The gun went off, and the strange slow-moving corpse was beaten to a pulp, and Chris scrambled to dodge back, though even if he didn't dodge.

"It's vulnerable."

Andy put down his pistol and looked down to see that there were no bullets left, which was a big problem.

"It looks like that, but you'd better stay away before you shoot the next time."

Chris looked at the muddy stuff with fear on his face.

"If you get his secretions, you'll quickly become like him."

Andy was not surprised by the news.

"So is this some kind of assimilation ability? Or rather.... Is it caused by some kind of virus, bacterial infection, etc.? ”

Chris didn't talk as much as he did before.

"It's also a lot of stuff and it's easy to knock down, we've had some samples, and they're very different from each other, and the composition of the body fluids they secrete is also a little subtle, at first we thought it was an infection from a particular microorganism, but then we found out that this is essentially a phenomenon caused by a combination of factors acting on the human body... When the special microbiota environment in the air here acts on a person together with the negative states of long-term insomnia, hunger, solitude and other negative states caused by various risk factors, he can become such a thing in a few weeks to a few months. ”

"They secrete a special secretion that, as soon as they come into contact, also begins the transformation process immediately."

Andy shook his head, he felt that there was enough of this place, and he wanted to invent thousands of ways to kill or transform people who strayed into this place or transform them into something assimilating and aggressive.

"What do you call this thing?"

Chris began to look around for possible directions out.

"The people of mEG call this thing a sad corpse, and call the mechanism that can gradually transform people into their own kind as the tragic corpse cycle, and this mechanism phenomenon causes people who have lived here for a long time not to live alone and lose sleep for a long time, otherwise they will gradually fall into this state."

Andy thought to himself, pests are so everywhere in this place, what happens if a person is infected with several things at the same time? Turning into a four-like monster or directly super-evolving?

"I mean, there's something I've wanted to ask you for a long time."

He walked up to Chris, and because he didn't know what Andy was going to do, Chris stopped finding his way and looked at him warily.

"What?"

Andy saw the giant A on the back of Chris's hazmat suit.

"That is, why did you Institute A enter such a horrible place?"

Chris's eyes rolled.

"We think that studying this place is a very significant and necessary thing, to put it mildly, many of those unclear disappearances are very likely to be caused by accidentally falling into the Backrooms, we should try to find out about this place and find a way to solve this hidden danger, at worst, this is a new spatial plane, its microscopic level of complexity is incomparable, and the nature of exploring it can be compared with exploring the polar regions, the deep sea, the underground, space, and so on, for scientific researchers, The temptation is hard to resist. “

Andy thinks what Chris said is not unreasonable, but it is a little too illusory.

"A scientist like you may be like that, but not everyone thinks so, right? What is it that supports them to come here and play for their lives? ”

Chris waved his hand as if it wasn't worth mentioning.

"Hey, you understand, right? Seriously, money is the main reason, the SA government funding makes it a good job to explore here, not only does it pay very well and everyone will receive a huge amount of insurance, if someone dies while exploring here, we A Institute will pay a large sum of money to his family and will also help to organize a decent funeral. ”

Suddenly a light lit up in the darkness.

Andy immediately looked over and there appeared to be a standing figure behind the light.

"That's nice, you liars."

The mysterious man said this to Chris, whose face had changed drastically, and when he got closer, he could see that it was not a flashlight, but a shotgun, which was the standard weapon that Xiao Huang and Coslie had held before, with black paint all over his body, and a light device installed on the muzzle rail.

Chris looked at it with a shudder, then turned to Andy for help.

"This is a madman, he turned out to be one of our people, and then he got mentally ill here, he..."

"Shut up!"

The latecomer with the gun interrupted Chris with a shout of rage.

Andy turned on the light of the Pip-Boy to hedge against the dazzling light, this person was wearing a tattered black coat, as if he was the same person who was standing on a high place to peep before, did he follow all the way? Because of the limitation of V mode, Andy doesn't dare to use it at will now, after all, even just probing will consume a lot of physical strength, but I didn't expect to be followed by this guy all the way for so long.

"Hmm... Hello man, can you not be so nervous? ”

The man with the shotgun seemed to gasp for air with rage.

