Chapter 14 Three Basement Floors

The elevator descended in the pitch-black elevator shaft and soon reached the negative second floor.

The elevator door was an electric fence gate, but it was also broken and fell aside.

They didn't go to the second floor, but they raised their rifles vigilantly and shone them in with the help of a torch under the muzzle.

In front of them was a dirty iron wall on which cockroaches roamed. And under the wall is a corridor that winds towards the sides.

Before they could walk in, a dense sound of footsteps came out, as if someone was running barefoot.

The footsteps were familiar, and Berryman had heard them last night behind a locked iron fence.

"Did you hear that?" Axes smothered his throat.

"He's coming!" Berryman's voice trembled a little.

"Da ......" footsteps are getting closer and closer.

They were ready for battle, and with a "click", loaded the rifles almost simultaneously.

"Da Da Da!" Footsteps stopped outside the elevator, only a few meters away from them, but nothing came from their sight.

Where is he? The footsteps clearly stopped outside the elevator, could he be hiding around the corner and suddenly attacking?

Berryman's forehead was sweating, and he held his breath, his hands clutching the handle of his gun, his heart pounding rapidly against his chest.

It was quiet for a while, and only the rickety elevator under his feet dared to "rattle".

Will he attack us suddenly? Is it to tear our necks first so that the blood can be retained? Did you bite open our skulls and eat our brains first?

Berryman took a step back, he knew the guy was nearby!

"Tick." A few drops of viscous liquid fell low onto the floor from above.

Berryman lifted the light up.

I saw a head poke out from above the elevator entrance!

"Damn!" Periman was so frightened that he retreated again and again, and immediately shot at the head that poked out!

"Bang!"

The sound of gunfire exploded in this small elevator shaft, stuffed into the ears, and hit the eardrums!

"Hum—" They couldn't hear anything, only the deafening tinnitus.

The gun fell to the ground, and the ringing in their ears was accompanied by a wave of vertigo, which made them unable to maintain their balance, and they all hobbled and covered their ears.

They didn't hear the sound under their feet, and after they stepped on it many times, the elevator under their feet finally couldn't support it.

With a crisp cracking sound of steel, the entire elevator descended rapidly, taking them into the second floor.

"Bang!" The elevator fell to the bottom of the elevator shaft, knocking the two of them down.

The tinnitus gradually subsided, and Ax stood up with a groan, and helped Berryman on the ground up, "Are you okay?" ”

"I'm fine......" Berryman picked up his rifle from the ground.

Fortunately, the flashlight under the muzzle was not broken, and they shone the flashlight towards the elevator shaft overhead.

The elevator entrance on the second floor is on the upper floor, and the head that poked out has long been gone.

"Do you see that head clearly? Is he a gecko? How do you get out of the elevator mouth? Berryman asked.

"It all happened so fast! All I saw was a face full of teeth. Ha ha! Akers laughed, "And then you shoot, will you blow his head off?" What a quick response! But stay away from me next time. ”

"I'm sorry I didn't figure out the situation and fired the shot." Berryman covered his forehead in shame, "I don't know if I hit." ”

"Maybe that guy will come along, ready at any moment." Ax reminded.

"Okay." Berryman answered, pulled the bolt, and a shell ricocheted out.

At present, they are at the bottom of the elevator shaft, that is, the negative third floor, because the elevator is broken, and they can only take the stairs to return to the previous floor.

They walked out of the ladder, which was similar to the second floor, with a cylindrical wall in the center that connected to the previous floor. The corridor was built around this cylindrical wall.

"There's a question I've always wanted to ask." Burriman said.

"What?"

"This monster has been here for a long time, hasn't it? Why don't you Morks get rid of it? ”

"I think they've all failed, you see." Ax's flashlight shone on the ground.

There was more than one corpse lying on the ground, lying in the hallway.

Among the corpses, some of them were dressed in Mork costumes, and the degree of decomposition varied, but without exception, their skulls were opened, and many insects escaped when the light shone on.

Burriman walked over to the corpses with a frown, and he took out his camera to capture them all, "If you can't do anything for so many years, I'm afraid the two of us can't do anything." What do you think? ”

Akers did not respond.

"Ax?" Berryman walked up to Ax and found him staring at the corpses.

"The people who died here...... I know almost all of them. Ax gripped his rifle tightly.

"It's not just our people here, but also the people I killed!"

At the feet of Axes is their mutual friend, Saka (part of the body).

Akes used a flashlight to illuminate a female corpse with one arm missing, "This person was sent to the island by me last year. ”

Then he illuminated another male corpse in a down jacket, "This is March this year!" ”

"He was last November!"

"He's here on National Day!"

