Cloudy, light wind, temperature 22°C
Qin Minghuang sat on a chair beside the pool and looked up at the sky. The empty sea in the sky was almost reaching his head, and a huge shadow was looming in the sky, like a layer of flowing dark clouds, giving him incomparable pressure.
Yesterday afternoon, Qin Minghuang heard an alarm coming from afar. It was a city alarm for a major disaster. The sharp and piercing repetitive tones were so penetrating that even this base, which was said to be located in a remote area outside District 118, could hear it clearly.
The radio broadcast and wireless television had long lost their signals. She had no idea what was happening outside and could only guess from the warning that it was not good.
The sky and sea have covered the outermost 120 areas and reached the edge of 118 areas. So now that Qin Minghuang is lying here, he can see the clear distinction in the sky, with dark clouds on one side and sea water on the other. The dark clouds hit the edge of the sea, just like waves hitting the coast.
This strange sight is much more exciting than those special effects movies. Qin Minghuang has been sitting outside looking at the sky when he has nothing to do recently.
Seeing that it was almost noon, she got up and went to the kitchen.
She had searched all the food in the kitchen and was now eating the invisible octopus's rations - the fish in the freezer.
Having already made fried fish, fish soup, and deep-fried fish, Qin Minghuang made fish balls this morning. Homemade fish balls are simple, except that scraping the fish paste is a little troublesome, but the finished product tastes good. She made a large pot of fish balls and put it in the freezer. When she wants to eat them, she takes some out and cooks them, just like cooking glutinous rice balls.
Carrying homemade seasoning and hot fish balls to the outdoor pool, she half-paralyzed as if she had no bones, chewing the fish balls out of boredom, occasionally glancing at the sea of clouds in the sky, and occasionally forking a fish ball and throwing it into the pool to feed the octopus.
That big guy eats anything he is fed. These days, Qin Minghuang has treated it as his own goldfish.
She was the only one left here now, and there was no one to talk to, so she had to play with this "little goldfish"... No, she almost forgot there was another person.
Barry was still tied up in the dormitory by her. She went to feed him water and food every other day to ensure that he would not die, but the living environment was not very good.
As soon as she entered the dormitory, Qin Minghuang smelled a strange odor. She took out her mask and put it on without changing her expression. She took a bottle of water and carefully inserted a straw into it.
Barry, who was dying, cried when he saw her. His attitude changed from the desperate "I'll kill her, so what can you do to me" at the beginning to "Please let me go, I know I was wrong and I shouldn't have killed her", and now -
"Please, please kill me! I can't stand it anymore, please kill me!"
Qin Minghuang handed him some water to drink, with a strange look on his face, "What are you talking about? I'm not the kind of person who kills people casually. I've never killed anyone in my life."
The Qin family trains their daughters, not raises them to be killers.
Barry seemed not to hear what she was saying, and cried out, "I don't want to suffer this anymore!"
Qin Minghuang: "Don't try to slander me. I just tied you up here, but I didn't torture you. Look, I brought you some fish balls. Eat them with your mouth. I'm leaving now. It stinks here."
"No, don't go! I'll tell you everything!" Barry shouted, "Someone asked me to kill her. It was Dr. Gillen, who used to work at the base. He was the one who asked me to cooperate. It's none of my business!"
Qin Ming Huang Xin said, here it comes, the must-have Dr. So-and-so in biochemical horror movies, he is obviously a villain, the kind of research madman who is only a hair's breadth away from being a lunatic. It is because there are too many villainous doctors in those movies that the title of doctor has become unpleasant.
"I was just following his orders, please let me go—"
"That won't do." Qin Minghuang put down the food and water and walked to the door. "You don't have to tell me this. I don't want to know. I'm not a police officer here. I'm not responsible for catching bad guys. I just have to make sure I don't break the law and leave alive."
After saying that, she closed the dormitory door, locking the stinking room and the crying Barry inside.
Now she regretted it. Why didn't she think more before she killed someone? She had thought about putting the victim's body in Barry's dormitory, so that he would have to live looking at the body of the person she killed every day.
She would have done so if she hadn't later felt that leaving the body there to stink was not very friendly to the victim.
Now the young couple was buried by her in the yard, in the same pit, so they were not lonely.
But in such a large base, she had to wander around alone every day. She felt lonely and had to feed the fish by the pond every day.
Since she had nothing to do anyway, she cleaned the pool again. While playing with the water gun, she talked to the giant octopus that was nowhere to be found, "Are you a new species created by that doctor? I thought you were an alien octopus."
"I'm getting a little tired of staying here. I can't stand eating fish every day these days. When the empty sea above moves over, I'll find a way to leave after seeing enough. By then, you won't starve to death here without anyone to feed you, right?"
She turned off the water gun and returned to the pool. A transparent leg pressed its tip against her calf. This was not the first time Qin Minghuang had received a "greet" from this big guy.
At first she was very wary, but then she found that it would only touch her calf with the tip of one leg each time and then quickly retract it, so she thought this big guy might be a little shy.
Feeling a little wetness on his feet, Qin Minghuang reached out to grab it, but as expected, he caught nothing. The invisible giant had retracted its legs.
"You're so shy, little octopus. I've fed you so many meals, but I still haven't gotten a good look at what you look like."
If Qin Minghuang was standing in the monitoring room at this moment, she would be able to see through special instruments what kind of scary posture the "shy little octopus" she imagined was "playing" with her in.
Its huge, disc-like body stretched across one meter above her head, and its numerous legs moved in the air around her, almost floating in the air, enveloping her like a cage. However, every time she moved, those extremely flexible legs would avoid her in advance.
