Zero jumped off the ventilation pipe first, and after landing on the ground, he quickly checked the warehouse. The warehouse is not big, only about a hundred square meters. Stacked shelves and two wooden boxes. The outer wall of the wooden box has fallen off, revealing the shockproof layer and several cans inside, which should be food. The mobile door of the warehouse was closed, and several shelves were piled up on the ground to block the door, as if to prevent something from coming in from outside.
After turning around and eliminating all possible dangers, he said to Beyoncé, "Come down, I'll catch you."
The ventilation duct is about five meters above the ground, not too high, but not too short. But Beyonce didn't let Zero catch it, she smiled and jumped off. When she landed, she rolled and unloaded, bounced up, clapped her hands and said with a smile: "I'm not a pampered lady. I'm fine on weekdays. I also train my physical fitness, marksmanship and fighting skills. Don't underestimate me."
Ling smiled, and said seriously: "This place is full of unknowns, you'd better not show off."
"Okay, okay, I was wronged once, and I let you protect me." After finishing speaking, Beyonce pursed her lips and smiled.
Out of the corner of her eyes, she aimed at the corpses on the ground again, and the light hit them. Four or five corpses have become mummies, and their clothes are even glued to the shelves or boxes under them because of the corpse fluid. These mummies looked terrified. Although they were scattered, their heads were facing the same direction.
Zero walked over and stood at the point where their eyes met. Looking at the blocked gate again, he pondered: "It's strange. Judging from the condition of the gate, they should be trying to prevent something from entering. But it wasn't until after the gate was blocked that they didn't seem to realize that the thing to be guarded against had already entered. It was this thing that killed them, but there was no sign of the gate reopening, where did the thing leave after killing them?"
"What could it be? Mutant beast?" Beyonce asked.
Zero shook his head: "I don't know, there are too few clues to judge. In short, we have to be careful."
The two went to the door again, and Beyonce held Ling's hand and said, "Look over there, there seems to be a floor plan."
On the wall to the left of the gate hangs a schematic diagram of the floor plan. The surface of the floor plan is covered with dust, and many places can no longer be seen clearly. Zero casually swipe, only to see the general idea. The base has a strange name called "White Blood Cell 03". Judging from the numerical distinction, there should be more than one such base.
The base is divided into seven areas: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Areas A to F are distributed around the base, presenting an irregular terrain. As for the G area, it is located in the center of the base and is in the shape of a perfect circle. These areas are divided by function. For example, Zero and Two are located in Area D, which is the material storage area. Others include evacuation areas, generator sets, energy areas, weapons development areas, and biochemical research laboratories. Area G in the middle is the central control room, the core area of the entire base.
On the floor plan, Zero also found some elevators and emergency passages for entering and leaving the base. But these signs are all marked with a red X, and I don't know if it means that the channel has been closed. After Zero firmly recorded this floor plan in his mind, he pointed to one of the places on the map and said, "Let's go here and have a look."
Where the finger landed was an emergency passage not far from the warehouse. Going out from the warehouse where the two people are located is an east-west passage. Walking towards the west of the passage, you will pass a guard room and two other transit warehouses. There is an exit sign at the end of the passage, but there is a red cross on it. I don't know what the red cross means, so Zero needs to confirm it himself, and this passage is the one closest to their location.
Beyoncé naturally had no objection, so Zero easily removed the shelf blocking the door, and then opened the movable door. Behind the gate is a long passageway, and the cold air blows in bursts, with the smell of dust in the air. I don't know how long this base has been closed.
Zero's right eye is automatically adjusted to night vision mode. With the light on the shoulders of Beyonce's tactical suit, Zero is in the dark like day, so he sees a messy world. In the aisle directly outside the warehouse gate, the outer layer of the wall has been peeled off in large parts, and it is still covered with some weird marks and scattered bullet holes. The blood spots that had solidified into black were splashed on the outer walls on both sides of the passage in irregular shapes. It didn't take much imagination to know that the base was suffering a massacre at that time.
On the lengthy passage, there are scattered cables protruding from the wall, fire bottles fallen on the ground, shelves placed horizontally for cover, and corpses!
