Chapter 3 Zombies Out of the Cage
The group walked up the stairs to the entrance to the hive. When I opened the door, I saw that it was pitch black inside.
The mercenary captain motioned to a member of the team next to him, "JD."
The team member, J.D., put on his night vision goggles and walked through the door.
After a while, I heard him shout inside, "It's okay." ”
Then the lights came on.
When everyone entered, the medic took a testing instrument and said, "The toxic ingredients have been dissipated." ”
The mercenaries opened the elevator on the left, JD threw a phosphorus fire stick and went down, looked at the broken elevator below, and said to the mercenary captain, "It looks like we have to take the stairs." ”
As the group descended the stairs, the mercenary captain asked Kaplan, "How's it going?" ”
Kaplan stared at a handheld computer strapped to his left arm and said, "The Red Queen has locked us in." She knows we're here. ”
Hearing this, Alice asked, "Who is the Red Queen?" ”
The mercenary captain said, "Top artificial intelligence system. She's the computer that controls the hive. ”
Descending to the bottom of the staircase, everyone is greeted by glass-walled laboratories filled with water. The water in the lab was a dim yellow color, and it was hard to see what was inside.
Kaplan looked at the water-filled labs and said, "This will slow us down." The route to the Red Queen's route requires us to go through these labs. ”
The mercenary captain thought for a moment and said; "Wren, JD, take a look at how bad the spill is. Kaplan, find a route again. ”
Spence asked, "What's going on here?" ”
Alice and Matt also looked at the mercenary captain.
The mercenary captain said: "Five hours ago, the Red Queen began to have a murderous temperament, and she killed everyone here. When we realized what was happening, my squad and I were sent to shut her down. ”
"Why would she do that?" Alice asked.
"We don't know." The mercenary captain said, "But it could be external interference." ”
Suddenly, Matt jumped up and shouted, "Oh my God! ”
Everyone hurriedly turned their heads to look, only to see a female corpse floating in the water against the glass in the laboratory next to him. It was this female corpse that floated out of the water just now, startling him.
This sudden incident interrupted everyone's conversation, and looking at the corpse, everyone was in no mood to speak for a while, and everyone fell silent.
Matt leaned against the wall and gasped, clearly frightened. Wang Ji came to him and asked, "Are you okay?" ”
"It's okay, it's just ......" Matt tilted his head towards the corpse, "She suddenly appeared and startled me. ”
Wang Yu nodded and said, "Do you also have amnesia?" ”
"Nope." Matt shook his head and said, "I didn't." I came in after that. ”
"And ...... are you?"
"Matt Addison. I'm a police officer. ”
"Police? What are you doing here? ”
"I'm looking for my sister, she's a researcher here."
"Oh, then I hope you can find her."
"Thank you."
Of course, Wang Jian knew who Matt was and what he was here for. It's just to find some topics and get close to him. Wang Ji's killer instinct can make him at any time, trying to make the people around him relax their guard against him and no longer guard against him. And the best way to let people relax their guard is to pull the relationship and set it close. But this relationship is not something that can be pulled casually, for example, those mercenaries now treat him as a prisoner, even if he has a relationship in the past, people are not likely to pay attention to him. So the breakthrough he chose was Matt, both of whom are now prisoners, and they are considered to be sympathetic, and the same experience makes it easier to trust each other.
"What do you think of the current situation?" Wang Ji asked casually.
"What?" Matt was a little confused.
Wang Yu explained: "According to what they said just now, the computer that controls this place has started killing people for unknown reasons, and she also knows that we are here, do you think she will come to kill us?" ”
"I don't know." Matt turned his head to look at the mercenary captain and Kaplan who were discussing the new route, "Since they're here to shut her down, they're always prepared for this situation, right?" ”
"That's not good." Wang Ji knew that four of these mercenaries would be killed by the Red Queen's manipulation of the defense system in a short time.
At this point, Wren and JD return from a probe and report that the road ahead is flooded and impassable. Kaplan, on the other hand, found another route to the Red Queen, which required passing through a place called Restaurant B.
The mercenary captain immediately decided to set off on a new route. After a long trek, the group came to the place marked on the map with Restaurant B. I saw rows of steel experimental troughs standing in the room, and the floor was covered with thick pipes, and this was obviously not a restaurant.
JD asked, confused, "Kaplan?" ”
"Restaurant B." Kaplan stared at the electronic map in his hand. "That's what the map says."
"Maybe you're wrong." The mercenary captain came to Kaplan's side and stared at the map together.
"Maybe the company has some secrets here, something you shouldn't see." Matt answered from the sidelines.
