Chapter Forty-Eight: The Mysterious Research Institute in the Pit
Wang Xiaochuan came to an unusually wide space, if it wasn't for the deep underground, he would have thought he had come to a square!
The bright light illuminates the whole space very brightly, and the light that surrounds the entire space makes the shadow he casts on the ground very thin.
He slowly descended from the escalator, squinting his eyes and looking around.
This space looks like it was originally a natural underground cavern, and I don't know what caused it. Now, some modern equipment has been installed, and in the distance, you can see modern artificial buildings.
Wang Xiaochuan's eyes were focused on the artificial building after a round of inspection. It is a dome-shaped building, a bit similar to the colony stations established by humans on Mars, the moon and other places in science fiction movies, and is a kind of fully enclosed hemispherical building.
The three hemispheres are connected by closed channels and are arranged in an L-shape. The front one should be the entrance, air pressure balance room, disinfection room and the like, which is not big, about 20 square meters. Immediately after that, there is a main room of about several hundred square meters, and to the right of the main room, there is a side room half the size of the main room.
Wang Xiaochuan walked about 200 meters towards the building, suddenly frowned and stopped. He was about 500 meters away from the building, and the light in the underground space was very strong, and the building was white, and the light reflected back, and he could barely see the specific details on the building.
Now nearly halfway through, he suddenly noticed that the surface of the building was not simply white, but slightly pink. There is an eerie shimmer in the pink, and people can't help but feel an uncomfortable feeling.
He used the blood energy in his body and stared wide-eyed. After a few moments, his face changed!
He found that the pink glow turned out to be a layer of flesh film! There is also a dense network of blood vessels, and an almost black serous fluid flows rapidly in it!
He continued to look and was horrified to find that the flesh membrane had wrapped the entire building inside, and even began to extend outward!
With the building as the center, a large area around it has already been covered with flesh film! Even at the edge of the flesh membrane, there are tiny blood vessels and filaments that extend far and penetrate deep into the soil. The farthest has spread to his feet!
Wang Xiaochuan cautiously took a few steps back, not daring to touch the flesh membranes that were obviously wrong.
His gaze swept across the space, and he walked towards the edge of the underground space. At the edge of the space is a layer of ore, surrounded by dark ore, in which there are some strange patterns.
These patterns seemed to represent something, but Wang Xiaochuan couldn't see it for a while. He continued along the edge.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he quickly pounced in front of a rock wall. In front of the rock face were some tools and cleaned up marks. It seems that someone has been working here before on archaeology or something.
Wang Xiaochuan's gaze was immediately fixed on the wall, an area that had been cleaned up, and there was a tentacle in the ore layer here, which had been completely mineralized! The tentacles are only a small part of them, but they are larger than a person! It can be seen what a huge existence the tentacle body is!
What excites Wang Xiaochuan the most is that he found that the scene here, although it is slightly different from the pictures he saw in the real world, but if you look closely, it is obvious that the two are definitely from the same source!
Then a conjecture can be proven: this mineralized tentacle also exists on Earth, and it has been discovered and studied!
And this kind of research is most likely the trigger for the apocalypse!
Wang Xiaochuan continued to search around, and soon he found more strange places, some parts looked like a tentacle, some were blocks that he didn't know what part of, and Wang Xiaochuan even found a relic of an ancient human!
It was a relic in a state of kneeling, the flesh and bones had already been completely erased by the years, if it had not been specially marked with chalk, the layman would not have been able to see that it was an imprint left by an ancient man!
The hands of the ancient human imprint were held up on their heads, and what should have been another piece in their hands was now deducted.
Wang Xiaochuan looked around and found nothing else valuable. His gaze fell on the building in the underground space, and he said secretly: If there are other valuable things, they should be in it.
"What to do? Do you want to go in? ”
Wang Xiaochuan hesitated.
Now to leave like this, of course he is very unwilling. If he didn't figure out what was inside, he probably wouldn't be at ease for a long time.
But it is not necessarily a wise idea to rashly touch the possible existence inside.
After a few minutes of hesitation, the premonition of danger could not resist the curiosity. Cautiously, he tentatively walked to the area covered in flesh. The flesh membrane did not react to his arrival, as if it were just a dead thing in itself.
It didn't take long for Wang Xiaochuan to come to the entrance of the building, which was covered with flesh film, and if he wanted to enter, he could only destroy the flesh film.
Wang Xiaochuan pulled out the steel knife and carefully cut a hole in it...... The flesh film didn't react, and soon he was bold. He cut off the flesh film from the doorway with three or two strokes, and reached out to push the door open.
Maybe it was because there was already a security door before, or maybe the people here left in too much hurry at that time, and the door was not locked and opened with a push.
Wang Xiaochuan paused, and there was a corpse at the gate, wearing the white coat that researchers often wear, male, about thirty years old, with slightly bald hair.
The man did not turn into a zombie, and there were no wounds on his body, but his expression was distorted to the extreme, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying and was scared to death!
Wang Xiaochuan checked the corpse, found nothing special, and continued to walk inside.
Passing through the entrance, you will arrive at the main room. The main room is divided into many functional areas, and it appears to be a one-person research room.
The security system of the entire building seems to have failed, and all the doors are not locked. Aside from a few scattered corpses, there was nothing of value inside...... At least that's the case for him. There should be a lot of information stored on the ground and in the computer, Wang Xiaochuan picked up a piece of paper casually, and found that he couldn't understand the scientific terms and advanced calculations on it, and the research project numbers marked with numbers and letters couldn't tell what they were studying.
Wang Xiaochuan walked through the main room and came to the side room. The side room is a monolithic space, with a sealed glass cover in the middle, but it has now been cracked.
The pink flesh membrane extends from the cleft, and in the center, a strange corpse...... Or zombies.
The zombie could no longer see its original face, and its body was completely withered, turning into a small piece of charred black that seemed to be completely dehydrated, only ten centimeters in size.
On top of this small body is a huge ball of flesh that is swollen to the point of almost becoming a fully transparent water bladder, and the top of the ball extends out like a flower in full bloom, extending out through the glass and the roof.
Wang Xiaochuan didn't feel any signs of life in the meat ball, nor did he feel blood energy, as if it was a corpse in a state of dehydration.
He walked over to the console of the room, pushed away the corpse of an elderly researcher who had fallen on it, and his gaze swept over the corpse's face casually, and then found that his right hand was clenched together, and even the joints were deformed from excessive exertion!
Wang Xiaochuan could barely break his hand, so he had to directly tear off the fingers of the corpse and take out a small stone three centimeters square from it.
The stone is white, and it seems to be just an ordinary piece of white marble, with a very primitive graphic text carved on it, somewhat like an oracle bone inscription, but it seems to be much older.
But this script seems extremely abstract, not a pictographic like ordinary oracle bone inscriptions.
Wang Xiaochuan looked at it for a long time and couldn't see what this text represented, and he couldn't even make a trace of association.