Dante's "Divine Comedy" once mentioned that there are nine floors in hell, and there is a deep cliff between the seventh and eighth floors, but when you go to the seventh floor, a monster will come Picks you up so you can easily reach the eighth floor.
When Su Jinzhi was standing on the ground of the eighth floor, for some reason, this passage appeared in his mind.
Compared with the seventh floor, which is full of corpses and broken limbs, the eighth floor is much cleaner, but its cleanliness does not mean that it is like the empty second floor before, but a kind of people staying here, in order to maintain the living environment. Comfortable and kept clean.
And this idea was quickly confirmed. As soon as they opened the door of this office, they heard the voice of General Mond speaking loudly: "Can you move faster? More than thirty hours have passed , either find a way to restore radio communication, or quickly figure out a way to the ninth floor—"
"General, we have tried our best. There is no safety equipment here. It is very dangerous to climb directly from the elevator shaft..." This is Dr. Charlie's voice.
"Dr. Charlie, General Mond, are you all right?" Seeing this, the flat-haired woman suddenly opened her eyes and walked towards General Mond in shock.
The people on the eighth floor were also surprised when they saw them, especially when they saw Su Jin following them.
"Oh my god, doctor, it's number 3000." Dr. Charlie's female assistant immediately covered her mouth and exclaimed when she saw Su Jinzhi, her eyes suddenly turned red, just like seeing her lost child.
Other experimenters also exclaimed: "It's No. 3000! He's still alive!"
Dr. Charlie also closed his eyes, finally heaved a sigh of relief, and opened his hands to Su Jinzhi with a smile: "3000, come to Dad."
Dr. Charlie calls himself father to all his test subjects.
Su Jinzhi was silent for a while, lowered his eyes and walked slowly towards Dr. Charlie.
It was only when he took a quick step that Jiang Lishan suddenly raised his hand to hold him, Su Jinzhi turned to look at him, but Jiang Lishan just frowned and didn't say anything.
The female assistant wiped her tears, took out a pair of plastic gloves from her pocket, put them on, walked slowly in front of Su Jinzhi and squatted down, opened his sleeves to examine his body carefully, and comforted softly: "3000, you are all right Are you hungry? Do you want something to eat?"
The female assistant was talking, and the other experimenters didn't need Charlie to talk, so they went outside and brought all kinds of food in front of Su Jinzhi for him to choose.
When Xu Haoyu and Xiong Nan saw the people in the laboratory coaxing Su Jinzhi like a mentally handicapped child, they had complicated expressions on their faces.
"Marlene!" General Mond laughed immediately when he saw the flat-haired girl, "I knew you would definitely be here when the power was restored."
The flat-headed girl nodded, looked at the experimenters who gathered around him wearing white coats with somewhat embarrassed expressions, but stared at Su Jinzhi with bright eyes, and said doubtfully: "They are..."
"They were just a little excited. Subject 3000 is very important to us, but we didn't have time to take him with us when we retreated. Charlie was always worried. Fortunately, you brought him here." General Mond looked at them and nodded in relief. "Marlene, your team is the best."
Mond told them the general history of the incident. The riot did take place at the beginning of the zombie laboratory on the fifth floor. An experimenter accidentally opened the door of the isolation room while feeding the zombies, but this incident But it was not very serious. The really serious riot happened on the second floor. No one knew why, but when people found out, all the people on the second floor could no longer be contacted, and all floors were behaving in a terrible way. lose contact with them.
Dr. Charlie and Mond made a decisive decision, and immediately evacuated from the fifth floor to the eighth floor with a group of experimental personnel under the protection of soldiers, because the first-generation vaccine that Charlie had just dialyzed from Su Jinzhi's blood was stored here, and they wanted to take the vaccine away. , Immediately leave this laboratory building.
But the most important experimental subject No. 3000 is still on the seventh floor, so Mond asked his soldiers to take the elevator quickly, immediately go to the seventh floor to bring Su Jinzhi to the eighth floor, and then go to the apron on the top floor to take a helicopter to leave.
It's just that the soldiers never came back after they descended to the seventh floor. The wireless communication and power supply of the entire building were also cut off. The personnel card uses the elevator and cannot use the helicopter.
However, Mond and the others waited for a long time on the eighth floor, and they did not see the soldiers responsible for leading the No. 3000 test body back.
At that time, Mond and Charlie knew that there must be a problem on the seventh floor. In the whole building, only the eighth and ninth floors are safe places, because the elevator magnetic card in the experiment center has floor number authority, and the number on the back of the magnetic card is not The number of the staff on each floor is the number of the elevator use - the person with the larger number on the back of the magnetic card has a higher number of floors that can go up.
The food here on the eighth floor was abundant, enough for all of them to last for a week, so Mond asked everyone to wait where they were, waiting for the special search and rescue personnel sent by him after he lost contact with the base.
