Chapter 219 Holding the Ball
"Xiao Qizi, get out of here quickly!" Sensing something was wrong, his teammates hurriedly called out.
Zhou Tianqi reacted quickly, retreating rapidly until he was outside the bedroom door, where he slammed the door shut.
He quickly turned around. "Quick, check behind me! Is there anything?"
The teammates looked around and said, "Nothing!"
Liu Hong nodded, "We've been keeping an eye on it, but we haven't found anything."
Zhou Tianqi breathed a sigh of relief, then immediately cursed, "Why am I so unlucky!"
"Let's not talk about that now."
Qi Jun looked at the closed door and said, "Let's think about how to find out if he is the doorman first."
The captain handed the squad over to him.
The mission got off to a bad start; the very first investigation they conducted encountered such a thorny problem.
"We only have six hours; we can't stay here any longer," Qi Jun said.
Zhou Tianqi was speechless. "You dare touch it? What if it crawls out of the monitor?"
Qi Jun: "..."
The mere thought of that scene sent chills down everyone's spine.
Qi Jun remained silent for a while before making a decision, "Then let's go check other places first, and deal with this last."
We need to visit several households to get a clear picture of the situation.
Finally, decide whether or not to take the risk and give it a try.
"Okay, let's go!"
The sentries withdrew from the house and, based on the compiled list, moved on to the next household.
Zhou Tianqi was still shaken. As he walked, he would occasionally turn his head to look behind him.
What did that man mean by what he said?
*
Another team led by Song Liang.
They are currently conducting a search in the residential area opposite Xie Tu and the others.
No one from District 13 participated in the lottery today, and the entire community was shrouded in a heavy silence.
The exterior walls of the building are mottled, and most of the windows are dark and gaping, like an endless abyss.
Based on the address in the information, Tao Haohao went up and knocked on the door of the first household.
"Who is it?" Footsteps came from inside quickly, and the voice asked in a low voice.
Fortunately, the 'person' is still alive.
Duan Xi coughed lightly, "Base staff."
The door was quietly opened a crack, and only after confirming that someone was outside did the door gradually open fully.
Everyone who saw who was inside the door almost instinctively stepped back.
It was a haggard-looking woman. She was very thin, with a pale and sallow face, high cheekbones, and sunken eyes.
Those eyes were bloodshot, and when they looked at them, their gaze revealed fear and wariness, like that of a frightened fawn.
The reason why the entire Zero team reacted so strongly.
It stems from what's behind her.
There stood a mutated creature, its body emitting black smoke and twisted in shape.
The dark matter surged and rolled like a tangible substance, and they could almost feel the evil power emanating from the mutants silently eroding their surroundings.
The rabbit instinctively picked up the sniper rifle.
The gun was pointed at the woman.
The woman's eyes widened in terror. She frantically waved her hands at them, pleading in a tearful voice, "Don't kill me, I don't want to die..."
The rabbit paused slightly.
She remembered that night when they saw the man being chased by the clone mutants.
Some people don't want to die.
"You Ruili, female, 26 years old, was among the first batch of applicants for the Digital Life Project," Song Liang explained in a low voice.
The rabbit's hand, still on the trigger, didn't loosen; a flicker of struggle crossed its eyes. "You..."
The woman quickly interrupted her, pleading tearfully, "I regret it, please don't kill me, I shouldn't have..."
She hadn't finished speaking.
The mutant behind her suddenly moved, its sharp claws piercing straight through the woman's chest.
The sound of corrosion was incessant.
The woman couldn't even struggle.
Her face was wet with an indistinguishable mixture of tears and sweat, and her body began to convulse from fear and pain.
The rabbit, with its eyes closed, pulled the trigger on the mutant.
--Bang!
It seemed that only in this way could her pain be alleviated.
The mutant let out a painful roar and lunged at the sentries, baring its fangs and claws.
Tao Haohao reacted quickly, rushing forward to deliver the finishing blow. The sharp blade in his hand gleamed coldly as he fiercely stabbed at the mutant with a sharp aura.
The mutants die, and women can't live either.
There is no solution.
The blood and black slime at the entrance gradually coalesced into a pool of unidentified liquid, smelling like the aftermath of death fermentation.
The team members all sighed.
"Let's go, to the next one," Song Liang said.
A mutant that can be killed directly is definitely not the gatekeeper.
There's no need to even go inside to check.
The rabbit silently put away its gun and followed its teammates to investigate other places.
What shouldn't be done?
One should not easily believe those seductive words and be bewitched by the desire for immortality.
Or should I not participate in that forbidden digital life project?
The unspoken words, like a secret forever sealed away, vanished into thin air with her passing, leaving only endless speculation.
The group quickly moved on to the next house...
It's hard to say whether they were lucky or unlucky.
The five or six suspects found earlier were all still 'alive,' but without exception, each of them had another version of themselves standing behind them.
That's a copy of myself.
To become a mutant version of myself.
"Only one can survive between self-awareness and 'I'."
Tao Haohao sheathed his knife, flicked off the black slime on it, and frowned: "Self-awareness is no match for mutants."
How can ordinary people fight monsters?
The peregrine falcon hopped and skipped ahead, leading the way.
Duan Xi said, "The order is reversed. Didn't the captain say that clones are born only when self-awareness disappears?"
Or you could say that these people died long ago.
It's just that the gatekeeper still exists, experiencing nightmare after nightmare.
As Song Liang walked, he held up a flashlight to check the list. "Forget about that. Finding the gatekeeper is the important thing. We're moving pretty fast. Let's search the entire Thirteenth District before midnight."
I wonder how things are going with the captain.
*
Yun Zhao asked Tian Shuang to come over and enter the password.
Tian Shuang glanced at her sister before slowly walking to the computer and entering the password she knew by heart.
Login successful.
A middle-aged couple appeared in the frame, seemingly making a video call, sitting in front of the screen with smiles on their faces.
Upon seeing their faces, Tian Shuang could no longer hold back and choked out, "Dad, Mom..."
"Xiaoshuang, how have you been lately?"
The middle-aged man waved at the screen, "When are you coming to visit Mom and Dad? We have everything here, come on in, so our family will never have to be separated again..."
A familiar voice rang out.
Tian Ling stubbornly turned her head away, holding back her tears and refusing to take a step forward.
Xie Tu spoke up: "Ask him where Tian Xin is?"
To his surprise, the middle-aged man seemed to hear him, and suddenly turned his head, a smile spreading across his face. "You're asking about my son? He went out to play with the ball."
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