As the two of them walked down the dark passage, a cool breeze would hit their faces from time to time. Usually, the air circulation at this temperature must be refreshing for people who have been tortured by midsummer, but now they feel

It was eerie. Every corner, every pillar, every shadow that couldn't be illuminated by a flashlight seemed to be hiding unknown monsters that would pounce at any time.

"Bang, bang, bang... bang, bang, bang..." Suddenly, there was a crashing sound from the small door behind the ticket office, followed by two crisp sounds. The gun in Sun Jianshe's hand fired, and the bullet

It hit the artificial marble wall and the fire door and spattered sparks.

"Brother Sun... don't shoot behind my ear..."

Hong Tao subconsciously raised his shield. It was uncomfortable and dangerous to shoot in an environment where the space was not too big and there were hard objects all around. What was uncomfortable was that the sound of the gun was more than twice as loud as usual, and it was very harsh.

The danger is that the warhead will rebound erratically, and if it is not protected properly, it may accidentally injure one's own people.

"Huh... I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I haven't touched a gun in so many years, and I feel a little guilty..." Sun Jianshe had been a soldier and must have known these taboos. But he couldn't control the tension in his body and mind. The two shots just fired

It's not the target at all, but the shadow reflected by the flashlight light.

"...You'd better hang up the insurance. I guess there are zombies only in this door. You won't need bullets to fight them!" Hong Tao didn't blame Sun Jianshe. He would feel helpless in the dark underground space with nothing.

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I squatted on the ground and listened carefully for a while. Except for the banging sound from the fire door next to me, I couldn't hear any other sounds. It was estimated that there wouldn't be that many people working the night shift on a platform. Four people had just been killed, and two more.

That’s it for three.

Opening the fire door does not require violence. Hong Tao found two sets of keys from the four zombies above. At first glance, they were not from home. He tried them one by one, and it worked.

But after the fire door was opened, no zombies jumped out immediately, and the guy wearing a security uniform inside didn't knock on the fire door, but hit another door at the end of the corridor.

"Just one?" Without waiting for the zombie to approach, Sun Jianshe gave it a headshot, and then sighed with unfinished content.

"Bang, bang, bang... Hey, is there anyone inside? We are living people, not monsters..."

Hong Tao's attention was not on the zombie. When he opened the fire door, he noticed something strange about the zombie. He kept aiming his flashlight at the door at the end of the corridor. Now that the zombie was dead, he might as well use a mountaineering pickaxe.

He knocked on the door and shouted inside.

"Click... click..." No one answered, but there was a slight sound of metal collision... but the source was too weird, it was actually above the head!

"Back off!" Hong Tao felt as if he had been electrocuted, and the hairs all over his body stood up. At this moment, he thought of the scene in the movie Alien. The monster's hiding place is the ventilation pipe, and it will often get out of there to attack the spacecraft.

Crew, one after another!

"It, it's up there!?" Sun Jianshe probably had never seen this movie, but he had already understood it from Hong Tao's expression and eyes. He immediately raised the fire hook in his hand and shined his flashlight on the ceiling.

"We are in for a big deal... Don't make a sound... Slowly retreat out of the door... Listen to my command and run together..." Hong Tao also raised his shield, held his ears open, and tiptoed towards the fire door.

The movements were so supple and funny to the extreme, as if they were dancing a very weird dance.

"Click...crack...crack...cough..." Suddenly the sound appeared again, but this time there were many more fragments, as if something had fallen into the ventilation duct and was still rolling.

It stopped after a few seconds, followed by two soft coughs.

"...Brother Sun, have you ever heard of a zombie coughing?" Hong Tao stopped his body movements, with one leg hanging in the air without even daring to touch the ground. However, he kept talking and asked Sun Jianshe in a low voice.

"It doesn't seem like there... could it be a human being?" Sun Jianshe has been cleaning up the courtyard with the team these days. He has killed as many zombies as Hong Tao. I have never heard of zombies coughing. In fact, these people are neither human nor ghosts.

The monster couldn't make any sound, it didn't even breathe, but it was quiet.

Hong Tao thought so too, and if he thought about it carefully, zombies couldn't climb over the wall, so how could they get into the ventilation duct. Even if they happened to mutate in the ventilation duct, after so many days without any sunlight, it wouldn't be possible.

The battery is about to run out. Referring to the situation in early summer, the answer is obvious.

"...It should be here, open the ceiling!" If the thing above is not a zombie, it can only be a human or an animal. No matter what it is, Hong Tao is not afraid of either of these, so he must open it to find out.

"Crash...crash..." Now the fire hook has come into use. It was originally used to demolish the interior of the building. It is much faster to tear down the ceiling than to kill zombies.

"Ahem...don't shoot...I'm an employee here...ahem..."

Not long after, the flashlight found a shadow in the air outlet of the ventilation duct. I couldn't tell what shape it was, but the intermittent coughs and the breathless Chinese language clearly indicated her identity. That's right.

, it’s her, it’s a woman’s voice.

"Then why are you running! Didn't I shout just now, why didn't you answer!" Hong Tao asked Sun Jianshe to scan around with a flashlight, while he stood under the vent and held up a shield to continue questioning. You can't be too careless.

The lesson I learned from my carelessness at the police station was profound enough.

"I, I'm scared... they've been chasing me... and even bit my colleague to death... wuwuwu..." A whimpering sound came from the vent.

"Are you an employee here? From the health department?" Hong Tao rolled his eyes and asked a more professional question.

"No... I'm from the electrical and mechanical team... I came here last Friday to check the No. 8 blower, but something happened before I got off work... I saw my colleague through the window in the locker room being bitten by the guards, and then

...Then it turned into a monster... Wuwuwu... I don't know what to do... Wuwuwu..." The voice of the woman in the ventilation duct was a little louder, but she sounded very weak, and she could not speak in full.

I can’t even finish it.

"Then what did you eat and drink for so many days?" Hong Tao connected the general situation of what the woman said, and now there is one last question that needs to be clarified.

"There are several packets of potato chips, instant noodles, and bottled water in the locker...are you really not a monster?" The woman in the ventilation duct didn't quite believe Hong Tao. She was squirming slowly all the time, and her voice was leaking as she spoke.

One meter away.

"Can a monster chat with you? Stop crawling now. If I want to hurt you, this thin layer of iron sheet can't stop bullets at all. Find a place to see what I look like. Come down if you feel at ease. If you don't feel at ease, I'll continue to eat you.

Just snacks, I won’t force you!”

By this time, Hong Tao had basically determined that the person hiding in the ventilation pipe was a normal person, and there was no conspiracy. His nervousness relaxed, and he was overjoyed. It was not a loss to come out this time, and he discovered an underground fortification with great development prospects.

, and can also help save three living people!

"Come, take a closer look, the standard Chinese handsome man... is in good health and has all four limbs!" The woman in the ventilation duct seemed to crawl back again. Hong Tao quickly took off his helmet and measured the light with a flashlight, trying to beautify himself.

is better.

"...I'm going down from the locker room..." The effect was quite good. The woman in the ventilation duct no longer doubted Hong Tao's identity. At least she recognized that he was a human being. She immediately took action and walked along the ventilation duct to the end of the corridor.

Climb to the room.

This room should be a locker room for subway station employees. There are two rows of lockers standing against the wall. The ceiling above the lockers has been opened, and there is a ventilation hole. There is also a chair next to the lockers.

Obviously, this woman climbed onto the top of the cabinet first, then opened the vent and got into the ventilation duct. She used this as a hiding place and stayed there for ten days! That's not right, she should have run back in the middle.
Chapter completed!