Chapter 72: Diary (2)
Everyone laughed at the nostalgia of the owner of the diary, and urged Huang Yaju to read it down. Huang Yaju raised her head slightly and leaned towards the torch, the light of the torch flickered and flickered, swaying and flickering, shining people's shadows long and distorted!
April 4, Showa 19
Today Kurata they found a huge deep hole underneath the rubble. When the entrance of the cave was dug open, a large amount of purple-red smoke suddenly emitted from it, and then many people at the scene had strange hallucinations to varying degrees!
In order to find out what was under the cave, Kurata ordered the Shina people to go down to the bottom of the cave. But none of the people who entered the Great Cave made it back alive! Kurata sent a small group of soldiers down, all of whom wore gas masks and weapons, but after they went down, no one returned! Kurata and I realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately ordered the hole to be refilled to prevent a more serious situation! But just as we made this decision, a strange creature suddenly sprang out of the cave! It was a terrifying creature covered in black hair, moving as fast as a ghost, killing everyone it could see, not even a bullet! I commanded the scattered soldiers, sealed the monster in the alleyway, and planned to kill it with poison gas!
But Maruyama, who is in charge of the laboratory, has his own plans, and he wants to release his experimental object "Living Dead" to fight that monster! We'll all call him Maruyama here, and Maruyama is in charge of a top-secret experimental project, codenamed "503". As far as I know, his experiments consist of people and strange creatures that they inject with large amounts of nerve agents and transform them into machines that hunt humans. Once the Pacific Theater is in need, these experiments from Maruyama will come in handy! I once saw with my own eyes that he turned a normal person into a "living dead" who was not afraid of life and death!
Maruyama released the "living dead", but the "living dead" seemed to be very afraid of the creature, and instead of rushing at the monster as we expected, they attacked us...... At this point, we completely lost control of the fortress, and had to close part of the fortress, refusing to stay in the innermost part of the fortress, intending to wait for rescue from outside!
But what was worse was that the soldiers began to get sick one after another, and most of them had the same symptoms, all of them were stiff limbs, gibberish, and high fevers, which, according to the medical officer's report, were infected with a strange virus, which was not even recorded in the medical books! I noticed that these patients had a red patch all over their bodies, which covered the skin of the dying people, and I rolled up my sleeve and found that I had the same red patch on my arm......!
The medic dissected the corpse of a soldier and found that the corpse's internal organs had melted into a black liquid. Soldiers were dying in agony, and the sound of wailing and moaning resounded throughout the fortress! I'm completely helpless, if this virus spreads, it will cause a much larger infection, and then it will be devastating to the Empire! I radioed to the base camp about what was happening here, and the call back from the base camp was only eight words: "Blow up the exit, close the fortress."
But what are we going to do if we blow up the exit? Do you want to be buried at the bottom of the mountain with this fortress? Will Brocade and Kiriko also accompany me to die? No, never, I'm going to get out of the fortress with them!
There are four exits to this underground fortress, three of which are the main exits, and the other is a secret passage, which is designed to escape in case of emergency. This exit is at the other end of the fortress, and to reach that exit, you must travel through the uninhabited area controlled by the terrifying creatures and the many undead!
I explained my plan to my subordinates, and then gave the order to destroy the three exits. With a few violent explosions, I addressed all the soldiers who were able to move, telling them about the harsh reality we are facing now. Eventually, most of the soldiers were willing to follow me through the secret exit, and the few who couldn't move had to stay in the fortress forever! At the same time, I sent someone to pick up the brocade and the punchi, and told them that I was waiting for them at the secret exit, hoping that the brocade they would catch up with us in time ......!
April 13, Showa 19
According to the plan, we moved out of the headquarters and searched along the evacuation route, accompanied by Kurata and Maruyama, and the whole team stretched for a long distance. Maruyama and I walked in the middle of the team, everyone was nervous and scared, we didn't know what was hidden in the darkness, and no one in the whole team dared to speak, waiting for fate to give us the final verdict! By the way, the soldiers have already given the creature the terrifying name "ghoul". As for why they gave it such a scary name, I still don't understand. But my guess is that they probably foresaw in advance the two things they would eventually become in this world through the image of that creature, that is, corpses and ghosts, immobile corpses and wandering ghosts, and that's it!
