Chapter 17
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Yi Shi Si Zhou
"Fuck!" Jin Sen yelled, "It's right under me!"
He was right. The next moment, An Zhe felt the ground under his feet shaking dully. The feeling was very close and real, like a heavy hammer hitting the opposite side of the floor.
At this moment, there was another loud knocking sound at the end of the corridor, and the iron door slammed together, accompanied by the panicked shouts of the prisoners over there.
"There are also over there." The poet's speech speed suddenly accelerated: "Underground creatures, are they rodents? They live in groups, and the Virginia base is—"
Before the words fell, he quickly changed his words: "No, rodents don't have that much power, underground..."
The sound of chaotic footsteps hurriedly sounded, and a group of soldiers in black quickly came down from the passage stairs. The flashlights flickered together, and the sound of the loudspeaker echoed in the passage, deafeningly: "Don't panic, the foundation of the city defense post is very strong. cement and special steel plate, we are finding out why, don't panic."
—it would have been more believable if they hadn't shouted and quickly opened the cell door to let the prisoner out.
At the same time, piercing honking sounded outside, and the sirens rose and fell like waves.
"The evacuation signal is ringing!" Jin Sen slammed on the cell door vigorously: "Brother! Open it for me!"
The soldier hurriedly opened the three prison doors in the distance, and then walked over quickly. Boss Xiao was on the outside. After the soldier found the key corresponding to the prison door, he quickly inserted the lock cylinder. With a click, the iron door was unscrewed. Boss Xiao almost jumped After coming out, the soldier quickly said: "Turn right and go upstairs to find the exit!"
Boss Xiao staggered a few times, then ran to the right, the ceiling was dusty, the soldier wiped his face, and stood in front of the poet's door.
At this time, Jin Sen shouted: "He is a felony! He is a dangerous person! You shoot me first!"
The soldier seemed to hesitate for a moment, the ground shook more and more, he turned to open Jin Sen's cell door.
Jin Sen clasped the iron door with both hands, his voice trembling violently: "Brother, hurry up, brother."
An Zhe saw that the soldier's hands were shaking, and after a few correct checks, the key slipped into the lock cylinder.
Jin Sen: "You are my real brother——"
The sound stopped abruptly.
The floor creaked, he was suddenly lifted up, and a huge black object bounced up against the broken floor and dust!
With a dull "poof", Jin Sen's body was squeezed between the monster and the ceiling, his eyes popped out, his abdomen was pushed open by something sharp, and blood mixed with internal organs fell down.With an extremely shrill scream, An Zhe's pupils dilated, and he turned his head slowly. The soldier who opened the door was squeezed and twisted by the iron door and penetrated his thigh and right chest. A large group of blood froth gushed out, possibly because his lung had been punctured.
With a sound of "bang", the black thing fell back again. It opened a hole in the ground, and the bottom was empty. Jin Sen's body fell in and was never seen again.
The roar of other soldiers came from the depths of the corridor: "Get out—!"
But in the next second, the huge bang of the ground cracking also sounded there, the iron door clanged and fell to the ground, the ceiling shattered and fell down.Two yells full of fear sounded, and then stopped abruptly.
- An Zhe heard the sound of chewing.
The prelude is the sound of water, then there is the sound of dull friction, the sound of limbs squeezing each other, and finally the sound of bones creaking and breaking.
The voice came from the end of the corridor, and also from the underground cavity opposite An Zhe.
While the soldier was twitching and rolling, his flashlight fell to the ground and rolled a few times, the pale beam of light shone on the dark gap.
A mycelium protruded from the gap in the iron door, and more mycelium followed. They gathered together, picked up the key scattered on the ground, and slowly dragged it back into the iron door. The key and The floor rubbed against each other and made a rattling sound. An Zhe saw the soldier looking towards him out of the corner of his eye in fear, but he couldn't care less about it. He knew that the soldier couldn't care less because he was about to die.
He asked the neighbor: "What door is my number?"
The poet's voice trembled: "17, are you okay?"
"It's okay." An Zhe said.He estimated that his iron door was flush with the poet's iron door, and the poet's vision was limited, so he couldn't see the scene where he snatched the key away.
The mycelium retracted, and he quickly grabbed the keys, found number 17, and unloaded it.
The chewing quickened.
The mycelium held the No. 17 key, and protruded from the iron door again. Part of the mycelium stuck to the iron door to detect the position of the keyhole, and the other part of the mycelium inserted the key in.The mycelium is very fragile and its strength is limited. More and more mycelium gathered together, the key was finally turned, and with a click, the lock cylinder bounced open.
