Chapter 11 Poison Town - 4 *** ……
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The ventilation duct was very narrow and pitch black. Tang Bufan did not have claustrophobia, but he still felt very suffocated in such an environment.
After climbing up, Tang Bufan realized he hadn't brought his sniper rifle. However, it would be difficult to fire it even if he did, so he pulled out the pistol hanging on his leg and held it in his hand.
"Teacher, can you share the video with me?" Lu Yi's voice came from Tang Bufan's light screen glasses.
Tang Bufan pressed his glasses against the wall inside the pipe: "Did you see that?"
"Very flashy."
"It must be because of this metal pipe." Tang Bufan touched the cool pipe, unable to identify its material, but he knew that metal could significantly weaken signals, which was why the signal was poor in the elevator.
"Why don't we come back?"
"We're all up here." Tang Bufan began to climb forward carefully along the pipe. After climbing for a while, he discovered that the connection with Lu Yi had been severed.
The Wi-Fi in the RV has also been disconnected.
Fortunately, the glasses were still functioning normally. Tang Bufan hesitated for a second before choosing to continue climbing forward.
Soon a fork in the road appeared before him. Tang Bufan recalled the location of the alloy safety door, grabbed his pistol, and slipped into the right-hand side.
Suddenly, a small creature darted out of the darkness, chirping and climbing onto Tang Bufan. Tang Bufan immediately tumbled around in the narrow pipe, and after a lot of effort, he finally managed to grab the creature and slam it against the metal pipe, killing it.
It was a mutated rat, a bloody mess of green in the night vision goggles. Tang Bufan noticed that its skin was somewhat ulcerated, and he immediately felt irritated.
I hope I don't catch any disease.
With that thought in mind, Tang Bufan continued to climb along the pipe. Soon he saw an exit, his eyes lit up, and he quickly increased his climbing speed.
A sharp knife suddenly stabbed up from below the pipe. Tang Bufan felt a sharp pain in his right calf and immediately looked down in panic, just in time to see the knife being withdrawn from below.
There are people down below!
Realizing this, Tang Bufan quickly turned his body to the side and pressed himself against the metal pipe wall. His thin body saved him, and the sharp knife that was thrusting up again narrowly passed through the front of his chest!
Seeing that its attack missed, the poisoned creature below withdrew its bayonet again. It probably thought that Tang Bufan hadn't climbed to this spot yet, so it stabbed at Tang Bufan's feet a third time. This time, Tang Bufan reacted quickly, squeezing out space in the narrow ventilation duct and kicking the bayonet hard, causing it to bend slightly.
The bent bayonet got stuck in the gap and began to sway from side to side. Taking advantage of the moment when the poisoned man pulled out the bayonet, Tang Bufan raised his pistol and fired a swift shot into the small hole pierced by the bayonet.
"Bang!"
The gunshot echoed through the pipes.
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In the pharmaceutical room, Lu Yi immediately looked up, gripping the documents in his hand tightly as he looked in the direction from which the gunshots came.
"Bang!"
"Bang! Bang!"
Three more gunshots rang out.
Lu Yi's heart raced. He strained his ears, trying to hear something more, but as the last gunshot faded away, the vast hospital fell silent.
"teacher!"
Lu Yi tried to shout, but the surroundings were quiet and there was no response.
Lu frowned, threw the crumpled document back onto the table, strode over to the ventilation duct, and jumped up.
He grabbed the edge of the pipe with both hands, but only his head went in.
The orc's broad shoulders caught him, and Lu Yi had no choice but to fall back to the ground.
"Brother Kai! Can you get in touch with the teacher?" Lu Yi asked the RV's AI through the light screen glasses.
"Signal blocked, unable to connect with Xiao Tang." Kai Ge replied in a gentle electronic male voice. Although Tang Bufan was its master, it was merely an emotionless artificial intelligence.
Lu Yi frowned. He thought anxiously for a moment, and finally made up his mind to raise his wrist. There, the delicate black bracelet had its screen dimmed.
Lu Yi pressed the switch on the side of the bracelet. A few seconds later, the screen lit up, and a gentle mechanical female voice came through.
"Hello, Louis."
"Evelyn, activate the radar scan and find a human for me," Lu Yi ordered quickly. "He should be nearby."
"Radiation radar is in operation, detecting, please wait... Target detected matching the description. The man is 104 meters away and is moving."
Lu Yi frowned and pressed, "Is there someone poisonous around him?"
"Two infected individuals detected."
Lu Yixin tensed up and immediately said to Evelyn, "Give me his location and take me to him!"
“Yes, Louis.”
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Tang Bufan lay on the ventilation duct, breathing heavily, his attention focused on what was below. It wasn't until he suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from deep inside the duct that he realized something was wrong and looked up.
A withered head slowly emerged from the pitch-black pipe ahead, its blood-red eyes staring at him menacingly.
Tang Bufan's heart almost stopped.
It wasn't until the poisonous man stared at him for two or three seconds that Tang Bufan snapped out of his daze and suddenly raised his gun, pointing it at the poisonous man and pressing the trigger.
"Bang!"
The bullet hit the pipe, and the poisoned man nimbly shrank back.
"Hehehe..."
Tang Bufan heard the poisonous man let out a very strange laugh, which sent chills down his spine.
