"Hiss…"
"Roar, roar, roar—!!!"
The Leech Queen, having entered combat, completely lost her last shred of ability to speak human language, becoming a thorough monster. This startled Javier and the two others, because they hadn't expected… a living human to instantly transform into a monster. This was too bizarre. Was she a Kamen Rider or an Ultraman?
"Hiss…!"
"Hiss… hiss, hiss… hiss…!!!"
However,
The Leech Queen didn't intend to give Javier and the two others any chance to react. With just a wave of her hand, she quickly commanded the surrounding Mutated Leeches to immediately attack. The dense swarm of Mutated Leeches around them also let out a hiss, arching their bodies, muscles contracting, ready to spring out!
After all, this was their most common tactic—
Leeches that spring out,
coupled with sharp mouthparts that absolutely refuse to let go once they bite, and this massive group attack, if entangled, they are definitely very troublesome monsters. Although the Tyrant and Hunter were very powerful before, in terms of disgustingness, they were absolutely no match for the Mutated Leech in front of them!
However,
What the Leech Queen certainly didn't expect was that
Javier already had his own winning strategy for dealing with these Leeches. Without the slightest hesitation, Javier quickly opened his tactical backpack, pulled out a green, long-tubed throwable object, quickly pulled out the pin, and threw it out.
"Flash… huh?!"
What Javier hadn't expected at all was that
just as he threw the object, before Javier could even shout a warning, Rebecca and Billy Coen on the side had already covered their ears and quickly ran away, fleeing the kill zone. Facing this familiar flashbang, Rebecca and Billy had already achieved the ability of precognition!
It showed just how scummy and annoying Javier had been before…!
Chapter 54: Leech Armor
After all, before they could react,
Javier would throw flashbangs everywhere. Having been tricked once, Rebecca and Billy Coen naturally wouldn't fall for it again. As long as this guy dared to pull out any throwable object from his tactical backpack, they had to quickly get away!
This was a rule they had grown accustomed to—
And facing such a situation,
Javier not only appeared helpless but also quite sad. These two guys didn't trust him at all. Was he the kind of sneaky villain who specifically harmed his teammates? Ahem… it seemed he really was!
"flashbang, dodge quickly…!"
But even so,
the warning shout still had to be made, just like a routine. It was like if you asked Javier to play CF and throw a grenade, if he didn't yell: "Fire in the hole!", he would genuinely feel uncomfortable all over. After all, that was the soul of it.
"Roar…"
And on the other side,
looking at the green, long-tubed throwable object Javier threw and the words he shouted, the Leech Queen's expression slightly froze. Her originally hideous tentacles and suction cup mouthparts also stopped moving. She quickly used her long, thick arms to protect herself and then rapidly retreated!
Yes,
even though Marcus had now transformed into a monster like the Leech Queen, his body still inherited Marcus's DNA and memories. Therefore, she had an inexplicable fear of the flashbang in front of her. Instinct and intuition told her that she had to run when facing this thing,
because when he was researching the Leech Queen T-Virus,
Marcus discovered that the Leech Queen T-Virus's abilities were not as perfect as imagined. Although the Leech indeed greatly neutralized the T-Virus's lethality, it also acquired the Leech's flaws as a result. As the Leech Queen, she needed to regularly feed on blood like a Leech.
Secondly, it was still photophobic. Leeches would become anorexic and lose their vigor in bright sunlight, and prolonged exposure could even lead to death. Therefore, Leeches preferred dark and damp places, and were particularly active on rainy days.
Finally, the third was fear of all high-concentration solutions. Leeches themselves do not have external skin coverage. Similar to salt sprinkled on them, it would cause the concentration of the solution on the Leech's skin to increase, directly penetrating into the body, accelerating mucus secretion, and then shriveling up and dehydrating to death.
Although the mutated Leeches grew muscles and external skin, if high-concentration saline solution could be injected into them with a syringe, it could still cause excessive Leech mucus secretion, leading to shriveling and dehydration within a minute.
