Chapter 23 chapter Five

April 9.Monday.In the morning, 9:19. He wakes up from a nightmare. He dreamed of hell. Open your eyes, the sun hurts your pupils through the curtains.Grabbing his hair vigorously, each hair root is connected to the heart, he seems to feel the pain of the people who died underground... Through the thin curtains, looking at the dust in the sun, it seems that they are still staying in the tomb.Why does the world still look beautiful after seven days and seven nights of supposedly doomsday hell-bent exploration on Easter night?Why not as Eliot wrote - "April is cruel"?Why all you hear is the laughter of children, the sound of car horns, the rustling of leaves in the spring breeze... He opened the curtains.Imagine yourself a vampire who committed suicide by exposing himself to the spring sun, burning into a miserable mass of ashes.

Blinking his eyes, Ye Xiao was still alive. The nightmare I had just now, including hell, was all real. More than nine hours ago, April 8th, Easter midnight.Ye Xiao, as a police officer on the front line of rescue, broke away from the main force, followed a group of huge rats, broke into the four-story underground parking lot buried 190 meters underground without authorization, and saw hell. real hell. It is impossible to estimate the number of corpses. The severely decomposed dead are piled on top of each other. I don’t know how many there are. There are probably at least dozens of them by visual inspection. The rotten smell that permeates the entire underground comes from this hell cemetery.Ye Xiao approached boldly enough, approaching the limit of human psychology and sense of smell, still unable to see the faces of those people clearly, either they were rotten in a mess, or they had been seriously injured.Some were in uniform and appeared to be staff members of the building, and some were not even fully clothed.What makes Ye Xiao more uncomfortable than terrified is that the rats are targeting these corpses, they have no scruples to get into the pile of corpses, wantonly enjoying the carrion feast.As for disgusting things like maggots and insects, they can't be described in words. I really want to burn them clean!

A second later, Ye Xiao passed out. Not a nervous breakdown, but inhaling too much rotting corpse smell, close to poisoning. At this moment, when I woke up in the hospital, my mind was buzzing, as if there was still a certain memory, covered by a cloud of black mist.Even though it was only a few minutes, I could no longer see clearly.He pulled his hair vigorously, trying to recall everything underground—but it was as if the life-saving metal chain he was grasping suddenly snapped, causing him to fall into the abyss. Ye Xiao was absolutely sure that before recovering the lost memory, he would stay in the 190-meter-deep hell.

The windows could not be opened, and the iron bars outside were like a prison.Is it a mental hospital?The injured hands have been bandaged, and there are band-aids on the back of the hands. They must have been transfused when they were unconscious. The body is full of the smell of disinfectant. He touched his armpit subconsciously, bad - the gun is gone! His heart became cold, and just as he was about to rush out the door, his partner, Police Officer Wang, walked in. "Where is my gun?" Ye Xiao didn't even have a polite word, and asked directly. "Don't worry, I unloaded your gun with my own hands. How dare the little nurses move your gun?"

"I'm afraid I lost it underground." "When you were found in the garage on the fourth floor underground, there were only rats besides dead people. Who else would come to take your gun?" "Well, even if I've watched "Resident Evil" too much." "The rescue team brought you back to the ground immediately, and then sent you to this hospital by ambulance. They changed all your clothes, sprayed you with disinfectant, and gave you an infusion. The doctor said that your body was unexpectedly healthy ,do not worry!" Hearing this, Ye Xiao pulled up his pants and looked, and sure enough, he even changed his underwear!Fortunately, he was not shaved.

"Old Wang, have you found any other survivors?" "Only six survivors, the rest are all dead." "Let me see your watch!" Ye Xiao didn't wait for Old Wang's consent, and pulled his wrist over directly, "It's ten o'clock in the morning—— hurry up and control the six survivors, and absolutely don't let them go home! " "You suspect that one of them killed the first dead you found?" "That's right. When I found him in the projection room of the movie theater, the blood on the ground hadn't dried yet. There was no doubt that someone had just cut his throat and killed him! Moreover, the dead man's hands were pressed into the ruins, and he couldn't commit suicide at all."

Lao Wang is in his forties, and he always speaks calmly: "I also thought of this. These six survivors have become the focus of the world. They were sent to this hospital as soon as they were rescued from the ground, and they were strictly controlled by the authorities—no Because of the homicide, it was the original plan of the rescue headquarters." "I understand. The leaders have watched too much of the "Alien" series, and believe that some kind of terrible prehistoric bacteria is hidden underground. Once it spreads to humans, it will cause the real end of the world!"

"Who knows! In short, your six witnesses are also suspects. They cannot easily leave here and must be isolated on the fourth floor of this hospital. Even if family members come to visit, they must be behind protective glass and physical contact is strictly prohibited. " Ye Xiao thought to himself, that is no longer a prison visit.If there are any prehistoric bacteria, all the rescuers will not be able to come back.And he himself, who rescued the survivors with his own hands, has long been infected and can only wait to die. Well, if you wait to die, you will die. Anyway, he has already waited to die once, so it doesn't matter if he waits to die again.

"By the way, where's the dog found in the movie projection room?" He still thinks about the slit-throat murder in which the loyal dog was the only witness. "The labrador was also a miracle. He was rescued alive. The military veterinarian examined him and found that he had a broken leg, but the injury was not serious. The dog who survived has become a The national treasure pet is being quarantined by relevant departments. Until the inspection results come out, no one or animals are allowed to touch it except for veterinarians wearing epidemic prevention suits." "Hurry up and send police officers to watch over this dog 24 hours a day, maybe we can find important clues in it."

"It's been done for a long time. Aren't you usually calm, why are you so impatient today?" Ye Xiao didn't know how to answer.Perhaps, the experience of walking in hell can change a person's character?He was silent for a while, then walked out of the ward: "Can you give me another police uniform?"