"Hold on to me." The man supported his body and tied the two of them together with a long belt.
Su Jinzhi leaned on him and asked, "What will happen if I don't hold on firmly?"
The man paused, and then said: "It's okay, I will hold you tight."
After finishing speaking, he turned around, grabbed the cable in the elevator passage and began to climb up. Su Jinzhi was carried behind his back, and his legs were shaking slightly in mid-air. Under his feet was a building as high as a five-story building. Once he fell down the elevator shaft, he would surely die, but Su Jinzhi didn't feel scared at all.
The zombies that crashed through the partition wall and fell from the fifth floor quickly rushed to the elevator entrance. Most of them moved slowly and had no thinking ability. Even if there was no way ahead, they would not stop, just like they did at the beginning They fell from the elevator entrance into the elevator shaft like falling to the fifth floor.
While Su Jinzhi and the others were climbing up, they listened to the crisp sound of the zombies falling and breaking their spines. The sound was frightening to be honest, but because it came from the zombies, it was still pleasant to hear, but none of them turned back. Look down, because not all zombies are elementary zombies.
There are several high-level zombies held in that isolation room. Compared with ordinary zombies, they move faster, their bodies are stronger, and they even have a certain thinking ability. They observed Jiang Lishan's climbing movements and quickly learned They grabbed the cable and chased after them roaring.
Xu Haoyu's physical strength is the weakest among them, and Jiang Lishan can climb faster than him even with a person on his back, when Xu Haoyu climbed halfway, he suddenly felt something touch his leg: "Fuck?! What is touching my leg?"
"Zombie." Xiong Nan stopped his movements, raised his gun and opened a hole in the forehead of the zombie that was chasing Xu Haoyu, "Xu Haoyu, you should move faster!"
"Then you carry me!" Xu Haoyu also roared, "I want someone to carry me too!"
Xiong Nan curled his lips and said in disgust: "Then you should go down."
Su Jinzhi hugged Jiang Lishan's neck, comforted Xu Haoyu and said, "Persist, we will be there soon."
Xu Haoyu: "..."
Xu Haoyu looked at Su Jinzhi with envy, and finally pulled him up after everyone had opened the elevator door on the seventh floor, and locked a group of high-level zombies who were slowly chasing up outside the elevator.
"Will they drive the elevator?" Xu Haoyu looked at the closed elevator door and was still in shock. The psychological shadow left by the moving elevator this time was too deep, "I really don't understand, such a big man Can’t we install a staircase in the experimental center? Do we have to install an elevator?”
"These zombies will run faster if you install the stairs." Xiong Nan took off the empty magazine and replaced it with a new one. He fired a few shots at the elevator and completely broke the elevator's key to ensure that the elevator could not be opened again. Said, "If the experimental building is only equipped with elevators, then once any accident occurs, the floors can be quickly blocked to prevent the zombie virus from continuing to spread."
The most important safety rule for the laboratory building is to block it. If any accident occurs, the base would rather abandon all the experimenters and materials in the entire building than allow the zombies to escape and repeat the tragedy that happened in the last days.
So no matter which experimental centers near the bases, there will always be only one mobile elevator installed.
Seeing that the elevator would not open again, Xu Haoyu turned his body around, but he took a small breath after seeing the corpses and wreckage all over the place on the seventh floor, and looked at Su Jinzhi: "This is where you ran out from."
Su Jinzhi nodded: "Yes."
Xu Haoyu shook his head and sighed, "Then your journey is really exciting."
"There is no living person on this floor anymore." Su Jinzhi said, "I saw it when I left. Would you like to go to the sixth floor to see?"
"The sixth floor is the lounge for ordinary employees." Xu Haoyu glanced at the floor map of the experimental center on the laptop and said, "There may be survivors."
The flat-haired girl said, "Then go and have a look."
"Okay." Xu Haoyu nodded, took out a miniature bomb from his backpack, and walked towards the office next to him while talking, "I'll go and see where I can bomb—"
But he stopped in the middle of speaking.
"What's the matter?" The flat-haired girl also followed him and walked over. After she saw everything in front of her clearly, she also fell silent.
Because Xu Haoyu can save the effort of blowing up the ground or the ceiling, there is already a big hole in the ground of the seventh floor, depending on the situation, someone smashed it through with something hard, and there is also a hole in the ceiling not far away. It looks like it can go straight to the eighth floor.
"I think..." Xu Haoyu swallowed, looking at the blood stains near the entrance of the cave, "We can save the time of checking the sixth floor."
Everyone suddenly remembered that when they were on the second floor, the elevator they saw stopped on the seventh floor. That thing must have left the second floor and went directly to the seventh floor. Open the hole leading to the sixth or eighth floor.
But whoever made the hole is unlikely to leave any survivors.
"It must have stood here and observed us." The flat-haired woman walked to the monitoring screens on the seventh floor that started to work again because the power was restored. The look was hand-smeared, as if someone had rubbed one of them through the screen.
