Unexpected, but not surprising.
Seeing the three human-shaped cocoons hanging in the sky, Li Qingyuan silently took two steps back.
This spider silk seemed to have strong corrosive and toxic properties, and he didn't want to get stuck in it.
The Pharmacy next door had now become a nest for the Parasitic Spiders. These creatures had an incredibly strong reproductive ability; as long as they had a human body as a host, they could give birth to thousands of baby spiders within forty-eight hours!
It had been three and a half days since the fog descended. He figured everyone in the Pharmacy had probably already become food for the baby spiders.
The Supermarket and the Pharmacy were only separated by a wall, and those baby spiders could easily crawl over through ventilation ducts or various cracks.
He should have taken someone over there to clear out the Spider Cave directly; it would have saved him the trouble now.
"Get the flamethrower!" Burning was the only safe way to deal with these Parasitic Spiders. If they used other weapons, they could only kill the person being parasitized, and it wouldn't affect the spider larvae inside the body.
"Those three… they seem to still be alive, right?" David said weakly, looking at the three cocoons hanging in the air.
"We can't afford any trouble right now. If you think they can be saved, then you go!" Li Qingyuan felt it was necessary to teach David a lesson for his inappropriate, savior-complex behavior.
"Uh, I'll go get the flamethrower then!" David immediately shrunk back, fleeing. He had long since been annoyed with Mrs. Carmody; his previous comment was purely a knee-jerk reaction.
Everyone whose gaze was met by Li Qingyuan's immediately looked away. They could shout slogans all they wanted, but actually risking their lives to save someone? Forget about it!
No one was afraid of death, especially in this situation.
In a few days, they could be lying on a pile of compensation money and living out their retirement. Who would stick their necks out for others?
"Burn them thoroughly. If you miss a single bit, we'll all end up like this!" Li Qingyuan patted David on the shoulder as he came over with the flamethrower, giving him a stern warning.
"Me? Me? Burn?" David asked, his face a mask of confusion. Was he supposed to burn Mrs. Carmody?
"Stop dawdling. The parasitic monsters inside them will burst out soon. If you don't want your son to end up like this, then get moving!" Li Qingyuan ignored David's conflicted expression and addressed the onlookers.
"Everyone, quickly search for any small spiders that might have gotten into the supermarket. Those things are deadly. If you don't want to end up like them, then do a thorough check right now!"
David, with a grimace, began to incinerate the isolation room, while the others immediately became alert and began searching.
"Ugh…"
As a smell of cooked meat wafted from the isolation room, everyone dropped to the ground and vomited.
They knew what David was burning. If they still had an appetite at this moment, that would be truly terrifying.
"I'm going to organize a team to burn down the pharmacy next door!" Li Qingyuan gathered Oli and several other people with the most mobility in the supermarket and instructed them.
There's only so much you can defend.
The Pharmacy has become the legendary Pansidong. Based on the fact that one corpse can generate a thousand small Parasitic Spiders, in at most two days, they'll have to face at least ten thousand Parasitic Spiders! Just imagining ten thousand spiders the size of washbasins rushing towards him made even Li Qingyuan's scalp crawl.
So, the best choice was to take advantage of the fact that those spiders hadn't fully evolved yet, and rush over to burn the Pharmacy down.
"We're doing fine here, why go over there?" After hearing Li Qingyuan's plan, everyone expressed different opinions.
They had food, drink, and entertainment in the Supermarket. Although the Pharmacy next door seemed to have become a monster's nest, at least there were walls to protect them. There was no need to go out and die!
Besides, now that they knew the place next door was a monster's lair, how could they be so reckless as to go and throw their lives away?
"How many Skeleton Birds have we killed in these days?" Seeing these guys being so complacent, Li Qingyuan ground his teeth in annoyance.
If it weren't for the reward points, he wouldn't care about these useless people's lives.
But there's nothing to be done about it. That's how the real masses behave in times of crisis. Those so-called people who are ready to die for their beliefs, who fight and strive for their ideals, are basically idealized in films and TV dramas.
"Twenty-three the day before yesterday, twenty-seven yesterday," Oli immediately answered.
"Including the dozen or so we killed the day before yesterday, we've already killed sixty or seventy Skeleton Birds, but do you think their numbers are increasing or decreasing?" As the time of the mist grew longer, more and more monsters would appear, and they would also become stronger. It's just that this kind of thing couldn't be said outright, so he could only guide these guys to guess for themselves step by step.
"You mean, these monsters are reproducing?" It has to be said that even though these people were greedy for life and afraid of death, they were at least quick-witted. He'd only started, and someone immediately picked up the rest of the sentence.
"That's right. Even if the base was researching biochemical weapons, it wouldn't be possible to have so many. So, these monsters can definitely reproduce, and the speed of reproduction is very fast!" Li Qingyuan pointed at the isolation room, from which the smell of meat was drifting, and said calmly.
Reminded by him, everyone immediately thought about what exactly was being burned in there, and their faces all changed.
"Let's make a quick decision while it's still daytime. We're just going to set a fire next door, it'll be quick."
To encourage everyone, he immediately made two flamethrowers and a dozen incendiary grenades on the spot.
Li Qingyuan had indeed considered bolstering the defenses of the people in the supermarket these past few days. After all, making simple incendiary grenades and bombs was child's play for him right now.
If he could arm all two hundred-plus people in the supermarket, then forget about holding out for seven days, they might even be able to launch an offensive and steal the Spatial Device from the American military base in the mountains!
After all, these creatures from the Other Dimension, aside from their massive size, didn't display any particularly strange abilities. At most, their strength was comparable to that of a dinosaur.
Otherwise, the army wouldn't have been able to slaughter all of these otherworldly creatures in such a short time.
However, after careful consideration, he abandoned that seemingly wonderful idea.
Leaving aside whether these ordinary people, who had never handled powerful weapons, would even know how to use them or accidentally hurt themselves, he didn't dare to entrust these things that could threaten his life to others, given their own petty thoughts.
Who knew what crazy, weird ideas these people might get if they gained power they shouldn't have?
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