An Zhe held on to the remaining keys tightly, pushed open the door and came to the next door. His hands were shaking a little, and he took out the key No. 18. Then, with the corner of the flashlight, he poked it into the keyhole and twisted it hard to the left.The chewing stopped completely at this moment.
"My God..." A young man broke open the door and stumbled out. An Zhe didn't even have time to see his face clearly, so he dragged him over the soldier's body, and the two ran to the only safe corridor on the right. Still trembling, there are more than two things under the ground.
At this moment, the emergency lights ahead flashed a few times, then went out completely, and the front fell into complete darkness.
An Zhe heard the poet beside him gasp for breath: "Don't look back."
But An Zhe turned his head back uncontrollably.
a bug.
Black, worms as wide as half a hallway.
Its body was like a snake, but divided into distinct segments, and it was swimming out of the huge gap in the ground at this moment, raising its head towards itself and the poet—or it could not be said that it was a head, it had no eyes, It doesn't have any structure that a skull should have. The front end of its body only has a round mouthpart, and inside the mouthpart are densely packed teeth.
And behind it, another identical worm was swimming.The two mouthparts with densely packed teeth were looking at them in unison, and there was a rustling sound. They were coming this way, and the speed was not slow at all. There was only a distance of more than ten meters between them. Zhe smelled the fishy smell on them.
The poet gritted his teeth and said, "Go!"
However, the ground shook violently again, and An Zhe was thrown against the wall by a huge force. His left arm was in sharp pain, as if he had touched a deformed iron gate.He propped himself up with his arms, and the poet also gave him a hand. In the darkness, they ran towards the entrance of the memory passage again.In the darkness, anything can happen, maybe a third worm will break out of the ground in front of them in the next second, maybe they will hit the wall because they can't see anything.
—He really hit the wall.
His head hit a metal object suddenly, An Zhe suffered another pain, his whole body hit something.The next moment, something wrapped around his waist, trying to pick him up and stand up straight again.
The wall also has hands.
"Are there any living people behind?" Lu Feng's voice sounded very close, speaking faster than usual.
An Zhe's heart almost stopped beating, and he said, "No more."
"Prepare the uranium bomb, the maximum yield." Lu Feng said, just as the words fell, a blinding white light lit up from here, and quickly struck deep into the corridor.
Before An Zhe could react, he was pressed down again by Lu Feng, rolled on the ground, and was pressed down by this man.
The next moment, there was a dull explosion, and the white light like lightning was fleeting. Lu Feng's figure cast a dazzling shadow on An Zhe's retina.He closed his eyes, clutched Lu Feng's cuff tightly with his right hand, and took a few quick breaths - he ran too fast just now.
The ground was still shaking violently. Only three seconds later, he was pulled up from the ground by Lu Feng. There were other people beside him. The light came on to illuminate the place. Lu Feng said, "Let's go."
An Zhe followed them and turned up the stairwell. He didn't have much strength left, but what was amazing was that the hand that Lu Feng supported him seemed to have some special skills. Whenever he couldn't keep up, he could always be pulled a little. Bundle.
I don't know how long he followed blindly, but the cold air outside finally poured into his airway, and he almost leaned against Lu Feng, panting all the time.
Lu Feng said lightly: "It's okay."
"Apprentice! Apprentice!" A figure next to him came up, grabbed his arm, and took him from Lu Feng. It was Boss Xiao.
An Zhe finally got better, and his vision became clearer, he said, "The poet..."
"I'm here." A voice sounded from behind him. An Zhe turned his head and saw a young and good-looking man leaning against the wall with his arms folded, panting for breath. people."
However, before An Zhe could say anything, Lu Feng's voice sounded.
"Director Howard," Lu Feng said, "You are late."
An Zhe looked forward and saw a row of soldiers standing in front of him. The leader was a tall man subdued by the city defense. His hair was iron gray and he had a majestic hooked nose. The emblem on his shoulder was the same as that of Lu Feng. , also the title of colonel, seems to be the director of the city defense station.
Howard's voice was as calm and cold as his own: "I was planning to bomb indiscriminately, but Colonel Lu violated his authority and entered, which made me very embarrassed."
"After all, my prisoner is still inside," Lu Feng's tone was cold: "Where the ultrasonic dispersion device is, you dare to bomb indiscriminately?"
"The equipment of the city defense station is not for the court to worry about." Howard said: "You should see if the people who came out of the underground are infected."
