Chapter 23 (I) The Human Tree
After Tang Shuxing entered the gate, Gu Yan immediately chased after him, standing at the door a little anxious, after all, Tang Shuxing didn't make it clear at all, and there were not many places to hide here.
Gu Yan had to look around to see if there was anything useful, looked around, and finally walked to the door on the left, hesitated for a while, turned the doorknob to open the door, opened a crack and looked outside, and found that it was still a corridor, and the other end of the corridor was a closed door.
Gu Yan pondered for a moment, walked towards the door in the corridor, opened the door there again, and found that there was a storage room outside, he went out and closed the door again, and found that it was a secret door, standing in the storage room, if the door is not opened, it is not easy to be found, and the things hanging in the storage room are normal, but most of them are cans and other things, and there are no human flesh or anything like that in that room.
Gu Yan walked out of the storage room and saw that there was a kitchen outside, and beyond the kitchen was a large dining room, and there were people cleaning there in the restaurant.
Gu Yan probably understood what was going on, and immediately turned around and went back, returning to the square room, rummaging around looking for useful things.
At the same time, Tang Shuxing, who had slipped into the freezer, stood in a corner on one side, looking at the so-called freezer in surprise - this was a huge missile silo at all!
This missile silo is several times larger than the one in the Gu hunting ground, surrounded by iron frames, and all hanging on the iron racks are corpses with skin as white as milk, and the so-called white smoke in the freezer is not cold, it seems to be a drug gas, I don't know what it is for.
The two gnomes slowly walked down the circular staircase around the silo. The two complained in a low voice that they hadn't eaten too much fresh meat lately, but every time he said that Bosen was not, Ruth, who was the elder brother, would reprimand his younger brother Gilas and tell him not to say that about his benefactor Bosen.
Tang Shuxing looked at the corpses hanging on the four walls of the silo and found a feature that he had ignored before-the people here were basically only two appearances, and everyone's eyes were hollow, although from time to time these living dead would tremble, but they basically looked similar to normal nerve reflex beating.
Tang Shuxing leaned over and approached the corpse next to him, carefully looking at his body to see if there was anything obvious on his body. A birthmark was finally found behind his leg. He then looked at the back of each corpse's leg from left to right and found that there were birthmarks, and he immediately understood that the so-called living dead might be clones or something.
So why did the two gnomes go down? Tang Shuxing didn't dare to take the stairs. I had to walk along the gap in the iron frame next to where the corpse was hanging. Grasp the iron pillar and slide downward. After skiing for a while, I slid about half the distance, and found that the height up and down was at least 50 meters high. Roughly calculated, there are about hundreds of living dead hanging here, no wonder Dong Sanlu said that they don't have to worry about eating and drinking, it turns out that this is the case.
But what puzzles Tang Shuxing now is, what is the thing that attacked the soldiers?
When Tang Shuxing slid down further, he found that there was a big tree at the bottom, not a big tree to be exact, but a huge plant, the plant was just like a huge yellow fruit tree, the left side of the plant had flesh-colored petals, but the stamens in it were bright red, and on the right side there were seven or eight fruits hanging down, the fruits were like peaches, translucent.
Tang Shuxing stopped, because he could already see the two gnomes standing under the plant through the leaves of the plant, and if he slid down further, they would definitely find it, and now the dense leaves of the plant were the best way for him to hide himself.
Ruth stood there, crossed his waist and looked at the fruit hanging on the tree and said: "Djilas, if you want to eat fresh meat, it seems that you will have to wait for a day, the flesh fruit will not ripen for at least one day, you see that it is only translucent now, you also know that it needs to be completely transparent to pick the fruit and take out the fresh flesh inside." ”
Fresh meat? Tang Shuxing looked at the fruit and thought to himself: Won't it? Could it be that these living dead are born from trees? That's!
While Tang Shuxing was thinking about it, Djilas turned on the flashlight and shone on one of the translucent fruits, and when the light penetrated the fruit, Tang Shuxing also clearly saw that there was a huddled person in the fruit, it was indeed a human, and no other animal would be in that shape except for a human.
At this moment, the Djilas licked his lips and took out the machete hanging from his waist, and after holding it in his mouth, he climbed up directly along the stalk of the plant, Ruth looked at him below and shook his head, but did not stop, after Djilas stood firm on the side of the stalk of the plant, grabbed the machete, waved it and jumped over, and then cut the fruit directly.
The fruit landed with a muffled sound, and the membrane wrapped around it immediately cracked, and a kind of mucus flowed out of it, and the smell emitted by the mucus instantly rose to Tang Shuxing's position, and Tang Shuxing smelled the smell exactly the same as the smell of water in the underground river.
