Chapter 328: The Lingering Haze
"Young master, it's not good!" Gong Hua's anxious voice came from the walkie-talkie: "That Zhang Yuhang ran away!"
"Why did you run away for him! None of you can stand it?!" Gong Yang's voice carried a kind of anger that hated iron but not steel.
"We didn't expect that either. He had just pressed twice on the wall just like before, and he didn't pay attention to it when we were about to drink coffee again, but the gate of passage six suddenly opened, and he got in in an instant!"
"And what about you now, chased into Passage Six?"
"No ......" Gong Hua's voice carried a hint of frustration: "Passage No. 6 was closed immediately after he entered, we wanted to forcibly open it, but there was no way, he should have activated the access control." β
Su Fei could fully understand that the eight passages around the central hall were all half-meter-thick negative pressure closed alloy hatches, which were stronger than the bank's vault doors, and even C-4 bombs might not be able to explode, and the bullets of these automatic rifles were useless against the alloy doors.
"Rice bucket!" Gong Yang scolded fiercely, and at this moment, the waiting above his head lit up again, and the system seemed to automatically sense that there was a problem with power delivery, so it has now been switched to a backup power supply.
But Gong Yang immediately found out that Zhang Yuhang must have done something to the system, the central control authority he had just obtained had been revoked, and the access control and closure instructions issued had all become invalid after the system was restarted. The entire underground base was as if it had all been restored to factory settings, and the system was blank.
Gong Yang cursed secretly, adjusted the walkie-talkie to the public channel, and shouted to all the battles of the Gong family: "Everyone has it, go to the Central Hall and gather together!"
"Gong Yin, received!"
"Gong Xiaochang, received!"
"Gong Qi, I received it!"
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After returning to the central hall, Gong Yang counted the number of people, and no one was missing. Then the soldiers of the Gong family began to report one by one.
"It was reported that the search had been completed before the power outage in the No. 2 planting area, and no abnormalities were found, and no trace of Zhang's personnel was found. β
"It was reported that the search had been completed before the power outage in the No. 3 warehouse area, and no abnormalities were found, and no trace of Zhang's personnel was found. β
"It was reported that no abnormalities were found in the No. 4 water source purification area, all equipment was operating normally, and no staff of the Zhang family were found. β
The reports made by each group of personnel, except for Su Fei and his side, who slowed down a little because they had to search the rooms one by one, the other areas have been checked.
The soldiers of the Gong family also set up cameras at the entrance of each connecting passage in the three areas according to Gong Yang's instructions, and they are usually in a silent standby state, but if they find a living creature passing by or find anything unusual, they will activate it autonomously and project the picture to each Gong family soldier.
Su Fei shook his head: "It's not enough to just take precautions like this, after we Zhang Yuhang go down, it is very likely that we will first go to fight with those alchemists who are hiding here, and then it is very likely that we will come up from below through the intricate passages in this underground experimental base." β
"My suggestion is that it's best to send men to these four areas at once and weld all the passage doors shut, so that even if they can open the passage control, they won't be able to enter the area we control now. β
Tang Xueyan also added: "Especially in the No. 3 warehouse area, it is very likely that he will return there first, after all, he has no weapons on him." β
"Good. Gong Yang's face was cold, his gaze swept over his group of warriors, and he roared, "Everyone return to their respective areas before and completely seal all passages." Gong Hua, you take three people to guard the hall, and if there is anything unusual, notify us quickly!"
"Yes!"
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After getting acquainted with the structure, the blockade of Area 2, 3, and 4 was quickly completed, except for Gong Hua and the other four people stationed in the central hall, the others under the leadership of Gong Yang began to conduct a thorough investigation of the hive in Area 1, and each passage was installed with miniature cameras and artificially blocked.
Area 1 was also sealed down an hour later, and no staff were found on the second floor as well as on the first floor, but Gong Yang, Su Fei, and Tang Xueyan became more and more nervous, because everyone on the second floor also found a messy room.
This room also belonged to a security lead in Area Eight, and the G-Lok pistol in her drawer was gone.
"Attention to all units, there is a high probability that there will be people in the staff who are carrying firearms, if necessary, it is permissible to shoot, repeat, it is permissible to shoot. β
Gong Yang gave orders to the soldiers on the walkie-talkie, and after being busy for so long, it was already late at night on the ground. And everyone's biological clock also began to play a role at this time, and a trace of sleepiness also began to attack the nerves of the Gong family's soldiers.
Gong Yang decided to take a short break and explore the remaining areas of No. 5, 6, 7, and 8 tomorrow.
Everyone found a few nearby rooms to rest, four people in each room, Hu Mang is a nocturnal animal as a tiger, and consciously shoulders the heavy responsibility of patrolling.
Su Fei sat on the bed, borrowed a tactical computer to project a holographic three-dimensional structure map into the air, and was seriously studying the structure of the entire underground experimental base.
Tang Xueyan leaned on Su Fei and pouted, "Why are you looking at this, hurry up and turn off the lights and go to sleep, tomorrow we will search other areas and everything will be clear." β
"Aren't you surprised?" Su Fei shook his head and said, "For such a long time, none of the Zhang family's alchemists and staff have returned, this is not right. β
"Who knows, maybe they've been living down there for so long, and their biological clocks are no longer the same as ours, and they're working day and night down there. β
Su Fei smiled: "This is Zhang Yuhang's statement, do you believe it too?"
