Chapter 121 Underground Street
After exploring inside, I didn't find anything special. This is really just an ordinary cave, and there is no passage leading to the inside of the mountain.
Just as we were about to leave, I suddenly looked up for some unknown reason.
When I looked up, I really discovered something different.
"Look! There are also symbols on the top of the cave!" I said, shining the flashlight on the top of the cave.
A long, thin cross was painted on the top of the cave, with a curved line drawn on the lower right side of the cross.
Gang Jue took out his camera, took a picture and said, "Show it to Old Song later."
After saying that, he fired a steel crossbow arrow at the top, destroying the symbol.
When they returned to the cliff at the top of the mountain, Song Nanxing and Lin Hanning were already preparing to burn the corpses.
Gang Jue strode towards Song Nanxing, pointed at the picture on the communicator and asked him, "Do you know what this means?"
Song Nanxing took a look at it and replied, "This is the planetary symbol of Saturn, representing the concrete manifestation of the soul being confined by matter."
As he spoke, he looked up and asked Steel Lord: "Is this what you found in the cave?"
"Yes, it's carved on the ceiling of the cave."
After hearing Gang Jue's answer, Song Nanxing lowered his head and pondered for a while, then suddenly realized:
"I know where these bastards hid the bodies elsewhere!"
Hearing him say this, we all turned around.
"How do you say that?"
"The symbol in the woods is for Jupiter, and the symbol in the cave is for Saturn. Saturn also represents the soul being confined by matter. So, all we have to do now is look for locations corresponding to other planets to find the remaining blood sacrifice sites!"
"In astrology, there are eleven most commonly used planetary symbols. Based on this idea, there are at least eight more blood sacrifice sites."
"Awesome, you have something!" Jiang Wang praised.
Everyone was excited about this discovery, and Steel Lord directly sent our guesses back to headquarters, while we spent the rest of the time dealing with the bodies.
After dealing with all this, it was almost time to pack up and return to the camp.
In the evening, we received a message from the headquarters. According to the ideas we gave, the headquarters quickly locked down more than 20 areas suspected to be blood sacrifice sites and dispatched additional search teams to check them one by one.
Song Nanxing's deduction was absolutely correct. After a few days, all eight blood sacrifice sites were found. The people of the Apocalypse Sect obstructed them several times along the way, and many team members died, but in the end, the Investigation Bureau destroyed these blood sacrifice sites one by one.
The search mission is coming to an end, and the command center has also sent new information.
The message was simple, just one sentence.
"Meet in the city center in three hours."
After receiving the order, we quickly packed up our equipment and headed for the city center.
When we reached the edge of the city, all the buildings were destroyed, with broken walls and ruins everywhere, as if it had experienced a major earthquake.
The most troublesome problem is that even the roads leading to the city center have been destroyed.
This will significantly slow down our journey into the city center.
It took us about half an hour to walk five kilometers.
Chen Yubing made a judgment based on our speed.
Although we are currently less than thirty kilometers away from our destination.
However, at the current speed, it is still very difficult to arrive within the specified time.
So she walked straight up to Steel Lord and said to him.
"Gan Jue, if we continue like this, we'll probably delay things. Do you want us to find a more accessible route?"
Gang Jue was also aware of this. After Chen Yubing made this suggestion, he took out his own drone.
After the drone took off, it transmitted back all the information about the surrounding situation.
After seeing the images sent back by the drone, Gang Jue's brows were tightly furrowed.
After a moment, Gang Jue couldn't help but sigh and shook his head helplessly.
"All the roads leading to the city center are damaged, and the road we are on is the best one."
After hearing this, we all fell into deep thought.
If we don't arrive in the city center at the scheduled time, subsequent deployments will be affected.
But right now we can't go any faster even if we want to.
Just when we were at a loss, Lin Hanning, who had been silent before, spoke.
"I know a road that's probably undamaged and will get you to your destination faster."
Lin Hanning's words made me feel a little confused. We have the latest aerial photography, and all the roads nearby are damaged. There is no road that can be walked on.
But seeing her determined look, Gang Jue thought for a moment and then asked her.