Wang Jian stared at the rows of freezers and sneered in his heart.
Restaurant B is indeed a restaurant, but it is not a human restaurant.
The mercenary captain stared at Matt for a moment, then said, "J. D, you and Wren are here watching the prisoners while guarding the exit. ”
"Sir, the poison gas level in this room is zero." The medic said, "I think it's a system failure. ”
"Okay." The mercenary captain came to the medic and stared at the instrument in her hand and said, "There may be survivors here." Line up the search line, but keep it compact. ”
He then led Alice, Spence, Kaplan, the Medic, and two other mercenaries on his way forward.
JD and Wren kept Wang and Matt in place.
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Wang Jian and Matt sat on an iron platform, while JD and Wren watched warily.
It had been about ten minutes since Alice and the others left, and there was still no change in the surroundings.
"Don't you think they're too slow?" Wang Ji said to JD and Wren.
Wren glared at Wang Ji and said, "Shut up!" ”
Wang Ji shrugged his shoulders and stopped talking.
At this time, the lights in the room suddenly went out, and at the same time, the green light symbolizing the stability of the internal environment was turned off in turn, and the red light symbolizing the instability of the internal environment was lit up in turn.
Wang Jian knew that this was after Kaplan turned off the red, causing the main power to be temporarily cut off.
After only a few seconds, the lights in the room came back on. But Wang Yu knew that everything in the hive was completely different from before.
After a while, Alice and the others still didn't come back, and JD said to Wren, "They're late." ”
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of objects rolling on the ground in front of me.
Wren said, "I'll take a look." Picking up his gun, he groped in the direction from which the sound came.
After a while, Wren was heard shouting in front of me, "JD, we've found a survivor." ”
Hearing Wren's shout, JD said to Wang Ji and Matt, "You guys are waiting here. With that, he hurried in that direction as well.
After Wren and JD were gone, Wang Ji said to Matt, "Maybe we should go over and have a look." ”
Regarding Wang Ji's proposal, Matt couldn't help but be a little moved.
At this moment, a sudden burst of gunfire came from the front, and this gunshot made Matt make up his mind. He and Wang Ji glanced at each other, and the two jumped off the iron platform together and walked in the direction where the gunshots came from.
When the two came to Wren and JD, Alice and the others also rushed over when they heard the noise.
Wang Jian saw that only Alice, Spence and Kaplan came back, and knew that the other four people including the mercenary captain should have died in the laser tunnel like in the movie.
"How can you shoot?" Kaplan asked.
"We found a survivor?" Wren replied.
"And then you shot him?" Kaplan said in surprise.
"She's crazy, she bites me." Wren Road.
"She's gone." JD shouted from ahead, "She's gone." ”
"Nonsense!" Wren walked over and shouted.
"She fell right here, but she was gone." JD pointed to the ground in front of him.
At this time, Wang Jian noticed that there was a bunch of keys on the ground, which were handcuffed keys. The keys were dropped to the ground during the fight between Wren and Wren just now. Wang Jian was about to walk over and pick it up, but Spence came up to him and said, "What happened just now?" ”
"I don't know." Wang Ji said, "I also came here when I heard the gunshots. ”
"Really?" Spence couldn't tell anything, so he said no more.
After dealing with Spence, Wang Jian was about to continue to pick up the key, but found that Matt was already crouching there, discussing the blood on the ground while picking up the key.
I only heard Matt look at the blood on the ground and say, "It looks like it's congealed." ”
"Yes." Alice, crouching next to him, said.
"It's impossible." Matt shook his head.
"Why?" JD asked.
Matt picked up the key, stood up, and said, "Because blood will not clot until you die." ”
"Can I go now?" Spence said impatiently.
"We're not going anywhere until the rest of the team arrives." Wren responded.
The crowd was silent for a moment, and Kaplan said, "No one will come." ”
"What are you talking about?" Wren said that he was going to go up to Kaplan Theory.
JD stopped her and said, "Wait. Then he whispered, "Quiet." ”
Then, the crowd heard a clattering sound, and it grew louder and louder.
Everyone looked around vigilantly, only to see a swaying figure appear in the middle of the surrounding experimental troughs. The figures got closer and closer, and everyone finally saw their appearances clearly.
I saw that most of them were covered in flesh and blood, and the scars looked like they were bites. Many people have mutilated noses and ears, and some have even bitten off half of their faces. But no matter how serious their injuries looked, they all walked towards them like they were all right. The scene looks weird and unusual.
The zombies have been released from prison, and the real crisis is just beginning.