Not to mention what happened after Li Guodong and his party drove away, and let the time go back a little, just after Tang Cheng, Alice and Rebecca entered the villa, Tang Cheng found that although this villa looked a little scary and eerie, it was not too unusual, and the silence was just like a haunted house.

Of course, the three people present are all quick-minded people, and it is difficult to become pig teammates, and they all know in their hearts that since this is the second research institute of the umbrella, it will not be as simple as it seems...... As long as you refer to the hive, it is not difficult to come up with the simple hidden methods of the umbrella company.

"So, let's split up and find the secret passage." Tang Cheng said lightly, and then he walked up the stairs to the second floor and swayed around.

Alice and Rebecca searched on either side of the first floor.

Twenty minutes later, the three returned to the stairs on the first floor, shook their heads at each other, and said they had found nothing, during which Rebecca reported her safety twice over the intercom.

"It seems that the Umbrella Company has done a very good job of hiding here." Alice frowned and asked Rebecca, "Haven't your colleagues been here, don't they have a clue?" ”

Rebecca shook her head, "The only thing I got was that there was a very terrifying monster in this villa, which was sent by my colleague before he died, and I didn't know anything else. ”

Afterwards, Tang Cheng inspected the first floor for a while, and said while analyzing: "I didn't check particularly carefully on the second floor, because I think the probability of hiding the secret passage on the second floor is very small, after all, according to the habits of the umbrella company, their base is generally underground, and in addition, if there are really terrifying monsters here, it is difficult to stop them with this villa, and most of them are also locked underground, so they can't get out." So, if there is nothing unusual even on the first floor, then the only suspicious ...... This is the staircase. ”

After finishing speaking, Tang Cheng's gaze had already fallen on the stairs in front of him.

As a rectilinear staircase, unlike most buildings, the staircase of this villa does not lean against the wall, but is located in the center of the hall, and it is quite wide enough to accommodate at least five adults standing side by side.

Alice nodded, "In terms of design, this staircase is indeed quite suspicious, but we have already looked for it, and there is no hidden mechanism on the staircase." ”

Alice, who used to be the head of security for the hive, was obviously top-notch in this regard, so her tone was quite confident.

"Perhaps, there is no mechanism here." Tang Cheng smiled slightly, he didn't doubt Alice's judgment, but he had other thoughts in his heart, and while he was talking, he was already holding the hands of the two women, and walked up the stairs one left and one right, "Come, let me take you to pretend to be forced and take you to fly." ”

The two women glanced at each other, their eyes were full of doubts, and they didn't know what kind of fame Tang Cheng was doing. Of course, as Western women, their concepts are relatively open, but they don't feel that there is a problem, and let Tang Cheng pull them up the stairs.

Then, when he reached the fifth step, Tang Cheng stopped.

"What's wrong?" Rebecca asked instinctively.

Tang Cheng didn't answer, and made a silent gesture.

Three seconds later, with a click, the stairs trembled slightly, and Alice and Rebecca were immediately on alert, but before they could react, suddenly, the stairs began to sink violently......

Really flew! But not to the sky, but to the ground!

Of course, to be more precise, as the "trap" activated, the entire staircase began to descend underground.

At this time, in addition to Tang Cheng still being as calm as ever, Alice and Rebecca were a little frightened, because the landing speed of this staircase was too fast, it was just like an off-line elevator, if it was lowered to the bottom at this speed, the three of them would definitely die.

Fortunately, this did not happen, although the second research institute had been abandoned by the Umbrella Company, the equipment was not damaged, and after a while, the sharp downward trend slowly subsided, until it clicked and stood still.

Looking at the situation, it seems that the stairs have been lowered to the bottom.

It was underground, there was no sunlight, the gap above had been closed when the stairs fell, and it was obviously impossible for the abandoned research institute to continue to maintain power, so it was pitch black in front of the three of them, and nothing could be seen, only a rancid smell wafting from the front.

Even though Alice and Rebecca are extraordinary, they are a little nervous in such a situation.

The two hurriedly turned on the flashlights and shone around, and found that there were walls behind them and on the left and right sides, and only a passage in front of them was slightly wider than the stairs.

"Looks like this is the so-called Second Research Institute." Tang Cheng said.

"How did you know about the Dao Organ?" Rebecca asked incredulously, and Alice also looked at him curiously, although both of them knew that there was something unusual about this staircase, but with them, it was absolutely impossible to find a way down so easily.

Tang Cheng smiled slightly, and did not hide it, "In fact, it is also very simple, there are generally only two ways to open a secret passage like this, one is to set up a mechanism like a beehive, and the other is to trigger it by the person himself, since we didn't find the mechanism in the villa, it means that the mechanism does not exist, so it can only be the second one......"

Rebecca quickly had a question, "Didn't you think about it, maybe we didn't find the mechanism, but it didn't exist?" ”

"It can't be!" Tang Cheng categorically vetoed, "If there is an organ, I will definitely be able to find it, since I can't find it, it means that there is no, there is no doubt about this." ”

...... "The two girls are embarrassed, you are too confident, right?"

It's also that they don't know Tang Cheng, if they know a little about him, they can know the Tao of Lu, Tang Cheng's extreme way of thinking is like the second disease, and he is accustomed to it in his life. To put it simply, what he thinks is right must be right, and if he thinks it is wrong, then even if it is right, it must become wrong.

And once what he approves of deviates from reality, then he will think: It's not my fault, it's the fault of the world!

To put it nicely, Tang Cheng has 100% trust in himself.

To put it mildly, he is an arrogant, arrogant and narcissistic super-neurotic who is self-centered, firmly believes that the world revolves around him, and even gravity is in his service.

