The security staircase is intricately designed, and the gates on each floor are almost always locked. Charlie was seriously injured and couldn't walk fast. Gavin helped him climb the steps for more than half an hour before he found the wide open door on the first floor.
There is only dim backup power lighting overhead on this floor, and both sides of the staggered corridors are full of independent laboratories separated by alloy glass. The base had been abandoned for a long time, and most of the laboratories had been evacuated. In addition, the light was so dim that the two of them couldn't see what was inside. They only saw their own reflection reflected on the glass wall in the dark.
Charlie grinned in pain from his wound, and distracted his attention by rambling along the way: "Gavin, look at this floor... It has a bit of a ghostly atmosphere. Have you watched the new movie about the attack of the apes?"
"… No."
"Oh, that movie is good, just like this scene. Do you want to watch it together after you go out?"
"... no."
"Yeah, it's about a laboratory using apes to do genetic experiments. This year's Milky Way Beauty Contest winner plays a female scientist kidnapped by an ape. Claire has her autographed photo... Oh, when I said it, I remembered the monster downstairs again. Bird, where do you think Dean and Claire have gone?"
Gavin's forehead twitched: "I don't know."
"Don't let them fight halfway, what are we going to do if we are eliminated. Speaking of which, do you know that they both like you?"
"I don't know—" Gavin's voice paused, and he suddenly caught a glimpse of something in the reflection of the glass beside him, and his pupils constricted instantly.
Charlie clutched his stomach, humming and asking, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing," Gavin said with the usual expression, "What did you just say?"
"Oh, I said they both like you, how do you want to choose? The Omega Protection Association doesn't know about you, don't go there, they won't put students in school on the candidate list for Alpha. In my opinion, you are How good it is to choose one from our school, who has feelings and understands each other, Claire is not bad... "
Gavin stared at the glass, and asked casually, "You have a good relationship with him?"
"That's—no, no, I mean it's okay, don't think I'm not objective. In fact, Claire's mouth is just a bit bad, and he's a good person..."
Gavin supported Charlie with one hand, and reached into his pocket imperceptibly with the other hand, grabbed the dagger and gave it a light hook.
Charlie still didn't realize it: "I'll give you two movie tickets after I get out, it's the man-eating ape counterattack, don't worry if you are here, Claire won't even take a look at the beauty pageant winner, how many years old brother I can watch Come out, he really likes you..."
"Are you tired?" Gavin interrupted him suddenly.
"Uh-uh? It's a little bit, do you want to rest?"
"Take a break."
"But you're not saying hurry up and hurry..."
"Take a break."
Gavin pulled Charlie to a crutch, and that action turned out to be a bit undeniably tough. It happened that there was a laboratory next to it with its door ajar. Gavin took a flashlight around to make sure it was safe, and then leaned Charlie against the wall: "Sit down for a while."
"Hey, hey," Charlie immediately pulled out the kettle and offered it with both hands, "Do you want some water?"
Gavin smiled slightly. Along the way, he tried not to drink water because his companion was injured and needed to replenish water, but at this moment he took over the water bottle and took a big gulp.
"I'm going to explore the way." He patted Charlie on the shoulder, turned and walked out the door.
"Hey! Be careful!" Charlie yelled worriedly, but he waved his hand without looking back, and then closed the glass door.
There was a soft click, and more shadows suddenly appeared on the glass walls around the corridor. Gavin turned his head and walked in another direction. At the same time, he quickly glanced around, and saw shadows on the glass under the dim light. There were two on the left and four on the right. There seemed to be a lot of crowds at one o'clock...
Gavin turned around suddenly, and rushed out obliquely to the left like lightning!
In an instant, there was a shrill howl in the corridor, and figures rushed from all directions, and they were all crazy contestants!
These people had the same crimson eyes as the pilot just now, looking extremely creepy in the dark like two will-o'-the-wisps. Gavin didn't run a few steps when someone rushed from the side, he grabbed him and threw him, and immediately screamed and was thrown hard against the wall!
boom! boom! — Someone on the right hand raised his hand and fired two shots. Gavin fell to the ground and rolled, and the electronic bullet flew past his head. The entire glass wall shattered in an uproar. He passed through several rushing contestants, and then kicked the electronic gun far away, and smashed the head of the person who fired the gun to the wall—bang!
There was a heavy muffled sound, and the man immediately lost consciousness and fell down, but before Gavin could get up, he was pressed to the ground by two returning contestants howling, and they stretched out their hands to strangle him!
