The old man's emaciated face was extremely shriveled, like a dead tree that had lost its breath of life, full of cracks, and the skin on his face exploded in the shape of fish scales, and many hard shells that looked like stratum corneum mutations appeared.

It can be seen from the cracks of the fried skin's cuticle that there seems to be some kind of "plant" growing in its body, and these changes in the skin surface are also because the branches and tentacles of those plants grow out, stiff Push the skin up...  

The eyes became a pair of blood-colored holes covered with weeds and dead branches, and the nasal cavity was in a state of severe festering.

This is not a face a human should have.

"Did my sensing go wrong??" Chen Xian suddenly pulled out the blade from the old man's neck, almost instinctively stepped back a few steps, and pulled the distance between himself and him as quickly as possible, "Obviously there is How can the vital signs of a living person look like this?"

The vital signs of abnormal humanoid beings are different from those of living humans. No matter how similar they are, there are some things in their bones that cannot be changed or concealed, such as the most basic, breathing rhythm, heartbeat frequency, and even the blood flow rate that can be sensed at close range. ...these are all important factors that distinguish the living from the anomalous.

Before that, Chen Xian had carefully sensed when he was close to the old man, and also determined that the old man had normal human vital signs and was not an abnormal life, so he dared to slash directly...

"Hehe...are you coming to grab the land of longevity with me..."

The old man laughed strangely, the fish scales and dead skin accumulated on his face were crowded together, and it looked like an enlarged version of a toad. While he grinned, Chen Xian also noticed the teeth in his mouth. It's all gone, and the tongue is gone. The mouth is empty like a bottomless black hole. Without the tongue, it can speak so clearly... It really can't be considered human.

"Longevity?"

Chen Xian noticed this key word and couldn't help but look around carefully for a while, only then did he find that there was a talisman formation with a diameter of about two meters under the old man's feet, and the position where he sat cross-legged before happened to be the center of this formation. area, and there's a good chance that it's the Array!

But at this moment, Chen Xian suddenly discovered another thing, and he couldn't help but turn his attention from the formation on the ground, and turned his attention to the pool not far away.

The smell of traditional Chinese medicine that wafted in the air before was actually emitted by this pool of water.

The pool is filled with thick and smooth black liquid like oil. Chen Xian is really familiar with these strange black water, because during the mission operation of Wushan Mental Hospital not long ago, he saw him in the underground cave. have experienced this kind of thing, and also lied in a device similar to a nutrition chamber, soaked in these liquids for a while.

"How can there be black water here..." Chen Xian's eyes widened, and the previously calm expression was no longer visible, replaced by a kind of extreme shock.

After the mission in the mental hospital, Chen Xian also analyzed many doubts about the case, such as what the black water was. Combined with the clues found in the underground cave (or laboratory), Chen Xian roughly analyzed that those The reason why black water is called nutrient solution by the organization behind the mental hospital should be because they are some kind of liquid that can supply human nutrition and have special effects, and from the pipeline extending to the ground... those The properties of the liquid should be very special.

According to Fatty Huo, there is a closed underground space deeper in the underground cave. There is also a pool. The pipes extending from the cave are interspersed in the pool. Maybe they are special tools used to extract the black water. facility.

As for whether those liquids are artificial, Chen Xian has not yet found an answer to this question.

Assuming those liquids are man-made, could this disaster... have something to do with the organization behind it?

If those liquids are not man-made, then what is this pool of black water that you see now? It can't be naturally formed like those nutrient solutions, right? Or are they just similar in appearance and smell characteristics, but are actually two completely different things?

Whether they are the same thing, Chen Xian can't get a definite conclusion, but just by feeling, they should be exactly the same... Whether it is state or smell, or color, reflectivity, etc. , there is almost no difference in the contrast of all these details.

But if they are really the same thing, will this case be related to the previous one? Something to do with the organization lurking behind the mental hospital?

