CHAPTER 604: CHAPTER 602: PLANTING COCOONS

All complied with his words, and the soldiers all found corners to rest by themselves.

Su Mo and Lu Chen also slept in the sleeping bags, quietly closing their eyes.

Late at night, it was very quiet outside, but the two soldiers who had drunk a lot at the convenience store felt an urgent need to go to the bathroom.

They hesitated for a long time before one of them took a flashlight and went outside, where the ground was covered with green plants; they carefully illuminated the path ahead with the flashlight.

"It’s too dark here," one of them complained in a low voice.

The walls, briefly illuminated by the flashlight, showed several green plants wrapped like cocoons moving slightly.

The two did not notice the anomaly on the wall; they simply urinated on the plants, shook off, and then re-entered the convenience store following the light of the flashlight.

After re-blocking the door with the table, they lay down and were ready to sleep.

Suddenly, countless green plants on the wall of the building opposite began to move, and people wrapped in green cocoons stretched out several hands, tearing the vines apart, and the whole person fell from the height to the ground, crashing into it.

The sounds of heavy objects hitting the ground awakened Su Mo and the others.

"What was that noise?" she sat up from the sleeping bag abruptly.

Lu Chen quickly covered her mouth, as a few candles were still burning on the ground.

He extinguished the candles with a puff and gently stood up from the ground, walking to the window.

The supermarket was flanked by Venetian blinds; he pulled one side down slightly to look outside.

Under the dark vision, there were a few vague figures on the ground; Lu Chen couldn’t see clearly what these things were at the time.

Su Mo made a gesture for everyone to keep silent and be ready with their weapons as she walked to Lu Chen’s side, pulling apart one side of the Venetian blinds.

Her eyes, capable of night vision, could clearly see the objects moving on the ground.

It’s people!

She exclaimed in surprise, "Where did these people come from?"

In the dark, their bodies contorted eerily, some people got up and stood on the ground although it couldn’t really be called standing, as their backs were hunched with a large lump bulging and pulsating.

After observing for a moment, Su Mo frowned and said, "No, these aren’t people."

Despite having human appearances, some even wearing clothes or skirts, their heads were uniformly bowed down, their hands dangling at their sides, making them look no different from lifeless corpses, except for the burgeoning tumor on their backs.

Jianxiong turned to the two soldiers who had just gone outside to use the bathroom, "Didn’t you notice anything unusual just now outside?"

The two soldiers quickly shook their heads and said, "Nothing, we didn’t see anything; it was pitch dark, and we couldn’t see anything beyond the light of the flashlight."

Li He gathered everything and spoke in a low voice, "Judging by the noise, they must have just fallen from a high place."

Following his words, Su Mo looked up; in the distance was a very tall building covered with green plants, and some cocoons wrapped in plants were squirming.

"Indeed, they have fallen from above."

Lu Chen also looked up, frowning, "Parasitic? Or mutation?"

No one could answer his question; everyone hid in the shadows, observing those people who stood still without moving.

Before long, when a beam of moonlight beamed down from the sky, these creatures began to move.

The huge bulges on their backs suddenly burst, and two sets of sharp insect legs pierced through and protruded from them.

The human shell was lifted up by two pairs of huge insect legs, which acted like wings, replacing the mutated humans’ legs for walking.

Under Su Mo’s gaze, the two large bulges on everyone’s back had been pierced by two pairs of furry insect legs.

She whispered softly, "Is this a combination of humans and insects?"

"It might be a new form of parasitic infection," Lu Chen said as his superpowers began to gather around him.

Everyone was alert to the situation outside.

Those humanoid yet spider-like monsters stepped into a pile of wood vines, making a squeaking noise as they walked.

Su Mo lowered the blinds and leaned against the wall with Lu Chen.

Everyone held their breath and concentrated, and the Spiritual Superpower User behind them whispered in an extremely low voice, "I couldn’t sense them before, possibly because of these plants, but now I can detect that there are at least 50 of them."

This was a dangerous signal.

Lu Chen placed his finger on his lips; two of them, close by, had already appeared at the entrance of the supermarket, the sharp scraping sound of their claws against the supermarket’s outer wall causing chills.

Up close, Su Mo could see the extremely distant pairs of insect legs through the slits in the blinds.

They had slick, black exoskeletons divided into several segments, similar to the hind limbs of a praying mantis.

Because the main door of the supermarket had been damaged, there were only some cabinets and shelves blocking it, and many gaps were still visible.

A mutated human stood at the doorway, its sharp insect legs piercing into a cabinet.

It tore the cabinet into two halves, and two sets of sharp claws poked in.

Jianxiong positioned himself at the door, pressed against the wall, his arms beginning to harden; the moment it would barge in, he would punch without hesitation.

Some moonlight spilled through the gaps.

A large section of the cabinet fell at the entrance of the supermarket; more than half of the hybrid’s body had squeezed in.

They could not just sit waiting for death; Jianxiong punched at the emotionless face of that human.

Lu Chen’s ice crystals shot straight at the mutated creature’s face.

It dodged quickly with extraordinary agility, and at the same time, it emitted a strange hissing sound. The hybrids who were originally standing behind now all focused their attention on the supermarket.

They moved, running or crawling, all using the pair of insect legs on their backs.

In an instant, several hybrids climbed onto their roof and windows, their scythe-like sharp insect legs plunging directly into the fragile tiles on the roof.

The tips of their feet were sharp like spindles, carrying a chilling murderous intent.

From the outside, all the insect-human hybrids completely surrounded the supermarket, densely packed together.

Su Mo had no doubt that these creatures could dismantle the convenience store.

She held the Tang Blade tightly in one hand, focusing intently on the first one that rushed in through the door.

The normal human features remained expressionless, with dark, hollow eyes, yet they had not turned white like a zombie’s pupils.

Their bodies, lifted by the huge insect legs, were just like lifeless rag dolls, legs dangling in the air, only swaying with the two pairs of giant insect legs behind them.

Su Mo realized that those legs were most likely their weak points.

"Try attacking their legs."