Chapter 341 Security Meeting
The enraged mutant plant branches twisted into several thick roots and smashed down towards the small building. Amid the sound of bangs, the whole building shook and looked like it could collapse at any time.
"Are you sure this building can block the attack for one minute?" Ning Yuan asked in surprise.
"Pray," the man said.
"Shoot again, towards the direction close to the root," said Zhuang Mingxu, raising his gun first and selecting the one on the far left. The others who had crystal core guns in their hands also selected the one they were going to shoot at at the same time.
After a few gunshots, the vines that were originally entangled together instantly scattered. The bullets only touched a few of them, and only a part of them was ignited.
Then the vine branches condensed into several strands again and smashed down with even greater force.
"Damn it, this thing has become a spirit!" Ning Yuan shouted, and quickly condensed the ice knife to cut off the vine branches that were attacking him like pillars.
"You are a weapons research and development center, don't you have any fucking decent weapons?" Ning Yuan howled.
"If there was, we would have been out long ago," the man shouted.
Just as Zhuang Mingxu was considering firing a few more shots with the damaged crystal core gun due to excessive consumption, the elevator behind him rang.
It was like a life-saving "ding" sound, and everyone suddenly felt relieved.
"Fast forward," Ning Yuan said.
The woman who had been waiting at the elevator door climbed up without being told anything, and then several men came in one after another, with Ning Yuan at the rear. The moment he entered, a meter-thick entangled vine poked towards the elevator door, and the woman's scream suddenly resounded throughout the small space again, quite deafening.
"Is this thing sturdy?" The elevator was already going down, but the "bang bang" sound from above could still be heard. Ning Yuan glanced upwards and asked.
"Don't worry, even if the bomb comes, it won't leave a hole." The man sat down on the ground, his face dazed for a moment, and looked at a few people, "I'm the security guard of the institute, Cui Wen, you are not the only team, right?"
"Apart from us, who the hell would come to this remote place?" Ning Yuan thought that there was such a huge monster standing here and they didn't reveal any information at all. He couldn't help but complain, "Deputy Captain, Ning Yuan."
He pointed at a few people around him and introduced them, but before he finished saying their names, the elevator stopped.
As soon as the door opened, I saw that several people outside had not left yet. I was relieved to see that the person was standing here intact.
"Major," Cui Wen saluted and shouted to the man standing in the front.
The tall man was skinny, his cheeks looked bony without any extra flesh. His eyes were red, and he patted Cui Wen's shoulder and said, "I'm glad you're back."
He turned around and tried to look at the others, introducing himself, "I'm the head of the institute's security personnel, Zheng Jun. May I ask who is your captain?"
"The captain is outside," Ning Yuan stepped forward and introduced himself again.
After the two parties got to know each other again, Zhuang Mingxu asked about the communication radio station.
"We can't contact the outside world now," said Zheng Jun.
"Send someone to guard it. Our team members are outside and we need to report safety to them as soon as possible." Zhuang Mingxu looked around and found Liu Yang and a few others who were in charge of communications.
Zhou Nan took the initiative and said, "I'll go."
Zhuang Mingxu nodded, thinking of his special abilities, and between the two S-level ones, Liu Rui and Antonio, he chose the latter, "You go and help."
Antonio obviously understood what he meant. He nodded and followed Zhou Nan to follow one of Zheng Jun's men.
"Let's talk while we walk." Zheng Jun invited them to go inside, and then they saw a woman in the crowd. Probably it was safe now, the woman stopped making noise, and stayed quietly aside, staring at Gu Qingji with burning eyes.
Zheng Jun raised his eyebrows and said, "Ms. Zhao, Dr. Zhao has been looking for you."
"Oh" Zhao Qianqian then withdrew her gaze, but her face was slightly red, "Hello, I am Zhao Qianqian, thank you for saving me just now, you...are you Gu Qingji?"
Gu Qingji didn't have a good impression of this woman, but since she could call out his name, she might be a former fan. He hummed in response and quietly moved a little further away from her, obviously not wanting to have more contact with her.
The woman who was so arrogant just now suddenly became like this, which made all the men admire her. She could be so aroused in front of others just after coming back from the brink of life and death.
They all looked at Gu Qingji's face at the same time, thinking that there might be some misunderstanding about this star.
Zheng Jun knew what kind of person Zhao Qianqian was. Seeing the other party's attitude, he asked someone to send Zhao Qianqian to his father. He invited several people to go in and communicated information between the two parties.
They were located on the underground floor, which was actually at least ten meters above the ground. The surrounding areas were all laboratories that had been converted into rooms, in which lived a group of grown men. Through the windows on the doors, one could see the neat and tidy "tofu blocks" inside, most of whom were probably soldiers.
"I didn't reveal the situation here at the beginning because I was worried that no one would come to rescue them. They are all outstanding talents trained by the country and should not end up here." After understanding what happened, Zheng Jun also felt very sorry.
