Gong Yangling stood at the edge of the light source range and stopped moving forward. She looked very embarrassed and her clothes were extremely dirty.
Xiao Mo wanted to see more clearly, but was grabbed by Xue Lihong.
Xiao Mo could only stand there and asked in surprise: "Why did you come here?"
Gong Yangling raised his hands and smiled bitterly, "I live here."
"Why do you live here? What happened?"
"Something happened. I heard someone coming down, and I thought it was... he came to me and wanted to silence me." Gongyang Ling's voice was full of pain and anger, as well as a little fear.
A slight rustling sound was heard.
Gong Yangling moved a step to the left as if to cover up something.
Xue Lihong stared behind Gong Yangling, a strange look flashed in her eyes.
Xiao Mo didn't notice that the voice was too soft, and all his attention was attracted by Gong Yangling.
"Him? Who is he? Why did he want to silence you? What secret does he want to keep?" Xiao Mo asked a series of questions. He never expected to meet this girl in the sewer who should have some power in the base. He thought that Gong Yangling was living well in the base relying on the supplies her father had provided.
Gong Yangling did not answer immediately, but asked: "Can I know why you came down?"
"Repair the communication line." Xue Lihong replied.
"So that's it." Gong Yangling seemed to be relieved, and then said: "Can you pretend you didn't see me? I didn't want to come out after hearing your voice just now, Mr. Xiao, but your companion's eyes are too sharp .”
"Do you plan to stay here forever? Can you tell me what happened? Maybe I can help." Xiao Mo saw that Xue Lihong no longer blocked him and tried to take a step forward. He didn't mean to meddle in other people's business, but he knew Gong Yangling anyway, and he had a good impression of the girl. If he could help her with something, it wouldn't be a waste to get to know each other.
"Please don't come here again!" Gong Yangling saw the two people walking toward her and immediately took two steps back.
Xiao Mo was puzzled and stopped and said: "Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you. We just want to know what happened. Are you... sick? You were worried that others would misunderstand that you have a virus, so you came here. ?”
"No, it's also... Anyway, don't come over here." Gongyang Ling seemed to be quite confused.
"It's just a physical mutation, what's there to hide?" Xue Lihong's indifferent voice sounded.
"You!" Gong Yangling covered his face with one hand and took another step back.
Perhaps Xue Lihong's tone was too indifferent and indifferent, but Gong Yangling was not frightened enough to turn around and run away, but stood there hesitating.
"Body mutation?" Xiao Mo smiled and tried to make Gongyang Ling relax, "Have you gained superpowers? This is a good thing. Why are you hiding? Is it because you can't change back? That doesn't matter, Major General Zhang Hua begs you now Talented, if your superpowers are useful to the base, he will protect you. Don’t worry, Major General Zhang Hua is a very nice person, and he also respects and cherishes superpowers. He also has some in the army, but they are very few. Guaranteed I won’t send you to study or anything.”
"Things are not that simple, my mutation..."
Xue Lihong released murderous intent.
"Squeak!" A huge mutant rat suddenly sprang out of the darkness, Xue Lihong raised his hand.
"Don't!" Gongyang Ling opened his arms and blocked the mutant rat.
"Squeak!" Unfortunately, Xue Lihong was too fast and the giant rat had been injured.
The injured mutated rat went crazy and changed his timid nature and rushed towards Xue Lihong.
Xue Lihong raised her hand again, and this time Gong Yangling hugged the mutant rat directly.
"Squeak!" The mutant rat seemed to be shouting, and it seemed to be complaining.
The male sheep spirit kept stroking its back, seeming to comfort it.
And this huge mutant rat was actually comforted by her.
Xiao Mo stared at the scene in front of him, dumbfounded.
At this point, Gongyang Ling's biggest secret has been exposed. She simply broke the jar and said: "You have all seen that I have mutated. Maybe I was bitten by a mutated rat last time and left something strange in my body. When I realize something is wrong, I..."
Gongyangling picked up the injured mutant rat and turned around, "You guys come with me. I happen to have something to tell you."
Xiao Mo rubbed his eyes vigorously. What did he see? A long tail actually grew out of the back of Gong Yangling's butt.
