abyss rose

Chapter 36

"It's a fighter..."

Lonicera looked at the distant sky and murmured softly.

The armored vehicle gradually moved away from the behemoth behind it.

One after another, fighter planes passed through the thunderstorm and headed towards the vast plain at high speed.

Amidst the storm and thunderstorm, the survivors turned their heads and looked behind them.

It was an indescribable and unforgettable magnificent scene.

Huge black jellyfish, like a blooming flower of death.

All black vines worship it and offer their life and soul to it.

As those red and purple shimmers turned into wisps of light in the night sky, like smoke, they rose from all directions and drifted towards the giant beast.

The dense fog filled the sky, like the lives of those black vines, slowly dissipated like smoke.

Human fighter planes hovered condescendingly in the haze of light and shadow.

They looked down at the dying colossus.

Bursts of fire burst out on the remnant body of the giant beast.

The moment the giant beast crashed to the ground, the ground shook violently for a moment.

A dozen fighter planes hovering in the air still did not stop shooting at the giant beast.

In the distant sky, the fog lights of fighter planes came through the clouds.

The broken armored vehicle stopped in the heavy rain.

Chai Yuening unbuckled her seat belt, stood up and looked at the night sky where there was no longer only boundless darkness.

Out of the fighter planes that landed one after another, fully armed humans stepped out.

Wearing unfamiliar military uniforms, they ran in line in the rain with guns and weapons, and soon surrounded the leaky armored vehicle heavily.

All of a sudden, seven or eight flashlights hit the survivors in the armored vehicle.

The rescuers kept 12 vigilance in their eyes.

Chai Yuening walked to the driver's seat, and glanced at Lao Xiang who was reclining on the armchair exhausted.

The left half of his body was soaked in the blood that had faded from the rain, and the blood was almost invisible on his paper-pale face.

He was so weak that he covered the wound on his waist and abdomen with one hand, took off the goggle on his face with the other, took a breath, and said: "Can you tell those people who came from the sky to stop turning on the lights? I'm dazzled."

Chai Yuening couldn't laugh or cry for a while: "You still have the mood to say this."

Lao Xiang smiled indifferently: "This kind of injury can't kill you."

Where countless lights cast, there was a reassuring voice.

"Is it someone from the dungeon base?"

"Yes! We are from the base of the dungeon. We are ordered by the military today to go to the ground and wait for the help from the floating city!"

"Please take us into the dungeon base!"

"No problem, but someone in our team is injured and needs to be treated as soon as possible!"

"We have professional medical personnel, but until then, you need infection monitoring!"

"We are willing to cooperate with infection monitoring!"

The support from Floating Void City came, the black vine withered, and they survived.

Everything is so incredible.

The signal towers of the base scattered in all directions stood quietly under the cover of withered vines.

In the past month or so, all the ground signal towers have failed, and the base can only use the underground core signal station to distribute short-range signals to the outer city.

This kind of distribution can be easily blocked by destroying the temporary signal receiving point in the outer city, and the stability is far inferior to the ground signal tower.

Now the signal tower is no longer disturbed by the black vines, and it is not known whether the base signal can gradually recover.

Thinking this way, Chai Yuening took out the communicator and took a look. The communication signal had changed from completely absent to unstable.

She sent a voice communication to the base military.

"Floating Void City reinforcements have arrived, No.13 mercenary team, mission completed."

After tens of seconds, the communicator shows that the communication has been sent successfully.

At that moment, she couldn't help looking into the distance, towards the vast sky where the rain fell.

The thick fog that had been hanging over the base for a long time finally dissipated.

The sky at dawn is dark clouds and purple, the moon is white above the head, and it is rainy all night, and it will last forever.

After passing the infection monitoring, a thin middle-aged woman in a raincoat walked towards them quickly.

Chai Yuening clearly felt that the woman's gaze was on Chu Ci.

And Chu Ci also looked at the woman quietly.

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The arrival of reinforcements from the Floating Void City undoubtedly made the dungeon base see the dawn of doom.

Human fighters cannot fly inside the dungeon base.

After going underground, the fighter planes brought by the Floating Void City were arranged in the spare parking spots of the base of the dungeon.

The reinforcements of the Floating Void City were rushed to the Ninth District under the arrangement of the main city military, just to liberate the military power of the main city of the base first.

At the moment when the communication was restored, the base was most fortunate that it chose to believe in that seemingly incomparably slim hope.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the outer cities, which might have been completely fallen, actually got in touch with the main city one after another within half an hour after the communication signal gradually recovered.

The Jedi are still alive.

The sheriff, the city defense army, and the mercenaries with their own guns/weapons who had no time to evacuate organized the uninfected people around them in the chaos.

They blocked the vents, hid in supermarkets, colleges, and medical clinics, and deployed the strongest defense within their capabilities in the smallest range.

Some urban areas have even regained the city defense buildings that were severely damaged but still fortified.

People in the outer city have been holding on and waiting.

They survived one sleepless night after another, the only belief in their hearts was to wait for the rescue from the main city.

The moment the communication signal was restored, their hearts were filled with the ecstasy of the rest of their lives.

"Emergency communication in the tenth district! I am the adjutant of the city defense army in the tenth district. We are still holding on to the city defense building. There are less than [-] surviving people. We are asking the main city for support."

"Emergency communication in the fourth district! We have defended the medical center in the fourth district with all our strength. Thousands of people survived. The weapons and ammunition are about to run out. Please help..."

"Emergency communications from the Seventh District Public Security Station. After the wall rose, we retreated to the urban power station together with the city defense army to protect the residents. It is estimated that more than half of the combat power has been lost. We request the main city to support as soon as possible."

"Emergency communication in three districts."

