Scarlet Dawn [Apocalypse]

It is now winter in the entire southern hemisphere, the temperature is not low, but the humidity is extremely high.

The rain that started at midnight has not stopped until now. The gray-blue cumulonimbus cloud is pressing heavily on the ground. It is clearly [-]:[-] in the morning, but the sky is as gloomy as the evening, and a bright lightning strikes in the sky The explosion split the clouds into pieces, followed by deafening thunder.

This is the second day after they arrived in this coastal city. The No. 20 seven-hour exploration work, the aircraft stayed in the desert area far from the city, and the surrounding scenery changed a lot when walking all the way. When the first step stepped into the city , Bai Yi only felt that they entered a brand new ruin, that's all.

After the end of the world, all the cities on the earth are degrading in the same direction. Except for the climate, vegetation, and some landmark buildings that have not been completely weathered, the differences in appearance have been reduced enough to be ignored.

The rain-soaked combat uniform was like a stiff iron sheet, icy stuck to the skin. Bai Yi took a breath of the cool and humid air, and his eyes behind the waterproof goggles were cold and dull.

In front of him was an ordinary house with no characteristics. The entire outer wall was covered by plants, so it couldn't be seen from its original appearance. He clenched his hands behind his back, and then stretched out his hand to push open the crumbling black iron cast door, as if he was not visiting a private house that had been around for hundreds of years, as if its owner was still living inside.

Oh, no, its owner is indeed still inside—

Sensing the movement, the two zombies in the courtyard twisted their stiff necks, and looked towards the gate with sunken and rotten eye sockets. One of the female zombies had a broken right leg bone, and the split bone penetrated the flesh, revealing a withered yellow tip .

Seeing the food, she pulled her broken leg and limped forward, opened her upper and lower jaws and dragged out strips of sticky saliva, making an impatient grunt in her throat. Behind her, a male zombie was stuck in the lawn mower Between the wall and the courtyard, I can only stretch out my arms and grasp in vain in mid-air.

Affected by the ninth-level mutant, the movements of ordinary zombies were extremely slow in Bai Yi's eyes. He didn't even bother to use the dagger, and kicked the zombie with the broken leg out.

The hoarse screams came to an abrupt end, and the zombie's head hit the wall. With great force, the entire skull was smashed into pieces, and the dark brown blood mixed with the brain, leaving a disgusting radial mark on the wall. Under the action of the nervous system, the stump twitched slightly for a while.

Silvison followed behind him, only clicked his tongue when he saw this, and said with a smile: "You don't need to vent to the zombies if you're in a bad mood, right?"

"Otherwise... what else can I do?" Bai Yi took off his goggles, shook his hair wet by the rain, raised his head slightly to meet the slanting rain, slowly raised his lip line, mocking himself He laughed softly, "Whether it was 400 years ago or today, my life has always been carried out according to the rules established by others—"

"My father, the doctor who was ordered to be protected by his superiors, was the first to accept my friends since he was reborn. They are all hypocritical illusions, and they are all people who make me put in all my efforts, but in the end they lose in a mess. The feeling of being betrayed again and again is really terrible!"

The smile in Silverson's eyes dissipated. He stepped forward and put his hand on Bai Yi's shoulder. Before he could speak, he saw the other party waving his hand indiscriminately, "No need to comfort me, I'm fine." After Bai Yi finished speaking, he looked around in private Once again, asked: "Are you sure the coordinates of No. [-] correspond to this place?"

"About the entrance of the base, Claude has five coordinates in his mind, and I will not remember this number wrongly." Silverson said: "Of course, his memory has been modified, although it is not clear that Father did so. purpose, but there will definitely be invalid coordinates that confuse attention in these five places."

Bai Yi hummed, and said, "It's really not easy to find the base entrance hidden in ordinary houses."

"This is not an ordinary house—" Silverson corrected.

Bai Yi heard the clue, turned around and asked suspiciously, "What do you mean?"

Silverson said: "According to the information I found, there was a couple named Charlotte who lived here 400 years ago. They had a son who was studying for a doctorate in virology in the United States. Lauder."

Hearing this, Bai Yi was startled, "Is this Claude's home?"

