Chapter 575 Underground Shock
"You are yourself?" The others said in surprise: "It's too dangerous!"
"Who else can catch its attack except me?" Ling Xin had already made up her mind: "Hurry up, don't waste time."
"Then you can't just leave yourself!" Zhuge Yu looked at Lu Fei: "You stay and help, at least there must be someone with a candle!"
Although Lu Fei is not as strong as Ling Xin, he is a martial arts faction after all, and his combat power is more prominent among the few people under the limitations of this illusion. In addition, he showed calmness and agility before, which is more suitable than Xiao Tian, who is also a martial arts faction.
Lu Fei took a candle to calm down and nodded in agreement: "I will cooperate with Ling Xin!"
At this time, the butcher's roar was heard from the upstairs, and they could not allow them to continue hesitation. Zhuge Yu also handed the machete in his hand to Lu Fei. After Lu Fei took it, he turned back with Ling Xin to attract the monster's attention.
As for the rest, they went to the first floor to get into the elevator and walked down to the underground floor.
As the elevator door opened, a wide but dim corridor appeared in front of several people. Rusty iron doors were staggered on both sides of the corridor, and whimpers and wails could be heard behind some iron doors. "It's here." Zhuge Yu nodded, "Let's confirm whether they are here."
"Luo Jun! Are you here?" Xiao Tian shouted directly at the top of his throat. Lao Miaomiao, who was beside him, gave him a thunderous thunder: "You are stupid! If they had not had a mind-calming candle, they would have lost consciousness now. You shouted so randomly, and the master did not agree. What if a monster like a butcher was attracted!"
"Lao Miaomiao is right." Zhuge Yu nodded and said, "Let's confirm calmly. Xiao Tian and Lei Tianyang were injured. They were responsible for looking at the mind-calming candle, and the others confirmed the situation in the prison cell."
Everyone immediately started to act, surrounding the candlelight, confirming one by one. About one-third of these cells are empty, and most of those with prisoners are humans in hospital gowns, or at least they look humans...
Occasionally, some weird creatures can be seen locked up.
Some of these creatures are based on humans, such as people with two heads, people with three arms, or people with particularly long limbs, etc. These can be called deformed humans. But some are completely out of touch with humans.
"Wow!" Zhai Xixi just pushed open an observation window and was so scared that she took a step back because behind the window, there was a red eye the size of an apple staring at her.
Then, the eye also retreated and crawled away... That's right, it was crawling away. Zhai Xixi saw clearly that the eyes actually grew on a monster similar to a centipede. The monster's body was divided into more than ten sections, each section was the size of a basketball, and there was a blood-red eye on it! "What's the mess here?" Xiao Tian stood in the middle of the corridor holding a candle, and saw the scene on both sides, and couldn't help but complain.
"The world in the illusion also reflects the subconscious of the creator to some extent." Zhuge Yu said: "If this is really a prototype of the Korean establishment based on the Ning'an Psychological Rehabilitation Center in reality, then the people who are detained here may be alluding to the patients in Ning'an Hospital."
"Patient?" Lei Tianyang frowned and said: "In his heart, is the patient such a deformed creature?"
"Most of the patients who come for psychological counseling should be more psychologically stressed, with mild depression, anxiety, etc.." Zhuge Suo analyzed: "Although this kind of person has some mental health problems, it is not a mental patient in general. Those patients who still maintain human form should be allusions."
"As for the deformed people imprisoned inside, they should represent people with real mental illness. Their psychological state is completely different from that of ordinary people, and the projection here seems deformed."
"So, what about those monsters that are completely unrelated to humans?" Lao Miaomiao asked.
"Don't forget, what is the real body of Ning'an Hospital." Zhuge Yu said: "In addition to ordinary mental patients, there will also be ghosts captured by the Supernatural Response Department here! Those monsters should be the projection of ghosts in this illusion."
"Ghosts? That's a spirit body?" Xiao Tian said in shock: "Will they run out to attack us?"
Zhuge Yu shook his head and said, "No, projection does not represent the same ability as the body. At present, the rule of this world is that it is impossible to use the abilities related to the qi, and without the support of the qi, the spirit body cannot exist alone. Therefore, the projection of these ghosts has also become physical monsters and is indeed locked in a prison cell."
"So, are we also projections?" Lei Tianyang frowned.
"In theory, yes." Zhai Xixi could answer this question: "The difference is that our spirit is indeed pulled into the illusion, which is not entirely constructed by the Korean ability. Therefore, we are highly consistent with the body, and are not completely controlled by the illusion."
