booktalesy Chapter 251 Hooked Serpent, Black Tide Arrives
Chapter 251 Hooked Serpent, Black Tide Arrives
at the same time.
The United States, on its northern border.
The black substance covering the mountains and plains has coalesced into a swamp, slowly creeping towards the territory of Maple Leaf Country.
however,
Just as the black swamp was about to reach its edge, a sudden change occurred.
The surging mud suddenly began to bubble without any external interference. Then the bubbles burst, and the black substance shrank rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, the once viscous mud mysteriously transformed into a pool of stagnant water emitting a foul odor, completely losing its vitality.
The sudden turn of events brought the Black Mud Army at the rear to a halt.
Meanwhile, underground in Washington, D.C.
The once spacious air-raid shelter has now been completely filled.
A huge black tumor, as tall as a three-story building, hangs from the dome, with countless thick tentacles connecting it to all directions.
This is the first mastermind that Shoggoth conceived on this plate.
The surface of the sarcoma was shimmering with red light.
Through the information transmitted back by those dead cells, it became aware of a problem.
It can't get out.
No, to be more precise, its range of activity is restricted.
Despite having devoured countless lives and evolved, it is still only a part of its original form at this moment.
No matter how powerful it is, it still cannot escape that damned world's limitations.
Now, it can clearly sense that the "anchor point" related to that world is in another direction.
That direction that it fears.
The tumor contracted violently.
Since we can't leave, we can only completely devour that "anchor," or... assimilate it!
With this in mind, it issued instructions to infected individuals across the United States via neural networks.
Target: Raccoon City!
Meanwhile, in Raccoon City, inside the Umbrella underground laboratory.
Lin Fan was sitting in front of a centrifuge, his face pale as he stuffed a chocolate bar into his mouth.
With a needle inserted in his left arm, several hundred milliliters of blood had just been drawn, and with his mental guidance, it was now undergoing a violent reaction in the petri dish.
"This job is inhuman. If I keep drawing blood like this, I'll die of anemia," Lin Fan muttered.
Fortunately, by this time the blood in the petri dish had completely vaporized, turning into a swirling cloud of blood mist.
Lin Fan closed his eyes, unleashing his spiritual power without reservation to envelop the blood mist.
Having learned from his previous experience with the Shang Yang tombstone, he easily found his target in the mysterious space this time.
A tombstone engraved with a giant serpent totem, and through spiritual means, one can also learn the species represented by the totem on the tombstone.
Hooked snake.
It is yet another creature from ancient times.
Furthermore, it is vicious and its scales are indestructible, containing a deadly poison that can kill upon contact with blood.
Lin Fan used his mental power in conjunction with the blood mist in reality to gradually peel away and extract the power from the tombstone.
Ten minutes later.
Lin Fan opened his eyes and quickly severed the mental connection.
In the petri dish, the blood mist disappeared, replaced by a dark golden bead.
The surface of the bead is covered with fine scale patterns, and inside there is a faint shadow of a small snake moving.
"Done."
Lin Fan picked up the beads and smiled.
Of course, although the bead has been produced, whether it will work or not depends on the subsequent fusion process.
Thinking of this, he immediately went upstairs and found Lin Jianguo, who had just finished a call with Zheng Guodong.
"Old Lin, do you want the ability or not?"
Lin Fan held the beads and explained.
"The power of the ancient hook serpent. I estimate it can enhance defense and also contains potent venom. If you were to fuse with this thing, it would definitely take your transformation abilities to the next level, and you'd be invincible throughout the world..."
"Stop, stop..."
However, before he could finish speaking, Lin Jianguo interrupted him.
"Don't give me that, I know you too well."
"You little brat, you want to use me as a guinea pig, don't you?"
"Uh..." Seeing that his thoughts had been directly exposed, Lin Fan was somewhat embarrassed and said, "How could you be so petty..."
"Take it, take it."
However, Lin Jianguo was completely unmoved and wouldn't listen to his bluff. Suddenly, he thought of something.
"By the way, Sato Saori has been clearing out mutated beasts on the outskirts lately, and she's doing quite well. I think she has a good foundation, and she's been training with Night Owl in assassination techniques, so this poisonous stuff suits her quite well."
Sato Saori?
Hearing his father's words, Lin Fan's eyes lit up.
"That makes sense. The properties of this bead are indeed suitable for assassinations."
Thinking of this, he immediately took out his communicator without hesitation.
"Mark, go and call Saori Sato, and tell her to come to the lab to find me."
After saying that, he turned around and went straight back to the laboratory.
……
"Boss, you wanted to see me?"
Saori Sato arrived at the laboratory.
"This is the culmination of extraordinary power."
Lin Fan didn't waste any words, pointed to the beads in the glass box in front of him, and got straight to the point.
