Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Terrible Guess
Kuanzi picked up the flashlight and shone it at the man, shouting, "Who! ”
I heard the man slowly reply, "It's me!" "When Kuanzi and I heard it, it was Tie Ying's voice. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info saw that Tie Ying's hair was scattered, and the clothes on his body were torn many times, and there were traces of scratches everywhere.
Kuanzi looked at the iron and said, "Iron probe, what did you do like this." ”
Tie Ying listened and said, "You two are embarrassed to say that if you slipped away so fast, the pursuers behind were all coming at me." ”
Hiroko and I listened a little apologetic. I originally thought that Cheng Gongzi didn't send chasing soldiers over, it turned out that there were still chasing soldiers, but they all went to chase Tie Ying.
I listened and quickly said, "Maybe those corpse babies look at you beautifully, anyway, it's good to meet me all the way." ”
Tie Ying smiled and said, "You finally said something human." ”
Immediately the three of us returned to the cave. Tie Ying quickly took out another set of clothes from his bag and put them on. Although we often go on expeditions in the wilderness, she has always maintained a very good cleaning habit, unlike me and Hiroko, who often get covered in gray faces and don't care.
Now that the corpse infant army has gone ahead of us, I asked Tie Yingdao, "What should we do now?" ”
Tie Ying said, "Let's go to Koyuki and Keiko to meet first, and then discuss the next plan of action. ”
Hiroko and I listened and felt that with the current situation, we could only do this.
We packed our gear and were about to walk under the riverbank, when Tie Ying suddenly shouted, "Wait, squat down." Someone's coming. ”
Kuanko and I stopped and quickly crouched behind a large rock. We put on our night vision devices and saw a group of infant soldiers searching down the riverbank from upstream.
There were only about 10 corpse babies in this team, which was not a lot.
Hiroko made a "kill them" gesture with her hand. Tie Ying shook his head. That means, wait and see.
Soon, the squad of corpse babies passed in front of us. After about 100 meters, they reached the tributary where we came.
By this time, the water level in the underground river had dropped considerably, and if they had followed the tributary, they would soon find the home of the black-clad messenger.
In that case, we'll have to kill them.
As soon as the leading corpse infant stretched out his hand, the corpse infant team walked in the direction of the tributary.
Tie Ying whispered, "You can't let them in, kill them!" ”
We picked up our guns and were about to shoot, when all of a sudden, we heard a few loud "booms", and the corpse baby squad was blown up in an instant. Amid the screams of several corpse babies, the surviving corpse babies screamed and fled in all directions.
With the experience of last time, this time we will not dare to act rashly. Maybe this is a pit dug by some powerful person, just waiting for us to jump down.
We waited twenty minutes, but there was no movement around us.
Hiroko said, "It should be fine. Everywhere I looked, I felt like they were stepping on a landmine. ”
I said, "The problem is that we were okay when we came yesterday?" Somebody's going to plant mines there."
Tie Ying listened and said: "Actually, think about it, if there is no corpse baby team, who is most likely to take that path"
Kuanzi and I listened to Tie Ying's words, and we couldn't help but break out in cold sweat on our foreheads. That was the only way for us to get back to the black-clad messenger's house, and it was clear that the man who planted the mines was not trying to blow up the corpses, he was trying to deal with us.
Kuanzi said: "I think it must have been the man in black who did it again!" This bitch is so fucking ruthless! No one would have thought that there would be landmines buried near this underground river. If it weren't for these corpse babies, maybe when we came back, we would have been hit. ”
Tie Ying said at this time: "I suddenly thought of something. The corpses we met in the tributaries, they came from behind us. From here to the house of the black-clothed messenger, there was no other branch. In other words, even if the corpse babies did not come from the house of the black-clad messenger, they would have passed through the cave from which we had set out. And judging by the way they were at that time, it seemed as if they were moving through that tributary, and it was obvious that they often swam in that channel. Strangely, they and the black-clad messengers didn't seem to notice each other. ”
I listened and said, "Do you suspect that these corpse babies were fed by the black-clothed messengers?" ”
Tie Ying said with a puzzled expression on his face: "No matter how you look at it, even if the black-clothed messenger really didn't find out about the existence of these corpse babies, then these corpse babies, including their domesticators, should have discovered the black-clothed emissary's home a long time ago, but why didn't she let the corpse babies attack the black-clothed emissary's home, this is really incomprehensible!" ”
Kuanzi listened and said: "Actually, the most reasonable explanation is what Staff Officer Pan has just said. These corpse babies were domesticated by those Taoyuan Village people who lived in the house of the black-clothed messenger! It's just that you don't want to accept this conclusion."
