Annie froze.
"Su, Su Lin..."
She took a deep breath, stared at the thin, shriveled boy on the screen, her eyes were burning, "I'm here to save you... I'm here to take you out of here..."
The boy suddenly raised his head and glanced in the direction of the monitor.
In the not-so-high-definition pixels, Ji Thrush saw that the child was really thin.
He is not round and fleshy like ordinary children. His palm-sized face is so thin that only a pointed chin is left. His eyes are extraordinarily large. At first glance, they almost occupy half of his face.
"yes… "
The voice of the little boy in the loudspeaker is getting smaller and softer, and the ending is vague in his throat, making it hard to hear, "You...you come to take me away... from here?"
Although the child on the other side of the phone couldn't see it, Annie nodded desperately:
"Sorry I'm late! I'll come over now and get you out..."
Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted roughly by Rose.
"wait!"
The red-haired beauty pushed Anne away.
"When did we say we were going to save that brat?"
Pointing at the screens, she asked ferociously:
"Did you see it? There are monsters everywhere, and it's a word 'death' to enter, so do you want us to die!? Or, you have the ability to bring people out!?"
The more Rose spoke, the more excited she became, and the volume became louder and louder. In the end, her voice was split:
"What we are looking for is the Moon God Stone, not your son, have you figured it out!? We have no obligation to your son!"
If I have to say it, Rose is actually not a villain. In a sense, she is just bored with the "world" forced into this "Peach Blossom Spring" from the bottom of her heart, and naturally she lacks recognition.
Rose has always felt that she is just a "participant" and an outsider.
To her, everything that happened in the "world" was just a "plot" constructed by "Peach Blossom Spring" to test and make things difficult for her.
No matter how much an online game player likes and devotes himself to a certain game, he should know that the joys and sorrows of each character in the game are nothing more than a predetermined process virtually constructed by the programmer using codes composed of 0 and 1 .
It is even more difficult for an overly sober and calm egoist like Rose to empathize with everything she encounters in the "world".
When the soldiers who called her "Captain" died one after another in front of her, Rose never felt sad or could not bear it. Now that it was Annie and her adopted son who was paralyzed, she would not feel any extra pity.
So she will definitely not risk to save the trapped child.
Her only pursuit is to keep herself alive.
The dispute between Rose and Anne did not control the volume, and the little boy on the other side of the communicator obviously heard their conversation.
Su Lin was silent.
The child was so frightened that he didn't dare to say a word. He only opened his eyes wide and looked at the camera in his room in horror.
The little eyes that looked like a frightened little animal made Ji Thrush feel unbearable, he couldn't listen anymore.
"enough!"
Ji Thrush reached out and pressed his forehead, "I really want to find the Luna Stone, but people..."
He originally wanted to say, "I want to save people too", but when he saw dozens of monsters wandering around on the monitor screen by mistake, the second half of the sentence got stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say it when it reached his mouth .
The monitoring room fell into an eerie silence for a while.
"... Luna Stone?"
The timid and soft voice of a child came from the loudspeaker.
"I... I know where it is..."
According to Su Lin's recollection, when he participated in new drug experiments, he would see the "Luna Stone" every time.
It was a green-gold stone with a faint yellowish metallic luster, and its size was much smaller than everyone imagined.
When describing its size, the child showed his bony fist to the camera, saying that it was about the same as his little hand making a fist.
The Luna Stone is inherently radioactive. Although the rays it emits are said to have the effect of repairing and regenerating necrotic cells, no one dares to guarantee that it will not cause any other harm to the human body before thorough research is done.
Therefore, except for experiments, the Luna Stone is usually wrapped in a special cloth and stored in a container specially made for it.
After the little boy described the appearance of the container, Ji Thrush knew that the suitcase Mr. Dagen desperately took out was not containing the Luna Stone.
Then, they got another more important piece of information.
Su Lin told them that there was an elevator that could go directly to the laboratory hidden behind his room.
But he can't open this elevator by himself. Usually, the researcher informs him to get ready, then takes the elevator down, and takes him up again.
After hearing the news, Ji Thrush's eyes lit up immediately.
It doesn't matter if the elevator can't be opened. With the experience of the previous "world", they can definitely climb the elevator shaft!
If they can directly enter the laboratory where the Luna Stone is placed from the children's room, get the stone, and then find a way to escape from the research institute, it will be easier than returning to the logistics area on the upper floor and searching all the way. too much.
