[Yu Huang] Underground fire

Shi said, "But after the drill alarm—at least they thought it was a drill—was sounded, the access to the laboratory was locked, so they had to turn back to the kitchen from here."

"This is the only thing in your kitchen?" Huang Shaotian said incredulously, "At least I still had potatoes and eggs when I was a guest!"

"The researchers in the laboratory don't care much about the type of food." Yu Wenzhou thought for a while, and chose a less extreme statement. In fact, there are medical staff in the laboratory who specialize in giving those people injections of vitamins and sleeping pills. , Sometimes the experimenters are so busy that they don’t even have time to sit down and have a meal, and even the sleep time is strictly controlled, “They can just eat a couple of bites, and the kitchen will still cook normal food for other people.”

"Then what's going on here?" Huang Shaotian picked up a bag of liquid nutrition, with a chubby bear's head printed on it, "This is only eaten by children in orphanages who have no teeth. Generally, parents are a little Just make your own complementary food when you have time—don’t tell me that your experimenter still has a family.”

"Well," Yu Wenzhou's eyes flashed a trace of gloom, "The experimental subjects also need to eat."

It took Huang Shaotian two seconds to realize what it meant. "Those bastards!" he muttered angrily.

His eyes just met the other person, Yu Wenzhou raised his eyebrows, and he silently turned his face away.

"So we go straight to the lab now?" he asked.

Yu Wenzhou leaned down, stripped off the robes and masks of the two staff members, and then began to take out the compressed cans and nutrient bags in the dining car: "We have to go to the kitchen. The door is opened for the food delivery person."

Huang Shaotian didn't understand what he meant, but he still emptied the cabinets of the dining car together with him.Yu Wenzhou gave some anesthetics to the two people on the ground, and raised his head: "Help the dining car, and I'll put them in."

"I'll do it." Huang Shaotian volunteered.The pulleys of the dining car were a bit unstable, so he first plugged the cabinet door on one side with a crowbar, and then packed the two unlucky workers into the dining car, "Why did you put them here? "

"The kitchen is in the surveillance display area." Yu Wenzhou explained, "The whereabouts of all humans in the base will be recorded by the center, but some areas will not be displayed on the external surveillance system, while others including the kitchen will be displayed. If If we just walk over like this, your life signs will show a green dot without an identity mark, and I will be a blue dot with a special mark, and it won't take long before it will be exposed."

He glanced at the other party, and realized that Huang Shaotian was thinking regretfully: Oh, I like blue better, and the general looks like red, so the green dots and white dots in the underground laboratory that were suspected before were the experimenters and the test subjects?This group of experiment bastards, the general is also an idiot, the center has poor taste!

Yu Wenzhou: "..."

"So you're going to use these two people with identification marks to impersonate our whereabouts?" Huang Shaotian had already understood, "Can you block our life signs?"

Yu Wenzhou nodded: "Yes, after we put on the jammers and pushed these two people to the kitchen, the monitor will only show two people who were originally responsible for delivering food and returned because of the exercise alarm."

Huang Shaotian closed the cabinet doors on both sides, and even the previous lock was restored intact.He patted the dining car: "Let's go, we can't delay too long."

They quickly threw the compressed food and supplements into empty barrels in the warehouse.The gowns of the kitchen staff have blue and white stripes. Although they look clean, they look like hospital gowns. When Huang Shaotian puts on the mask again, it looks like he has escaped from some mental hospital.

After Yu Wenzhou changed his clothes, he waved to Huang Shaotian: "Come closer."

Huang Shaotian leaned over without knowing why.Yu Wenzhou stretched out his hand to fasten the strap around his collar, straightened the ID card that had been crooked in the unilateral beating just now, and took a final step back to look at it.

"Well," he said, "it's sort of like that."

Huang Shaotian silently walked to the back of the dining car, and took the initiative to undertake the work of pushing the cart.Yu Wenzhou felt a little strange, so he couldn't help but glanced at him, but his eyes were almost dazzled by the oncoming inner activities - the other party sighed in his heart: This is the first time to participate in such a strange dress-up PLAY, although there is no mirror, this outfit must be very beautiful handsome!I feel like a flight attendant myself!Do you want chicken or beef, coffee or tea!

Yu Wenzhou: "..."

