Sunlight shines into the building from the sea-blue glass windows, reflecting a faint blue light in the corridor. Crows infected by the T virus are hovering in the sky, making "croaking" sounds, looking for anything that can satisfy their hunger. thing.
The whole city was in deathly silence. Years ago when humans were almost extinct, the zombies had fallen into a deep sleep, waiting for the day in the future when an unlucky human would break into their restricted area.
Zhang Heng's eyes were full of exhaustion. It had been eight hours. Eight hours of being on tenterhooks and being careful not to make any sound had made his whole body and mind exhausted.
At this time, he had climbed to the 30th floor and was less than half the distance to the information room on the 53rd floor. Behind him was a zombie that had been killed by a single knife and died in his sleep.
He didn't know how many zombies he had killed along the way. At first, he was counting them one by one, but as the number of zombies he killed exceeded a hundred, he finally couldn't continue counting.
This was the result of him only clearing out the zombies in the corridors. If the offices on each floor were also cleared, it would probably take more than a week.
"That's it for today."
Zhang Heng shook his dizzy head, smeared some zombie black blood on his body again, and then walked towards the bottom of the building step by step with the stench all over his body.
So far, no lickers have been encountered. Maybe those big guys have left long ago. After all, their mobility is far superior to zombies. They can hunt everywhere and there is no need to be trapped in the building.
After returning to the security room safely, Zhang Heng climbed into the iron cabinet again, then took out the instant noodles and mineral water that he had been reluctant to eat, and started to eat and drink hungrily. The bread was eaten dry, with mineral water, but after a while, a piece of bread was swallowed into the stomach.
Looking at the half-remaining mineral water bottle and the empty instant noodle box, Zhang Heng secretly vowed to bring enough food with him the next time he went on a mission, and then he closed his eyes tiredly.
1. Dreamless nights.
The next day, Zhang Heng woke up at eight o'clock in the morning. Strictly speaking, he woke up from hunger. His stomach kept growling. In desperation, he had no choice but to light a cigarette, even though he kept claiming that he was hungry. You don’t have to eat, but you can’t stop smoking. But when I get really hungry, I realize that sometimes cigarettes are not a panacea...
After finishing his cigarette, Zhang Heng stubbed out the cigarette butt and started cleaning the Umbrella Building again.
Fortunately, the density of zombies became sparser as we went upstairs, but in the afternoon, Zhang Heng set foot on the fifty-third floor where the data room was.
As a huge business empire, Zhang Heng had a hunch that Umbrella's data room would not be too small, but he did not expect that the data room would take up the entire floor. On the door on the fifty-third floor was a door with numbers, Triple code lock composed of fingerprint and iris. The top of the door reads in English: This is an important place of the company, no idlers are allowed to enter.
"Holy crap! What should I do?"
Zhang Heng was dumbfounded. He had calculated everything, but he never calculated that the data room was still locked. And from the metal door that looked like a bank safe, he knew that this door could not be opened by violent means. .
"Urian, come out quickly!" Zhang Heng was anxious and immediately contacted the auxiliary system of Dimension Star.
"Hey, how rude, Julian is still taking a nap!" Suddenly, a two-dimensional lolita wearing a printed nightgown and rubbing her sleepy eyes appeared on Zhang Heng's retina.
"Sleeping with your sister, please explain to me what's going on?" Zhang Heng said angrily. If the door can't be opened, how can he go to the data room to obtain information about the T-virus
Julian glanced at Zhang Heng as if he were an idiot, and then said slowly, "Did Julian ever say that the mission target is in the data room?"
"... Damn it!" Zhang Heng almost fainted when he heard this. Could it be that he had spent nearly two days of hard work in vain
Calm down, calm down!
Zhang Heng took a deep breath to suppress his feelings that were on the verge of collapse, and then thought about it carefully. It was not in vain. If he wanted a sample of the T virus, he could only get it from the laboratory on the 54th floor, so he still The entire building needed to be cleaned of zombies. Thinking of this, Zhang Heng immediately felt comforted. But... if the data room cannot be opened, where else can I get information about the T virus
correct!
Suddenly, Zhang Heng thought about something. If a virus suddenly broke out in this city, what would be the first thing those researchers would do
It is absolutely impossible to flee immediately, because as a senior executive of Umbrella, there is no difference between abandoning a company and a general abandoning a position. When the time comes, he will inevitably be angered by his immediate boss. Therefore, when a crisis breaks out, those people's first thought is definitely to flee here with the most valuable information!
Therefore, those materials are probably not in the data room!
Thinking of this, Zhang Heng already had a plan. He looked directly at the ceiling and walked straight towards the fifty-fourth floor.
The higher you go up the floor, the fewer the number of zombies. After all, after a crisis breaks out, the first thought of ordinary people is to go downstairs to escape. Therefore, the density of zombies becomes sparse as you go up. This is also true. Zhang Heng on the last few floors Didn't encounter a single zombie at all.
