Infinity Throne

Six o'clock in the morning.

Cangyang City.

The first ray of light did not have time to appear.

The night has not yet dispersed.

The hair tips of Yi Lin and others were covered with morning dew and were covered with white flowers. From a distance, it looks like it is covered with frost.

Oda Mai and Gu Sinan were in each corner, closing their eyes and concentrating.

Wang Bing was holding a mini submachine gun and a few incendiary bombs on his waist. His eyes were bloodshot and he looked around warily.

His subordinates, the field team, are also trying to keep their spirits up and be on guard against strange insects that may come out of nowhere at any time.

But in fact, since they moved away from the city center and retreated from those strange insects, they have not been attacked by insect waves.

half an hour ago.

Yi Lin and others could still vaguely distinguish the wailing sounds coming from the direction of the city center.

But within half an hour, no sound could be heard from the dimly lit city of Cangyang.

Not only the screams of humans, but also the screams of strange insects, everything was silent, like an empty city.

Even so, Wang Bing and the others had received professional training and did not dare to relax their vigilance.

Yuan Zhiye and other investigation teams, as well as several young criminal police officers from Cangyang City, were exhausted both mentally and physically. They fell to the ground in a mess and fell into a deep sleep, snoring one after another.

Among them, some people occasionally twitched all over and breathed rapidly in their sleep. It was not known whether they were having nightmares such as "the endless dance of insects".

In mid-air, a white figure looked down at the dead city.

After wandering around within a limited area for a while, Bai Xiaoyi returned to Yi Lin's body with lingering thoughts.

"Take a rest, the bugs won't come."

Yi Lin's field of vision switched back to the original figure again, and she smiled when she saw Wang Bing's tired posture.

"how do you know?"

Wang Bing's eyes widened a little. He subconsciously and subjectively wanted to believe what Yi Lin said, but he didn't quite dare to believe it... Only the devil knows what he went through tonight.

"Huhhhhhhhh-"

In the distance, there was the sound of a helicopter propeller rotating at high speed.

The few people who were awake raised their heads and looked at the helicopter fleet in the distance.

In the darkness, the helicopter's searchlights were projected across the lonely land, searching for survivors.

"finally come!"

The tense nerves suddenly relaxed. Wang Bing's feet went weak and he almost knelt on the ground. But he bit down hard with two rows of teeth and straightened up again. Wang Bing skillfully pulled out the signal gun from his waist, raised his hand and fired a red signal bomb into the sky.

The light of the signal bomb exploded high in the sky. The searchlights of the helicopter team gathered at the location of several people at the same time, and soon gathered towards Yilin and the others under the signal light.

The suburbs of Cangyang City were deserted and the ground was flat. A group of military helicopters landed one after another after finding a suitable location.

From the helicopter closest to Yi Lin and the others, an old man stepped out with an unremarkable posture.

——There is no enemy.

Yi Lin frowned, feeling a bit inconsistent.

Why did you just...walk down?

According to Mo Rendi's habit, don't they all like to jump off the plane?

A strange thought flashed through Yi Lin's mind.

"What's going on now? Have those bugs escaped?"

Behind Mo Ren's enemy lines, Yu Meng and Zhao Yulong stepped off the armed helicopter one after the other.

In addition to Zhao Yulong, several casually dressed team members stepped off different helicopters.

Oh, there are still acquaintances.

After Hu Sandao got off the helicopter, he saw Yi Lin just nodding from a distance and did not come forward to strike up a conversation.

It seems that several other team members are also apostles, but Yi Lin has only been in the team for a short time and does not know them.

There are about a dozen official team members who came to Cangyang City with Zhao Yulong.

When Zhao Yulong saw Yi Lin, he immediately asked about the current situation without any nonsense.

"Kakakaka."

Mo Rendi closed his eyes and said nothing, but he had already taken two steps away and began to move his muscles and bones happily. He clenched his huge fists together and made a crisp sound.

How do you feel... Mo Rendi's expression is very happy?

Yi Lin looked away from Mo Rendi and answered Zhao Yulong's question truthfully:

"As far as the current situation is concerned, Cangyang City is a bit eerily quiet. Except for some 'comrades' hiding in the city who managed to escape at the beginning, no one has escaped."

When he heard "no one escaped," Zhao Yulong's face suddenly turned darker.