He is used to the rich mental activity of this teammate.Those colleagues who know his ability will deliberately suppress all mental activities and force themselves to think about nothing when they accidentally look directly at him; they don't know that such a defense is vulnerable to mind reading. With a slight push on the raised high wall, the undisguised things behind him will be completely opened in his field of vision.And although Huang Shaotian always thinks about some messy things, but those layers of content cover his deepest thoughts very well, even if he can read minds, he still can't understand this person.

Huang Shaotian pushed up the dining car filled with two large living people, and walked briskly in front, while Yu Wenzhou followed behind holding the shield.He looked at the back that looked a lot wider after putting on the work robe, and recalled the scene that just happened.

Their eyes met once when they mentioned the experiment in the basement.During this short look at each other, he didn't see anything familiar in the other person's mind... There was no rambling nonsense, no sighs from the heart, no pictures and memories, and no walls and barriers.

There is a blank space, nothing.

The temps in the kitchen were a little surprised to hear the double metal door chime open.He greeted from behind the white mist that filled the soup pot: "Why are you back so early?"

There was a hmm over there, as if he had no interest in answering.

Temporary workers also used to work in the underground base, but they were in the cleaning department a while ago, and were recently transferred to help in the kitchen.He used to be in charge of the area related to the bottom laboratory. Recently, the laboratory has undergone tremendous changes, and even the cleaning shift personnel have been dismantled and reorganized.He thought for a while before he understood why the person who delivered the food came back now. In the past, when the maintenance alarm sounded, the researchers in the laboratory often took some nutrients from the cabinet to solve the supper, and basically didn't care about the food. Delivered on time.If he didn't work in the kitchen, he wouldn't have a general understanding of the working route of the meal delivery team.

He wrinkled his nose, thinking that it was a good thing he didn't ask carefully, otherwise he would appear to be careless.

He is the only one busy in this area of ​​the kitchen, and everyone else has gone to rest after changing shifts.The kitchen of the research base also looks like a laboratory. The sanitation standards are absolutely strict, the countertops and floors are shiny, and the utensils are either metal or snow-white. Thinking about it, it is still a little creepy.The temporary worker covered the soup pot, took three lunch boxes from the incubator, and was going to chat with the two colleagues who brought the meals back.

"Hi," he walked over while taking off his mask, "What time does your shift end?"

The taller one replied: "There was still an hour to finish the supper, but now the alarm has sounded, so you can go back when the martial law is over. What about you?"

Neither of them took off their masks.The temporary worker was not familiar with these two colleagues, and their voices were blocked behind the mask, and they were muffled and unclear, thinking that they were really rigid in adhering to safety regulations.

"I just started this class." He put the lunch box on the plastic table in the rest area. "After working in the kitchen, the whole day and night are upside down. I'm not used to it! I was cleaning in the laboratory before. It's pretty easy—but it's been said that it's not the case these days."

"Lab?" The person who answered was really interested, "Did you work in the laboratory before?"

When the temporary workers saw that they could show off their conversation resources, they couldn't help becoming more energetic: "That's right, I've been working there since I entered the base, and some researchers haven't stayed as long as I have!"

What he didn't see was that behind two colleagues wearing masks, one gently pressed the other's hand.

When Huang Shaotian entered the kitchen, he was overwhelmed by the aroma of the food through the mask.

In fact, the dishes here are ordinary meals, but after enduring so many days of high-style and small-capacity eating, and now feeling dizzy from hunger, he just wants to have a big bowl of hot chicken with rice to fill his stomach.Seeing that there was only one person in this area of ​​the kitchen, he had to resist the urge to go up and knock down the other person directly and then grab food.

As a result, before Yu Wenzhou had time to say something, this person quickly exposed the fact that he had worked in the laboratory cleaning team. They would be too sorry for themselves if they didn't take the opportunity to ask for some information.

Yu Wenzhou's source of information about the laboratory is quite special, and it is of course a surprise that there is a way to confirm it.Before talking further, he quietly pressed Huang Shaotian's hand, worried that he would choose a more direct method and push people down to extract a confession.

The back of the opponent's hand moved slightly under his fingertips.Although there is no eye contact, he can understand the meaning of this small movement - I know it well, don't remind me.

Huang Shaotian was not very familiar with the situation of the underground base, so the task of talking to the temporary workers fell on Yu Wenzhou.He doesn't even need to go around too much, as long as the topic is brought to the arrangement of the laboratory after the change, he can see a lot of information when the eyes meet.When the questioning was almost over, the temporary worker became more and more sleepy, and finally fell asleep lying on the table with the half-eaten box lunch.

"You did it?" Yu Wenzhou asked suspiciously.

