Chapter 15: The Pit
"Bang-"
The door to the observation room was slammed open.
Brimand and Ax couldn't stop and fell into the observation room.
They got up from the ground, patted the dust off their bodies, and observed the environment inside.
Directly in front of it was a large observation window, next to which was an iron door leading to the interior, a detector the size of a refrigerator was placed on the table, and an iron cabinet stood next to the wall, one of which was opened, revealing the white laboratory hazmat suit inside.
Berryman found a notebook of test reports on the table, picked it up, and blew the dust off the notebook.
"What is this written about?" Burryman's brow furrowed, the test report in the notebook had been written in another script, and he had never seen such a script.
"I'll take a look......," Akers walked over and read out fluently, "The first week, no anomalies found. ”
"You know this kind of writing!" Berryman was surprised.
"This is the text of our Mork nation."
"Translate for me."
"No problem!"
"In the first week, no anomalous ...... were found"
"In the second week, no anomalous ...... were found"
Until the ninth week, there were no anomalies.
"In week nine, there was a crack in the ceiling and a suspected leak of fog, and we needed to risk going inside to test the ......"
"In the tenth week, we've sacrificed five people inside. The ceiling has collapsed again, and we must go in immediately to repair the gap, so that the fog cannot leak out, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable! ”
"That's all." Ax put the test report down.
Could the fog mentioned in the report be the gray fog that occurs every night? Could it be the gray fog that they're studying?
In another glass locker, there are bottles of glass experiment jars, the size of water bottles.
There was a keyhole in the glass locker, which might have been rusty, but instead of picking it, Berryman smashed the glass on the locker with the butt of his gun and took out a test jar.
The test jar was identical to the one Saka had brought out, except that Saka's bottle was empty.
The experiment tank is labeled - dangerous! Toxic gases! Do not open!
Each bottle of this experiment is worth 50,000 yuan! At least a dozen bottles on a glass case!
But Berryman's purpose was not to do that, he did not open it easily, he put down the experiment canister and thoughtfully walked to the observation window, wanting to see what was behind it.
However, it was pitch black behind the observation window, and even if a flashlight was used to shine it in, the glass of the observation window would only reflect the light back.
"I'm going to go in and look inside the window." Berryman wanted to know what the goal of their research was. Although it is possible to open the test tank, will the bottle be the same as the inside? You need to go in to find out.
"Are you crazy?" Akes pointed to the observation window, "Whatever they're studying, it's a dangerous thing!" They're dead, five people inside! ”
"I know! But I had to figure it out. Berryman walked over to the iron cabinet and took out the lab suit inside.
"I'll go in too, I can't let you mess around alone." Akers also walked over, opening cabinets one by one, looking for chemical protection suits.
"I'm afraid you're going to have to wait for me outside, because there's only one chemical suit left." Berryman Road.
Akers stayed here and waited, and he said, "Well, you have to be careful, I don't want you to die inside." ”
Berryman nodded, then put on the hazmat suit. This set of chemical protective clothing is made of latex, which is not breathable at all, and it is very stuffy to wear, and the gloves and boots are a set, which must be wrapped tightly without revealing an inch of skin, and finally he wears the most critical gas mask.
"Come out as soon as you're in danger!" Ax admonished again.
"That's it! Mother-in-law and mother are not like you, my life is hard. You must not fall asleep when I go in, I can't save you if I sleepwalk here. Because of the gas mask, Burriman's voice sounded particularly muffled.
Arkes laughed as he walked to the iron door by the observation window and turned the valve handle on the door.
"Let's go inside!"
Berryman nodded at him and walked behind the door with his gun in hand.
This is a disinfection tunnel, and as soon as Berryman stepped in, the shower above his head began to spray disinfectant, but he didn't feel it at all in his thick chemical protective suit.
There was a door in front of it, and behind it was the innermost place, where there would be things they studied.
The sterilization process was over, and Berryman stepped forward and opened the door in front of him.
As soon as the door opened, the gray mist was like a high wave, engulfing Berryman in an instant. It's a good thing he wears a gas mask, otherwise he would have choked on tears.
On one side of the wall behind the door, a rope was nailed to it, running straight into the depths of the mist.
This was left behind by the researcher in order to find the path back when he was exploring, which also facilitated Burriman's exploration.
There are scales on the rope, one for every meter, and as long as you follow this rope, you can know how far you have come.
The fog here is so great that you can barely see your surroundings, and even the beam of a flashlight can't see through the thick black fog.
Berry Man slowly advanced with a rope in one hand and a gun in the other, feeling the gray fog thicker with each meter he advanced, until after ten meters, the torch shrouded in the gray fog was completely useless.
As he walked forward, he suddenly stumbled under his feet, and if he hadn't grabbed the rope, he would have fallen to the ground.
Looking down, what tripped Berryman was the jet-black corpse, which was covered with black mucus and looked like black snot despite wearing a chemical hazmat suit.
Burriman removed the gas mask from the corpse and pulled it like a piece of pizza, the flesh and skin on the corpse's face stuck to the gas mask, and under the mask was a fleshy face, and the facial features were completely kneaded together.
It's disgusting! Berryman tossed aside the dirty gas mask, which must have been one of the researchers who had died, he thought to himself.
There were no signs of damage on the suit, and there should have been no external injuries on the corpse, and the cause of death was suffocation from absorbing an excessive amount of ash mist.
But he was still suffocated to death in a gas mask, and it seems that he must hurry! Burriman grabbed the rope briskly.
