Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 461 [Chapter of Hidden Abyss] Five: The Snake Eater

"I feel that this thing looks like some kind of anaconda from the chordate subphylum, reptile class, and scaly order."

Chen Yan compared the length of the strange snake and found that it was about the same length as his forearm.

"Based on the average length of anacondas, this thing should be a young snake that has just been born? Or maybe it just broke its shell."

Except for Jack Baldo, other team members who didn't know Chen Yan expressed more or less surprise and curiosity about his professionalism.

Chen Yan's attention was focused on the corpse of the strange snake, and he didn't notice any changes in the attention of other people.

"But anacondas don't have wings, and they don't have so many compound eyes... so maybe this thing is some kind of mutant?"

He touched his chin.

"Or did it become like this because it was polluted by something underground?"

Hearing the word "pollution", everyone felt a little guilty at the same time.

Even in Yanan City on the surface, infectious diseases caused by strains of infection emerge in endlessly every year, such as tuberculosis, acute tonsillitis, bacillary dysentery, scarlet fever, acute pharyngitis...

People have no way to prevent these infectious diseases for the time being, nor do they have the financial ability to treat these diseases, so once they suffer from such diseases, it is equivalent to being sentenced to death.

And underground... who knows what kind of ancient bacteria exist in the unknown underground, and how much harm it will cause to human beings?

Fortunately, there are miners' uniforms.

It has been proven many times that physical isolation is quite effective against bacterial infections.

Jack Baldo said from the side:

"Contaminated by things in the city of mountains...like those infected and mutated shrimp people?"

Others didn't know what the "City of Overlapping Mountains" was, and they felt even weirder.

Chen Yan was noncommittal:

"Who knows..."

Under the pale light scattered by the searchlights, the cold wind with water vapor kept taking away the body temperature of the expedition team members. Even with thick miners' uniforms, they could still feel the wetness and coldness on the street in the early morning after the torrential rain all night.

Chen Yan said in a low voice:
"Under normal circumstances, the body will harden between half an hour and two hours after death... In this kind of icy water, the hardening time will be extended, but not for long."

"The anaconda itself is a cold-blooded animal, so it will take longer to harden...if this thing is really an anaconda."

Paulkin Walker shook the snake's body, and everyone immediately saw that the snake's body was very flexible during the shaking, and it was obviously not stiff.

"Anacondas are huge. If this thing is really an anaconda, it should be a larva that has just hatched."

Chen Yan pointed to the rotten wings on the snake's back.

"It takes at least two weeks for a normal corpse to rot like this."

"Even under the water with a large number of microorganisms, it will take at least a week... The degree of decay is too abnormal."

"I guess there is something under the water that can accelerate the decay of the corpse."

As soon as Chen Yan finished speaking, Weber in front couldn't help but turned his head and said:

"It's bacteria!"

He explained in his own words:
"Bacteria are alive and need to be eaten. Chunshen's strain is like this. You must eat on time, otherwise you will look for blood everywhere... Could the wings of this strange snake be eaten by bacteria?"

Chen Yan guessed:
"It is very likely that there are many types of underwater bacterial colonies. In such ancient caves, in addition to various nitrifying bacteria, there may be other underwater bacterial groups."

"Maybe some kind of bacteria caused the mutation of these anacondas, and it was this bacteria that ate the body of this anaconda."

Chen Yan turned to say:

"Perhaps, this strange snake is not a snake at all, but itself has this weird appearance."

Feeling the oppressive atmosphere among his teammates, Chen Yan joked:

"Perhaps, we have not been surrounded by this kind of strange snake yet, it is because of the blessing of this strain - it is the strain and the strange snake that fight against each other, which makes the strange snake have no time to distract us, otherwise the strange snakes in the water The number, wouldn't we be finished long ago!"

Everyone didn't relax because of this, on the contrary, they became more nervous.

Chen Yan was a little embarrassed, and immediately changed the subject, saying to Jack Baldo:

"Lend me your backpack."

He took the backpack that Jack handed over, and took out the spherical Tunguska from it. This little thing had been frozen into a ball.

After getting out of the pack and seeing Swarm, it almost fainted.

'It showed fear of Swarm again, why? '

The previous time in the apartment had already attracted Chen Yan's attention, and the fear shown this time made Chen Yan even more curious.

He turned around and stood between the spherical Tungus and Swarm, only to reduce its fear a bit—although the whole body was still trembling due to fear or cold, it was obvious that it could speak.

He asked it in a low voice: "Have you encountered this kind of snake before?"

Spherical Tungus replied with a trembling voice: "That's not a snake..."

It does know something.

Chen Yan looked into its eyes, waiting for its answer.

