Chapter 15: Nightmares
I don't know how long I slept, and there was a white line in the dark vision in my trance. The line grew bigger and bigger, and eventually I opened my eyes, and a cacophony of sounds entered my ears.
I looked around, there were two glowing electric lights overhead, and I was in a classroom-sized room. It was surrounded by concrete walls and two iron doors with no doorknobs, and an incredible eleven people were locked up with me. There were five men and seven women, all young men under thirty, and six of them had woken up and were screaming in panic.
"Where is this, why am I here?" A man shouted.
"Ah, damn it, why is there no signal on the phone." A girl was slapping vigorously as if she was repairing her phone.
"Help, help." The three of them cried wolf howling.
"Hey, hey, hey." A dead fat man smirked as he looked at the sleeping girls around him.
I didn't know any of the eleven people, and only one of them I had fought with before. She sat across from me, and had just woken up, her red hair burning like flames. He looked around suspiciously, then at me with a hostile expression.
"Do you know what's going on?" I asked, walking towards her, oblivious to the shouting of the people around me.
"I was about to ask you." The red-haired girl stood up as she spoke, and looked at me in the eye.
I gritted my teeth, avoided the girl's gaze, and looked at the people around me. Some people were crying and screaming, and everyone was basically awake. But their expressions were similar except for the dead fat man, and most of them panicked and shouted. Obviously, they do not have the qualities of a heavenly punisher. Of course, I can't confirm whether they are ordinary people or not. Because my two eyes could not be used, someone injected some kind of psychoparalyzing medicine into my body, so that I could not use my strength.
"Haha, it looks like everyone is awake. Welcome to the game room called Pandora's Box, where I'm sure you're sure to have a thrilling night. A familiar voice rang out in the room, and the red girl in front of her had an alert expression.
At this point, a large holographic projection appeared in the center of the room, which seemed to be a video call. And the realistic image in the video is a little girl in a closet-sized, airtight enclosed place.
"Shuangyue, is that you? Are you okay. "The person on the other side also seems to be able to see the image we have here.
"I'm fine, but you've made me worry for a while, Furong." I said angrily, "You're such a disobedient child." At the same time, the red-haired girl next to me had an incredulous expression.
"Sorry, Bimoon. I promise not next time. She smiled.
"There's no next chance, and now I'm not going to be able to protect myself. Trapped in an unknown place. So, you give me a good life, and I can save me in a while. I said as I looked at her closely, there was a water pipe overhead.
"Don't worry, as long as there is a place where Furong can help, I will do my best."
"The premise is that you have to live on your own." I emphasized.
"Alright, two. Don't show affection, be careful that the single dog here will bite you. The familiar voice grinned. Well, without further ado. Let me briefly talk about the rules of the game. There's a button on the hologram and every time you press that button you'll get a hint about getting out of here. Of course, every time you get a hint the little girl there will be some water poured into. You only have five chances to get the hint, because after five hints, the water in the chest will drown the sweet little girl. Of course you'd better get out of here early, because in twenty-four hours this little girl is still alive. She'll get out of here, and you'll starve to death here. So, show your bestiality and wisdom here. The voice laughed, and then the voice faded away.
This person can't be "Chainsaw Horror" too much, I thought to myself looking at Furong.
"I didn't expect that man to have such magical powers, I thought I had a dream just now." The red-haired girl said thoughtfully.
"Why, you fought him." I turned to the red-haired girl next to me.
"I thought my full blow could burn the man to ashes, or at least kill the girl he was protecting behind him. I didn't expect that since I took my lore head-on, and knocked me unconscious in the next second. The red-haired girl stomped her feet as she spoke, looking unwilling.
"You're not talking about a white-haired, obscene-looking, hunched teenager."
"So, you've met it too. What did this guy do with us here, and play this boring game. Although it looks like a hooligan, it doesn't feel like a murderous pervert. β
The situation is confusing me a little now, and it has something to do with the organization's experiments. But there's no reason to lock us up with these ordinary people, and maybe we'll die here. As I was thinking, a man walked by.
"Hey, what are you going to do?" I questioned loudly as I reached out a hand and grabbed the shoulder of the man in front of me. At this time, the people sitting around all looked at this place.
The man was wearing a yellow shirt, somewhat hunchbacked, and smelled of rags. The man spoke English and he had yellow skin. "Didn't that guy say that pressing this button will give you a hint to get out of here?"
"You also believe in perverted words, it's best not to move until things are thought through."
