Chapter 13: Moraka
  In the barren sand, the link creatures raised their bodies. They were completely unafraid of the harsh natural climate unlike their human self. They grew up in the wild sand and were full of alien threats.
  Mu Yechen grabbed the military dagger behind him and pulled the blade out of the sheath little by little.
  “I don’t remember killing other human beings except for Xenomorphs and mutants in this operation.”
  Not to mention the teacher Moraka said he had never heard of.
  The shaman of Gaia Village seemed to have heard a joke and he laughed out loud: “Commander, humans will evolve into Xenogeneic species after being infected by archaea… The teacher is right, you imprisoned creatures on the other side, and massacre each others! A group of demons who slaughter life!”
  The boy’s voice was sharp. He pointed at every advance special forces soldier present and the link creature responded to his emotions. They slowly extended their long body with sections of brown rings rubbing against the sand, wriggled around.
  They are more than three meters tall and seven feet long. It is very difficult to encounter them even in the base, let alone in the dangerous wild.
  The faces of the soldiers became tense and the faces of the trapped sand bandits became even more frightened.
  The commander in charge did not retreat.
  “You turned humans into aliens, so what?” he asked.
  Annelid organisms are lower invertebrates, except that they have no eyes, ears, heads, and feet, and only have a cylindrical fission body cavity.
  Moraka did not admit it and retorted loudly: “They are not aliens, they are the Dragon God!”
  “In my eyes, they were still your villagers before.”
  “The teacher dedicated his life to Gaia Village and they are willing to dedicate themselves to my teacher.”
  Moraka’s face was completely devoid of the previous sunlight, his face was gloomy and mixed with the storm: “Dragon Gods, the moment of revenge for the teacher has come! Kill this commander, kill them all!”
  As soon as he finished speaking, more than 20 huge annelids like worms blowing out, instantly sprung their heads and tails from the knot-like entanglement, rushed towards the remaining soldiers and sand bandits.
  The sand bandits, who had never fought against alien species, were instantly run over by a huge body and let out a mournful wailing.
  The soldiers of the advance troop hurriedly retreated and fired, trying to prevent the aliens from approaching.
  But in the face of aliens, ordinary guns are useless. After the body cavity of the “Dragon God” was penetrated, it was quickly filled back by cell fission and their regeneration seemed to be endless.
  “Cangjie, I finally know why the one in the earthen fort was cut like that.”
  Luo Xiaowei and others were also forced to enter the melee. He tried to attack the annelid several times but then retreated, “Where is the dragon? God, this is clearly an earthworm! If you don’t cut it, you can’t kill it!”
  Earthworms, also known as earth dragons were originally oligochaete invertebrates that lived in the soil during the Holocene.
  The ground worm in front of him has undergone a mutation, not only has a breakthrough in body shape but also the fission speed of the original cell mass became amazingly fast.
  Mu Yechen also cut off the body cavity of a mutated earthworm but the broken body twisted and rolled on the ground for a while, before the head and tail regenerate again.
  This scene also happened in front of the Red Turban Sand Bandits. His combat ability is strong, and he can still cope with the attacks of this alien species. However, the other sand bandits are not as good as him and swallowed by the alien species one after another.
  The scene suddenly became a slaughterhouse of aliens and screams came one after another.
  Moraka sat on the ground worm and looked down condescendingly, his eyes showing fiery excitement.
  But he always felt that something was missing here.
  He looked around and finally saw the figure he had been thinking about before.
  Next to the figure was a scrapped jeep, most of it had been buried in the sand, but the white hair in the sand was definitely not his mistake.
  “White mouse!” He thought of the person under the bright moonlight.
  The boy’s eyes lit up and he immediately drove the ground worm underneath to move over.
  The white mouse didn’t respond, he still lay motionless, as if unconscious.
  Moraka sat on the ground dragon and came to the side of the jeep. This time he got close, he saw the steel pipe inserted into the right abdomen of the white mouse.
