Xu Haoyu was taken aback by him, took a few steps forward and stood firm, and immediately raised his gun to shoot at the thin black figure in the darkness.
However, the moving speed of the black shadow is really too fast. Xu Haoyu and Xiong Nan even emptied the magazines and none of the bullets hit the black shadow. It really looks like a shadow lurking in the dark. It was invisible and intangible, only a vague outline could be seen, jumping towards several other soldiers protecting Dr. Charlie, and biting off the necks of the soldiers after a sharp roar.
But also because of this movement, it paused for a while, allowing people to see its appearance. It has a human appearance, but its whole body is covered with a thick layer of blood clots, making it look like it is made of blood. monster.
There was a muffled sound of "Sud—" in the air, a bullet pierced the monster's shoulder, and a red blood flower popped out in mid-air. The monster seemed to be irritated by this action, and it issued from its throat that the beast was threatened. With a grunting sound, his fingers scratched around the corpse's head, opened the skull, took out the white brain inside, and left quickly.
Only then did everyone realize that the elevator leading to the ninth floor had already been torn apart by it, so this monster could reach the ninth floor unknowingly while avoiding everyone's sight. Looking at the monster's movements, Jiang Lishan and the others immediately understood what happened to the pile of animal remains on the fourth floor.
"Go and see the helicopter!" General Mond suddenly seemed to realize something, and shouted with his eyes wide open.
"Fuck!" Xiong Nan also cursed in a low voice, striding towards the helicopter.
As their foreboding expected, some of the instruments and parts of the helicopter were destroyed by the black shadow, but all this is trivial, there are many replaceable parts in the tool room, the real trouble is the radar instrument broken.
Without radar, they can only rely on the pilot to fly directly by observing the terrain, but this kind of flight can only be carried out during the daytime, and now the sun has gone down for five minutes, although there is still a little sunset glow in the sky, it will soon be completely dark go down.
General Mond looked over the fragments of instruments on the helicopter, and asked Xu Haoyu who was overhauling, "How is it? Can it be repaired?"
"Yes, it's not troublesome to fix these, it only takes three hours to completely fix it." Xu Haoyu nodded, then glanced at his watch, "But we have to wait until dawn before we can take off."
General Mond asked, "Can't you fly blind?"
Xu Haoyu spread his hands and said helplessly: "General, the only person in our team who can fly a plane is the leader. You should ask her."
"No, I'm not a professional pilot, and I haven't been trained in blind flying." Marlene said without waiting for Mond to ask him, "Sorry, General."
Mond sighed deeply, but he also understood that it is very dangerous to let untrained people operate the helicopter blindly, so he said: "Then let's rest here for a night, and we will leave here at dawn tomorrow." .”
"Yes." Marlene nodded, and then went to clean up the bodies of the dead soldiers.
When they reached the ninth floor, there were a total of twenty-three people, but after being attacked by the black shadow, including the dead experimenters, there were only twelve people left.
Ma Lin felt a little heavy after counting the heads, but her team members were not injured, which gave her some comfort. General Mond's expression was equally solemn, because he only brought his own personal guards with him this time. These soldiers have been with him day and night, and have been with him through life and death. They are his most trusted subordinates and have protected him until now. He died tragically in front of them when he was about to leave safely. So General Mond took off his military cap and stood silently in front of the remains of these soldiers for a long time.
Only Dr. Charlie didn't see much sadness on his face, even though his most capable female assistant was among the dead.
"3000." He glanced at Su Jinzhi who was shrinking beside Jiang Lishan, and waved to him, "Come to Dad."
Su Jinzhi looked at him, and after hesitating for two seconds, he let go of Jiang Lishan's hand, and slowly walked in front of him.
Dr. Charlie didn't do anything to him. He just rolled his eyelids to check his eyes, and unbuttoned Su Jinzhi as usual. It's just an experimental subject, and experimental subjects have no privacy, so he spread his arms silently to facilitate Dr. Charlie's movements.
On the other hand, Jiang Lishan came over when he saw Dr. Charlie's movements, and pulled Su Jinzhi behind him. Xu Haoyu also called out loudly: "Hey, doctor, what are you doing?"
Dr. Charlie looked at them suspiciously, and said, "I just want to check if No. 3000 has any injuries or other wounds."
"No, he's fine." Xu Haoyu frowned and waved his hands, "We've already checked, and there's nothing wrong with 3000."
"I'm not sure if I don't see it for myself," Dr. Charlie said.
Xu Haoyu frowned even deeper. He looked at the boy with downcast eyes and said without any resistance, "Then...then you can't be in front of so many people... There are women here!"
"That's right." Even the ponytailed woman, who has never been used to Su Jinzhi, said, "There are still ladies here."