As he spoke, everyone came to a corner, and they realized that the structure of the underground cell was in the shape of a romance. The elevator was on the outermost floor, walking in the middle along the corridor. After about three rounds, it arrived at the innermost floor, which was the one where Zhuge Su was imprisoned before.
And the kitchen at the end of this corridor is the center of the entire prison area.
Everyone checked until the end, but they didn't see any shadows of Assistant He and Luo Jun. "It seems that it's not here, we guessed wrong." Lao Miaomiao frowned and said, "They should still be on the upstairs, the fourth or fifth floor?"
"The only possibility is." Zhuge Yu nodded: "Let's go back to the elevator and go upstairs to find them!"
"White wasted all this time... I don't know how Lu Fei and Ling Xin are." Xiao Tian curled his lips with some dissatisfaction. "I believe in their strength!" Zhai Xixi said, "The only thing we can do now is to hurry up!"
As he said that, everyone immediately turned around and returned to the outer elevator as quickly as possible, and pressed the up button.
Different from before, the elevator door did not open directly, but showed an upward arrow. After a while, it slowly opened.
Several people walked into the elevator, and Lao Miaomiao reached out to the button: "Will we start looking for it from the fourth floor or the fifth floor?"
"Fifth floor." Lei Tianyang suggested, "Let's find it easier from the top to the bottom."
Old Miaomiao nodded and reached out to press the button, but was stopped by Zhuge Yu: "No, go to the second floor of the underground!"
"Eh?" Several people were puzzled. Zhuge Yu explained, "The elevator came from below just now, which means it was originally parked on the second floor of the underground, but it was empty after it came up. This means that someone took the elevator to the second floor of the underground while we were searching for the prison cell!"
The few people widened their eyes when they heard this: "You mean, Luo Jun and Assistant He took the elevator just now? They are on the second floor of the underground now?"
"Not only us, the butcher will also take the elevator." Xiao Tian remembered the scene when the butcher came out of the elevator. "This possibility is not ruled out." Zhuge Yu said, "But if the butcher is still restrained by Ling Xin and Lu Fei, then the second floor of the underground will be our teammates."
"It's worth going down and see!" Lei Tianyang also nodded, and Lao Miaomiao decisively pressed the second floor of the underground.
The elevator began to go down, and after stopping, it opened, and there was a familiar cave in front of me.
Relying on the light of the candle to calm down, the few people began to explore along the cave and soon arrived at a fork in the road.
This cave connects to the underground garbage station, almost a one-way street, and it is the only fork here. Zhuge Yu looked at the fork in unexplored road and frowned slightly. He had a premonition that although there was no news on this road, it was likely to be a dead end. But at the end of it, something should be hidden!
"Go here!"
Professor Zhuge has the richest experience in dealing with the illusion, so everyone naturally followed him. Everyone explored in depth with the light of the candle of concentration, and soon, a faint light spot lit up ahead.
"What's there!"
Everyone immediately stopped and became alert. The light spot seemed to have noticed them, slowly approaching here, and soon, a figure holding a candle appeared!
"Professor Zhuge! And the students?" Zhuge Yu smiled when he saw this: "Xiao He? Your candle is still there!"
Xiao He walked over quickly: "I didn't expect to find you here. When I entered the illusion, the road to the lower level was blocked on the fourth floor, and I could only go down through the elevator."
"It's fine..." Seeing another companion again, Zhuge Yu said happily: "How did you come to the second floor of the underground?"
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"Oh, when I was on the fourth floor, I found a note." Xiao He took out a notebook: "It mentioned that there seemed to be something very critical on the second floor of the underground. I thought it would be the key to breaking the deadlock, so I went down to look for it. When I first came down, I walked along a road and saw a large pool and a rolling shutter door. The door was full of rotten human corpses, and there was nothing worth noting. So I returned the same way and saw this fork in the road. As soon as I walked in, I saw your candlelight."
"So that's it." Zhuge Yu nodded: "Trip me the notes."
Xiao He handed over the notes, and Zhuge Yu took them and opened them, reading them in the candlelight, and found that this was a research note. It mentioned that an important experiment is being conducted on the second floor of the underground, but many pages have been torn off for the specific content, and many of the surviving dirty things cannot be seen clearly.
No matter what, this is indeed an important tip, and it is worth exploring. Maybe you can find the key to cracking the illusion!
