Chapter 18: The Treasure of the Sea God
In the control room, Axes translates the kid's broken diary for Berryman.
"There's another one that can be seen clearly, uh-huh." Akers cleared his throat and read it out.
"On May 13, 1930, it rained so hard last night, the waves were so high and so high that many people fell into the sea, it was terrible!"
"It seems that they did experience a storm at sea, and it was at that time that those 83 people died at the bottom of the sea. Perhaps by that time, the curse of the island had already begun. Burriman took a drag on his cigarette and said.
"It's so pathetic......" Acx sighed, and then flipped through a few pages before he could find a clear passage.
"On May 20, 1930, we finally arrived at the island of Gray Mu! Yes! There are so many trees here, I'm going to pick the fruit and eat it! We're going to build a research institute here! ”
"On June 13, 1930, the institute was too boring, and my mother didn't let me go outside to play, my father was the director of the institute, and he was always busy with work, so he didn't have time to play with me, and I wanted to go back!"
"On June 20, 1930, last night they secretly took a boat back from my father, but today they all fell on the beach and were washed back by the sea, and my mother lied to me that they were sleeping, but I actually knew they were all dead!"
Akers raised his head with a complicated expression, "There is no way for them to leave the island, just like the rest of our nation. ”
"You said you sent Rosen back, and the others were also sent back by you, why is it only you who can't have an accident?" Berryman was puzzled.
Akes flipped through the diary, and suddenly his eyes widened and he was shocked, and he said, "I know the answer!" ”
"On July 2, 1930, arrest Aunt Wei'er! Get her out! She has a sapphire pendant and with it we won't die at sea when we leave! Arkes gritted his teeth in resentment, and he said, "Vile is my grandmother, how many people are going to hunt her down at that time!" ”
"Why do sapphire pendants allow people to leave safely?" Berryman asked.
"I don't know." Ax stroked the sapphire pendant on his chest, "I travel a lot between islands and cities, and only when I'm alone on the boat won't I encounter storms, but when I'm on the ship, I'm sure to encounter them." As long as the others don't get out of the cabin when the storm comes, they'll be fine. But with the exception of the Morks. ”
"Maybe ......," Akers smiled, "Maybe it's the treasure of the sea god, I can't imagine that I have been protected by it all the time." ”
"After that, I have to rely on you to send me back, and you don't want to be killed by monsters." Berryman Road.
"Hey, hey." Akes laughed and continued to flip through his journal.
"On July 10, 1930, Dad fell into a huge pit! Mom is dead! There's one more monster in the institute! It eats everyone's brains! No matter how much we fight, we can't kill it. ”
"Where the hell did this monster come from? How can there be such a thing in the world? Berryman turned his head and looked at the monster in the surveillance footage, which was still motionless on the wall.
"And, did you find out?" "We shot it three times, the first one was when you went into the crater room to investigate, and I shot it in the head, and it only got a little blood. ”
"The second and third shots, you hit them with me, you see it's still there, what the hell is it? Can't even kill a gun? ”
"I don't understand, anyway......" Burriman looked at the monster on the surveillance, feeling furious, "We need to get rid of this demon!" It has killed a lot of people! Will be in the future! ”
"It must not be allowed to live! Is there any way you can take it off? Akers asked.
"Is there any explosives? Grenades or bazookas? ”
"How could it be, you use me like an armory?"
"Then let's continue to read the diary, we can't get out now anyway."
"Okay." Akers flipped through his diary.
"On July 11, 1930, I came to Vilen, and there was a lot of blood here! That's a lot of blood! ”
When Berry Man heard this, he quickly sat up straight, "She's in Viren!" How to get there? ”
Ax tried to find the answer in his diary, and after a moment he shook his head at Berryman, but unfortunately there was no further information about Viren.
The mentally ill Arita told Berryman that he had gone missing and had come to Viren. And this kid also said that he had come to Viren!
What is Viren? Where is it? Could it be that Rosen is there?
Berryman smoked a cigarette, and he really had no way of knowing.
"The diary for the next three days is the same." Akers said.
"What kind?"
"July 12, 1930, blood! Cerebrum! Eyeball! Blood! Cerebrum! Eyeballs ......"
"July 13, 1930, blood! Cerebrum! Eyeballs ......"
The last diary entry is not even dated, it is all "blood! Cerebrum! Eyeball! These three words are repeated all the time.
"This kid is crazy." Berryman said, those three words again! He knew the three words well, and he knew what they meant, but he couldn't decipher them.
"There's a question I haven't figured out. I suspect you've been hypnotized after sleepwalking. Berryman said.
"Hypnosis? Why? ”
"Everyone's sleepwalking behavior is different, but when you sleepwalk, you even cooperate to catch tourists from the island into the research institute. I think you're being manipulated. ”
"Manipulated by whom?"
"It could be it!" Berryman pointed to the monster on the surveillance screen.
"How is this possible?" Akers hurriedly explained, "It has been locked up in the research institute and has never come out, how can it be hypnotized?" ”
"Maybe it can be hypnotic in the air."
