The Creators: From Night City

He finally didn't pile up the materials this time.

Chapter 293: Dubai Village

The entire ship doesn't even have an outer protective railing, making the entire floating swamp-skimming ship look like an oversized flying surfboard.

Even so, the load capacity barely reached the predetermined load standard. After all, the load capacity required for 12 iron cans weighing nearly 1.5 tons, plus a large amount of weapons and ammunition, is not something that an ordinary floating vehicle can achieve.

After preliminary testing, the floating swamp-skimming ship sailed into the vast wetland swamp.

The extremely humid swamp is like a huge steamer under the scorching sun all year round. The sultry air is filled with the foul smell of silt and animals and plants rotting in the water.

In the quiet swamp, only the engine of the swamp-skimming ship was rumbling. The rapidly moving ship used the airflow to push away the thick dark green floating objects on the water surface under the ship. After passing a large area of ​​bald cypress, it entered a tall reed marsh under Jiang Bing's flexible control.

According to the records in the book, the ruins of the royal city of the ancient Bayiya Dynasty are located underground. Although the dynasty has declined, there are still a large number of survivors living in the ruins of the royal city, leading a primitive life and maintaining the customs and habits of their ancestors.

However, not everyone is willing to live this kind of life of eating raw meat and drinking blood. A considerable number of the Dubaiya people chose to migrate and set up camp in the swamps outside the royal city. With the wave of Western exploration in the 17th and 18th centuries, they began to integrate with the international community, and modern globalization and technological development have allowed them to gradually come into contact with mainstream modern society.

Of course, the company they have the most contact with is the multinational giant Sanlian.

The Dubaiya tribe lives in a shallow swamp. After the swamp-skimming ship turns out of the reed marsh, the wooden buildings built by the Dubaiya people on the wide swamp water surface can be seen from afar.

These buildings are full of ancient and natural style. Most of them are built directly in waist-deep water. The wooden support structure is supplemented by wooden boards to form a wide water platform.

On the platform are built Dubaiya’s unique steamed bun-shaped wooden and straw houses.

The platform is surrounded by fish ponds built with fine railings and fences, where the Dubai people raise various fish.

Further away on the land is the real location of the Dubaiya tribe. The continuous buildings form a huge village that extends from the land to the water.

The outer walls of the fortress are basically made of huge logs, painted with complex mysterious patterns and decorated with livestock skulls.

Of course, the electric poles standing in the swamp, the electric lights and other electrical appliances in the tribe still add a touch of modernity to this primitive tribe.

The swamp-skimming ship sailed into the small dock in front of the village. The wooden drawbridge was wide open. The watchtowers on both sides were also empty. The entire village fell into dead silence.

A group of people stepped into the land of this primitive village.

After walking through the deserted village houses, the mysterious and ancient sacrificial platform, and finally the circular gathering platform built around a huge bonfire, everyone finally saw the missing Diya people at the back of the village.

They had obviously also been harmed, and all of them had been infected and parasitized by the Plaka parasite virus.

These people of Dibaiyya have obviously been parasitized for a longer time, and the parasites they are infected with are more mature and more vicious.

Every parasitized Diya has more or less different deformations in appearance. Irregular bone pieces grow on the limbs and joints, and the skin on the chest has ulcerated, faintly revealing the mature parasite body in the chest cavity.

These disgusting parasites seemed to have replaced the host's heart, beating slightly at a amplitude visible to the naked eye, pumping their fishy yellow body fluids throughout the infected person's body.

The entire tribe gathered here.

Of course, a large number of people are already dead.

Almost all the dead are elderly people and children. The Plaka parasite requires a lot of energy to grow in the host's body. The weak elderly and children are simply unable to withstand the erosion of the body caused by the Plaka type III parasite they are infected with during its development and growth. The final result is often that the parasites will eat them into a mass of rotten flesh, turning them into a breeding ground for the parasite's larvae.