Gongyang Ling's changes were more than that. After catching up with her, under the light, the changes on her body were clearly visible. What Xiao Mo thought was dirt before turned out to be not dirt, but gray and black hair spots!
A girl who was originally very beautiful has not only hair spots on her face, but also a few freckles that she would like to hide her face. But Gong Yangling has them not only on her face, but also on her naked/exposed body parts. .
Have you ever seen a mangy dog with hair loss? Gong Yangling's current situation is no better than that. It's just that while others are losing hair, she is growing hair.
Xiao Mo didn't know how to comfort this girl. No girl would be as calm as Gong Yangling when she saw such changes in her body. Maybe she had been in pain? Ever been crazy
However, Xue Lihong looked at Gong Yang Ling as if this change was ordinary, and didn't even give him an extra glance.
Gongyang Ling was probably able to get along with these two people normally because of their "normal" attitudes.
After walking about fifteen meters, a small step appeared on the right side of the channel, and above the step was a circular fence gate.
This is the entrance to the ventilation and wiring ducts, and Gong Yangling also lives here.
There was a big hole in the fence, and I wondered who did it.
Gong Yangling walked up the steps and reached out to pull the latch on the fence door.
This kind of pipeline is generally not locked in order to facilitate technicians to come and repair it.
Xue Lihong and Xiao Mo followed her and walked in together.
There are lines inside the pipe, which are very narrow and difficult to walk.
"There is a ventilation shaft and a branch of the pipeline in front. It is wider there. I live there now." Gong Yangling explained while leading the way.
Soon, they followed Gong Yangling to the ventilation shaft, which was a relatively large space with a height of five or six meters and an area of about thirty or forty square meters. Several circular pipe entrances could be seen above, as well as below.
This place is also made of masonry. Although it is damp, it is not uninhabitable if people insist on living there.
At the bottom of the ventilation shaft, Gong Yangling dug a cave specifically for sleeping. She spread the wall tiles that had been violently dismantled on the ground and placed bedding on top.
Some bricks were also placed at the entrance of the cave, with candles and some food packaging bags placed on some bricks.
Gong Yangling put the injured mutant rat on his bed, came out and lit a few candles, and motioned for the two of them to sit down and talk.
Xiao Mo looked around and felt that Gongyang Ling seemed to have been living here for a while.
"Do you have any medicine for injuries?" Gongyang Ling asked with a pleading look on his face.
Xiao Mo sighed, "Do you want to save that mutant rat?"
Gongyang Ling nodded, "Although I have mutated, without it, I wouldn't be alive now. Not all mutant rats will attack me."
Xiao Mo wanted to step forward to help, but Xue Lihong grabbed him again.
"Tell me clearly, why did you come here? How did you get together with this mutant rat? And what did you want to say to us when you specially brought us here?" Xue Lihong asked rudely.
Gongyang Ling had no choice but to look back at the mutant rat, knowing that if he wanted to heal it, he had to explain it quickly, and the explanation must satisfy Xue Lihong.
"Xiao Hong!" Xiao Mo saw Gong Yangling's discomfort and compared it with his own. If Xiao Hong was injured, he would definitely not be in the mood to explain in detail, "I will help your little friend stop the bleeding first, and I... will give you some treatment."
Gong Yangling's eyes lit up, "Is that okay? Thank you! Thank you so much!"
When Xiao Mo entered the cave, Gongyang Ling stepped forward to hold down the mutant rat and comfort it.
Xiao Mo looked at the black mutant rat, which was almost one meter long, and was a little stunned. "Is this a third-level mutant rat?"
"I don't know what level it is, but it is true that it is very powerful. I have encountered many mutant rats that sneaked in, and they are all afraid of it."
Xiao Mo looked at the big rat carefully and determined that it was not at the level of a rat king, but its limbs were very strong and its eyes were very flexible. He had killed such mutant rats when he saw them before, but he never thought that he would one day be able to repair them.
Xiao Mo first used a knife to dig out the long iron nails at the base of the mutant rat's thigh and helped the rat to the end. He then asked Xue Lihong for alcohol and performed basic disinfection on the mutant rat's wound before repairing it. As for whether the bacteria on the iron nails would cause infections such as tetanus to the mutated mice after repair, he was powerless.
