202. Lurkers in the dark
Dark, cold...
The sound fades away.
Dean felt like he had slipped seventy or eighty meters down the spiral tunnel.
When his feet were back on solid ground, he rolled around on the ground, unloading the force of inertia.
Standing up, God's perspective searched around, it was a place similar to an underground passage, and the darkness was mixed with the light of a flashlight, and the female college students who had been smashed in the light had just gotten up.
"Julie, Luna, Hallie, Maeve, are they all there, how are you all?"
"God forbid, no one is hurt," Luna picked up a flashlight to shine at the walls on either side, her pretty face in horror, "but what is this place?" Why is there an underground passage in the warehouse? β
"I'm scared... I have claustrophobia. The Asian girl got closer to her companion and began to wail again.
"Be strong, Maeve baby, everyone is trying to figure it out!" Hallie put her arm around her shoulders, resisting the urge to complain and blame, and looked around, "Who has an idea?" β
"Can you climb up again?" Luna walked over to the tunnel that had brought them in, and reached out to touch it, the slope was so steep that the side walls were so smooth and hard that even a master rock climber couldn't find a point to focus on, and it was impossible to return to the surface from here.
Dean looked over and saw that he could use his telekinesis to move himself up, but the distance between here and the ground was beyond the viewing range of the viewing angle, and he couldn't send the girls up.
If he leaves first and looks for ropes somewhere else, he may encounter unpredictable changes underneath.
"Unfortunately, this place can't go up."
Dean's words made everyone's hearts sink.
"I heard from the seniors that this was originally an abandoned chemical factory and industrial land." Julie touched the wall behind her by the light of her flashlight, "So this wall should be made of concrete and metal." β
"Even if it were used to secretly store chemical waste, it wouldn't be enough to build such a large underground tunnel," Luna looked at both ends of the passage, the right side was a dead end with a high wall, and the other end could be passed.
"It also has something to do with the American military." Dean added that the camera swept over the passage, only to find a swarthy rock formation.
"Then this is an underground military, a secret base?" Maeve finally mustered up her courage under the reassurance of her companions, and her brain was running at high speed, "I've read some information, and this kind of place should all have some similarities, there is a control room, a generator, and another exit to escape. β
"Hurry up, everybody," Harley pointed to the only access to the right, "find that control room." I can't breathe a little, and I suspect that the air in this place contains toxic ingredients,"
"Don't be alarmist, you're just drinking too much and haven't sobered up yet. By the way, obediently listen to my command, and you will definitely be able to get out. Dean's calm statement slightly soothed the panicked hearts of several girls,
Next, Dean took out another flashlight from his arms and walked to the front first, with the four women slowly following behind.
"How did you prepare two flashlights in advance," Julie glanced at Dean's light denim jacket, her eyes sparkling in the darkness,
"It's the basic quality of a private detective... I also had a lighter and an M1911 for self-defense. Dean showed the holster around his waist,
"It's good to have you." Luna grinned slightly,
"Now is not the time to be nymphomaniac, sisters, watch your surroundings." Hallie reminded, "There's something very wrong in this place. β
The five of them descended to the right of the passage, into deeper darkness.
The passage was not straight, but kept turning and turning towards a certain place, and the terrain was gradually descending, and they walked up one staircase after another.
The walls on both sides and the ceilings were getting higher and higher, and metal pipes, water, and some kind of liquid flowed slowly in them.
But the air here was not circulated, it was dreary, there was an uncomfortable faint smell in it, and the temperature was several degrees lower than the ground, and the group of coolly dressed girls shivered unconsciously.
In addition, it was dark and dead all around, and in the sound of soft footsteps, there was only the sound of everyone's messy breathing and heartbeat.
The darkness and the unknown have lasted too long, and fear has grown.
Everyone couldn't help but have a premonition, as if something terrible would suddenly jump out of this darkness and attack them!
