Scarlet Dawn [Apocalypse]

In the dark, the stairs spiraled downwards, and every step you stepped on, you could hear the echo of metal collisions. With Bai Yi's current vision, he was not completely unable to distinguish things, but in order to better deal with emergencies, he still Consciously put on night vision goggles.

The smell of blood is indeed strong, and Bai Yi can only be sure of this after going a few meters underground.

In their group, Silvison led the way, the technicians walked in second, and Bai Yi and Ian were cut off.

Ian followed Bai Yi the whole time, with the same indifferent expression on his face, Bai Yi sneaked a few glances at him, and finally couldn't help but said: "Is there nothing you want to ask?"

Not long ago, "Innovator" invaded the communication channel, and Angel did not hide the name of Bai Yi during the whole process. Now there must be many people who have doubts in their hearts, and Ian is a thoughtful person...

"Frankly speaking, a lot," Ian said frankly, his voice sounded normal except for being suppressed, "When the mission is over and everyone returns to a safe place, if you are willing to explain at that time, I will definitely be happy to hear it .”

Bai Yi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I thought you would continue to suspect that I was an undercover agent."

"I do have this idea, but I found that the captain didn't react when he heard it," Ian said. "I think he should know everything Angel said, so you definitely won't have a problem."

Hearing this reason, Bai Yi couldn't help but smile, "It's only been a few days since he joined the team, and you trust him so much."

"Rookie captain, isn't this normal?" Ian asked in puzzlement, "To be the special operations captain must be the most powerful person in the entire team. Since the end of the world, the formation of alliances has become more and more advocating force, and status is determined by strength. There is no doubt that he is the person whose military rank and power completely suppress me, and I should trust him unconditionally."

Bai Yi was startled, and asked doubtfully, "What if... I mean, suppose I'm an undercover agent, and so is Silversen?"

"This assumption is not very scientific," the major general who walked in the front interrupted, "If Admiral Bryan hears about it, I'm afraid I will be educated by him for a long time."

"Why?" Bai Yi asked back.

"My wife has anti-alliance thoughts," the major general said seriously, "and even tried to lead me astray."

Bai Yi: "Get out!!!"

Bai Yi ignored him and turned to look at Ian again.Ian thought quietly for a few minutes before giving an answer: "Your hypothesis is a very special case, because the captains have all accepted the general's spiritual invasion and ensured that there is no rebellious thought in the spiritual domain, so they Almost impossible to be undercover, unless—”

"Unless that person has a strong mental domain sealing ability, can completely resist, and deceive the experienced Brian Assamai," Silverson added for Ian, "You know, Brian is in Los Angeles. When Sa was an expert in the monitoring of mental crimes in the Arbitration Court of the Elders, even I would find his mental intrusion difficult, but resistance and deception can still be done."

"You mean you have to be at least pure-blooded?" Bai Yi asked.

Silverson hummed, "Which one do you think is more likely to be an undercover agent, me or Conrad?"

"you."

This answer was blurted out almost without thinking. The technical soldiers and Ian in the same group were taken aback for a moment, and then hurriedly looked at the captain who was walking in front.Silverson chuckled indifferently, and said, "Actually, I think so too. What's your reason?"

"I remember your teacher was mentioned on the day of the Creation Ball, Quincy Nofiler—" Bai Yi paid close attention to Silvison, and when he heard the name, an unnatural expression flashed across his face , "My understanding is that there is a conceptual conflict between your teacher and Colonel Statham, and Colonel Statham chose to be loyal to Lothar and the Alliance, so he did something, which resulted in Nofil being exiled to a distant galaxy. Colonel The teacher can be given up for the sake of the alliance, so I don't think he can be an undercover agent."

"Well," Silverson said, "it's more or less the guess."

Bai Yi tentatively asked: "Is the relationship between Colonel Statham and your teacher not good?"

"That's not true. In fact, their relationship is better than my relationship with the teacher." Silvison showed a rather helpless smile, recalling: "Even in Lothar, the number of pure-bloods is very rare. Mostly from the traditional thirteen clans, with the exception of Conrad."

There are two other players in the group, perhaps out of the protection of identity privacy, Silvison didn't say much, just cut off the background introduction here, but Bai Yi remembered the sentence he said at the ball, "Don't forget Who rescued you from the filth of the underworld".

"Everyone thinks that Teacher Quincy has two students he likes the most. In fact, the person he admires the most is Conrad. In the teacher's heart, I will never be able to compare with him." Silverson said with a wry smile: "Even if I always support him in the end His man is me, his betrayer is Conrad..."

