Heming Jiuyuan

【nine】

Han Heming and his party of five were standing in front of the entrances of the three sewer branches.

After dangling in the well for more than ten minutes, they finally fell to the bottom of the well.There was a strange smell of decay in the damp and cold air.

The bottom of the well is a cylindrical space that can accommodate about ten people. On the wall of the well is a small arched hole that is one person high and two wide. It is a square space of 10 square meters, with a large circular hole on each of the three walls, which is the branch entrance of the sewer.

"A person's life will always be faced with various choices." Chu Yu stood at the front, slowly stretching out his hand and gestured: "Okay..."

He pointed to the hole on the left wall, "the bad one..." He pointed to the hole on the right, "There are still good ones." He spread his hands forward, pointing directly at the dark hole in the front.

Gu Shui: "He is..."

Goldfish: "I forgot to take my medicine."

Han Heming: "..."

"Take the drainage channel in the middle, which leads directly to the first vertical pit." Xu Yuan looked at the map and gave Chu Yu a kick without raising his head. "Get out of the way, go behind."

The hole was covered with a layer of dark and sticky things, like moss-like plants.

"Put on gloves and a protective mask. We're going to climb in." Han Heming took out a palm-sized square pathfinder from his backpack and threw it into the hole. The four corners of the pathfinder were tilted up, exposing the propeller. "It flew to the depths of the waterway.

"I entered the route into the pathfinder, just follow along." Han Heming stuck a fingernail-sized patch to the corner of Xu Yuan's protective mask, and the picture taken by the pathfinder was immediately transmitted and reflected on Xu Yuan's face. in front of you.

The drain was not too big, and several people could only crawl through it. The further they crawled in, the higher the concentration of rancidity displayed by the pathfinder.

Xu Yuan raised his hand, and unknown black mucus was sticking to the glove. Although he couldn't smell it through the protective cover, Xu Yuan felt that these things must be worse than rotting corpses.

Judging from the pictures sent back by the pathfinder, after climbing more than ten meters, you can see a waterway branch, and the end of that branch is the corridor connecting the first and second vertical pits.

Xu Yuan lightly touched the patch on the mask with the back of his hand, and the pathfinder stopped at the branch of the waterway.

"Have you noticed that the more you crawl in, the more viscous these disgusting things become?" Gu Shui asked.

"It seems to be..." Chu Yu stared at the goldfish's buttocks in front of him, only in this way could he divert his attention from these disgusting things. "Heming, do you know what these are?"

"It looks like it's the dead bodies of phytoplankton and the bacteria that grew in the sewer, and it's the result of a mixture." Han Heming wiped the wall with his index finger, "But..."

Chu Yu: "But what?"

"However, ordinary algae and bacteria don't have such a high viscosity." Goldfish continued, "The viscosity is high and it is not easy to break..."

Jinyu glanced back at Chu Yu, touched his lips lightly, and uttered something chilling: "Crawling forward, maybe I can stick you here, and then..."

"Then what?" Who did you learn from, just speak a short sentence!

"You know, there are more than rats in the sewer." Goldfish glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, showing a meaningful smile.

Chu Hou's head went numb all of a sudden: "Stop talking, just crawl."

"We've arrived at the branch," Xu Yuan said.

"Be careful, everyone, there's more black mucus here."

Just as he was talking, he heard a soft "pop" sound coming from the front.The entire crawling team suddenly fell silent.

"What is it?" Gu Shui asked in a low voice.

"Uh..." Xu Yuan squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the picture on the mask. Under the illumination of the fluorescent light, a ball of sticky matter glistened with water and fell from the branch opening, and there was another "paji".

Pathfinder scan, is a dead mouse.

In just a short while, Xu Yuan had already reached the branch of the water channel, and the beam of light on the forehead of the mask hit the dead mouse, glowing faintly.

"What is it?" Han Heming moved his head close to the man, "Is it a mouse?"

"Yeah." The man turned his body sideways, blocking Han Heming's sight. "It's better not to look at it."

"But I'll still see it when I crawl over."

"Uh..." Han Heming's face was close in front of his eyes, and the man leaned over and lightly bumped his head.Xu Yuan knew that at this time, the less people looked at him, the more curiosity would be aroused.

Xu Yuan silently followed the pathfinder and continued to climb forward.

Han Heming followed two steps, looked down and saw a shiny black, round thing.

It wasn't until he saw the long tail that Han Heming realized that it was a mouse.He suddenly remembered the mouse he caught in the valley yesterday. He didn't look at it carefully at the time, but his impression seemed to be a black lump.

The dead mouse's mouth was wide open, and its stomach was swollen like a black ball, which was probably filled with black mucus.

I don't know if it was because of the reflection of the light, but Han Heming felt that the mouse's belly seemed to be moving.

"Brother Xiaohe, why don't you leave?"

Han Heming turned around and said, "Tell Chu Yu not to look around." Having said that, he still counted silently in his heart. When he counted to 21, there was an expected scream from behind.

"Fuck! Is this a mouse? Is this a sewer? I'm crazy to come down with you! Fish! Climb faster! Climb faster!"

"You smelly and shameless! Why did you climb on top of me!" Goldfish yelled, "It's dead, get off!"

Han Heming smiled unkindly and rolled his eyes.

"It's almost there..." Xu Yuan said, "Xiao He, follow me closely."

"Ok!"

The pathfinder stopped at the entrance of the cave not far away, and the probe scanned the entire vertical pit.The area of ​​the vertical pit is not large, no more than 50 square meters, but it is very deep.The pathfinder flew down for a long time, and it was still dark.

"Wait a minute." Xu Yuan said.

A few people behind stopped.

