Chapter 175: Desperate Situation
Approaching the scope of the laboratory, Song Qing became more and more cautious in urinating.
She was extremely careful with every step she took, this was the birthplace of the evil that caused the genetic mutation of the creatures on this island, even if it had been abandoned for more than ten years, it still revealed an eerie atmosphere.
About thirty or forty meters away from the laboratory, several abnormally large trees rose from the ground, their twisted rhizomes intertwined, forming a natural shield, as if to block people going to the laboratory.
After Song Qingxiao walked through the gap between the rhizomes of the tree, he keenly noticed that the ground under his feet was different from before.
The ground in the forest was covered with thick leaves, which formed a soft touch after rotting, and when you stepped on it, the dead leaves did not reach the instep, as if you could not reach the bottom, and you were going to suck people in.
The ground behind the trees is much harder than before.
Song Qingxiao bent down and slashed down the dead leaves on the ground with a dagger.
The leaves on the ground were peeled away to reveal the stone slabs laid inside.
The flat slabs were covered with dirt, and she kicked them away, faintly recognising the patterns of the slates.
These patterns are exquisite, and when the Zhou family first established a secret research laboratory on this island, they were also ambitious and full of expectations.
I don't know that it has only been more than ten years, but the vicissitudes of life, things are not people, and these exquisite things are buried in the dust.
Song Qingxiao kicked the soil several times, revealing a few stacked stone bricks, and the dirt and leaves were kicked away by her, spilling everywhere.
Except for the rotting leaves, there were no traces of half-filamentous ants.
Seven looked at her movements and pouted with some puzzlement:
"Look over there."
Her voice attracted Song Qingxiao's attention, and in the direction of the seventh finger, ten meters away, there were traces of broken walls and ruined buildings.
It was a tall arched gatehouse with a plaque, made of unknown black stone, about twenty meters high, with a large gate in the middle and an arched door on each side.
The plaque is inscribed, and the buildings on both sides are covered with unknown vines, which look unusually desolate under the gray sky.
In the sound of 'click', a lightning bolt ran in the sky, splitting into several strands, illuminating the world, and the plaque was engraved: Changsheng Technology, a few big characters.
"Changsheng Technology?"
Seven muttered to himself and tugged at the corners of his mouth again:
"It seems that the people of the Zhou family really don't want to die."
As soon as her voice fell, the lightning in the sky passed, and then a thunderclap exploded, shaking people's ears as if they had lost their hearing for a moment, and only after a while did they hear the sound of 'buzzing' tinnitus.
The ground seemed to sense the danger of this thunderstorm, and it trembled slightly, as if there were countless animals running for their lives on the soles of their feet.
No. 7 arched his back, and the hair on his head almost stood up, and then he turned his head to look at Song Qingxiao:
"Shall we go in?"
Song Qingxiao frowned, showing a rare hesitant look.
The woods are strange, and the closer you get to the lab, the more eerie the feeling becomes.
There were no living creatures in the woods, and even if she had turned over the dirt, there was no trace of snakes, insects, rats and ants.
In this case, there are two possibilities.
Either the laboratory was so polluted that it exceeded the expectations of Mr. Zhou and others, and it was out of control, and there could be no living creatures in the vicinity, realizing this, Zhou's people evacuated one after another, and the infected creatures died one after another.
The second possibility is much more terrifying.
Song Qingxiao remembered what Professor Yan had said not long after he came to the island: natural selection, among a bunch of defective products, one stands out, and after being screened by the environment and all aspects, he becomes the final winner and evolves to a higher level.
This passage seemed to be a magic sound in his mind, and it kept turning in Song Qing's mind.
Compared with the first speculation, Song Qingxiao is more worried about the second possibility.
Creatures have the instinct to seek good fortune and avoid evil, if there is a mutated creature that has 'evolved' to an unpredictable stage, so strong that other things instinctively fear, it will become the top 'emperor' level of the food chain, so that other mutated creatures will become extinct one after another.
She hoped that this was not the case, otherwise she was afraid that this mission would be in big trouble.
But the more she worried, the more she felt that the air around her was cloudy, making her feel cold and chilly.
Overhead, after a small lightning bolt lit up the sky, the naked eye could see the floating mist, just as Seventh had joked before, this place seemed to be the residence of the big demon in the horror comics.
She licked her lips, and at some point, her heart began to beat slowly faster, the sound became louder and louder, and the movements became more and more intense, hitting her chest, making her viscera ache with every breath.
'Knock knock ......'
Song Qingxiao pressed her chest hard, trying to calm herself, which was probably the sequelae after jumping off the cliff and breaking her ribs, but it also happened that the pain caused by the heartbeat and the wound allowed her to maintain a certain calm.
She resisted the urge to turn around and go back, and now she had no other choice.
The trial task has not yet been completed, and the trial of God has doomed the seven trialists who came in, and in the end only one person can live.
At present, there are three mutant creatures that need to be killed, and there are two trialists who need to be sacrificed, if there are mutant creatures here, she will have to pass this level anyway before she can return to her own world!
Song Qingxiao suppressed the fear in her heart, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and stretched out her tongue to lick her lips that were dry due to nervousness.
Seven had slowed down, and she was clearly feeling the invisible oppression in the air, wanting to speak and break the silence:
"Did you say Number Three came?"
"I don't know." Song Qingxiao didn't have the heart to chat with her at all, she raised her attention to the extreme, and the two walked over from under the flat card, Song Qingxiao's cautious personality subconsciously looked to the sides when she passed under the wide arched gatehouse.
In the right corner of the main entrance, the climbing vines seemed to have been stripped away, and a large vacancy appeared, revealing the black crystals below.
If it is daytime, the sun may be more eye-catching, but in the dim light at this time, the black stone pillars and the dark green climbing vines are really indistinguishable if you don't look closely.
If she hadn't been cautious, I'm afraid it would have been really hard to show.
That vacant land was about twenty or thirty centimeters above her head, and Song Qingxiao's height was 1.69 meters, which meant that the vacant spot on the crystal pillar was about two meters high.
She took this to heart, and the two of them looked through the arched door and saw inside.
Behind the arched door is a large concave circular pool, in the middle of which stands a stone sculpture nearly five meters high.