Chapter 22 Chapter Four

April 8.The first Sunday after the spring equinox full moon.jesus easter.Night, 23:19. Finally, Ye Xiao took off his mask and helmet, followed the footsteps of the rescue team, and went down to a depth of 170 meters underground, the atrium on the ground floor of Future Dream Mall.From the cinema on the ninth floor to the current first floor, the number of rescuers has increased to hundreds, and there are several search and rescue dogs.Everyone searched the shops, restaurants, offices, toilets, escape routes, elevators on all floors... as well as the lobby, business center, and clubhouse of the Future Dream Hotel... However, they did not find a single survivor, not even a dead person. I didn't see it either, but there were many animal carcasses gathered in the atrium on the ground floor, which looked horrible.

The three men and three women who have been rescued are the only survivors underground so far, and the Labrador dog, the only witness of the throat-cutting murder, must be added. He prayed for a seventh, or more. As for the six survivors discovered more than half an hour ago, they have all been successfully sent to the ground.According to the information just received, after examination by multiple doctors, the survivors were not life-threatening or seriously injured.But to be on the safe side, they were taken to a hospital that had been set aside days earlier for potentially injured survivors and was staffed with top-notch doctors, nurses and equipment.

The survivors returned to the world, but Ye Xiao remained in hell. From the cinema to the atrium on the ground floor, he didn't miss a single corner.He took another cursory glance at the places the rescuers had scoured.Many places have obviously been damaged, and it is impossible to tell whether it was caused by the disaster caused by the land subsidence seven days ago, or what happened again during the seven days and seven nights.Some had dried blood on the floor—details he photographed.Who do these bloodstains belong to?What is your blood type?Gender is male or female? What about the DNA double helix?Probably because of the police's overly sensitive occupational disease, they always feel that there is no evil heart and cruel killings all the time... It is also because the first survivor he found had his throat cut and killed.

Ye Xiao resolutely refused to let the rescuers touch the corpse that had been left in hell forever. Instead, he called the Criminal Investigation Division of the Public Security Bureau. The scene of a brutal murder. At this moment, the rescue team entered the underground part of the Future Dream Building. The wound on Ye Xiao's hand was simply bandaged, and the pain was almost gone.He tightened the holster under his armpit and followed the rescue team to the basement floor.There is a badly damaged pet store here, and most of the animal carcasses upstairs are probably from here.The rescue team led the search and rescue dogs to patrol carefully, and it was quite difficult to control the dog leash in their hands, because there was a rotten and moldy smell everywhere.

Maybe the smell of rotting corpses?He subconsciously put on a mask, and the strong lights brought by the rescue team to every corner made his pupils constrict, so he could only set up an awning to scan the empty supermarket.Half of the shelves fell to the ground, and there were still many commodities, but none of them were survival supplies.There were dark bloodstains on the floor, and when the electric light was just hung up, some strange shadows seemed to pass by. Most of the personnel stayed on the basement floor to search, and Ye Xiao followed the advance team into the second basement floor.

This floor of the supermarket is mainly food and other daily necessities, and almost nothing is left. This is why the six people found on the ninth floor have survived until now?As for the pungent rotten smell, it was stronger than upstairs, even though everyone was wearing masks. Ye Xiao didn't miss any corner.A search and rescue dog barks as he walks along the foot of the supermarket wall.It was not facing the meat and bone counter, but a small door that was broken and opened.The inside looked like it had already collapsed, full of cement fragments and wall dust, with rows of huge metal cabinets in between, resembling employee locker rooms.Search and rescue dogs rushed into the ruins, barking at the bricks beneath their feet.The team members gathered around one after another, digging carefully with tools, expecting to find the seventh survivor.

A few minutes later, a body was dug up. This is a severely decomposed male corpse. Judging from the remaining flesh and bones, this person is tall and fat, with blond hair and wearing a supermarket work uniform.Judging from the degree of decay, it was likely to have been crushed to death seven days ago! Sure enough, a group of maggots had crawled out of the dead man's nose. Ye Xiao and the rescue team had long been accustomed to facing dead bodies, and they were very calm. They just regretted that no living people were found. Although the deceased's face was severely rotted, the difference between him and the Chinese can still be seen.

