With Zhang Heng's slap, the emotions of everyone who were on the verge of collapse were finally pulled back temporarily, but looking at the frightened and helpless eyes of these people, Zhang Heng understood that there was no need for any memetic attacks now, just give them a while longer, and everyone's emotions would still collapse.
However, not everyone is so incorrigible, Zhang Heng glanced around at the crowd, among the thirty or forty people, there are still many people who still remain calm, which is enough.
"Everyone."
Zhang Heng clapped his hands and attracted everyone's attention, "We need a team of people to go down to the base, no matter what happens, only by entering the base, can we find a communication station to communicate with the outside world, and we can find the only way to live." ” "What are you kidding, I'm not going down" Suddenly, the crowd was in an uproar, and one of the obese men was already on the verge of collapse, venting his fear in the bottom of his mouth, he roared loudly, "There are hundreds of containment projects below, the hell knows what is leaked, let's go down and find death" "It's just voluntary."
Zhang Heng glanced at the other party disdainfully, "Is there anyone who wants to go down with me to investigate?"
"I'll go" What Zhang Heng didn't expect was that the first person to speak was Joey, who smiled at Zhang Heng, "We have weapons in our hands to protect you."
As he spoke, he pulled out a Glock 19 and loaded it skillfully, "This guy may not be of much use against those containments, but it's better than nothing." ” "I'll go too" The second person to speak, it turned out to be Professor Anderson, who smiled bitterly, "I know where the base's contact point to the outside world is, and my ID card can also enter some more classified areas, which should help everyone." ” Zhang Heng nodded, looked around at everyone again, and suddenly, four more field agents walked out, one of them was a middle-aged man with a beard and said, "Count me in, maybe all this is just a joke played by the base for us."
At this time, plus Zhang Heng, the number of people who volunteered to go down to the base has reached seven, Zhang Heng saw this, so he no longer hesitated, and took the lead in the direction of the elevator, "Okay, if you want to follow, follow up, and if you don't want to go down, stay here, may God bless you." ” Joey and Anderson took a deep breath and followed closely behind Zhang Heng, at this time, security authority is no longer the standard for evaluating status, and in the face of disaster, the herd effect will expose humanity to the fullest.
Everyone looked at Zhang Heng and the others who left with complicated eyes, and some people also wanted to follow, but when they thought of the dangers they might face in the base, these people finally retreated, and they preferred to stay between the large troops, but they didn't know that everyone was like a flock of lambs, waiting for the predators to approach.
When he walked to the elevator door, Zhang Heng's heart suddenly moved, he paused slightly, and turned his head to look at Anderson, "Professor Anderson, I was offended just now." ” "Out of the way."
Anderson was stunned for a moment, then smiled wryly and waved his hand, "Compared to the dangers we are facing now, what are those just now, and I have indeed been pampered for too long, and I can't even maintain the most basic mentality, alas" Zhang Heng nodded and said again, "I don't think we should take the elevator." ” Joy behind Zhang Heng looked thoughtful and muttered, "That's right, it's really not a good idea to take the elevator now, if there is really any danger, we can't even escape." ” "Then take the stairs."
Professor Anderson nodded, clearly aware of the danger, "It's just that I want you to be a little slower, otherwise I'll have a hard time keeping up." ” Everyone nodded in understanding, and then turned around and walked towards the staircase, which was also sealed, but as Professor Anderson took out his ID card and swiped it on the card reader, suddenly, the door of the emergency passage was opened, and a black staircase appeared in front of everyone.
The staircase is steep, the steps and handrails are covered with dust, and when you look down from the staircase, the zigzag staircase looks like an entrance to hell, making it impossible to see the bottom.
Zhang Heng even doubted whether anyone had walked up this staircase during the years that this base was built.
"Knock Knock" A group of seven people quickly descended the stairs, the deep staircase seemed to spread infinitely, and only the dark red emergency lights above their heads shone brightly, mixed with the echo of everyone's heavy footsteps, eerie, as if they were in hell However, after going down a dozen floors, Professor Anderson began to pant out, and by about half of the time, Professor Anderson was already sweating profusely, and every step became extremely heavy, and his physical strength was completely exhausted.
"I can't walk."
Professor Anderson sat down on the stairs and shook his head, "Let's go, I'll rest here for a while." ” Zhang Heng stopped at his feet, only to see Professor Anderson throw his identity card over, sweat wetting the somewhat bald gray hair, at this time Anderson barely squeezed out a smile, "I'll wait for you here, I hope you can bring good news." ” "Professor" Zhang Heng stretched out his hand to catch the other party's identity card, his eyes were a little complicated, but soon disappeared again, he nodded at Anderson, and ran down without looking back again, everyone understood that with Professor Anderson's age, even if he reluctantly returned to the base, but in the face of those dangers, his chances of survival were still infinitely close to zero, it was better to stay here, maybe there was a glimmer of life "This scene is very similar to the beginning of a novel" During the run, Zhang Heng muttered in a low voice, when he read the novel, he didn't understand why the little fat man was physically exhausted after climbing a few flights of stairs, and even when he was in high school, he tried to run from the top of the fifth floor of his house to the bottom of the building, this kind of activity is just a matter of breath, and even after running, he doesn't even have to breathe.