"Before he was exiled, Father God Cain gave him a chance to meet the most important person. I waited all day outside the torture room where he was held. Unfortunately, I was not the person the interrogator was looking for in the end."

Bai Yi said in a muffled voice, "You love him very much?"

"I admire him a lot," Silverson corrected with a smile, "I only love you, are you satisfied?"

Technician: "Cough!"

Ian: "Cough..."

Bai Yi: "!!!!"

Captain Xiaobai roared in his brain: 【Satisfied!Satisfied with your sister!roll roll roll!Can you go home and say this?Didn't you see that technician is going to look at the map again? !Ian can't even bother to talk to me!Is there any outsiders during the mission? !Shameless Major General, do you dare to be a little more reserved! 】

[Don't be nervous, the two teams know about our relationship. 】

【I rely on! 】

【Quietly tell you, Ah Chen said it~】

[I'm going to kill him! ! ! ! 】

【I'll help you? 】

【…】

Not only did he sell decisively, but he also wanted to silence him. It really was a loss of friends... After feeling in his heart, Bai Yi silently wiped a drop of sweat from his forehead.

Silvison, who was walking in the front, stopped at his feet, and there was a rustling sound in the darkness. The sound was extremely strange, like the sound of a body dragging and crawling on the ground, breathing heavily, like the hungriest predator , greedily sniffing the scent of prey in the air.

The downward spiral staircase had come to an end, the light suddenly became brighter, and three forked passages appeared in front of him, and the smell of blood was so strong that it was disgusting.

Taking off the night vision goggles, Bai Yi couldn't help being a little surprised. The ceilings and walls of these corridors all showed a strange reddish brown color, and the surface looked very uneven. It seemed that there were many impurities in the paint. Passing a short section of the wall, the rough and dry touch rubbed against his palm, his brows became tighter and tighter, and he commented in disgust: "Angel is really a pervert."

"Indeed, the corpse is beaten into a pulp and then smeared on the wall. Of course, it does not rule out that it is a living person." Silverson came behind Bai Yi, clasped his wrist and took his hand away from the wall, leading He walked into another passage, "It should be this way."

Bai Yi wondered, "How can you be sure?"

"The smell of blood is stronger here," Silverson said. "Didn't that guy say that this place has been transformed into the Colosseum of Blood? What a vulgar name."

"It sounds like you are looking forward to it?" Bai Yi asked.

"It's okay." Silverson looked back at him with a smile. "It's been a long time since I fought. I hope the first opponent won't be too vicious."

There were no forks in this corridor, and no zombies were encountered along the way. Walking in the blood-smeared underground passage, except for Silvison who looked relatively relaxed among the four in the group, the other three looked serious, and the smell of blood provoked the sharpness of weapons. The senses, but it will not make people have the urge to suck blood, the strongest emotion right now is only disgust.

After a while, everyone stopped again.

In the passage directly opposite, a degenerate creature with four limbs on the ground and a decayed body was lying on the wall, lifting its rotten chin with its bones and muscles exposed, and licking the wall one after another. Hearing the sound, it moved violently. The ground froze, and he looked over in surprise.

With a difference of one second, Bai Yi drew out the dagger, and his reaction in battle was even faster than that of the technical soldiers and Ian who were weapons. He was about to rub his body and attack with his hind legs, but Sylvison took the first step to hold his shoulder, Yu Jiao glanced at Ian lightly, and ordered: "It doesn't look like it has any attack power, go ahead and practice your hands."

"Yes, Captain."

Ian didn't say any more, drew out his sharp blade, took a step forward, and disappeared instantly in the next second.

Bai Yi squinted his eyes, keeping a close eye on his movements all the time, only seeing the cold light of the sharp blade passing by under the pale light of the illuminator, and his movements were as crisp as clouds and flowing water.

Instead of attacking, the monster just stared blankly at Ian. Its green eyes were covered with water, and its mandible opened and closed, making intermittent sounds.

Bai Yi suddenly realized something, and hurriedly shouted: "Stop!"

Ian also noticed the abnormality, and the sharp blade barely stopped when it rubbed against the monster's forehead.

At this time, everything was quiet, and they finally heard the voice of the monster, "Save—save—"

"He's a human being," Bai Yi said tremblingly, walked over quickly, and knelt down on one knee in front of the monster, "Who are you?"

Affected by the virus, his human features were constantly degrading, his language function was severely affected, and it was difficult to speak complete sentences. Instead of answering Bai Yi's question, he repeated the simple word 'save' over and over again.

