Chapter 133 Downstairs, Downstairs, Downstairs
Hou Chao stood up and walked out of the tent. Lu Nan jumped up and asked, "Captain Hou, what's wrong?"
"I'm worried, let me go downstairs to check!" Hou Chao was reserved and didn't tell Lu Nan that she heard Tian Yao shouting for help. Since Lu Nan wanted to go with him, he didn't refuse.
If anything happens downstairs, Lu Nan is here and they can take care of each other.
Walking downstairs, the snoring of the Fire Dragon Squad could be heard one after another.
"Didn't they sleep well?" Lu Nan asked.
A few little bats that were hanging upside down somewhere were awakened by the noise of the two people, and they flapped their wings and flew up.
One of them flew over Lu Nan's head: "Why are there bats in a high-rise building?" He vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell where it came from.
"They are fine," Hou Chao knew that Tian Yao must have heard it right, and took a few steps forward worriedly.
Make sure you hear the voices of everyone in the Fire Dragon Squad.
Lu Nan didn't think that Hou Chao would go downstairs to take a look just because he was worried. He walked lightly, and just as he was listening carefully, a faint voice came from under their feet.
Hou Chao also heard it at this time: "Lu Nan, did you hear anything?"
"There's someone's voice, but I can't hear what they're shouting," Lu Nan said, "I'm going downstairs to check it out!"
Hou Chao had come downstairs to check where the cry for help came from. He certainly couldn't ask Lu Nan to go alone: "Come together! We can look after each other!"
Without alerting the Fire Dragon Squad, the two men walked through the corridor and found the stairs going downstairs.
Several bats were startled. They flapped their wings in panic but didn't fly away. Taking advantage of the moonlight, Hou Chao saw the appearance of the bats: "This bat is so big!"
A row of bats, each bigger than a palm, hung by the window, flapping their wings and staring at Hou Chao and Lu Nan with their blood-red eyes.
"I've seen bats bigger than this. Usually small bats are sentinels," Lu Nan immediately knew where his uneasiness came from.
It's the size of a bat.
He quickly reached out to stop Hou Chao who was about to go downstairs: "Something's wrong! It's totally wrong!"
"What happened? What did you discover?" Hou Chao asked. Before the end of the world, he was just an ordinary college student. How could his life experience be as rich as Lu Nan, who had been rolling around in the mountains and wilderness for years?
"Bats live in groups. Usually, the young ones sleep outside the caves, acting as sentinels or something like that." Lu Nan stared at the bats staring at him with bloodshot eyes. "These are sentinels! Sentinels are often the smallest in a group of bats."
Hou Chao also reacted: "Are bats vegetarians or meat eaters?"
Why do these people always associate eating with everything? Lu Nan was speechless, but still explained: "Eat meat! Let's move gently, and then..."
"Save us... Save us..." The cries for help became louder. There were men and women, who seemed to be struggling in pain, and seemed to be crying out in their death throes.
"We're... on the fourteenth floor!"
"Fourteenth floor!"
Hou Chao and Lu Nan are now on the stairs between the 15th and 16th floors!
They are in a dilemma!
They didn't know what was happening downstairs, but if they moved, the bats would fly up and might attract a group of big carnivores.
This stalemate did not last long before footsteps were heard behind the two men.
Guozi's voice came: "Found them, they are here, I wonder what they are doing?"
It was too late for Lu Nan to stop Guozi's voice. The footsteps and voices startled the bats. The bats flapped their wings and took flight. Then a large group of bats, big and small, flew out from the fifteenth floor and flew over the crowd's heads.
A few bats kindly dropped a few grains of night-shining sand.
"Do bats poop while flying?" Liu Xujiang said.
"Your focus is really different from others," Wang Qiancheng replied to Liu Xujiang unhappily.
Hou Chao said speechlessly: "Why did you all come down here?"
Bai Nana said, "Isn't it because Xiaofang is afraid that you'll get lost? We're afraid that Xiaofang will get lost!"
Lu Nan looked over and saw Ye Zhen and Lu Su were also behind him. He was even more depressed than Hou Chao: "You guys coming down here are just causing trouble!"
Now all that could be heard was the sound of bats flying around, drowning out the cries for help.
"Go directly to the 14th floor and see what's going on!" Hou Chao found Ye Xiaofang from the crowd. Ye Xiaofang raised her hand and made a "yeah" gesture to show her presence.
Tian Yao hid behind Duan Lei and asked: "Do bats eat meat or vegetables?"
"Why don't you just ask if bats are edible?" Ye Zhen said, "I've seen people in the southern jungle roasting bats, rats, and spiders."
Bai Nana held back her words as she discussed roasted bats and roasted mice. Bats and mice were relatives and looked alike, with nothing but bones and meat, so it wasn't a big deal. But when she heard about roasted spiders, she nearly vomited: "Ye Zhen, that's enough! Say another word and I'll kick you down to feed the bats!"
Ye Zhen grinned: "Actually, I've eaten it before, it's quite delicious."
Bai Nana was disgusted and felt her clothes being pulled. She turned around and saw Tian Yao's slightly serious expression. She felt a little aggrieved: "It's disgusting to begin with."
"That's because you've never been hungry before," Tian Yao said, "You have to endure it even if you can't stand it!"
The bats flew away.
Hou Chao didn't dare to delay and ran downstairs. He had already startled the bats. It made no difference whether he paid attention to the sound or not.
Lu Nan took out a dagger from his waist and held it in his hand.
The cry for help became clear again, more painful than before. One could only vaguely discern that the sound was indeed coming from the fourteenth floor, but there were over forty rooms on that floor, and each door was half-closed, creating an eerie atmosphere that made one hesitate to rush over.
Imagine that the doors are almost all open, no one is there, but someone is asking for help?
Who doesn’t feel nervous when hearing this?
Lu Nan walked forward and opened the door of a room. The room was empty except for messy tables and chairs. Bloodstains had already turned black and could be seen everywhere, scattered here and there, as if they had dripped accidentally.
Hou Chao opened another room, but there was still no one there. There were more bloodstains, and blood marks left by dragging appeared on the ground. There was half a bloody handprint on the door. The owner of the handprint seemed to have struggled before being dragged away.
I opened several rooms in a row, but didn't see anyone.
The cry for help came out again intermittently: "Help... Help, I don't want to die!"
"Is there anyone? Help us!"
“Help—”
But after searching dozens of rooms, no one was seen, except for a few bats that were startled and flew away from somewhere.
But the cry for help is right there in everyone's ears.
"That's strange, why is there no one here?" Hou Chao clearly heard someone say that they were on the 14th floor.
Lu Nan's eyes were full of confusion, he also heard the voice.
"There's another place we haven't found," Guozi said.
"Where is it? Tell me quickly!" Liu Xujiang urged. It was scary to hear someone shouting for help but not see anyone.
Li Zhen also called the members of the Fire Dragon Team. This place was too strange, so strange that it made people feel uneasy.
(End of this chapter)
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