"Then come with me quickly. After we find the treasure for your uncle, we can go home. Hurry up!" Lily jumped off Charles' hand and ran towards the cave entrance, followed by a large number of black and brown mice.
Coming out of the mouse hole, Lily took Charles and the others and quickly shuttled between the rocks.
From time to time, the red light of flying leeches would appear in the distance. At this time, the white mouse Lily would send a mouse over to attract the attention of those monsters.
The group of people ran fearfully for half an hour, and the irregular rocks began to loosen, and a flat rock wall suddenly appeared in front of Charles.
Because it was too dark, Charles couldn't see what was going on above and couldn't tell whether it was a mountain or a huge wall.
After walking along the wall for a few more minutes, a high-tech iron gate suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
Without waiting for Charles to ask, the mice quickly piled up together, and "Rat Strip" pulled the door handle hard, and the door opened with a "click".
When Charles followed the mouse into the door, he was immediately shocked. There was a straight and spacious corridor inside. Although it was covered with thick dust and was in a mess everywhere, the simple style of the surrounding environment made him feel as if he had returned to a hospital in the future.
"This architectural style was not built by those people outside." Charles immediately made a preliminary judgment in his mind.
"Lily, are you sure you want to put that thing here?"
Charles also didn't think that this kind of building was the masterpiece of flying leeches. He always felt that the mouse's mission was not that simple.
The white mouse did not answer. She looked around for a while, then rushed into a room and dragged out a large piece of paper.
Charles touched it with his hand and found that the texture was hard, a bit like plastic. There was a simple map drawn on it, with different areas marked with Earthsea characters, such as the monitoring room, lounge, cafeteria, etc.
Lily jumped onto the map and stepped on the eastern corner, then ran to the west and stepped on a prohibition sign. "We are here, the things are over here, let's go get them."
Looking at the map, Charles had a vague guess in his mind, but now was not the time to think about such things. This place looked unsafe, so it would be better to find something and leave as soon as possible.
"Swish~!" Suddenly a figure appeared at the end of the corridor, scaring Dipp who had rushed to the front and made him scream loudly.
Charles quickly lowered the tip of his gun. "It's okay, just a dead man."
The crowd gathered around, the light from the torches illuminating the figure, the withered corpse knelt stiffly on the spot, mouth opened as wide as possible, hands spread out as if shouting something.
Charles noticed some details about the body. There was a metal plate on the right chest of his suit.
He half-knelt down and pinched it with his hand to take a look. "Dr. Dot, deputy director of the third laboratory."
Charles' pupils shrank as he thought of something and immediately took out the paper with the clown mask on it.
"Containment Level: Level 3 object containment, currently contained in Laboratory 3."
It turns out that this is Lab 3. The mask was stolen by the mouse from here. Who built Lab 3? Who are they? One question was answered, and more questions emerged.
Lily clung to Charles's trouser legs and urged them to move forward quickly. "Let's go. We can go home after we're done helping."
Originally, Charles thought there would be a lot of dangers on the road, but the white mouse Lily did not lie. Apart from the messy environment and corpses popping up from time to time, there was really no danger.
They slowly approached their destination.
"Look, we're here! This is it." Lily stopped at an iron door and jumped up and down at the door. "There's a small square at the door. Put your hand on it and the door will open!"
Looking at the familiar object on the door, Charles had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Huh? Why isn't it open? Uncle clearly said that the door will open as long as humans put their hands on it." Lily tilted her head with a look of confusion on her face.
No matter how smart a mouse is, it is still just a mouse. It must have seen some people open the door with fingerprints before, so it thinks that the door can be opened as long as a human puts his hand on it. But this is not the case at all.
Charles knocked on the door with his hand and found that it was not very thick. He took out the explosives, lit the fuse and threw it at the door, then retreated away.
"Boom!!" A deafening explosion sounded, and a wide hole was blown in the door.
When Charles walked in through the wide entrance, he found a black wine jug quietly placed in the middle of a table.
"That's it! We can go home!" Lily's furry face was filled with joy.
Charles didn't dare to stay any longer. He took the wine jug and rushed outside. The explosion just now was a bit loud, and he was afraid that something would be attracted by the sound.
But as expected, just when Charles and others were halfway through their charge, a flying leech floated over from the corner ahead, and its bloated body just blocked the road.
"Roar!!" The flying leech roared and rushed towards the crowd.
Seeing that he couldn't escape, Charles immediately raised his revolver and started pulling the trigger. "Shoot!!"
The bullets hit the leech, making a continuous sound of slapping leather, and the impact force knocked it back step by step.
The flying leech roared, twisted its bloated body, and its translucent body glowing red disappeared.
"Don't stop! Shoot forward! It will become invisible, use up all your bullets!"
The bullets hit the distant wall at high speed, riddling it with holes.
When the gunfire subsided, Charles was about to leave quickly when the leech's huge head suddenly appeared in front of him, and its mouthparts with sharp teeth were less than ten centimeters away from his head.
The sharp teeth spun open, and the leech's mouthparts moved towards Charles' head like a blood dripping dropper.
Just as he was about to be swallowed by the leech, he suddenly felt a huge force coming from his waist, and he was forcibly pulled out.
Charles looked down and realized that it was Dipper who pushed him away and saved his life.
Gunshots rang out again, and the leech roared and retreated step by step, but it twisted its body and disappeared again.
Charles quickly stood up and took out the mask without thinking and covered his face. In this critical moment, he couldn't care less.
He reached for his leg with his left hand, and the black knife appeared in his hand. Charles smiled excitedly behind the mask.
He could feel that the moment the mask was put on, his strength and reaction ability were greatly enhanced, and everything around him became bright instantly. This brightness was not psychological, he could now see things even in the dark.
"Guys, stop shooting. That guy won't take bullets. Today, your boss is going to show you a trick!"
The sharp black knife flew up and down, leaving behind shadows as Charles' fingers trembled.
(End of this chapter)