Chapter 9: The Light of the Breaking Mist
Gong Piqing didn't know how long he had been in a coma or how he had survived so many shots, but he was sure that he had been woken up hungry.
His stomach had been rumbling since he first regained consciousness, and the sound was so loud that he would have heard it if there were people outside this wall, but he hadn't heard anything outside since he woke up, as if the heavily armed squad had withdrawn.
He stepped out of the wall, still a little disobedient, but it didn't affect a battle-hardened veteran like him much; But the moment his head came out of the wall, the strong smell of gunsmoke and the smell of burnt flesh and blood poured into his nostrils, choking him to cover his mouth and cough.
It was a smell that gave him nightmares when he smelled it, and it made him want to go back to the walls and hide for a while.
"HQ, what the hell is going on?" He covered his mouth, his eyes bloodshot from smoke.
"Scene detection - post-war battlefield, activate adaptive enhancement, turn on the battlefield simulation system, note, the next picture the host sees is only a scenario simulation, please pay attention to your surroundings at any time to avoid being attacked." After the voice in his head finished speaking, an invisible realm exploded from Gong Piqing's body, and everything covered by the realm changed back to before the war......
The time in the field also went back to the soldier who had just received the news of the gathering, and he would have smashed the earthen wall where Gong Piqing was hiding by smashing the butt of his assault rifle against the wall, but he didn't do this, but moved closer to the direction of the pile of red dots on the life detector.
Gong Piqing followed behind this soldier, because all of this was simulated by the system, so it was impossible for this soldier to find that he was following a person.
Gong Piqing followed this soldier all the way to the place where life signals were most dense, and at the same time, he also saw the most terrifying scene he had seen in his life-
Countless monsters were struggling out of the well, but it seemed as if something was restraining them in the well, and the monsters' struggle was obviously laborious, but some of them had already broken free from the well, and it was only a matter of time before they were freed.
The number of monsters that Gong Piqing saw was actually far more than the red dots on the life detector, because not all of these monsters were "creatures", and there were some of them like zombies or even revenants, these things would not be detected by the soldiers' life detectors, but at this time, they were carrying the soldiers' firepower to break through, and the soldiers were forced to retreat again and again by them.
What a terrible battle, these hideous monsters have a lot of terrible abilities, and there are even individuals who can attack from a distance, soldiers stand by the mouth of the well and suppress desperately, assault rifles change pistols when they run out of bullets, pistol bullets take out daggers when they run out of pistol bullets, and monsters use grenades if they all gather together......
Although Gong Piqing claimed to be an elite soldier at the headquarters, he had never seen such a bloody and brutal scene before, this was a scene that would make a mentally ill person scared to see it, splashing flesh and blood whistling past Gong Piqing's side with boiling blood, it was hard to imagine that such an underground cave without any support structure could survive such a war without collapsing.
But the cave survived, and so did the squad, because their grenades were extremely lethal in such a confined space, and even the monsters who looked like they had escaped from another world could not withstand such damage, and retreated into the well.
But the squad also suffered heavy casualties, and even some soldiers were torn off half of their bodies by those monsters.
The war was over, the realm was reclaimed, and Gong Piqing returned to reality, standing beside the shaft that looked like a ruin, gasping for breath, no longer caring about the smell of burnt rotten flesh and gunsmoke in the air.
It didn't seem like a long time had passed, the battlefield hadn't had time to deal with it, the blood under his feet hadn't dried up, and there were even some small things that couldn't see what was on the flesh of those monsters.
This is the first time Gong Piqing has doubted life, and he is beginning to miss his days in the hospital room, although he only looks at those Teletubbies he doesn't like, but anyway, Teletubbies don't use assault rifles and grenades to bombard him with flesh and blood.
He wanted to escape, to escape back to the ward to be an obedient and good patient, and then he would be rewarded every day by the beautiful nurses, whether it was candy or small toys, at least he would not be stuck in the wall and suddenly beaten with an assault rifle for a long time, if the soldier's magazine was filled with live ammunition, I am afraid that he would have been placed on a cold iron stretcher waiting to be pushed into the furnace and cremated.
