Chapter 14: Special Survivor
Shi Li believed that since the base was blocked, there was still a possibility that there were survivors.
He had a hunch that if there really were living people in this base, then they might be the key to the current mission or subsequent missions.
As one of the four famous sayings goes: Since we are here, we are here.
But Mosaichou had the opposite opinion. He thought that they should go back to the research institute first and then make a long-term plan.
Strengthen the appearance of the zombie beast and make it feel scared.
"In that case, let's vote to decide whether to stay or go."
Shi Li didn't want to have the final say, so he let everyone vote.
"Those who agree to retreat, raise your hands."
He looked at the mushroom.
"I give up, damn."
The straw man has no intention of participating, it doesn't care.
"It would be safer to retreat."
Mushroom raised his hand.
"Are you sure?"
Shi Li looked at it.
"Yeah, sure."
Mushroom nodded vigorously.
"Okay, then raise your hands if you agree to continue exploring."
After saying this, he raised his hands.
"Okay, I'll give you two votes and one vote, but don't say I didn't give you a chance."
"???"
"It was so close. What a pity, damn."
The straw man patted Mushroom's shoulder regretfully.
"What a pity! Mushroom!"
There is a sense of participation in Mushroom, but the experience seems to be extremely poor.
Since everyone has unanimously (?) decided to stay, some preparation is still necessary.
"The straw man has almost recovered, so let's go."
"But before we set off..."
Shi Li got out of the car, walked to the rear of the car and opened the door.
There are various firearms placed inside, some of which were given by Uncle Liu, and some of which were supported by the research institute.
"To save energy, we'd better bring some guns."
As he said this, he jumped into the carriage.
He scanned the many guns and grabbed a submachine gun that looked quite handy...
Boom boom boom!
A burst of gunfire suddenly broke out.
"What's going on?! Mushroom!"
Mosaichu was frightened and ran over to check, and found a row of irregular bullet holes on the ceiling of the carriage.
"I don't know either. It seems to have gone off accidentally."
Shi Li spread his hands innocently.
"Or... you should not play with guns with your physical condition."
Mushroom was still frightened.
What would happen if an accidental discharge hit one of our own people during the war?
However, Mosaichu himself did not choose to take a gun.
Because it thinks the guns are too heavy and it is inconvenient to carry them to escape.
In the end, only the straw man picked and chose in the carriage and took a heavy machine gun.
"So cool, grass~"
At this time, it had a milk tea tablet in its mouth, a few bullets on its back and a heavy motorcycle on its shoulder, and it felt like a Rambo grass.
This is just as well, as this is the area that needs to save energy the most.
So after arming the straw man, the three of them entered the base again.
The base is circular in appearance, and Zombie Dog said that he had only explored the outer circle.
According to its description, there were several doors that should lead to the inside, but they were all closed and impassable.
So Shi Li let it lead the way and took him to the nearest gate.
Since they still roughly remembered the distribution of the zombie beasts, the zombie dog led them on a relatively safe route.
This time I walked about 100 meters before I finally encountered a zombie.
【Ahhhh! 】
The zombie was also wearing a white coat and growled at them fiercely.
"Go to hell, hahahaha, grass!"
The straw man picked up the machine gun and started firing.
The flames spurting out from the muzzle illuminated its black eyes and mouth, making it look like a madman.
【Ahhhhhhhhhhh! 】
The beast was shaken all over by the bullets, and it became a sieve before it could even take a few steps.
"Save your bullets!"
Shi Li couldn't bear it and slapped it on the back of the head.
The straw man was caught off guard, and the milk tea pieces in his mouth were knocked out and fell to the ground.
"Within three seconds, it won't get dirty! F*ck!"
It quickly picked it up and patted its chest with relief.
"But your shooting skills are pretty good."
Shi Li looked at the bullet holes on the zombie beast, then looked at Mushroom: "Others with machine guns are more accurate than you."
Basically 2/3 of the bullets hit the target.
"Shut up! Huh? This guy is not dead?"
Mosaichou wanted to retort, but he saw that the zombie still had some life left in it, and it was trembling as if it wanted to get up.
