205 Yongsheng Pharmaceutical Foundation (XI)
◎Zhu Ning has a stomachache◎
Is the third person a human or a pollutant? And when was this footprint left behind?
There are three possibilities. The first is that when Chu Ling and Cao Wei entered, something was following them, and they were unaware of it.
The second type is a pollutant, which is similar to an NPC and a character in the polluted area. The three of them travel together.
The third possibility is that Chu Ling and Cao Wei followed these footprints in.
It is difficult to determine which type they are, but what is certain is that they are likely to be in danger.
Zhu Ning assigned them the task of exploring below to see if there was an entrance. Logically, they would not act on their own.
Shouldn't they have left a signal for their teammates under normal circumstances? They also let them know before going in. What made them act?
The footprints continued to extend, and the ones in the distance could not be seen clearly.
The body of the cockroach man in the hotel lobby began to twitch, his stomach rumbling, and the little cockroaches were about to burst out of his body, making a sticky sound that made people's scalps tingle.
What happened to Chu Ling and the others? We had to go in to find clues. Zhu Ning said, "Let's go."
This time it was Xu Meng who took the lead. Zhu Ning was injured and she gasped in pain when she moved.
Her voice was soft, but Xu Meng heard it. In the narrow corridor, Xu Meng asked, "Are your injuries so serious?"
Zhu Ning was covered in blood, and Xu Meng couldn't see her injuries clearly just now.
"I don't have any external injuries," Zhu Ning said, feeling very strange. "I just have a stomachache."
She had been feeling a dull pain since she entered the meeting room. Later, she took a powerful healing agent and thought she was cured. After all, with the help of high technology, broken legs and arms can heal quickly.
Zhu Ning initially thought he had just a scratch or some minor injury, but it seems that is not the case at all.
She rubbed her lower abdomen. It was hard to describe the pain, as if there was a tendon pushing against it.
Zhu Ning: "Is there something in my stomach?"
The corridor was very narrow. Doctor Fu was stuck in the middle and saw three people's shadows cast on the wall, stretched out like ghosts.
Just looking at the wall, Dr. Fu looked like he was trapped between two ghosts.
Upon hearing this, Dr. Fu asked, "Are you contaminated?"
"I don't know," Zhu Ning said, "Maybe there are worms in my stomach?"
Doctor Fu's face turned pale. This polluted area was really terrifying to him. It was more terrifying than all the ghost stories he had ever heard.
Doctor Fu was smart enough to think about it again. "You had a stomachache and then you encountered the cockroach man. There must be something unclean in the conference room. I'll help you check it out later."
Doctor Fu just dropped his backpack outside the wall, otherwise it would be full of medical equipment.
Zhu Ning nodded: "Okay, thank you for your help."
There was a doctor in the team who was pretty good. Zhu Ning held his stomach and felt that this hotel was really weird.
They attack people earlier than ordinary polluted areas, usually by conducting mental pollution first, trying to assimilate them.
But here, the attack mode started as soon as they entered the ninth floor.
Why? Because they found some key information?
But what matters is just two defective personal data and a cockroach in the room.
Zhu Ning was thinking as he walked. The road ahead was getting narrower and narrower, so he had to bend down to move forward.
It was too narrow and made people feel depressed. Zhu Ning was forced to bend his back. If he was Chu Ling's height, he would probably have to squat and walk here.
Xu Meng walked faster so that he could detect danger in advance. Suddenly, Dr. Fu felt that the person in front of him stopped.
Doctor Fu saw Xu Meng's back and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Detector." Xu Meng said.
The inspection department once sent out detection machines, but Zhuang Lin said that none of the machines came back.
Zhu Ning and the others went upstairs before, but probably because the stairs were blocked and the detector could not go upstairs, they all gathered downstairs.
The cleaning center's detection equipment is very high-tech and comes in various shapes. The smallest detector is made into a simulated bee shape.
Now they are scattered all over the ground, piled up like a mountain of corpses.
Xu Meng, who had been bent over, now half-squatted and said, "Nothing works."
The bee's eyes should have been flashing blue, but now they were pitch black. Xu Meng tried to turn it on manually, but no matter what he did, there was no response.
Doctor Fu: "Like Prometheus?"
Will the communication equipment in this place be subject to some kind of restrictions?
There were corpses at Xu Meng's feet, blocking her way like a line of defense. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up, and she couldn't help but feel a chill down her spine.
Her feline sixth sense told her that there was danger ahead and that there would be no turning back once she crossed the line.
Xu Meng didn't move immediately. Doctor Fu was puzzled behind him, while Zhu Ning, who was at the end of the team, was holding his stomach.
The closer she got, the more her stomach ached.
About a minute later, Xu Meng took action. She crossed the line of corpses, followed by Dr. Fu and Zhu Ning.
The three of them felt like they had stepped into the gates of hell.
After Zhu Ning came in, he felt that his vision had been opened up. It was extremely narrow and cramped just now, but now it was suddenly transparent, like the feeling of sudden enlightenment described in Peach Blossom Spring.
Unfortunately, this is not a paradise, but a dark cave.
Like a mine, there is a bottomless hole in the center. It looks like some monster was once buried there and has now left, or it looks like countless gold mines have just been dug out.
The only thing that is certain is that humans are so small compared to the mine and can be easily swallowed up in one bite.
The light from the protective suit was like a searchlight used by miners. Three beams of light shone into the darkness, but could not reach the end of the cave.
