Chapter 249 Don't Go Near the Sea

The vast land has a wide view and is deserted.

Looking around, there were only the remains of dilapidated and withered trees and scattered ruins buried in the sand.

Leman Rust tank towed the Trojan logistics vehicle along the bumpy roadbed.

The surface of the tank is still covered with scratches and engravings, and the gray camouflage paint is mottled, but in fact there is no damage inside, and the body structure is still strong and sturdy.

There were a few large characters painted crookedly on the side of the turret:

"My Little Pony."

Below the thick and ferocious gun barrel, a thin iron wire connects from the muzzle brake to the coaxial storm bolter.

There are three pairs of underwear of different sizes hanging on the wire, a pure white sports style, a black hollow lace style, and a simple gray thong style. The three pairs of underwear flutter in the wind.

It has a bit of a wasteland feel.

The sun is shining and the breeze is not dry.

The tank commander Fu Qinghai half-poked out from the top of the turret, his strong and twisted upper body naked, wearing only a pair of large shorts, a tank commander's wide-brimmed hat on his head, a large cigar with sparks in his mouth, facing the cool post-apocalyptic breeze, the white mist he exhaled immediately dissipated.

"Qingshan, can you help me check if my bra is dry?"

Jiang Yixia shouted from below.

Fu Qinghai climbed out of the turret and came to the rear of the vehicle, which was the weakest part of the Lemann Rust tank's armor, connected to the engine and exhaust pipe. Three bras were stuck to the hot armor plate and had been dried by the residual heat of the engine.

Fu Qinghai took the clothes away, put them back into the roof hatch, and handed them to Jiang Yixia, who was wearing light clothes. At this time, Li Xingxian, who was wearing a small vest, also squeezed over, poked Fu Qinghai's arm with his finger, and said:

"Qingshan, I'm hungry."

Fu Qinghai said,

"Let Chen Xinlu open the door for you, and go to the armored vehicle to get the last bit of CPR."

"How long will it take to reach the next destination?"

Jiang Yixia asked.

Li Xingxian went to find Chen Xinlu, and in the narrow space, only Jiang Yixia and Fu Qinghai were left. The woman did not step away, but squeezed in here to talk to Fu Qinghai. The distance between the two was less than five centimeters, and even their breath was close.

"If the accuracy of that map is correct, it will probably take another five days of driving."

Fu Qinghai said.

As soon as he lowered his head, he could see the deep cleavage in the sports bra. As an experienced person, Fu Qinghai knew that the "Y" shape was forced out, while the "I" shape was natural. Jiang Yixia obviously belonged to the latter.

She-Hulk has always been in great shape.

Five days, even if the whole journey is through desolate and uninhabited areas like the one we are in now, is still a big test for most reincarnations.

Without transportation, fuel supplies, food and water, most reincarnations can only stay at the place of landing and cannot run around like Fu Qinghai.

The adamantite tracks crushed the gravel, moving forward slowly and steadily.

The surrounding scenery is unchanging.

The gray-white land stretches endlessly with occasional undulations.

"Squeak."

The tank suddenly stopped.

Fu Qinghai poked his head out of the top hatch and looked at an iron sign standing alone on the side of the road. Dark red rust had covered the entire surface of the sign. The bottom of the iron rod stuck in the ground was covered with salt and alkali. The English words on it were vaguely discernible:

"Don't go near the sea."

Are we near the sea yet?

Fu Qinghai took out the map and found that there was still some distance to go. He estimated that it was at least five or six kilometers.

Affected by the size of the tidal range, the boundaries of the ocean are actually not fixed. The ebb and flow of the tides after the end of the world may be even greater than before the end of the world.

Fu Qinghai retreated back into the car, squeezed open the empty shell of the power armor on the driver's seat, turned the steering wheel to the right, and said:

"Let's go to the beach."

…

A few minutes later, the deep blue sea came into view, the sound of the tide was heard, and the waves beat against the gray-white gravel beach, which did not seem to be dangerous at all.

Fu Qinghai, wearing power armor, stood a few hundred meters away from the seashore. Looking at the gently rising and falling waves in front of him, he bent over, picked up a stone the size of a human head, and threw it hard into the sea.

With tremendous strength, the stone drew a long parabola and fell into the sea with a "plop", splashing a circle of high white water.

Then, a bulge suddenly appeared on the seemingly calm sea surface. With a "splash", the sea water parted to the sides, and a huge object in the water slowly floated up. It turned out to be a pair of huge bulging eyes.