Almost all the infected and successfully transformed 'Makini' were in their prime, and at this moment, they were worshipping a tall figure standing beside a pool with fanatical expressions.

He was also a Dubaiyan. Like the other tribesmen below, he had bare bluish-gray skin and his limbs were covered with bone fragments.

However, a huge crack appeared on his chest, with a large amount of mucus flowing freely, and a huge yellow-orange eye was revealed in the crack.

The tall Dubaiya man was shouting passionately in the indigenous language of his tribe, while directing others to throw the bodies of the elderly and children into the muddy pool below.

They are no longer human beings, but human-shaped insects.

"Dear Black King, it seems these creatures have become like Wendigos, heretics among humans." Even though Eagle had experienced the previous battle as a prelude, he still felt uncomfortable with this scene.

Jiang Bing, their boss, also felt uncomfortable with this scene of desecration of life. This situation where the body is parasitized by foreign objects and the mind is controlled will instinctively cause physiological discomfort rooted in the genetic level of humans.

Facing these heretics who were disguised as human beings, Jiang Bing had no hesitation in his attitude.

"Destroy them!"

The orderly sound of footsteps from the power armor and the sound of loaded guns intertwined into a melody of destruction.

When the Makinis heard the noise behind them, they became agitated and became bloodthirsty and violent due to the stimulation of the parasites in their bodies.

They raised their wooden spears, held up their thick wooden shields, and rushed towards the apostles.

These new "Makinis" demonstrated strong physical qualities, holding shields and spears weighing more than ten kilograms, and running as fast as galloping horses.

But it was no use, the bullet reached them before them.

The scene was very similar to ancient cavalry charging towards the Maxim heavy machine gun.

Grenades, electromagnetic armor-piercing spikes, kinetic bullets, and steel balls formed a barrage that turned the enemy's front row into a hornet's nest the moment they came into contact with the numerous "Makinis".

In particular, electromagnetic guns that emphasize penetrating power often fire armor-piercing nails, which often penetrate the flesh and blood body and leave a trail of nails before being nailed to distant buildings.

But as BOWs, they are not completely defenseless against modern firepower.

The bone armor on the surface of the body is very hard and can protect against some damage from bullets. Of course, the most important thing is that as long as the parasites in the body of "Makini" are not eliminated, missing limbs and a few holes in the body, which are almost fatal injuries to normal people, are not life-threatening to them.

What's more, these parasites have other 'functions'.

'mutation'

Chapter 294: Reality Has No Cutscenes

A Makini jumped high under the bullets, trying to rush into the crowd of Apostles and kill them all. But just as he took off, he was shot away by the assaulter in the front row who was holding a shotgun and responsible for fire suppression. The dense steel ball bullets blew his head off.

While the man was in mid-air, the Plaka parasite on the chest of the "Makini" felt the threat of death and began to squirm frantically. As soon as the infected person landed on the ground, the bones and flesh on his neck were stretched apart from the inside by the parasite, and a "meat whip" with countless sharp tentacles and a large number of irregular bones on the head was thrown out from the opponent's chest.

This is one of the characteristics of the 'Plaka' parasite. When the host is about to die, the parasite hidden in the host's body will mutate into new tissues in a short period of time to fill and replace the host's missing organs to ensure its own survival.

The twisted and grotesque 'meat whip' only had time to swing twice before the middle section of its chest was blown up by the kinetic energy bullet that followed. Its entire upper body fell to the ground like a castle in the air, and then its lower body also fell helplessly. Its two legs instinctively twitched on the ground, but soon lost their vitality.

No matter how miraculous the 'Praca' parasite was, it was still within the range of normal carbon-based organisms. Compared with the dumdum bullets that the 'Apostles' had specially replaced, it obviously failed to gain the upper hand in this massacre.

More Makinis began to mutate due to their missing limbs. The parasites in their bodies became more active than ever under the stimulation of death, desperately pumping body fluids, activating flesh and blood, and mutating limbs.

