1.
They happened about two blocks from the Hellfire Garage.
The road was still at a standstill, the contestants counted their firearms, chatted without saying a word, Bai Jingan drove forward steadily, but then he suddenly stepped on the brakes and stared at the dead end ahead.
As a model during the N7 area, almost half of the lights on the zenith were broken, and a large area of the street was shrouded in darkness. They haven't encountered any monsters for a while, and they haven't even seen a corpse.
Feng Dan's car also stopped, and Doug said, "What's wrong?"
"It's not right." Bai Jing'an said.
He pointed to the building in front and said, "This should be a road."
Several people looked at him with strange expressions. The streets in the lower city were winding, dimly lit, and full of illegal buildings. Even with top-notch tactical planning, it is difficult to have such a quick on-site response in a star area of the upper city like the N7 district.
He thought for a while, then turned the car around suddenly and drove back, turning to a street facing east.
But it didn't take us very far before the road began to slope slowly to the west, and there was illogically no road leading in the opposite direction.
"We are going in circles." Xia Tian said.
The group of people was silent for a while, only the sound of the car engine, and above was a huge icy zenith, no monsters, no corpses, and the atmosphere was ominous.
After going around to the place where he parked just now, Bai Jing'an stepped on the brakes and stared ahead.
It's almost the same as it was when they left, but only "almost". After a few seconds of silence, Doug said: "Surely it's not my illusion. Compared with when I came here just now, there is an extra road going west here?"
That's right, the dark storefronts and lampposts on the west side just now disappeared, turning into an uneven road, stuck in darkness, making people reluctant to walk up it at all.
"I don't understand," Wen Feng said, "Is the east end of the field?"
No one spoke, and the atmosphere was heavy. Doug glanced at him sideways and said, "Have you ever played a killing show? The arena is a modular module, and there is no such thing as 'end'."
Beside him, Feng Dan said in a hoarse voice, "It's Mimic Polyp."
"We ran into hunting." Xia Tian said.
There was silence all around. Mimic polyps are the weirdest type of mutation in the massacre in the N area. They only appear in the later stages of the massacre, and they are an unimaginably highly mutated type.
This kind of thing always moves in large groups, and under the imitation of streets, water pipes or walls, there are countless intertwined molluscs.
Seeing this kind of thing, it is hard for you to imagine human beings... Under what kind of power, they can mutate into this.
Wen Feng stammered and said that he didn't know about the Mimic Polyp. It was very famous. It is said that the TV station was very surprised when it saw it, and gave a lot of bonuses to the genetic research department.
He just couldn't react when he encountered it on the spot.
Bai Jing'an turned his head to look to the west, and at some point, they were already approaching the Hellfire Repair Factory.
It was a typical downtown building complex, low, dark and bare. People in District 7 put most of the parts here that they don't need but can't bear to throw away, hoping to find some use in the future. In fact, it is a pile of garbage, but when people talk about it, it is still like talking about some treasure.
In the midst of that Honey Court bastard chitchat, here's a plot point that's been carefully crafted in hopes of getting noticed by the higher-ups. It must be very exciting and bloody.
Bai Jing'an turned the steering wheel, and they drove in that direction.
As it continued to move forward, Mimic Polyps seemed to sense something, and quickly surrounded them, making a slight rustling sound.
At first glance, the flat city seemed to melt, turning into countless twisted molluscs approaching them.
Several people kept shooting at the back, and in the flashing firelight, one could see the broken corpses among these entangled creatures, both human and other monsters. That's why the city is dead quiet and clean.
Bai Jing'an stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and rushed towards the repair shop. Doug fired several high-frequency energy guns at the creatures behind and shouted: "They will surround us to death!"
"It won't happen in the repair shop." Bai Jing'an said.
"What's in the repair shop?!"
"Easter eggs."
The car continued to move forward, Xia Tian looked at the repair shop located in the dim light imitating the lower city. He ignored the monsters behind. They were never mutated creatures in a natural state, nor were they hunted in a natural state. He wished they would enter Easter eggs. After all, the purpose of everything is nothing more than killing nicely.
