But before Bai Zhi could look around and judge the environment he was currently in, a sudden danger sign came to his mind.
It felt like there was something in the outside world accompanying his appearance, slowly waking up from his deep sleep.
The air seemed to be suppressed by something heavy. The originally loose air seemed to have turned into a muddy swamp, and there was a tendency to evolve towards a deeper sense of oppression.
"..."
Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly and looked around.
The location he is currently in is on the ruins of an open space. Most of the surrounding houses have collapsed. Weeds and unknown vines are growing wantonly among the ruins. The sky is low as if it is about to rain, and there is nothing visible anywhere. To a living creature other than him... It was a scene of endless desolation in the end.
The whole world was eerily quiet.
There was no chirping of insects, no chirping of birds, not a single sound coming from the outside world, not even the sound of wind.
Bai Zhi turned back and glanced at the few cement pipes scattered in the open space. After a moment of thinking, Bai Zhi held the pistol and walked quickly towards the nearest building that was still intact.
Although as time goes by, the inexplicable tight feeling in my heart becomes deeper and deeper, but now that it has come out, it is impossible to go back again...
Volume 2 The Miracle of Improbable Probability: Chapter 933 Chapter 20 The Dirty Humanoid and the Office Building
The open space is located at the junction of a street intersection. Several inkstone-sized trash cans are placed in front of the open space, emitting a long-lasting and unpleasant smell of decay and coldness.
Once upon a time, the constant flow of traffic on the road and the pedestrians on both sides of the road together created a bustling urban scene.
But now, in front of Bai Zhi, there are only dilapidated streets that have been in disrepair, vines spreading everywhere, and vehicle wreckage piled up on the road. The entire city is devoid of any life.
The buildings on both sides of the street are basically street-facing shops such as hardware stores or supermarkets and restaurants. However, those supermarkets and shops have traces of being looted, with scattered glass fragments and fallen pieces on the ground. Hammers are everywhere.
—But Bai Zhi found no signs of life.
Not to mention survivors like him, he didn't even find any of those small animals or insects, not even a tiny ant.
The whole world was empty and silent, as if he was the only one.
After about a few minutes' walk, Bai Zhi arrived at a nearby office building, which was also the closest well-preserved building to his original location.
The heavy door of the office building was ajar, and the sky was gloomy as if it was about to rain. In such a dead world, the entire city's power system had probably collapsed, so the interior of the office building was slightly dark, and it was impossible to see clearly from the outside.
Standing at the door of the office building, Bai Zhi lowered his head and looked in front of the door, thinking for a while.
It was obvious that no one had been here for a long time. There was a lot of thick dust at the door, and the few footprints he brought were quite conspicuous.
The office building in front of me looks like it has been abandoned for a long time. There shouldn't be any survivors in a place like this, right
But frankly speaking, he is not in a good condition right now.
It seemed that ever since he came out of the cement pipe, some kind of unsinkable premonition appeared in his heart, and as time went by, the ominous premonition in his heart deepened.
If you want to use specific words to describe it, it is as if there are hundreds of sharp knives hanging on top of your head with thin threads at all times. They may fall down at any time and stab you to the core. .
He didn't know where that premonition came from, but it probably had something to do with the world becoming so dead. If he didn't hurry up and find the reason, God knew what would happen next.
Will there be anything he wants in the office building in front of him
After a moment of pondering, Bai Zhi reached out and pushed open the heavy door of the office building in front of him. Under the infusion of external light, the scene in his eyes was unobstructed.
Then, the first thing Bai Zhi saw was the corpses in the center of the hall...or should we say human figures
The reason why they are said to be humanoid is because the corpses in front of them are beyond the scope of human description.
They were standing in a running posture, with unusually frightened expressions on their faces, as if they had seen something extremely terrifying, causing their facial muscles to twist and collapse, as hideous and terrifying as evil ghosts in hell.
Correspondingly, their whole bodies showed a strange state of rust, with mottled rust covering their entire bodies, and their human existence forms were changed accordingly. The whole person looked like a large Rusty steel.
The clothes on his body melted into the flesh, and the skin and flesh turned into a mud-like material, with mottled rust attached to it. It seemed that as long as you gently pulled it, you could pull out long strands like maltose.
And it seems that because the office building has not been ventilated for a long time, the air inside is extremely turbid, humid, disgusting, and even vaguely nauseating.
"It looks a bit like some kind of pollution..."
