There is no sunset at dusk on the island of Grey Mu, and there is no orange sunshine. Under the dark clouds overhead, a black veil seemed to be covered in front of him, dim and depressing.

The two of them stood in front of the forbidden cave on the island.

Burriman had an earthy yellow homemade shotgun hanging over his shoulder, and above his crotch hung a small camouflage fanny pack with tools and bullets inside.

"You've turned your gun back." Beside him, Ax walked over and helped Burryman carry the gun behind his right shoulder.

"Isn't that how you carry it?" Berryman asked, confused.

"Who carried a gun to the front? And again, with the muzzle down. Axes tightened the strap of Burriman's gun so that it hung more securely on Burriman's shoulder, "You probably haven't used a gun, have you?" ”

"This is the first time I've touched a gun." Berryman scratched his head in embarrassment.

Ax removed the rifle from his shoulder, pulled the bolt back, revealing the magazine in the barrel, "The bullet is put in from here, and the ...... is shot at a time" and he demonstrates the process from loading to shooting.

"Remember to turn off the safety before shooting."

Berry Man nodded, and practiced a few times, although he was not immediately familiar with it, but at least he learned how to use a firearm.

"Let's go inside." Bearing the shotgun on his back, he took two small flashlights from the camouflage satchel around his waist and handed one to Axes.

"Come prepared, haha!" Ax smiled and took the flashlight.

Berryman turned on the flashlight and was the first to enter the cave, followed by Ax. Two beams of light flickered through the passageway, clearly illuminating the moss squeezed out of the cracks in the concrete wall.

A butterfly broke into the cobwebs overhead, and it struggled with the fluttering of its wings, but was soon caught by the approaching spider. It's like them who break into a cave.

The sound of footsteps reverberated crisply in the silent passage, like ripples spreading across the calm waters.

Soon they reached the gate of the fence, and under the beam of light, Saka's body disappeared behind the bar, leaving only a pool of congealed blood.

In the puddle of blood on the ground, a fading streak of blood stretched into the depths of the passage, apparently something had dragged the blood-stained corpse away.

I still remember what happened here last night.

"I think that's where it is in the picture, the demon dragged the body away." Akes' flashlight, the beam resting on the congealed blood.

Berryman did not respond to him, he drew his saber from his waist, took the lock pick from the end of the handle, and inserted it into the keyhole in the iron lock.

He didn't know exactly where the passage led, but the only thing he felt was that it contained the answers he wanted.

Soon.

The lock was opened, and Berryman pushed the door open.

"Squeak-" When the door opened, the iron door made a sharp metal grinding sound, as piercing as a saw sawing on steel.

The door hadn't been opened for a long time, and the rust had corroded every piece of iron.

"I didn't think you'd pick the lock." Ax's eyes lit up and he exclaimed.

"If you go in, you may never be able to get out, so always be prepared to run into that thing." Berryman used vines to tie a flashlight to the muzzle of the gun.

"Hehe, you're right." Ax smiled wryly and learned from Berryman to tie a flashlight to the muzzle of the gun.

The two men raised their guns, walked into the iron gate, stepped through the congealed blood, and marched vigilantly.

There was a corner ahead, and after passing through the corner, you came to the end of the passage - a steel door.

The steel door was about 50 centimeters in size from both sides, and there was a round doorknob on the door, which was covered in rust.

A skeleton was lying on the slideway under the door, wearing a ragged garment, and the broken phalanx of its right hand was caught under the door.

The two cautiously stepped forward, and under the light of two beams of light, several cockroaches crawled out of the neckline of the bones.

Burriman crouched down and looked at the skeleton.

They had no medical knowledge to tell how long the bones had been dead, but what they did know was that its skull was missing, only below the brow bone.

The bones were dressed in a white coat like a doctor's lab coat, as dirty as if they had been soaked in a dung pit. There was a badge on the garment, and the words on it had long since been worn out.

Burriman stood up, and he turned his head to look at Ax beside him, but it was too dark to make out the expression on the other man's face.

"Hopefully we won't end up like him, hehe." There was a smile in Akers' voice.

They stepped over the bones and then through the door.

A foul smell came to my face, like rotting dead rats mixed with expired yogurt, and the sewers smelled much better than here.

Berryman bent down and retched, tears squeezing from behind his eyes.

Akers reached out and stroked Berliman's back, and with his other hand moved the muzzle of the gun, shining in all directions.

It was a messy hall, with broken tables and chairs lying on the floor, cabinets sticking out of tongue-like drawers, and thick piles of dust on the floor.

The beam groped across the ground, then focused on a lightening trail of blood from Saka's body as it was dragged along, extending into the dilapidated elevator in front of it.

This elevator seems to be an antique of the last century, and the elevator door is a simple iron bar, which I don't know who destroyed it, and it fell to the side in a U-shape.

The beam moved to the cracked wall, illuminated a broken clock, and finally rested on an eyeball sign in the center.

Eyeballs stare at them, as if to say - congratulations on finding me!

Berryman stepped forward and stroked the eyeball. He couldn't forget the eye, the psycho Arri had told him that it was the eye of nightmares, and that it had appeared in the homes of every missing person.

He didn't know what the Nightmare Eye meant, but it was like an invisible thread that led Burriman to this place.

When he saw the Nightmare Eye, he knew he had come to the right place.

Berry Man slapped the dust off the sign with his hand, and when the light beamed and the smoke cleared, a broken plaque was revealed on the wall, with a line of words raised on it.