There are quite a few corpses, one to three corpses will appear almost every four or five meters. Judging from the costumes of the corpses, many of them are ordinary staff members, and some of them also have roles similar to guards. But without exception, they have now become mummy. Zero inspected several of the corpses, and found a very strange place, that is, there were almost no scars on the surface of the corpses, only a circle of dense, needle-like wounds appeared around the neck.
On the way to the west of the passage, the two saw a security room. The door of the guard room was locked, Ling kicked the door, and immediately knocked down the unstable door together with the bolt. There was also chaos inside the door, the table was overturned on the ground, and there were deep scratches on the surface, as if the claws of a wild beast had scratched it. Behind the table are the bodies of two guards, their heads leaning unnaturally on their shoulders, and their cervical spines must have been violently broken. Similarly, there is still a circle of dense pinholes on the neck.
Zero can basically judge that the circle of pinholes should be the mouthparts of some kind of creature. Could it be that the thing that attacked the base was a vampire? Zero thought, it's a pity that the people in the base had been dead for a long time, otherwise he could have dissected one or two of the corpses to see if the blood in the corpses had been sucked dry.
While he inspected the body, Beyoncé took down an automatic rifle from the weapons rack in the guard room and harvested several magazines from the rack. The magazines were full, and Beyoncé put them away nonchalantly. The rifle was then inspected, and although it was covered in dust, the firearm was still functional. She proudly shook the weapon in her hand towards Zero, and Zero nodded. Beyonce had a weapon in her hand, at least she had the capital to defend herself.
"Listen, as soon as any living thing other than me appears in the field of view, no matter what it is, shoot immediately. Can it be done?" Zero said.
Beyoncé said seriously, "Yes, sir!"
Looking at the peerless Patriarch, who usually acted vigorously and resolutely, now acting like an obedient soldier, Ling shook his head and laughed. After he left the security room with Beyonce, he continued to walk forward. The closer he got to the emergency exit, Zero found more and more corpses on the ground.
When we reached the passage about 100 meters near the exit, it could almost be described as lying everywhere. At least one or two hundred mummified corpses appeared on the ground and corners of the passage, either lying or sitting, lying or leaning on the ground. There were even a few mummified corpses stuck to the gate of the passageway, forever freezing their images during their lifetime in a certain period of time before their death.
Among these corpses, the mummified body of the guard was located in front of the way. These guards had to set up a line of fire in this position to try to stop that thing from attacking. The two sides of the passage four to five hundred meters ahead and the ceiling were covered with dense bullet holes. Unfortunately, these attacks were futile, as evidenced by the corpses they left behind.
Zero and Beyoncé moved forward among the corpses, and Beyonce was very calm. Unlike ordinary women who show fear or panic when they see so many dead bodies, her breathing rate has been maintained at a normal level, only the fingers holding the gun are tighter than usual.
When he came to the gate, Zero pulled down several mummified corpses stuck to the gate. They were tightly glued to the door because of the corpse fluid, and when they were torn off, the glued flesh on the corpse was almost torn out. Regardless of the nausea, Zero quickly cleaned up the fleshy things on the door, and soon found that the escape door leading to the outside world was welded to death!
"Is it an emergency defense mechanism?" Beyoncé looked at the weld marks on the door and said, "This means that irreversible damage has occurred inside the base, or some situation has gotten out of control. At the expense of the personnel in the base, Abandon the base, too. So there's probably no exit to the surface."
"Not necessarily." Shaking his head, Ling said: "What is certain now is that the emergency passage marked with an X on the floor plan has been closed. But please don't forget that there are several other passages without such signs. From the warehouse just now Judging from the current situation, the people inside should have checked the situation of most of the escape routes before, but the biochemical laboratory on the other side of the F area did not make sure, or the situation at the time did not allow them to make a sure. We can follow Walk along the main road of the central axis, pass the central control room and go to the biochemical experiment area to try your luck."
Zero looked at Beyoncé, and said seriously: "No matter what, I will take you away!"
Although Beyoncé felt that since the base had activated the emergency defense mechanism, it was almost impossible to leave the unclosed exit. But seeing Zero insisting so much, she was very moved, and immediately nodded her head heavily.
The two retreated from the pile of corpses, and turned to a side road leading to the main road. There are still traces of battle here, as well as scattered corpses. After walking for a while, Zero suddenly grabbed Beyoncé. The latter was about to ask a question, but Zero lowered his voice and said, "Be careful, something is coming."
