Chapter 44: The masters all appear with the wind
Link was looked at by Si Moxue's cold eyes, and suddenly his waist was no longer sore, his legs were not numb, and he got up from the ground with three times and five divided by two, and his movements couldn't be more neat.
When he was fully up, Link felt that his hands and feet were still sore, and he barely stood up after holding himself down the wall.
Si Moxue took out a relatively rudimentary dagger from her bag.
Link hugged his chest: "If you have something to say, don't be rough." β
"Take this knife and with me, cut through all the cocoons." Si Moxue frowned and looked at him with a sneer, and took the dagger, "Move faster, there should still be people alive." β
"Oh......"
Link turned around with the knife, and suddenly, under the light of the flashlight, he struck the dried corpse that fell to the ground when Si Moxue cut through the cocoon before.
The dried corpse seemed to have been hanging for a long time, and the flesh and blood on its body had dried up, leaving a layer of dry black skin on the skeleton. He still maintained the miserable state of his death, with a few tufts of messy hair attached to his scalp, his mouth wide open, and his eyes sunken - Link always felt that the dry corpse's eyes were looking at him from those deep-sinking eye sockets.
"What, is there a problem?" Link blocked the position in the back of the door, he didn't move, and it was difficult for Sim Moxue to bypass him and enter the depths of the room.
Lin Ke bared his teeth and turned around slowly, his eyes staring at the dried corpse on the ground, until he couldn't see the shadow of the dried corpse in the afterglow, he turned his head and squeezed out a sentence to Si Moxue in front of him:
ββ¦β¦ Ladies first? β
I'm afraid there's something wrong with this person, right?
Si Moxue sneered, walked around him and strode into the room, and began to cut the cocoons hanging in the room one by one with the flashlight light in his hand.
The calluses collided with each other as she moved, casting a vague white shadow in the light of the flashlight, as if hiding in the darkness of the corner, looking at the ghosts of the two in the doorway.
Si Moxue didn't squint, and her hands kept moving.
Link pinched the dagger and looked behind it for a while, and saw that what had fallen from the cocoon was either a dried corpse or a fresh corpse that had been out of breath for a long timeβit really wouldn't move again.
He gritted his teeth, walked forward quickly with a dagger, and followed behind Si Moxue.
The corpses that fell from the cocoons were both animal and human. Most of the animal corpses have turned into dried corpses, while the human corpses still have many fresh and plump flesh, as if they have just been hung up in the past few days.
Si Moxue held the knife and pierced it on the milky white, thick cocoon densely entangled with spider silk, the blade "poofed" and did not enter, and then slid down by pressing the knife, and the giant cocoon was cut through a large opening, and a girl's corpse slipped out, her eyes were still open, with great fear before death.
"I've seen this man." Link inadvertently saw the corpse and sighed, "She's one of the people who has disappeared recently, and it's said that her dad is offering a big bounty if he can find his daughter." β
The flashlight light was very flickering, and it wasn't very real, so Link leaned in and looked at it a few more times: "It's really ...... Tsk, it's a pity......"
Suddenly, a beam of white light came straight through, and Link's eyes flashed: "What are you doing?" β
Si Moxue withdrew the flashlight that shot directly into Link's eyes, squatted down and closed the girl's round eyes with her hands: "Didn't you notice?" All the human corpses here are people who disappeared a few days ago. β
The clothes worn by the girl are very new, the cut fits, although they are stained with dust, it can be seen that she used to be held in the hands of her parents and afraid of falling off, holding it in her mouth for fear of melting, and she loves her heart and liver baby in every way. Only now, lying on the ash concrete floor of the abandoned chemical plant, there is a faint, ghostly white shadow on the top.
"Don't do it, go and move these corpses to the corner, arrange them and cover them with cloth." Si Moxue withdrew her gaze that fell on the girl's corpse, turned her head and said to Link who was standing aside.
"Ah...... So, what are you doing...... "Link asked reluctantly, his mouth wide open.
"I continue to cut these cocoons."
Link licked his chapped lips, looked at the various corpses lying on the ground crookedly behind him, and the dozens of huge cocoons in front of him, pouted his teeth, and said, "Can you change it......
In the end, it was changed, Si Moxue moved the last corpse on the ground to the wall and placed it, and was about to cover the steps found from the corner of the wall, when she heard Link shouting at the other end of the room: "Si Moxue, Moxue, come quickly!" β
The voice was urgent, as if it was in danger.