"Longevity...is mine..." The old man said hoarsely, as if he had lost his mind. When he spoke, the whole person would give Chen Xian a nervous feeling. , "It's mine alone..."

Chen Xian didn't dare to think about it any more, he pounced again with a meat saw, slashing his head and covering his face at the old man's throat.

This knife caused very limited scars to it, and it was not even as good as the knife that attacked it before.

The knife cut down into the old man's throat at most two centimeters deep, and it would be difficult to continue cutting after that, at least Chen Xian couldn't do it, because it was a hindrance.

The old man seemed to be in a state of battle. He directly held the back of the meat saw with his hand and slowly stood up from the ground. During this process, Chen Xian also discovered that something was wrong with it. The abnormal changes in its body were better than Chen Xian imagined. is much more serious.

I saw that the old man's legs were covered with many thin bamboo branches. Those bamboo branches were like some kind of parasitic body that was difficult to get rid of. They were tightly wrapped around his thighs. With a pungent bloody smell.

"Give it a go..." Chen Xian gritted his teeth and launched a third attack, but this time he also gave up the plan to attack the old man's neck and throat, and turned the blade down, straight to the old man's waist He picked up the tip of the knife and slashed it.

This time, the meat saw was at least ten centimeters deep into his flesh. After the skin of the abdominal cavity was cut open by the serrations, those internal organs that had already been corrupted rushed out, and they continued to go out along the slender wound. Surging and flowing all over the ground, the bloody smell in this burrow also became more and more pungent.

Seeing that the attack was effective, Chen Xian didn't dare to think too much, and hurriedly pursued the attack.

Under his steady attack frequency, the old man's waist continued to suffer heavy injuries. After the internal organs were completely lost, there was nothing else in the abdominal cavity, and the orange-yellow oily liquid could only continue to flow out. Perhaps it was the blood of this abnormal life.

Accompanied by the fine and rhythmic collision sound, the waist of the old man gradually became the hardest hit area of ​​the battle. Chen Xian only revolved around this place and gave him a "cut" like cutting an apple. A layer of flesh fell.

As Chen Xian's hands rose and fell, the old man's movements became bigger and bigger. He even started to walk towards Chen Xian. He didn't care about the changes in his body at all. Just think about killing him.

"Are you conscious?" Chen Xian asked calmly, then bent down to avoid the old man's fist, and continued to ask, "Are you still conscious?"

The old man didn't seem to hear Chen Xian's words, he still attacked him on his own, and the speed of his shots was getting faster and faster. It was less than half a minute before the two sides fought, and Chen Xian couldn't hold it anymore. He couldn't hold it at all. "Perpetual motion machine" is an extremely bizarre abnormal life.

At this time, both sides shot and closed very quickly, and the nerve reaction speed was far faster than that of ordinary aliens. Even if the other side's fist was ten centimeters in front of him, both sides could still avoid the other side's attack, and even seemed Some are easy to handle.

After a few minutes of fighting, Chen Xian suddenly found that the old man had some similarities with himself. Almost all injuries on his limbs could be ignored, even if the flesh and blood on his waist were scraped off by Chen Xian, it was the same. You can stand up straight with your spine and constantly look for opportunities to attack Chen Xian.

When Chen Xian found the opportunity to strike the eighth knife, the old man stopped all movements in an instant, like a robot that suddenly crashed, and began to stand silently.

Chen Xian didn't care about this change, and was still trying his best to find opportunities to take the initiative to attack, but at this moment, a piece of bamboo about the thickness of a thumb suddenly drilled out of the old man's abdomen. It rushed out like a spear and stabbed directly into Chen Xian's heart.

"What the hell are you..." Chen Xian hurriedly stepped back, pulled the bamboo piece away from him, and pressed his right hand tightly over the wound, his face a little unsightly, "This pool of black water What's it for... tell me..."

The old man grinned, and the eyeballs made of weeds and twigs also turned around a few times, making a constant rushing sound, which only made people horrified.

"Longevity...this is mine...is mine!!"