Infinite Hunter

Cheng Yijiu finished speaking and immediately started the car to leave. It was up to the two of them to rely on luck. If they were lucky, they would be fine by daybreak. If they were unlucky, there would only be two spots anyway. Hearing Cheng Yijiu's words, the two of them were like firecrackers that had been lit. They immediately started to babble about how they could be so irresponsible and not care about the safety of tourists at all...

Cheng Yijiu laughed when he heard that, "You have to protect your own lives. Goodbye, both of you. If you survive, you are welcome to complain. But if you don't complain, I don't want to do this job anymore." After hearing these false and true words, coupled with Cheng Yijiu decisively turning on the switch and leaving, the two giant babies finally realized that the situation might be serious, and immediately shouted from behind, "Take them back."

However, Cheng Yijiu had already fled, leaving only a sentence, "If you stay here and don't move, you can probably survive until dawn. If you run away, you will definitely die." Taking two giant babies with him to collect the others? Just thinking about it was a nightmare. These two idiots' greatest skill was to kill a lot of their own people, so it was better to let them die on their own. As for running back first? Sorry, time is limited. Safety first. The less time you are exposed in the night zoo, the safer you are.

This is the first thing to note in Cheng Yijiu's work manual.

The manual also states that if a situation arises, staff members must prioritize protecting their own lives - this also applies to tourists. Legally, unless they are public servants, their first priority is to protect themselves.

Cheng Yijiu drove very fast at night. Because of the moonlight, he used night vision goggles to drive, not turning on the headlights to avoid attracting attention. The car sped along the park's highway. Just as it was about to reach its destination, Cheng Yijiu received bad news. "The surveillance is down... Damn it!" This meant there was a 70% chance of a mutant beast appearing there.

"I hope my trip wasn't in vain," Cheng Yijiu cursed. According to the zoo's regulations, if no mutants were encountered during a nighttime rescue, the rescue fee for each person rescued was roughly 1,500 yuan. If a mutant was encountered, the fee would be at least 200,000 yuan. Of course, this was the zoo's regulation, approved by the government, but it was printed in small print in an inconspicuous place in the lower left corner of a certain page in the manual...

The money was split 50-50 between the park management and the rescue workers...

Cheng Yijiu let out a long breath and stretched his muscles, mentally preparing himself. "If it's a mutant, there should be some hope. I'm afraid it's a very normal mutant." Thinking about the skinned gorilla, it seemed ordinary except for looking a little fierce, walking upright, and having no skin, but this mutant was definitely one of the top ten dangerous monsters.

What kind of mutant beasts would erupt in the African grasslands? Cheng Yijiu didn't even need to search the database to guess they'd be more dangerous than the last. While it wasn't a ferocious beast zone, were rhinos, buffaloes, or elephants safer than lions? Absolutely not. Even a hippopotamus, despite its plump appearance, could be even more dangerous than a crocodile.

Cheng Yijiu prepared himself—he gave his weapons a final check, confirming they were properly loaded and that his hunting knife wouldn't break. He then parked his car in a roadside parking lot, got out, and walked toward the zoo. The manual explained that if a visitor found themselves stranded, they had the following options: first, call emergency services from a visible landline within the park, then find a safe place to hide, preferably near a security camera.

The second option is to go to the aquarium or any other venue that will be closed after the park closes according to the map, stay inside and don't move, and be aware that only rescue personnel wearing white markings can be trusted, and any other "people" who appear are not trustworthy.

Cheng Yijiu felt that the mark on his uniform was somewhat abnormal, and mutant beasts would indeed feel disgusted by some "things", and this would definitely not appear on their bodies.

Cheng Yijiu, gun in hand, half-bent over, moved quickly down the road. His goggles indicated the livestreamer was about fifty meters down the road. There was almost no sound, but a faint smell of grass and something resembling horse manure was perceptible. Cheng Yijiu could see his surroundings without even needing the night vision function of his goggles.

The zoo had streetlights, though they weren't very bright and even lacked them near the zoo area. But at least the roads were illuminated by floodlights. As for that kid, he had brought a fill light for livestreaming, making him like a bright fire at night, the most obvious prey for the mutant beasts. Cheng Yijiu advanced quickly, already seeing the glow of the fill light and even the target, slumped on the ground.