"Have you thought it through?"
"I'm still thinking, I need a little time to think about it."
"Then what are you thinking about when we are all dead, didn't the man say that it would take five times to drown this little girl? Try it once..."The guy in the yellow shirt suddenly stopped, and when he said this, everyone looked at him a little strangely.
The young man looked around, and then looked impatient. "So what do you think, sit here and wait for death, or try a way to escape." The young man shouted, "Raise your hand if you agree to press the button." β
The people around looked at each other's faces, and they didn't know what to do.
"I agree, just try to see if what the man said is true. If that man wanted to give us a way to live, he wouldn't have deceived us by saying this. After a moment of silence, a domineering president-looking man raised his hand and said. Immediately after that, several people raised their hands, and they did not speak, but just looked at the two people who spoke.
"Wait a minute." I was about to stop the lad from pressing the button when the redhead grabbed me by the shoulder, who shook her head at me and made me look meaningfully at the faces of the people around me. It was a very wrinkled, animal face, fear and wildness coexisting. Although there is still reason, but over time, presumably the beast will eventually eat reason. Especially the fat man sitting in the corner, squinting and smirking, not knowing what he was fantasizing. It seems that I can't stop this first step anyway.
I was silent and didn't say anything. And the young man looked at the holographic display screen and showed an awkward smile: "Little girl, you have been here for so long, you must be thirsty, brother will find you some water to drink." With that, he pressed the button.
There was a stream of water from the water pipe above Fu Rong's head, and although the current was not large, the space where Fu Rong was located was not large, and soon the water collected under Fu Rong's feet and flooded her calves.
"It's okay, Furong." I asked eagerly.
"It's okay, the water is cool." Fu Rong said with a smile.
At this moment, an iron door opened, and a passage appeared in front of everyone's eyes. The young man looked at it, and there was nothing out of the ordinary. He looked at the people behind him, and the people behind him turned their heads to look elsewhere. The domineering president who raised his hand first fell over and greeted Fu Rong with a cold greeting.
A door appeared, but everyone sat still. The reason is simple, since five hints will be given. It's not so much that the new passage is full of hope, but that it's full of murderous intent rather than that the first hint is so much that it is full of hope.
"Really, if you don't unite, you can't go out. We've got one of us going to give it a try, didn't we just give it 24 hours? The devil knows when that person's 24 hours were counted. Half an hour later, the young man couldn't hold back and shouted. But no one paid attention to the shout, they just kept turning their heads to look at others. The domineering president is still chatting with Fu Rong, and the topics of conversation are getting closer and closer, and they are almost to the point of talking about marriage.
Everyone sat on the ground in a bored daze, obviously everyone raised their hands just now and agreed to press the button, but when the passage appeared, everyone was scared and didn't dare to be the first to go out. But it's not a way to go on like this, I wanted to wait for the poison in my body to dissipate on its own. But more than an hour later, I still can't use my body strength at all. It seems that the antidote must be found.
"Red-haired girl, what's your name?" I turned to look at the red-haired girl sitting next to me.
"Ah Ye, what's the matter with you."
"My name is Jin Shuangyue, if I leave here. You won't just press the button four times to kill Fuei, will you? β
"What do you say, kill Fu Rong." The domineering president looked at me and Ah Ye nervously.
Ah Ye didn't pay attention to her, just bored playing with a yarn. "No, because there are too many uncertainties, I won't do extreme actions until I get reliable information."
"That's good." I clapped my palms and paused in my throat, "Don't sit still, if you want to live, come with me." With that, I walked towards the new passageway. Although the nerve paralysis medicine made me unable to use my strength, fortunately, my body was still invulnerable, and even if I encountered any unexpected situation, there should still be room for maneuver.
After I played in the front, a few people from behind followed one after another. The domineering president seemed to say something like "I will definitely save Fu Rong", and then followed me in Fu Rong's expectant gaze. He was smart and didn't go to the front and didn't go to the back.
The walls of the passage are all made of cement, which is airtight and impermeable, and it feels like it is underground. It didn't take about 20 meters to make a turn, and there were faintly glowing electric lights every five meters, and the passage was very narrow, and at most two people could pass through at the same time. I looked at the four walls, and the cement was unevenly coated, and it was new, as if it had been built in a hurry.
After about five turns, a man lying on the ground appeared. He kept his head down, his mouth pounding something, and his consciousness told me not to go near him.