"But the bugs didn't escape."

Yi Lin smiled and pointed at the dead Cangyang City in the distance: "If I guessed correctly, those bugs seem to regard that place as their nest."

"How are you sure those bugs didn't sneak away?"

The person who asked this question was not Zhao Yulong, but Yu Meng.

Avoiding the eyes of ordinary people, Bai Xiaoyi's spiritual body emerged from behind Yi Lin. Bai Xiaoyi playfully made a "V" gesture towards Zhao Yulong and Yu Meng, then disappeared in a flash and disappeared into Yi Lin's body again. .

"You should know that I own a spirit-possessed weapon. After escaping here, I used the 'spirit' perspective from time to time to observe Cangyang City from an extreme distance. It stands to reason that those bugs have formed a certain order of magnitude, regardless of Whether it is transferred from the ground or underground, the movement should be quite large."

After a pause, Yi Lin added: "At least, no bugs will leave in this direction."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Yulong put on a communicator in his ear without saying a word and began to command and deploy.

One after another, groups of armed helicopters gathered in the dark night towards Cangyang City.

Yi Lin initially estimated that the number of armed helicopters that arrived in Cangyang City in just twenty minutes was nearly a thousand.

Most helicopters that come to Cangyang City from all over the country are capable of carrying 10-12 people. But Yi Lin witnessed with her own eyes a total of twenty people on one of the helicopters, including the main and co-pilots, jumping from the hatch. It can be described as a serious overload.

Yi Lin could not imagine how eye-catching the position of these twenty fully armed soldiers were stacked together in the small helicopter cabin.

It can also be seen from this that Zhao Yulong, in a hurry, tried his best to mobilize as much power as possible to attack Cangyang City, no matter what.

All armed helicopters, under the command of Zhao Yulong, landed smoothly around Cangyang City. And as quickly as possible, they surveyed the surrounding areas of Cangyang City to see if any traces of "new species" were found.

"Report! Everything is normal in the 12 o'clock area of ​​Cangyang City."

"Report! A large number of civilian skeletons were found in the 2-point area of ​​Cangyang City, but no 'target group' was found."

"Report……"

…

Seven o'clock in the morning.

The sky turned white.

When the first ray of morning light fell on everyone, Zhao Yulong had completed the basic deployment.

"It's so quiet."

Zhao Yulong frowned and felt a little incredible after combining the information that was constantly fed back.

On the side, Mo Rendi began to do the morning exercises for the elderly in an orderly manner. He stood on his head with one finger on the ground, relaxed and happy, and seemed to be nothing special.

Yi Lin looked away from Mo Rendi.

Since Zhao Yulong, Yu Meng, and Mo Rendi arrived in Cangyang City with an elite team, Yi Lin has been observing everyone silently.

From their clothing and equipment, Yi Lin could roughly tell the approximate identity of each team.

But there was a small group of people among them who looked a little strange.

"Those people" seem to be too calm.

Even when Zhao Yulong was deploying, they would occasionally chat and laugh in low voices, and their eyes with hidden weird emotions would occasionally fall on Yi Lin, Oda Mai and other official team members.

It was incompatible with the obvious nervousness of the field team.

But Yi Lin was certain that they were not apostles.

Unlike the apostles, they wore new and thin body armor, and their waists and upper bodies were covered with a variety of modern weapons. There was even a strong man with a similar build to Su Xiaosu not far away. He was carrying a heavy multi-barreled rotary Gatling cannon on his back and a bullet chain hung crosswise on his chest, but he walked lightly and lifted his weight with ease.

This is a humanoid self-propelled Vulcan cannon...

"who are they?"

Yi Lin pointed to the special group of people not far away and asked Zhao Yulong in a low voice.

"They are reserve forces." Zhao Yulong was busy with the deployment. As soon as he said the words, he felt something was wrong and immediately added: "Oh, you can be forgiven for not knowing. Over the years, we have screened many special operations departments from various places. Elites, their basic attributes are higher than many first-level apostles, and they have received all kinds of rigorous training. They were originally used as secret weapons, but this time they had no choice but to pull them out and sneak away."

When Yi Lin heard this, his eyes narrowed and he nodded, but didn't ask any more questions.

“Stomp, stomp, stomp—”

at this time.

