It was dark and turbid under the water, with all kinds of messy garbage and impurities floating there. If Zhang Fan hadn't been wearing a gas mask on his face, and if his eyes hadn't been protected by goggles, he might have been exposed to the turbid sea water. Too irritating to open.
But the only good thing is that the headlights distributed in this maze scene are of extremely high quality and seem to be waterproof. They can still provide lighting even in deep water.
It's just that the lighting range is not very far. It is blocked by various foam impurities in the water and can only illuminate a distance of one or two meters.
Just now in the elevator, Zhang Fan had carefully read the map. As long as he dived to the bottom of the water in one breath, and when he reached the bottom, he swam to the left and reached the end. He could see a huge nutrient tank inserted upside down in the soft mud.
The ventilation duct is located on the back side of the nutrient tank. When the time comes, get close and open the iron fence used for blocking to enter the duct.
As long as Zhang Fan can enter the ventilation duct, most of Zhang Fan's mission will be completed. If he continues to go deep into the end of the duct, find the turbine-shaped fan and turn on the reverse switch, he can be blown directly to the fifth-floor base station. In this way, the mission is completed. .
Zhang Fan tried his best to swim toward the bottom of the water. As it went deeper into the water, the surrounding situation became worse. Not only did the garbage and impurities increase, but there were even many swollen and rotten corpses floating by.
These corpses were all wearing yellowing chemical protective suits. They were both men and women. They were obviously staff members of this research base during their lifetime. They may have been attacked by terrible monsters, and then they all died here quietly.
Zhang Fan glanced at these floating corpses with the help of the light of his headlight. He was extremely surprised to find that all the corpses had swollen and rotting eyes open, and they looked like they were still dead.
Seeing this, Zhang Fan didn't dare to look any further. He was a little frightened and his whole body became creepy. Whether it was an illusion or something real, he always felt that these corpses were staring at him with extremely malicious eyes.
It seemed that they were blaming Zhang Fan for disturbing their sleep. After adjusting his mentality, Zhang Fan dived much faster.
The distance between the water surface and the bottom of the water is nearly forty meters. If the gas masks in this world were not advanced enough and there are small oxygen bottles embedded in the cheeks on both sides to continuously provide oxygen to Zhang Fan, he might have been unable to hold it in long ago. , began to drown.
To be honest, it would be a lie to not be afraid of diving to such a deep place. Regarding diving, Zhang Fan has an inner fear and psychological shadow.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Fan finally dived to the bottom of the water with all his strength. It was even darker under the water, as viscous as ink, and the temperature at this time was nearly ten degrees lower than at the surface.
Fortunately, he was wearing chemical protective clothing, which barely protected him from the cold. Otherwise, Zhang Fan would probably freeze to death.
Now was not the time to think about this. Zhang Fan turned his headlight and looked to the left. The most urgent task is to quickly find the huge nutrient tank.
The location of the ventilation duct can only be determined if the nutrient tank is found. Suddenly, at a certain moment, Zhang Fan's heart moved slightly, showing excitement, because he saw a jar of nearly two meters in size on the left, about ten meters away, inserted diagonally at the bottom of the water.
Zhang Fan fixed the headlamp, used his hands and feet together, and swam quickly in a breaststroke position. But... the moment he swam over, the corpses he had just encountered above appeared strangely one by one.
All the corpses' eyes were still wide open, with two lines of dark blood flowing out of their swollen and rotten eyes. Then, the bodies of these corpses began to swell violently. After two seconds, they were rotten and soaked white. The body swelled into a bloody ball of flesh.
But their facial features and limbs are still there. The mutation did not end, but continued to change.
The flesh ball took shape, and ferocious sharp white bone spurs gradually grew out. These bone spurs grew wildly from the corpse's forehead, arms, chest, eyes, back, legs, and every inch of the body.
In this situation, it looks like a ferocious sea urchin, trying to tear everything in front of it into pieces. After all the corpses had mutated into sea urchins covered with white bone spurs, they suddenly rushed towards Zhang Fan quickly.
"Wow wow——"
"Wow - wow -" They kept spinning in the water, opening their O-shaped mouths, and making baby-like cries from time to time.
However, the bottom of the water was heavy and dense, and the sound could not spread too far. Otherwise, Zhang Fan would be so frightened that he would immediately run ashore and find other ways to reach the fifth-floor base station.
But... just as all the dead sea urchins were chasing Zhang Fan, suddenly, a strange scene happened in the next moment.
A black figure with disheveled hair also arrived at this moment, standing stiffly in front of the group of corpse sea urchins.
The corpse sea urchin noticed the arrival of the black figure, and did not stop its movements. Instead, it turned even faster, as if anyone who stood in its way would die.
The moment they reached less than two meters in front of the black figure. The black figure suddenly moved, but it moved its head.
It seemed that he looked away. Looking at all the corpses of sea urchins, and the O-shaped mouths, suddenly, thick black hair poured out.
Not only was black hair pouring out of the mouth, but also the eyes, nostrils, ears, and all the holes on the body were bursting with thick black hair.
Even...even the sweat pores began to overflow the hair. Gradually, the corpse sea urchin no longer makes any sound from its mouth.
Completely, completely swallowed up by the black hair. At this time, the corpse sea urchin group was completely wiped out by the black hair pouring out of the body, and it was quickly wrapped into a large black hair cocoon.
A large cocoon formed, and the black figure slowly raised his left hand and waved numbly towards them. With one move, the black cocoon shrank rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon turned into a ball of foam and disappeared.
After doing this, the black figure swam towards Zhang Fan again. ...
