A half-collapsed church stands in the east of Xiaozhou Village.
Inside the church, the floor tiles in the corners have been lifted by the tough weeds, and the tall weeds are overgrown. Fragments of the seat were scattered in the grass, the statue was pushed to the ground, the wings on the back were broken, several cracks appeared on the face of the stone sculpture, and the carefully carved body was split with a knife and axe. The paint savagely drew several large blood-red crosses on it.
A plainly dressed woman with a headscarf knelt in the barren grass, her head bowed in prayer.
"God, if you really exist, please save those who are suffering. I am willing to use my life to atone for the sins I have committed."
She murmured as the sun shone from the broken roof onto her drooping neck. The deserted chapel was silent and no one could answer her question. A bird stopped on the collapsed wings of the statue, tilted its head and looked at the world for a while, and with a clear chirping, it spread its wings and flew into the blue sky.
Kong Haobo and his party came to the front of the East Research Institute.
Compared with the villages where pedestrians occasionally appear, when you get here, you really gradually become less traveled. The grass is high above the knees, the iron gate that has been smashed is severely deformed, it is open crookedly, and occasionally makes an unpleasant creaking sound when shaken by the wind.
"Don't Lao Kong call Sister Qianxun to come with you? They seem to want to come here too."
"I can always feel that this place is weird, so let's explore the situation ourselves first."
"Yes, they are not high-level, if something happens, they have to devote their energy to protect them."
The young team members exchanged opinions and cautiously stepped into the grassy courtyard.
Green plants are climbing on the fence of the yard. The grass in the yard is half a person high. Two tall modern buildings are formed side by side. It seems that they have experienced serious damage. area of brown stains.
There was a creaking sound from somewhere in the yard. The team members searched for the sound, and saw a well in the corner. Beside the well, a woman in plain clothes and a turban was shaking a reel to draw water.
The woman heard the sound, turned around and glanced at them, and reached out to wipe the sweat from her head. Her demeanor was calm and there was no surprise at all, and she was obviously accustomed to these sudden appearances of outsiders.
"Are you the one who lives here?" Liu Hezheng stepped forward and asked.
"Yes, I'm the only one left here. I'm in charge of taking care of the patients who haven't left." The woman poured the water in the bucket into the big bucket she brought, and threw the bucket with the hemp rope into the well with a plop. In, "I know what you want, there is nothing you want here."
"I think you misunderstood, we have no ill intentions," Liu Hezheng showed a generous smile belonging to the elders, "I just heard about what happened here and wanted to go in and see the situation."
The woman lowered her eyes and stretched out her hand to continue fetching water. "You can go in and see the situation for yourself, but please don't hurt them. They are just victims and haven't done anything bad."
Kong Haobo and others walked in from the gate of the building. Compared with the houses in the village, the buildings here are taller and more imposing, full of the smooth and simple style of the post-industrialization period. But in this empty and dilapidated atmosphere, it seems even more infiltrating.
A few dark brown bloody handprints were pasted on the wall outside the gate, and the corners and the ground were thickly condensed, and no contamination could be seen.
Go inward along the long corridor and pass through the hall that serves as the facade. The light inside became very dim, all windows were made small and reinforced with anti-theft railings.
There are obviously all kinds of laboratories on both sides of the aisle, and some rooms are scattered with all kinds of strange laboratory equipment. The inner walls of huge glass flasks are sticky brown residues, rubber tubes, distillation bottles, various Most of the glassware had an unpleasant brown color, similar to the color of blood that dries up.
The experiments that apparently took place in this place were not pleasant ones.
The further we walked inside, there were countless traces of blood after being dragged along the corridor, and the handrails on the stairs were stained with blood, making it almost impossible to walk.
"This, what is this place. Is it a research institute or a slaughterhouse?" Walking all the way, even a battle-hardened fighter could not help but feel hairy.
"God's love is actually such a perverted organization, and it is still qualified to compete with our creation."
The group carefully walked up the stairs.
There are two thick defensive doors in succession at the entrance of the stairs. At this moment, they are both broken open from the inside to the outside. The doors made by the solid demon body have changed shape and are drooping on both sides. It is obvious that something has tried desperately to break through the door from the inside and run out.
Through these two doors, the long walkway is flanked by dark cages with chains and shackles, and filthy, shabby beds, from the mottled sheets and the messy nail scratches on the walls. It can be seen that it has obviously been used here.
A Creation team member accidentally kicked an empty iron can, and the iron can rolled away, making a series of echoes in the long silent corridor.
Kong Haobo suddenly stretched out his hand, and the two of them pointed forward and flicked forward. A flame shot out from the end of his finger, burning all the way into a dark cell in the corner. The flame lit up on the ground and illuminated every corner of the cell. Mottled walls, shackles, buckets, shabby canopy beds, and empty bottoms.
"What's wrong?" Liu Hezheng turned around and asked.
"Strange," Kong Haobo frowned, "I always feel like a pair of eyes are watching us."
Liu Hezheng glanced at the cell. The cell was very small. A long flame was burning on the ground, and every corner could be seen clearly at a glance.
"Nothing, are you too nervous?" Liu Hezheng patted Kong Haobo on the shoulder.
Kong Haobo looked at the slowly extinguished flames, had to nod his head, and continued to walk forward.
They crossed the cell area and came to another building through the air walkway connecting the two buildings. This is supposed to be a dormitory building for employees. The environment looks much better than the experimental building just now. The rooms are brightly lit and furnished with comfortable beds, sofas and other living furniture.