From the horizon, the sound of horse hooves could be heard in the distance.

A white horse with four hooves stepping on flames came through the air.

This magical scene attracted the attention of many people.

"That horse...is it him?!"

The moment Yi Lin saw the horse, he remembered a person from the special group who was known to everyone in the circle of "future" apostles.

A man wearing heavy armor jumped off his horse and came to Mo Rendi and several others.

"Team leader, Brother Zhao, Sister Meng."

The man took off his helmet, revealing a slightly weathered face with a thick black beard and a rough beard in front of several people.

"You finally arrived, Marquis Lu."

Zhao Yulong's tight anus face obviously relaxed a bit and relaxed.

The man called "Marquis Lu" smiled helplessly: "You actually asked me to put down what I was doing, which shows the seriousness of this matter. If I don't come, I'm afraid I'll be killed by the team leader Beaten to death."

As he spoke, Lu Hou lowered his voice and secretly glanced at Mo Rendi, who was doing aerobics not far away.

It seems that Mo Rendi's glorious image in everyone's minds is surprisingly consistent.

"A brief introduction, he is Lu Hou, a high-level human shield type, the elite of the group."

Zhao Yulong briefly introduced Lu Hou’s position and name.

Really simple introduction.

"My shield is an iron shield, not a human shield." Lu Hou corrected Zhao Yulong's grammatical errors and frowned: "I understand the general situation. It is indeed difficult to deal with, what about the others?"

"Everything that should come has come. Those who can't come, there's nothing we can do about it."

Zhao Yulong's expression was a little helpless. After all, there are too many cases on hand recently, so being able to mobilize more than a dozen formal team members in a hurry is considered a blessing among misfortunes.

"You are Yi Lin, I have admired you for a long time." Marquis Lu stepped forward and shook hands with Yi Lin: "I am not saying this politely, because I have been performing tasks and your name has been mentioned many times by others. This It’s the first time we’ve met.”

In Yi Lin's memory, there was a scene where Marquis Lu was regretting that Mo Ren was not an apostle.

It's him.

After Mo Rendi's death, he replaced Mo Rendi and became the leader of the "Order Camp".

The man who once wore armor and blocked the scythe of the death knight wandering in the wilderness alone, and bought time for his companions to escape.

"I didn't expect to see Brother Hou at this time."

Yi Lin recalled the 50-50 split between Marquis Lu and the Death Knight. She felt extremely sad, but she pretended to be meeting for the first time and shook hands.

…

…

Zhao Yulong surrounded the entire Cangyang City.

It's already dawn.

Mo Rendi had just finished warming up a set of boxing techniques, and exhaled a long breath of hot air, which turned into a condensing white mist.

"about there."

Mo Rendi's wrinkled face instantly became as cold as ice.

The moment Mo Rendi said these four words.

The air around him suddenly solidified.

Everyone seemed to feel that at that moment, there was a heavy mountain pressing on their chests, making it difficult to breathe.

It turned out to be murderous intent.

Yi Lin took out the "Redemption Revolver" from her waist and opened the magazine to check the bullets, knowing it in her heart.

After Mo Rendi arrived, he said less than three sentences in total.

It seems calm and indifferent.

But facing a city that once had a population of one million but was now silent, even Mo Rendi was trying hard to suppress the anger and murderous intent rippling in his chest.

Mo Rendi's terrifying murderous intention was only accidentally released, and it gave people the illusion that it was the real thing.

"Beep beep beep——"

After the sky began to light up, bathing in the morning light, everyone's mood became heavier.

Following Mo Rendi's words, Zhao Yulong, who was ready, did not dare to talk nonsense. He immediately released a small reconnaissance drone on the communication channel and quickly entered Cangyang City from a high altitude.

Shortly after the drone flew out, Zhao Yulong noticed Yi Lin's movements and couldn't help but asked curiously:

"Why did you change your weapon?"

Of course he knew that Yi Lin's usual weapon... was a knife.

Yi Lin smiled, inserted the "Redemption Revolver" that had been inspected into her waist, hid it under her clothes, patted the "bulge" on her waist, and smiled: "I secretly asked someone to order one. The revolver is just to increase your output."

"Is this useful?"

Zhao Yulong was puzzled.