Dr. Charlie was stunned for a moment before realizing the meaning of Xu Haoyu's words, but he was not angry either. He shook his head after laughing a few times and said, "Okay, okay, I've been in the isolation room for a long time, I almost forgot It's not in the isolation room now."
After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked towards the remaining experimenters, and went to a small corner to talk about vaccines.
General Mond and his soldiers went to monitor the situation at the entrance of the cave to prevent the monster from suddenly attacking everyone from the entrance of the cave. Xu Haoyu repaired the broken equipment in the helicopter alone, while Xiong Nan went with Ma Lin and the ponytail girl. over there by the elevator.
Jiang Lishan originally planned to follow him, but as soon as he left, Su Jinzhi also followed him. Dr. Charlie immediately shouted when he saw their movements: "3000, you can't go there."
Su Jinzhi stopped and looked at him.
Dr. Charlie walked in front of him quickly, and said to Su Jinzhi in a gentle voice like coaxing an ignorant child: "It's dangerous over there, there's a monster there, can you and dad stay here obediently?"
He spoke in a soft tone and had a kind smile on his face. He looked like a real father, but when he looked at Su Jinzhi, there was no fatherly love in his eyes.
Su Jinzhi knew why they were so careful with him, because he is currently the most precious experimental subject. The X zombie virus vaccine research has been carried out for fifteen years, and there was no glimmer of hope until he, so Dr. Charlie and other experimental personnel I am very concerned about his condition, check his body every day, and give him psychological tests to prevent him from having any thoughts of suicide.
But the more they were like this, the more uncomfortable Su Jinzhi felt.
Because the candy they handed had a razor blade, and every time he licked it, the razor blade would cut his tongue and make him bleed.
Su Jinzhihui couldn't help but wonder if it was the same when the antibody vaccine was developed. They fed the mothers with the best food, listened to beautiful music, and provided the most comfortable accommodation to prevent them from having any suicidal thoughts. All this is ultimately just for the mutant humans in their stomachs.
In the end, they will still be killed.
And he himself was one of the executioners.
Su Jinzhi turned his head to avoid Dr. Charlie's palm extended towards him, and hid behind Jiang Lishan.
"Well, if you don't want to stay with Dad, then let this gentleman take you there to play?" Dr. Charlie still smiled, and pointed to a safe place.
Dr. Charlie still doesn't know what that black shadow is, is it a new breed of mutated zombie, or some other creature? He couldn't be sure whether that black shadow would cause harm to Su Jinzhi, so he had to let Su Jinzhi stay in a safe place, and Jiang Lishan could protect him well if he was by his side.
Jiang Lishan, like Su Jinzhi, has hardly said anything since the appearance of Charlie Mond and his party. He was silent for a few seconds when he heard Dr. Charlie's words, and then took Su Jinzhi's hand and said, "Let's go over."
After speaking, he tried to lead the boy to walk there. Seeing that the boy didn't resist, he gently closed his fingers and shook the boy's hand.
They walked to an almost closed corner and sat down, which was also a dead corner of the cave entrance and the elevator. It was difficult for people standing there to see what they were doing in this place, but they could clearly see the movements of those people.
When Jiang Lishan sat down, he found that the young man's face was pale and his lips were pale. He thought he was uncomfortable, so he immediately raised his hand to touch his forehead, but he dropped his hand after seeing the gloves he was wearing. , and instead touched the boy's forehead with his forehead: "Are you uncomfortable?"
Su Jinzhi recalled the red or white liquids that he observed when he was researching vaccines in the laboratory. He didn't dare to guess which part of the human body they came from. His stomach also twitched faintly, but suddenly a man touched his forehead.
Intense discomfort and pain instantly spread from the touched place to every corner of the body, Su Jinzhi trembled all over, cold sweat broke out instantly, and subconsciously raised his hand to push Jiang Lishan away.
There was no push, but Jiang Lishan was stunned for a few seconds because of this action, and then asked: "What's wrong?"
Su Jinzhi took a breath, and after the discomfort gradually receded, he said softly, "It's okay."
"You're in a cold sweat." Jiang Lishan looked at him and said, but because of Su Jinzhi's actions just now, he didn't touch Su Jinzhi again.
"I don't want to go back with them." Su Jinzhi lowered his eyes. He didn't say a word after Dr. Charlie and his party appeared, so his voice was a little hoarse.
The young man didn't say who "they" were, but Jiang Lishan could guess without any mistake. He raised his eyes in silence and looked at Dr. Charlie and his subordinates in white coats who were standing not far away, and didn't speak for a long time.
Because he can't make any promises to the boy.
He is not a high-ranking official of the base, and has no right to give orders to Charlie, and no matter how powerful he is, it is impossible for him to take the boy away under such eyes, let alone guarantee that the two of them can survive outside the safe base.
More importantly, his mission here is to bring the most important subjects of the X Experimental Center to the next Experimental Center.
