Chapter 108: Little Year
Perhaps because comfort faded the time, Qingdai in addition to visiting her mother every day, was indulged in a retreat practice of magical powers, and spent a few times with her companions to go out to check the situation around Kyoto, and before she knew it, she ushered in the first Chinese New Year's Eve after the sky changed.
No matter how many difficulties they encounter, the Chinese people have their own spirit, and they will carry forward the unity that has been passed down from generation to generation, and in the face of many hardships and dangers, they will also work together to overcome the mud with wisdom and courage to turn the muddy road into a smooth road. In the past Spring Festival, is a ritual of agricultural leisure, taking stock of the harvest of the past year, praying for a good harvest in the new year, on the Chinese New Year's Eve before the Spring Festival, no matter where they are, people must return to their hometowns to raise themselves, accompany their families, and also screw the core of the family together, for the next journey, accumulate strength, like the winter storage of plants, so there is a family and a country, because of the family, become a country. Chinese New Year's Eve means that the Spring Festival is coming, and everyone must start preparing to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.
Qingdai silently looked at the hurried crowd on the road, no matter how harsh the managers in Huaxia are, they must create a festive atmosphere, and the picture is auspicious. So even the confused and sad face squeezed out a smile at the moment, to live, after all, to live better, no matter how heavy the snow, it can't extinguish the flame of life.
"Chinese New Year's Eve, do you want to go to the hospital?" She asked herself in a low voice, her companions had their own big families, and she couldn't force them to give up their families to accompany her, while her only relative was in her sleep.
"Qingdai, hurry, there's something!" Xu Sheng's voice suddenly sounded, dispelling the sadness in the snowstorm.
When Qingdai heard this, she also left the sad spring and autumn behind. Sadness is always a luxury in leisure time, and people who really want to fight for their lives, where do they have time to think about it. She is going to spit on her hypocrisy, is this not a happy life?
"What's wrong?" Qingdai asked while keeping up with Xu Sheng's footsteps.
"The Zhao family was forced a little too much, so the danger level in the real room has also risen." Xu Sheng saw that Qingdai had already walked side by side with him, and the gloomy expression that had just flashed disappeared, and he was relieved, seeing that the road was still a little far, so he slowly explained the matter.
The industrial chain of the Zhao family's attempt to control the development of drugs has been fully divided by the high-level. After all, the foundation of the Zhao family is dominated by scientific research talents. The average IQ of these people is high, but the vast majority of people are a mess, and it is good not to offend people, not to mention those who covet profiteering and eyeing the top of China. According to Xu Sheng's description. That's the kind of blood that can suck people dry. Now the Zhao family has opened the hole. They are just holding in the hands of a new ministry that involves multifaceted national security, which is already very restrained.
The Zhao family seems to realize their powerlessness, and the zombie research that was originally stalled due to the development of abilities. Large-scale progress has been restarted, probably to open up other sources of income. In this regard, the other Kyoto forces are happy to see it, because the Zhao family's approach is completely a model of healthy competition, anywhere, those who can make a big cake will always be more respected than those who have already carved up the cake.
A small number of people who have already understood the follow-up of the Zhao family's ability development plan were a little angry before, and now there is no dissatisfaction, what people do is a bit exaggerated, but in conscience, it is more to serve all mankind, as long as the control is done, the Zhao family is a great hero. Therefore, regarding the research topic of this issue, many forces have also secretly extended an olive branch, hoping to make friends and lay the groundwork for the next "cooperation".
The Zhao family finally learned to be smart, and they agreed to many people half-pushed, and they were much more cautious in doing things. However, Xu Sheng and they did not take it lightly, Zhao Xufei, the time bomb, is really a little terrible in everyone's hearts, a madman with genius strength is an opportunity for mankind and a great enemy, they can't accompany the adventure. Therefore, the poisonous wolf, as a powerful soldier, also buried two nails in the Academy of Sciences, doing some more grassroots work, and by the way, monitoring the further actions of the Academy of Sciences to prevent problems.
And this surveillance really found a problem: the underground cave that was identified as a secret passage by the poisonous wolf had changed.
At the beginning, Qing Dai and others were able to go directly to Jingshi from dozens of kilometers away along the underground cave, which was indeed very lucky, in addition to catching up with the winter freezing period, the water level dropped, and the biological mutation caused by it was also much less. Of course, what is more important is that the Zhao family was fully engaged in research and development at that time, and incidentally stopped the research on zombies, and there were not many zombie viruses in the sewage removed, so a clear underwater wonder was formed in the underground river.
Strictly speaking, this spectacle has become a small ecological body of its own, and the well water of zombie creatures and mutant creatures does not interfere with the river water, but also suppresses each other, except for the life forms that are separated from the water, they are forced to coexist peacefully. Qing Dai and the others cleaned up those land creatures that were not very stable, avoided the water body, and walked through the land without incident, which was also a wise move.