Dr. Charlie didn't quite agree with Mond's approach. He repeatedly wanted to press the elevator to go to the seventh floor to check on Su Jinzhi's situation, but was stopped by Mond. Mond felt that since those zombies would not attack Su Jinzhi, of course he would not be in any danger. He just needed to wait for the search and rescue team to come and then go to the seventh floor to take him away.
And the search and rescue team led by Ma Lin lived up to his expectations and restored the power in just a few hours.
When Mond and Charlie saw the elevator rising from the second floor to the seventh floor, they all laughed, thinking that it was the search and rescue team who went to the seventh floor to look for Su Jinzhi, but when the elevator stopped on the seventh floor, it went up and down repeatedly They couldn't laugh anymore, and the elevator was quickly blown up by Jiang Lishan and the others. Mond and Charlie, who were staying on the eighth floor, couldn't even go to the ninth floor.
"We thought something happened to you at first, so I asked them to start trying to find a way to get from the eighth floor to the ninth floor. After all, there is electricity, and the helicopter can still work." Mond turned his body slightly, looking To the hole behind them, he smiled, "But it's great that you are all right. We have also thought of the method of digging the hole. It's just that there are a lot of food on the eighth floor, but there are few tools, so our efficiency is not—"
Listening to Mond's words, Ma Lin's expression became more and more solemn, and finally she couldn't help interrupting Mond's words: "General... we didn't make that hole, and we weren't the ones who took the elevator to the seventh floor."
Mond's smile froze, he licked his dry lips, frowned and asked, "What did you say?"
"It is true that we restored the electricity, but we were on the second floor at that time, and when we returned to the elevator again, the elevator had already ascended to the seventh floor." Marlene paused, then continued, "After that, the elevator descended to the second floor , just brought a lot of zombies, we had to blow up the elevator as a last resort, and then climbed up layer by layer, until now we reached here."
As Ma Lin said it herself, her heartbeat gradually increased. In fact, on the way they came, they probably had a vague guess in their hearts—they let a monster go from the second floor.
The reason why the second floor is so clean is probably because it has eaten all the corpses, and even the blood has not been spared, and it has been licked clean.
Thinking of this, Ma Lin couldn't help looking at Su Jinzhi.
She thought at first that the elevator stopped at the seventh floor was just a random number, but now it seems that the monster either knows that there are people on the eighth or ninth floor, and it cannot reach it without permission, or...
Its initial target was Su Jinzhi, who was detained in the isolation room on the seventh floor. The series of bloody footprints in his isolation room are the best evidence.
"And... we didn't blow up the hole on the eighth floor." Ma Lin took a deep breath and said slowly, "It's already on the eighth floor, before us."
Mond was silent for a while, then said, "Are you kidding me?"
Ma Lin said seriously: "Yes, General. You also know that making such a hole will not make too much noise, but you didn't hear anything, did you?"
Even if Mond was very reluctant, he had to admit that what Marlene said was right. If a person wants to make a hole in a floor more than ten centimeters thick, the noise will definitely not be small. did not hear it.
Unless something made the hole, it's not human.
"What's going on next, are there any other survivors?" Mond was silent for a while, looking at Marlene.
Marlene shook her head: "No more."
"Pack up your things." Mond immediately turned to Dr. Charlie and said, "No. 3000 has been found, we'll leave here immediately."
"Okay." Dr. Charlie quickly left the office after hearing this, and went outside to pack his things.
"Xu Haoyu." The flat-haired girl turned around and glanced at Xu Haoyu, "Go dig a hole."
"...Ah?! Okay, I'll go right away." Xu Haoyu, who was stunned by the interaction between Su Jinzhi and the female assistant, froze for a few seconds before recovering, looking for a place suitable for blasting with his notebook.
The female assistant did not leave with the doctor, but took Su Jinzhi by the hand, trying to pull him to her side: "Come on, 3000, sister will take you to eat, okay? You haven't eaten for a long time, right?"
Su Jinzhi didn't follow her, he turned his head and glanced at Jiang Lishan, the man's hand hanging by his side moved slightly when the female assistant grabbed him, his right knee also bent accordingly, as if he wanted to catch up.
But just such a movement made Su Jinzhi break away from the female assistant's hand, ran back to Jiang Lishan's side, and gently hugged his arm.
Seeing Su Jinzhi's actions, the female assistant was only slightly taken aback, then smiled as if she knew something, and said nothing.
Xu Haoyu quickly blew up the hole leading to the ninth floor, and Dr. Charlie and his experimenters quickly brought the vaccine and some personal materials and said, "Let's go."
Su Jinzhi noticed that the female assistant walked up to Dr. Charlie and whispered something, so Dr. Charlie turned around frequently to look at him and Jiang Lishan, nodding from time to time, looking thoughtful.
During the time they went to the ninth floor, the thing hidden in an unknown corner never appeared, so they reached the ninth floor smoothly.
Xu Haoyu saw that they didn't copy the data after climbing up to the ninth floor, but just walked straight to the landing pad, and couldn't help wondering: "You...don't copy the data?"
