mesbooks Chapter 145 Underground Space
Chapter 145 Underground Space
After roughly figuring out what had just happened, Ling pulled You Wenwen to her feet. Looking at their obvious appearance after a battle and the gas masks they were wearing, she asked...
"...By the way, why are you all wearing masks? Did something happen?"
“Oh, this,” Miao Yin said, tapping her gas mask. “We just encountered a toxic mutant, but the gas is all on the first floor, so it’s safe here.”
"I see."
Ling looked around but didn't see the other two people. She asked, "Where are the other two?"
Tu Hao said, "They came down from another passage; they should be underground."
"Underground? Which floor is this?"
“Second floor, but there’s a large underground cavern beneath the first floor,” Miao Yin said.
"Then we should go find them. According to Su Yongfeng, it must be very dangerous down there."
Miao Yin said lightly, "Don't worry, he's still alive for now."
Miao Yin took out a few more flashlights and gas masks and handed them to them.
"Put on the masks and we'll leave. There's no light down here, so we'll use this for illumination."
It was the first time Ling and You Wenwen had ever encountered gas masks, and they fiddled with them somewhat awkwardly, unsure of how to put them on.
"Just tie it to the back."
Miao Yin placed the mask on Ling's hand, helped her put it on her face, and then walked behind her to fasten the back strap.
"Got it." Putting on the mask wasn't difficult, and Ling quickly learned how, then helped You Wenwen put it on as well.
Miao Yin shone her flashlight on Tu Hao and said, "Lead the way."
Tu Hao then turned on his flashlight and walked in front.
The office building is quite old now. After the explosion, it was covered with rubble and debris, and bent iron bars were stuck in the ground. It looked like the building would collapse at any moment and was in imminent danger.
They returned to the entrance they had found earlier.
This place is less of an entrance and more of a hole that was casually dug out.
It is located under the south wall on the first floor, in a place that would normally be visible from a camera, but it is covered by a thin wooden board and a table is placed on it for concealment.
After the explosion, the table was overturned, and then the tentacles that were originally rooted there were pulled away. The walls next to and above the table shattered and collapsed, breaking through the wooden planks, and large pieces of rubble covered the entrance.
If it weren't for a large rock that was wedged there, clearly showing that its lower half was sunken rather than broken, they wouldn't have been able to see this spot.
The white light of the flashlight shone on the clogged area, and Ling said, "I'll clear it."
White thorns rose from the ruins, embedded themselves in the piles of stones, and swept up heavy stones and paving stones, tossing them aside.
Before long, the rubble below slid down, revealing a dark passage, and the entrance was brought back to light.
Tu Hao squatted down beside the entrance, shining a flashlight down into what appeared to be a large, empty space.
"I'll go down first."
As he spoke, he braced himself with his hand and slid down the path made of piled stones, landing steadily on the ground.
"Wenwen, you go first," Miao Yin said.
"it is good."
Yu Wenwen carefully supported himself on the floor and walked down.
Finally, there are Miao Yin and Ling.
The first thing Miao Yin did after going down was to take off her gas mask. Although it was useful, it was still stuffy after wearing it for a long time.
Looking at Tu Hao again, he had already taken off his mask and tucked it into his waistband, taking the lead and exploring the path for more than ten meters.
The underground space was crudely constructed, full of potholes and uneven surfaces. The arched top was supported by steel bars and wooden sticks, and the waterproofing material was only roughly applied. The ground was slippery, and it looked like a ruined underground air-raid shelter.
"What a disastrous building."
As Miao Yin walked, she swept her flashlight across the corners and edges until she saw the lightning strike mark on a wooden board, at which point she stopped.
Seeing that she had suddenly stopped, Ling followed the light and immediately understood: "Is that Ji Yuanzhou?"
The charred black color clearly wasn't formed naturally.
"They've been here before."
Miao Yin shifted her gaze and continued walking forward until she stopped with Tu Hao.
The reason was simple: a rotting corpse and six narrow passages lay before them.
The body was leaning against the rightmost intersection, wearing an unrecognizable skirt, decomposed to the point of being just bones, with one leg bone clearly broken.
Starting from the corpse, below was a large pool of dried black blood.
Miao Yin took a few steps closer and shone her flashlight on the wall of the passageway. She saw that the wall was pockmarked with horrifying bloody handprints from the way they had come.
“She died before the apocalypse. Apart from her legs, there were no obvious injuries on her bones. She must have died from internal injuries or excessive blood loss,” Tu Hao judged.
“So, this place existed before the apocalypse,” Miao Yin continued.
A basement built by a fraud ring is either a hiding place for money or a hiding place for lives.
"Since she came from here, let's go this way."
— Heading towards this blood-soaked black passage.
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The passage was dark and narrow, winding and twisting, as if they were going around in circles underground. Every so often they would see a new exit; it was a huge maze.
The only thing guiding them forward was the continuous trail of blood.
It's unbelievable that someone could walk such a long distance while bleeding so much.
"Stop." Tu Hao suddenly stopped at a corner and said.
"There are deformed people ahead."
Miao Yin then walked past him, waving her flashlight forward, the white light swaying back and forth in the passage: "Lure it over and kill it."
Just like humans, mutants have five senses, and the flickering light quickly caught their attention.
The rustling sound of monsters climbing the walls came from ahead, echoing slightly in the rugged space. In the circular passage, it sounded as if it were coming from all directions, sending chills down one's spine.
On the corner wall, a hand the size of a basketball reached out from behind, its black fingernails groping on it.
Miao Yin tapped the side with her flashlight.
Attracted by the sound, the mutated man suddenly sprang out from behind her, opening his blood-red maw to bite her!
Without even blinking, before it could bite her, Miao Yin stretched out her arm, touched the right side of the deformed human's head, and slammed it against the wall with a "bang."
The mutant's head was smashed open, and with a flick of her finger, Miao Yin dug out the crystal core.
The dead, deformed man slid off the wall like a lump of mud and fell to the ground.
Tu Hao looked at the mangled head and said, "Your physical enhancement is already at the same level as mine, isn't it?"
As Miao Yin absorbed the green crystal core, she replied, "It can't compare to proper body enhancement abilities. My main focus is on the Fire of Destruction, which is more useful than enhancement."
Composite superpowers can manifest in many forms, but not every form is strong; each superpower user has their own focus.
Tu Hao's special ability mainly alters physical abilities, while hers is the Mi Huo and the Guanyin Eighty-Eight Temples.
However, now that her level has increased, her ghostly form has become much stronger.
Tu Hao pressed his temples; to be honest, he was really tired after today's trip.
"Since the Mi Huo is so useful, let's finish this quickly, the next one is coming."
Before he could finish speaking, two more deformed humans with long tongues came at him.
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