Two bulging, bulging eyes appeared above the water. They were one meter in diameter, with flat almond-shaped black pupils and silver and yellow irises.

The giant monster's fish eyes all turned towards the center, staring at Fu Qinghai who was standing several hundred meters away, as if evaluating his size and edibility. In the end, this giant sea monster with most of its body hidden under the sea just glanced at Fu Qinghai coldly, then slowly sank to the bottom of the water.

Hey, who are you looking down on?

Fu Qinghai was immediately unhappy.

He said in the communication channel:

"Jiang Yixia, load a high-explosive bomb."

"High explosive bomb, are you sure?"

The crew members obviously also saw the giant eye that had just risen from the sea through the periscope, and Jiang Yixia couldn't help but confirm it again.

"Confirmed. Leman Russ MK3-G4 high-explosive bomb."

Fu Qinghai spoke with a firm tone, and even directly read out the specific model of the ammunition.

"Report to the commander, loading is complete."

"OK."

Fu Qinghai leaned over again, picked up a bigger stone, weighed it in his palm, put it down again, and took out an armor-piercing grenade directly from his waist, pulled out the fuse, stepped forward, swung his arm, and with a powerful single-arm spin, threw the grenade fiercely in the posture of a softball player.

"Swoosh—BANG!"

The armor-piercing grenade exploded just above the water.

The impact of the explosion caused the sea surface to shake violently, and the flying shrapnel created bubbles in the deep water.

Red blood is flowing out of the deep blue sea.

"Crash——"

There was a loud noise on the sea level, and the sea water in the sky was like an inverted waterfall, with the waves spreading in all directions.

The giant object burst out of the water with a loud bang.

It is difficult to describe the appearance of this sea monster.

It looked extremely ugly, with a huge body like a huge ship stranded on the beach. On its ridge was a row of sharp hollow fins pointing to the sky, like a row of sharp spears. Its body was thick and round with many tumor-like protrusions, similar to the skin of a toad. Its two pillar-like webbed front feet were digging hard on the gravel beach, and its moving speed was surprisingly not slow. Its limp and swollen belly was dragging on the ground, and water was still oozing out of it.

The strange fish opened its mouth wide, and there was a loud bang in the air, accompanied by a "swoosh" sound. A flesh-colored long tongue with a diameter of one meter shot straight towards Fu Qinghai. The end of the fleshy tongue tore open a big mouth with sharp teeth that looked like a human face.

Fu Qinghai dodged the attack with a casual move of his body to the side, causing his tongue to miss the target. He said,

"Fire."

"boom--"

The high-explosive bomb flew out of the barrel, and the projectile went straight into the body of the strange fish, just like a grain of rice piercing into the body of a giant fish. Then, the already swollen body of the sea monster swelled up again, and faint flames could be seen in the membrane that was torn to the limit.

"Pala——"

Under the effect of high explosives, the upper body of the sea monster exploded, shrapnel flew, flames shot into the sky, and half-moist and half-burnt internal organs and minced meat fell like flowers from the sky, turning the gray-white gravel beach into a slaughterhouse with blood plasma and ascites flowing everywhere.

"102 points, not bad."

Fu Qinghai said.

Barely worth the price.

"Why do fish get so big? Is it because of radiation?"

Chen Xinlu asked in the communication channel.

"No."

Fu Qinghai squatted in front of a large, coiled piece of fish intestines, which was covered with translucent mucus, and said:

"It's the T-Abyss virus."

T-Abyss virus is a research product of the Federal Bioterrorism Committee (FBC), an official anti-biochemical organization in the Resident Evil game universe. It is a new virus formed by splicing the Abyss virus and T virus found in deep-sea fish together. It is nicknamed the "seafood virus". In the game setting, one bottle of virus can infect one-fifth of the ocean.

According to the information in Shelter 79, the entire ocean of the earth is now full of this virus, and the four oceans are completely hopeless. The ocean accounts for 70% of the earth's surface area. Now that the polar glaciers have completely melted, the ocean area will only become larger, but it is no longer within the scope of human activities.

In addition to viruses, radiation can actually make organisms grow huge, but this is the Resident Evil movie universe, not the Hollow Earth universe, so the Resident Evil setting is naturally given priority.

The sea monster's corpses piled up into a high hill on the shore.

"Snap!" "Snap!" "Snap!"

The sound of splashing water was heard, and Fu Qinghai looked to the other side.