Bai Yi glanced at the smudged epaulettes on his shoulders, and he probably knew that this person was an officer stationed at an overseas base. After a few seconds of silence, he asked, "Where are the survivors, point to the direction."

The monster glanced back and said the second word: "Quick..."

"Okay, don't worry—" Bai Yi said: "But what they used on you should be a mutated virus, and the result of the mutation cannot be determined now. Just in case, I can only kill you now. You don't need to understand, you can Attack me for survival."

As he said that, Bai Yi got up, turned the dagger in his palm, and was about to cut off the spinal nerves, the officer who had been alienated by the virus struggled and rushed over. down, infiltrating cracks wedged into the ground.

Holding the sharp knife, Ian looked down coldly at the poor man who was nailed to the ground with his shoulder pierced, and said indifferently, "You will die sooner or later, why didn't you choose to die when you were still a human?"

The man writhed in pain, the cut wound did not break open, he completely ignored Ian's question, his fingers trembling and stretched out to Bai Yi, the rotten face was twisted horribly, the only clear green eye was full of tears. A begging look, "Take care of—he—"

"Please--!"

Then he struggled hard, allowing the blade to cut half of his shoulder, and then rubbed the back of his neck against the blade.

The rotten head rolled to his feet, Ian could no longer maintain his indifferent expression, the shock in his eyes could not be concealed, after all, he was a young man who had just left the military academy, and even in the last days, he had hardly faced the real Life and death, let alone any actual combat experience.Under the elite education of the alliance, he can speak righteous words, but this is the first time he has seen a human being struggling to survive in order to say one more word. The impact of this sudden awakening is more tragic than any killing.

——The person who was pierced by himself in the shoulder and nailed into the ground did not live for a living, but just left a last word of "take care of him, please".

What did you do? !

Bai Yi silently stared at Ian, who couldn't recover for a long time, and finally just reached out and patted his shoulder, shook his hand firmly, and comforted him: "You are doing well, but please remember, not every struggle will have its own pain. Good reason, Ian, don't be merciful next time, because your sympathy is likely to harm your teammates and yourself."

Ian turned his head slowly, his eyes were somewhat surprised and puzzled, "You...how could you say that?"

"This is actual combat. I don't want you to be moved by a special case, and you will show mercy every time in the future," Bai Yi said: "If the behavior just now was a normal attack of a sanghua mutant, do you think it's too much to pierce the shoulder? How many seconds can the damage be limited to action?"

Ian said nothing.

"Let me tell you, with my current ability, a shoulder injury can stop my movements for at most three seconds, and then I can use this dagger to wipe your head off without hesitation."

Under the reflection of the plasma wall, the light of the illuminator seems to be dyed with a coquettish red, and Bai Yi's icy white cheeks are as transparent as blood loss, cold, ruthless, cruel and powerful. Ian is a little dazed, as if he has known each other for several months At this time, he really saw Bai Yi's appearance clearly.

It is the cold-blooded heart that can only be tempered after a long time of killing, without any extra mercy. If there is a reason for Bai Yi's "stop" that stopped him at the beginning, it is absolutely impossible because he saw that A human being alive only because he judged that useful information could be obtained from his mouth.

"Now you may not understand, but one day you will become like me, Ian, and then you will probably understand that compassion can be reserved for teammates, survivors, and yourself, but it must not Leave it to possible enemies."

Ian said: "You clearly distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. I am very glad that we are not the enemy."

Bai Yi hummed flatly and said, "Because I'm used to it."

Ian was surprised, "Have you experienced actual combat?"

Bai Yi nodded, "Well, a lot."

"At the stronghold?"

"In the past."

Putting away the dagger, Bai Yi returned to Silvison and reminded: "It's been half an hour, let each group report the situation, and then continue."

Silvison didn't speak, and pressed the headset to issue a report command. The second and third groups finished feeding back the information respectively, and the last group led by Su Chen remained silent for a long time.

"What's going on?" Bai Yi's brows were tightened, he exchanged glances with Silvison hesitantly, pressed his finger on the earphone resolutely, and asked in a deep voice, "Achen, where are you?"

No one answered.

"Brooke? Brook!"

Bai Yi was in a hurry: "When was the last message of the fourth group, does anyone know?!"

Snow said: "The information records show that Colonel Sue's last signal was 10 minutes ago."

They had disappeared for 10 minutes... An uneasy feeling rose up, as if a hand was holding Bai Yi's heart, and it was tightened tightly without warning.