"Otherwise, could it be that they are all workaholics, and they sleep directly in the alchemy area when they are tired? β
Tang Xueyan put her arms around Su Fei, forcibly dragged him down on the bed, and said coquettishly: "I said aunt, don't look at it, go to bed quickly! Now I'm used to it, I can't sleep without holding your arm." β
Su Fei snorted and laughed, but didn't say anything, stretched out his hand to turn off the light.
"Roarβ"
Suddenly there was a roar from Hu Mang in the corridor, Su Fei and Tang Xueyan reflexively jumped off the bed, grabbed the weapons at the head of the bed and rushed out of the door!
Gong Yang and the soldiers of the Gong family also ran out of the room, Su Fei stopped Gong Yang who wanted to chase after him, and roared angrily: "I will catch up with Xue Yan, and a few of you will scatter around and block this guy!"
Gong Yang immediately led people to rush to the only few exits, and then quickly closed the encirclement!
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Su Fei and Tang Xueyan ran wildly in the rear, but the tiger in front of them ran so fast that the two of them almost had to use all their strength to keep up, and just after Su Fei crossed a corner, he suddenly found that the tiger in front of him stopped!
Tiger Mang stopped in the middle of the hallway, and there was an open vent in the ceiling above his head, and the alloy shutter that had been welded to the vent fell to the ground, completely deformed. Tiger looked up at the passage above him, but unfortunately he couldn't go up.
"Hu Mang, what are you chasing?" Su Fei rushed to Hu Mang's side, squatted down and looked into the passage, but unfortunately there was nothing inside, only the ventilation fan at the end was slowly rotating homeopathic.
Tang Xueyan stepped forward and touched Hu Mang's head twice: "Is it Zhang Yuhang?
Hu Mang shook his head: "No, I just suddenly smelled a strange smell just now, and then I saw a black shadow around the corner, and he started to run wild the moment I found him, and I chased him all the way here." β
"I didn't see anything. Judging from the back, it is indeed a person, but the strange thing is that he has been climbing with both hands and feet, and he is climbing quite fast......"
Su Fei and Tang Xueyan couldn't help frowning.
Crawling? The speed at which a person can crawl on the ground with both hands and feet can be compared to the speed of a tiger running recklessly? This is simply incredible!
Su Fei pointed to the alloy shutter next to him that had been deformed: "Is this what you did or him?"
"It was like that when I came, that guy must have gone into the ventilation duct. β
Gong Yang and the others also arrived here after narrowing the encirclement, and looking at this passage, everyone looked at each other.
"I'll go up and have a look! Gong Yang, give me a hand!"
Gong Yang asked several Gong family warriors to squat on the ground to make a ladder for Su Fei, and Su Fei supported the left and right sides of the passage with both hands in a leap, and climbed in agilely.
It's a horizontal passageway, laughing just enough for an adult man to crawl forward. Since there is no light, it is particularly dim.
A trace of fresh wind blew from the front, Su Fei opened the Cave Divine Eye, and found that there was a corner in front of him, and a ventilation fan was installed on the corner, which was slowly rotating clockwise. A faint fishy smell slowly swept through Su Fei's mouth and nose along the wind, making Su Fei's first reaction think of the fishy smell of seawater.
How can there be a sea here?
Su Fei put the M16 automatic rifle in front of him, climbed forward little by little, and carefully touched the corner, there was still a long straight road ahead, but when Su Fei reached the next corner again, he stopped.
It was divided into three directions at once, and the wind blowing from each direction had this fishy smell like the deep sea.
There is no way to go any further, this ventilation duct is intricate, and there is no reality on the holographic three-dimensional structure diagram, no one knows where they lead.
Su Fei maintained his original prostrate posture and slowly retreated, but when he passed by the ventilation fan in the second corner, he suddenly caught a glimpse of something on one of the blades of the ventilation fan.
Su Fei crawled next to the ventilation fan, stretched out his finger and touched the thing at the end, it was slimy, and it had a unique fishy smell like sea water.
Judging by the touch alone, this thing looks a lot like human blood......
A name flashed through Su Fei's mind in an instant: Primordial Nightmare......
But every time the primordial nightmare appeared, the smell of blood could not be hidden, and it was completely different from this deep-sea fishy smell, and it didn't seem to look like it.
Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Su Fei retreated and returned to everyone. Under the light, Su Fei finally saw the liquid stuck to his fingertips.
Sure enough, it was a pool of dark red blood.
Su Fei told Gong Yang and his warriors about his guess, his face solemn: "This is the place where the Zhang family studied that pill, so I suspect that that thing just now is likely to be a primordial nightmare or a similar monster." β
"Then everything makes sense. The reason why the two security leaders went back to the room to get their guns was most likely because something unexpected happened. β
Although it was not the first time that these Gong family warriors had dealt with the Primordial Nightmare, it was precisely because they had witnessed the bloodthirsty and crazy ugliness of the Primordial Nightmare that they were even more stressed in their hearts, and everyone's complexion was not very good.
"If that's the case, I'm afraid the researchers who are here are in danger. Tang Xueyan bit her lower lip lightly and subconsciously leaned towards Su Fei: "Do we want to ...... Return to the ground first and call for support ......"
Gong Yang was also in a state of confusion at the moment, he thought that he was just bringing someone to take over an underground laboratory, facing dozens of unarmed alchemists, these people were not ready to be caught, but it turned out to be such a large underground base, not to mention, there is actually a very possibility that there is a monster like a primordial nightmare in it, and anyone who knows this news will not have a good face.
Gong Yang nodded after listening to Tang Xueyan's words: "Just do it, don't panic, the follow-up troops of the family will find this place through the positioning of our three helicopters parked outside, cheer up, and when the large army arrives, we will completely clean up the entire base." β
"Yes!"