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Chapter 323: Original text - 295: Large Intestine Modified:

Chapter 323: Original text: Chapter 295: Large Intestine Modified:

The interior of the GOC armored transport vehicle was quite spacious, even with a group of people inside it didn’t feel crowded.

"Do you want tea or coffee?"

Gray Rain took instant coffee, cups, and a kettle from the passenger seat drawer, casually made a few cups, and handed them to Yang Hua and others in the back. Tina, who was still wearing a gas mask, just held the plastic cup and swallowed, without drinking—probably afraid of poisoning.

Sitting in the reliable armored vehicle, with a cup of hot coffee down, the fear, hunger, and fatigue of the past three days seemed to vanish like smoke.

Yang Hua, Xue Luomeng, and others finally let go of their guard, hugging each other and crying softly.

Gray Rain couldn’t believe his eyes, staring at his own palm, suddenly turned to Li Cheng and said, "Just a casual brew and it’s good enough to make people cry. Lao Shi, I’m really a coffee saint!"

?

Li Cheng’s eye twitched, it’s not because the coffee is good that they’re crying, and you call that being a coffee saint? At the very least, when the lid is opened, it should emit golden light.

And why use the first tone instead of the fourth tone for "泡" (brew)?!

To show his professionalism, Li Cheng didn’t comment, cleared his throat, and asked Tina for more information.

According to Tina, Dr. Noah was a super scientist on par with Newton, Einstein, and Maxwell, proficient in both theory and engineering practice, single-handedly advancing technology in fields like nuclear engineering, biological engineering, electrical engineering, and aerospace engineering around the world.

In the early twenty-first century, he had already developed vacuum tube high-speed rail, highly realistic robots, brain-machine interfaces, a permanent moon base, and even the space jump engine full of black technology elements.

During the apocalyptic event, he was at the Portland Laboratory, which he personally established, and he was not yet forty years old.

Li Cheng squinted his eyes, thinking rapidly. While there are indeed extraordinary talents in the world, as human civilization and technology develop, the field of science becomes more specialized.

Even a genius would need twenty to thirty years to master a cutting-edge science.

And to effortlessly span multiple fields and achieve top-notch results, even surpassing the era...

It has to be related to the killing field,

or it’s some revival super scholar national military industry research institute super hardcore emperor random black technology system.

Thinking of this, Li Cheng glanced at the people in the vehicle through the rearview mirror.

Theoretically, Xue Luomeng and others should be in a soul state, but they still have heartbeats, pulses, body temperature, and mass. This kind of "abnormality" is probably related to the apocalypse and very likely to Dr. Noah, who might have caused the apocalypse.

The question is, how to find Noah.

"On a physical level, it’s impossible to go to Portland Laboratory."

Tina held the coffee cup, her voice hoarse, "This world is constantly collapsing, there’s no concept of direction."

Gray Rain asked suspiciously, "Collapse? What does that mean?"

Tina put down the coffee cup, unbuckled her backpack, took out a wrinkled map, and tore off a corner.

"Just like this."

Her expression was gloomy, "[Collapse] is a phenomenon, first there’s a slight earthquake, as the earthquake level increases, the whole area eventually disappears into thin air, like tearing off a piece of the map.

My parents once took me to see the edge of a collapsed area, the ground there became a cliff with an unknown drop, throwing stones off the cliff, you can’t hear the sound of stones at all."

Gray Rain raised an eyebrow, "Nonsense, you throw stones, stones don’t make sound. If anything, you should throw a living creature."

Li Cheng ignored Gray Rain’s quip and asked, "In the past four years, has it rained?"

Tina was stunned, "It rained the first year, then in the next three years, not a single drop. My parents and I survived all these years by finding canned water."

Got it.

Li Cheng rubbed his chin, this corresponds to wasteland being barren, the atmospheric water cycle of the Otherworld probably has long been ruined by the [Collapse] phenomenon...

Thunk!

A dull sound suddenly came from above the vehicle, startling Tina and the others.

Thump thump thump——

The sound was dense and rapid, like hail, meanwhile the armored vehicle’s tires slipped suddenly, almost flipping over.

Yang Hua instinctively wanted to look out the window but was quickly held down by Tina.

Her face pale, she whispered, "Don’t look, don’t stick your head out!"

Li Cheng had already seen it.

Through the drone’s transmission, he clearly saw a large number of black balloons floating a hundred meters above the ground.

Their size was similar to common weather hydrogen balloons, their floating posture stable, all the black balloons turned towards them simultaneously when the wind blew.

They weren’t balloons, but bloated, expressionless inflatable human heads.

Below each head balloon’s neck stump hung a long intestine, these intestines were the ones that adhered to the top of the armored vehicle, dragging it and nearly flipping it over.

Thump thump thump thump!

More and more head balloons dropped their hanging intestines, either attaching to the vehicle’s roof or gripping the window, trying to use their cumulative buoyancy to lift the armored vehicle off the ground.

This hunting method was quite similar to an eagle—lifting heavy prey into the sky and then dropping it to the ground, using gravity to kill it, saving energy.

In a sense, helicopters and Pinochet did the same thing.

"These balloon monsters have weak active mobility, if they don’t catch prey within a period, they will drift away."

Tina quickly said, "We need to abandon the vehicle, quickly hide in a room, basement, or under building debris."

"Abandon the vehicle? Over my dead body."

Gray Rain widened his eyes, the GOC-provided armored transport vehicle cost millions close to tens of millions, think of how many STEAM games, e-cigarettes, snacks, milk tea, betel nuts, and mobile game 648 packages it could buy,

Frugal Gray Rain could never agree.

She pushed open the vehicle door, jumped down, and stood in the middle of the road with her hands on her hips.

The floating head balloons immediately noticed her, their dangling intestines twisted like venomous snakes towards Gray Rain’s neck and limbs, trying to use buoyancy to drag her into the sky.

Then...

Then they couldn’t move her.

Tina in the vehicle couldn’t believe her eyes, she didn’t know Gray Rain’s factory weight was over eight hundred kilograms, and she could liquefy the metal at her feet, penetrating deep into the rock layer, growing roots like a tree to increase grip.

"That’s it?"

Gray Rain sneered, turned her arms into long knives, chopping and cutting the intestines into pieces.

The remaining head balloons recognized the unfavorable situation, releasing their hold on the armored vehicle, trying to drift away.

Gray Rain couldn’t let them go, grabbing the intestines and dragging them, pulling all the heads towards the ground, shouting as she dragged, "Lao Shi, help out! Don’t let these things run away!"

These intestines are long and tough, with great strength, and they’re clean inside,

Whether making Taiwanese sausages, spicy fatty intestines, or stewed dishes, they’re top-quality ingredients."

In the back vehicle compartment, Xue Luomeng and others’ foreheads sweated faintly, the fanaticism and thrill in Gray Rain’s words didn’t seem fake, she genuinely looked like she wanted to do it.

In comparison, Mr. Shi seemed more normal...

Before they could wipe the sweat away, Li Cheng also jumped out of the vehicle, casually taking out an iron pot, salt, oil, rice wine, vinegar, scallions, ginger, garlic, star anise, cinnamon bark from the three-dimensional warehouse....