There were strange noises in many rooms.
Kong Haobo carefully pushed open a door, but the situation inside made the young warriors behind him couldn't help but take a step back.
In the middle of the room sat a middle-aged man. From his imperfect skin and sparse hair, it could be seen that this was a real human being. He was sitting in pain on a chair, covering his face with his hands, and the clothes on his back were torn. He opened, and layers of terrifying demon bodies bulged out from the crack. Those demon bodies were carried on his back and slumped all the way to the ground, making him almost unable to move.
He is neither like a human being, nor is he completely demonized, he can only be regarded as a kind of monster that is neither human nor demon.
"Miss Danqin, is that you?" The man heard the movement and did not turn his head. "I have already said that there is no need to waste food. A monster like me should starve to death."
After he finished speaking, he put down his palms, turned his face to the side and saw Kong Haobo and others at the door, "It turns out that it's you people from other places, let's go, there is nothing you want here."
"Who are you?" Kong Haobo asked suspiciously.
"I was originally a resident of Xiaozhou Village, but now I'm just a monster that doesn't belong to anyone."
"What the hell is going on here"
"What happened?" The man put down his hands covering his face, opened his eyes wide, shrank his neck, and whispered in a very uncoordinated tone, "Everyone here once believed in God, and dedicated their families to the temple to serve the Holy Spirit. Rong. As a result, those people are under the banner of God, but they are doing the devil's deeds. Crazy, the world has already gone crazy."
Kong Haobo withdrew from the room with goosebumps all over his body.
Liu Hezheng didn't give him time to hesitate, and firmly pushed open the door of the next room. There was a woman in this room. Her upper body was still human, but below the waist, she turned into a mollusk-like demon body. She was on the ground. Crawling, desperately reaching out to the person outside the door with his thin, boneless arms, he let out a twisted laugh.
All the way forward, all I see are such half-human, half-demon monsters.
Some of these people are already delirious and just say some jumbled syllables. There are also some people who painfully stated their life experience under questioning.
"We are failures, so we were discarded here."
"There is nowhere to go. Some people escaped from here, but they were killed by villagers and their families as monsters. Those corpses are still hanging at the gate of the city."
"Even my mother doesn't want to take me back to the village, who has turned into a monster. Woohoo."
"Thanks to Miss Danchen, she is the only one taking care of us."
"I'm not a monster, I'm a man, I'm a man."
"Get out of here, don't disturb us, there is nothing you want here."
Mourning, bitter, hateful words kept coming in a chaotic and disorderly manner.
The young warriors who had never been afraid in front of terrifying monsters stopped.
"Don't go in, let's go back."
"It's too much. It turns out that those powerful semi-demonized warriors in God's Love were forcibly created by such disgusting methods."
"We still need to go deeper." Liu Hezheng took out the notebook he carried with him and turned to a page of hand-painted architectural drawings, "We must follow the president's instructions to explore the deepest part here."
In a dark basement in this building, a big black bird stood on the ground with its wings closed. Its dark red eyes gradually faded from the red glow and returned to normal on its face that was no different from a girl. Black and white pupils.
"There was one person who was very sharp and almost caught my peeping," she said.
There is a hospital bed connected with various instruments beside her. On the bed lies a bony, white-haired man with his eyes closed, an oxygen mask on his face, and various life-sustaining connections on his body. 's pipeline. He didn't speak, but a strange and low voice came from his body.
"The eighth-order fire-type saints, such top-level masters have been sent, it seems that Chuangshi is not willing to let this secret go."
"Let me drive them away," said the girl's voice.
"No, I'll go in person, let me think, should I kill him, or keep him and become our partner. Okay, this time, let them experience your pain as well."
A length of red liquid was injected into the infusion pipe, and it was injected into the skinny arm. The ravine-like skin of an old man began to fill up gradually, and even the dry white hair had a silver luster. The man slowly sat up from the hospital bed and took off the oxygen mask on his face, revealing She showed a young and handsome face, and that face turned to the girl with a human face and a bird body, and smiled slightly.
"Come on, let's meet these new friends together."
Outside the gate of the research institute, Ye Peitian and Chu Qianxun were standing in the grass.
"Are you sure you want to go in, Pei Tian?" Chu Qianxun said.
Ye Peitian looked up at the golden wings logo hanging on the gate,
"At one time, I just wanted to kill all hatred. Kill all the people I hate." He turned his face and glanced at Chu Qianxun, "But now, I want to put an end to the root of all these evils."
He took Chu Qianxun's hand, "Qianxun, when I destroyed God's Love in the Goose City base, I learned a piece of news. One of the keys to God's love's transformation of human technology is hidden in Xiaozhou Village. I think Find it and destroy it."
The two walked into the door of the institute. In the dark corridor, they passed the mottled laboratories and the silent operating rooms. The pale operating table had bloodstains left on it, and various A hideous utensil with restraint straps hanging from it.
Chu Qianxun clenched Ye Peitian's hand. No matter how he heard about Ye Peitian's experience, he might as well come to such a place in person. Seeing such a scene was shocking. However, Ye Peitian walked in front of her, his steps were steady, his hands were steady, and there was no trace of fear.
Only then did Chu Qianxun realize that this man was much stronger than he thought. Despite suffering like that, he was still able to have a firm and warm heart, to reach out to others, to show his own smile, to hold his hand like this, and to walk in front of her.
Chu Qianxun couldn't help but quicken his pace and kept up with him.