Not only an armored vehicle, but also other needles with fire hairs that hit the ground or cabinets will melt and ignite the contact surface, igniting a large fire.
The captain of the Spring Knife Squad, Liang Guodong, shouted to Liao Jinglei, who was staying halfway, to come back quickly. However, her attention was entirely focused on Tom, who was being bitten by the mutated rat, and she did not realize that she was in danger. So Liang Guodong ordered the only remaining member of the team, the Awakened in armor, to rescue him. As soon as the Awakened had run out and made progress, he was scared back by the flying fire needle.
The fire needle lit up the surrounding areas, while the team members relied on the car body as a cover, which was relatively safe, but the bullets and bombs seemed completely helpless against the big guy in front of them. On the 23rd, just like Liao Jinglei, watching Tom being chewed on was very heartbreaking.
After all, the mutated rat's mouth and teeth are so sharp that even the hard alloy armor cannot hold on to being bitten so repeatedly by it.
"Damn it, has the crystal bomb failed?" murmured the 23rd, "Time should be up."
As if it were a spell, just as the 23rd spoke, a dull sound came from the body of the mutated rat. Then the big mouse fell straight to the ground, and the flames on its body slowly extinguished. A figure broke free from the mouse's paws, and everyone saw who it was not Tom.
At this moment, Tom was panting heavily and his helmet was nowhere to be seen.
"It's done!" Tom shouted, and then he drew a big knife from his back and walked up to the head of the mutant rat. Watching the rat's mouth and nose continuously gushing with blood, he knew that the crystal bomb had successfully exploded inside its body.
The explosion tore apart its internal organs, and at this moment it could do nothing but lie on the ground convulsing.
On the 17th, he decisively ordered some soldiers to continue their vigilance, while others were responsible for extinguishing the flames on the vehicle and treating the wounded. Only then did he surround the mutated rat with the 23rd and the deputy captain of the foreign mercenary regiment, Harris Paine.
"You have succeeded again, Tom," said the 17th. "You have taken the lead in this mission, and I will repay you for it when you return."
Tom is not very interested in rewards, but as a member of the team, he just does what he should do.
Harris leaned over and squatted down, pulling out a half burnt burr from the mutated rat. He carefully examined it and then leaned up to his nose to sniff it before saying two words in English.
Tom's English is not good and he didn't recognize it, but it's okay. If the other person can smell the cat, he can too. He walked over and also pulled out one and placed it in front of his nose, and immediately a pungent smell filled his nose.
"Gasoline?"
Abing then squeezed through the crowd and ran over, while behind him was another researcher carrying a large box.
Tom handed him the bur with a strong gasoline smell, carefully putting it into a square box and then cutting more of it with his hands.
At this moment, the subway station master Lu Chen said, "There is gasoline stored in this miscellaneous room."
Ah Bing suddenly realized, "Well, it could be that this mutated mouse drank gasoline while undergoing secondary mutation, so its fur naturally contained mixed hydrocarbons. The explosion just now ignited the gasoline in its fur. And I just saw that the fur on the mouse did not burn after being ignited, probably burning a continuous stream of gasoline provided by its fur."
Tom nodded and said, "That's a situation similar to a candle, but after the burr shoots out, it loses the gasoline component provided by its body, which burns off its hair."
"It's possible, but this is just an inference. Further analysis in the laboratory is necessary to obtain the data."
At this moment, Liao Jinglei timidly walked over and said, "Thank you... Tom."
Tom was thinking about the big mouse when suddenly he didn't react and said, "What? Thank me for what?"
Liao Jinglei blushed immediately and said, "That... thank you... for saving me while inside."
"Oh, it's okay, that's what I should do." After speaking, Tom asked someone to help him remove the Jade Rabbit III armor, and he had to personally go in and dig up the crystals inside the mutated rat's body.
Liao Jinglei looked at this pragmatic man and suddenly felt that her existing impression of him had been overturned. He didn't seem as shameless and vulgar as Captain Liang Guodong had said.
In the eyes of the 17th and others, her action was a bit redundant. After all, they were all comrades in arms, and it was normal for them to help and support each other. After all, they would have done the same.
On the contrary, Liang Guodong, who was extinguishing the fire on the side, felt as if he had knocked over a vinegar bottle with a mix of flavors, and his resentment towards Tom grew even stronger.
However, Tom didn't care. He was eager to know if the crystals in the mutated rat's body were the same combination as he had speculated.
The final dissection confirmed his speculation.
This time, the main crystal is a level 5 blue energy control crystal, followed by a yellow level 3 energy storage crystal.
The blue crystal energy conversion is estimated to be due to the absorption of gasoline, and the blue crystal in the mouse's body simulates the composition of gasoline through the energy stored in the yellow crystal, which is then transported to the hair of the whole body through the circulatory system.
This is similar to the little black they encountered at Zhenhua Machinery Factory. Little black probably swallowed an iron block, and then the crystals in his body began to absorb the iron element and transport it to the hair on his chest and tail. It is estimated that if it were to mutate for a longer time, it would not be impossible for the entire body's hair to be made of iron.
Abing also had a similar inference, and at this moment he was extremely excited: "If we can explore the working principle of the blue crystal inside its body, we can convert the yellow crystal into gasoline for driving cars, which will greatly improve our energy transportation problems! This is a huge discovery!"
Can a human body turn into gasoline?