Tie Ying asked, "If it was domesticated by them, what was their purpose?" Why did they kill Keiko? Did the black-clothed emissary know about it, or did he arrange all this? ”
In my heart, I still can't accept that it was the black-clothed messenger who domesticated those corpse babies and sent someone to kill Keiko. After all, when I was in the Moon Shadow Shrine, he had saved my life several times, and in my heart, I had long regarded him as one of our own.
But if the Man in Black is really him, what are we going to do?
With the strength of a few of us, we can't compete with him at all.
I saw that Tie Ying and Kuanzi both had heavy faces, so I said, "Since I can't figure it out, don't think about it yet, let's go and meet Xiaoxue and Ah Xiu first." ”
Immediately, the three of us set off and walked upstream.
We walked along the river bank for half and twenty minutes, and we saw that the underground river was full of corpses. The further you go, the more corpses there are, some of these corpses are the corpses of corpse babies, and some are the corpses of people from Lao Jiumen. With so many corpses sandwiched together, it looks a bit like the apocalyptic scene in an American zombie blockbuster.
As we walked, we had to hide from the corpse babies patrolling the riverbank. So we're not moving very fast.
After another ten minutes of walking, the dam of the underground river finally appeared in front of our eyes. I saw that the dam was crawling with corpse babies at this time, and it seemed that the corpse babies had already taken the dam down.
Cheng Gongzi's yacht was parked a few hundred meters away from us. At this moment, the yacht was extremely quiet, except for a few corpse baby soldiers walking back and forth on patrol. Cheng Gongzi and Lra Fan have disappeared.
Soon we arrived at the meeting place agreed with the judge. The strange thing is that we searched for a long time, but we didn't find Xiaoxue and Ah Xiu.
Kuanzi opened his throat and learned the cuckoo to call a few times, which was the signal we agreed upon when we acted before.
Tie Ying listened and said, "Don't scream, don't lure the corpse baby over." You don't want to think about what cuckoos are in this underground river."
Kuanzi was instantly embarrassed when she heard this, and said, "I didn't expect this. Staff Officer Pan, didn't you, the staff officer, think of this when you formulated the joint code? What a serious dereliction of duty you have! ”
I said, "We decided to discard this code before we left. It was you who were busy with Axiu at the time, so you missed this party meeting, can you blame me? ”
Kuanzi listened and said, "Then don't you tell me what is behind you!" ”
I said, "Didn't I never get a chance!" ”
Tie Ying saw that the two of us were still so poor at this time, so he said, "Don't be poor, you two should look everywhere."
After another careful search, we finally saw some equipment left by Xiaoxue and Ah Xiu behind a large rock.
The equipment was placed behind a large rock, the zipper of the bag was open, and it seemed that they had left in a hurry.
There is a set of faint footprints behind the stone, one after the other, walking in the direction of the dam.
It seems that the two of them went to the dam.
Kuanzi said: "What's the matter with these two little girls, didn't they tell them to wait for us here?" What went first on their own. ”
I said, "Have they already connected with the black-clothed messenger, who told them to help?" ”
Tie Ying shook his head and said, "If that's the case, even if you go in a hurry, Xiaoxue will leave a message to tell me." Looking at this situation, the biggest possibility is that they were discovered by the corpse baby army and taken to the dam hostage. ”
We've seen the Corpse Babies charging on yachts before, they don't just walk on the ground like humans, some of them climb on the rock walls, and move quickly.
