The Book of Doomsday: Little Cannon Fodder Trying to Survive

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Feng Lei went out and let them all in. Hua Ling'er looked at the crystal cores scattered all over the floor that had not been picked up yet, and picked them up with great tact. Hua Ling'er and her brother were very busy and happy.

Wang Cheng and Feng Lei drove the car into the gymnasium yard and then closed the gate. All the team members started to move around in the yard.

"You all should stay outside and wait. The danger inside has not been eliminated yet. Wang Cheng, you can take people to set up the tents. We will set up camp here for the next few days."

"Yes, Captain, I promise to complete the task." Wang Cheng said loudly. Feng Lei arranged the tasks for the team members and hurried back to the gymnasium.

Tang Tang on the other side did find something wrong. Tang Tang was now in the swimming pool on the fifth floor. The water in the swimming pool had become turbid. Feng Lei and Tang Tang had just looked around but didn't see anything unusual. Tang Tang accidentally shone her headlamp into the swimming pool and saw many skulls and scattered bones.

As Tang Tang discovered something strange in the swimming pool, she also found a lot of black things crawling out of the swimming pool. Upon closer inspection, they looked a bit like the tentacles of something, or like the vines of some plant.

The black tentacles seemed to sense the presence of humans and sped up. Soon they came to Tang Tang. Tang Tang raised her knife and chopped it down. The black tentacles broke with a sound. A lot of red and black liquid flowed out of the broken part of the tentacles, emitting a foul smell.

The severed tentacles quickly retracted into the swimming pool, and the tentacles remaining on the edge of the swimming pool also twisted back. Tang Tang released the fire dragon and burned the tentacles directly.

The severed tentacles might still be connected to the retracted tentacles. When the tentacles were burned, Tang Tang heard terrible screams echoing throughout the swimming pool.

Feng Lei on the other side heard the sound and ran towards the sound, shouting Tang Tang's name loudly as he ran.

"I'm on the fifth floor." Tang Tang responded after hearing Feng Lei's voice.

Feng Lei ran to the fifth floor and was relieved to see Tang Tang standing there safe and sound. He hurriedly asked what happened.

"After you left, I found that something was wrong with this swimming pool. I shone a headlamp into it and found that it was full of human bones. Does this mean that there is no one or a zombie here? It must be something weird here." Tang Tang explained the whole story to Feng Lei.

"Did you see what's in there? And what was that scream just now?"

"I'm not sure what kind of thing has mutated. I just cut off a few of its tentacles, but it was still able to run back on its own. It started to scream when I burned it with fire."

"It seems that the living things are very aggressive. They must be separated from the zombies outside in a separate area." Feng Lei said.

"The black-clad zombie outside is probably the strongest among all the zombies in this area. So the other zombies follow him as their leader. And this thing here doesn't need any companions. It just keeps eating to become stronger."

"Did you see clearly what it was after you cut off the tentacles just now?"

"Where can you see this? I guess even its mother wouldn't be able to recognize it now. It's so mutated that it's hard to tell what it is. It looks like a vine, but it can bleed. From this point of view, it can't be a plant, right?"

"It's not a good idea for the main body of this thing to be hidden in the water. We either need to drain the water or lure it out. Then we can find a way to deal with it."

"By the way, can we find the valve that controls the water in the swimming pool and drain the water manually? Then the main body will be revealed." Tang Tang looked at Feng Lei and asked.

"That should be fine. You wait here, I'll go find the valve. Just be careful." Tang Tang nodded to show that she understood.

While Feng Lei was looking for the valve, the thing in the swimming pool tried many times but failed, and instead left behind many tentacles. Tang Tang squatted on the ground and used the Dragon Roar Knife to pull the tentacles for careful inspection. It was really the epidermis of a plant, with flesh and blood inside. How did the two come together?

Suddenly, a sound was heard from the swimming pool. It seemed that Feng Lei had found the valve. Tang Tang stood by the swimming pool, watching the water recede little by little. The things in the water slowly revealed their true forms. On a pitch-black vine grew a human head, and the human's limbs had been assimilated by the vine. This also explained why the tentacles looked like plants on the outside but were flesh and blood on the inside.

The head on the vine seemed to have just woken up, slowly raised its head, opened its eyes and looked at Tang Tang. Tang Tang was shocked when she saw the eyes of the head. These were not human eyes, but zombie eyes, which meant that this was the product of a combination of zombies and plant mutations.

The mutant zombie smiled strangely, and countless tentacles around its body flew up and attacked Tang Tang directly.

A bolt of lightning suddenly hit the mutant zombie's head. The head, which had turned into charred, fell off directly, and the tentacles of the vines quickly withered and shrank.

"How is the girl? Is she okay?" Feng Lei asked with concern.

"It's okay. You killed him before he even touched me. You defeated the enemy with one move." Tang Tang said with a smile, "This time the match should be considered a draw, right? I killed the one outside, and you killed this one."

"Whatever you say is what it is." Feng Lei said without much interest.

Tang Tang was not too bothered by the result of the competition. She urged the fire dragon to burn the mutant zombies in the swimming pool. In the end, she got a green crystal core. This time, the fire dragon did not swallow the crystal core, but returned to Tang Tang's wrist after burning it completely. Feng Lei jumped into the swimming pool to help Tang Tang pick up the green crystal core.

"Now that the problem here has been solved, the gymnasium should be safe, right?" Feng Lei said to himself as he looked around.

"That's probably the case, but to be on the safe side, it's better for us not to come in tonight and observe for a while. It won't be too late to come in after we are really sure it is safe." Tang Tang said worriedly.

"I thought so too. I've asked Wang Cheng and the others to set up the tents they brought. Let's rest in the tents tonight." Feng Lei and Tang Tang said as they walked downstairs. The two of them were going to the power distribution room to find out the settings for controlling the lighting ports, so that the gymnasium could be the same as the outside during the day.

The distribution room was located at the innermost part of the hall on the first floor, in a separate room. All the power supply equipment in the gymnasium had stopped working, and there was no manual switch to turn on the equipment. Feng Lei was at a loss for a moment.

"Just connect the generator set and turn on the lighting port, right?" Tang Tang asked.

"Okay, but the problem now is that I don't have a generator here? So now I don't have one..." Feng Lei didn't finish his words when he saw Tang Tang conjure up a generator out of thin air. He was so surprised that he didn't even finish the rest of his words.

"Is one okay?" Tang Tang asked.

"No, from what I heard you said it seems that it is not enough. Can you give me another one?" Feng Lei said uncomfortably.

"It can be changed, but it's not like this. This one burns oil, and the other one is solar-powered." Tang Tang said cautiously as she looked at Feng Lei who was uneasy.