Strips of torn cloth, glass pill bottles that are only half of their bodies left, and old flower pots filled with soil.

This is all the harvest after the two of them searched up and down and returned to the hall on the first floor.

"There's nothing in the whole building except for these things, it's like it's been ransacked."

Hoshikawa Aoi took her magnifying glass and looked around the three pieces of garbage that were spread out on the ground like a scholar studying the condition of the samples under a microscope.

"I wonder why you brought these three things back?"

Li Wu asked.

When he returned to the first floor empty-handed, he found that the magical girl was studying the seemingly ordinary garbage as if she had found an important clue.

"You don't understand, Li Wu."

Xingchuan raised the magnifying glass and shook it, and the cat-shaped doll flying to the side cooperatively took out a pipe from behind and stuffed it into its mouth, "In this kind of empty building, the clue is not disappearing, but hidden in an ordinary place!" ”

"So, what clues did you find?"

"For example, this strip of cloth looks like it's just a piece of stuff that was torn off the curtain in the intensive care unit and thrown on the floor, but maybe a text prompt will appear when it's baked!"

Li Wu lit a flame and approached the thing she handed over.

"It's glowing!"

Hoshikawa Aoi exclaimed.

The strip of cloth that glowed with fire burned into ashes in her hand.

Li Wu: "......"

Hoshikawa Aoi laughed dryly, rubbed his hands, threw the black powder into the flower pot on the side, and then picked up the half-broken glass medicine bottle.

"Next up is this suspicious glass bottle that has collapsed in front of a doctor's office! Strange numbers can be faintly seen on the inside of it, I just looked at it, and it's 500250 from top to bottom, maybe it can open the door somewhere! ”

"From what I've observed, it's just a scale mark that counts the amount of liquid."

Li Wu complained calmly, "And in reality, how can there be such a convenient setting as a decryption game?" ”

There is no designer who happens to leave enough props for the player to solve the puzzle.

Hoshikawa frustrated and threw the glass bottle aside in his hand, making a clanging sound on the ground.

"This flower pot is probably just a normal forgotten on the windowsill of the middle ward on the second floor."

She picked up the last thing, "Li Wu, let's go back, I can just use it to grow something by myself......"

"Wait a minute."

Li Wu grabbed her and took the flower pot, "What about the ashes that you just poured in?" ”

The inside of the pot is missing a piece from the edge, and the soil has become dry and crumpled due to long-term storage, and it is impossible to grow anything.

But Hoshikawa Aoi had just thrown the remnants of the burned strip of cloth into it like garbage.

Now there is not a single trace of black ash in sight, as if they have penetrated into the soil like fertilizer.

He placed the pot on the ground again, and this time he could clearly see the earth churning like some creature wriggling in it.

Li Wu cautiously took a step back and lit up the flame of wrath.

Suddenly, green tentacles dug out of the earth, writhing their ugly bodies, spreading their fat leaves, and shaking in disgust like people who had just woken up.

The foliage holds two eerie flowers that evoke madness when viewed, angular yellow petals wrapping around the orange flower plate, dotted with two black dots and a curved black line, which looks like a simplified and distorted human face.

This plant, full of madness and blasphemy, has a resounding name from Li Wu's perspective:

【Twin Sunflowers】

"This ...... Isn't it a plant war ○ corpse? ”

Hoshikawa Aoi, who was watching from the sidelines, asked.

"Because you have transformed people into zombies, do you need to have plants? Who is it? Who is so nasty!? ”

Li Wudan stretched out his hand painfully and pinched the stems and leaves of the ghostly thing in front of him, and the latter let out a scream: "Indecent! ”

"Shut up!"

He didn't expect the thing to speak, and shook the flame of his other hand in front of its eyes as if threateningly.

The twin sunflowers trembled in fear and tried to move their bodies away from the heat, pulling out even some of the roots buried under the soil.

"What are you? Or who created you? ”

Li Wu asked tentatively, but I don't know if it was too much fear or if it didn't actually have any intelligence, this unlucky plant (?) Just shivering.