"Wake up—wake up—" Gavin yelled suddenly, and slammed the man with the handle of the knife until blood spurted from the mouth and nose!
With a bang, the man was kicked down heavily, and then Gavin held another man's hand that was pinching his neck—I saw that the man in the shadow had blood dripping from his eyes, struggled with his hands, and even lowered his head and bit Gavin's side. neck!
In an instant, the heart and lungs were so painful that Gavin didn't even have time to struggle, and his entire mind went blank due to shock.
He saw the man raised his head with blood all over his face, his white teeth were bloody, little by little, he tore off a piece of flesh from his neck!
"Bah!" The man turned his head and spat out the meat, and suddenly bit Gavin's throat!
At that moment, Gavin's eyes went dark, and he couldn't see whether the moving figures in the corridor were people or ghosts. In a trance, everything was slowly out of shape, the ferocious faces of the contestants became distorted, black hair grew rapidly from their faces, their bodies were bent and their arms became longer, and their sharp fangs were reflected in the shaking lights.
They grinned and roared like beasts—they were apes.
They're not people, they're apes!
A horrific chill rose from the bottom of my heart, and spread all over my limbs in an instant.
Gavin's eyes were about to split, and the hand holding the dagger trembled violently. In a trance, he only heard a voice screaming and roaring in his head, violently crashing into his nerves - kill them!
Kill these monsters!
kill them!
The blood flowed quickly from between the man-eating ape's teeth, causing Gavin to feel dizzy for a while. He raised the dagger tremblingly, pointing the gleaming tip at the monster's back.
Kill all these monsters and you will be saved...
be saved...
As if an invisible floodgate was opened, thousands of pieces of shattered memories surged out in an instant.
Under the scorching sun, white clouds fluttered, and camel bells sounded deep in the blue sky. An old man and a young man walked across the desert in the wind and sand, only to hear the young man's voice coming from the wind and sand: "Master, why do people in the world want to become stronger?"
"Because the strong are immune to bullying."
"But I was born strong, so I was also bullied by the world?"
"Because you can't bear to fight back, you can only let yourself be bullied."
The young man's voice faded away, and he asked again after a long while: "Then if I can't bear to fight back, wouldn't I have to swallow my anger for the rest of my life? Then what's the point of being a strong man?"
This time the old man paused before answering, only listening to the wind blowing the camel bell across the desert, the sound was clear and long.
After a long while, he slowly said: "The strong have the obligation to protect the weak, and also have the responsibility to bear more harm. Because you are strong, you will not die from the bullying you suffer; but if you fight back, the other party will surely die as a weak person gone."
"Life is extremely precious. If you don't want to hurt the weak, you can only become stronger. If you are so strong that no one dares to offend you, no one will bully you, and you don't have to hurt others."
— without having to endure bullying and without hurting others.
Don't have to hurt anyone...
Gavin's pupils constricted, and the raised dagger turned abruptly, piercing through his palm in an instant!
There was a splash of blood, and a familiar voice beside him shouted: "—Gavin!!"
That sound was shocking, and Gavin was shocked instantly, and the whole person woke up.
In an instant, he realized that there were no apes around, and no one was biting his neck—he was kneeling in a brightly lit corridor, holding an unconscious student tightly under his hands, and he was about to go dig his neck. Eye!
Fortunately, as soon as he stretched out his hand to the opponent's eyes, he was pierced by himself, and the blood sprayed from the palm immediately splashed on that person's face!
"Gavin!" Dean rushed over and grabbed him: "What's wrong with you?! Why did you suddenly become like this?!"
Gavin raised his eyes in astonishment, and saw Dean and Claire standing on the side, apparently having experienced a fierce battle, and around a dozen students lying in disorder, bloodstains, bullet craters and broken glass everywhere on the ground.
Charlie was trembling and said to Claire: "...he said he was going to come out to find the way, and I sat inside. After a while, I heard the loud noise of fighting outside, and I came out to see the bullets flying in the corridor, and the whole glass The walls are all shattered and collapsed..."
Gavin panted and got up, staggered and almost fell before he could get up completely, but fortunately, Dean stepped forward to support him: "How are you?"
"... you... why are you here?"
"Claire and I walked up the stairs, and this floor was the only door open. What did you do?"
Gavin panted, and shook his head for a long while—he knew that he was also being controlled.
These are all illusions that lure him to attack others, only the memory of that desert is real. It was also that memory that made him wake up, the hand that pierced himself to hurt others at the nick of time.
