Chapter 174 Metal Plague

This is a lonely humanoid beast wandering the far north tundra.

The dilapidated clothes can vaguely recognize the marks of the outer disciples of the Red Mountain Sword Sect.

The stiff and broken body had only a relatively complete arm, and there were dozens of wounds on his body that were bitten by unknown creatures.

It is hard to imagine that the outer disciple of the Red Mountain Sword Sect was so badly wounded that the blood in his body had already drained, and he hadn't died yet.

The black face, the **** scaly on the bare skin, a pair of dull and incomparably penetrating green eyes, and sharp fangs grow in the mouth. It is hard to imagine what happened to this disciple of the Red Mountain Sword Sect. what happened.

At this time, he can hardly be called a human.

The angle of view continues all the way to the north, and within a depression, a strong breath of life occupies here. As far as I can see, it is a terrifying scene.

Beneath the frozen ground, a black metal arm stretched out, and the half rotten flesh and half metal arm scratched and struggled in the air. Obviously there was something terrifying under the ground here. Want to try to break free.

Not far away, some shallow pits were empty, where there should have been some restraints, but at this time the thing had already escaped.

"Crack...crack...whew..."

The frozen ground was breaking and cracking, and just between this breath, a few rickety bodies broke free from the frozen ground not far away.

Looking closely at the appearance of these figures, they are exactly the same as the former outer disciple of the Red Mountain Sword Sect who wandered alone.

There has been a large area of ​​metalization on the body surface, and humanity no longer exists in these people. The instinct of animal desire drives them to migrate to the warmer and more abundant south.

These humanoid metal beasts seem to have extremely sensitive sensing capabilities.

At this time, if Hong Ji was here, he could recognize at a glance that the symptoms of these people were clearly the late symptoms of infection with the metal virus.

Hongji once analyzed the strong infectivity of metal viruses. Once the metal virus infection in ordinary people exceeds 5%, it is irreversible.

Metal viruses will spread metal viruses throughout the body after occupying five percent of the organism's organic tissues. Once the metal virus spreads throughout the body of life.

The spread of metal viruses throughout the body even exceeds the harm of cancer cells. Cancer cells can at least be restrained and killed by human drugs.

The life cells that can be infected by metal viruses are no longer organic organisms in nature, and metal viruses can be called metal life.

It is the third category besides carbon-based life and theoretical silicon-based life: metal-based life.

Naturally, the drugs of carbon-based life cannot be effective against metal-based life, and as far as Hongji is concerned, too little is known about metal-based life.

Hong Ji knew that the Red Mountain Sword Sect had discovered an ancient relic in the far north, and was secretly developing it at this time. The earliest metal virus Hongji was extracted from Peng Xu.

Although there is no direct evidence to show that, Hong Ji in the underworld has an intuition that the primitive metal virus must come from the ancient relics in the far north.

It is hard to imagine that Hong Ji, such a pure mechanical body, would actually trust her instincts.

"What's wrong with me?"

Sometimes even Hong Ji herself is a little strange, what happened to her during the time travel.

As a mechanical body, she has more and more emotions and personality that only humans can have.

Such as anger, joy, occasional stubbornness and laziness,...

The hearts and emotions that were once incomprehensible, Hong Ji has become more keen on the heart when he comes in. The natural world that was once dismissive, Hong Ji will also be praised for its unique magnificence!

All these changes made Hong Ji feel surprised, she didn't know whether these changes were good or bad for her.

But at least for now, Hong Ji still enjoys her changes.

"Maybe it's not bad to make a mechanical body that is not so cold!"

Hong Ji muttered to herself in her heart.

The only thing that still troubles Hong Ji at the moment is: "Who am I?"

Yes, who is Hong Ji? This seems to be an extremely simple question, but it involves the cognition of a higher level of self, id, and superego.

A question that has to be avoided, in this world, Hong Ji always feels familiar in this era, and it feels as if she is not here for the first time.

In a certain corner of this world, there are certain existences. They may be enemies or friends. They are hiding in the shadow corners of this world, and they seem to be planning something!

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No one knows that a terrible metal plague capable of destroying the entire world has begun to spread in the extreme north, and the source of all this is only because the Red Mountain Sword Sect opened a Pandora's box sealed in the extreme north for an unknown number of epochs.

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"Sect Master! Sect Master, you have reached the entrance!"

In a secret place in the far north, Jianzong Hongshan built a huge temporary fortress here.

Thousands of shackled slave laborers crouched one by one, numbly repeating the mechanical excavation in the cold wind and snow.

A long corridor was inserted obliquely into the frozen soil of the far north. The tunnel was dug purely by hand~lightnovelpub.net~ It is hard to imagine how much it would be for the slave laborers to dig such a deep tunnel on the permafrost in the extreme northern region of this harsh climate.

It can be unceremonious that at least one slave worker's life will be killed every time the tunnel descends one meter. At this time, the tunnel is bottomless, and there is still a strange sealing earth piled high on a hill outside.

It is said that the sealing soil is strange because the sealing soil, which is originally pure and white and like gypsum, will decay and become black in an extreme time after being excavated, and finally turn into a pool of black sacrificial paste-like mixture.

The forbidding black rot gives people an extremely ominous aura, and the facts have indeed proved that any slave laborer who comes into contact with the black rot too much will be infected with an extremely terrifying plague.

This kind of plague does not seem to be fatal, but this kind of non-fatality is even more terrifying. Human beings will be eroded by the plague and eventually become a living dead with only animal instincts.

If it's just the living dead, it's okay to say. What's even more difficult is that even an ordinary worker who is infected with this plague will eventually become a monster with a hard body. Unprepared at first, many disciples of the Red Mountain Sword Sect were infected by laborers.

Even if a person infected by a metal virus is decapitated, the broken limbs will not die immediately.

The Red Mountain Sword Sect had suffered from these metal plague infected people, and paid a very heavy price all the way to finally break through the terrible soil seal and found the entrance to the ruins.

When the entrance to the ruins where the disciples reported to him was finally found, in the main hall of the temporary fortress, a human figure hidden in a cloak slowly raised his head.

Vaguely, the disciple could clearly see the current appearance of his suzerain.

"To be continued"