Unable to hear his answer, the boy did not continue the topic just now, and said softly: "Can you hold me? The experiment center is very cold at night, and my quilt fell under it."
"But you just now..." Jiang Lishan hesitated, because the boy showed strong discomfort when he was touched by him just now.
"It doesn't matter if you don't touch them directly." Su Jinzhi didn't hide the fact that he couldn't touch human beings anymore. He planned to wake Jiang Lishan up by letting Jiang Lishan know that they could touch each other, but now Su Jinzhi found out that this There is no way to fake it.
Even if he kept silent, Dr. Charlie and the others would.
And they are about to separate now, he will go to the next laboratory, and there will be no chance to contact Jiang Lishan again, if he can't wake up Jiang Lishan before they separate.
Then he will be lost in the sea of data forever.
Su Jinzhi was so anxious that his whole body trembled slightly, his palms were wet with sweat, and his fingertips were cold, but the next moment his hand was held by someone and carried to a warm place.
The man unbuttoned his jacket and put his hands into his arms. He was still wearing a warm jacket, so Su Jinzhi would not have direct skin contact with him, but he could still absorb the warmth from his body.
Su Jinzhi was stunned for a few seconds, and then lightly pressed his head against his chest, regardless of how ambiguous their actions were at the moment.
"Is this better?" the man asked him.
"It's very warm..." Su Jinzhi was a little dazed, closed his eyes and replied softly.
The man was silent for a few seconds, and then explained to him: "I can't take you away alone."
"Even if I can take you away, we have no way to live outside." Jiang Lishan continued, "I may not be able to show you that sunflower garden."
Su Jinzhi asked him: "... then can you tell me what the outside world is like?"
"People live in a safe base, which is beautiful, but the land outside is desert and there are many dangers, so people cannot live outside."
"Desert..." Su Jinzhi sighed softly, "It's the same as my hometown. The people there also lived in a safe base. Later, they all moved away... I was the only one left."
A long time ago, when he was not imprisoned in the Permafrost Prison, he also lived in a laboratory near the security base, and in this false world, his and Jiang Lishan's identities seemed to have been switched.
The only difference is that in the real world they spent a good few years together, but here, they only spent a few dozen hours together.
For a while, Jiang Lishan didn't understand what Su Jinzhi meant, and thought he was talking about a safe base, so he asked, "Are you alone?"
"Yeah." Su Jinzhi grabbed Jiang Lishan's front clothes tightly and wrinkled them deeply, "Later I also moved, and someone built a new home for me, called Ulbury."
Jiang Lishan's heart trembled inexplicably when he heard the last four words, but this feeling disappeared quickly, and he couldn't even catch a trace of it.
"My friends say it's beautiful there, even in winter, the scenery is beautiful, but I haven't been to that place yet." The boy's voice became lower and lower, with faint sadness, "I want to go home... "
Jiang Lishan thought he was crying, but when he looked down, he found that the boy was lying on his chest with his eyes closed, breathing slowly, as calm as if he was asleep.
However, his heart was not peaceful. Every word the boy said before was like a red-hot iron, jumping back and forth on his heart. Jiang Lishan took a few deep breaths, but his heart was still irritated.
"Is he asleep?" Xiong Nan walked over from the elevator and asked in a low voice after seeing Jiang Lishan sleeping with the boy in his arms.
"Yeah." Jiang Lishan responded, explaining their posture, "He said he was a little cold, so I hugged him to sleep."
Xiong Nan nodded, expressing his understanding. He looked at the pale boy with his eyes closed in Jiang Lishan's arms, and sighed after a long time: "He's still a child, younger than Xu Haoyu."
After the end of the world, all the newborns and teenagers are given the best care in the base, because they are the hope of the future of mankind, and Xu Haoyu is the youngest member of their team, usually very cheerful and active, Because of his young age, everyone always takes care of and pets him.
But in such a remote place, in a laboratory, there was a young teenager who was used as a test subject, and lived a life unimaginable to those living in a safe base.
Thinking of this, Xiong Nan was a little puzzled, turned his head to look at Jiang Lishan and asked: "I remember that the base and the laboratory had an agreement that the people who are the experimental subjects of the vaccine can only be human beings who have been infected but have not yet mutated?"
Jiang Lishan also realized what Xiong Nan was going to say when he heard the words, and frowned immediately.
"How could he be infected with the zombie virus at such a young age?" Xiong Nan continued, "It is absolutely impossible for the base at his age to let him go out of the safe zone, so he has no chance of being exposed to the virus at all, so he is How did you get infected?"
After saying this, Xiong Nan and Jiang Lishan immediately looked at Dr. Charlie, but because they were afraid that he would find out, they quickly looked away. Xiong Nan said, "I'll go and talk to the boss."