"Are you sure?"
"Um."
After getting Lin Hanning's affirmative answer, Gang Jue immediately decided to let Lin Hanning lead them to find the way.
Under the guidance of Lin Hanning, we came to a ruin. There was no other road near the ruins.
Seeing this, Jiang Wang asked in confusion, "Chief, why did you bring us here? There is no other way out."
"The road is right under the ruins."
We were a little bit unconvinced by Lin Hanning’s words, after all, we are not blind.
Lin Hanning ignored our questions and just paced back and forth in front with a frown, stopping from time to time to look into the distance.
Seeing her like this, we didn't want to disturb her.
After a while, she stopped at a part of the ruins and began to move the rocks.
Seeing this, we all stepped forward to help. Sure enough, within a few minutes, we had cleared a passage under the ruins that extended underground.
"Is this... an underground shopping mall?" I glanced at the stairs leading downstairs and vaguely saw a sign that read XX Underground Street among the ruins.
"Well, Hanwan City has a special terrain. There are such civil defense projects in the form of underground commercial streets and subways in many places. They were originally dug to deal with the outbreak of war. Who knew that the end of the world would come before the war." Lin Hanning shrugged helplessly.
"You seem familiar with this place." I asked.
"Of course I'm familiar with it. I went to college here for four years." Lin Hanning said, turning on the flashlight and going down the stairs first.
Seeing her go down, we hurried to follow her.
The stairs close to the ground were severely damaged, but it felt much better after walking down. It is worthy of being a civil defense project. Although the ground was damaged like that, the underground was still relatively intact.
"You know what, it's quite clean down there." Jiang Wang said with a sigh.
Lin Hanning's expression turned unhappy, and several people from the Investigation Bureau also became alert.
Song Nanxing frowned and said, "Don't you think it's unusual? This is a civil air defense project, or more simply, an air raid shelter. Many people should have sought refuge here during the initial stages of the anomaly, but look, there are no corpses or monster remains here. Furthermore, even though the rainfall since the apocalypse has been much greater than before, there's no water underground."
“It’s as if someone had deliberately cleaned it.”
I added.
As I spoke, I pulled out my Miao Dao.
Steel Lord also noticed something was wrong.
As the leader of our team, he could of course sense it, so he made arrangements immediately.
"Song Nanxing, you lead the way, Ji Ling, you flank the enemy, Chen Yubing, you and Jiang Wang protect Lin Hanning. Now we need to prepare for a battle."
According to Steel Lord's arrangement, we quickly changed our formation.
With Lin Hanning directing the direction, we quickly reached a subway entrance.
When he saw the subway entrance, Lin Hanning was obviously relieved.
"Well, it should be quick if we just walk along the subway."
When we arrived at the subway entrance, we felt a little relieved.
The subway is the city's transportation hub. As long as you walk along it, it won't take long to reach the city center.
And this place has not been destroyed, which makes it even more likely to speed up.
After Gang Jue took out the map and looked at it carefully for a moment, he pointed in a direction and said to us.
"Let's go. We'll be there soon if we follow this path. The layout here is different from the underground street we just visited. Let's change our formation. I'll lead the way so I can snipe any monsters in the distance. Chen Yubing, you and Song Nanxing will flank the enemy, while Ji Ling and Jiang Wang will protect Lin Hanning."
After saying that, Gang Jue strode forward.
So I came to Jiang Wang.
At this time, I noticed that Jiang Wang's expression was a little serious.
"Jiang Wang, what's wrong with you?"
"I had a feeling those people might be in there."
Those people?
When Jiang Wang was looking for the blood sacrifice pit before, he also felt that something was wrong.
So the people he was talking about should be the Apocalypse Sect.
But I still asked just to be sure.
"You mean the Apocalypse Sect?"
"Um."
"Are you feeling uncomfortable?" I asked again.
Logically speaking, the blood sacrifice site has been destroyed, so Jiang Wang should not feel uncomfortable anymore.
"Well, a little, but not as serious as when we were near the blood sacrifice site. I suspect there might be something else nearby."
After hearing Jiang Wang's affirmative answer, I quickly called Gang Jue.
