Chapter 18: The Black Courtyard
In the few days of contact with Shen Lei, except for facing the walking corpse, Manniu has not discovered such a violent side of him. In his eyes, Shen Lei's young and handsome face became a little blurry, and he couldn't see clearly.
"What are you doing stupidly?" Shen Lei found that there was no movement behind him, so he turned around and saw a group of people standing like wood carvings.
"Huh?" After half a minute, the brute bull who was staring at Shen Lei in a daze only reacted at this time, and ran to his side in a few steps.
Seeing the strange gaze of the brute, Shen Lei touched his face suspiciously, "Is there anything unclean on my face?" ”
"No, no!" The bull immediately waved his hand quickly.
"Come along, I don't know if there are any enemies lurking, so be careful." Shen Lei didn't dare to throw everyone here again as before, this time fortunately it came in time, and next time there may not be such good luck.
The cold wind gradually grew stronger, more and more bitter, like a sharp blade cutting into the bare skin, and the faces of some members of the Silver Wolf Squad were covered with shallow blood marks, they were all unstrengthened human beings, and it was difficult to resist such a cold and bone-chilling freeze without protection.
"Fourth, what is there in the black courtyard you said, do you have to go back again?" As a first-level enhancer, He Bin has a strength of six hundred catties, and he does not feel the slightest difficulty in carrying Mei Xiaofei on his back, and he looks extremely relaxed, just like a normal person carrying a hot water bottle, and he will not feel tired.
Shen Lei hesitated for a moment and said, "Corpse core, there are a lot of corpse cores in it." ”
"Just for them?" He Bin suddenly felt incredible, wasting precious time for an unknown little thing dug out of the brains of the walking corpse, and it was better to have these efforts than to travel more.
"You don't understand......" Shen Lei didn't want to say more, he didn't want to tell others about the most widespread use of the corpse core in his previous life, at least for the time being, it was extremely dangerous to take the corpse core directly, he would never allow the people in the team to take such a risk, it was not cost-effective and not worth it, there was space in the supermarket, as long as enough supermarket coins were collected, the enhancement was only a matter of minutes and seconds.
"Strengthen?" Two words appeared in his mind, and Shen Lei suddenly thought that the man in black just now might not have a normal breakthrough at all, but had taken the corpse core to reach the level of a second-level enhancer.
It seems that the level of researchers in the Black Courtyard is not ordinary, and they already know how to use the corpse nucleus preliminarily!
"Do you want to take two researchers with you?" Shen Lei muttered to himself, in the future, to establish his own base, there must be a research institute, one or two knowledgeable scientists are even comparable to ten fourth-level enhancers, and the weapons, potions and other high-tech products they have researched are very important to the development of the base.
"No way!" Shen Lei still denied his idea after thinking about the pros and cons, I don't know why, there are also enhancers among the surviving high-end researchers, but it is not strengthened in physical strength, but in the mind, perhaps inseparable from the habit that they have been focusing on research, unlike the mind or brain control enhancers, they are better at data analysis and calculation, and they are undoubtedly a burden in the early days of the end of the world, and they will vaguely contain the strength of the entire team, so it is better to let each base be raised first.
It's a big deal, grab a few when the time comes!
Shen Lei thought that with his strength, the average small base could come and go freely, and could he go on the road with an oil bottle?
"It's here!" The wild bull shouted, the crazy vines in front of the iron gate of the black prison have been in existence for an hour, and they have long since disappeared, leaving only a few large pits, and the corpses of soldiers and stumps and broken arms in one place, at a temperature close to freezing, the corpses will not rot, and after a few hours, even the blood has a tendency to coagulate, and there is no need to worry about the epidemic for the time being, no wonder the base army can free up troops to wait at the city gate.
But what everyone in the base didn't expect was that Shen Lei still had such a means, a can of smoke fainted most people, and even the painstakingly conceived plan was stillborn.
"Be careful!" Shen Lei reminded Tong Niu, who was about to step into the iron gate, it was difficult to guarantee that there was no ambush inside, there was a man in black, and it was not impossible for a second one to appear.
"Hmm." Tong Niu nodded, and the tall figure entered the iron gate, avoiding the corpses of soldiers all over the ground and walked towards the gate of the black courtyard, and everyone followed behind him.
The entire hall remained the same, filled with unconscious people.
"Which way are you going?" Tong Niu stopped and asked.
Shen Lei looked around, and the map in his mind was only the external building structure, and he really didn't know what the inside of the building looked like.
Recalling the memories of coming to the Black Courtyard in his previous life, Shen Lei pointed in a general direction and said, "Let's go this way." ”
In the quiet hall, there was not a trace of sound, but the footsteps of a dozen people who came in were particularly noisy.
After turning a corner, Shen Lei had already walked ahead of Tong Niu, guarding against unknown dangers in the dark.
The lights in the hallway glowed brightly.
At the end, a pitch-black gate appeared in everyone's sight.
The door was painted with a huge exclamation mark in red, and a line of red letters was written underneath the symbol.
"No entry for non-researchers!"
