The black dead skin of the apostle's skin was refined, and even William himself didn't know how much time it took.

As he breaks the seals in the basement one after another, prepares to meet Keith and asks for the time.

Click~ I only heard heavy footsteps from upstairs, not Keith and his wife but outsiders, and at the same time, I could hear the sound of very heavy metal breathing.

Soon an argument ensues, and Keith tries to stop him from inspecting the basement.

When the conflict is about to break out.

The wooden planks in the basement were swept away by a gust of air, and William landed in front of everyone with a single jump

In front of him was a special rat wearing a fully enveloping breathing mask, a black one-piece lab dress, fingers with a syringe attached, and a plague circulation device hanging from his back.

There is also a green three-ring mark on the chest that represents the plague.

"Boss, this 'quarantine officer' from the plague bed is taking routine blood sampling, and you don't need to take a sample if you are an outsider." Keith seemed to be explaining to William, but he was actually speaking to the quarantine officer.

Whew~Whew~

Heavy breathing came down some kind of metal pipe, and the quarantine officer looked at the young man in front of him with a mask,

In his opinion, outsiders who can't even afford to live in a hotel and choose to live in the homes of ordinary rat people are either weak and incompetent, or they are deliberately avoiding something, such as the incident at the Blacktail Hotel that happened a few days ago.

"What's your name?"

"William. Behrens. "There is no disguise, the real name is given directly.

The quarantine officer has very high rights in the rat city, and with a whistle from under the mask, a green-eyed rat arrives with a document in his mouth.

This document corresponds to the register of occupants on the day of the collapse of the Blacktail Hotel, and William's name is suddenly recorded on it, and it is registered on the same day, which is very suspicious.

"Given that you may have something to do with the collapse of the Blacktail Hotel, please come with me."

Keith on the side saw that the boss was going to be taken away, and as a rat citizen, he knew very well what it meant to take away this slightly suspicious nature, and the probability of never returning was basically as high as 100%.

Just when he wanted to give false testimony that William had lived in his house during this time, and that there might have been only a duplicate name on the register.

William patted him lightly on the shoulder and followed the quarantine officer away.

Keith calmed down with such a clapp,

Recalling the hotel that collapsed due to the owner's stay, and recalling the relevant experience in the inner city, he had a faint bad premonition.

"Isn't the boss ......?"

……

When William left the cave, he whispered to the quarantine officer who walked in front: "Anyway, my candle puppet will go with you, right?" Otherwise, it will be very troublesome to bring it back and be stolen, and I will have to rely on her to go to the [Dark Place] to hunt for treasures in the future. ”

The quarantine officer paused slightly as the term "Darklands" was spoken, then looked at the tattered and even 'skull-topped' old-fashioned candle puppets.

"Take it with you."

William himself restrained his aura through gentlemanly clothing, and he seemed to be just an outsider who had just opened up the source and was harmless to humans and animals. In the eyes of the quarantine officer, it doesn't make much difference to bring an old candle puppet.

As William had envisioned,

Under the leadership of the quarantine officer, I went directly to the [Plague Bed] in the old city, a pitch-black building with a huge size second only to the tall tower, with a cube structure and full seal.

The waste generated inside will be transported through underground pipes and discharged from four chimneys at the corners of the inner city.

There is also a network of meat with No. 7 plague flowing around the perimeter of the plague bed, which is much safer than an electrified barbed wire.

As soon as any outsider touches the meat tube and flows inside, the No. 7 plague developed by the plague bed will gush out, and even the openers must come up with life-saving means to clean up the plague.

A large number of black rat guards patrol here, and they have more or less pierced needles, their physique is far larger than that of ordinary rats, and their eyes are glowing green.

When the quarantine officer arrives, the surveillance eyeballs embedded in the meat pipe network immediately check the identity of the visitor.

When William followed the other party into the plague bed area, he felt that the sky was darkening, and the cube-shaped plague bed building was like a giant object squeezing into his eye sockets, pressing against the surface of his heart and making it difficult to breathe.

Tick ~ A drop of green blood flowed from William's nasal cavity.

