"Old Task Force" noticed the pale face, he immediately recoiled and disappeared from the window.

"He's coming to the bottom floor," Jiang Baimian judged based on bioelectrical signals.

Long Yuehong, wearing the "Black Marsh Iron Serpent" bionic smart armor, turned his body to the corresponding position upon hearing this, scrutinizing the situation there through his goggles.

The buildings here all have a strong classical charm. The doors on the first floor are quite tall, enough for legendary giants to enter, but only the lower half of them were open. The windows above are also arched, the balconies are narrow, purely decorative, with no practical value.

After a quick scan, Long Yuehong deliberated and said:

"Does he want to attack us too?"

It couldn't be that he's coming down to see fellow villagers, all teary-eyed, right?

Shang Jianyao had already said that the guy had no human consciousness at all, and it wasn't the kind that was deliberately hidden!

As soon as Long Yuehong finished speaking, at the first floor door corresponding to the window just now, a figure flashed out from the half-open lower area.

He was wearing the uniform of the "Initial City" regular army, but the surface was severely damaged, revealing pale skin and several patches of brownish-red muscle. The parts of the clothing that were still intact were wrinkled, as if they had been soaked in water and then air-dried.

This figure's eyes lacked any spirit or focus, bulging out noticeably.

He just tried to pounce on Bai Chen, who was closest to him, in a straightforward and undisguised manner.

His intelligence is very questionable, even worse than an animal... Isn't this making himself a target? Long Yuehong thought to himself, but reacted immediately.

He raised his "Berserker" assault rifle and fired a short burst.

Da da da!

The figure was hit by bullets, and exaggerated wounds appeared on his body.

Parts of his body were even torn directly, detached from the main trunk, and fell to the ground with sticky liquid.

However, this figure was still lunging forward. Apart from a slight impact on his balance, there was no sign of serious injury.

Boom!

Jiang Baimian launched a rocket.

The firelight engulfed the figure, completely tearing him apart into numerous pieces of corpse.

Because the distance was relatively close, the aftermath of the explosion inevitably swept towards Bai Chen, but their spent force could not do anything to the "Chameleon" series of bionic smart armor.

Jiang Baimian dared to use a man-portable rocket launcher, naturally considering the question of whether it would accidentally injure her companions.

As soon as the sound subsided, she frowned slightly:

"Xiao Bai, check the body, be careful. I sense that the faint bioelectrical signal hasn't disappeared."

"Strange," Shang Jianyao stroked his chin.

Blown up like this, and there's still life activity? Long Yuehong was quite worried about Bai Chen, but due to the provisions of the operations manual, he, located on the other side, had to take on the duty of guarding, preventing any attacks that might occur around.

Bai Chen, wearing the "Chameleon" bionic smart armor, held the "Orange" rifle and cautiously walked to each piece of the corpse.

Just as she was about to squat down to check the situation, a black light suddenly shot out from the corpse piece containing the head, heading straight for her body.

It was like a long, black wire.

Clang!

The black light failed to penetrate the "Chameleon" bionic smart armor, hitting the surface and sliding down.

Bai Chen grabbed it, shook it a few times, and said:

"A strange worm."

"Horsehair worm?" Jiang Baimian guessed uncertainly.

It was quite different from the horsehair worm in her impression.

The horsehair worm is a parasite that lives in rivers, ponds, and other places, infecting targets through water sources.

After completing parasitism, it can control large arthropods, making them "voluntarily" find water sources and drown themselves.

And now, this worm can actually affect the human body, and seems to continue to act as the "central nervous system" after the host's death, living on the remaining nutrients.

In addition, it also showed the characteristic of forcibly changing hosts.

As a former wasteland wanderer, Bai Chen probably knew about the horsehair worm, and asked hesitantly:

"How to deal with it?"

Jiang Baimian hesitated for a moment and said:

"Kill it, we didn't bring the corresponding collection device. We can't just wrap it around our hands, right? It will actively pierce the skin and burrow into the body."

She made this reasonable inference based on the worm's performance just now.

"Are you from a biological company?" Shang Jianyao said, "Heartbroken."

