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Chapter 177: Chapter 175 - Carnivore

*(mood song: "Starset - CARNIVORE")

Sarah quickly suited up and picked up her weapons and ammo, taking also the rest of the clear fluid and some meat from the kitchen, enough to last a couple of days if she distrubuted it accordingly, the thing that worried her the most was the oxygen supply though, it was really hard to breathe without her spacesuit on, the air was too dense.

Rose: [hurry up and have your weapons loaded]

Sarah: "what if I wait inside the spaceship? if I hide in the bottom they might not find me..."

Rose: [and what if they just blow it up? are you gonna risk your life on that?]

Sarah was pensitive for a moment and sighed: "then what about those mutations? the lizardmen seem to breathe just fine..."

Rose: [oh well, if you kill some and chew their lungs raw sure, I'm sure a quick mutation will be triggered, but... are you able to do that?]

Sarah: "...maybe... I don't know, but what I know is I don't wanna die... if it takes eating a huge talking lizard... then so be it"

Rose: [haha~ don't worry, I'm sure it will taste just like chicken~]

Sarah: "really?"

Rose: [Nah, it will be.... like chewing a tire, you might break a teeth if you do so too fast, also I suggest you to eat their enzyme vesiculae, that would allow you to make vitamins, you will need it to avoid suffering from scurvy]

Sarah: "ugh... fine, I will hunt some huge chickens... thats all..."

Rose: [Are you trying to convince yourself? just do it, no need to feel pity for those bastards~]

Sarah got annoyed: "can you just shut up? I've never killed a living being out of simulations before, its a big deal to me"

Rose: [jeez fine, just so you know, there seemed to be creatures living on the hangar, mostly wall huggers and other Erik hasn't named yet in human terms, they should be choking to death now, so it could be an easy kill]

Sarah chuckled: "wall huggers? what a lame name..."

Sarah exited the submarine through a hatch at the bottom, and machinegun on hand jumped three meters down, getting her feet instantly to her knees in deep sticky mud.

Sarah looked around, and other than the rusty spaceship she had just exited, she could see lots of creatures struggling on the mud around, from eel like creatures with mouths full of sharp teeth, to what appeared like moving rocks.

Sarah: "what are the wall huggers? are they dangerous?"

Rose: [oh, I thought you wanted me to shut up? where did that reverence from when you though of me as a god went?]

Sarah: "I just... you talk so casually and friendly that I just got used to it I guess, I apologise oh mighty one, would you allow me to-"

Rose: [pfft! I was kidding hahaha~ I don't care about formalities at all anymore... those moving rocks you see are "crabs" and wall huggers, the difference is that wall huggers are way thinner and move without using legs, but have poisonous tentacles that will easily kill you, so confirm the kills before getting close]

Sarah: "okay... and those eel like things?"

Rose: [those? they seem to be bottom feeders, probably feed on the waste that comes from the city, better avoid them, your body can't digest so many patogens and toxins for now]

Sarah: "ugh yeah I'm not gonna eat poopy eels either"

Rose: [name saved as poppy eel]

Sarah: "...fine"

Sarah moved through the dense mud, and reached a door that was now open, at the other side, a rusty bot moving on rusty metal tracks.

Sarah: "so that's how you opened the door"

Rose: [yeah, they are quite easy to hack once you have an available receiver, its only at 12% battery though, so I will turn it off, might be usefull later]

Sarah: "okay..." Sarah followed a rusty hallway and reached an equally rusty dark room, inside she could see lots of trash and organic materials stored "hmmm either a dump or a really messy organizition system..." she stopped for a moment and closed her eyes, focusing her senses on her hearing. The place was damp and dropplets of water could be heard, as well as creaking coming from the rusty walls of the floating city "I don't hear anything dangerous..."

Rose: [so? what are you gonna do? this room seems to be connected to another if you cross it]

Sarah: "the next room will also be unknown... so instead of counting on unknown things I can't control... I'm thinking setting a trap here might be better"

Rose: [hmmm what if no one comes?]