This is a white man with blond hair, fair skin, deep eyes, high nose, and a huge skeleton. Although the eyeballs have been eroded by insects, it is impossible to tell whether he is blue-eyed, although all the above features have been double-obscured by the weight of the wall and the decay of the corpse. Suddenly, Ye Xiao found the work tag hanging around the neck of the deceased.He immediately put on his work gloves, completely ignoring the stench of the dead and the maggots, and gently lifted the hanging tag before his eyes. Sure enough, it was the work certificate of Calfort Supermarket, with a photo of a typical Germanic man on it, very similar to the burly and fat low-level Nazi SS officer in the World War II movie.In addition to a line of English, there are also a few simple Chinese words - B2 floor manager Steiger.

Finally, a named deceased was found. Ye Xiao remembered this name, and he was one of the few foreigners in the list of confirmed missing persons. Although he had been dead for many days, the rescue team still handled the body carefully, because he was a foreigner, so the leaders must pay special attention to it. Why were there only six survivors and two dead people found in such a large shopping mall from the ninth floor to the second basement floor—one may have died seven days ago, and the other had died less than two hours ago?Ye Xiao's doubts are getting bigger and bigger. He can be sure that when the disaster happened, there were at least hundreds of people in the Future Dream Building. So many missing people were not alive or dead. Did they travel collectively to the Qing Palace to change history?In a blink of an eye, the image of "Resident Evil" appeared in his mind.

He shook his head vigorously. Without waiting for the rescue team to act collectively, he walked down the stairs alone to the underground three-storey garage. Except for the light at the stairway, this is a dark world like an ancient tomb.Ye Xiao held a super-large flashlight in his left hand, the dazzling light could illuminate the face of a person tens of meters away, his right hand subconsciously approached the left armpit, the upper left corner of the heart, and the hard pistol was eager to try. Fortunately, he didn't take off his mask, otherwise he would have fainted from the stench.

He frowned tightly, hesitating whether to go down or not.There are many dusty cars parked here, several lying across the driveway.Among them was a black SUV, the front of which was domineeringly inserted into the side of a red Honda car, almost hitting the other side in two.Men are naturally interested in cars. Ye Xiao approached the back of the car, and the lightning flashed "LEXUS" and "GX460". Lexus GX460 - This is a top-notch full-time four-wheel drive SUV with a price of more than one million yuan. Ye Xiaoqian, the policeman, could not afford it for ten years.He looked at it with distress. Most of the windows of such a beautiful and powerful car were broken, and the front part of the car was scrapped. It was horrible. It should have been hit head-on at a speed of more than 60 kilometers per hour! Ye Xiao didn't believe that this was something normal people would do. Lightning shone in through the broken window, expecting to see a squashed rotting corpse in the driver's seat, but found that there was no one in the car. Temporarily letting go of his suspended heart, he turned around in the huge garage, and the sound of his footsteps echoed in the empty tomb.Just when he thought there would be no more signs of life, a row of black shadows passed through the ground at the end of the lightning.He kept his original posture very calmly, chasing those shadows with intense electric light. His eyesight was beyond ordinary, and he recognized this frightening creature - a mouse - within a second or two from a distance of tens of meters. Finally, I saw it alive! But why are these little guys that are ready to move in this underground garage full of rotten smell?Ye Xiao felt uneasy again, and simply followed the trail of these mice to the stairs leading to the next floor. Even the mask couldn't block the strong rotten smell! Ye Xiao took out his spare mask. Two layers of masks made him breathless. He almost supported the wall before he walked down the stairs and came to the deepest part of this sunken building - the fourth-floor underground garage . One hundred and ninety meters below the horizon, the deepest part of hell? The lightning illuminated a dusty parking lot, and the cars that had been in the dark graves for seven days and seven nights looked like zombies, and they seemed to be transformed into car mummies at any time.He saw the group of mice again, the abnormally fat mice under the light beam... Huge rats, big rats, no food for me!Shuo Shu Shuo Shu, no food for me!Big rats, big rats, I have no food for my seedlings! Ye Xiao's legs seemed out of his control, and he followed the mice with a flashlight.So, he saw—hell!