Chapter IV

April 8th. The first Sunday after the full moon of the vernal equinox. Easter of Jesus. Night, 23:19.

Finally, Ye Xiao took off his mask and helmet, followed the footsteps of the rescue team, and went down to a depth of 170 meters underground, in the atrium on the ground floor of the Future Dream Mall. From the cinema on the ninth floor to the current first floor, the number of rescuers has increased to hundreds, as well as several search and rescue dogs. We searched all the shops, restaurants, offices, toilets, escape routes, elevators, and ...... on each floor There is also a lobby, business center, and clubhouse of the Future Dream Hotel......

However, they didn't find a single survivor, not even a single dead person, but many animal corpses, all concentrated in the atrium on the ground floor, looking horrible and miserable.

The three men and three women who have been saved are the only survivors in the underground so far, plus the Labrador - the only eyewitness to the throat-slitting murder.

He prayed that a seventh would be found, or more.

As for the six survivors found more than half an hour ago, they have all been successfully sent to the ground. According to the information just received, after examination by multiple doctors, the survivors are not in danger of life and have not suffered serious injuries. But to be on the safe side, they were taken to a hospital that had been set aside a few days ago for potentially injured survivors, and was equipped with first-class doctors, nurses and equipment.

The survivors returned to the world, but Ye Xiao remained in hell.

From the cinema to the atrium of the ground floor, he did not spare a corner. He glanced at all the places where the rescue team had searched. Many places have clearly been damaged and it is impossible to tell if it was caused by the catastrophe of land subsidence seven days ago, or if it was what happened again during seven days and seven nights. There was dried blood on some of the floors - he took pictures of these details. Who does this bloodstain belong to? What is blood type? Is the gender male or female? What about DNA double spirals? Probably because of the overly sensitive occupational disease of the police, they always feel that there is no evil heart and cruel killing all the time...... It was also because the first survivor he found had just been killed by someone with his throat cut.

The corpse that had been left in hell forever, Ye Xiao resolutely did not let the rescuers touch it, but called the Identification Department of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Bureau, and they must deal with the corpse and the scene - it was not only the rescue scene, but also the scene of a cruel murder that had just happened.

At this moment, the rescue team members entered the underground part of the Future Dream Building.

The wound on Ye Xiao's hand was simply bandaged, and it was almost no longer painful. He tightened the holster under his armpit and followed the rescue team to the basement. There's a badly damaged pet shop, and most of the animal carcasses upstairs probably come from here. The rescue team members led the search and rescue dogs to patrol carefully, and it was quite difficult to control the dog leash in their hands, because there was a smell of rotting and moldy everywhere.

And maybe the smell of decomposing corpses? He subconsciously put on a mask, and the strong lights that the rescue team members drew to all corners stimulated his pupils to shrink, and he could only scan the empty supermarket with his hands on the pergola. Half of the shelves fell to the ground, and there were quite a few goods, but none of them were survival supplies. There were faint blood stains on the floor, and some strange shadow seemed to pass by the moment the electric light was just hung up.

Most of the personnel stayed on the first basement floor to search, and Ye Xiao followed the advance team into the second basement floor.

This floor of the supermarket is dominated by food and other daily necessities, and almost nothing is left, which is why the six people found on the ninth floor have survived to this day, right? As for the smell of rot, it was stronger than upstairs, even though everyone was wearing masks.

Ye Xiao didn't let go of any corner. As he patrolled along the foot of the supermarket wall, a search and rescue dog barked. It wasn't facing the counter selling meat and bones, but towards a small door that was broken and open. It looked like it had long since collapsed, covered in shards of cement and wall ash, and there were rows of huge metal cabinets that resembled employee locker rooms. Search and rescue dogs rushed into the ruins, barking at the bricks beneath their feet. The team gathered around, carefully digging with tools, hoping to find a seventh survivor.

A few minutes later, a body was exhumed.

It was a badly decomposed male corpse, a tall, fat man with blond hair and a supermarket uniform. Judging by the level of decay, it is likely that he was crushed to death seven days ago!

Sure enough, a swarm of maggots had crawled out of the nose of the deceased.

Ye Xiao and the rescue team members have long been accustomed to facing dead bodies, and they are very calm, they just regret that they did not find a living person.

