august chronicle

There are many metal instruments in the basement, glowing coldly under the dim light.

Chen Shaoze didn't know these instruments, but it could be seen that they were all rusted and should have been discarded here.

Chen Shaoze walked to an iron bed. There are many iron beds in the basement, but the only one that caught his attention was the one in front of him.

This iron bed is the most rusted, but there is a white strip of cloth left at the weld between the bed board and the bed frame. Looking from both sides of the cloth strip, this should be when someone took the bed sheet away. It entered the gap and was torn off abruptly.

However, the people who threw these things didn't care about them.

Chen Shaoze pulled the cloth strip out from the gap, and the cloth strip was stained with blood, because it had dried up after a long time, and the color was not so strong.

Chen Shaoze put the cloth strip under the tip of his nose and smelled it, then quickly took it away.

"What's wrong?" Lin Zichen asked.

"It smells like a zombie. The blood on the cloth is from a zombie."

"Zombie?"

"These instruments, if I'm not wrong, should be used by someone to study zombies. There must be a lot of articles in it."

The two of them carefully inspected the basement, and after finding nothing unusual, they walked to another basement.

The other basement is parallel to this basement, and it is necessary to go down a ninety-degree staircase to reach the other basement.

Lin Zichen went down first, and when Chen Shaoze landed, he made a very slight sound, but in the extremely quiet basement, the sound was extraordinarily crisp.

Suddenly, the roar of zombies filled the entire basement.

Chen Shaoze hurried down to the second basement.

Chen Shaoze shone a flashlight and found that the basement was full of zombies, but they were all kept in cages.

The cages containing the zombies were neatly stacked one by one, and the zombies inside were all alive and well, roaring and rushing into the iron cages when they smelled the popularity.

Lin Zichen found the light switch, and with a "snap", the whole room seemed to be daylight.

After all, the zombies could not see the light. After the lights were turned on, the excited zombies became quieter to varying degrees.

"This is actually a hiding place for zombies." Chen Shaoze roughly counted, there were more than 100 zombies in this basement, he couldn't help but click his tongue. "Tell me, did the zombies we met on the road the night before yesterday come out from here?"

"Probably."

"Wow, the person who planned all this is very powerful, he is going to make trouble." The person who can hide more than 100 zombies at once, and is still researching the zombies, and is very likely to let a batch of zombies go, What are you doing when you're not doing something?

"It's settled, it's a disaster if you keep it." Lin Zichen said that he had already dealt with a zombie in a cage.

Chen Shaoze nodded. If it was normal, the two of them would not be able to get any benefit from beating these more than 100 zombies. However, the zombies locked in a cage are like fish on a chopping board, ready to be slaughtered.

In a short while, the two finished killing all the zombies in the basement, and the rancid smell of zombies immediately filled the entire basement.

"Why does it smell rancid after killing it?" Chen Shaoze asked, covering his mouth and nose.

"I don't know, let's go to the next basement." Lin Zichen frowned, obviously he couldn't stand the rotten smell from these hundred zombies at the same time.

The two of them passed another ninety-degree staircase and came to the third basement.

This basement looks very human. The basement is decorated like an ordinary living room. There are several leather sofas, various books and magazines on the bookshelves, and a huge glass table with various flowers and plants. There was a tea set, and it was obvious that a pot of tea had just been brewed in the tea set, and steam was constantly escaping from the mouth of the tea pot.

However, there is still no one in this basement.

There was a slight sound of the door opening, a door hidden on the wall was opened.

A man wearing a blood-stained white lab coat came out from behind the door. The man was probably in his 40s, with a lot of white hair in his hair.

The man was not surprised to see the two of them, and even smiled and greeted them for tea.

"Who are you?" Chen Shaoze asked.

"I am the owner of this house." The man said as he took off the lab coat that could be called a blood coat.

"Why do you want to study zombies? You keep these zombies here? Aren't you afraid that the zombies will go out and harm others?" Chen Shaoze knew from the man's appearance that he was studying the zombies and hadn't left.

"I study zombies, of course I have my own reasons." The man poured a cup of hot tea for himself, also ironed two cups, and poured a cup for Chen Shaoze and Lin Zichen, "Do you drink tea?"

"I don't think you have any good intentions."

The man is noncommittal.

"Before we came, there were people who came here, where are they?" Lin Zichen asked.

"How do you know that someone came before us?" Chen Shaoze looked at Lin Zichen suspiciously.

"There are eight glasses on your table that have been used. The one in front of you is yours. You poured him and me a glass. Then there are five glasses that must have been used by people who came before us." Lin Zi Chen explained.

The man chuckled and said, "I have men too."

"If it were your people, they would drink your tea more or less, but these five cups of tea have not moved at all."

"Smart, someone did come here before you." The man admitted without hiding anything.

"Where are they?"

"Which room is it in? It depends on you, whether you have the guts to go in with me." The man pointed to the room he came out of just now.

Both Chen Shaoze and Lin Zichen frowned slightly. Judging from the men's attire, the clothes were covered with blood, and it was the blood of living people, which meant that the situation inside was definitely not very good. There was an accident.

"None of them, I didn't move." The man seemed to be able to see Chen Shaoze's mental activities and explained.

"...Okay, let's go in." Chen Shaoze and Lin Zichen exchanged glances and said.

The man smiled, stood up, took out a new set of lab coats from the side cabinet, and put them on.

"However, we have conditions." Chen Shaoze said, holding a brown seed that Lin Zichen gave him in his hand. "You eat this before we go in."

The man looked at the two of them, the smile on his face remained unchanged, he took the seed from Chen Shaoze, and swallowed it in front of the two of them.

The seeds that Chen Shaoze asked men to eat were naturally not ordinary seeds, but a kind of seeds transformed by Lin Zichen's wood-type abilities. Once eaten into the stomach, they would melt instantly and melt into the blood. As long as Lin Zichen thought, It's all a form of torture.

The man led the way, and behind that door was a narrow and deep road, about ten meters long.

After walking this road, you will come to a fork in the road, the man will go to the right, and the two will follow.

Chen Shaoze paid attention to his surroundings, but he didn't expect that there was another hole in the ground.

Finally, after turning several corners, the three came to a room.

The man pressed the code, and the door opened automatically.

The man walked into the room, and insults came from inside immediately, and the scolding was extremely ugly.

When Chen Shaoze and Lin Zichen entered the room, they saw five people locked in an iron cage. The condition of the five people was not very good, and their faces were very pale.

When the five people saw Chen Shaoze and Lin Zichen, they were all stunned.

"You old man, please help?" In the cage, the youngest-looking boy sneered.

"No, they are here..." The man said slowly, but before the man finished speaking, Chen Shaoze felt a pain in the back of his neck, but he didn't faint immediately.

Turning his head, Chen Shaoze saw a person who appeared at an unknown time. That person was holding an iron rod in his hand. Seeing that Chen Shaoze hadn't fainted, he hit the rod again so hard that Chen Shaoze passed out.

Lin Zichen caught Chen Shaoze quickly, and stepped back hastily.