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The conversation had just begun, but after a few sentences, it fell into an unexpected deadlock.

Everyone looked at each other.

No need for rescue... what do you mean?Don't the survivors who have been besieged in Moonlight for 19 years and completely disconnected from the outside world don't want to go to the outside world again?

During the stalemate, Chen Ci suddenly said: "Have you ever been infected?"

"According to the timeline, Moonlight already knew the existence of Ashes before it collapsed. The periphery was covered with crystals, and powder was floating everywhere in the air. It is impossible for humans not to be infected in this environment."

"But you are still alive. From your voice, you should be 50 or [-] years old."

Chen Ci grabbed Fu Tianhe's wrist and came to the door with him.

Chen Ci didn't know if he could see the situation clearly through the gate, but he took the initiative to take off his and Fu Tianhe's masks.

"My Alpha has been infected with Ashas for 16 years. We have temporarily suppressed the disease through some means, but if the situation continues, he will die."

"If you have means against Ashes, please let me know, I really need it, thank you."

The young man's calm voice fell, and what greeted us was only a dead silence.

Fu Tianhe couldn't breathe quickly, and even though he was separated by two layers of protective clothing, he felt that the place where Chen Ci was holding was burning hot.

He looked sideways at the Omega boy beside him, his amber eyes were firm and calm, no matter what happened, they could not be shaken.

His eyes were sore, sure enough, no matter what the situation was, Jiuyue was willing to stand up for him.

It's just... behind this door, are there really infected people in the same situation as him?

After a long time, the voice sneered rather briefly.

"Patients with advanced infection? Interesting."

But Fu Tianhe keenly heard a bit of sadness from it.

"If you really want to know, come in, I just hope that you won't regret it later."

The door in front of him remained motionless, and the robot moved again. When it passed by Chen Ci, the mechanical arm gently pulled down his pants, obviously asking Chen Ci to follow.

"I have a bad feeling." Chen Nian whispered.

Shaffley didn't speak, but just squeezed Chen Nian's hand tightly.

The robot moved more than ten meters to the side. At the junction of the wall and the aisle, there was a gap about [-] centimeters wide, which was trimmed quite smoothly, and it was the channel through which many robots were released.

The robot glanced back at them and dived into it first.

This is not a good way.

On the way in, the space is too narrow, and it is difficult to use it. If there is any danger, it is not much different from a living target.

Statement: "Fu Tianhe and I will try it out. If you are worried, just wait outside."

"I want to be together too!" Chen Nian said immediately.

Statement: "You and Shaffley are outside first, and if the situation is normal, then come in with everyone."

Chen Nian: "...Okay."

Chen Ci bent down and got into the hole first.

I can't count how many times I have drilled the hole since I came here. Chen Ci has to practice the relevant crawling skills. Fu Tianhe followed behind him, and said softly: "Can you use your mental strength to find it?"

"It's a bit difficult, but there should be no danger ahead."

Crawling along the polished passage for hundreds of meters, a hole appeared in front of him. Chen Ci got out with his arms supported, and entered a space of about five or six square meters. Except for the hole in the floor, the rest of the place was strictly sealed.

Fu Tianhe followed, and was immediately attracted by the purple traces all over the wall and floor.

It was countless chaotic handprints and curved marks drawn by fingers. If it changed to a different color, it would be more like... more like a blood book left by a dying person.

It's just that the handwriting is already unreadable.

Chen Ci stretched out his hand and gently touched it: "This is the secretion of Ashes infected people."

"Only people with the same infection can see it. Chen Nian once found relevant traces in our father's former residence. He used this as a mark and left us a design drawing of the shelter."

Fu Tianhe could understand the existence of these traces.

In those days when he was ill, he howled and scratched his body desperately, and used his festered and bleeding fingertips to dig the wall, leaving one after another miserable bloodstains.

A voice came from the speaker: "A few steps forward."

Fu Tianhe settled down, and walked to the opposite wall with Chen Ci.

The wall was cut to the side, revealing a narrow door for only one person to pass through. Chen Ci and Fu Tianhe stepped in, the door closed behind them, and opened again in front after a few seconds.

Just like this, I walked through many small compartments all the way. The area of ​​each place is limited, but it is enough to save space.

"It's here." In front of No.12 door, Chen Yi said suddenly.

Fu Tianhe immediately pulled himself together, held his breath, and witnessed the door leading to the survivor's shelter open in front of him.

The moment the opponent's appearance was reflected in his eyes, his pupils shrank suddenly.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Amidst Fu Tianhe's uncontrollable scream, Chen Ci couldn't control himself and suddenly took a step back.

What a... what a face!

