Living body

"That is……"

Shen Li stared at the blurred figure in the wind and snow and was stunned.

It was a strange thing to stand so straight in such a big snowstorm.

"Don't go there." The station master stopped him, took out a hunting knife and held it in his hand, "That man is not normal."

The barking of the sled dogs did not decrease at all because of their arrival, without exception, they issued an urgent warning to that strange figure.

Just as the station master said, this figure that appeared out of thin air in the snowstorm is not normal, no one would go out alone in this kind of wind and snow day, and the blurred figure of that person stood too far in the severe wind and snow. Too tall and straight, it looks tall and thin like a stretched rubber man.

"Maybe it's a victim." Shen Li hesitated for a moment but chose to push the station master away, "I'll go and have a look."

The station master didn't stop him, but just handed him the hunting knife in his hand.

Shen Li wanted to refuse at first, but seeing the station master's expression, he still took it, and then walked towards the standing figure against the wind and snow:

"Hey, do you need help—"

When he opened his mouth, ice slag poured into his mouth, and he shouted very hard, but the person opposite didn't know if he didn't hear it or something else, he didn't move and didn't give any response.

Maybe it's a stone, Shen Li thought to himself.

As he approached the figure became clearer, almost certainly a man in a sweater.

"You are..."

When Shen Li stood in front of the man against the wind and snow, and finally saw his appearance clearly, the hunting knife in his hand almost fell——

This is a man wearing a black sweater, without any protective equipment, his feet are buried deep in the snow, his whole body is completely frozen, but the most terrifying thing is his face, which is extremely stretched, It has exceeded the limit of a person's ability to open his jaw, revealing the tunnel deep in his throat, as if he wanted to tear himself apart for some reason.

After the wind and snow had calmed down and the road could be seen clearly, the station master set up the sled again and led everyone on their way.

The sled stopped in an open space with no shelter, and Shen Li was surprised when the station master said that he had arrived.

"It's there."

Following the direction of the station master's finger, a gray building could be vaguely seen behind the slowing wind and snow.

"You mean we should walk there?"

"Yes." The station master said, unloading the things on the sled. "You must go the rest of the way by yourself. I have to go back."

"What are you kidding?" Lu Mi couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Song Liao who stood aside sneered twice.

"I wish you all the best!" said the station master, and raised the whip in his hand with a "snap" to drive the dog team to run wildly.

"wait……"

The unloaded sled was much faster than when it came, and it ran away on the snow in the blink of an eye.

"Who is this person!"

Seeing the back of the dog team running happily, Lu Mi gave a middle finger bitterly.

The biologist, who had been silent all this time, took the lead and walked out in the direction of the building without looking at the crowd.

Seeing this, the young officer 27 packed everyone's equipment into a big bag, carried it on his shoulders, and followed without saying a word.

"Let's go." Shen Li looked at the face of Feng Xue who was gradually calming down, but there was no trace of relaxation on his face, "The distance will not be too short, and it will be dark in a few days."

The temperature after dark in such a place can be terribly cold.

At the same time, the man who was strangely frozen to death also weighed on Shen Li's heart like a stone.

The snow in this season is not too thick, but for Lu Mi, Huang Ji, Song Liao and others, the step-by-step approach is still too strenuous. By the time I got to the building, my hands and feet were already stiff, and it was already getting dark.

——In front of them is an arc-shaped building, like a fruit plate upside down on the ground, the highest point is only about three stories high, and there is no light source from the outside. It is not surprising that the main part of the building should be underground.

The entrance was facing the six people, and there were two iron doors that looked very heavy and thick, covered with ice and snow.

"Hey, is anyone there!" Lu Mi yelled towards the cold iron gate.

Song Liao gave Lu Mi a white look, then turned to Shen Li: "How to get in? Shouldn't someone come to pick us up?"

"No." Shen Li said, took off his gloves and exhaled twice, and pressed his hands on a certain position on the iron door.

"Crack" sound.

A palm-sized cover was lifted, revealing the switch inside.

The biologist standing behind stretched out his hands from the thick ermine fur, pinched a card with pale fingertips, and swiped it in the card slot on the switch.

"So Shen Li knows where the lock is, sir keeps the key..." Lu Mi whispered to himself.

However, the card made a crisp sound after sliding through the slot, but it did not cause any reaction.

"How is this going?"

The biologist swiped the card in his hand again, but still did not open the door.

"Is the door lock broken?" Lu Mi leaned forward and asked.

Shen Li looked carefully and said: "It may be that the ultra-low temperature of the previous two days froze the circuit."

"What should I do?"

With the sunset, the temperature outside dropped instantly, and Song Liao, who was the weakest, had curled up into a ball with her shoulders in her arms.

Shen Li looked around the iron gate, showing some doubts.

Huang Xie couldn't stand the cold anymore, and asked tremblingly, "Is there any way to contact the people inside? Don't those people know we're here?"

"No, there isn't even a surveillance camera around here."

"Then what should we do? Can we hear it from inside when we shout at the door?" Just as Lu Mi finished speaking, he found that everyone was looking at him.

"...What do you mean? Do you want me to shout alone...?"

With a "boom", the young officer 27 dropped the fifty kilograms of equipment on his back to the ground, and twisted his stiff shoulders and neck due to long-term load.

"Isn't it okay to be joking?" Lu Mi patted the snow on his clothes.

"No, Lu Mi, come over and have a look." Huang Ji rubbed his frozen hands, pointed to the door lock and said suddenly, "This switch should have two lines, the one with digital control is activated by the card in Mr. The other is opened by a mechanical code in order to prevent the circuit from being damaged by freezing and accidents."

Hearing what he was saying, Lu Mi went to the door to have a look, and sure enough, there was a thumb-sized password dial behind the card slot.

"Lu Mi, let's try together?" Huang Ji looked at Lu Mi with a little joy.

"Impossible." Lu Mi shook his head, "This cipher disk has at least 10,000+ combination strings. It is impossible for a computer to calculate the final result by hand."

A piece of metal suddenly fell in front of Huang Xie and Lu Mi——

"This is……?"

"Sequence?" Lu Mi picked up the metal piece and looked at the biologist with some doubts.

"The result of the sequence is to decode the password." The biologist who threw out the metal piece took off the gold-rimmed glasses and slowly wiped off the icy fog on them.

Everyone relaxed when they heard the words, and they all looked at Lu Mi.

Lu Mi immediately took out a pen and paper from his bag and began to calculate.

The young officer took out a compressed down blanket from the package on the ground, shook it off and wrapped it around the biologist, but he stood beside him wearing only a black winter jacket.

Seeing this, Shen Li dug out an outdoor stove from his backpack to keep everyone warm—this was the only heating device he had left in his backpack out of habit, and although the heat was weak, it was better than nothing.

It doesn't take long for the result of the sequence to be calculated.

Huang Ji held the piece of paper that Lu Mi scribbled on, and carefully twisted the metal lock plate.

"Okay—" Lu Mi took two steps back.

There was only a light sound from the frozen iron door, and it slowly opened upwards.

The biologist stood up abruptly, dropping his down blanket to the floor. 27 immediately stood in front of him.

However, the six people did not expect that what greeted them was darkness.