The place where Xiaoxue and Ah Xiu were hiding happened to be on the route of the corpse baby's charge, so Tie Ying's speculation was still very well-founded.
We followed the footsteps of the two men, and only a few meters ahead, the footsteps of the two men were mixed in with the footprints of the corpse baby, and it was impossible to trace.
Tie Ying saw it and said, "Let's go, let's go to the dam too." In any case, Xiaoxue and Ah Xiu must be retrieved. ”
Fortunately, there were not many corpses on the dam at this time. First, they may have concentrated their forces to fight the fortress, and secondly, Cheng Gongzi may feel that in addition to his corpse infant troops in this underground river, they are the people of the Old Nine. Therefore, after the capture of the dam, not too many people were left to guard it.
Seeing that those soldiers were all drowsy, Tie Ying said: "Looking at the state of these corpse baby soldiers, Cheng Gongzi should not be on the dam. ”
Kuanzi listened and said: "The problem is that this dam is so high, why should we go up!" ”
Before Hiroko finished speaking, suddenly, several lights shone at us on the dam.
We were about to move away when we heard several gunshots and several bullets hitting the ground next to us. Apparently this is just a warning shot, and if we are moving, the next shot may hit us.
At this time, I only heard a corpse baby on the dam say: "Baga, stand in place, don't move, if you move again, you will be killed!" ”
We had to stand still.
Kuanzi said: "Staff Officer Pan, we haven't caught up with the eight years of resistance against Japan, we can't be ashamed today, after going up in a while, we will destroy these turtle grandchildren first."
Tie Ying listened and said, "Listening to the accent of their voices, it seems to be those corpse babies under Yamamu's men. "We have seen Cheng Gongzi's corpse infant troops, and they have basically lost their human language ability. The corpse babies under Yamaki also communicate in human language.
Kuanzi listened and said: "Why can the corpse baby warrior of the little RB understand human words, but the corpse baby warrior of Cheng Gongzi can't understand it?"
I said, "I think it's a difference in the depth of conversion. Although the corpse baby warriors of the little RB have changed physically, they have not lost their human consciousness! Cheng Gongzi's corpse babies have completely lost their human consciousness, and they are actually like a tool of Cheng Gongzi. ”
Tie Ying said: "I think this may also be deliberately done by Cheng Gongzi. If the Corpse Infant Force still retains human consciousness, it will be difficult to control and command them. Cheng Gongzi only needs them to obey his commands, and he doesn't need them to be able to speak. And without human consciousness, these corpse babies look even more brutal, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger. ”
At this time, a squad of corpse babies came to us with a quick run. Strangely enough, they didn't take away our weapons or our equipment, they just escorted us to the bottom of the dam.
This is the first time I've seen such an escort.
Could it be that these infant soldiers are so confident that even if we have weapons on them, we will not pose a threat to them?
At the bottom of the dam there is an iron gate, and after entering the iron gate, we find that there are several lifts inside the iron gate.
The corpses escorted us into the elevator. After the lift, about a floor up, we came to the top of the dam.
As soon as we got out of the staircase, a corpse baby opened its bloody mouth and pounced on us.
We were about to fight back, but the baby's movements stopped in mid-air. It turned out that its body had been seized by another, stronger corpse baby.
The strong corpse baby roared in anger and threw the corpse infant who wanted to attack us off the dam. Listening to the screams of the corpse baby as it fell, I felt goosebumps all over my body.
The other corpse babies who had wanted to attack us saw this and retreated.
I only heard the strong corpse baby say: "The three are frightened, please come here"
It was only then that I realized that the corpses on the dam had been divided into two groups. On the left is Cheng Gongzi's original corpse infant unit. And the one on the right is the RB corpse baby unit that Cheng Gongzi just recruited.
The ones who wanted to attack us just now were Cheng Gongzi's original corpse infant troops. And the corpse baby who saved us is obviously the corpse baby warrior of the RB people.
