Chapter 241: The Morgue
For three days, five people were scattered in various places, waiting for the opportunity to enter the city. But the city doesn't seem to need contact with the outside world, and they never get the opportunity they were looking for.
That afternoon, the five of them got together to discuss their findings.
In the past three days, although they did not get the opportunity to enter the city, they figured out the situation in the vicinity.
There was a hidden col in the northwest corner of the woods where they were, and when Xu Haitao was stationed there in the morning, he smelled a pungent smell, and he curiously searched for the source of the smell and walked into the col.
There were countless corpses piled up in the col, including human beings and all kinds of strange creatures, which had accumulated for many years, and the corpses at the top had just begun to decay, exuding a foul smell, and at the bottom, there were countless swarthy dry bones.
This scene like purgatory on earth made Xu Haitao feel terrified, and he hurriedly ran back to tell everyone about it. According to his account, it was believed that it was a place to dispose of corpses. However, they were surprised that Number 4 would treat the subject's corpse in this way.
Thinking that Li Yichen and the others were still in the hands of No. 4, Zhang Xiaohu couldn't help but feel a little nervous. No one can be sure what happened to those people now, except for Ma Xiao and Li Yichen, who are perfect test subjects and have no worries about their lives, the others are just some ordinary test subjects for No. 4.
"We need to hurry!" Zhang Xiaohu felt that he couldn't stay here passively anymore, for them, time was everything. They are not sure what the current situation is on the frontal battlefield, and if it has already entered a stalemate, it will be even more detrimental to their mission. Now they had to find a way to get in as soon as possible.
Zhang Xiaohu continued: "The morgue discovered by Lao Xu this time gave us a chance! ”
"You mean...?" King Peter hesitated and asked.
"That's what it means!" Zhang Xiaohu nodded. He then elaborated on his plans.
Since the col was a morgue, the city must have transported corpses here on a regular basis, and the period of transportation could be deduced from the degree of decay of the corpses, and they could find an opportunity to enter the city as long as they hid there during that time.
Xu Haitao looked at Zhang Xiaohu and sighed: "Zhang Xiaohu, are you sure you want to go there?" I feel sick just by remembering it now, and my scalp is tingling for a while! ”
"What can't we endure in order to be able to sneak into the city!" Zhang Xiaohu said with emotion.
The five of them packed up their gear, walked through the woods, and walked to the northwest corner, from which they could clearly see that outside, there was a rolling hill, the highest point was also thirty or forty meters high. It's remote enough that it's no wonder that Number 4 would use it as a morgue.
The disgusting stench was clearly audible a few hundred meters from the col. It's just that there are no flies and insects flying here, and the silence around is terrible.
Outside the col, there is a flat dirt road that leads into the col. Several people searched carefully on the ground, and sure enough, they found intermittent shallow wheel marks, which proved that there were indeed vehicles in the city to transport corpses here.
The col was ahead, and the closer they were, the stronger the smell became, and the unbearable stench rushed straight into their noses and made them cry. They hurriedly put on oxygen masks to be able to breathe normally, and only then did several people follow the smooth road and walk into the col.
The scene in the col is as Xu Haitao described, within a radius of two or three kilometers in the col, there are countless corpses piled up on top of each other, and the height is full of twenty or thirty meters, which is already level with the surrounding peaks.
On the surrounding mountain walls, a number of tall mechanical scaffolds were built to stack the newly transported corpses in suitable places.
Zhang Xiaohu roughly estimated that there were at least hundreds of thousands of corpses in this col alone, but he had a more daring speculation that this was only one of the morgues in that huge city, and there must be many similar places.
But the most puzzling thing is, with a civilization as advanced as an engineer, why don't you want a better way to dispose of corpses, but discard them here so simply and hastily, isn't it afraid of some infectious diseases?
The ground in the col has become soft due to the erosion of corpse oil for a long time, and a thick layer of white fungus grows on the surface.
Looking at the terrifying scene in front of him, Zhang Xiaohu felt that the legendary eighteen layers of hell were just this kind of scene!
The five of them, enduring their nausea, walked to the tall mountain of corpses, found a slightly slower position, put their feet on the rotting corpses, and walked towards the top of the corpse mountain, because in their plan, the time of transportation had to be extrapolated according to the degree of decay of the corpses.
Some of the corpses were so highly eroded that they could not withstand the external force at all, and once they touched, they flowed down like mud, and purple-black bruises flowed out of the fractures.
