Chapter 20 Chapter 20 The Sixth Person

The passage in the middle cabin is very narrow, and when two people are parallel, they have to turn sideways slightly, and the four of them walk to the stern.It has not been cleaned for many years, and it is full of dust, cobwebs and feces left by some small animals. This is the equipment cabin, including the inspection room, hydrogeographic analysis room, biological research room, etc. At the end, everyone was pleasantly surprised to find a The darkroom is the room where photographs are developed.Qin Yun pushed open the door excitedly, and the dust fell down. He knocked off the cobwebs and walked in.The darkroom is not big, five or six square meters, full of magnification equipment and washing equipment, and a few ropes were pulled, and dozens of photos were dried on it.

Qin Yun took down one, and there was a thick layer of dust on its surface, and when he wiped it with his hands, the dust and the picture disappeared at the same time.Qin Yun switched to mouth blowing, but the dust accumulated for too long, and some parts were so sticky that he couldn't blow it off, but he could still see some blurred pictures.It seems to be an underwater photo, which is not clear in itself, and it is even more unclear when it is covered with dust.Qin Yun asked Sun Xueli to collect all the photos, and went to check the washing solution. After more than half a century, they had either evaporated completely, or had seriously deteriorated, making them unusable.

"Ah——it's just a joy." Qin Yun came out disappointed, walked back with everyone, walked to the bow of the middle deck, and crossed the gangway, Qin Yun noticed something strange, but couldn't tell what it was.Most of the cabins on the bow side are crew cabins. Everyone opened them one by one and found that the beds and crew supplies inside were all available, but they were all covered with dust, and the quilt would rot into tendons if it was pulled lightly.At the end is the captain's living quarters. Liu Hu opened it and muttered in a low voice, "The captain still cares about hygiene."

Qin Yun poked his head in, his head buzzed, and shouted: "No! There are other people in the boat!" Everyone looked at him in astonishment, Qin Yun explained: "This cabin is too clean, obviously someone has cleaned it, and the passage on this side is also obviously much cleaner, without spider webs." Everyone realized it, and gasped.At this time, Sun Xueli also exclaimed: "Oops, Professor Yuan stayed in the cockpit alone!" Everyone panicked, you squeezed me, I squeezed you, and ran to the upper deck.As soon as they jumped onto the deck, they heard Professor Yuan's terrified roar: "Who? Who are you? What do you want to do..." Everyone rushed in, only to see Professor Yuan hugging the film tightly and falling against the console He was looking around in fear, his hair was disheveled, and beads of sweat were dripping from his forehead.Sun Xueli saw half of Professor Yuan's face hanging upside down from the glass window behind him, and the two dark eyes shot out a terrifying light, which made her shudder.Sun Xueli stretched out her finger to point at it, and Professor Yuan turned around quickly, retracting her face abruptly.

Yuan Zhenhe put down the film, took out his gun and led the five people out of the cab, and walked around the ship from both sides to the bow in two ways. At the bow of the ship, the searchlight made a "creaking" shaking sound, breaking the cold light into pieces, but no one was seen. "Where are people?" Qin Yun asked suspiciously. Here, he could only escape to the deck through the side of the ship, but five people quickly rushed out of the cab and outflanked them from both sides. He couldn't escape in such a short time unless he jumped into the deep water. The lake, but jumping into the lake will inevitably produce the sound of water, but there is no other abnormal sound except for the sound of the breaking waves of the ship just now.

Liu Hu said uneasily, "It can't be a ghost, can it? Or maybe we're blind?" Qin Yun punched him in the back, mockingly said: "Yes, it's a ghost!" Then he returned to the cockpit with everyone, Yuan Zhenhe shouted: "The film? It's gone!" He just put it on the console The film was missing, and now, everyone can finally confirm that there is indeed a sixth person on board... Maybe the word "person" needs to be quoted. "The ship doesn't have much space, and he can't hide it even if he wants to. Let's find it!" Qin Yun said loudly.

The five men took weapons, headlamps and several large locks, and carefully searched several rooms on the upper deck, but found no one.Everyone entered the middle deck through the gangway. Liu Hu stepped behind him, locked the entrance of the gangway, and searched all the rooms on the middle deck again, but there was still no one there.Qin Yun stood at the entrance of the ground floor and said softly: "He must be on the ground floor, everyone be careful." He took the lead into the gangway, and there was a musty and diesel smell inside, and there were more dust and cobwebs.Liu Hu was the last to go in, and to prevent his opponent from escaping secretly, he also locked the entrance cover. On the ground floor, there are engine room, material room, tool room, boiler room, kitchen, and cabins for the crew of the engine department. "Tom tom" roared, shaking people's feet numb.The five of them walked cautiously to the stern, a shallow layer of oil stains had accumulated on the channel floor, and a layer of white mold was growing in the gaps in the bulkheads. Most of this place was underwater, and it was much more humid.The door of the engine room was opened, and a dark engine was turning inside, making a terrifying roar. The ground was stained with oil, and no human footprints could be seen.Qin Yun flashed in and searched to make sure there was no one there.Everyone retreated to the second cabin, which is the boiler room, which has not been started and there is no one in it.

