bang, bang, bang...
On the rotten swamp, the white-painted corpse storage tank made a knocking sound.
These storage tanks are made of stainless steel, and the corpses of dead skin soaked in formalin are very heavy. If there are no pulleys underneath, it would be difficult for a strong man to pull them. The rectangular slot cover is locked on the outside, so even if it is hit by the inside, it is still stable for the time being.
The impact became more and more violent, more and more anxious.
Yu Chi and the others pointed their rifles at this storage tank and did not act rashly; Deng Ximei and the other three immediately returned carefully on the same road.
The eight corpse troughs that fell on the swamp all made such movements, the things trapped inside kept bumping into each other, and there were faint and incomprehensible muffled screams.
"Xi Mei, what do you think?" Yu Chi asked anxiously, "Should we open it?"
Everyone also looked at Deng Ximei, but Deng Ximei felt very confused, there was life in it, clearly there was life, but it was hazy, muddy, stagnant, like a ball of mud, she couldn't tell whether it was good or bad. At the same time, the continuous rain of impacts in the corpse trough reached its peak, and then slowed down.
The things inside seem to be smothered to death. If you want to catch something alive, you have to open the corpse trough quickly.
If you want to suffocate the thing, you just need to look at it, but it may also be a trick of the dark thing, just to let their guard down.
"It's dying." Deng Ximei frowned and thought, "I don't know what it is."
"Since this is the case, then I don't think you should open it." Lou Xiaoning said harshly, "Let that thing have a full taste of formalin."
Feng Peiqian and Grant Bell also agreed that, given the current situation, the Mistbreaker team does not need more risks.
They don't know how those dead skin people can come back to life. It is likely that they were nourished by the power of the black goat when they crossed the boundary and regained their vitality. Species, they have tyrannical bodies - this has long been recognized by the Dongzhou Tianji Bureau in the battle with them. In the world of Tianji, they only lack intelligence and knowledge, but here, in the womb of the black goat, the situation may be It is very different.
The dead skin man struggling in the corpse trough at this moment may be the kind that Dr. Kalop is fighting against.
They are most likely stronger than ghouls and deep divers, and even as difficult to deal with as flying polyps and locusts.
There were eight of them in their team. They had just arrived in this foreign land, and their foothold was still uncertain. It was not wise to take this risk.
"Anyway, I opened it and found that it was out of gas, so I won't give artificial respiration." Uncle Dan joked, "I've never smoked formalin."
Peacock and Mo Qing expressed no objection, while Deng Ximei looked at the mortuary trough that gradually became silent, and did not speak any more. Her feeling was too weird. When the life in the mortise trough should have died again, her heart tightened slightly. It doesn't seem to be the beating when the alien enemy dies.
One by one, the corpse troughs also fell silent, and became silent again, like the putrid mud around them.
"Dead?" Yu Chi looked at Deng Ximei, then at the crowd, feeling inexplicable anxiety from just now, "Let's open this carefully and have a look."
They didn't intend to take these corpse troughs with them, because they wanted to save energy, speed up their movement, and improve their concealment, but also because these corpse troughs were stuck in the mud, and if they moved them, it was likely that everyone would be trapped in the swamp Shen in danger.
But of course you have to open the corpse trough to see what's going on. Whether the dead skin people inside are dead or alive, they need to be dealt with before the team can set out to explore, otherwise there will only be an unknown danger lurking behind them.
Originally, each corpse trough was equipped with an electronic remote control automatic opening device, but all the electronic equipment they brought was broken, and this one was no exception, and there was no response.
So you can only go up and open it manually. The mechanical device should not be broken. You only need one person to unlock the buckle and push the slot cover hard.
"I'll open it." Mo Qing invited this person, and the most dangerous person in this operation is undoubtedly the person who opened the slot.
"Be careful." Peacock couldn't help but Catherine also told Tom to be careful. In fact, Tom was reluctant and hoped that Grant Bell would go up. Tom said: "Grant is a positive choice. It is said that the survival rate will be higher than ours, and it is more suitable for adventure..."
"It makes sense." Grant Bell was not afraid, "Guys, let me do it, it's just me."
"Okay, during the process of your fight, it is already dead." Uncle Dan joked again, "It can't be saved."
The last person to go up to open the trough was Grant Bell. The others were guarding various key points around the trough, and even the sky was protected. Covered by the firepower of Peacock and Uncle Egg.
Lou Xiaoning, who was in charge of aiming at the front, was even more eager to try, and she really hoped that the thing would feign death, so that she could have a good time shooting it.
"Are you ready?" Grant Bell asked. He was only three steps away from the corpse trough. When he got the response that everyone was ready, he took another step forward and opened the buckle with the rifle in his hand. There was a click. Afterwards, the corpse trough remained silent.
Everyone stared intently and held their breath, the arms holding the guns were like solid iron.
Grant Bell pressed the gun barrel against the outside of the slot cover again, and pushed hard with both hands. With a click sound, the stainless steel slot cover automatically retreated back.
There were no strange monsters jumping out, no black mist raging, it was still silent, but everyone was still tense, not daring to be careless.
With the retreat of the tank cover, the scene inside the storage tank was suddenly and slowly revealed to Grant Bell. At this moment, only he could see it, and the eyes of other people in the distance could not touch it. The big change, the whole person seems to be stunned.
"Oh, no..." Grant Bell murmured, unable to recover, "how, how is it possible..."
His complexion was getting worse and worse, his feet swayed slightly, he almost staggered unsteadily, and he didn't know what kind of impact he had suffered.
"Grant? Grant?" Lou Xiaoning called out loudly, "What's wrong inside?"
The uneasiness in Deng Ximei's heart became stronger and stronger.
"You, you... all come over and have a look..." Grant Bell's voice was a little flustered, "Maybe this is just my hallucination?"
"I'll go and have a look. It might be a source of stress. Keep paying attention!" Yu Chi walked forward anxiously. Although he has ptsd, it was an abnormal ptsd, a general stressor of dark things, and he couldn't stop it at all. The mind is affected, if he looks fine, most of the others are fine...
No, he has ptsd, but others don't. If he is fine after reading it, most of the others are fine.
Yu Chi's mind was driven by an inexplicable impulse, his logic was chaotic, and he couldn't control his steps.
"Team Yu!" Feng Peiqian yelled anxiously, "One of your mental pillars just broke."
Others didn't think it was a good idea for Yu Chi to step forward to check, but Yu Chi had strode close to the corpse trough, close enough that he could see what was inside the trough.
For an instant, Yu Chi's expression was also startled, his face flushed, and then he became dazed.
What was soaked in the formalin in that trough was not the corpse of a dead skin man, but the corpse of a human man, whose unshaven face was full of the pain of death.
Yu Chi saw himself, the corpse was himself...
In other words, it was Yu Chi, with exactly the same body shape and exactly the same face.
For the first time, he saw himself with his own eyes.
But was that corpse... really himself