Cheng Yijiu immediately observed the direction the unfortunate creature was heading. "Fuck!" Cheng Yijiu saw a large antelope—or rather, it must have been a large antelope before it mutated. From the broken skin, it could be seen that this creature had grown three pairs of horns. Cheng Yijiu also saw two pairs of eyes, and a huge mouth with sharp teeth appeared on its chest, extending all the way to its abdomen.

The antelope stood up, and its strange vertical mouth stretched from the chest to the abdomen, and when it was spread out horizontally, it looked very strange and terrifying.

The loser on the livestream couldn't even run anymore. If you see an antelope standing up, run! He might not be able to catch up on his two hind legs. However, the loser was so scared that he was paralyzed. Seeing the mutant beast approaching, Cheng Yijiu took action for the mission.

chapter Five

He started with a burst of shotgun fire—the beauty of a double-barreled shotgun: as long as you could handle the double recoil, you could pull both triggers simultaneously, holding the muzzle down. One barrel was loaded with a single-shot bullet, the other with a buckshot consisting of six lead pellets, so the combined force of the salvo was naturally immense.

With Cheng Yijiu's size, he couldn't help but pull his shoulders back slightly. A foot-long streak of fire erupted from the muzzle, and the thunderous sound of the gun ripped through the pitch-black night. The strange, ferocious antelope paused for a moment, as if struck by lightning, before exploding with a massive burst of blood, nearly blowing half its body away.

Cheng Yijiu flicked his thumb, and the barrel snapped off, sending two shells flying onto the ground. He fished out two more shotgun shells and reloaded them, then snapped the barrel upwards and pulled the hammer down again. Against mutant beasts, only single-shot or large shotgun shells, the kind with four or six lead bullets, could be used. Anything smaller would be useless for scraping.

Cheng Yijiu walked closer while reloading, "Hey, useless guy! Can you still stand up? Damn, did you peed your pants? You are not allowed to sit in my car later!" The young male internet anchor was still standing there stupidly. His legs seemed to be useless. No matter how hard he supported himself with his hands, he couldn't stand up - of course, Cheng Yijiu saw that his hands were actually soft. It was probably because his muscles were tense for too long, and there was too much lactic acid accumulated, so he had no strength.

So it doesn't matter if you're just a waste, it's really embarrassing to be scared like this.

He couldn't even utter a word, he must have been completely terrified - probably his last resistance was that the shock made his meat sour, making the other party feel it was unpalatable... Cheng Yijiu kicked the antelope that was still struggling on the ground, completely exposing its wound.

"Wow, damn, he's quite resilient. There's such a big bloody hole with almost a quarter of his body tissue removed, but his muscles can still grow thorns and wriggle to try to heal. Even his blood vessels seem to close automatically to stop the bleeding." Cheng Yijiu marveled at this, but the other party had lost a lot of muscle tissue after all, and there was no way he could launch a counterattack against him.

If I only opened a few holes, would this monster fight back?

"So we need to use explosives. This single-point bullet is quite brutal, and it's a hollow-point bullet with a blooming pattern. Let's put you out of your misery." Cheng Yijiu pulled the trigger at the mutant antelope's head, and the single-point bullet directly blew the monster's skull apart. "I don't know if this head is a vital part of the mutant beast, but at least it can keep them quiet for a while," Cheng Yijiu thought.

At least according to records, the most important part of skinning a gorilla is the skull...

Cheng Yijiu grabbed the tourist from the soft couch and prepared to return to the car—if the tourist couldn't resist, he could just strip him naked, soak him in the water, and then stuff him in the trunk. "Oh! Shit!" Cheng Yijiu opened fire without hesitation. A curious baby elephant, watching them, instantly transformed into a water ball. The bullet exploded into the water, deforming and falling away.

"Damn it!" Cheng Yijiu had been saying "damn" a bit too much tonight. He bent down like lightning and pinned the clueless tourist to the ground. Something whipped over his head. It was as shrunken as a mummy, but it could easily produce a sonic boom in the air. Cheng Yijiu pushed the tourist into a ditch by the roadside and made him lie prone. He quickly approached.

The elephant in front of him was a paunchy, mummified elephant. Judging from the baby elephant, it looked like a perfectly normal mother and child during the day. "It's mutated too?" Cheng Yijiu didn't have time to reload his shotgun, so he decisively took out his competitor's rifle, aimed at the mother elephant, and fired a shot—this was a Winchester Magnum rifle, a terrifying thing with a high charge.