Just as he was about to take further action, it suddenly opened the black line on the flower disk, expanding into a black semicircle—what it should mean as "opening up" to it.

Twin Sunflowers shouted out a word familiar to Li Wu: "Ab-har-tach!" ”

He instantly remembered the image of a short vampire who ended up being used as a decoy bomb.

"I see, the style of human experimentation with side effects......"

If you have anything to do with this mad scientist in the vampire world, it will explain what happened to Yui Hirata.

It also further confirms that there is a connection between Blue Pharmaceutical, the current Blue Dream Technology and the Convergence Society.

Li Wu's spirits perked up, and the twin sunflower in his hand did not stop shouting, it began to cough violently as if it was hoarse, and then spurted out a pool of blood like vomiting.

It's a thing made by a vampire, and it has gone from spitting sunlight to spitting blood.

As the split plant kept spitting out new blood, the red liquid lined up on the ground and flowed in a certain direction.

"It'...... Are you showing us the way? ”

Hoshikawa Aoi asked uncertainly.

As she said, the bloodstain was like an arrow, pointing to the corridor on the right side of the first floor.

Li Wu picked up the flower pot and pushed the twin sunflowers forward like a treasure hunter holding a detector.

The blood flow was self-conscious, turning a corner along the floor tiles to the ward on the left at the end of the hallway.

The interior of the ward was the same as the one they had inspected before, the corner cupboards were open, the empty trash cans were dumped aside, and the whitewashed walls coldly surrounded the cramped room.

The blood flow stopped when it reached the bottom of the cupboard.

"Stopped...... Is it a malfunction? Do you want to squeeze that pot of flowers again and see if you vomit blood? ”

Hoshikawa Aoi is eager to try, and the twin sunflowers raise their leaves in fear to cover their faces.

"It's not a cow. Also, I think it's time to reach my destination. ”

The blood didn't stop, it seeped down the edge of the floor.

Li Wu pushed the heavy steel cabinet aside, and regardless of whether or not there was any mechanism, he smashed the tiled floor below.

Behind the splashes of debris and the widening cracks, a staircase appeared that led to the deep underground, and a smell similar to disinfectant water poured out.

"Classic."

Li Wu commented.

"It's like a puzzle game?"

Hoshikawa Aoi teased him.

"Do you need to hold such a grudge?"

Li Wu held the flower pot and replied as he walked down the stairs.

The staircase became wider after a long period of meandering, like a passage built underground. The grey concrete walls on both sides are covered with green moss and mycelium of unknown species, and circular lighting fixtures are set up at intervals on top, all working well and providing plenty of light.

There was a sticky humidity in the air, as if the two were not in a man-made passage underground, but in a tropical rainforest.

After traveling straight for some distance, a heavy, gear-shaped door appeared in front of them, and on the right side of the gate was a console-like electronic device.

A sign was installed on it that read "Emergency Vault Twenty-two" in a variety of different languages.

If you look at the appearance, it looks a bit like an underground stronghold that apocalyptic survivalists dream of.

Li Wu touched the gate blocking the front, put aside the twin sunflowers that had wilted after reaching the ground, and then took a deep breath.

The muscles of his whole body contracted abruptly, and then flowed like mercury solemnly, rushing and converging into a whole that conducted power.

Crash King Kong!

A loud bang rolled back and forth under the echo effect of the passage, and the heavy metal door caved backwards as if it had been hit head-on by a tank's main gun, and a fist print appeared in the depths of the crater.

Li Wu withdrew his right arm from the depression, a little surprised by the firmness of the door.

Although he used a move under normal conditions, he could theoretically blast open the vault door of any bank in the world, so what kind of specifications was the underground facility of this hospital built?

Just as he was about to smash again, the gear-shaped door popped out like a bolt in a violent pneumatic sound, and then rolled hard to the right, probably due to the heavy blow, and stopped after revealing a gap behind the door.