Zhang Xiaohu couldn't bear it anymore, his stomach turned over and over, he slid down the corpse mountain, found a vacant lot, took off his mask, and vomited violently. He felt that his idea was really terrible, he didn't know if anyone else could do it, anyway, he had decided to give up, it was simply something that could not be done, and a terrifying fragment came to his mind, that is, a corpse that had just swelled up, under his own stepping, exploded like a balloon. The sewage is still on his boots.
King Peter waved his hand and motioned for everyone to leave the col first.
None of them wanted to stay here, so they all ran out of the col and then into the woods, where they sat down on the ground.
Song Haoze also vomited, he felt that this was the psychological shadow of his life. He glanced at Zhang Xiaohu with disdain, and was going to speak a few sarcastic words, but looking at Zhang Xiaohu's pale face, he hesitated for a moment, and swallowed back the words that had reached his throat.
"Lao Xu, I really admire you, where can you insist on walking in without wearing an oxygen mask?" Zhang Xiaohu said in a hoarse voice. He vomited repeatedly, and his throat was already wounded.
"Don't talk about me yet, our method of checking the time of the corpse has failed, what other good ideas do you have?" Xu Haitao took off his shoes and rubbed them on the ground, trying to remove some of the filth from the soles of his feet.
"Lao Xu, you also asked Zhang Xiaohu to come up with an idea, I can see that his ideas are bad nine times out of ten!" Song Haoze heard that Xu Haitao asked Zhang Xiaohu to come up with an idea again, half-jokingly, half-seriously.
Zhang Xiaohu smiled bitterly: "I sincerely apologize to everyone, that idea just now was really terrible, and I regret it myself!" ”
"That's a good idea, it's just that those corpses are disgusting!" Peng Jiadong can be regarded as a person who has seen the fight in the rivers and lakes, and he thinks that he has seen a tragic scene, but he couldn't stand it just now, so he just held on in front of these young people and didn't spit it out.
"But if we don't deduce the correct time of delivery, and how to arrange it in advance, it will definitely be unrealistic for us to stay in this wood, even if the vehicle comes, we have no chance!" King Peter questioned.
Several people fell silent again, what King Peter said was the dilemma they were facing, staying in the woods, they could only passively wait for the cars to come out of the city, not to mention whether there were any vehicles that happened to pass here, even they could not afford to delay in time! The other most feasible way is to calculate when the vehicle carrying the body will come, and then find a hidden place in the col in advance to ambush, and when the vehicle returns to the city, they take the opportunity to look for an opportunity to go back together.
Eventually, they decided to give it a try. Only this time, Zhang Xiaohu stayed at the foot of the corpse mountain, and King Peter climbed up alone.
Of course, this idea was not arranged by Zhang Xiaohu, but requested by King Peter himself, and he was also disgusted by the corpses, but his reaction was not as strong as that of others. It took him dozens of minutes to climb up, and he spent more than two hours on it to find several corpses with different degrees of decay for comparison. Then a professional conclusion was drawn.
"I deduce that these corpse trucks will come here again in two days?"
"Is it reliable?" Song Haoze asked.
"How do I know, I just deduced this time based on the decomposition of the corpse, don't ask me anything else, this kid is our head, if you have a problem, look for him!" King Peter pointed at Zhang Xiaohu.
Zhang Xiaohu understood King Peter's intentions, just now Song Haoze seemed to be joking, but he had already begun to question his leadership, King Peter was supporting himself with actions and words. No wonder he took the initiative to climb the corpse mountain just now, Zhang Xiaohu was very moved in his heart, after such a long time together, King Peter has really changed a lot, from the initial selfishness, to the current person who always thinks about the team.
After determining the time, they found a place around here and rested. After a day and a half, they had gathered their gear, put on everything they could use, and found a place to hide in the col. The mountain col in the dark night is even more terrifying, and the air is filled with dense phosphorus fire, which looks extremely strange. This night, several people gritted their teeth and persevered.
Sure enough, when the sky was just slightly bright on the second day, a super-large vehicle slowly drove into the mountain col, and a huge white box was controlled by the automatic scaffolding around it, dumping all the corpses inside on the corpse mountain, and then slowly falling back to the car, and Zhang Xiaohu, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly ran to the bottom of the car when they saw the opportunity, fixed their bodies through the hook, and hid.
As the vehicle swayed, the vehicle slowly moved up.
Zhang Xiaohu's hanging heart finally fell, but a new problem is about to appear, they are about to enter that city, what should they do next?