When the quarantine officer saw this scene, he also had a general assessment of William's 'strength' and explained: "Don't worry, this is a normal reaction close to the plague bed, and when our investigation is over, we will inject you with antigens, so that you can leave normally, and it will not cause any harm to your body." ”

"Thank you."

The two of them stood in front of the only steel gate of the plague bed, and the door was stamped with the three-ring mark representing the plague, and the inner and outer double valves,

The quarantine officer and the insiders turn the valve at the same speed to complete the opening of the gate.

During the opening process, even the quarantine officer adjusts the knob on the garment at the same time to ensure that the filtration effect is adjusted to the maximum value to keep the pathogenic bacteria out.

Crunch~

The gate opened, and due to the pressure difference between inside and outside, a strong wind was enough to lift ordinary people away.

Countless pathogens and even some microorganisms that have not yet been tested are blown out together, attaching to William's skin, nasal mucosa, and scalp space.

With one formal breath from William, countless pathogens successfully entered the body.

If the air you breathe when you set foot in Rat City is like a bunch of ruffians led by rats,

The group of pathogens inhaled into the body this time is a more professional gang group, and there are many practitioners in it, or strong men with machetes in their shirts, or motorcycle men with bandanas and sticks, and even suicides with explosives strapped to their bodies.

However, they still came to the familiar discotheque, the familiar madman boss, the familiar black knight thug, or the familiar evil sun top lamp......

There is indeed a difference between the so-called professional gangs and the ruffians, but the difference is not very large.

They can scream a little more before they die, they can hold on for a few more seconds, and the body is a little more troublesome to clean up.

In reality,

William had already begun to cough violently, and there was red and green phlegm coughing out, and he quickly tore off a layer of body skin as a mask, and followed the other party to the plague bed.

William was taken aback by the scene inside, thinking that it would be a chaotic nest that represented extreme filth.

What is actually presented in front of you is a modern laboratory building with standardized management, a design style based on straight lines and right angles, and mineral metal as building materials, which looks neat and new as a whole.

The reason why the air is mixed with strong pathogenic bacteria is that the plague bed deliberately transports the toxic gases produced during the experiment to the public areas of the building through pipes and exhaust fans, so as to create a "third line of defense", and any intruder will be exposed to the highly lethal plague.

That's why quarantine officers wear protective suits.

William was soon taken to a small dark room that had been purified and isolated, and the quarantine officer sitting opposite handed him a drink that claimed to be an 'antidote'.

It actually contains a parasite that can absorb toxins, and this parasite will follow the blood to the brain for the first time, affecting the subject's subsequent interrogation to a certain extent, so that he can tell the truth as much as possible.

Grunt~

William drank it all in a few sips, and after a long breath of relief, he expressed his gratitude again and again.

This kind of performance made the quarantine officer sitting opposite almost laugh out loud, and even wanted to publicly ridicule how such a person could achieve open source.

Hiss~

The quarantine officer unscrewed the hydraulic valve on the surface of the garment, held his head with both hands, and removed the fully wrapped respiratory mask.

A terrifying rat head with a rotting sore and 80% of the skull exposed.

There is a faint wriggling of black tentacles between its eye sockets, providing a dark vision that examines the youth in front of it.

"Next, please answer my question truthfully, did you stay at the Black Tail Hotel three days ago?"

"Yes."

"Did you check in on the night with the hotel owner Congreve. Blacktail has been in contact. ”

"Yes."

"How did you get in touch and did you have a relationship with Congreve. Is Kuroo persecuted, or is your companion secretly wreaking havoc on the hotel? ”

"No~ I'm the only one.

While I was sleeping, I was taken to the world inside the wall, and I met the boss who was spliced together by countless tails, and I only knew his name until you said it.

He wants to eat me, and I want to get news of the abyss, right?

Just as I was trying to ask a question about the Abyss, the Abyss seemed to be self-conscious and turned the boss back, accidentally breaking my clothes.

What a pity...... So I came to you this time to continue to inquire about the abyss, I wonder if you or your boss can tell me in detail? ”

William, who had been looking at him with a blank look, suddenly became normal, and his hands were clenched into fists and placed on the table.

On the contrary, the quarantine officer sitting opposite was completely stunned and became well-behaved and honest.

(End of chapter)