As for Ling Xin and Lu Fei who were dealing with the butcher at the upper level, and Luo Jun who was still missing, as long as they could crack the environment, these three would naturally be safe.
Without any time, other places on the second floor of the underground have been explored, and only this fork is left. Everyone briefly discussed it, and then walked towards the depths of the fork with two candles.
After a while, they came to an open metal door with a warning sign printed on it!
"This is the place mentioned in the notes?" Zhai Xixi was a little scared: "It seems that it is not a safe place."
"In the illusion, there is no safe place, right." Xiao Tian was not afraid: "No matter what he is, he must go and see!"
Zhuge Yu also frowned: "There is no other way now. We can only explore this place first. Don't disperse it, keep it within the candlelight range!"
Thinking of the companions above who were still fighting with the butcher desperately, everyone did not dare to delay, so they could only pick up the simple weapons at hand and enter this secret laboratory.
The laboratory is full of overturned and destroyed facilities, and it seems that it has experienced a battle, but compared to the dilapidated hospital above, there is no thick dust here, it is obviously just destroyed.
As for the scattered experimental notes and materials, everyone briefly looked through it and found that it seemed to be some kind of biochemical experiment.
"Perfect Life Plan?" Zhuge Yu looked at the information in his hand: "The ninth experimental subject, survived successfully for 142 days, has primary intelligence...emotionally unstable, has a strong tendency to attack and kill, has strong mental resistance, and cannot be effectively controlled...is identified as a failed product, but it is maintained in shelter, which has the value of continuing research, and can be used as a reference sample for subsequent models..."
"What are these?" Xiao Tian was confused when he heard this: "It's a mess..."
"That is to say, there may be a very powerful biochemical monster hidden here." Zhai Xixi looked around: "I think we'd better leave..."
"Look at this place!" At this time, Assistant He stood in front of a door, as if he had discovered something. Everyone walked over and found that it was a separate experimental room with a huge glass petri dish standing in it, but it had been destroyed, and the nutrient solution flowed all over the ground. I don't know where the original creatures inside went...
When I saw this scene, everyone felt a chill on their backs...
"Get out of here..." Zhuge Yu's lips trembled: "It's very dangerous here!"
But as soon as he turned around, he saw a huge black shadow flashing from the ceiling! "There is something on it!" Old Miaomiao also noticed the black shadow, picked up a steel pipe and held it in his hand, but before he could make a move, the black shadow suddenly rushed over from the side!
Lao Miaomiao was in a hurry to block the steel pipe, but with a bang, her thin body flew out at an astonishing speed, hitting the wall with a pounce. The steel pipe in her hand was severely twisted, and even embedded into her shoulders and left chest. Her right hand was torn, bloody and splitting...
"Cough..." Lao Miaomiao coughed out a mouthful of blood. The severe pain and serious injuries made him gasp and could not stand up at all. And the black shadow didn't give up and turned around and rushed towards Zhai Xixi who was closest!
At this time, Xiao Tian, Zhuge Yu and Lei Tianyang rushed forward together. Seeing this, the black shadow turned around and swept the thick and long tail behind him. With a bang, the three of them were knocked away instantly, and they were seriously injured!
At this time, only Zhai Xixi and Assistant He were still standing in the field with candles. Under the reflection of the candlelight, everyone finally saw the monster's appearance clearly.
It was a monster with a body similar to a cat family, but its body was exposed and hairless, its fingers were slender, similar to human fingers, but it had sharp claws at the end; its slender head, which also had feline and human characteristics, looked very strange, with open mouth, and four sharp canine teeth also exuded murderous aura...
Is this, experimental subject No. 9?
Zhuge Yu gritted his teeth and wanted to get up, but he felt that he had multiple fractures on his body and his internal organs were broken to varying degrees, and he had no strength to resist at all. Judging from the other two, the situation was not stronger than him... Just a sweep of his tail, he had such power. The strength of this monster was even stronger than the butcher before!
Is it really that way?
Seeing the monster approaching Zhai Xixi and Assistant He, Zhuge Yu closed his eyes in despair. "Eh? So you are here, so it's easy for me to find!"
At this moment, a familiar voice came, and everyone looked in surprise and found a figure standing behind the monster, grabbing the monster's tail with one hand and waving his other hand to say hello to them.
Everyone saw the man's appearance clearly, and his eyes widened in surprise, and pronounced his name at the same time: "Luo... Luo Jun?!"
(This chapter ends)