abyss rose

Chapter 40

In the past countless days and nights, Chai Yuening has imagined countless times what the floating city looks like.

But when she soared through the sky, crossed the mountains, and arrived at this human base that she had longed for deeply in her heart, she realized how barren her imagination was.

This human base has an indescribable magnificence and beauty.

Under the night, the sky is dotted with stars, and the hazy moon shines through a wisp of thin clouds and mist, pouring on the suspended cities in the distant sky that slowly rise to the plane's field of vision.

It is now the most developed human base on the earth - floating city.

Looking from a distance, it looks like a lonely island, Noah's Ark moored in the sea of ​​clouds.

The plane continued to sail forward, and the outline of the entire city gradually appeared.

Mountain-shaped metal buildings hang high above the clouds, and they are connected to each other by long narrow roads. The lights in the city reflect each other, and under the lingering clouds and mists, they seem to be passages connecting the city and the bright moon.

In the city, a kind of light that is different from the stars and the moon can be seen everywhere.

It was one after another, light golden transparent light balls of different sizes, they were shining with flowing electric light, and under each of the light balls, there were one after another golden beams of light that pierced the clouds and went straight up.

Every city in the floating city base is extended from the most central city.

That is the main city of the floating city base.

Above the main city, there is the largest golden ball of light in the entire floating city.

People in the floating city call this kind of light sphere floating light. Under the floating light is the buoyant core made by technology, and under the core is the buoyant light column that goes straight to the ground.

For decades, it is their existence that has allowed this human base to be suspended in the air.

This is where Chu Ci lived.

It is a place where you can see the sky when you look up, overlook the mountains when you lower your head, reach out your hands as if piercing through the clouds, and feel the wind and rain when you close your eyes.

Going forward, the details of the base are slowly revealed.

There are countless small aircraft hovering around every city.

Surveillance cameras are carried on the aircraft, and they crisscross mechanically along the inherent routes, whether they are patrolling or detecting the environment.

One after another, the fighter planes returning from afar, under the guidance of the far lights of the main city tower, successfully landed at the wide airport.

The long shuttle bus picks up people from the tarmac.

A nine-seater white van was parked at the gate of the airport. The female driver in her early 30s rolled up the window. While picking up Yi Shuyun, she also drove Chai Yuening and his party to the city.

As soon as he got into the car, Lu Qi was amazed: "This car is an old world model, I've only seen broken ones on the ground!"

After hearing this, the female driver asked curiously, "What kind of cars have you upgraded to at the fourth base?"

Lu Qi quickly explained: "No, no, it's not an upgrade, we only have armored vehicles there."

"In our side, the outer city is not big, and it is very convenient to walk anywhere in the city. If you want to go to other cities, you can just take the city train." Liandong patiently explained, "So, in our place, apart from Shangdi, You don’t need a car at all, but once you go to the ground, it’s not that the armored car can’t run at all.”

Because of this, the Dungeon Base believes that all models without any combat capability are not necessary for any production.

As early as 30 years ago, this type of car was completely discontinued.

At that time, no one in the No.13 mercenary team was born except Lao Xiang.

"So that's how it is." The driver nodded and smiled, "I've never been to the ground in my life, and I used to yearn for the mountains and rivers in the book, but now I just want to stay in the base safely until I die. "

"In this world, there is no place that is safe except for the base." The driver continued, "Especially in the past few years, whether it is the military or civilian mercenary organizations, many people go to the ground and die immediately." Never come back."

"Did it die on the ground?" Lonicera asked.

"Where, people are injured by alien beasts, even if the wounds are not fatal, they can still be saved, but those who failed to come back, most of them just came up from the ground on the lift platform, and died in the hospital as soon as they were monitored for signs of infection. The ashes were thrown at the muzzle of the city defense officer and burned.” The driver shook his head and sighed, “If there are relatives, the ashes will be given to relatives; .”

This female driver talked so eloquently on such a relatively sensitive issue, yet Yi Shuyun in the back seat closed his eyes and rested his mind, but didn't say anything, which made Chai Yuening a little surprised.

Lu Qi: "Just kill as long as there are signs of infection?"

The female driver nodded: "Otherwise? You should also know that the infection of alien animals on the ground is getting stronger and higher, and the mutation rate is getting higher and higher. There are more than 20 people in each urban area of ​​the base, and they move day by day. Sex is so big, but if an infected person mixes in, it will be a disaster."

"Is there no abnormal control center here?" Chai Yuening couldn't help asking, "It's the place where infected people are isolated and observed..."

"It was there at the beginning." The female driver said, "But more than 20 years ago, there was a vicious infection of a humanoid mutant in the third area of ​​the base. Before the mutant mutated, he was an infected person isolated and observed in the alien control center."

"Humanoid mutator?" Lu Qi was surprised, "What happened later?"

"The mutant's situation is very special. He kept his human form at the beginning of the mutation, without any animal behavior, and looked very normal. But it happened to be such a normal 'person', who quietly infected half of the alien control The quarantined people in the center, although those isolated rooms are connected to each other, there are no doors and windows at all between each other!"

