17, Chapter 17
"Holy shit!" Jin Sen yelled, "Right underneath me!"
He was right. The next moment, Anzhe felt the ground beneath 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 huge banging sound at the end of the corridor, and the iron door rattled, accompanied by panicked shouts from the prisoners over there.
"There are them over there too." The poet's speaking speed suddenly increased: "Underground creatures, are they rodents? They live in groups, and the Virginia base is——"
Before he finished speaking, he quickly changed his words: "No, rodents are not that powerful. Underground..."
The sound of footsteps hurriedly sounded, and a group of soldiers in black quickly came down the stairs of the passage. The flashlight flashed into a flash, and the sound of the loudspeaker echoed in the passage, deafening: "Don't panic, the foundation of the city defense station is very strong, please add more
Cement and special steel plates were removed. We are investigating the cause, so don't panic."
——If they didn't shout and quickly open the cell door to let the prisoner out, this statement would be more credible.
At the same time, a piercing whistle sounded outside, and the sirens rose and fell like waves.
"The evacuation signal has gone off!" Jin Sen slapped the cell door vigorously: "Brother! Open it for me quickly!"
The soldier hurriedly opened the three cell doors in the distance, and then hurried over. Boss Xiao was on the outside. After the soldier found the key corresponding to the cell door, he quickly inserted the lock cylinder. With a click, the iron door was unscrewed. Boss Xiao almost threw himself.
After getting 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, and 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, and the ground shook more violently. He turned around and opened Jin Sen's cell door.
Jin Sen held the iron door with both hands, his voice trembling violently: "Brother, hurry up, brother."
An Zhe saw that the soldier's hand was shaking, and he checked it several times before inserting the key into the lock cylinder.
Jin Sen: "You are my biological brother——"
The sound stopped suddenly.
There was a creaking sound on the floor, and he was suddenly lifted up. A huge black object bounced upward against the broken floor and dust!
With a dull "pop" sound, 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 dripped down. There was a shrill sound.
Screaming in agony, An Zhe's pupils dilated and he slowly turned his head. The soldier who opened the door was squeezed and twisted by the iron door, which penetrated his thigh and right side of his chest. He was holding his legs and twitching and rolling on the ground. He coughed violently and kept pouring out of his mouth.
The large group of blood foam may indicate that his lung was punctured.
There was a "bang" sound, and the black thing fell back heavily. It opened a hole in the ground, and the bottom was empty. Jin Sen's body fell in and was no longer visible.
From deep in the corridor, other soldiers shouted: "Get out—!"
But in the next second, a huge roar of the ground cracking also sounded over there. The iron door crashed to the ground, and the ceiling shattered and fell. Two loud screams full of fear rang out, and then stopped abruptly.
——Anzhe heard the sound of chewing.
The prelude is the sound of water, then the dull sound of friction, the sound of limbs squeezing each other, and finally the sound of bones creaking and breaking.
The sound came from the end of the corridor and from the underground cave opposite An Zhe.
As the soldier twitched and rolled, his flashlight fell to the ground and rolled a few times. The pale beam shone towards the dark crack.
A piece of mycelium stretched out from the gap in the iron door, and more hyphae followed. They gathered together, picked up the keys scattered on the ground, and slowly dragged it back into the iron door. The keys and
The floor rubbed against the ground and made a sizzling sound. Anzhe saw the soldier look towards him in fear from the corner of his eye, but he couldn't care so much anymore. He knew that the soldier couldn't care that much because he was about to die.
He asked the neighbor: "What door number am I at?"
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. The poet's vision was limited and he couldn't see him taking away the key.
The mycelium retracted, he quickly grabbed the keys, found No. 17, and removed it.
The chewing sound sped up.
The mycelium held the key No. 17 and stretched out from the iron door again. Part of the mycelium was pressed against the iron door to detect the location of the keyhole, and the other part of the mycelium inserted the key in. The mycelium is very fragile and its power is limited.
More and more hyphae gathered together, and the key was finally turned. With a click, the lock cylinder popped open.
An Zhe held 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 No. 18 key. Then he poked the keyhole with the corner of his flashlight and twisted it hard to the left. There was a chewing sound.
At this moment it completely stopped.
"Oh my god..." A young man broke open the door and stumbled out. An Zhe didn't even have time to see his face clearly, but he dragged him over the soldier's body, and the two of them ran together to the only safe right corridor, the ground
It was still shaking, and there were 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 take a few quick breaths: "Don't look back."
But Anzhe still turned his head back uncontrollably.
A bug.
Black worms as wide as half the corridor.
Its body is like a snake, but it is divided into distinct segments. It is swimming out of the huge gap in the ground at this time, raising its head in the direction of itself and the poet - or it cannot be said to be a head, it has no eyes,
It does not have any structure that a head should have, and the front end of its body only has a round mouthpart, and the mouthpart is densely packed with teeth.
Behind it, another identical worm was swimming over. The two mouthparts, with densely packed teeth squeezing each other, looked towards them in unison, and the sound of "squeaking" sounded, they were coming this way, and their speed was not slow at all.
