Chapter 30 Beta Hunter
The three of them returned to the office they had just been in, and Yang Ren picked up the family photo on the table.
"Alexander Ashford..."
The middle-aged man sitting in the middle seemed to be the father of the Ashford brothers and sisters.
"They experimented on their father and turned him into a monster, then tied him up in a dungeon. So the one below is..."
Steve deduced that everyone had a very bad idea in their mind.
"Don't worry about him, just go away."
Claire said.
Putting down the family portrait, the three of them continued forward and came to a set of double doors.
Claire, who was walking in front, wanted to push the door open, but Yang Ren was keenly aware of it:
There is murderous intent behind this door!
As the double doors were pushed open a crack, a thick green arm suddenly stretched out, with three claws pointing directly at Claire's face.
Less than 10 centimeters away from her eyes!
"what!"
Claire was startled and stepped back instinctively.
The arm bent slightly, and the double doors were propped open.
A strange-looking monster slowly walked out and faced the three people behind the door.
It is about 1 meters tall when standing upright, with a head like some giant insect and a four-petal mouth like a mantis, which is constantly wriggling.
Its body is covered with dark green hardened carapace and scales, and its two claws are huge and sharp.
Especially the sharp claws on the left hand, which are almost twice the size of the right hand, and seem to be able to easily tear open a person's throat.
The lower limbs are like the hind legs of a cat or dog, with three-section toes touching the ground, and a short, thick tail trailing behind.
Yang Ren narrowed his eyes.
Hunter Beta (Hunter Beta/Hunter β)
In other words, Hunter β.
“Squeak! Squeak!”
The Beta Hunter let out two strange cries, then leaned down and assumed an attacking stance.
Bang, bang, bang—!
Swah——
Claire and Steve opened fire immediately, but at such a close distance, the bullets were actually dodged by the Beta Hunter.
Occasionally, a bullet that hits its body can only break off part of its shell or leave a white mark.
"How can this be?!"
Claire screamed immediately. It was the first time she saw a BOW that could dodge bullets.
However, this seemed to be an evasive action made by the other party after he noticed the action of raising the gun.
Taking advantage of Claire's distraction, the Beta Hunter immediately leaned down and rushed over at high speed.
But the former's reaction was just as quick, and she performed a roundhouse kick the moment the Beta Hunter attacked her.
Bang!
The seemingly fragile body coupled with the heavy soles of cowboy boots actually shattered a piece of the shell on the Beta Hunter's forehead with this kick.
The pale pink muscles under the carapace were exposed, as well as some disgusting tissues that looked like pustules.
As the Beta Hunter retreated in pain, its huge claws scratched the wall.
Stab it--!
After a lot of sparks flew on the wall, three shocking huge claw marks appeared.
Steve was stunned by what he saw.
What a fierce big sister!
Wow—Puff!
A sharp black tentacle struck like lightning, instantly piercing the Beta Hunter's head which had no shell protection.
As the tentacles were pulled out, the Beta Hunter's huge body fell down with a loud bang.
"Oh my god, what the hell is this?"
Steve walked up, looked at the disgusting monster, and said with a frown.
"Looks like some kind of mutated reptile."
Claire stamped her feet slightly and replied with the same disgust.
After dealing with the Beta Hunter, the three of them entered the double doors.
Behind the door seemed to be a large warehouse for storing items, but it was very dark.
Claire tried turning on the light switch on the wall, but there was no response.
I had no choice but to grope forward in the dark with Steve, holding a flashlight.
As soon as Yang Ren entered the room, he felt something was wrong.
Just as he was about to remind the two people in front to be more careful, countless green lights suddenly appeared in the darkness around him.
Those are the eyes of the Beta Hunter.
There were so many of them that Yang Ren couldn't handle them all at once.
The main thing is that Steve and Claire's safety cannot be guaranteed.
"You go first, I'll take care of them."
Yang Ren took off his sunglasses.
"Then be careful!"
Claire trusted Yang Ren absolutely, so she pulled Steve along and immediately ran towards the nearest double doors.
Two Beta Hunters jumped down and tried to intercept, but were swept away by a handful of tentacles.
After the two of them left completely, the whole room suddenly fell into darkness.
In the darkness, there was only the endless green light and...
A blue light flashed in Yang Ren's eyes.
Bang! Ping-ling-bang! Squeak!
As Claire and Steve ran out of the double doors, they heard all kinds of metal collision sounds and the screams and wails of Beta hunters from inside.
"Is he really okay on his own?"