Sarah shrugged: "I don't know, everything will be safe then"

Sarah grabbed a long bone and a rock, and went back to the previous muddy room, she approached a wall hugger from behind and threw the rock near it, then she used the rock as a leverage point to flip the wall hugger using the long bone. The wall hugger flapped its poisonous tentacles in the air weakly but... *BANG! BANG! BANG!... BANG! BANG!* Sarah shot it five times, splashing blue blood all around.

Sarah: "okay... is it dead?"

Rose: [these bastards are good at pretending and have great vitality, use that bone as a hook and drag it out of the mud first]

Sarah nodded and did as told, using a side of the bone to grasp the shell of the wall hugger, and slowly drag it out of the mud, it took her a lot of effort and she was panting by the end, but the wall hugger seemed to have stopped moving, Sarah didn't buy it though. Sarah cleaned a spot on the ground of the hallway and set down her equipment, she then took out a knife and some rope, tightening the knife to the end of her long bone as an improvised spear.

Sarah then stabbed the wall hugger with the spear, the creature instantly seemed to come back to life, as the tentacles tried stabbing at the bone spear without much effect, untill finally they fell down. Sarah didnt take any chances, and used her spear to cut them off from afar, she then collected them all and set them at the entrance of the hallway.

Rose: [that's it? that's your trap?]

Sarah: "yeah, they will step on them, or at least they will have to look down, like caltrops"

Rose: [...I see, it might work if they are walking barefoot...]

Sarah's face flustered: "well they might, also I can't reach the ceiling anyway, what would you do?"

Rose: [me? I would use the repair bot to stab them from the back and then shoot the with your machine gun from the other side of the hallway when you turn around, and if they manage to exit the hallway set a container full of poopy eels that would fall on them]

Sarah: "hmm that should work too"

-- thirty minutes later --

Sarah used a plastic bag to collect tissue for consumption from the wall hugger, and dumped the rest on the floor, struggling to lift the empty shell and set it against a wall.

Sarah: "I should be able to use this as cover..."

Rose: [for an alarm they are taking their time... maybe start eating some- wait, something is comming]

Sarah jumped to cover behind the huge wall hugger shell that easily covered her entire body.

An old lizardman entered the adjacent room carrying a torch, wearing only some rotten fish leather clothes and carrying a sharpened bone at his waist. The lizardman saw the open door at the end and cursed, getting close and suddenly stabbing his foot with something. The lizardman was surprised as it saw the spikes on the floor and took out his sharp bone, advancing down the hallway as it noticed the big wall hugger shell at the end.

Rose: [shoot now!]

Sarah didn't wait and got out of cover quickly * BANG BANG BANG BANG!!!...* emptying an entire magazine on the chest and head of the old lizardman.

The lizardman slowly fell to its knees, getting stabbed by the other spikes, and finally falling to the ground.

Sarah turned on her flashlights and she could see the lizardman was mostly bones, almost no flesh on the old creature.

Sarah: "...was he already almost dead? it's dead now right?"

Rose: [he seems to have been close to death already, so yeah he's dead now]

Sarah: "why is it so thin?"

Rose: [I don't know, I can theorize lots of scenerios, either can't find enough food where it lives, others don't let him or maybe it's just sick, I would need to scan it]

Sarah got close and took her knife off her improvised spear: "well, I can find out once i dissect it"

Sarah kneeled next to the dead lizardman and started opening him up, but it barely bled: "thick blood... probably a sign of dehydration... pores in bones... could be osteoporosis..." but even then she couldn't cut the bones "huh? they are way too hard..."

Rose: [yeah, lizardmen are in the database of the muta field so they can't mutate, but their species is inherently strong, so now with a diet of bioalloy bone dust they can indeed get stronger bones, I suggest you take some finger bones and grind them to a fine powder to aid absorption]

Sarah nodded slowly and continued by opening the chest of the lizardman.

Rose: [from the chest... start with the lungs, then find a small vesicle in the area your kidneys would be, with that you will avoid scurvy, yeah those cut them off]

Sarah grabbed a small palpitating organ and ripped it off, along with the obvious lungs that were now full of blood.

Rose: [start eating, you need it to survive, then eat the stomach]

Sarah opened her helmet, the air smelled putrid there, but she put the palpitating vesicle on her mouth and ripped a piece of it, the taste was disgusting, but she was determined to survive, so she turned her disgust to anger, this fucking humanoid chickens had tried to kill her, they were nothing to her, she would devour them.

