Chapter 274: Chapter 255: Beast or Civilization
"Mmmmm!"
As for You Huan, he was trying to get useful information from the captured engineer.
Give it a dose of anesthetic toxin from time to time, and then use your claws to carefully cut open its chest, abdomen and other parts.
Watch how the black water combines with it.
The engineer, lying stiffly on the ground, opened his eyes wide during this process, and his paralyzed face kept making faint humming sounds.
But this sound was apparently ignored by the black water life that was conducting biological observations on it.
This made it cry without tears and feel hopeless.
"Boom!"
"Shit, who the hell are these sons of bitches? They can still fight after being blown up head-on by a grenade?!"
On the other side, the battle was still intense.
After discovering that ordinary bullets had little effect on the enemy, everyone took out various more powerful weapons.
But amidst the fierce bombing, those human figures in long robes still stood firm.
But the two sides distanced themselves from each other again.
After the engineer who could make sounds to interfere with physiological functions was captured by a dark shadow, the remaining five engineers felt a little scared and acted cautiously.
Under the bombardment of human weapons, their clothes were torn in large areas, revealing their pale, hairless, human-like appearance.
The appearance of the white giant made the soldiers' scalps tingle.
Although they are tall and look very similar to humans, these engineers have a large number of black meridians protruding from their bodies, which makes them look like monsters instead of being divinities of a higher civilization.
When the shock waves, flames or fragments of thermal weapons destroy part of their bodies, a large amount of black granulation tissue will immediately appear at the wound, and it will heal in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, they have the ability to fire several types of biomass bullets, and some of their limbs can undergo partial deformation.
Shaw and Holloway also came out at this time.
When Xiao saw these ragged white giants, he was so surprised that he was speechless.
Holloway showed an expression of disbelief: "Impossible, how could our creator be such a monster? And they-"
His voice stopped abruptly because Xiao next to him pushed him to the ground.
The next moment, the head of the engineer closest to them split open like petals, and a thick and long "stamen" emerged amidst the splashing black liquid.
In the blink of an eye, the pistil crossed a distance of dozens of meters and flew over Xiao and Holloway.
With a "gurgle", it pierced through a soldier behind them and brought him back to the engineer.
It holds down the prey, and the stamens on its head bulge, quickly sucking the prey dry.
After absorbing nutrients from its prey, its wound healing speed, which had originally slowed down, accelerated again.
Shaw and Holloway felt a chill run down their spines and quickly hid behind the army.
At this time, the army finally brought out more advanced weapons.
The energy weapon, which came from the same source as the spacecraft's energy, emitted a blue light, and the thick beam of light completely shattered the upper body of an engineer in an instant!
Even a body that is deeply connected to the black water cannot regenerate.
The engineer's lower body first fell to the ground, then exploded into a pile of blackened flesh.
One companion is missing and one companion is dead.
Look at the "dwarves" in front of you who are holding unknown weapons and pointing them at you.
The engineers finally felt a little fear.
Just then, a vague groaning sound came from the woods nearby.
"Mmmmm!"
An unlucky engineer finally got rid of the effect of the paralyzing poison and struggled to cry for help.
The next second, a tail flashing with cold light accurately pierced through the constantly moving core vital organ in its body.
The core was destroyed, the black water lost its effectiveness, and it died instantly.
"Hiss…"
A very subtle and low sound came from the woods.
The moment they heard this voice, a strong fear immediately struck the hearts of the remaining five engineers.
It seemed that the black water in their bodies was sending them an alarm.
For a moment, their legs even trembled because of instinctive fear.
The next moment, they ignored the humans in front of them and turned around and ran into the forest!
"…"
The battlefield cooled down instantly.
Xiao, Holloway and others looked at each other.
Did he finally get scared and ran away?
Everyone didn't know that it was the homologous deterrence between You Huan and Black Water that scared away the engineers, and they thought it was the credit of the energy weapon that appeared at the end.
However, the power of these weapons did make those engineers feel afraid.
The leader of the exploration team patted the barrel of the weapon, looking uneasy.
He looked at Xiao next to him: "Is this what you call... the Creator?"
Xiao hesitated for a moment: "From the appearance, it does match the description on the murals we found, but..."
But neither their violent attacks nor their extremely strange abilities have been seen in the murals.
Moreover, is the creature that would attack me and look like that really the noble and kind creator in people's hearts?
Are they the "gods" described by ancient civilizations who would patiently teach them how to farm and build, and lead them to create glorious "gods"?
Why do they seem more brutal and twisted than humans?
And why do they attack their creations - humans?
Now You Huan can answer some of Xiao's inner doubts.
After dissecting and using the modeling capabilities of [Kill Science] to gain a detailed understanding of the captured Engineer, he discovered two things.
First, apart from the black water part, this engineer is actually not healthy and should be considered as a "stunted little guy" among engineers.
Combined with the fact that these engineers were not wearing the biomass armor that the previous corpses had worn, they were only wearing thin clothes.
Perhaps they are characters such as "refugees" or "poor people"?
Second, they are deeply integrated with black water.
The black water completely replaced their blood and most other tissue fluids, and caused deformation of various organs.
Even within the brain there were strands of black water particles flowing.
Although the black water activity and aggressiveness in their bodies are very low, they are a unique domesticated breed.
But they can also be considered a kind of black water life.
Black water can cause unique stimulation to organic matter, inducing changes in living organisms at the genetic level.
That's why they display all kinds of monstrous abilities.
But black water also changes their brain structure, making them more aggressive.
It can be said that these guys have turned into "beasts" and it is no longer appropriate to view them with civilized standards.
They may have forgotten that the life they just attacked was a creation of their own civilization.
Biological instincts prompt them to seek fresh blood food and black water hosts.
But has the entire engineering civilization fallen to this point?
You Huan thinks not, and the main evidence is...
[Ordinary mission: Find the main city of the Engineer civilization. [Reward: Reinforcement points*2]]
After researching the Engineer, this quest appears on the panel.
Judging from the mission description, it is clear that the engineers as a whole still retain a considerable level of civilization.
Leave the engineer's body where it is, waiting for the "right person" to find it.
He silently followed the five engineers who rushed into the forest.
But the task was not so easy to accomplish.
Instead of taking him to the "main city of the engineer civilization," the five engineers stopped at a camp in the forest.
This crude camp built with wood and exoskeletons pulled from spacecraft seems to be their "home".
Because this time You Huan tried his best to restrain the breath of his black water life, and the distance he followed was relatively far.
The engineers were unaware of his pursuit.
After returning to the camp, they talked intensely in a strange language, and then began to pack up their things in the camp and prepare to move.
It turns out that these engineers are "savages"...
You Huan felt that it was not appropriate to call all the white giants "engineers", so he decided to call them "white giants".
Seeing that there was nothing worth exploring, he returned the same way and came to the vicinity of the human camp.
When the white giants were packing up and preparing to escape, it was evening and the human exploration team returned.
(End of this chapter)
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