With Zhang Heng's slap, the emotions of everyone on the verge of collapse were temporarily brought back. However, looking at the frightened and helpless eyes of these people, Zhang Heng understood that there was no need for any memetic attacks now, he only needed to give them more For a while, everyone's emotions will still collapse.
However, not everyone is so hopeless. Zhang Heng glanced at the crowd and saw that among the thirty or forty people, there were still many people who remained calm. This was enough.
"Everyone." Zhang Heng clapped his hands and attracted everyone's attention. "We need a team of people to go down to the base. No matter what happens, only by entering the base can we find a communication radio station to communicate with the outside world, and can we Find your only chance of survival.”
"Are you kidding me? I won't go down there!" Immediately, the crowd burst into an uproar. One of them, a fat man, was on the verge of collapse. Venting his fear from the bottom of his lungs, he roared loudly, "There are hundreds of containment methods below. Project, who knows what has been leaked, are we going to die? "
"It's just voluntary." Zhang Heng glanced at the other party with disdain, "Is there anyone willing to go down with me to investigate?"
"I'll go!" What Zhang Heng didn't expect was that the first one to speak was Joey. He smiled at Zhang Heng and said, "We have weapons in our hands to protect you." As he said that, he took out one Glock 19, skillfully loaded, "Although this thing may not be of much use against those contained objects, it is better than nothing."
"I'll go too!" The second person to speak turned out to be Professor Anderson. He smiled bitterly, "I know where the base's liaison to the outside world is, and my ID card can also enter some more confidential areas. It should be possible. Help everyone.”
Zhang Heng nodded and looked around everyone again. Suddenly, four more field agents came out. One of them, a middle-aged man with a beard, said, "Count me in. Maybe this is just a joke played by the base on us." Woolen cloth?"
At this time, including Zhang Heng, the number of people who voluntarily went down to the base had reached seven. Seeing this, Zhang Heng no longer hesitated and took the lead in walking towards the elevator. "Okay, anyone who is willing to follow can do so." Go up, and if you don't want to go down, stay here. May God bless you."
Joey and Anderson took a deep breath and followed Zhang Heng closely. At this time, security permissions were no longer the standard for evaluating status. In the face of disaster, the herd effect will fully expose human nature.
Everyone looked at Zhang Heng and the others who were leaving with complicated eyes. Some people also wanted to follow, but when they thought of the dangers they might face in the base, these people finally backed down. They preferred to stay among the large troops, but little did they know. , now everyone is like a group of lambs, waiting for the predator to approach.
When he reached the elevator door, Zhang Heng suddenly felt something in his heart. He paused slightly and turned to look at Anderson, "Professor Anderson, I was offended just now."
"It doesn't matter." Anderson was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand with a wry smile, "Compared to the dangers we are facing now, what are those things just now? Besides, I have been pampered for too long, and even the most basic mentality has failed. I can’t keep it up anymore, alas…”
Zhang Heng nodded in greeting and considered again, "I don't think we should take the elevator."
Joey behind Zhang Heng looked thoughtful and said thoughtfully, "Yes, taking the elevator now is indeed not a good idea. If there is really any danger, we won't even be able to escape."
"Then just take the stairs." Professor Anderson nodded, obviously understanding the danger, "It's just that I hope you can slow down a little bit, otherwise it will be difficult for me to keep up."
Everyone nodded to express their understanding, and then turned and walked towards the stairs. The stairs were originally sealed, but as Professor Anderson took out his ID card and swiped it on the card reader, the emergency passage was suddenly opened. The door was opened, and a dark staircase appeared in front of everyone.
The angle of the stairs is very steep, and the steps and handrails are filled with dust. Looking from the entrance to the ground, the zigzag stairs are like the entrance to hell, making it impossible to see the bottom clearly.
Zhang Heng even doubted whether anyone had walked on this staircase in the years since the base was built.
"Dong dong dong!"
A group of seven people quickly went downstairs. The deep staircase seemed to spread infinitely. Only the dark red emergency lights above their heads were shining, mixed with the echo of everyone's heavy footsteps. It was eerie and strange, as if they were in hell...
After descending more than a dozen floors, Professor Anderson began to pant. About halfway down, Professor Anderson was already sweating profusely. Every step became extremely heavy, and his physical strength was completely exhausted.
"I can't walk anymore." Professor Anderson sat down on the stairs, shook his head and said, "You guys go, I'll rest here for a while."
Zhang Heng stopped and saw Professor Anderson throwing his ID card over. His bald gray hair was wet with sweat. At this time, Anderson forced a smile and said, "I'll wait for you here. I hope you can bring good news.”
"Professor..." Zhang Heng reached out to catch the other party's ID card. His eyes were a little complicated, but he quickly disappeared again. He nodded to Anderson and ran down again without looking back. Everyone understood that with Professor Anderson At an age, even if he barely returns to the base, facing those dangers, his chance of survival is still infinitely close to zero. It is better to stay here, maybe there is still a glimmer of hope...
"This scene is very similar to the beginning of a novel..." Zhang Heng murmured in a low voice while running. When he was reading the novel, he couldn't understand why the little fat man was exhausted after climbing a few flights of stairs. When he was in high school, he even tried to run from the top of the fifth floor of his home to the bottom of the building. This amount of activity was just a matter of one breath, and he didn't even have to take a breath after running.