The buildings in front were very quiet, all the windows were closed, and occasionally one was ajar and nothing could be seen.
This is the place they have been looking for, the bastard from the Honey Pavilion is inside, here is his "design", his easter egg. He claims that he is absolutely safe here, and he only needs to ensure "aesthetic taste" and torture others.
These people always think they are safe.
Xia Tian looked at it for a while, then stood up suddenly, grabbed the "Doomsday Destroyer" rocket launcher next to it, opened the safety valve, adjusted the power to the maximum, and shot towards the repair shop.
The rocket fired a bright arc and hit the dark construction area.
The tranquility was broken in an instant, and the sound of the explosion was like a low-pitched thunder, across the sky of low-pitched building boards, the flames ignited, and the blazing light tore through the darkness.
Xia Tian fired the second and third bombs expressionlessly, and a corner of the factory building exploded into a mess, without the gloomy, weird, invulnerable posture before.
He threw away the bazooka that had run out of energy and went to get the largest caliber energy gun.
Seeing Doug staring at him, Xia Tian smiled brightly at him and said, "Let's say hello."
Bai Jing'an stepped on the accelerator, and the off-road vehicle rushed straight into the outer wall that Xia Tian blew up, and didn't stop until the inner wall was reinforced.
Feng Dankai's jeep stopped behind them, and the Mimetic Zodiac chased them all the way to the steps of the repair shop, and then stopped going up, but didn't intend to retreat.
Doug glanced back at the half-gnawed rear wheel and cursed, "Damn, how hungry."
Wen Feng looked at the hesitant Mimetic Polyp, and said, "They didn't follow, obviously, 'because there are more terrifying things here'."
No one paid him any attention, and when it came down to it, the line wasn't funny at all.
Xia Tian jumped out of the car, looked left and right, raised his hand and smashed a camera above - the first thing several Killing Show contestants came in was to look at the surrounding cameras and destroy them one by one.
These are the external cameras of the repair shop, and those of the organizer are inexhaustible and cannot be destroyed. However, the plot game has the gameplay of the plot game.
Bai Jing'an walked over to look at the inner wall ahead, the high-intensity energy gun did not cause any damage to it, leaving only a few scorched marks.
There is no such luxury in the lower city. Although it is made of dusty local buildings as much as possible, it is obviously specially reinforced and can defend against most attacks. It is a fortress.
And even though it was reinforced and the rockets left the surroundings in a mess, he still saw familiar shadows in the replica of the building.
Those dilapidated but useful tools, parts piled up in the corner, and faded promotional pictures on the wall—most of them are underground arenas, gambling, dog fighting and the like.
Bai Jing'an walked forward. He pushed open a burning door, sure of what he'd see. Although his memory is only a piece of wreckage that cannot be put together, it seems to be the instinct of the body.
He took a breath, and saw a few half-assembled cars in the corner, and motor vehicle parts piled up everywhere in the room. It was a bit chaotic, but there was a pattern in it. He'd spent a lot of time here, knew where everything was, and could use it wherever he wanted.
It sat quietly under the fluorescent light, as if nothing bad had happened, no fights, no massacres and deaths, it was still the same place that always made him feel safe, and he was still the same.
Xia Tian walked behind him, Bai Jingan felt the heat of his body and heard the sound of the gun being loaded.
At the same time, Bai Jing'an saw the shadow in the darkness at the corner of the stairs in the car repair hall.
It crouched there like a human... must have been a human. But it still hung with the remnants of its blue-gray uniform, and its limbs were dead gray and slimy like molluscs, as if rotting from within.
It stood up slowly, walked on all fours, and moved naturally. It was completely a monster, longing for human flesh and blood... Of course, it was a monster in the first place, but it was made to look like a person who used to work in a repair shop.
The monster's yellow eyes stared at him intently, and at his feet lay a corpse of no gender or age, sucked dry, skin tightly wrapped around bone.
Bai Jing'an stood still, behind him Xia Tian raised his hand and shot, hitting the monster's head. Flesh was scattered, energy bullets pierced through the plastic panels on the stairs, and the room was in a mess, turning into a battlefield.
