Chapter 24 Juvenile Body

The pungent smell of gunpowder mixed with the fishy stench made Zhou Chu, who had an overly sensitive sense of smell, extremely irritated.

He kicked over a dead bug monster and cursed, "How disgusting! It's weird enough that there are flesh worms growing in the corpse, but there are even these black hard-shelled bugs. How many bugs are there in this hole?"

Feng Ling squatted in front of an insect monster and looked at it carefully.

The front half of this big insect's body is like a centipede, with a pair of very strong and sharp palatal teeth and a centipede-like blocky carapace. It does not have as many legs as a centipede, with a total of 12 legs in two rows.

The back half of the torso drags a long and flat abdomen, which is slightly darker in color, has a thin outer layer of carapace and is relatively soft. There are also two small hooks at the tail of the abdomen, which can help the insect body to be more stable when climbing rock walls.

She had also seen this hook-shaped structure on white fleshworms.

Feng Ling thought for a moment and said, "The white ones are probably juveniles, and the bluish-black ones with carapaces are metamorphosis. I don't know how many are left in the cave. Let's hurry up. To kill monsters, we have to kill them while they're juveniles, otherwise they'll be very troublesome when they grow up."

Feng Ling glanced at Huangfu Miaomiao's strange expression and raised his eyebrows. He asked, "Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something on my face?"

Huangfu Miaomiao was startled and quickly shook her head, "Nothing, nothing!"

Huangfu Miaomiao was always nervous, so Feng Ling didn't think much about it and turned to ask Zhou Chu: "Deputy Captain, what should we do now?"

"The juveniles really need to be killed as soon as possible, but there are too many cave entrances here. If we just walk randomly, we will definitely get lost." Zhou Chu reached into Qin Liang's backpack and took out a black square box, complaining, "I didn't know the situation in the cave would be so complicated when I came down. Fortunately, Lao Su prepared this in advance."

"What is this?" Feng Ling asked curiously.

"The most advanced cave detector."

Zhou Qi kicked away a few insect corpses to make some space, placed the black square box steadily on the ground, and then opened the lid.

Inside is a pull-out LCD screen, the size of an ordinary A4 paper, with complex buttons of different colors below.

"When scientists designed it, why didn't they make the operation method simpler?" Zhou Chu pressed the button a few times in frustration, but the instrument did not respond.

Qin Liang whispered beside him: "You need to activate the small flying box below first."

Zhou Chu suddenly realized it, slapped his forehead, and then started to work as fiercely as a tiger.

A metal object with a diameter of less than 10cm popped out from the square box, and its shape resembled a ladybug.

This metal ladybug has a propeller at the bottom. After it starts up, it slowly takes off into the air. It doesn't fly very high, but hovers beside Feng Ling's knees with a buzzing sound.

Then the micro scanner on the top emitted a green laser and began to scan the cave in a circular motion.

"Alright." Zhou Chu breathed a sigh of relief. "Qin Liang, keep an eye on the monitor, and the others remain on guard."

Feng Ling leaned over and took a closer look. The picture on the monitor was divided into two parts. The upper half was a three-dimensional picture of the interior of the cave, and the lower half was data stream information that she could not understand.

Qin Liang specifically explained to her: "During the scanning process, the detector can record the temperature, humidity and other data inside the environment in real time, and can also detect living things, helping users to have a more comprehensive understanding of the cave situation."

"Advanced~" Feng Ling stood up and asked Zhou Chu, "How much is this thing?"

Zhou Chu sneered and glanced at her with pride, "It's not for sale within the Supervision Bureau, so there's no price."

Feng Ling felt a little disappointed when he heard this.

In the past, she would never have had any idea about this kind of advanced high-tech, but her savings had just exceeded one million, so it was inevitable that her heart was easily aroused.

The ladybug detector flew farther and farther, and then randomly flew into a hole and disappeared. Only the image data on the monitor continued to be transmitted back.

"Deputy Captain, more than half of the ammunition has been used up. Do we need to return for resupply?" Xiao Li asked Zhou Chu.

Zhou Qi thought for a moment and said, "When the detector is done mapping, go back to the car and get some supplies."

The special forces were traveling lightly for this operation, and most of the ammunition they carried had already been used up. If there was another insect attack, they would likely face a shortage of firepower.

After thinking about this, Zhou Qi cast his eyes towards the two men hiding in the corner and said to Xiao Li, "When you go out, take these two guys with you." Xiao Li replied, "Understood."

In the corner, Brother Chao's expression was uncertain, and he seemed to want to say something.

Fang Ye beside him had a look of joy and gratitude on his face, and was obviously eager to leave here.

Brother Chao suddenly said sinisterly: "You can't go back."

Everyone looked over.

Zhou Chu ignored Brother Chao and asked Fang Ye: "What's wrong with you buddy? Is he mentally ill?"

Fang Ye was embarrassed, his eyes were a little evasive, and he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at anyone.

At this time, Brother Chao grinned again and said, "You are no match for it."

Zhou Chu was so angry at this brother Chao that he laughed. He came over and asked, "Really? Then who is this "it" you are talking about? Call it out and let's compete with it?"

Brother Chao didn't say anything, he just raised his head and looked above the cave.

Seeing this, Zhou Qi also looked up suspiciously.

Although burning sticks and other items were used to provide lighting, the top of the cave was still dim and unclear. Several dark cave entrances were distributed above everyone's heads, emitting a deep and strange atmosphere.

Zhou Chu had killed many alien species, including contaminated ones, and he was somewhat unwilling to accept the result at this moment.

He heard the familiar sound of insects crawling and tried to figure out which cave it came from, but the caves here were connected to each other, making it difficult to distinguish clearly.

He wanted to rely on his sense of smell again, but the cave was filled with a strong fishy stench and he could not smell any other scent.

The sound is getting closer.

Chi la...

Chi la...

Everyone's heart was raised, and they gripped their weapons tightly, staring at the holes with vigilance.

Finally, they saw a human face appear in the largest hole.

A rotting green human face.

It was so rotten that it was deformed, like a melted wax figure. When it opened its mouth, even the teeth fell out and fell to the ground.

Brother Chao was excited when he saw this, and took the initiative to run forward to express his loyalty: "I brought the people you wanted, look, they all have cards! As long as you stay with me, I can bring you more people!"

poof.

The human face fell off, and the head full of decay rolled to the side.

Brother Chao was hit directly and stood there in a daze with his head tilted back.

In his vision, the huge palatal teeth opened, like the claws of a claw machine falling from the sky, suddenly approaching! Instantly, darkness fell in front of him!
Zhou Yu was shocked: "Shoot!"

The special forces members shot quickly!
But the insect monster was extremely fast. It shrank back into the hole the moment it bit Brother Chao’s head, and all the bullets hit Brother Chao!

His body was hanging in the hole above, bleeding profusely from the bullet wound, and fell down two seconds later.

The neck was completely broken, and a headless body fell to the ground, spraying blood.

Chao's voice echoed in the cave——

"Damn it...you killed...my children...haha...you all...deserve to die..."