Hey, the broken tongue of the strange fish can actually survive independently and is still struggling and rolling?

Fu Qinghai took a closer look and found that it was actually a strange zombie with a lower body and a fleshy tongue connected together.

"Wow, come and see."

Fu Qinghai called the crew members.

Three women wearing yellow protective suits walked out of the car, gathered around and watched this amazing sight together.

A streamlined flesh-gray shell grew on the zombie's head, covering all the way to the back. Its upper limbs turned into six pairs of shrimp-like appendages, and its lower body was the tongue of a strange fish. Dark organs and rectum were vaguely visible in the translucent flesh.

If it weren't for the human face covered with a thin transparent shell under the carapace, Fu Qinghai would not have recognized that this was once a human being.

Sea Walker, a T-Abyss virus zombie.

"I've heard of the lice before."

Fu Qinghai said to the three girls.

"Fish lice enter the fish's mouth when they are larvae and suck the fish's blood through the fish's tongue until the fish's tongue completely atrophies. Then they connect their tails to the atrophied fish's tongue to replace the fish's tongue, turning from parasitism to symbiosis."

"I didn't expect that today I would actually see a zombie replace the sea monster's tongue and become a zombie fish louse."

This sea walker, which was connected to its tongue, seemed unable to adapt to life on land. Perhaps it was unable to absorb oxygen. In any case, it died soon after jumping a few times.

"What does this mean?"

Chen Xinlu turned her head and asked.

She felt that Fu Qinghai would not be so bored as to ask the three of them to come out just to see something new.

Fu Qinghai's tone was full of emotion:

"Even zombie fish lice have appeared, which shows that... viruses and zombies have completely adapted to and dominated the earth. They have established a new ecosystem, a new natural world based on viruses. We humans who are not infected with the virus are the alien species in this system."

Fu Qinghai's gaze turned to the sea.

Human beings are still focusing on the dilapidated ruins on land, but they don't know that in the deep and vast blue sea, a new and vibrant system is quietly being constructed.

The ocean is indeed the birthplace of all life.

Without the support of the seawater's buoyancy, and with its internal skeleton shattered by the high-explosive bomb, the giant sea monster's body was slowly collapsing under its own weight. Chen Xinlu glanced at the mountain of sea monster corpses with disgust and said,

"Go back."

"Um."

Fu Qinghai nodded and was about to go back when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a metal object emerging from the sea monster's cracked body among the large amount of organs that were sliding down, and then being covered by the intestines and mucus that continued to slide down.

"etc!"

Fu Qinghai quickly called the three women.

While activating the active and passive perspective, he strode towards the pile of corpses. The black, white and gray perspective imaging views were constantly switching, looking for a perspective that could penetrate the hypertrophic organs.

Soon, Fu Qinghai saw three things that were obviously not biological organs. They were angular and square objects wrapped in the intestines of the sea monster.

Fu Qinghai stepped into the corpse, stepping on the sticky and slippery tissue fluid, with long thin threads pulled out from the soles of his shoes. He walked to the squirming and collapsed organs, reached out and pulled apart the dark pink intestines piled together.

The first thing Fu Qinghai saw was a pile of yellowed broken bones. He couldn't tell whether it belonged to one person or several people, or even whether they were human. They had been digested very thoroughly, and not a single piece of meat was left.

Then, an exquisite square box made of black and silver, and two gorgeous pistols with strange shapes, lay quietly in the fish intestines.

Fu Qinghai picked up these three items from the sticky intestinal fluid, held them in his hands and kept looking at them. The transparent mucus kept dripping. The three items were wrapped in fish intestines for a long time and still looked as exquisite as new.

Fu Qinghai turned back to the tank and asked:

"What is this?"

Chen Xinlu and Jiang Yixia were equally confused.

Only Li Xingxian looked at the square box in Fu Qinghai's hand, his eyes suddenly widened, and he said in a trembling voice:

"That's... that's... the phylactery of the lich!"

"What?"

When Li Xingxian said this, Chen Xinlu was also surprised.

Fu Qinghai raised his head:

"Are you sure?"

As one of the classic settings of the lich, a high-level undead creature, Fu Qinghai had of course heard of the "life box".

And if you think about it carefully, this setting originally came from the ancient IP of Dungeons & Dragons, and was later used in Western fantasy worldviews such as Warcraft, World of Warcraft, and Heroes of Might and Magic.

No wonder Li Xingxian recognized it at the first sight.