Rose was chuckling to herself as she saw those thoughts: [keep it up girl, devour it and get stronger!]

Sarah's eyes were crying and her nose became runny, the air was heavy and polluted, and the disgusting metallic taste on her mouth didn't help, she finished the vesicle and one lung as fast as she could and put on her helmet, pushing a button to the side to purgue the air and renovate it.

Sarah: "finallly... ugh... my stomach hurts..."

Rose: [well that's normal, your stomach ain't used to digest things like that, you will probably pass out soon, I suggest you pick the other lung and stomach and run to hide inside the spaceship~]

Sarah did as told and stumbled back inside the spaceship, laying down on the ample algae bed as her stomach contorted in pain, and her entire body sweated in a wild fever, her world soon became pain as she passed out.

Some hours passed, and Sarah woke up to the sound of metal hitting metal.

Rose: [you finally wake up! more weirdos came up while you slept... they ate the old man and are now tearing the spaceship and running away with pieces of it]

Sarah: "that's messed up, so they are really poor..."

Rose: [well, if they have to live in the ruinous depths of the floating city... I would assume they don't have many resources available, seeing as how they ate one of their own they are probably hungry too... oh]

Sarah: "what happened?"

Rose: [one of them stepped on the spikes and died, the others are eating it... anyway how are you feeling?]

Sarah: "Well... I think I still have a fever and everything hurts but... I'm... really hungry?"

Rose: [yeah as expected... eat then, mutating takes a lot from the body]

Sarah had stored the other lung and stomach in a plastic bag, she took them out along with some meat and the clear liquid.

She took her helmet off to start eating and noticed something strange, it wasn't as hard to breath anymore: "so magical..."

Rose: [Humans say this right? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic...]

Sarah nodded: "indeed..." and started eating, this time being inside the spaceship and with somewhat clean air she could truly taste the chewy lungs, and the rubbery stomach that she cleaned first, everything was disgusting.

She finished both organs and felt bloated again, putting on her helmet and soon passing out again.

The hours passed again, and as she woke up she could hear even more metallic sounds from outside.

Rose: [oh you finally woke up]

Sarah: "what happened?"

Rose: [nothing much, a dozen lizardmen fought to death for the engine pieces, now a small war is ocurring outside between two gangs of lizardmen]

Sarah: "...isn't that dangerous?"

Rose: [yes... but only if they see you, they would probably eat you or sell you to the upper floors, luckily you should be able to breath more or less now]

Sarah took out her helmet and indeed, it still felp weird but breathing didn't hurt now, she was really hungry though, so she drank a mouthfull of the clear liquid and all the cured meat she was carrying, so she crossed over to the kitchen and ate some more, finally going back to her room and laying down again.

-- four hours later --

Sarah woke up finally feeling energetic, and also it was eerie silent outside.

Sarah: "what happened?"

Rose: [Nothing much, they all died, there's corpses outside, bring one in and continue eating]

Sarah came out and saw the bashed and cut corpses thrown in the waste mud: "ugh no way I'm eating these covered in feces... are there any on the other room?"

Rose: [sure, there are]

Sarah: "...that's a relief... I guess..."

Sarah went to the other room and found it mostly empty, except for corpses littering the floor, some younger and others older, but all of them showing signs of malnutrition.

Rose: [Chose a younger one, easier to carry and will have fewer toxins]

Sarah nodded and cut off the head and limbs of a scrawny younger lizardman and after letting it bleed took out most of the digestive system and dumped it all except the actual stomach, and smaller parts like the saliva glands, emptying its contents on the floor, inside the stomach the fingers of other lizardmen. She carried the stomach, the rest of the chest piece, and one leg back to the spaceship.

Sarah: "it seems cannibalism is a common occurrence for them... why leave so many corpses unguarded then..."

