Chapter 348 Negative 5th Floor
B2 floor.
The second floor has the same corridor as the basement floor. There is no light here and it is extremely dark. You still need a strong flashlight to see the road ahead clearly.
However, there is another staircase going down, and you can go directly to the -3rd and -4th floors by following this staircase.
Of course, Captain Zhang still had no intention of splitting up the group. He simply said, "Let's go down one level at a time. If there are no stairs at the bottom, we can just walk back."
Huang Jinghe said, "But if we want to go back, do we need someone to guard the stairs here? Just like what happened just now, if we're not careful, there will be a lot of mutant creatures blocking the way here. It would be fine if there were stairs ahead, but if not, we can't even retreat."
Captain Zhang hesitated for a moment, then said, "How about this? Lan Jin and Ling Jiang, find a few more people to guard here. Lao Gao, Shen Zhiyu, Lao Shi... you guys just come with me to explore the way ahead."
The team of 12 people was directly divided into two teams. This was a good idea. One team could rest. If they reached the negative third floor, the two teams could take turns to rest, so they didn't have to walk together and waste energy.
Lan Jin was left there, unable to hold on any longer. He plopped his backpack on the ground and sat down. "I'm so... exhausted! I'm going to get a good night's sleep when I get back. I won't be on any missions for several months. I'm going to stay at the base and grow vegetables and flowers."
Ling Jiang smiled and said, "That's a pleasant idea, but we don't even know if the base will still be there when we return."
Lan Jin said, "If our base isn't there, there are other bases. If all else fails, we can just go to the base in Jing City. At least we can get there without being forced to wander."
But to be honest, if she had known that there would be so many things to do at the base, she would have felt a little regretful, but it was too late to regret it now.
Lan Jin sighed and said, "Oh, forget it, let's not talk about it anymore. It's all tears if I talk too much."
Shen Zhiyan, who was standing by, didn't have as many emotions. She was originally a soldier. Regardless of whether there was an apocalypse or not, she would always follow orders from her superiors. Moreover, many things had already happened before the apocalypse, so it really didn't make any difference to her. However, at this moment, she also said, "If your base is gone and ours is still there, you are welcome to come to the R City base. I said before that I would treat you to a meal."
Zhou Zhi, who was standing by, also said, "Your base may not even be still there, and now you're poaching people from our base."
"I didn't poach him. I just invited him to stay for a while. And by the way, shouldn't I thank Lan Jin?"
"Haha, I know that. They'll stay here forever, right? This isn't a thank you, it's clearly poaching."
Didn’t Lan Jin and the others also live in the H City base back then, and then they just stayed there and never left?
Lan Jin found it amusing. "It's a bit premature to ask that question. Let's get out of here first. Who knows, all the bases might be wiped out."
She really wanted to say, why are all the bases gone, but their Beijing base is still intact? Who gave them such great confidence that they were the only one who could stand among so many bases?
But it’s too early to say anything now. Let’s wait until they are all out.
And what she said just now was not right. There were so many people outside, how could they be wiped out? But at this moment, no one really argued with her.
After Lan Jin closed his mouth, no one around him continued talking. The group waited there for a long time. Lan Jin looked at the time on his watch and felt a little anxious for a moment.
Captain Zhang and his men left and didn't return for half an hour. She asked, "Is this road really that long? Does it take half an hour to walk in a straight line?"
Zhou Zhi also took out a walkie-talkie and tried to communicate with the other party, but all electronic devices were isolated here and the walkie-talkie was useless.
Pei Xin took a few steps forward and shouted loudly towards the corridor: "Is anyone here? Are you back? If you are, please make a sound."
But apart from Pei Xin's own echo, there was no other sound.
Ling Jiang frowned and said, "This kind of ghost place really can't be separated. What should we do now? Should we go over and look for it?"
Zhou Zhiye said, "Wait a minute, maybe this corridor is longer than the one above."
But which one is longer?
…
Captain Zhang led everyone through the negative 2nd floor and went straight up the stairs to the negative 3rd floor. The location of the negative 3rd floor happened to be in their direction, and then -
The 12 of them met up at the stairs.
Lao Gao said excitedly, "It's really strange. The first, second, and third floors are just corridors. There's nothing else there. We looked around along the way and there weren't any secret compartments or anything. How could someone just build a few bare corridors?"
Ling Jiang said, "So you mean we should go directly to the basement level 4."
Captain Zhang nodded and said, "Yes, just go down to the 4th floor."
After the group reunited, they walked straight down to the -4th floor.
But I thought the B4 floor was the end of the road, but when I reached the corridor on the B4 floor, I found another staircase leading down.
Of course, this staircase is hidden.
At first, what everyone saw was the same portrait of a human-faced mutant creature as the one in the corridor upstairs. In such a dim place, they were frightened by the painting, and the first thought that popped into their minds was that there must be something hidden behind it. As a result, when they moved the painting away, a downward corridor came into view.
Not only that.
There are no lights in the corridors on the B1 to B4 floors, but if you open this door, you will find strong fluorescent lights at the stairwell alone, illuminating the dim staircase as if it were daytime.
Captain Zhang said, "Go down."
Shen Zhiyu asked, "Don't we need to walk down this corridor first before going down?"
Captain Zhang shone his powerful flashlight forward and said, "No need. There's not much road ahead. Besides, there's only this one painting in this corridor. If there's any hidden place, it's probably behind this painting."
"OK."
Captain Zhang turned off the high-powered flashlight and led the team down again.
But when they went down, not only Lan Jin, but also the careless Lao Gao found something wrong. When they were on the 1st to 4th floors, they didn't see anything, but they could hear the sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling. But when they got down to -
After reaching the minus 5th floor, my ears seemed to be equipped with soundproofing devices and I could not hear any strange sounds.
Captain Zhang thought so too, but he still said, "It's not right to have a sound, and it's not right to have no sound either."
But the vigilance has not decreased in the slightest.
(End of this chapter)
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