Jiang Baimian didn't bother to pay attention to him. She watched Bai Chen tear the worm into several pieces, throw them on the ground, and crush them into a paste with her foot.

"It's no good, it can't turn into several worms just by being torn into several pieces," Shang Jianyao said with a look of disappointment.

This isn't an earthworm... Long Yuehong thought to himself, while curiously guessing:

"Is this a mutated horsehair worm?"

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"Probably."

She pondered for a few seconds and said again:

"Adding to the pile of green stuff before, I suspect it's not an electromagnetic storm issue, but something else."

Without giving Shang Jianyao a chance to guess randomly, Jiang Baimian solemnly put forward her own idea:

"Could these all have escaped from that secret laboratory?"

That's really possible... Long Yuehong just had such a thought when he heard Shang Jianyao say:

"It may also come from Holm Reproductive Medical Center."

This, this cannot be ruled out at present... Long Yuehong felt that both sides made sense.

After getting rid of the strange worm, Bai Chen retreated back to the team.

Seeing this, Jiang Baimian pointed forward and said:

"Any guesses now are empty talk, let's get to our destination as soon as possible."

The members of the "Old Task Force" each gathered their thoughts and headed towards the next block along the road cluttered with dirty vehicles.

After these two strange encounters, Long Yuehong found that the bionic smart armor was really good, and was clearly better than the military exoskeleton device in protecting himself.

Moreover, the fully covered ones are not heavy at all.

For some reason, the "Old Task Force" hadn't attracted any dangerous creatures in these few shootings, allowing them to smoothly enter the block where Holm Reproductive Medical Center was located.

--According to Bai Chen, city ruins like this that haven't been explored much by humans must be hiding many dangerous things, including but not limited to "Heartless" reduced to a certain number, some mutated creatures, wild animals, and wandering robots living off of spare batteries and small generators. Once gunfire sounds in a place, they will more or less be attracted and gather there. But the No. 13 Ruins of the Wasteland is like it is completely dead, with only a few monsters existing.

Step by step, a four-story building in an ancient style came into the eyes of Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, and others.

Its outer wall is a warm yellow, with large patches of mottling and many green plants climbing on it.

These plants also spread to the surface of the light box hanging vertically on the wall, brandishing their claws and showing their dominant position.

After careful identification, Long Yuehong read the two dark red words at the top of the yellow wall that were not covered by green.

"Center... Reproductive..."

"Is this it?" Jiang Baimian, who didn't have much confidence in her sense of space, asked her teammates.

Bai Chen nodded:

"This is it."

"Holm Reproductive Medical Center."

…………

Nearly two hundred meters away from Holm Reproductive Medical Center, on the weed-strewn, bird-droppings-covered rooftop of a building.

Welf, wearing sunglasses, a trench coat, and a center-parted hairstyle, put down his binoculars and said to Xu Lan next to him:

"The target is about to arrive."

"Then prepare to act." Xu Lan, dressed as a cowboy with unfocused eyes, chuckled, "They probably never imagined that the hotel owner had already 'sold out' their destination. The guard intelligence was left behind by us on purpose."

Welf shrugged:

"Anyway, our destination is also here."

As he spoke, he glanced at the tablet Xu Lan was holding.

Xu Lan nodded lightly and said:

"Before, I removed the restrictions and followed them twice, confirming many things."

"The woman named Jiang Baimian can really sense bioelectrical signals as you said. The range varies depending on the terrain, between forty and seventy meters. Not bad, you didn't forget to collect more useful information when you flipped through memories last time."

"My 'invisibility' can hide from her. She will become my first target of attack."

"You take this opportunity to sneak into the range where you can modify memories, and make the two enemies wearing bionic smart armor our 'companions'."

"At this time, the awakened one named Shang Jianyao must have been attracted by me, trying to save Jiang Baimian or avenge her. It just so happens that the two new 'companions' will suddenly betray him and attack him at close range."

"In short, try not to distract 'Doctor'. Here, the most dangerous one is that Wu Meng. Without 'Doctor' watching, you and I might not even know how we died."

Speaking of this, Xu Lan took a deep breath:

"I can't suppress myself anymore. I saw too many asymmetries during the two times I followed them."

"I want to destroy all of this!"