask is not 'why' and refuse to go. It is 'for what' and refuse to leave. .There is someone behind these bugs, I thought at first that someone in Dawn's housekeeping...is the deity of the leech man."

"But not long ago, I overturned this. Maybe everyone in the entire 'Chenxi Housekeeping' constitutes a 'leech man'. Although I don't know in what way, but if Chenxi Housekeeping is really related to that There must be nothing wrong with the organization.”

   Lu Hou and several people just came, and they always felt that the name "Leech Man" in Yi Rin's mouth was a bit strange, and I didn't know whose taste it was. But now, they didn't have time to complain, and listened carefully to Yi Rin's analysis.

Yi Rin raised her head, her eyes swept across the faces of the others: "Maybe I'm something that I haven't figured out before, what is the purpose of 'they'. Just to create this kind of monster that doesn't exist? Maybe not so Purely, what I am worried about now is that if there is really a 'purpose' behind all this, it is very likely that this 'new species' spread throughout the city is just a dessert before the main dish."

  “!”

  When Irin said these words, everyone except Mo Rendi changed their faces.

   Is this just dessert?

  Wait, how can there be desserts before meals?

   And right now.

  Under the control of Zhao Yulong, the drone approached the worm tower and wanted to find out more information.

   But suddenly.

   The squirming insect swarm suddenly split open, revealing a vertical crack about ten meters long, with a faint scarlet light emitting from it.

   Staring at the fissure at this moment, gives the impression that it is like a slowly opening eye.

  Shoo!

   Suddenly.

   “Zizzizi—”

  On the screen from the drone, there was only a messy afterimage.

   is gone below.

   (end of this chapter)