Chapter 12 (I) The longest twenty meters
Two hours later, Tang Shuxing and others appeared at the mouth of the swamp. Everyone stopped there, looking at the swamp in front of them, which seemed to have no end in sight, and they were all afraid, and then looked to the left and right, it seemed that it was impossible to go around, the area was too large.
Tang Shu pestle the two-meter-long branch that had just been cut down, stretched out his hand to reach out, and inserted it into the pool, the branch was almost at the end, and it didn't go to the end, so he had to pull it back again, smelling the rotten things brought by the branch, and he felt ridiculous - because he didn't feel disgusting, and he didn't feel the smell smoky, but the people next to him covered their noses.
"Looks like I'm going to have to go to the front." Tang Shuxing shook his head and said, "I'm a monster, now my ideals have changed, I'm a monster who wants to become a money-making king!" As he spoke, Tang Shuxing probed the way with a branch and walked forward.
The other six people behind him were all lined up, and Si Zhengnan was carried by everyone in turn, but everyone was holding a long wooden stick in their hands, and even where Tang Shuxing had walked, they had to slowly probe it. According to Al, at this rate, it should be possible to get out of the city at noon, without any accidents.
"It's impossible not to have an accident." Quinn walked slowly behind, his wound still aching, "Do you know how many monsters there are?" United Nations animal protection organizations have visited and said that there are animals facing extinction here and need to be protected...... Damn, I think we should kill all these things that have survived ancient times, and if they are protected and multiplied in large numbers, they will one day eat all the human beings. ”
After half an hour, I didn't encounter any danger. However, the vigilance of the crowd did not decrease, but only increased after the discovery of the remains of a corpse in the swamp - the wreckage of an American military pilot.
It's good to say that it's a wreckage, but the whole body is already in pieces, and if it weren't for the fact that there was still half a head in the gnawed helmet, as well as a pistol and shredded body armor stained with some kind of green slime next to it, I'm afraid no one would have recognized what it was.
"U.S. military?" Tian Yehan flicked the helmet with a wooden stick, "Or the Air Force?" And not long after he died, less than a few hours ago, the US military is helping the government army search for us? ”
"No, it's not." Quinn stepped forward. Pick up the pistol with the disgusting slime with the wooden stick. "The U.S. military basically has standard M9 pistols, and this guy is carrying a large-caliber pistol, and he is not a police officer in the United States."
Gu Huaiyi stood there and looked around, as if he was looking for something. He then found other wreckage in the distance. Tian Yehan and Quinn slowly stepped forward. Upon closer examination, it was revealed that they were two mutilated corpses, although both men had M9 pistols. However, he was carrying a FAD assault rifle, and the bullets in the magazines in the gun had been shot out, but fortunately, although the armed belt had been bitten, it could still be used, and the five magazines on it were not damaged.
"Take away what you can use, and everyone be vigilant." Gu Huaiyi wiped the body of a FAD assault rifle with the fragments of clothes on the ground, and then threw it to Tian Yehan along with the armed belt magazine.
Al, too, leaned over to pick up another rifle and belt, then leaned back against his chest, looking around warily.
"It's a man-eating lizard." Quinn circled around and said, "There is no other monster in the swamp that can gnaw people like this except for man-eating lizards. ”
"Look for any explosives like grenades." Tian Yehan continued to look for it, but unfortunately the kit on the soldier's waist was found, but it was bitten to pieces, and the things on it were gone.
"Keep going! Don't be left alone, don't stay! Gu Huaiyi raised his feet and walked forward, waving his hand to signal everyone to follow the previous plan to mark the direction they were responsible for, and speed up to leave this strange area.
Just a few steps away, Al accidentally stepped on Si Zhengnan's instep - because they were worried that the weight of the two would cause them to sink, everyone no longer carried Si Zhengnan on their backs, but supported him to walk slowly.
After Si Zhengnan was stepped on, he subconsciously raised his hand and slammed his elbow against Al, Al quickly got out of the way, his feet slipped, and he fell directly into the waterhole next to him, Tian Yehan immediately picked up the gun, stretched out the wooden stick, and let Al grab the wooden stick.
