Chapter 91.
There was no need to remind him at all. When Tang Yu heard the horrifying roar, he immediately pulled Ning Xuanqing away.
The two of them ran up the internal stairs of pillar A. Fortunately, the unknown thing was not close to them, or perhaps its attention was attracted by something else.
It had no intention of catching up.
"Passing the cooling water tank in front, there is a retractable climbing ladder. We can climb up from there to reach the platform." Ning Xuanqing tried hard to suppress his wildly beating heart and recalled the map in his mind.
Since knowing that monsters appeared here, both of them took up weapons.
Tang Yu held the boning knife and Ning Xuanqing held the puncture needle, and the two of them moved quickly one in front and one behind.
After passing the cooling water tank, the flashlight beam swept around in the darkness.
"Ah!" Ning Xuanqing couldn't help but let out a short, low cry, and then quickly covered his mouth.
Right at the corner between the cooling water tank and the wall, there was a pool of extremely horrible and disgusting flesh and blood. It looked as if the flesh and blood had been broken into pieces by a meat grinder and then piled up again.
It was so huge that it filled the entire corner, and was covered with a layer of smooth black slime that refracted colorful colors under the flashlight.
What is even more unacceptable is that on top of that pile of flesh and blood, there is actually half a person growing. That person has lost his skin, with only blood-red muscles exposed.
From his hoarse groans of pain, one could barely tell that he was a man.
Tang Yu's reaction was calmer than hers, but he also felt a little tingling when he saw the scene in front of him.
Ning Xuanqing's heart felt like it was about to jump out of her chest, and she was so frightened that she felt a little dizzy for a moment.
"Aren't you afraid?" Seeing that Tang Yu even dared to stare at the mass of flesh and blood, she was deeply impressed by his courage.
"My subconscious mind will think that this is an illusion I saw when I was ill, so... it's okay." Tang Yu gave a reason. She stared at the half-human figure and suddenly said, "He seems to be a participant!"
"What?"
"Look carefully at that face. We even said hello to each other when we boarded the ship!"
Ning Xuanqing heard this and tried to suppress his nausea to look, and finally recognized the man: "Is this Shi Jun?"
When first entering the dungeon, many participants came in with a fluke mentality, they wanted to get some benefits by following the big guys.
Therefore, many people actually have no experience in high-level dungeons, such as Shi Jun.
Ning Xuanqing remembered that Shi Jun was one of the people who took the initiative to make friends with them. At that time, he looked to be in his thirties and was a mature and talkative uncle.
If Tang Yu hadn't mentioned it, she really wouldn't have been able to connect the things in front of her with that Shi Jun.
Shi Jun, who was dying on the ground, heard someone calling his name, and his eye sockets, which were covered with blood, barely cracked open.
"He's awake!"
"Don't come over here! Cough cough cough..."
When Shi Jun saw Tang Yu about to move forward, he endured the pain and reminded him, then he let out a heart-wrenching cough.
Ning Xuanqing was a little worried that such a movement would attract the monsters here. She looked around vigilantly and asked in a low voice: "What happened? Why did you become like this?"
Shi Jun gasped in pain. He said weakly, "I don't know... the platform was shaking violently, and a black liquid seeped in. I thought it was oil, but after I touched it with my hand... it became like this."
He warned the two, "Don't touch the slime. It's dangerous here. Leave here quickly."
Ning Xuanqing frowned and looked at him: "Then what are you going to do?"
Shi Jun heard this and gave a helpless smile, then said with a weak breath: "I... cough... my life is over..."
He was like a candle that had burned out to the very end, with only a tiny flickering flame left.
Shi Jun's consciousness had become hazy and he could no longer feel the pain. A smile appeared on his face, which was covered with fascia and muscles.
This man in his thirties who had experienced a life-and-death struggle began to instinctively miss home.
"Mom...wife...I want to go home..."
His voice stopped abruptly, and Tang Yu and Ning Xuanqing could only set off again with heavy hearts. After they took two steps, they saw the telescopic ladder.
"There's someone!" Ning Xuanqing saw with his sharp eyes that there was a person limply hanging on the ladder. The person was wearing the uniform of a worker on a drilling platform, with his head hanging down, and it was unclear whether he was dead or alive.
Tang Yu held his breath and moved closer with the knife, pushing the man with the tip of the boning knife.
The man slid down the telescopic ladder like a limp noodle, and the two men saw his face, which had already been covered in blood.
It was obvious that he was dead, but his body was not stained with the mucus that Shi Jun mentioned, so he did not undergo that horrible mutation.
"He was probably planning to escape from here, but was attacked by something." Ning Xuanqing analyzed with a serious expression.
Tang Yu naturally thought of this, and she and Ning Xuanqing looked at each other.
Both of them had some guesses in their minds, but in this dark and dangerous environment, no one was willing to mention it.
