Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Mental Countdown Bomb
I don't remember how long I was unconscious, and when I woke up, I was back to where the nightmare beganβthe original meeting place. Compared to www.biquge.info the hellish caves, even if there are three airplane-sized bird monster carcasses at the entrance of the cave, it makes people feel like they are in paradise.
The place where I was lying was near a torn off bird's head, its sunken eyes like a mirror, recording the whole process of my intimidation by it. The eyeballs kept spilling out of the earthy yellow juice, and there was a feeling of death. Looks like they're probably the source of the riot above my head before I entered the cave.
When the earthquake separated me from Ning 08, I thought I was forcibly recalled to the sub-gap, and now it seems that it was just a simple "interruption of consciousness", but is there such a thing as "interruption of consciousness" in bio-armor?
There was no one nearby who could answer my question, some of them lay motionless on the ground, some of them looked like they had gone mad - someone had burrowed into the wound of the bird's neck, hugged its black and purple veins, and smiled sweetly.
I stood up with my hands on the ground, and a wave of dizziness hit me, and I had to close my eyes for a few seconds to get my symptoms to lessen, but I was fine.
After a few steps and a few acclimatizations, I grabbed the feathers from the corpse's neck and flipped over the bird's head to get closer to the cave group. Akatsuki 339, LL9, and a few other faces they had never seen were standing there discussing something, and every now and then someone sighed and turned back into the cave. I noticed that several of the holes were blocked by rocks, whether it was due to the collapse or man-made. This scene is not optimistic in any way.
There were also some people lying on the ground around them, but there were no familiar faces inside.
Could it be that Ning 08 is still trapped inside?
The panic that spread quickly from my heart to my limbs quickly reassured myself that if Ning 08 had anything long and two short, I should have disappeared by now.
"Yo, you're awake?"
A strange woman with a helmet next to LL9 noticed me and walked towards me with a familiar look.
As if noticing the strangeness in my eyes, she added, "You have to thank me, I'm your savior." She tossed the scarlet curls that blocked her chest back, revealing her low-cut jacket top.
"Thank you." I still don't remember who she is.
She bared her teeth, a little dissatisfied with my stupidity, "Just now I advised you not to go to Ning 08's." β
"Oh, it's you," I realized, "shouldn't you have fled?" β
"Because I'm a good person." She winked at me, "Actually, I was going to leave you there, after all, you didn't listen to my advice at all. Judging from the results, you don't seem to have found Ning 08 either? β
"It's just a little bit closer."
I thought of the blue signal man, trying to restore his appearance, but could only recall a vague outline.
"In terms of results, a lot worse is the same as a little bit."
She took out a pack of cigarettes from her waist, took one out, held it in her mouth, and seeing my puzzled gaze, she took the box and shook it in front of me, indicating that it was an e-cigarette.
"I'm only going to smoke this stuff during my visit, but I have a lot of real cigarettes at home in the Gaps, and I can give you a few packs if you need them."
"No, I don't smoke."
"Oh? Isn't smoking popular among the children of the future? β
"Pumping or someone smoking......"
"I see, good boy." She chuckled and poked my finger in the face.
"Didn't you see Ning 08 when you saved me? I remember the cave had collapsed and the place she was in was blocked......"
"There's such a thing, but when we went to save you, we blasted those rocks open, and there was nothing in them, and there were no green spots in the vicinity, maybe she had a nervous breakdown somewhere we couldn't find and was dead."
She took a deep puff of her cigarette and said it lightly.
"Impossible."
"Are you so sure?" She looked at me with a crooked smile, "Look around you, we've swept nearly half of the caves, and we've only found so many people. β
Seeing that I didn't answer, she changed the subject again, "Hey, don't you want to ask the name of your life-saving benefactor?" β
To be honest, I don't really want to know.
βPB62γβ She reached out and watched me respond with a playful expression, and I reluctantly reached out and shook it back as quickly as I could.
She saw that I wasn't good at dealing with women of her type.
"You're lucky, there shouldn't be a few people left here who have the energy to continue going in. So it also means you're unlucky, because you'll have to follow us in one more time. β
"Go in?" If nothing else, I was probably the least able to kill any of the people in the room, and the thought of the cave still made my heart flutter.
"Nearly half of the cave has not been 'swept', and those who are alive inside still have to be fished out, after all, our forced teleportation button is invalid. If you firmly believe that Ning 08 is still alive, maybe there will be a chance to find her after you go in. β
"If you don't say I'll go in, I'll go in too." I don't have a choice.
PB62 led me over to Xiao 339 and LL9 and whispered a few words to them, and the little girl smiled quite brightly when she saw me coming.
"Big brother didn't expect to be quite scheming, huh?"
"Scheming?"
"Go to the hole that others have walked, and those aliens will naturally be swept away by the people in front of you, you just thought so, right? But we don't need people to drag our feet here. β
"I'm looking forβ"
"It's useless to talk too much, it's a fact that you violated the rules and entered someone else's cave." Xiao 339 stretched out his hand to block between me and LL9, he was not wearing a helmet, his body was clean, and his expression was not messy, as if he had stayed outside and never entered the hole, "Since you have nothing wrong with you now, it's time to make up for your mistakes, for example, to rescue our compatriots who are still fighting inside." β
"'Compatriots'? At this time, you shouted 'compatriots'? Why does the back button fail? And what about injectable drugs? β
I wanted to rush up and punch his eyes into the bird's head, but I was stopped by the person next to him.
"I don't know what you're talking about," he avoided the topic with an unchanged face, "Of course, I'll join the search and rescue operation again later, in fact, I rescued a few of the team members you see outside." However, with the number of people we have now, the search and rescue efficiency is very inefficient, and I have already sent a rescue request to the subgap, so now I need to stay here and lead the way for the rescuers. β
"After making so many excuses, don't you want to stay at the entrance of the cave and chat?" I snorted coldly at him and put my helmet back on, ready to activate the flying device.