Huang Shaotian took out his other hand that was always under the table, holding a bottle the size of a lipstick in his hand: "Who told him not to wear a mask, sleep here for a while."

As he said that, he screwed on the bottle cap, fanned the volatile anesthetic remaining in the air, and ran to the other side with the lunch box in his arms to eat.

Yu Wenzhou sat across from him, took out a small notebook from his pocket, and wrote a few notes on it.Huang Shaotian took a look: "You are the first one I saw in the base who still uses pen and paper."

"There are also paper versions for documents and the like." Yu Wenzhou explained, "Although the electronic instruments here are portable and easy to use, they will also be monitored by the central center, and things will go wrong if you are not careful."

"Then will your colleagues be monitored for taking selfies?" Huang Shaotian was speechless.

"Actually they will." Yu Wenzhou shrugged, "It's just that they don't know this, and the level of monitoring is far beyond ordinary people's imagination."

"It's really a big prison." Huang Shaotian shook his head.

"In comparison, the bottom lab is the real prison." Yu Wenzhou wrote the last stroke and put down the notebook.Huang Shaotian noticed that he was using a short half pencil with a paper cap on it. "This is a cage within a cage. The dungeon is the outermost layer. There is a base inside. The base houses a laboratory. There are jailers and prisoners in the laboratory."

He turned the notebook around and pushed it over to Huang Shaotian: "This is the complete escape route for the laboratory after the cleaning."

Huang Shaotian memorized the contents of the picture after looking at it twice.It is conceivable that even if the laboratory is completely closed under the alarm, there must be at least one escape route as the last card.It was drawn on the paper that it was connected to the kitchen, the route was winding and winding, and several places in the middle were shaded, presumably there was a safety inspection.

"This road is connected to the inside of the base." Huang Shaotian raised his eyebrows, "There must be a way to the outside, right?"

"That's right." Yu Wenzhou smiled and stood up, "This is also part of the cooperation, but I can't tell you right now."

He walked around the kitchen, bypassing the incubator and the table, and came to the sink.He looked at the two unremarkable parallel drain faucets, pulled out the handle of one of them, and then stuffed the metal handle upside down into the gap in the closet.The cabinet split open in the middle, revealing a cipher disk.

Huang Shaotian probed over to look: "How many passwords?"

"I don't know." Yu Wenzhou thought for two seconds, "But logically speaking, it should be twenty or twenty-two."

"27182818284590452353." Huang Shaotian said.

Yu Wenzhou was taken aback, but he controlled himself not to look back at him, but asked, "How did you know?"

"Didn't I deal with the center in the main control room?" Huang Shaotian said with a smile, "but the problem is, once we enter the correct password, the center may find the problem."

"It doesn't have that strong control over the underlying lab." Yu Wenzhou calculated silently in his heart, "It doesn't matter as long as we act quickly, the premise is that what you have to do doesn't take so long."

"I'm fine," Huang Shaotian supported the cover of the cipher disk, "but you also have something to do in the lab, right? Can you make it in time?"

Yu Wenzhou smiled silently.Because his back was facing his temporary companion, Huang Shaotian didn't see the look on his face.

"I'm fine," he said, pressing the code.After a few seconds, the cabinet shook, the walls collapsed in an orderly manner, and a dark passage burst open before their eyes.

Yu Wenzhou checked the jammer in his pocket, and was about to walk into the passage first, when Huang Shaotian blocked him.Facing Yu Wenzhou's gaze, the other party explained: "I believe you won't trick me, at least not in this place—so when it comes to testing your reflexes, I'll go ahead."

Yu Wenzhou nodded without any objection, but said: "The passage is for internal personnel to escape and retreat. There should be no mechanism. The exit is in the pharmacy."

Huang Shaotian nodded, and rolled up the cuffs of the blue and white overalls, but as soon as he rolled up the left side, the right side fell down. He tried twice but couldn't figure out the structure of the kitchen uniform.Seeing this, Yu Wenzhou couldn't help shaking his head, and pulled one of his wrists: "Don't move."

Then Huang Shaotian really didn't move, the hand that was being held seemed to be nailed in the air.

"You don't have to be so nervous, do you?" Yu Wenzhou folded up his sleeves for him, took out a button with a short thread from the sleeve and fixed it, "I'm not going to give you an injection."

"I'm not afraid of injections." Huang Shaotian lowered his eyes and stared at the neat cuffs, "It's just that I'm used to it."

Yu Wenzhou let go of his wrist: "Change your hand?"

