Chapter 15 Spending the Night on a Construction Site Crane!
Chapter 15 Spending the Night on a Construction Site Crane!
Su Jinjin made a decision immediately and moved quickly towards the waterfall.
The rain-soaked ground made her steps a little slippery, but she couldn't care less at that moment.
As the distance closed, the roar of the waterfall grew louder, and fine mist filled the air.
However, when she finally reached the last stretch of the path leading to the waterfall, the sight before her made her stop abruptly.
A long bridge spanning the canyon stood in front of them, but a huge gap had been blasted out of the center of the bridge.
The twisted steel bars were exposed, looking grotesque.
The entire bridge was split in two.
A warning sign stood at the bridgehead, with the words scrawled in bright red paint: "[Military Control Zone - No Entry]"
"What exactly happened here?" Su Jinjin murmured to herself.
She crouched down and found several spent shell casings and charred marks at the bridgehead.
It is clear that the military engaged in fierce fighting with the parasites here, even going so far as to blow up bridges to stop something from spreading.
Su Jinjin looked towards the opposite bank with unwavering hope. The waterfall was so close, yet it seemed impossibly far away because of the broken bridge.
The plan to set up a tent by the waterfall was completely ruined.
Just then, she suddenly felt the rain stop.
Su Jinjin looked up abruptly and discovered that the last ray of twilight was being swallowed by darkness.
Strange howls could be heard from afar, indicating that the parasitic variants hidden in the darkness were about to become active.
"Damn it!" Su Jinjin gritted her teeth and looked around, suddenly noticing a tall crane standing on a construction site not far away.
The yellow steel frame stood out conspicuously in the twilight, and the driver's cab was at least twenty meters above the ground.
"Shouldn't we avoid the dangers of the night by hiding up there?"
Su Jinjin's eyes lit up.
At that height, it would take the parasitic variant some time to climb up.
Moreover, the view from above is expansive, allowing Su Jinjin to anticipate potential dangers.
"You can go through!"
With that thought in mind, Su Jinjin quickly ran towards the construction site.
But as darkness fell, the surrounding shadows seemed to come alive, and every dark corner seemed to harbor a deadly threat.
Although it's not raining, there's still water accumulating on the ground, which can buy some time.
Arriving beneath the crane, Su Jinjin looked up at the towering steel frame and couldn't help but swallow hard.
"It's so high, what if someone falls down?"
But she didn't hesitate and grabbed the cold steel frame to start climbing.
"Waaah, why can't I be invincible from the start?!"
To distract herself, Su Jinjin started complaining and even cursing her unscrupulous boss.
"Crunch—" The rusty metal made a teeth-grinding sound.
When Su Jinjin had climbed halfway up, a night breeze blew by, causing the entire crane to sway slightly.
Su Jinjin's heart was pounding in her chest, her fingers gripping the steel frame so tightly that her knuckles turned white.
"Don't look down...don't look down..." she kept repeating to herself, forcing herself to keep her eyes fixed on the driver's cab above.
Sweat soaked through his back, mixing with the lingering rainwater, making his clothes sticky and clinging to his body.
Finally, her trembling hand touched the door handle in the driver's seat.
After using up her last bit of strength to climb inside, Su Jinjin immediately locked the door and used the seatbelt she found to secure herself firmly to the seat.
"Phew—" She let out a long sigh of relief, only then realizing that her legs were trembling uncontrollably.
Through the dusty glass window of the driver's cab, the entire desolate town unfolded before Su Jinjin's eyes like a sinister painting.
The pale moonlight spilled onto the empty streets, casting an eerie silver-gray hue over everything.
In the distance, several twisted black shadows were writhing in unnatural postures.
They would sometimes stop and stretch out their mutated necks to sniff around.
Sometimes it would suddenly accelerate, twitching like a marionette as it rushed toward a corner.
Under the moonlight, their deformed limbs cast long, thin, spider-like shadows on the ground.
Su Jinjin subconsciously gripped the seatbelt tightly, her knuckles turning white from the force.
She reached into the space and took out a dry towel to wipe her still dripping long hair.
The damp strands of hair clung to her neck, making her feel irritated.
"This long hair is such a nuisance," she muttered to herself. "I'll definitely cut it short after this dungeon is over."
Su Jinjin had already taken off her gas mask. When she saw in the newspaper that the cause of the parasite was the existence of bloodworms, she put the gas mask prop into her spatial storage.
But then she took out another prop.
[Analysis Glasses]
These glasses have two great abilities: they allow you to observe the situation at night.
Night Vision Mode and Remote Locking
Put on your glasses.
"Activate night vision mode," she whispered.
Su Jinjin looked outside.
The world suddenly became as bright as day in Su Jinjin's eyes.
It appeared in the dark green night vision image.
It was the very spot where she had seen the dark figure earlier.
Su Jinjin then activated the remote locking capability of the analysis glasses.
The parasitic variant in the distance became clearly visible—it was a stray dog that had been parasitized, its spine piercing through the skin, protruding like serrated edges.
Next to him was a human variant with limbs stretched to an exaggerated degree, rummaging through a trash can with sharp bone claws.
Suddenly, all the variants stopped moving at the same time.
It's as if they've discovered something.
They all turned in the same direction.
Su Jinjin quickly adjusted the viewing angle of her glasses.
At the end of the street, a figure was stumbling and running.
Judging from their attire, they were clearly players who entered the dungeon like Su Bai.
Su Jinjin immediately focused her mind and, through the remote locking function of her analytical glasses, activated [Eye of Resume] on the fleeing figure.
Name: Ma Jingxian
Gender: Male
[Professional Skills: Talent? Plant Control: Ability to manipulate plants to grow rapidly]
[Weakness: Afraid of the dark!]
[Note: One of the players randomly selected by the system]
"Players?" Su Jinjin frowned, but was quickly drawn to the scene before her.
Two parasitic variants—a deformed stray dog and a human variant with twisted limbs—have discovered Ma Jingxian's presence and immediately pounce on him at an astonishing speed!
The dog-shaped variant opened its blood-red mouth, drool flying everywhere.
Meanwhile, the human variant's bone claws gleamed with a cold light, aiming straight for Ma Jingxian's throat!
However, Ma Jingxian did not sit idly by and wait for his fate.
He suddenly pulled a handful of seeds from his pocket and threw them fiercely at the two attacking monsters!
"Talent? Plant Control - Growth!"
In an instant, the seeds sprouted wildly in mid-air, and countless vines shot out like living things, instantly wrapping around the limbs of the two parasitic mutants!
The dog-like variant had its throat bound by thick vines, emitting a suffocating "whimpering" sound.
The human variants, however, tripped over the vines and fell heavily to the ground, struggling to tear themselves free from the restraints.
"Amazing!" Su Jinjin couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice, "This talent can not only be used for planting, but also for attacking?"
However, before she could finish praising him, a sudden change occurred!