The bullet was a hollow-point bullet, making it easy to kill an elephant with one shot. Indeed, dust rose from the elephant's body, which looked like a mummy. The bullet on the other side of the elephant's body had left a hole the size of a bowl. Any other elephant would have been dead, but this mutant beast acted as if nothing had happened.

Cheng Yijiu had dealt with a lot of strange things, so he was not surprised or cursed when he saw this situation. Instead, he took out the knife very decisively - the only thing on his body that had the power to break magic was this cold iron enchanted hunting knife. As for guns, he really didn't think there would be supernatural monsters before the mission.

It was too late to regret not bringing the Demon-Slaying Spear; running away early was the right decision. Cheng Yijiu casually slashed the baby elephant in its direction, not intending to injure it, but simply wanting it to run away and lure its mother away. Despite the mutation, the baby elephant was clearly not completely ferocious, still retaining its normal playful and active nature.

Although he didn't want to, he still managed to scratch the baby elephant's leg, seemingly breaking the skin. The baby elephant, frightened, turned and ran away, making strange noises. "Sure enough, the demon-slaying knife can really hurt mutant beasts." The mother elephant also turned and ran after the baby elephant. Cheng Yijiu grabbed the tourist, quickly carried him to the car, stuffed him into the trunk, got in, and drove away.

We still had to rescue the last two. At least they were safer in the car. I doubt ordinary mutants could run that fast, right? The good news was that the two had entered the aquarium and the nocturnal animal pavilion respectively. Although they were closed at night, there were special single-person entrances. Only humans could enter normally, but the mutants couldn't. The smaller ones couldn't open the doors, and the ones that could open the doors were too big. And so far, the mutants hadn't cooperated.

If they took refuge in the aquarium, Cheng Yijiu could at least let the person going to the nocturnal animal hall go back with the keeper, and he only needed to rescue the guy in the aquarium. Although he could leave him until dawn to deal with him, considering his psychological problems, it was better to rescue him as soon as possible. The aquarium was almost in the middle of the park, and it took him half an hour to drive there.

We didn't encounter any mutant beasts along the way, so it seemed that at least most of the beasts on display were normal, which was good news. Cheng Yijiu parked the car in front of the museum, got out, closed the door, and opened the trunk. "Would you like to come in with me or stay in the car? I suggest you go in and take a shower," Cheng Yijiu said.

The young man had finally come to his senses, and with a face full of shame, he followed Cheng Yijiu out of the car. "Don't worry, there are no mutants here, otherwise they would have jumped out long ago." Cheng Yijiu knew that he didn't have a bad mouth, so he could just say whatever he wanted and say something taboo. He entered through the single-edged door on the side. Before this door was a low corridor five meters deep, designed to isolate large mutants.

Chapter Six

The door wasn't locked; it had a simple mechanism. He had to pull the handle down and push it inward to unlock it, then pull it outward to open the single door. He led the young man inside. The lights in the aquarium were turned down to a minimum, with only dim floodlights and a brighter light in a corner of the hall—the safe room set up for stranded tourists was here.

It was a small cubicle, still constructed of metal—a last resort, perhaps. If a mutant beast were to break in, at least tourists would have a last hope, perhaps the mutant beast couldn't break through. When the door opened, a middle-aged woman was revealed. Cheng Yijiu didn't bother to ask why she was staying. "Come on, get in the car with me and I'll take you back to the visitor center. It's hard to say what will happen if you stay here any longer."

The woman didn't cause any trouble and followed Cheng Yijiu obediently. The young man did the same after he had some dry food and a drink of water. Of course, Cheng Yijiu was the first to leave. He first popped his head out and looked around, relying on his extraordinary night vision and hearing to determine if any mutant beasts were approaching. Of course, he also contacted the security monitoring room to confirm that there were no damaged cameras.

"Okay, is everything working here? Yeah, sure. I'll be right back. How's the Nocturnal Animal Pavilion? They're back already? That's good, they're really lucky." Cheng Yijiu got in the car and had the two of them sit down. He still had to pick up the two idiots in the bird area, and then tonight's work would be successfully completed. The cameras in the bird area were also working properly, indicating that there was no problem there.