Hoshikawa Aoi removed her hand from the button on the console: "It said it asked for a six-digit password, I tried to enter 500250, and it turned out to be really open!" ”

How could anyone really use the idea of a puzzle game to arrange a route to such a secret base!

The smug magical girl chattered around Li Wu, and in order to interrupt her, Li Wu stepped through the door first.

Upon entering the door, the first thing you hear is the sound of a fierce exchange of fire.

"Is there anyone alive here?"

Hoshikawa Aoi listened attentively, a little surprised.

Behind the door was a closed room with a shower-like device on the ceiling, which Li Wu assumed was intended for disinfection based on the strong smell in the air.

In the center of the room was a long table, on which were placed a heavy theological book and a cross, and under the cross was a tablet computer, which Li Wu pulled out and found that it could still be turned on.

After activating it, he took a cursory look and found that most of the content had been cleaned up, and only a document called the log still contained a sentence: "Today's lunch is a blood sandwich, I'm going to take advantage of this time to see how the plants are growing—A." ”

In other words, the vampire he met on Longdu Island did stay here for a while.

Li Wu originally thought that Abkhatak should never have left after relocating to Longdu Island, but now it seems that he had a record of activities in the outside world, even in Chiyo City, and it is likely that he got in touch with Guiyikai during this time.

The other two things are nothing out of the ordinary, but I don't know why a vampire would put something from the Cross Cult.

Hoshikawa found the switch that opened the door to the room while he was checking, and she snapped the button, and the wall of the room on the side of the door pulled open to both sides, revealing a wide hall.

Metal tables and chairs that had been pushed to the ground were scattered and stacked all over the hall, forming artificial improvised bunkers.

This is where the firefights they hear come from.

And the two sides of the firefight...... It's zombies and plants.

Humanoid creatures that looked similar to Yui Hirata after removing their disguise shrank behind the "bunker", some of them were wearing their hearts and wielding knives, guns and clubs, and from time to time rushed out of the bunker to charge; Some of them have their eyeballs hanging on their chests, peeking out from the scope of their rifles......

Their opponents poured out from top to bottom from the steps at the end of the hall.

When Li Wu and the others opened the room, they happened to see a huge purple plant moving towards a zombie rushing over, opening its bloody mouth full of fangs, and biting his head.

Then the plant with "Largemouth Flower" written on its head slammed the "food" in its mouth, and its headless body flew out like a kite with a broken string along with the gray cerebral medulla.

"Plants have eaten Lin Tianjun's brain!"

A zombie screamed and threw away his weapon and ran out of cover, only to be shot in the head by a green pea as fast as a bullet.

At this time, the zombie front was already in jeopardy, and the two new ones did not attract their attention.

But the other side of the battle noticed the arrival of the uninvited guest, and a green nest melon about two people tall, with an angry human face growing on the surface, crossed the corpse and leaped towards Li Wu.

The shadow shrouded both of them, Li Wu held the twin sunflowers in one hand and pushed the falling nest melon with the other.

Like a human stepping on a nail, his fist was passively inserted from the bottom under the potential energy of the giant melon's falling, splashing juice with the fragrance of melons and vegetables, and the human face growing on the surface of the other party was distorted, letting out a "oh oh oh oh! Cry out in pain.

If he waited for it to land completely, Li Wu estimated that half of his people would fall into it, so he directly stabbed into the right arm of the nest melon as the axis, and slammed it down like a warrior who shook a spear on the ancient battlefield!

The sap flowed like blood from behind the plant that had hit the ground hard, but before it could scream, a sharp, heavy cold light ended its pain.

Hoshikawa Aoi lifted up Guillotan and split it in half from the center with a jump like an execution.

As if realizing that these two people were not to be messed with, the remaining army of plants stopped their offensive movements, as if they were retreating down the stairs in unison after evaluating tactics, like a well-trained army.

"Those damn guys are back!"

The zombies who had been saved by this accident cheered and began to notice the two humans who were out of place.

A well-preserved zombie with a red beret on his head walked up to them.

"You ...... Coming from outside? ”

He asked, stunned.

(End of chapter)