But only then did he understand that although going downstairs does not consume much physical energy, it is still compared to going upstairs. If you are asked to run hundreds of floors in one go, even Liu Xiang will have to give up completely.
Time passed slowly. About fifteen minutes later, the remaining six people finally arrived at the bottom of the base. At this time, a steel gate stood in front of everyone. Seeing this gate, everyone stopped involuntarily. Panting heavily, he began to regain his remaining strength.
However, compared to everyone's panting, Zhang Heng seemed to be fine at this moment, without even a drop of sweat, which made Joey and others couldn't help but take a second look at him.
After everyone gradually regained their strength, Zhang Heng walked to the gate, took Professor Anderson's ID card and lightly swiped it on the card reader. Suddenly, with a rumbling sound, the gate to the inside of the base opened with a bang. !
Behind the door was the hall where Zhang Heng had been to select D-class personnel. However, at this time, the hall was dark. It seemed that the power had been cut off long ago. Only the emergency lights were still dimly flickering, lighting up the entire hall. The light was extremely strange.
Joey looked around at everyone, nodded, took out his Glock 19, followed closely behind Zhang Heng, and a group of six people quickly rushed into the hall, but the hall was completely silent, without any living or human beings. There were no corpses, not even traces of a fight. It was as if all the people had evaporated!
"Damn it, where did everyone go?" Joey cursed in a low voice.
"The external communication equipment is stored in area D19." Everyone ignored Joey's complaints. At this time, the bearded man from before suddenly spoke softly, "I can lead everyone to approach from the nearest distance, but it may take a few passes. Comparatively... the place where the weird containment project is located, if the other party happens to escape, I'm afraid... "
"If the other party really escapes, do you think the other party will stay where he is?" Zhang Heng asked.
"Uh..." The big man scratched his head, "You're right, then I'd better lead the way."
Zhang Heng nodded and walked with everyone to another door at the end of the hall. This door was one size smaller than the door entering the base. It was marked with the word D. Zhang Heng took out Professor Anderson's ID card and opened it again. With a swipe on the card reader, the door to Area D immediately opened, revealing an almost endless corridor behind the door.
"Let's go!" The big man shouted, and everyone ran forward again at a speed that could keep them fast while trying not to make any noise. Soon, a fork in the road appeared in front of them.
"On the right!" The big man led everyone into the corridor on the right, but the moment he turned the passage, Zhang Heng suddenly saw a figure flashing past in the darkness ahead!
"Stop!" Zhang Heng grabbed the bearded man and stared into the darkness ahead, "There's a problem there!"
Everyone stood still and pointed their guns at the darkness ahead, but after waiting for a few seconds, nothing happened.
"What did you see?" Joey asked in a low voice.
"A figure." Zhang Hengfang walked lightly and took two steps forward vigilantly. The next second, the figure flashed past again. When he saw the figure clearly, Zhang Heng's pupils shrank. It turned out to be a figure. Slender, with a back as gray as a dead man!
…
At this time, on the other side, the people in the surface hall were wandering around with anxious expressions. Some were constantly trying to open the door to the ground, some were talking quietly in small groups, and some Then he sat dejectedly in the corner, waiting for the judgment of fate.
The air was filled with suffocating depression.
"Ahem!"
In a corner, Fat John coughed twice and rubbed his arms. On the way from the cruise ship to the underground base, everyone was drenched. Now, John sadly found that he It seems like I have a cold.
His head was a little dizzy, and the soaked suit stuck to his skin, which was very uncomfortable. He wanted to take off his coat, but his slightly feverish body temperature prevented him from doing so. He could only cough as much as possible. I hope to attract everyone's attention, and maybe some kind person will lend me my coat
However, for some reason, he seemed to feel that the air around him was getting colder and colder...
Damn the weather, damn the underground base!
Fat John cursed and pulled his collar again. He felt that his body was about to freeze. It was really hard to understand. It was obviously only early autumn, but how could the temperature be so low? It was like the twelfth lunar month of winter!
Finally, Fat John couldn't bear it anymore. He opened his mouth slightly and wanted to ask for a coat from his colleagues who had their backs turned to him. However, the moment he opened his mouth, he suddenly found that his voice was extremely hoarse and could only Make the faint sound of mosquitoes and flies!
At this moment, a flash of panic suddenly flashed in Fat John's eyes, and he quickly wanted to stand up, but a pulling force stopped his movement. He was startled, and subconsciously looked down, but he saw, At some point, a pale hand stretched out from the dark space next to it, clutching the corner of his clothes...
It is this pulling force that prevents me from standing up!
Fat John's eyes suddenly widened, and he finally showed a look of horror. He looked at the group of colleagues with their backs to him again, and wanted to scream loudly, but no matter how hard he tried, he could only utter "Hoho ho!" "Come on!"
The next second, the arm suddenly pulled. In the fat man's frightened and desperate eyes, his fat body was silently pulled into the dark shadows on the side and disappeared completely!
"Huh?"
Until then, one of the men who was talking quietly with everyone turned his head, but he only saw an empty space behind him. Even the dark shadow before had long disappeared...
"Did you hear anything just now?"