Cheng Yijiu drove to the bird area again. This time, he boldly drove directly to where the two idiots were staying. "Get in the car! I'll take you back to the center. If you don't get in the car, your life or death has nothing to do with me. And I will personally take you to the police station after dawn." The two guys must have been scared by the messy sounds and lights in the dark during this time, and quickly got into Cheng Yijiu's car.

"Oh the fuck, what the hell is this?" Cheng Yijiu, having just turned around, almost collided head-on with a massive, bizarre figure. It resembled a giant skeleton, about six meters tall, its head, or what looked like a head, a gigantic street lamp. "What kind of mutant beast is this?" Cheng Yijiu drove with one hand, holding a shotgun out the window with the other and opening fire.

With his immense arm strength, he could steadily fire a volley of shotguns with a single arm. He was, of course, aiming for the monster's legs, which looked like rotting flesh hanging from a skeleton. Two single-shot bullets landed accurately, severing the leg. "I was shocked. I thought it was a metal creature, but it turns out to be organic. What kind of mutant is this thing? Could streetlights mutate?"

Regardless, this thing was definitely not a good guy, because it launched an attack, and even after a leg was broken and it fell to the ground, it continued to attack with its claws. If Cheng Yijiu hadn't been a good driver and decisively swerved around it and even bumped into it, getting entangled by this thing would have been a big deal. Cheng Yijiu decided to immediately fill in the records and record all the mutant beasts he saw tonight. He had to deal with the elephant after dawn.

But first, let's deal with the broken lamppost lying outside the bird park. I wonder what it will look like during the day. How can an elephant hide its presence so well? Could it be a mutant with a completely dissociated consciousness? It's not impossible.

Mutant beasts can hide, and their hiding ability is very strong. Disguising themselves as normal beasts is a basic operation.

The return trip was uneventful, and they reached the underground garage safely. Once the gates were closed, they were completely safe. Once they got out of the car, security would naturally take them to the housekeeping department to rent a room, or else sleep on the sofa in the lobby for the night. Of course, they would pay the fee—if they didn't, they would be sued. Cheng Yijiu returned to the office to register. At least one of the mutant beasts they encountered tonight was new to him.

He opened the database and began to search. There were records of mutated antelopes, and there was indeed such a mutation. "It's moderately dangerous. Its big mouth will open and wrap around its prey, but its bite force is average, so you can try to break free. Its teeth and saliva are non-toxic." Cheng Yijiu clicked the mouse casually, "So a few bullets will take care of it!"

Then there were the elephant mutants. Cheng Yijiu carefully searched the database for the twenty-seven elephant mutants and found his target. "It's surprisingly dangerous. I didn't realize its shrunken trunk could open several petals like a carnivorous plant, biting and swallowing its prey and digesting it simultaneously... Sure enough, some of these mutants have completely different visions during the day and at night..."

However, there is no record of the mutation of baby elephants.

Cheng Yijiu added it, and after uploading it, he'd get a bonus—this bonus was paid by the relevant government departments. "A mutant elephant that can transform into liquid... I think the danger level is quite high. Normal weapons are probably useless. I also suspect the liquid might be digestive fluid, which is likely highly corrosive. It's just that the protective oxide film on the surface prevents it from corroding anything it comes into contact with."

However, Cheng Yijiu had no basis for this, so he could only write "unknown".

As for the lamppost, it wasn't found among mutant beasts, at least not among various wild beasts. One had to look for it elsewhere—and Cheng Yijiu actually found it. "Damn, it's from the head series, including several types like the trumpet-shaped lamppost. They're all extremely dangerous camouflaged mutant beasts. Their prototypes are unknown, but they're definitely not lampposts or trumpets, because they're all organic creatures. It's just that we still don't know what their ordinary camouflage form is during the day."

These monsters moved very quickly, so Cheng Yijiu decisively and steadily opened fire and broke their legs, so that he could go and see what they were like during the day. Now there were still five hours until dawn, and Cheng Yijiu decided to take a nap.

It was lucky that the carnivores hadn't mutated yet. "Looks like I'll have to check more often during the day..." Cheng Yijiu fell asleep.

Actually, there's a question: why doesn't the zoo conduct thorough checks on the animals during the day? Cheng Yijiu's work manual doesn't even mention this, and neither does the security or veterinary manuals... Perhaps the higher-ups knew about the mutants, but had a specific reason?