Tom felt a slight sense of helplessness.
Counting the wounded, tidying up the mess, and then cutting off some of the bones and hair of the mutated rat, the convoy returned to the warm campfire.
At the call of the 17th, the leaders of the convoy gathered together, drinking hot soup, coffee, and chocolate. They first summarized the situation of the previous battle.
On the 17th, Tom was once again commended for his decisiveness and resourcefulness. After all, it was his suggestion to give hints while the big mouse was asleep, in order to throw the crystal bomb from the mouse's mouth into its stomach and eliminate this large monster at the lowest cost.
From the counterattack of the big mouse before its death, it can be seen that just this dense attack with fire spikes is enough for the armed personnel of the entire convoy to eat a pot of food. If it weren't for Tom's strategy, they would probably have to pay a heavy price of half the casualties to win by fighting directly against it.
Tom, who provided the strategy and personally executed it, was indispensable in this battle,
Next is the investigation and explanation about the situation of this No.3 nest.
Around the mutated rat, they discovered the shells of many other organisms, including cockroaches, mosquitoes, and ants. Based on their bone shells, it was determined that there were many mutated creatures here, indicating that these mutated creatures had engaged in a battle here before. In the end, the big fish ate the small fish and left the big mouse behind.
This also explains how this mouse mutated to such a large size because it ate other mutated organisms.
At this point, the three dangerous areas identified by the previous search team have been cleared by them, which will provide a relatively safer environment for the installation of the Tianlong in the future.
At 12 o'clock that evening, as the owner of this subway station, Lu Chen prepared some yellow paper and food, and held a simple memorial ceremony outside the campsite to express condolences to the colleagues and compatriots who died in this subway station.
During this period, on the 17th, the team was divided into multiple small teams to spread out, in order to inspect the surrounding situation and discover and eliminate as many scattered threatened creatures as possible. It was not until noon that the team broke out of camp and returned from the original route to leave this dark and cold subway station.
It is now October, which belongs to the golden autumn season. Compared to the day we arrived on the 28th, the green belt and big trees on the roadside seemed to have all withered and turned yellow overnight. The fallen leaves on the ground were piled up, and in the midday sunlight, they were golden and very dazzling. At this moment, outside the subway station, it was just noon, and the sun was shining overhead, making everyone warm. Although I only stayed at the subway station below for two and a half days, it felt like a long winter had passed for them. Now, being dispelled by the warm sunshine, my whole body feels warm and comfortable.
Just for safety and time considerations, the convoy did not stop, and the soldiers could only lean out to absorb as much ultraviolet radiation as possible to welcome the precious autumn gift.
In a seven seater van located in the middle of the convoy, members of the Spring Knife Squad sat here. Compared to when he arrived, there was an empty seat in the car at this time, which was exactly where Captain Liang Guodong's younger brother Liang Guojun was sitting. And the position of the co pilot was naturally taken by the only woman in the team, Liao Jinglei.
At this moment, she was lost in thought as she looked at the silver armor straddling the truck in front of her. It was the Jade Rabbit III Type 1 armor, which was still in the laboratory's classified stage, and the wearer was naturally Tom.
When she entered the thought world of the mutated cockroach with Tom, she accidentally entered Tom's thought world. As a result, her brain instantly received a lot of information from Tom, including the struggle when the micro disaster occurred and the silly gecko cake.
From Tom's brief memory, Liao Jinglei felt that his captain's remarks about Tom's various shortcomings needed to be discounted, such as selfishness, flattery, and bullying. It seemed that there was no trace of his past performance in Tom's memory.
With a relatively simple personality, she always felt that the captain was right at first, but feeling Tom's unforgettable memory, she suddenly felt that maybe the captain was wrong.
"Hmph." Liang Guodong snorted coldly, catching her attention.
"Captain..." She turned around.
"Don't be fooled by that guy surnamed An. He first hooked up with the mistress of Yuan Feixing, and then even climbed into Mr. Shen's pomegranate skirt for the sake of power. Such a bastard's sweet words are a set of tricks. You see, he deliberately came late, he was afraid of death. We had to fight it ourselves, and ended up killing Ah Jun."
If it had been before, Liao Jinglei, like other teammates, would have shared a grudge against the captain and felt that Tom, who was afraid of death, had turned his teammates into cannon fodder.
However, with a spiritual connection with Tom, she listened to the captain's words and suddenly realized that this matter was not so one-sided.
She certainly didn't realize that the real reason for this was so simple and simple, simply because their entire team was infected by Liang Guodong's spiritual emotions, so they never saw through the essence of it.
When facing the attack of the mutated cockroach, the 17th was originally for Tom to clamp it down. It was Liang Guodong who, in order to compete with Tom for credit, had his two armored Awakeners team members take the lead. However, they were unable to cope with the situation of the mutated cockroach, resulting in one of the armored team members, his own brother Liang Guojun, being eaten.
In fact, Liang Guodong's second ability is infectious to his teammates, making them consciously and unconsciously accept his commands and complete them without any discount.
But the conditions required for this ability are quite strict, such as eating and living together with special training, in order for his ability called "Loyalty Command" to work on them.
His ability is only known to a few people such as number 17 and Shen Jiayi, and his teammates are unaware of it.
His team also has one more task, which is to have the ability office observe how much the overall combat power of the team will be improved by other teammates infected with his ability.