Chapter 31: The Red Carpet
Under the few remaining lights, Wang Chen was directing several zombies to pack valuable equipment, and they were a little undecided in the face of some experimental results accumulated over the years.
There was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and Wang Chen looked over there and saw Li Ji coming as fast as he could.
"They've gone down?"
Li Jiji nodded, glanced at their progress, and urged: "Take as little as possible, we have to speed up the evacuation." ”
"What about the research projects that didn't work out in the past? The amount is a bit much. A zombie asked.
"Let's put it here first, it won't necessarily be all destroyed, and after escaping this catastrophe, maybe there will be a chance to come back and dig up. Only take fragile items. ”
Wang Chen watched the two companions carry a box of petri dishes to the trolley, and said abruptly: "Do you think they really got to the source?" ”
"Those three people are very unusual. Many parts of the monkey's body were metal, unlike mortal creatures. The woman with the gun had much lighter power armor than the ones we found, but it didn't look weaker than those armor sets. As for the bald head, he only wears a gas mask, no protective clothing, and he is not afraid of radiation, and he is probably not an idle person. ”
"The things at the bottom aren't easy to mess with. Do you remember that time? It was hit twice by a direct hit, and the shell exploded inside it, but it still couldn't kill it. We used up the last batch of mines, and only a few steps were allowed to stumble over them. It wasn't until it hunted a new living creature outside the shelter that it would return to its original location. ”
Li Ji tugged at the muscles in his eye sockets and made a worried expression: "I'm afraid this time, it really can't stop them." Those three people gave me a feeling similar to that of a fairy, but vaguely they were completely different. ”
Wang Chen seemed to be persuaded by this sentence and did not continue to ask.
As zombies who have lived for hundreds of years, they have seen too many people and things. Pre-war weapons dug up from the ruins, mutated beasts spawned by radiation, and unscrupulous wasteland outcasts...... These are not as shocking as the gods bring them.
They were born in the post-apocalyptic era, the oldest pre-war inhabitants have died, and the Vault's terminals contain only survival guides. They knew nothing of what had been and what was going to be, as if the builders of the shelter had no hope that they would survive the war and return to their old lives.
The pre-war situation can only be glimpsed from oral stories. The zombie's brain is no longer able to preserve all the memories for such a long time, but Li Jiji still vaguely remembers that for the ancients, immortals were just a kind of sustenance of desire. Most people have never actually seen them appear, but they want their blessing to fulfill their wishes.
However, when he turns into a zombie and wanders in the wilderness outside the shelter, he really sees the gods. He will never forget that feeling, the incomparable power that makes him truly feel the difference of a world.
Like everyone else in the shelter, he had believed that phenomena were explainable and that the laws of all things could be summarized. However, when they saw the power displayed by the gods, their worldview was shattered.
Even after centuries of life, they still can't understand how a single beam of light can flatten an entire mountain, how a drop of nectar can make a sapling grow into a towering tree in a matter of minutes.
The three people who entered the bottom did not use similar immortal techniques, but strangely, in front of them, Li Jiji had an illusion of facing immortals.
Fearless, but not arrogant.
He didn't know how to describe that temperament, but he had never felt so uneasy when he heard the other man insist on entering the restricted area. So he took the opportunity of preparing in advance to immediately notify Wang Chen, suggesting that he lead everyone away immediately.
Li watched as the three companions entered the open power armor, the locks on their backs were fastened one after another, and the indicator lights lit up with a faint hum. The bulky mech raised its arms and, with a sound of hinges, transported the bullet into the chamber of the hand.
This is the most powerful force they can deploy, and three zombies wearing power armor will head to the cave to prepare for the worst-case scenario with their companions armed with conventional weapons.
Li Jiji said: "The arrangement here has been completed, it's time to deal with our crazy kind." ”
"It's time for me to go, too." Wang Chen sighed, "I really hope your hunch is wrong. ”
"Just in case. You don't want to ruin everything you've worked so hard to keep up to now in its hands. ”
Or maybe it should have been ruined a long time ago? Wang Chen thought sadly.
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At the bottom of the shelter, the light of the flashlight had already diffused to a faint extent after shooting fifty meters. The dim light makes those dark traces even more terrifying.
After seeing the picture in the distance, Xuanzang and the others quickly understood the feelings of those sacrifices before.
Such a scene will indeed scare people crazy on the spot. can still scream, which is already considered a good psychological quality.
The diagonal downward passage extends a short distance before returning to the horizontal direction and entering a wide space. Judging by the ruins on the ground, it was once divided into many rooms, but they were all bulldozed by something.
A little farther away, the ground began to take on a mixture of dull yellow and blood red.
What started out as patches of dried blood began to cast shadows of varying lengths on the undulating ground as the lights moved.
Those are not fragments of buildings, nor are they uneven surfaces, but flesh and blood.
Pieces of meat spread out like a blanket all over the floor, all the way to the deeper depths of darkness. They looked disgustingly fresh, with blood still flowing along the tiny folds on the black-red surface. The whole blanket of flesh also seemed to be connected to a beating heart, slowly and rhythmically gently inflated, and then retracted.
Xuanzang moved the pillar of light back to the center of the field, carefully shining on the huge mass, and observing as many details as possible without alarming it.
"Is it alive?" Goku asked in a whisper.
Xuanzang said: "It seems to be, it looks like he is still sleeping." I guess it's blind, or else we'd already be spotted by now. ”
It was an ugly and terrifying unidentified object, about the size of a truck, and even larger laterally. It was made up of a large pile of corpse parts, and it was difficult to tell where the head was, and only barely discerning the parts that resembled limbs.
Where it appears to be his right hand, he holds a large stick about five meters long, which is made entirely of white bones. The left hand, which is three times thicker than the right hand, forms sucker-like organs at the palm of the hand, which are filled with sharpened bones like a circle of swirling teeth. Its legs don't seem to be able to support its massive body, so it simply grows a large number of tentacles under it, like a strange mollusk.
Wukong flattened his mouth in disgust: "It's disgusting, I'm going to vomit if I can." Are those the people who came in here? ”
"I guess, their bodies are part of it. Zombies are not unaware of its existence, and the only explanation is that it is constantly spreading spores to attract prey, and as long as there is food to eat, it will not go up. Xuanzang turned off the flashlight and wondered, "But why do they keep it?" ”
Wukong said: "In order to watch it, don't let it go out and harm people? ”
Thinking of the performance of the zombies, Xuanzang said: "It is very likely. If we had kept it out of malice, the zombies wouldn't have denied us entry, and they'd love to see us die in the mouth of this thing. But how do I feel that they seem to be more worried that we're going to kill this thing than they are about us being killed by it? ”
"Whatever he does, let's kill him first. Either it should eat us before it wakes up. ”
Xuanzang nodded, made a gesture to Jing Liuli, and made way with Wukong.
Jing Ruri stepped forward, reassembled his two-handed weapons into a sniper rifle, and lay on the ground to set up a gun to aim.
A bright light flashed, illuminating the hellish picture in the distance. The powerful kinetic energy of the bullet blasted a large hole in the monster's body, piercing through the wall behind it with a loud bang.
They did not relax, shining a flashlight on it, and continued to observe its performance.
Sure enough, after a brief pause, the monster began to twitch wildly.