The hospital where Miss Xiaoying works is not too far from where they are now, but it is definitely not a safe distance to walk.
Now that the decision was made, there was no need to delay the matter. Everyone returned to the truck and let Miss Xiaoying be responsible for driving.
Along the way, Teacher Dagen asked about the situation of the two girls.
The girl who works as a nurse is Zhang Ying, a 24-year-old woman who works in the emergency department of the Central Hospital.
And her best friend, a petite and slender girl named Min Qingqing, is a white-collar worker in a clothing foreign trade company.
The two are high school classmates, and they have had a good relationship since they were students. After graduation, they stayed in this city to work together, and their relationship naturally became closer.
But they never expected that the two of them just met to go out for a trip, and they got on that unfortunate maglev rail car, and they were both thrown out of the car during the derailment accident, and then they didn't know anything.
When the girls regained consciousness, they found that they had returned to their hometown hundreds of kilometers away—it was just that the city they had lived in for many years had turned into an empty city of ashes, so unfamiliar that neither of them dared to recognize each other. up.
"Well, no matter what is going on, I just want to get out of this ghost place as soon as possible."
The broken glass window made Min Qingqing feel very insecure. When she was talking, she involuntarily tilted her body slightly, trying to shrink herself into the car, "It's really uncomfortable to see my hometown like this... "
Zhang Ying in the driver's seat also nodded with sympathy.
Although from Brother Jie's words, they had vaguely guessed that the city everyone was in now was not really "real".
This world is like modeling in a game. As long as the technology is good enough, you can even restore a space that is exactly the same as reality one by one—but no matter how perfect it is built, it is not a place you used to be very familiar with. Because those people who really made you feel warm and kind are all gone.
What's more, there are so many monsters in this city that can kill people casually.
In order not to disturb the "things" wandering in the dark night, Zhang Ying tried to drive the car as quietly as possible, even daring not to turn on the headlights too brightly.
Their journey went unexpectedly smoothly.
When the truck drove past a famous artificial lake park in the city, everyone was surprised to find that the originally rippling green lake with extremely clear water had turned into a whole pool of tumbling magma.
Yes, the lake is not water, but hot magma, as if it just came out of the crater, churning endlessly, and bubbling sulfur-smelling steam.
"So, this so-called 'world' is really simulating a city that experienced a volcanic eruption?"
Mo Tiangen looked at the window and came to such a guess.
"Come on, where is the active volcano on the southeast coast of Huaguo?"
Captain Xiaoniao has long been acquainted with Mr. Dagen, so he went back directly, "Besides, which volcano stored a large pool of magma in the artificial lake after the eruption?"
"This is an image! Image, do you understand!"
As an honorable people's teacher, Mo Tiangen taught classmate Ji Xiaoniao without discrimination.
"Look, all the monsters we met along the way, dragonflies, lizards and owls, all have something to do with the element 'fire', right?"
He paused and gave a simple example.
"Just like when you play online games, every time you enter a dungeon map, you will encounter monsters that fit the map, right? For example, if you are in the forest, you will encounter foxes, wolves, bears, and bandits; In the ancient tomb, the screen is full of zombies and paper figures and horses."
Teacher Dagen shook his finger.
"So, whether it's the uninterrupted falling ash from the sky, or the strong smell of sulfur, it's this 'world' that reminds us that what we have to face here are all kinds of fire monsters!"
"Well, it does make sense."
Ji Thrush agreed, and the two girls also listened carefully, nodding in agreement like chickens pecking at rice.
"How does that help our situation, though?"
Captain Xiaoniao asked the question he was most concerned about: "Or, teacher, can you guess what other monsters are in this city?"
"I teach biology in key high schools, not magical animals in Hogwarts!"
Mo Tiangen stretched out his hand and patted Ji Thrush on the back of the head, but it immediately touched the wound on his shoulder, causing him to gasp in pain.
"By the way, the one in the back..."
As he said that, Teacher Dagen raised his chin backwards. He was referring to Brother Jie who was lying in the truck compartment and passed out due to excessive blood loss.
"Didn't that guy say that there is another animal like a wolf dog in the city?"
He took out his rich game experience and guessed randomly:
"Maybe it's a hell three-headed dog or something..."
Just as they were talking, they suddenly heard a distant wolf howl in the sulfur-scented warm wind.
Everyone was excited at the same time.
"Crack, you crow mouth!"
Ji Thrush was about to explode, and hurriedly covered Mo Tiangen's mouth, "Don't really invite the hell three-headed dog!"
Fortunately, the cry just now sounded quite far away.
They opened the car window and looked over, only to see a few groups of flames flickering faintly on the other side of a lake full of lava, and there were occasional whimpering cries of wolves.
Mo Tiangen pulled away Ji Thrush's claws, and urged Zhang Ying who was driving: "Go, go, go, before those things catch up, let's go!"
