367: The Old Days (3)
The social nature of the living corpses in this area is far greater than Marlin expected.
After rendezvous with Sixfingers and the Gold Bar, Marin identified the living corpses in the room in small groups from their mouths.
"Maybe it's their home." Six Fingers said as he glanced at the stairs on the third floor, where a group of halflings was waiting.
"So many living corpses out there, why don't they come in." The gold ingot points to the door downstairs.
"Have you ever seen a beggar have a home, my old friend, the living corpses in this dark zone show us the family." Six Fingers finished speaking, pointing to the four corpses at his feet.
They were two adult living corpses, and the two juveniles were supposed to be his and her children.
But they all died.
"They told you?" The gold ingot asked rhetorically.
"When I was about to beat the child to death, the badly wounded woman stood in front of her child, gold ingot, this is a mother's last struggle." Six Fingers sighed after speaking: "This shouldn't be, I have lived for fifty-seven years, and I have never seen a living corpse have a display of humanity, in the black area east of the Eastern Kingdom, it is a matter of course that living corpses cannibalize each other, and it is a matter of course that they have no humanity...... And now, these living corpses are alive like people. β
ββ¦β¦ So what are we going to do, do we want to welcome them into the civilized world, let these monsters who are deformed to the point of cysts all over their bodies wear dresses, and let them also have power and smooth skin to roll the sheets? You can stand the smell of them!? β
"Enough, two, we are recorders and discoverers, but not defenders of the ethics and morality of these monsters beneath our feet." Speaking of which, Marin gave a final verdict to the quarrel between them: "Let's go up to the third floor and see if we can find new clues and information, all living corpses are enemies, whether they have a home or not, I need you to remember, you also have, I don't want to see anyone betray their comrades and companions for the sake of the family affection of aberrant creatures, remember, you are a dwarf, you are a halfling, and I am a frost-giant half-blood, we are all lifeforms under the list of human species, and they are not." β
"Yes, Your Excellency, you are right." The gold ingot nodded.
"Your will is exactly right, Your Excellency." Halflings salute.
"Let's go." Marin turned, and was the first to walk up the stairs to the third floor.
The third layer did not have the situation of living corpses as Ma Lin imagined, on the contrary, there were corpses of living corpses everywhere, and six fingers dragged over one of them: "It wasn't killed by mosquitoes, this guy has a knife wound in the ribs, and he was killed by a sword." β
"Wait a minute, don't talk." Marin raised his left hand, and the rifle he held in his right hand pointed to the corridor to the right.
The gold ingot, which was still on the steps, glanced down the hallway, and at Marin's signal, pulled out a flare and threw it out.
In Marin's eyes, the flare flipped in the air, and when it entered the corridor or so ten meters, a completely irregular shadow appeared on its left side, and it was hit by the flare against the wall.
"Living?" Marin asked.
The air began to twist, and a mechanical body appeared in front of Marin.
"Damn! Warp Warframe! Your Excellency, be careful! The gold ingots rushed onto the platform and pushed towards Marin, and behind him, the dwarves rushed forward with hammers and shields.
"Wait a minute!" Marin pushed the gold ingot away with his backhand, and he walked to the front of the queue, looking at the armor in front of him and asked.
Marin instinctively sensed the difference in this twisted armor - if it was indeed a twisted armor, it should have started harvesting when they came up - at such close range, no one but Marin would have died.
Even Marin relied on the shoots to survive.
"This is Europa Seventeenth Army, 3rd Self-Propelled Assault Regiment, Seventeenth, please identify yourself." The Warp Armor replied.
"What is it talking about?!" The gold ingot shouted.
"No one in the room could understand what he was saying!" Six Fingers nudged the dwarf: "Except for the commander!" β
Because he saw Marin take another step forward: "Europa...... Where did you come from, where did you come from? β
The armor uses English, although Marin has level 4, but he has not used it for many years, plus he uses Sidney and lingua franca on weekdays, so he speaks it a little reluctantly.
But the warped armor immediately understood: "Native speakers detected, scanned to confirm 91.928% similarity, citizen, I was assembled in the First Arsenal of Danpu, I was ordered to protect this layer, and the operation is a military secret." β
Dampu? Having never heard of the place name, Marin decided to ask a constructive question: "How long has it been since you received the order?" β
Marin has not been able to find anyone to ask this question, because the historical record of the church is not necessarily true, and if you look at the number of great destructions, the civilization of this world has already been destroyed, in this case, the historical records cannot all be true.
Today, I think there should be an answer - after all, there is an electronic clock in front of you, and it should seem to be the one that still works.
"Eight thousand six hundred and ninety-one nineteen days, eleven hours, twenty-seven minutes and fifteen seconds, citizens." The armor gave an answer.
Eight millennium is still more than halfway through...... There is a gap with the history books, but it is still within the range of Marin's acceptance.
