Compared with the jewelry section, the clothing section of the Century Shopping Center is even more messy, with plastic or plaster models lying messily on the ground, mixed with corpses, many expensive clothes are torn into rags, and the ground is covered with layers of black carbonized material.

After all, diamonds can't fill the stomach, but clothes can be used to keep warm – whether worn or burned.

The ventilation system in the mall seems to be functional, and in order to prevent natural disasters such as fires and earthquakes, the ventilation system of these large underground buildings has its own large-capacity batteries, so even if the power supply to the entire mall is cut off, the people hiding in the mall will not suffocate to death.

Qi Lin took off his breathing mask, but when he took his first breath of air, his brows suddenly furrowed.

The peculiar stench not only did not dissipate, but became stronger.

Cheng Yanqiu also took off his breathing mask, and when he smelled the smell in the air, his face instantly became as ugly as Qi Lin.

All these signs can only indicate one problem, and the thing that smells like this is probably hidden in this underground mall.

"You've probably encountered more mutated creatures than I have, can you tell what this thing is from the taste?" Cheng Yanqiu lowered his voice very low, for fear of disturbing something.

"The people I've dealt with are all those guys on the surface, and the evolution route of the monsters under the ground is completely different from the ones above, and I've never seen anything like it in the game just now." Qi Lin shook his head.

Qi Lin couldn't tell what this foul smell was, it was a bit like rotten egg whites, mixed with the smell of burnt rubber and a faint smell of blood.

"There is a bank on the third basement floor of the mall, and there are two shotguns in the bank, because the iron door is locked, so no refugees have taken it, but the last time we passed by, we pry open the door of the bank, but we didn't take those two guns, and they should still be there."

"It's better to have a gun than to be bare-handed." Qi Lin nodded, the shotgun left in the bank, nine times out of ten it is the gun of the escort personnel of the cash transport vehicle, judging from the weapon configuration of the escort personnel of the Huaxia cash transport vehicle, it is basically a 18.4 mm caliber Type 97 police riot gun, although this gun is less powerful than military weapons, but it can still cause good damage to mutated creatures in the case of close shooting.

The two quickly found the small bank on the third floor and managed to get their hands on two Type 97 shotguns.

However, the problem of ammunition shortage still exists, and the escorts of the cash trucks will not carry much ammunition, even if the carrying capacity is doubled during the war, it will only be 20 deer bullets and 20 non-lethal bean bag rounds.

Qi Lin and Cheng Yanqiu each divided ten deer bullets, and as for the bean bag bullets, which couldn't even be worn by a thicker coat, they directly ignored them.

There are three floors in the underground part of the Century Shopping Building, and they are currently on the third floor at the bottom, which is mainly the jewelry area, the clothing area and a "big pharmacy" specializing in selling all kinds of health products.

Finally, they came to the escalator that led to the second floor.

"The stench here is a little stronger again, it looks like it's up there." Qi Lin judged.

"Hmm...... To be honest, I've never heard of a guy who can spread the flavor so much before. Cheng Yanqiu's face was full of solemnity.

"By the way, how long has it been since you last passed through here?"

"Probably...... A year ago. ”

"One year, hell...... Could it be that this thing is a 'foreign hukou'? ”

"Not necessarily...... The last time we visited, we didn't search every corner of the place, and we missed a lot of places. Cheng Yanqiu said.

"Well, it's going to come anyway—huh?"

As soon as Qi Lin walked up the escalator, he realized that something was wrong.

The floor tiles on the second basement floor of the entire shopping mall are covered with a thin layer of flesh film, which can't help but remind Qi Lin of the fungus blankets he saw in the nest of the spider mother of Assasin at the beginning, but this layer of flesh film is different from the fungus carpet, its thickness is only less than half a centimeter, and through the meat film, you can even vaguely see the patterns and patterns on the floor tiles below.

On this layer of flesh membrane, there is a translucent tumor-like structure like a blood blister formed by a scald every ten centimeters, and there is some clear yellowish liquid in this small tumor.

"What is this?!" Cheng Yanqiu was also taken aback and stopped his pace.

"I don't know, I feel ...... This thing is alive......"

Qi Lin said, broke off a piece of hard aging rubber from the handrail on the first floor of the escalator, and threw it straight ahead.

The rubber block fell on the flesh membrane and slid out for more than ten centimeters until it hit a blood blister.

Qi Lin and Cheng Yanqiu held their breath and waited quietly...... However, after three or four minutes, nothing happened.

"Seems to be okay? I'll go and see, and you stay where you are. ”

Qi Lin said Cheng Yanqiu said, and then cautiously approached the edge of the flesh membrane.

The feeling of stepping on the first foot was very slippery, and there seemed to be a layer of sticky secretion on the meat membrane, in addition, Qi Lin also found that this layer of flesh membrane was very tough, and he gently stepped on it flat, but as soon as the foot was raised, the flattened flesh membrane returned to its original state.

Qi Lin squatted down and poked it lightly with his fingers, it felt as if it was a layer of elastic rubber, but other than that, he didn't find any of this layer of flesh membrane to have any stress reaction to the outside world.

As for those blood blisters, the liquid in them was the secretions covering the flesh membranes, Qi Lin used the tip of the steel pipe to pick one up, and those liquids immediately flowed.

In terms of properties, this thing is somewhat similar to glycerin.

"It's really weird......"

These secretions are slightly corrosive, but they are not strong, and they are stronger than the toilet cleaners that can be bought in the supermarket, and they will not cause much damage in direct contact with the skin.

The source of the foul smell was obviously not the liquid secreted from the flesh membrane, although the liquid also had an unpleasant fishy smell, but it was obviously not the same as the stench in the air.

After confirming that the flesh membrane was not aggressive, Qi Lin and Cheng Yanqiu began to cautiously walk into the depths of the second floor of the mall.

The further they went, the more strange they became—the thin film of flesh not only covered the floor and counter, but even the ceiling, and that peculiar secretion would drip from the top of their heads from time to time.

As for the corpses that were everywhere, they were completely encased, and the skin and hair were almost certainly gone, leaving only heavily dissolved bodies and deformed bones.

Qi Lin suddenly felt like they had walked into the stomach pouch of a giant beast, these secretions were the stomach acid of the giant beast, and those corpses were the food residues of the giant beast that had not yet been completely digested.

The feeling of uneasiness grew stronger and stronger, and Qi Lin's subconscious was constantly urging him to leave this place - but the problem was that the entrance to the other stronghold was on the basement level, and to get to the basement level, he had to pass through here.