"Just mind your own business. I'll accept it even if I die at her hands," Ma Dongmei retorted coldly through the thick protective suit.

Normally, Ma Dongmei would have a thousand things to say to her, but Dongyang had just lost her husband, so she couldn't bring herself to say anything hurtful.

Dongyang paused, her eyes red as she looked at the group following Lu Sheng. "Were you all drugged by her? Why do you trust an outsider like her so much!"

The rest of the group remained silent. As they grew further and further away from the main group, Dongyang could only grit his teeth and follow.

Returning to the Tengfei Base headquarters, Lu Sheng had a crucial clue this time, and headed straight for the basement upon entering.

The basement entrance is located at the corner at the end of the first-floor corridor.

The narrow, cramped staircase had only one dark entrance.

Just as Ma Dongmei was about to go down, Lu Sheng grabbed her arm.

"What's wrong?" Ma Dongmei turned her head, her voice hoarse.

This outfit weighs over 20 kilograms, which would be too much for even well-trained soldiers. They had been wearing it for over half an hour, and they were all drenched in sweat.

"What if there are zombies inside? If you go down there, you'll just be offering yourself up as food."

Lu Sheng took out a small ball from his spatial storage and threw it down forcefully.

Zombies have extremely sensitive hearing. If other sounds come through when the ball is thrown down, it means there's something below.

The pitch-black opening was like a gaping maw, swallowing the ball whole in an instant. Only two soft thuds could be heard as the ball hit the ground.

Sizzle.

As the ball hit the ground, two crackling sounds suddenly came from the basement.

Two white lights flashed, and the lights in the dark underground corridor suddenly came on!

The group looked at each other in bewilderment.

The lights suddenly came on in the empty building, adding to the eerie atmosphere.

Su Zheng gave Lü Song and the bespectacled young man a wink, and the two immediately became alert, slowly moving towards the basement.

Less than two minutes later, the two returned, their expressions subtle.

"What's going on?" Su Zheng asked, his expression tense.

This is, after all, a city of death shrouded in radiation; who knows what kind of bizarre mutant zombies might be lurking here?

"Reporting to Young Master Su, we've figured it out, the lights are voice-activated!" The bespectacled young man chuckled after saying that.

Everyone: "..."

You were nervous for nothing.

The tense atmosphere was relieved by the little incident, and the two teams quickly returned to a tense state, orderly entering the underground corridor.

The sound-activated light's circuitry is unstable, intermittent, and the flickering light makes people dizzy.

"Life at the Tengfei Base is pretty good. Power is tight at all the bases right now, but they still have the time to install motion-sensor lights in the basement."

The bespectacled young man curiously touched the wall lamp, which was clearly newly installed.

The underground corridor was much deeper than they had imagined. The two groups walked for more than ten minutes and still hadn't seen the end.

"I feel like this basement is bigger than the ground floor," Ma Dongmei said, already panting.

The further they went into the basement, the higher the temperature became, even exceeding the outdoor temperature.

The heavy protective suits felt like a portable sauna, and the K3 team members quickly felt overwhelmed.

"Didn't Li Zhigang say there were people from Tengfei in the basement?" Zhang Xiaojuan, sweating profusely, looked around.

"There wasn't even a corpse, let alone a living person."

He had barely finished speaking when the voices of the K3 players suddenly came from behind him.

"Is there an oil leak somewhere? The ground is all sticky," a crisp female voice said with disdain.

Lu Sheng looked down.

A black, sticky liquid suddenly appeared on the ground, like asphalt road surface baked by the sun. Stepping on it was sticky and emitted a pungent stench.

"This stuff stinks."

Even through the thick protective suits, some people still had to pinch their noses because of the stench.

Lu Sheng frowned slightly, a sense of foreboding rising within him.

The next second, a series of thuds suddenly came from the back of the column, like military boots kicking against the wall.

Everyone turned around at the sound, their blood pressure instantly spiked.

At the very end of the line, a K3 player collapsed into the sticky, foul-smelling black water, struggling desperately.

The sound was from when he kicked the wall during his struggle.

A half-meter-long tear was ripped in his heavy protective suit, and sticky black liquid, like an invisible giant hand, covered his mouth and nose!

The man stared wide-eyed in terror, kicking and thrashing about frantically.

Before anyone could react, he was as if he were drowning in black water, his entire body enveloped in black liquid.

Gurgle.

It sounds like squeezing toothpaste.

The humanoid figure in the black water quickly shrank and withered, until only a crumpled protective suit remained.

In just a few seconds, the living person vanished right before everyone's eyes...

Fear instantly gripped everyone's hearts.

"This is……"

As soon as another K3 player spoke, the black water beneath his feet suddenly surged up and pulled him to the ground.

Another person has evaporated in the black water!

Everyone was stunned by this horrifying scene.

"Run! There's something wrong with this black water!"

At Su Zheng's command, everyone immediately ran desperately toward the basement entrance.

However, the K3 team members were carrying a burden of more than 20 kilograms and had walked for so long, and many of them were already severely exhausted.

Soon, someone was a step too slow and was swallowed by the black water.

What's even more chilling is that after the black water swallowed several people in succession, it slowly began to take on a physical form.

Three dark, jelly-like monsters suddenly rose from the surging black water and chased after us with their sticky, swaying gait!

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