She dropped the cloth in her hand in an instant, threw the knife in her hand from her side, raised her leg and rushed towards the place where the sound came.
"Where is the danger?" Si Moxue clasped the knife and protected Link behind her, looking around with alert eyes.
"Ah, danger? What dangers? Unlike Sim Moxue's vigilance, Link looked blindfolded.
Si Moxue looked around to make sure that the room was safe, and when she turned around and saw Link's ignorant expression, she suddenly burst into an evil fire - in her past 16 years of life, she had never seen such a babbling and cowardly man.
She took a deep breath and forced the fire down: "Then what is your name?" β
Link was inexplicably glared at by Si Moxue, the second monk was confused, and suddenly heard Si Moxue's question, and a spirit pointed to the corner that was ignored by Si Moxue: "Newton, Newton is there." β
Si Moxue looked along his fingers, and sure enough, he saw a muscular man lying on his back under an open cocoon.
It was Newton, but he was lying there motionless, looking like he was dead.
Si Moxue leaned over and touched his carotid artery, although it was weak, it was still beating.
"Alive?" Link followed suit, and after receiving an affirmative answer, he asked, "Then why didn't he wake up...... ......"
Before the words fell, he saw Si Moxue raise his slap and tie it to Newton's face, and a few red slap prints floated up.
Link: "......"
However, even though Newton's face was beaten like a pig's head by Sim Moxue, he still showed no signs of waking up.
Sim Xue: "......"
Fifteen minutes later, Link carried the unconscious Newton on his back and followed Smoxue out of the room full of dissected calluses.
Outside the room was a long, dark hallway, buried by collapsed rubble at one end and leading to a staircase at the other.
"This way."
Si Moxue dimmed the light of the flashlight, lowered the beam, and then led Link, stepping on the scattered stones on the ground with one foot deep and one foot shallow, groping his way towards the stairs in the darkness, trying not to make any sound.
"Let's go to the second floor and hide first." She said in a whispered voice.
Walking to the staircase, there was a map of the distribution of the factory hanging on the side wall, Si Moxue took a cursory glance and found that they were in the southernmost scientific research office building of the factory.
Silently noting the layout of the factory's buildings, Si Moxue held on to the dusty railing and walked cautiously to the second floor.
The layout of the second floor is similar to that of the first floor, with a corridor that extends forward, branching off at two ends in the middle, one buried by the building's collapsed rubble.
Si Moxue raised her legs to leave, but suddenly stopped her movements, and at the same time pulled Link beside her.
"Shh......h
Si Moxue extinguished the flashlight and stood motionless in the dark.
Link thought it was dangerous, but at this time, it was quiet, and it didn't look like something was going on at all. Although he was puzzled, he remained obedient and unmoved.
Then, in the fork in the corridor at the other end of the corridor, there was a sound of spiders rubbing their legs and feet together, and they went downstairs, which sounded like there were quite a few of them.
When the sound disappeared, Si Moxue stood for a while before turning on the flashlight again and pulling Link to hide in a half-hidden room near the staircase.
In the center of the room was a large desk, next to a ceiling-high bookshelf with empty shelves and waste paper scattered all over the floor.
Si Moxue noticed that there was a booklet on the desk, the color printed pictures had faded over time, and the edges of the paper had long been weathered because of the long-term dry and water-deficient environment, and the slag would fall off when touched.
"Where's Newton?" Link was asking.
"Put it on the table!" Si Moxue stuffed the booklet into her bag and pushed the rest of the clutter on the table to the ground.
After setting Newton in place, Sim Moxue and Link moved a bunch of things to block in front of the door.
"What's next?" Link asked, not realizing that he was the slightest embarrassed to have a 16-year-old girl as the leader.
There is a window in the room, and the outside light shines through the filthy windowpane, illuminating a small area in front of the window, giving a rare sense of security in a dangerous environment.
Si Moxue extinguished the flashlight and leaned on the leg of the table: "Let's take one step at a time." At least for now, it's safe. β
The three of them stayed in the room, not speaking, watching as the dust particles that had been kicked up as they came in fell back to the ground.
After about an hour, there was a sudden sound of rapid running in the corridor outside, from far to near, and then the door was kicked open, and a figure rushed in with the wind, and the dust that had just fallen was stirred up again.
Close the door, lock it, and do it all in one go. When he was done, the man pressed his shoulder against the door.
Immediately, the spider outside slammed into the door, and the sound of chelicerae picking the door was endless.