"Come out and let me see?" Qin Minghuang said, looking for the big guy in the pool. Suddenly, she felt her other leg being gently touched again.
"Do you want to play with me?" She reached down quickly and pulled out something cold and soft that felt like jelly, but it quickly slipped out of her hand and stuck to her arm intentionally or unintentionally, only to leave again three seconds later.
Qin Minghuang was a little surprised, "You are a bit active today?"
Normally, it would just stick to her and then let go, but today it was acting a bit... clingy. Could it be that it had finally become accustomed to her and was getting close to her
"Okay, wait, I'll get you something to play with." She dug out a colorful ball that someone had left behind from the warehouse and threw it into the water, "Come and play ball!"
The colorful ball was floating in the water without any movement.
Qin Minghuang saw this and wondered if the giant octopus's IQ was higher than that of a dog's. Could it play with a ball
Just as he was about to use the stick to push the ball back, the transparent pool water around the ball suddenly changed color, as if it was dyed by the colored ball and spread outward.
Qin Minghuang: "Okay, although that's not what I meant, your color change does look pretty good."
She flicked the ball back, took it in her hand and threw it to another corner. The moment the ball fell, the water in that corner also turned into brilliant colors. Wherever it was thrown, the water changed color. It was so cool.
Although it is not playing with a ball in the traditional sense, Qin Minghuang thinks it is also a good way to play. This little cutie in the pool is so considerate.
She didn't play for long before she felt a dull pain in her stomach and hurried back to the dormitory.
As expected, my period had arrived.
"I knew it. I felt bloated when I woke up this morning. Sure enough, it came." She dug out her equipment, boiled a kettle of hot water for herself, and lay in the dormitory doing nothing for the entire afternoon.
She didn't know that after she hurried away, the monster in the pool placed its legs on the shore where she had stood.
It can sense all the smells of her body and even know the changes in her body earlier than she does.
Humans cannot see traces of a person's life in the surrounding areas with the naked eye, but they can capture that special smell. In their "eyes", every place she has passed has a clearly identifiable track.
So it's more agitated than usual.
At night, it suddenly started to rain, and the heavy rain hit the glass, as if someone was hitting the window with a fist. Qin Minghuang did not sleep well, probably because of the dull pain in her lower abdomen, which affected her sleep.
In a daze, she heard some strange noises. It sounded like someone was talking or singing, very noisy. She suddenly woke up, sat up in the dark, and leaned against the window to listen carefully.
It was raining heavily outside. At first the sound of rain covered everything. Just when Qin Minghuang thought it was just an illusion, she heard another burst of sound. This time it was several men and women shouting, but they couldn't hear what they were shouting. It was very vague.
No, where in this base did the other people shouting come from? The sound came from the indoor pool.
She drew aside the curtain and looked toward the indoor pool. It was pitch black over there, with no light in sight.
What on earth is going on.
She hesitated whether to go over and take a look, and heard another strange sound. She had never heard such a sound before, it didn't seem like a human sound, nor had she heard any animal call like this, but the sound was unusually pleasant and pleasing to the ear. Qin Minghuang even felt that she heard an earnest call in this tune without lyrics.
His curiosity suddenly reached its maximum, and Qin Minghuang finally walked out of the dormitory with an umbrella.
The dark indoor pool was silent, without the other people she had imagined, and she walked to the pool, her footsteps echoing in the empty room.
As she approached, dots of blue light appeared in the pool, covering the surface of the water like a tide. At the same time, she heard that strange "singing" again, coming from the middle of the pool.
Was that the big one singing? It was the first time she had ever heard it make a sound.
Qin Minghuang took a step forward, and suddenly, a leg wrapped around her leg. This leg was not just gently attached as usual, but with a strong force, instantly dragging her into the water -
The moment his body flew into the pool, Qin Minghuang reacted, "Damn it!"
A series of terrifying guesses flashed through her mind. Could it be that the giant octopus wanted to eat people? Before, it didn't want to eat Li Xi's body because it was dead, but now it wants to eat a living one
Qin Minghuang immediately swam up after falling into the water, but soon a leg was entangled around her waist and dragged her back to the bottom of the water. It was so tightly entangled that she finally pulled her hand out and tried to take out the blade hidden in her shoe, but her hand was entangled by another leg again.
She struggled and groped in the water, only to feel that all she touched was soft jelly-like flesh. She had the illusion of being entangled by a python, but the limbs did not wrap around her as tightly as a python wraps around its prey.
This guy couldn't be trying to drown her!
Holding his breath, Qin Minghuang groped for the blade on his shoe, and with his backhand, he slashed the foot that was tied to him, pressing the blade into the soft flesh.
“Crash!”
Qin Minghuang climbed out of the pool, ran out of the indoor pool without looking back, and ran back to the dormitory.
She exhaled in shock and looked at the octopus leg in her hand, which was gradually showing its color. She cut off the one that was wrapped around her body and took it back.
Qin Minghuang looked at the octopus legs: "..."
How should I put it? This octopus leg seemed to be emitting a delicious smell. She had been eating fish these days and hadn't changed her taste for a long time.
I didn't eat anything in the afternoon because of stomachache, and now I feel a little hungry.
Of course, she knew that the creature might not be an alien creature or a monster created in a laboratory, so it was best not to eat it carelessly.
However, Qin Minghuang couldn't help swallowing.
When it comes to food, she just loves to experiment!
She had gone through so much trouble to get the spoils, so what was wrong with tasting them
After successfully convincing himself, Qin Minghuang changed his wet clothes and went straight to the kitchen.
Late at night in the kitchen, the aroma of sizzling octopus soon wafted out.