Rose: [not everyone does whatever it takes to survive, some people just die... if enough collectors die, the rest will just wait to starve to death... maybe another group will come and collect them all, we don't know so you should prepare and continue eating, your biggest advantage over them is your ability to mutate, but if word of treasure and meat goes around and thousands of them come... then you will most likely die... so you need to become stronger]

Sarah nodded and once again took off her helmet, eating first the stomach and then the lungs, followed by the vesicle, she noticed that her stomach capacity had indeed increased in such a short time, she wasn't full yet though, so she ate some finely cut leg muscle, and finally could feel her stomach couldn't take a single extra bite, and felt that heaviness that urged her to sleep once again as she laid down on the bed after closing off her helmet.

-- three hours later --

Sarah woke up to a blaring alarm on her wrist.

*Oxygen supply less than 1%*

Sarah quickly took out a new oxygen canister and replaced it.

*Oxygen supply at 89%*

Sarah: "great, they didn't even fill them completely..."

Rose: [I think you should be able to breathe for up to an hour out of your spacesuit now, though your bloodstream might still saturate...]

Sarah: "...I will eat the heart too then..."

Rose: [and the veins]

Sarah: "...and the veins...ugh..."

Sarah cut away as she broke the thoracic cavity open, exposing the organs inside the chest, and took out the hearth, carefully cutting off connective tissue and unconnecting the veins that were connected to the hearth, taking off a good part of the vascular system out of the body.

Sarah: "...it kinda looks like roots connected to a fleshy potato..."

Rose: [don't delay and eat it]

Sarah: "yes..."

Two days went by like this, picking a corpse up, eating the key organs and muscle tissue, along with some bone dust, and then resting on the bed to mutate. Sarah's body became slightly bigger and more muscular, with an slightly wider chest cavity and wider shoulders.

Sarah looked at herself in the mirror as she effortlesly breathed the heavy air: "that was disgusting... but worth it..."

Rose: [cool right?]

Sarah: "yes... mankind would advance enormously if we had technology like this..."

Rose: [Nah... the result of allowing sentient societies the use of this technology is cannibalism and anarchy in most cases...]

Sarah: "hmmm... well... humans wouldn't... yeah, better not I guess..."

Rose: [...there was an experiment like that many eons ago on a small planet with four million individuals in a world with jungles and oceans. Once their civilisation reached the space age, the system was activated..., the end result was a being that devoured his entire world, killing and eating all lifeforms on his planet... first he ate land animals, then unknown members of his society, then famous people with different traits... soon thousands had dissappeared, there were protest for answers but he laid low for some time devouring oceanic creatures, he became a huge monster that even filtered the smallest of organisms out of the water, a couple decades went by and the oceans became mostly barren, meanwhile on land most of the population were either cannibals or vegetarians hidden on the mountains and communities... but soon wars broke out, and at the height of the war, their "president" came back and devoured them all, with no more land animals to devour even the beast had to become vegetarian, but its greed was endless, it absorbed every single miscroorganism and nutrient from the soil, developing roots that extended all over the planet, a creature the size of a continent that enveloped its entire world... all organisms combined into one, slowly devouring the entire planet as it grew..., even developing spore pods ready to launch clones of itself to space...] Rose sighed [it disgusted the ancients what that creature had become, so from then that technology was banned its use by civilisations...]

Sarah: "...I... I won't end up devouring a world right?"

Rose: [...I don't know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, that will depend on you, dont just eat everything you see and you should be fine]

Sarah: "What happened to that creature?"

Rose: [well... it's from before I was created, but according to my data.... its star was saturated with iron, causing it to collapse and blast to pieces the entire solar system]

Sarah: "Were there other experiments?"

Rose: [yes... but the temptation to eat their own was always too much, and there were always ambitious individuals that tried to take advantage of the rest or monopolized resources, so it was concluded a society can only exist when the individuals have a similar amount of power]

Sarah: "hmmm what about Erik then? he looked quite tall..."

Rose: [...well, Erik has truly improved his body, but don't worry, he did under my supervision]

Sarah: "Great... so a lab rat then?"

Rose: [No, not like-]

Sarah: "you told me your creators failed, why do you think you will succeed?"

Rose: [...my... creators watched from the side, I'm getting involved and caring for my friend... it's different]

Sarah: "okay but-"

Rose: [silent, someone is coming!]


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Chapter 178: Chapter 176 - Hiding

*(mood song: "Foo Fighters - Run")

Sarah went to a nearby window, and heavy steps could soon be heard, a light coming from the previously dark hallway.