From the edge of the bullet hole, you can see the red and tender muscle fibers trembling.
This is clearly a sign of evolving into a strengthened zombie beast.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Shi Li quickly rushed forward and started to hit him with the stick, not giving him a chance to recover.
"This place doesn't look right."
He wiped his forehead and found himself sweating.
So far, I have only encountered 3 enhanced zombies in the dungeon, and there are 2 of them in this base alone.
Sure enough, the further we went down, the more things seemed to be wrong.
"No, it's really not right. Each one of them looks like an ordinary zombie."
"As a result, as soon as we approached, they evolved into enhanced zombie beasts."
"Something must have gone wrong here."
While hiding in a room for a short rest, Mosaichou raised a question.
"Is it possible that it's because I'm too handsome?"
Shi Li touched his face very seriously.
"...But we haven't encountered this problem before. It's obvious that the zombies here are very different."
"That's because there's something wrong with the zombies here, and I'm too handsome."
"And me, grass."
"You and I are the same, so what qualifications do you have to say you are handsome?"
The straw man's interruption made Mushroom even angrier.
"But it's okay, they're not difficult to solve."
"As long as we're quick and agile, it's no different from dealing with ordinary zombies."
"It's nothing more than a few more blows."
Shi Li didn't care.
It takes time for zombie beasts to evolve. Simply put, they have to break out of their skin.
This process was enough for him to smash the opponent several times with the new [iron rod], and this was exactly what he had done all the way here.
After resting, everyone set out again.
They encountered a few zombie beasts on the way. After they dealt with them all, the zombie dog brought them to a big door.
【Ahhh woof! 】
The hound barked at the iron gate, indicating that this was one of the door cards it mentioned.
There is a password device on the side of the door, which shows that a six-digit password is required to open it.
"But I can't get in without the password."
Is it possible that mushrooms are involved?
"Let me get out of the way."
Shi Li walked forward and smashed the password device with a stick.
"What are you doing?!
"I heard that the older generation repaired TVs this way."
"You must have heard something wrong!"
"The door is open, damn."
I didn't expect that after he did that, the door would actually open slowly.
"Come on, lead the way."
Shi Li signaled the funeral dog to continue working.
So they let the beast dogs act as scouts in the front and began to explore the area behind the door.
Behind the iron gate is a hall with a long passage at the end of the hall.
Passing through peacefully, they entered a spacious corridor.
There were metal doors on both sides of the corridor, and Shi Li walked to the first door on the left.
Press the button at the door and it will open automatically.
The area of this room is only about 10 square meters, but the living facilities inside are very complete.
There is everything you need including desks, beds, toiletries, etc.
The quilt on the bed was neatly folded, and it was obvious that the owner of this place was quite tidy.
Shi Li stretched out his fingers and wiped the table, which was covered with a lot of dust.
"There's no one here either."
Mushroom came out from the house opposite.
“This should be a dormitory area.”
"In that case, let's check each room one by one."
Shi Li took a quick look and saw that there were dozens of metal doors.
【Ahhh woof! 】
At this time, the beast-hound about ten meters ahead barked at them.
"It said that there was a smell of a dead animal in this room."
As expected, there are also zombies here.
"They are so slow that they shouldn't be able to find us through a door."
Shi Li shrugged.
So then one person, one mushroom and one grass began to check the room separately.
Seven of them had been warned by the beast dogs, so they did not open them.
After exploring the dormitory area and finding nothing, they had no choice but to move on.
When I reached the end, I encountered the password door again.
But this time, Shi Li's magic failed.
After defeating the encryption device, it did not turn on.
In the end, the straw man relied on brute force and kicked it away.
There was another long corridor and another spacious hall, but this time there was a big difference.
This circular hall connects many closed passages, and the entrance of each passage is marked with words.
There are five test areas from A to E.
Then there is an office area, an entertainment area and two dormitory areas.
Except for the experimental area E and the entertainment area, the doors to other areas are closed.
The place they just passed was dormitory area B.
Shi Li: "Next, which area should we search?"
Mushroom: "Dormitory Area A."
Strawman: "Entertainment area, grass."
