escape package

When the cold wind blows in the well-ventilated pipe, it sends a stench. When the palm is pressed tightly against the pipe, you can clearly feel the slight vibration caused by the movement of things in the distance.Luo Xingyi didn't even hesitate, just walked backwards and climbed a few steps, and walked from the other fork in the road.

Not to mention that he just climbed out of the hibernation cabin without any weapons, even when he was at his peak state, he didn't want to go head-to-head with something that a dozen armed men couldn't handle.

After all, Luo Xingyi's life creed is: never admit cowardly when he can act coercive, and cowardly when he can't pretend coercive.

The main road of the escape pipeline leads to the main hall on this floor, and the branch pipelines are all connected to the rest rooms.Luo Xingyi climbed along this pipeline for a while, and saw a half-gnawed corpse stuck in the middle of the road.

This pipe is not wide in the first place, and the design only considers the rapid passage of a single person. Anyone with a slightly oversized body will get stuck, let alone half a person.

Going back to find the way is a bit risky, the ghost knows if that thing is still in the main passage, Luo Xingyi had to bite the tactical flashlight in his mouth, took out the laser knife to be on guard at any time, and pushed the half corpse to continue. go forward.

The corpse was still warm, and it was gone from the waist down. A large amount of blood was still gushing out, dripping all the way, but Luo Xingyi suffered a lot, and the careful selection of clean clothes became meaningless.

I don't know how long the one-and-a-half corpse walked, and finally there was a little light other than the flashlight in front of him.

Luo Xingyi took off the flashlight and put it elsewhere to confirm. There was indeed an open vent in front, and the light below was quite bright—at least brighter than the previous secret room that only had emergency lights left.

This should be where the brother who lost half of his body came up.It's just that he was killed in the pipeline, and he didn't see blood on the way he came, so the thing that ate half of his body went down this exit?

Luo Xingyi thought about it, and didn't go down immediately, but pushed the half corpse and lay down at the exit, listening carefully to the movement below.

This vent should lead to a common room, which is very large and fully functional, and ordinary scientific research or logistics personnel like to come here to relax.But at this moment, the common room is as quiet as death, and even the advantage of its large size has turned into an unknown danger.

After observing for a long while without any movement, Luo Xingyi glanced at half of the corpse, and said in his heart: Brother, a good man will live a safe life, and the contribution of contemporary youth to society is at this very moment.Then he threw it down the vent.

The corpse fell to the ground with a "boom", and there was a dull reverberation in the huge and empty space.

Luo Xingyi vigilantly held the laser knife and half-kneeled at the air vent, his body stretched into a string ready to go, his eyes stared down unblinkingly, shining coldly, like an experienced hunter silently Hiding in the dark, patiently waiting for its prey to follow the sound.

But he didn't wait until the prey was lured to come.

The monster that ate half of the human body seemed to have left. After a loud noise, the lounge was still silent without living things.

Luo Xingyi waited for another ten seconds. Seeing that the situation was still calm, he put away the tactical flashlight and jumped down with the handle of the laser knife.

The lounge was also a mess. After Luo Xingyi got up, he followed the blood on the floor and walked to a tea table to have a look, and found that there were bloodstains from two periods of time.

He stretched out his hand to touch it, and the blood on the coffee table had dried up to the point where it was almost colorless. It looked like relics left over from many years ago, while the blood on the ground was still fresh, not completely dry...

Luo Xingyi withdrew his hand thoughtfully, raised his eyes to look around, saw a camera in the corner in good condition, walked over, and asked the camera on the corner: "Wangshu?"

When Luo Xingyi raised his eyelashes and looked up, the light shone on him, and it was only then that people noticed that his pupils were special.

Different from the brown-black pupils that are common among Asians, Luo Xingyi's iris is also very dark, but it is a dark color made of red precipitation. When there is light, it will show a lustrous color like red wine, like It is a wine that has been treasured for many years.

The camera captured Luo Xingyi's iris information, and after analysis and confirmation, the red light flashed twice.Then, a voice sounded in the audio in this lounge: "Mr. Luo, I'm very glad to meet you again, but I'm sorry, I can't project an image to talk to you face to face due to limited energy."

