Chapter 307: The Pursuit of the Headless Man
As soon as he finished speaking, the rope shook even more, and An Beimo and I were swaying back and forth in mid-air, and I hurriedly kicked the wall with my feet to fix our bodies.
At the same time, a force came from the rope, and An Beimo and I actually rose up violently. I was extremely shocked, this situation was clearly someone pulling the rope on it, this was to drag me and An Beimo back.
The companions are already down there, so who will be the one above? And the other party can actually pull me and An Beimo, which shows that the strength is not small.
I hurriedly said to An Beimo: "I'm going to speed up and slide, you be careful, catch me!" With that, I turned up the speed of the rope climber down two gears faster.
But at this moment, the rope shook, and the two of us were pulled up dozens of centimeters again. An Beimo hurriedly said: "Adjust the speed of the slide to the fastest, otherwise the rope will be pulled up too much, and we will be too high off the ground for a while, and it will be difficult to go down!" ”
"Catch it!" I shouted, and in one fell swoop I turned the rope climber to its highest speed.
The descent speed immediately increased several times, and I saw that the wall in front of me began to blur, and I could no longer see the lines on it.
The rope shook violently again, and this time it actually lifted An Beimo and I up by half a meter.
I pulled the gun behind me to me, looked at the top of my head and scolded, "What kind of monster is up there, with so much strength, Hulk?" ”
An Beimo urged me to say: "Don't worry about it, we are still forty or fifty meters from the ground, let's go down first!" ”
As soon as we finished speaking, there was another violent pull on the rope, this time lifting us several meters upward. An Beimo and I were both shocked, the power of pulling the rope is getting bigger and bigger.
I hurriedly said to An Beimo: "It's not good, if we continue like this, our speed of decline is not as fast as the speed of rising." ”
An Beimo looked down and saw that Shen Hao was asking loudly below what happened to us. She pondered for a moment and said to me, "There is no way, we can only give up the rope!" ”
In two sentences, we were pulled up a few meters.
Forty or fifty meters is equivalent to a dozen stories high, and giving up the rope is no different from jumping off a building. However, the width of this hole was not wide enough for me to hold on from both sides, so we became a dilemma of not being able to go up and down.
The only opportunity right now is the recesses in the walls.
I turned my heart sideways, digging one hand into the groove and turning on the switch on the rope climber to hold the rope in place. The sudden force of the fall caused our body to sink downward, and the weight of hundreds of pounds immediately increased to my fingers, and the rope slid up rapidly, and soon disappeared into the darkness above our heads.
An Beimo hung behind me, and when he saw me supporting the two of us with one hand, he hurriedly asked, "Are you okay?" ”
I struggled to say, "It's okay, I don't know who designed these grooves, they are only enough to reach into one hand, but they are really lacking in heart." As I spoke, I looked down to find the groove underneath and picked at it with my other hand. Take a deep breath and let go of the hand above.
Another falling force, plus our weight, was exerted on one of my hands, and it felt like my phalanges were almost broken.
Luckily, there are one of these grooves every few tens of centimeters, and I can use them to move downward. At first, I could barely hold on, but after moving down more than ten meters, my fingers began to feel numb. For safety, I had to take a break to rest.
In the process of descending, neither of us spoke, and then I stopped, An Beimo knew that my arm was too heavy and couldn't last long, so she said lightly: "Let me go!" There are about thirty meters down there, and I should be able to jump straight down. ”
I gasped and said, "Don't make trouble, a normal person jumping more than 30 meters will break his leg, not to mention that you are still injured." You just stay in the back and stay as old as you can, trying not to move, and I just stop to catch my breath. ”
An Beimo said again: "I still have a strap in my bag, you take a break, I will fix our bodies with a band, so that we can separate up and down, I go to the groove below, and then we can climb down together, so that you can also save some effort." ”
I thought about it and said, "The strap is just over a meter long, and it's not very strong, no!" ”
Suddenly, a sound of "click, click, click" came from above my head, although the sound was not loud, but An Beimo and I could hear it clearly.
We both looked up at the same time, and we couldn't see anything in the dark. The voice was becoming clearer, and it was clear that something was crawling down the wall, approaching us. An Beimo took the spotlight and shone it up, and nothing was found in the visible range for the time being.
It must have been the thing that pulled the rope just now, and although I don't know what it was yet, it was able to crawl on the wall, and it was so fast, it was obviously not something we could deal with now.
The situation has changed, and we are only beaten when we hang in the air. I didn't care about the soreness of my fingers, I immediately gritted my teeth and climbed down, and with a lot of hard work, I actually moved down more than ten meters.