Who knows, now that the Zhao family has restarted the research on zombies, the zombie virus has naturally spread in the sewage system, and finally caused a drastic change in the small ecology of the underground river.
Of course, it was the two mercenaries planted by the poisonous wolf who discovered this matter. Mercenaries attach great importance to their precious retreat, and their slashing does not mean that they are not careless with their lives. Since arriving at the Academy of Sciences, the two of them have been going to the sewage outlet from time to time, and the hard-working Comrade Hua Junpeng has also been developed to go offline to supplement the free time of the two patrols.
Fortunately, it was this paranoid caution that made them find a special sound at the sewage outlet, and occasionally in the smell of regular sewage discharge, there would be a strange smell that was not fragrant or smelly, which made the person who smelled it hallucinate about psychedelics.
"Psychedelics?" Qing Dai was also a little nervous when she heard this: "Could it be that the Zhao family has tossed out some strange medicines?" ā
Xu Sheng shook his head: "The current Academy of Sciences has a lot more people, and my people have also investigated. In fact, the sewage of the Academy of Sciences is not directly discharged, just like the sewage that we did when we went to school and did chemical yĆ n, it had to be filtered before it could enter the normal sewage pipe. Naturally, the Academy of Sciences also has the means to dispose of the raw sewage, even for the sake of secrecy. It's just that the changes caused by the change of the sky are really big, and the original way of dealing with them can't keep up. That's why that weird underground river was born. ā
"So?" Qingdai understood what Xu Sheng meant, but she didn't know what it had to do with it.
"Therefore, psychedelics cannot be the waste that is discharged after the Academy of Sciences, it can only be in the underground cavern, which has undergone changes that we can't imagine." Xu Sheng looked at Qing Dai's eyes and said word by word.
Qingdai unconsciously turned her head to look at the Academy of Sciences building complex in front of her, and a sense of crisis came to her heart. If there is any danger in the underground cavern, it doesn't matter if this secret passage is preserved or not, the important thing is that the whole of Kyoto is exposed to danger. Tall city walls. This moment really became a cage rather than a protection.
"Don't be in a hurry." Xu Sheng looked at Qing Dai's face a little pale. His steps were also unsteady, and he sighed: "The group of people from the poisonous wolf are very sensitive, so they found out in time and there were no accidents." I guess. Even if there is nothing more than a combination of lost organisms and mutated organisms. Your ghoul vine is the first to explore. If you can clean it, you can clean it up. ā
Qing Dai listened to Xu Sheng's reassuring voice, and knew that he didn't want to be nervous, let alone have too much psychological burden. Thinking that this man probably put down the work at hand and specially chose the task of informing himself to accompany her, the sadness of self-pity in his heart because of the New Year was finally swept away.
"Don't worry." Qing Dai laughed, her steps became much faster, and she said softly, "Thank you." "Thank you for always being there, thank you for your consistent warmth.
Having entered the scope of the Academy of Sciences, the two stopped talking, took out the documents prepared by Xu Sheng, and followed the doorman to the sewage outlet that was not noticed.
Although the conjecture is terrible, but after all, there were no accidents and human lives, and the poisonous wolf still wanted to keep this underground passage secret, so there were still a few people on standby at the sewage outlet, except for the original two mercenaries and Hua Junpeng with a bitter face, it was the black charcoal and firewood knife that Qingdai was more familiar with.
Qingdai saw her acquaintance and smiled a little. It's a pity that the mercenaries in the mission are all zombie faces, but Hua Junpeng, the only one with an expression, is a little distorted because of fear, and his smile is more ugly than not laughing, so Qing Dai had to turn her head silently.
"You guys separate and hide for a while, and I'll see the situation." Qingdai didn't seem to be polite, so she ordered directly. Although the mercenaries don't know much about her perception ability, they have all seen the scene where she is powerful in the face of a large number of zombie creatures. The strong are the leaders, and they have no objections. When Hua Junpeng heard this, he seemed to hear the sound of heaven, and he was the first to run away and hide fifty meters away.
Qing Dai motioned for Xu Sheng to find a place to hide a little, and she sat down behind a bush, closed her eyes and began to explore the situation in the cave.
As soon as the perception entered the bottom of the cave, Qing Dai was shocked.
When they drilled out of the underground cave before, in order to prevent the work from falling short, the indigo was well scanned, except for some corroded bryophyte remains, which were basically rocks, after all, no matter how the acid, alkaline and heavy metal chemicals were cleaned up, they had great harm to living beings, and the underground river had a certain self-purification function, which led to the emergence of living organisms, and the entrance of the pollution source cave could not be forced.
But now Qing Dai has found a strong breath of life at the entrance of the cave!
She concentrated her senses, trying to figure out what kind of life form it was, able to use such a strange environment as its nest without leaving, but only found a large piece of sticky object, stretched and clinging to the rock wall, the form was more like a lump of mud, with no obvious facial features and limbs, and if it weren't for the fluctuations of life, she wouldn't have felt that it was a creature and not a disgusting thing like excrement.