Rose: [Run! there's a small army of fifty lizardmen coming!]

Sarah hurriedly picked up her equipment, and rifle in hand, got to the top of the boat, but it was too late.

Rose: [duck down! there's no time to run now...]

Just as Sarah laid down on the deck of the metal boat, a lizardman carrying a jagged butcher knife came through the door, on his other hand a leg chopped off from one of the corpses in the other room, and chewing on it as he entered the room and saw the boat, quickly shouting something back.

Sarah observed as fifty lizardmen armed with crossbows and metallic weapons filled the room, in the middle of them, six thin lizardmen were pushed in the direction of the spaceship, a loud rumble like laugh as they did so.

The unlucky six soon approached the spaceship and stepped on venomous spikes Sarah had hidden on the mud near the lower port entrance, quickly falling to the muddy floor as they writhed in pain.

The rest of the lizardmen became serious as they slowly approached the boat.

Rose: [you need to create a distraction and escape...]

Sarah: "How? there's way too many, and their crossbows are huge, they would skewer me with one bolt..."

Rose: [hmmm... oh, I have an idea, get ready to run~]

Sarah: "wha-"

Sarah didn't have time to process when suddenly loud music started to sound from inside the boat, the lizardmen were startled as they started to cautiously approach the port entrance.

Rose: [you picked all your equipment right?]

Sarah: "yes... what are you-"

Rose: [a diversion, a song from Erik's memories, and yes the boat will blow up once you escape, so you better run far]

Sarah: "reading memories so easily... is Erik okay with that?"

Rose: [of course~, he loves it! now chop chop, get ready to run!]

Sarah nodded as her face got serious, her body was now stronger than before, and she could breathe the heavy air, but still, the jump she had to do while carrying heavy equipment worried her, a normal human would inevitably break his legs on such a jump after all.

The confused bulky lizardmen finally boarded the boat, leaving only four of them outside as guards.

Rose: [NOW! RUN!]

Sarah dropped by the side of the boat and kicked the metal surface with both legs, catapulting her away in the direction of the entrance. She rolled on the mud and finally stood up, her spacesuit completely covered in the smelly mud, and started running, unfortunately for her... the guard lizardmen had seen her and run to chase after her.

Rose: [DUCK DOWN!]

Sarah rolled forward as four metal bolts struck the rusty metallic walls, sticking themselves deeply. Sarah's face paled as she ran faster and into the hallway to the other room. She got to the other room but the heavy steps were getting closer.

Sarah could hear the loud steps of the lizardmen behind her as she ran, but something unexpected moved to block the way.

The old repair bot moved to block the way.

Bot (Rose): *keep running! one minute till explosion!*

Sarah arrived at the other room, and most corpses had been removed or disposed of their meat. She didn't have time to pay much attention though, as she ran through an old open rusty metal door and pushed on it to close it, while from the other side she could still hear the lizardmen shouting, but with some pushing she finally closed the screeching door behind her, sighing in relief.

Rose: [keep running! that old rusty door won't hold the pressure at all, the entire lower level might be flooded!]

Sarah turned on her helmet lights and ran down the dark hallway, the steps of her boots resonating in the empty metallic interior.

Rose: [door structural failure in 3... 2... 1...]

Sarah: "hah... s- shit!!!"

*BOOM!!!!*

The entire hallway vibrated and Sarah lost her footing, falling forward.

Rose: [stand up! quick!]

Creaking sounds sound behind her as she stood up, and finally saw a closed door at the end, but at that moment...

*CRASH!*

A torrent of water quickly filled the corridor, crashing her against the closed door, Sarah kept trying to open the door by spinning a circular metal wheel on it, but the door was rusty, and she was quickly submerged by the torrent of water.

Rose: [turn that thing faster! your helmet can barely endure this pressure!]

Sarah: "Im... tryiiiing... hurrr!!!" the wheel finally gave way and opened, and the torrent carried her forward down another hallway, hitting her against wall after wall, on of the hits leaving a huge crack on her helmet.

Rose: [Guard up, cover your helmet!]

Sarah endured for dear life, hugging her head as she was crushed over and over against walls, ceilings, and floors, her entire body was in pain, when suddenly... *woosh* she reached a big room, and hit the floor, as an old lizardman closed a metal door behind her and grunted something at her.

