abyss rose

The crowd, shrouded in fear, scattered and fled in panic.

The sheriff's muzzle tried hard to aim at the fast-moving beast.

But it used the chaotic crowd as its own cover, making the expressions of those holding /guns extremely hesitant.

Such hesitation is tantamount to giving the strange beast an opportunity to hurt countless people at once.

Suddenly, a bullet hit the beast's hind leg.

The momentary loss of balance made it fall to the ground, and its four forelimbs lowered and let out a low growl in the direction of the bullet.

Anger made it rush towards Chai Yuening who was holding a gun, but the injury to his hind legs slowed him down.

After leaving the cover of the chaotic crowd, it still fell into a pool of blood after all.

The moment the strange beast fell, everyone stared at the bloody mess in front of them and fell into deathly silence.

Someone else was hurt.

After an unknown amount of time, the Chief Sheriff broke the silence.

He tried to arrange for everyone to undergo a new round of testing.

He said, injured or uninjured, every sheriff, medical staff present, and mercenaries who came to support must not be left behind.

The voice that was already shouting a little hoarse resounded again and again in this dead silence.

Finally, someone took a few steps forward and stood beside the tester.

One, two, three, four, more and more people followed behind that person.

None of them were injured, at least on the surface, unharmed.

Everyone now knows that what Cheng Shan said is correct, a wound that is so small that it will not be discovered if you keep your mouth shut may also cause infection and mutation.

If someone does not test, the next mutated person will infect the crowd here again.

So they didn't dare to make noise anymore, they just wanted to obey the arrangement and let all this pass quickly.

But those who were unfortunately injured just now were all sluggish in place.

They felt the strange gaze from the side, as if they could already foresee the outcome of no one interceding for themselves at the moment when the test results came out.

Finally, they numbly followed the end of the detection line.

At the same time, he also looked numbly at the people in front of the team, keeping a distance from them in great fear.

Chai Yuening unconsciously glanced at the electronic watch in the train station.

The time came to 21:47.

The numbers are red, then they have been red for many years.

Chai Yuening suddenly felt that it was like blood, and the changes every minute were so dazzling.

Gunshots sounded again in the waiting hall that was stained with too much blood.

One after another, one after another.

Those infected people who were desperate, crying, and struggling to escape after getting the expected test results failed to escape in the end.

Passenger testing was over, and sheriffs lined up to start testing.

Chai Yue quietly looked at the not-so-long line, and found that the young sheriff who had collapsed to the point of kneeling and crying a few hours ago was gone.

She turned around and glanced at the strange beast still lying on the ground, feeling an unspeakable feeling in her heart.

"He actually knew he was hurt." Chu Ci said softly from the side.

"Infection may not necessarily mutate, but if an infection is detected, it will definitely be killed by the same kind." Chai Yuening said, biting her lower lip and lowering her voice, "This is a choice that most people will make .”

She thought she was one of the many.

Everyone wants to live, and there is nothing wrong with wanting to live.

It's the world that's killing people.

Chai Yuening no longer looked at the electronic watch at the station, but took out the pocket watch on her body, looked at the hands on the watch, ticking away every minute and every second.

The sheriff and medical staff not far away were doing tests one by one. During the process, there was a gunshot, and a new infected person fell down.

The mercenaries who came to support also followed at the end of the inspection team.

Chai Yuening suddenly remembered something, and felt a little uneasy in her heart.

She subconsciously grabbed Chu Ci's hand.

Chu Ci looked back at her, didn't say anything, just pulled her and walked over.

The number of people who passed the initial test was increasing, and the testing team was shortening. Chai Yuening began to be unable to restrain her heartbeat that was accelerating again and again.

When they walked to the forefront of the team, the strings of reason were stretched to a limit in an instant.

Chai Yuening suddenly leaned close to Chu Ci's ear uncontrollably, and said a word in a voice so low that only the two of them could hear.

She said, "If you want to go, I can take you."

At that moment, she thought she was probably crazy.

But Chu Ci didn't respond to her, and walked forward as if nothing had happened, and extended his arm to the person in charge of testing.

For more than ten seconds, Chai Yuening almost forgot to breathe.

Fortunately, the final result was not what she was worried about.

When they returned to the empty seat in the corner again, Chai Yuening heard Chu Ci beside him let out a barely audible chuckle.

This kind of laughter made Chai Yuening's cheeks feel hot suddenly.

"why are you laughing……"

"What were you afraid of just now?"

Chu Ci's rhetorical question was very soft, Chai Yuening looked at her unconsciously, and looked at the faint smile in her eyes.

It was the only glimmer of light that could relax her a little in the gloom.

She took a deep breath, then sighed slowly, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that what I brought back from the foggy area is a alien species, in the form of a human, imitating human behavior, using human language, Before it completely mutated, it quietly infected me..."