At nine o'clock, all the lights in the fortress were turned off, and I guess the fuel for the generator was burned out! At 10:30 we heard fierce gunfire, and I thought it was the trapped soldiers who were unwilling to be restrained and were resisting to the death! The gunfire went from dense to sparse, and then gradually fell silent. I saw that the soldiers' faces had turned yellow like wax, and I knew with them that those who had resisted so desperately might have all died by now. I'm not scared of death, but the suffocating fear of an opponent you can't defeat will drive you crazy! I have been silently praying in my heart that we will reach the secret exit safely!
There were more than a hundred of us in our group, but in the dark fortress, they seemed so small and helpless. I whispered an order to the soldiers to be on guard and not to make any noise! However, by this time it was too late, and we were suddenly attacked by ghouls from behind. The soldiers desperately shoot at the ghouls, but even then, we can't stop the ghouls from tearing the captured soldiers alive!
Maruyama and I saw that the situation was not good, and while the ghouls were chasing and killing the others, we turned into another alleyway and temporarily escaped the ghouls' entanglement. We fled a long way, but we could still hear the miserable wails of the soldiers behind us......!
April 17, Showa 19
We have been lost in the fortress for five days, during which time we have been deprived of food and water, and even ammunition is left! We must find a secret exit, or we'll all die inside the fortress! We can only grope our way forward in the dark, and we don't know if there will be other living people in the fortress besides us. Are brocade and Kiriko still alive? Or will the garrison outside the fortress come to our rescue? If we can't find a secret passage, we must try to find the telegraph room and send a distress telegram to the base camp to tell them that there are still people alive ......!
April of the 19th year of Showa
How many days is it in April? I can't remember. The watch doesn't turn anymore, and the number of people around me is decreasing every day, and they are either eaten by ghouls or by their own people. Our fate seems to swing between two mouths, either from this mouth or from that mouth. I once saw with my own eyes a few sturdy soldiers, sneakily hiding in the corner, eating a thigh ......!
Here, the ghouls prey on us for food, and we ourselves are busy fighting each other, feeding on the weaker among them! Men have become beasts, they are more terrible than the elusive ghouls, they approach you with a smile on their faces, but they may only want to fill their empty bellies with you! It has become a Shura field without law, morality and mercy, where there is only killing and wailing, and in order to live, people can do all kinds of terrible things...... I feel like we'll never get out......!
The soldiers have lost all the honor and standards of being soldiers, and I know that I have lost control of the soldiers, what they are planning. I saw the soldiers smoking around and when they saw me coming, they immediately stopped talking and had a weird smile on their faces! I think something is wrong and I should get out of their ......!
Inside the dark fortress, I groped my way and wondered how far I had gone. There were dead bodies everywhere, most of them were dead, and the only ones who were left didn't know where they were hiding! I staggered forward, hoping to see Brocade and Kiriko one last time, but where were they? I knew I had come to the end of my life, and I sat in the tunnel and wrote down the words, hoping that future generations would discover this diary and find out what had happened here! I hope Kiriko and Brocade can survive......!
This is the end of the diary, and the owner of the diary ended his life at this moment. Guo Jiefang saw that the place where the dead man's body was facing was the direction of the residential area behind them! The last few pages of that diary, written messily and scribbly, almost illegible, revealed between the lines of reluctance to live and longing for family affection, but they didn't expect that their family of three died tragically in this underground fortress! Everyone sighed and sighed, Guo Jiefang folded his hands and prayed silently: "Ben Ya Qing Ya, Ben Ya Qing Ya, your daughter and your wife have already gone with you, I hope you don't remember them anymore, you rest in peace!" ”。 I don't know if it was Benjamin's spirit, or by chance, the dead body leaning against the wall suddenly fell to the ground! Everyone was taken aback, and they didn't dare to laugh at the contents of the diary anymore!
From the diary, everyone finally knew about the terrible events that happened here thirty years ago, and also knew why there were so many huge and strange creatures in the fortress, but they never found any trace of the ghoul who caused the entire fortress to be wiped out. What is inside that black hole dug up more than 30 years ago? Where is the secret exit mentioned many times in the diary?