Chapter 781: Cooperation

Having lost the tips of two tentacles, this octopus still had twenty-eight left.

It stabbed again, this time the tentacles appeared behind and below the two, extremely insidious. Wei Yuan, who had just overcome the body's resistance, accelerated his movements significantly, barely avoiding the stab, but suddenly received a heavy blow on the top of his head, his eyes went black, and he almost fainted.

The octopus didn't just stab, but also swung its tentacles to whip Wei Yuan hard. Although Wei Yuan had the protection of the Law of Emptiness and Form Indestructibility, this force was enough to smash boulders, still smashing him until he was dizzy.

On the other side, Seeing Ji Liuli also fell into a crisis. She didn't know what material her military uniform was made of, but it could block the tentacle stabs. The octopus used more than ten tentacles to besiege Seeing Ji Liuli, stabbing more than ten times, but only tore a few small openings in the military uniform. There was a shirt inside the jacket, and skin inside the pants.

The alien octopus had considerable intelligence and immediately stabbed at the openings, but only left a few red dots on her skin, actually failing to break the skin.

Wei Yuan saw the battle situation here with his spiritual sense, and although he had expected it, he still couldn't help but be shocked. Seeing Ji Liuli's physical body intent was really ridiculously strong.

Although Seeing Ji Liuli didn't fear cutting and stabbing, her resistance to whipping was much weaker. She defended with a short knife and cut off three tentacles, but she also received many heavy blows, and blood began to seep from her mouth and nose.

When she wanted to dodge, she suddenly stumbled and almost fell, and then her back received a heavy whipping blow, and she even faintly heard the sound of bone cracking! She looked down and realized that at some point, a tentacle had wrapped around her leg, binding her in place.

Seeing Ji Liuli's movements slowed down, and immediately seven or eight tentacles wrapped around her, tightening, and with her formidable body, her face instantly turned bright red, and bloodshot eyes began to spread.

Several slightly thinner tentacles appeared, the tips actually being mouthparts covered with dense fine teeth. These tentacles tore at the military uniform, but also failed to bite through. But they immediately changed tactics, drilled into the openings of the clothes, and gnawed all the way, looking for flaws in her body.

Wei Yuan was anxious and used another wisp of luck before the Buddha, blasting a shot at the octopus. As a result, the octopus blocked the trajectory with one tentacle, blocking the bullet, and then it immediately cut off this tentacle, throwing the tentacle stained with golden-cyan light far away.

Wei Yuan's heart sank; this octopus was truly difficult to deal with. But now was not the time to consider consumption. Wei Yuan fired several shots in succession, using up all the Azure Qi he had obtained from the soldiers, yet he only managed to destroy seven of the octopus's tentacles.

On the other side, Seeing Ji Liuli was already in a desperate situation, with a tentacle wrapped around each of her hands, and her movements became much slower. The tentacles she cut off would regenerate their tips after a while. Only by hitting with a luck-infused bullet like Wei Yuan's would it destroy one of its entire tentacles.

At the critical moment, a bright red figure suddenly rushed out from the darkness, raised her gun, and blasted the octopus, sending it flying for several meters!

The person who came was a short-haired woman wearing a red short cheongsam, out of place with the surrounding environment. In her hand was a bright blue shotgun, and she fired a shot with every step she took, blasting the octopus into a sieve in the blink of an eye.

The caliber of this gun was almost like a grenade, and the recoil could be imagined. But her slightly thin body still walked forward steadily, without the slightest sway.

Her movements were extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, she fired more than thirty shots, and the magazine of the gun in her hand was also incredibly large.

The octopus let out a mournful cry, the wounds on its body rapidly ulcerated, and as several wounds spread to the runes, it twitched and finally stopped moving, and the tentacles that had been attacked were all retracted.

The short-haired woman came to the octopus's corpse and fired two more shots, only then feeling relieved, and walked toward Wei Yuan and Seeing Ji Liuli.

Seeing Ji Liuli picked up her pistol and actually looked guarded. The red-clothed woman stood still ten meters away and said, "You have also seen that the situation below has completely lost control, and none of us have the ability to act alone. Shall we cooperate?" Seeing Ji Liuli hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded.

The short-haired woman turned to Wei Yuan and asked, "What about you?"

Wei Yuan had always felt that this woman looked familiar, and at this moment finally confirmed it, asking, "Kong Que?"

The short-haired woman was stunned and said, "Who is Kong Que? You actually don't recognize me?"

Seeing Ji Liuli said at this time, "She is the most dangerous person in the entire company, and also the Director of Intelligence, Wang Bing."

Wei Yuan looked at Seeing Ji Liuli and asked, "Are you okay?"

"A little minor injury, a few small bones cracked, it doesn't affect the battle."

Wei Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

The battle just now looked like the short-haired woman was crushing everything, but in reality, it wasn't like that. Seeing Ji Liuli contained 80% of the octopus's offensive, while Wei Yuan thoroughly destroyed the octopus's defense, and then when the short-haired woman appeared, the octopus had no defensive means left, eating all her bombardment raw. And she used all targeted special-effect biochemical bullets, which was why the octopus was defeated so quickly.

The short-haired woman said, "There is a data center on the other side of this level, where we might be able to know what exactly happened and why such bizarre creatures appeared. There is also a workstation there, where we can manufacture and replenish biochemical ammunition. I hope there are enough materials there."

This plan was unanimously approved, and the three redistributed ammunition. Seeing Ji Liuli was in the front, and Wei Yuan and Wang Bing were on the left and right behind, searching forward, clearing many monsters along the way, and finally entered the data center.

The data center had an independent power supply and was actually still operating. Seeing Ji Liuli and Wang Bing checked the data separately, letting Wei Yuan stand guard. Soon Seeing Ji Liuli and Wang Bing made a discovery, saying, "Found the reason!"

When the accident happened, what should have leaked was the newly developed virus, which could devour all organic matter and generate intelligence once it gathered in sufficient quantity. Researchers believed that once this life form spread, it would become a biochemical disaster aimed at ordinary people. Most people would be infected and die, becoming their nutrients, while a small number of lucky ones would develop immunity, but they had no super-powers and would be torn to pieces by the newly born monsters.

The researchers even provided many evolutionary templates and accurately predicted the combat power of monsters produced after a large number of viruses aggregated. Looking at this top-secret report, Wei Yuan had a strange feeling, as if this biochemical disaster was entirely under the control of these researchers. What exactly were they trying to do by researching this virus?

But reality was obviously completely different from the report, and the combat power of these monsters far exceeded the upper limit predicted by the report.

At this time, Wang Bing called up a data record and said, "The spreading virus was infected by a newly appeared virus, and the two eventually synthesized a brand-new virus, also possessing aggregation capabilities, and with stronger combat power. What's strange is that this new virus was just developed, and it actually perfectly fits our aggregate virus."

Seeing Ji Liuli said, "Why does the code of this new virus look a bit familiar..."

She clicked on the source file of the virus code and saw the designer of the new virus at a glance: Wei Yuan.

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