under the tower

"No." Ji Xi said, "I have a reason to go."

He hasn't found Yanyi yet, he doesn't know if the so-called No. 21 laboratory is there, but he always has to take a look to be at ease.

He patted Su Chengcheng's overstretched hand, signaling her to let go.

Su Chengcheng couldn't hold back him, so he had to follow.

"Roar...roar..."

The closer you got, the louder the terrifying voice in the darkness became.

After turning the last corner, a thick iron-gray door stood in front of the two of them, and the chilly wind blowing from nowhere made people feel chills down their backs.

Ji Xi took out Chen Wei's ID card and swiped a black sensing area beside the door.

Then, the moment the door opened, a deformed man with teeth and claws rushed straight towards them.

Ji Xi pushed Su Chengcheng back, and blocked the attack of the deformed man himself. He stabbed the thing's head with a knife, and the stench of brains and blood gushed out. Ji Xi dodged it nimbly. After a while, the The thing twitched a few times and fell to the ground without moving.

In the opened laboratory, the roar of wild animals came like a tsunami.

Ji Xi stood in place, turned on the flashlight, and when he saw the scene in front of him clearly, he was completely stunned on the spot.

Countless iron cages are densely arranged in the entire laboratory, and each cage is pasted with a numbered label, and deformed people are locked inside. They extend their sharp claws from the gaps in the iron bars, constantly Struggling violently, his fangs bit the iron cage, as if he was about to rush out of the cage at any moment.

——These should all be experimental products of the Mohe base, and they have been imprisoned for an unknown number of years.

It is not uncommon for humans to capture living deformed people and bring them back to the base for research, but what is even more frightening is that in some cages in front of Ji Xi, only shriveled humanoid corpses are left, and an extremely strong rancid smell is wafting all over the place. The entire circular large laboratory.

All kinds of leftover syringes were sprinkled on the experimental table aside, and the liquid inside had already dried up.

It is not difficult for Ji Xi to guess the truth.

...they were experimenting with living people.

When this idea popped up in his heart, Ji Xi shuddered.

Su Chengcheng, who was behind her, was already stunned. She fell limply on the ground, covering her face and not daring to look.

But why did all the experimental subjects become deformed people?

Ji Xi suddenly thought of the string of words on the schedule on the wall of Chen Wei's office.

He searched for the iron cage numbered 07, and it turned out that there was already a completely alienated deformed man with teeth and claws.

Ji Xi searched the entire laboratory while carefully avoiding the sharp claws of the deformed people who were about to move in the cage.

He found a report record with the corresponding number.

A few lines of words were scrawled on it.

"12.9, injection XZ-143.

"12.10, inject TZ-118.

12.12 The behavior of this sample is abnormal, and it is recommended to focus on observation. "

Some messy and vague thoughts flashed through Ji Xi's mind suddenly, before he had time to think deeply.

"—what are you doing here?"

A husky male voice came from behind them.

Su Chengcheng let out an "ah" in horror, but then fell silent for an instant.

Ji Xi turned his head, only to see a black gun pointing at his forehead.

Another old acquaintance, Qin Zheng.

Ji Xi stared at him, and said calmly: "As you can see, investigate the clues."

Qin Zheng glanced at the corpse of the deformed man lying on the ground, kicked the pile of flesh aside indifferently, and took a step forward.

"Bang bang bang...!"

There was a deafening explosion, and he suddenly fired several shots, killing all the deformed people in those cages.

Ji Xi stood there indifferently, raised his eyebrows: "...you have so many bullets."

Qin Zheng glanced at him: "Be prepared."

Then, he aimed his gun at Ji Xi's temple.

Ji Xi said: "I only have 55 points in total, it's no good for you to kill me."

Qin Zheng: "No matter how small a mosquito's legs are, it's still meat."

Ji Xi: "It's a roommate, do you have to do this?"

Su Chengcheng cried out in panic behind Ji Xi: "Brother Ji!...Don't kill him, he is a good man!"

Qin Zheng was stunned for a moment: "Xiao Ji? Isn't your name Lu Xi?"

Ji Xi said calmly: "Life forces me to wear a Lu family's vest to do things easily, so there's no need to be so surprised, right?"

Anyway, after this screening round, the identity provided by Lu Mingxiu will expire, so Ji Xi simply broke the can.

Who knows, because of these words, Qin Zheng put down his gun.

"Okay." He said coldly, "Your surname is not Lu, I can spare your life for the time being, so I can take care of myself."

Ji Xi raised his eyebrows: "What kind of hatred do you have with Lu?"

"Don't worry about it." Qin Zheng said, "You'd better not lie to me, otherwise I will definitely make you regret living in this world."

He put away his gun, glanced at Su Chengcheng who was hiding in the corner, and left on his own.

Ji Xi looked at his back, thoughtfully.

The laboratory where Yanyi was imprisoned was not here, and Ji Xi thought that it was probably on another floor.

That being the case, his first priority was to find the key to the brass lock on the stairs.

At this moment, there were several sharp gunshots from the distant corridor, and the screams echoed throughout the entire floor, making one feel extremely chilled.

Su Cheng immediately clenched Ji Xi's sleeves, and asked in a trembling voice, "Is it...someone started fighting over there?"

Ji Xi frowned, noncommittal.

Unless it was a last resort, he actually didn't want to go to war with his own people, but such passive behavior was obviously not what the base wanted to see. After all, in essence, this was still a cruel competition of a selection nature.