The flat-haired woman pressed the keyboard a few more times, turned on all the video monitors on the sixth floor, and shook her head after watching it: "It's really unnecessary to go, there won't be any live jobs on the sixth floor."
"Twenty-five hours have passed since we arrived here." Xu Haoyu was silent for a while, and then continued to ask, "Then shall we continue to go up, or—"
Jiang Lishan glanced sideways, glanced at Su Jinzhi indiscriminately, and said, "Let's rest here for a while, we don't know what that thing is yet, so we need to be prepared."
The flat-haired girl glanced at her hands and said, "Then rest on the spot for a while, you all should eat something to replenish your strength. After half an hour, we will continue to go up."
Xiong Nan nodded, found a relatively clean place to sit down, took out dry food from his backpack to replenish his strength, and ate it from the kettle.
Xu Haoyu's expression was a bit painful. He looked at the corpses and broken limbs on the ground, frowned and said, "Aren't you sick of eating these things? I'm going to throw up just by smelling them."
"You'll get used to it if you smell it a lot." Jiang Lishan glanced at him and said, "According to scientific research, the sense of smell is the least sensitive of all five senses."
Xu Haoyu pouted: "But I feel that these smells are raping my nose."
Everyone was amused by his statement for a moment.
Su Jinzhi said, "Why don't you go to my room?"
"Your room?" Jiang Lishan looked at him.
"En." Su Jinzhi responded, "It's on the seventh floor, it might be... cleaner."
Su Jinzhi was telling the truth, because he would not be actively attacked by zombies, so those zombies would not come to his "room" to make trouble. When he left, his quilt and room were still white.
"Okay, okay, let's go." Xu Haoyu's eyes lit up as soon as he heard the word "cleaner", and he stepped in front of Su Jinzhi and said excitedly, "Let's go quickly!"
The flat-headed girl also said: "Then go to Shan Chian's room and have a look."
Hearing this, Su Jinzhi walked ahead and led them towards his isolation room, but when he left, he said the room was white and clean, but when he saw it again, there were a bunch of bloody footprints on the ground, and the white bed was also covered with blood. There is an extra blood palm, it seems that someone has been here before.
However, everyone didn't notice this place. Su Jinzhi didn't say how clean the isolation room was when he left, so they felt that the room with only bloody footprints was much more pleasing to the eye than the outside scene.
"Shan Qian, is this where you usually live?" Xu Haoyu walked over carelessly and sat down on the bed.
"Yeah." Su Jinzhi's expression was a little dignified, "Someone has been here before."
Xu Haoyu didn't hear him clearly: "What?"
Su Jinzhi pointed to the bloody footprints and said, "When I left, there were no such footprints in the house."
Jiang Lishan asked him: "Are you sure?"
"Sure." Su Jinzhi nodded.
"There's no need to doubt it." Xu Haoyu shrugged, "It must have been done by the hole-driller."
The ponytail woman sneered when she heard Xu Haoyu's words, and looked at Su Jinzhi: "So why did that guy come to you?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes focused on Su Jinzhi.
Su Jinzhi said, "I don't know."
Jiang Lishan took a few steps forward, stood in front of Su Jin, changed the topic and said, "Let's eat."
Anyone with long eyes can see Jiang Lishan's intention of maintaining, so the ponytail woman just glanced at them when she saw this, then walked aside, opened her backpack and started eating.
Jiang Lishan pulled Su Jinzhi to a corner and sat down, handed him a piece of compressed biscuit: "Here you eat."
Su Jinzhi has been running with them for so long. To be honest, his stomach and body have been protesting. He also carries a lot of food in his backpack, but he has not opened it to take a bite. At this time, he saw the compressed biscuit that Jiang Lishan handed him. He didn't have much appetite, but Jiang Lishan gave it to him, so Su Jinzhi finally said "thank you" and took the biscuit.
After finishing speaking, he put down his backpack and opened the zipper for everyone to see: "I also have a lot of food here, do you want to eat?"
Xu Haoyu came over to take a look, and exclaimed, "Wow, you still have chocolate! I've never seen this brand of chocolate before! Can I eat it?"
"Okay." Su Jinzhi gave the piece of chocolate to Xu Haoyu, and passed some sweets to the others, while he kept the compressed biscuits Jiang Lishan gave him and ate in small bites.
"Where did you get so much food?" Xu Haoyu asked Su Jinzhi with his mouth full of chocolate.
"Some were given to me by Dr. Charlie, and some I found from outside." Su Jinzhi stopped eating the cakes and replied, "There are a lot of snacks on their table."
Xu Haoyu sighed again: "The food in the experimental center is really good."
"Then let you work here, okay?" Xiong Nan approached him with a smile and asked him.
Xu Haoyu glanced at the blood stains outside the isolation room, and quickly shook his head: "Forget it, no matter how good the food is, life safety is not guaranteed."
Xiong Nan sneered: "Look at your promise."