When he walked thirty meters, the two glasses on the gas mask appeared black mist, which blocked his vision very much, but he could not wipe it off, and the gloves he was wearing were also stained with mist, as long as he wiped them, he would smear all the spectacle lenses, which was the same as being blind.
The canister on the gas mask was gradually invaded by the water mist, clogging inside like sticky snot, making it difficult for him to breathe.
Although the ground was also damp, fortunately it was a rough concrete floor, and if it had been replaced with tiles, I am afraid that Berryman would have slipped long ago.
Soon, Berryman came to the end of the rope, which was tied to a waist-high fence.
Berryman let go of his grip on the rope and leaned against the iron fence.
Behind the fence was a bottomless crater, and Berryman couldn't see how big it was.
The soaring gray mist emerged from the crater, rising all the way up to the next level, breaking through the institute and spreading across the island!
It turns out that the source of the gray fog on the island is under this huge crater!
As for how deep the crater is, and what is it like under the crater? Berryman couldn't know, and he couldn't go any further.
There was no way forward, and the fence surrounded the huge pit.
By now, Berryman already knew that what the Institute was studying was the ubiquitous gray fog! Presumably, the test jar was also filled with gray mist.
Experiments have been found to show that this gray fog can cause sleepwalking, and the Mork people living on the island all suffer from sleepwalking due to inhaling the gray fog.
Not only the people of Mork, but also tourists who spend the night on this island suffer from sleepwalking, including Burriman!
Why the gray fog causes sleepwalking, the researchers have not yet figured out the cause, but they all died in this underground research institute.
Will I also be like the Morks, sleepwalking in the middle of the night? The thought of how terrible he had become, Berryman felt a pang of panic.
He had already inhaled the gray mist, and as for when the sleepwalking syndrome would begin, maybe a day, maybe two days, he didn't know. But it's a matter of time.
For a moment, he thought of the disappearance he had been investigating.
Perhaps the missing people were not kidnapped, but sleepwalked in the night and got lost on their own. After all, the missing people have all been to the island and have inhaled the gray mist.
Wrong!
If he had been sleepwalking, he should have come back when he woke up, but none of the missing people had returned, except for the psychopathic Yari.
Periman dismissed the false assumptions, he felt that it was becoming more and more difficult to breathe, and he had to get out of here.
He grabbed the rope and trotted all the way back, finally returning to the disinfection passage.
He closed the door, and the disinfectant began to spray down, washing away the dew from the chemical protective suit, and down his feet, leaving a puddle of black dirty water on the ground.
The disinfectant stopped, and he took off his hazmat suit and returned to the observation room.
"Ax, I know why you're sleepwalking." Berryman wanted to share his investigation.
But there was no one in the observation room, and Ax didn't know where to go.
On the ground, Berryman found a bullet casing.
He picked up the shell and looked at it, which still had a little residual heat on it. The shell was clearly left by Ax, who had fired a gun not long ago, perhaps the sound insulation here was too good that Burriman didn't hear it.
Could it be that Axes has encountered that monster? Burriman felt uneasy.
He already knew that the test was a gray mist coming out of a giant pit, and if he wanted to understand why the gray fog caused sleepwalking, he might have to find someone to study it in the future.
I saw him take a bottle of experimental canisters, put it in his waist bag, and hurriedly walked out of the observation room and returned to the corridor.
Brieman was tempted to call out to Ax, but he quickly dismissed the dangerous idea, and if he attracted the monster, he would be in trouble, after all, he was the only one who could not deal with it.
He had to look around vigilantly, grasp the gun, and look for Ax.
Continuing down the hallway, each lab went in and looked in, hoping that Ax would be in one of the rooms.
The hallway is circular, and if you go in one direction, you will eventually return to the original point, and Berryman circles the hallway, almost back to the elevator entrance.
At this time, he spotted an upward staircase in the wall next to it.
I've searched every room on this level, and I don't see Ax, he can only be on the upper floor, Berryman thought to himself, and then walked up the stairs to the minus two floors.
The structure of the second floor is similar to that of the third floor, and it is also a circular corridor, with the central cylindrical wall inside the room of the giant pit, which is still connected to the previous floor.
If the negative third floor is the experimental area, then the negative second floor is the housing area, and the room number is written on the door of the room.
There are many corpses in the corridor compared to the negative three floors, and judging from the size, most of the dead are women and children, and the cause of death is the same, they were eaten by monsters and lost their heads.
Is this hell? The entire institute was slaughtered, and not a single one remained! Berryman gritted his teeth, suppressing his anger.
When he saw the corpses on the negative third floor, Burriman felt fear.
And in this minus two layers, Burriman felt more anger!
They protected their beloved ones until they died, mothers hid their children in their arms, husbands protected their wives with their arms, their heads were brutally bitten open, and organs in their stomachs were ripped out......
It was as if Berryman had seen the hopelessness and helplessness of their deaths.
He exhaled deeply, calmed down, and stepped over the corpses.
Ahead, he saw the back of Ax.
"Ax! Where did you go? Didn't you wait for me? Berryman hurriedly ran forward.
"Uh......" Akers turned slowly, his eyes glazed over, his head swaying, bubbles coming out of his throat.
"Are you ...... again," Berryman had not finished speaking.
Ax slowly raised his rifle and aimed it at Burriman!
"Damn!" Berryman dodged and ran into the next room!
"Bang!" Gunshots echoed through the hallways.