What he answered was the base's most precious asset—the artificial intelligence "Wangshu" with super-age smart technology, sharing the same technology system with the capital's "Xihe", which can be said to represent the highest AI technology in the world.

At least for 2021 is the top.

It is everywhere in this base. Rather than saying that it controls the base, it is better to say that it is the base itself.

And this scientific research base located underground is also named because of it: Moon Palace Experimental Base.

"Wang Shu, what happened outside?" Luo Xingyi looked at the messy room where there was no trace of a living person, and he was basically sure that during his dormancy, there must have been earth-shaking changes outside.

"Where are the original people? How did these armed men get in?"

"And what's the thing in the pipe?"

"Mr. Luo, I will answer your question in this way in chronological order. Most of the original staff were evacuated from the 'Moon Palace' 23 years ago, and a small number of people were quarantined and cleaned up due to infection..."

"Stop! Stop... what did you say?" Luo Xingyi interrupted Wang Shu, he stumbled and moved his mouth several times, his tongue was a little knotted, he licked his lips to relax, and then said it was forced out of his throat The second half of the sentence, "23 years ago?!"

Wang Shu’s voice sample was collected from a teenager’s clear timbre, but without emotional ups and downs, “Yes, Mr. Luo, if my time is consistent with the outside world, you have been dormant for 24 years, and now it is 2046.”

2046 years.

Two, ten, four years.

For a moment, Luo Xingyi felt dizzy than before when he was hypoxic. The huge amount of information made him stunned for a moment. He felt as if he had lost his language ability and could not clearly understand Wang Shu's meaning.

He obviously felt that the picture before closing his eyes was still fresh and clear, as if it was yesterday, but who would have thought that he had been unconsciously sleeping in the nutrient stock solution for 24 years... No one came to wake him up.

Luo Xingyi digested the information and emotions for a while, and then waved his hands against the throbbing temples, letting Wang Shu continue talking.

"Mr. Luo, I want to correct your perception first. The armed men who broke into the 'Moon Palace' are not a group of people, but two people from different directions. One of the teams was on the fifth floor 31 hours ago. I stole your hibernation cabin, encountered an ambush by another team on the way, and then exchanged fire. I used hydrogen cyanide gas to force both parties to room 0514, but then they destroyed the surveillance, and I have no way of knowing the follow-up situation."

Luo Xingyi listened, his eyes sharpened, and he asked, "What about the fifth floor?"

The excellent artificial intelligence understood what he meant, and replied: "The fifth floor and below are the top-secret areas of the 'Moon Palace', and I have implemented the water seal 23 years ago, cutting off all passages leading to the fifth floor and below. .”

"A total of 48 people were monitored by the two teams of armed personnel who violently broke into the 'Moon Palace', of which 16 people lost contact, and the remaining 32 people are currently trapped by me on the ninth floor and above."

The base construction of the "Moon Palace" is an inverted pyramid, which expands from top to bottom according to the level of confidentiality. There are a total of [-] floors, and the [-]th to [-]th floors can only be counted as the periphery, which is used by general scientific research, staff, and logistics personnel. .The tenth floor and below are more complicated and stricter than the first floor. Even before the dormancy, Luo Xingyi's authority was the highest, and it was only given to the fifth floor.

Wang Shu continued to narrate the current situation: "'Moon Palace' has not been maintained for many years, and the facilities are aging. The two teams have destroyed many of my programs during the infiltration and exchange of fire. Therefore, some of my functions are limited, and I cannot clean up the intruders. However, the two teams did not cooperate, and released the mutant creatures infected in the laboratory, maybe, I don’t need to take action.” At the end, Wang Shu said, “Mr. Luo, according to my behavior data Analysis, the purpose of these two armed forces seems to be you."

"Oh?" Luo Xingyi raised his eyes to look at the camera, "Who can still think of a dormant me after more than 20 years?"

Wang Shu replied sternly, "Unknown."

Of course Wang Shu knew nothing about the procedures for the living people to evacuate the "Moon Palace" and did not take it with them.So it relied on the energy system of the base to barely maintain the minimum operation for 23 years, until 31 hours ago, a group of armed men violently invaded the "Moon Palace" from the outside, which made it see a living person again after more than 20 years .

