Chapter 98: Yang the Loach

Liu Mu also gave a piece of advice at the same time: unless it is a life-or-death situation, it is best not to use the ability of "Brute Transformation."

Therefore, Yang Mang currently has an urgent need to learn traditional combat techniques; he cannot truly rely only on brute force.

As for the problem of Yang Mang eating, he himself does not really want to face it. His mouth cannot open, but his chest ribs can separate, and there is a slit in the middle of his skin; when eating, he just pours the food directly into his stomach.

When performing this, one can even see the gastric mucosa, which is a bit disgusting. But if he does not do this, he feels uncomfortably hungry; as a big guy who is actually quite delicate inside, he hides to eat alone every time.

After the training session, he found Liu Mu, who was "talking" to Niu Boyi, mumbled and grunted for a long time, and finally took out a note.

It was written for him by Yang Pingxi. That is right, his fingers are thick now, and he cannot control his strength well; when writing, he either crushes the pen or the tip of the pen cuts directly through the paper.

Liu Mu frowned slightly after reading it and stared at his fused mouth, "I know a mad scientist. If we perform surgery, we should be able to help you restore your original way of eating. However, do you think it is necessary? Given your current body's energy requirements, eating mouthful by mouthful is just a waste of time."

Yang Mang lowered his big head, his shoulders moved, and he actually cried.

With a low "woo-woo-woo-woo~," teardrops the size of half a fist fell to the ground, aggrieved like a seven or eight-hundred-pound child.

"Alright, alright, I will help you find a way, okay?" Liu Mu cannot stand people crying, especially since after getting to know him during this time, this child is not bad—a bit reckless, but particularly loyal. Not very smart, but honest and sincere, how should I put it...

Much better than most people who play tricks.

"Evolution—no, this matter of Mutation has some randomness, but it does not mean we cannot change anything later. Still the same thing: when I return to the Barrier, I will take you to have the surgery."

Yang Mang's shoulders, thick as millstones, trembled, and he finally stopped his tears.

Before Liu Mu could offer much more comfort, the young man hopped away happily. He stepped out deep pits in the muddy ground, which were soon filled with rainwater.

Liu Mu frowned secretly as she looked at these pits. The rain had been falling for nearly two months, and if she remembered correctly, there were at least ten months left.

She only hoped the Black Rain would end sooner; once the rainwater became cleaner, humanity might have an easier time.

It is just that... she remembered very clearly that after the long precipitation would come the first Cold Wave.

More energy would be needed, and vegetation could not return to pre-disaster levels in a year; once the Extreme Cold descended, it would be an ice sheet everywhere.

Thinking of this, she raised her hand and rubbed Niu Boyi's head, "Boyi, we need to make money faster. We must kill the Sky Viper, subdue their forces, and then go north..."

"Woof woof woof, then when are we going to their base to eat a big feast? There is really big roast pig; if we go late, we won't catch it."

The dog drooled. Although, that said, mutated animals really do not taste as good as the meat from before, "The texture must be very good too, big roast pig, Big Sister said it is delicious."

Liu Mu gave it a practiced slap, "After finishing the real work, I will let you go back to find Big Sister, okay? You stinky dog, even learning to drop hints now."

"There really is roast pig, they each carried one down from the truck," Niu Boyi felt aggrieved. It clearly saw those snow-white pig butts, there must be a lot of meat, and they also lit a big bonfire; they must be planning to roast a whole pig.

Big Sister had told it about whole roast lamb; Niu Boyi thought the principle was the same, both were delicious.

Seeing Niu Boyi drooling, Liu Mu thought for a moment, "Since Tan Ziyan and the others are already monitoring that base, we will go and take out the other one first. They want to try some pincer attack? We will break off one of their horns first."

Niu Boyi agreed, then signaled Liu Mu to look at its bag, "There is poison, woof woof woof, let's poison them!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Mu's eyes lit up. She had already used the few bottles of pesticide she had scavenged earlier and was worrying about not finding a simple and quick way to backstab people.

The bottle containing the liquid was five hundred milliliters, and there was about three hundred milliliters of pus inside.