The other party seemed to have expected their reaction in this way, and looked at the horrified two people expressionlessly, or rather, he was unable to make any expressions.

The muscles on his face were almost melted, leaving only a thin layer of skin, which did not fit perfectly with the bones, and was filled with uneven purple crystals, which made the whole head appear horribly deformed, it was definitely not human The head shape you can have!

The lips disappeared even more, and the gums were exposed, showing a black shrinking posture.

On the main artery of his neck, there are gill-like structures, stretched by the crystals, exposing the scarlet gill lamella, there is no doubt that the gill cavity has been filled long ago.

His left eye disappeared, leaving an empty black eye socket, and the right side was wide open like a fish because of the lack of eyelids, which was extremely terrifying.

As for the body under the clothes, of course, it is not much better.

"Do you regret coming in?" The man's voice was hoarse and weird, and Chen Ci realized that it was not the distortion caused by the current, but the tone he made was just like that.

Perhaps the vocal cords are affected, and the shape of the mouth changes, which also makes the pronunciation different from normal humans.

Chen Ci was only stunned for two seconds before quickly coming back to his senses.

His expression returned to calm, like the monster in front of him, it was a very normal existence: "Hello, besides you, is there anyone else living here?"

"The others are the same as me. I don't want to bring you two to them yet." The man took two steps back to make room, "Come in."

Fu Tianhe's heart was beating wildly in his chest.

what is that?

Of course he could accept the grown Ashes crystals, after all, he himself had that period too, but... gills?

No matter what, people shouldn't grow that thing!

Chen Ci stepped forward to keep up, and his mental power quietly radiated to find out everything in the room.

Operating table, screen wall, microphone.

This is a control room, presumably used to operate the many robots released.

He was also here just now, talking with Chen Ci.

"It's so strange. It's been 19 years, and there are still people here."

As the man said, he sat down on the only chair in the control room. The chair seemed to have been used for a long time, and the cushion and backrest had been worn out to reveal the cotton wool inside.

"Since the accident, the rescue of Moonlight has been going on, but it is tightly sealed. The troops came hundreds of times but were blocked outside. It was not until recently that we discovered a way to break through the blockade that we successfully entered."

Chen Ci paused, and took the initiative to say: "My name is Chen Ci, and his name is Fu Tianhe. What's your name?"

"Eric." The man's naked eyeballs rolled, and his gaze shifted to Fu Tianhe, "He is a patient with advanced infection."

Fu Tianhe took a deep breath, there is nothing to be surprised about. What is the difference between his performance just now and the person who laughed at his right eye?

"Yes, I was stabbed blind in the right eye by Ashes, and I also underwent full-body surgery to remove the crystals, but none of them could heal."

Eric: "But it seems that your condition is much better than ours."

Fu Tianhe: "Many years ago, I accidentally obtained an object that could restrain Ashes, so I barely lived in this posture until now."

Now that Eric said "we," there was no need to ask how the other survivors were doing.

But no matter what they looked like, they were still alive.

And it doesn't show pain, it's like... Ashes doesn't let his body ache and itch like crazy anymore.

Eric looked at the statement, and seemed to find something: "You combined with a patient with advanced infection, why are you okay?"

"My blood has the effect of inhibiting Ashes, and I myself will not be infected." The statement answered truthfully, and there was no need to hide it.

"For several months, I have also been helping him delay the infection process, but the situation has developed beyond my ability."

Eric's half eyelid trembled, as if squinting: "...how old are you?"

"Wait until September, it will be nineteen."

"Moonlight is the place where I was born. I want to know more secrets about myself. If you know, please tell me."

Eric stared at the statement. Anyone stared at by such terrifying eyes would definitely tremble.

Want to escape?No, because Chen Ci clearly knew that the existence in front of him was his compatriots.

The existence of emotion really made him weak and he understood what fear was.

However, there is more to be gained from it.

"I see."

Eric stood up, his attitude changed almost 180 degrees compared to before.

"Let's go, let's show you what's going on inside the facility."

"As for the people outside, let them wait for a while, the space is limited, it's not good to receive more."

Fu Tianhe swallowed silently, the situation was a bit weird, but even if there was a fraud, they carried weapons with them, and Jiuyue still had the mental strength to avoid falling into a dangerous situation.

Fu Tianhe lowered his voice and told Shafele through the channel: "We are going to take a look inside the refuge, find a safe place and wait for a while."

Shaffley: "Okay, keep in touch anytime."

Statement: "You should not be afraid of Ashes, why do you have to set up so many gates?"

Eric: "Mainly to keep out those things outside."

Statement: "A blue alien creature?"

Eric: "Yes, there are others, and there are more than one kind of things that can kill you here."

