abyss rose

After twelve o'clock the outer city is dark.

Even though the Sixth District is already a half-dead city at this moment, the procedures set in advance by the urban power supply station will still cut off all power supplies in the non-core areas of the Sixth District when the time comes.

Darkness and silence swallowed the entire Sixth District.

The headlights of the armored vehicles were the only light on this bloody long street.

It swept across this supposedly clean and peaceful city, faintly illuminating the strange shadows hidden in the blood-stained darkness, and passed by them again.

The blood on the street was very thick, but there were not many corpses.

Cheng Shan was right, the rate of infection and mutation of these alien beasts was terribly high, and it was feared that all human beings who hadn't died would all turn into bloodthirsty alien beasts in fear and despair.

Some mutants will wander here, looking for every hidden prey, and some will crawl into the ventilation ducts in groups, or go to other urban areas along the avenue.

Those highly contagious beasts came out through the fifth district.

The Sixth District will not be the only lost outer city after the Fifth District, but if other districts have sufficient military strength, they may cope much better than the Sixth District.

It's just that on the way to escape from the sixth district, Chai Yuening suddenly lost her direction.

In a trance, she even felt that she was in a foggy area, with no people around, only strange beasts that could eat people.

But this is not the ground, nor is it a foggy area.

When she was in the foggy area, no matter how many dangers she faced, she still had a place in her heart that she wanted to go back to. No matter how big the fog was, she would not lose her way.

Unlike now, there is no fog around, but she was shocked to find that she had no place to "go back".

The old armored vehicle was still driving towards the unknown direction, and Chai Yuening quietly hid the confusion in his heart.

She didn't want to bring this hopelessness to those around her.

Especially the little girl who looked less than 20 years old and huddled her knees in the back seat.

The little girl's name is Jing Mu, and she lives in the Ninth District. After a lot of effort, she finally got admitted to the City Defense Technology Department.

The family members are all happy for her, saying that staying away from home is not a problem. No matter which urban area you are assigned, as long as you perform well, work hard, and survive for more than ten years, there is always a chance to enter the main city. When you enter the main city, The quality of life is completely different.

Jing Mu listened to everything the lord said.

She originally thought that she would take her family to the main city when she had created a world, but before the internship was over, the city defense center she was in was attacked by strange beasts, and the entire sixth district was almost instantly Completely lost contact with the outside world.

It's really hard not to feel that things are impermanent.

Chai Yuening thought for a while, and temporarily set the destination on the Ninth District.

If the Ninth District hadn't fallen, she could at least send a child who went out to her family.

If you don't take the train, you have to go to the ninth district, and the seventh district will be the nearest and only way, so you can refill your gas and find Yulan to replenish it.

That woman can get anything, but the offer is a bit dark.

But there is no tomorrow in these days, and there is nothing to care about those things outside of the body.

Compared to these things, Chai Yuening was more worried about encountering a herd of beasts on the way to District Seven.

Fortunately, she was lucky, she drove the car in the middle of the night, and only ran into a few scattered ones wandering outside, and did not meet a group of them.

The armored vehicle that left the city followed the road signs and entered the tunnel to District Seven.

The little girl curled up in the back seat fell asleep at some point, her breathing was not smooth, the dream should not be peaceful.

Chu Ci on the co-pilot was awake all the time, staring out the window in a daze.

But there is nothing outside the window.

The underground city is an empty tunnel outside the urban area.

These tunnels connect various urban areas. There is nothing along the way. Only the forks will have road signs to indicate the direction. They used to be the most important traffic roads in the dungeon base, but now they have been replaced by urban trains, except for the mercenaries and the military. , very few vehicles will pass through these tunnels anymore.

Chai Yuening always felt that there was something hidden in Chu Ci's heart, and he didn't know if he was afraid to say it, or because it was inconvenient to speak because of the presence of others.

No matter why, everyone was silent along the way.

It was after 04:30 in the morning when they arrived in District Seven.

At this time when everyone should be asleep on weekdays, the entrance of the city in the seventh district is always lit with dim lights.

The separation wall, which will not be raised in non-emergency situations, has completely blocked the road for vehicles at this moment.

The armored vehicles in the distance didn't even have time to approach before they were hastily locked on in the darkness by the high beams projected from several observation ports on the high wall.

Chai Yuening half-closed her eyes under the high beam and slowed down, and finally parked the car slowly about 30 meters away from the separation wall.

She jumped out of the car, half-covered her eyes, and shouted: "Captain of No. 13 mercenary team in the sixth district, Chai Yuening! There are two people in the car, and they have been tested and found no signs of infection!"

The voice fell, and after a brief silence, the thick iron gates of the separation wall slowly opened to both sides.

Someone ran out from inside, with a few people behind him, pushing a large infection detector, and approached them against the strong light.

The moment the high beams were turned off, Chai Yuening recognized the familiar smooth face——the Chief Sheriff of District [-], Ban Xiangming, who always turns a blind eye and loves to be kind when things happen.

"Oh, Captain Chai, I knew that nothing would happen to you!"

"Boss You said that you lost contact and may be in danger, I don't even believe it!"

"Who are you? Except for the military in the entire base, only your thirteen mercenary teams dare to enter the fifth-level risk zone. How can you be trapped by strange beasts?"