Su Jinzhi watched them fight, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly. After a while, he wanted to put away the compressed biscuits that he didn't eat much. Jiang Lishan kept paying attention to his movements, and asked him when he saw it: "Don't eat?"
He suddenly made a sound that made Su Jinzhi stunned for a moment, and then said: "Well, I'm already full."
"But you didn't eat much." Jiang Lishan stretched out his hand and gestured on the compressed biscuit, "Your meal is the amount of food I eat in one bite."
Su Jinzhi smiled and said, "That's because you ate too much."
Attracted by their conversation, Xu Haoyu also came over and said, "Yes, Shanqian, you can eat more, you eat too little."
"I really can't eat anymore." Su Jinzhi shook his head.
Jiang Lishan didn't force him anymore, and said in a low voice: "Then you put it away and eat after you go out. The eating environment here is indeed not very good."
Xu Haoyu continued, "Yes, yes, I admire you for living in this kind of place. If I'm locked up here forever, I'll definitely go crazy."
"Actually, it's okay." Su Jinzhi lowered his eyes, "I won't feel anything if I get used to it."
Xu Haoyu was puzzled: "Don't you miss the outside world?"
"I don't know what the outside world is like." Su Jinzhi said, "I have been staying in the laboratory."
"That's impossible..." Xu Haoyu frowned and murmured, "All the experimental subjects are sent here after being infected. How can you stay here all the time?"
Su Jinzhi smiled, and made up an excuse: "Maybe I forgot."
"That's right." Xu Haoyu believed this excuse. In his opinion, some researches will indeed cause people to lose their memory. "It's okay, Brother Yu, I will take you to see the scenery outside."
Su Jinzhi said, "Okay."
Xu Haoyu patted Su Jinzhi on the shoulder as if comforting his younger brother, and went to talk to Xiong Nan.
Seeing him leaving, Su Jinzhi sat down beside Jiang Lishan. Jiang Lishan sensed his approach, but he just glanced at him sideways, then turned his head and continued to drink his own water.
Su Jinzhi asked him, "Have you seen the outside world?"
"Of course I have." Jiang Lishan said.
Su Jinzhi asked again: "Can you tell me what the outside world is like?"
Jiang Lishan hooked his lips, and said to him seriously: "The scenery near the experimental center may not be very good, they are all deserts covered with black stones."
"Oh, that doesn't sound very good." Su Jinzhi frowned slightly in response to his words.
"However, the scenery outside the base is very good. There are many green plants. I know a place where there is a large sunflower garden. I can take you to see it when you go out."
"Sunflower garden?" Su Jinzhi thought and looked at Jiang Lishan.
The man said: "Yes, I still have a photo, let me show you." Then, he took out a crumpled photo from his close-fitting pocket.
The man in the photo is wearing a black military uniform, with deep eyebrows and eyes, and is gazing tenderly ahead.
Su Jinzhi looked at the familiar photo, touched it lightly with trembling hands, and said softly: "These flowers are so beautiful, who took this photo for you?"
However, the smile on the man's lips froze when he heard his question. After a few seconds, he frowned slightly, as if he was a little confused about who took this photo for him.
"Yes..." He stammered, as if a name was jumping on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't say it.
Su Jinzhi felt that this might be a breakthrough point, allowing Jiang Lishan to recognize the falsity of this world, because such a photo cannot appear out of thin air, so he asked anxiously: "Who is it?"
The man's lips parted, as if he was about to speak, but the flat-haired woman stood up suddenly and announced, "Okay guys, we should go, time is running out, you can rest as you like when you get to the helicopter."
"I can't remember who took the photo for me for the time being." Jiang Lishan also stood up and reached out to Su Jinzhi, "I'll let you know when I remember it, okay?"
Su Jinzhi looked into his eyes, pursed his lips, finally smiled, put his hand on his palm lightly, and said, "Okay, I'll wait for you to remember."
Jiang Lishan pulled him up from the ground, and walked outside together. When he reached the entrance of the cave, the flat-haired woman took a deep breath, looked at everyone and said, "Okay, this time Shanqian should go up first?"
"Yes." Su Jinzhi replied, "Let me go first, and I will tell you if there is any danger."
"That's fine." The flat-haired girl smiled at him, and handed him the hanging ladder, "Be careful."
The sixth floor is the rest floor for ordinary employees, the eighth floor is the meeting room and accommodation area for the high-level personnel of the experimental center, and the ninth floor is where all important materials of the experimental center are stored, so the video surveillance cannot see the situation on the eighth and ninth floors .
Su Jinzhi climbed up and looked around. The person who made the hole was obviously imitating them, because the place she chose was also a closed office, so she could avoid being attacked suddenly after coming up.
Su Jinzhi gently closed the open door of the office, then walked to the entrance of the cave, and said to the people below: "This is also an office, there is no danger, you all come up."
After hearing this, everyone continued to climb up the hanging ladder and reached the eighth floor, which was only one floor away from their final destination.