The contents inside made everyone vomit for a long time. Lu Yuan vomited chokingly inside but found nothing. In the end, he had no choice but to throw away his gloves.
"The liquid inside is probably the putrefied fluid from a decaying organism. This stuff must have been there for a very long time."
Because of the room's excellent insulation and automatic humidification and heating functions, the talisman, even when broken, doesn't immediately evaporate; it remains stored inside the box. Therefore, opening it releases the odor.
Lu Yuan vomited as he spoke, finally managing to get all those words out.
Some people nearby were also clutching their stomachs, leaning against the clean base of the wall, and vomiting incessantly.
After vomiting, everyone still felt a stench in the air around them.
They decided to continue searching upstairs, hoping to find something there.
So they continued walking upstairs, but after reaching the fourth floor, they still didn't find anything.
Having gained nothing, the group had no choice but to abandon the building and move on to the next destination.
Lu Yuan had a vague feeling that they must have discovered some secret in those laboratories, but the smell inside was too strong. He felt that he would rather take a huge risk than go back.
After finally returning to that floor, Lu Yuan glanced in the direction of the laboratory, feeling somewhat unwilling but also reluctant to go over.
So they simply gave up on this place and everyone started searching elsewhere.
Following this building are several other laboratory buildings, all ten stories high.
However, there was no power supply in this area, which rendered all the elevators inoperable, forcing everyone to climb the stairs, panting and out of breath.
In no time, everyone was panting heavily. There was no way around it; they were already carrying a lot of equipment, plus even more protective gear, and climbing stairs was an extremely physically demanding activity. As a result, everyone was completely exhausted after climbing three buildings.
After looking around, Captain Liu pointed to a large area in the distance and asked, "What is that place?"
The lab technician was exhausted. Leaning against the wall, he glanced at his laptop and casually remarked, "That's the Blue Star people's canteen over there, but it's probably empty by now, or if it is, it's rotten!"
"Oh, the cafeteria? I know what the Blue Shadows' cafeteria looks like. There are plenty of chairs inside. Why don't we go in and rest for a while, grab something to eat, and then we'll continue?"
No one objected, so they followed Captain Liu toward the canteen.
Pushing open the door, a pleasant smell of cleaning agents wafted out.
Although the Blue Star people are ferocious and tyrannical, it must be said that they have quite high requirements for cleanliness.
Once inside, everyone found chairs, sat down, took out their supplies, and began eating to replenish their energy.
Lu Yuan didn't dare to eat here so casually; he was still worried that this place might be dangerous.
As soon as he entered this place, he sensed an insidious danger approaching them, as if someone was watching them all along.
Lu Yuan wasn't sure if it was his own hallucination or a manifestation of paranoia, but he was certain that this feeling indicated some kind of danger.
After all, it would seem a bit unreasonable for the Earthlings to just hand this thing over to everyone for no reason, given that it contains so much equipment.
When everyone had eaten and drunk their fill and were ready to rest, Lu Yuan picked up his binoculars and continued to observe the surroundings.
Suddenly, I saw some black things falling down from a building in the distance.
After making a questioning sound, Lu Yuan increased the magnification of the telescope.
"What is that?"
Lu Yuan's words caught everyone's attention. Captain Liu walked over, took out his binoculars, and looked in the direction Lu Yuan was looking.
Are you talking about that building?
"That's right, those buildings all have them. It looks like those dark things have crawled over their surfaces. They're not very big, but there are quite a lot of them!"
Everyone felt a sudden panic and immediately picked up their weapons to check themselves.
Some people simply took out their binoculars and began to observe.
Finally, another large mass of things swept across the rooftops.
They turned down from the rooftop, which sent chills down everyone's spine.
These things were like locusts, so numerous that it was impossible to count them all.
Everyone knew this thing was definitely not safe, so Captain Liu shouted, "Get out of here quickly!"
Everyone knew danger was approaching, and they quickly packed their gear and ran desperately towards the outside.
However, after they had been running for about ten minutes, they heard a crashing sound from the ground behind them.
It sounded like the babbling of a stream, or like the sound of metal rubbing against each other—so crisp and clear.
As Lu Yuan ran, he kept looking back, and only then did he finally see a black carpet sweeping towards them from the ground in the distance.
These black carpets are made up of black beetle-like things.
These beetles look to be only about the size of a fist, but there are thousands upon thousands of them, densely packed together, seemingly endless, which makes them feel very dangerous.
Finally, Lu Yuan looked at their car in the distance. The car was parked on a flat piece of land some distance away, quietly.
So Captain Liu shouted again, and everyone sprinted toward the car.
However, when they were halfway there, Lu Yuan suddenly heard one of the team members at the front shout loudly, "Oh no! There are bugs over there! We're surrounded!"
Upon hearing this, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.
Sure enough, the convoy in the distance was already surrounded by swarms of insects.
The rubber tire disappeared in an instant.
Then the insects, seemingly insatiable and omnivorous, gnawed the entire car down to just the frame.
Everyone was stunned. After looking around, Lu Yuan immediately pointed to the tallest building in the distance, which was also the closest building to them, and shouted, "Go to that building, let's run up!"
Everyone knew what to do: they ran while shooting back, the only way to fend off the bugs behind them.
Da da da.
The sound of bullets kept ringing in my ears.
Lu Yuan didn't have a gun, so he could only try to increase his speed as much as possible, but he couldn't go too fast.
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