"What data to copy?" The female assistant thought he was handsome and cute, and asked him with a smile.
Xu Haoyu said: "No, didn't you say that the development of the vaccine has made progress? Those materials are very important, and the base ordered us to bring them back."
"It's really important, but we've already brought the most important things, here—" the female assistant raised her chin, and pointed at Su Jinzhi who was walking next to Jiang Lishan, "All the progress of the relevant vaccines are in the 3000 body."
"Shanyan? No—you mean number 3000?"
"Yes." The female assistant nodded, and didn't pay attention to Xu Haoyu's pronunciation at the beginning, thinking that he was just talking with a bit of a tongue, "A healing factor was found in the blood of No. 3000, which can prevent the zombie virus from eroding the nerves, so As long as the healing factor sequence code in his blood is researched, humans will no longer have to be afraid of zombies."
Xu Haoyu asked again: "...Then are you going to take him out of here and go to the next experimental center to continue research?"
The female assistant quickly replied, "Yes."
I don't know if it was because she felt that she was saved, but her voice was very light and there was a smile on her face.
But Xu Haoyu looked at her smile, knowing that he would be able to take a helicopter back to the safe base in the near future, because he would get a lot of credit points for successfully completing Mission Two, and he could buy a lot of good wine and food, and have a drink with Xiong Nan. All night, but inexplicably, he now feels a little heavy.
After a moment of silence, I continued to ask the female assistant: "Research... How do you usually study No. 3000? For example, cut off a piece of his meat for experiments?"
"What you said is too bloody." The female assistant's expression was a little helpless, "No. 3000 is very important to us, we will not hurt him, but will draw blood from him regularly."
"Oh, really? You won't hurt him." Xu Haoyu repeated the words of the female assistant in a daze.
"Yes." The female assistant nodded, "No. 3000 is a good boy. He never cries. The only bad thing is that he eats a little less and never talks to us. The doctor checked his vocal cords, and there is no problem, but he just doesn't talk, which makes us all worried about him."
Xu Haoyu recalled the boy's appetite, and echoed, "Yes...he does eat a little, but when he was with us—"
Xu Haoyu wanted to explain to the female assistant that although the boy didn't talk much when he was with them, he would sometimes say a few words, but he was interrupted by the female assistant before he finished speaking: "Walking at No. 3000 What's the name of the man next to him? He seems to be very close to No. 3000."
The female assistant stood on tiptoe and stretched her neck to look at Jiang Lishan who was walking beside Su Jinzhi.
"Well... his name is Jiang Lishan, and we usually call him Old Jiang or Brother Jiang." Xu Haoyu's voice was a little low, "Brother Jiang took care of 3000 along the way, so it's normal for 3000 to be close to him, right? "
The female assistant hooked her lips, her eyes darkened, and she said, "No, it must be more than that, 3000 is very afraid of our touch."
"What?" Xu Haoyu was puzzled.
The female assistant showed him her hands with plastic gloves on, and said: "No. 3000 can't touch us directly. The feeling of skin contact is very painful for him. Even if we wear gloves, he will still subconsciously touch us." Avoid our touch, so... there must be something special about you Jiang Ge."
Xu Haoyu was stunned when he heard this.
Seeing his expression, the female assistant confirmed her guess even more, and continued to ask: "What is it? Can you tell me?"
"Yes..." Xu Haoyu hesitated for a while, but after thinking about it, it seemed that there was nothing he couldn't say. He opened his lips and was about to speak, but he suddenly caught a glimpse of a thin and strange long black shadow from the corner of his eye.
They had already reached the landing pad, and there was no shelter around them. Seeing this, Xu Haoyu's pupils suddenly shrank, and Jiang Lishan yelled, "Get down!"
The female assistant couldn't react when she heard the voice, so Xu Haoyu wanted to go up and throw him down, but a faster man ran up behind him, pushed him down, and protected him.
In the black shadows, a violent wind blew past their heads accompanied by a deep roar, and then there was the fierce collision sound of something like iron sheet hitting an obstacle.
The person who was on top of Xu Haoyu quickly left, and quickly shot at the attacker with a gun.
Xu Haoyu soon smelled a moist fishy smell, it was bloody, very fresh, it seemed to be hot, and it was very close to him. Xu Haoyu stood up from the ground in a daze, and saw that the female assistant who was talking to him a moment ago had been split in two. Her waist was cut off horizontally by something, and her internal organs and intestines were full of blood. All of a sudden, her eyes were still closed, but her pupils had dilated, occupying the entire eye sockets, and her face still maintained the puzzled expression before she died.
In addition to the female assistant, there were several experimenters who were cut to death. Xu Haoyu looked at their corpses, his nose was stimulated by the strong smell of blood, and he bent down and vomited twice.
"You f*cking zombies fight too much and your legs go limp when you see dead people?!" Xiong Nan came from behind and gave him a slap on the back of the head.