Fu Tianhe joined the conversation: "Have you all lived here all this time?"

"Otherwise?" Eric asked back, "other than that, where else can I go?"

"As the infected, we are no longer afraid of the Ashes that fill it, and we can go out to explore, but after a lot of hardships, we finally reach the ground, only to find that the moonlight is permanently closed."

"We tried everything, but we couldn't open the door. It took a long time to finally accept the reality of being trapped inside forever."

Statement: "The door exists to prevent Ashes from leaking out."

"Yeah." Eric said lightly, no longer speaking.

In order to protect more people, it sounds so natural to sacrifice a small part.

But when he became the few who were sacrificed, it was not so pleasant.

Human beings are altruistic creatures who praise dedication and advocating giving.

But compared to the consciousness and choices they made actively, they accepted the sacrifice passively, and in the end they could only accept their fate.

The pinhole that had already healed in the elbow was aching again.

Although he had no feelings in the past, Chen Ci knows that when facing the mirror, he can still see the deepest boredom and complaint from the pupils of his eyes, as cold as ashes.

Now that he was calm enough, he was willing to take the initiative to draw blood and give it to Fu Tianhe or the three wounded.

Maybe when he was young, he just made a decision in trembling because of the cruel scene he saw at the epidemic prevention station, and there was an element of fear at work.

But now, he is truly voluntary and does not regret the choice he made back then.

They have opened the Moonlight Gate, Ashes will be exposed, and if they can't find the right medicine, there will be huge riots.

"Besides, we have become like this, and it is impossible to leave." Eric opened the front door and entered a corridor where several children were playing.

Seeing Chen Ci and Fu Tianhe, the children were taken aback for a moment, then widened their eyes, and asked excitedly, "Is it someone from another refuge who came to visit?"

Eric: "They're from outside."

"Outside?"

The oldest child shouted: "I know! It's the place outside all the shelters!"

When Chen Ci saw these children, he couldn't help but catch his breath.

There are many people who like human cubs, but excluding statements, there are not many things in this world that can make him feel "liked".

But even though he was so indifferent, he couldn't remain indifferent.

Their protruding eyes, distance in the face, sparse hair, and slender limbs with abnormal joints all seem to have some kind of congenital genetic disease.

They looked up at the innocent children's eyes, but they seemed to be stared at by little ghosts in the abyss and hell.

"Hello." Fu Tianhe smiled. He bent down so that the children could see himself more clearly. "Yes, we came from outside."

The oldest child was about ten years old, and he didn't recognize his birth at all. He asked eagerly, "It's very big outside. Where did you come from? Have you ever seen sunshine? It is said that most of the world is covered by sea water. Is it true?" Is it?"

"Well, it's true, we come from Chensha."

Eric: "Tabo, I still have something to do with the guests, you go play on your own first."

"Okay." The boy curled his lips, "When you finish talking, remember to ask the guest to tell me the story outside."

When the children ran away, Chen Ci asked softly, "Is it congenital, or did it become like this later?"

"Birth is like this. For several years after we lived here, no one got pregnant. The first case finally appeared in the fifth year, but the miscarriage occurred after only four months of pregnancy."

Eric said indifferently: "It may be because of the changes in our genes. After that, almost all fetuses will abort automatically when they get up early. The few children you saw just now are basically all those born in these years."

"...Maybe we shouldn't have let them be born when we knew there was absolutely going to be a problem."

Fu Tianhe: "Don't think so, at least they are happy now."

Eric shook his head and said nothing more.

Hearing strange movements, the doors in the corridor opened one after another, and pairs of peeping eyes looked at them.

All were in the same situation as Eric, their muscles were replaced by amethyst, their skin shrank, their hair disappeared, as if dissolved by a splash of strong acid, but all were still alive and growing growths that should not appear on human bodies. parts.

For a moment, Chen Shi felt that Ashes' [-] percent fatality rate might be a good thing.

In a closed shelter, everyone is in the same situation, and the group effect will make them feel much better psychologically.

But once outside, they are complete monsters.

"Come on." Eric took the two of them to a meeting room. All the rooms in the shelter were quite narrow, and unnecessary functions were discarded so that more survivors could be housed.

Soon, another person came in. Judging from the outline of her body, she should be a woman. The glands at the back of her neck were dissolved, making it impossible to determine the second gender.

"Abby." She introduced herself briefly.

Abby and Eric sat side by side opposite Chen Ci and Fu Tianhe, obviously the two of them are the people in charge of this shelter.

Abby: "Not long after you entered, the robots we sent discovered the relevant movements, but I didn't expect you to actually find this way."

