Chapter 682:

The dazzling laser slowly drew a circle over the skull, and Qi Lin immediately picked up the separated Tianling Cap with the tip of a knife.
Sure enough, in the pile of gray-white brains that had become like rotten cotton wool, a fat worm was slowly wriggling inside.
"Fuk......"
Although they had known the result in advance, when the identity of the parasite was confirmed, the hearts of everyone were still galloping through thousands of alpacas.
Things like parasites are much more difficult to deal with than the common zombies in many apocalyptic novels... After all, viruses can also be dealt with with vaccines and antibodies, but parasitic worms are different. This kind of creatures occupy the body. It's more rough and more direct-a corpse that hasn't been rotten out can hatch thousands of larvae, and each of these larvae can control an independent parasite.
The body of a parasite can even be reused many times. If it cannot be completely destroyed, it will stand up again and again.
Rapid reproduction, short juvenile period, tenacious vitality, etc... These are all features that should appear in lower creatures, but this is the most terrifying thing.
Among the parasitic worms, the "king level" possesses wisdom no less than that of human beings, and above the king level, there is a higher-level controller.
And this most senior controller should be the mastermind.
The parasite was originally a "by-product" produced by the mastermind in collecting documents and materials of the old era and conducting biochemical experiments. However, the mastermind did not treat this by-product as a failure and discarded it, instead transforming it into an army. An army that is self-sufficient and continues to expand virally.
Before mankind has developed the corresponding countermeasures, if you want to defeat such an army, there is no way other than to stand firm and clear the country and prevent the parasitic worms from finding a suitable host.
But that was a strategy in the game, and in the real world, the mastermind controlled the billions of humans in the global refuge...Kuroshio, there has never been a problem of lack of troops.
Even if you step back ten thousand steps, the main brain can also use cloning and other methods to produce bodies that can be parasitized by parasitic worms. A parasite is enough to single out a first-level evolutionary, and in terms of cost, it can cultivate an ordinary level. The resources spent by the parasite may not be as much as the monthly minimum allowance that a slum resident receives.
"We should report this situation immediately!" Number Four said, turning on the electronic device he carried with him, but after a while, a helpless expression appeared on his face.
"Electromagnetic interference, I suspect that the entire signal of Vault 444 has been shielded... Since the parasite has appeared here, this matter must have nothing to do with the main brain. The intellectual brain of Vault 444 has not been blocked by the main brain. Locked, it just cuts off the connection with the entire shelter network."
"Then we have to arrange for someone to return the same way." Qi Lin's eyes swept over the other four people one by one.
No. 4 is the only hacker in the team who is proficient in computers. You must stay. No. 3 is an architect who knows all the internal structures of Vault 444 and can’t go. So the only suitable candidates are Falcon No. 2 and No. 5. Up.
"Let number two go back." Number five said suddenly.
"No, I think it is you who should go back to report the situation." Falcon narrowed his eyes.
"No, no, no, I don't want to climb that disgusting sewage pipe again."
To Qi Lin's surprise, the two actually gave way to each other.
After knowing that there are parasites in Refuge No. 444, staying is undoubtedly a more dangerous choice, and if you return on the same route, you must not have to face this tricky monster at least before one mission.
"I have been on the Herrens line longer than any of you, and I have the most experience with this kind of monster, so I should stay." Falcon picked up the protective suit that No. 5 had just taken off from the ground and threw it there. On him.
"Okay, okay... But since you want me to run errands for you, remember to buy me a drink after you finish. Before that, you'd better not hang up."
"Don't worry, we can't hang up even if you hang up."
Watching No.5 get into the sewage pipe again, Qi Lin suddenly felt a very strange feeling...A few hours ago they were still enemies of life and death, but when faced with the parasite and the mastermind, they both Standing on the same front by coincidence.
Falcon seemed to see what Qi Lin was thinking, grinned, and smiled: "I don't want bugs to get into my head, and I don't want to be made into a human flesh battery soaked in a jar... But I don't want to Let my daughter face these things in the future."
"Do you have a daughter?" Qi Lin glanced at him. Although the Falcon is tall and magnificent, he is only in his early twenties. Judging from the ordinary age of marriage and childbirth in the old days, he is young like him. People, let alone children, many have not even married yet.
"Yes, she has just been one and a half years this year, and she already knows how to call Dad."
"Your daughter was born in a refuge?" Qi Lin asked. Children born in a refuge like this are often called the "gray generation". In their childhood, there is no real meaning at all. The sunshine on the ~EbookFREE.me~ only hunger, cold and darkness fill the surroundings.
Speaking of this, Falcon’s eyes were visibly dimmed.
When her mother was giving birth to her, due to poor delivery conditions, dystocia, plus hemorrhage and wound infection, she died before the delivery was completed. I personally Opened her stomach with a short knife and took out our daughter."
"Sorry, I don't know..."
"It's okay." Falcon waved his hand. "This kind of thing is common in the old days, let alone in the refuge... At that time I was very poor. In order to feed my daughter, I joined the consortium in the game. Not long after joining the army, it was sent to the front of Herrens. Later, due to its outstanding performance, the organization took the initiative to contact me... In order to make more money, I came here."
"If it's just for making money, why don't you go to some big consortium to sell your lives? Maybe you don't have to face this situation."
"I don't like choosing to work for a boss who may go bankrupt at any time. I know that many consortia will be swallowed up soon after returning to the surface. War is inevitable. The choice is like a bet. Since it is a bet, then I'd rather bet on the side with a higher chance of winning...not to mention, I have come to this point, and I can't turn back." Falcon continued.
"If you can't go back, then go forward... This is the worst situation I can expect, but the good news is that we are all alive. Since we are alive, we have to do something."
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