abyss rose

Chapter 16

The old armored vehicles parked at the station have tilted slightly with the somewhat collapsed ground.

Chai Yuening pulled the door, turned over and jumped into the driver's seat. The moment the door closed, Chu Ci also got into the co-pilot right behind.

A humanoid insect landed on the windshield of the front window from above, shaking the entire armored vehicle.

Chai Yuening raised his hand and shot/shot through the glass, blood splashed on the front window, and the humanoid cried out as a baby, and jumped out of the window in pain.

"Where are we going?" Chu Ci asked her, "The fifth district?"

"No." Chai Yuening stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the center of the city amidst countless cries for help.

Some of the strange beasts on the street were still wearing human clothes, but they had lost their human appearance.

Those who were struggling to survive waved their arms to them for help, staggered and ran from a distance, but failed to get a response.

Disappointment and despair are just the most ordinary emotions tonight.

There are quite a few mercenaries here to support the security station, this is not the first armored vehicle to drive away, nor will it be the last.

Chu Ci looked out the window, looked at the urban area that suddenly seemed like a purgatory, and asked softly, "Aren't we going to leave here?"

Her tone was very calm, as calm as a bystander.

There was a bit of sadness in the words, not indifference, nor any unnecessary panic.

Just like when we first met.

An unspeakable feeling flashed in Chai Yuening's heart, but it was pressed into his heart in an instant.

She drove forward from the herd of beasts that brutally hunted and hunted humans, and through the shattered water-like windshield, she looked at the people who asked her for help along the way.

The initial hesitation in his eyes turned into firmness bit by bit.

Chai Yuening: "Those things are all human beings, human beings who have just mutated... If they really came from the vents in District Five, they will definitely crawl into other urban areas along the ventilation ducts."

Chu Ci: "New mutants will also join them."

Chai Yuening: "All of this happened so suddenly that the military and the public security station had no time to take any defensive measures... If we can block the vents leading to other urban areas, at least we can give the main city more time to react."

Chu Ci turned his head to look at Chai Yuening, something seemed to flicker in his eyes.

She asked softly, "Aren't you afraid?"

Chai Yuening remained silent and did not answer, the palms holding the steering wheel were already covered with cold sweat at some point.

The lights in the city were covered with a layer of blood mist at night, accompanied by leaked lightning, illuminating the hellish road ahead.

The power-off reminder at eleven o'clock in the evening sounded in every corner of the city according to the program as usual.

"It is 23 o'clock at night, and there is still half an hour before the power is turned off. Please arrange the power consumption time reasonably."

"Early to bed and early to rise is good for your health."

"May you tonight embrace sweet dreams."

Familiar radio, unfamiliar bloody street scene.

Chai Yuening took a deep breath, and responded in a deep voice to the question Chu Ci asked ten minutes ago.

She said: "I'm afraid...but if the base falls completely, even if we survived by chance, where can we go?"

The ground is no longer suitable for human survival, and the floating city is far away that I don't know if it can be reached.

If the dungeon base really ceases to exist, those who survived the disaster will have nowhere to go.

She's not a man of steel, she only has one gun and can't save everyone.

But if possible, she would like to risk her life.

The armored vehicle moved forward and finally stopped in front of a huge circular building.

This is the city defense center of the Sixth District. It is usually garrisoned by the military, but tonight there is only a dead silence smeared with blood.

Obviously, this area has long been ravaged by beasts.

The prey here was gone, and the herd followed the breath and went elsewhere.

The ventilation system in the urban area has always been controlled by the city defense center. As long as the control room can be found and the connection between the ventilation ducts of the sixth district and other urban areas can be forcibly cut off, it can delay the other urban areas.

It's just that in such a large building, the signage has been knocked crooked, and Chai Yuening didn't know where to find it.

When getting off the car, Chai Yuening couldn't help but hesitate for half a second.

She said to Chu Ci: "If you are afraid, you can stay in the car. If the herd comes, you can drive away."

Chu Ci: "Chai Yuening."

Chai Yuening was stunned for a moment, she seemed to have never heard Chu Ci call her that.

Chu Ci: "Is it the tradition of the thirteen mercenary teams that the captain tries his own way?"

Chai Yuening: "..."

Chu Ci opened the car door and jumped down first.

I have to say that it is a very delicate experience to be seriously educated by new teammates who have always been quiet and obedient.

Chai Yuening pursed her lips, pulled out the car key that she wanted to leave for Chu Ci, and got out of the car with Chu Ci.

"Look and see if there are any living people." Chai Yuening held the gun tightly, walked over the corpses under his feet with great vigilance, and walked towards the inside of the city defense center.

Chu Ci followed behind her and reminded in a low voice: "Even if there are still living people, there is a high probability that they will be infected."

