Chapter Seventy-Three: That Beast Doesn't Live Long
The core power area, which has lost its energy supply, is now no longer brightly lit and roaring.
On the contrary, the core power zone at this time is like a ghost, and the dead silence that can be heard by the needle drop alone will cause people to fall into a state of mental breakdown if they stay in it for a long time.
Two searchlights shining in different directions pierced the pitch-black first passage of the core power area.
The footsteps of two apparent men's voices also approached as the light cut through the darkness, and gradually became the only sound in the pitch-black first passage.
"Why aren't there any living corpses?" The 'Legion' looked at the right side vigilantly, and said with some confusion.
"Do you miss them?" Wu Fei, who was on the left side of the vigilance, said a little teasingly.
"No, who would think about that kind of, I just feel strange, in the event of a disaster, according to the emergency braking procedures inside the shelter, the core power area should be closed first, so it is impossible for all the engineers in it to run out, but it is inevitable that this place will also ......" The 'legion' seemed to be trying to relieve the tension, and began to gradually analyze the strangeness of the core power area.
"It's so quiet that not even the giant flower ever reappeared." There was a trace of regret in Wu Fei's tone, which made the 'Legion' feel that the person beside him was definitely a dangerous madman, and he was actually looking forward to the giant flower attacking again?
But what the 'Legion' didn't know was that even if they didn't know the reason, the incredible number of souls contained in the giant flower made Wu Fei's hunting heart never calm down.
As the two of them continued to go deeper, separate rooms began to appear on both sides of the first passage, and through the gap in the hidden door, it seemed to be the residence of the engineers in the core power area, perhaps for the convenience of the design of escape, all the engineering personnel lived near the central elevator, or the location of the emergency escape passage, and it seemed to be built around the core area.
With the appearance of the living rooms, the corpses of the engineers began to appear on both sides of the passage, but there were no obvious wounds on these corpses, and they were obviously not killed by the hands of living corpses.
"Wu Fei, wait." The 'Legion', which was advancing, suddenly became interested in the corpse of an engineer beside the passage.
Wu Fei turned his head and watched as the 'Legion' crouched down and used his terrifying claws to cut open the engineer's clothes, and then cut open the skin of the engineer's upper body.
"There's no blood, if I'm right......" The Legion said as he tore open the corpse of the engineer with his claws, only to see that all the organs in the corpse of the engineer, including some of the flesh, had disappeared without a trace, and the whole corpse looked like an empty skin.
"Sure enough, all the internal organs were gone, and judging from the residual mucus near the corpse's mouth, it was obvious that some kind of creature's mouthparts were inserted from the mouth, and all the internal organs were destroyed and sucked out, so I guess the same is true of the brains......" The 'legion' said and cut open the engineer's brain, and sure enough, the contents of the brain, the brain, and the brain inside, also disappeared without a trace.
"It's not that you died from the virus, which also explains why the shadow of a living corpse in the core power area is invisible." The Legion stood up and said with some clarity.
"Giant flowers."
"Giant flowers."
As if remembering at the same time, Wu Fei and the 'Legion' said in unison.
"It seems that the owner of this 'hospitable' is not small." Wu Fei said with some expectation, if the entire core power area, and even the personnel in the laboratory, were killed by the giant flower, then if you want to solve so many people so silently and without leaving any traces of battle, its size must be not small, and it can also be seen that what Wu Fei solved just now is likely to be only a small part of the giant flower itself.
"Wu Fei, I suggest that we don't go any further, we don't know anything about the ontology of this giant flower......" After the 'Legion' started to think about it, his nervous emotions calmed down, and he gave his own suggestions based on his own analysis.
"Then go and find out about it, there must be more information about this giant flower in the lab, of course, I still say the same thing, if you don't think it's right, you can stay here." Wu Fei said that he continued to go deep into the core power area.
The 'Legion' smiled a little self-deprecatingly, then got rid of his distractions and followed Wu Fei.
"You'd better decide now." didn't go far, Wu Fei turned around and said with a serious expression.
"Maybe it's because of my profession, I'm always cautious...... Anyway, let's go. As the 'Legion' spoke, Wu Fei also saw the firmness in his eyes, so he also smiled and turned around and continued to move forward.