After all, the data shows that Yi Lin is a spiritual apostle with a wide range of AOE skills. No matter how convenient modern weapons are, they cannot be brought into trials, so how can they be as powerful as the apostles?

"Isn't this useful?"

Yi Lin explained with a smile: "Those new species of monster insects, an hour ago, the single-target lethality was not very high, basically one shot at a time. To a certain extent, increasing the output distance is always better than close-range output." It’s a lot safer. And…”

After a pause, Yi Lin continued: "Don't you think that when everyone thought I was a knife person, and suddenly pulled out a gun, wouldn't this kind of surprise catch the other party off guard?"

"Or, when the other party thought that I was an auxiliary psychic who could only use thermal weapons to increase output, I suddenly took out a knife and stabbed him to death. Isn't this both a surprise and a surprise?"

Zhao Yulong's expression was slightly startled.

He vaguely felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Yi Lin's words.

But thinking about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with it.

Moreover, it makes sense!

"As expected of you..."

Zhao Yulong said with emotion.

But he didn't have the nerve to say the second half of the sentence in front of other people, so he held it back.

——"It's really insidious."

"Look."

The aerial footage taken by the drone was transmitted back in high definition without coding.

Lu Hou's voice interrupted the brief conversation between Zhao Yulong and Yi Lin. After Lu Hou reminded them, everyone's eyes were attracted by the picture transmitted back by the drone.

Yi Lin is better.

His expression was calm.

Zhao Yulong took another habitual breath of the fresh morning air and exclaimed: "Is this the single harmless... little bug you mentioned?"

Yi Lin shook his head helplessly: "To be precise, an hour ago, they were still 'little bugs'. Besides, I didn't say that they were harmless to humans and animals, but they were relatively easy to deal with."

But now...

On the surface of each building, I saw what can be called "fat" insects, lying on them, densely packed and motionless.

How fat is it?

If we say that an hour ago, the new species that bit Yi Lin and others wouldn't let go, its strip-like body was curled up and was only the size of a fist. The "bug" that appears in the picture is lying on the surface of the building and is about the size of a palm with five fingers spread out.

The new species of monster insect is only slightly similar in shape to the original "leech".

That's...strips.

In addition, every insect looks up, down, left, right, and no matter how you look at it, it is difficult to think of a fragile soft-bodied creature like a "leech".

The dense scales on the surface of the insect look thicker and reflect soft light under the first ray of sunlight. The light refracted back, as if the surface of every building was coated with a layer of reflective metal paint.

Enlarge the screen.

Occasionally, an insect would squirm a little, and when it opened its mouth, the circles of sharp teeth inside would make one's scalp numb. It’s hard to imagine how terrifying it would be if someone accidentally took a bite of it.

Hu Sandao fiddled with his bangs with his fingers, smiled helplessly, and said something to dilute the serious atmosphere a little:

"There's an advantage to these bugs evolving so big."

Everyone else looked at Hu Sandao to see what insights he had to offer.

Hu Sandao coughed twice: "At the very least, the targets of these bugs are obvious. As long as they don't move very fast, they are living targets. Another point is that when moving on a large scale, there should be a lot of movement."

A fair opinion.

But... no one would have thought of it!

Is it obvious?

No one answered the question, and the few people watching the picture turned their attention back to the drone transmission picture.

As the drone moves toward the city center.

The tragic situation in Cangyang City was noticed by Mo Rendi and others.

Murderous intent burst out from Mo Rendi's eyes, almost condensing into substance and exploding the screen.

There are corpses and bones everywhere.

There are occasional open areas on the road, where there are many car wrecks and residual flames still burning.

Various bits and pieces of clothing—the fragments of clothing that were once worn by humans and left behind after their flesh and blood had been devoured. The fragments were flying high in the sky in Cangyang City with the morning wind. They were colorful and colorful, but they gave people a feeling of desolation and desolation.

awful.

It's too awful!

Zhao Yulong gritted his teeth.

No matter who it is, it is difficult to calm down after seeing the once prosperous city turned into this purgatory-like scene overnight.

Zhao Yulong didn't blame anyone.

He could see it in just a few glances. This matter is not something that can be solved by just one person or a few people.

This is a "disaster".

A disaster second only to the "Night of the Fallen Stars" ten years ago.

The evolution speed of these bugs is incredible.

