Chapter 1246: New Life (One Hundred and Two)
So far, although I have spent a considerable amount of time in the underground layer here, the total distance I have traveled is not very large, and I even doubt that the distance I have traveled in a straight horizontal line from the beginning of the underground to the present is more than 500 meters, because most of the routes we have taken have turned back and forth in the course of our journey.
As a result, although I can't use my eyes to see other places in the vicinity first-hand, I can use my hearing to sense the dangers around me to a certain extent.
I don't know if it's because the energy in my body has increased and my five senses have been further improved, and the chaos just now has seriously interfered with my hearing, but after calming down now, I was surprised to find that I can now clearly hear the sounds in the other partition passages nearby.
Now the surrounding passages and rooms are filled with a lot of chaotic footsteps, although the sound is not loud, but I can hear it very clearly, judging from the frequency of these steps, there is a great possibility that it is the strange thing I saw just now generated by Qianqian's energy!
I thought that if all the strange things came at us at the same time, it would definitely be irresistible, and from the experience of fighting them just now, these guys actually have the same perception of the things around them as us, and they are also judged by sight and hearing, and since these guys can't compare IQ to normal humans, as long as we keep it hidden and absolutely quiet, it shouldn't attract all the weird things.
However, this is not an easy task, because in case we encounter an unexpected situation in the future, we will have to fight against it with as little volume as possible.
Sasha had already swept the corpses of the other companions on the ground at this time and ran far away in front of the passage, and I was afraid of losing her, so I urged Zhao Youkuang to go forward first, while I turned around and looked at the other four first-generation test subjects behind me.
I've been worried about whether these four first-generation test subjects will have any changes during this period, such as they will also turn into masked man-like monsters under the influence of Qianqian, but fortunately, their situation is quite stable now, except that they are still unable to use energy to attack the enemy, everything else is basically normal.
However...... I was alone in finding that the four children didn't seem to be as active as they had just been.
This can rule out the reason why the energy is imprisoned in the first place, because they were in the same situation before, but they are not as silent and lifeless as they are now, could it be that there are other reasons?
Then I tried to communicate with them, and I didn't know how Zhao Youkuang communicated with them just now, but at least now it seems that their behavior is still within the acceptable range.
I gestured to urge them to pick up speed, but they only increased their speed by a small margin, but now we were barely fast enough to keep quiet.
After another ten minutes of traveling with Sasha, I noticed that the path of the passage under my feet began to change somewhat.
Although the construction on both sides of the passage path we have walked before is very smooth, the soles of the feet are obviously "half-finished", basically similar to ordinary dirt roads, due to the low-lying terrain, some places are even more difficult to walk after being soaked in water.
But the floor of the passage where we are now is paved with neat stone bricks, which do not seem to have been laid for a long time, and it does not feel like it will take more than half a year at most.
I wondered why all the rest of the country was dirt roads, but this was the only place where it was built so "exquisitely".
As we just walked, the footsteps of those strange things could be heard from time to time in the passages separated by other walls, but now they had largely disappeared, and the time it took to disappear was almost as long as the neat stone bricks appeared on the ground.
Also, I don't think it's time or an unexpected event that caused only this small amount of bricks to be used to cover the entire basement, but I believe that the original plan of the builders was to do so much.
In other words, this must be a key part of the entire Life 2 underground structure!
I immediately turned back to Zhao Youkuang and asked, "Did you know about the situation here before?"
Zhao Youkuang frowned and shook his head: "I'm not even familiar with the road ahead, how can I know about this place?" instead of asking me, you might as well ask that Qin Yao, after all, she is the leader here." ”
I didn't say anything, and said in my heart that Qin Yao was indeed a little unreasonable in this matter, you must know that some of the wanderers had already migrated to Dongkou Province in advance half a year ago or so, and when I chatted and talked to people in the No. 2 base of life before, I also found out that the construction time of this stronghold did belong to the "first echelon" of the Qinhuai Mountains, so in terms of time, it must be the earliest batch.
So...... If the underground facilities were being built or renovated at the time, the Life II members on the surface would not have been ignorant.
Could it be that Qin Yao really lied?
As soon as I thought of this, I suddenly heard Qin Yao's shout faintly coming from a long distance behind me: "Xiao Chen, if you can hear it, get out of here as soon as possible!"
Zhao Youkuang and I glanced at each other, and found that Zhao Youkuang's eyes showed an obvious look of distrust, and I estimated that in her opinion, this was just another trick of Qin Yao.
Things have developed to this point, even I began to be suspicious of Qin Yao, but now that she has clearly told us to flee quickly, I really don't know what to do.
However, the facts soon forced me to make a choice, and as Qin Yao's shout appeared, I heard a large number of small footsteps immediately coming from the passage behind me, and these footsteps were all running towards Qin Yao's voice just now.
As for the location of Qin Yao's voice just now, it was not her own coordinates, but the sound message that Qin Yao had just heard in that room that was remotely transmitted by Qin Yao through the radio.
It seems that Qin Yao thought that we were still staying where we were.
Now that the other passages behind me were occupied by those strange things, I thought it was impossible to turn back, so I closed the door of the last passage that was closest to me and the last passage when we came, and then began to walk towards Sasha at the farthest end with Zhao Youkuang and the other four first-generation test subjects.
