April 9. Monday. Morning, 9:19 a.m.

He woke up from a nightmare.

He dreamed of hell.

When you open your eyes, the sun pierces your pupils through the curtains. Grabbing his hair so hard that each hair was connected to his heart, he felt the pain of the people who died underground...... Through the thin curtains, looking at the dust in the sun, it seems that he is still in the tomb. After seven days and seven nights of Easter night hell exploration, why does the world still look beautiful after thinking that the end of the world has come? Why not as Eliot's "The Waste Land" writes – "April is cruel"? Why do you hear only the laughter of children, the horns of cars, the rustle of leaves in the spring breeze......

He pulled back the curtains. Imagine yourself as a vampire who commits suicide exposed to the spring sun, burning into a miserable mass of ashes.

In the blink of an eye, Ye Xiao was still alive.

The nightmares I had just now, including hell, were all real.

More than nine hours ago, at midnight on April 8, Easter. Ye Xiao, as a police officer on the front line of rescue, broke away from the large army, followed a group of huge rats, and broke into the four-story underground parking lot buried 190 meters underground, and saw hell.

A real hell.

It is impossible to estimate the number of corpses, and the severely decomposed dead are piled on top of each other, I don't know how many, probably at least a few dozen by visual inspection, and the smell of decay that permeates the entire underground is emanating from this hellish cemetery. Ye Xiao was bold enough to get closer, approaching the limits of human psychology and smell, and still couldn't see the faces of those people clearly, either they were rotten to a pulp, or they had already been seriously injured. Some were in uniform and appeared to be staff members of the building, while others were not even fully dressed. What made Ye Xiao even more uncomfortable rather than frightened was that the target of the rats was precisely these corpses, and they had no scruples to burrow into the corpse pile and enjoy the feast of rotting corpses. As for disgusting things such as flies, maggots, and insects, I can't describe them in words, I really want to burn them clean!

A second later, Ye Xiao fell unconscious.

It's not a mental breakdown, but inhaling too much of the smell of rotting corpses, and I'm close to being poisoned.

At this moment, waking up in the hospital, my brain is buzzing, and it seems that there is still some memory, covered by a black mist. Even though it was only for a few minutes, it was no longer possible to see clearly. He tugged at his hair, trying to remember everything underground—but the life-saving metal chain he grabbed suddenly snapped and plunged him into the abyss.

Ye Xiao was sure that until he regained that lost memory, he would stay in a hell at a depth of one hundred and ninety meters.

The windows could not be opened, and the outside was like a prison with iron bars. Is it a psychiatric hospital? The injured hand had been bandaged, there was a band-aid on the back of the hand, it was probably infused with fluids when he was unconscious, his body was full of the smell of disinfectant water, and the police uniform was replaced by a hospital gown.

He subconsciously touched his armpit, oops—the gun was gone!

His heart became cold, and just as he was about to take the door, his partner, Officer Wang, walked in.

"Where's my gun?" Ye Xiao didn't even say a polite word, and asked bluntly.

"Don't worry, I unloaded your gun with my own hands, how dare the little nurses touch your gun?"

"I'm afraid I'll lose it underground."

"When you are found in the garage on the fourth basement floor, there are only rats but dead people, who else will get your gun?"

"Well, even if I've watched too much of Resident Evil."

"The rescue team immediately sent you back to the ground and then taken by ambulance to this hospital. They changed all your clothes, sprayed you with disinfectant all over your body, and gave you an infusion. The doctor says your body is unexpectedly healthy, don't worry! ”

Hearing this, Ye Xiao pulled up his pants and looked at them, and sure enough, he even changed his underwear! Fortunately, he was not prepared to shave his skin.

"Wang, have you found any other survivors?"

"There were only six survivors, and the rest were all dead."

"Let me see your watch!" Ye Xiao didn't wait for Lao Wang's consent, and directly pulled his wrist over, "It's ten o'clock in the morning - hurry up and control those six survivors, and definitely don't let them go home!" ”

"Do you suspect that one of them killed the first dead you found?"

"That's right, when I found him in the cinema projection room, the blood on the ground hadn't dried yet, and there was no doubt that he had just been killed by cutting his throat! Moreover, the hands of the deceased were crushed in the rubble, and it was impossible to commit suicide at all. ”

Lao Wang is in his forties, and his speech has always been calm: "I also thought of this." The six survivors have become the focus of the world's attention, and as soon as they are brought to the ground, they are admitted to the hospital, where they are tightly controlled by the authorities — not because of the homicide, but because of the original plan of the rescue headquarters. ”

"I see. The leaders have seen too much of the "Alien" series, believing that there is some terrible prehistoric bacteria hidden underground, and once it spreads to humans, it will cause a real apocalypse! ”

"Who knows! In short, your six witnesses are also suspects, and they can't easily leave here, and they must be isolated on the fourth floor of this hospital. Even if family members come to visit, they must be behind protective glass, and physical contact is strictly prohibited. ”

Ye Xiao thought to himself, that wouldn't be a prison visit. If there were any prehistoric bacteria, none of the rescue team would have been able to come back. And the self who rescued the survivors with his own hands has long been infected and can only wait for death.

Well, if you wait to die, you will wait to die, anyway, he has already waited for death once, and it doesn't hurt to wait for death again.

"By the way, what about the dog that was found in the movie projector room?"

He was still thinking about the throat-slitting murder, and the loyal dog was the only eyewitness.

"It was also a miracle that the Labrador was rescued alive. The military veterinarian examined it and found that it had a broken leg, but the injuries were not serious. This catastrophic dog has become a national treasure-level pet, and the relevant departments are quarantining it. Until the results of the test are available, no one is allowed to touch the animal, except for the veterinarian wearing the protective suit. ”

"Hurry up and send police officers to guard this dog 24 hours a day, maybe you can find important clues in it."

"It's been done a long time ago. Aren't you usually very calm, why are you so anxious today? ”

Ye Xiao didn't know how to answer. Perhaps, the experience of walking in hell can change a person's character? He was silent for a long time and walked out of the ward: "Can you give me another set of police uniforms?" ”