This is not what Cheng Yijiu is concerned about. Now there are problems with the cameras in several places. The engineering department will be busy after dawn, and Cheng Yijiu will go to check before leaving get off work.

Chapter VII

Back in his dorm, of course, he showered and went to bed. Nothing else should happen tonight. As long as the stranded tourists were rescued, even if mutant beasts ran loose, it wouldn't be Cheng Yijiu's responsibility; at most, he'd just record it and deal with it during the day. The park opened at 8:30, so Cheng Yijiu was up at 6:30 and led a team of security guards armed with stun guns, steel pitchforks, and other weapons to check the conditions at several locations identified for the night.

The first thing he looked at was of course the location of the nearest lamppost that he had knocked down. "Oh, this guy struggled so hard that almost all the greenery here was flattened. He even scratched the ground to make huge cracks... Look." This monster was not at all honest after having its legs broken. He probably struggled all night.

Of course, the body wasn't left here, but traces of its movement were visible, so everyone, led by Cheng Yijiu, followed the traces to track it down. Actually, they were quite curious about what the lamppost looked like during the day. Most mutants would disguise themselves as normal beasts during the day, with only a few very weak or very strong ones displaying their mutant forms without a care in the world.

So the rat that Cheng Yijiu saw outside the protective shield that day was actually a very weak thing. It was so weak that if you shot it casually, it would bleed to death.

After walking about two or three hundred meters, the trail disappeared. In its place was a normal road—it had gone from the park through the wilderness to the pedestrian path, but then it disappeared. All I could see were the streetlights on either side of the path. "Do you have a map? The one from the Ministry of Works, the one that shows the camera placement and streetlight numbers along the road!" Cheng Yijiu asked.

Soon the engineering drawings were sent to the tablet computer, and the security guard and Cheng Yijiu began to search for the project according to the drawings. A security guard quietly slipped up to Cheng Yijiu and said, "There's one more, and the number there is inconsistent, and it's not on the map." After hearing this, Cheng Yijiu waved his hand, signaling the security guards to disperse. He walked over, raised his shotgun and fired a shot.

The target was still the street lamp.

After the shot, a strange roar echoed from the shattered street lamp. In the sunlight, everyone watched as the lamp twisted and deformed, becoming a lamp head. It was from that shattered lamp that black liquid flowed. The lamp head, exposed to the sun, also emitted black smoke and a hissing sound, clearly corroding from the sun.

So Cheng Yijiu calmly relieved its suffering—he fired at the street lamp again. Under the sunlight, the lamp's attack and defense capabilities were obviously greatly weakened, so that just two bullets shattered it and fell to the ground, and soon it was dried up by the sun.

"How could it shrink so small after death?!" Cheng Yijiu was also amazed. A five- or six-meter-tall lamppost had shrunk to the size of the faucet he used to make rice porridge at home when he was a child. Such a large fish, dried up, was reduced to a tiny amount, and the lamppost had shrunk to just over a meter tall. The body was recovered by the relevant government departments, and a reward would be offered. Private collection is prohibited.

Three security guards were assigned to transport the body back in a truck, while the others continued driving to their target location. In just one night, the mutant antelope had completely rotted away. The bones left on the ground were abnormal: a pair of eye sockets and horns had appeared on the skull, and the entire skull was deformed. The rest of the bones were similar, and even these bones were gradually weathering.

It’s also simple. Just wrap it in a body bag and take it back. This thing also needs to be handed over and can be exchanged for some bonuses.

Finally, of course, they went to the elephants. Cheng Yijiu looked at them from all angles and thought, "These two things don't look like mutant beasts at all." The keeper didn't dare to go in, but the mother elephant greeted the keeper, and the baby elephant lay on the railing and wanted to play with the keeper. Cheng Yijiu found it hard to believe when he saw this. Are these things so peaceful during the day?

Should we shoot? Cheng Yijiu didn't care, but he had to report this to the zoo's management and get permission. When he mentioned it over the radio, the response was to leave it alone. "As long as there are no casualties, leave it alone. Just increase the surveillance level and strengthen the animal pens." That was all he had to do.

Cheng Yijiu also walked into the elephant enclosure and tried to "communicate" with the elephants. Logically, he had encountered them before, and with the elephants' intelligence, they should remember him. However, the other party acted as if nothing had happened. The mother elephant was a little cold, but the baby elephant came to play with him. Cheng Yijiu also threw the big ball several times and asked the baby elephant to pick it up.