"Bang!" Zhang Fan used both hands to pull open the iron fence at the entrance of a ventilation duct. It was pitch dark inside, with no end in sight, and no one knew what kind of danger was hidden.
There was a solemn look in Zhang Fan's eyes and some hesitation in his heart. He was hesitant to just get in there.
What if there is a monster in the pipe and I rush in and hit it directly? But he finally dived here just to swim to the end of the ventilation duct and turn on the turbine-shaped fan so that he could quickly reach the fifth-floor base station.
Zhang Fan would be unwilling to give up. In the end, Zhang Fan clenched his fists and plunged in.
No matter whether there is danger or not, you have to take a chance. The ventilation ducts were also covered in seawater, and the internal space was only half a meter wide, with only enough room for one person to fit inside.
Zhang Fan struggled to crawl forward. The further you crawl inside, the colder the surrounding temperature becomes.
When we reached the deep end, it was already much colder than when we first dived to the bottom of the water. At this time, Zhang Fan was shivering from the cold, and could not stop shivering.
Cold, so cold, it felt like standing naked in the winter snow, freezing to death.
However, his luck was not too bad. He swam forward nearly dozens of meters and reached the end. He did not encounter any danger in the process.
Here, at the end of the pipe is a huge independent power chamber. Although the power cabin is still covered by sea water, there is no darkness at all. Instead, the lights are dazzling, and the temperature here has also risen significantly.
A giant fan about ten meters tall stands here. Silver-white ducts are tightly connected to the fan, as if providing it with energy.
Even so, the fan still stopped moving for unknown reasons. Zhang Fan climbed out of the pipe and swam toward the fan.
A few minutes later he arrived at the machine that controlled the fan. The machine is covered with colorful buttons, and the names of many buttons are labeled in English.
Zhang Fan read carefully and began to look for the reversal button. Soon, he finally found it. Without any hesitation, Zhang Fan turned the button counterclockwise and returned it to 12 o'clock.
Then his right hand suddenly pulled the huge lever. In just a moment, the fan began to rotate slowly. It turned faster and faster, becoming more and more urgent.
The wind speed was like a Category 12 gust, suddenly appearing. Stirring the seawater in the power cabin into a terrifying whirlpool.
The swirling air flow mixed with terrifying power converged into a turbulent waterspout. A waterspout formed, and in an instant, all the seawater was blown out along the ventilation duct.
Zhang Fan was in the middle of the whirlpool of sea water, rippling with the current. Before he had time to react, he was also swept out.
The huge water wave airflow quickly blew Zhang Fan out of the ventilation duct and into the water outside.
But the waterspout still didn't stop and kept turning. Sweeping Zhang Fan inside, he headed straight towards the depths of the water.
At the end of the water park is the fifth-floor base station. The black figure stood stiffly at the bottom of the water, looking slightly sideways in the direction where Zhang Fan was swept away, tilted his head, and followed slowly.
It's just that the speed at which it chases is astonishing and unimaginable. With one step, he crossed a distance of nearly six to seven hundred meters from the bottom of the water.
Maybe it won't take long before it can catch up with Zhang Fan. .....When Zhang Fan opened his eyes, he saw himself appearing in a huge, bright and wide base.
On the high wall of the base, there is a five-character painted with yellow paint. Obviously this is the fifth-floor base station.
There is no sea water at the fifth-floor base station. It is clean and the air is even somewhat fresh. Seeing this, Zhang Fan looked happy, took off his gas mask, and greedily took a sip of the oxygen from the base station.
After taking this breath of oxygen, he quickly put on the gas mask again. He was afraid that the base station would be filled with the mysterious dust that Wei Wenshan said.
At this moment, a huge rumble sounded in front of him. Hearing this sound, Zhang Fan quickly looked up and saw a huge lizard monster with no skin and dripping with blood, falling from the ceiling of the base station and hitting the ground heavily.
This lizard monster stretched ten meters long, with a bloody mouth filled with transparent viscous liquid. Its long and forked tongue came out of its mouth, creating a fishy wind.
When it got up, it noticed the presence of a living person, and suddenly stared at Zhang Fan with a pair of snow-white dead fish eyes.
"Roar——" The skinless lizard monster let out a deafening roar, and the next second, it dived towards Zhang Fan with a high jump.
"Damn it!!" Seeing this scene, Zhang Fan's face changed drastically, and he secretly said "Damn it!" Without any time to think about it, he raised his hand and pointed the concentrated cannon at the lizard monster.
Before he went into the water, he put the energy stone back into the concentrated cannon, just to avoid encountering any danger during the dive.
Now that the monster is approaching, it just confirms Zhang Fan's worries. The trigger was pulled, and the imaginary sonic boom did not appear.
Instead, a stream of fishy sea water leaked out directly from the gap in the shaped cannon and spread all over the floor. It seems that this shaped cannon, which is specially used to deal with monsters, cannot be used and completely malfunctions after it is soaked by sea water.
Seeing that the concentrated cannon failed, Zhang Fan's heart beat wildly, and his forehead was instantly wet with cold sweat. Without the help of the shaped cannon, he was really dead now.
At this moment, the skinless lizard monster was less than the last three meters away from Zhang Fan.
"Plop!" Suddenly, there was another dull crashing sound. Zhang Fan was awakened by the sound. He quickly glanced back subconsciously and saw a disheveled figure falling from the air and hitting the ground.
Just when he was about to say something, there was an extremely strong and indescribable murderous agitation in his heart, which suddenly exploded.
This is the terrifying murderous agitation coming from the host spirit. Generally, when encountering a life-and-death crisis that is difficult to contend with, the host spirit will issue a restless warning uncontrollably.
