Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Sewers of Raventown!
The sewage that didn't reach the instep of the feet rippled in circles, the sewer entrance was a little narrow and short, and it was pitch black, so you couldn't see anything, and the ticking sound from inside kept coming out.
After settling down, he looked up at the moon above the well, which was not too round, and Luo Ning took out a bottle of potion from his arms and shook it in front of his eyes.
He opened the cork and swallowed a whole bottle of spiritual elixir, making a strange sound in his body, like a flower bud that was about to bloom at this moment.
After a while, he got used to the sensation of swallowing the potion, and his senses of sight, hearing, and smell were greatly improved, and the sound of every drop of water falling into the water inside the dark sewer could clearly determine the distance.
I took out a flashlight made of fine iron from my arms, the shape of the flashlight is not the long barrel type of the previous life, but a boxy box, with a handle behind it, and a light bulb is installed, weighing about 3KG.
He had decided to explore the sewers and figure out what Franklin was talking about, so he took a handful with him when he left Yenniford's nephew's shop.
When the light bulb is turned on by pressing the switch, the light shines into the sewer, and the surface of the flowing sewage ripples and the sound of running water.
He took out a pistol from his bosom and loaded it, bending down the narrow sewer.
The walls on both sides of the light were covered with moss, and the fishy and pungent smell was dizzy, especially if the ability to smell was greatly increased after taking psychotropic drugs.
The "crackling" sound of sewage under his feet accompanied each movement, and after about five minutes, the narrow, low sewer suddenly opened up.
When I stopped to observe, the sewers, which suddenly widened under the lights, looked a bit like a train tunnel from a previous life, and the feeling of dampness and coldness was even worse.
There are raised platforms on both sides of the sewer for pedestrians to walk on, apparently for the convenience of workers cleaning the sewers.
Walking to the high platform on the right, his steps were much lighter, and he continued to move forward, carefully distinguishing all the sounds coming from the sewers.
"Tick Tick"
It just matches the rhythm of the pace.
Although it is much larger than Crowtown, Crow Town is not as big as that, so the distribution of sewers is not too complicated, saving a lot of trouble.
The gutter in the middle can occasionally see the corpses of dead rats floating on the water, gently undulating with the upstream.
After walking about fifty meters, Luo Ning suddenly stopped and aimed his gun in front of him.
Now, in addition to the sound of the water droplets at the top of the sewer falling into the drain sewage, faint wheezing sounds were heard, and there was more than one wheezing sound.
There is more than one person in the sewer besides himself! These gasps are weak or strong, representing different distances and distances, indicating that they are not gathered together and are in a dispersed state.
"How can there be so many people in the sewers at night?"
Ronin stood still listening to the sound of breathing, which was light and heavy, and began to make sure how far away the nearest breath was to him.
"Thirty meters ......"
After staying where he was for about five minutes, he noticed something even stranger, the distance of the breath had not changed, and there was no other sound of footsteps, indicating that the people who were breathing were standing still as if they were himself.
After taking a few deep breaths, he kept his composure, slowly moved his steps, leaned towards the nearest breathing sound, and simply turned off the flashlight when he was only about fifteen meters.
Although the psychotropic potion improved his vision, it was still not as good as the night vision ability gained by the second class thief of the bounty hunter, and there was very little to see in the darkness, with a vision range of less than two meters.
With a visual range of less than two meters provided by this pitiful little vision, he slowly moved forward, and the distance between the breathing sound and himself continued to shorten.
When it was only about ten meters, in addition to the sound of breathing, a faint sound of the heart beating could be heard, but.
"Knock...... Boom...... Knock ......"
In the darkness, aiming the muzzle of the gun at the place where the faint voice of the heart came from, Luo Ning silently counted down in his heart.
“3”
“2”
“1”
When the silent count reached "1", the flashlight was turned on instantly, the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the beating heart, and the index finger of the right hand tightly grasped the trigger of the pistol.
In the bright light of the flashlight, there was no one to be seen, only a mottled iron door hanging on the wall, the mottled iron door was closed.
Luo Ning pursed his lips, his Adam's apple bulged slightly, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"The sound of the heart and the sound of breathing come from inside the iron gate, and people are inside the iron gate."
He slowly approached the iron door, walked to the iron door, held a flashlight in one hand and a pistol in the other, and gently pressed his toes against the corner of the exposed iron door to continue to count.
“3”
“2”
“1”
When he shouted "1", he pressed his toes against the corner of the iron door, and the iron door quickly opened inward, and he rushed in through the open door, and his back was against the wall on the side of the door.
There was still no one in the light, and there were several pipes lined up on the walls of the small empty house, and it was impossible to tell where the thick pipes would lead above.
But something on the wall of the pipe caught Ronin's attention.
