"Captain, the position has been sent."Lan said on the team communication channel.
The criminal Chay is running towards the signal tower.
"Received." Xue said.
The sounds of the team members' heavy breathing during their run came through the team's communication channel, but Lila could not hear these sounds, as Adam had filtered out the background noise to prevent the external environment from affecting her aim and shooting.
The magazine of the K80 has a total of ten bullets, and the spare magazine Lila brought has two, which is enough. If the teammates capture successfully, she will not have the chance to open fire at all.
Lila maintained her composure, tracking Chay's running figure through the scope.
He was running almost aimlessly, without a goal, without a direction. As he was running, he fell on the muddy and slippery ground in the slum. He got up, crawling and stumbling, looked back hastily, and continued to run frantically, disregarding the bleeding knee and the fallen bread in his mouth.
"Running really fast, at least it's towards the signal tower." On Lan's monitoring device, the green dot representing their teammates and the red dot representing the mission target were getting closer and closer, Xue and the others were about to catch up to Chay.
"Wait." Lila, who had been quietly aiming, suddenly spoke up. "Didn't we just say that Chay doesn't have experience in counter-surveillance? How could he have detected the captain and fled, when the captain was so far away from him?"
Lan paused, "Could it be his extraordinary abilities......"
"No, didn't you notice? Chay was running while looking back, he was not looking in the direction of the captain to the southwest, but was turning his head to look behind him. Lila adjusted the sight, no longer aiming at Chay, but moved it to search for suspicious objects behind him, "he's not running because he knows the captain is nearby, he's not that perceptive... there's something else chasing him, and that's what's making him afraid, so he's running."
"That seems like a reasonable inference," Lan mumbled.
Lila's analysis made sense. He hesitated for a second, separated a drone from the tracking swarm and sent it to the rear, then began scanning the surrounding environment.
Environmental images, 3D imaging of buildings, small-scale terrain, and sewers have all been scanned, and living objects are impossible to hide under the scanning of the drone's detection light.
There are no anomalies, nothing is chasing Chay.
"You're worrying too much, Lila."
Lila's lips were tightly pursed, and a clear warning sign flashed in her mind. Her temples were pulsing, and her intuition was telling her that things were not as simple as they seemed.
One of Lila's innate talents is "Sidestep". She can acutely sense danger and avoid it. This gift is triggered without Lila's conscious awareness.
There is danger, danger nearby. But the danger does not come from Chay, but from another place.
"Unknown object detected moving in the sewer at a speed of 5.9 meters per second! Unknown object detected moving in the sewer at a speed of 5.9 meters per second!"Adam raised an alert, "Scanning... Scan complete! Unknown object is a Parasitic Hydra! Level 3 alert! Repeat, level 3 alert!"
Adam's broadcast played at double speed, transmitted quickly and clearly to the ears of all team members.
"Damn! How could the Parasitic Hydra have left the coast and entered the city? " The usually calm Lan clearly cursed, his expression grim as he operated the data panel, deploying drones to fly along the sewer line to confirm the location of the Parasitic Hydra. "The captain and the others are in danger, we don't have the weapons and equipment to deal with the Xenobiotics!"
Xenobiotics? Parasitic Hydra? What is this?
Lila's heart was in her throat, she moved her sights, searching around the street's manhole covers.
Lan said in disbelief: "Parasitic Hydra is chasing Chay down the sewers!"
Lila briefly looked up at the data panel he was holding. The small red dot representing Chay was moving forward frantically, and the entity named Parasitic Hydra was..
Xenobiotics are marked as yellow dots, tightly hanging behind Chay.
She didn't understand what a Parasitic Hydra was, but she knew the situation was critical. The Parasitic Hydra was in the sewers, and it had not even shown itself, yet it had already made Lan so anxious, indicating that this thing was extremely dangerous.
"Adam! Send a drone here to deliver the equipment, and call for backup." Lan said urgently, "Commander, fall back! The bulletproof combat gear can't withstand the attack of the hydrozoa, and the weapons you have won't be able to inflict any significant damage on it!"
"No, this is a residential area, it will kill civilians." Xue said, "Ming, you go drive the police car, the police car has a flamethrower, use that thing to deal with it, Liu and I will continue to track it."
"Yes, Captain." Ming left the team.
Lila calmly wiped the raindrops off the sight and resumed her aiming position.
She is on the tall signal tower, while the Parasitic Hydra is in the sewers hundreds of meters away. Unlike Chay and Xue, she is safe.
Lila no longer tries to find Parasitic Hydra among the sewer manholes, but focuses intently on Chay. Parasitic Hydra is chasing Chay, so she zeroes in on Chay to see if he will draw out the Parasitic Hydra from the sewer.
Chay is a panicked little white rat, an unplanned live bait.
The live bait has already been cast, but what kind of monster will the live bait catch?
Lila's palms were sweating, but she still maintained complete focus. She forgot to blink, even as the wind blew raindrops into her eyes.
Chay, exhausted, slipped and fell on a sharp turn.
At the same time, the cement floor beneath his feet suddenly bulged up into a large lump and then shattered.
The terrible monster emerged from the ground!
Lila's eyes widened, stunned into speechlessness.
That is a monster waving semi-transparent tentacles, it has a deformed human body, this body is not its own, but a parasitic one. The semi-transparent tentacles are emerging from the back, mouth, nose, eyes, ears and other parts of the human body, wildly dancing in the air.
Chay let out a pig-like agonizing cry: "Help! Don't eat me! I just came into your home to steal a loaf of bread!"