"I don't have a problem with you, it's just for the bastards at Research A."

Chris raised his hands and gritted his teeth as he spoke.

"Pike...? That's your name, right? Listen to me, there's no need to do this, you calm down and think about it, what the hell is going on? We used to be a family, didn't we? ”

This sentence stepped on the thunder at once.

"Who the is with your family!"

Pike jerked the muzzle of the gun forward, aiming it at Chris's head.

Chris was so frightened that he took two steps back, and seeing that things were really dangerous, he turned to Andy with a trembling voice to make a suggestion.

"Andy? Help me, this man is crazy, he doesn't wear protective equipment and doesn't take medicine, he's lived here for too long, he already has a problem with his head, don't forget our previous agreement, he can't help you.... Now hurry up..."

Hearing this, Andy reached out to the man Chris called Pike.

"Pike? Let's put down the gun first, okay? ”

The man was silent for a moment, then turned his gun toward Andy.

"What agreement did you make between the two of you? Are you with him? ”

Andy looked at the muzzle, this shotgun can be described as powerful, and it is an automatic firearm, which can shoot a large number of projectiles in a short time, even if there are two layers of armor to help Andy resist the damage, he doesn't want to eat like this, once the bullet seriously injures the abdominal organs, the treatment needles are powerless, and Hull may not be able to save his life.

"Don't be nervous.... I don't want to hurt you, I don't even know you, but if you want to shoot me, I know for sure that you'll be the one who dies in the end, even if my gun hasn't been pulled out yet... If you don't believe me, you can try. ”

Andy's assertive statement makes Pike suspicious, and he eventually lays down his weapon.

"You're not from Research Institute A, no matter what that bastard promised you, they can't fulfill their promise, they're a bunch of mercenary lies and the most important thing is that they don't actually think you're their own kind at all, did he tell you?"

Just as the two of them stared at each other, Chris suddenly turned and ran, holding something and shouting quickly in the same tone of extreme calm as when he first met Andy.

"Hear me! Hear me! This is C-901-2, currently presumed to be in the D24 area, encountering the primary target, needing emergency support, being threatened by the target's gun, repeat, the target has a firearm and is maintaining a threat, I need urgent support! ”

Andy was taken aback by this sudden turn of events, and his cold and extremely fast response was completely different from the impression that Chris had made him before, who was he talking to regardless of the danger? And for what? Was he all in disguise before?

Without hesitation, Pike raised his shotgun and fired a shot in the back at Chris, who was running away while continuing to call, and the shotgun hit him instantly, tearing his suit and flesh apart, bursting into a cloud of blood mist and several bloody holes.

Looking at Chris, who fell to the ground, Andy knew that no one would ever answer these questions.

"I've given him a chance, but he doesn't care."

Pike slowly lowered the gun in his hand.

"As I said, no matter what agreement he had with you before, he didn't actually think about implementing it in the past, because in his eyes you weren't even of the same kind."

Andy looked at Pike suspiciously, this man's face was full of tangled beards, his skin was covered with dirt, and his dirty clothes looked like they hadn't been cleaned for a long time, but his eyes were still bright.

"Can you explain? ... He said he could take me to the exit out of here, but now he's dead at your hands. ”

Pike chuckled.

"Oh~ what a classic statement, in fact, if there is a slight chance that you will really be taken out of them, you will be sent back sooner or later, and then you will become a brand new white mouse or little puppet in their hands, and it would be absolutely foolish to hope that they are."

Andy scratched his hair irritably, one person said one thing, all of them were riddlers, and they were all subversions of the former, and the negative emotions that he suppressed instantly spread.

Andy, who was standing in the dim green light of the beep boy, lowered his head slightly, and the muscles of his whole body began to tense, and the green tendons and blood vessels appeared on those bulging blocks, and his firmly clenched fists made a gurgling sound, and there seemed to be only a cloud of darkness in his sunken eye sockets, even if there were no actions and words at the moment, a shocking momentum was also vigorous, this terrible sense of oppression made Pike, who was holding a firearm in his hand, feel a shock in his heart, and he felt in a trance that the person in front of him... As long as you make the slightest abnormal move, you will be killed on the spot.