Sarah: [shit! what do I do?] quickly taking out her rifle.

Rose: [calm down and look at his eyes, he's blind...]

Sarah noticed they were a cloudy white and relaxed slightly.

Sarah: [what is he saying?]

Rose: [he's asking you where are the others]

Sarah: [what do I answer?]

Rose: [why bother? just kill him~]

Sarah shrugged and aimed her rifle, *BANG!* the bullet exited the old lizardman's head, splattering his brain on the wall.

Sarah frowned, but finally sighed and looked around, the room was dirty and rusty, with a bed and a small bonfire, a piece of meat skewered over the fire with a rusty metal wire.

Sarah sat on the bed and took off her helmet, leaving it aside, as she grabbed the meat skewer, blew on it to cool it off, and took a bite.

Sarah: "hmm not bad..."

--- Meanwhile on the submarine --

Erik: "can't this go any faster?"

Rose was getting annoyed: "stop asking that! you know already it can't"

Erik kept pacing back and forth inside the control room: "I know... It's just... I can't stop worrying..."

Rose: "it's okay, she's safe right now, on the other hand" she pointed at a monitor "seems like we are headed to a lizardman fleet"

Erik observed the screen, a huge fleet of rusty boats of different sizes.

Erik: "can they detect us?"

Rose: "haha... ah you were serious? no, of course they can't, they have no sonar or electronics" and shrugged "but..." the screen changed and the sea seemed to disappear, revealing huge creatures pulling the ships "but they... do feel the sonar"

Erik: "what are those?"

Rose shrugged: "enslaved creatures pulling boats it seems..."

Erik touched his chin in thought: "...you said Sarah was safe right?"

Rose shrugged "yeah, she seems to be safe for now"

Erik: "okay... then I think we should capture some lizardmen to interrogate..."

Rose frowned: "...you wanna talk to them?"

Erik shrugged: "I guess? its the easiest way to learn about their culture after all"

Rose: "hmm... fine, but if it's information that you want... I have a better idea"

Erik: "collecting some tissue samples would be cool too"

Rose touched her chin in thought: "well indeed, their respiratory and immune systems would be useful in upgrading yours I suppose, and the rest would be useful for the octopeople to upgrade their musculature structure"

The submarine followed the fleet, and observed as they surrounded and harpooned a leviathan to death.

Erik: "how kind of them, they even got us dinner~"

Rose chuckled: "indeed~, FIRE!"

In an instant, the submarine emerged behind the fleet and fired salvo after salvo, the huge railgun projectiles easily tearing the lizardmen scrap boats open from side to side and causing them to sink.

The sea surface was soon full of screaming lizardmen and corpses, and as their beasts either got dragged to the bottom by the sinking boats, or broke free of their chains, the water got bloodier, as the released beasts started eating the fresh leviathan and lizardmen on the water.

Erik was standing on the deck of the submarine along with the octopeople.

Erik: "grab as many of those lizardmen as you can! bring some alive if possible!"

Octopeople: "YES, SIXTH ELDER!"

And they all jumped into the waters as one, the beasts got closer but against the octopeople's advanced weaponry they didn't stand a chance.

An hour went by, and the octopeople collected thirty corpses and ten living lizardmen, that were now tied up together on the submarine deck, growling phrases as they looked around at their captors terrified. At the side of the submarine, a chunk of the leviathan was also recovered as the octopeople voraciously devoured the fresh meat with their sharp teeth.

Rose stood in front of the captured lizardmen and grinned as her hands thinned out into strands, letting them fall on the head of the first lizardmen. The tendrils pierced his flesh and soon his body started spasming, but in just one minute it stopped, nothing but a corpse now.

Seeing this, the other lizardmen seemed to plead with their growls, but it was no use, death was their only future.

Ten minutes later, the ten lizardmen joined the pile of corpses, even the octopeople were terrified enough to avoid eye contact.

Erik was unfazed though: "did you find out anything?"

Rose frowned: "yes... and I don't like it..."

Erik: "what is it?"

Rose: "...they are everywhere... they have hundreds of floating cities..."

Erik was confused: "why did they never went to the North then?"