Statement: "We have been sending signals to try to contact the survivors, but you have not responded."

Abby: "We didn't think about leaving."

The statement certainly knew the reason.

Anyone who has seen the real situation with their own eyes will know why.

Statement: "How did you become like this? If it is simply infected, it should not grow other things."

Eric: "I don't know. Of course, this is not a deliberate concealment. We can accept that the virus has changed beyond recognition, but we don't understand how it became like this."

Abby stretched out her hand and saw flesh-colored webs between her fingers.

"We more or less have the characteristics of marine life. It may be when we were tortured by the virus to the point of unconsciousness. Those days were so painful that the memory disappeared."

Fu Tianhe can fully understand.

When he was seriously infected, he was desperately struggling in pain, and he didn't remember anything except the pain of wanting to kill himself.

Submission: "Do you call Ashes a virus?"

Abby: "It's more convenient to call it a virus, although we haven't figured out what it is."

Chen Ci glanced at Fu Tianhe, through the brief exchange and the body language of the two, he was able to confirm that Abby and Eric were not hostile, and there was no reason to oppose them.

They came here as a rescue, even if the survivors didn't want to go out, there was no need to fight with them.

The first priority is to get as much information as possible, and they still have a lot to do.

The situation inside Moonlight is not suitable for the team members to stay for too long, and it should be resolved as soon as possible. Every second of delay, the greater the possibility of Ashes leaking out, and the higher the risk of infection for the team members.

Fu Tianhe raised his hand, opened his eyelids, and took off the red prosthetic eye piece, exposing the eye socket below.

Needless to say, seeing the remaining scars on his eyelids, the two who are also infected can understand.

The first step in exchanging information is to let the other party let go of their vigilance and gain a sense of identity as much as possible.

They have experienced the same pain, the same kind.

Statement: "Since the moonlight collapsed 19 years ago, we have never received any information from it. Even if we have explored here now, we don't know much. Can the two of you tell us something about the situation at that time? This helps us construct the truth as quickly as possible."

Abby: "The circumstances... that's a lot to say."

Statement: "Let's start with Ashes, if I'm not mistaken, it is the source of everything."

Abby: "Okay, but I want to declare in advance that we are just ordinary people living in the moonlight, and we can only tell you what happened to us. As for other things, even we ourselves have no idea."

"Okay." Fu Tianhe took out two bottles of water and a few chocolate bars for energy supplements from his backpack, and pushed them in front of Abby and Eric, "Thank you for your hard work."

Chen Ci took a look at him, sure enough, some people are likable for a reason.

Abby and Eric accepted Fu Tianhe's kindness, and to a certain extent, it also showed that their positions had temporarily reached an agreement.

There is no inevitable conflict of interest between the two parties, and it is even said that their presence is a good thing for each other.

The statement took off the earphones and put them on the table: "We are in communication with our teammates outside, should they listen to it too?"

"do not mind."

"Thank you."

Eric closed his eyes, his eyelids could only cover half of the eyeballs, revealing a frightening white of his eyes. After thinking quietly for half a minute, he said lightly:

"No one knows when the virus appeared. Even I didn't understand it back then. I didn't know that I was also a part of the recruit until I showed symptoms of infection."

"The collapse happened before most people showed symptoms."

"It may not be appropriate to say that it collapsed. The whole process was very slow, and it was more like a carefully designed structural transformation."

"We are all people who lived on the lower floors and survived the three-day collapse. Residents living on the upper floors continued to evacuate downwards, and finally we entered the underground part and were systematically housed in shelters."

"Just when we thought things would pass quickly and help was coming, the virus broke out inside the shelter.

"Strictly speaking, we were infected before we entered the shelter, and we just waited until then to finally get sick."

"It was supposed to be a sanctuary for us to live, but it just became a purgatory on earth."

"It may be that I am stronger. Even if those things pierce the surface of the body and occupy the entire interior of the body, I am still barely alive."

"The companions around me kept dying, and soon I was the only one left, and then I was transferred to other shelters. Everyone there was like me, severely infected, but there were still people hanging in one breath."

"Then we were heavily fed some kind of solution, now that I think about it, it was supposed to be a nourishment for the Ashes so they wouldn't suck our blood and guts.

"In just two days, many people died again. I was lucky to survive again and was transferred to the third shelter."

"I repeated it like this several times. At that time, I was in the same state as when I was dead. I might not be as happy as dead. I didn't have much memory left. When I finally woke up, I saw that I had become... like this. "

"Others have had a similar experience to me, in a way, we are all selected, lucky survivors.

"Ashes have been fed and become part of us."

"And we, inexplicably, have grown weird parts that don't belong to humans."