"I can't see clearly, Xiaohe, did you bring that?" Xu Yuan changed his posture with difficulty, and sat down at the entrance of the cave with his back bent. "What's it called? Little Hummingbird?"

"Bring it." Han Heming imitated Xu Yuan and sat down, took out a square box from the equipment bag, and opened it to find five round beads the size of quail eggs.

This round bead is called "hummingbird scout" by Han Heming. It is small in size, made of special material, waterproof, fireproof, lightningproof, invisible and anti-electromagnetic interference. It is a sharp weapon used by the army to scout the enemy.

However, after modification by Han Heming, a laser conductor was installed in the small body of the "Hummingbird", turning it into an unmanned laser gun.In the battle with Eckard, humans used it as a striker.

Xu Yuan grabbed the five "hummingbirds" in his hands, and Han Heming set up the box containing them—that was actually the operation panel of the "hummingbird".

Han Heming nodded to Xu Yuan, indicating that the "hummingbird" could be released.

Xu Yuan shook his hand and threw them out of the hole, "Two go up, and three go down."

Hummingbirds fly out to detect the vertical pit in 360 degrees.They emit white light all over their bodies, and the pictures they take are really much clearer than the pathfinder.

With the "hummingbird" Xu Yuan recalled the pathfinder to check the situation around the entrance of the cave.

"The circuits here are probably paralyzed, and there is a wall lamp right above the hole." He pulled into the camera and frowned slightly at the scene in front of him. "The light seems to be on."

The screen was flipped, and the pathfinder went around under the wall lamp. Xu Yuan clearly saw that there was a gap between the semicircular lamp body and the wall, and light was faintly leaking.

Xu Yuan turned off the light head of the pathfinder, then zoomed in on the camera, and confirmed: "That's right, the light is on."

"Then...could it be the slime covering the lamp?"

"I think it is."

"Brother Xiaohe, what are you talking about? Can I take a look?"

Since yesterday, Gu Shui has been calling Han Heming "Brother Xiaohe", which makes Xu Yuan feel a little bit upset, completely forgetting that he still has a handsome boy who calls him "Brother Xu Yuan".

Han Heming took out a few stickers, "Almost forgot, these are the sensor stickers for the Pathfinder and Hummingbird." He handed the stickers to Goldfish and asked him and Chu Yu to stick them on the mask.

"Let me post it for you." Han Heming said to Gu Shui.

Gu Shui obediently raised his face, and the boy's round eyes looked at him without blinking.

"Look at the control panel, where is the downward hummingbird?"

Xu Yuan stretched out his long arms, pulled Han Heming over, and muttered softly, "I haven't seen you posting this for so long." After speaking, he glared at Gu Shui behind him.

"Uh..." Han Heming choked and paused for a long time: "Who has the fixed light gun?"

"This is mine." Goldfish took out the gun at his waist.

Han Heming took it and handed it to Xu Yuan, "A set of five bullets, shoot them crosswise."

Xu Yuan fired three guns and [-] luminous bullets with "Pu Pu Pu Pu" and spun out, hitting the wall of the vertical pit, making the muffled sound of bullets piercing into the flesh.

Fifteen light bombs are like fifteen little suns, illuminating the entire vertical pit at once.

"Who can tell me what the hell is down here?" Chu Yu squinted at the picture on the mask, and suddenly his body became limp, and he was about to faint.

At the bottom of the vertical pit was a pool of familiar black liquid, which was about four or five stories high from the entrance where they were.I don't know if it's an illusion, but the liquid here looks thicker.

Chu Yu was as angry as a silk: "Am I dizzy from fright? Why do I feel that this mucus is rolling?"

"I saw it too..." Jinyu shrugged and said, "It can't be that it's full of..."

"Don't say it!" Chu Yu interrupted loudly.

Gu Shui: "It doesn't seem to be a mouse."

mouse……

Chu Yu stuck his head on the goldfish and died forever.

The black liquid is automatic without wind, and it looks sparkling under the light.Occasionally, a large heave can be seen, as if some creature in the slime has turned over.

Han Heming: "Do you want to shoot and see?"

"No, don't act rashly." The man shook his head, "Let the hummingbird sink in and have a look."

The three hummingbirds automatically changed their shells, covered with a waterproof membrane, and quietly dived into the liquid.

The screen on the control panel went dark at first, and then changed to thermal imaging.

"My mother!" Goldfish exclaimed, "Anyone who is afraid of mass density will be killed on the spot!"

Judging from the screen, there are shuttle-shaped bluish-purple light circles, wrapped in a bit of orange-red, densely occupying the entire bottom of the pit.

"What the hell is this..." Gu Shui turned his face to one side, trying to look at the picture from the corner of his eye.

"It's a fish." The man looked at the bottom of the pit, and the occasional ups and downs were fish wagging their tails.

"It's fine if it's not a mouse." Chu Yu held his chest and let out a long sigh of relief. He took off the patch the moment the hummingbird sank...

It doesn't matter even if Yu'er despises you as a coward, men can still coax when they should.

Gu Shui: "What kind of fish can live in this kind of thing?!"

Han Heming stared blankly at the screen, with a layer of cold sweat on his forehead, he subconsciously turned his head to look at the man beside him.

"It's a dragon head fish." Xu Yuan's voice was suppressed in his throat, as if he was whispering.

The swaying image on the mask was reflected in the man's eyes, and transformed into jumping light spots, like a cold light.

For a while, the air became silent, and everyone seemed to be held in place by some force.

Since the appearance of Ekad, the dragon head fish has disappeared. If you are in a seafood market or a small fish vendor, you will not find a dragon head fish.

And at this moment, in this unknown small village, in the sewer where the antidote information may be hidden, there is a pool of dragon head fish!