Covering his nose with one hand and leaning forward, Bai Zhiyou carefully observed these rusty figures.
Although no living people were encountered, corpses are also a discovery. Judging from the shapes of these humanoids, they seemed to want to escape from the office building before they died... No, escape
Noticing that their footsteps were running inwards, Bai Zhi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.
"...Is it due to the influence of external factors?"
Bai Zhi turned back and glanced thoughtfully at the opened door. After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi turned back and closed the door again.
As for the footprints left at the door, he also cleaned them accordingly.
—Since entering the room, the premonition of danger he felt before has obviously been reduced a lot.
After standing at the door and looking outside along the ajar door for a moment, Bai Zhi dug out a flashlight from the backpack he was carrying.
The interior of the office building was too dark. With his current eyesight, he couldn't see anything without the illumination of a flashlight.
The layout of this office building is slightly different from what he remembered, but it's not much different. There are several areas on the first floor that are firmly locked. It seems that they were locked by the people who took refuge here before. of.
He didn't have any lockpicking tools and was not planning to go to those places for the time being. After searching on the first floor but not getting any valuable information or items, Bai Zhi decided to go upstairs to take a look.
The elevators have naturally stopped running a long time ago, but the corridors are still intact. However, some windows that can see the outside world have been artificially covered with a large amount of newspapers and paint. These things have also caused damage to the office building. The main culprit of the darkness inside.
… Is there something outside that requires them to do this
While thinking about this in his mind, Bai Zhi stepped on the steps and walked in the empty and dark corridor with the help of the flashlight in his hand.
Everything around him was eerily quiet. Bai Zhi could even hear his own breathing.
Even if there may have been some survivors who escaped into this kind of office building, under such circumstances, they are probably all gone or dead.
Perhaps the only place where survivors can exist... is it an underground shelter or something like that
Does the three-day survival time limit mean what will happen after three days...!
Just as Bai Zhi was thinking about related matters in his mind, something suddenly caught his eye and his expression changed slightly.
—In the dark and deserted corridor, his shadow was not the only one illuminated by the light of the flashlight.
Various human-shaped shadows followed his shadow, looking very much like a hundred ghosts walking in the night.
Volume 2 The Miracle of Improbable Probability: Chapter 934 Chapter 21 Corpse and Conjecture
The figure... is it a ghost story or something
He didn't pay attention to the gadgets following him, and continued walking up the corridor with a thoughtful look on his face.
It's a good thing if something is abnormal, and it's strange if there's nothing unusual. As for the things following him, he didn't even have the interest to take a second look.
Those vague humanoid shadows are not as attractive as a talking Fukushima watermelon...
Since those things did not cause any harm to him temporarily, he was too lazy to spend time taking care of them. Now, he was thinking about more important things.
—For example, the origin of this assessment scene.
As the inheritance trial of the only profession [Eastern Ghost Emperor? Shen Tu], this trial scene should be inextricably linked to this profession.
So where does the so-called connection lie
Make bold assumptions and verify carefully.
Regarding this dead world, Bai Zhi already had his own set of conjectures in his heart.
The dead world he is currently in should be the underworld...or the former underworld.
From the pictures that appeared on the stone tablet on the square stone platform, he learned about the true origin of the underworld. In the past, the underworld itself was a world similar to the shadow world.
But then an irresistible disaster came, and only a few people survived in the entire world. Then this world was integrated into their world, and after a long period of development, it became the so-called underworld.
The time he was at now might be the time when the world suffered a devastating blow, and the shadows reflected on the wall following his shadow at this time might be the legendary ghosts.
After all, those things are very similar to things like ghosts, and it is not too difficult to associate ghosts with the underworld. This is the professional inheritance of the Ghost Emperor.
…A ghost disaster
Thinking of this, Bai Zhi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.
In the era when the underworld was not called the underworld, it was an era of world guardians. There were no so-called players at that time, and judging from the technological development of this world, it did not look like a world of cultivating immortals.
If something like a ghost wave broke out in this kind of world, it would be normal for human civilization to regress rapidly in the face of ghosts that are beyond human imagination.
Perhaps it is precisely because the yin energy in this world is so heavy that it will become the so-called underworld in the future
While thinking aimlessly in his heart, Bai Zhi kept walking and walked up the stairs in a moment.
When he entered the second floor, he noticed that the shadows that were originally entrenched behind him had disappeared.
