Chapter 7: The Cage
Zhang Shengling held the mobile phone, looked intently at the face of the dead corpse in the mobile phone, and took a few photos
The mouse squatted on his shoulder, looked at the picture on his phone and said, "No, no, no, the light is too dark and a little blurry, you turn on the flash"
"Yes, yes, a little to the left, aim at the rotten flesh in the eye sockets, and the tattoo on the neck also shines in, and then zoom in for a close-up."
"Good!"
The mouse commanded Zhang Shengling like a photographer, and as he pressed to take pictures, the flash lit up
As if stimulated, the corpse on the other side opened its mouth to an incredible point, as if roaring in anger, and then clawed its rotting arm against the cube wall
The cube stood still, and even the corpse of the dead body splashed behind the wall and fell directly to the ground
Zhang Shengling was startled by the suddenly angry dead body in front of him, his hand shook, and the mobile phone fell directly to the ground
He watched the two dead bodies frantically attack the cube and said, "I'm scared to death, Daxian, you are a pit, you have nothing to take any pictures"
The rat got up from the ground and said, "Aren't you having a lot of fun shooting too?"
He picked up his phone, looked at the crazy corpses in front of him, and said, "Can they see us?" or can they see everything in the cube in real space?"
"They can see us at the moment, but it's hard to say how connected the two spaces are," the mouse pondered, then looked at the corpse's mouth open to the base of his ears, and continued, "It is certain that the sound of real space cannot be transmitted into the cube"
He thought for a moment and said, "Daisen first excludes the ability of my left hand, assuming that we are like one of many side by side rooms, the other three sides of the room are walls, one side is transparent glass, we can only see the outside and can't see the things in the other rooms, and we can only walk back and forth in the room, and the dead bodies outside can move freely, and we can see all the other things in the cube."
"What do you want to say" the rat didn't seem to understand too much
Zhang Shengling said with some difficulty at the moment, "Do you think that the cube is like a prison cell for prisoners?"
"Cell?" the rat seemed to believe the argument as well, "you mean we're prisoners at the moment, and we're trapped in the cell."
"Yes, and my left hand is like a thousand energy keys, except that I can't get out of the cube, I can move freely in all the cubes," he said, shaking his unconscious left hand again, "but why does this cube trap us for no reason?"
"Spirits are generally quiet and do not actively emit their own energy, but they can passively choose to release energy through certain external or internal factors that trigger their use conditions," the mouse explained
Zhang Shengling looked at the dead body in front of him, as if he had no strength to smash the cube
"Could the source of the cube be triggered by the dark lifeform you mentioned earlier, or is the cube originally a dark lifeform?"
The mouse looked at the immovable cube and said, "The cube should not belong to the dark lifeforms, otherwise this dead body would have come in a long time ago.
Zhang Shengling analyzed: "According to your logic, the dark lifeform has been freed?"
The rat replied, "It is not ruled out that they have been rescued, but at the moment it seems that there are no dark lifeforms, only two transformed corpses, which should be changed to be in a weakened state of just getting out of the trap or only partially freed, and the person who held the dark life form seems to be dead or being assimilated by the dark lifeforms"
The rat was a little nervous when he said this, "If it's the former, it's fine, but if that person is assimilated by the dark lifeform, then we are likely to face an existence that is even more terrifying than the dark lifeform!"
He felt that the logic of the rat was a little creepy, and said, "That is, the person who can imprison the dark life is more powerful than the dark lifeform, and once the theory is established, then the person who has been assimilated by the dark has the ability to manipulate the cube."
"Wait.... What are they doing?"
The rat looked at the two dead bodies, and stopped beating the cubes, as if he had opened his mouth wide and roared at them, and then one jumped up and down beside the pile of corpses, and the other crawled like a gecko to the edge of the pit from which the corpses had fallen, and pulled something into the dirt with his hands
As the corpse pulled out a pile of dirt, a mess fell
Zhang Shengling fixed his eyes and saw that the backpack, the mining lamp, the generator, and the explosives ..... There is also the Luoyang shovel
"These dead bodies were tomb robbers when they were alive!"
The rat flashed his eyes and said, "It seems that they knew that there was something underground, so they came to rob the tomb, but they were found by the developer, and they were killed and buried directly under the foundation."