"I'm not sure... I was quite valuable back then. Once I encountered a dangerous place, they wouldn't let me go, so I didn't have direct contact with this thing."

Spherical Tunguska said intermittently:

"According to them, at the bottom of the beta sector, close to the position of the gamma sector, something like a snake was found."

Chen Yan was shocked.

We are now almost close to the gamma sector!
Spherical Tunguska continued:
"I saw the photos they took later, and then I realized that they dissected the thing and found that it was just a layer of skin, and the skin was densely packed with fleshy moss."

Chen Yan suddenly said:
"That is, the interior of these snakes, has been almost eaten up by the strain ... and replaced by the strain."

Weber guessed right.

Spherical Tunguska nodded:
"I was very curious at the time, and wanted to see if that thing was [Brain Ball Strain], because you know, I'm not afraid of that thing, I already had [Brain Ball Strain] in my body."

"I found more photos of the dissected strange snake at that time, which were the research results recorded by Spyro Industries after asking experts to study it.

They found that it was not [Brainball Strain] in its body, but another kind of bacteria. This kind of bacteria was more aggressive, but not as strong hallucinogenic as [Brainball Strain]. "

It added:

"This strain is equally omnivorous."

Chen Yan said thoughtfully:

"This is also the reason why the smokey lake pirates did not have a large-scale somnambulism at that time."

Spherical Tunguska nodded vigorously:

"I thought of that right away, too."

Chen Yan said again:

"It's a phenomenon in biology that two very aggressive organisms don't usually appear in the same environment.

But the living environment of [Brain Ball Strain] and the underwater bacteria is too close, almost in the same water area—I remember you said that the location of the city of overlapping peaks is probably between the gamma sector and the omega sector between?That's what you said at the time."

Spherical Tunguska replied:
"Probably so...but I'm not sure."

Chen Yan guessed:
"So, is it possible that the bacteria in the strange snake's body is a 'variant' of [Brain Ball Strain]? Or a 'degenerate'?"

He continued to speculate:

"From another point of view - 'ecological niche', perhaps this bacterium and [Brainball strain] are in a competitive relationship, just because the underground area is too large, and the two have not yet reached the point of fighting for territory. "

Spherical Tunguska does not answer this question.

Maybe it's because I don't know, maybe it's...

Do you want to use synaesthesia on it?
Chen Yan thought to himself, it is one thing to be able to block the emotions in the synaesthesia, but it is another thing to accumulate and lose control when looking directly at the [unknown knowledge] in the synaesthesia.

The memory of the spherical Tunguska in just a dozen years contains a lot of [unknown knowledge]. Once you look directly at it, it will definitely accumulate out of control while exercising inspiration.

Now Chen Yan's inspiration intensity has reached 90% of what a psychic can carry. If too much loss of control is accumulated due to looking directly at [unknown knowledge], causing the loss of control to reach the threshold or break through the threshold, Chen Yan Corrosion may occur.

At this moment, he realized something in his heart.

'The accumulation of out-of-control is also the accumulation of quantitative changes. Once the quantitative changes accumulate to a certain extent, qualitative changes will occur, that is, [rot]. '

He abandoned the idea of ​​using synaesthesia on the spherical Tunguska.

'I'm not ready yet. '

He was about to put the spherical Tunguska into the backpack, but the little thing grabbed it with its claws.

"You have to protect me..."

There was pleading in its voice, and it quickly glanced at Swarm with its pitch-black pupils.

"That guy has a problem..."

Chen Yan nodded, then put it into his backpack and put it beside him.

The completely dark environment in the backpack seemed to give it a more sense of security. In the next moment, its intermittent voice, which was so small that it would almost be blown away by the breeze, entered Chen Yan's auricle:

"He's not human."

"He is lying to you. He must have other purposes in coming underground, not just to find Cyborg Quinn."

"You must be careful. Almost all the people who had a relationship with Cyborg Quinn died back then. I don't even know anyone who survived in the end."

"Who is he?
I did experiments with Cyborg Quinn for so long in the laboratory of the North Bureau, but I never saw him. "

"You just saw the strain on that strange snake. Although it's still aggressive, it's not that scary anymore... At least if you don't disturb the large-scale strain, it won't take any action against you."

"I'm very afraid of him... the [brain ball strain] in my body is very afraid of him..."

The spherical Tunguska even got into a ball because of fear. Chen Yan didn't need to have synaesthesia this time, but he could also know the fear in his heart from the trembling of his body and his voice.

The most valuable information Chen Yan has obtained now is "as long as you don't look at that thing underwater, it won't cause the other party to actively attack."

This "characteristic" is obviously different from the strong infectivity and indiscriminate pathogenicity of the [Brainball strain], which can be called burst.

(End of this chapter)