"Rustle~" The sound of green leaves sliding across trouser legs continued to ring.
Charles and his crew quickly moved through the dense woods, with a group of rats leading the way in front of them.
Charles' expression at this moment contained a mixture of shock and excitement, as if he was expecting something.
After they passed through a bush again, a huge object suddenly appeared in front of them.
It was a submarine. To be more precise, it was a submarine that had not yet been completed. And from the appearance, it seemed that this submarine would never be completed. Green vines and weeds covered this high-tech product of mankind.
"Someone is trapped here, and they want to escape using a submarine!" Charles immediately made this conclusion in his mind.
Is it the one who controls the white beast? Charles immediately rejected this conjecture.
If it was really him, with the help of the white beast, he should have gotten out long ago.
"Mr. Charles, shall we go over and take a look?" Blue Lily shouted, pulling Charles' trouser leg.
"Scatter your rats, don't let the enemies hiding in the dark attack us. Everyone, be alert."
There must be someone here who can build such a huge submarine. As for whether that person is from the foundation, I don’t know, but there is a high probability that he is.
Charles jumped into the gap of the submarine with the revolver in hand and looked inside.
Although this thing has been abandoned, the metal structure inside is obviously not of Earthsea technology style. This submarine seems to be a nuclear submarine. He saw the nuclear symbol that represents a warning.
"Is there a factory here? No, even if there is a factory, it can't build such a large submarine. The designer said before that building a qualified submarine requires an entire industrial chain, not to mention a nuclear submarine."
Charles turned around and looked at the dense woods around him.
"Is this place the same as DE1344? Is there a complete human society outside the forest?"
"Squeak~Squeak~Squeak~~" The mouse's rapid cry suddenly sounded from the east.
"Mr. Charles! They've spotted the enemy!"
"Follow me!" Charles stomped his feet hard on the grass and rushed towards the direction of the sound.
Soon he saw the thing that the mice were actually gnawing at madly. It slapped the mouse's body and the mice kept rolling on the ground.
The mice quickly retreated, allowing Charles to see the man clearly.
The thing vaguely looked human, but Charles had a hard time associating it with humans.
Its almost transparent and swollen body was covered with tumors of various sizes. Its white ribs were turned outward, and some tumors had been bitten by mice. Green pus was constantly oozing out of them.
The most terrifying thing was that the tumor inside its mouth had pushed the lower teeth out of place, and the place where the chin should have been was rotten and ulcerated, with blood and flesh all over it.
Even Charles felt a little nauseous at the sight of such a twisted and disgusting monster.
With his finger on the trigger, he asked the thing, "Can you understand human language?"
"Crackling~" The deformed monster's mouth made a sound of teeth colliding. It did not answer, but struggled to get away from Charles.
"Swoosh~" The sharp anchor hook pierced its body and nailed it directly to the tree roots covered with green moss.
Charles called Tuba over and asked him to identify whether this thing was a relic from the Foundation's containment point. If it was a relic, maybe they could communicate with each other.
But Tuba denied it very firmly. "Impossible! I don't know this guy. He's so ugly. If I had seen him, I would definitely remember him very clearly."
His instinct told him that the longer he stayed in this forest, the more dangerous it would be, and he had to find 319 as soon as possible and leave this damn place.
After thinking quickly, Charles pulled the bloody anchor hook with his left prosthetic hand.
Without any restraints, the deformed monster curled up its body and stumbled forward.
"Go ahead, keep following it and see where it goes."
Charles and his crew followed the deformed monster, watching it from a distance with full caution. In the absence of any clues, this thing might be the only clue.
During the trip, Charles kept carving marks on the tree trunks to prevent himself from getting lost. He had previously confirmed that these trees were truly ordinary trees.
As time passed, the deformed monster gradually slowed down. Red blood dripped onto the soil. It was bleeding too much and was about to die.
At the moment it fell, the villa complex located among the woods appeared in front of everyone.
The buildings of different styles are hung on the trees like tree houses, which looks very magical.
Unlike the previous submarines, although these buildings are also covered with vines, there are some forest paths trampled out between the buildings, which means there are people living here!
Led by Charles, the crew slowly walked into the small town in the forest.
"Click~!" A door in the distance suddenly opened by itself, and a black shadow flashed through the door.
When Charles rushed in, he found that there was no one inside.
However, he was not without gain. The walls of the building were covered with densely packed Earthsea characters.
After taking a quick glance at the scenery outside the door, Charles turned his head and quickly looked for the place where the record was first written on the wall.
"We have been in Ecological Park No. 4 for eight months. Although we don't know what disaster wiped out everyone in the foundation, everyone estimates that this crisis should be over and we are going to move up."
Charles was shocked when he saw this information. The people living here were not from the Foundation? Then who were they
Charles continued to look down patiently.
"The outside world has been completely submerged by the sea, but fortunately, those projects came down with us. With their special assistance, we can have enough food and clothing."
"It's really ridiculous. We were just humble and pitiful guinea pigs used for experiments before, but I never thought that one day, we would actually rely on them to survive."
"177 is a good man. He helped us get along with those projects. With those projects, we have enough water and food, and he also helped us build submarines to escape danger."
"It's just that one thing is very strange. He asked me to carve my diary on the wall, saying that my diary could help others understand the specific situation here in the future. I don't know who he was talking about."
177?! Isn't that Tuba's project number
Charles raised his head in astonishment and looked at Tuba beside him.
However, when he looked over, he found that the other person was staring outside the door with his mouth wide open, stunned.
Charles followed his gaze and saw that all kinds of deformed, twisted, bloody human monsters had blocked the door without him noticing.
(End of this chapter)