"Emergency communication for the eighth district."

"A district emergency..."

Countless distress calls were transmitted from the outer city to the main city.

Their voices, their locations, all reached the ears of the united front commander who stayed in the main city.

From that moment on, the rescue officially started in the designated direction.

In the medical center of the main city, Lao Xiang, who had lost too much blood and fell into shock, had been pushed into the emergency room.

The team members stood guard outside the operating room, either sitting quietly, or pacing anxiously.

The wait was always long, and Chai Yuening couldn't help closing her eyes and letting out a long sigh.

The pocket watch in their hands was ticking every minute, and they finally got a good result when the door of the emergency room opened.

Lao Xiang is fine, his physical fitness is very good, so he survived, but he is still very weak and needs to be hospitalized for observation for a while.

Chai Yuening couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

She subconsciously looked at Chu Ci, only to see that Chu Ci's eyes were blurred, and his mind was obviously not here.

After a brief silence, she gently lifted Chu Ci's little finger.

Chu Ci came back to his senses, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Chai Yuening pulled her to the corner of the stairs where no one was there.

They were holding hands, shoulder to shoulder, leaning against the cold wall together, looking at their toes thoughtfully.

After an unknown amount of time, Chai Yuening asked softly.

"Who is that person who was sent to the base research institute?"

Chu Ci: "Which one?"

Chai Yuening: "Girl, she looks about 40 or [-] years old."

"Dr. Yi..."

Chu Ci spoke softly, and slowly lowered his eyelashes.

"She is my current guardian."

Chai Yuening: "Guardian..."

Chu Ci: "Yes."

Chai Yuening couldn't help but pursed her lips hard.

After a short silence, she asked softly again: "You want to go back with her?"

Chu Ci hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded.

"She'll take me back," she said.

Light as a sigh.

Chai Yuening couldn't help asking: "Is there no choice?"

Chu Ci thought for a long time, then replied softly: "Yes."

"then you……"

"Didn't I choose?" Chu Ci said lightly.

She suddenly raised her eyes to look at Chai Yuening, bent her eyebrows and smiled slightly, "Chai Yuening, can't you see how much the Floating Void City attaches importance to me?"

Chai Yuening was dumbfounded for a moment.

She can see it, why can't she see it?

For a sample, countless fighter planes in the Floating Void City braved the wind and rain, passed through thunderstorms, and rushed to unknown places with all their strength.

During the rescue team, there was even a doctor who was supposed to be in the research institute and was under the best protection at all times.

That's right, a sample that successfully fused with the black vine, a being that is completely immune to infection, and can even conceal the human aura for a short period of time, is like a miracle to the entire human race, an irreplaceable glimmer of hope.

Judging from the few words that Chu Ci mentioned earlier, Floating Void City should be studying her while paying attention to her special features, and trained her as a "secret weapon" that can perform dangerous tasks.

The disappearance of such a sample must have caused them to be devastated for a while, and they may even have fallen into a burst of panic.

Now that the sample is back, how could they not bring her back?

"Dr. Ge said that human beings have never given up, and they will never give up." Chu Ci murmured softly, "As long as there is still a glimmer of hope, no matter how painful it is, we must keep moving forward, tirelessly and unscrupulously. go forward."

As she spoke, she took a deep breath and a smile appeared in her eyes: "I forgot to tell you that since the catastrophe broke out, the Floating Void City has never stopped human experiments."

"In Floating Void City, terminally ill people can sign an experimental agreement to voluntarily dedicate themselves to scientific research if they wish. The base will give large subsidies to the relatives of the signatories and conduct experiments on the signatories."

"The base research institute assures people that no matter what the results of the experiment are, every participant in the experiment will retain their self-dignity and die as a human being."

"More than 50 years have passed. Guess what the results of the base are like?"

Chai Yuening: "I can't guess."

Chu Ci: "ABCD is arranged in order, from A0001 to D0341, during which each group has a capped sample of 9999 samples. So far...only I have survived."

Chai Yuening couldn't help but gasped.

If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, who would have believed that only one of the more than 50 human samples in the Floating Void City survived for more than 3 years.

"They want to learn something from me too much." Chu Ci laughed self-deprecatingly, "But I let them down very much. blood, and they didn't get any results from their research. I won't be infected by anything, and I won't be infected by anything."

"But even so, they never gave up..."

"They always believe that my existence is not an accident. There must be some secret hidden in me that they haven't found yet."

As Chu Ci spoke, the corners of his lips twitched slightly, and he sighed softly with a smile: "I figured it out, the glimmer of hope in their eyes may be the responsibility I was destined to bear. I can't escape it either."

Chai Yuening didn't understand why Chu Ci could say these words in such a flat tone.

Those so-called hopes and inescapable responsibilities are all so heavy, how can one person resist them?

The hope that has not been found for 50 years, how long does it take a person to face the darkness before he can see the light again?

Chai Yuening bit her lower lip tightly and remained silent for a long time, but she still couldn't help asking: "What will they do to you when you go back?"

Chu Ci blinked, and said in a flat tone: "Dr. Yi has always been good to me."

"Really?"

"Ah."

"Didn't lie to me?"

"I kid you not."

"Are you going to be locked up?"

"It doesn't matter, I'm used to it."

"Then you...why are you..."

"Ok?"

"Why did you ever think about staying?" Chai Yuening's voice trembled.

"because……"

Chu Ci looked up at the overhead light in the stairwell.

She was silent for a long time, and finally tilted her head with a smile.

"If I'm still a human being, it's normal to be a little selfish, right?"

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The author has something to say:

It's late, the first volume "Night Fog" is over, and the next volume is called "Hanging".

#hanging