, there was only a dozen meters away from them, and An Zhe could smell the fishy smell on their bodies.
The poet gritted his teeth and said: "Let's go!"
However, the ground shook violently again, and Anzhe was thrown against the wall by a huge force. He felt a sharp pain in his left arm, as if he had hit a deformed iron door. He pushed himself up with his arms, and the poet also gave him a hand.
In the darkness, they once again ran towards the entrance of the passage in their memory. In the darkness, anything could happen. Maybe a third worm would break out of the ground in front of them in the next second, or maybe they would go straight because they couldn't see anything.
Hit the wall.
-He really hit the wall.
An Zhe's head suddenly hit a metal object, and An Zhe felt pain again. His whole body hit something. The next moment, something went around his waist and tried to pick him up.
Stand up straight again.
This wall also has hands.
"Is there anyone alive behind you?" Lu H's voice sounded very close, speaking faster than usual.
An Zhe's heart almost stopped and he said, "No more."
"Prepare uranium bombs, maximum yield." Lu H said. As soon as he finished speaking, a blinding white light lit up from here and quickly struck deep into the corridor.
Before An Zhe could react, he was pressed down forcefully by Lu H again. He rolled on the ground and was pinned down by this man.
The next moment, a dull explosion sounded, the lightning-like white light disappeared in an instant, and Lu H's figure cast a dazzling shadow on An Zhe's retina. He closed his eyes, grabbed Lu H's cuff with his right hand, and gasped rapidly.
A few breaths - I ran too fast just now.
The ground was still shaking violently. Just three seconds later, he was pulled up from the ground by Lu H. There were other people beside him. The lights came on and illuminated the place. Lu H said: "Let's go."
An Zhe followed them and turned around and climbed up the stairwell. He didn't have much energy left, but the amazing thing was that the hand Lu H held him up seemed to have some special skills. Whenever he couldn't keep up, he could always be pulled away.
Bundle.
He didn't know how long he had been following blindly, but the cold air outside finally entered his respiratory tract. He was almost leaning on Lu H, panting all the time.
Lu H said calmly: "It's okay."
"Apprentice! Apprentice!" A figure next to him came up, grabbed his arm, and took him from Lu H. 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 turned around and saw a young and handsome man leaning against the wall with his arms folded, also panting. When he finally breathed again, the man said quietly: "You are good at bumping.
people."
However, before An Zhe could say anything, Lu H's voice sounded.
"Director Howard," Lu H 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 uniformed by the city defense. He had iron-gray hair, a majestic aquiline nose, and the emblem on his shoulder was the same as Lu H.
, also has the rank of colonel, and seems to be the director of the city defense station.
Howard's voice was as calm and cold as himself: "I was already preparing for indiscriminate bombing, but the Army colonel overstepped his authority and made me very embarrassed."
"After all, my prisoner is still inside," Lu H said in a cold tone, "How dare you bomb indiscriminately where the ultrasonic dispersal device is?"
"The equipment of the city defense station is not something the Tribunal has to worry about." Howard said, "You'd better check whether the people coming out of the underground are infected."
Lu H said: "You don't need to worry about the work of the trial court."
Howard's eyes looked seriously at An Zhe. An Zhe met his eyes briefly and realized that what he was looking at was his left arm, which was injured and bleeding in the underground passage.
Lu H's right hand clasped his shoulder: "I will take him away for surveillance during the buffer period."
Howard said: "Thank you."
Immediately, he turned to the soldiers at the city defense station: "Get ready for bombing."
——Then, An Zhe was taken away by Lu H, under Boss Xiao’s retaining eyes.
Lu H's office at the City Defense Office was in the auxiliary building 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, so that if he was really infected and turned into a monster, he would not run out of the room.
Lu H walked to the gray desk, opened the drawer, took out a white thing and threw it to him. An Zhe subconsciously caught it, it was a roll of bandages. The judge probably meant to let him bandage the wound. He
I sat down at another set of tables and chairs by the window nearby and started tinkering with bandages. I thought that although the judge convicted people at will, he might still be a good person.
He was injured on his left arm. It was a small injury, just a cut made by an iron plate. It didn't hurt much, but blood oozed out. An Zhe tore off a bandage about half a meter long and began to wrap it around his left arm with his right hand - wrapping
Not on.
He finally got it loosely wrapped with one hand, but couldn't tie the knot. Human fingers are not as flexible as mycelium, not to mention that there is only one that can be used. Moreover, 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 put on a bandage, so he frowned and continued to work hard to tie the knot.
He felt a gaze falling on him, Lu H was looking at him.
——He continued to tie the knot. However, when he thought that the judge was watching his every move, his knotting skills became even worse. After three minutes of hard work, not only was the knot not tied properly, but when his hand shook, it was already wrapped around his arm.
The good bandage also fell apart. The moment it fell apart, Anzhe was so angry that the hyphae wanted to stick out.
A chuckle came from across from him.
In fact, it wasn't a laugh, it was just a breathy sound, very short, but An Zhe heard it - the sound was a sneer, a mockery.
An Zhe: "..."
Chapter completed!