In the process of treating the wound of the mutant rat, at first the mutant rat struggled vigorously because of the pain and kept squeaking, but later it seemed to understand something. Although its legs were still shaking, they were no longer vigorous. struggle.
Gong Yangling broke out in sweat while hugging the mutated rat. She saw with her own eyes that the mutated rat's wounds healed and even disappeared. At that moment, she looked at Xiao Mo with extremely complicated eyes.
"Your ability is really enviable and jealous." Gongyang Ling said half-jokingly and half-seriously.
Xiao Mo looked at the girl's face and didn't know how to reply. They both had superpowers, but they were so different. Anyone else would have a psychological gap. I wonder if his ability can help this girl? It would be nice to at least be able to control physical changes.
"But I'm just a bit uglier now, and my ability to survive is much stronger than before. Not only do my sense of smell and hearing become many times better than before, but my hands can also pop out sharp claws. I dug this sleeping place myself. From now on. Even if I encounter a mutant rat again, I don't have to be afraid." Gongyang Ling has a good personality, good attitude, and strong self-education ability, and he cheered up quickly.
Xiao Mo then replied with a smile: "Yes, your ability should be very powerful if you use it well. At least when I encounter a group of mutant rats, I can only get eaten by them."
Gongyang Ling thought the same thing. Although her healing ability was good, she would be a scumbag if she had no one to protect her. She still preferred the ability to attack compared to the auxiliary ability to help people.
The friend recovered, and Gong Yangling no longer had any worries. In addition to the life-saving grace the two had received before, there was nothing to hide now.
"What I want to tell you are three things. These three things are all related and can answer the question raised by this... gentleman."
"He is Xue Lihong." Xiao Mo introduced to Gong Yangling, "You already know my last name, you can call me Xiao Mo."
The mutant rat screamed when it saw Xue Lihong. Rats are very vengeful animals.
Gongyang Ling quickly comforted him, Xue Lihong's eyes were not a good one.
"You can say it." Xue Lihong sat down next to Xiao Mo and rubbed Xiao Mo's arm. The temperature here was a bit low.
Unaware of his intimacy, Xiao Mo took out some food from his backpack to share.
Gong Yangling expressed his gratitude, and after taking it, he gave half of it to the mutant rat, "First thing, are you wondering why the five of us were stranded in City H in the first place?"
"Um."
"There were more than five of us at the beginning. Including friends and people stranded in the club, there were nineteen of us in total." Gong Yangling's voice began to tremble, as if what she was going to say later was beyond her ability to bear. .
"At that time, the situation in H City was not as bad as it was later. Just before we were about to leave, Ni Wei suddenly suggested that we all play a game together. He said that the time order of those who left would be determined based on the ranking of winning or losing in the game, that is, the last Whoever loses first will be the last to leave the building."
"You agreed?"
Gong Yangling nodded.
Xiao Mo found it incredible, "At that time, you didn't want to escape, but you still wanted to play games?"
Gong Yangling smiled bitterly, "We are all a group of young people who like to pursue a certain amount of excitement. In addition, the situation at that time has not worsened, so it is easy to escape. Although Ni Wei's proposal was opposed by some people, more than half Everyone thought it was very interesting and exciting, and Ni Wei also took out a bulletproof car he just bought from abroad as the first prize. Although everyone knew at that time that angels would chase vehicles, they felt that the bulletproof car was strong The speed must be able to withstand the claws of the angel, so those who were unwilling to participate in the game at the beginning finally agreed to participate."
"What happened in the game? What kind of game is this?" Xiao Mo already had a bad premonition. He remembered clearly that only five Ni Wei people ran down from the building at that time, so where were the other fourteen people
Gong Yangling covered his face with one hand, and after a while he said in a low voice: "The game is called killing. It turned out to be just a detective-like game, but in our club, in order to increase the playability, we play hide-and-seek, Game elements such as scaring, hunting, and torture have also been added. Of course, the so-called scaring and torture are based on the premise of not harming people, and our game rules are very strict. But that day... "
I don’t know who made the first move that day, and someone died.
Someone wants to find the murderer.
Someone wants to end the game.
However, those who wanted to terminate the game found that all the club's doors leading to the downstairs were sealed and all elevators were out of service. They were trapped on the floor of the club.