But!

The most incredible thing is that Tang Cheng's paranoid and extreme way of thinking rarely makes mistakes, which also leads some people to be full of awe of Tang Cheng, or, in the hearts of those people, the existence of Tang Cheng alone is incredible enough.

"Of course, there's a more important reason for that." Tang Cheng didn't care about the strange gazes of the two girls, he just smiled, "I wrote a novel before, the protagonist is a murderer based on myself, and the most commonly used is this kind of automatic trigger mechanism. And the setting of the second research institute is actually a little bit more pediatric, and if I set it up, it can be made more refined, such as ......"

"Well, I don't need to explain this in detail." Alice was afraid that Tang would make a big fuss, so she quickly interrupted him, she didn't have much time left, but she didn't have any extra effort to talk nonsense here.

As for Rebecca, she was shocked when she heard the six words "murderer" with the camera turned off, and even wrote herself as a murderer, and said it openly, if this was in peacetime, she wouldn't mind often inviting Tang Cheng to the police station for coffee.

"Really? That's a shame. Tang Cheng sighed with a little pity, but said no more, and walked towards the top of the stairs with a flashlight.

Soon, Tang Cheng saw that less than a meter away from the top of the stairs, there was a bitten and mutilated corpse lying there, the dirty clothes could vaguely distinguish that it was the staff of the institute, most of the body had rotted and emitted a foul smell, and the only remaining hand was tightly grasping the ground in front of him.

Tang Cheng glanced at it a few times, and immediately laughed, "Ha Luha, this guy is really an unlucky guy, he is only one meter away from the finish line, but he was still caught by zombies at the last moment, it's really pitiful." ”

He said pitifully, but his expression seemed very happy.

Although Alice and Rebecca also wished that all the people in the Umbrella Company were dead, they didn't have such a bad taste, and they frowned when they looked at the corpse.

Because judging from the wounds of this corpse, the other party was obviously not bitten by a zombie, but more like some kind of large animal.

Like what...... Creepers!

"Maybe it won't be long before we, too, become as poor as he is." After saying this, Alice stepped forward first.

Being in the dark, with the help of a flashlight, the irradiation range is only that one, and it is difficult to look at all sides, and the light source of the flashlight may also attract enemies, making it difficult to feel at ease.

"It seems that we should find the power switch first, although I don't know if the power supply system here in Langdao is still useful, but the situation is too bad for us now." Rebecca suggested.

Tang Cheng didn't object, but asked, "Do you know where the power switch is?" ”

"I'll leave this to me, the umbrella company has certain rules for the construction of the institute, although I don't dare to say that I know it completely, but I have to be familiar with it, in addition, in the aisle, there should also be a hint." Alice said.

So, the job of leading the way was handed over to Alice, and as she said, the location of the power switch was indicated in some places, so the three of them were much more relaxed.

In the meantime, another ten minutes passed, and Rebecca reported safety by the way.

At the same time, Tang Cheng took a look at the task prompt and found that there were only forty minutes left before Alice's mutation time, although the time was a little tight, but if everything went well, he should be able to find the antibiotic before the mutation.

However, will a side quest with such a huge reward really go so smoothly?

The answer is clearly no.

Minutes passed, and just as the three of them had come to a crossroads, a muffled voice rang out around them, accompanied by the sound of a beast chewing.

In such an environment, this sound is particularly terrifying, Alice and Rebecca quickly raised their guns, flashlights shining around, their eyes full of vigilance.

"Get out of the way!" At this moment, Tang Cheng suddenly yelled.

Alice and Rebecca didn't know what they wanted, but they believed Tang Cheng and instinctively retreated to the rear.

And then...... Bang!

In the messy light, I saw a huge monster pounce from above, smashing right on the spot where the three of them were standing before. The monster's movements were very fast, and after a flutter, it immediately returned to the wall and hid before the flashlights of the three people shone through, and the three of them could only see its small half.

"What's that? Creepers? Rebecca exclaimed.

"Looks like it's supposed to be...... Oops, I didn't expect there to be so many creepers here. Alice said in a deep voice.

Yes, there wasn't just one monster just now, because the previous chewing and roaring were not coming from the same direction, and even more sounds rang out when the monster pounced.

If that monster is really a creeper, then there is a high chance that they will face more than multiple creepers!

"Ahh Suddenly, Rebecca exclaimed again.

"What's wrong?" Alice asked hurriedly.

"Walkie-talkie...... Broken. Rebecca said in frustration. It turned out that at the moment of dodging just now, Rebecca accidentally fell to the ground, just so that the walkie-talkie in her arms flew out of the hole and smashed into pieces.

"If it's bad, it's bad, as long as people don't have trouble." Alice breathed a sigh of relief and said as she walked over, "Whether it's a creeper or some other monster, let's continue to ...... to the power room."

"Wait!" Before Alice finished speaking, Tang Cheng suddenly stopped her quickly.

Alice's heart moved, and the flashlight immediately shone towards Tang Cheng, and found that the other party was squatting on the floor, with a serious expression, as if listening to something.

"Run!" After more than ten seconds, Tang Cheng stood up violently, shouted and quickly turned around and ran back.

Seeing him like this, coupled with the fact that there was indeed a slight noise under his feet, the two of them also realized that something bad was happening, their faces changed, and they quickly turned around and ran away.

And just after the three of them ran for more than ten seconds, suddenly, the floor under their feet trembled, and then centered on the crossroads, the surrounding floor quickly cracked, and the nearby room fell down.

With the sound of bang, bang