Li Xingxian nodded vigorously:

"I am very sure that this is the lich's life box. The shell is made of black iron and mithril, with necromancy runes and mystical patterns on it. This is a standard lich's life box."

No matter in which Western fantasy world view the setting is, the life box binds the soul of the lich. As long as the life box is not broken, the lich will not be destroyed. Conversely, the lich must also hide his life box and not be found by the enemy.

"That's interesting."

Fu Qinghai tossed the square box in his hand.

"Whose reincarnation's life box is this?"

None of the four had an answer to this question.

"Then what about these two pistols... Oh my god, why don't these pistols even have magazines?"

Fu Qinghai was shocked when he picked up the pistol.

One is jet black and the other is silver-white. The gun bodies are gorgeous and exquisite like works of art. The appearance is similar to the Desert Eagle. The grip is designed to be twisted and sharp, and the entire grip is integrated. This shape of grip naturally has no magazine. Fu Qinghai tried to pull the trigger, but the bolt made a blank sound and no bullet was fired.

"What is it? Crafts? Toys?"

Fu Qinghai felt puzzled.

Normally, reincarnationists would not spend points to assimilate useless toys, and anything that can withstand the corrosion of a sea monster's digestive tract should not be an ordinary item.

Unable to figure it out, Fu Qinghai could only check the sea monster's body again. He found nothing else. After completing the virus disinfection process, the four returned to the tank compartment.

"Boom…"

The engine roars and we are back on the road.

…

Inside the carriage, Li Xingxian held the life box in his hand, his delicate little face wrinkled, as if he was puzzled.

"What's wrong?"

Fu Qinghai turned around and saw her expression and couldn't help asking.

"The lich is very strong."

Li Xingxian frowned and said,

"Whether in the DND universe or other Western fantasy universes, liches are extremely powerful high-level undead spirits. How could the precious life box...how could it appear in the belly of a sea monster?"

"Perhaps he hid the phylactery there on purpose. The ocean is so vast and sea monsters are everywhere that no one can find it."

Jiang Yixia curled his lips and interrupted.

Li Xingxian obviously did not agree with Jiang Yixia's explanation.

"You may have forgotten one thing."

Fu Qinghai reminded:

"The Resident Evil movie universe is a pure science fiction universe. There is no magic network, no subspace, and no four elements. Any spellcaster who comes here has to rely on the infection of rules to complete the spellcasting. Even if a lich comes, it is estimated that he will not be very powerful."

When faced with this kind of pure science fiction background setting, no matter if it is a genius like Lauster or a fool like Li Xingxian, they can only throw up their hands and be helpless.

Laust can cast spells in the Warhammer 40K universe through the warp, and can rely on alchemy through the Force in the Star Wars universe, but in the Resident Evil movie universe, he can probably only do scientific research and experiments honestly.

"That's true."

Li Xingxian felt quite convinced by Fu Qinghai's statement.

"Come to think of it, we haven't eaten yet."

Jiang Yixia reminded.

"That sea monster is so disgusting, and the zombie fish lice make me lose my appetite."

Chen Xinlu said with a look of disgust.

Fu Qinghai glanced outside the car and saw that it was getting dark.

"I'll find a suitable place and cook."

…

The sunset in the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun.

Tanks and armored vehicles stopped at the top of the hill, casting long black silhouettes on the gentle slope.

A waterproof felt cloth was set up on the front of the car, and Fu Qinghai placed an iron pot on the charcoal, preparing to make a protein bar and mushroom soup.

"Where did the mushrooms come from?"

When Jiang Yixia took out half a basket of mushrooms, Fu Qinghai was quite surprised.

"Have you forgotten the mushrooms collected by the reincarnation named Tevez in Shelter 109?"

Fu Qinghai took it and looked at it. It was copper-green in color like pig liver, and all the mushrooms were a little wilted.

"I'm not a fungus taxonomy major, so I can't tell whether it's edible or not."

Fu Qinghai said.

"If that person has picked them, they must be edible."

Jiang Yixia said nonchalantly.

Fu Qinghai picked up a piece of mushroom and took a bite, then said,

"The taste detection nerves didn't sound an alarm, so I can eat it. I don't know if you can eat it."

"Oh, stop worrying about it. Improve the food. I'm tired of eating protein bars and compressed biscuits every day."

Li Xingxian waved his hand and said.

The crops produced in Shelter No. 79 all contain fungal genome components. Except for those fungal people, normal people dare not eat them. Fu Qinghai and others only took the unopened emergency food brought in from outside by the perfect humans, such as compressed biscuits.