Shi Li: "Okay, now that we have ruled out two options, um... then let's go with the office area."
Straw mushroom: "..." x2
After a brief discussion, they decided to head to the office area.
【Ahhh woof! 】
As a result, I kicked open the door of the passage and entered the office area. Before I took a few steps, the hound at the corner ahead sounded the alarm.
There is a dead beast ahead.
However, everyone has already been mentally prepared for this.
Shi Li: "How dare you, a little beast, block the road?"
Strawman: "Little beast, how dare you block the road, grass~"
Mushroom: "It said there were more than twenty zombies in the corridor ahead."
Shi Li: "There can't be any living people in the office area, retreat!"
Strawman: "Excuse me, grass."
There are more than twenty zombie beasts. If all of them can evolve, they will be in trouble and can go to the dungeon retention area to start drawing cards immediately.
If the office area is blocked, then we can only move to another location.
So this time they came to the entertainment area, which was completely empty.
The entertainment area is also structured as a series of houses, with different entertainment activities in different houses.
There are various fitness equipment, ball facilities, video games, board games and more.
They searched for about 10 minutes but didn't encounter any zombies.
"I say these guys are too arrogant. Even if they turn into zombies, they still want to stay in the office area? There is not a single one here."
Mosaichou felt that the guys working in this base seemed quite pitiful.
【Ahhh woof! 】
However, at this moment, the zombie dog ran back from the depths.
"It says that in the room at the very end, there's something strange."
"Strange things?"
"A dead animal, that's it."
"No, not a mourning beast."
"If it's not a zombie, what else could it be?"
This can't help but make people curious.
So everyone quickened their pace and came to the room pointed by the hound.
The room in the entertainment area had no doors, so they could see everything inside clearly.
This seems to be a reading room, with bookshelves lining the walls.
In the middle is a long and wide desk, and next to the desk is an astronaut model.
The model holds the book in both hands, pretending to read.
"Is this the weird thing you were talking about?"
Mushroom looked at the mourning dog, then at the model and said with a smile: "Who has such strange taste to put such a model here? Aren't you afraid that it will scare people at night?"
"Wait, something seems wrong."
Shi Li frowned.
"It moves, grass!"
The straw man exclaimed.
The astronaut model slowly raised its head, and a man's face appeared inside .
When he saw Shi Li and others, his expression was obviously dazed.
Shi Li and his companions were also stunned.
Neither side expected such a scenario.
The two sides looked at each other quietly for a while, and finally it was Mushroom who broke the silence.
"This guy is so ugly."
It accidentally spoke its true feelings.
"You're the ugly one! Your whole family is ugly!"
The man reacted and started cursing on the spot.
"Huh?"
But he stared at Mushroom for a long time and said, "Excuse me, I'm sorry, but you are also ugly!"
He looked slightly happy, as if he had found a kindred spirit.
"Why do I feel like this guy is also a zombie?"
Moshiguchi took out the mushroom gun directly.
But it was obvious that the other party was not scared by this toy gun-like thing.
"Okay, stop messing around."
Shi Li held down Mushroom and stepped forward and said, "Hello, we are... sent by the Military Region Hospital Research Institute."
"Military hospital?"
"Um."
Next, Shi Li explained the whole story.
The other party also introduced his own experience.
He calls himself Dr. Li and is an operator of cutting-edge equipment at the base.
The equipment he is wearing is not a space suit, but protective clothing needed when conducting experiments.
This kind of protective clothing has anti-bacteria and anti-radiation functions, so it can naturally isolate breath.
It was because of this protective suit that he survived when the zombie disaster broke out.
At first, he who survived dared to hide in the closed laboratory. Later, when he was really hungry, he ran out and wanted to go to the cafeteria to find food.
As a result, as soon as he walked out of the laboratory, he encountered a zombie.
I was so scared that my legs went limp, but I found that the zombie beast didn't attack me at all.
So after trying once, twice, and many times, he gradually became more and more courageous and began to move around.
After listening to Dr. Li's story, Shi Li felt that in addition to the protective clothing, there must be another major reason why the other party was able to survive.
That means you are ugly.