Although the deceased's face was badly rotten, the difference between him and the Chinese could still be seen.

It was a white man, blonde, white-skinned, deep-eyed, high-nosed, and with a large skeleton, although the eyeballs had been eroded by insects, and it was impossible to see if they were blue-eyed, although all of the above features had been blurred by the weight of the wall and the decomposition of the corpse.

Suddenly, Ye Xiao found the work tag hanging around the deceased's neck. He immediately put on his work gloves, completely ignoring the stench of dead people and maggots, and gently held up the tag in front of his eyes.

Sure enough, it was a work ID at the Calford supermarket, with a photo of a typical Germanic man, much like the burly and fat low-ranking SS officer in a World War II movie. In addition to one line of English, there are also a few simple Chinese below - B2 layer supervisor Steiger.

Finally, a deceased with a name and a surname was found.

Ye Xiao remembered the name, and he was one of the few foreigners on the list of confirmed missing persons.

Although he had been dead for many days, the rescue team members still handled the body carefully, because he was a foreigner and the leaders must have paid special attention.

Why is it that from the ninth floor to the second basement floor, such a large shopping mall space, only six survivors and two dead people were found - one may have died seven days ago, and the other died less than two hours ago? Ye Xiao's doubts are getting bigger and bigger, he can be sure that there were at least hundreds of people in the Future Dream Mansion at the time of the disaster, so many missing people are alive and dead, can they collectively travel to the Qing Palace to change history? In the blink of an eye, the picture of "Resident Evil" came to mind.

He shook his head vigorously, and without waiting for the rescue team to act collectively, he walked down the stairs alone to the garage on the third basement floor.

Except for the light at the staircase, this is a tomb-like dark world. Ye Xiao held a large flashlight in his left hand, the dazzling light could illuminate the face of a person dozens of meters away, and his right hand was subconsciously close to the left armpit, and in the upper left corner of the heart, the hard pistol was eager to try.

Fortunately, he didn't take off his mask, otherwise he would have fainted from the stench.

He frowned, hesitating to go down. There are many dusty cars parked here, and a few of them are lying across the driveway. Among them was a black SUV with the front of the car dominantly embedded in the side of a red Honda, almost knocking the other party in two. The man was naturally interested in the car, and Ye Xiao approached the back of the car, and the electric light flashed "LEXUS" and "GX460".

Lexus GX460 - This is a top-of-the-line SUV with a price of more than one million yuan for full-time four-wheel drive, and Ye Xiaogan has not been able to afford it for ten years. He looked at it for a while, such a beautiful and strong car, most of the windows were broken, and the front of the car was scrapped, which was miserable, and it should have hit it head-on at a speed of more than 60 kilometers per hour!

Ye Xiao didn't believe that this was something that normal people would do.

Electricity shone through the broken window, and I thought I would see a crushed rotting corpse in the driver's seat, only to find that there was no one in the car.

Temporarily relieved of his hanging heart, he circled around the huge garage, his footsteps echoing through the empty tomb. Just when he thought there would be no more signs of life, a line of dark shadows passed through the ground at the end of the lightning. He remained unusually calm, chasing the shadows with a strong electric light.

His eyesight was beyond ordinary people, and from a distance of tens of meters, in an instant or two, he recognized this terrifying creature - a mouse.

Finally, I saw it alive!

But why do these little creatures want to move in this underground garage full of rotten smells? Ye Xiao felt a little uneasy in his heart, and simply followed the traces of these rats and came to the stairs leading to the next floor.

That strong smell of decay can't even stop the mask!

Ye Xiao took out the spare mask, the two-layer mask made him breathless, he almost held on to the wall, and then walked down this staircase to the deepest part of the building that sank into the ground - the four-story underground garage.

One hundred and ninety meters below the horizon, the deepest part of hell?

The electric light illuminated a dusty parking lot, and the cars that had been in the graves in the darkness for seven days and seven nights looked like zombies, as if they could transform into car mummies at any moment. He saw the rats again, unusually fat rats under the beam......

Big rat big mouse, no food for me! Rats and rats, no food for me! Rats and rats, no food for my seedlings!

Ye Xiao's legs seemed to be out of his control, and he held a flashlight to follow the mice. So, he saw—

Hell!