Especially Hanako and Natsume, they were the first ones to discover that special corpse.
However, the inspector's expression was not so solemn. He stood up and said, "It's okay. These viruses have been inactivated. At least they can't live long at this low temperature. As long as you don't have close contact with these corpses, you won't be infected. Everyone will be infected."
Pay as much attention to the soles of your feet as possible so that you don't fall into anyone's arms."
This reminder was quite professional and funny, but all the rescue team members couldn't laugh out loud.
After learning about the situation here, Fang Xiaodong ordered everyone to slow down the search and rescue progress, and at the same time strictly prohibited any individual from leaving the team to act alone.
Hanako and Natsume have been at the front of the rescue team.
After receiving the new order, Natsume asked the inspector, "Friend, where did these viruses... come from?"
The inspector was collecting other samples. His movements were very skillful. After hearing this, he sighed softly and said, "It's not clear yet...but I heard from people on the Chaoyang team...it seems to be related to the contaminated drinking water in the shelter.
"
"drinking water?"
"Yes, you see, these solidified green things in his nasal cavity are those polluted water bodies, but he didn't know what killed him until he died." The inspector used surgical forceps to open the nostrils of the deceased and gave them to Hanako and the two.
Saw it.
Sure enough, both Hanako and Natsume saw the green thing in the deceased's nasal cavity.
But their first reaction was not a bad habit, but a subconscious glance at each other.
The inspector didn't notice this. He put away his tools and said, "Okay, be careful. Although these viruses have been inactivated, there will inevitably be a few that slip through the net. Don't be careless."
"Well, thanks for reminding me."
"You're welcome."
Continuing to move forward, Hanako and Natsume deliberately stayed away from the others, talking quietly as they walked.
Natsume said: "This is somewhat similar to the things we discovered before."
Hanako nodded, "But it shouldn't be the same thing. If that's really the case... then my mother..." At this point, Hanako's forced composure showed signs of collapse.
Natsume squeezed her hand and said, "Don't worry, Auntie will be fine, Brother Haoming will be fine too, everyone must be hiding in the deepest part of the underground."
There is obviously a lot of comfort in this statement.
In fact, Hanako had already made preparations before entering the shelter...she didn't dare to have any hope...because it would be too torture...
Three hours after entering the base, Natsume and Hanako arrived at Area E.
This is the seaweed breeding area and the food supply area for the entire refuge... Here Hanako and Natsume found the hundreds of thousands of people who were missing.
Everyone huddled on both sides of the road. Everyone was barely close to each other. Some people were wearing thick clothes, but some people were stripped naked.
When walking through those circular corridors where "people" can be seen everywhere, if it were not for the presence of life detectors, all the rescue team members would think that these people are just asleep.
There were more people in the room, and every corner was crowded.
Even some breeding ponds were dug out to serve as shelters for these "people"...
When they arrived at the most crowded place, Natsume and Hanako had no place to stay.
These victims were like a pool of silent sand at the bottom of a pool... many of them were naked.
The more Hanako watched, the more frightened she became, and the more she watched, the more numb she became.
She asked Natsume; "Why are these people naked?"
Natsume said, "That's because the brain nerves will be numbed before a person freezes to death, and the cells will shrink violently to ensure the temperature of the internal organs. However, this will give people a wrong illusion and make them feel very hot... but
Not far from death..."
Hearing this explanation, Hanako felt a chill running down her spine and she couldn't walk any further.
Feeling Hanako stop, Natsume turned around and looked at her silently.
Hanako lowered her head, tears falling...
"Why……"
Natsume was silent. He also wanted to know why...why those "warriors of the country" were so crazy...
Finally, Hanako collapsed.
She squatted down and hugged herself tightly, her body shaking.
Seeing this, Natsume quickly came over and said, "Hanako, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
Hanako shook her head, "No, I'm just...I'm just afraid, you know? Natsume, I don't want to see my mother naked like them! You know? She is most afraid of the cold! I don't want to see her..."
Did you know that you were frozen to death? Ah!"
After hearing this, Natsume hugged Hanako and kept comforting her, "No, Hanako, Auntie and the others must still be waiting for us! There must be other survivors!"
However, Hanako kept shaking her head, crying with tears in her eyes, "No more... no more, Natsume! It has been several hours! The radio has been shouting! My mother is not deaf! How could she not hear it! Ah? Natsume!"
Why can’t she hear it!!!”
Natsume's eyes were red. As a man, he couldn't cry.
But his heart was bleeding...
Hundreds of thousands of people froze to death in shelters.
They never waited for the light until they died, that feeling of hugging each other in the darkness, and then having their hopes wiped out bit by bit... how painful and desperate it must be...
But Natsume is not ready to give up, he still firmly believes that there are survivors.
So he said to Hanako, "Hanako, do you believe me?"
Hanako's body was shaking as she cried. She had been having nightmares for half a month... switching back and forth between hope and despair. There were many people in the rescue team who were in similar situations...
When Fang Xiaodong led the team across the Sea of Japan to Wangye Ecological Zone, some people disappeared in the middle of the night.
No one knows where they went...why they suddenly chose to leave...
