Making a quick decision, Lin An immediately contacted Mo Ling.
"Mo Ling, pay attention to the group of students returning to the car. If there is anything abnormal, report it to me immediately."
"Never let them get close to you."
Some of the students returning to the car must have been parasitized by spider eggs.
The problem is that Lin An is not sure what the conditions for mutation after parasitism are.
He could only speculate:
1. Severe injury or a significant decline in physical fitness will induce spider eggs to hatch, resulting in death.
2. The parasitic target transforms into a mutant after death, or specific conditions are required to transform into a mutant.
Judging from the information currently available, it is highly likely that certain conditions will be required.
After all, the human-faced crab we encountered seemed to possess the characteristics of both mutated creatures and mutants, like a combination of the two things.
After a simple spider egg hatches, it should only cause the death of the parasite.
All of these students are from the Physical Education Institute, and their physical fitness is not bad.
As long as there are no accidents in a short period of time, the spider eggs in the body should not hatch for the time being, and everyone should be safe.
Therefore, the most urgent task is to figure out what the conditions are for mutation after being parasitized.
After thinking for a moment, Lin An continued to chat with Mo Ling in the team and added:
"If we don't return after three hours."
"Then stop them from returning to the base. If necessary..."
"Kill them."
I had considered that he might be delayed for some time and not be able to go back with the students. After all, the mission clearly mentioned that this was a prerequisite mission.
No one knows what changes will happen next.
The base lacks food, so they can go back first.
But it's different now.
A group of carriers parasitized by spider eggs. Once the spider eggs return to the academy and hatch...
At the rate of reproduction of marrow-sucking spiders, within a few days everyone in the entire base will be infected and become food for the marrow-sucking spiders.
By then, after thousands of people have been parasitized, the number of hatched marrow-sucking spiders will reach a terrifying level.
Not only will the base be destroyed, but the entire Linjiang City will face a new nightmare.
"Copy that, I can summon the mutants to kill them."
Mo Ling calmly looked at the mountain of corpses above his head, his voice cold.
.....
In the dim aquatic area, water dripped.
"Brother Lin! There are two headless corpses here!"
Gao Tian was holding the arrow, and the other end of the arrow was inserted into the human-faced crab that had only one head left.
He carefully compared the wounds on the head and corpse, his eyes solemn.
Lin An lowered his head and looked at the two headless female corpses at his feet. The work clothes they wore came from inside the mall.
The blood next to the corpse was fresh and the wounds were broken and irregular, as if it had been eaten by a large number of insects.
There were some candies scattered beside the body of a relatively petite and thin body...
There are also half-shelled crabs that have rotted and softened.
Crab?
spider?
It was certain that the deceased was a companion brought by Wang Teng. After all, he had just died and could only be a survivor from outside.
I was very hungry and ate on the spot.
The candies scattered on the ground also proved Lin An's previous guess. Upon closer inspection, there were many fine red dots on the outer packaging of the candies.
Those are the traces left by spider eggs.
Lin An frowned slightly and bent down to pick up the crab shell on the ground.
The crab shell in my hand is very thin, and there are some signs of corrosion on the blue-gray shell.
As if he had thought of something, he stepped directly over the body and headed towards the freezer behind the aquatic area.
Generally, supermarket staff will stay there to help customers introduce products.
There may be a ledger with purchase records.
"Gao Tian, go check the purchase time of each batch of aquatic products below!"
"good!"
The two of them acted separately.
Gao Tian heard the sound and came to the aquatic product box and carefully checked the label card hanging on the box.
2032.11.06(Blackfish)
2032.11.07.(grass carp)
....
2032.11.10.(Linjiang hairy crabs)
Gao Tian wrote down all the information. All the fish in the aquatic tank had died of lack of oxygen, with their upturned bellies floating in the water.
There are a lot of crabs, and there is a live area and a pool for guests to catch crabs.
There are also 4 breeding cabinets placed side by side in the aquatic area.
Two minutes later, Lin An lowered his head and looked at the white account book in his hand. The purchase records of the past six months were scrawled on it.
Nothing unusual...
After writing down all the information, he caught a glimpse of the red hanging card that fell to the ground.
front.
[It’s a good season to eat crabs, Linjiang hairy crabs are newly launched]
reverse side.
"Buy one, get one free, full of crab roe! Fatter than in previous years!"
On the hanging card soaked in sewage on the ground, there is a line of small words in the lower right corner: Activity start date - November 1, 2032 (the right to interpret the activity belongs to **Le Company)
Fatter than in previous years?
Lin An looked thoughtful, then suddenly raised his head and ordered Gao Tian.
"Gao Tian! Find the crabs and other aquatic products whose purchase date is before November!"
.....
2 minutes later.
"Brother Lin, here are 4 crabs and 3 black fish."
"The goods will be purchased on September 28th, October 26th, November 1st, and November 3rd."
On the floor, four blue-gray dead crabs of the same size were placed separately, and three black fish were placed under the dead crabs.
Lin An's eyes were filled with light blue mist, and he bent down to touch the crabs purchased on October 5th.
"Dip, hairy crab."
"Item information: Dead crab, it will cause diarrhea after eating, and it will cause slight poisoning."
Hairy crab? Linjiang hairy crab?
Gao Tian also squatted on the ground, playing with the dead and smelly crabs back and forth, and asked with some confusion.
"Brother Lin, is there anything unusual?"
"Aren't they all crabs? Why do we have to get them from every month?"
Lin An shook his head and spoke slowly:
"You get very little information when you encounter an object, just a basic name."
"It looks almost the same."
"But in fact, after I used my skills to detect them, I found that these crabs are not the same."
Ordinary players only receive very little information after touching an item, which is generally no different from what they can see with their eyes.
But Lin An is different. He can obtain additional information after opening the Eye of Judgment.
Lin An rubbed the crab shell from beside the corpse, compared it with the crabs on the ground before November, and then slowly said:
"Crabs after November are not from Linjiang, but from unknown areas."
In order to confirm his guess, Lin An continued to touch the remaining crabs purchased in November.
It was exactly as he suspected.
Every crab starting in November has psychic contamination and virus residue.
After pondering for a moment, Lin An continued to speak:
"These crabs from unknown areas are contaminated, causing them to be infected with viruses and psychically corroded after being eaten."
"I guess that the two corpses before were infected with spider eggs and ate contaminated crabs before they were alive, causing mutations due to the zombie virus and psychic contamination."
"Brother Lin?"
Gao Tian suddenly asked.
"I understand what you mean."
"This batch of crabs is contaminated, right?"
There was a flash of fear in his eyes, as if he had thought of something terrible.
"Is it possible..."
"The entire Linjiang was...polluted before and after the apocalypse broke out?!"
"And not because these crabs come from other unknown areas!?"
Linjiang, one of the nine major rivers in China, spans seven provinces from west to east, with a drainage area of 719,000 square kilometers.
[The author has something to say]
This chapter has been revised many times but I am not satisfied with it, so the update is a little slower. I still hope to present good works to everyone instead of hastily. Today there are still 6 chapters updated.