When Al grabbed the wooden stick, he was still apologizing to Si Zhengnan Dao, and when Tian Yehan dragged it to the edge of the waterhole, Al changed his face, grabbed the wooden stick with one hand and said, "Wait! There seems to be something down there! ”
As soon as Al said this, the others immediately raised their weapons, Tian Yehan also took the opportunity to raise his assault rifle with one hand, towards the right side of Al, and the others also looked at their defensive positions, worried that a man-eating lizard would suddenly come out and attack.
Al felt under the water, endured the stench, and then looked up again and said, "I felt the outline of a box, but it was heavy, and something had to be tied before I could pull it up." ”
"Boxes?" Tian Yehan didn't understand why there was a box here, but he also understood that it must be related to the so-called American soldiers who died here, and there was no doubt that the dead here were all pretending to be American soldiers.
There was no rope now, the only thing they had was strips of rags from the wreckage around them, and each of them had cut off some part of his sleeve and trousers, wrapped them together, attached them with the armed straps they had not used before, and put them into the pool, so that Al would wrap them around the chest, and then pull them out again.
After the long box was pulled out, Quinn on one side glanced at it and immediately told everyone to get out of the way.
Al immediately asked, "Do you know what this is?" ”
Quinn squatted down, looked around, and motioned for everyone to stand aside slightly: "This is the ordnance combination box, but it is modified, there is a compression space around it, I saw it once outside the company's warehouse before I came, I don't know what is in the tunnel, but I remember it very clearly, it is exactly the same as this." ”
Tian Yehan and Al glanced at each other, and both clenched the weapons in their hands, while Gu Huaiyi watched from a distance, and his gaze did not completely fall on the box, because in addition to this thing, the greater threat came from the kind of man-eating lizard that had not yet appeared.
Si Zhengnan didn't seem to have any interest in this thing, just sat there and rested. Urging everyone to go.
"I suggest not opening it, let's just leave." Ji Kefeng said to Quinn, who was looking for a way to open it.
Tang Shuxing nodded: "I think so too, the ghost knows what's inside the Dao." ”
"It's a corporate thing, and it makes sense for them to throw this thing here." Quinn said as he looked up and muttered to himself, "Is it for me?" Now that Astaya is the only one who represents me, what do you want to give me? Don't tell me a word. ”
"That's for you." Al stared at Quinn, "Maybe you have some way to get in touch with the company personally?" ”
Tian Yehan also agreed, and now only Quinn is connected to Shaman Power Company.
Quinn smiled, didn't say a word, and finally found a button underneath. It was a closer. He knew very well that he could open the box as long as he opened the closure, but he pressed it without hesitation, and then the box opened, and a chill came out of it. Then the crowd gathered around. I saw that the box was full of ice. And inside the ice are two glass cylinders, which are two containers.
"What is this? Virus? Chemical and biological weapons? Tian Yehan looked closer and found that there seemed to be nothing in the two containers.
The others were silent. Just go up and see it. Quinn stared at the container and said, "No matter what's inside, we have to take it away, if it's really the kind of corpse drug developed by the company, after being swallowed by a man-eating lizard here, if it spreads, things will be in trouble." With that, Quinn took the pilot's helmet and pulled out half of his head, then stuffed it with ice cubes and slowly put the two cylindrical containers inside.
After Quinn wrapped his helmet in his clothes, he raised it up and looked at the crowd: "I know that you don't trust me, so I don't take him with me, you choose someone to carry it, I look seriously injured, and I can't attack the person with the thing." ”
Everyone looked at each other, and soon everyone's eyes fell on Si Zhengnan, he was also injured, and it was difficult to walk, so it was fairest to hand it over to him.
Si Zhengnan originally wanted to object, but thinking that he could continue to set off with his things, he simply took it and tied it around his waist.
"Keep walking!" Gu Huaiyi turned around and left, everyone lined up again, Tang Shuxing was still in front, and walked slowly towards the front.
The man-eating lizard did not attack, which surprised everyone, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief until they reached the edge of the swamp, but the sun also shone overhead, and the poisonous fog on the surface of the swamp pool gradually rose, wrapping around everyone's ankles, slowly climbing higher as time went on and the poisonous fog increased.