Everyone went to find the key, but found that the place where the key was placed was empty. To make matters worse, our communication with the outside world was also completely cut off. We originally had a satellite phone, but that phone was also missing.
After that, panic, fear, anger, and despair swept over the remaining players.
When the second dead man was found, everyone was frightened and looked like the murderer.
"Some people were already at odds with each other, some were quarreling and getting angry, and some were trying to protect themselves. Some people may have been too stimulated at the time and were mentally abnormal. In short, when Feng Lan, Yang Kang, and I When Wei and the others wanted to forcefully gather people to stop the game, they found that everyone refused to come out, and then... the purpose of the game also changed, the exit channels were blocked, we didn't have much food and clean water, and no one knew what to do. How long to stay in the club, and then..."
Gongyang Ling's face was pale, and it was only during this period that she dared to tell the secret. No matter what, even for survival, she became one of the sinners.
"On the 24th, there were only five of us left in the club, but luckily we found a satellite phone and contacted our families. Our family told us to leave quickly, and if we couldn't leave, go to Dongcheng Food Bureau. But the passage out was still closed at that time, and we didn't find the key until the next morning. Later, Ni Wei's cousin contacted Ni Wei and said that our family had hired mercenaries to rescue us, and asked us to wait. Go with the mercenaries. The situation outside was already very bad at that time, and we didn't dare to run out casually, so we had to wait for the mercenaries to take us."
I had a big fuck! After Xiao Mo heard this secret, he cursed several curse words in his heart.
He thought this kind of story would only be seen in movies. Is this in troubled times, and the darkness in people's hearts has been released
Gong Yangling did not say that he killed anyone, nor did he say that he did not kill anyone. After saying this, she calmed down and said, "I tell you this not to let you know how crazy human nature will be at a certain point, but to tell you..."
"There's something wrong with that Ni Wei." Xue Lihong said.
Gong Yangling nodded heavily, "Yes! Not to mention that this killing game was proposed by Ni Wei. He also knew the location where the keys and satellite phones were stored at that time. The most important thing is that he is the owner of the club. In terms of who is most familiar with the club, It has to be him. And we have not found anyone else in the early stage, and he refused to come out even if we broadcast. Later he told us that he saw someone killing someone with his own eyes, and he was afraid so he did not dare to come out, but... Yang Kangwei and Feng Lan said that they They saw Ni Wei standing in front of a dead man and laughing, but they were very scared at that time and did not go out. Then in a blink of an eye, Ni Wei disappeared.
I later asked the other three people if anyone was acting with Ni Wei. Feng Lan and Yang Kangwei both said no. Li Yong also said no at first, but later changed his story and said that he had been with Ni Wei. Also, the discovery of the satellite phone and keys was bizarre. "
Xiao Mo couldn't help but interrupt Gong Yangling's speculation and asked: "Why did Ni Wei do this? What's the benefit of killing so many people? Just for the game? Just to win the first place?"
Gongyang Ling shook her head blankly, she couldn't figure this out either. Because if one thing goes wrong, Ni Wei is likely to die in H City like everyone else, under a bomb.
"What if this is a mission?" Xue Lihong bit her ear at Xiao Mo.
Xiao Mo suddenly looked at Xue Lihong. Indeed, if this were a mission, then everything would be explained. But aren’t breeders used to release viruses and monsters? What’s the point of killing people
As if on purpose, Xue Lihong insisted on whispering into his ear: "There is another possibility. If Ni Wei is really who we guessed, then could he kill so many people because he suspected that there was...?"
Gong Yangling pricked up her ears to listen, but unfortunately she still didn't hear the last few words.
Xue Lihong didn't say those words, Xiao Mo knew it anyway.
Xiao Mo hesitated, "This is just our guess."
"It's just speculation at the moment." Xue Lihong turned to Gong Yangling and said, "What's the second thing?"
Gongyang Ling observed the two of them carefully and saw that they didn't seem to mind that she might have killed someone. At the moment, she couldn't tell whether she was disappointed or happy, and continued to explain: "The second thing is still related to a few of us. , you should all know about the deaths of Yang Kangwei and Feng Lan. But you definitely don’t know that their deaths are also related to Ni Wei!”
Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong: They didn’t know it before, but they guessed it now.