But it wasn't until this time that he somewhat understood that although it didn't take much physical strength to go downstairs, it was also compared to going upstairs, if you let you run hundreds of floors in one go, even Liu Xiang would have to completely stop eating.
Time passed slowly, about fifteen minutes or so, the remaining six people finally arrived at the bottom of the base, at this time, a steel gate stood in front of everyone's eyes, seeing this gate, everyone involuntarily stopped, gasped for breath, and began to recover what little strength was left.
However, compared to everyone's panting, Zhang Heng at this time seemed to be nothing, and he didn't even sweat, which made Joey and the others couldn't help but look at him more.
When everyone gradually recovered their strength, Zhang Heng walked to the gate, took Professor Anderson's identity card and swiped it lightly on the card reader, and suddenly, with a rumbling sound, the door to the inside of the base opened with a bang Behind the door is the hall where Zhang Heng once came to select D-class personnel, but at this time, the hall is dim, it seems that the power has long been cut off, only the emergency lights are still flickering dimly, illuminating the entire hall extremely weird.
Joey glanced around at everyone, nodded, took out his Glock 19, followed closely behind Zhang Heng, and a group of six people quickly rushed into the hall, but there was silence in the hall, there were no living people or human corpses, and there were not even traces of fighting, as if all the people had evaporated from the world "Damn, where have all the people gone," Joey scolded in a low voice.
"Outside communication equipment, stored in Area D19."
Everyone ignored Joey's complaints, and the bearded man from before suddenly spoke softly, "I can take you to approach from the nearest distance, but you may need to pass through several strange places where the containment project is held, if the other party happens to escape, I'm afraid" "If the other party really escaped, then do you think the other party will stay where they are" Zhang Heng asked rhetorically.
"Uh," the big man scratched his head, "You're right, then I'll lead the way." ” Zhang Heng nodded, and walked with everyone to another gate at the end of the hall, this gate was one size smaller than the gate to enter the base, and it was marked with the word D, Zhang Heng took out Professor Anderson's ID card and swiped it on the card reader again, and suddenly, the door to Area D immediately opened, revealing a corridor behind the gate with almost no end in sight.
"Go" The big man let out a low shout, and everyone ran forward again at a speed that could keep them fast and try not to make a sound, and soon, a fork in the road appeared in front of them.
The big man on the "right" led everyone into the corridor on the right, but at the moment of turning the passage, Zhang Heng suddenly saw that in the darkness ahead, a figure flashed by "Stop" Zhang Heng grabbed the bearded man and stared at the darkness ahead, "There's a problem there" Everyone paused, pointed their guns at the darkness ahead, but waited for a few seconds, but nothing happened.
"What do you see," Joey asked in a low voice.
"A figure."
Zhang Heng took two steps forward vigilantly, and in the next second, the figure flashed again, and when he saw the figure clearly, Zhang Heng's pupils shrank, and it turned out to be a slender figure with a gray back like a dead man At this time, on the other side, the people staying in the surface hall were wandering around with anxious expressions, some constantly trying to open the door to the ground, some whispering in groups, and some sitting in the corner in a decadent manner, waiting for the judgment of fate.
The air was filled with suffocating oppression.
"Ahem" In a corner, the fat man John coughed twice, he rubbed his arms, just on the way from the cruise ship to the underground base, everyone was drenched in soup, and now, John was a little sad to find that he seemed to have a cold.
He wanted to take off his coat, but the slightly feverish body temperature prevented him from doing so, so he could only cough as much as he could, hoping to attract everyone's attention, and maybe some kind person would lend his coat to him However, for some reason, he seemed to feel that the air around him was getting colder and colder Damn the weather, damn the underground base Fat John cursed, pulled his collar again, he felt that his body was about to stiffen, it was really incomprehensible, it was only early autumn, how could there be such a low temperature, it was like a cold winter wax moon Finally, the fat man John couldn't bear it anymore, he opened his mouth slightly, and wanted to ask for a coat from his colleagues, but at the moment when he opened his mouth, he suddenly found that his voice was extremely hoarse, and he could only make a faint sound of mosquitoes and flies At this time, a flash of panic suddenly flashed in the eyes of the fat man, and he hurriedly wanted to stand up, but a pulling force stopped his movements, he was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked down at him, but he saw that at some point, a pale hand was stretching out from the dark space next to him, clutching the corner of his clothes It was this pull that kept me from standing up Fat John's eyes widened suddenly, and finally he showed a look of horror, he looked at the group of colleagues with their backs to him again, and wanted to scream loudly, but no matter how hard he tried, he could only make a "ho-ho" sound from his throat In the next second, the arm was pulled suddenly, and in the frightened and desperate eyes of the fat man, his fat body was silently pulled into the inky shadows on the side, and disappeared completely "Huh" Only then did one of the men, who was whispering to the crowd, turn his head, but he only saw that there was nothing behind him, and even the dark shadow before had long since disappeared "Did you hear anything just now?"
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