"I had estimated the time and was planning to explain everything to you. We would gather our firepower and leave here together. But who could have imagined that the contact over the past few days had been intermittent and we were unable to convey complete information, so things were delayed."
"I have to say, you guys are really good at delaying." Ning Yuan's tone was very bad. Because he was a soldier, he was always tolerant towards soldiers. With such an attitude at this time, let alone other people. ”
"I'm really sorry," Zheng Jun apologized again.
Things have come to this, and there is no need to dwell on it. Zhuang Mingxu patted Ning Yuan on the shoulder and asked about their situation.
"As of now, there are a total of 582 researchers and their families, 198 security personnel, including 234 people with special abilities."
When Zhuang Mingxu heard this number, he was stunned. Just from the information he had collected before, this place covered a very vast area, with several underground laboratories alone. The number of people should be at least ten thousand or even more. He didn't expect that there would only be a few hundred people left.
Zheng Jun smiled bitterly, "A group died in the earthquake, another group died from zombies, and another group died from attacks by mutated animals and plants. Things have only stabilized a little recently, but they have to go outside to find food every few days. They just haven't come back." He pointed his chin at Cui Wen.
"If you had been a few months late, we might have run out of ammunition and food and died." After Zheng Jun finished speaking, he laughed first, as if he found it unbelievable.
"Don't you have people with superpowers? Isn't it a problem to use the wood element to produce some food?" Ning Yuan also saw that the other party was too thin. He thought it was due to his physical condition just now, but now he thinks he is not hungry.
"After a few times of inducing the growth of plants, they can no longer grow." Zheng Jun saw that Ning Yuan and the others were surprised, but Zhuang Mingxu looked calm, "You know?"
The others also looked at Zhuang Mingxu, and only then did they remember that when he usually asked people to grow food, he would label the seeds and then save them. It seemed that he knew about this.
"I learned this by accident," Zhuang Mingxu changed the subject, "Do you mainly rely on hunting animals?"
"Where can we get out? The mutated plants outside are using our food reserves to feed us. There will always be casualties whenever we go out. The number of security personnel has dropped from 400 at the beginning to the current number." Zheng Jun looked sad. "The mutated plants will hunt the mutated animals around them. They only eat crystal cores and suck blood. Let's go and pick up the corpses."
"Isn't there any artillery here?" Ning Yuan asked anxiously, worried that they had made a wasted trip.
"Yes, but most of them were buried during the apocalyptic earthquake. By the time we had the energy to dig, the mutated plants had blocked our movement. We are few in number and few in weapons, and we don't have that many lives to sacrifice, so we had to give up." Zheng Jun took them to a spacious room, which was empty and had nothing in it.
"Everything is tense here. I see that one of your teammates is injured. You can take a rest here." Zheng Jun glanced at Xu Sa who still hadn't woken up. "There is no professional doctor. Do you need me to find a half-witted doctor to help?"
"Come and find her." Zhuang Mingxu saw that Liu Rui looked worried and thought Xu Sa was sleeping too deeply.
Zheng Jun nodded and signaled someone to go and call.
"The people in charge here are basically divided into two groups. I am responsible for security, and Academician Zhao Changming is in charge of the laboratory. I should send someone to notify them, and they should be here soon," said Zheng Jun.
"Academician Zhao Changming?" Zhuang Mingxu raised his eyebrows, wondering if it was the person he knew.
Just as he asked, he saw a group of people striding towards him at the end of the corridor, and the leader was indeed the acquaintance he was thinking of.
"Uncle Zhao?" Zhuang Mingxu took the initiative to greet him.
"Mingxu? Why is it you?" Zhao Changming was also a little surprised, and then asked, "Are you here on behalf of the Zhuang family?"
Zhuang Mingxu shook his head.
"Who is this?" Lu Xi leaned close to Ning Yuan and asked in a low voice.
"...his eldest daughter is the marriage partner arranged by the Zhuang family for Mingxu." Ning Yuan looked embarrassed and felt that the world was a little small.
Upon hearing this, Lu Xi immediately became alert, and stood on tiptoe beside Zhuang Mingxu, looking as if he was listening to what they were saying seriously.
Zhuang Mingxu glanced at him but didn't notice what he was thinking.
I followed Zhao Changming to another place and asked about the situation there.
Ning Yuan followed them and left, signaling to those who stayed behind to be careful.
After a while, a woman came over and introduced herself as Song Qin, who was sent by Zheng Jun to help with the physical examination.
This was the first person they had seen who was not as skinny as the others. She looked like the women who pursued beauty and controlled their figure before the apocalypse, and she did not look like someone who was starving.
There were no available instruments, so the woman just pried open his eyelids and took a look, checking his heartbeat and other basic vital signs. "I don't see any problem. He might be sensitive to the smell of the mutated plants, or he might be tired and has inhaled too much. Let him rest for a while and see how he gets."
"Are you sure?" Qi Lin felt that her examination was very unprofessional.
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