Chapter 993: The Unusual Seam
Chapter 993: The Unusual Seam
After separating the layers of the membrane, Ling Mo finally touched the bottom of the pool…
“Hmm? Why does it feel uneven?” Ling Mo was puzzled.
Logically, it was unlikely for there to be stones in such a place; it could possibly be concrete… But it might also be a massive pile of garbage that had accumulated, sedimented into this condition. If not for the lack of any significant odious smell in the water, Ling Mo would have inevitably developed some unpleasant associations by now…
He steeled himself and felt around above and below for a while, his expression growing increasingly unnatural… After pausing for two seconds, he changed from feeling to pressing, gently pushing down on a protruding part…
“Holy shit!”
The next second, Ling Mo quickly retracted his hand, his face showing an expression of extreme shock… The fact that it was visible on a Zombie Puppet’s face indicated how intense his feelings were at that moment…
“Damn damn damn!”
After cursing several times, Ling Mo barely managed to control himself and looked again.
This scare had caused the air in the Zombie Puppet’s lungs to be wasted quite a bit… Feeling that there wasn’t much time left, Ling Mo bit his lip and pressed down again…
This time, with mental preparation, his actions were more careful, and he lingered longer. After pressing a couple of times, he even frowned and pinched it…
When Ling Mo looked up again, his expression had completely changed: “My god…”
This turn of events was totally unexpected!
Connected to the membrane, it turned out to be a humanoid body…
And judging by the feel, it was a female…
“Damn!” Ling Mo shook his hands.
The feeling of being entangled by the Centipede Man seemed to come back… even worse than this.
Though it still felt quite elastic to the touch. It was unlikely to be a living creature if it could lie at the bottom of the water and be pinched so freely…
Thinking this, Ling Mo moved his hand towards the face of this underwater Monster.
Who knows what was down there that could protect its body from being Devoured…
Let’s see if it had any similarities with the Centipede Man…
“Huh?” As soon as Ling Mo reached out, he touched something soft.
Since the water body was cool, he didn’t feel anything special when he touched it.
But it seemed like there was a seam?
Considering that this Monster probably wouldn’t move, Ling Mo boldly used his finger to pry open this seam.
The strength of a Zombie Puppet is indeed extraordinary… Although a lot of energy had been consumed, prying such a fine seam was still effortless. And perhaps because he used too much force, as soon as Ling Mo started separating the seam, his finger slipped right in. ṝ𝘈₦ȱ𝐛ΕꞨ
“Holy crap!”
Ling Mo was startled again.
This was warm!
Although it was only slightly warm, Ling Mo definitely wasn’t wrong in his Sensing!
If that wasn’t proof enough, what about all this mucus inside!
Ling Mo’s heart raced, forcibly suppressing the impulse to pull his finger out, and then stiffly moved it.
Having already extended his fingers in, it would be a waste not to explore further despite the scare.
With this thought of not suffering a loss, Ling Mo slowly completed the process…
“This is… teeth, right?”
Ling Mo’s fingertips touched something quite hard. Judging by the feel, these teeth were only as big as a grain of rice, but the tips were extremely sharp. Apart from this feature, the inside of the female Monster’s mouth seemed quite normal. What was strange was her lips, which felt just like two Sausages… Classic horror scenes were already forming in Ling Mo’s mind…
“Thinking about it, it does look quite fashionable,” Ling Mo thought.
By now, he was sure that this Monster was alive.
But the fact that it lay there allowing exploration didn’t seem like it was in a normal state.
Carefully, Ling Mo withdrew his finger, then grabbed the membrane and continued to feel downwards, eventually stopping at the Monster’s abdomen.
Growing out of the stomach?
That was stretching credibility…
Ling Mo tried to pull the membrane, but unexpectedly felt a “whoosh” sensation.
“Damn, it came off!”
He hadn’t intended for that…
Once the membrane hit the water, it immediately floated upwards.
As he watched, the membrane quickly entered the black fog above.
…Just a second later, the black fog suddenly churned violently, and Ling Mo caught a glimpse of a blood-red eye…
“What the hell is that!”
Ling Mo was shocked, quickly hiding behind the membrane and stealthily peeking out.
However, the black fog only churned for a while before calming down again. The eye that had accidentally been exposed did not reappear.
Unfortunately, the visibility underwater was too poor; although Ling Mo had caught a glimpse, he hadn’t observed the details. It was impossible to determine the type of Monster based on the shape of the eye. However, he had another model, the membrane Monster beside him… At least it was certain that the Monster that ate the membrane was not the same type as the one that produced the membrane.
“So these membranes are used to feed them… The big fish that ate earlier must have been eating their leftovers. Thinking about it, it was quite daring to collect so much…” Ling Mo thought, looking down at the female Monster’s belly. He extended his hand, thinking, “I don’t mean to touch you.”
Ling Mo placed his hand there… the Monster did not react.
He soon discovered a problem on the belly… The place where the membrane was lost was much smoother than other areas. And in other blank areas, he could feel something like a plastic bag.
Together with the sensation felt when pulling off the membrane earlier, Ling Mo had already concluded.
This membrane was the skin of this Monster…
It lay here for some reason, continuously shedding its skin to feed the Monsters living in the upper part of the water body.
Now that he thought about it, his own discovery was probably due to the membrane…
Ling Mo pulled out the previously obtained membrane, feeling somewhat depressed.
Just looking at the area of the membrane, it was evident that the Monster’s skin would continuously grow after separating extensively from itself, eventually turning into sheets of membrane.
But this Monster lying here, it couldn’t possibly just be a Production Machine…
There must be something else here…
Ling Mo turned his head around, his gaze becoming extremely vigilant.
Before, he had wondered how these Monsters lived underwater, but now it seemed they had even established this kind of small ecosystem. Although there were still many imperfections, as time went on, they would eventually evolve into something extremely terrifying…
As proven, Ling Mo was right; there were many more Production Machines here. And after confirming, these Monsters had one common feature: they were all female.
Moreover, their bodies did not seem to have a particularly strong presence, but the membranes were full of virus. This also indirectly showed their evolutionary direction-they were specifically responsible for lying here and shedding their skin.
As for why they could stay submerged at the bottom without moving, that was still to be explored…
“What else is here…”
In the area dense with Production Machines, Ling Mo’s surroundings were almost filled with “plastic bags,” eerily drifting in the water. Black fog flowed among them, obscuring most of his vision. And in such a large pool bottom, what kind of danger still lurked…
“Could the Boss here be those creatures above?”
He had also entertained this thought. But as an outsider wandering around in these Monsters’ kitchen, and they showed no intention of coming down, it was too abnormal…
Abnormality indicates monsters! There must be something unusual here…
Although Ling Mo kept moving forward, his palms were secretly ready.
Whatever he found, he had to survive and escape…
As for things like Production Machines, Xia Na and the others would handle them later.
“I wonder how it is going up there…” Ling Mo suddenly thought.
But just as he was distracted, a sudden undercurrent surged from the bottom of the pool, quickly approaching him…