"Great! It's finally time to get to the exit! Quinn laughed, his face getting paler and the wound already showing signs of decay, and the medicines in the mercenary kits didn't seem to be very useful.
Even so, Tang Shuxing in front of him still did not trot or speed up, he still used branches to explore the road, walking step by step for the camp, at this time he stopped, raised his fist to signal everyone to stop, and then used the branch to make a fan-shaped survey in front of him, and soon changed direction and continued to explore.
"Second sentence, what's wrong?" Tian Yehan stepped forward cautiously.
Tang Shuxing pointed to the swamp in front of him: "From about twenty centimeters in front of me, and then two meters in front of me, there are all waterholes, and there is no place to stay. ”
"Let's take a detour!" Si Zhengnan hurriedly urged from behind.
"I can't get around, I can only find a way to get from here." Quinn didn't dare to sit down, so he had to stand on Al's shoulder, "The poisonous fog has covered the ground, you can't see the situation below, you will only go farther and farther if you want to go around, this kind of swamp is a maze where you can see the direction of the entrance, you don't know what the road will step on next." ”
"What should I do?" Ji Kefeng stepped forward to ask, and Gu Huaiyi glanced at him.
"Visually there are still twenty meters to get out of the swamp." Tian Yehan frowned and said, "The longest twenty meters ...... Even if there is a waterhole only five meters in front of us, no one dares to risk jumping over, not to mention whether there is a place to run, what if we jump over and find that the opposite side is still a waterhole? To fall in is to die. ”
He was really trapped to death at this time, but Tang Shuxing was very puzzled, and anyone who had read the book knew that it was impossible for a large area of soft soil and waterhole to appear in a swamp near an ordinary plain, which was not in line with geological changes. Thinking of this, he slowly squatted down, although the poisonous gas of Zhilu Dao did not pose any threat to him, he still subconsciously held his breath and touched the edge of the waterhole, and then turned around and groped again on the edge of the waterhole he had walked.
"It's miserable." Tang Shuxing grabbed two balls of dirt with his left and right hands and walked to Tian Yehan and Ji Kefeng, "What I have in my left hand is the dirt dug up at the edge of the waterhole in front. The right hand was dug out of a waterhole somewhere we just walked over, do you see the difference? ”
Tian Yehan and Ji Kefeng looked closer, and immediately found that the soil dug out of the waterhole in front of them was relatively pure, there was nothing else except the soil, and the waterhole on the right side was mixed with other things, such as grass roots and small bones of other dead creatures, that is to say, the waterholes in front of them were deliberately enlarged, and someone deliberately dug them out.
But in the swamp, apart from the seven people standing here, only those man-eating lizards are left.
"It seems that these man-eating lizards have wisdom not to say. And very smart! Tang Shuxing shook off the dirt in his hands. Pulling out the dragon blade to hold it, the others immediately picked up the weapons in their hands.
These man-eating lizards don't know how many they are, but they must know that after they entered the swamp, they thought they were numerous. Didn't attack immediately. Instead, immediately all retreated to the edge of the swamp. began to desperately expand the area of the waterhole, blocking their way.
In this way, they will be blocked from dying here. And the man-eating lizard is well aware of the power of this poisonous mist, and there must have been animals that landed in the swamp around noon and were poisoned to death without knowing the danger. The man-eating lizard decided to take advantage of the poisonous mist and the expanding waterhole to kill them without blood, and then eat the corpses of Tang Shuxing and the others.
The danger is approaching, they can't turn back, and they can't think of a way to move forward for the time being, so they can only hold their weapons and wait, but they also know that even if they wait until the poisonous fog dissipates, the man-eating lizards still don't attack, and as soon as they enter the night, they will be sleepy, and when the time comes, in the dark, the man-eating lizards can completely drag them down the waterhole one by one and kill them.
The poisonous fog rose higher and higher, and everyone had to support their bodies back to back, if they sat down, they would be poisoned immediately, and this damn astaya didn't have a single wind at noon, and looking around, they were completely in the hell filled with poisonous fog.
