Chapter 16: The Mysterious Laboratory
The sound of water droplets dripping from time to time in the darkness, some shaking beams and the occasional burst of fire from the muzzle of the gun illuminated the underground world.
After receiving further instructions from headquarters, the troops came down to explore the world. Their main mission is to clear the town of hidden dangers and ensure that the Standing Guard can build a base here.
"It's!"
A soldier stopped in front of a huge bronze gate, in front of the majestic steel gate, at the light, some large ancient tree carvings were winding and circling on the bronze, and the slow roar of the beast from inside made him a little uneasy.
"What is this?" Wang Meng and the others also walked to this five or six meter-high giant gate and stopped.
"There's a camera,"
The male knife saw the pinhole lens hidden above, and it had been a few years.
"It's a bit of an exaggeration, isn't it? Trucks can be passed! ”
"Maybe it's for trucks, you look at the width of the sewer, this is already to meet the needs of at least prefecture-level cities, but on the map this is just a small town, there is no need for expansion of this scale at all, which can only show ......."
Liu Bai's face was gloomy and he beckoned to the soldiers behind him.
"You rearrange your team, and among the more than 100 people who come in, a trio is placed every twenty meters, ready to support and deal with emergencies."
"You're very careful." Wang Meng nodded in acquiescence.
He also discovered that there seemed to be such a thing under the ground, but instead of rushing to attack as usual, their prying eyes slowly retreated in the darkness, which was very illogical!
"Need to go in?" Big Fat narrowed his eyes, he was already thinking about what to blow open the door.
"It's all waterlogged, and it's a little muddy, but there's time to deal with emergencies."
The knife man looked at the water level at the bare place of his feet, and said that this is not a sewer, why is it waterlogged? He didn't like it very much, and it made his already unclear vision even narrower.
"Matchmaker, is it open?"
Only then did everyone notice that the girl who had been squatting aside to turn on the microcomputer was a little upturned, which was not standing because the wires were not long enough, and the water was not squatting.
"Are you?"
The male knife couldn't help but complain, the matchmaker didn't know how to refute it like this, she could only have a black line on her face, but under this claustrophobic atmosphere, no one had the heart to gossip.
"This kind of carving, a bit like the American Indians, is a tree-like carving, like some kind of sacrificial totem."
Liu Bai stroked his forehead, and he noticed the sign next to the matchmaker.
“сделановсссрв 1955 году”
"What's that?"
The matchmaker raised her head, but her hand never stopped, like a pianist's fingers jumping rapidly, and lines of code were still rhythmically generated on the black background of the command area.
"Made in the Soviet Union, and made by the KGB?"
"Are you serious about this? High-achieving students, you! The dog interjected, and the soldiers of the rest of the unit looked at each other at the form of communication between them.
"Does this look like something that old?"
"I can't rule out some years, you look at the grooves carved in this cloud, some places have been worn out, and some parts have also oxidized," Liu Bai thought quickly in his mind, "In 1955, it was indeed quite friendly with the Soviet Union, and at that time, our manufacturing industry was indeed unable to refine such a large iron gate. ”
"But the pattern you just mentioned, of course, does not rule out that it is the world tree in the Norse mythological system on the Aryan side, but how can this kind of graphic appear here?"
"The World Tree? What does it mean to have human origin? ”
........
Wang Meng looked at the team members on the side in a daze, as if he was in an academic exchange, the key is that he can't interject yet, how can he say that he has also read books, and his subordinates are a group of disciples or something? Theology graduated?
"It's on," the matchmaker interrupted.
"Click!"
The sound of slow, mechanical movement slowly came from the metal door, and the sixteen deadbolts with thick wrists were slowly withdrawn, and the door with a thickness of more than 20 centimeters burst open!
The soldiers hurriedly looked for cover in all directions, ready to deal with the unexpected.
The water flow is steady, which means that there is water in it as well!
"Shhh
Wang Meng twisted the caps of several light smoke signal tubes and threw the medicine pillars forward.
is still careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, and the rash advance makes him a little uneasy!
The faint light of the fire fell like a meteor, falling into the water and emitting afterglow, but it didn't touch anything, and the bubbles of the smoke under the water gurgled and echoed in this huge space.
"Gollum!"
The soldiers hurriedly grabbed the weapons in their hands and nervously looked at the strange noise in front of them, which was like a bubble slowly rising in a fish tank.
It's so quiet in the huge space that it's suffocating, and no one knows what will come to you in the shadows next!
As if sensing the arrival of someone, several faint blue lights in the space lit up, which completely illuminated the underground world.
"It's!"
Wang Meng and the others were so frightened by the astonishment in front of them that they couldn't speak, or it was simply indescribable.
Rows of human-tall containers lined up, filled with formalin solution, and bubbles rising slowly underneath, it was clear that the system was still slowly working. Carrying a taxidermy or flesh, they are covered with straws and oxygen masks in their mouths!
No, maybe it wasn't formalin at all, maybe it was some nutrient solution! These things could be alive!
"Fins?"
The soldiers looked at the fin-like scales on the specimen's arms, perhaps due to the long-term immersion, the muscles on the surface had shown terrible cracks, but the shape of its appearance was still so perfect, half-floating in the liquid, as if it was standing in the air, as if it was asleep. And those claustrophobic and peaceful eyes seem to open directly in the next second!
Some specimens are humanoid, some are still in the shape of babies, and some are pig-headed wolf bodies, more like the full-toothed porcupines of ancient times! And some of them are coiled like snakes, a bit like emperor ribbon fish. However, some of them are cloudy, like formalin solution soaked in old specimens and the proteins inside have been mutated!
"Report, several cracked containers have been found ahead, and the contents are missing!"
As if for fear of waking up the species in these bottles, no one dared to make too many sounds, and under the faint light, there was only the sound of people treading water.
"Report, some corpses have been found here, white scientific uniforms, corpses have been stiffened!"
"Bullet casings strewn all over the stairs ahead,"
"Several piles of corpses were found on the flanks, not humanoid, and it was impossible to tell what they were! There are obvious traces of battle here! ”
Maybe it's because of the water, or maybe it's been too long since this basement has been opened, and it's an extremely dull feeling, like a fermented yeast room, with a sour smell of rancid mold!
Countless messages were transmitted, and the more the soldiers searched, the more frightened they felt.
It's a bit like a concentration camp, and even if they're trained to do so, they're scared at the end
Liu Bai stopped next to the cracked container, and he noticed that there were some bloody handprints on the walls of some containers, with a fierce and resolute hideousness, as if it was the struggle of a trapped beast, and tried his best to break open the barrier with his arm and escape!
"Gollum,"
Countless strange memories flashed through Liu Bai's mind, as if they were pictures sleeping in his mind, strange tree roots....... Towards the branches that meander around....... People who are as crazy as sleepwalking, stretch out their hands to ask for something...... The footsteps of a drunkard are extremely hurried, or the body is constantly swaying when he is injured.......
At the end of his sight, the people on the side looked at him in great horror......