Chapter 11: The Dark Vortex 31
In the ventilation ducts where the green poison gas was already billowing in the distance-
Lloyd and Kathu were crouching forward in a hurry......
"Lloyd, look, there's a vent in front." Kathu saw a bright spot and shouted excitedly, it seemed that he should be saved.
Lloyd was approaching the vent, only to hear the sound of the mechanism, and the "bang" of the vent sealed the vent with a compartment.
The light and exit that he had finally seen disappeared, and Lloyd looked ahead, and it was not a dead end ahead, it seemed that there should be a ventilation port ahead.
"Quick, we have to hurry up, since this poison gas has a targeted exit, then the vent at the exit will not be closed!" Lloyd said, leading the way again.
The two of them made a roundabout way through the pipeline, which was trending downhill, and it seemed that the final direction of the poison gas was to rush deeper into the ground.
After a long walk down the ventilation pipe, he finally came to the end of the dead end, and there was an air outlet below, and a dull yellow light penetrated from below.
"Looks like that's it!" Lloyd smiled, lifted the famous knife Murayu, and pried open the barricade on the vent.
Lloyd winked at Kathu and jumped off, and Kathu followed suit.
At this time, the scene in front of them shocked both Lloyd and Kathu again......
It was a room shrouded in a dim yellow light, littered with corpses of all kinds, men and women, old and young, in painful gestures. There was also a stench of rotting corpses in the room, and there was still a pungent smell of green corrosive poison gas in this room, which seemed to have been poured into this room many times.
In one corner of the room, there was an unscrewed faucet, and a regular dripping sound was heard there. And next to the faucet, there were actually a few scrawny men curled up there.
"It's cruel! How can there be such a thing in this day and age!? Kathu looked around at the tragic scene in front of him and shook his head in disbelief.
"Kathu, quick, get a few thick pieces of fabric from the side, get it wet at the faucet, and plug this vent. Even if it can't completely stop the gas from coming in, it can buy a lot of time. Lloyd confessed, and then began to take a quick look at how to get out of the death chamber.
The scrawny men were surprised and frightened by the sudden arrival of Kathu and Lloyd, surprised that there was still hope of being rescued, and afraid of what kind of deadly experiment this was. So they just cowered into the corner in more fear.
Catulliso collected several pieces of uncontaminated fabric, walked over to the faucet and got wet, pulled over a table, and stood up to block the vent.
"You're ......" Lloyd walked up to the scrawny men, and found them looking familiar.
Seeing Lloyd, who was still holding a knife in his hand, the scrawny men covered their heads in fear, fearful and helpless to accept the judgment of death.
Kathu came to Lloyd's side, stared at the people, and suddenly said with wide eyes: "Aren't they just ......"
Lloyd nodded solemnly and said, "That's right, they are the missing people in Nicole's collection." ”
When these scrawny men heard the word missing persons, they felt that the two men in front of them should not be in the same group as those cold-blooded experimenters. They raised their heads and tried to say something weakly, but they were so weak that they couldn't even make a sound.
"That's it, just take them all out together in a moment." Lloyd said, turning around and looking at every corner of the room, not letting go of every detail.
I saw a female corpse in a black dress in the corner of the wall in the distance, she was curled up sideways in the corner motionless, and her body was undulating without breathing, it should not be unconscious. Judging from the posture, she is really a corpse......
"Could it be her!? ......" Lloyd thought to himself, because this black dress was the same one she wore when she rescued Qiu Min in the church on the ground.
Lloyd hurriedly rushed to the front of the female corpse, although he didn't want it to be real!
Although Katu was reluctant to accept this reality, because when he was consulting the firm, Qiu Min's attitude towards him was still very warm and serious.
"Say! When did this woman come in? Kathu snapped at the scrawny, cowering men.
None of these men dared to speak up, they didn't understand the situation in front of them at all, for fear that if they said one more wrong thing, they would immediately cause death, and they all hoped to live a minute and a second longer than others.
Seeing their cowardice, Katou didn't bother to pay attention to them, and Katu came to the female corpse.
"Alas......" Lloyd sighed deeply.
Katu looked at the face of this female corpse in a black dress, it was Qiu Min!
"How so? She's only been away from us for a while, and she's been caught underground!? Katu asked, suppressing the anger in her chest, because Qiu Min's corpse had deep strangulation marks on her neck, and the dress looked torn, and it was obvious that the deceased had been defiled, her eyes were still open, and there were tears on the corners of her eyes and face.
Kathu turned and pointed at the scrawny men and shouted, "Who killed her!?" ”
The cowardly men all bowed their heads silently, and no one dared to respond.
"Kathu, don't ask them, I can tell you the answer......" Lloyd covered Qiu Min's corpse with his palm, making her blind.
Kathu turned his head, looked at Lloyd in amazement, and crouched down to look at Qiu Min's body.
"Before I closed her eyes, her cornea was cloudy, but her pupils were still recognizable. That is, the time of death is more than 6 to 12 hours. Lloyd said, pointing to the lips of Qiu Min's corpse.
"If you look at her lips, they're obviously dry, hard, or dark brown, and that's at least 8 to 12 hours old." Lloyd continued.
Lloyd gently touched Qiu Min's corpse, her whole body was very stiff, and she curled up tightly.
"You see, the average person starts to stiffen two to three hours after death, from head to toe." Lloyd frowned tightly as he said this.
"What's wrong?" Katu glanced at Lloyd, then stared at Qiu Min's corpse and asked regretfully.
"Her body was already stiff, which means that she had been dead for more than nine hours." There was a slight tremor in Lloyd's voice.
And according to the distribution, color, intensity, and degree of the corpse spots on the corpse, it can also be seen...... She had been dead for more than 9 hours, which meant that she should have been killed not long after she came to this Thunder Manor. Lloyd said slowly, feeling incredulous.
"But during the day, less than six hours before now, didn't we still meet and talk to her!? And who are we seeing? The Qiu Min we saw was obviously alive! Catou asked in surprise, also in disbelief!
But Qiu Min's cold corpse curled up stiffly in front of him, and the answer had become confusing......