"Probably this is it!" Seeing the symbols similar to the internal laboratory of the Black Courtyard in his memory, Shen Lei's eyes suddenly brightened, and inside was the most mysterious place in the entire Central China base, studying various varieties of walking corpses and weapons and equipment, and now scientific and technological weapons and potions must not have begun to be researched and produced, so the research object should be the walking corpse!
Even if the walking corpses that night were not all dissected, there were at least a few thousand corpses in them, and there would be a lot of income.
"Corpse core, my corpse core......" Shen Lei muttered in his heart, after fishing this sum, let's see what goods can be purchased in the supermarket space, now he is lacking in all kinds of things, lack of weapons, lack of strength, lack of sisters......
Shen Lei glanced at Mo Xiaoqin who was standing next to him.
Ahem, ahem, there is no shortage of girls for the time being.
He pressed his right hand on the door and pushed it gently, the door seemed to be a little heavy and didn't open it, but it wasn't a problem for Shen Lei at all, and then pushed it open with a little force.
"What is this?"
"What a bad smell!"
"What the hell are these old men in the Black Courtyard doing?"
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Shen Lei and the others seemed to have entered a small-scale slaughterhouse, a strong smell of blood accompanied by bursts of rancid smell came to the nose, it was useless to hold your breath and pinch your nose, generally this point in time is when the internal laboratory is ventilated, after the staff was knocked unconscious by the smoke, naturally no one came to do this kind of thing, so the air quality was almost normal.
Subsequently, the scene in front of him stunned everyone, except for Shen Lei, of course, because he was not surprised by it.
The entire internal laboratory is about ten meters deep and about five meters wide, with large and small basins and oil drums, as well as tables and coffee tables that are temporarily used as dissecting tables.
Take a closer look, in the dirty oil drum is the imprisoned walking corpse, its limbs have all been removed, only the bare body and head are left, and there are no eyeballs in the eyes, only two black holes are left, which is quite similar to the torture of ancient people, the wound at the severed limb is blurred with flesh and blood, and the eyebrows can vaguely see the pretty appearance before being infected, except for the two white flesh standing upright, the body is full of various large and small wounds, all of which are not stitched, in fact, there is no need for stitches, Anyway, the number of walking corpses in the world is almost dozens of times that of humans. Some of the wounds have formed bloody scabs, and some have only a faint scar, which is healing at a faint speed invisible to the naked eye, and the recovery power of the walking corpse is truly terrifying.
Even though they knew that the bucket was filled with walking corpses with no surnames, several people still couldn't bear to look at them directly, which was really a bit cruel.
Shen Lei didn't feel anything, all because he had seen too many bloody scenes of this or that. He knows one thing, [***] research is more accurate and convenient than corpse research, anyway, everyone is full of hatred for walking corpses, and they can't wait to cut a thousand knives.
Mo Xiaoqin turned his head and stroked his chest, retching for a while, fortunately, he had been detained recently and had not eaten anything, and there was no stock in his stomach to spit out, so he said after a while: "They are too ruthless!" ”
"It's not ruthless." Shen Lei explained: "Imagine what you would do if your parents, your best friends, your loved ones were eaten by the walking dead? Do you want to kill all the walking corpses and avenge them? ”
"But, I'm just afraid of the walking dead, but I don't hate them."
"Yes, you haven't experienced life and death, so naturally you won't understand the pain, but do you know that others don't? From that moment on, I didn't intend to pretend to be a saint, thinking that the walking corpse was also my companion. No, they are not! They are just walking corpses, losing consciousness means that they are dead, we can no longer hear familiar voices from their mouths, we can no longer hug, why should we still be nostalgic for the good old days, this world is no longer the same, the only thing we can do is not to become the same as it. After hearing Mo Xiaoqin's seemingly absurd words, Shen Lei suddenly said with some excitement, the experience of five years in the last days made him deeply aware of a sentence, mercy to the walking corpse is cruelty to human beings.
"They're just sick, sick with diseases that doctors can't cure." Mo Xiaoqin retorted in a low voice, her thoughts were simply outrageous.
Looking at the girl who was arguing with him, Shen Lei suddenly felt that it was not interesting to talk to her about this, it was better to improve her strength, protect her, always stand in front of her, and let her guard this beauty.
On the rudimentary dissecting table lay a walking corpse, its hands and feet bound by tough ropes and tied to rings embedded in the ground. It seemed motionless, and when the bull got close to observe, it suddenly burst out and spewed out a large pile of saliva, but fortunately, the bull's skills were still calculated, and he avoided them all, turned around and picked up the knife and slashed at the neck of the walking corpse, cutting it in two! Holding his breath, except for He Bin and a few people who had someone on their backs who were not easy to do, all the others joined the looting team, responsible for digging out the corpse nucleus in the brain of the living walking corpse, while Shen Lei went deeper, and it was estimated that a larger batch of corpse nuclei would be placed inside.
As he expected, in the deepest corner, a large pile of corpse cores was placed there, almost piled up into a hill, fortunately the light here was not very good, and the others were attracted by the walking corpse of the woman surnamed Cheng Ren in the oil barrel, so they did not notice this area.
"Roselle, hurry up and collect these corpse cores!"
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