Chapter 32 Monster "None of us has clean hands"...
Xie Shuqin closed his eyes, took a deep breath, took out a dagger and stabbed back fiercely!
The wind tore through the heavy air, and she could feel something sharp brushing against her cheek, scratching off a piece of her hair.
Xie Shuqin turned around immediately, and a bullet grazed the side of her face. She could clearly see the movement stagnant in the blood, and then there was a sound of something falling to the ground, and blood splashed all over her.
Xie Shuqin was covered in cold sweat. Just as he was about to grab Baili Yunle and run, he bumped into a hard object. From the sound, it seemed to be made of iron.
Baili Yunle quickly pulled out the dagger and swung it forward with controlled force. The sound of iron colliding was harsh. Xie Shuqin immediately picked up the gun and fired several shots at the source of the sound.
Sparks flew in the air, and there was even a smell of burning.
The two quickly adjusted their positions, standing back to back. Through their night-vision goggles, they could clearly see a humanoid iron mass slowly emerging from the darkness, but crawling on four spider-like legs. It had no eye sockets, only two strange, glowing eyes that stared intently at them.
The two of them felt a chill.
The next moment, these things crawled towards them quickly in strange postures, their mechanical bodies covered with thick blood from the ground.
Without hesitation, Xie Shuqin picked up the machine gun on his back and fired. Baili Yunle quickly threw out a rope and set up a sniper in the air, shooting the monsters hiding in the dark in the head according to the bloody shadows.
"Come up! They can't reach that high place!"
Xie Shuqin cleared a path, shouldered her gun, and used the alien's feet to jump onto its back. The monsters below pursued her relentlessly, swarming over the alien like spiders.
Jie Shuqin suppressed her nausea and stepped on the head of a monster as it was about to climb up, then she grabbed Baili Yunle's hand and swung it on the chain above.
"What on earth are these things? Are the humans on the ground disappeared because of these things? Are the chains on their heads to protect them?" A series of questions came at him, and Jie Shuqin was so confused that she was about to get dizzy.
Baili Yunle collected the rope and climbed up, looking at the monsters carefully.
"I've always felt there was something fishy about the disappearance of the humans on the surface." He glanced at the monsters gathered beneath him. "Look, they're all afraid to enter that 'house.' I don't know why, but if they were afraid, they wouldn't all disappear. It's possible they're in that house right now."
Xie Shuqin agreed: "Perhaps these monsters are also the work of the humans on the ground."
Baili Yunle stood up and said, "Let's get rid of them first. We haven't figured out this place yet, so we have to be careful... Oh my god!"
A face covered in blood suddenly appeared in front of Baili Yunle. Baili Yunle's heart stopped suddenly. He subconsciously pulled out a dagger and chopped it hard, but the thing disappeared out of thin air!
Because of excessive force, Baili Yunle lost his balance and fell down!
Xie Shuqin immediately pounced over, wrapped her legs around the chains and hung down, grabbing his collar.
Baili Yunle cried out loudly and emotionally: "My dear sister, please don't let go!!"
"Shut up! Be careful, the quality of your clothes may be poor..." Before he could finish his words, he heard a "hissing" sound.
The two were silent.
Xie Shuqin howled, "I told you not to worry about you all the time! You're paid so much, but you haven't even found a base to make a few durable clothes! Go to hell!"
Baili Yunle howled, "I am guilty, don't let go!!"
The monsters under him gathered together densely. Some of them were impatient and lay directly on the backs of other monsters, building high towers one after another. One of them stretched out a sharp hand and hooked it on Baili Yunle's belt.
Baili Yunle was startled, and instantly erupted into a sharp explosion: "Oh my gosh! Ahhhhh, it's pulling down my pants!!!"
The monster gradually climbed up, and its sharp hands cut Baili Yunle's legs, oozing out black liquid.
Baili Yunle's heart furiously fell, he loosened one of Li Shuqin's hands, and kicked away all the monsters around him.
"Don't move! I can't pull it anymore!" Xie Shuqin was sweating profusely, and his ankles were bleeding from being squeezed by the chains, soaking his trouser legs.
The monster that was swept down was still reluctant to leave and quickly built another high ground.
"Jie Shuqin, hurry up!" Baili Yunle raised his head and shouted.