"There has been no similar news in X City, could it be that the developer knew that there was something terrible underground, and deliberately solved it privately after discovering the tomb robbers, so as to continue to protect this place"
He grew up in X City, and he still knows a lot about local events
The rat said, "It's very likely, and this developer doesn't seem to be simple, he can protect this place until the tomb robbers find out, and there is capital to build a shopping mall here."
Zhang Shengling remembered something and said, "This economic development zone is very large, and it is all invested by a developer, if the whole development zone is full of such strange things, then once the incident gets out of control, the whole city will suffer a strange invasion."
The rat looked at the dead body that had burrowed into the dirt on the wall of the pit and said, "At present, we can't solve our own affairs, so what can you worry about?"
He felt that there seemed to be some reason, and continued to look at the dead body
The corpse circled around the cube a few times, as if wondering why the corpse that was the same as it did not move, and pulled at the corpse with its rotten hand a few times, but it still did not move, and it opened its mouth to the base of its ears and yelled at the corpse angrily
Suddenly, the corpse's eyes flashed red, as if it had been ordered to kneel on the ground, and then a wisp of black smoke burst out of its disgusting mouth, and it drilled towards the other corpses in pieces
Under the surprised gaze of Zhang Shengling and the mouse, the corpses that were originally immobile shook violently a few times, and then several corpses stood up in their own weird postures
After the first corpse roared, the other corpses jumped in front of Zhang Shengling's cube and attacked the cube frantically
The dead body jumped to the edge of the pit, pulling dirt
Zhang Shengling looked at the dead body jumping in front of him and said in shock, "I'll go, this thing can still pull teammates."
He looked at the cube and still stood still, "Daxian, do you want to take a few more group photos?"
The rat seems to be thinking about something at the moment and says "No, it shouldn't be like this"
"Why shouldn't this be?"
"Strange life forms generally only repeat one fixed way of behavior, according to the industry's knowledge, a strange life form has a maximum of three ways of behavior, and it is absolutely fixed, could it be said that this is the ancient demon mentioned by the old madman" The mouse said almost to himself
"Ancient Devils, what's that?"
The rat said, "If you call the things I encountered before ghosts, then the source of these things is demons."
He didn't know what the rat had encountered before, but judging from the rat's tone, the thing in front of him didn't seem to be easy to ask, "What's the difference?"
The mouse seemed to be very frightened and said, "Ghosts basically have no thoughts, rely on instinctive fixed thinking and action, and the transformed things in front of them have a certain degree of mutual contagion, and actually have a trace of wisdom, so their source may be no less than human wisdom."
A dark lifeform with no less intelligence than a human, he didn't know what it was, but it was terrifying judging by the description and attitude of the mouse
After the corpse that had first begun to pull the dirt crawled out of the hole it had pulled out, several more mangled corpses crawled out of its back, with only a few strands of hair and a skeleton draped in rags
Zhang Shengling looked at a few more dead bodies in front of him and said, "I'm going to go, there is more than one wave of tomb robbers."
Song Ling listened to Zhang Shengling's surprised voice and looked back, stunned by the scene in front of her, seven or eight dead corpses in front of the cube slapping against the wall, and a few dead corpses with only skeletons left jumped here one after another, so frightened that they buried their faces in their laps with their hands on their knees
The rat replied, "There should be more, there may be more"
Another dead body was also brought out from behind him after a burst of slashing in other parts of the pit
When there is a fifth wave of dead grave robbers
Zhang Shengling said, "Could it be that this developer family has been guarding here for generations?"
The rat looked at the corpse that had almost surrounded the cube they were in and said, "It doesn't have to be a family, it could be some other similar organization, and if you can guard this place for so long, you definitely know the danger of it"
"What is that black smoke, that can transform so many corpses into zombie-like beings? Is it a virus?" he said, remembering the zombie movies he had watched
The mouse said, "The old madman once said that no matter what strange ghosts and demons you have in your mouth, they are all physical existences, but their physical existence is very special, and existing technology cannot detect it at all, as for this black smoke, it is a bit like condensed matter, a very advanced creature."
"What is that?" he asked curiously when he heard the word for the first time
"How do I know, I used to be a clergyman, and the old madman only mentioned it once in a while"
"You said it looks like a demonic thing, could it be a DNA virus?
The mouse shook his head and said, "I can't be sure, and I dare not deny it."
Zhang Shengling looked at the dense corpses outside, and he felt more and more that this was a super gene virus
The kid is taking a few pictures...........
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