implication [end times]

The warehouse is full of the smell of waste pages and dust, and the air circulation here is poor, which makes people feel flustered.The warehouse was square, with a wall in the middle dividing it into two rooms, and a small unlocked door opened on the wall.The chandelier emitted a bleak and drowsy white light, illuminating the faces of the frightened people in the room pale.

The outside space is small, with stacks of printing paper and standard document certificates piled up on both sides. Only five or six adults can stand in the cramped aisle, and a small room can only accommodate a dozen people at most.Lou Yue sent some overly frightened girls and boys into the small room, leaving the stronger and calmer people on guard outside.

"Make sure it's safe outside before opening the door," Lou Yue said to the people in the small room. "We can't wipe out the entire army. If the sea ghosts really find this place, we'll go out and block it for a while. You must keep in touch with the Security Bureau."

Before Lou Yue finished speaking, a thin young man in the room quickly closed the door trembling with a "bang".

Lou Yue looked at the closed door, chuckled silently, and turned sideways back to the wooden door in the basement.

Now even Ran Yu, who never liked to care about others, was a little angry. He was about to walk towards the small room when Lou Yue stretched his legs and stopped him.

Lou Yue just raised his eyes from the dense text messages on the communicator at this time, shook his head at him, pointed to the wooden door, and said in a low voice: "It's important to deal with the enemy."

The middle-aged head nurse, who was also staying outside, couldn't care less about being afraid at this time, and spat uncomfortably: "That little secretary is usually very selfish, Captain Lou, don't be bullied by that kind of anger, we are all counting on you Woolen cloth."

The door of the small room was not thick, and the male secretary seemed even more annoyed, and argued through the door: "Who is selfish? What kind of person? Aunt Liao, your words are too biased. They are usually treated so well, so they should protect us at this time Is it? This is their job duty! If it wasn't for their negligence in defense, would we have suffered this frightening crime? Counting on his madman, who knows if it will become more and more dangerous?"

Lou Yue looked down at the communicator with no expression on his face, but Ran Yu could feel that he seemed a little lonely.This kind of loneliness is as light as a layer of ordinary dust falling on the body because it is too accustomed to it.

So Ran Yu had no choice but to pat Lou Yue's shoulder lightly, as if to drive away the invisible dust: "It's okay, the thing I'm least afraid of is danger."

Lou Yue suddenly raised his head and smiled at Ran Yu. This smile was so bright and warm in this chaotic and dark basement that Ran Yu felt his heart go numb for just a second or two.

After a brief numbness, Ran Yu noticed the self-defeating feeling in Lou Yue's eyes.

Lou Yue took a long-legged step, approached the door of the small room, curled his fingers and clasped it, and said softly: "Little secretary, everyone is in danger now. Can you hear the sea ghosts outside have started to come here? "

After a pause, his voice became more gentle: "Let me hear you say another word, and I will throw you out as a human bait for them to have dinner, gnaw your bones and chew your meat. See if you can use waste , to create a ray of life for us.”

There was no movement in the room.

Among the people staying on the outside was the doctor who opened the door for the head nurse at the beginning. He is now the director of the intensive care unit in the hospital. Want to encounter this.Director Zhan used to be an orthopedic surgeon, and he did a lot of heavy work such as lifting thighs and unloading arms.Although he has gray temples and looks like he is about to retire, he is still strong and courageous, and he voluntarily stays outside to protect everyone.

Director Zhan's communicator stored the contact information of doctors in other departments. Under Lou Yue's arrangement, he and the rest of the administrative staff inside the door divided the work verbally, racing against time to contact the doctors in other buildings, and asked them to take patients into closed wards. , Lock the doors and windows.

Judging from the news from the communicator, it seems that the administrative building is the first place where sea ghosts appeared.

The door to the basement is an old wooden door. You can only see it when you walk down a hidden stairway in the aisle on the first floor and turn a corner. It is relatively hidden.Sticking against the wooden door, Ran Yu could hear the voices from outside gradually approaching. The sea ghosts quickly searched the empty office in the aisle, moving towards this side very quickly.

Ran Yu asked in a low voice: "They don't have eyes and noses, how can they know where there are people?"

"In fact, there are two thin slits above their mouths, which have the functions of eyes and noses, and are very sensitive. But the two slits are too small, hidden in the skin folds, and it is difficult to see them from a distance." Lou Yue said, "As for the degree of sensitivity, I don't know. Few people have studied this in recent decades."

The noise of sea ghosts became louder and louder, and people's nerves were tense in the small room inside the small warehouse.It seemed that they just came back to their senses, someone was sobbing softly, and someone was still blankly asking the people around them what happened.

"Isn't this the monster mentioned in the book? Why did it suddenly appear in the main city? What about the prevention and control system?"

"How long are we going to be stuck here?" The male secretary remembered the death threat just now, and lowered his voice to almost inaudible, "There is no food and water here, will we starve to death here?"

The person next to him said helplessly: "There will be rescue. We are lucky to survive until the time of starvation."

"But why do I suddenly feel so hungry... Aren't you hungry?"

"What time is this, don't mess around! If you want to die, don't implicate us."

……

Lou Yue suddenly thought of something, and asked the head nurse: "That sea ghost in the shirt, it seems that you and the vice president know each other?"

The head nurse curled up in the corner of the aisle, recalling the tragic and horrific scene just now, and squeezed out a little voice from her throat: "The first sea ghost that appeared... seemed to be Dean Feng. He had a big mole in his hand. I saw it before it completely mutated."

Director Zhan said in surprise: "I met Dean Feng this morning, and he was infected in a short time..."

Ran Yu thought about it for a while, and looked at Lou Yue: "No wonder I also thought he looked familiar. He seemed to have been targeting you at that time until he completely turned into a sea ghost. Moreover, the three sea ghosts that appeared later seemed to be related to him. Disagreement."