"This is the only way now!" Xie Shuqin exerted all her strength and swung Baili Yunle in the air. The chains made a crisp sound. She gritted her teeth and when Baili Yunle swung to the highest point, she instantly loosened her feet that were wrapped around the chains. Then, due to inertia, she fell from the top of her head into the alien house that no monster dared to approach.
A strong smell of blood rushed into her nostrils, and the sound of heavy objects smashing wood rang in her ears, splashing a disgusting pungent smell that made Jie Shuqin dizzy.
Her back seemed to hit something soft. Xie Shuqin sat up despite the headache and suddenly felt a hand in her palm.
She turned around suddenly, and everything around her was pitch black. The night vision goggles of her protective suit were broken when she crashed into it, and she couldn't see anything now!
But in front of her, there was a warm feeling slowly approaching her, and the hot wind blew against her ears.
Xie Shuqin's hair stood on end. She subconsciously pulled out the dagger, pressed the thing to the ground and stabbed forward!
“Stop, stop, stop!!”
The dagger suddenly stopped in mid-air. Amidst the heavy breathing, Jie Shuqin heard a faint chuckle. The person under her raised his hand and snapped his fingers. Then the lights around her brightened up, stinging her eyes, but she still endured the strong light and looked at the person under her without blinking.
After a long while, she finally found her voice: "...Xu An?"
Xu An had her long hair loose and looked like she had just woken up. She hummed lazily, then raised her chin, deliberately revealing the scar on her neck from the dagger: "Oh, oh, I'm hurt. Do you have any hemostatic bandages? Help me wrap one."
"..." Xie Shuqin silently climbed up. When the lights around her turned on, she could see clearly that she had fallen on a bed covered with blue and pink bedding. "Wait until I find the bandage, and your injury will be healed..."
Xu An smiled and sat up, pointing behind her: "If you don't want to use it for me, then forget it, but the guy walking his bird behind you will need it."
"Walking...the bird?" Xie Shuqin turned around and saw Baili Yunle, whose pants were pulled down to his knees, struggling to get up from the smashed wood. As a result, his leg limped and he fell headfirst onto the stool next to him. There was another sound of wood being torn apart.
Xie Shuqin was stunned.
Seeing that Baili Yunle was about to get up again, Xu An got off the bed barefoot and silently stopped Jie Shuqin who wanted to help him: "Don't try anymore. If you keep trying, your leg will really be gone."
Baili Yunle was sweating profusely from the pain. His ears were swollen with blood. He hurriedly covered his legs, "What do you know? Don't talk nonsense..."
Xu An slapped the block of wood in front of him away, twisted his trouser leg with two fingers, turned out the knee that was oozing black liquid, and raised his chin to Baili Yunle: "Talking nonsense? Look at me again, am I talking nonsense now?"
Xie Shuqin was stunned: "Why...why is my brother's blood black?"
"Brother?" Xu An turned his head to look at her and then said, "Of course it's because this leg is not his."
Xu An let go of his hand, stood up, walked to the bed, put on his shoes and tied his hair.
Baili Yunle finally struggled to his feet, holding onto the wall. He whispered "It's okay" to Jie Shuqin, then turned to look at Xu An: "What do you mean? Do you know what's wrong with my leg?"
"How could I possibly know about your legs?" Xu An looked at him innocently. Suddenly, he caught Li Shuqin's worried look and coughed softly. "One time, while taking a walk, I passed by a laboratory of terrestrial humans. As I was walking, the door inside suddenly collapsed, and a bunch of strange people ran out. Some of them were like you, normal people, but with legs transplanted from young aliens."
When she said this, the two of them didn't react for a moment.
"Passing by? The laboratory? The door collapsed?" Xie Shuqin slowed down. "What do you mean by having the legs of a young alien? You mean my brother's legs are alien? Then he..."
Xu An frowned when he heard the word "brother", feeling a little impatient: "Yeah, he should have come from a human laboratory on the ground. Only they can do this kind of experiment."
Xie Shuqin's eyes widened. "Experiment? How is that possible? Baili Yunle has never left the base for a long time, even if..."
"What about those people?" Baili Yunle interrupted her, swallowing fearfully at Xie Shuqin's incredulous gaze. "They... or me, am I still human?"
"Who knows." Xu An shrugged, put on his hat and walked out.
Xie Shuqin quickly grabbed her hand: "Xu An, there are monsters outside now, you first..."
