Living body

Shen Li walked on the dark corridor, he could only see the light spot under his feet that was illuminated by the flashlight, the surrounding was quiet and dark, and the too narrow stairs made it difficult for him to turn his body around the corner.

He didn't know how many floors he had gone down, but apart from the safety door that led to the living area before, he didn't see any other exits along the way.Maybe it's because the structure of the lower layer has a large span, or it's for some other reason.

Shen Li breathed a sigh of relief at his frozen fingers, and held 27's backpack in his hands.

After a while, the steps were finally finished, and the soles of my feet were on the solid ground.

Shen Li raised the flashlight and glanced around. There was only one metal door in this extremely small space. The doorknob reflected the light of the flashlight from the door handle, as if it was waiting for someone who came down from it to open it. Same.

Shen Li bit the flashlight, stretched out his hand and just touched the doorknob, when suddenly his eyes lit up——

A white light shone down from the top of his head, causing him to immediately cover his eyes, and he heard a slight mechanical sound beside his ears.

Shen Li slowly removed his hands covering his eyes, and it took a while to get used to the light after the power was restored.

There was another slight sound overhead—it was a monitor.

Shen Li squinted his eyes and looked at the metal door in front of him. There was a combination lock plate on the door, and it was now showing that it was locked. There was also a communication device installed on the wall next to it. Obviously, the camera was monitoring people who wanted to enter this door. people who go.

Shen Li reached out and pressed the doorknob——

"Ziz"

There was a sudden noise from the communicator on the side.

Shen Li ignored it and continued trying to open the metal door.

The noise in the communicator became louder, like someone scratching metal or glass with their fingernails.

"……people……"

Suddenly, a clear word came out of it.

Shen Li froze for a moment, then looked up at the surveillance camera, there was only a little red light on the dark camera, like a malicious eye staring at him.

"...someone..."

This time, the voice came out very clearly.

Shen Li's face changed suddenly, and he pressed the connect button of the communicator: "Song Liao, Huang Xie, is that you?"

The noise in the communicator finally stopped, but it fell into silence again.

Shen Li became more and more uneasy, and pressed the call button again: "Song Liao, Huang Ji, please answer if you hear it—"

Suddenly, there was a heavy muffled sound from the quiet communicator, as if something heavy had been dropped to the ground.

"Huang Xie, Song Liao—"

"Yes." After a while, a clear human voice came from there, "Shen Li, we heard...the power in the research institute has been restored..."

"What happened just now, what happened to you?"

"Have you found Mr. and 27..."

Shen Li glanced at the locked metal door before saying slowly, "No."

"...Then you come up first and then talk, here..."

"What?" The noise in the communicator sounded again, and Shen Li couldn't hear it clearly after asking twice.

Suddenly there was a "thud" sound behind him.

Shen Li turned his head, and saw a black bird standing on the handrail of the stairs. The oily and sticky black feathers looked like they had just been drilled out of oil pollution.A pair of dark eyes looked at him sullenly.

When Shen Li returned to the living area and opened the door, he saw the bright room illuminated by white light, and the opened elevator——

The silver-white metal glows with a cold light, which can be seen at a glance in a small space, and it is as clean as a freshly washed pot.

"You... opened the elevator?"

Song Liao and Huang Ji glanced at Shen Li respectively: "Shen Li, why don't you take a look at Lu Mi first..."

"What's wrong with Lu Mi?" Hearing this, Shen Li turned to look at Lu Mi who was lying on the sofa.

"His wound seems to have deteriorated, and he has been sweating and shaking." Huang Ji put the last blanket on Lu Mi's body, "Just now we wanted to test whether the communicator can contact the people below, and find some medicine first. Use it for him."

"Is there any response?" Shen Li looked at Huang Xie, who pursed his lips and shook his head, "Then the elevator can't be used..."

The entire scientific research station uses cool-toned white light, which can clearly illuminate every blind spot.Shen Li walked into the elevator, and glanced at the inside of the elevator where the ceiling was half lifted. There were only three numbers on the buttons: 1, -1, and -2.

"They may have previously set -1 floor here as the restart point after the power is restored, so the elevator opened here automatically, which scared me and Song Liao. If you don't come, we have already planned to go down and have a look alone. .”

Shen Li glanced at the not-closed ceiling again, and said, "Then I'll go. They probably just repaired the power system, and they haven't returned to the main control room yet, so try the communicator again. Wait for Mr. and 27 to come back." Talk to them."

"What's the matter with those two people, why didn't they disappear without telling us, do they still have a sense of teamwork..."

"Maybe they discovered something." Huang Ji whispered, "He must be like us, eager to understand the situation of this scientific research station."

In fact, when they got here, they still didn't fully understand what the ultimate purpose of their group was.

"But the question is," Huang Ji put his chin on his folded hands, "what did he find...?"

The living area illuminated by white cold light was silent, like a specimen library in a biological laboratory.

Suddenly, a piercing noise broke the momentary tranquility——

The three of them were startled at the same time, and looked at the communicator with the green light constantly flashing.

The moment Shen Li reacted, he immediately pressed the answer button: "Is anyone there?"

There was silence on the other end of the communicator.

Shen Li thought that the other party didn't hear him, so he repeated: "Hello, we are a special group that came to participate in the seminar, and we are currently in the living area on the first floor. Someone..."

"Negative second floor."

Before Shen Li finished speaking, a sentence came from the communicator.

"what?"

"Come to the second floor."

This time the voice was very clear, with a particularly strong nasal tone.

That's not the voice of Mr. or 27.

"us……"

However, the other party did not wait for Shen Li to say anything more, and immediately cut off the communication.

"What did the people over there say?"

Huang Xie looked at Song Liao who was a little dazed, and repeated: "He asked us to go to the second floor."

"Ah?" Huang Ji looked at the sofa and then at Shen Li, "Shouldn't we tell them about Lu Mi first?"

"I think..." Shen Li shook his head, but he didn't express his conjecture in the end, "You and Song Liao stay here to take care of Lu Mi, I'll go down and talk to them."

"Are you going down alone?" Huang Xie nodded affirmatively when he saw the other party, "Okay, but with his current appearance...you have to hurry up."

Shen Li nodded.