Huang Shaotian obediently held out his other hand.Yu Wenzhou tightened his cuffs and asked, "Do you have any weapons that can be used for instant anesthesia? Guns and injectors are fine."

"Both are available." Huang Shaotian said, "The injector is a test of skill, and the number of times the gun can be used is limited. Which one do you want?"

Yu Wenzhou was puzzled: "Why is it that the injector requires skill, and it stands to reason that it is more difficult than the gun?"

"Because you are asking about anesthesia." Huang Shaotian raised both hands to look at his sleeves that had been tidied up, "No matter how accurate the anesthesia gun is, you just won't be able to hit anyone. If the injector is not good enough, even yourself stunned."

"...Give me the gun." Yu Wenzhou said rationally.

Huang Shaotian gave him a small weapon the size of a one ounce perfume bottle with a cap. "You can hit it six times." He demonstrated the holding posture, "You can do this for BIU, you can also do this for CHUA, and you can also do this for chug—"

In the brief meeting of eyes, Yu Wenzhou saw his heart rushing: I still have bombs and grenades, all kinds of weapons, special equipment for blowing toilets, the coolest products of its kind, and they are all star products!Buy one get one free! "

"So you really don't need anything else?" Huang Shaotian couldn't help asking after he put away the tranquilizer gun.

"No need." Yu Wenzhou said, "I will tell you when I need it."

"Although this tranquilizer gun is small in size, it's powerful." Huang Shaotian warned, "Don't hit me too."

"I will pay attention." Yu Wenzhou smiled.Huang Shaotian then bent down and stepped into the entrance of the passage.

The door on the side of the kitchen was closed, and Yu Wenzhou adjusted the code to ensure that it could not be completely locked from the outside.The floor of this passage is curved, and it is easy for people to stagger when walking. However, Huang Shaotian's steps in front of him are as light and fast as the students who rush to the cafeteria at noon every day, and they will look back at the people behind them from time to time. Are you following up?This may be one of the places where the privacy of the entire underground base can be guaranteed. There are no camera holes and recorders on the smooth synthetic material walls, and there are no detectors or anything that might monitor people's vital signs. In order to prevent the laboratory personnel from being used by the enemy in turn to use the "central" surveillance system when they escape.In the current situation, the two intruders were actually cheaper.

At their speed, they walked for about 15 minutes. In the faint light of the indicator lights, a closed circular door appeared at the end of the road.

Yu Wenzhou patted his companion lightly from behind, signaling him to stop for a moment.When Huang Shaotian turned his head, he saw that the other party was holding a small shell-shaped instrument in his hand, which contained four dials and densely packed handwritten numbers.

"Positioner?" he asked in a low voice.

"Yes." Yu Wenzhou glanced at him, and as expected, he read questions such as "Why does this look so handmade, like an antique left over from the last century?" in his eyes.He kindly explained: "I made it myself."

Huang Shaotian: ... Handicraft Emperor!

This simple instrument can be used to measure displacement distance and direction. For example, when a person wanders around in a dark cave, its data can tell the holder "you walked fifty feet to the southeast and turned twenty feet to the northeast." feet, and you've sunk six feet horizontally from where you started"—it's usually part of a locator, and based on that data alone, a lot of people still get lost.And Yu Wenzhou's crude handmade instrument is also made of various parts he collected. It has neither accumulative recording function nor coordinates. It can only display real-time changes with the numbers that flash quickly on the dial.

However, with these data, Yu Wenzhou was able to deduce the direction of this passage.

"The direction of the passage has changed." He took out the previous notebook and turned to the page marked with the escape route, "The security checkpoints have been cancelled, I guess this passage is another one that has not been registered before... "

He marked the original squiggle line with a cross, and then drew a new line beside it.

Huang Shaotian leaned over to see where the new line connected to the laboratory. "So it doesn't lead to the pharmacy?" He noticed that the end of the line led to another area, which was completely blacked out, leaving only a solid square. "Where is that blacked-out place?"

"Warehouse." Yu Wenzhou said softly, "Warehouse for live experimental products."

Huang Shaotian was silent for a moment.They walked for a while, and finally came to the end. Huang Shaotian carefully pushed open the door of the exit of the passage, and an uncomfortable breath rushed over his face.

To be honest, the smell is not unpleasant, and even has a bit of sweet and sour lemon aroma, but this lemon fragrance is a classic additive formula that has been tested in the market, and is widely used in various household and industrial cleaning products in.