Bai Jing'an showed a smile, but no one saw it. Xiacheng seemed to be under the eternal fluorescent lamp, his smile was murderous.
This is how it should be here.
After entering the repair shop, several killing show players had a clear purpose and behaved in an orderly manner.
They first cleared all the cameras inside the building and killed the same monster that crawled out of the darkness. This is obviously their lair.
The official name of this creature in the killing show is "Humanoid White Worm". Like the Mimetic Polyp, it is a highly mutated monster, and it has the characteristics of different creatures at the same time. It will only appear in the later stage of the massacre. However, the organizer wanted them to experience a month's worth of evolution within 24 hours.
Bai Jingan cleaned up the three humanoid white worms with a blank expression, and then looked sideways at a small black spot on the stairs.
He picked it up, crushed it with his fingertips, and he knew what it was: a simple camera.
It's not the organizer's invisible camera, but an early stick-on camera. Except that it can't do three-dimensional reconstruction, the effect is not much different from the official camera, and it also has a radio effect.
The others were busy fighting monsters. Bai Jing'an went to the waste pile and deftly picked out a broken camera detector—it was everywhere in the downtown area during the riots in District N. He removed the casing, changed the power supply, and tapped it to activate the thing.
Xia Tian took a look curiously, he had top-notch reactions in such matters, and could quickly discover even more sinister ailments in a dangerous environment.
Bai Jing'an said, "There are too many cameras."
As he said, he dismantled the simple cameras in the city one by one according to the signs, and there were sixteen in such a small area.
Xia Tian didn't speak, looked at this dark repair hall, clutching the gun tightly.
They all know what the camera says: someone is watching from behind.
In the corner of the repair shop, Doug cursed, followed by the screech of an energy gun.
Bai Jing'an turned his head and saw Doug shot again under his right foot. At first glance, his right leg seemed to disappear, and the ground slanted over, engulfing half of his body.
The next moment, the gray mimic retreated under the gunfire, revealing several distorted molluscs, whose translucent bodies could see the blood sucked in.
Doug struggled to pull his foot out, his right leg would be eaten away in a blink of an eye, and the mimetic polyp was still drilling in.
Feng Dan quickly grabbed his collar and pulled it out. But at the same moment, a mollusk with tentacles grew over the porch, trying to wrap Doug. Mimic polyids never give up on prey that has tasted blood.
Feng Dan fired five shots at it with the other hand, and it retreated reluctantly, and then Feng Dan actually pulled Doug out of the pile of mimetic polyps.
In just a short while, Doug's right leg looked shocking.
He clenched his teeth, his hair was drenched in cold sweat, and he couldn't even stand up. Feng Dan dragged him out, leaving a long trail of blood behind, and the mimetic creatures hungrily covered him in a blink of an eye.
Xia Tian continuously shot towards the floor, clearing the retreat path, under the light of the fire, countless molluscs could be seen wriggling to make way for a passage.
Bai Jing'an stuffed the detector into his pocket, held the gun in one hand, and pulled out the knife with the other. The sharp edge of the blade scraped across the wall, and the wall contracted and twisted under the blade.
He rowed all the way towards the depths of the building, the soft-bodied creature twisted and chased behind his palm, but couldn't touch his fingers at all. Five seconds later, the power under the blade became hard, the imprint on the wall was deep, and the Mimetic Polyp no longer followed closely.
Bai Jing'an shouted: "This way!"
Several people retreated in that direction, and Wen Feng called out, "Did they come in from outside?"
"Another group." Xia Tian said.
He fired again, and as he scanned the men following him, two of the guys he'd picked up on the road were missing. He glanced at the repair area, but he didn't even see a body.
The hunt for the mimetic polyps had apparently begun long ago.
Doug resisted for a while, Feng Dan also moved quickly, and the weaker ones just disappeared without a sound. Now I don’t know which seemingly peaceful corner of the house is being slowly eaten by the mimic creature.
Xia Tian saw a bag of powdered insect repellent in the corner, grabbed it and sprinkled it in front.