Lu Feng said: "You don't need to worry about the work of the court."
Howard looked at An Zhe seriously, and An Zhe met his eyes for a short while, realizing that he was looking at his left arm—it was injured and bleeding in the underground passage.
Lu Yan clasped his shoulder with his right hand: "I will take away the surveillance during the buffer period."
Howard said, "Thank you."
Immediately, he turned to the soldiers of the city defense station: "Ready to bomb."
——Then, An Zhe was taken away by Lu Feng, under Boss Xiao's persuasive eyes.
Lu Feng's office in the city defense office is in the annex of the main building, a room without any decoration. As soon as An Zhe entered, he locked the door.
An Zhe thought that this might be a precautionary measure, in case he was really infected and turned into a monster, he wouldn't run out of this room.
Lu Feng walked to the gray desk, opened the drawer, took out a white ball and threw it to him.An Zhe caught it subconsciously. It was a roll of bandages. The judge probably meant to let him bandage the wound.He sat down at another set of tables and chairs by the window nearby and began to fiddle with bandages.I thought that although the judge could convict people at will, he might still be a good person.
He was injured on his left arm. It was a small injury. It was just a cut made by an iron plate. It didn't hurt very much, but blood oozes out.An Zhe tore off the bandage about half a meter long, and started wrapping it around his left arm with his right hand—it couldn't be wrapped.
It was hard to wrap it loosely with one hand, but it couldn't be tied. Human fingers are not as flexible as hyphae, and only one of them can be used. Besides, he is not particularly familiar with human limbs.But An Zhe felt that as a superficial human being, it would be a bit embarrassing if he couldn't even wrap a bandage, so he frowned and continued to work hard to tie the knot.
He felt a gaze fall on him, and Lu Feng was looking at him.
—he continued to tie the knot.However, when I thought that the judge was watching my every move, my knot-tying skills were even worse. After 3 minutes of hard work, not only was the knot not tied well, but my hand shook, and the bandage that had been wrapped around my arm also fell apart. .The moment they dispersed, An Zhe was so angry that the hyphae wanted to stick out.
A chuckle came from across from him.
In fact, it wasn't really a laugh, it was just a breathy sound, very short, but An Zhe could hear it - it was a sneer, a mockery.
An Zhe: "..."
The judge is laughing at him.
He was right. The next moment, An Zhe felt the ground under his feet shaking dully. The feeling was very close and real, like a heavy hammer hitting the opposite side of the floor.
At this moment, there was another loud knocking sound at the end of the corridor, and the iron door slammed together, accompanied by the panicked shouts of the prisoners over there.
"There are also over there." The poet's speech speed suddenly accelerated: "Underground creatures, are they rodents? They live in groups, and the Virginia base is—"
Before the words fell, he quickly changed his words: "No, rodents don't have that much power, underground..."
The sound of chaotic footsteps hurriedly sounded, and a group of soldiers in black quickly came down from the passage stairs. The flashlights flickered together, and the sound of the loudspeaker echoed in the passage, deafeningly: "Don't panic, the foundation of the city defense post is very strong. cement and special steel plate, we are finding out why, don't panic."
—it would have been more believable if they hadn't shouted and quickly opened the cell door to let the prisoner out.
At the same time, piercing honking sounded outside, and the sirens rose and fell like waves.
"The evacuation signal is ringing!" Jin Sen slammed on the cell door vigorously: "Brother! Open it for me!"
The soldier hurriedly opened the three prison doors in the distance, and then walked over quickly. Boss Xiao was on the outside. After the soldier found the key corresponding to the prison door, he quickly inserted the lock cylinder. With a click, the iron door was unscrewed. Boss Xiao almost jumped After coming out, the soldier quickly said: "Turn right and go upstairs to find the exit!"
Boss Xiao staggered a few times, then ran to the right, the ceiling was dusty, the soldier wiped his face, and stood in front of the poet's door.
At this time, Jin Sen shouted: "He is a felony! He is a dangerous person! You shoot me first!"
The soldier seemed to hesitate for a moment, the ground shook more and more, he turned to open Jin Sen's cell door.
Jin Sen clasped the iron door with both hands, his voice trembling violently: "Brother, hurry up, brother."
An Zhe saw that the soldier's hands were shaking, and after a few correct checks, the key slipped into the lock cylinder.
Jin Sen: "You are my real brother——"
The sound stopped abruptly.
The floor creaked, he was suddenly lifted up, and a huge black object bounced up against the broken floor and dust!