He didn't know that he had lived in this hospital for a few years, and that he had been here since he could remember; He didn't know if there was any of his family outside the hospital, no one had visited him in all these years, and he had never received a gift from outside......
Such loneliness makes even the mentally ill feel frightened, and even the invincible warrior in his heart has to bow down.
"Report Headquarters, War ...... It's over, I couldn't get involved, I'm sorry......" He stood for a long time and came out with these words, turning around to go back the way he came, back to his hospital room as a good patient with excellent grades.
At this moment, a faint sound of running water came from the bottom of the huge shaft in front of him, the sound was not loud, but it was extremely abrupt.
In the next second, Gong Piqing only felt as if an invisible hand grabbed his body, and wanted to push him into the well, his body was already a little weak because the effect of the anesthetic had not completely passed, and now he was dragged by that force, and the whole person fell down, as if an invisible rope was dragging him into the well.
"Help HQ save me!" His howl exploded from this huge underground space, but this place was a forbidden place in the hospital, there were no more than three elevators to get here, and the team had now been evacuated, and if there was still anyone in there to respond to him, it would be really haunted.
"HQ! Help me! At the last moment of falling down the shaft, he opened his arms and hugged a boulder, the edges of the boulder instantly cut through his arm and hospital gown, and at the same time, he also saw the source of the traction-
I saw that there was a spring in the center of the bottom of the well at this time, and there was a bubbling black spring water outward, and those springs were spread horizontally at the bottom of the well, like a portal to another world. Not long after his gaze fell on the black water, the originally calm black water suddenly appeared a slight fluctuation, as if something inside stirred the black water.
In an instant, a huge claw with white bones stretched out from the black water below, and along with the white bone claws, there was a long roar like the roar of a horse.
Gong Piqing was also frightened and screamed, and the sound echoed in this complex underground space, transmitting little by little into the distance.
The black spring below still flowed with black water, which meant that the owner of the white bone claw would have more space to enter reality.
"Danger! Dangerous! If you find a lord-level target, please stay away from the host immediately, please stay away from the host immediately! The voice in his head spoke rapidly, with a background sound similar to that of an air raid siren.
"Look at how I go! How do I go! Gong Piqing argued hoarsely with him, and then heard a "hiss" sound like a leak of air came from under his feet.
As soon as he looked down, he saw a very thick gray-black mist emitting from the black water to the real world, and in just such a short time, the mist had already filled the bottom of the well, and it was difficult to see the black water below from the position of the wellhead.
"The host is detected to be in great danger, and an accurate emergency plan is being deployed for the host, please be patient and ......"
Gong Piqing was so frightened that he almost fainted, although the black water below was already covered by the gray-black mist, the traction on his body still did not weaken at all; He didn't know how long he would last, and if he couldn't, he would be sucked into the well in an instant, and then torn apart by the claw that came out of the black water.
"Other rescue plans have been detected around the host, and the emergency plan has been cancelled!"
Just as Gong Piqing waited for the system to assign him a plan with the last glimmer of hope, the system ruthlessly interrupted his glimmer of hope.
"Anyone?" A female voice as pleasant as a Christmas bell suddenly sounded above the wellhead, and when Gong Piqing looked up, he saw a female nurse with a white hat lying on the top of the wellhead and looking down.
If the nurse had been a minute or two late, I was afraid that Gong Piqing would have been swallowed up by the mist that had come up below, and even if someone was lying at the mouth of the well, he might not be able to see him at that time.
"Don't be afraid! Grab my hand! ”
The female nurse said as she stretched out her hand towards Gong Piqing, her face showing no fear, probably because the scary things at the bottom of the well had been blocked by the mist.
Gong Piqing tried his best to free a hand and stretched out his hand towards the nurse, although the distance between them was not too far, and they could reach each other as soon as they stretched out, but Gong Piqing still had some doubts that the nurse's small body could pull him up.
But when the hands of the two were grasped together, Gong Piqing still chose to believe in this last straw, with the nurse's force, he was really pulled up little by little against the strong traction force below, and the despair in Gong Piqing's heart seemed to be dispelled by the light......
Now he only hopes that this glimmer of light that has just appeared will not be extinguished by those monsters struggling out of the black water......