"House Yao, is that you?" A girl behind me said as she walked past me to a man. The man looked up, rolled his eyes, and grabbed the girl's thigh.
"Ahh The girl screamed, and then the man threw himself on top of her, pinning her down and starting to bite her neck.
"Help, help." The girl struggled weakly, and everyone ran back in fright. I also hurriedly retreated, after all, I couldn't even pull my own hair now, and I still had the ability to kill that zombie.
Soon everyone ran back to the original secret room, but the girl's screams were still coming here intermittently.
"What to do." Everyone cowered nervously in a corner, and two people tried to close the iron door, but the iron door was stunned and was not pulled out by two people.
"It's all your fault, you have nothing to do to press the button." A girl blamed the lad in the yellow shirt.
"Didn't you agree with that then? Now it's up to me. The young man retorted loudly.
"Who said I agreed, I didn't."
"Hey, everyone but that woman raised their hands at that time."
"Nonsense, I didn't." The scene suddenly became chaotic.
"What's wrong, Shuangyue." Fu Rong asked me.
"Nothing." I smiled and waved my hand, the current situation is super bad, those two zombies will rush over in a while, and I will find a way to deal with it when the time comes. Although the other party is a zombie, his strength is not much stronger than that of ordinary people. However, he didn't do anything when he was most sure of solving the zombie just now, and it was even more impossible for two to rush over after a while.
"Damn, by the way, doesn't that button have a hint function? We canβ" said the lad, rushing over to the hologram and pressing the button.
"Only two of you can save this little girl." An electronic voice spoke.
"Damn, what the hell is the Heavenly Punisher, and I want a hint to get out." The young man yelled and slammed the button again.
"The crowd looked for her thousands of times, but when they looked back at the twilight, the person was in the dim light." I read a song with the same electronic sound as just now.
"Looking for something useful if you can't give it if you're dead." The boy kicked the button foul.
"Do you want to kill Fu Rong?" I yelled and threw him to the ground. But as soon as the man rolled over, he pinned me to the ground.
Damn, I couldn't use my strength at all, and I struggled with all my might. When he pressed the second button, I wanted to stop him. However, because of neuroparalysis, I can exert my strength like an ordinary woman. Otherwise, I would have killed him in the blink of an eye.
"Guys, help me." I yelled and turned my head to look at the others, one of whom quickly pressed the button on the display. In an instant, another door of the house opened, and there was a needle tube inside.
The button was pressed four times, and the water flooded Fu Rong's neck.
"Bastard, don't bully Two Moons." Fu Rong shouted, angrily throwing his fist at the person on top of me. However, it was just a three-dimensional video conversation, and the fists didn't hurt at all.
"What's in that syringe?" The domineering president said and walked up to take the needle, which had a hole carved on it and was marked in English as highly toxic.
"What does this mean, we want to poison zombies with poison." The domineering president looked at him with a look of horror.
"It should mean the same thing, but I have a better idea. Since zombies bite everything, we only need to inject the poison into a person's body, and then throw him directly to the zombie, and the zombie will ingest the virus into its own body in the process of biting. Ah Ye sat in the corner and said calmly.
When everyone heard this, cold sweat broke out all over their bodies, and the people who had just been huddled together dispersed again. The domineering president was even more stunned, standing like a statue.
"Originally, everyone was going to die, but now it's not worth it? And, I think that passage should lead to the exit. After the zombies are poisoned, we should be able to leave here directly through that passage. Ah Ye continued, taking the needle in the hands of the domineering president into his own hands.
"My mother is eighty-six years old this year, and I have a four-year-old daughter at home, and I am going to die, so there will be no one to take care of them." A young man spoke first and tried to squeeze out a tear.
"I'm the chairman of Asya's Donghua Iron Works, and if I die, my 1,000 workers will lose their jobs. There is no way to support their parents and children. The domineering president said righteously.
"I operated on the mayor of Asya, and if it weren't for me, the mayor would have died a long time ago. If the mayor is gone, will Asya be able to move forward? Another young man said.
These people are saying more and more outrageous, and one by one has taken out Oscar-like acting skills and words, as if they are all Jesus sent by God. Soon they quarreled endlessly, and they turned into Shura and started to use their fists and feet. I watched helplessly as these people argued, and I don't know why, in the midst of all the noise, a pure voice came clearly into my ears in my ears. "Biyue, there's another button, press it quickly."
I shook my head, "No way. β
"But if this continues, everyone may die."