Sasha was now standing on top of the neat stone bricks at his feet, and at the end of the passage was a gate-like device.
The walls on both sides of the passage are bare, but there are a lot of incandescent light bulbs installed at the top, and they are all lit now.
Since the power supply here still exists, it means that the overall degree of preservation of the facilities here is still quite high, at least it has not been seriously damaged, if Qin Yao and Yue Gang really escaped here, then maybe they will not be in much danger.
I thought to myself as I walked behind Sasha.
I also noticed that there were no wrenches on the outside of the gate, and it seemed that it could only be opened from the inside.
The four first-generation test subjects were all leaning against the wall beside me, and Zhao Youkuang was standing at the far end, where the stone bricks and dirt roads meet, thinking about something.
I pointed to Sasha where the gate was, and then gestured to ask if she would be able to open it.
Sasha shook her head slightly, as if asking me to give her some time to think.
"Yuegang?" I asked again, and this time Sasha finally nodded.
I wanted to shout a few times inside the gate to get Qin Yao and Yue Gang's attention, but I was afraid of being heard by those strange things. You know, we're stuck on the outside of the gates, and if we alarm the huge number of strange things, we'll be completely blocked in this "alley...... When the time comes, even if it grows wings, it will be useless.
And Sasha didn't say anything, apparently having the same concerns as me.
But even so, I tentatively knocked on the gate a few times, but there was no response from Qin Yao inside.
I'm sure if they were really inside, and not too far away, they would have been audible, wouldn't they...... Was Sasha's judgment wrong?
But this doesn't seem to be the case, because at least there are no other forks in the road on the last section of the stone and brick road we traveled before, so Qin Yao is either behind this gate, or at a farther position, and this "farther position" also needs to cross this gate.
Sasha continued to hold her breath in place, I thought she was planning to use some kind of technology to break the lockdown of the gate, but after a while, I noticed that she finally pulled the blade out of her side and slashed it into the palm of her hand......
A flash of black blood flowed out and turned into a black-red sphere in the air.
This time I saw very clearly at close range and without other interference, no wonder she kept cutting her palms all the time but it was no big deal, and the blood didn't seem to be flowing all, it turned out that every time she cut her palms, the large amount of red substance that flowed out was actually not pure blood, on the contrary...... The proportion of blood is actually quite small, and it feels less than one-tenth of it, and the real main body is actually some of the same dark red breath!
It's the energy breath! It's just that the color of the energy breath on her body is quite special, at least I haven't seen it before.
But this is not surprising, because I have seen other types and colors of psionic energy in lucid dreams before, and psionic energy alone can distinguish so many colors, let alone other energies.
In this way, it makes sense that this Sasha used all kinds of blood cells to deal with enemies before.
She made the black-red orb in her hand bigger and bigger, and finally the diameter reached almost the height of the gate, and just when I thought she would finally choose to use the blood ball to force the gate open, I was surprised to find that the orb was only slowly approaching the gate at a very "gentle" speed...... In the end, the two came together completely.
The next moment, I saw that the part of the contact between the sphere and the gate gradually became blurred, and I thought I was dazzled, but soon I realized that the surface of the gate was actually corroded by the blood ball!
I took a deep breath and looked at Sasha's face, and saw that she didn't have any special expression, not even the ability to concentrate on controlling the movement of the sphere, she was more like she was taking advantage of this rare quiet time to regain energy and recuperate.
I looked at Zhao Youkuang again, she had also walked to my side at this time, and when she saw me looking at her, she made a silent gesture to me, and then suppressed her voice and said in a whisper-like voice: "See, there are endless ways to use energy." ”
"Have you seen it?" I asked in a low voice, "How can she corrode the stone gate with this energy?"
"Only you can't think of it, but there's nothing you can't do. While Zhao Youkuang spoke, he pointed to the location of the gate, and I realized that it had really been corroded by blood cells, opening a gap that happened to allow an adult to pass through.
I hurriedly stepped forward and looked at the inner wall of the gap, and saw that it was not a bloodmelt stone, but a solid stone gate made of hard stone similar to granite.
As soon as I finished looking at the material of the gate, I suddenly noticed a "whoosh" sound coming from inside the gate, and I immediately understood that something must be flying towards me, and hurriedly lowered my head and flashed, and then there was a "snap" on the top of my head, and a sharp steel nail fell to the back of my neck.
This was obviously the steel nail bullet of a nail gun, and Qin Yao had one of these nail guns in his hand before.
I hurriedly looked up at the inside of the gate, and saw that it was a large office hall-like place, filled with all kinds of sophisticated electronic instruments, including two rows of "capsules" against the wall, several of which had their lids opened, and I saw that there seemed to be some dried animal carcasses inside.
At the same time, I also caught a glimpse of Zhao Youkuang's face showing a shocked expression, it seems that she doesn't know this place either.
As I observed this, I also noticed the location of the nail gun just now, behind one of the "capsules" I mentioned, there was a person poking her head out to try to observe me, and I had already seen her.
That's right, it's Qin Yao.
At the same time, she finally saw me clearly, stood up and said in amazement, "Didn't I let you go?
On the other side, Sasha had already jumped to the position where Qin Yao was just hiding behind him, and dragged out Yuegang, who was lying on the ground behind him.