Silvison nodded slowly, pointing at the trapped male zombie, "That's probably his father." Then he motioned Bai Yi to look at the wall of the old house, and said lightly, "The poor boy who was kicked by you A woman should be his mother."

Bai Yi: "..."

A tendon twitched in the corner of Bai Yi's forehead, with black lines all over his head, he said, "Please tell me sooner next time!"

"So what if I told you earlier, she's just a zombie," Silveson said, "The more pitiful part is not that you were shot in the head, but that the virus that infects this couple was developed by his own son. , they've been wandering here for 400 years, and it's a relief to stop."

He didn't use 'death' because Lost was originally a lifeless walking dead. Human beings who were killed by the virus stood up again and became Lost, and then wandered endlessly in this land that abandoned humans and was also abandoned by humans. .

When stopping became an extravagant hope, and human beings turned into walking corpses, Bai Yi didn't know how to describe the dilapidated world in front of him. He stood there silently for a long time, and then said lightly, "Let's go, after checking here Go and join them."

Then the two didn't communicate, and didn't care about Mr. Charlotte who was trapped in the corner. After quickly searching the yard, the two stepped onto the porch tacitly. An ordinary house.

Silvison put his fingers on the doorknob, and with a little force, the metal twisted, and there was a crisp click sound from the friction of the joints. Bai Yi, who was standing behind, noticed the slight tension in the back of the other party, and immediately realized that there was a problem, and whispered Asked: "What's wrong?"

"The door lock is not rusted, there are people inside."

The section of the seemingly ordinary wooden door was ten inches thick. The moment he pulled it, Silvison was sure that the alloy steel plate was embedded inside. This structure is explosion-proof and sound-proof. The whole building is far less calm and harmless than it looks on the surface. It seems that he and Bai Yi are in the right place.

As the door was opened, a new sound seemed to be opened in this world with only the sound of rain. It sounded like the people in the house were busy, and a sweet fragrance escaped from the crack of the door. They exchanged glances with Silvison, and at the same time, someone from the other side of the door said, "Since you're here, come in quickly, you're just in time for lunch."

The young man's voice was as weak as ever, like a glass of plain white water, with no emotion, but different from the tiredness when we first met, this time he seemed to be in a good mood.

——It turned out to be Nicholas, Bai Yi was a little surprised. It is a private house without any special protection measures. Even though the door panels and walls are embedded with steel plates, the door chains are not locked. It seems that they have known for a long time that they will Come on, the young pope, the 'innovator', waited inside, without subordinates or any defenses.

The two stood at the door, not knowing whether to go in or not.

The other party seemed to be completely unaffected, and was busy making the lunch he mentioned. The sound of kitchen utensils colliding and impatient complaints sounded at the same time, accompanied by more and more intense aromas, melting the gray and silent outdoor space little by little. Cold rainy season.

"Don't touch the world, this is not for you to eat!"

"Meow--!"

"Hey - don't run away! If you make trouble again, Cong Xi will make you a stuffed animal!"

The footsteps sounded and stopped, something fell to the ground with a clang, and then there was a violent coughing sound.

"If you haven't figured out whether you want to come in, please close the door first." Finally, the people inside said to them again: "This useless body can't catch cold, if Cong Xi finds out, he's going to nag again."

Before the words were finished, a black cat slyly poked its head out from the crack of the door. Its amber eyes were like a pair of transparent glass balls.

With something in its mouth, the black cat couldn't make a sound and could only wave its paws and struggle desperately. Bai Yi pinched the back of its neck impatiently. The black cat shivered in pain and shrank obediently. The bright yellow cat's eyes rolled its eyes to the stupid human hugging it depressedly, and let out intermittent low whimpers of dissatisfaction in its throat.

"Your cat." Bai Yi gestured to Silvison with his eyes, then pushed open the door and walked in first.

The inside of the house looks completely different from the outside. The furniture and floors are quite clean. It looks like they are often used. The thermostat keeps the room temperature at a high temperature. There was a dirty footprint on the small wool rug.

"Just throw it on the ground." Nicholas said, "Actually, it knows the way back."

The house is small in size, and the semi-open kitchen is connected to the dining room. Bai Yi walked a certain distance in, poked his head out from the side of the coat rack, and saw Nicholas take out a plate of steaming hot pot from the oven. apple pie.