Unfortunately, the living are the enemy.

Without accident, its security guard system was triggered, and it was being driven to extinction.

On the ninth floor are intruders from the outside world, many years later, and Luo Xingyi and Wang Shu, these two old antiques who are still stuck in the past, are in this deserted common room, separated by a small lamp. Surveillance cameras met after 24 years.

When the gate of this base that was abandoned for unknown reasons was bombarded by artillery fire after many years, the waves have risen again. Whether willingly or unwillingly, Luo Xingyi, who wakes up from a deep sleep, and the AI ​​Wang Shu who is hiding underground are both Doomed to be unable to escape the fate of being involved.

Even very passive, unable to get the upper hand of "time".

Just when Luo Xingyi was about to stay away from Wang Shu and continue looking for a way out, Wang Shu suddenly stopped him: "Mr. Luo, the 'Moon Palace' has completely collapsed, and I want to make a deal with you. I will do my best Guide you to evacuate the 'Moon Palace' from a surefire safe path, in exchange, please come to the main control room and take my sub-program with you."

When Luo Xingyi heard Wang Shu's request, he was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed, "Why, it's so big outside, you want to go see it too?"

Wang Shu followed his words and replied: "The world is changing with each passing day, and I also want to connect to the Internet to improve myself and upgrade the program."

Luo Xingyi thought about it. Although Wangshu's AI technology in 2021 is indeed the world's top technology, it will be a super-nuclear bomb-level killer wherever it is placed.But after all, 24 years have passed, and the technology outside may have exploded into the era of AI for all people. If you just bring some programs of Wangshu, it seems... not breaking the law, right?

So he replied: "Then go to the main control room first." Then he carried the laser knife and wanted to go out the door.

Wang Shu reminded him: "Mr. Luo, please go this way. Experimental subject No. 236 was locked behind that door by me. Please don't come close."

No wonder he didn't wait for the monster, Luo Xingyi's footsteps turned from good to good, and walked to another door opened by Wang Shu.During the journey, he thought of the sticky marks he saw in the pipes before, and he couldn't help asking: "Even if it is a zombie-like creature infected with a virus, it is too much to have not decayed and died after more than 20 years?"

Wang Shu's voice followed Luo Xingyi's footsteps, as if walking with him, he explained: "Most of the experimental subjects' mutations after being infected by the virus did not occur after death. To be precise, they are not zombies. It is an unknown mutated creature. This is the result of the 'sunset' virus invading life after the second mutation. However, the research data on the new 'sunset' has not yet been entered into my database, so I don't know what they mutated pathological cause."

"About how many are active outside now?" Luo Xingyi asked.

Wang Shu: "Four, one died, one was locked outside the lounge door just now, one disappeared, and one was chasing intruders on the ninth floor."

Having said that, Wang Shu suddenly paused, and then immediately warned: "Mr. Luo, the energy response of the mutated experimental body was detected at the vent 607 meters ahead, and he is currently heading here at a speed of 5 meters per second. I take the liberty to scan I checked your physical condition, and the evaluation score is 61, may I ask if you still have the ability to fight?"

"Didn't you ask the question knowingly!" Luo Xingyi cursed in his heart, thinking that Wang Shu was really unqualified as a smart person, and he said such an important thing now!He has been lying in the nutrient stock solution for 24 years, and he is already moved by being able to walk freely. How could he expect him to be able to hold bullets and kick aliens?

Wang Shu is rational and calm: "But it will arrive here in 2 minutes, and there is no other road here - the ventilation ducts in the previous lounge are also connected. Mr. Luo, according to my data evaluation, I suggest you Go for it."

"Your broken data hasn't been updated for more than 20 years, so don't make blind evaluations! I haven't eaten for 24 years. Are you killing me?!" Luo Xingyi pulled a cloth strip from his clothes, holding a laser knife in his mouth The hilt of the knife quickly tied up the shoulder-hanging hair, then moved his shoulders, raised the knife and turned on the laser, and walked two steps forward along the corridor breathlessly.

The corridor is no longer clean and bright as before, but the white alloy walls on both sides are still oppressive. Several streamlined light tubes on the wall meander along the wall, disappearing into the whiteness in the distance.