I Created a Containment Object at the Start, and Became a God

27: Do you still recognize me?”Don’t shoot!” Wang Xiaogan shouted, recognizing the Taishui Salamander’s characteristics from the intel.

He quickly switched tactical commands: ”Change to tranquilizer darts! Team B prepare the high-voltage net! Team C, get in the water and retrieve it!”

The mercenaries fumbled to change their equipment, while a few good swimmers, already in special protective suits, slowly entered the water with alloy-woven nets.

Over a dozen human faces on the water’s surface suddenly turned towards them simultaneously, revealing eerie smiles.

”Hurry up!” Cold sweat seeped from Wang Xiaogan’s forehead as he watched the enormous creature surfacing on the thermal imager. ”It’s coming out!”

The water suddenly exploded, and a giant black shadow, over three meters long, shot into the air!

It was a monster resembling a giant salamander, but its back was densely covered with human-face-like tumors.

Each face was emitting a silent scream, their grotesque expressions chilling to the bone.

”Damn! That’s f*cking disgusting!” a mercenary exclaimed, recoiling in horror.

The Taishui Salamander clearly sensed danger and began to violently thrash its body.

The mucus secreted from its body splattered like raindrops. Several mercenaries who couldn’t dodge in time screamed in agony—the mucus instantly corroded their protective suits, burning bloody holes in their skin!

”Fire! Quick, fire!” Wang Xiaogan shrieked hysterically.

Dozens of tranquilizer guns fired simultaneously, and the specialized darts created a blue glow on the Taishui Salamander’s body. The mercenaries ambushing underwater seized the opportunity to throw a high-voltage net, and crackling currents instantly enveloped the monster.

”Pull it in! Quick, pull it in!” Wang Xiaogan shouted excitedly, watching as this priceless prey was about to be captured.

Just then, however, all the human faces on the Taishui Salamander’s back suddenly opened their mouths simultaneously—there was no sound, but all the mercenaries’ helmet displays instantly erupted with dazzling static!

”It’s infrasound!” a mercenary desperately tore off his helmet, blood already flowing from his ear canals. ”It’s disintegrating us from the inside...”

Wang Xiaogan watched in horror as his arm slowly twisted and deformed.

He finally understood the true horror of the salamander: not simple corrosives, but this terrifying sound that humans couldn’t hear.

”Li Dan... you f*cking set me up...” Wang Xiaogan knelt on the ground, watching helplessly as his skin began to harden, turning into a keratinous layer similar to the Taishui Salamander’s... Meanwhile, at the cave entrance, Li Dan sneered as he turned off the monitoring screen: ”Time’s up, it’s our turn.”

He put on a special chemical protective mask. ”Remember, it must be alive.”

Li Dan led the Li family’s elite squad quickly through the cave passage, their tactical boots making an unsettling sound on the sticky ground.

Scattered on the ground were the mercenaries’ dismembered limbs, some already encased in an unknown keratinous substance.

”Ignore this trash.” Li Dan coldly glanced around, walking straight to the Taishui Salamander trapped in the electric net.

The monster was now in a weakened state, the dozens of human faces on its back all tightly closed, and its mucus secretion significantly reduced.

Li Dan nodded in satisfaction: ”Proceed as planned, first seal these human faces.”

Several Li family loyalists immediately stepped forward, covering each human face with specialized metal patches.

These patches contained powerful tranquilizers, capable of temporarily suppressing the salamander’s sonic attack ability.

”Increase the anesthetic dosage again.” Li Dan watched the gradually stabilizing vital signs on the monitoring instrument. ”The young master wants a live specimen; don’t let it die halfway.”

With the injection of the last enhanced tranquilizer, the over three-meter-long Taishui Salamander finally stopped struggling completely.

The Li family loyalists skillfully placed it into a specialized bio-container, preparing to transport it back to the Li family laboratory.

”Young Master, mission accomplished.” Li Dan dialed Li Songzhou’s communicator. ”Target captured, returning now.”

Li Songzhou’s slightly excited voice came from the other end of the communication: ”Excellent! Immediately transport it back to the underground laboratory; I’ve already had the medical team prepare.”

Hanging up the communication, Li Dan was about to lead the team away when he suddenly felt something tugging at his pant leg. Looking down, it was Wang Xiaogan, half his body already mutated!

The former mercenary leader was now covered in a keratinous layer, his sole remaining human eye staring intently at Li Dan.

”Wh-why...” Wang Xiaogan spat out bloody foam with difficulty.

Li Dan slowly removed his mask, revealing a face covered in burn scars: ”Do you still recognize me?”

Wang Xiaogan shook his head blankly, sticky blood continuously gushing from his mouth.

”Qingshi Village, thirteen years ago.” Li Dan’s voice was as cold as ice. ”To silence witnesses, you massacred 137 people and then set the entire village on fire.”

Wang Xiaogan’s single eye suddenly widened, as if remembering something: ”You... you’re that...”

”That’s right, I’m the only child who escaped.” Li Dan’s mechanical arm slowly rose, the pulse gun’s muzzle aimed at Wang Xiaogan’s head. ”The Li family gave me a chance for revenge.”

”Wait! I can—”

A gunshot echoed in the cave, and Wang Xiaogan’s head exploded like a watermelon.

Li Dan expressionlessly put away his weapon and put his mask back on: ”Team, retreat. Return.”

The team silently left the cave, no one looking back at the corpses.

Behind them, on the wall deep within the cave, a much larger humanoid black shadow quietly emerged... but quickly became invisible again... The Li family squad moved swiftly through the dense forest. Over twenty ’house-born’ individuals in tactical gear moved like phantoms among the tree shadows.

These warriors, raised in the mountains of the Southwest since childhood, knew the jungle terrain like the back of their hand, their speed unaffected by the night.

Suddenly, Li Yi, at the front of the team, sharply raised his hand to signal. The entire squad instantly froze, everyone finding cover in less than a second, demonstrating astonishing tactical prowess.

Li Dan crouched beside Li Yi, lowering his voice to ask: ”What’s wrong?”

He trusted this comrade who had joined the Li family at the same time as him—Li Yi, from a minority ethnic group in Yunxiao Province, had an almost instinctive perception of the jungle.

Li Yi slowly removed his helmet, revealing a tattooed face. He closed his eyes, his nostrils flaring slightly: ”Something’s wrong...” His voice was almost inaudible. ”It’s too quiet...”

Indeed, the entire jungle was eerily silent. Even the chirping of insects and birds had vanished, leaving only the rustling of leaves in the night wind.

Li Dan’s helmet switched to thermal imaging mode, and he vigilantly scanned his surroundings. Just then, Li Yi suddenly lunged, tackling Li Dan to the ground!

”Bang!”

A bullet whistled past Li Dan’s helmet, exploding a large hole in the tree trunk behind him!

”Enemy attack! Three o’clock!” Li Yi roared, rolling behind cover.

The Li family squad instantly counterattacked, their firepower directly covering that area...