Here, though, it's a more approachable kind.In addition to this kind of cleaning product that is likely to be used to wipe the floor, Huang Shaotian can identify no less than four types of medicines from the mixed smell, which are respectively suitable for soft tissue disinfection, wound cleaning, postoperative treatment, and burn calming. There are more things he is not familiar with sandwiched in it.He involuntarily covered his forehead, the smell giving him a reflex nerve throbbing.

Behind what he didn't see, Yu Wenzhou made the exact same movement as him almost at the same time, but quickly put down his hand.

Huang Shaotian didn't have to adapt to the suddenly enhanced light for a while like ordinary people, he walked out of the dim passage into the bright light without stopping, without blinking his eyes.The exit was hidden behind a pile of incubators, and he pushed open those boxes to find himself in a hut.

The lights in the room are very bright, the walls, floor and wooden cabinets are all white, and the metal appliances are silvery.These, combined with the impression of the cleaner smell, give the impression that this is an over-cleaned place, however, this is not a comfortable clean, but rather mildly repulsive.

On the only bed covered with a thin blanket, sat a young girl.Her face was covered with white bandages, only a pair of eyes were exposed, her dull hair was tied into a bundle, and she was reading a book.Only her black hair and the cover of the book were dark in the room, when she raised her head to look at the unexpected visitor, Huang Shaotian saw that her pupils were completely transparent.

As if she didn't see this person, she kept her eyes fixed on his back.When Yu Wenzhou walked out of the passage, her eyes seemed to sparkle.

"Soksaar!" she exclaimed in a low voice with joy.

At that moment, Yu Wenzhou raised the tranquilizer gun and pulled the trigger on her without hesitation.

Huang Shaotian: "..."

He wasn't particularly surprised, and he was prepared to subdue the witnesses at any time, but he didn't expect Yu Wenzhou to be one step faster than him.He asked, "So that's why you want the tranquilizer gun?"

"Almost." Yu Wenzhou skillfully took out a pair of thin plastic gloves from the pocket of his overalls, picked up the book that had fallen on the floor, and then pulled the blanket over the bed, covering the fainted girl's head under it.

"What are you doing..." Huang Shaotian was dumbfounded.

"Did you see her eyes just now?" Yu Wenzhou said, "It has been modified. I can't guarantee that it won't have any weird effects."

Huang Shaotian was startled, and looked at the other party involuntarily.

Yu Wenzhou understood what he meant. "No, it's different from me." He shook his head, "She is a 'voluntary' living subject, and there are many such people in the warehouse... They think they are dedicating themselves to science. Usually they are not only experimental subjects , also act as a half researcher, actively cooperate with the instrument, and collect all the data from himself."

"Isn't this considered a wish?" Huang Shaotian looked at the hooded girl with a complicated expression, "You're still young, and it's hard work in this job."

"But in the underground laboratory, apart from the researchers and voluntary living bodies, there are also ordinary people who have been captured." Yu Wenzhou took the largest measuring cup on the wooden cabinet, picked a few from the whole row of various bottles, and poured them in, "before What both of them have in common is that everyone should have the same ideals and awareness as them, such as this little girl, she would be happy to call the security personnel to arrest us every minute."

"Does she know you?" Huang Shaotian turned his head, "I heard her just call you 'Socksaar' or something."

"That's just a code name." Yu Wenzhou didn't seem to want to say more, he poured the mixed liquid in the measuring cup onto the connection of the incubator, and soon a smell of paste came out from the pores of the insulation board. "I've brought you to the lab. According to the previous agreement, we should split up."

Huang Shaotian looked down at the cuffs that had been tidied up by the other party before: "Okay, you have told me about the emergency escape route, and the map is also in my head now...do you need any weapons?"

"No, thank you." Yu Wenzhou smiled, "No matter what your task is, I wish you success."

"You too," Huang Shaotian lowered his gaze, "I hope you can find what you want."

They walked out of the snow-white room and found themselves at the bottom of a flight of stairs. Looking up, they could see a long corridor, and the closed metal doors on both sides of the corridor, each with only a small round window. Door.The surroundings are silent, but if you listen carefully, you can still catch a faint humming from the machines hidden inside the building, which hovers in your ears all the time.

One of the two walked up the stairs, and the other turned to the corridor.The moment they passed by, Huang Shaotian flicked his finger on the cuff, and a metal particle the size of a sugar granule on a cake stuck to the hat of Yu Wenzhou's overalls.

They didn't talk anymore, and they didn't even look at each other again.