People from the Ministry of Works will come and install special surveillance and strengthen the guardrails. Cheng Yijiu remembers that there are also some special equipment to restrict mutant beasts.

"Okay, let's leave it at that for now." Cheng Yijiu took the security guards back and he was off work.

Eat, take a nap, and then go for a walk in the commercial district after getting up - the rescued people have already gone back, of course, only after paying the fees. The Ministry of Justice will urge them to do all this.

After some eating and shopping, it was soon night again—this time, there were no stranded tourists, and Cheng Yijiu was curious to see if the elephants were being restrained. Specialized surveillance systems are expensive, so they won't be deployed across the board. They also have a chance of malfunctioning, but they generally work fine.

Cheng Yijiu checked the surveillance footage in his office and saw that the mother elephant was normal after nightfall. Around nine o'clock in the evening, the image finally became blurry, and the next moment, a strange mummified elephant appeared. The baby elephant remained unchanged, and Cheng Yijiu believed that the mutation must have occurred long ago.

The two mutants were beginning to break through the enclosure, which hadn't been reinforced yet. It would take at least a week, and installing the specialized equipment would take another two or three days. So tonight, all they could do was hope the mutants didn't damage the fence. Cheng Yijiu was also a little puzzled. Why didn't the zoo have a few empty enclosures already reinforced and equipped for just such a situation?

"I don't understand them." Cheng Yijiu watched the two mutant beasts stroll out. It didn't matter what they were doing. But the camera in the aquarium suddenly broke, which he had never expected. "Huh?!" He looked at the office door. It was opened by "Mai Changqing". "Your work has come. You must go to the aquarium to deal with this matter." The guy's face was full of tension.

"Without stranded tourists, can't we handle it during the day?" Cheng Yijiu said, observing the man in front of him. The man was very nervous. "The situation is developing too fast and too seriously. You must go."

chapter eight

The aquarium was a safe zone, as it should have been. But now the internal cameras were malfunctioning, and collectively, the situation was quite serious. But that still didn't explain why Mai Changqing was so nervous. Cheng Yijiu did think of one thing: he had never met the director before...

Perhaps when everything is irreversible... "Restart or self-destruct?" Cheng Yijiu thought. In any case, the consequences would be extremely serious. He did not take the underground passage, which had been sealed multiple times to avoid affecting the visitor center...

So Cheng Yijiu drove to the aquarium with weapons, and had to be careful not to hit the roaming mutant elephants on the way. As for whether there were any other heads, that was even more difficult to say.

I was lucky tonight; I didn't encounter any other mutant beasts along the way. Cheng Yijiu got out of the car and pushed open the small door to enter the aquarium. "How bizarre!" Cheng Yijiu said unconsciously—there were so many fish in the aquarium, and everything seemed normal.

The entire aquarium was emitting a multicolored light—there were no such lights installed in the aquarium. The only lights that were shining were from a few large fish, probably humphead wrasse. These fish had changed, looking almost mechanized. Cheng Yijiu could tell from a closer look that they were imitations, but the light organs were real.

Light-emitting organs covered its entire body, like LEDs, emitting extremely bright light. The mixed colors illuminated the aquarium like a fantasy world. Outside the aquarium, a hideous-looking monster lurked. It was obvious that this creature was originally an octopus, most likely a giant Pacific octopus.

But the monster before him was what should be called a Sea Demon. Cheng Yijiu estimated it to be countless meters long, including its tentacles. Its head was as big as an exercise ball, complete with a mandible and a mouthful of fangs. Its tentacles had naturally mutated into worm-like forms, capable of opening and devouring prey. "Thank goodness this thing can't grow any bigger now," Cheng Yijiu muttered.

He raised the shotgun in his hand and fired directly at the head of the octopus that was looking at him and extending its tentacles.

"Oh?" Cheng Yijiu was surprised by the effect of the shot. The bullet hit the target accurately, but the bullet suddenly rippled like water. The bullet quickly lost its kinetic energy, deformed, and fell to the ground. "Very fierce," Cheng Yijiu cursed, pulling out his hunting knife and preparing to take action himself.

