Chapter 120: Analysis Of Demonic Creatures
The video information on the tablet began to change, and as it went deeper, changes started appearing in the greenish video.
The cave walls were filled with ore resources, mostly copper ore, densely covering the video, whether on the ceiling or the floor, the view captured ahead was all ore.
But as these perspectives continued to advance, suddenly something protruded from the cave wall on the left, and a humanoid figure drilled out from the ore, lunging straight at the perspective.
That perspective shook violently, as if dodging and evading.
From other perspectives, it was a humanoid demonic creature that seemed to be wearing armor, but the armor and body were fused together, its entire body formed from ore.
The other perspectives also began to shake, and it could be seen that several people reacted quickly and launched attacks.
Bullets emitted sparks, rubbing against the demonic creature and producing sparks, forcing the demonic creature to retreat step by step, but only fragments were chipped off.
In the end, Luo Jin, this Second Realm martial artist, appeared in the footage, one from someone else’s perspective, where he slashed with his long sword, splitting gold and cracking stone, and one from his personal perspective, directly slicing the demonic creature in half at the waist with a sword.
But during the slash, Li Ye could clearly see the resistance as his sword blade cut into it.
In just that instant, all of this batch’s perspectives went out, no longer displaying.
Li Ye and Fan Tie exchanged a glance, and the latter replayed the playback record, repeatedly watching this demonic creature, exclaiming in astonishment:
“Incredible, this thing seems unusually hard, normal firearms’ firepower isn’t enough, and the pollution is very strong.”
Li Ye was also watching the playback, and after a while, he felt a sense of blood coagulating, as if he was about to turn to stone at any moment.
This was the unique pollution of demonic creatures.
Those miniature cameras were probably assimilated too.
As for this demonic creature, Li Ye couldn’t think of any related records, unsure if he hadn’t seen information on this aspect or if this demonic creature was born for the first time.
However, for unfamiliar demonic creatures, how to determine their habits and weaknesses, Li Ye was not unfamiliar with this.
He had previously worked part-time as an information officer at the Disinfection Bureau, not for nothing.
Among the civil and military personnel at the Disinfection Bureau, disinfection officers specialize in fighting, but intelligence collection and analysis are the information officers’ jobs, otherwise why would the Disinfection Bureau have two emblem images, one bìàn án and one xiè zhì, both with meanings.
Information officers are weak, but they have their ways when it comes to analyzing demonic creatures.
“Tentatively designate it as Demon No. 1.”
Li Ye analyzed this record and said: “Body made of ore, bullet attacks are not very effective because it’s very hard, but the seams have issues, look here.”
He pointed to the waist position where Luo Jin slashed with his sword, “When he first slashed, it cut into the waist seam line smoothly, but this sword didn’t follow the line, and when it reached the middle, it clearly lagged.”
“The seams should be vulnerable, and others also dodged it, not only Second Realm can deal with it, as for the pollution level…”
He looked around and pointed at a young man from the Six Dragon Gate, “You, come over.”
That person approached tremblingly, making the nearby Chen Family people open their mouths but not dare to speak, swallowing it back down.
“Stare at it, don’t blink.”
Li Ye made this person keep watching the playback, and after a while, the young man’s breathing became heavy, faintly, the air he exhaled also became much heavier, like it had substance.
But looking closely, nothing was discovered.
Li Ye waved his hand, had Fan Tie take back the tablet, and asked the young man, “What did it feel like?”
The young man took a big breath and said: “Very heavy, for a moment it felt like my whole body was stiff, but I could endure it.”
Li Ye nodded thoughtfully and asked Fan Tie, “Do we have flame-based weapons? There’s no lighting around, and it’s hard ore, so try fire.”
“We have incendiary bombs.”
Fan Tie stood up, “I’ll go get them.”
He leaped up, shooting out like an arrow off the string, and after landing, each step covered a great distance, quickly going far away in a few steps.
As a soldier, his lightness skill was bold and powerful, emphasizing explosive power and speed.
In just a moment, he returned with an equipment box and a batch of new night-vision miniature cameras.
“Next batch, Chen Family goes in.”
Li Ye said to the Chen Family crowd: “If you encounter this demonic creature again, best to capture it alive and bring it back, if not, I want to see attacks with weapons and fist and foot, and also burn it with fire.”
This time no one said anything, Li Ye had long shown with actions that here, no one could defy him.
After a brief hesitation, the Chen Family gritted their teeth, took the incendiary bombs, those with weapons used weapons, those with firearms took firearms, and a batch of people entered the mine cave.
The signal received by the tablet made the video play again, still first entering the mine cave, the perspective reached the position where Luo Jin and the others had been, and the demonic creature that had been sliced in half at the waist lay there.
And ahead, more Demon No. 1 appeared, either chopped into fragments or smashed concave by great force, lying scattered everywhere.
The first batch that went in seemed to have started exerting force.
But among the demonic creature corpses, Li Ye also discovered some bodies.
All former disinfection officers from the Disinfection Bureau, around Dragon Gate realm, at this time they were held by Demon No. 1, the foremost was Demon No. 1’s arm, its corpse seemed forcibly separated by someone, but the arm remained on that person.
And the person being held had their whole body turned to ore, half their body already fused with the ground.
Further back, Demon No. 1’s body was not forcibly separated, just the head was knocked off, or half the body slashed open, most still hanging on the corpse, presenting a hugging posture.
That body and the held corpse together turned to ore, like naturally formed, also half-integrated into the surroundings.
And the cameras on these corpses’ chests were completely turned to ore.
“The pollution is very severe, but the dead are all those resigned disinfection officers. Look more.”
Soon, the perspective entered a fork, the several perspectives on the tablet uniformly went toward the direction with demonic creature corpses, clearly thinking that place had been visited by people, wanting to rendezvous together.
They advanced all the way, but no perspective went out and unwatchable, everything normal, only after walking a segment in this fork, two more Demon No. 1 extended out from the cave wall, without making a sound, launching attacks in the perspective.
Li Ye and the others had night-vision cameras to see, but the people inside didn’t, as they went deeper into the mine cave it was obviously darker, momentarily not noticing, one perspective quickly went out.
And in other perspectives, Demon No. 1 merely hugged that person, making their whole body start to turn to ore, especially the head that turned to ore first, instantly beyond saving.
In the video, it started shaking, the Second Realm martial artist inside sensed something, quickly acted, one pierced Demon No. 1’s seam line with a spear, this time completely following the line, instantly disintegrating it.
The other close-ranged with short strikes, beating the other Demon No. 1 so its whole body caved in, shattering fragments, then kicked it flying, quickly threw an incendiary bomb, making flames erupt, burning Demon No. 1’s body.
Under the flame’s scorching, Demon No. 1’s body began to turn blackened, and someone took advantage to fire a burst of bullets, this time unlike the previous playback, instead piercing Demon No. 1’s body, chipping out larger gaps.
This time the reaction was timely, beaten quickly, the perspective didn’t go out, still able to continue live streaming.
“Flames can burn it brittle, and the effect is extremely fast.”
Li Ye said: “But this demonic creature has extremely strong pollution, ranged is fine, but close distance, even Six Dragon Gate can’t withstand it. Unsure if it’s the Demon Realm itself or unique to it.”
“Same thing.”
Fan Tie said: “These demonic creatures only move in the Demon Realm, whether Demon Realm pollution or their own pollution, to us it’s all the same.”
Li Ye nodded and continued watching the video live stream.
But he also glanced at the remaining Jinze City martial artists.
The next batch after that would be them.
Squint for a bit, later.