The five continued to search the bow of the ship. Suddenly, there was a sound from a cabin in the bow. It was so subtle that it was almost undetectable amidst the roar of the engine, but both Qin Yun and Xiao Bai heard it. They held their guns to their chests and pointed at the others With a wink, he quickly covered it.This is a storage room with a skull hanging on the door, warning that there are dangerous goods stored inside.Qin Yun and Liu Hu put their ears on the door, and could clearly hear the crackling sound.Liu Hu told everyone to stay on both sides of the cabin door, and gently pushed the cabin door with his hands, but the inside was locked and could not be pushed open.With great strength, Liu Hu pointed the pistol at the keyhole.Yuan Zhenhe yelled: "Don't shoot!" But it was too late, Liu Hu fired three shots in a row and kicked open the hatch.A musty smell came out, and then a black skeleton opened its arms and rushed towards Liu Hu. Liu Hu was shocked, raised his gun and fired six shots at it, and the skeleton fell to the ground and broke into pieces.It is not a living skeleton that knows how to attack humans.Liu Hu was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. At this time, the noise in the room suddenly stopped. He walked in slowly and saw dozens of cans piled up behind the cabin, all of which had skulls on them and marked "dangerous gas" in Japanese Four words.Several tanks had been pierced by bullets and were oozing black gas.There was no one inside, but a few mice were lying on the ground. They twitched a few times, and immediately turned their legs to the sky, and swallowed. They were the ones who made the noise just now.

Yuan Zhenhe squeezed over, and when he saw the black gas, he was shocked: "No, the poison gas has leaked, everyone run!" The five hurriedly exited the cabin and ran towards the exit of the gangway on the bottom floor.At this moment, there was a powerful explosion sound in the room, and then a cloud of black mist rushed out of the room, chasing after the five people like a ghost.The gangway was narrow and the height was less than 2.5 meters. Five people desperately squeezed up and hung on it. Qin Yun hugged Xiaobai tightly, and Sun Xueli hung on Liu Hu's back like an octopus, sitting on top of Qin Yun's head.Qin Yun was crushed and shouted: "Sun Xueli, be gentle!"

"Brother, I don't want to!" Sun Xueli had already blushed. Yuan Zhenhe was at the bottom, and the hand holding the gangway was trampled black and purple.He said painfully: "You only care about being a hero and saving the beauty, and you leave me, a bad old man, and don't care about it?" Qin Yun said in shame: "I'm sorry, Mr. Yuan, I'll let you go first next time." "Want to have a next time?" Sun Xueli shouted dissatisfied. The black mist, like the horrible black smoke they experienced in the camp, must be extremely poisonous, otherwise the rats in the storage room would not have died quickly.

"Open the hatch!" Everyone yelled in horror. The black mist is slightly heavier than air, slowly accumulating on the ground, like a rising tide, getting higher and higher.Liu Hu was in charge of the key. He was squeezed tightly by Sun Xueli, Qin Yun, and Xiao Bai. He bowed his body, took out the key with difficulty from his pocket, and stuffed it into the lock in a panic.At this time, another big explosion occurred in the storage room, and the shock wave washed over in the light and fire. Liu Hu, who was unlocking the lock, lost his balance, screamed, and fell downward.Sun Xueli rode upside down on Qin Yun's shoulder, squeezing his head tightly in her arms.In a panic, Liu Hu grabbed Qin Yun's right leg and slammed it heavily on Yuan Zhenhe's body, and the key in his hand fell into the poisonous gas. Qin Yun alone bore the weight of three people, and his mouth and nose were almost crushed to death by Sun Xueli. He yelled, "Come down quickly, I'm going to fall!" The black mist accumulated faster and quickly spread to Yuan Zhenhe's waist. He felt a horrible itching. He said loudly: "The key is lost, quickly shoot and break the iron lock." Liu Hu struggled to climb onto the gangway, his left arm was severely sprained.The heavy responsibility of shooting the iron lock fell on the shoulders of Sun Xueli at the top. She had never fired a gun before. She raised the pistol, closed her eyes, and shot at the hatch cover with a "bang bang". The bullet missed the iron lock at all, and Liu Hu was so anxious Shouted: "Open your eyes and shoot, aim at the keyhole of the iron lock!" Sun Xueli nodded desperately, pinched the iron lock with one hand, pointed the gun with the other, and pulled the trigger only to find that there were no bullets.She shouted anxiously: "Qin Yun, give me the pistol! Quick!" Qin Yun struggled to free one hand, took out the pistol and handed it to Sun Xueli. With this delay, the black mist rose another foot, reaching the bottom of Yuan Zhenhe's neck.He desperately climbed to the top, but there were too many people on it, so he couldn't climb up at all, unless he climbed on Qin Yun, but he alone could bear the weight of two or three people, and if he added another person, he would definitely fall.He hurriedly shouted: "Quickly open the hatch! Quickly!" Sun Xueli yelled: "I got it! I got it..." She almost cried, her hands shaking more and more.Finally pointed the muzzle of the gun at the keyhole, "bang!" The bullet went in, but the iron lock was too big, and the bullet was stuck in the keyhole without bursting.Sun Xueli fired several shots, most of the bullets bounced back, and one even scratched the back of her hand. "Can't open it!" Sun Xueli finally cried out. The black mist quickly reached Yuan Zhenhe's mouth, he tried his best to raise his head, and said in a low voice: "You guys have carefully analyzed the few films you got, I think it has a huge connection with the Khotan National Library, I will take a step ahead... " Sun Xueli cried: "Don't give up! Don't give up!" She fired several more shots, but still failed to open the hatch, and ran out of bullets again.She sobbed in despair. The black mist continued to rise, Yuan Zhenhe closed his eyes, ready to jump into the poisonous mist. At this moment, a strong impact came from the hatch, which almost stunned Sun Xueli, and the hatch made a muffled sound, as if it had been shaken open.She tentatively pushed the hatch, and it opened with a "bang". "We are saved!" she exclaimed in surprise, and quickly climbed up.There is no one in the middle aisle.Liu Hu grabbed Yuan Zhenhe and crawled out after Qin Yun and Xiao Bai.Looking down from above, the poisonous gas is like a layer of strange black water pool, with small waves churning up from time to time, slowly rising to the tide. "Boom!" Qin Yun closed the hatch, locked it, and checked the junction, and there was no gap, so he let out a long breath.