The situation on the second floor was not much different from that on the first floor. All the windows were covered with newspapers. After some exploration, Bai Zhi made a new discovery in a certain conference room.
In the conference room, various food packaging bags and waste were piled all over the floor. It seemed that this place had once been used as a refuge.
In addition to these garbage, Bai Zhi also found more than ten corpses in a corner surrounded by tables and chairs.
In fact, the corpses are not the key. The key is that after some inspection, the corpses Bai Zhi found were all killed by others. The fatal injuries came from the deep bone-penetrating knife wounds in the neck.
… Cannibalism in the context of doomsday
Frowning slightly, Bai Zhi turned his head and looked at the other corner of the conference room. In that corner, there was still a pile of unopened food and mineral water.
The hypothesis that conflict breaks out because of food shortages does not seem to hold true here.
After a moment of pondering, Bai Zhi turned his attention again to the ten corpses lying in the corner of the conference room.
He once studied autopsies on the Internet on a whim. The cause of death of these people was indeed a stab wound on the neck, and one stab was fatal.
And judging from the conditions of the scene and the corpses, these people did not make any decent acts of resistance before they died, and some corpses even had strange, calm and peaceful smiles on their faces.
Judging from the condition of the corpses, the time when these people died was only about one or two months ago. After killing these people, the murderer even had the mood to place these corpses one by one. …
"...Human? Or some kind of neat ghost?"
Standing up straight again, Bai Zhi looked at the ten corpses neatly lined up in a row in front of him and even thoughtfully covered with quilts. Bai Zhi had a thoughtful look on his face.
After a while, Bai Zhi took out his flashlight and turned his attention to the large pile of supplies piled in the corner.
Before coming out of the cement pipe, although he said he had put on a backpack, considering the actual physical strength, except for some necessary tools, he basically didn't bring any food supplies or anything in the backpack. How many.
Originally, he thought that he might have to risk going to those shops to search for food again, but now it seems that it may not be necessary anymore.
Instant noodles, mineral water, canned food, chocolate... The materials piled up in the corner are quite abundant, and the packaging is also quite complete.
After simply eating something to replenish his depleted energy and water, Bai Zhi continued his exploration of the office building.
As the exploration continued, Bai Zhi discovered more and more things, and among the things he discovered, there were some things that were very scary to think about.
This office building has a total of seven floors. Except for a few places on the first floor that are locked and cannot be explored, there must be a place where a large number of corpses are piled up on every other floor.
The higher the floor, the greater the number of corpses on the floor.
For safety reasons, Bai Zhi did not conduct a unified examination of all the corpses, but the causes of death of those corpses he examined were injuries caused by sharp objects, and some of them even had injuries from sharp objects. The corpse was directly shot in the head by a bullet.
In other words, the causes of death of these people all come from human beings themselves.
Cannibalism caused by mental breakdown, or is it the behavior of extreme religious groups in a doomsday atmosphere
Regarding these, Bai Zhi does not have a corresponding conclusion.
The number of corpses on the top floor is the largest, and the causes of death are even more diverse, including blunt blows to the head with heavy objects, stabbing in the lungs with sharp blades, or purple and blue marks on the neck... It seems that a large-scale riot has occurred here. Everyone is trying their best to kill others.
Dead corpses and corpse fragments were piled up in one room after another. A strong smell of blood lingered in the room. In sharp contrast, the second floor had not only the smallest number of corpses, but also more corpses. Put everything in order.
—From top to bottom, the degree of human madness seems to be gradually decreasing.
…Have humans destroyed themselves? Or is it because of other factors...
Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly, turned around and left the top floor.
As he turned around, large swaths of human-shaped shadows gathered behind him, forming an extremely thick black field that seemed to swallow him completely.
Bai Zhi completely ignored these.
These things seemed to only play a role in adjusting the atmosphere, or it could be said that he did not trigger a certain rule. During the process of exploration, although the black shadows were gathering more and more with the height of the floor, But it didn't pose even the slightest threat to him, so in the end he simply didn't care.
Again, Bai Zhi felt that these things were not even as weird as a talking Fukushima watermelon floating in the air behind him...
Volume 2 The Miracle of Improbable Probability: Chapter 935 Chapter 22 The Night Walk of Hundreds of Ghosts Under the Heavy Rain
After roughly exploring the office building, Bai Zhi returned to the second floor.
Compared with the floors above, the air on the second floor can be said to be the best, and there are sufficient supplies here, making it a good place to take refuge.