Some parasites, driven by their survival instinct, even voluntarily abandoned their parasitic bodies, broke through the host's back and drilled out, waving their two flesh wings and flying from the air to attack everyone.

This is also another variant of the Plaka parasite.

However, these fat and ugly flesh-winged insects were quickly blasted into pieces by dum-dum bullets, which were very effective in damaging flesh and blood.

The tall Dubaian could no longer sit still. He roared to the sky and extended four ferocious mouthparts from his wide-open mouth, looking weird and terrifying.

The sharp roar like the buzzing of insects was like nails scratching a blackboard, which made people feel disgusted from the bottom of their hearts. However, the surviving 'Makini' seemed to have received invisible encouragement and was very excited. His eyes were bloodshot, and the parasites in his body also fell into a violent state, making the host's body bulge, and they couldn't wait to break out of the body.

But before this small BOSS-level 'Makini' could finish the cutscene, the next second, his head was blasted all over the ground by the blunt-headed nails of the "Battering Ram" individual electromagnetic cannon.

The gradually heated atmosphere on the field came to an abrupt end, and even for a moment many "Maginis" were at a loss and a little embarrassed.

This is reality, not a game. There are no invincible frames in cutscenes.

The flesh and blood are rolling.

The crack on the chest of the tall 'Makini' whose head was blown off was suddenly torn apart, and with the blood and flesh boiling like boiling water, the opponent's upper body mutated into a giant bone clam in a very short time.

But there are no pearls inside the oyster, but the hideous mouthparts of a parasite.

It tightly closed its two thick bony clams, and with its lower legs dragging a bloody tail to maintain its balance, it staggered towards the direction of the 'apostles'.

To be honest, the scene that was happening before their eyes, which seemed to be a random mixing of humans and other species, made all the sane people present extremely resistant.

So, under the order of the Black King, the Apostles stopped collecting combat data, and an Apostle stepped forward, carrying a huge ammunition box on his back and holding a Gauss minigun of the same type as the [Annihilation] one.

Physically, the numerous "Makinis" that looked like demons with their fangs and claws bared launched another charge.

But all resistance turned into silent silence under the gun of [annihilation].

The sizzling sound produced by electromagnetic acceleration was equally loud, but watching a bunch of demons and monsters being smashed into dust by the metal storm was inexplicably relaxing.

'Order' once again triumphed over 'disorder'.

Blood, a mixture of yellow and blood-red, flowed along the grooves on the ground into the pool behind. The bloodiness seemed to attract the huge monster hidden in the water.

Soon, several sharp snouts pierced the water surface, and several fat and strong crocodiles surfaced.

The originally yellow eyes have been replaced by blood red. These crocodiles are fed with flesh and blood full of "Praka" parasites by the "Makini" all day long, and have long been infected by the parasites.

However, soon these crocodiles fled in all directions under the gaze of everyone as if they had encountered their natural enemies, and the originally red water surface was gradually covered by a layer of dark waves.

With Jiang Bing's keen eyesight, the true form of the pitch-black object floating on the water surface was quickly revealed.

This dark wave is made up of water striders that are as big as gadflies. These water striders have obviously undergone mutations. After being attracted by the smell of blood in the water, they quickly gathered here.

The Tri-Union Corporation has been indiscriminately spreading parasites modified by viruses, causing unpredictable changes in the ecology of this area.

However, thanks to them, Jiang Bing was able to find the passage leading to the royal city from where they gathered.

It was a man-made waterway connected to a pool where a group of crocodiles were kept.

The waterway is spacious enough for floating swamp-skimming ships to pass through unimpeded.

This is when the advantages of the airship are demonstrated. Compared with ordinary hovercraft, it can float in the air and go ashore without any hindrance.

Even when temporarily weightless, it can increase floating height.

After driving the swamp-skimming ship onto land, the 13 people floated from the village into the waterway as if they were riding on a UFO.