……

Berryman's heart tightened, and he hurriedly examined the corpse that Ax had said.

Don't let me find Rosen! Don't let me find Rosen!

Burriman was nervous, and identified the corpses one by one, but fortunately he didn't find his best friend since he was a child, so he couldn't be sure that Rosen was dead for the time being, and he didn't know whether to be happy or sad at this moment.

After taking a photograph of the corpse, ID cards were found on the corpse's body, and their names, which Berryman had seen elsewhere, were on the disappearance file.

It's just that these missing people are not the same case, and they are not the people who disappeared after returning from the island.

There are three types of people in these bodies.

First, the corpses of the researchers who originally worked here were mostly white bones in uniform.

The second is the Mork people, who are also uniform animal skin clothing, and most of them have guns next to the corpses.

Third, the tourists who come to the island, like Saka, are all sent by Akers.

"It's all my fault...... I shouldn't have brought them here......" Ax felt guilt gnawing at his body, these unfortunate people had families, some of them were only seventeen or eighteen years old, and the good years should not end in this filthy and dark underground.

"Are you okay?" Berryman asked.

Ax took a deep breath, and he turned his head to look at Briman, not knowing what he was thinking.

"I'm fine, it's still too dangerous here, let's get out."

"Don't worry, I need to investigate." Berryman didn't want to let go of any clues about Rosen, and that's how he got here.

He searched Saka's body and found his phone in the pocket of his clothes.

The phone screen is full of cracks and can't be opened, and I don't know if it's broken or dead.

Saka had been hired to come to the island to find a test subject in the laboratory, and he might know something about it. Burriman puts his phone in his bag in case there is a clue on the phone.

They continued along the hallway, which was filled with laboratories of various sizes.

The lab was in shambles, with broken microscopes, broken measuring cups, bottles and jars, not a single piece of lab equipment intact.

They found a number of lab reports in these labs, most of which were incomprehensible data and jargon.

What is this underground research institute working on? Due to the lack of relevant expertise, they were not able to know from the experiment report.

As they walked into the labs, Berryman searched for useful clues, while Ax watched around for fear of the monster's appearance.

Gradually, Berryman smelled the stench of decay here, mixed with a familiar smell, the smell of gray mist.

"Do you smell it?" Berryman asked.

"You're talking about the smell of the place? So why can't I smell it? ”

"No, you sniff carefully."

Akers took a deep breath and was suddenly choked and coughed a few times, "Ahem! There was an extra pungent smell. ”

"This is the smell of gray mist, I will smell it these few nights, it stands to reason that I won't smell it in this underground......"

"Then why haven't I smelled it?"

"You're sleepwalking at night!"

"That's right! Hahaha! ”

Then they found a piece of useful information in an experiment report.

"We still haven't figured out why it causes sleepwalking, and we can't hold on anymore......"

The rest of the content is already blurred.

What Berryman is studying is unknown, but if they can find out, they will know what triggers sleepwalking!

Berryman captured the message with his camera and continued to search for clues.

Outside the hallway, on the wall of the central cylinder, there is a door with the words Observation Room written on it.

The door to the observation room is locked and requires a key to open.

"Help me with the gun." Berryman handed the rifle to Axes and removed the lock picker from the saber.

I inserted the lock pick into the keyhole and tinkered with it for a long time, but I couldn't open it, so I had to give up.

"Aren't you going to pick locks?" Akers asked.

"I can still open the ordinary lock, but the inside of this lock is completely rusty, and I can't open it even if I have a key." Burriman sighed.

"Forget it, let's find a way out of here first." Akers Road.

"Why are you in such a hurry to get out? Don't you want to know why you guys sleepwalk? Berryman sensed that something was wrong with Ax and asked suspiciously.

"Of course I want to know, I just ...... I see that the people I sent to the island are dying here, and I don't want you to be next. When you leave the Institute, I will take you to a safe place, and I am still obligated to keep you safe. ”

"Is there a safe place on this island?" Berryman asked him rhetorically.

Ax was speechless, he knew that Burriman was right, even if he left the institute, he had to watch out for sleepwalking Morks outside.

The only safe zone is to leave the island.

"Alright then......" Ax had to compromise.

"Let's knock the door open! I feel like there's the answer I need. Berryman proposed.

"What if the monster hears it and runs over?" Ax didn't think it was the right idea.

"When he comes, you'll shoot him! You should be better than me, right? ”

"You guy......" Ax shook his head and smiled bitterly.

They took a few steps back, and one of them slammed into the observation room door in unison.

"Bang!" The crash was loud in the hallway, loud enough to reach outside the Institute.

"Bang!" After another impact, they slammed the door open and fell to the observation chamber by inertia.