"Let's die, maybe the world will be a better place without us." I said and turned my face to the people who were arguing, I've seen this scene countless times, and I'm really tired of seeing it.
"Otherwise, we're getting a hint." The domineering president suddenly shouted, and the restless noise just now suddenly became silent.
"What a joke, if you press it once, she'll be drowned." I immediately stood up and retorted.
"Then what do you say, or everyone will die together. Or kill her. β
"You don't want to change the concept, okay, obviously I only need to sacrifice one, right?"
"Who knows, this poison will not work. And in case the zombies don't eat the poisonous corpses, we're all done. β
"Is it useful to press the button again? You press it four times, and the situation doesn't change a lot. β
"How do you know that this last time is useless, and didn't it open a way for us just now?"
"Don't make any noise." Before I could refute, Fu Rong spoke first. "Shuangyue, Tianxiang is right. Instead of arguing here and ending up dying together, it's better to take a gamble at the end. If only one of me dies can save everyone, is there anything else to consider? β
"Rich and honorable." The domineering president looked at him with a surprised expression, and at this time everyone was not talking, just staring blankly at the girl whose most of her body had been soaked in water. The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and the sound of everyone's breathing could be heard.
"Time is running out, why don't you do it yet." Fu Rong shouted, and the people present lowered their heads even more, and the surroundings became quieter.
And just like that, there was silence for a minute. There was a sound of footsteps coming from the other side of the passage, and if you listened closely, it was the footsteps of two people, and there was a low roar similar to that of a dog.
"They're coming, and if we don't think about it, we're all done." A man in the crowd shouted.
"I'm sorry then." The man in yellow returned to reality and ran towards the button.
"You dare!" I yelled and rushed over, but he punched me and I dodged and was knocked to the ground. The feeling of helplessness once again flooded my whole body, making it feel like sand had entered my eyes.
"A girl named Tomei Mizumiya is under your feet, and the poison in your hands is effective." The familiar electric acoustic, then vanished.
"What the hell is this?" The man shouted and smashed his fist into the holographic projection, and Fu Rong was also very sad, as if she had harmed everyone. Her expression probably wouldn't last long, though, as the hose began to pour water down her head, and soon Fu Rong would be submerged in the confined space the size of a wardrobe.
"It's all you, you have nothing to do to press the switch, you are a murderer, everyone or we feed this kind of wolf-hearted dog lungs to the zombies, and we will treat it as a harm to the people." The domineering president said and controlled the young man in the yellow coat from behind.
"What are you talking about, isn't it everyone who voted together?" The young man panicked.
"He's wrong, it's this man. I'm idle and have nothing to do with what button I pressed, he pressed it all five times, it's too bad for this person. A girl in the crowd raised her fist and shouted.
"That's right, just feed him to the zombies." Everyone shouted that a few people controlled the young man in yellow together with the domineering president. Then a man took the needle and shot it at the young man.
"What are you kidding, you bastards." The young man struggled to twist his body, struggling to break free from the restraints.
"Don't move." The needle man spoke, but his hand was shaking.
"Give it to me." I walked into the crowd and walked towards the passage with a syringe. At this time, the zombies had already appeared around the corner of the passage, just like an old man coming here step by step.
"What are you doing, little girl, put a needle on this person, and we will be saved." One yelled behind me.
"You guys are ridiculous." As I spoke, I threw the syringe to the ground and stomped on it.
"What are you doing, madwoman." The domineering president said as he walked away and kicked me in the back. I ran forward five or six meters and then fell to the ground, but the zombie in front of me was less than five meters away from me, and the person didn't dare to get close to me again, so he only scolded me with everyone, "Dog mongrel." β
I didn't pay attention to them, I should have thought about it a long time ago. The zombie virus itself is a neurostimulant, which can cause a person's heart and other internal organs to produce a great appetite. It's like a person who is addicted to drugs and simply can't control his feelings, so he keeps attacking others. And the paralyzing toxin in my body is a depressant that makes me unable to my own strength. These two potions stack together, and maybe they can cancel each other out. Of course, this is only theoretical, and it is possible that I will be infected as a zombie. However, I don't think the chance of infection should be very high, because a certain virus probably only targets one group. For example, a virus that infects a plant does not infect an animal, and a virus that infects an animal does not infect a plant. The plague does not kill rats, but it kills humans. Since the zombie virus infects humans, what does it have to do with my heavenly punishers. So I looked at the zombies that were pressing on me and rushed forward.