Since entering the underground base, Zero has been turning on the wave energy detection function of the Naga exoskeleton. At this moment, in the model of consciousness, there is a humanoid object moving in their direction. Soon, the object was already at the corner of the branch road ahead.
The next moment, a man with the appearance of a researcher appeared under Beyonce's light. At first glance, this is a man in his thirties. He was wearing a white factory research uniform, but the clothing was already tattered and stained. The man wore a pair of spectacles, the lenses of which were shattered, as if for decoration rather than purpose. He arched his body, opened his arms slightly, leaving a translucent ** from the corner of his mouth, like a mutant beast that saw food.
Suddenly, the man screamed strangely, leaned forward and rushed towards the two of them. His speed is very fast, almost reaching a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour. Without Zero's order, Beyoncé had already fired. Blazing tongues of flame spewed out from the muzzle of the automatic rifle, and the bullets formed a line of fire and blasted towards the researcher. The researcher didn't dodge or dodge, he only covered his head with his hands, and let the bullet enter his arm.
But the bullet hit his body, but there was no blood splashed out, as if the researcher had no blood like those mummy corpses on the ground.
In an instant, the researcher had already sprinted 100 meters and jumped high. Looking at the falling situation, she was about to pounce on Beyoncé.
Zero snorted, bowed slightly, and disappeared instantly. When it reappeared, it had already slammed into the researcher in mid-air.
Violent collision sounded in the air, apparently even after a run-up, the researcher's strength could not compete with Zero wearing the Naga exoskeleton. Zero easily pushed him down, and the two fell heavily to the ground. Zero raised his arm, and the cuticle instantly tightened, making Zero's punch hit the researcher's face at a high speed that was hard to detect with the naked eye like a bullet fired from the chamber.
Suddenly, most of the man's face collapsed. The frontal bone on the left was shattered into slag, and the eyeballs fell out, but there was no blood left. But before this guy died, the long coat on his back was suddenly pierced by two skyrocketing tentacles, and the two tentacles shot out a hundred meters, tightly stuck into the ground and the wall, and then shrank violently, pulling the man away from Zero. .
The researcher seemed to know that he was not Zero's opponent, so he turned around and wanted to run away.
Zero sneered, stretched his hands forward, and the energy gushed out quickly. Zero's consciousness issued an order to build Colt, but after the energy materialized, he built a rough gun that was almost half his height.
This strange firearm covered with superimposed bone fragments has a pointed front and a wide rear. On the butt part of the gun, there is a row of things like biological vents. The overall style is the same as that of the Naga exoskeleton, which surprised Zero. Without thinking about it, aim at zero and press the trigger.
Six streams of thin air streams spewed out from the exhaust holes on both sides of the gun stock, and a bony bullet like a prismatic bullet flashed away with a smear of gray light. At this time, the researcher just turned around, and the bullet had already entered his back. The researcher shuddered and fell to the ground. After a while, there was a muffled sound inside his body, and more than a dozen tiny gray lights popped out from behind the researcher, piercing the nearby wall, but they were thin bone spurs.
Looking at the back of the researcher, there is already a bloody mess. But his vitality was surprisingly strong, and he was still struggling to crawl away. Zero shot him in the head again, and this shot directly exploded his head, and the man finally calmed down.
Zero looked at the researcher, and then at the wild heavy sniper full of violent aesthetics in his hand. Finally, he raised his gun and walked towards the researcher. After confirming that the other party was incapable of action, Zero put away his heavy sniper.
By this time, he had gradually understood some of the abilities of the Naga exoskeleton. In addition to the basic information provided by the brain, this exoskeleton also has certain biological properties, such as the cuticle that can shrink to provide strength and speed bonuses to the wearer, and the sharp claws embedded in the five fingers of the glove. But now, after activating the independent genome of Naga, Zero's materialization ability is also affected by it.
It was also a sniper rifle, but Colt turned into a bone-hard sniper. Ordinary bullets are also transformed into bone bullets. This kind of bullet ejects faster, and after hitting the target, it will add the burst effect of the Naga bone spur, expanding the damage from the target body.
Although Zero still wants to try out what kind of mutations will occur in other materialized weapons under the influence of Naga genes, but now, he is more interested in the researcher's corpse.