After all, the church says that in about 10,000 years, during the revival of civilization between several great destructions, there will definitely be errors in the definition of time, in other words, someone can record the approximate time, and it is already intentional.
"Citizen, do you have official business when you come to this level?"
ββ¦β¦ We're here to explore. Marin looked at the armor in front of him, he didn't expect this guy to have enough logical ability: "Time has passed so long, can you understand the meaning of this." β
"No, Seventeen will only accept and complete the mission, citizen, if you do not have official duties or documents to prove your identity, please leave immediately, or I will see you and your companions as enemies."
As Seventeen finished speaking, Marlin saw the blue blade pop out of his wrist.
Marin reached out and pressed the gold ingot: "I'll take my companion away now." After saying that, Marin turned to look at his teammates: "Let's go." β
Returning to the second floor with the puzzled crowd, Marin finished the conversation between him and the armor just now, and the gold ingot scratched his head: "There is even a armor that is not an enemy, we have never seen it in the eastern black area." β
"I've seen one, but like this one, it seems to be guarding something, and as long as you don't get close, you won't show hostility, but why are you able to talk to him, Mr. Marin, I heard that your words are somewhat close to the grammar of the lingua franca, but I can't guess the correct meaning at all."
"You can think that I have obtained this knowledge from my transcendent ladder, the knowledge of the old times is not a free thing, it is very dangerous, it guards the entire three floors, if we don't go, we will be used as an enemy by it, you have also seen, the dark blue blade, disembodied, not psionic energy, is definitely the most terrifying blade." As she said this, Marin suddenly heard the sound of the door opening.
"How did the door open!" Marin turned around and saw the door opening, as well as the living corpses behind it.
"You guys shoot on it!" Marin commanded, then jumped down from the side of the guardrail on the second floor, ran to the middle of the line preparing for defense on the first floor, and patted their commander: "You let your men go to Dante!" We have to go upstairs! β
"Big Foot! You take your brother to Lord Dante! The halfling turned his head and yelled at the gnome.
The living corpses outside have already seen the situation inside, and there is no need to sneak around anymore.
The door stopped when it opened to the angle they had enteredβabout the width of four or five people.
This made Marin somewhat relieved - this door should be stuck, if the door can be fully opened, Marin's only way out is to take the people he can to the third floor, with the help of the seventeenth for defense, as for Lord Dante...... One can only hope that luck is on their side.
At this time, Fio had already rushed forward with a roar of blood, and all living beings were equal in front of the axe, and in front of the bullet, flesh and blood were just a manifestation of the target.
The first living corpses to rush in quickly died, their bodies falling to the ground, quickly becoming an obstacle for their companions who rushed in later, and the living corpses quickly jumped over the pile by climbing over the gate.
"Wear a mask!" Marin shouted, unzipping the pouch and pulling out a refueled incendiary bomb from it.
Pull open the safety and throw it out, there are living corpses trying to grab it, but in front of Marin's throw, he stretched out his intercepting hand and failed to catch the projectile, and the trajectory of the projectile that came out of his hand was obviously high, and finally exploded in mid-air outside the gate.
A rain of fire poured down, setting fire to a large number of climbing and leaping living corpses, which slashed through the air and fell into the hall.
"What's going on!?" Dante ran up from the basement, his voice filled with anxiety as the sound of gunfire rang out.
"They opened the door and came in! The living corpses in this black area have enough social and organizational character! We had to go to the third floor! Marin told Dante about the third floor: "Now the first floor is full of living corpses, we must go to the third floor, if we can find a secret passage we can survive, if not, we will go straight from the third floor through the nail cable, and then break out." β
"That's the only way to do it, you lead the team up, and we'll leave someone to cover."
"No, you go up, I'll cover up." After Marlin finished speaking, Manna poked out of the cuffs, and it let out a high-pitched scream, and the next second, the dead corpses on the ground crawled up and scuffled with their living companions.
"I never knew that the twigs of the World Tree had such abilities."
"There is no right or wrong with power, it is the people who use it who are right or wrong."
After the conversation, Dante led the people up the steps.
Marin turned his head and heard the flapping of wings at the end of the corridor where the mosquito had been killed.
The first floor is really a mosquito nest.
With such an exclamation, Marin stretched out his hand, and the vines in his sleeve that Lorraine and Merlot were connected wrapped around the pillar of the second-floor platform, and while pulling up to the second floor, Marin beckoned Fio to run away.
Fio, who was happily chopping, slashed over the living corpse in front of him, and then fell to the ground, and just like that, he got up and threw himself to the second floor.
The gold ingot shrank his head, let go of the axe handle that rushed to his face, and then looked at Marin, who had gone up to the second floor, with some trepidation: "Did you just want to kill me with this axe?!" β
"I think it just didn't see you." After Marin finished speaking, he reached out to catch Fio, and turned his head to look at the living corpses that were pouring into the hall: "Let's go up, hopefully...... There can be hope! β