  The steel pipe is very thick, with a diameter of ten centimeters. No one can survive if they are pierced, let alone a person with a thin physique like the white mouse.
  Moraka was startled and could hardly believe that he was dead.
  But sooner, he saw an even more incredible sight.
  The white rat is dead.
  But the white rat’s wound is healing.
  At first it was the wound on the head of the corpse. It was a cranial fissure that had been dented by a car accident and a large amount of blood had solidified on it.
  At this time, the fresh and tender bark was pulled out like the rebirth of an old tree, it was repairing the body at a slow speed.
  Immediately afterwards, the small wounds on the corpse’s hand gradually began to recombine. A thin sound like branches and leaves budding could almost be heard at the severed hand of the white mouse.
  “Cough cough—” Suddenly, the chest of the corpse lying on the ground suddenly heaved up and down, making a dull coughing sound.
  “White mouse.” Almost immediately, he curled up sideways on the sand, spitting out a large mouthful of dark red blood.
  The white hair covered his face, but the broken right hand grabbed the thing stuck in the abdomen.
  “Bang dang.”
  The steel pipe was pulled out and thrown into the sand. Lin Xi got up and leaned against the jeep beside him with difficulty, gasping for breath, his face hidden in the blood-colored white hair.
  “White mouse…” Moraka also saw that the wound on the other side’s right abdomen also grew bark tissue, which was gradually sutured.
  “White Mouse” seemed to hear his voice, and turned his head slightly, revealing a blood-stained eye.
  Moraka shrank back in fright. He still couldn’t believe the sight in front of him.
  “White mouse, why are you… why haven’t you become a Dragon God!” he asked.
  The villagers of Gaia Village drank the water mixed with the reagent and their body will slowly grow links. The white mouse also drank the water with the reagent, he should obviously become a earth dragon earlier.
  Moraka was shocked and drove the worm to confirm again: “White mouse, why don’t you have the body pattern of the Dragon God? What’s the matter with those tree barks?!”
  Lin Xi leaned his back to the side of the car. Once the body repair absorbed his few life nutrients, the familiar abdominal pain swept over again. He clenched his midsection, trying his best to maintain his trembling tone and raised his eyes sarcastically.
  “Can’t you see, I’m not a human.”
  Moraka was stunned, he had clearly heard the germ layer test results of the white mouse.
  But the reality was ruthlessly overturned and Lin Xi’s voice sounded again: “Also, I’m not a white mouse. ‘White mouse’ means a laboratory rat. You want to test it on me from the beginning.”
  Moraka felt that his plan has been broken, his face instantly turned pale.
  The patron saint in the bunker died and got the reagent.
  However, he didn’t know whether this reagent would have any effect on people.
  He came to the back of the square in a daze. He saw a man from the outer village being pushed and shoved by the soldiers on the other side. He was pushed in front of the germ layer detection instrument.
  White Rat.
  At that time, the man in front of him was covered in blood and dirt. He thought that man was just a prisoner, until that day he scrubbed his body and saw his pale and beautiful body.
  Moraka shook his head quickly, he denied it and stepped back: “No! White mouse, isn’t it good to become a dragon god? You drink the most amount of reagent, the dragon god you become will definitely be the most perfect and beautiful! After you become a dragon god, I will take care of you and feed you every day. Let’s guard Gaia Village together, okay?”
  With hope on his face, he slowly moved the ground worm under him and carefully extended his hand towards Lin Xi.
  But his white mouse did not accept his invitation.
  Lin Xi looked at him and his worms. The eyes projected from the blood stained face were so dazzling.
  “Moraka, there is no way for aliens to coexist with humans.”
  Moraka’s hand froze.
  “You are talking nonsense! Look at my dragon gods who are listening to my orders.”
  “Humans will have human intelligence for a short period of time after they become animal Cenogeneic species. However, there is no human brain in the animal’s body cavity that can contain human consciousness. They will soon be unable to distinguish between enemy, even you will be attacked.”
  “You are talking nonsense! What about my teacher! My teacher became a dragon god and guarded Gaia Village for three years!”