Rose: "it was in their rules, the beasts that live over the ice are too deadly for their boats..."

Erik: "hmm... well that makes sense, armorlisks were pretty strong... anything else?"

Rose nodded: "remember the access node where we were supposed to go after rescuing Sarah?"

Erik: "yes?"

Rose: "they have built a huge city surrounding it, like a plague they have bred other races with their DNA and then enslaved them... these were just hunters that sell food to cities, they seem to even have floating fortresses...."

Erik saw Rose clenching her teeth in anger and cautiously asked: "...anything else?"

Rose: "yes... since the time of their ancestors, once a month they gather toxic substances all over the land and throw them down an altar on their... temple..."

Erik: "wait... but their temple is the access to your true body so... were they-"

Rose: "yes... they have been poisoning me for generations!"

Erik was flabbergasted: "how are you still alive then?"

Rose glared at Erik, making him instantly shut up: "I ain't so easy to kill" and just walked away inside the submarine.

Erik sighed relieved and clapped: "okay, gather around people" he pointed at the lizardman pile "chop them up and eat them, should optimize your immune system, your musculature, and your breathing outside the water"

Timberly grabbed a lizardman, but ultimately put it down whispering: "hmm... maybe in a shake..." not feeling that hungry.

Inky didn't have any problems though as she tore and gulped down a dead lizardman kid with her teeth, looking at Timberly: "you aren't hungry?"

Timberly: "I am... but mindless consumption... doesn't feel the same anymore, just eating anything I hunted, it was always salty and just different textures, but now..."

Erik patted her shoulder: "well, I get the feeling... I was planning to make some shakes with plenty of flavoring, wanna join?"

Timberly grabbed two strong lizardmen and put them on her shoulder: "now that sounds much better, let's go~" and walked inside the submarine with Erik.

Meanwhile, Inky just shrugged as she kept devouring: "what's wrong with mindless consumption... food is food..."

-- Back inside the Lizardman floating city --

Sarah woke up from a highly needed nap, but as she stood up...

*plop!* her feet landed on a knee deep layer of water covering the floor.

Sarah looked at the door and one of the apparently harmless bullet dents on the metal was now cracked and leaking water inside, all while the old lizardman's corpse floated around.

Sarah applied some repair tape and sealed the hole for now, but the door was also leaking.

Sarah concentrated: [Rose, what now?] but there was no answer [Rose?... ROSE!!!]

Rose: [sorry, I was thinking, what the wow... you are in trouble...]

Sarah: [yeah, what do I do? my helmet won't survive another immersion...]

Rose: [hmmm... there seems to be a small village if you exit this room and follow the right hallway, you will need a disguise though]

Sarah held her chin in thought and ripped off the bed sheets, covering herself.

Sarah: "if I adjust it slightly it should work as a cloak... I would still need to know the language though..."

Rose: [survival comes first]

Sarah nodded and took out a fishing kit, using some line to sew a cape with a big hood to hide her face.

-- Twenty minutes later --

The hood was finished and Sarah walked down the hallway, soon entering a huge dimly illuminated area, the only light sources were dim lights in the twenty meters high ceiling, as well as from huts, and the street lights on the streets were thousands of lizardmen roamed around. The place was extremely run down, but Sarah figured that would just help her hide easily.

Sarah: [okay... I need food, and a place to hide...]

Rose: [hmmm maybe you can try robbing someone in an alley? your vocal cords can't even pronounce their language correctly anyway...]

Sarah shrugged and went along with the idea, she chose an alley and went in, seeing an old lizardwoman laying down on a corner, she carefully stabbed it dead without making a sound and started rummaging through her things, finally finding a bag full of small bones.

Sarah: "I guess this is their money... now I just need to-"

Rose: [DUCK DOWN!]

But Rose was too slow, a rifle stock hit Sarah on the back of her head, easily knocking her out. A huge lizardman wearing a clean cloak full of small lights then came into existence, he had been there wearing an invisibility cloak the whole time, a relic from his ancestors. The lizardman took off his hood, revealing a face with a scar all across his left eye, he then lifted Sarah's hood, and seeing her face he was extremely surprised, taking a communication device out of his cloak and growling something into it.


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