A Doctor's Zombie Feeding Diary

After looking around a few times, I first tested the firmness of the ladder extending down, and after making sure that the guy who had gone down did not do anything on the ladder, I walked back and whispered to Gerald. Asked: "Which direction is the smell you can smell going?"

"Go down." Gerald replied, he looked at the darkness below, and stretched out his finger to the right: "It should go to the right."

"Since you can smell the smell, it shouldn't be very deep down there, so let's go down first." I said to him, "Be careful when you go down. Although there is water below, it won't be very comfortable to fall from this height. Remember Watch out for the ladder."

Gerald nodded, reached out and grabbed the side of the ladder first, turned over and jumped down, put his foot on the ladder's horizontal bar, and moved down a few steps.I thought about it for a while, and followed him in the dark without turning on the lighting function of the terminal.

The climbing and descending of the ladder has been very smooth, but I have always been vigilant, paying attention to the movement around me at all times, until I heard the sound of Gerald's soles guessing the ground, and I temporarily relaxed.

He moved a few steps to the left. Although the sound from the soles of his feet was subtle, it felt a little rough, as if he was stepping on muddy ground.And when I finally stepped on the ground, I confirmed that my feeling was correct. The ground under the ladder was indeed full of water stains, and there were also a lot of messy sticky things similar to silt.But it doesn't look like traces of chemical products, more like the mucus that has not been cleaned for a long time.

The feeling of stepping on the ground is not very good, but I accidentally saw a small amount of light at the end of the passage on our left and right.Although these lights are weak, they are just enough to allow me to see the surrounding environment clearly, and it is not enough to completely fall into all-round darkness.

With these dim lights, I first looked up and took a look.The long ladder that supported us climbed all the way down disappeared in the darkness above our heads. The middle section of the stairs was more like a not-so-wide corridor, which should be exactly the width of the basement. It seems that it should not belong to the sewer of the head of the household.

Because from the perspective of structure and construction, this sewer should directly belong to the government, and it is a designated channel for the government to recycle waste water.There is an indescribable sour smell in the air, it feels like cheese that has been exposed to the sun for several days mixed with rotten meat, and the corpses we experienced in the ruins of the city before The smell is comparable, and both stimulate our sense of smell.

Gerald is only more sensitive than me in terms of senses. After stepping down the ladder, he has been reluctant to approach the underground river not far in front of us. He has always leaned against my back, trying to cover himself with my collar snout.

I turned my back and held his arm to comfort him, and then looked to the left and right sides one by one.Extending from where we are standing to both sides, it belongs to the scope of this sewer. From the flow direction of the underground river, we can see that the sewage will eventually flow to the left.I recalled the orientation of the house on the ground at that time, and after guessing the direction we are facing now, I can also know that the sewage was indeed discharged to the sewage cleaning plant on the north side of the city.

In addition to the continuous flow of sewage in the river in front of us, the walkways provided for specific staff on both sides are also dirty and impossible to walk.Not to mention the viscous liquid that has always been entwined around the soles of our shoes like conscious vines, the curved walls on both sides are also covered with moss, and even some insects that are not usually seen in the city can be seen traces of life.Some abandoned containers can be seen at a distance along the aisle. Although these boxes are of different sizes, it can be seen that there is nothing inside, and they should be left by the previous workers.

But this situation also surprised me a bit.Because judging from the city size of Lamar City, although this city is not very famous in Slankater, it can be regarded as a large-scale big city. Even the sewers should not be like this—— Dirty as if it had been left unattended for years.

Although it is not sure whether other sewer areas in the city are the same as this one, but judging from this small area alone, there are considerable problems in the government management of Lamar City.I took two steps forward, thinking this while staring at the muddy dirty water in front of me.

However, this kind of place is really suitable for hiding traces. If Gerrard wasn't with us, maybe we could have lost it at this fork in the beginning.

"Be patient for a while." I turned my head and comforted him softly, "I know you must not be able to bear this smell, so let's act as soon as possible and get out early so we don't have to stay here anymore."

Gerald rested his forehead on the back of my neck, nodded with difficulty, then raised his eyes to look to the right side, frowned and made a careful distinction, and said with certainty, "It's over there."

I followed him to look at the faint light on the right, and asked, "Is it far from here?"

"I don't know." Gerald still frowned, and stood back a little. "It's so smelly, it's hard to tell."

I stopped embarrassing his senses that are more sympathetic at this time because they are more sensitive than ordinary people. I pulled his collar a little closer and said, "Cover it with the material first, let's leave as soon as possible."

These viscous liquids on the ground greatly affected our footsteps. Although it would not hinder the speed of travel, it made it difficult for us to cover up the sound of our footsteps.So to be on the safe side, neither Gerald nor I walked too fast, and moved forward slowly step by step.

The light ahead gradually changed from dim to bright. Although it still couldn't illuminate the entire sewer scene, it could at least allow us to see the road under our feet clearly.If I'm not mistaken, this light should come from the lights that are set on both sides of the passage at intervals, and the place we just came down is just in the middle of the two lights, so it looks the darkest .

As the light gradually strengthened, we also pressed our steps and walked more and more slowly-because Gerald took my forearm when we first approached the light, and we were far away from the light before him. The owner of the smell should not be too far away.

While walking along the way, I also found that on the curved wall on our right side, there were a few more water pipes suddenly protruding from the wall in the middle. I don't know what the purpose is, but these water pipes are arranged quite regularly, like It was built together when the underground waterway was being built.However, except for the wall on our right side, there are no such water pipes in other positions behind us and on the left side, including the curved top side above our heads. These water pipes extend forward in a regular manner and lead to our front. the bright spot.

After walking a few steps forward, I found a fork in the right wall not far in front of it.The sewage in the underground river still flows in the same direction. This fork is obviously for people who can walk over it. Generally speaking, a fork in an underground river probably belongs to some workers who are under construction and maintenance, but Based on the purpose of our coming here, it is not that simple, so I don't think there will be a few sewer workers in safety suits waiting for us.

There is a break in the right wall in front, so of course the water pipes I noticed before will not continue to extend forward, but follow this corner and follow the fork in the road, and the previous road has been leading us The lights also finally revealed the lineup.It was an electric light hanging at the corner of this fork in the road. Even if you got closer to see the light, it was still very weak. It was hard for it to shine so far.

We walked slowly near the fork in the road. I didn't go out immediately, but stood at a position close to the wall, moved forward a little, and looked into the side of the fork in the road.Apart from being a little narrower than the regular sewer, there was nothing particularly noteworthy about the fork in the road. Except for the walls and floors with dirty water hanging on it, there was not even any sundries to be seen.

I turned my gaze back to look at Gerald, and confirmed again: "Is the smell going along the front, or turning into this road?"

"The road to the right."

His answer was just as I expected, but my intuition told me that this fork should not lead to another place, that is to say, it will probably be a dead end after turning in.And if the guy who left the house really wanted to escape from us, theoretically, he shouldn't have chosen such an inescapable path.

I frowned, and just wanted to ignore these things for the time being and turn in to have a look, when I heard a faint sound intermittently coming out of this fork in the road.

I didn't make any noise anymore, and didn't make any more body movements. I even relaxed my breathing and listened carefully to these sounds.It's so subtle that it's even hard to distinguish it with the ear. I can hear it probably because the wall structure here will cause echoes—it sounds like the sound of some kind of shoe soles stepping on the ground, but it's hard to tell what it's stepping on On the metal, we still step on this viscous liquid like we do.

But no matter what sound the sole makes, at least we can confirm that there is indeed someone in the tunnel.