  Lin Xi closed his eyes, the eye-catching gaze finally disappeared but the words he said were still chilling to the bone: “Moraka, those three bottles of reagents are the reagents numbered DL18-01 in the human evolution room. It is mixed with human xenogeneic blood, ancient genes of bacteria and earthworms are classified as one of the first batch of modification reagents for the second-generation mutants. Those first batch reagents all failed and no human beings can survive.”
  “What the other side can’t solve, you think your teacher has succeeded, isn’t it?”
  Moraka’s lips twitched. It was obviously a frenzied sandstorm a moment ago but at this moment he felt a biting cold.
  His frantic face gradually faded. He no longer dared to tell whether the truth of the DL18-01 reagent that Lin Xi said was true or false.
  He clutched the skin of the earth dragon tightly, looked at him with wide eyes and shook his head: “No! White rat! Why do you know about my three bottles!”
  Lin Xi’s chest slowly heaved and the car accident brought an after-effects made him pale. He listened to the gunshots in the distance, closed his eyes and tried to recover quickly.
  “I was originally sent by the laboratory to recover these reagents.”
  There was a strong wind with sand. Worms and humans were fighting, more worms and human limbs appeared on the ground.
  But the commander over there did not admit to killing the teacher in the bunker.
  Moraka felt that the bright moonlight picture was shattered, he heard the sound of his heart being split.
  “So, White Mouse, you killed the teacher?”
  “Yes.”
  “In such a cruel way?”
  Lin Xi was silent.
  He thought of how he slowly pushed open the door of that earthen fort two days ago.
  There were even more than one worms crawling in the earthen fort. They were densely intertwined on the ground. When they saw the light outside the earthen fort, they turned their heads towards him in unison.
  At first, they didn’t attack him right away.
  Like when they reunited outside the surveillance room, they probed themselves ashamedly in a different way.
  “Yes.” Lin Xi replied again.
  Pain appeared on Moraka’s face and opened his eyes again, there was red in the whites of his eyes.
  “Why you..why is it you?”
  Although he looked so weak, Moraka had a splitting headache and his voice gradually became crazy, “Ah, white mouse. The teacher did nothing wrong, why did you kill him?”
  Lin Xi didn’t reply, he suddenly pressed his stomach and coughed again. This time, the coughed up blood turned bright red.
  Moraka turned a blind eye, his eyes were red with anger: “White mouse, you killed the teacher! I will kill you, I will kill you to avenge the teacher!”
  He said, stood up from the earthworm, took out a small knife from behind: “I will also cut you into ten thousand pieces!”
  He stood in the sand and drove the ground worm to Lin Xi’s side, wanting to cut off the beautiful head of the person in front of him.
  But at this moment, there was the sound of wings flapping the air and a huge shadow in the sky suddenly enveloped the sky above his head.
  A handful of feathers as long as an arm floated down in the air.
  Moraka’s movements froze. He saw an incomparably huge bird descend from the sky at some point, with its claws firmly on the scrapped jeep.
  This species is covered with feathers, and its body is more burly than the ground worms writhing on the ground. It has a rich scarf on its tall neck and stands in front of humans like a hill.
  From time to time it lowered its head and kept pecking at the scrapped jeep with its sharp beak. With every peck, there was the sound of scrap iron colliding from the car.
  After a while, the iron sheet of the jeep was cut open and a hard eggshell was exposed at the rear compartment.
  The birds raised their heads and let out a long chirp. The response to it was the more dense vibration of wings and the sound of chirps in the sky.
  In the distant sky, giant wings soared over and more than a dozen giant vulture of the same size hovered overhead.
  The ground worm beneath him suddenly began to twist in place uncompromisingly. Moraka watched this scene in shock and stopped moving in panic.
  “Goo—” A bird’s guttural sound came from nearby.
  His face turned pale.Â
  When he saw the huge bird in front of him tilted its head. With their eyes rolled wildly, it looked at him and the earthworms.
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Edited: 7/20/22
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