Living body

Shen Li walked in, pressed the button for the -2 floor, and the elevator started running immediately.

The elevator was running very steadily, but for some reason it took a long time for a single floor distance.

Shen Li looked at himself reflected on the metal plate and fell into deep thought for a moment——

Suddenly there was a strange sound, and the elevator shook violently as if it was stuck. Shen Li supported the four walls, and when he looked up, he saw a black shadow flashing through the gap in the half-covered ceiling.

The reading on the display bounced between -1 and -2.

Shen Li supported the wall to stand up, and carefully took out the pistol from his backpack—someone taught him how to use a gun when he crossed the snow-capped mountains in country C before, although his level was very bad.

Shen Li pulled the safety catch on the bed, and slowly moved towards the half-open ceiling.He looked inside carefully, and then gently pushed open the cover with the gun in his hand.

As the ceiling was removed, white cold light shone through the gap, and the situation above the elevator gradually became clearer. There was a mess of wires piled up in the darkness, and some seemed to be broken, but there was nothing else.

Shen Li boldly put the backpack under his feet and looked up, but just as his hand touched the cover, he saw something suddenly hit in the dark, causing an obvious gap on the aluminum alloy ceiling. Huge bumps.

Shen Li hid quickly but was so shocked that he fell off his backpack, and the gun in his hand fell to the ground.

Before he could react, there was a terrible sound of metal deformation from the top of the elevator, as if something was hitting the elevator he was riding with force.

Shen Li looked at the gap in the ceiling like a black hole, and kept shrinking towards the elevator entrance.

At this time, the number on the monitor changed from -1 to -2, and with a "ding", the metal door opened to both sides, and Shen Li almost rolled and escaped from the inside, watching in horror the slow-moving in the dark gap on that side. Slowly revealing a deformed face——

The weird face stared at him coldly, and was finally isolated by the slowly closing elevator door.

Shen Li sat on the ground, looking at himself reflected on the elevator door, with a vague panic on his face.

Suddenly a hand was placed on his shoulder——

Shen Li turned his head abruptly, but saw a man standing behind him.

"Are you a participant in this project?"

This person was only wearing a white singlet, and his white and clean face exuded the cold air of a scientific research elite, and his black eyes looked straight at you, as if he had no emotion that a human should have.

"You..." Shen Li was taken aback, completely unaware of how this man appeared, even the sound of footsteps - in this environment where the temperature could drop to tens of degrees below zero at any time, the man was naked With his feet on the metal floor, it's no wonder he didn't hear any footsteps at all.

"I'm the manager of this research institute." The man lowered his eyes as he said, "Why are you sitting on the ground?"

"What's going on with this elevator!" Shen Li suddenly came back to his senses, "Something attacked me just now, didn't you hear the sound?"

"Impossible." The man said, reaching out and pressing the button.

It was too late for Shen Li to stop him, he only heard a light ding, and the metal door slowly opened——

"It's that open ceiling..."

Shen Li pointed at the dark hole and was suddenly dumbfounded.

"A cable is broken." The man looked at the broken wire hanging outside and said, "Are you talking about this thing?"

"No!" Shen Li shook his head resolutely, "What I saw just now was a person... and you see, the ceiling over there has already spit out!"

Hearing this, the man hooked his hands to the ceiling and put his whole head in.

Shen Li looked at him almost hanging in the air, and his heart was suspended.

After a while, the man jumped down, due to the slight sway of the elevator: "No, there is no one inside. This mark was made when the cable fell."

Shen Li gritted his teeth: "...Probably I was wrong."

The man glanced at him: "It's good that you're fine."

"I'm fine..."

"However." The man bent down and picked up the gun on the ground, "Firearms are controlled products in the research institute."

Seeing that the man picked up the gun and was about to leave, Shen Li hurriedly stopped him: "Wait...some of us are injured and need help."

The tall man stopped and turned to look at Shen Li: "How many of you are there?"

Shen Li was stunned for a moment: "Didn't they tell you about our situation?"

"No." The man said blankly, "That's all secondary... Where are they now, the living quarters?"

"Yes." Shen Li followed behind him, "What's your name?"

"flood."

"Hong?" Shen Li turned sideways and caught a glimpse of the characters on his badge, "Hong..." The last two rare characters seem to be very knowledgeable, and the job title is "".