After all, up until now,
Leeches, aside from muscle propulsion, mostly moved by lubricating peristalsis through mucus secretion. Therefore, high-concentration saline solution was still effective against them—!
But unfortunately,
Javier had previously asked Rebecca to look out for many medical equipment and medicine cabinets, but they hadn't found suitable high-concentration saline solution, or there simply weren't suitable anesthetic guns and anesthetic syringes for firing.
Therefore, this brilliant idea could only be abandoned.
But this didn't mean Javier had no way to counter it. The flashbang was the strongest killing weapon. This thing could still cause a very significant impact on Leeches.
"Clang!"
"Boom—!!!"
The flashbang landed on the ground with a crisp sound,
and then with a "poof," a dazzling burst of bright white light suddenly began to swell rapidly. What was initially only a soccer-sized white light, like a blooming fireworks display, quickly scattered in all directions like tiny white stars, moving incredibly fast!
"Hiss…?"
The moment the Leech Queen saw the flashbang,
Marcus's memories imprinted in her mind, as well as her instincts and intuition, told her to quickly escape. But the dense swarm of Mutated Leeches serving as her attendants were not so lucky. They had no intelligence, and their cerebellums might not even be as big as a mouse's droppings. Therefore, without the Leech Queen's command, they were not afraid of the flashbang in front of them.
Instead, after a moment of confusion,
they all rushed towards the dazzling white light!
"Buzz…!"
"Boom—!!!"
Of course,
the outcome was naturally predictable.
The dazzling white light caused their outer skin and muscles to feel a stinging pain. They didn't have what could be called true eyes; although they did have five eyes on their heads, they were severely degenerated and had very poor vision, so their eyes were more for decoration. They mostly relied on body sensation to hunt and feed based on water temperature.
Therefore,
the most direct interference from the white light was to their outer epidermis. These dazzling white lights caused the Mutated Leech's epidermis to involuntarily wrinkle and pile up, but it didn't end there. The flashbang's strongest aspect was its sonic attack.
If the distance was very close,
even if one covered their ears, the powerful and penetrating sound waves could still rupture eardrums, causing temporary deafness. And in such close proximity, the Leeches could be instantly assaulted throughout their entire bodies by the flashbang's sonic weapon, causing them to twitch and tremble uncontrollably, some even dying directly.
They curled up into a ball on the ground, muscles tense, motionless, as if entering some kind of hibernation state, but in reality, they had already lost all signs of life!
Of course,
the Leech Queen on the other side was also not having an easy time.
Although she retreated in time, the flashbang's dazzling white light and sound waves still interfered with her. The weakness being exploited caused her entire body to reject it. Her outer epidermal muscles, like the Mutated Leeches on the ground, subconsciously wrinkled and piled up, as if her skin was instinctively trying to protect itself.
But in fact, these were the least life-threatening effects.
The most critical was that the Leech Queen felt her body cells and muscle vitality beginning to decline. The Leech's instinctive photophobia was affecting her. At this moment, the Leech Queen only wanted to lazily crawl on the ground and not move.
"Roar—!!!"
And this fatal thought,
startled the Leech Queen, who then furiously snapped back to attention, letting out a loud roar. Her hideous mouthparts writhed wildly, and a foul stench emanated from her yellowish, sharp teeth. Towards Javier and the two others, the Leech Queen felt an unprecedented anger and killing intent!
However,
before the Leech Queen could launch her attack first,
Javier, with a playful expression, quickly tossed three Molotov cocktails into the air. The rags on them were ignited, and they continued to fly in a graceful arc. Javier raised his Desert Eagle. He was going to continue performing his most proficient flame magic.
This battle!
Javier had saved a lot of resources for it,
specifically to deal with the final boss. And now… since the Leech Queen was right in front of him, how could Javier, a hoarder player, be stingy? He directly threw all the throwables he had never dared to use before at the Leech Queen!