This thing is a cheap item that can be seen everywhere in the downtown area. It has no taste, but it is useful for mutant insect creatures. Of course it won't last long, but it's still time anyway.
That Eric took a three-purpose energy gun and cleaned up the periphery of the room. He used this thing to have the effect of a rocket launcher, and he was really good at his job.
In the chaos, they could see a few white worms squatting at the stairs not far from them, waiting with a hungry look, and more and more gathered.
Someone cursed, and the voice was a little broken. These are two different predators that cannot live in the same area. At least not in the natural state.
It's just that their state is anything but natural.
2.
A group of people continued to retreat into the repair shop, when a voice said: "What is this?"
Xia Tian turned his head, just now Feng Dan's shooting was powerful, messing up the hall, the energy wave broke through a piece of plastic board, exposing the back part.
There are bluish-white lights on behind the wall, and you can vaguely see a few uptown-style floating screens standing there, flickering constantly, like a laboratory.
A group of people didn't even wink, and immediately retreated in that direction.
Doug couldn't walk, Feng Dan supported him and followed at the end.
They rushed into the big broken hole in the wall, followed by the rustling sound of monsters, but they followed the door and stopped coming in.
This hidden house is brightly lit. It used to be a repair hall of more than 200 square meters. The middle was randomly separated by plastic sheets. Old parts scattered before can be seen everywhere, but there are some data screens floating around the corners.
There was a smell of flesh decay in the air, and there were several fixed hospital gurneys in the corner, all of which were empty, and the untied chains could be seen, and the sheets were stained with blood, pus, and unknown filth. Old-fashioned scalpels sit in a metal tray, like a high-tech execution ground.
A group of people silently evaluated the style of the upcoming plot in their hearts. This place has been carefully renovated, with a perverted atmosphere like a horror movie.
Next to him, Doug tore open the packaging bag with his teeth, took out a painkiller needle, and pricked his leg, finally recovering a bit.
Xia Tian counted the weapons, there were not many left, the explosives were all used up, all kinds of messy energy guns added up to less than seven, and half of them encountered mutant creatures and toothpicks. There are three muskets, but they can't help much in this level of battle. A knife is enough, but it's of no use at this moment.
At this moment, there was a faint moaning sound from behind the plastic sheet, as if someone was in great pain.
Without even thinking about it, Xia Tian walked over with a gun
Sometimes it's hard to imagine what Kill Show contestants will encounter on the show.
Downtown, they don't see paid episodes of The Killing Show, only the occasional video reel, or some rerun of old clips.
There, the Uptown show was a gory spectacle, where even the blood shed in death seemed golden.
But that's not the case at all in the actual experience, the blood here is dirtier and more disgusting than in the lower city.
In front of Xia Tian, there are more than a dozen large medical beds used in hospitals, each of which is locked with people.
The one closest to him appeared to be dead at first glance. He must have been a handsome young man when he was alive, but now there are no wounds below the knees, and the wound has not received any treatment. It is hard to imagine how it was caused, as if... being eaten bit by bit.
He was naked, and his hands were tied to the side of the bed by rusted chains. He had struggled fiercely, and the chains were deeply embedded in his skin.
But the groan that Xia Tian heard just now was not his, but came from the cages piled up high all around, containing human beings in a mutated state.
One of them was not far from his feet, and the figure inside was like a dog lying on a bone, which was a leg bone... Xia Tian suddenly realized that it was the young man's bone on the bed.
He was lying here, watching his lower limbs being bitten off alive by the monster.
It was only now that Xia Tian realized that he was still alive, and he stared blankly at the ceiling. This distorted violence tore him apart, making him lie there with a blank mind, unable to react to anything.
Xia Tian walked over, shot and smashed the iron chain on his wrist, and shot dead the mutant creature in the cage by the way. The man's eyes moved slightly and turned to him.
Xia Tian violently ripped off several detectors connected to his head, and found that some went deep into the skull and connected to the instruments.
He took it off carefully, and pulled the coat over him.
