Chapter 26 Light is the prelude to victory
"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Seeing this face again, Fang Ye was so frightened that his soul flew out of his body, and he desperately cried for help: "Help! Help me!!!"

A monster with a human face was lurking in the darkness, but the people standing above the pit were limited in their vision and could only see Fang Ye yelling and Cao Hongyi shooting continuously.

Just when everyone was hesitating whether to go down to rescue people, Feng Ling jumped down with a flashlight -

The flashlight swept across a huge creature, Feng Ling's heart beat faster, and he felt excited for the first time in a long time!
Unable to wait to see the target clearly, he swung two bone blades at her the moment she landed!
Piercing people's faces, piercing into shells, and cutting muscles, these real feelings made her feel numb in her heart and she felt so good!
Like a lion that had tasted success, she wanted to press on after her first hit, but the monster quickly crawled out of the light range and disappeared from her sight.

Feng Ling swept the flashlight around, but saw nothing except a few dark holes.

Escaped into the cave again?
She frowned and looked at the bloodstains on the ground. Unlike the insects just now, the blood of this monster was bright red.

She heard the sound of something heavy falling behind her, and turned around to see that it was Zhou Chu who jumped down.

Then Xiao Li and Qin Liang also slid down with ropes tied to their backs, and finally it was Huangfu Miaomiao, who followed carefully behind the special forces members.

"Why are you coming down too?" Feng Ling walked over and asked.

Qin Liang wiped the sweat off his face, raised the black box in his arms and said, "I just checked with the detector, and I can get out from the bottom."

Xiao Li continued, "And our lighting equipment is basically in Lao Cao's bag. Even if we leave it up there, we still need sufficient lighting for our operations."

Zhou Yu frowned and asked Cao Hongyi: "How are you? Can you still walk?"

Cao Hongyi sat on the ground, holding his calf and shaking his head, "I can't move it. It must be broken."

Zhou Chu frowned even deeper. There was no signal in the cave, so he couldn't seek help from outside. It was still a long way to get out. What should he do?
"You guys go first, don't worry about me." Cao Hongyi didn't want to be a burden to the team, so he said, "I can find a smaller hole to hide in, and those bugs may not find me."

"Hide?" Zhou Chu cursed angrily, "Do you think you'll be fine if you hide? If this contaminant can't be eliminated, the worst result will be that heavy weapons will be used for range bombing! If you stay here, you'll be buried alive!"

Cao Hongyi moved his lips, lowered his head and said nothing.

Every member of the special forces team regards the mission as more important than his own life. Now that he is a burden to the team, he feels worse than anyone else.

Zhou Chu probably understood the mood of his teammates. After yelling twice, he became silent and angrily.

Xiao Li silently put down her bag and took out the emergency medical kit to treat Cao Hongyi's leg injury.

Qin Liang also put down the detector in his arms and packed up the remaining lighting tools one by one, "... there are still four burning sticks, two headlamps, and two small flashlights."

Zhou Qi said irritably, "Is this all that's left?"

Qin Liang explained in a low voice: "I still have some burning sticks in my backpack...but I just dropped them into that big cave."

Zhou Qi was even more annoyed after hearing this, and waved his claws in the air in frustration. After entering the cave, there were so many problems, how could he continue this mission? !
After he got upset, he was not happy with everything. He saw Qin Liang's back was still bleeding and started to curse: "Don't you know your back is bleeding?! Do you expect me to carry you out after the bleeding stops?!"

Qin Liang was stunned.

In order to protect the expensive detector, he was bitten by an insect just now. Although the pain was unbearable at the time, he was so busy retreating that he forgot about the injury on his back and now he doesn't feel any pain at all.

Xiao Li threw a small spray bottle over and said in a deep voice: "It's more troublesome if it doesn't hurt. It may be a paralysis type toxin. There is no antidote now. Let's spray disinfectant first."

Qin Liang's face was tense and he stopped talking. He took off his shirt and struggled to spray disinfectant on his back.

The contaminated body hid in the cave and refused to come out. The team lost supplies and two people were injured. Now the morale is at a low point.

Even Feng Ling couldn't help feeling a little depressed——

The terrain here is too favorable for the pollutant, and the lighting conditions are poor. She suspects that even if the pollutant appears again, she may not be able to get rid of it.

How to do?
Xiao Li said, "Deputy Captain, I think lighting is the key to this mission. When using flashlights and headlamps, the light is too strong and will create shadows, resulting in partial blind spots in vision. There will also be a halo effect when moving, which is very unfavorable for combat. At present, there is a serious shortage of burning sticks. If we enter a large cave, we must light at least two at a time. This means that we only have two chances to fight at most."

She took a deep breath and looked into Zhou Chu's eyes solemnly. "We only have two chances. After two chances, we must find a way out, otherwise we will be in a tough fight!"

Zhou Chu was upset. "Of course I know all this, but that guy always runs too fast! Moreover, even if I can catch up with it, I can't see it. Unless I can lead it to a place with light, I will definitely kill it!"

Feng Ling listened to their conversation and fell into deep thought.

The contaminated body appeared twice in total. The first time it bit Chao Qiangchao to death, and the second time it tried to attack Fang Ye but was stopped by her. From this it seems that the contaminated body is not as irrational as Huangfu Miaomiao said. In fact, it has a certain degree of intelligence and is good at creating opportunities.

"Is there something that you find strange?" Feng Ling said slowly after thinking, "Every time the contaminant appears, it is alone... I mean, why doesn't it attack us together with the other bugs when they attack us?"

Zhou Chu frowned and thought for a while, "It's indeed wrong. When the contaminant appeared, the insect swarm had already retreated. When the insect swarm came again, the contaminant disappeared again. It's obvious that it would have a greater chance of winning if it attacked us in the chaos. Why did it have to attack alone?"

Feng Ling thought of another detail. "If I remember correctly, when the insect swarm first appeared, almost all of them went for the lights and flashlights. At first I thought it was just the insects' tendency to move toward light, but now I think these insects may have done it on purpose, destroying our lighting equipment and putting us at a disadvantage. It was because the environment was too dark that we entered the wrong cave entrance, giving the pollutants an opportunity to take advantage of us."

"Have these bugs become spirits?" Qin Liang asked in astonishment.

Feng Ling said, "They are not ordinary bugs. They are the product of gene fusion. It is not surprising that they have intelligence. Moreover, the task prompt that Little Skeleton received said, 'Silence is the prelude to death, and light is the prelude to victory.' 'Light' is easy to understand. If there is no light in this dark environment, we really cannot win. So what does 'silence' mean?"

Feng Ling paused. She could feel that all her chaotic thoughts were gradually coming together, pointing to an extremely clear answer.

Everyone looked at her.

Zhou Chu couldn't help but ask: "What does tranquility mean?"