The first half of this line is missing, and only three words in the latter part can be seen - research institute.

"The corpse out there, its clothes are quite similar to the researcher's uniform." Ax turned, the flashlight on the muzzle of the gun shining at the bones.

Is this the institute Saka has been looking for? Burriman retreated to the door and pulled his pocket camera out of his bag.

"Akers help me shine the light and illuminate that eyeball."

"Okay." Ax answered, and did as Burriman asked.

A few glare flashes lit up the darkness, and Burriman casually photographed the corpse.

Akers walked to the elevator door, and with a wave of his rifle in his hand, the beam illuminated the elevator maintenance record on the wall.

The last overhaul date is July 12, 1930.

This antique elevator already existed at this time, that is, the institute was already built here ninety years ago?

"Come and see." Ax called in Briman, who illuminated the wall on the other side of the elevator entrance.

There is a pushrod device on the wall, like the gear lever on a car, except that this is much longer.

The actuator has three gears – 1, 2 and 3. This may be the elevator port controller, the three gears correspond to the three floors of the institute, and the current level is -1, and the tie rod is at -3.

"So we're on the negative floor, the top floor?" Berryman asked.

"Yes, I'll see if it works."

Akers put his hand on the putter and pushed it up hard, but because it had not been used for a long time, the putter had already rusted and it was very difficult to push. Berryman slung the gun to his shoulder, stepped forward to help, and with a "click", quickly pushed the putter up.

Loud noises came from the elevator shaft, filling the silent space, the sound of gears and chains.

The fact that the elevator is working means that the power system has not been damaged.

"Let's find the power room, it would be nice if we could turn on the lights." Burriman said.

"I think so too, it's so dark in here, it's always unsettling."

An elevator slowly appeared in the elevator entrance, but due to the old machinery, there was a violent earthquake when it arrived.

There was something on the elevator, what appeared to be a leather ball, that slowly rolled out in the jolt and crashed into Ax's straw sandals.

Ax lowered his head and lit up the ball-like thing.

This is not a balloon.

This is Saka's head!

His skull had been lifted, his brain was gone, and there were still some remnants of brain pulp in it, and his whole head was like a large water cup containing leftover inferior tofu.

"Holy!" Ax jumped up in fright and took several steps back.

Burriman crouched down, slung his rifle over his shoulder, and lifted Saka's head with his free hands, and said, "Take a picture of me." ”

Ax rested his rifle on the fallen chair, letting the light from the muzzle shine through Berryman's side, casting a huge shadow on the dirty wall.

Perhaps because of the lack of a brain, Saka's head was lighter than expected, like an open jar.

Saka hadn't closed his eyes until now, staring at Berryman with cloudy eyes - why don't you save me!

As if hearing Saka's complaints, Berryman turned his head away from his gaze and gently stroked Saka's eyelids with the side of his hand, closing the burning eyes.

There are a row of jagged tooth marks at the edge of the notch, and if you use your fingers to pull away the dirty hair at the back of the head, you will notice these marks here as well.

Akers also squatted down and touched his index finger on the tooth mark, "This looks like a tooth mark left by a shark's teeth, haha!" Are we dealing with a fish? ”

"You can still laugh in such a gloomy place with dead people. I wish I could be as optimistic as you are. Berryman gently placed Saka's head on a table, handling it as if it were a fragile object.

"Hehe, laugh while you can laugh, if you run into the monsters that live here, you won't be able to laugh for a while."

They walked to the elevator and shone a beam of light at the lifting platform.

The so-called lifting platform is nothing more than a platform made of iron mesh, the iron mesh is dark red, it is impossible to tell whether it is rusty or stained red by blood, and there are several gaps on the platform, so big that even the feet can stretch down, and the damage is worrying.

"Let's look for the stairs." Ax frowned and said, "I don't want to test if this old antique lift platform is still secure. ”

"Okay." Berryman replied, not wanting to take the risk either.

They walked around the hall and found no stairs down, only a few broken vases and rats fleeing in all directions.

"It seems...... There is no choice. Berryman said helplessly.

"Haha! It's exciting. ”

They first tentatively stepped on the lift platform at the elevator entrance, and hesitated for a moment before daring to step on it.

When they first walked into the lifting platform, they found that the soles of their feet were shaking, which made their hearts tense and they did not dare to move easily.

They looked down slowly, beams shining through the gaps in the iron mesh, a bottomless abyss. The iron mesh platform that supported their weight seemed to have no substance, as if they were stepping on air.

Akers pulled his gaze from below and said, "Let's go down, may the quality of this ladder be excellent." ”

"Okay." Berryman took a deep breath, he was ready.

Ax pulls down the putter on the wall, and with a "click", the putter moves down to "-2".

The lifting platform "rattled and rattled" a noisy mechanical sound, and the entire platform slowly sank.

"What time is it?" Burriman's voice was about to be drowned out by the sound of machinery.

"I don't know, I don't have a watch and a phone. It was about half past six in the afternoon when we came in, and it should have been about eight by now. Why do you ask this? ”

"You promise me something."

"What's the matter?"

"Don't fall asleep, I don't want to deal with monsters and have to deal with you at the same time."

"Hah! Who can sleep in a place like this? If I sleepwalk again, you'll wake me up with a single shot. ”

"I hope so."

Slowly, the lifting platform stopped, and they came to the second basement floor.