As it went deeper and deeper, the 'legion', which had already made up its mind, began to watch around wholeheartedly, completely ignoring other thoughts.
But Wu Fei found a point that was ignored by the 'legion', that is, as the two of them went deeper and deeper, the corpses of some soldiers of the shelter defense force began to appear on both sides of the passage, and they were particularly dense at a fork in the road, and the corpses of these soldiers began to have obvious puncture wounds, and dense bullet casings and guns with empty magazines began to appear on the ground around them.
"Here." Standing in front of the fork in the road, Wu Fei looked at the dense bullet casings and soldier corpses around him and said, in front of him, there was not a passage to the core area, but there were no corpses of creatures fighting with the soldiers in the dark passage, obviously these soldiers did not succeed in injuring the giant flower, let alone suppressing the attack of the giant flower.
"Laboratory, this passage should be the one leading to the laboratory, but these hidden doors were not closed in time." The 'Legion' also noticed the difference, including the hidden gaps on both sides of the wall, which were apparently hidden doors that had not had time to close.
"Let's see what we're dealing with." Wu Fei said without hesitation, and walked into the pitch-black passage that seemed to have no end, and the 'Legion' followed closely behind.
There was still a dead silence in the passage, only the footsteps of Wu Fei and the others, and the end of the passage was also reached after more than ten minutes.
Looking at the closed entrance door in front of him, Wu Fei pressed the palm of his hand that was surging with dead gray corrosive mist to the position of the door lock.
But before Wu Fei could corrode and destroy the door lock, the door creaked and cracked.
Pushing the door in, what appeared in front of Wu Fei and the others was the laboratory disinfection passage, more than ten corpses of soldiers with the same fork in the road, and the same as the fork in the road, were the corpses of these soldiers, all of which were facing one direction, obviously they were guarding the entrance gate.
What puzzled Wu Fei and the others was that there was obviously nothing here, why would they rather die than retreat?
But when Wu Fei's searchlight shone behind the corpses of these soldiers, everything had an answer.
It was dozens of cold corpses, made up of women, children, and old people, and it was clear that the soldiers had built a line of defense to defend these innocent people who were helpless, and behind it was a tightly locked door and scratches and blood stains from human hands.
Wu Fei stepped forward and took out a video message board from a soldier's combat uniform.
Press the play button.
"This is Luo Han, the captain of the seventh detachment of the X-5 Guard Force, we have been guarding for a full ten hours, the bullets have almost run out, during which we have repelled the giant flowers more than ten times, but we are still not allowed to enter the laboratory for refuge, or those women, the elderly, and children are not allowed to enter, and the group of brutes inside said that these people are not immune enough, and it is possible to carry the virus, go to him, I don't care about the bullshit retreat orders above, I am a soldier, and my soul tells me that I must not give up these lives, I've ordered every soldier to be strapped with a grenade, and if that damn bastard dares to attack again, it's death, and stop it! It must not be allowed to harm any innocent person. ”
"Ten soldiers have already opened the entrance gate and rushed out of the passage to launch a suicidal counter-charge against the giant flower, I don't know what happened to them, and I didn't hear the explosion, but I know that they are all good, they are all veritable hard bones!"
"If anyone hears this message, I just want to say that this world is definitely not dead! Absolute! This world ...... There is hope!! Detachment 7!! Pick up your guns! Counterattack!!! Damn brutes, trying to harm the world we guard!? Unless he steps on Lao Tzu's corpse!! Charge!! Charge!!! ”
In the end, even though they were stabbed by the tentacles of the giant flower, they still did not take even half a step back, and behind them were civilians who roared and picked up their guns, and for every soldier who fell, a civilian picked up his gun and charged forward, men and women, young and old.
The video also ended after Giant Flower broke through the defense line and rushed into the crowd.
When he looked up again, Wu Fei found that the owner of the video message board in his hand, the officer named Luohan, had never fallen down until he died, he was holding his gun so much, straightening his waist and staring at himself in the direction of the entrance gate, and behind him was a woman holding her child tightly, the woman's practice had been seriously deformed and distorted, but her hands refused to let go no matter what.
"Rest in peace, that beast, it will not live long."