It's only twenty meters away from the bottom, as long as we meet up with our teammates, with our firepower, we dare to fight no matter what comes. So I relied on my willpower to persevere, and kept crawling down with my numb hands.
Suddenly, there was a "click, click", and something fell on the top of my head, face, and shoulders, wet and greasy.
I subconsciously wiped it with the back of my hand, and when I reached out to my eyes, it turned out to be blood!
Immediately, I was stunned, why is the thing crawling down from it still bleeding? Could it be an animal, or a person?
Before I could figure it out, An Beimo shouted at me from behind: "Be careful! Something is coming. ”
Surprised, I hurriedly looked up, and under the light of Anbei Mo's spotlight, a bloody thing appeared.
Seeing such a monster really scared me, and I almost let go of my hands. I couldn't help but scold: "Damn, what is this?" ”
The monster moved closer to us a little closer, half of its body exposed to the light, and I realized that it was a human being. It's just that there is no head on my shoulder, only a bloody neck cavity remains, and my body is blood-red, and the blood droplets that just dropped on my body fell from there.
Looking at the clothes on this headless man, it is the spacesuit of the missing astronaut. I said to An Beimo in surprise: "Could it be ...... Could this be Kong Anping? ”
An Beimo had already pulled out the magnetic rail pistol at this time, and shot at the monster, hitting the opponent's arm at the front of the wall, and suddenly another stream of blood spilled down.
At this time, An Beimo said coldly: "This is not Kong Anping, but Zhou Hongtao, who is already dead." Or rather, it is the corpse of Zhou Hongtao who came back from the dead! ”
Although An Beimo's shot pierced that arm, it didn't seem to affect the other party's activities, and he still approached us.
At this time, I also saw clearly that it was indeed Zhou Hongtao, who had died. When I saw it clearly, it made me feel even more incredible. He has no head, but he can still appear in front of us, and he can still crawl quickly on the wall, could it be that he is a ghost?
I never believed in the existence of zombies in this world, nor did I believe that the dead could be brought back to life. But the reality is right in front of me, and I can't find a reasonable explanation at all.
Under the tremendous mental stimulation, I completely ignored the fatigue of my body. I couldn't care about anything else, I crawled down as fast as I could, desperate to get out of this damn place right away.
An Beimo fired continuously in the back to stop the other party's pursuit. Due to the severe bumps, she had difficulty aiming and the hit rate was greatly reduced. Even so, there were a few shots to the other side. But these attacks didn't work at all, except for a few more blood holes on his body, they couldn't stop the other party's approaching at all.
"Stop!" An Beimo shouted at me.
I tried my best to escape just now, and now the other party is only five or six meters away from me. At this time, An Beimo suddenly asked me to stop, and within a few seconds, the monster could come to me, and for a while I thought I had heard it wrong.
However, at this moment, trust played a decisive role, and I immediately stopped according to An Beimo's request.
An Beimo dragged my magnetic rail gun, used my body as a stabilizing stand, and raised it with one hand to shoot upwards continuously. This time, An Beimo was aiming at a place, which was the arm of the monster. After a few shots, break the opponent's arm directly from the elbow joint.
Dodging the rain of blood, I looked up. After the monster's arm broke, the stump fell, revealing a slender metal bracket from under the arm.
I widened my eyes to see what it was, and then An Beimo shot again, hitting the metal limb, "click", and broke the metal limb in two.
The strange corpse that had been shot bravely just now shook violently at this time and almost fell off the wall. This time he finally stopped, and lay on my stomach not far from me. He didn't have a head, but I had the illusion that he was staring at us.
I now finally understand what happened, it was not the corpse that came back to life at all, but someone installed a mechanical scaffold on the limbs of the corpse that could control the human body.
So it was not Zhou Hongtao's corpse that moved freely just now, but the mechanical prosthetic leg that controlled the corpse.
At this time, our teammates below us had already blown up the nest and shouted to us to inquire about the situation, and we should have been not far from the ground by listening to the sound.
I silenced them, then took a few deep breaths and continued to climb down for the last dozen meters.
We didn't move, and neither did the corpse. When I went down, he immediately caught up, but there was one less robotic hand, and the speed was not as fast as before, but it was more than enough to catch up with me.
An Beimo saw that we were still in danger, and she tilted her body to reach the magnetic track behind her, but this action involved a rib injury, and she suddenly gasped in pain.
I knew what she was trying to do, so this time I stopped and gave my free hand to help her pull the gun in front of her, and when she pulled the trigger, I raised one arm to use it as a gun mount for her, and said to her, "Send this monster to hell!" ”