Chen Tao didn't know when he fell asleep. When Shangui and Uncle Long came to change their guard, Chen Tao's eyelids had already begun to fight.
On the one hand, Uncle Long and Shangui are already veterans in this industry and have already adapted to this way of life. Even Haozi, although the two are about the same age, Haozi is much stronger than Chen Tao.
On the other hand, after experiencing such an incident with the corpse poison, Chen Tao's spirit was almost always in a trance.
I don't know if it was the effect of the drugs, or he was just so tired that he was hallucinating. Lying in the tent, Chen Tao's eyes seemed to see through the fabric of the tent in a daze, and he saw several dark ghosts crawling on the wall outside.
The black shadow was as big as an adult cat. The pair of eyes that glowed red in the dark looked towards the tent where Chen Tao was. They met Chen Tao's eyes through the cloth, and the ghostly eyes revealed A heart-stopping bloodthirst and madness.
At this time, Chen Tao was extremely sleepy. He didn't know if it was his hallucination or a dream. Chen Tao only felt that he was quickly wrapped in darkness. He was just in a trance, and his whole body fell deeply into it.
...
"Taozi! Taozi! Wake up! Hey! Get up!"
I don't know how long it took, but someone seemed to be calling me in a daze. The voice should be Haozi.
This time Chen Tao slept very deeply, barely dreaming.
He sat up with difficulty and rubbed his sore neck. Unexpectedly, his shoulder hurt, which made him sober up.
"It seems that the collision yesterday hurt my muscles and bones... Fortunately, I brought some with me when I came here. Maybe it can be of some use." Chen Tao squeezed his aching shoulder with one hand and pulled it aside. Backpack, pull out a plaster from the inside.
"What...are you doing?" Li Hao looked at him curiously and couldn't help but ask.
"My shoulder hurts a little. Come on, help me put this on." Chen Tao tore open the packaging bag, but with just a little force, his right shoulder felt a little dull. He took out a piece from it and handed it to Li Hao.
"Where to apply it?" Haozi took the plaster that Chen Tao took out.
"Here." Chen Tao turned his back, put his left hand around his neck and pointed at a place behind his right shoulder and said:
"Everything hurts. This plaster is used to treat bruises. You can just put it on."
Haozi didn't speak. At this time, he was staring blankly at Chen Tao's exposed right shoulder, which was covered with black and purple bruises, and almost the entire right shoulder on his back.
Haozi reached out and pressed Chen Tao's back with his fingers, and immediately heard Chen Tao's gasp with a grin on his face.
"Haozi, please be gentle, it hurts a little." Chen Tao couldn't see his back, so he could only remind him.
"It's just a palm-sized piece, I think it's not enough..." Haozi said to Chen Tao.
"What do you mean?" Chen Tao asked curiously.
"See for yourself!" Haozi took out his mobile phone, took a photo of Chen Tao's back with the light and handed it over.
Looking at the bruises on his back on the phone, Chen Tao couldn't help but frown.
"Holy crap, is it so serious!" Then he put his left hand into the bag and pulled out the bag of plasters and said:
"I brought three bags with me when I came here. There are four pairs in each bag. It looks like it can only be used for three or four days at most." Chen Tao threw the plaster bag to Haozi and said, "No matter what, just stick it on like this for now." Right. And...don't tell Uncle Long, I don't want him to worry about me."
"Oh, okay, okay, it's up to you, turn around!" Haozi sighed and waved his hand to signal him to turn around. He patted three large pieces of dog skin plaster on Chen Tao's back, and put the remaining pair back into the bag and handed it to Chen Tao.
After collecting the plaster and applying some of the potion made by Yang Lixuan to deal with bloodthirsty black insects, Chen Tao got dressed and walked out of the tent.
It was still dark outside, and Uncle Long and the others had already finished breakfast and were packing their things. Seeing Chen Tao come out, Shangui came over with a snack cup, which was filled with batter made from compressed biscuits.
After a night of digestion, the stomach is already empty. If you eat this thing early in the morning, it is quite suitable for your appetite. At least after eating it, your stomach will be warm and you will feel a lot more energetic.
After packing up, everyone set off again.
Gritting his teeth and reluctantly carrying the equipment bag, Chen Tao felt that his right shoulder was going to be useless.
Before leaving, Chen Tao glanced at the surrounding walls. The dreamlike scene from last night appeared in his mind again.
