Chapter 716 Bugs

To be honest, the marines who came this time had experienced many situations in simulated reality, but the scene in front of them was their first time to see it, and it was still so shocking.

Before they set off, there was an additional task in their task list to confirm the situation of the previous team, and then the command center also gave them a positioning coordinate, which was the place where the previous team's signal disappeared.

This also includes the general range of activities after the signal is lost. After all, the loss of the signal cannot be considered to be death. It may be possible to find a way out in other places, etc. This is all possible.

After the Marines who started the arc light exploration team entered the blood mist area, they found that the situation inside was the same as the short video they had seen before. Although there was a vast red area in front of them, due to the sufficient light in broad daylight, it was not everything. It can't be seen, but some light can shine in through the blood mist.

The visibility inside the blood fog area is basically similar to that of some dense fog weather, or even a little better than that, except that the field of vision is red.

However, as they moved forward, they discovered that the condition of the corpses here was very unusual. In just a few days, all the corpses here were already "empty", whether they were trapped by vehicles or died of coughing up blood on the roadside. Yes, all that was left of their corpses were their skeletons and the clothes they wore that were riddled with holes.

And this has been the case since entering the blood mist area. Although there were corpses that had not been cleaned up on the way here, those corpses were a little smelly at most, and due to the cold weather, they had not become completely miserable. How could they be You can see the original appearance, but once you enter the blood mist area, as long as it is a corpse, it only has a skeleton and no flesh at all.

It must have been eaten by some creature.

However, they did not find any life signals. It can be said that there was deathly silence in their sight. They even saw the skeletons of mice, dogs, cats and other mammals. This virus is not targeting humans, and it can also infect other mammals.

Occasionally, some bird carcasses are found, but they are rare.

I just don’t know whether these animals and birds died because of being infected with the virus in the air. If they were also infected by the virus, it would be a big trouble, because then the source of infection would be difficult to control.

However, judging from the current epidemic monitoring situation in various countries, it seems that no actual infected persons with the "bloodbath" virus have been found, so its infection channel should not be that large, and the cause of death of these animals should be other reasons.

Immediately afterwards, the team members discovered that there were many scattered small red dots next to each corpse. After zooming in, they were all small red bugs with six legs, but they looked like they were all dead.

It’s impossible that he also died from being infected with the virus, right?

With doubts, the team members did not stop, but just recorded the information. Later, professional personnel would analyze and study it, so the team members would not have to worry about it.

After the five-person team arrived at the positioning coordinates, they did not find those people, but they did see some traces that should have been left by them, some discarded items, some bullet casings, etc.

When they searched according to these traces, after walking only a dozen meters, they found one of the targets they were looking for this time, the bodies of the team members from the last expedition...

The corpses of these team members fell to the ground in various postures and shapes, but they did not appear to have any peaceful movements, and the protective clothing was in tatters, with holes everywhere.

Some corpses were lying on the ground. It could be felt that they were trying to crawl away from this place, but they could not crawl away no matter how hard they crawled. Moreover, it could be felt that they were struggling hard during their lifetime.

Basically every corpse had experienced a violent struggle before death, and if you looked closer, you could see that there were still faint red smoke floating out from the holes in their protective clothing.

But it was precisely because they looked closer that they saw a horrifying scene.

In those holes, you can see densely packed small red particles moving. Through the image magnification function on the power armor, you can see that they are all densely packed with small bugs. Only the dead bugs that you saw before are constantly gnawing. Eat the corpses of dead team members.

Part of the smoke that comes out is because the mouth of the bug seems to be corrosive. When eating, it will corrode part of the body, and then part of the smoke will come out, while the other part of the smoke will be excreted from the body of the bug. What comes out should be something that has been digested, or other things after synthesis. Anyway, it looks very...disgusting.

In this case, the five-person team of the Arc Light Group didn't know what to do. After all, they were full-time combat personnel. It was okay to serve as porters, but let them judge the necessity of collecting samples, but there was nothing they could do.

Of course, it is still possible to ask them to fight back the entire body.

But forget it now, it seems that every corpse is a source of infection, it is better to let "them" stay in the blood mist area.

"Command center, we have arrived at one of the mission locations and found the victims," ​​the team member of Power Armor Unit 1 asked the command center, "Is the image clear? If you hear it, please answer. Should we proceed to the next step of the mission?"

He had just finished reporting the mission, and there was a slight silence on the channel, and then Captain Wayne's voice rang out.

"Arc Light Exploration Team, the command center image is clear and the signal is clear. Although there is a slight flicker, it does not affect viewing."

"Now you start to perform a new task and start sampling the target. The specific sampling steps and sampling targets will be informed by Director Chimila. He will call you later."

"Understood, waiting for further orders." The members of Unit 1 had no objection.

As the captain of this temporary team, his decision is naturally the decision of the temporary team, and they also know that in such a situation, the people in the command center must discuss it.

Anyway, they are safe in the power armor and are on alert at all times. As long as something happens, they can immediately discover and solve it.

After a while, Chimila's voice came from the communication channel, "Arclight Exploration Team, now I will give you further tasks. You now have several different sample collection and storage devices in your hands. Now you start the same Collection, we will watch the video and guide you step by step, do you understand the mission?"

"Understood," the Arclight Team member said.

"That's good, let's start collecting the first thing now. Let's collect some living bugs first, and make sure they are..."

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