"It's as long as your mind is still clear." Chai Yuening said.

She just wanted to find a guide, even if she only had one breath left.

As for whether it will mutate, or whether it will eat people after the mutation, she doesn't care at all.

In the empty and dilapidated corridor, except for the footsteps of two people, there was no movement at all.

They stepped on the blood to find the second floor.

Chu Ci suddenly pulled Chai Yuening's wrist.

Chai Yuening turned back with doubts.

Chu Ci didn't speak, but only indicated with his eyes that he found something unusual, then lowered his footsteps, and leaned towards a closed door.

Chai Yuening also held her breath for a moment, and followed with a gun.

But it was too quiet here, so quiet that they couldn't hide their footsteps at all.

Such footsteps seemed to startle something inside the door, and a sound of falling objects sounded from inside the house, which was particularly ear-piercing in the empty and dead building.

Soon, the movement in the house disappeared again.

But this time, Chai Yuening heard the faint and extremely restrained breathing.

It might be a hiding human, but it might also be a wounded beast.

For a moment, the air seemed to freeze.

After a brief stalemate, Chai Yuening breathed a sigh of relief with a frightened, extremely short sob.

This is clearly a human voice.

"Is there anyone in there?" she asked softly.

After a short silence, I heard the extremely trembling response from the people in the room: "Are you the city defense army... or, people from the security station?"

This person hiding here waiting for rescue, like many urban residents, had no idea that the city defense army had gone to the fifth district, and the sheriffs of the public security station had long since collapsed in that train station.

Chai Yuening thought for a while and said, "I'm from the No.13 mercenary team."

"Are you hired by the military?"

"……Yes."

"Are you here to save someone!"

"No, but I can take you away if you can help me with my mission."

The people in the room were silent for a moment, and asked tremblingly, "What is your mission?"

Chai Yuening: "Cut off the connection of ventilation ducts to other urban areas."

"I... I'm a trainee technician, I can help you..."

The people in the house said, the closed door was gently pushed open from the inside.

A little girl wearing glasses limped out tremblingly.

She clutched a gun tightly in her hand, but even the posture of holding the gun was wrong.

"Are you injured?" Chai Yuening looked at her leg vigilantly.

"My... legs are numb..." The little girl's eyes were flushed, and her eyes were full of shock.

As a mercenary who spent half her life in the foggy area, caring for the fragrance and cherishing the jade is the most beautiful quality that Chai Yuening lacks. She didn't give the little girl too much time to cry, and urged her to lead the way without saying a word.The three ran all the way to the fourth floor and found the control room of the ventilation system.

There were two mutilated corpses lying across the door of the control room, and there were still wet bloodstains on the console.

The girl shivered and sat in front of the console with so many buttons that people couldn't understand it. She turned around and asked with some hesitation: "Really...do you really want to cut off the vent connection? In this way, the air quality in District [-] will be affected... "

"cut!"

"Excuse me, do you... do you have a military license?" The little girl said timidly, "The ventilation system is very important, and it cannot be cut off at will unless it is an emergency..."

"Now is an extremely urgent situation!" Chai Yuening said seriously.

"But……"

"Come on, get it done!"

"Without the military's permission, I..." Before the girl finished speaking, a trace of panic appeared in her eyes.

Subconsciously, Chai Yuening turned to look at the girl's gaze, only to see a pale face with empty eyes, quietly looking in their direction.

It was curled up at the air vent in the corner of the operating room, its limbs twisted so that it was completely out of shape.

It was an invertebrate worm that mutated from humans and was dressed in human skin, crawling over from the vents in the fifth area.

Chai Yuening saw too much of this thing today.

Under the extremely dim light in the operating room, the abnormally distorted body moved slowly towards them.

And behind it, in the air vent on the side of the top, there are obviously many others of its kind, making tiny friction sounds.

Chai Yuening aimed his gun at it, and said again in a very firm tone: "Listen to me, cut off the connection, and I will take you out of here."

The girl listened, without any hesitation, she started to operate the extremely complicated console with trembling hands.

Her voice trembled violently: "I, I need time, I need... about, about 10 minutes..."

"You mess with you, don't be distracted." Chai Yuening said, and moved two steps to the side, subconsciously blocking Chu Ci and the girl's small body behind her.

She didn't shoot, just confronted the humanoid.

The pain will irritate the beasts, and the sound of gunfire will disturb the herd.

The military supplies hadn't arrived yet, and she didn't have many bullets left on her body. The long 10 minutes might not be able to be delayed by taking a life.

But she has no choice.

At the moment when despair was about to overwhelm her reason, she faintly smelled a faint fragrance.

In the dim operating room, a thin layer of mist was enveloped.

A rustling sound came from behind him.

She saw black vines, carrying a dark red halo, flying up beside her.

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