Chapter 996 Underground in Qinggang, the Rangers’ “counterattack”!
“MMP!”
“Do these gopher guys usually eat excrement? This is too smelly!”
The people at Pingtan Shelter It was as if I had discovered a new world, and I was immersed in all kinds of novelty gadgets.
Far away in Qinggang City, the trio walking on the sewer pipeline maintenance route also saw another "New World".
Because the undead were poured out in large quantities and black ash was left behind.
The thick excreta that was originally stuck in the upper sewage pipe has been completely squeezed into the lower pipe and started to "ferment".
During the period when the sewage discharge window is about to open, wisps of escaping gas have begun to gush out along sporadic pipe leaks.
It is hard to imagine that there is a smell that makes people feel their eyes burning even after wearing goggles.
Accidentally, he almost stepped on a pool of black and yellow objects. The old man quickly moved his feet away and couldn't stop cursing.
"It's almost time, if we can't get out."
"If you eat what you did last night every day, it won't be long before you pull out the same thing."
The sewage route is being recorded on the side The dreamer glared at the old man.
From last night to now, the three of them have eaten four meals that were like pig food to satisfy their hunger.
The taste of that thing is not bad, with only a faint salty and irritating smell. Generally speaking, it is still within the acceptable range of human beings. Moreover, the raw materials added in the overall production process are very simple, which is difficult for the stomach and intestines. It's also very easy to absorb.
But the problem is that its ingredient ratio is simply too contrary to the living habits of humans on earth.
Blue Star humans lack a large amount of vertical space for living in a cave environment for a long time and can only live in a small area.
In order to maintain the activity of muscle cells and prevent muscle atrophy throughout the body.
They can only passively increase the protein intake ratio and encourage the body to better maintain activity levels.
But humans on earth live on a vast surface. Even office workers have enough space to meet their activities.
In comparison, carbohydrates that can sustain body consumption are the favorites of humans on earth.
Other ingredients can be obtained in sufficient amounts from different foods.
Such a completely different food intake habit has resulted in the kidneys of Blue Star humans becoming extremely powerful for more than two hundred years.
Even protein in a hunger-satisfying meal, which accounts for up to 41%, can be easily broken down by the intestines and stomach, and then metabolized by the kidneys.
Of course, if you are a muscular man like Feng Ling Mo Zi who only cares about the ingredients, you will definitely be ecstatic.
But for ordinary humans on earth who are accustomed to a five-grain diet, it is still a bit too reluctant.
Long-term consumption is very likely to put a huge load on the kidneys and gastrointestinal tract, leading to a series of complications.
"Don't worry, we will definitely be able to get out." The male gunman walking at the front comforted him.
Compared with the danger on the ground, at least the underground is quite safe.
Although those radiation beasts received a huge size bonus, they were rampaging on the ground like tanks.
But those originally narrow sewer entrances and exits can no longer be easily accessed.
"Are you sure that if you go through here and pass the sewage window, you can reach the Wandering Jungle?" Finally reaching the end of the pipe, he saw Rosas rubbing the back of his head and turning around, the old man's expression was subtle asked.
"It should be, but... I'm not sure whether the gopher guys from Sunny Harbor Sanctuary set traps here."
After groping on the wall for a while, Rosas suddenly Press in one place.
Creak.
The wall that had no gaps suddenly sank a small amount, revealing a window large enough for a person to bend down and pass through.
“This is it, it seems they haven’t discovered it yet!”
The dark passage has no end in sight.
The male gunman took out the flashlight from the small pocket on the left and shined it. The light traveled very far and hit a corner.
“This passage is about 400 meters long. As long as we pass through it, we can reach the abandoned sewage window of Wandering Jungle!”
"There won't be any radioactive beasts that suddenly pop out, right?"
"Of course not." Rosas shook his head confidently, but judging from his evasive eyes, there is a high probability that he only knows this way, and he hasn't yet. Walked through it in person.
After lingering at the door for a while, the male gunman was the first to squat and enter the passage.
This is probably a path built by the Red Core Shelter to maintain sewage pipes. Fine perforated tiles are laid on the ground for drainage, and the top of the head is also double-layered with stainless steel alloy plates. Reinforcement.