Software? Reptiles? Plants? Qingdai thought about it for a long time, but she only felt that the book was hated when it was used, not to mention the mutant species that lacked information. And perception is not an entity, no matter how condensed she is, she can't touch it, and it can't affect it in the slightest. In desperation, she had no choice but to let go for the time being, and continued to explore the inside of the cave.
What surprised Qing Dai even more was that not far away, she encountered a similar sticky object, attached to the rock wall, and a larger, stronger life fluctuation than the one at the mouth of the cave!
What the hell is this? Qing Dai no longer knows whether she is more afraid or more curious now. She continued to explore inward, and sure enough, she encountered more and more sticky objects, growing larger and larger, and when she reached an outlet of the underground river, she almost blocked the hole.
Qing Dai put her heart on perception, and her feelings were like being there, only feeling as if she had fallen into a spider's nest, and all she perceived was the sticky silkiness that was entangled, and she didn't know the color, which made her tremble a little.
But she knew that fear and nausea were useless, she had to figure out what was going on, she didn't need any premonition, everyone knew it was too weird and too dangerous.
Perception passed through the "silk mesh" and came into contact with the underground river. And the information fed back to Qing Dai by the underground river is even more shocking: in the river water, there are no small creatures that were once active at all!
Qing Dai struggled to recall what she had seen and felt in the cave, and it was clear that there were countless zombie creatures and mutated creatures, living next to each other and enjoying themselves. Who knows, the boundaries in the water still exist, but they are all extremely clear, and there is no trace of half of life activity.
Where have all those weird little creatures gone? There is no doubt that it can only be eaten, and it was devoured by the ancient monster body that Qing Dai encountered all the way.
Xu Sheng watched Qing Dai's brows get tighter and tighter from afar, and his heart began to sink. He hadn't really thought much was going to happen here. The sewage discharge of the Academy of Sciences has long been fixed, and underground rivers are not formed in a day, even if there is a slight change, that is, the self-regulation of nature. If it weren't for the poisonous wolf's concern about the exposure of this secret passage, Xu Sheng was afraid that Qing Dai would be lonely and sad because of boredom on such a day of universal celebration, he would not have called Qing Dai.
But looking at Qing Dai's expression, it seemed that he underestimated the situation. If there is really a big problem, can he persuade Qing Dai to leave it alone and ask the poisonous wolf to bear it himself? Xu Sheng smiled bitterly, Qingdai has never been a deserter. Thinking of this, Xu Sheng frowned again, he had recently been paralyzed by the smooth wind and water outside, and he actually put Qing Dai in danger again.
In any case, he must not let her take any more risks, because she is no longer alone, and there are too many people who need her, whether it is her mother, or the alliances formed because of her, and even more so that he regards her as the center of his life. He hasn't said that he wants to spend Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve with her this year.
Finally, Qing Dai opened her eyes, swept over the hidden people, and called them all to her side: "There is indeed a big problem inside." Without waiting for everyone to ask, she told her all that she had seen, and then said, "I think I'll try to figure out the lump at the mouth of the cave and figure out what it is." ā
"No way!" Xu Sheng immediately objected: "According to your inference, it can devour zombie creatures and mutated creatures, and there is no recipe restriction at all, what if something happens to your rattan?" ā
Qing Dai saw Xu Sheng's nervousness, and her heart was warm and funny at the same time: "My corpse vine doesn't grow on my body, it's good to pull out a rope, don't worry." ā
"No, since you already know the situation, just call a professional." Xu Sheng's face was stern, and he released the momentum that had been restrained, and glared back at the people around him who wanted to agree with Qing Dai: "This monster doesn't eat rocks, and most of them don't eat metals, I'll call some alloys and ceramics to make a machine, and it's foolproof." ā
Qing Dai had to agree with Xu Sheng's idea, the creatures below were too strange, and it was of course the safest to be able to use the tools of non-living bodies, but: "Then the movement is too big, how can we hide this tunnel?" Hei Tan and the others nodded again and again, the poisonous wolf regarded this tunnel as private property, and if it was exposed casually, they would also wait to lie on the hospital bed for the Spring Festival.
Xu Sheng's face was calm: "I can't take care of secrecy anymore, if it is occupied by other monsters, this secret passage is also a dead end." At most, we say that this is an accidental sewer anomaly, and when it is solved, it is not necessarily that anyone will continue to investigate where the hole extends. ā
A few people hesitated, they spared their lives and were willing to take risks, the degree of which is the watershed between success and death, and it has never been difficult to make decisions.
Just when everyone was holding on to each other, a lazy voice sounded from behind: "You guys are really in a mood, you actually came here for a meeting?" Tsk, the aesthetic and smell are a bit peculiar, right? (To be continued......)