The two of them quickly climbed up the telescopic ladder and left this dangerous place.
And they also need to inform the participants as soon as possible about everything that happens below the platform deck!
After climbing up the telescopic ladder, the two found the staff elevator, pressed the button to go to the third floor, and arrived at the dormitory area smoothly.
As expected, the two of them met Li Jia and the other two in Tang Yu's room. At that time, the three of them were about to go out to look for Tang Yu and the other two, and they almost bumped into each other when they opened the door.
"Something happened!"
"Something happened!"
The two parties uttered this sentence at the same time when they met, and solemnity and panic could be seen in each other's expressions.
Tang Yu knew that something similar might have happened on the deck. If that was the case, everyone probably knew what had happened, so there was no need to rush to inform the others.
"Did you see that? Those things outside are like a biochemical crisis..." Li Jia couldn't help but said with a pale face. When he said this, he seemed to remember something and felt like vomiting.
Tian Xun and Tang En's faces looked even worse. Tang En tightly grasped the scepter of blessing, his whole body shaking unconsciously.
When Tian Xun was reminded of what Li Jia had said, he thought of what he had seen on the way here, and cursed in a low voice, "What a hell!"
He had been through so many strange copies and seen all kinds of weird scenes, but he never expected something like this to actually appear before his eyes.
"What do you think that is?" Li Jia asked with a trembling voice.
Ning Xuanqing said with a gloomy face: "It's hard to say, it could be pollution, or it could be some kind of parasite. We saw the culprit of all this below the deck."
She briefly talked about the giant tentacle, emphasized its danger, and shared the first information she had obtained.
Those strange mucus cannot be touched. If they are contaminated, they will be corroded and mutated.
They were not sure how powerful such erosion would be, and whether they could resist it if they used props.
This is an S-level copy after all, so everyone can only greatly increase the degree of danger.
"There's no news from the alliance yet. What should we do now?" Tang En looked at his teammates nervously.
"Let's go out to the deck first and try to find the leaders of the alliance. If they can't do anything about these monsters, we can only run away!" Li Jia thought for a while and said.
No one had any objection to her proposal. They all held their weapons and walked out together. Tang En held up the scepter of blessing and covered the four of them.
The third floor of the platform is divided into dormitory area, toilet and bathhouse. To go to the deck, you have to go down to the second floor and pass through the cafeteria.
Because the generator equipment was damaged, when the five people arrived outside the dormitory corridor, the light was dim and they could only rely on flashlights for lighting.
The flashlight's beam had a limited reach, and the end of the long corridor looked dark, with the air looking foggy as if there was haze.
The entire dormitory area was in a mess because of the commotion just now.
The door panels of some rooms were broken and lying across the road. The ventilation ducts above their heads also fell down, like a python lying across the road, which greatly hindered the progress of the five people.
As they passed through the corridors, they could even see various corpses from some rooms with open doors.
Some people were infected like the Stone Army and became twisted and lifeless, while others were attacked and killed without any preparation.
No one knew how the strange infectious mucus got here, and they didn't have time to figure it out.
It started raining heavily outside at some point, making the interior space even darker and colder. Such an environment, coupled with the corpses everywhere, was really a very nerve-challenging thing.
It took them more than ten minutes to walk out of the corridor, and they didn't meet a single living person during that time.
At the end of the corridor was a staircase leading to the second floor. The five people carefully walked up the stairs to the cafeteria.
The cafeteria, which had previously been filled with a festive atmosphere with holiday cards posted everywhere and colorful ribbons fluttering, now had tables and chairs scattered everywhere, as if a fight had taken place there.
Tang Yu and Ning Xuanqing went directly to the third floor through the employee elevator. They had no idea what was happening there, and they both looked towards Li Jia and the others.
Li Jia spread his hands and said, "Don't look at me. This place was already like this when we came here."
As soon as the words fell, a noise was heard, and the five people immediately looked vigilantly in the direction where the sound came from.
The iron door leading to the cafeteria's back kitchen creaked open, and a head quietly poked out from the dark crack of the door.
It was Jin Hui!
"Hey! Here!" Jin Hui saw an acquaintance and excitedly waved at the five people, motioning them to come over.
Several people followed him into the kitchen and found that Jin Hui and his two teammates were hiding there.
Upon asking, we found out that when the riot broke out outside, Jin Hui and the other two immediately hid in the kitchen.
Since they entered this dungeon, they have had a clear idea of their position: they are here purely to survive and gain experience.
If the sky falls, there are big guys to hold it up, and it would be great if ordinary people like them could keep their lives.
Therefore, the three of them built a safe house in the storage room behind the kitchen at the beginning, in order to save their lives at the critical moment.
Or perhaps it was because Jin Hui and the other two were timid and cautious enough that they successfully avoided the changes outside and now they didn't even know what was happening outside.
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