Chapter 390: What Happened
"Dead?" Ning Yun was surprised, in a large laboratory, the total number of scientific researchers and other personnel should always be thousands.
"At first I thought I was dead." Covered in bones, this was the scene when Strathmann woke up the next day.
One by one, the electronic doors opened, and the corpses were lying on the desk, some lying outside the electronic cage of the experimental animal, and some lying in the elevator. In short, as far as the eye can see, there is a dead silence, there are no living objects, even the experimental animals tilt their heads and roll their eyes.
The picture is terrifying, as if the end of the world has fallen, the amplification equipment all over the underground laboratory is still broadcasting, and the sweet female voice reports the time on time, and says to the staff: Good morning. It's a pity that everything has changed compared to yesterday, and the staff who were busy shuttling through the steel plate aisle in the past have quieted down the elevator.
Strassmann couldn't believe that all this was happening right under his nose, turning over the corpses one by one, probing the snorts of the dead with trembling hands, and no one survived. Full of mysteries and confusion, there is no longer the life of the past in the empty laboratory, what happened overnight, overnight.
The power was cut off, the sweet sound of electronic announcements came to an abrupt end, and the perennial hallway lights were dim. Strassmann was caught in a silent world, surrounded by a mass of corpses, and he felt hundreds of pairs of eyes staring at him in the dark, staring at him with creeps, and a sense of fear that struck through the pores around him and invaded the depths of his soul.
"For the first few days, I was terrified." If it weren't for the experience of the time, Strathmann would not even be willing to recall the darkest days of his life.
There was no reply to what was said, and there was no response to the loud shouts. The highly modern laboratory building, with electronic doors opening and closing at every entrance, turns the "Klaas" into a giant tomb when the power is cut off.
The daily normal operation of the power supply equipment is maintained by professional personnel, and the location of Strassmann is the negative second floor of the laboratory, and the power supply equipment is in a corner of the negative third floor, and the power outage of the entire laboratory is rare for several years, indicating that the power supply personnel have also encountered an accident. So, who else is alive in the laboratory besides himself?
Of course, in order to ensure daily electricity consumption and cope with sudden power outages, backup power supply exists in the huge modern laboratory. Generally, it needs to be turned on manually, if the backup power cannot be turned on manually, the backup power will also be turned on by itself, and the time is 72 hours later. That is, Strassmann will also spend three long days in a dark underground laboratory.
As time passed, Strathman's mood gradually relaxed, and the high level of nervousness and vigilance was very draining. Looking up at the watch, the hour hand turned thirty times, and the date jumped to a day later.
"I don't know how I spent those three days, it was like falling asleep in a daze, sleeping for a day and a night. Before going to bed, I seemed to smell a strange fragrance in the laboratory, and the fragrance was very special. It reminds me of women, in short, worried and afraid. "The human body, in a state of extreme nervousness, secretes a substance that forces the body into a dormant state in order to reduce the load on various parts, and he understands this spontaneous protection mechanism.
Thirty hours had passed since this unidentified event occurred, and as a biologist, he was undoubtedly sensitive.
It's winter, and due to the power outage, the thermostat system has lost its effectiveness, and the underground has become hot and dry, and the temperature is close to 30 degrees. Within about 12 hours after death, hydrogen sulfide in the decaying gas combines with hemoglobin to form green hemoglobin sulfide, and dark green patches will appear on the corpse, which is commonly known as corpse spots.
After the decomposing corpse, there will be pale red or dark red blood water flowing out of the mouth and nose, and the decaying gas will begin to be produced in batches, and the corpse odor will appear. Strathmann has conducted this kind of corruption experiment more than ten times, and the approximate time is not wrong.
In the quiet laboratory, the environment is neat and clean, and the smell of daily routine disinfectant remains. It stands to reason that with so many corpses, the space should have smelled like a long time ago. The more Strassmann thought about it, the more terrifying it became, and he searched everywhere for the light source, and finally found a flashlight in the corner, and held it in his hand as if he had found a treasure. The faint halo somewhat calmed his flustered heart a lot.
The listener was in a trance, Ning Yun hugged July's arm, expressing his deep fear of the scene in Strathman's mouth, and July asked, "Have you checked your eyes?" "A person's eyeballs are completely different before and after death, and after death, they will not decay for a long time, and they will produce corpse transformation, and the study of the human body structure by witches and witches throughout the ages is no worse than the cognition of the human body in modern medicine.
"Twin eyes? The pupils are dilated and no vital signs are present. "As a professional researcher, there is still basic common sense such as the judgment of vital signs.