Only Hanako, who has had similar thoughts, can understand that it is a kind of self-liberation after the light of hope is extinguished.
"Hanako!!" Natsume's face darkened, he held Hanako's face and said, "Look at me! Auntie is not dead! Brother Haoming is not dead either! Everyone is still alive! On the last floor that can touch the geothermal heat!
They are still waiting for us to take them home! Ah!? Look at me!"
Hanako's eyes that were red from crying finally had a glimmer of light. She sniffed and looked at Natsume blankly, "You...are you telling the truth?"
Natsume stood up, straightened her clothes and stretched out her hand to Hanako, "Don't cry, Auntie is still waiting for us to take her home to eat dumplings."
His tone was calm, even a little relaxed.
At that moment, Hanako suddenly gained confidence, and she reached out her hand, and then Natsume pulled her up with force.
"Walk."
Search and rescue operations are continuing...but the scheduled evacuation time is not far away.
Fang Xiaodong came out with these ten thousand people to write a military order. He didn't want anyone to die because of this incident.
Therefore, when Hanako, Natsume and others struggled to find a way into Area R, Fang Xiaodong ordered everyone to start retreating.
Naturally, Hanako and Natsume will not return here, they are still going deeper.
After passing through the narrow passage, Natsume found hot steam coming out of the exit in front.
At that moment, his heart beat faster, and he turned around and said to Hanako with a smile, "Hanako, I saw the light!"
Hanako was stunned; "Light?"
"Yes, light! It's right in front!" Natsume sped up.
The two of them soon arrived near the exit.
Seeing the heat coming out of the gap in the exit, Hanako's eyes became hot.
She eagerly wanted to open the exit grille, but found that the grille was sealed, and something seemed to be blocking it underneath.
Hanako tried several times but got no response, then looked at Natsume blankly, "It's blocked...can't open..."
Natsume was also startled. He hurriedly tried it, and the result...
"How is that possible? I looked at the structural diagram and it should be empty down here, right?"
Hanako was anxious. She looked deeper. She didn't know where the dark passage led. This should be the only exit.
"Then... what should we do? We can't go down."
After trying several times without success, Natsume turned his attention to other places and said at the same time, "Don't panic, I'll think of other ways."
Hanako nodded and stepped back a little.
Natsume looked at the structure of the closed grille and found that it is opened and closed by two sets of gears. If the open side is pressed, it will definitely not open downwards, and if it is pulled upwards, the thing will not open.
It is too long and cannot be unfolded in the passage, and the opening angle is not enough for a person to pass through.
This is going to be troublesome.
Hanako, who seemed to have noticed the problem, looked at Natsume nervously.
Natsume knew he couldn't give up now, he had to find a way.
So he took off the tool box on his back and started looking for suitable tools, intending to dismantle the grille.
Just when he was about to start busy, there were sudden rustling sounds in the passage.
The sound was not loud, but it was extremely clear in this darkness.
Both Hanako and Natsume heard the sound.
Subconsciously, both of them stopped moving and held their breath.
After a while, the sound seemed to have gone away... Hanako asked Natsume with a pale face, "What is that?"
Natsume turned around and looked in the passage with the help of the light. After making sure there was nothing unusual, he said, "It should be a mouse..."
"Rat? Why are there rats in the shelter?"
"Normally, mice are much more capable of surviving than humans. The temperature here is obviously higher than other places. There is nothing to be afraid of if there are just a few of them." Natsume said, turning his head and continuing to work.
Hanako, who was opposite him, kept turning around nervously and said, "There's nothing to be afraid of! I'm most afraid of mice! You said... what if there are a lot of them and they carry viruses? This place is so small, they will definitely be invaded.
Bite!”
Natsume smiled and said, "I just guessed, but looking at the intactness of the corpses outside, there shouldn't be many rats here, and even if there are, ordinary rats don't dare to bite people at will, not to mention that we are all dressed like this
I’ve got some thick winter clothes, don’t worry.”
After hearing Natsume's words, Hanako calmed down a little, but for safety reasons she still tightened her collar and put on her hat.
Natsume has very strong hands-on skills. In addition, the structure of the grille is not very complicated and can be easily disassembled in many places, so Natsume quickly opened the grille.
Hanako was happy when she saw the exit was opened. She really wanted to kiss Natsume now because this man was so reliable.
However, it was estimated that her brother would cover her lips before they pouted, so Hanako gave up the idea.
Opening the grille, Natsume and Hanako discovered that the exit was blocked by a pile of storage boxes. They were piled together, as if they had been placed here intentionally.
Natsume and Hanako didn't think much. They worked together to open a box, then walked out of the passage and entered Area R.
As the core infrastructure management and control area of the entire shelter and the area where senior personnel live, the environment in Area R is obviously better than all previous areas.
Moreover, the air temperature here is actually as high as 25 degrees Celsius, which is the most suitable temperature range for human life.
But Natsume and Hanako were not happy at all when they went down to Area R...
Because as soon as they came down, they found a corpse lying not far away... and it was obviously decomposed, but surprisingly, there was no trace of blood or stench in the air.