“......”

Pike gasped unnaturally.

"I used to be a member of the Async organization, but I don't know a lot of things you don't know, and I can answer any questions you want to ask... Also, I'm looking for an exit from here, but trust me, the one they control is definitely not the right choice, we can work together and share the information and resources we know. ”

After trying hard for a long time to control his emotions again, Andy finally broke free from the extremely violent desire to destroy.

At Pike's behest, the two left the area and headed in other directions.

"Why don't you tell me about the asynchronous company or the A institute or the Async agency you just talked about... Anyway, what's going on with those weird guys in yellow suits? ”

Pike held up the butt of his rifle, which had a pattern on it, the same one that Cosley had shown before.

"Have you ever seen this? The guy was wearing a hazmat suit with a similar one on the back. ”

After receiving Andy's affirmative answer, Pike begins to tell a new version of the story.

"Async is a long-established scientific institution that probably dates back to the Manhattan Project, as its organizational structure is also known as the Async Foundation. During an early experimental error, a research team in the Los Alamos laboratory accidentally observed a miraculous phenomenon, the use of large energy to artificially create magnetic distortion has a probability of causing spatial anomaly, and then this phenomenon received the attention of the government and soon set up a separate research institute to conduct special research. ”

"The exploration of this phenomenon lasted for decades, and it was not until 1987 that the equipment for large-scale systems and all the necessary resources were finally in place, after which the first hastily conducted experiment ended in failure and nothing happened. The experiment continued, and the second experiment still failed, but the third experiment, conducted on July 2, 1988, finally achieved initial success, and in the subsequent public press conference, the person in charge explained to the representatives of the military, politics, and capital what the prospects of this costly experiment were. “

Andy listened to this man's speech, his words were clear and logical, and he definitely didn't look like some kind of mental illness.

"What are the prospects?"

Pike looked remorseful.

"The press conference was a stupid show from the back, and people listened to the person in charge talking nonsense, including what to do to expand human living space, storage, and some advantages in military logistics, and they claimed that this would bring very low-cost housing and storage space to the SA people in the future, and could easily transport a large amount of baggage everywhere to save transportation costs..... Such big talk was very popular in those days, but in fact it was a kind of camouflage and cover-up. ”

"I was one of the participants at the time, and I naively listened to what they said.... At that time, I had just graduated from university, and even if I only calculated from the construction and maintenance of the property, the expected annual savings would be in the billions of SA dollars, which was a cause that could bring great help to the future of mankind, at least at the time. ”

Looking at Pike's expression, Andy sensed something.

"This experiment didn't benefit humanity in the end, did it?"

Pike looked up, a little desperate on his face.

"What's more.... They are pushing humanity to the brink of destruction, and after three experiments, some changes have taken place in the world, but at that time we were all kept in the dark. The sixth experiment, which is the result of a lot of our wisdom and energy... The triple support beam introduces an additional RF cavity, and the detector is replaced with a high-precision beam to monitor the frequency of spatial vibration.... You may not understand this, you don't know how big it is, but we equipped the experiment with an L-3 solenoid, a particle tracing chamber, and a meson filter... We succeeded, we opened a door. ”

"And I realized by chance the profound cost of this success, and because of this, I was persecuted by them."

A mouse cry came from not far away, and the two looked left and right for a while, and the sound of the mouse disappeared again.

"So, at what cost?"

Andy asked, with a vague guess in his mind.

Pike opened his mouth almost in grief.

"Since 1987, when the first experiment began, there has been an exponential increase in the number of missing people around the world, the launch of the sixth experiment led to a major blackout affecting half of the SA, and the completion of the sixth experiment caused a major earthquake.... None of this is the most terrifying, I suspect that six consecutive low-range magnetic distortion experiments have caused serious spatial displacement, and the door that has not been closed so far continues to exacerbate the process of this phenomenon, and the overlapping parts of the two spaces are increasing, and the monsters in the Backrooms, collectively known as entities, will sooner or later leave here and enter another world, and a large number of humans will also no-clip out of the original world and fall here. ”