Chapter 29: The Call of the Abyss

Li thought for a moment and replied, "Although I don't know how you resist the effects of radiation, I suggest that you don't go near the reactor." The amount of radiation there is very large, even we don't dare to approach it easily, you know after all, for ......"

"I'm talking about the real no-go zone, the kind that's cordoned off." Xuanzang didn't talk nonsense, and quickly debunked his roundabout statement, "I suspect that the fox went straight to the forbidden area of the refuge, she is very smart and knows where it is absolutely safe." ”

Li Ji tugged at the dead flesh on his face, and struggled to make a smiling expression: "Sir, I think you think too much." Since it's a cordoned off area, how can your so-called fox get in? ”

"So, there really is such a place."

"It can't be there." Li said categorically.

Xuanzang said: "Then I will know when I go to see it." Please tell me the location of the restricted area. ”

"It's strictly locked down for its own reasons, and you can't enter it at will." Li Jiji's voice became sharp, mixed with a slight sharp noise.

"If it's for our safety, rest assured, my companions and I have been through the cracks."

Li Organic shook his head and said, "No, what I'm worried about is our safety. ”

"It's at the bottom of the Vault, right?"

As soon as Xuanzang's words fell, Li Jiji raised his gun and forced him to stay away from the gate of the shelter.

Goku's hand came first, clutching the muzzle of the gun and pinching it into a flat piece. The crowbar in the other hand swung out at the same time, hitting several zombies who heard the sound behind Li Machine, quickly hitting their fragile joints and knocking them to the ground.

"In addition to the map board that had just entered the basement level, the maps and some of the road signs in other places were also destroyed. I can't imagine any kind of armed conflict that would deliberately spoil something so detailed. Xuanzang squatted down and looked at Li Jiji, "What are you hiding?" ”

Li Ji gritted his teeth and did not answer. The fingers behind his back moved imperceptibly, gesturing to his companion behind him.

A stream of plasma shot precisely at the zombie's waist communicator, and Joruri, armed with two automatic rifles, walked between them and pressed the muzzle of the gun to their heads.

Xuanzang moved his gaze back and continued: "What is locked up below? ”

The dry muscles on Li Ji's face twisted: "There is no fox who grabs the water purification chip at all, right?" You're just trying to find an excuse to go in. I don't know where you heard the rumors, but it's best to forget about it and stay away from here. It's for your good. ”

"It's true that there are no water purification chips, but foxes exist, haven't you seen them too? As for the rumors...... Xuanzang remembered the original words of the dragon bone, and a trace of doubt flashed in his heart, "Is there anyone else who has come for any rumors besides us?" ”

"Hmph, it's too much. They're all fools who think they'll be immortal by jumping off. Is eternal life so worth pursuing? ”

Xuanzang and Wukong looked at each other, and they both saw the confusion in each other's eyes.

"Isn't it a pilgrimage or something?" "We saw a madman who said that there was a god here who had pulled him back from the brink of death and directed him to build an ark to avoid the flood of the apocalypse. ”

Li Jiji said: "Are you sure he said this? The people who came here were affected by the virus and had hallucinations that they would gain eternal life if they entered the bottom of the shelter. ”

"Virus? You've never mentioned it before. ”

Li Ji sighed and said: "Because seeing that you are sane and have a very different behavior from those people, I guess you are not here because of it, so I won't talk about it." And its scope of harm is not widespread, but it has not been able to eradicate it. Most of the people who are harmed by it will be gassed. Occasionally, he who is well prepared will not be as close to the confines of the dwelling as you are, and will not affect us, so he will go with him. ”

Xuanzang asked, "Is it also caused by the great plague?" ”

"It probably has something to do with it......," Li said mechanically, suddenly changing the subject and admonishing, "you leave it alone." If that fox really got inside, it wouldn't have survived. Although you are fine now, if you continue to stay, there is no guarantee that you will not be infected. Let's go! ”

"We're not going to leave until things are figured out." Xuanzang said. The other party's secretive attitude made him more and more curious, and he was more sure that the Nine-Tails and the Dragon Bone had a great connection with this shelter.

He continued to ask Li about the virus, to which he replied, "We have sampled, to be precise, it is a spores. It can be spread through the air and is not very efficient. It will also attach itself to animals, but it will not survive for very long. It only works on the human brain, and when inhaled into the human body, it probably begins to release a certain substance and begins to exert its effects.

"We have contained some infected people and investigated their experiences. At first, the infected will only have dreams, and the content of the dreams will be similar, and they will be vaguely guided to feel that they must come here to do something important. If the infected person does, the effect will be exacerbated as they approach the source of the spores. They hallucinate, are subjected to constant suggestion, and eventually the spores in their bodies even take over the brain, forcing them to enter the bottom of the vault. ”

Xuanzang asked, "What will happen if you don't do it?" ”

"After the initial stage has passed, they should be cured, but when the infected person claims to have had the same dream as them refuses to come, they lose their favor and are no longer given instructions. If you enter an advanced stage and are forcibly prevented from doing so, you will die. We dissected the brains of those who were heavily infected, and found that they were covered with white unidentified plants with many pink flowers on them. ”

Hearing this, Xuanzang couldn't help but feel an itchy nose and sneezed under the psychological effect.

"Are you afraid that you have been infected?" The corners of Li Ji's mouth curled, and he took out a small watering can from his pocket, "We have configured this potion to kill the initial spores." At most, it will stay in the respiratory tract and spray some into the mouth and nose. The spores act for a slow time, and they must be in time. ”

Xuanzang looked at the transparent liquid in the pot suspiciously, handed it to Jing Liuli, and held his breath. Jing Liuli sprayed a little into the air, using the sensors in the helmet to detect toxic ingredients, and then nodded to Xuanzang. It turned out to be even less dangerous than the trace amounts of poison gas that escaped from the Vault.

"What a weird smell it is." Xuanzang fanned in front of him and asked Li Organic about the specific composition of the potion, but the result was just a mixture of some ordinary organic solvents, "Does it really work?" ”

"We've been spraying in the shelter for a long time, and if it didn't work, we'd have died long ago."

I see, no wonder there are similar traces of acid corrosion on that plastic plate. Xuanzang thought about it, but still used it, and let the net glass spray a little.

"I shouldn't have to." Wukong waved his hand and said, "What kind of spores, no more vicious than what I have in my head." ”

"Then again." Xuanzang asked Li Jiji, "What will happen if I enter the forbidden area?" ”

"I don't know, no one who went in has ever come out, and at most there are only a few screams."

"You've lived on such a big tumor for hundreds of years? Didn't think about solving it? ”

Li Jiji lowered his head wordlessly, and only said after a while: "We have tried incineration, and we have also tried spraying chemicals, but to no avail. The source of the spores is in the deepest part of the bottom, and we can't get that far. ”

Xuanzang sighed, asked Jing Liuli to help the zombies up, and began to sort out the equipment himself.

"I don't understand, it's all said about this, why do you want to go down?" Li asked organically.

"Because I can't stand any unanswered questions. Moreover......" Xuanzang said meaningfully, "seeing is believing." ”