"I'm getting more and more incomprehensible about what you're saying, it's like science fiction, haha!" Akes smiled, and then made a hypothesis: "If it can be hypnotized in the air, why don't you just hypnotize us to go in and let him eat it?" Instead, arrest someone and give it food? ”
"I don't think it wants to eat you at all." Brimand looked at Ax and said, "And I've found a precedent!" ”
"You mean me?" Ax pointed at himself in disbelief.
"That's right! You've had a fight with it on the negative third floor, and it just hypnotized you, and it didn't eat you, did it? ”
"Hmm......" Ax thought for a moment, and felt that what Berry Man said was right, he had been hypnotized by the monster at that time, and if the monster wanted to eat him, it would be easy.
"If that's the case, he's been letting us feed him for so many years and has been playing us around, but why?"
Berryman shrugged, "Maybe it's not hungry yet, it's just my guess, don't take it too seriously." ”
Akers nodded, monsters are monsters after all, and it is its instinct to eat people and kill. He turned his head, his gaze on the console.
"What are you looking for?" Berryman asked.
"It's not a way for us to wait any longer, this is the main console, and we may be able to manipulate something to lure the monster away."
"Clever!"
I saw Ax pressing randomly on the console, and he didn't know what those buttons controlled.
"Is it really okay for you to do this?" As soon as Berryman finished speaking, there was a sound of machinery operating outside the door.
From the surveillance footage, it can be seen that in front of the corridor on the second floor, a wall has been removed, revealing an upward passage.
And the secret door! Berryman's eyes widened as the monster guarding the door moved, and it ran into the passage and disappeared into the surveillance.
"Here!" Akers pointed to another surveillance monitor, which showed the newly opened passage and the monster flying like a gecko.
At the end of the passage opened a door, a door to the outside.
"It's out of the institute!" Berryman Road.
"Not good! The people outside are in danger! Acers exclaimed, and quickly removed the table behind the door.
They walked out of the control room and, with the newly opened passage, left the institute.
At some point, it was already dawn, a gust of wind blew, lightning swayed in the dark clouds, muffled thunder, and it was about to rain heavily.
Ax ran anxiously in the direction of the tribe, and after running a few steps, he suddenly remembered the inconvenient Burriman, and turned around to find him bouncing on one foot.
"Go back! I followed! Berryman said.
Ax nodded, then quickened his pace and ran back to the tribe.
Outside, unlike the lab with a flat floor, the uneven mountain road is full of gravel and easy to slip, so it's no joke to accidentally roll down the hill here.
Berryman, who had been descending the mountain for more than ten minutes, walked for more than half an hour, and when he reached the bottom of the mountain, he found a long wooden stick to use as a crutch, and as soon as he entered the jungle, the rain began to fall.
"Bang bang bang!" Gunshots were heard in the distance, continuously.
"This is the direction of the tribe! Did the monster really run to the tribe? Regardless of the wetness, Berryman leaned on his crutches and staggered back to the tribe.
Half an hour later, he finally returned to the tribe.
However, the scene in front of him made him unforgettable for the rest of his life.
One by one, the Morks fell to the ground, their necks bitten open, and blood spread like veins to the ground with the rain.
The rain washed the blood on the stone house, and their rifles landed beside them, bullet casings all over the floor.
Some people's arms fell on others, some had their heads outside their bodies, and some were not completely dead, falling to the ground and convulsing.
Their skulls were fine, and the monster didn't eat their brains, just killing to fill its fun. And when I got tired of playing, I left.
Arks knelt beside Asuna's body, screaming and roaring until his voice was swallowed up by the rain, and finally he opened his mouth, but he couldn't make a sound.
Burriman walked over and stood behind Ax, not knowing how to comfort him, and at such times any words seemed so pale. He didn't know what to say, so he reached out and patted Ax on the shoulder.
Ax glanced back at Berryman, his eyes red and his body trembling.
Suddenly Berryman heard a cough from the stone house next to him, and he walked into the room to see Chief Deciris, lying on the bed, his hands covering the wound in his stomach, his chest rising and falling.
"Ax! The chief is alive! Berry Man hurriedly shouted.
When Acx heard this, he quickly rushed in, quickly picked up a towel, and pressed the bloody wound for the chief.
Chief Dicyris's mouth spoke in staccato Mork, he was so weak that he could only move his lips, and from time to time coughing up blood splattered onto his clothes, and from him he could feel his vitality gradually disappearing, like a lamp in the wind.
Briman couldn't understand what the chief was saying, and saw Ax kneeling on the ground with a "poof", nodding his head incessantly.
Deciris, who did not hold out for long, walked peacefully, while Ax was on his knees and refused to get up.
"It's all my fault! If I hadn't insisted that you enter the institute with me, the monster wouldn't have escaped......" Berryman lowered his head, holding on to his crutches like an old man.
"It's not your fault." Akers' voice was hoarse.
"Maybe I shouldn't have been here!" Burriman said.
"Don't talk about it." Akers said.
After a long time, the rain gradually became lighter.
Ax stood up, a ruinous determination in his eyes.
"Let's go, take your luggage." He said.
"Where are you going?"
"Get out of here."