"How did you do that?" Old Xiang asked.

"Because the mutant was infected by an egg-laying parasite, it secretly laid its eggs on the medical staff who delivered the food."

"Later, the infection broke out from the alien control center, and the mutants shed their human skins, rushed out of the alien control center, and attacked humans within sight." The driver became more and more excited as he spoke, his tone cadenced, just like a storyteller, " Their attack power and defense power are not strong, they can't break through doors and windows, and they can't kill people instantly. But they have a very strong reproductive ability... They don't just lay their eggs in the human body and hatch new mutants Beast, and laid eggs in the city's reservoir!"

"People who have been hiding at home for a while have also become potential infected people." At this point, the driver took a deep breath, "Although it is only an outer city, the difficulty of the situation has already It has far exceeded the base's expectations. In order to quickly clean up the highly infectious mutants that are flooding the base, the base has made a decision..."

Chai Yuening: "What decision?"

Chu Ci: "It is better to kill by mistake than to release by mistake."

Chai Yuening: "..."

Such an answer is not surprising.

When the mutation infectivity and mutation rate reached a certain level, and the scope of the infection was obviously out of control, the dungeon base also made exactly the same decision.

"Soon, the third district was completely blocked. When all the known mutants were cleaned up, the reservoir in the third district was also thoroughly cleaned and provided with external water sources."

"Hundreds of infection detection instruments were transported from different control centers in various urban areas under the strict control of the military. Everyone in the urban areas must undergo daily infection monitoring for half a month."

"Among the [-] monitorings, as long as there is any sign of infection, even if it is a mild infection, they will be killed immediately."

"During those half a month, the entire three districts were flooded with blood, and there were so many corpses that they couldn't burn them." The driver said, sighing softly, "Hey, since then, in order to prevent such things from happening again, the base has been closed. All the different control centers have been wiped out, and the city defense stations in each city began to strictly guard the city's elevators day and night. Once infected people are found, they will be killed without observation. Anyone of any status will be no exception."

Yi Shuyun, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly followed the female driver's words and said lightly: "The communication tower in the main city once sent similar advice to the dungeon base, but the dungeon base thinks this is inhumane."

Chai Yuening: "..."

Yi Shuyun: "In recent years, the ground ecology has become more and more outrageous. Before the mutation occurs, people will never know what kind of 'surprise' those injured infected people will bring back from the ground. They may be aggressive Extremely strong, maybe extremely contagious, and maybe have a super differentiation that human biology cannot understand, can divide into two, divide into four, and differentiate endlessly... Even, it may even have human-like intelligence. Can these things full of unknowns be kept in a mere alien control center?"

The doctor's words left everyone speechless for a moment.

"Can't answer it? That's why you have fallen." Yi Shuyun chuckled, "You who rely on the signal tower on the ground for communication, lost the signal tower, and are like headless chickens in this disaster. You can't find it." In any direction, the final consequences will be far thousands of times heavier than we were back then."

What she said was really unpleasant, but it also made people completely unable to find a reason to refute.

If the dungeon listened to the suggestion of the floating city, there would be no intelligent heterogeneous transmission infection in the five-district alien control center, and the rest of the outer city would not fall.

There was a moment of silence in the car.

An hour and a half later, everyone was sent to the temporary residence that Yi Shuyun had applied to the main city for them.

Yi Shuyun, who hadn’t got off the car, rolled the window, fixed his eyes on Chu Ci for a few seconds, and finally said softly: “In the past few days, you can take your friend to look around, it’s almost there, tell me, I will find someone to take them back safely."

Chu Ci nodded: "Thank you, Dr. Yi."

Yi Shuyun: "Thank you... Ye Qing, let's go back."

"En." The driver responded, closed the windows, and the van drove Yi Shuyun into the distance.

People from the underground city stood at the entrance of the corridor with all their luggage, looking up at the 20-storey building with excitement in their eyes.

Lonicera: "The houses here are the same as in the old world, they all have windows, so you can look out!"

Lao Xiang: "It's really tall, unlike our base, no matter what building it is, it only has four floors."

Lu Qi: "That's amazing!"

Du Xia: "So which floor do we live on?"

Lu Qi lowered his head and studied the room cards that he had just received from the driver: "Uh, the seventeenth floor."

"The seventeenth floor?!" Liandong unconsciously squeezed the armrest of the wheelchair, and said in a trembling voice, "So we are going to climb up..."

"Let me carry you." Chai Yuening walked to Liandong's side, "Lu Qi, help lift the wheelchair up."

"Oh good!" Lu Qi quickly responded.

Chu Ci: "There is an elevator."

Lao Xiang scratched his head: "What is an elevator?"

"Elevating platform." Chu Ci said lightly, walking ahead and leading the way.

A group of underground creatures who had never seen the world froze in place for an instant.

It turns out that in Floating Void City, even ordinary residential areas can have elevators!

It is also a human base, how can the gap be so big?

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The author has something to say:

Dungeon: What kind of elevator do you need for the fourth floor?