Steve, who ran out from the group of Beta hunters, couldn't help but worry about Yang Ren's safety.
"Don't worry Steve, he's stronger than you think."
Claire patted Steve's shoulder and smiled.
After coming out of the double doors, there is a "U"-shaped platform in front of you, leading to the second floor.
Looking down from the middle, it was still bottomless darkness, like a cave, and there was a lot of white mist in the air.
Not far above the head was the nose of the plane that had just crashed through the outer wall of the facility during an emergency landing.
"Are we outside?"
"It seems even colder than the room just now."
Steve couldn't help but shiver and touched his exposed arms that were about to turn into ice sculptures.
Tried to open a door next to it, but it was locked.
"Look, there's a door on the other side, too!"
Looking in the direction Claire pointed, they saw a door on the second floor opposite. The two immediately went up along the spiral iron staircase.
"Claire, be careful!"
The two were walking on the iron stairs when an excavator's rotary mechanical arm suddenly moved overhead and hit Claire.
Thanks to Steve's timely reminder, Claire dodged in time.
The heavy mechanical arm smashed onto the iron stairs, and the handrail was immediately twisted and deformed.
"I didn't expect you could find this place."
Alfred's voice echoed in the empty cave.
"I'm gonna kill you right here, you bastard!"
Steve turned into a mother hunter on the spot.
"Hahahahaha…the Queen will wake up soon!"
Listening to Alfred's crazy words, Claire was slightly puzzled:
"Queen…?"
Behind the iron plate opposite the second floor, Alfred stood up with a laugh and shot Steve.
While Steve dodged, he did not forget to shoot at Alfred, but the other party retracted his head again.
The robotic arm above my head moved again, as if it was about to fall down again.
"If this continues, it will be disadvantageous to us. Let's change the venue quickly!"
The two men moved quickly through the iron plates on the stairs to approach Alfred.
The other party seemed to have discovered the two's intentions and frantically operated the robotic arm to block them.
Just when the two sides were in a stalemate and neither could defeat the other.
boom--!
The double doors that Steve and Claire had come out of earlier were kicked away.
Yang Ren was covered in blood, and he walked out slowly with two Beta hunters with smashed heads in his hands, like a god of death walking out of hell.
"Why aren't you dead yet?!"
When Alfred saw that Yang Ren actually came out alive, his face was full of disbelief.
He had released nearly 20 Beta Hunters into that room!
Without responding to Alfred's barking, Yang Ren threw the two Beta Hunter corpses directly at him and extended his tentacles to stab the mechanical arm above his head.
Alfred immediately moved to avoid the two flying Beta Hunter corpses.
Bang—bang—!
The wall that was hit immediately had a large dent.
The connecting rope of the mechanical arm above his head was also broken by the tentacles and fell towards Alfred who was hiding below.
The latter was busy dodging, and the moment he stood up, he was shot in the chest by Claire.
"Ah ah ah ah ah--!"
Alfred screamed and fell into the cave below him.
……
At the same time Alfred fell into the cave.
The monster that the three had seen tied up in the office earlier, who seemed to be Alexander Ashford, suddenly raised his head.
It seemed very angry. It broke free from the belts and chains that bound itself, and stood up. A tumor-like object inside its chest kept beating.
……
"When Alfred attacked us just now, he said something like 'The Queen will wake up soon'."
As Claire was talking about what had just happened, the three of them came to a ladder that led to a place very far above their heads.
"Queen…?"
"Do you think there is a possibility that Alexia is not dead?"
"Combined with the diary I saw earlier, she injected herself with some kind of virus, but it took 15 years to integrate?"
Yang Ren's inference is not without reason, but if we put it this way...
Then wouldn't Alexia be sleeping somewhere under the feet of the three of them?
Climbing up the ladder to the top, the three pushed open a door and a strong airflow blew in with a lot of wind and snow.
"It's a blizzard!"
Steve walked out in the wind and snow. It was already the ground outside, and there were some buildings around.
"Look! There's a snowmobile over there!"
Claire saw a tracked snowmobile not far away, and guessed that Alfred must have come here in it.
The three people came out from the second floor of a building, went down the stairs and slid into the snow.
"Drink uh!!!"
A hoarse and strange cry was heard, and a humanoid creature jumped down from the roof behind the three people.
It landed in front of the three people and began to mutate in front of them.
Because its hands and legs were still bound, three arthropod-like limbs sprouted from its abdomen and back, waving constantly.
"It's the monster in the dungeon just now!"