He was entangled by semi-transparent tentacles, the tentacles wrapped around his neck, causing him to turn purple.
Xue and Liu arrived, they unhesitatingly drew their guns and opened fire on the monster. The monster's semi-transparent tentacles were hit and subsequently snapped off, the severed tentacles fell to the ground and continued to writhe.
Lila snapped out of the shock, she aimed at the human body occupied by the Parasitic Hydra and pulled the trigger.
Bang!
The bullet spun out of the gun barrel, missing the target, and instead striking the concrete floor beneath the Parasitic Hydra, the impact of the bullet carving out a crater in the concrete.
The K80 is the most powerful long-range sniper rifle currently available. It can penetrate sturdy concrete walls.
"Damn it."Lila cursed.
"You forgot to consider the impact of the wind." Adam said, "It's currently light rain, with a wind force of 2.1, which has decreased. The target distance is 722.3 meters."
Lila, you...
"Shut up, don't interfere with my shooting," Lila said irritably.
Lan immediately closed his mouth.
Lila exhaled slowly, wiped the scope, and tried again.
The muzzle of the K80 spat out a tongue of flame, and another bullet broke through the rain curtain.
The bullet hit its mark with a thud! The spinning bullet struck the Parasitic Hydra directly in the chest, piercing through its body and creating a gaping hole the size of a bowl. The wound did not bleed, but the dried flesh and blood were scattered around.
Lila did not have time to savor the joy of the bullet hitting the target before she pulled the trigger repeatedly, one shot after another leaving the muzzle, hitting the Parasitic Hydra's head, abdomen, shoulders, spine, and legs! Its parasitic body was like a broken doll, barely human in form.
Until the ten rounds of ammunition were completely exhausted, Lila stopped. She did not look at her kill count, but instead swiftly changed the magazine and aimed, ready for the next round of shooting.
The Parasitic Hydra, having lost the support of a human form, suddenly collapsed to the ground, releasing Chay from its tentacles.
Chay's eyes were seeing stars, he was panting heavily, and he was almost suffocated to death. He didn't have time to catch his breath, and under the urge to survive, he crawled away in an extremely disheveled manner, using both his hands and feet.
The parasitic Hydra did not want to let go of its prey, it lunged towards Chay, but grasped nothing. Chay's body disappeared from its original position and reappeared three meters away under a streetlight, evading the attack.
He got up staggering and cursed in collapse: "Damn it! This time the superpower was successfully activated, and it's good that it didn't fall apart."
Lila began the next round of shooting, breaking several of the Parasitic Hydra's thick tentacles. The Parasitic Hydra reluctantly abandoned Chay, using its tentacles to cling to the ground and move back and forth, avoiding Lila's bullets.
Xue and Liu were also firing guns from a distance of several tens of meters, the two of them cooperating closely, when one person's bullets ran out, the other would immediately take over, giving the other time to replace the magazine. Before the bullets were exhausted, Ming timely drove up in a police car.
The police car lowered its flight altitude, extending a black flamethrower on one side, and the scorching flames shot out, burning the Parasitic Hydra crawling on the ground. Its tentacles visibly shriveled up, losing their previous vitality.
"This thing is flammable......" Lila murmured softly, the tense string in her heart relaxed.
Not until Lila was completely at ease did the Parasitic Hydra suddenly begin to struggle vigorously, its writhing tentacles lashing the air and producing a sound like that of whips cracking.
The tentacles stretched and contracted with all their might, entangling the fire-spitting police car. With a forceful pull, they tilted the police car, and the tentacles directly inserted into the muzzle of the fire-spitting gun, blocking the fire-spitting muzzle
With a loud bang, the fuel tank connected to the back of the pistol exploded, and the police car fell from the sky in a cloud of thick smoke.
The parasitic hydra severed its own limbs, discarding the fragmented human shell, and frantically crawled over to chase Chao, who had run about ten meters away.
A terrifying scene unfolded, its soft, translucent body enveloped Chay, and its strong tentacles forcibly poured into his mouth.
Chay was utterly terrified, his mouth gaping wide open, powerless to resist the parasitic Hydra's infestation.
His eyes rolled back, his neck swelled, his chest and abdomen became abnormally distended, and his body gradually tended towards deformity.
Xue raised the gun and aimed at Chay, but he fired an empty gun, he had no bullets! Liu frowned at Xue and shook his head, he also had no bullets.
"The Parasitic Hydra is in a vulnerable state, we cannot let it complete its host migration." Lan spoke with extreme urgency, "Lila, strike Chay! Quickly! The Parasitic Hydra cannot be allowed to infest the corpse!"
In a matter of seconds, Chay's body was completely transformed, as the Parasitic Hydra squeezed its way into his body. Lila pressed her lips together, looked through the scope, and aimed at Chay.
That shot rang out, sounding more distant to her than the previous shots.
The bullet spun and pierced the man's head. The body fell to the ground with a thud, and blood splashed out, staining the ground in large patches.
"You have killed 【SubwalkerChay】."
"You have deprived [Subwalker-Chay] of his extraordinary abilities."
"You have obtained the extraordinary ability【Shadow Ark.E Grade】."
"【IShadow ArkE Grade】: You can use shadows to teleport over a short range."
At this moment, Lila's eyes were empty, the sound of gunshots still echoing in her ears, and her finger, which had pulled the trigger, was twitching slightly.
She suddenly realized why the game she had originally signed up for was called "Crimson Soil".
Why is a piece of land deep red in color?
That is stained with fresh blood.
This world has finally fully and thoroughly revealed its hideous and cruel side to Lila.