Several other people walked in and stared at the scene in front of them for a few seconds, Xia Tian heard the sound of gasping and cursing softly, Wen Feng quietly vomited.
Then the stars turned around and silently went to unlock the locks on several other people, and someone blew up the camera.
There are two rows of gurneys in the big room, all of which are similar scenes. All of them had instruments attached to their heads, which not only penetrated into the skull, but seemed to penetrate deep into the brain.
Most of them died, and some were still unconscious. It is hard to imagine what kind of torture they had suffered during their lifetime. Some have lost all hands and feet.
Wen Feng was still retching, but Xia Tian didn't want to vomit. He felt like a flame was surging in his body, making his fingertips tremble. Holding the handle of the gun tightly, his movements remained calm, scanning the room as if nothing had happened.
The stars of the upper city cleaned up the mutant creatures in the cage, and Xia Tian felt a slight force rub against his arm.
He looked down at the man on the gurney, and the man's eyes gathered a little light, looking at him with a helpless and longing expression, and said, "What... the time is over?"
"Three to four hours..." Xia Tian said.
Before he finished speaking, the man suddenly began to cry silently. It was a quiet sob, and he kept crying, trying not to cry. With one hand, he tightly grabbed the coat on his body, as if he could resist anything.
Xia Tian looked at him, did not speak, there was nothing to say at this time.
Those who have survived the Killing Show until now are not vulnerable and unknown people, but everything that has been endured here is designed to tear them apart and make them collapse in front of the camera.
Feng Dan asked in a hoarse voice, "What's going on?"
The man sobbed for a while, like a delirious child, but then he opened his mouth. All Kill Show contestants who have survived to this day know that they can't break down for too long.
"Here is... an easter egg." He said, "He said he was... a technician from uptown, came here to collect data, said that the people here are garbage, and he will tell us who dare to resist... what Call it pain, what it's like to have a real tyrant master..."
After checking the situation in the room, the others walked to his side, Xia Tian turned to look, Bai Jingan shook his head gloomyly at him, and gestured.
Only one is still alive.
"He said..." the sole survivor said, his lips trembling so badly that he couldn't continue, "he said to look at brain data in extreme states."
Wen Feng said dryly: "If you can get out alive, the medical department can still..."
The other party didn't speak, the surroundings were hopelessly quiet, and his own voice slowly dropped.
Bai Jing'an turned around to check the floating screen, it was full of monitoring data, Xia Tian walked over and dragged over a research. Looking at the code, the things here should be converging to a data center.
Bai Jing'an skillfully operated the virtual keyboard and entered commands. His face was as cold as ice under the dim light of the screen, and the light of data flashed in his eyes. He said, "Can he control mutant creatures?"
"Yes, there is a control center," said the survivor, laughing nervously. "It's like running a fucking monster empire!"
Xia Tian checked the program and said, "It's very precise, it shouldn't be too far away."
"But it won't be positioned like this." Bai Jing'an said.
"Closer."
The pair of comrades-in-arms, known for their tacit understanding in the killing show, suddenly stopped talking and made several gestures to each other. The movements were fast, the expressions were focused, and there were some private code words that no one knew.
This is also normal. Although it is a one-man show, the teammates in the main event like to join together, and others can't get in at all.
Doug glanced at the two of them. Xia Tian and Bai Jing'an gestured very seriously, he could understand each other's meaning with one gesture, and responded quickly, the efficiency was astonishingly high.
The survivor on the bed continued: "You guys... can't help, this 'torture room' easter egg, a place where people are tortured for people to see... He is really imaginative, I dare say what he did here, let those outside Perverts can't be more satisfied."
And in this short time, Bai Jing'an and Xia Tian ended the communication, the tactical planning turned to continue to study the code, Xia Tian went around the room again. This place is full of miserable experimental products, meticulous work in every aspect, it seems that the planning team spent a lot of brains.
"We can't get out, but he can let those monsters in at any time." Doug analyzed the situation later, "This is a 'torture room' easter egg, we can only delay time—"
Xia Tian saw a camera hidden in a corner and hadn't had time to clean it up. He walked over, raised his head, and showed a bright smile at it.
