abyss rose

Chapter 17

Almost at the same instant, the worm in the corner stretched its arms a little bit, and jumped forward like a bounce.

Chai Yuening didn't even have time to react, and saw the black rattan passing by her side from behind, and at an indescribable speed, the worm was blown away on the filing cabinet by the wall.

With a loud sound of heavy objects colliding, the human insect cricket chrysalis, which slipped from the filing cabinet and fell to the ground, tried to fight back, but the black vines instantly entangled and restrained its boneless body.

The human insect raised its head high like a snake, shook its half body and let out a horrific shrill roar, as if sending some kind of signal to its own kind.

The intern technician sitting in front of the operating table has a pale face at this moment.

She muttered something like "dream, please, wake up soon", but the operation on her hand almost faded away.

The pair of eyes under the glasses, which had been staring so hard, could only stare at the console and the big screen in front of him, as if this would allow him to pretend that he could not see everything around him that was even more abnormal than a nightmare.

The sudden invasion of alien beasts, the idea of ​​the rescuers trying to cut off the ventilation connection of the city, the thick fog that suddenly appeared in the room, and the "human" who grew black vines on his body and began to fight against the alien beasts.

This is all too crazy!

What's even crazier is that the strange beasts in the vent are scrambling to crawl out at the moment.

Chai Yuening's absence was only for that short moment.

When Hei Teng threw the restrained beast towards the vent, and smashed down the other two beasts that had just climbed out, a gunshot rang out, and shot straight/through the left eye of one of the beasts inside the vent.

The moment the blood gushed out, the beast shrank back in pain, and the already narrow ventilation duct jostled back and forth briefly.

Chai Yuening fired again, one after another, all aiming at the huddled air vents.

The sharp neighing and gunshots were deafening, and the wriggling herd obviously retreated half a meter.

The three alien beasts that climbed out of the vent were entangled in black vines and pressed against the blood-stained white wall of the control room.

Chai Yuening rushed forward with a stride, reached out and grabbed the filing cabinet closest to the vent, and climbed up vigorously, trying to block the open iron window at the vent.

The worm who was shot in the left eye and whose body was suppressed by the same kind seemed to be completely irritated by Chai Yuening's approach, and suddenly struggled and roared and opened his mouth full of sharp teeth.

It twisted its limbs to hunt the prey that was close in front of it. The huge struggle made it rush forward for a full half a meter. Hanging halfway, she caught Chai Yuening's sight unexpectedly.

On that extremely pale humanoid cheek, on the left is a bloody hole that seems to have no bottom, and on the right is an empty black pupil that looks like an abyss.

Looking at each other so close, Chai Yuening felt an indescribable suffocation.

She gritted her teeth, firmly grasped the top edge of the file cabinet with one hand, pulled out the dagger at her waist with the other, and stabbed fiercely at the mutant's remaining eye.

When it was pulled out, blood splashed on her face.

Chai Yuening didn't stop at all, and stabbed the struggling and screaming beast several times, until seeing that it had completely lost its offensive ability, then reached out to the ventilation window, and slapped the beast's head together hard. vent.

The catch of the iron window was finally closed, Chai Yuening stretched out her right forearm, and pressed against the window panel with force.

The next second, a burst of impact came through the window, causing her right arm to go numb, and the dagger she was holding tightly in her hand almost fell off.

"How long!" Chai Yuening shouted loudly.

"The connection between the main urban area, District [-], and District [-] has been cut off. The ones connected to us are currently...there are still Districts [-], [-], and [-] that are not..."

"The fifth district doesn't care!"

"...Give me a little more time!"

The dull impact sound, one after another, accompanied by the sharp roar of the herd, almost pierced the eardrums.

The buckles of the iron windows gradually loosened, and the thick window panels began to deform.

Chai Yuening's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and she almost lost feeling in her right arm.

At the moment when the window buckle was broken by the impact force, the strange beast broke through the iron window, and Chai Yuening was unable to support himself, and his body fell uncontrollably to the ground behind him.

After a short period of weightlessness, the expected pain did not come.

The black vines wrapped around Chai Yuening's waist, she pulled her left palm on the black vines, turned her body to the side to release the force, and landed firmly on the ground.

Almost at the same instant, another black vine grew wildly, firmly blocking the broken vent again.

At the vent, blood beads dripped down the rattan.

The three alien beasts that had been loosened in the corner stood up as if they had been reshaped by mud, and rushed towards the place where the vines grew, baring their teeth.

Several shots were fired one after another, and two of them collapsed in response.

With an empty "click", the last bullet was exhausted.

The last strange beast flew towards the thin figure in the mist.

In the next second, there was only a sound of flying blades piercing the air, and the short dagger was embedded in the back of the beast's neck at some point.

The strange beast paused, and let out an extremely hoarse growl from its throat.

Chai Yuening strode forward, kicked him to the ground with a flying kick aimed at his forehead, stepped on the back of his head with one foot, drew his knife, and stabbed again.

Several times in succession, he didn't stop until he could no longer feel the struggle of the strange beast below him.