Thinking of this, Ji Thrush looked down at his watch.
The blinking pointer is still bright yellow, but the progress bar is a bit forward than before.
From this point of view, their current "strategic route" is correct.
If you want to get the Luna Stone, you must venture into the little boy's room and rescue him!
— Well, what a clichéd American horror movie plot!
—Every zombie movie must save a child, so it can be regarded as leaving light and hope!
While complaining in his heart, Ji Thrush discussed with Ren Jianmo how to save people.
Rose reluctantly leaned over.
Annie didn't have much say in this matter, so she could only stay on the outermost side, clenched her fists, and listened nervously to their conversation.
Ren Jianmo casually took out a pen from the pen container on the table, turned over the sign-in book again, and drew a map on the blank space on the back cover.
"We are here now."
He drew a small box in the lower right corner of the map, marking the current location of everyone, and then drew a cross in the upper left corner:
"Sulin's room is here."
"Tsk!"
Ji Thrush frowned, "It's so far away, it's all diagonal."
Ren Jianmo nodded.
"The monitoring of the corridor is these two pieces. There are only two monsters. They should not pose a threat to us."
He clicked on the pictures of two of the surveillance cameras with his pen, and smiled at Ji Thrush. Although he spoke in a subtle, but confident tone, he obviously didn't take the threat in the corridor to heart.
"But then comes the hard part."
Ren Jianmo drew a huge box in the center of the map, "Next, we have to pass through the inner and outer laboratories to reach Su Lin's room."
As he spoke, he tapped the four display screens continuously with his pen.
"In this laboratory, there are a total of thirteen humanoid skeleton monsters and two bone dogs."
After Ji thrush heard the specific number, he gasped.
This laboratory is quite large, and the internal structure is also very complicated. It is basically a fantasy to hold your breath and rush through it in one breath.
What's more, the laboratory is divided into two floors, inside and outside, separated by a glass wall. It takes a long time to open the door. What's more, they have suffered from the smart voice prompt not long ago, the "opening the door" prompt Tone, almost got them all wiped out in the kitchen.
"Can we use the phone?"
Rose tried to make her own opinion.
"Gather them in a corner with an interphone call, and we'll rush over..."
"I don't think it will work."
Ji Thrush shook his head, "The internal call will be destroyed in a second or two at most, and the delay won't last long."
"right."
Ren Jianmo nodded, stood up, and snored on Ji Xiaoniao's head smoothly:
"So, I have a suggestion."
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Ten minutes later, Ji Thrush, Ren Jianmo, Rose, and Annie stood in front of a glass-walled laboratory.
In fact, it is more like a "preparation room" than a laboratory.
The number of monsters wandering inside is really quite a lot, even more than they have seen in the kitchen, which means that most of the people working here have not been vaccinated, and they should not have access to core research.
Ji Thrush took a deep breath, then turned to look at Ren Jianmo who was standing beside him.
Ren Jianmo nodded at him.
Ji Thrush took out his ID card and opened the door.
The four of them held their breaths and stepped into the laboratory.
It's just that they didn't rush across the room, but instead ran towards a cabinet by the door.
There stood a fire cabinet with a stack of gas masks inside.
Rose quickly opened the cabinet, took out a set to put on for herself, and then tried to take a breath carefully.
The closest monster to them was less than ten meters away, but it didn't respond to the breath of the red-haired beauty.
Rose felt that a big stone in her heart fell back to its original place with a "boom".
Ji Thrush, Ren Jianmo, and Annie also quickly put on their gas masks.
——It’s really poor and there is no way out, there is another village in the shadows and flowers!
After putting on the gas mask, student Ji Xiaoniao wiped off the cold sweat oozing from his neck, and let out a long sigh of relief.
Originally thought that this was another challenge of a narrow escape, but it turned out to be EASY mode, which can be easily passed.
Just when he was happy, Ji Thrush felt Ren Jianmo gently push his shoulder, motioning him to leave quickly.
- yes!
Ji Thrush shuddered.
The gas masks they are wearing now are for emergency evacuation, and the amount of carbon dioxide that can be stored and filtered is very limited, only about ten minutes, and there are only four gas masks in the fire cabinet. It is completely impossible to rely on them to "cheat" all the way to pass the customs.
Several people put on their masks, passed through the maze-like scattered machines and wandering monsters, and ran towards the door leading to the inner layer.