After hearing this, Chu Ci asked softly: "If this is the case, then I was detected, so you are safe? Why do you want to take me away? You are not afraid that I am not a human being. Once I escape this detection, Will it always hide by your side?"

"I didn't expect so much." Chai Yuening said, smiling at herself, "I'm a short-sighted person."

"You prepared that reagent specially for me that night, right?"

"Ah."

"You can't trust me."

"Ah."

The two people sitting side by side suddenly became silent together.

Chu Ci looked at the pocket watch in Chai Yuening's hand, and didn't say a word until the second hand circled a full three times, "Thank you."

Chai Yuening was obviously taken aback.

She thought Chu Ci would be angry, at least the anger would not dissipate too quickly.

After all, her trust in her is so shallow, so shallow that living under the same roof is full of doubts.

But she heard a thank you, and she couldn't understand it.

She opened her mouth, wanting to ask something.

But the siren that heralded the coming of danger sounded again at this moment.

This time, there was no broadcast, no words of explanation, only sirens sounded from inside and outside the train station.

This is an evacuation alert for the city.

For so many years, the base has never broadcast it even once, but every outer city resident with basic education has heard this alarm in class.

Many people stood up, looking out of the station in horror.

Cheng Shan picked up the communicator with a pale face, as if he was asking someone something, but after a few words, his face became more serious.

Chai Yuening subconsciously checked the signal of the communicator.

As expected, as on the ground, messages were neither transmitted nor received.

Although I don't know what happened, the communication in the sixth district was cut off.

The siren blared continuously, imperceptibly casting a layer of despair on the empty train station.

"Something is approaching." Chu Ci said with a frown.

It wasn't an illusion, the ground under their feet trembled slightly.

It was a strange frequency, as if something was approaching from a distance, crawling in groups under the feet or above the head.

"What a voice!"

"Something is approaching!" Someone yelled, "It's above! There's something below!"

"It's the ventilation duct, and the strange beast crawled over from the fifth district along the ventilation duct!"

The originally quiet urban area outside the train station was also completely awakened by this sudden accident.

"The communication signal of the sixth district has been cut off, and the city's dispersal alarm has been activated. There seems to be a herd of beasts... from, sneaking in through the ventilation duct, the specific reason is unknown... the military force of the sixth district has rushed to the fifth district for support at noon today, and the remaining combat power...is seriously insufficient .Cheng Shan, the Sixth District Public Security Station, asks for support from the main city!"

Cheng Shan recorded this message with trembling voice.

If the signal is good and bad, maybe in a better time period, this message will be automatically transmitted.

But it's all just if.

But Cheng Shan obviously didn't intend to keep doing this to no avail.

He quickly put away the communicator, stepped forward and shouted to the panicked crowd: "Everyone, don't be nervous! The base building is very strong, and the ventilation duct can only allow one person to pass through. It is impossible for such small animals to enter the duct in groups. smash our..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted mercilessly by one dull and heavy bang after another.

Chai Yuening felt her feet began to shake uncontrollably.

There is more than one source of shaking.

The originally flat ground was suddenly cracked one after another by a sharp object.

Not only under the feet, but also on the top of the head.

From the cracks, one after another with sharp nails, pale hands that seemed human but not human slowly stretched out.

They are clearly so sharp, but they seem to have no bones. After getting out of the gap, they begin to elongate and extend limply outward.

The sheriffs fired at the "ghost hand".

The electronic watch showing 22:23 minutes suddenly flashed a burst of sparks, and was broken from a height by the "ghost hand" drilled from the ceiling, and hit the ground heavily.

The broken screen seemed to distort time.

The first beast wriggled out of the crack in the top of its stretched head.

"Snapped!"

With the screams of countless people, it fell on top of the large detector.

With limp limbs, it looks like a boneless human being, or a worm covered in human skin, with a pair of empty eyes, examining every "prey" in front of it.

Infection detectors frantically flashing red alarm lights.

"Run!"

Cheng Shan screamed, waking up those who were stupefied in place.

There are too many alien beasts, no one can protect anyone, everyone can only protect themselves.

This time, no one is controlling anyone anymore.

Everyone ran away desperately, and those who couldn't find their way ran around like headless chickens.

Chai Yuening aimed at the throat and between the eyebrows of the strange beast, but found that it was not its lifeblood at all.

A ghostly hand that just came out of the ground wrapped around her ankle.

Chu Ci pulled out the dagger from Chai Yuening's waist, bowed and severed it, grabbed her arm when he got up, turned and ran towards the station entrance.

The glass door at the train station had opened at some point, and the sheriff guarding the door had long since disappeared.

On the streets of the Sixth District, the invertebrate "humanoid insects" were hunting the panic-stricken crowd.

The street lamps hanging obliquely from the top flickered on and off, like a doomsday carnival.

The gunshots in the train station ceased to sound.

The long-sounding alarm was silenced at this moment.

The base of the dungeon, the sixth district of the outer city, fell into despair.