He declared…
this battle was going to be an absolute massacre—!
Three Molotov cocktails thrown simultaneously. For the Leech, not only was it afraid of light, but it was even more defenseless against fire. Although the Molotov cocktails' flames couldn't directly kill the Leech Queen, whose vitality was extremely complete, they greatly damaged her outer skin tissue, affecting her recovery speed. This was equivalent to applying a severe burn debuff in advance, making it much easier to fight!
"Shoot and break the Molotov cocktails…!"
Javier and the two others didn't hesitate.
Following Javier's shout, all three simultaneously raised their weapons: Rebecca's police 9mm pistol bullets, Billy Coen's M1911 Colt bullets, Javier's Desert Eagle Magnum bullets—three shots fired at once!
"Bang—bang—bang—!!!"
Three gunshots,
orange-yellow bullets shot out at incredibly high speed,
all accurately hitting the Molotov cocktails in mid-air.
The next second,
"Crack… crack…!!!"
"Splat… boom—!!!"
As always, following the principle of chemical chain reaction,
the bullet's cavitation effect, the Molotov cocktail's flames, and gasoline all reacted simultaneously. The bursting gasoline ignited upon contact with the flames, and with the added force of the strong wind, the Molotov cocktails instantly transformed into incendiary bombs, exploding into massive fireballs in mid-air, all plummeting towards the Leech Queen's body!
"Roar…!"
Scorching high temperatures swept over,
the Leech Queen watched everything in horror, and quickly expanded her long, fleshy tumor arms countless times, rapidly coiling up countless dead Leeches that were already on the ground, utilizing waste. She merged all the flesh and blood of the dead attendant Mutated Leeches onto her own body.
Soon, a shriveled layer of dead skin enveloped the Leech Queen's exterior, like a layer of armor. The Leech Queen curled up into a ball on the ground.
"Splat…!!!"
When the flames and armor made contact,
a foul, smoky smell quickly emanated, filling the biochemical factory. And that layer of dead skin on the Leech Queen's outer shell also turned into charred ash under the high temperature. However, when the charred ash fell off, inside was still blood-red muscle.
This indicated—
the Leech Queen's dead skin armor actually withstood Javier and the two others' Molotov cocktail attack. This was indeed a bit incredible. One had to know that during World War II, Molotov cocktails could render a tank useless.
One could only say,
this was perhaps the power of the virus!
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!!!"
However, the Leech Queen, having escaped mortal danger,
still didn't give Javier and the two others a chance to react. It was her turn now, and she had to launch the strongest counterattack!
With sounds of air being torn,
the Leech Queen, curled up within her dead skin armor, suddenly erupted, her long, compressed arms shooting out violently!
As the Leech Queen, she still inherited her Leech Man subordinates' banana man… bah! It was a rubber man form. Transforming into Luffy, the Leech Queen's arms suddenly used a rubber machine gun barrage! A pair of arms defied the laws of physics, striking fiercely towards Javier's direction.
Among these three,
the one who attracted the most aggro was undoubtedly Javier, that scoundrel.
Many of the crooked and malicious tricks were conceived by this bastard. Whether it was the recent flashbang or the Molotov cocktails, they had caused no small amount of damage to the Leech Queen. Therefore, as the instigator, the person the Leech Queen most wanted to slaughter right now was Javier!
Of course,
the most terrifying aspect of those extended rubber machine gun barrages was definitely not just their speed and extended range, but the sharp mouthparts at their ends. Not only her mouth, but even the palms of her hands, the Leech Queen could make sharp mouthparts grow there. If bitten, a piece of flesh would definitely be torn off!
"Holy crap…"
"We're done for!"
Javier, seeing this, his expression instantly changed. The Leech Queen's surprise attack was too fast, giving Javier no chance to defend. Javier had no possibility of blocking this rubber gun heart-piercing palm. Just as he thought of turning to run, the sharp mouthparts immediately bit down!