"Guess why they don't dare to come in?" Xu An turned around with a smile and ruffled his frizzy hair. "Be good, I'm going to go vent my morning grumpiness and be back soon."
Xie Shuqin let go of her hand in a daze, with some blood foam still stained on her palm.
"Brother." Xie Shuqin looked at Xu An's back outside the door. "Those strange people she was talking about, could they be the monsters outside... How... did you get into the lab?"
Baili Yunle lowered his head and said nothing.
"Since you arrived at the base, you've never left except for ground missions." Xie Shuqin looked at him. "That was before the base was established, right?"
Baili Yunle still had his head down. At his feet, black blood mixed with the wood blocks on the ground, giving off a foul smell.
"Last time you said that you and Ono were driven out of the human habitat on the ground. It was at that time..."
"Stop talking." Baili Yunle squeezed her legs tightly. "Stop talking..."
His fingers clenched tightly, veins bulging, and he pinched the flesh on his thigh in an almost self-harming manner.
Xie Shuqin grabbed his arm and said, "Brother, don't be like this. Maybe Dr. Yin has a way to cure you? Let's go back and ask her..."
As she looked up, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a tear falling from in front of her eyes onto the back of her hand, like a drop of boiling water, burning her fingers so much that they curled up.
"I lied to you..." Baili Yunle didn't dare look at her. "Those bastards wanted to use Xiaoye as the latest batch of experimental subjects, and at the same time raise a young alien species, and gradually exchange body parts for them as they grow..."
"I can't just watch Xiao Ye being carried into the lab like this! I'm just a kid without any special powers. I can't beat them. I have no other choice! I can only sneak into the lab and install these legs on myself."
Jie Shuqin's heart trembled slightly.
Baili Yunle chuckled: "The facts prove that my bet was right. When human genes and alien genes are fused in a certain ratio, superpowers will be stimulated. This is the first time I know what it feels like to have superpowers..."
"I was able to do it now, so I broke into the laboratory. But it was too late because it was the first time they were conducting experiments on young children, and those beasts didn't use the right method... At that time, the whole room was filled with crying." Baili Yunle's eyes were red and bloodshot.
His voice calmed down, but his body began to tremble. "She was twitching on the bed, but when she saw me covered in blood, she smiled. She held my fingers..."
As he spoke, Baili Yunle stretched out his right index finger, "This is it," and then he called out "Brother" in a vague voice...
The more Xie Shuqin listened, the calmer she became: "Did you kill the people in the lab?"
"Yes." Baili Yunle had nothing to hide after he finished speaking. "Not only did I kill them, I also blew up the lab and released all the test subjects."
Xie Shuqin's eyelids twitched. "If these experimental subjects carry a contagious mutated virus, have you ever thought about what the consequences would be if people outside came into contact with it?"
"Of course I did." He laughed. "At that time, I just wanted them dead."
"Jie Shuqin, there's something I want to remind you of." Baili Yunle looked her straight in the eye. "Those of us who made it to the base alive from the surface have lived a life of plucking teeth from the tiger's mouth. No one's hands are clean. You're right to be afraid of me and be on guard against me, but everyone else in the base, don't..."
Xie Shuqin laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" Baili Yunle was a little annoyed. The tears on his face had not yet disappeared, and Jie Shuqin kept touching his curly hair.
"Brother, do you know how ridiculous it is for you to be so aggressive while facing this yellow-haired guy?" Xie Shuqin smiled and patted his hand, prying his fingers apart. "Stop pinching the flesh on your leg. Let's see what's going on outside."
Baili Yunle was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a smile. Just as he was about to follow her, his expression suddenly froze. Instead, he grabbed her hand and glanced out the door with an uncertain look. "Wait, I've been having nightmares and insomnia over this all these years. One reason is that I killed someone, and another reason is that when I blew up the lab and was about to leave, a hooded woman stood not far away."
"It was very dark at that time, and I couldn't see what she looked like, but I will always remember her eyes, those blood-red eyes that shone with light..." Baili Yunle's hands trembled slightly, "Just now, Xu An said that she was walking by..."
"You mean that person is Xu An?!"
Baili Yunle quickly covered her mouth, "Shhh—if it really is her, she was like this nineteen years ago, and she will still be like this nineteen years later. She might..."
As they spoke, Baili Yunle suddenly noticed a gaze. The two looked over and saw Xu An sitting on the last unbroken chair, looking at them with a smile.
"Go on, what could I be?"
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