The boy's face still showed an extremely sickly paleness, and he was much thinner than when we met last time. He took off the gorgeous and complicated dress. He was wearing ordinary home clothes, and he even wore a warm red plaid apron on the outside. Nicholas lightly sniffed the aroma of apple pie, his slender eyelashes drooped, and a satisfied smile filled his silver-gray eyes, and he had a docile and quiet temperament from afar.

Bai Yi stared at his defenseless back without saying a word, thinking about whether to go straight up and take him hostage or something.

"This is the pie that Mrs. Charlotte taught me to make before. Come here and sit down. The taste will get worse if it gets cold." Nicholas laboriously brought the apple pie to the dining table. Wiping off a layer of sweat from his forehead, he raised his eyelashes, and the boy's eyes returned to the initial boredom and indifference. Those uniquely colored eyes contained a deathly frozen silence.

Seeing that Bai Yi didn't move, Nicholas didn't seem to be urging him. He turned around and looked at Silvison behind him, "There is fresh blood in the refrigerator that was taken out in the morning, and the source of the blood is very healthy human beings. Would Major General Vandro want some? I remember there are still a few bottles of good quality whiskey in the study."

"You don't need to bother," Silvison bowed politely, and after the politeness, he asked straight to the point, "Where is Bai Congxi?"

"He's busy, so I can't come here in person. I happen to be idle, so I brought the world here to wait for you." After speaking, Nicholas pulled out the chair and sat down, cut a corner of apple pie and put it on the plate, then picked up the knife Fork eats well.

Bai Yi: "How did you know we would come here?"

"Since the landing of the aircraft, your every move has been monitored by the 'innovators'. The people below said that Bye was heading in the direction of Charlotte's old house, so I came here to bake a pie and try my luck," Nick said. Les wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin, and raised his teacup to signal to the two, "It seems that I'm lucky."

Bai Yi: "Could it be possible that the five coordinates in Claude's mind can enter the base?"

"I can't," Nicholas ate almost his share, got up and cut off another piece, put it on a clean plate and pushed it to Bai Yi, "It will be boring to live underground all the time, and the ecological simulation is too realistic and unnatural , People in the hive should have a deep understanding of this."

"So, these five coordinates are just the places I often come to. If you have to talk about something in common—" After a pause, Nicklus made a thoughtful expression, and after a while, he said: "Probably all Is there an oven for apple pie?"

Bai Yi: "..."

"Now you can send a message to the remaining four companions, saying that you have successfully entered the enemy's underground base, and ask them to return to the aircraft to stand by." Nicholas poked at the residue on the bottom of the plate, without looking up, said: "However, even Colonel Statham has come together. Cong Xi has already offered such a generous offer. You are so scheming, aren't you a bit dishonest?"

Silvison sneered, playing with the taste: "Bye and I have not acted violently since we came in. This is already the greatest sincerity to you. What do you think, His Excellency the Pope?"

"Violence, right?" Nicholas raised his lips sarcastically, "I'm such a waste that I can't even serve an apple pie. Is it too cheap for me to be violent?"

"You are weaker than before," Bai Yi said, "What's wrong with your body?"

"No problem, it's just that the time limit for the artificial body is approaching." Nichols said.

Bai Yi frowned slightly, and asked hesitantly, "Where's your body?"

"Of course the genetic modification failed, it was abolished~"

Bai Yi was taken aback when he heard the words, and Nicholas raised his eyes and glanced at him indifferently, a meaningful icy smile flickered in his silver-gray eyes, "In the early days of genetic modification, the success rate is less than one in ten thousand. Thinking that it is just a nutritional supplement provided by the alliance's free medical care is as ignorant as countless patients who have received assistance..."

"The Genetic Project—?" Silverson said.

"Yes, the alliance made up a gentle and harmless cover for it, and recruited countless ignorant humans who voluntarily participated in the experiment. I was one of the lucky ones. Congxi found it in time and finally rescued my consciousness. Then The body must have rotted into dregs long ago, right?"

Nicholas rested his chin with one hand, as if he was talking about something unimportant, and tapped the table with his slender fingers. He noticed that the apple pie he cut for Bai Yi frowned. Frowning, he finally couldn't help urging: "I prepared it all morning, don't you really want to try it?"