Then he opened his hands and made a posture of "I'm right here, come here".
He didn't wear a jacket, and a black short-sleeved T-shirt was stuck to his body, outlining the powerful lines of his waist.
When Doug turned his head and saw this scene, he quickly raised his hand, shot the camera and yelled at Bai Jing'an, "Can you tell him not to attract others for at least a minute?!"
"That's how he is." Bai Jing'an said.
At this moment, there was a low roaring sound from behind the plastic sheeting. It sounded like white insects had entered the house.
Doug turned his head to look and said, "The pervert was picked up by him immediately!"
The mutated creature who was afraid to enter the laboratory just now crawled over without hesitation.
Xia Tian grabbed an empty gurney and blocked it in front. Lin Dong wanted to shoot, but he blocked it with his hand, waiting for the thing to approach.
At the same time, Bai Jing'an behind him found a data cable and connected the camera detector with the host computer in Shangcheng. This is downtown modeling, with all the gibberish tech-connected stuff, and he's all too familiar with it.
Then Bai Jing'an leaned down and quickly operated the pop-up interface.
Behind him, Xia Tian shot and killed a monster rushing in front of him, the light of the gunfire flashed, faintly illuminating the distorted soft-bodied creatures on the ground. In just ten seconds, the scene was already extremely dangerous.
"He's great at hooking up monsters!" said Doug.
Bai Jing'an stared at the floating screen in front of him, and at the same time skillfully typed on the virtual keyboard. Then he picked up the detector and adjusted the knob on it, and the technologies of two different eras were combined chaotically but effectively in the lower city.
He just stared at it for a moment, then raised his hand, pointing up and to the right.
Doug didn't see his action, but Xia Tian saw it. He has been paying attention to Bai Jing'an.
"Keep an eye on it," he said to Doug.
Then Xia Tian threw the gun away, and turned to get a seven-year nostalgic commemorative model of the Awakened in the bag. This is an assassination gun. Up until now, this show has ignored historical facts and turned the poor N district riots into a feast for advertisers.
Doug yelled from behind: "You brought it on, where are you going?!"
Xia Tian adjusted the energy power of the Awakened Seven Years Commemorative Model to the maximum, grabbed the heat-resistant tape on the table, and wrapped two strips on the handle of the gun. The energy storage bar soon began to flash, issuing a warning, indicating that the barrel was overheated, but the alloy material of the "commemorative edition" far exceeds the needs of the firearm's function, so it doesn't matter if the temperature is high.
In his own hands, he would let it show its full potential.
After all, what a Kill Show guy does is study different monsters and weapons, knowing all the weird uses for everything from dangerous to everyday objects.
Xia Tian's hand was on the trigger, the gun barrel was getting hotter and hotter, the warning light of the energy storage bar flickered sharply, his face was expressionless, his right hand was steady, without any trembling.
He counted to five in his heart, then raised his hand and blasted towards the direction Bai Jingan pointed at.
The alloy bullet was packed with energy nearly ten times higher than the highest data and rushed towards the wall, rubbing against the air, bringing up a long tail of flames.
This was simply a blow from a rocket launcher, and the wall made a huge explosion sound, abruptly blasting a gap in the reinforced wall, and the alloy wall inside was faintly visible.
Xia Tian threw away the scrapped gun and picked up another one.
This is a Swift Eagle 20H-3, which is also a firearm mainly for assassination and close combat. The handle of the gun is also inlaid with a ring of diamonds, and the alloy of the gun is too expensive to afford.
Xia Tian wrapped two rounds of tape again, and then stuck the booster button. Watching the barrel keep jumping out warnings about overheating and imminent explosion, mandatory safety features are not popular in guns these days.
This time he counted to seven, and one second before it exploded, he shot again towards the place that had been bombarded just now, towards the piece of hot metal that hadn't receded.
The entire wall and ceiling are pierced, the alloy at the corners is overheated, and the red gold edge is shining, and the reinforced plastic plate is burning with a small fire, like a hole leading to hell.
The second gun was scrapped again, Xia Tian threw it away and picked up the third.