As the top head of Klaas Labs, Strassmann carries a pendant with a communication device for external communication in case of emergency.
But, it didn't work. The electronic device has never had the opportunity to be used, and the first time it is needed, it is not connected to the outside world at all. Ignorant and alone, as a social animal, the feelings of loneliness are the same, and a chill is infinitely coming.
After 72 hours, when the laboratory has lost contact with the outside world for three days, an alarm will be automatically issued, regardless of whether the outside world can receive the signal or not. At least the correspondent of the Jiang family who is responsible for contacting "Klaas" will know that something is wrong in the depths of Lop Nur if he doesn't get the information.
The "Didi" power system collapsed for 72 hours, and the initial sound was similar to the sound of water droplets hitting the ground.
Is there a water leak? Strassmann thought to himself, turning on his flashlight to find the source of the sound, and the light swept over one corpse after another, and the horror and fear in his heart could be imagined. All the people died, and none of them lived as much as they did. Sweeping the face of a pale corpse, the corpse's eyes were still big, as if he was extremely unwilling before he died, and he was really afraid that he would suddenly come back to life the next moment.
Taking a deep breath and listening to the sound, I found a splash of water in a corner, and the water seeped through a gap in the corner of the ceiling. It's hard to imagine that a tightly welded steel plate can leak, but I know the architectural drawings of the laboratory very well, after all, I have lived underground for decades, and there is no sink to store water in this part of the upper floor, why does it keep dripping water droplets.
At a glance, a cold air was cold from the head to the heels, and where the drops were water, it was clearly a drop of blood.
He clearly remembered that the upper space corresponding to the current location was the live animal storage room, and the amount of live breeding used in Klaas's experiments was staggering, and it was possible that the blood belonged to that group of animals.
Strathman dipped two drops of blood, put them on the tip of his tongue and licked them, and he was almost certain that it was not human blood. Wondering what was going on in the upper space could cause blood to penetrate the steel plates and penetrate the third layer, far away.
The laboratory environment was dark and damp, the hot and dry temperature, and the long time he was trapped, Strathsmann felt extremely tired physically and mentally, and he was in a trance for a while. At this moment, I heard the sound of chewing, "Click~" "Click!" "It's like chewing something.
For a moment, Strathman became nervous again, an inexplicable chill came from his back, and the light of the flashlight swept the laboratory floor little by little, sweeping over the corpse. No one was alive, and the corpses were silent as usual, but the chewing continued. He was very frightened, because he often came into contact with dead corpses in his daily work, and there were hundreds of frozen experimental corpses in the morgue of Klaas Laboratory, so he shouldn't be afraid.
However, these cold corpses lying on the ground are all their colleagues who work on weekdays, and even a few of them are their own students. Not far from his feet, the female corpse had followed Strathman as an assistant and student for more than a decade.
The flashlight swept over the corpse and stayed in front of the face of a male corpse, with bulging eyes, drooping tongue, and a pale face.
There was blood hanging from the corners of his mouth, and the blood was still dripping, and the low and terrifying chewing sound came from this direction. But when Strassmann looked at it, the body was silent.
The flashlight had just moved a meter away when the creepy chewing sound rang out again.
Oh my God, what was he chewing, and the alert Strathman quickly moved back, and only then did he realize that the male corpse was alive under the light, chewing on his arm one by one. Shicai didn't notice that the arm wrapped under the white coat had been gnawed by him to reveal the white bones. Most of the bodies had been examined by Strassmann, and they had lost their vital signs, so why did he survive?
Strassmann was completely stunned by the huge mystery and fear, and the male corpse also realized that the light was shining on him, and swayed his stiff joints, shuddered and got up from the cold ground, and mechanically moved towards the place where Strassman was hiding.
Almost all the corpses woke up at this moment with the action of the male corpse, Strassmann poured a sip of spirits, lit a cigarette, and took two puffs: "Do you know what it feels like? The dead were resurrected at this moment, and it took them three days for me to feel like I was the only one left in the whole world. The door to the exit of the laboratory was all steel plates, and I had nowhere to escape, nowhere to escape. ”
Ning Yun swallowed a mouthful of foam with difficulty, empathizing, as if led by his description, placed in that terrifying scene.
July was silent and glanced at Ning Yun, each other's eyes were full of fear, and July thought: Are the consequences of that virus really that serious? The concept of resurrection from the dead has been passed down from the past to the major ancient civilizations, all of which carry the hope of life when people are temporary. Now, has it really been done?