"You are an outer city hero who contributed a lot of ground samples to our base's scientific research."

Ban Xiangming had a kind smile all over his face, and he opened his mouth to say nice words, but he obviously kept a distance of three meters away from Chai Yuening, and his gesture of calling his subordinates to come forward for inspection was even more unambiguous.

Chai Yuening had no doubts at all. If there were any signs of infection on her body, the Chief Sheriff would definitely shoot her, the "outer city hero", immediately.

Chu Ci and Jing Mu jumped out of the car one after another.

Ban Xiangming saw the blood-stained bandage on Chu Ci's hand at a glance, and his eyes instantly became alert: "Captain Chai, the injury on the girl's arm..."

"Broken glass." Chai Yuening replied lightly.

"So careless, I see a lot of blood, and the injury is serious." Ban Xiangming's eyes were still vigilant.

"Isn't there a tester?" Chai Yuening said, raising her eyebrows and asked, "What? The tester doesn't work, so do you need to take off the bandage to test the injury?"

"That's not necessary." Ban Xiangming smiled apologetically, "Special times, special circumstances, it's good for everyone to be vigilant. Captain Chai understand, don't be angry."

Chai Yuening didn't say anything more, just followed Chu Ci, and took the test together.

After one night, she stood in front of the detector again, and she still felt an indescribable nervousness in her heart.

It was strange to say that no matter what kind of beasts injured Chu Ci, Chu Ci would not show any signs of infection, but she was very afraid that something might happen, that the sheriff's gun would suddenly be aimed at Chu Ci.

Fortunately, such a situation did not happen, Chu Ci's test results were very normal, and Jing Mu showed no sign of betraying them, which made Chai Yuening breathe a long sigh of relief.

The armored vehicle that was released finally drove into the seventh district again.

Destination, the black market in the north of the city.

Chai Yuening is already very familiar with the road from the entrance of the city to the black market. After all, this is the final unloading point for her private work, and she has to walk a dozen or twenty times a year at least.

Before entering the city, Chai Yuening asked Ban Xiangming about the current situation of the base.

Ban Xiangming sighed and shook his head again and again: "It all happened so suddenly, the main city didn't even have time to react, and they lost contact with seven outer cities."

Chai Yuening couldn't help but gasped: "Seven?"

"Last night, District [-], District [-], and District [-] lost contact successively. All of this seemed to be premeditated. The goal of the herd was very clear. They cut off communication and destroyed the city defenses. There was no time for the lost city to spread any news." Ban Xiangming said, "The main city doesn't know what's going on, so there is no way to deal with it. We can only ask the districts to raise walls, strengthen external defenses, and report the latest situation at any time."

"Fortunately, the technicians in the main city detected that someone activated the emergency mode and forcibly cut off the connection between the ventilation system of District [-] and other urban areas. This discovery made the main city realize that the herd of beasts might have invaded other urban areas through the ventilation ducts, so they stayed overnight. Cut off the connection of hundreds of ventilation systems in various urban areas..." Ban Xiangming said here, sighed and shook his head, "Unfortunately, when the ventilation system connection was cut off, in the ten outer urban areas, except for ours, only two The District and the Ninth District have not been invaded by the herd."

He sighed with some fear: "I can't imagine, if the people in District [-] hadn't sent a message to the main city in this way, would we still be standing here now..."

Chai Yuening couldn't help falling into a moment of silence.

She subconsciously touched her waist, and the communicator that should have been pinned to her waist had fallen somewhere.

She didn't know where her lost teammates were, or if they were safe.

All she knew was that she seemed to have done something extraordinary, the survivors would be grateful to her, and the main city would be grateful to her, but this incident failed to protect the urban area where her teammates were located.

"Captain Chai? Is there anything else you need to help?"

"Can you arrange two temporary residences for me?" Chai Yuening replied back to his senses.

"Too many people have flooded into District [-] today, and there may not be any vacant rooms, and this point is not very convenient..." Ban Xiangming thought for a while and asked, "How about I help Captain Chai ask Boss You ask?"

At that moment, Chai Yuening nodded.

Yolan is a passionate businessman, at least on the surface.

After hearing that the "old friend" had nowhere to go tonight, she immediately offered to provide accommodation for free.

But if time could be turned back, Chai Yuening would probably choose to sleep in the car.

because……

When she took two young girls, holding two hotel room cards, and pushed open the first room door, there was a scent that couldn't tell what was wrong, but nothing was right. come.

The room was lit with dim lights of pink and purple, and the circular water bed was covered with smooth silk sheets, surrounded by two layers of light pink gauze curtains.

There are hanging paintings full of strange hints on the walls, and on the flower-carved hanger next to the double swing, there are two towel bathrobes and all the incomprehensible crystal pendants.

The bathroom has a bathtub that ordinary people cannot afford, and the surrounding bathtub is covered with plastic flower petals sprayed with perfume.

Jing Mu asked for another room card from Chai Yuening with a blushing face.

The moment the door closed, Chai Yuening pointed to the big round bed with some embarrassment: "You sleep on top, and I sleep on the bottom."

Chu Ci: "This bed is so big."

Chai Yuening: "I'm not afraid..."

Chu Ci: "Afraid that I will infect you?"

Chai Yuening: "...?"

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The author has something to say:

Boss You, who did not want to reveal his name during his lines: I can only help you so far.