After explaining Jiang Wang's guess to him, we raised our vigilance to the highest level.
But after walking for about an hour, we didn't notice anything unusual.
And according to the satellite map, we are now only five kilometers away from our destination.
This made our tense nerves relax a little.
At this time, Chen Yubing reminded everyone in time.
"Don't let your guard down. We're almost in the city center, and there will be something even scarier there."
As soon as Chen Yubing finished speaking, I heard a sound of breaking through the air.
An unidentified object flew directly towards Chen Yubing.
Fortunately, Chen Yubing remained vigilant at all times. The moment this thing flew over, she dodged the unidentified object.
But I didn't expect that the object would turn directly in the air and fly towards me.
Seeing this, I raised my Miao Dao and chopped at the unidentified object.
With a flick of my hand and a swipe of my knife, I chopped the object down to the ground.
When Song Nanxing saw me chopping down this thing, he picked up the flashlight and shone it over there.
In the light of the flashlight, a bat-like creature was lying on the ground.
After we walked in, I found that this object was a little different from ordinary bats. It was much smaller than ordinary bats.
"Is this a bat?"
Song Nanxing said uncertainly when he saw the object.
However, Chen Yubing took a look and shook his head and said.
"This isn't an ordinary bat. The bureau has documented this before. It's an anomalous unit—the Black Worm Bat. They're said to feed on human flesh and blood."
After Chen Yubing's explanation, Song Nanxing seemed to suddenly remember something.
"Oh oh oh, I remember now, this thing was invented by Tianqi and the others."
Just after Song Nanxing finished speaking, a sudden applause sounded from the darkness, accompanied by the sound of leather shoes, echoing in the empty underground space.
The sudden applause made us alert instantly.
Then, in front of us, a man in a white suit emerged from the subway tunnel in front, with many black worm bats hanging on his body.
These densely packed black worm bats, paired with the man's white suit, look very strange.
"Who! You are the one who controlled the black bats to attack us?"
After the man appeared, Gang Jue asked directly.
In response to Gang Jue's question, the man replied arrogantly.
"The dead have no right to know my name."
So chuunibyou...
Even if he didn't say it, we would have guessed it almost exactly. At this time, this place, coupled with the iconic black worm bat and the white clothes, this guy almost had the words "I am an idiot from the Apocalypse Sect" written on his forehead.
But the man obviously didn't think so. He must think he was super handsome now. After saying that extremely childish sentence, he even made a very childish gesture and waved his hand gently.
In a tone that pretended to be lazy but was actually arrogant, she said, "Go ahead, little darlings."
As he spoke, all the black worm bats on his body flew towards us.
Although they sound childish, these black worm bats are indeed dangerous and should not be taken lightly.
Steel Lord opened fire directly, but these black worm bats were extremely fast and there were too many of them to attack them effectively by shooting alone. Moreover, these bats kept interfering with everyone, leaving them no time to aim directly at the culprit.
This guy really got me wrong.
Seeing this, I quickly took the opportunity to grab his arm.
"You guys get behind me and I'll deal with them."
After hearing what I said, Gang Jue nodded and signaled everyone to retreat behind me.
I raised my hand and cast fear projection on these black bats.
While fear projection can have negative consequences, with just a bat of this magnitude, fear projection is the quickest way to go.
After using the fear projection, these black worm bats suddenly became chaotic and fled in all directions in a short while.
In order to save energy, I did not use too strong fear projection. If it is just a slight fear projection, I will not have any negative effects.
The closer you are to the city center, the more you need to keep yourself in top shape.
The man's eyes were distracted for a moment, and when he came to his senses again, he found that his bat was in chaos and no longer obeyed his commands, and he suddenly became angry.
He said to me with a ferocious look on his face: "What have you done to my babies!"
Should we say that the people of the Apocalypse Sect really have no brains?
I thought he would be more calm, but this is what happened?
"I didn't do anything, I just showed your babies something nice." I raised an eyebrow.
However, this man quickly returned to his original wild self. He snorted with extreme contempt and said:
"Humph, it seems I underestimated you pagans. But do you think that's the end of it?"
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