And when he walked from the fifty-third floor to the fifty-fourth floor, it should be said that it was absolutely clean.
But when Zhang Heng walked towards the corner, he was shocked when he saw a pile of broken corpses with an unclear shape appearing in front of him in the center of the stairs.
This mass of corpses had already dried up to the point where the minced meat and bone stubble were mixed together. After more than ten years of air-drying, it had completely turned into a dark brown bacon cake. However, when he saw this mass of corpses, Zhang Heng But it gave rise to a deep palpitations.
Ordinary zombies can eat people into skeletons at most, but they will never have the power to crush people into meat paste. Not even a group of zombies can do it!
So, what is the culprit causing all this? The answer is self-evident!
Taking a deep breath, Zhang Heng slowed down again and walked toward the top with an extremely cautious attitude.
The staircase was a cloister structure. As long as he walked halfway, he could see the overview of the higher level at the turning point. When he saw the open door of the laboratory, his tense heart relaxed slightly.
Fortunately, the laboratory on the fifty-fourth floor was not locked, otherwise he really wouldn't know how to complete the task.
However, when Zhang Heng walked up two or three steps again, his breath froze. A nightmare-like figure was lying not far from the door of the laboratory, blocking his way!
Through the half-open door, Zhang Heng saw that the figure was about three meters long, with sharp claws about a foot long extending from its forelimbs, and its whole body was red! It's like a skinned beast, no skin at all!
Only the well-developed muscles are exposed to the air, rising and falling with the breathing!
As for the creature's head, no organs such as eyes or nose can be seen at all. There is only a huge mouth across the face, and its ferocious appearance is like a monster that only appears in nightmares!
Licker!
Zhang Heng's heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably. Sure enough, there was a monster he least wanted to see hidden in this building!
If zombies are beasts with only instinct, then lickers are the king of beasts! Although the predecessors of lickers and zombies are both humans, their strengths are very different - zombies are defective products of humans that are infected by viruses and born after the death of their own bodies, while lickers are humans who were directly injected with T while they were still alive. The virus stock solution is then put into the incubator to cultivate the biological weapon!
Compared with zombies that look disgusting but actually have no fighting ability, lickers are undoubtedly dozens or hundreds of times more dangerous than zombies!
At this time, the licker was holding its head and sleeping in front of the messy laboratory door. Since it could not find humans to serve as food, it could only choose to sleep to reduce energy consumption like many zombies. Behind it is an incubator-like instrument and a completely destroyed window.
The box-like instrument should be the delivery room where it was nurtured, and the hole was the entrance and exit where it went out to look for food.
Damn Umbrella Corporation, how dare you breed Lickers in the downtown area. No wonder the entire human world has been destroyed.
Zhang Heng stood in front of the laboratory door in fear, looking at the licker more than ten meters away, not knowing what to do for a moment. He looked at the dagger in his hand, and then at the monster that only appeared in nightmares. Even he himself didn't believe that he could kill the opponent with this broken dagger worth dozens of dollars.
Just when he thought of this, Zhang Heng's eyes suddenly lit up. Yes, although it is impossible to kill the licker, there is no need to fight with the licker. I can just lead the licker away, right
Thinking of this, Zhang Heng suddenly had a plan. He slowly exited the fifty-fourth floor and returned to the fifty-second floor. This time he did not stay in the lobby on the 52nd floor, but randomly selected an office and walked in carefully.
The office was in a mess, with a lot of materials piled on the desk, but there were no zombies. He looked at the furnishings on his desk. Four desktop computers were placed neatly on his desk.
It’s you!
Zhang Heng narrowed his eyes, thought about his plan, then resolutely opened the window and threw the four computers out as quickly as possible!
boom! boom! boom! boom!
Four shattering sounds that were not too loud but not too deep either sounded out one after another, reaching a long distance in the silent empty city. Then, Zhang Heng hurriedly closed the window, hid behind the wall, and carefully looked out the window!
In about half a minute, four or five zombies walked out of various dark corners and limped towards the four smashed computers. There were more zombies coming from further away, but they still There was no sign of the licker.
Just when Zhang Heng thought the licker didn't hear it, a black shadow suddenly passed through the window, so fast that there was almost only an afterimage!
Zhang Heng almost screamed, but by chance, the licker flew past the window where Zhang Heng was! Fortunately, he thought that lickers would climb the wall, so he closed the window immediately after making any noise, otherwise he might have been discovered at that moment!
Now that the Licker had left the laboratory, Zhang Heng quickly opened the door and ran towards the top floor without hesitation. Sure enough, the licker in the laboratory had disappeared. Without saying a word, he started rummaging through the three to four hundred square meters laboratory...