Go all the way to the end, and the passage that turns left is a little bigger, barely enough for a person to bend down, stand up, and walk.
However, the closer to the sewage discharge window, the more obvious the putrid smell became. The noses of those who were exposed to the direct smoke began to feel sour, and when they opened their mouths, it was as if someone was pouring Xate into it.
In such a harsh environment, no wonder the Radiation Beast wouldn't ambush.
Maybe not even they can withstand this continuous attack like a stink bomb.
“Come in!”
“It’s safe inside!”
Holding back tears, the male gunman yelled.
The trio, including Rosas, began to walk towards the end of the passage with tears and runny noses.
Gan!
The old Taoist couldn't help coughing several times and almost vomited out the hunger-satisfying meal he had eaten in the morning.
If it weren’t for the fact that the speed of adding experience on the game panel was three to four times faster, in this environment, even dogs wouldn’t come!
Fortunately, the distance of this passage is not long.
After about five minutes, Rosas came to the end again and knocked on an inconspicuous place.
A door to the outside world opened quietly, and the "fresh" air instantly excited the four people present.
Of course, freshness here is relative.
Although there is still a big gap between the air on the ground and a thick smell lingering there.
But compared with the stimulating smell just now, at least it can make people open their eyes now.
Take one step.
With the help of the flashlight, the male gunman successfully exited the pipe and stepped on the ground.
But the next moment, after seeing the scene around him, he froze on the spot.
Under the dim emergency lights.
The ground of the platform he was standing on now was as huge as a square, surrounded by hundreds of pipes erected above his head.
At the end of the pipe, there is a thick round alloy door with a height of at least thirty meters blocking it, like a heavenly gate.
Many corpses that have not yet been weathered are piled hastily in front of the alloy door. From the looks of it, they must be old.
And nearby, there are several corpses wearing protective clothing, undergoing "giant viewing".
The sour and smelly corpse water flowed out from the gaps in the clothes and accumulated in a small pool on the ground. There were also some supplies that had not been eaten in time, piled up randomly.
vomit.
The old man who came down from behind took a look, and finally couldn't hold it back any longer, so he lay down aside and started vomiting.
"They probably didn't find a way out and suffocated to death in this confined space."
Rosas, who was used to seeing death, didn't care about this and walked closer. After observing for a while, the approximate cause of death was given.
“When the drainage window is not open, the oxygen in the entire space will be sucked away by the huge exhaust fan to maintain the internal negative pressure environment, thereby extending the calendar life of the components. If you still want to go out at this time, you have to Two ways. ""First, blow up the exhaust fan to restore the air pressure to normal."
"Second, leave through these hidden entrances and exits before absolute pressure is formed."
The people lying on the ground are most likely to be the gophers cleared by Qinggang Shelter. When I was drunk, I ran down from the entrance and exit above in a panic. Their backpacks contained a large amount of supplies, including food, weapons, and some gadgets for first aid in emergencies.
But the strange thing is that they know how to get here, but they don’t know how to get out of here.
From the traces left near the place where they stayed, they could not even struggle.
"Could there be other causes of death?"
The male gunman also came over and barely took a few glances.
The surface of the swollen skin of the corpse has turned black and yellow in the form of ulcers, as if it had been burned.
The juice concentrated in the clothes that has not flowed out is a bit green and quite scary.
“Is it possible that I was poisoned first, and then when I got here, I didn’t have the energy to continue moving forward?”
"It's possible that they left too few traces of their activities."
Although the cautious Dreamer was reluctant, he still took out a small test tube from his backpack, which contained slightly turbid liquid. Yellow liquid.
"Brother, every injustice has its owner, so don't seek revenge from me."
Muttering in his mouth, he opened the test tube, and the dreamer poured the liquid on the exposed body. on the skin.
His.
A faint burning sound sounded, and the liquid on the surface of the corpse instantly reacted with the yellow liquid.
A few wisps of less obvious but definitely present black precipitate appeared at the reaction site.
"Good guy, is it such obvious arsenic poisoning?"
"What the hell, how do you still understand this?" The male gun brother squatted down and looked at Taomeng curiously who.