A lump of green objects is attached to the wall of a pipe, and the surface of the object floats up and down.
If you listen closely, the sound of breathing and the beating of your heart are coming from inside the baby-sized green object.
"The green object is not a dead thing, but a living thing, because it has a heartbeat and the sound of breathing."
Suddenly, the voice disappeared, and it was time for the spirit potion to act!
He took out another bottle of the elixir and swallowed it, although the bounty hunter had said that swallowing the potion continuously would have side effects, but it was better than leaving his life here.
Under the ingestion of the psychotropic potion, the sound of breathing and heartbeat resurfaced, and this time it was heard more clearly, inside the green object in front of him.
Slightly forward, less than a meter away from the green object, if you look closely, you can slightly see the tubes inside the green object like plant roots, and the tubes in the body of those green objects stretch and shrink.
"What is this?"
In order to prevent unnecessary trouble or danger, I did not reach out to touch it.
Take two steps back, two meters away from the green object, aim the gun at the green object and pull the trigger.
"Bang"
With a gunshot rang out, the green object's body cracked, and a thick green liquid slid down the pipe, and its body shriveled up like a balloon, and then broke away from the pipe and fell to the ground, groaning in pain before seeping into the ground and disappearing.
The sound of breathing and heartbeat is gone!
Instead, there was the sound of water jetting from the pipe wall, and the clear water came out of the bullet-punched hole in the pipe wall.
Dense streams of water jetted against the cloak with a dull sound.
What exactly is a green object? What do you do with attaching to water pipes?
Luo Ning stood still and watched for a while, turned and exited the small house, and walked towards the next breath, only about fifteen meters away.
When I reached the next place where the sound of breathing and heartbeat came from, it was still the iron door, and I also carefully pushed open the iron door, and what I saw was still the green object attached to the pipe, rising and shrinking.
This time there was no rush to shoot, he stepped forward and put the gun away, took out the dagger, and used the dagger to peel the green object from the wall of the tube.
After peeling, the green object falls to the ground, with its back down and belly up.
The abdomen of the green soft body was a bunch of dense holes, which made Luo Ning, who had a phobia of density, involuntarily take two steps back.
The green softness continued to expand and shrink under the light, and the dense holes opened and closed, releasing a thick green gas from inside.
The breath was pungent, and when he smelled the gas, Luo Ning felt dizzy, unable to stand normally, and his thoughts began to become confused.
The gas is poisonous!
After the first reaction, Ronin shot at the green software on the ground before completely losing his mind, and the green software quickly disappeared.
After resting for a while, my mind cleared up a lot, and I got up and watched with palpitations at the place where the green soft body disappeared.
"The sounds of breathing and heartbeats in place are all of this kind of thing, and this thing must have been the work of the figure that Franklin's rats saw, and the rats were affected by the gas emitted by the green soft body before they lost their minds and went berserk."
"As for what Ryan Kent said, the residents of Raven Town have recently become crazy, and then died violently during the day because of these green softbodies, the green softbodies are attached to the water pipes, and those gases are injected into the water, and the local residents drink that water, and over time, the willpower is weaker, and the people who drink more water will become murderous monsters."
Who would be so vicious, if it goes on like this, it won't be long before the people of Raven Town will become monsters and madmen.
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Ronin turned and exited the room, just as he was about to move forward to dispose of all the green soft, there was a creak of the door opening, followed by the sound of footsteps.
"Someone got into the sewers!"
Standing still and listening carefully, you can even hear the sound of staccato conversation, but you can't tell what the specific content of the communication is.
Quicken your pace and quickly approach the place where the creaking sound came from, and within thirty meters, the sewer, which originally had only one passage, branched off and two passages appeared.
Footsteps were approaching, and the sound of the two men talking was clear, clearly coming from the wide fork in the road.
Luo Ning looked around, saw an iron gate nearby, stepped forward to push open the iron door and quickly drilled in, and then closed the iron door.
When he turned back, he was shocked by what he saw.
The space behind the iron gate is unusually large, about 200 square meters.
There are a lot of experimental instruments in the room, such as crucibles, reagent bottles, reactors, and some cabinets full of various reagents, one of which has a lot of large transparent urns on it, and inside are human body parts.
It's a lab!
The sound of the footsteps of the two men was still approaching, about thirty meters away, and their destination was obviously here!
It was obviously too late to get out, and Luo Ning quickly looked around, and there was another iron door on the wall in the room.
Without hesitation, he quickly opened the iron door and went in, closing the iron door, and at this moment he heard the sound of the door opening and footsteps outside, and the two had already entered the laboratory.
Luo Ning leaned against the iron door and breathed a sigh of relief, and when he calmed down, he raised the flashlight in his hand, and the sight in full view under the light made him almost scream.
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