"Strange dream..."
Shaking his head, Chen Tao felt that he must be too tired. After all, he was sleeping in a tent. How could human eyes see things on the wall outside through the eyelids and the tent?
Chen Tao didn't think any more and followed everyone out of the iron gate of the cafeteria with his flashlight on.
Yesterday, we searched all the rooms on the right side of the corridor, and found very few clues.
After exiting the room, several people walked straight towards the depths of the passage on the other side. By the light of the flashlight, you can see a closed iron door on the right side in front. Further forward, there seemed to be two huge iron doors blocking the front deep in the corridor.
The black vines on this side are much thicker than the one we walked yesterday. Some feet are as hard as branches when stepping on them, and the skin of the vines has cracked into tree lines.
"It is estimated that these vines grew from this area, and the main trunk should be nearby." Uncle Long said, looking at the black vines around him.
Several people walked to the iron door on the right side of the wall. The door was actually locked. The lock was rusty, and the keyhole was completely blocked by rust. They had no choice but to let Ah Cheng and Dabing brothers use brute force to open the lock. The sound of banging on the door echoed throughout the corridor.
The others were waiting aside, and Chen Tao looked at the opposite wall with a flashlight. The wall was covered with black vines, but Chen Tao's eyes noticed that there seemed to be a door under the vines in the middle. What's even more strange is that from here, the number of black vines on the left wall is obviously much greater than that on the right.
Chen Tao took out the folding shovel from the side of his backpack, took it with his left hand and chopped off the vine branches several times. His right shoulder was injured, and he couldn't use his left hand to exert much strength. He just cut a large gap in the entangled black vines. After a closer look, he saw that there was indeed a room here.
The movement here attracted the attention of others. The mountain ghost came over and picked up a shovel. He cut off several black vines as thick as the children's arms and cleared a large area by pulling and pulling.
A rusty iron door appeared in front of him. The style was the same as the one diagonally opposite, but the rust was much worse.
"This one is also locked." After looking at the rusty iron lock on the door, the mountain ghost said.
"Get it off!" Uncle Long ordered.
The iron lock on the door was more rusty than the one on the right. The mountain ghost hit it hard with a shovel a few times before it broke and fell to the ground with a snap.
Kicking open the closed iron door, Shangui walked into the room first, followed closely by Chen Tao and others.
"This is... a laboratory?" Uncle Long asked confusedly as he looked at Zhou Zhou's objects and furnishings.
The room covers an area of more than thirty square meters. There are two large beds in the middle. They are covered with black vines and are bulging and entangled, like a pile of large and small black snakes.
There are many experimental tables and large cabinets placed around the wall. Some of the tables also have bottles and cans and other things like instruments, which are covered with dust. There are several wooden chairs in front of the table, which are placed very neatly, and the things on the table are also arranged in an orderly manner.
"Compared with the previous rooms, everything here is so orderly. It doesn't look like it has experienced some emergency?" Chen Tao said.
"This is strange. Could it be that when something happened outside, this place was not affected at all?" Haozi said.
"Take a look first before talking." Uncle Long looked around and walked towards the two hospital beds in the center of the room.
Most of the surrounding black vines gathered on the two beds, and something on the bed attracted them. Those vines spread out around the two beds, like exploding black demonic flowers.
"There seems to be something in here." Looking at the piles of black vines entangled on the bed, Yan said, "Don't you think...the entangled shapes of these vines are strange?"
"Why do I feel... like it's personal?" After gesturing, Boss Zhang frowned.
Several people came to one of the piles and cut off a few black vines, and a lot of foul-smelling liquid seeped out of them.
The vines here are no different from those outside, they are just intertwined with something like rags and cotton wool stuck to them.
The mountain ghost pulled out a section, and everyone looked carefully and found that the flocs were nothing but many tiny roots growing on the vines. It was impossible to tell which vine these roots grew from, and they were tightly intertwined.
"Although the ones crawling on the wall also have tentacles and suckers, they are different from these roots." Uncle Wang said.
Chen Tao used his flashlight to shine on one side of the bed and found that there were several protruding thick steel bars on the edge of the bed. The steel bars were welded to the bottom of the bed.
"This thing... seems to be used for binding?" Chen Tao asked curiously: "Could it be... there was a person on it, and he was eaten by these vines..."