“Human…I saw it…I saw it! You were with that orc…hehehehehe…You are a traitor…you are a traitor who betrayed humanity!”
The poisonous man slowly poked his head out from the depths of the pipe again. Tang Bufan's hand, gripping the gun, trembled slightly. The poisonous man continued:
"Father said...those who betray humanity...deserve to die...deserve to die!"
Its face was ferocious, and Tang Bufan immediately fired two shots, but the poisonous man still dodged them by shrinking his head. Tang Bufan gritted his teeth angrily and was about to wait for another opportunity when he suddenly felt a pair of withered and cold hands climb up his calves.
"..." Tang Bufan lowered his head, his face pale, and was met with the grinning face of another poisonous man.
Tang Bufan was beaten up by the two poisoners in the pipe. His head was broken and his eyes were covered in blood. In his dazed state, he felt the two poisoners dragging him out of the pipe.
Why don't they kill themselves? Tang Bufan thought groggily, then succumbed to drowsiness and fainted.
When he woke up, he was hanging in a dimly lit operating room.
Tang Bufan's right eye was swollen and he couldn't open it. He could only struggle to open his left eye and look up to see the thick, large chain tied to his wrist.
He looked down again, and his feet were also bound by thick iron chains.
Tang Bufan twisted his body in mid-air, unwilling to give up. This movement turned him around, and he suddenly realized that there was someone hanging next to him.
When he finally saw the person next to him, Tang Bufan's pupils constricted sharply, and his head buzzed as if it had exploded.
Hanging next to Tang Bufan was a person without limbs... if he could still be called a person.
The man's body, hacked into a ball of flesh, was bound with thick chains, his hair shaved off, his head forced high, a thick feeding tube inserted into his mouth from above, and several holes in his abdomen with fecal bags and urinary catheters hanging from them. In addition, there was a blood vessel inserted into his carotid artery.
A strong feeling of nausea washed over him, and Tang Bufan twitched a few times while hanging in the air, then began to gag violently. A few tears also welled up in his left eye, which he could still open.
He finally understood why those two poisonous people didn't kill him: they wanted to keep him alive and drain his blood... Human blood is cleaner than poisonous people's blood, so they wanted to drain his blood!
"Lu Yi..." Tang Bufan couldn't help but call out Lu Yi's name. He was still spinning slightly in the air, but he didn't want to see the person next to him at all. His extremely mutilated body terrified him.
He then tried to think of Lu Yi, that handsome and gentle boy, of him sitting obediently in the passenger seat, of him innocently raising the glass to the sun, of him adorably smiling at him while holding a gerbil…
"Lu Yi..." Tang Bufan regretted it, his eyes blurry with tears. He really shouldn't have crawled into the metal pipe.
Suddenly, the sound of wheels rolling came from behind him, along with the clanging of cold instruments colliding with each other. Tang Bufan, who was hanging there, felt a chill run down his spine. He turned his head with difficulty and saw an old poisoner who was green all over and as thin as a skeleton grinning at him in a sinister way.
And what it was pushing was a surgical cart full of instruments!
Tang Bufan's breathing quickened, and his suspended body began to tremble.
No...no! He doesn't want to be turned into a human pig!
"Humans delivered to my door." The old poisoner with a face full of wrinkles chuckled, picked up a pair of surgical scissors, walked to Tang Bufan's side, grabbed Tang Bufan's swaying foot with its withered hand, and began to cut Tang Bufan's trouser leg.
Tang Bufan was helpless, his feet bound by chains, and could only watch as the old poisoner used surgical scissors to cut open his trouser legs.
“There’s a high-ranking orc outside…” Tang Bufan warned him in a low voice, trying to suppress his fear: “He will come looking for me…”
The old poisoner paused in its act of cutting its pants, and sure enough, it raised its head, its blood-red eyes staring at Tang Bufan with a strange expression.
"Father will help us," the old poisoner said, his voice incredibly hoarse.
"Father?" Tang Bufan heard the word again. He clicked his tongue and asked, "Who is father?"
He needs to buy time.
"Father is our savior!" The old poisoner suddenly became excited, his green face becoming even more ferocious. He raised his surgical scissors with an expression of worship: "He restored our sanity! He taught us how to make medicine! He is the savior of us poisoners!"
"Can I see him?" Tang Bufan asked breathlessly. Seeing the old poisoner's fanatical eyes, he followed its train of thought: "I also want to be redeemed by Father."
"Father is on the island," the old poisoner said, then let out another eerie, cacophony laugh.
"Cunning human." It narrowed its reddened eyes and looked at Tang Bufan with a sinister gaze: "I know you're stalling for time. That orc won't come to save you, and Father won't redeem you, because you're a traitor..."
The old poisoner laughed maniacally and pointed at the limbless human next to him: "A traitor who fell in love with orcs just like him!"
After saying that, it suddenly raised the surgical scissors and plunged them into Tang Bufan's thigh. Tang Bufan's whole body tensed up instantly, and his veins bulged in pain.
"Anyone who falls in love with an orc deserves to die!" The old poisoner pulled out his blood-stained scissors, his face contorted with rage, and stabbed Tang Bufan in the thigh again!
"Lu Yi!" Tang Bufan cried out in despair.
With a loud bang, the operating room door was kicked open.
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