As far as he knows, Dream Taoist's job on earth is just an ordinary university librarian.
As a side job, I occasionally go out to help people run weddings and arrange opening ceremonies.
The only thing that can be said is probably the Top 2 graduation from Peking University.
"Well, I saw it in a book occasionally when I was idle, and I didn't expect it to be useful."
Reading is not bad.
Tao Mengzhe continued with a serious face: "Arsenic poisoning is not common now, but you must know about arsenic. Eating too much of it will cause arsenic poisoning. But they should be dead. It has been at least a week, and there is still such a high arsenic reaction in the body. It seems that the dose taken at that time must have exceeded the lethal dose by dozens of times.”
"Didn't that guy say hypoxia?"
"Lack of oxygen?" The dreamer nodded slightly: "That's right. Arsenic is highly toxic. Once it enters the body, it will cause serious damage to cellular respiratory enzymes. Destruction, causing tissue cells to be unable to obtain oxygen normally, resulting in hypoxia. In addition, if you look at their nails, a normal dead body should not fall off and break in such a short period of time."
Details. Meticulous autopsy was not the strong point of those present.
Based on the only information available, we can only get the above information.
But this little information is enough for the next exploration.
"Several adults."
"We have to push their bodies over, otherwise we won't be able to leave next time we come here."
After passing the taboo threshold in my heart, I am no longer so afraid of what is happening in front of me.
The diligent Rosas may not have the word "respect" at all in his worldview. He just found a crowbar from nowhere and pushed all the corpses in with three strokes. In the sewage channel on the ground, some materials remaining on the ground were also thrown into it.
“We have to speed up. Once the window opens, we only have half a day to stay.”
"Soon, this place will be filled with a lot of urban water."
Except for the corpses on the ground, there are no other traces worth exploring here.
Stop and rest for a while.
More than half an hour passed, and with a creaking sound, the heavy alloy door began to magically move to the left, and a breath of fresh air blew in from the gap.
Gulong.
Goulong.
The hundreds of sewage pipes on the top began to work, breaking through the previous blockage and going farther away.
Seeing this, Rosas stood up quickly and asked the three of them to walk sideways along the wall of the gap.
“Go up here and you’ll find the Wandering Jungle!”
On the other side of the sewage window, there are stairs leading directly to the upper floor.
Although many places are decayed and broken, generally speaking, it is okay to leave.
He circled up the stairs with difficulty. The alloy door at the end was still open, and a whooshing cold wind came out of it.
"What floor is this?"
"It should be the sixteenth floor?" Rosas groped for a while on the wall uncertainly, but still couldn't find the place where the floor was marked.
“Sixteenth floor?” Dream Taoist frowned: “Didn’t the Rangers Alliance completely seal off the place below the twelfth floor?”
"Of course it's sealed. This is their lifeblood down here."
Rosas chuckled and motioned for the three of them to follow him inside.
And through this passage, the surrounding space suddenly opened up.
Different from the interconnected design of other shelters, the idea of the Red Core Shelter was somewhat unique from the very beginning. It wanted to make each floor completely independent and set up different functional divisions.
Like this layer, it is specially used for
"Is this... planting underground?"
No one is maintaining it, and only pale lights are on inside the entire space.
It's like walking into a vegetable greenhouse. There are rows of steel frames hundreds of meters long on both sides, with many plants hanging on both sides.
Soilless cultivation is adopted, and the roots of these plants are rooted in the water.
But because of the recent arrests of homeless people and lack of maintenance, many plants are showing signs of withering and yellowing.
"Damn it, who said the wanderers can't farm? Are they secretly digging up the roots of the Gopher Man behind their backs?"
"On the surface, they are still relying on the Gopher Man to survive, but in fact they are Secretly in this way"
"This is."
"Counterattack!"
Even if you don't recognize these plants on the shelf, you can find them at a glance. Few grasses.
However, just when the dreamer wanted to step forward and take a closer look.
Suddenly.
The rifle on the male gunman's back appeared in his hand at some point, bursting into flames and roaring.
“Get out of the way!”
“There’s a Radiant Beast!”
(End of this chapter)