But who is that old man? Why do you want to call him master
When was that and why can't I remember anything now
Dean pulled out the healing device to shine on Gavin's hand, while briefly describing the matter.
It turned out that he had found Claire right after entering the base. Although the two had old grievances, they naturally had to support each other from the same school. Because the two groups of contestants from the Royal Military Academy had similar scores in the preliminaries, they guessed that the time Gavin and Charlie entered the base and the entrance were not too far apart, so they might have met, so they came together to find their own armed technician.
Compared with the ups and downs of the technician group, the itinerary of the driver group is not so smooth—Dean and Claire have been fighting gods and demons all the way, almost eliminating all opponents; Rasgard, otherwise the final might not even be played.
Although the route to the base was different, for various reasons, Dean and Claire also entered the safety stairs that Gavin and the others came up from, but they did not find the driver Gavin and the others were hiding in the corner. All the floors along the way were locked, and only the door on this floor was open. They had just walked in a few steps when they heard loud noises of fighting and screams in the distance, and Charlie screamed: "Gavin! Stop it, Gavin !!"
Dean and Clareton panicked for a moment, and when they rushed over, they saw more than a dozen contestants besieging Gavin in a frenzy!
At first, Dean thought that this group of people was in collective heat—but Alpha's group heat would only lead to a brutal fight, until the last strong one won the right to mate, how could they attack Omega together by coincidence
Immediately he found that the group of people looked dull, their eyes were red, and they didn't know how to dodge their broken arms. They looked like puppets controlled by people—and Gavin didn't let up in the face of the siege of more than a dozen Alpha drivers. , on the contrary, the more he fights, the more fierce he is, and he ignores him, and every move goes straight to kill him!
Only then did Dean realize that something was wrong, and hurriedly rushed to help with Claire. Fortunately, the overall strength of the two of them is higher than that of other pilots, and Gavin can fight a few, so after a fierce battle, they finally brought everyone down.
"What the hell is going on with these people, are they all stunned? And you just ignored what you called, we thought..."
Gavin panted and waved his hand, signaling Dean to shut up.
"Someone hypnotized these students," he said exhaustedly, "there are traitors in the competition committee, and they came after me."
The three of them were stunned for a moment.
"We'll talk about the specific situation after we get out, and get out of here quickly, I'm afraid of danger if it's too late..." Gavin stood up while supporting the wall, and suddenly froze.
Cold sweat oozes from his temple hair little by little, flows down his cheeks to his chin, merges into a drop at the tip of his chin, and drops to the ground with a thud.
The surrounding atmosphere was like falling into an ice cave, and Charlie asked in doubt for a while, "What's wrong?"
Dean and Claire looked at each other, and they both saw the same doubt in each other's eyes.
"...it's okay," Gavin said softly, maintaining the posture of supporting the wall with one hand, "I suddenly remembered something, you all go to the stairs and wait for me..."
Dean hesitated, "What's the matter?"
"Let's talk about it now, you guys go-"
Claire stepped forward impulsively: "What the hell is going on? What's wrong with you? Don't just think you're capable—"
"Let's go!" Gavin interrupted sharply, and the ending sound changed sharply: "Don't be verbose! Let's go!"
The three of them were shocked at the same time, and Clareton froze for a moment. Charlie couldn't help but took two steps back, but then saw that the two drivers hadn't moved, so he stood still hesitantly.
The corridor was so quiet that you could hear a needle drop to the ground. Gavin looked at them desperately, and just about to say something, suddenly there was a strange laughter from behind: "It's so sad, Celia, how many times do you connect now? Can a brat not drink enough?"
The wall he was holding on to suddenly changed strangely, the surface swayed like water waves, and black cracks appeared out of thin air, as if a huge gap had been torn open in the space.
A large pale and bony hand stretched out from the darkness, and grasped Gavin's hand propped on the wall by turning his wrist; then a tall warrior in black armor appeared from a crack in the space, and he could see under the hood There was a creepy smile on the corner of his mouth.
Three identically dressed warriors stepped out from behind him, and as soon as their feet landed, the black cracks closed behind them with a snap.
"I'll give you a piece of advice—when Celia tells you to run, you'd better run."
The leader of the warrior smiled and leaned against Gavin's ear, but stared at Dean and the three of them with snake-like eyes, and his voice was full of undisguised cold murderous intent: "Otherwise, it will be too late if it is delayed."