With a dull "poof", Jin Sen's body was squeezed between the monster and the ceiling, his eyes popped out, his abdomen was pushed open by something sharp, and blood mixed with internal organs fell down.With an extremely shrill scream, An Zhe's pupils dilated, and he turned his head slowly. The soldier who opened the door was squeezed and twisted by the iron door and penetrated his thigh and right chest. A large group of blood froth gushed out, possibly because his lung had been punctured.
With a sound of "bang", the black thing fell back again. It opened a hole in the ground, and the bottom was empty. Jin Sen's body fell in and was never seen again.
The roar of other soldiers came from the depths of the corridor: "Get out—!"
But in the next second, the huge bang of the ground cracking also sounded there, the iron door clanged and fell to the ground, the ceiling shattered and fell down.Two yells full of fear sounded, and then stopped abruptly.
- An Zhe heard the sound of chewing.
The prelude is the sound of water, then there is the sound of dull friction, the sound of limbs squeezing each other, and finally the sound of bones creaking and breaking.
The voice came from the end of the corridor, and also from the underground cavity opposite An Zhe.
While the soldier was twitching and rolling, his flashlight fell to the ground and rolled a few times, the pale beam of light shone on the dark gap.
A mycelium protruded from the gap in the iron door, and more mycelium followed. They gathered together, picked up the key scattered on the ground, and slowly dragged it back into the iron door. The key and The floor rubbed against each other and made a rattling sound. An Zhe saw the soldier looking towards him out of the corner of his eye in fear, but he couldn't care less about it. He knew that the soldier couldn't care less because he was about to die.
He asked the neighbor: "What door is my number?"
The poet's voice trembled: "17, are you okay?"
"It's okay." An Zhe said.He estimated that his iron door was flush with the poet's iron door, and the poet's vision was limited, so he couldn't see the scene where he snatched the key away.
The mycelium retracted, and he quickly grabbed the keys, found number 17, and unloaded it.
The chewing quickened.
The mycelium held the No. 17 key, and protruded from the iron door again. Part of the mycelium stuck to the iron door to detect the position of the keyhole, and the other part of the mycelium inserted the key in.The mycelium is very fragile and its strength is limited. More and more mycelium gathered together, the key was finally turned, and with a click, the lock cylinder bounced open.
An Zhe held on to the remaining keys tightly, pushed open the door and came to the next door. His hands were shaking a little, and he took out the key No. 18. Then, with the corner of the flashlight, he poked it into the keyhole and twisted it hard to the left.The chewing stopped completely at this moment.
"My God..." A young man broke open the door and stumbled out. An Zhe didn't even have time to see his face clearly, so he dragged him over the soldier's body, and the two ran to the only safe corridor on the right. Still trembling, there are more than two things under the ground.
At this moment, the emergency lights ahead flashed a few times, then went out completely, and the front fell into complete darkness.
An Zhe heard the poet beside him gasp for breath: "Don't look back."
But An Zhe turned his head back uncontrollably.
a bug.
Black, worms as wide as half a hallway.
Its body was like a snake, but divided into distinct segments, and it was swimming out of the huge gap in the ground at this moment, raising its head towards itself and the poet—or it could not be said that it was a head, it had no eyes, It doesn't have any structure that a skull should have. The front end of its body only has a round mouthpart, and inside the mouthpart are densely packed teeth.
And behind it, another identical worm was swimming.The two mouthparts with densely packed teeth were looking at them in unison, and there was a rustling sound. They were coming this way, and the speed was not slow at all. There was only a distance of more than ten meters between them. Zhe smelled the fishy smell on them.
The poet gritted his teeth and said, "Go!"
However, the ground shook violently again, and An Zhe was thrown against the wall by a huge force. His left arm was in sharp pain, as if he had touched a deformed iron gate.He propped himself up with his arms, and the poet also gave him a hand. In the darkness, they ran towards the entrance of the memory passage again.In the darkness, anything can happen, maybe a third worm will break out of the ground in front of them in the next second, maybe they will hit the wall because they can't see anything.
—He really hit the wall.
His head hit a metal object suddenly, An Zhe suffered another pain, his whole body hit something.The next moment, something wrapped around his waist, trying to pick him up and stand up straight again.
The wall also has hands.
"Are there any living people behind?" Lu Feng's voice sounded very close, speaking faster than usual.
An Zhe's heart almost stopped beating, and he said, "No more."
"Prepare the uranium bomb, the maximum yield." Lu Feng said, just as the words fell, a blinding white light lit up from here, and quickly struck deep into the corridor.