Jilas jumped down, anxiously cut the fruit with a knife and carefully cut it, after cutting a large hole, the living dead inside rolled out, Jilas immediately dragged it aside and spread his limbs, and then looked up at his brother Ruth and said, "Big brother, see if this fresh meat can be eaten, is there any disease?" ”
Ruth shook his head, took out a box from the bag around his waist, took out a needle and a stethoscope from it, put the stethoscope on the heart of the living dead and listened, nodded and said, "The heartbeat is very slow, it sounds very healthy." ”
Then Russ used the needle to draw out a tube of the blood of the living dead, then raised it in his hand and looked at it, put it into the test tube next to him and shook it, and after looking at it for a while, he said: "It's healthy, the blood hasn't turned green, okay, this is yours, but you have to deal with it well, don't be found by others, if General Bosson finds out that we are stealing food, you will be punished." ”
Gilas licked his lips, carried the living dead on his shoulder, and walked up the circular staircase, Ruth followed behind and shook his head and complained that Gilas was too greedy, in fact, there was meat to eat every day, what was the difference between fresh and not? Djilas, on the other hand, was talking about the benefits of freshness. Maybe it can cure his illness or something.
The two talked, went up, and after Tang Shuxing heard the sound of the gate closing, he immediately pressed the intercom and asked, "Gu Yan, can you hear it?" ”
Soon, Gu Yan's voice came back, although it was not very clear, but it could be regarded as a conversation. Gu Yan said: "I can hear that I was in the round room, and the two dwarfs left." Went outside. Outside is the kitchen pantry, and outside the pantry is the dining room where Bosson and they eat! Damn, they actually eat people! ”
Tang Shuxing slid down and stood in front of the plant. Looking at it, it looks like a yellow fruit tree. But the stalk is green. The plant with large round leaves and fragrant aroma said, "You probably don't believe it, these things don't seem to be human." ”
"What?" Gu Yan was very surprised over there.
Tang Shuxing walked under the plant. Looking at one of the fruits, he said: "The so-called cold storage is a missile silo, at the bottom of the silo is a plant, a huge plant, it looks like a herbaceous plant, but it is too big, the same size as a yellow fruit tree, and the branches and leaves above look like a banyan tree, in short, I don't know what it is, those living dead grew from this tree." ”
"What!?" Gu Yan continued to be surprised, "What are you kidding! ”
"yes, they're all vegetative." Tang Shuxing smiled bitterly, "Pure vegetative person." ”
Tang Shuxing said, looking at the ground below, hearing the sound of water, he walked to the plant, inserted it with the dragon blade, and as soon as he inserted it, a stream of water came out, Tang Shuxing subconsciously reached out and dipped it, then put it in his mouth, tasted it and spit it out: "Salty, it's sea water, and it's very cold, it looks like it's the sea water of the Arctic Ocean." ”
Gu Yan said on the other end: "I don't understand, what do you mean?" ”
Tang Shuxing filled in the soil and looked at the plant again: "That is to say, the underground river was originally seawater, but after passing under this plant, the plant may have filtered the seawater into fresh water, and the living dead we saw at the bottom of the river before were all sick, and I heard the dwarf say that the sick ones seemed to be inedible and had to be thrown away, so they threw them into the underground river, and the rest were made out to eat meat...... Damn, I'm a little disgusting when I say it, although it doesn't look like it should be human, but it's really human, I'm confused. ”
Gu Yan said on the other end: "How did this kind of thing come about?" Made by Dong Sanlu? ”
"No, no, no." Tang Shuxing shook his head, "Dong Sanlu doesn't have that ability, and Bosen can't have it, maybe this is the biggest secret in this base, I think it's necessary for me to talk to Dong Sanlu." ”
Gu Yan immediately said on the other end: "I think we should talk to Bosen first." ”
"No, you can't." Tang Shuxing began to walk back, "Let's go back and sleep first, and wait until daytime, see if Dong Sanlu and Bosen will notice, see what they will say to us, they don't open their mouths, let's not ask lightly, don't forget, we still have to find that woman." ”
Tang Shuxing returned the same way, and after making peace with Gu Yan, the two did not leave from the direction of the kitchen, but endured the nausea and returned the same way, and changed their clothes in the hole below, and then returned to the corridor and walked to the room.
When Tang Shuxing and Gu Yan walked to the door of the room, they were surprised to find that Bosen was already waiting there, still holding his large-caliber shotgun in his hand.
"You're not dead." Bosen looked at Tang Shuxing coldly and said.
Tang Shuxing nodded: "Yes, I didn't find anything, of course I won't die, and I have always had a big life." ”
Bosson looked at the two of them with suspicion: "Didn't you find anything?" Didn't find that thing that attacked the soldiers? ”
Gu Yan couldn't help but say something, but was preempted by Tang Shuxing: "Will there be something, you who have been here for many years don't know, you still ask me, dodge, I'm going to sleep, I'm too tired." ”
Bosen had to get out of the way, Tang Shuxing opened the door to let Gu Yan go first, and then went in by himself, looked at Bosen before closing the door and said: "I sleepwalk when I sleep, sleepwalking will kill people, if someone sneaks in, I can't guarantee his life." ”
Bosen glanced at Tang Shuxing and turned to leave, Tang Shuxing closed the door and turned to look at Gu Yan who was sitting there.
Gu Yan stared at the ground, his eyes blank, not knowing what was going on in his mind. (To be continued......)