"Wait a minute, where are you going?" LL9 stopped me suddenly.
"Go, help, help, ah."
"Do you want to go back to that hole? That's not going to work, you'll have to follow me this time. LL9 pointed to a relatively large hole on the right, "Wait a minute, let's go to this first." β
"Squad 16, members MP7, QE34, KC66." PB62 reports.
Who cares about you.
I still started the aircraft in the direction of the cave where Ning 08 was. But not long after I took off, someone grabbed my hand from behind.
"Be obedient, good boy." It's PB62.
She expertly kicked my flying machine off, lassoed me with a rope, and flew me towards the big hole with LL9, who arrived later.
"Wait!"
We had just landed at the entrance of the cave when a small girl with a helmet flew in with us, "Excuse me, wait a minute, please let me help too!" β
The voice was familiar.
"Ah, are you Ning 08's son? It's me, I'm Xiang 73, do you remember me? β
To be honest, I don't remember.
"Hey, hey, hey, there's no time to catch up, if you want to come, come on, let's go."
With that, LL9 started the aircraft, and I was dragged by PB62 and had to follow behind.
This cave is completely different from the one that Ning 08 entered before, the hole is wet all over, but this cave is very dry.
"I remember your name is Aya 17, right? How did you get back? As if to dispel the uneasiness, Xiang 73 carefully talked to me on the walkie-talkie, and LL9 turned back to us and rolled his eyes impatiently.
"I was rescued by PB62, are you?"
"I don't remember...... her voice trembled, but quickly returned to normal, "I hope everyone else is okay too." What about Ning 08? β
"Haven't found it yet."
ββ¦β¦ It's okay, it's going to be fine! I've heard that reinforcements from Van Xi are coming soon, and they must have a way! β
Reinforcements from Van Xi? M6 them? If it's an M6, maybe there's a way to do it. I was a little relieved.
"I'll lend you good luck."
Even if Ning 08 is really in danger, there is nothing I can do about it now.
"Is there anyone you know in this hole?" Xiang 73 asked.
"Who's here?"
βMP7οΌQE34οΌKC66γβ
"Oh, the last one to go back with me, Fifth Squad."
"Wow, you know KC66!" Xiang 73's voice sounded delightful.
"Not familiar."
"I live quite close to his house, so I've seen him a few times before."
"Ah, KC66, that kid is quite famous, but his personality is too bad and the shelf is too big." PB62 dragged out her voice, and her displeasure could be clearly heard.
"He's not big, he's just very dedicated...... Xiang 73 explained in a whisper.
"Dedication? Oh, the story of joining the group to save his girlfriend? PB62 rolled her eyes disapprups.
"He's so famous?" This surprised me, because I had a very thin impression of him.
"How can a little white face who is particularly difficult to hook up with not be famous, you are also famous."
"Me?"
"I envy his girlfriend, who can be loved by a man so dedicatedly......" Ka-73 muttered, a look of obsession on her face.
"Hey, you girl, don't you like that KC66?"
"No, no, no!" Xiang 73's whole voice changed in a hurry, "I just appreciate it...... That one...... That one...... Because...... He's amazing...... ...... that can do this."
"Okay, okay, there are a lot of girls who like him in the gap, and it's normal that you will like him."
"No...... No...... That ......"
"Yahu~ There are alien corpses in front of here, ah, no, it's people." LL9 interrupted us happily, as if he had found a mountain of gold.
PB62 stopped, dug through the hill-like rotting corpses for a while, and dug up a helmet. PB62 glanced at the number of the man's helmet with the overhead light, and I heard Xiang 73 take a deep breath behind him.
"QE34, it's a woman."
LL9 ignored it and continued to fly forward. For a little girl, such an attitude seems too cold, but perhaps because of this, I can't see her as a little girl at all.
I glanced back at the helmet, and the body underneath it was completely eroded by the decomposing corpse, so tightly obscured that it was unrecognizable. I can't help but think of the helmet-wearing, robot-like "object" I saw in the cave before, and what did the alien creature do to that person after death, so that the body became metal-like?
"Why did someone die not long after we flew in?" Xiang 73 didn't know if he was asking a question or sighing.
"It should be that this person wanted to escape, but it turned out that she couldn't escape, and then she was caught up and completely collapsed, she didn't know that she was very close to the exit." LL9 grinned, and Ka73 looked at her with a look of fear.
"How...... Will it be like this...... Could it be that this special team is here to send them to their deaths? She sounded like she was about to cry.
"We caught a big fish this time, and it's normal to sacrifice a little more, and the eldest lady who stays in the greenhouse must not understand."
"How can you be so light of the death of so many people? Isn't the sub-gap always flaunting the safety of the guicha? I've never heard of the risk of death before. "I tried to suppress my anger, but it was louder than I expected.
"That's why it's because you've seen so few things like this that you're making such a fuss now. Not a word of our commitment to return is not true, but the fault is that these people are too vulnerable. If you're at war, it's trivial to exchange your lives for intelligence. She still didn't care.
"The amount of information is completely unequal, right? The guys in your first squad know about it, and none of us know! β
"If you can have more life experience, you will know that many things are common sense, and you don't need to be told by others one by one." She looked back and smiled contemptuously.
Being told such a thing by a teenage girl can really be annoying, and the multiplier increases exponentially.
"You know a lot, where did you learn it? TV series? Movie? β
"I learned it from the church I blew up."
She turned her head and continued to fly.
"A day there is as long as a year outside, so I'm four thousand years old."