abyss rose

Chapter 13

The tempered glass door at the train station was tightly closed.

The crowd outside the station has been evacuated, and people in security uniforms are guarding the gate. After carefully verifying the identity of every mercenary who came here to support, they will open a crack in the door and let people in.

Less than forty sheriffs arranged all the passengers of the three stopped trains that passed through the fifth district to wait for transfer in a waiting hall far away from the gate.

In fact, they are not just waiting for a safe transfer.

When Chai Yuening rushed to the station again, an incomplete mutant who had just been shot/killed happened to be carried out beside her.

Soon, she learned a truth that could not be broadcast from Cheng Shankou, the chief security officer of the sixth district.

The base broadcast said that the fall of the fifth district was due to an accident in the mutation prevention and control center. Mutants of unknown level suspected of having human IQ attacked the city defense system, causing the herd of beasts on the ground to break through the city defense and flood into the urban area.

This statement is true, but the truth is far more than that.

There were not a few mercenaries who came here to support, but Cheng Shan immediately called Chai Yuening to a corner where no one was around.

He looked dignified and said in a serious tone: "Captain Chai, thank you for coming, the military has always trusted you, so there are some things that Major General Xue asked me to confess to you, and I am not allowed to hide anything."

Chai Yuening: "What's the matter?"

"The military received the news that there was a wounded man with signs of infection in the Five-District Alternative Control Center. During the isolation and observation process, he briefly showed an invisible mutation."

"What do you mean?"

"That is, it has mutated, but before it is completely mutated, its appearance is no different from that of a normal person, and it even retains some human cognition, but not human conscience. This mutant, in the appearance of a human, imitates the behavior of a human, using Before the human language mutated completely, it quietly infected the medical staff who took care of him, and through this medical staff, it infected other quarantined people, as well as all the people on duty in the alien control center that night."

"..."

"This is not the scariest thing, the scariest thing is... the infectivity and mutation rate of this mutant is stronger than all the beasts and mutants the military has ever seen. It only takes a tiny scratch to infect a person, The speed of mutation is astonishingly fast, from infection to mutation, it only takes half an hour at the shortest."

At this point in Cheng Shan's words, he took two deep breaths, and then tried to calm himself down.

He closed his eyes and sighed heavily, and continued: "Before the fifth district communication office was captured, the surveillance video received by the military even showed that there was no abnormality in the first half of the night, and the abnormal control center was no different from usual. There was a sudden riot in the calm... According to the monitoring screen, the mutant who started the riot still had human wisdom after the mutation. He even had a clear plan for attacking the fifth district. He found And destroyed the defense system of the fifth district..."

"So, District [-] is facing not only beasts breaking in from the ground, but also countless highly contagious mutants." Chai Yuening frowned, and lowered her voice to express her inner guess.

"Yes." The Chief Sheriff squeezed out a weak and bitter smile at her, "The military believes that if District [-]'s initial handling method can be more agile, maybe..."

At this point, Cheng Shan suddenly paused for a few seconds.

In the end, he shook his head and said weakly: "From the appearance, the alien beast we found in the stopped train was infected by the mutant in District [-], and it has the same infectiousness as that mutant. Every passenger on board is likely to be infected. Even people sitting in the non-injured area at this moment may have subtle scratches that are not easy to be found, but usually, the smaller the wound, The slower the signs of infection come, the base cannot take that risk."

He took a deep breath: "But usually, if the injury lasts more than six hours, if there is an infection, it will definitely be visualized, so now the different control center will test the people in the non-injured area every hour, and the six tests will not cause any damage. You can let it go after you get in the way."

Chai Yuening subconsciously looked at the passengers who were detained here.

Under the arrangement of the sheriff, they were divided into three areas according to the degree of injury: serious injury, minor injury, and non-injury. Each area was surrounded by three iron chains. The injured man tends the wound.

Regardless of whether these people are injured or not, their faces are full of deep pain or anxiety. Except for their relatives and friends, they keep a certain distance from everyone.

Cheng Shan: "All the wounded blood showed signs of infection to varying degrees. Two of the seriously injured areas had mutated, and they were all killed before the mutation was completed. No secondary casualties were caused, but all the passengers were emotionally unstable. Everyone knows that this year is not normal. The top of the base has been reduced to a foggy area, the signal tower cannot be recovered, and more and more strange beasts of unknown levels appear... No one knows what will happen tomorrow, but the base has already started worst plans."

A large detector that could not be carried by three or four people stood coldly outside the three areas surrounded by iron chains like a god who judged the world.

That was the research result of the base not long ago. The accuracy of infection detection is as high as 91%, which is [-]% higher than the original detector.

However, the mutation rate of different infection sources is different, and signs of infection do not mean certain mutations, because the human body is very likely to digest those infectious bacteria.

Many people came back from the ground and were infected, and most of them were locked up for a month. After the signs of infection disappeared and no mutation occurred, they would be released. The alien control center can never deprive a person of their lives based on the results of the infection test. right to go down.

According to the rules, these people with signs of infection should be sent to the alien control center in the sixth district.

It's just that the current situation is special. If the infected person mutates during the transfer, if they can't control it, they will break into the inner city, and the consequences will be disastrous.

Chai Yuening: "So what are you waiting for now?"

Cheng Shan: "The military in the main city is discussing how to deal with these passengers."

Chai Yuening: "Will they send reinforcements?"

Cheng Shan looked down at the communicator in his hand, and fell silent for a while.