"Mr. Hong, my team member was accidentally injured by an explosion in the kitchen on the first floor and needs first-aid medicine. You are here..."

"No problem." Mr. Hong nodded as he walked, as if there was something urgent waiting for him to deal with in a hurry, but he didn't show any surprise when he heard the "explosion injury", "As long as people are not dead, they can be rescued."

Shen Li frowned when he heard this, as if he suddenly remembered something, he turned his head and looked around: "... Where are the rest of you?"

Mr. Hong stopped in front of the elevator and pressed the button: "There is no one else. I am the only one in the entire scientific research station at present, so I need you to join."

There is only one person managing the entire scientific research station.

Shen Li really wanted to ask if he was joking, but it was obvious that what the other party said was serious.

"how come?"

The other party suddenly fell silent.

Shen Li was about to ask again, but Hong suddenly pressed the elevator.

"Let's go, go and take your team members to the medical room."

Shen Li originally thought that the so-called medical room in this scientific research station with only one person was the same as a "school doctor's office", but when he got inside, he found that it was simply a medical research center, and the entire sterile environment occupied an area of Nearly [-] square meters, everything from large-scale scanning equipment to fine tools is complete, and there is even a most advanced all-round medical cabin today.

Shen Li went up to take a look, and found that it didn't seem to be the same.

"This is not the original version released by country A, we have made some improvements to it."

"us?"

Mr. Hong remained silent on Shen Li's question again.

"Put him on here."

With the help of Huang Ji, Shen Li followed Mr. Hong's instructions and placed the comatose Lu Mi in a sunken glass container.

"Leave the next thing to me, you guys go out."

"I'll stay and I can help you."

"No need." Mr. Hong directly sent Shen Li and the others away in a cold tone.

The door of the medical room was locked with a cross-shaped lock, locking Shen Li, Huang Ji, and Song Liao outside.

Huang Ji glanced in through the multi-layered glass viewing port: "You said he is the only one in the entire scientific research station?"

"No wonder." Song Liao snorted and sat on a square stool, "For such a big research institute, a power outage is enough for him."

Huang Ji looked at the silent Shen Li, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

Not long after, the door of the medical room opened, and Mr. Hong came out from inside.

"how is he?"

"Very good." Mr. Hong said, looking at Shen Li and the others who were about to enter the door, "But I don't recommend you go in and see him now, the wound that has just been repaired needs to be healed in a sterile environment."

Shen Li glanced inside worriedly, but his hand still slipped from the doorknob: "...then we will come back later."

Mr. Hong took off his gloves, and suddenly said: "You have been here for so long and haven't rested yet, do you want me to prepare some food for you?"

The people who hadn't felt hungry because of so many worries remembered that they hadn't had a good meal all day, and tiredness and hunger surged up at the same time.

"Need it?" Mr. Hong asked again.

"...then I'll trouble you."

Shen Li never thought that reheating food could be so delicious.

Contrary to what he expected, Mr. Hong did not take them back to the living area on the first floor to eat. Instead, he simply reheated a few servings of rice in the tea room opposite the laboratory.There are not many flavors of rice, spicy chicken, chicken and stewed chicken. I don't know if it tastes particularly delicious because I am too hungry.

"Eat slowly, I'm going to the laboratory first."

"Wait." Shen Li called to stop Mr. Hong, "I didn't have time to tell you before, we still have two other people who got separated before we came down."

"There are two more?" Mr. Hong frowned indifferently. "Why didn't you say earlier that the protection system around the building will be restarted after the power is restored. It will be very dangerous if they run around in the scientific research station."

"Then what to do!"

"I'll find them as soon as possible, but before that, I have to go to the laboratory." After speaking, he stood up and walked towards the laboratory on the other side, with a regular pace as if there were no emotional fluctuations.

"You said..." Song Liao took a bite of the spicy chicken-flavored rice and looked towards the direction of the laboratory, "What's in his laboratory?"

The laboratory is located at the northernmost part of the third floor, and is sealed off by four mechanical doors, with only a seven-inch triangular viewing glass left on each door.

Although the tea room is opposite to the laboratory, there is still a distance away. From Shen Li's position, only some vague shadows can be seen moving, but nothing can be discerned.

"who knows."