"I can't take it anymore." Maeve couldn't help but shout in anguish, holding her head and squatting down, "I can't get out, you guys go, leave me alone." β
"Calm down, baby," Luna resisted the urge to complain, shoving a flashlight into her hand and gently stroking her long hair, "take it and you won't be afraid." And there are five of us, and we will all protect you. β
"That's right, we swore that sisters would have to go together," Harley and Julie also crouched down and wrapped their arms around Maeve's shoulders and back, warming her body, "Let's go together." β
Dean looked back in surprise, saying that they had fallen to this point because of this Maeve running around, and it was rare that no one blamed her.
Dean's eyes softened slightly, and he didn't urge, his gaze swept forward, and suddenly his expression froze, and he slowly walked towards a wall ten meters away.
The four Maeves, who had recovered from their panic, saw Dean reach out and pick up a piece of debris from the wall, put it to his nose and smell it, and then frowned.
"What's wrong, there's a discovery?" Luna pressed her delicate body back onto her body and turned her gaze to the wall, where she spotted a large splendor of a dark red trail of dryness.
"It's bloodstains." As soon as Dean said this, the progress of the system changed immediately: 10 percent β 12 percent, "from humans, and there was a lot of bleeding." β
"Has anyone been seriously injured here?" Luna tightened her willow eyebrows,
"Don't scare people!" The three Julie in the rear couldn't help but hug their companions,
"It's not a joke, come along, stay close to me!" Dean ordered, and Maeve, who had previously claimed to be claustrophobic, suddenly recovered from a serious illness and jumped behind him like a rocket.
"Do you know how to use a gun?" Dean looked at the panicked faces again and asked, and the three of Julie looked at each other and shook their heads,
Luna smiled confidently, "I've been trained as a police volunteer. β
Dean handed the M1911 over and pulled out another M1900 for his own use, "Be careful, don't hurt your own people." β
"Don't worry, I've taken the Ten Rings countless times." Luna's muzzle is pointed upwards, and she loads cleanly.
With the gun, Luna appears more confident.
The remaining three girls, however, were overly frightened, and followed Dean without leaving an inch, not daring to breathe, and looking around repeatedly as if they were nervous.
This underground passage is very large.
After walking for ten minutes and turning several corners, they did not see the bottom, but found more than a dozen pools of dark brown blood stains from the walls and the ground, all of which were bleeding profusely, some mixed with rotten flesh and bone fragments.
"Who left the bloodstains?" Luna clutched her gun and asked Dean, "Other unlucky people who accidentally fell in?" β
Dean nodded, thinking that there was a high probability that it was the innocent people that Gracie's team had kidnapped every half a month and had been attacked.
"What's that hurting them?" Hallie poked her head from behind Dean's neck and asked cautiously,
Dean muttered, "There are no bullet holes from the firearms next to the bloodstains, and there are no missing bullets, and the distribution of the blood does not look like it was caused by the gunshot, indicating that the attacker did not use a thermal weapon."
"Cold weapons, bare hands, or somethingβ" Maeve unconsciously shrunk her shoulders, "I'm afraid." β
Julie stalked her neck and smiled reluctantly, "Don't scare yourself, maybe they accidentally broke their arms and thighs after falling and bled a little." β
The sisters nodded desperately, but their faces were sickly pale.
"Look ahead." Dean pointed ahead, and the one-way passage that had remained unchanged for 10,000 years had finally changed, and two forks in the road appeared on the left and right.
"Which way to go?" For a moment, all four pairs of eyes looked at the main backbone, and Dean groaned and swept in both directions with God's perspective,
Sweeping not far to the left, he suddenly froze, and a ghostly shadow flashed from the perspective,
The thing moved so fast that Dean didn't have time to lock on, only to faintly see that he had the outline of a human, but like a beast, he stepped on all fours on a drain pipe behind the ceiling and threw himself into the darkness, out of the view of God's perspective.
But something was thrown at him, and it rolled down the passage to a few people with a rumbling grip on the ground.