From a leech, to a monster insect, and then to a bigger, thicker and stronger monster... This speed, even Zhao Yulong, who has become a veteran in the other world, can't help but be shocked.

If all this happened in a trial, in the other world, he would definitely not find it strange.

But this is... the real world!

Mo Rendi, Zhao Yulong, Yu Meng, and all official team members, including Yi Lin, were watching the scene silently with different moods.

Fear... not too much fear.

There are many more terrible and horrifying scenes than the one in front of me in the other world.

It's just that this situation happened in reality, leaving them shocked and at a loss what to do.

But at this moment.

Everyone is watching the reconnaissance screen carefully, trying to read more information about the "new species" from this high-altitude reconnaissance screen.

Every apostle who has experienced many battles understands this.

For unknown "BOSS" or "creatures", intelligence is extremely important, the more the better.

"The density of bugs seems to be getting denser and denser."

I don’t know who said it.

But it doesn't matter who.

What's important is that other people noticed something unusual.

Originally, it was extremely unusual for the insects to remain motionless in Cangyang City.

The insects were densely concentrated in a certain area, which was even more unusual.

As the drone moved in a certain direction, it was discovered that the density of strange insects was terrifyingly dense. The layers are intertwined in various postures, twisting and squirming. Looking from a high altitude, it looks like a red ocean, full of joy.

...The premise of joy is to ignore that they are bugs.

The drone flew about a kilometer further.

The density of insects is beyond description in words.

The streets that were originally flat were even made up of hills formed by insects, and they looked like a stretch of red hills.

"what is that?"

Marquis Lu frowned and asked.

He just arrived and is really unfamiliar.

In the picture, the style of painting changed.

A twisted and writhing "worm tower" appeared in front of everyone.

The bugs here are much more active than the bugs outside. This red tower made of insects seemed to come alive, like a huge tentacle, swaying in the wind.

Yi Lin closed her eyes and quickly compared the "lifetime" map of Cangyang City, the route flown by the drone, and the "meat tower" in the picture. After a moment, she said: "That is Chenxi Housekeeping...originally That ten-story building.”

Tenth floor...?

That tower of flesh made of insects is more than ten stories high?

Others were somewhat unconvinced.

However, Zhao Yulong and Hu Sandao, who were familiar with Yi Lin, did not doubt Yi Lin's memory.

Lu Hou murmured to himself, as if asking himself or others:

"But why do these bugs want to stay in this building in Cangyang City and refuse to leave? Could it be that they regard this place as their nest?"

Refusing to leave?

"No, maybe..."

Yi Lin's eyes were fixed on the horrifying scene in the picture. An idea flashed in his mind and he said slowly: "Maybe what we should ask is not 'why' we refuse to leave. But 'for what' we refuse to leave." . There is someone behind these bugs, and I initially thought that someone in Morning Housekeeping... was the Leech Man himself."

"But not long ago, I overturned this point. Perhaps everyone in the entire 'Morning Housekeeping' constitutes a 'Leech Man'. Although I don't know how yet, if Chenxi Housekeeping is really related to that It’s related to the organization, so there’s nothing wrong with it.”

When Marquis Lu and the others just arrived, they always felt that the name "Leech Man" Yi Lin gave was a bit weird, and I didn't know whose taste it was. But now, they had no time to complain and listened carefully to Yi Lin's analysis.

Yi Lin raised her head and glanced at the faces of the others: "Perhaps that's what I've never been able to figure out before. What is 'their' purpose. Just to create this kind of monster that doesn't exist in the first place? Maybe it's not that Simply, what I am worried about now is that if there is really a 'purpose' behind all this, it is very likely that these 'new species' spread throughout the city are just desserts before the main course."

"!"

When Yi Lin said this, everyone except Mo Rendi changed their expressions.

Is this just a pre-dinner dessert?

Wait, how can anyone serve dessert before the meal?

And right now.

Under the control of Zhao Yulong, the drone approached the insect tower, hoping to find out more information.

But suddenly.

The swarm of squirming insects suddenly split open, revealing a vertical crack about ten meters long, with a faint scarlet light coming out of it.

Staring at the crack at this moment feels like an eye slowly opening.

Uh-huh!

suddenly.

"Zizzi——"

On the picture transmitted by the drone, only a messy afterimage remained.

The bottom is gone.