Tang Shuxing looked down at the poisonous mist that was already surrounding his knees and was still gradually climbing upward, and joked: "Hey, I'm not afraid of this thing, why don't I get some blood out and give it to you to drink?" Maybe you've drunk it and mutated, we're all monsters, and we don't have to be afraid anymore. ”
"Shut up!" Gu Huaiyi said in a low voice.
Everyone couldn't see what was going on under their feet, it was all a thick poisonous mist, and if a man-eating lizard suddenly came out......
"I felt like I had touched something under my feet." Al said suddenly, aiming the muzzle of the gun at his feet, trying to support Si Zhengnan behind him, "Your things have touched my waist, move away." ”
Si Zhengnan immediately moved the helmet containing the container to him, and at this time Al shouted, "There is something!" As he spoke, he fired two shots at his feet, then moved the muzzle of the gun to Si Zhengnan's side, and pulled the trigger and fired several shots in a row.
Si Zhengnan was frightened, and subconsciously flashed to the side and dodged again, and threw the helmet in his hand out of the air, and at the same time as throwing it out, Al pounced sideways, hugged the thing tightly in his arms, held his breath in the air, supported the ground with one hand, jumped up again, and as soon as he jumped up, he found Tang Shuxing standing in front of him with a sword.
Al held up his helmet and said, "It's okay, I didn't fall." ”
Tang Shuxing smiled: "It's too dangerous, fortunately you reacted quickly." ”
Al also laughed, but Tang Shuxing suddenly snatched the helmet and smashed it towards the ground, at which time Al squatted down and caught it, and roared angrily: "It's too dangerous! What are you doing! ”
After Al finished speaking, he was stunned for a moment, and then slowly got up, looking at Tang Shuxing looking at him expressionlessly, and the dragon lin blade was slowly placed on his shoulder.
"Act! Keep it up! Tang Shuxing smiled, "Pretend, pretend!" ”
"What do you say, I don't understand." Al hugged the helmet tightly, and at this time, the others also came around, and Tian Yehan stood beside Tang Shuxing with a gun, glaring at Al angrily.
"Sniper, excellent marksmanship, clear goals, knows what he wants to do, and he doesn't know where he came from, he never says where he comes from, he doesn't introduce himself." Tang Shuxing glanced sideways at Tian Yehan, "You don't even tell your life and death companions who walked down from the tip of the knife with you, of course, these can only constitute suspicion of you, but they can't constitute a reason to testify against you." ”
Al smiled, but his hand slowly reached into his helmet.
Tang Shuxing said again: "Since entering the swamp, you have deliberately walked next to Si Zhengnan, you are such a careful person, and you are a sniper, a sniper with strict training, in this kind of originally cautious situation, you can still step on Si Zhengnan's feet, I don't believe it." You fell down and found the box again, was that accidental? Definitely not! If I were you, I might as well lie and say that if there is other equipment in the pool, I would find the box with a stick in my hand and I wouldn't need to jump off. ”
The expression on Al's face began to become ugly, and Tang Shuxing shook his head: "You think you are smart, you said earlier that you touched something, whether you shot it, or scare Si Zhengnan, it was nothing more than to take away this thing." ”
After a pause, Tang Shuxing continued to analyze: "Actually, those things are just suspicions, I deliberately fell down with my helmet, you immediately caught it, and yelled at me again...... I ask you, why do you know that the things in this are dangerous? ”
Al pointed at Quinn and said, "Didn't he say that earlier?" The contents are from Sharman Power, he has seen it, maybe it is dangerous, and it is contained in that kind of ordnance combination box, although there is a password, but the closing switch is also a circuit breaker, if you don't turn off the circuit breaker first, it will be dangerous to open it directly. ”
Quinn smiled, laughed for a long time, shook his head, and said, "How do you know that there is a closure in the road?" When I open and close the closer, you are opposite me, you can't see my hand at all, you are digging your own grave! ”
Alzhilu said that he had said too much, and he had to take a deep breath and say, "Okay, I'll say ......" As soon as he said this, Al's kicked away Tang Shu's punishment, flashed sideways and pulled out a dagger to restrain the injured Si Zhengnan, and sneered, "Stand far away!" Or I'll kill him! (To be continued......)