Lou Yue nodded, his brows furrowed and tightened: "They also use bricks and other tools to smash windows and doors, and they can communicate with each other. As stated in the book, they are a group of advanced intelligent creatures similar to humans."

But in this way, there is another place that doesn't make sense.Even some wolves will make sufficient preparations for the division of labor before rounding up their prey, and even set up traps so that the prey cannot escape.However, these sea ghosts made a major mistake from the very beginning. They emerged in twos and threes, alerting their prey and killing them back.Besides, if a little bit of preparation was made, a small group of sea ghosts would be sent into the building, taking advantage of people's unpreparedness to cooperate inside and outside, the place would have been stained red with human blood long ago.

Therefore, such behavior is too reckless, and it does not look like what it should be like when advanced intelligent creatures cooperate to hunt.It's not something that sea ghosts who can drive the former humans to near extinction will do.

Even through the thick door panels, the rattling noise of the crowd outside still makes one's scalp numb.Especially Ran Yu, who tried to catch ducks in the back mountain before, when he thought of the team members trying to find ducks, they were surrounded by such monsters lurking in the dark, gnawing on the corpses, and swallowing their fresh meat Drooling, he felt goose bumps on his arms.

The rattling sound became louder and louder, and there seemed to be more and more sea ghosts coming this way, and the source of the sound was no longer single.The sound slammed through the door and into the warehouse, as if echoing from the back wall.

After ringing for a while, the rattling sound outside the door began to weaken. I don't know if the sea ghost really skipped this small warehouse full of people, or was distracted by something else.

Ran Yu settled down and gripped the ax in his hand.If the door was broken down before help arrived, he would have to find a way to get out of the way.He recalled the route outside the building, glanced inadvertently across the wall near the door, and saw a touch of yellow-green.

He was very close to the wall, so he took two steps forward and got closer to observe.The trace was not like paint, it was not sticky, it seemed to have just dried, and it was still a little wet when I looked closely, exuding a very faint salty smell.

Ran Yu's heart ached, he moved closer to Lou Yue, and asked in a low voice, "Did your coat rub against the wall when you entered the door just now?"

"No, I left my coat outside." Lou Yue also noticed the strangeness of the green, looked carefully, and his face was solemn, "The green is brownish-yellow, it may be mixed with the original red blood. Someone was injured."

Injury means possible infection.

Suddenly, there was a piercing scream of pain from the small room next door, mixed with the sobbing of the young man: "I'm sorry, I'm so hungry..."

"Help! Help! Monster!" Immediately afterwards, there was a trembling cry, and the sound of something beating desperately on the small door of the compartment, and then the sound of a heavy object being dragged away.

The rattling sound came again—from the small room on the inner side of the warehouse, against the door panel.

Ran Yu was the first to react, strode to the door of the small room, and kicked the door open.

A mutating sea ghost blocking the door was kicked onto the shelf across the room, still chewing greedily on a bloody calf.There was a torn and bloody corpse on the floor of the room, and the rest of the survivors squatted quietly in a small corner, looking helplessly at Ran Yu who broke in through the door.Another young girl fell to the ground, seemingly fainted by the bloody scene.

What mutated was the male secretary who uttered wild words before. At this time, his clothes were torn, and the skin all over his body turned into slippery scales at a speed visible to the naked eye.The mouth of his face already occupied half of the area, one eye was torn and stretched into a thin slit, and the other was covered by newly grown scales as if it had melted.

Ran Yu walked towards the rapidly mutating sea ghost. The sea ghost also seemed to know that Ran Yu was a difficult character to mess with. Instead of the excitement of jumping at the sight of food, the sea ghost dodged to the side instead.

Although the sea ghost was quick to dodge, Ran Yu moved faster. He caught the sea ghost with a few feints, hugged its shoulder and neck from behind, and twisted its neck violently.

The moment the cervical vertebra snapped, Ran Yu felt something was wrong, and his heart suddenly went cold.

Those survivors huddled in the corner are so calm.He was so calm that he didn't look like the person who was screaming and shivering just now.

Ran Yu threw the sea ghost's body on the ground, turned his head, and saw a dozen sea ghosts that had just mutated excitedly opening their bloody mouths towards him.

Lou Yue was about to go to help when Ran Yu kicked the door, but he heard the sound of tinkling metal bells coming from outside the wooden door.

Immediately afterwards, the pleasant rattling sound suddenly amplified, and the previous breath-holding seemed to be just a prank to tease the prey.

The key was inserted into the lock, and the handle of the wooden door was slowly turned.

The sea ghost was able to find the key to open the door!

It turned out that they had discovered that someone was hiding here just now, and they left for a short time just to find the key to the warehouse in the next office.

Lou Yue firmly twisted the knob of the lock door and supported the door with his body. Director Zhan and the head nurse next to him also came over to hold the door together.But the strength of the sea ghosts outside the door seemed to be even greater. They slammed into the door excitedly and desperately, and some even used the sharp weapons they picked up to chop at the hinge and the center of the door.

The hinges of the door were gradually loosened, and the door panels were dented inward one by one. With a sound of "stab", a crack was cut in the center of the door, and the sea ghosts hacked through the door with fruit knives collected from some office, and stretched their claws in to scratch excitedly.

Lou Yue gritted his teeth against the door, freed one hand and took out the dagger at his waist, cutting off the sharp claws that came in.The countdown on the communicator still has 5 minutes left. Just now Zhan Yiye sent him a message saying that he was on his way with a group of armed teams from the Security Bureau. If all goes well, he will arrive in 5 minutes.People from the city defense army are also on the way.

It's just that I don't know if the people in this room can last for 5 minutes.