Zhen Asuka and Lei came to a basement.
The turbid air rushed towards me, mixed with a bit of musty smell, and a chemical odor that came from nowhere.
Light dimly illuminates the long passage from the stairwell.
For a building that had been abandoned for a long time, this place was surprisingly neat.
There was a door next to the beginning of the corridor. Lei stretched out his hand and pushed it gently. He raised the gun and pointed at the door in a formal manner, but soon put down the gun and walked in.
There didn't seem to be a single person in this room, only a thick darkness filled it.
The light from the doorway shines slightly, and you can probably identify the equipment in the room.
Lei took a few steps toward the room and suddenly stopped.
Hearing him take a short breath, Zhen Feiniao reflexively fumbled for the switch by the door, and with a snap, the light turned on.
Is there electricity in this kind of ruins?
Zhen Asuka felt suspicious and squinted his eyes to adapt to the light.
"What is this place for...?"
He saw equipment such as large computers and measuring instruments, as well as an operating table with an operating light, and a series of slender glass containers behind it.
Those cylindrical transparent tanks reached from the floor to the ceiling, and the liquid seemed to be soaked with disgusting objects.
Before he could see clearly what those things were, Zhen Feiniao first noticed that Lei was crouching on the ground.
"thunder?"
Zhen Feiniao quickly ran towards him and saw him half-kneeling on the ground, clutching his chest and breathing rapidly.
"Ray...what's wrong with you, Ray!"
Zhen Feiniao quickly stepped forward to help him.
At this time, Lei seemed to be having trouble breathing, his face was pale and his expression was filled with pain - maybe fear? And twisted.
Asuka was so frightened that he quickly supported him.
Seeing that Lei's situation was becoming more and more unstable, Zhen Feiniao half-draged and half-pulled Lei out of the research institute.
After jumping into the cockpit, Zhen Asuka hurriedly opened the communication channel with the mothership.
However, it was also at this time that Lei vaguely noticed several figures shaking in the distance. When he tried to see clearly, his vision gradually fell into darkness.
"No, I really don't feel uncomfortable..."
When Lei opened his eyes, he heard the sound of Zhen Feiniao and the mothership's military doctor arguing from outside the curtain.
"That being said, it's better to be careful. Although no toxic gas or virus has been detected in that building or the surrounding area, but..."
At this point, the military doctor paused for a while, probably checking something, and then continued: "...It's always difficult to say this kind of thing."
Zhen Feiniao had no choice but to accept the examination obediently.
"Speaking of which, the captain is too careless. How could he send just the two of you to scout a place like that..."
The military doctor seemed dissatisfied, but after hearing the truth, Feiniao immediately protested: "We checked the surroundings when we entered!"
Yes, Ray was on alert when he entered the house—
I just never expected that there would be those things in the house...
Recalling the scene he saw at that time, Lei, who had regained his composure, suddenly felt his heart skip a beat, and that irregular throbbing reappeared.
The hazy reflection on the surface of the operating table, the smell of formalin... and the soaked substances shrunk in those glass jars...
The ruins reminded him of the distant past.
Emotions that had been forgotten for a long time came to mind again, like evil beasts that gnawed at people's hearts.
He tried his best to suppress it, trying to pull away this emotion, thinking about the person who took him away from that place, and the other person who always smiled kindly at him -
Thinking of him, and - Gilbert...
When that fair and upright face and smile appeared in his mind, Lei suddenly felt relieved.
Ray opened his eyes again and sat up from the bed.
Asuka, who had just finished the examination and was still sorting out his clothes, immediately turned his head in surprise.
"thunder……"
Seeing the concerned look he gave her, Lei nodded to him, then turned to the military doctor and said, "I'm sorry. I'm fine now. Thank you very much."
The military doctor also watched Lei Nili put on his uniform with a worried look, and responded: "Really? Do you want to lie down again?"
"No, I'm really fine."
After Lei finished speaking loudly, he turned and left.
The other side.