Okay.

Since everyone said so, Fu Qinghai didn't hesitate. After the water boiled, he poured the mushrooms, protein bars, compressed biscuits and salt into the pot.

Then he found a revolver pressed in the pile of mushrooms. Fu Qinghai exclaimed "Huh", took it out, held it in his palm and played with it.

"What happened again?"

Jiang Yixia leaned over and saw Fu Qinghai examining the revolver in his hand, and explained:

"This is the weapon used by the reincarnationist. It's just an ordinary revolver. It can't even penetrate my skin after I transformed. Is there anything special about it?"

What puzzled Jiang Yixia was that even the weapons of the dead Spartan warrior, the MA5B assault rifle and the M41-SPNKR rocket launcher, were looked down upon by Fu Qinghai, who said that they were too weak and not suitable for Space Marines.

She gave it to Fu Qinghai excitedly, thinking he would like it.

Why is he interested in a small, broken pistol?

"Nothing, I just happen to know the model and where it came from."

Fu Qinghai threw the pistol aside.

The single-pump revolver, a simple wasteland weapon from Fallout: New Vegas, is nothing special.

Everyone enjoyed the rare mushroom soup, packed up their utensils and returned to the carriage to prepare to spend the night.

Night falls quietly.

Qingming is in charge of the night shift, and AI doesn't need to rest.

After driving a tank all day, Fu Qinghai didn't want to meditate tonight. He just wanted to have a good sleep.

So I just lay down on the cold floor.

The three women also went to bed early.

Under the regulation of the rigidity node, Fu Qinghai fell into deep sleep in one second.

…

The full moon hangs high in the sky and the night is quiet.

The only sound in the carriage was the sound of even breathing.

Chen Xinlu had a dream.

A very vivid dream.

She dreamed that Fu Qinghai suddenly became beastly and wanted to force himself on her. Chen Xinlu would rather die than submit and fought back desperately, but how could a weak mage like her fight against a strong Space Marine? He pressed her against the inner wall of the carriage with his body, and her cheek was pressed tightly against his chest, like an immovable wall. His breath was hot and scorching, spraying between her neck and making her body go limp.

Chen Xinlu couldn't resist, and finally could only half-heartedly obey Fu Qinghai, allowing him to spread her legs apart and put them on both sides of his strong waist...

Chen Xinlu suddenly woke up.

The carriage was pitch dark.

She found that she had leaned against Fu Qinghai without knowing when, with her hands tightly around Fu Qinghai's neck and her thighs tightly clamped around his thighs.

"!?"

Chen Xinlu propped herself up instantly.

As a result, Fu Qinghai was also woken up.

Fu Qinghai opened his eyes and realized that his left hand was around Jiang Yixia's shoulder. The woman was sleeping soundly with her head resting on his arm and her thighs on his waist. Li Xingxian was sleeping soundly on her chest, and her clothes were soaked with her saliva.

Chen Xinlu sat slumped on his right with a dazed look on his face.

Fu Qinghai was a little confused.

For a moment I didn't understand what was happening.

Fu Qinghai reached out and lifted Li Xingxian up, put him aside, patted Jiang Yixia on the back, and said,

"Hey, wake up."

Jiang Yixia twisted his body, hummed in dissatisfaction, hooked his elbows around Fu Qinghai's neck, and squeezed his head into his neck again.

Until Chen Xinlu called softly: "Axia."

Jiang Yixia finally woke up, with her messy hair draped over her shoulders. She propped herself up crookedly, rubbed her eyes with one hand, and asked,

"What's wrong?"

…

Fu Qinghai walked back from the dimensional gate.

He had just used the dimensional gate to return to the ruins of Shelter No. 79 and retested the remaining mushrooms in the underground laboratory. The conclusion was: slightly toxic, mentally damaging.

"It's a kind of hallucinogenic mushroom. It doesn't have much effect."

Fu Qinghai said casually.

Astartes' deep sleep only takes four hours, and you won't let me sleep in peace even for four hours?

Fu Qinghai silently repeated "No need for passion, calm mind" three times in his mind and thought to himself, please don't mess with me anymore.

Chen Xinlu stared at Jiang Yixia's profile.

I thought to myself: Axia, you are so scheming.

You are the Hulk.

Xingxian and I will be poisoned if we eat mushrooms. Can you, the Hulk, also be poisoned?

......

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