The nurse sister naturally didn't dare to delay, stepped on the accelerator, and drove quickly through the park, heading towards the hospital two streets away.
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The truck quickly drove into the gate of the downtown hospital.
Zhang Ying parked the car in front of the emergency passage, opened the door, and jumped out first.
Ji Thrush and Mo Tiangen consciously went to the rear compartment and moved out the blue-clothed man who had lost consciousness.
On the issue of how to take the wounded away, everyone had a brief disagreement.
Brother Jie is not even talking about moving by himself, he can't even wake up when he screams.
Among these people, Mo Tiangen was the strongest.
But even Teacher Dagen didn't think he was physically strong enough to carry such a muscular man through the long corridor of the emergency room, and then down into the air-raid shelter as deep as a six-story underground building.
At this time, the nurse sister said that she could go to the emergency department to find a wheelchair or a lathe, but Ji Thrush felt that the risk of turning back was too high. will not follow.
In the end, they removed a piece of canvas used to block the wind from the roof of the truck, and made a simple stretcher, and Ji Thrush and Mo Tiangen jointly carried him away.
According to Zhang Ying, there are two entrances to the air-raid shelter.
One is the elevator used to get in and out on weekdays, and the other is the emergency-that is, in case it does come in handy-the doorway-like entrance in the parking garage.
But no matter which one it is, the door of the air-raid shelter is locked. Although Zhang Ying knows the password to open the door, let alone the central hospital, even the entire city is in a state of power outage. The combination lock is naturally useless .
But the nurse sister said that the nuclear fortification has its own independent backup power system, and the switch is in the electrician's room at the end of the corridor of the emergency department.
If this "world" is perfectly restored even to this point, she will be able to activate the backup power.
So Ji Thrush and others decided to go to the electrician's room first and turn on the backup power of the air-raid shelter.
On weekdays, hospitals in bustling metropolises always feel bustling and overcrowded. Even the emergency department late at night is full of waiting patients and medical staff.
But at this moment, apart from them, there was no one else in the whole city. The huge hospital was so quiet that it was frightening, and it was so dark that it was frightening.
A few people walked through the empty corridor, the sound of multiple footsteps on the smooth floor, each step seemed to be on their heartbeat, making them involuntarily quicken their pace.
"Very soon."
Zhang Ying tried her best to make her voice sound calmer.
With the help of the flashlight, she pointed to the darkness deep in the corridor, "The mahogany door at the front corner is the electrician's room."
Ji Thrush and Mo Tiangen nodded cooperatively.
In fact, none of them saw the so-called "mahogany door".
On the way to the hospital, Zhang Ying had already briefed them on the structure of the emergency department and the location of the elevator.
The emergency department of the Central Hospital is a big "T" shape.
There is a long corridor in the middle, and there is an umbrella-shaped hall at the end, which is the registration area and waiting area, and the two wings of the "T" are the consulting rooms of internal medicine and surgery, and further inside are the respective infusion rooms and inpatient rooms. Watch the ward.
The electrician's room they were going to now was located at the top of the corridor in the middle, with a very inconspicuous small wooden door.
The maintenance elevator leading to the air-raid shelter is located at the corner of the emergency surgery department. It is a "working elevator" that is usually not open to ordinary patients. After the panel is opened, you need to enter the password "6677" to start it.
Two minutes later, everyone finally stood in front of the small mahogany door of the electrician's room.
The door was of course locked.
But it didn't bother them at all.
Mo Tiangen picked up his shovel, "Kaba", "Kaba" a few shovels down, and smashed the door lock.
"Okay, I'll go in with Miss Zhang."
Mr. Dagen held his steel shovel horizontally, with a heroic look, he raised his chin towards Ji Thrush and the others, "You guys wait outside for a while..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a "bang", and the glass of the window closest to the crowd was hit hard by something.
"Fuck!"
Everyone was terrified, and the two girls screamed instinctively.
They followed the prestige and saw a big dog with dark red fur lying on the outside of the window glass.
That dog does look a lot like the "Cerberus" in European and American legends.
It has a pair of blood-red eyes, short hair, wrinkled skin, wide and flat nostrils, a long pointed snout, and fangs in its mouth that are as sharp and sharp as barbs.
However, what made everyone feel even more creepy was that the next second, the dog "stands up" unexpectedly.
It was only then that Ji Thrush and the others saw clearly that the dog looked like an ape from the neck down, with slender arms and a wide palm with five fingers visible.
At this time, this monster, which is neither ape nor dog, actually held the window frame tightly with both hands, and then bumped into it.
There was only a loud bang from the "Yang Nut", the window glass was hit by its head and a large gap was cracked, and the monster who hit the window was obviously seriously injured. The dog's head hung down, and the forehead was covered with dripping blood. , will not move anymore.
However, people couldn't help thinking about it.
In the next second, the second and third apes stepped on their companions, smashed through the glass, and jumped into the corridor!