The Minerva had now landed in the institution that Zhenhe Lei had scouted.
Searchlights shone on the building, projecting the busy figures of the soldiers.
Noel and Aslan also followed the mothership to the open space in front of the research institute.
"The internal inspection has been completed, all self-destruction devices have been removed, and no signs of biochemical abnormalities have been found."
After the preliminary adjustments in the unknown organization were completed, the soldier responsible for inputting data reported to Thalia.
"OK, thanks."
Having said that, Thalia also had some doubts in her heart.
Arthur turned his head and thought, looking incredulous: "So...how can we explain Lei's abnormal condition?"
When Thalia heard the panic-stricken report of Zhen Asuka, the first thing Thalia thought of was biochemical contamination, so she assumed that this place was really a military development base of the Alliance Army, just as the headquarters expected.
For a comprehensive investigation, she ordered the mothership to be moved here.
However, they did not detect any harmful substances that could affect physiological conditions.
For example, there was nothing like poison gas, viruses or radiation, and no contamination was found.
The medical officer who examined Lei and Zhen also reported that they had no such signs.
It is always a blessing that they are safe and sound.
However, there was no deviation from the original forecast from headquarters.
There are self-explosion devices everywhere, and they seem to be used for other purposes besides military.
After the danger factors were removed, personnel launched a formal large-scale investigation, and reports soon came from all over the agency.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Aslan came to Noel's side and asked.
He found that there had been something wrong with Noel's expression since he came here.
"Huh? It's nothing, it's just a little weird."
Noel shook his head after hearing this.
This should be the expansion laboratory of the Phantom Pain Force, so my genetic data is also in it?
Since the problem of body gene collapse was solved, Noel didn't pay too much attention to these things, and he suddenly thought of this after hearing the news.
But all this has nothing to do with me.
Aslan didn't say much when he heard this.
After making sure there is no danger inside the base.
Thalia and others walked into the laboratory together.
Following the path that Lei and Feiniao took, everyone soon arrived at the basement.
Entering the room, Noel frowned subconsciously.
The odor permeating the corridors constantly stimulated their sense of smell.
The smell of blood, rotting meat, and weird chemical smell...
Even Aslan couldn't help but frown, the smell was very overpowering.
The light in Noel's hand moved on the floor, only reflecting patches of thick stains——
With those things that are layered on top of heavy stains.
"Well……"
As soon as he saw the scene under the flashlight light, Arthur made a retching sound in his throat.
Zhen Asuka stood behind Aslan and groaned.
Thalia, who had always been shy, was speechless, and Aslan was completely stunned.
Under the flashlight, two corpses overlapped and fell together. One of them was a child who seemed to be about ten years old. His eyes were puddles of blood, and his thin hands and feet were stretched at strange angles and fell to the ground.
The other is an adult man. His head is pressed on the child's feet. His white clothes are stained with blood. He stares at the door with vacant eyes. The wound is like his second mouth, as if revealing something strange to everyone. of ridicule.
After watching for a while, Aslan saw something that the two people would not let go of until death.
The child's small hand held a scalpel covered in blood, and the man's hand held a pistol with a shining black light, which he held tightly.
A hoarse cry suddenly sounded above their heads, which startled everyone. They quickly moved the flashlight light up to see, and it turned out that several crows had broken in somehow.
Arthur breathed out a breath of exhaustion.
After regaining consciousness, they cheered up and looked around the room while moving forward cautiously.
The computer screen, which was too late to turn off, was the only light source in the room, illuminating the room full of corpses.
There were adults and children. Judging from the analysis of the corpses, their death time should have been within a day or two.
The adults all wore researcher-like white robes and identification badges, while the children all wore plain robes of the same style.
They originally thought that all this was caused by an external attack, but when they saw the murder weapons lying on the ground in their hands, the reason for the destruction of the base became complicated.
They don't look like they are resisting foreign enemies at all, but more like they are killing each other.
But there are definitely signs of foreign invasion outside.
For a while, they didn't know what happened in this place.
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