In the dark underground, the slightest sound was amplified. The surroundings were empty, and there was a crying sound like the wind, and it seemed as if there was a monster lurking in the corner.
Monsters were lying on the wall of the cave. If there were cockroach people here, this would probably be the grave of the three people.
The three of them maintained a tacit understanding, and no one dared to speak, for fear of alarming the unknown creatures in the darkness.
There was actually such a place downstairs from the Yongsheng Pharmaceutical Hotel? They thought it was a laboratory or something.
Xu Meng squinted his eyes and observed that the ground was not flat, but was slightly tilted downward.
Xu Meng took the first step, and once she took action, Zhu Ning and Dr. Fu could only follow.
After walking for a while, they could roughly understand part of the structure of this place. It was like an upside-down screw shell, winding downwards in circles.
If you walk to the right, you will get closer to the underground.
Because of the silence, their concept of time was confused. They lost many reference lines and had no idea how long they had been walking. Even their physical condition became very strange.
They did not feel tired or depressed, just numb, as if they were slowly approaching death.
They walked deeper and deeper, and when they looked up they could no longer see the way they came.
Finally, a pavilion appeared in front of me. The red pavilion was a cube and looked very strange because of its sudden appearance.
Doctor Fu stopped. For some reason, the appearance of a building in this place was more frightening than the appearance of a monster with a green face and fangs.
The pavilion may have been used for observation or for standing guard.
No matter what it is used for, it proves that they are getting closer and closer to the core. This is an outpost of a certain base.
There are automatic firearms on the observation booth, and there should have been some infrared laser defense line at the door, but now for some reason, all of them have become ineffective.
Xu Meng approached the observation pavilion and found that the building was much larger than he had imagined, about thirty square meters. There was a simple bed inside, probably used for temporary rest.
There was a box of mental healing agent and a box of nutritional agent on the ground. There was no ordinary food, only these injections.
Xu Meng checked and found that the nutritional supplements had expired for three years, so someone must have worked here before.
And it was abandoned very early.
When was this place abandoned and when did the contaminated area come into being?
After they entered and looked for clues, Zhu Ning felt that something was really wrong with his body and his face looked very bad.
There was a medicine box hanging on the wall. Doctor Fu flipped through it and found that it was not expired.
Doctor Fu said, "How about you take a break first? I'll take a look at Zhu Ning's injuries."
This was the first sentence they said after entering the underground, and it seemed very unreal.
Zhu Ning didn't try to be brave and sat on the simple bed. The quilt on it was so tattered that it looked like it was about to fall apart.
Doctor Fu began to check Zhu Ning's injuries. The first thing he noticed was the injury on Zhu Ning's shoulder. The protective suit there was damaged and it was very easy to get infected.
It was covered with blood and some messy mucus, and Doctor Fu poured some medicine that outsiders could not understand on it.
Dr. Fu carefully examined her wound and found that it had healed and was forming a scab.
It was probably because of the powerful healing agent, or because of the mucus in Zhu Ning's body, that her injuries were not serious, and the cockroach man did not cause any serious injuries to Zhu Ning.
Doctor Fu thought of the black slime. He still remembered the strange creature that emerged from Zhu Ning's body and grabbed his hand when he was climbing the wall outside the building.
Doctor Fu asked, "You, are you alienated?"
Doctor Fu had only seen something similar in alienated people, where something would coexist with humans and appear as a concrete entity.
Zhu Ning didn't know how to answer, so he said honestly, "That's an alien species."
"Alien species?" Doctor Fu thought he had misheard. He said, "I didn't even know that alien species could coexist with humans."
As far as he knew, the aliens fed on fear. They had to rely on contaminated areas to survive and would soon die after leaving them.
Alien species cannot survive at all, let alone coexist with humans.
Doctor Fu asked, "Are you sure?"
Zhu Ning: “Not sure.”
How could she know what the hell was in her body, but Dr. Fu's words suddenly reminded her that she had previously assumed it was an alien species. What if it wasn't?
Doctor Fu felt very strange. Looking at Zhu Ning was like looking at a monster. He could understand why some people said she was a devil.
"Are you afraid of me?" Zhu Ning asked.
It is too easy to be contaminated in a polluted area, so it is normal for Dr. Fu to be afraid.
Doctor Fu shook his head. Zhu Ning had saved him several times. He always believed that the fusion of humans and pollutants was inevitable, and he had no aversion to Zhu Ning.
What needs to be solved first is Zhu Ning’s stomachache. Why does it hurt?
Doctor Fu pulled out a stethoscope-like device. The cleaning center had advanced testing tools, and he hadn't used a stethoscope in a long time. "Do you mind?" he asked.
Zhu Ning shook his head and felt a stethoscope pressed against his lower abdomen.
It was already quiet in the basement, with only the sound of Xu Meng flipping through documents. Doctor Fu's attention was focused on the stethoscope.
A very subtle movement was transmitted, and Dr. Fu looked at it carefully as if he was looking for a tiny ring on the beach.
Boom——
Dr. Fu was startled, and his heart seemed to tremble.
Even though the sound was so light, it was more terrifying than a bomb exploding next to him. He heard a heartbeat.
Dr. Fu thought he had misheard. Is this some kind of mental pollution?
He wasn't sure, so he listened attentively again, moving the stethoscope carefully.
Boom, boom, boom——
This time the sound was louder, like a heart contracting.
Doctor Fu quickly withdrew his hand as if he had been burned, and looked at Zhu Ning's abdomen in disbelief.
There's a living thing in her belly!
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