Dean walked over and picked it upβit was a round, wet eyeball with blood and a few optic nerves, which at first glance could be reminiscent of the eyeball being pulled out alive.
Luna glanced at it, immediately covered her mouth and retched, picking up her gun and aiming it for the darkness.
Harley and Julie's faces turned pale, and they pressed against each other's backs, frantically shaking their flashlights to dispel the gloom with their light.
Maeve was so frightened that she retreated to the wall, covering her face and wailing.
"Oh God! Is this the human eye? Who threw it? β
"I didn't see it too clearly, it looked like it was another person." Dean's tone was still calm, but his eyes flashed with excitement, "He's warning us not to take the left road. β
"Then I don't want to go to the left!" Maeve turned around and ran to the right, but as soon as she took a step, she seemed to hit a wall of air and was bounced back, and then the quick-eyed Julie held her down, her forehead against her forehead, and looked her in the eyes, "Don't run around, listen to Dean's arrangement!" β
Dean nodded at Julie, "Let's go left!" That guy warned in a humble way, which means that there is key information hidden on the left! β
After saying that, Dean walked straight into the passage on the left, and the three women dragged Maeve who wanted to run into the passage on the right and followed.
Tata Tower.
But within two minutes, Dean suddenly paused, parted his hands and made a stop-and-silence gesture.
Luna gritted her teeth and raised her gun as she walked over to Dean's side, standing side by side.
Julie and the three of them pricked up their ears, and their heartbeats jumped to their throats.
Poof.
They heard a faint sound rushing out from the depths of the passage, like a fly flapping its wings, but it wasn't coming from the ground parallel to them, or beneath it.
Ratherβ
The women raised their heads and looked at the ceiling, a drain that visibly trembled slightly.
In Dean's God's perspective, a humanoid creature is approaching on all fours like a cheetah, wearing a camouflage military uniform, and a pair of eyes sparkle in the darkness like animals on his face distorted by anger.
"Wait! What the hell is that?! β
"Bang bang!"
Luna raises her pistol in horror and slams a few shots at the ceiling, but her boasted ten-ring shooting technique doesn't work at all, and she doesn't even touch the skin of the thing, and it all hits the air.
In the shrill gunshot, it was already five meters away from the crowd, and swooped down from the front of the pipe overhead, and the flashlight revealed his corpse-like blue and sarcoma-covered horse face and a mouthful of thin teeth like steel needles on the lips.
The horror on the women's faces froze instantly.
Poof!
Dean twisted his head at him, and his invisible telekinesis turned into a battering ram and struck the rushing figure in the side.
Tons of force instantly knocked him into the wall, but his resistance to beatings was not weak.
The moment he landed, his leg muscles pressed down, and he tightened like a spring, and then he kicked his feet, and his body was like a predatory cheetah, and he pounced on Dean who was standing at the front of the queue, and his frog-like flippers and flippers shimmered with sharp cold light.
Fishy winds.
He's so fast that even against a human fighting champion, he can wipe his throat in an instant!
It's a pity that this time he ran into another inhuman existence, and his speed and strength to easily stifle ordinary people were completely crushed in front of the other party!
Dean simply swung his right hand with all his might, sending an uppercut from the bottom to the top, and the punch went through the attacker's claws and the defensive void in his chest, hitting the chin.
Click.
The crisp sound of fractures.
The attacker's body fell, his neck lifted, and a split tongue with black blood and several rotten teeth spat out of his mouth.
Black blood splattered onto Dean's body, and was shot to the ground by the ghost armor, corroding into bursts of white smoke.
And after Dean's punch, he lifted his knees, stretched his feet, turned his feet, bounced his legs, and aimed at his body that was temporarily in the air with a powerful whip leg, and the huge force made him fly out three meters like a sandbag, hit the wall, and slide down.
But this time, without waiting for him to get up, his telekinesis took the first step to restrain his body, he couldn't open his mouth, couldn't move his fingers, and could only use a pair of vertical pupils like glass balls protruding from his eye sockets, staring at several people, releasing a cold and tyrannical aura.