The wound on the corpse was located on the chest. It was small when viewed from the side, but when viewed from the front.
Hanako couldn't hold it back and vomited on the spot!
Natsume is almost the same...
I saw that the entire chest of the corpse had been broken open, all the internal organs were missing, and there were obvious signs of gnawing on the ribs. It looked like it had been hollowed out by some ferocious beast!
After witnessing this tragic situation, Natsume hurriedly took out his pistol and pulled Hanako back after retching briefly.
"Come on, there must be monsters here! It's too dangerous!"
Hanako also took out her weapon. She was no longer the same Hanako who couldn't hold a gun safely in the base. Now, after half a month of training, she could skillfully use small weapons to defend herself.
But everything here is indeed too weird.
But when Hanako and Natsume retreated to the entrance of the previous passage, they saw a pale face with no facial features as soon as they looked up.
Its strikingly white skin was still stained with fresh blood.
He "stared" at Natsume and Hanako in the darkness.
That feeling was really strange... There was nothing on that face... but Hanako and Natsume could clearly feel it staring at them.
Hanako was so frightened that she never thought she would see a monster that only appeared in horror movies in reality.
Natsume's psychological quality is also much higher.
He pushed Hanazi away without waiting for the monster to pounce, and then pulled the trigger continuously.
Five shots were fired in succession, all hitting the monster's face and body.
When the monster was shot for the first time, it let out a frightening scream, not only opened its bloody mouth full of tiny fangs, but also stretched out a black tongue covered with tiny tentacles in an attempt to fight back.
Fortunately, Hanako also reacted and hit the tongue with a casual shot, thus saving Natsume's life.
The injured monster did not fight back, it wailed and fled deep into the passage.
But this basically means cutting off Natsume and Hanako's escape route.
After driving away the monster, Natsume fell to the ground and gasped for air while avoiding the tongue. He was still stained with the blood of the monster.
Hanako was almost the same, both of them were stupid.
What on earth is that?
When the two were confused, a voice suddenly appeared and brought them back to reality.
"You guys? Why are you here?!"
Natsume and Hanako followed the sound at the same time, and both of them were stunned.
Liang Qiuru, who was loaded with ammunition, still had a bandage on her arm. She held the gun and looked at the familiar face in front of her with surprise on her face.
After Huazi was stunned for a few seconds, she immediately ran over crying and threw herself into Liang Qiuru's arms.
"Mother!!!!"
Liang Qiuru, who had never expected to see her daughter here again, also shed tears. She hugged Hanako with her backhand, comforted and asked with concern, "Aren't you over there in Xion'an? Why are you here in New Tokyo City?"
Hanako was crying and trembling, but she couldn't speak clearly despite what she wanted to say.
Natsume was also excited to see Liang Qiuru, but after all, he couldn't throw himself into Ms. Liangqiu's arms like Hanako did, so he calmed down his emotions and walked over and said, "We followed Colonel Fang Xiaodong to search for survivors. Now we are on top."
There are also nearly 10,000 rescue team members."
Liang Qiuru was shocked when she heard this: "Ah? Is it true? The disaster is over? The sun has come out?"
Hearing this, Natsume smiled bitterly and said, "No, auntie, it's still dark. We volunteered to come here to search for survivors."
When Liang Qiuru heard that the disaster was not over yet, the fire of hope in her eyes flickered for a moment and then went out again.
"Hey...I thought everything was over...but I didn't expect this nightmare to last..."
Natsume also felt sad for a while. After being silent for a while, he asked, "Auntie, what happened here? Just... that monster just now?"
"Shh, come with me. I'll take you to the camp. Don't disturb them anymore." Liang Qiuru made a silent gesture, then took Hua Zi and went to the right.
Natsume hurriedly followed and asked quietly, "Auntie, have you heard Colonel Fang Xiaodong's voice a long time ago?"
"Um."
"Then why did you..."
"Shh." Liang Qiuru suddenly covered Natsume's mouth, then hugged Hanako and the three of them hid in a dark corner.
Shortly afterwards, two faceless monsters that were almost identical to before crawled over the top of the corridor like geckos! They were extremely fast! Running on the top of the corridor was like walking on flat ground!
Both Hanako and Natsume's eyes widened, and now they were sure that what they just saw was not an illusion.
It wasn't until the monsters were gone that Liang Qiuru let out a sigh of relief and said, "It's okay, these things are very annoying. Although our guns can hurt them, being bitten by them is also very troublesome."
Ms. Liangqiu's tone was not very nervous.
This only made Natsume and Hanako more curious.
Hanako, who had calmed down, asked her mother in a low voice, "Mom, what on earth...are they?"
Liang Qiuru shook her head, "I don't know..."
"ah?"
Liang Qiuru smiled, "I really don't know. We dug them out accidentally in search of geothermal resources. Now that I think about it, it really feels like we have opened the door to Tutankhamen."
"What are you trying to do?" Hanako didn't understand.
Natsume explained, "Tutankhamun, the Pharaoh of Egypt, it is said that the people who opened his tomb were cursed and died mysteriously one after another."
Hanako's eyes widened after hearing this, "Hey!!!!!!!"