After the silence, he avoided Chai Yuening's question, and said very solemnly: "If this abnormal situation is handled incorrectly, the Sixth District may also fall. We have too few people, let alone the mutation of the infected, even those who are not infected Passengers are out of control, and we may not be able to control the scene immediately. So I hope Captain Chai can keep the words just now confidential, and if something uncontrollable happens in a while, please trust us and cooperate with us."

Chai Yuening nodded: "I will."

Cheng Shan didn't say anything more, just glanced at the electronic watch on the wall, with an anxious expression on his face, as if he was waiting for something.

Chu Ci stood by the detector not far away, quietly watching the passengers surrounded by chains.

Chai Yuening walked to her side and beckoned her to sit aside. Like the other mercenaries and all the security officers present, they waited for the unexplainable result that Cheng Shankou had said.

Suddenly, Chu Ci asked softly: "Has a similar situation happened here before?"

Chai Yuening was silent for a moment, and replied softly: "Yes, before there was no infection test agent or infection test device, there would be incidents of mutants attacking ordinary people in the base from time to time, but that was all before I was born. gone."

"Has the prevention and control been good since then?"

"Yes, but there are accidents." Chai Yuening said, smiling wryly with lowered eyebrows, and kneading her fingers unconsciously, "When I was 13 years old, there was an uncle who was very kind to me in my father's team. After the sign, he was quarantined at the base. After the observation period of half a month was over, he was released, but he mutated on No. 13 days after regaining his freedom. That was the first time I saw a strange beast, obviously the night before , it was still a human being, and came to my house to help repair the sewer pipe. The next day, it killed my parents, right in front of my eyes..."

Chu Ci opened his mouth, but was unable to speak.

Chai Yuening shook her head, and put on a nonchalant look: "After that, the base changed the quarantine period of infected people from half a month to one month."

She spoke so lightly, as if everything had nothing to do with her.

Chu Ci was silent for a long time, and suddenly stretched out his hand calmly, and gently held the little finger of Chai Yuening's left hand.

Chai Yuening couldn't help being taken aback.

She raised her eyes to look at Chu Ci, but Chu Ci didn't look at her, but just looked away as if nothing had happened.

There seemed to be a little blush on the milky white face, but the hair scattered around the earlobe was covered with a layer of tulle.

A certain place in my heart was gently touched by this silent companionship.

Chai Yuening exhaled heavily and long, only to feel that some things accumulated in the bottom of her heart dissipated a lot in this instant.

She wanted to hold back that slightly cold hand, but for some reason, a trace of hesitation and nervousness floated up in her heart.

The square electronic watch hanging high on the wall reached 18:26.

Hesitant to speak, he saw the Chief Sheriff walking towards him out of the corner of his eye.

Cheng Shan bowed his head and told his adjutant what to do. The adjutant nodded and picked up the communicator in his hand, as if he had given some kind of order.

For a moment, Chai Yuening seemed to feel countless strange eyes from every security officer who received the order.

Chai Yuening subconsciously stood up, wanting to step forward to ask about the situation.

But before she could step forward, she was stopped by a gunshot.

Gunshots came through the air, and the person who was killed was a seriously injured patient whose wound had been treated a few minutes ago.

Following countless exclamations, gunshots continued one after another, splashing blood all over the place.

The sheriff is killing people.

One after another, the infected fell to the ground.

They were still praying that they could survive the next infection period one second, and they were already lying in a pool of blood the next second, and they didn't even have time to respond to survive.

Passengers in the non-injury zone screamed uncontrollably.

At that moment, among them, someone lost a relative or a close friend.

"Infection... does not mean mutation... They have no right to kill, they are murderers, they don't need a reason to kill, we may all die!"

I don't know who shouted this sentence hoarsely.

Several people who lost control of their emotions broke out of the chain blockade under dozens of guns/mouths. They yelled and scuffled with the sheriff who did not dare to shoot again.

For a moment, the people who lost their souls were frightened, some sat in place, and some screamed and fled in all directions.

And the person who was ignited by anger also jumped over the chain in disorder, trying to take the gun from the sheriff's hand to protect himself.

Chai Yuening looked at Cheng Shan, as if wanting to get a "reason", but only saw the helplessness and exhaustion in his eyes.

——The military believes that if the initial handling of the fifth district can be done more neatly, maybe it will be...

——No one knows what will happen tomorrow, the base has already prepared for the worst.

——If something uncontrollable happens in a moment, please trust us and cooperate with us.

To prevent accidents and minimize the spread of infection.

Killing all infected people is the final decision made by the military.

Someone is redeemed, and someone is abandoned.

In fact, the Chief Sheriff had expected this result long ago.

They called so many mercenaries to support them, not because they were afraid that they would not be able to deal with the mutants, but because they were afraid that they would not be able to withstand the angry crowd.

……

A young sheriff who was pinned to death had his gun taken from him.

The muzzle of the gun was brought to his forehead.

Passengers who lost their loved ones opened their blood-red eyes angrily, and the hand holding the gun trembled violently.

Chai Yuening raised the gun in his hand and aimed at the man's arm holding the gun, but before he pulled the trigger, he heard a gunshot passing by.

The gun snatcher's gun fell from his palm, and blood slid from his wrist onto the young sheriff.

The chaotic waiting room fell silent in an instant.

……

Chai Yuening turned to look at the place where the gunshots sounded.

Behind her, the silver-haired girl holding a gun had a calmness and firmness in her eyes that she had never seen before.

Even better than the chief sheriff who gave the order.

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