Several women trembled in fright.
Dean had already tested his target's strength and speed, and no longer hesitated to walk up to him, grabbing the top of his head and chin.
Click-
Twist to the left, and quickly push to the right to the end.
After his neck was spun three hundred and sixty degrees, his body stiffened and fell to the ground.
"You killed? Mastery +10, Combat lv3 (230β240/400)..."
You've discovered a part of the secret hidden in the dark.
Event difficulty: Unknown β medium
Progress: (20/100)
Duration: three days
Rewards: 180 XP + Special Rewards...
"Almost twice the speed and strength of ordinary people..."Dean ripped off the man's clothes and glanced at his chest and back, his skin was covered with toad-like sebaceous bumps, and his method of spraying poison was useless, "It's not as weak as the worst nocturnal species, and it can't trigger a supernatural hunter." β
This specialty can only draw power from targets whose stats exceed Dean's.
In addition, Dean was surprised to find that the girl in his arms did not react in the slightest, and he failed to draw the soul from this guy.
"It's... What the hell is this? Retracting her gun, Luna slowly walked behind Dean and looked over his shoulder at the demon-like figure on the ground.
The skin was as blue as that of a dead man, full of fleshy lumps, its mouth was jagged but sharp yellow teeth, its eyes bulged out like frogs, its nose was large and moist, it had no eyebrows, no beard, no hair, but a pair of triangular ears, which looked unusually ugly and hideous.
"Maybe it's some kind of humanoid monster, Toad Man?" Dean watched the progress of the investigation, which had skyrocketed to twenty percent, and realized that this thing had something to do with the American military.
"Y-why is it wearing a military uniform?" Julie also noticed the anomaly, crouched down, curious to touch the blackened nails on the monster's flippers,
"This can only be asked who created him. Don't touch it, beware of poison! β
"Ah, okay!" Julie retracted her hand like an electric shock,
And behind her, Hallie hugged Maeve tightly, one black and one yellow, with her face pressed together, wiping her tears,
"Sisters, is this a nightmare? Inexplicably fell into such a dark underground passage, and was attacked by terrible monsters, woo, can we still get out? β
"It's a movie! You're deliberately hiding it from me, right? Maeve glared at Dean and shouted hoarsely, "Where's the exit!" β
"Wake me up!"
Syllable!
Unable to bear it, Luna rushed over with her long legs and slapped Maeve hard, scolding in the other party's unbelievable eyes, "Be respectful to Dean, if you want to live, follow his command honestly, don't make noises that affect his mood and drag everyone back!" β
"Maeve, don't be afraid." Julie couldn't bear to comfort her, "No matter how powerful this monster is, it won't be solved, as long as everyone follows Dean, he will definitely be able to return safely!" β
The four of them all looked at Dean's unprecedentedly tall back, but such a terrifying monster was beaten to death by the Asian detective in front of him with his bare hands.
He didn't even use a pistol.
The four of them only felt that he was radiating a strong light like the sun, and this light dispelled the fear in their hearts and the darkness in this claustrophobic space.
Harley and Maeve came back to their senses and approached Dean like oil on the soles of their feet.
"Let's go, move on." Dean stepped over the corpse into the darkness and looked back again, God's perspective keenly catching a few flashes of black shadows on the drainpipe in the distance, but they didn't seem to know it and didn't rush over.
Di'an's head was clouded, how many things are there?
If there are more than a dozen heads, he can still solve it, but dozens or hundreds of heads will come up together, and he can only fight by the abyss.
At this time, Luna brushed her messy red hair and walked side by side with him, showing a smile of sincere admiration,
"How do you get it? Kill the monster with three punches and two kicks, and the movie doesn't dare to shoot like this. β
Dean smiled and shook his head, his steps becoming more and more rapid.
Soon, they found a special room at the end of the passage.
(End of chapter)