She raised her head, only to see that in the mist, the blood-stained black vines emitted a more obvious red light than the black vines on the ground.

It's not glaring, but it's like the color of blood blending into the thick fog.

The violent impact at the vent gradually subsided, and after a few seconds of dead silence, only the slight friction sound in the ventilation duct remained, gradually fading away bit by bit.

The alien beast's attack stopped.

To be precise, the herd in the ventilation duct retreated.

The little technician sitting on the side muttered in a very low and trembling voice: "All the interfaces connected to the outer zone have been cut off. Can we go.....?"

Her volume became smaller and smaller, the last two words were as thin as a mosquito's scream, and she fell silent as soon as she finished speaking.

Everything that happened just now was like a big drama coming to an abrupt end.

The black vine began to shrink as if it withered in an instant, making a snake-like rustling sound in the room, and finally fell silent, only the heavy and rapid breathing of the people in the room remained.

The weird vines turned back into human hands.

The mist slowly dissipated.

The scarlet blood slid down the slender right arm, slipped over the fingertips, and dripped to the ground.

Chai Yuening saw Chu Ci's face clearly again.

The air seemed to freeze, and they were less than two meters apart, looking at each other.

For a moment, Chai Yuening felt that those brown eyes were so cold that they were not like anyone she was familiar with.

"What are you..." she asked tremblingly.

Chu Ci looked at her quietly, without answering for a long time.

"Are you not human?" Chai Yuening asked again.

At that moment, she saw Chu Ci lower his eyes.

After a brief silence, Chu Ci raised his head, a self-deprecating look flashed in his eyes, he reached out and took the gun from his waist, and threw it into Chai Yuening's hand.

"You can shoot." Chu Ci said lightly.

"..."

Chai Yuening paused for a moment, took a deep breath, frowned and asked, "What am I going to shoot? The herd is gone."

A trace of surprise flashed in Chu Ci's eyes.

Chai Yuening: "You're hurt."

As Chai Yuening said, she lowered her head and took out an infection test kit from her small bag, stepped forward a few steps, and handed it to Chu Ci.

Chu Ci took it hesitantly, and before he could react, Chai Yuening began to bandage the wound on her right arm.

She was silent for a long time, and asked in a low voice: "You have seen everything, is there any need to test it?"

"The possibility of secondary mutation is not ruled out." Chai Yuening said, the bandaged hand paused for a moment, and continued, "If...you want to turn into something that hurts people, I will definitely shoot."

Silence spread in the dimly lit control room.

Chai Yuening glanced at her pocket watch, only to realize that it was already 12:30 at night.

Time passed by, Chu Ci and the unknown girl were as quiet as sculptures, only Chai Yuening kept kneading her numb right arm.

After a while, the reagent test results, just like when we first met, no matter what kind of injury he suffered, Chu Ci could not detect any signs of infection on his body.

"Hey, what the hell are you?"

It was clearly the exact same question, but Chai Yuening's tone had changed from the undecided shock just now to an indescribable emotion.

"I'm going to infect you." Chu Ci frowned and said with a little displeasure in his words.

"You won't." Chai Yuening replied.

"You don't even know what I am, so you're sure I won't hurt you?"

"Yes, I don't know anything." Chai Yuening said, looked up at Chu Ci, and said seriously, "But I know at least one thing, you saved me, knowing that you might be killed by me, you still choose to save me ..."

After finishing speaking, Chai Yuening felt that Chu Ci's eyes were obviously softened, and she subconsciously glanced at the trainee technician sitting beside her.

The little girl sat up straight on the spot, and frantically waved her hands: "I didn't see anything! It was all fog just now, and I couldn't see anything!"

This lie was so clumsy that Chai Yuening didn't know what to say for a moment.

However, the girl seemed to have realized that this kind of rhetoric was not convincing at all, so she quickly changed her words: "I, my life was given by you. I will never tell anyone what happened just now!"

"..." Chai Yuening pondered for a few seconds and said, "No, you didn't see anything."

"Ah?" The girl blinked blankly, nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and changed her words to the original appearance, "I didn't see anything!"

Chai Yuening nodded and looked at Chu Ci: "I didn't see anything either."

Chu Ci: "..."

Chai Yuening: "Let's go."

Chai Yuening said, wiped the blood on her face, pulled up the girl whose legs were so weak, and walked out the door.

Chu Ci chased after her: "Don't you have anything to ask?"

Chai Yuening stopped, and said in a deep voice, "If you want to say something, I'm all ears."

Chu Ci asked back: "I don't want to say it?"

Chai Yuening pondered for a moment, then smiled indifferently: "Then I'll pretend you forgot."

The night is so quiet, the footsteps of the leader walk far ahead, every step is so clear.

Chu Ci unconsciously touched the freshly bandaged wound, which was tied with a crooked little bow.

She pursed her lips and hurried forward.

As usual, looking at the figure of that person, he followed suit.

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The author has something to say:

Falling fast? nonono, there is more than one layer of vest, there are gains and losses behind it.

The big baby picked up from the fog area is quite unusual.