PFC Chapter 145 Little Ruan?
Chapter 145 Little Ruan?
Everyone in the cabin rushed to the nearest window facing that direction and looked over there. After a huge wave, octopus tentacles rose from the sea. The thick tentacles and the faintly visible suckers proclaimed just how enormous this octopus zombie was.
Like the zombie fish that Lu Yuan and his group had seen before, this octopus zombie did not have all its arms intact; some parts had already rotted away. However, zombies that had experienced the second viral rain should not rot away in principle, so this octopus zombie may have mutated from the very beginning and evolved from a first-generation zombie.
"Holy crap, is that what was under our yacht just now?" The octopus's tentacles slapped the surface of the sea a few times, and the ship's position on the radar disappeared. Then Wang Sanhai saw the octopus swimming towards them at lightning speed.
"Speed up!" Ji Lang said as he helped Wang Sanhai operate the yacht, and they quickly headed towards the base.
"South China Base! South China Base! This is Deputy Captain Lin Yun! This is Deputy Captain Lin Yun!" Lin Yun quickly picked up his walkie-talkie, switched back to the base's channel, and began to request help from the base. They were now heading towards the base, where they could prepare to launch torpedoes at the monster zombie. Even if they couldn't kill it, they could at least drive it away.
"South China Base! South China Base! Captain Lin, please speak!" The base responded quickly, and the two sides soon communicated an emergency plan.
"Lu Yuan! Lu Yuan, did you see that?" Pei Sihao, who was squeezed with Lu Yuan by a small window looking out, pointed in the direction of the octopus. He already had good eyesight, and after becoming a superhuman, his vision was even better. "Is there someone sitting on its head?"
"Where? Where?" Lu Yuan reacted quickly, taking out two binoculars from his spatial storage. He gave one to Pei Sihao and held up the other, looking in the direction Pei Sihao was pointing.
"Holy crap!" Two voices came out at the same time, and the others crowded around, trying to grab the binoculars to see what was going on.
"What's wrong?" In order not to affect the operation of the three people in the cockpit, Gu Nanfeng had just come out when he heard Pei Sihao and Lu Yuan's exclamations, so he went over as well.
“There’s a person up there!” Pei Sihao pointed in the direction of the octopus and handed the binoculars to Gu Nanfeng. He then added, “It looks like that researcher. Captain Ji said before that it was scalded by steam and its whole body was rotting, so it should be right.”
"I didn't see his legs." Lu Yuan's angle was slightly off. From Pei Sihao's perspective, the researcher appeared to be perched on top of the octopus's head, his entire upper body raised. But from Lu Yuan's angle, the researcher zombie had no lower body at all; his belly was attached to the octopus's head, the two species fused together.
"This..." After seeing it, Gu Nanfeng ran into the cockpit and told Lin Yun and the others the information.
This is really a difficult situation. If it were just an octopus, they might have fallen into the encirclement set up by Lin Yun and the base. But this new zombie species grafted with researcher zombies is hard to say. After all, researcher zombies are already extremely intelligent, and octopuses are said to be creatures with considerable intelligence as well.
"We're almost in the designated area, what do we do now?" Wang Sanhai glanced at the radar. They were traveling at a high speed, but he had carefully observed the monster zombie earlier. Based on his many years of maritime experience, even if they were going fast, it would only take a few minutes for it to catch up with them. However, this monster had been maintaining a fixed distance behind their yacht. So he quickly voiced his thoughts: "If it really wanted to kill us, it would have come aboard by now. Could it be deliberately following us, trying to get us back to the base's area?"
“Change course. We can’t take it to the base’s waters.” Ji Lang made the decision quickly.
Just as Wang Sanhai canceled the set course and prepared to steer manually, several loud "booms" echoed as water splashed up from the direction of the octopus zombie behind their yacht. Since they were not far apart, the huge shockwave propelled their yacht directly towards the waters controlled by the South China Base, entering the designated sea area.
"Holy crap, when was this developed? I remember the range wasn't this far just a few days ago!" Ji Lang glanced at the ice shards falling from the sky. Because the temperature was so low, the splashing water froze directly upon contact with the air, and countless ice shards fell into the sea and slowly melted.
"That thing is gone." After their vision returned, Lin Yun and the others rushed to the stern of the ship and looked at that area of the sea.
"Is it dead, or did it just fail to catch up?" Ji Lang looked in that direction and then asked Gu Nanfeng.
"It's gone," Gu Nanfeng said softly, looking in that direction.
"We're really lucky." Liu Jia and the other two had been taking care of such a large base before and had encountered quite a few zombies, but this kind of zombie was something they had never seen before. Humans and octopuses had grown together, and even though they caught up with them, they didn't kill them all.
"Whether we're lucky or not is still unknown. Let's get to shore as soon as possible and return to command post." After Ji Lang finished speaking, Wang Sanhai consciously returned to the cockpit and steered back to the port of the South China base at top speed.
Before Lu Yuan and his crew had even docked their yacht, Team Leader Liu and Pei Simin, having received the news, arrived at the pier. Lu Yuan truly admired these people; none of them were superhumans. Although the base had a protective shield, the outdoor temperature wasn't much higher. Most of the other ordinary people worked indoors. Commander Zhang was also an ordinary person; he wouldn't wander around aimlessly unless necessary.
"Are you alright?" Pei Simin rushed over as soon as he saw Pei Sihao. It was understandable that he was so nervous that he had to come to the dock to pick him up. After all, his younger brother was on the ship. From the previous attempts to take Pei Sihao to the refuge in Beijing, it was clear how much Pei Simin doted on this younger brother.
"I just saw it in the monitoring room. There was a first-generation zombie sitting on the octopus's head, right?" Because of the serious impact of the last incident, the headquarters did not reveal to Team Leader Liu how terrifying the escaped researcher zombie was after discussion. So when he saw the zombie with a festering body on the octopus's head, he assumed it was a first-generation zombie.
"Who controls whom? Ah, it might not be a first-generation zombie. It's probably evolved and upgraded many times to survive this long. How powerful is it? How powerful?" Before Ji Lang and the others could answer his previous question, Team Leader Liu fired off a barrage of questions. This immediately put everyone present in an awkward position, unsure where to begin.
"Team Leader Liu, please calm down. The Commander-in-Chief is still waiting in his office." Pei Simin suppressed the agitated Team Leader Liu and led the group towards the Commander-in-Chief's office. Although Team Leader Liu was anxious to hear the answer, he dared not act rashly again, otherwise he might lose his job as the head of the zombie research team.