We followed the corpse infant warrior to the right for about ten meters and entered a small house. The house was similar to a defense tower, it was not large, there were several corpse babies guarding the outside of the house, and the house was crowded with injured corpse babies.
The corpse infant warrior who led us in seemed to be the leader of this group of corpse babies, and when the other corpse babies saw him coming, they all stood up, some of them were injured and couldn't stand up, and their eyes were full of respect for him.
The leading corpse baby calmed the wounded and then turned to us and said, "My name is Yamamoto, and I came to you because I wanted to cooperate with you. ”
All three of us were scared.
Tie Ying listened and asked, "General Yamamoto, what kind of cooperation method?"
Yamamoto said, "You have also seen that although we have taken refuge in Cheng Gongzi. But he doesn't trust us. After General Yamada was killed, we were placed in the first echelon of the attack, and as you can see, there are only a few of my men left. When attacking the fort, he wanted us to go first, but I refused on the grounds that my troops needed to be repaired. I could tell he was angry. I think he'll kill us when he comes back after he attacks the fort. So, now we can only rely on our own strength to get the antidote, restore our human form, and then we can go back to our families back to find us. We can take you into the fortress, but you have to help us find the antidote. What do you see? ”
Tie Ying thought for a while and said, "General Yamamoto, I regret what happened to you. I can work with you, but you have to listen to me. After you have sent us to the fortress, you are to return and find a safe place for us. Trust me, I'll bring the antidote back to you. Even if we add you, we are not the opponents of Cheng Gongzi and Lao Jiumen at all in terms of numbers, so we can only outwit this time. Bringing too many people will affect the efficiency of our actions. ”
Yamamoto nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for you here." When are you leaving? ”
Tie Ying said, "It's better now. Oh, there's one more thing I'd like to ask the general, have you ever seen two girls! ”
Yamamoto listened and said, "Oh, those two girls followed Cheng Gongzi's envoy into the fortress. ”
The three of us were stunned. Who is this envoy of Cheng Gongzi?
Yamamoto listened and said, "I don't know who she is. She was dressed in black all over her body, only her eyes were exposed, and she had a token of Cheng Gongzi in her hand, and we had to let them in. ”
Hiroko and I both shouted, "Man in Black! ”
Tie Ying said: "Don't jump to conclusions yet. Don't you know that General Yamada was killed by a man in black? What was so easy to let her in. ”
Yamamoto listened and said, "The man in black who killed General Yamada is a man, and I have personally fought with him, so I confirm this. But the man in black who took those two girls into the fortress was a woman! So she's not the murderer of General Yamada."
Seeing that Yamamoto was so sure, we had no choice but to believe him. In this way, the man in black is not one, but two, a man and a woman.
Kuanzi listened and said: "Now even the killer is showing affection, and the whole world is abusing single dogs!" Come on, let's not study how many of them are. Hurry, let's go into the fortress, catch the woman, and everything will be clear. ”
On the dam, a kayak is ready.
Yamamoto pointed to a white building in the middle of the lake and said, "That's the fortress." ”
We looked in the direction he was pointing and were instantly stunned. I saw that the building in the lake was like a full moon, standing there quietly. Its color, shape, and appearance are exactly the same as the Lunaris Shrine we've seen before.
Hiroko rubbed her eyes and said, "I'm not fucking dreaming, am I?" This is the Lunaris Shrine! Are we still trapped in the Moon Shadow Shrine? ”
I nodded and said, "Possibly?" ”
Only Tie Ying said, "Is it the Moon Shadow Divine Palace, don't you know if you go over and take a look." Get on board. ”
The two of us listened and hurriedly got into the kayak.
Tie Ying activated the motor behind the kayak, and the whole kayak flew towards the middle of the lake.
The fortress is getting closer and closer, and we are seeing more and more clearly. At this moment, on the fortress, countless corpse babies were crawling on it, scratching their heads, and this scene was similar to what we saw in the Lunaris Shrine. Hiroko and I just felt that the two of us were in a dream.