This thing can kill ordinary people, can it really withstand the attack of a champion warrior? These tentacles are quite powerful, with great strength. It's impossible for them to swallow a person, but they can definitely tear off large chunks of flesh. Cheng Yijiu's knife is made of cold iron and is enchanted. Now it has a miraculous effect on the tentacles. As expected, mutant beasts are something similar to monsters, definitely not "reasonable" creatures.

Cutting through it felt like slicing through buttered cheese, though it was half-frozen at best, requiring some effort. The cut felt like it had been corroded and burned—it looked like it might regenerate, but after being severed by the cold iron hunting knife, the cut didn't regenerate, and the fallen tentacles stopped moving.

"Great!" Cheng Yijiu's worries vanished as he lunged directly in front of the giant octopus, ducking sideways to avoid the ink that might have been spewed from the front. Who the hell knew if the mutant's ink was even highly corrosive? With one stroke, he sliced ​​open the limp skull.

"The feeling is similar to cutting open a tire. An ordinary knife would not be able to penetrate it at all. No wonder the shotgun bullets couldn't penetrate it." After cutting open the rubber skull, Cheng Yijiu took out the shotgun and fired at the wound. This time, six shotgun shells made a mess inside. Then Cheng Yijiu stuck the knife in and stirred it randomly.

He used a knife to forcibly cut out a jawbone from the inside. The mutant giant octopus, spurting blue blood crazily, simply rotted away, rapidly decaying. The rules were broken, and at this moment, a fish with arms and legs crawled out. "What is this?" Cheng Yijiu searched and found a metal pipe. With a knife in one hand and the metal pipe in the other, he prepared to fight.

Anyone else would be dead, because the strength of the mutant beasts lies in the psychological pressure they create after their appearance—Cheng Yijiu believes it's a fear aura, or even a corrosive aura. The more mutant beasts there are, the stronger they become. A normal person could withstand a normal mutant rat, but once there are three of them, a single person can't handle it.

Cheng Yijiu had no such concerns. How could the champion warrior, Apollo's chosen one, be afraid of this? These mutated fish were merging, and the mental shock they emitted had Cheng Yijiu in a trance for a moment. If it were anyone else, they would have bled to death.

Cheng Yijiu, on the other hand, used a club to knock back attacks and, by the way, temporarily anesthetize some mutant beasts' heads. His real killing move was the hunting knife in his right hand. "Damn, I'm starting to regret not bringing a greatsword. Otherwise, why would I have gone through so much trouble? Bringing a demon-killing spray gun would have been a good idea. I'm taking things too lightly. I need to change this bad habit."

The aquarium was filled with the smell of burnt and rotten protein. The rotten fish and shrimp forced Cheng Yijiu to flee in a hurry. He kicked the door open and started the exhaust system at the same time - at this time, there was no need to worry about maintaining a stable room temperature. Anyway, such a large aquarium would not cool down so quickly.

I really can't go on without some fresh air.

There were already quite a few fish and other aquatic creatures rotting on the floor. These mutants decayed much faster than terrestrial mutants. It seemed that biogas was also one of their methods. As for the threat... if we didn't consider the aura, visual and olfactory contamination were the biggest threats.

What is now in the aquarium is a group of "slime" that is a fusion of various aquatic creatures. This thing does not have much attack power, and it does not even have any intelligence. The only thing it has is a lot of HP and damn visual and olfactory pollution. If you look at it too much, you might become mutated.

There's no public record of human mutations, but humans are animals too, so how could they not mutate? In private legends, countless stories of human mutations circulate. According to the rule that higher-level animals mutate more terrifyingly, a human mutation would undoubtedly be extremely terrifying. This world must have specialized agencies handling and covering up all this.

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Chapter nine

What would a human mutation look like? Cheng Yijiu had no time to delve into this philosophical question. He was still contemplating how to kill the mutant in the aquarium. He was clutching his hunting knife as he retreated half a step through the salty air. The giant aquarium behind him reflected a faint blue light, swirls across the mutant's slimy surface, and the ever-growing mass of flesh was piercing its tentacles deep into the abdomen of the shark being observed.

Waiting until daybreak was a good idea, but looking at Mai Changqing's expression, he didn't seem to want to wait until daybreak. Although he didn't dare to call him, he kept urging Cheng Yijiu to come over, saying that he had to deal with it quickly. He might know something, but not much.

Cheng Yijiu was watching all this and thought, "Damn it! This thing is devouring the coral reef! The entire artificial reef has become its skeleton!"

Then there is only one way, arson.