Before An Zhe could react, he was pressed down again by Lu Feng, rolled on the ground, and was pressed down by this man.
The next moment, there was a dull explosion, and the white light like lightning was fleeting. Lu Feng's figure cast a dazzling shadow on An Zhe's retina.He closed his eyes, clutched Lu Feng's cuff tightly with his right hand, and took a few quick breaths - he ran too fast just now.
The ground was still shaking violently. Only three seconds later, he was pulled up from the ground by Lu Feng. There were other people beside him. The light came on to illuminate the place. Lu Feng said, "Let's go."
An Zhe followed them and turned up the stairwell. He didn't have much strength left, but what was amazing was that the hand that Lu Feng supported him seemed to have some special skills. Whenever he couldn't keep up, he could always be pulled a little. Bundle.
I don't know how long he followed blindly, but the cold air outside finally poured into his airway, and he almost leaned against Lu Feng, panting all the time.
Lu Feng said lightly: "It's okay."
"Apprentice! Apprentice!" A figure next to him came up, grabbed his arm, and took him from Lu Feng. It was Boss Xiao.
An Zhe finally got better, and his vision became clearer, he said, "The poet..."
"I'm here." A voice sounded from behind him. An Zhe turned his head and saw a young and good-looking man leaning against the wall with his arms folded, panting for breath. people."
However, before An Zhe could say anything, Lu Feng's voice sounded.
"Director Howard," Lu Feng said, "You are late."
An Zhe looked forward and saw a row of soldiers standing in front of him. The leader was a tall man subdued by the city defense. His hair was iron gray and he had a majestic hooked nose. The emblem on his shoulder was the same as that of Lu Feng. , also the title of colonel, seems to be the director of the city defense station.
Howard's voice was as calm and cold as his own: "I was planning to bomb indiscriminately, but Colonel Lu violated his authority and entered, which made me very embarrassed."
"After all, my prisoner is still inside," Lu Feng's tone was cold: "Where the ultrasonic dispersion device is, you dare to bomb indiscriminately?"
"The equipment of the city defense station is not for the court to worry about." Howard said: "You should see if the people who came out of the underground are infected."
Lu Feng said: "You don't need to worry about the work of the court."
Howard looked at An Zhe seriously, and An Zhe met his eyes for a short while, realizing that he was looking at his left arm—it was injured and bleeding in the underground passage.
Lu Yan clasped his shoulder with his right hand: "I will take away the surveillance during the buffer period."
Howard said, "Thank you."
Immediately, he turned to the soldiers of the city defense station: "Ready to bomb."
——Then, An Zhe was taken away by Lu Feng, under Boss Xiao's persuasive eyes.
Lu Feng's office in the city defense office is in the annex of the main building, a room without any decoration. As soon as An Zhe entered, he locked the door.
An Zhe thought that this might be a precautionary measure, in case he was really infected and turned into a monster, he wouldn't run out of this room.
Lu Feng walked to the gray desk, opened the drawer, took out a white ball and threw it to him.An Zhe caught it subconsciously. It was a roll of bandages. The judge probably meant to let him bandage the wound.He sat down at another set of tables and chairs by the window nearby and began to fiddle with bandages.I thought that although the judge could convict people at will, he might still be a good person.
He was injured on his left arm. It was a small injury. It was just a cut made by an iron plate. It didn't hurt very much, but blood oozes out.An Zhe tore off the bandage about half a meter long, and started wrapping it around his left arm with his right hand—it couldn't be wrapped.
It was hard to wrap it loosely with one hand, but it couldn't be tied. Human fingers are not as flexible as hyphae, and only one of them can be used. Besides, he is not particularly familiar with human limbs.But An Zhe felt that as a superficial human being, it would be a bit embarrassing if he couldn't even wrap a bandage, so he frowned and continued to work hard to tie the knot.
He felt a gaze fall on him, and Lu Feng was looking at him.
—he continued to tie the knot.However, when I thought that the judge was watching my every move, my knot-tying skills were even worse. After 3 minutes of hard work, not only was the knot not tied well, but my hand shook, and the bandage that had been wrapped around my arm also fell apart. .The moment they dispersed, An Zhe was so angry that the hyphae wanted to stick out.
A chuckle came from across from him.
In fact, it wasn't really a laugh, it was just a breathy sound, very short, but An Zhe could hear it - it was a sneer, a mockery.
An Zhe: "..."
The judge is laughing at him.