"By fusing it, you can gain extra power just like Dada Mei."
But as you know, the price is extremely painful, even to the point of near death.
If you can get through it, you'll be transformed. If you can't, you might be turned into mincemeat on the spot.
"Now state your choice; you can refuse."
Sato Saori suddenly raised her head upon hearing this.
She didn't look at the bead, but stared intently at Lin Fan.
"You saved my life."
Without hesitation, she strode to the table, grabbed the dark gold bead, and...
"I'm willing to give anything to help you."
After saying that, the cherry blossom girl didn't give Lin Fan any chance to speak at all and directly stuffed the bead into her mouth.
"Holy crap..."
Seeing this, Lin Fan was about to speak.
Unexpectedly, the moment the bead entered Sato Saori's mouth, a bright, dark golden light shone forth, radiating from her still-open lips.
no……
Are you that brave? You swallowed it without even asking how it was done?
Lin Fan stared wide-eyed at Sato Saori, who had swallowed the bead, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.
However, while he was still in a daze...
boom!
Sato Saori, who had just swallowed the bead, was suddenly thrown away by a strange force and slammed heavily against the metal wall.
"Well--"
She groaned and slid to the ground.
His legs instantly lost their strength, and he could only support himself on the ground with his hands.
At the same time, intense pain erupted.
The sound, like bones cracking and reforming, echoed in the laboratory, sending chills down one's spine.
Sato Saori bit her lip until it bled, and blood dripped from her chin onto the floor.
Even so, she did not let out a scream. She just clenched her teeth tightly, scales gradually appeared all over her body, and her fingers dug ten deep white marks on the special steel plate.
Lin Fan stepped back a distance and observed quietly.
The Hook Serpent's energy is extremely cold and violent.
Visibly, the scales on Sato Saori's body were also changing color, gradually turning from red to dark gold.
Starting from her face, it quickly spread throughout her body, little by little, down her spine.
five minutes.
ten minutes.
Sato Saori's body gradually calmed down from the violent trembling, and the scales on her body gradually disappeared.
She lay on the ground, panting heavily.
"Stand up."
Lin Fan stared at it quietly for a while before speaking.
Sato Saori used her arms to slowly stand up.
Perhaps influenced by the power of the hook snake, Sato Saori's temperament has undergone a dramatic change compared to before.
The originally cool and aloof atmosphere was now imbued with a chilling and sinister feeling.
Furthermore, her pupils turned into vertical pupils, shimmering with a dark golden luster.
With a thought in her mind.
Click click click.
The scales that had just disappeared reappeared.
In the blink of an eye, a layer of fine, hard, dark gold scales covered her arms and torso.
But strangely, a long, spiky tail grew from her lower back. The tail forked at the end, dripping with a ghostly blue venom.
The venom landed on the steel plate and immediately made a hissing corrosion sound, quickly corroding a large hole through it.
"How are you feeling?" Lin Fan asked, surprised but unable to resist.
Sato Saori raised her right hand, which was covered in scales, and slammed her fist into the test sandbag next to her.
boom!
The solid sandbag was shattered into pieces by her punch.
"Better than ever before."
Sato Saori withdrew her fist, and the scales instantly disappeared, restoring her fair skin.
And she changed her usual practice of kneeling on one knee, her voice filled with suppressed excitement.
"Thank you, Master, for granting me strength."
"Ah...no..."
Lin Fan was caught completely off guard by the other party's sudden use of the title "master".
Especially when he thought about the other party's transformation just now, and the way it looked with a tail, his thoughts wandered all over the world.
"Saori, please just call me Lin Fan or Young Master Lin. Forget about calling me Master."
Lin Fan snapped out of his daze and quickly advised, "If others heard this, they would misunderstand and think I have some kind of special fetish."
however……
"Yes, Master," Sato Saori said with a serious expression.
Lin Fan: ...
Ok!
How come this mutation also changed its brain?
Just as Lin Fan was about to say something, the electronic door to the laboratory suddenly opened.
The next moment, Mark rushed in, panting heavily.
"Boss! Something terrible has happened!"
He rushed to Lin Fan and handed him the tablet.
"Ten minutes ago, the last message came from the outer outpost in the dark, and then we lost all contact."
Lin Fan looked down at the screen.
That's a map of the quarantine zone 50 kilometers outside Raccoon City.
The green safety traffic lights that were originally scattered throughout the area have now all turned a glaring blood red.
Furthermore, these red dots are moving at an extremely fast speed, like a tsunami, towards Raccoon City.
"Do you have video footage from the scene?"
"Yes, our drone captured it..."
As Mark spoke, he pulled up a video.
In the scene, the entire mountainside was covered in black silt, surging towards Raccoon City.