This waterway is full of traces of artificial excavation on all sides, but the traces of excavation are very old. Judging from the time, it should have been built by the ancient Bayyan people.

There are also caves carved on the cliff wall for hiding soldiers for defense, but they have long been unused and are covered with dust.

The waterway is not very long, but the water is deep and the flow is slow, and the clear water surface appears unusually calm.

Of course, if you don't count the big guys in the river.

There was a giant West African Nile crocodile lying in the river, which was more than ten meters long. Looking down from the sky, the shadow it cast in the water was as big as a truck.

It lurks quietly at the bottom of the water, as if waiting for its prey to come to it.

Most alligator species have less melanin in their irises, making them very sensitive to light.

When the floating swamp skimmer flew over the area where it was lurking, casting the shadow of its bottom on the water, it seemed to trigger some ancient warning device.

The calm surface of the water was instantly broken, and a bloody mouth broke through the water.

Chapter 295: Ruins of the Royal City of Dubai

The giant kiss that was powerful enough to bite an ordinary ship into pieces ended up biting nothing the next second.

The crocodile fell back into the water in vain, revealing its two eyes. It stared blankly at the flying swamp skimmer, a hint of grievance in its eyes, as if to say, "Why don't you play by the rules?"

Jiang Bing and his companions stood on the giant surfboard, looking down together, their expressions like heavenly soldiers standing in the clouds, watching the other side's ambush like a clown with indifference.

Jiang Bing even wanted to laugh, but it was not his character to leave a grudge unresolved.

The next moment, justice came from heaven.

Frying fish is an immoral but enjoyable thing, and frying alligators is even more enjoyable.

Although bullets do not pose much threat to crocodiles lurking at the bottom of the water, the power of grenades and shock waves generated by grenades in water can be said to have increased by several times.

After a while, this crocodile and other unlucky small crocodiles were turned upside down by the shock wave generated by the explosion, and then blown to pieces by various explosives, turning into blood clots all over the pool.

A large number of tentacles of Plaka parasites were wriggling in these blood clots, like centipedes, dead but still alive.

So a can of liquid hydrazine was poured onto the water and cremated on the spot with a raging fire.

Cyber ​​'Auspicious Cloud' continues its journey.

After passing the section of the river where the crocodiles were grilling, and going around two bends, we walked for another ten minutes before finally seeing the end.

This is a simple port paved with wooden planks, built on one side of the shore, with a large number of small sampans docked in it in a disorderly manner. Needless to say, these are the means of transportation of the Dubai people.

The crowd climbed up the stairs and crossed a stone corridor. The ruins of a huge ancient city embedded in the underground mountain appeared before their eyes. It was dilapidated, but one could still feel the grandeur of the past.

The ruins of the ancient city of Baya.

Henry Tesville recorded the history of the royal city in his book: The ancient royal city of Dubya was originally built on a high mountain. Over a long period of time, with several violent geological movements, the entire city was strangely sunk into the belly of the mountain, and disappeared from the outside world along with the inexplicable demise of the Dubya dynasty.

This royal city is basically surrounded by hundred-meter-high rock walls on all sides. The gate was buried by the rocks long ago during the subsidence process. The whole royal city is like an orange tightly stuffed in a cup. The top of the royal city, which is the position of the cup mouth, projects a ray of skylight downwards, shining obliquely on the royal city, which adds a sense of sacredness.

However, the modern tents, instruments, equipment, plastic supply boxes and reinforced concrete buildings that are completely incompatible with the rocky ancient city ruins that can be seen everywhere in the ruins have completely destroyed the sacred feeling.

The entire ancient city looks like various 5A-level tourist scenic spots, neither ancient nor modern.

Before Jiang Bing could finish his sigh, a fierce gunfire sounded from a distance.

The sounds of gunfire and explosions intertwined with each other, and from time to time there were a few howls in the indigenous language, making the quiet ancient city restless.