Liu Mu opened the opening that Wang Dashe had sealed with mud and debris and sniffed it slightly. She had expected it to be unbearably foul, but there was no obvious odor.

She rubbed a bit with her finger, and Heitao A immediately gave a toxin alert. It was actually a biological toxin, and it could reproduce rapidly in a suitable environment.

Seeing this, Liu Mu's scalp tingled a bit. That is to say, if this stuff entered a biological organism, it might divide infinitely, and how many animals and plants it would eventually poison to death, or what more serious consequences it would produce, no one knew.

That is right, the viral principle reminded her of the Zombie Virus, only the Zombie Virus controls humans, transforms humans, and only acts strongly on mammals.

The pus in her hand should act directly as a potent poison.

However, Niu Boyi was not poisoned when it hunted the mutated sika deer, which indicated that she and the dog could resist this toxin. It is just unclear whether it was a toxin secreted by the sika deer after mutation or if it was parasitic. The former is more likely; after all, those sika deer did not poison themselves to death.

Liu Mu hesitated for a moment and asked the system if this toxin would flow into the natural world and reproduce and grow after the animal died.

【No, they can only act within a biological organism. Once the biological cells lose their activity, they will also die.】

"That is a relief," Liu Mu used a glass bottle from the system to divide the pus into several portions, took fifty milliliters, and got up to gather the team.

Wang Pan and several of his trusted aides had been exhausted from training the past two days and could barely lift their hands now, so they would not be needed for the operation.

Of course, they would not get a share of the credit either.

An ordinary rainy night—er, with some lightning—pounding the waterlogged mud that could easily swallow an adult.

Of course, these people did not include a young man named Yang Shun, because the day before, he had discovered with surprise that as long as he expelled thirty percent of the water in his body, he could float on the surface of the mud and slide.

If he expelled fifty percent, he could easily float on the water's surface...

In the dark night, he slid into the mud like a loach and swam into the other party's temporary encampment just like that.

"Will Loach be alright?" His brothers were all sweating for him.

The soldiers who usually thought he was a weakling finally changed their opinion of him, feeling that this kid was actually quite useful.

"He hides back in the mud after finishing the mission, it is very stealthy. If things really go wrong, we will rush down to save him!"

Liu Mu lay in the darkness, the rain hitting them and making an irritable sound.

She had Yang Shun put the poison into these people's drinking water; this matter was not too difficult, and she could have done it herself. But there is a process from ingestion to the poison taking effect; if an accident occurred in the middle, she would have to go down and harvest lives first.

Of course, killing was already a daily routine for her, but these people had heavy weapons.

That level of weaponry—let alone her, even Niu Boyi could not withstand it.

Before nightfall, they had already hidden on a nearby mountain and saw two more trucks drive in. One truck of people, one truck of weapons; if nothing went wrong, the other party should also be planning to act tonight.

An hour later, those people started eating dinner, bringing out pot after pot. Liu Mu twitched her nose, "It is actually tomato beef stew; these people really have things."

As soon as she said this, the sound of swallowing saliva rose up nearby, and even Luo Sanlin could not help but ask, "It is beef, not canned food?"

"It is," Liu Mu concluded, "and it is fresh beef, not zombie meat. Brother Sanlin, let's pull off this job and take their food back."

Wang Pan could not go on the mission, so Luo Sanlin temporarily became the Captain of this team. There were many who were originally loyal to Wang Pan, but after arriving, they were scared stiff by Liu Mu and her dog, so they did not dare to object for the time being.

As for Luo Sanlin, whether in the Barrier or in their eyes, his reputation was quite good, and after getting along, they discovered he was a rare young man who insisted on justice and fairness.

In times like these, it is especially precious.

Getting Liu Mu's confirmation, Luo Sanlin whispered a word to the teammate beside him, and the latter's eyes immediately glowed green, and he hurriedly turned to tell the next person.

Although everyone did not cheer, in just a few minutes, the entire team radiated vitality; if this emotion had a name, it should be "humanity's primitive craving for fresh food."

After the meal, a jeep left the encampment.