What's more, he is still dragging Su Chengcheng with him. This little girl has no ability to protect herself at all. She is like a living target for others when she goes out. Ji Xi's benchmark score is not high and her equipment is not complete. If she still needs to protect her at the same time, the risk is really too high. big.

Ji Xi thought for a moment, then lowered his voice and said to Su Chengcheng, "Hide first."

The entire basement floor occupies a large area. With so many offices, they found an empty one to hide, hoping not to confront those people outside.

I can't afford it, can't I still hide it?

Of course, this is only a stopgap measure. When their food resources are exhausted, they will inevitably join in the bloody battle.

At that time, we can only take one step at a time.

After a while, the voices of those people gradually faded away, and then there seemed to be a sharp sound of iron objects being rubbed and lifted. Ji Xi wondered if those people had already found the key?

That's a good thing.

"Go." In the darkness, Ji Xi said softly.

They ducked out of the office, tiptoed against the wall, and walked silently towards the stairs.

Everything went well, they didn't meet anyone looking for trouble, and the originally closed iron net at the stairway had been opened—but the opening method was not what Ji Xi originally thought.

Ji Xi was really surprised when he saw that scene. Those people didn't even look for the key, but directly cracked it violently, tearing out a passable hole from the barbed wire blocking the road.

Most likely they started off with something like a vise.

Ji Xi and Su Chengcheng got out of that hole, at the top of the stairs, there were still two paths in front of them, one up and one down.

There is a bottomless darkness below, and a glimmer of light can be seen vaguely above.

Su Chengcheng grabbed Ji Xi's clothes and whispered, "Let's go up..."

Normal people should choose the way up.

Ji Xi thought for a while, and said firmly: "Next."

Su Chengcheng trembled: "Why... Do I have to go down, it's so dark down there."

"En." Ji Xi looked at the deep corridor thoughtfully, and simply responded, and went down the stairs.

Going down to the second basement floor, Ji Xi took a flashlight and scanned around cautiously, only to see a wall of earth gray walls lying in front of the two of them, forming an intricate and narrow path.

In the dead silence, there seemed to be the faint sound of water droplets coming from a distance.

"Tap, tap, tap."

Ji Xi frowned, and walked quickly towards the direction of the voice.

Along the way, he saw several doors that had been opened, with the sign of the research institute hanging outside, but the inside was already empty.

The structure of this Mohe base is very strange. The laboratories and the residences of scientific researchers are all built underground where there is no sunshine all year round.

Ji Xi suddenly stopped.

He smelled a very faint smell of blood in the air.

He shined it with a flashlight and saw that the soles of his feet were wet and muddy brown.

Where did the water come from?

Ji Xi continued along this winding path, and at the next corner, his eyes lit up.

What appeared in front of them was a series of tightly closed iron doors, on which were written "Laboratory 01, 02..."

He ran forward quickly.

"Hey, Ji Xi, wait for me!" Su Chengcheng shouted behind him, "What's the matter, are you suddenly so anxious?"

Ji Xi didn't pay attention to him anymore, Laboratory No. 21 was close in front of him, and he seemed to have vaguely seen the opened door.

At this moment, Ji Xi seemed to trip over something heavy, his center of gravity was unstable, and he fell out with a bang, landing on his tailbone.

"Hiss..." Ji Xi touched the injured part in pain, and the next moment, he didn't have time to think about it, the scene in front of him instinctively gave him a chill in his heart.

Human bodies were lying on the ground, and what tripped him just now was a severed arm from nowhere, and the flowing blood wet the entire floor.

Ji Xi immediately got up and rushed into the No. 21 laboratory.

I saw a huge broken glass tank placed in the center of the room, the glass shards were shattered all over the floor, and four seemingly lifeless people were thrown on the large experimental table, tied with iron chains, their backpacks and supplies Scattered everywhere, the ground is full of traces of fighting.

The blood on their bodies flowed down the experimental table, converging into a puddle of blood, making a light dripping sound.

It was here that the sound of dripping water he heard at first came from.

Ji Xi's heart trembled.

……what happened?

With a sullen face, Ji Xi walked into the group of young people who were tied up, and was illuminated by the light of the flashlight, and the people below groaned in pain.

These people are not dead yet.

Ji Xi noticed that they were wearing the same wristwatches as her own, which recorded the whereabouts and identities of these people.

Ji Xi took off their electronic watches from their hands.

"Drip." The screen of his own watch automatically lit up, but it showed that his points were skyrocketing.

Ji Xi's expression was gloomy.

I saw that the number in the center of the screen soared from 55 all the way, and finally stopped at 317.

Ji Xi seemed to vaguely understand what was going on.

All of this... Could it be that Yan Yi did it?

In order to ensure fairness, Yan Yi is not qualified to wear a watch as a bodyguard, so if he eliminated players, he would not get points, and he didn't even take away all the equipment and weapons of these people.

Ji Xi happened to arrive, and these scores were recorded on Ji Xi as a matter of course.

"Monster...Monster..." A weak cry came from one of them, and the weak voice was full of deep panic, "...fuck you...kill you..."

Ji Xi searched these people indifferently, and sure enough, he found a few identification cards of the experimenters.

Afterwards, Ji Xi took out a crumpled note from one of the people's pockets, as if torn from a notebook.

There was a string of blood-red characters written on the note.

"—The laboratory sample No. 21 has a precursor to distortion, all experimenters please pay attention, it must be wiped out as soon as possible!!!"

The last three huge scarlet exclamation marks are shocking to watch.