Chapter 954
Newcomers are destined to die? ??
"Ahem, ordinary people also need to eat."
"Since you're up, let's eat first."
After saying that, Li Qingqing blushed and handed over a solid water lozenge and a piece of vacuum-packed food.
Seeing Qingchen take it, he quickly turned around.
A snap.
After attaching the cover to the machine gun in her hand, Li Qingqing's rapidly beating heart calmed down considerably as she looked at the bloodstains on the grip.
He threw the gun on the table.
"So, uncle, what are we going to do later?"
After changing his clothes, Qingchen took out the items from the eight backpacks one by one.
Without looking up, he said:
"Now that the experiment with the talisman paper was completed last night, the primary task is to continue searching for the armory and control room inside the air-raid shelter."
As he spoke, Qingchen carefully placed the yellow talismans one by one.
There are eight backpacks, which means there were originally eighty Stone Armor Talismans and eighty Golden Light Talismans.
However, there are 78 Golden Light Talismans on the table at this moment, and even fewer Stone Armor Talismans, only 63.
After all, conducting experiments requires resources.
The Stone Armor Talisman, as the name suggests, is a layer of stone-like armor that condenses on the surface of the body.
The simplest way to describe this layer of armor that clings to the skin is that it is impervious to blades and bullets, capable of withstanding bullets with kinetic energy below a certain value and external attacks.
The effect is amazing, but that's all it can do.
The advantage is that, although it seems to be a disposable item, this layer of stone armor will actually stay on the body's surface for a period of time.
This is one of the reasons why Xiao Honglu did not choose the Vajra Talisman that the Zhongzhou team used before.
After all, the Vajra Talisman, being a defensive talisman, only lasts for a brief moment.
As for the Golden Light Talisman, which differs from the Vajra Talisman by only one character, its effect is as self-explanatory as its name suggests.
It will release a light golden shield under energy attacks.
For example, aggressive water or flames can trigger the light shield.
In Qingchen's words, the effect of the Stone Armor Talisman is that it makes one invulnerable to swords and spears.
The Golden Light Talisman is impervious to water and fire.
As for why there are so few Stone Armor Talismans now, the reason is quite simple.
That was during the experiment last night.
No matter how the two tested it or even fired shots, when carrying two different talismans at the same time, only the Stone Armor Talisman would be activated in the end.
In the end, it was Qingchen who came up with the idea of using fire attacks, which allowed him to test the correct way to use the Golden Light Talisman.
But no matter what.
Looking at the two small stacks of yellow talismans, Li Qingqing felt very safe.
She was very glad that she had kept several talismans close to her body the night before.
If that's not the case.
The people sleeping here now are not the two of them, but that white-collar worker who doesn't even have a name.
It turned out to be at the last moment.
The whistling sound of the long stick also became the reason why Li Qingqing was exposed.
Perhaps it's because he just committed murder and his adrenaline hasn't subsided yet.
The white-collar worker, who was originally limping and could only move forward by holding onto the wall, suddenly lunged forward like a startled rabbit the moment she heard the noise.
But just when he thought he could dodge the attack from behind.
To his surprise, the figure behind him was not only faster but also leaped forward recklessly.
A dull thud was heard in mid-air.
Although the long stick hit its mark, the movement was distorted and it struck the office worker's shoulder instead.
The injured office worker fell to the ground, and the one lying face down revealed a ruthless expression.
Even ignoring the pain in his body, he rolled over and before he could even see what was behind him, he had already pulled the trigger.
Bang!Bang!Bang!
In the darkness, with the help of the three flashes from the bullets, the white-collar worker could clearly see the layer of stone armor that had formed on the surface of the skin.
At that very moment, his face showed utter panic.
"Wait a minute..."
He hadn't finished speaking.
The second blow, leaving an afterimage, came crashing down at close range.
Boom!
Look at this guy whose eyes are rolling back.
The figure holding the long staff finally released his lower lip, which he had been biting.
"Huff, huff..."
Li Qingqing, who had regained her breath, knelt down as her legs gave way. She released the wooden stick and supported herself on the ground with both hands, which made her feel much better.
The blood flowing on the ground stained her calves and palms.
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"Qingqing? Qingqing?"
"what happened to you?"
Hearing the call, Li Qingqing came back to her senses.
She turned to look at Qingchen, who was already dressed in his training uniform and carrying two backpacks. The girl quickly shook her head.
I put on my backpack and followed them.
"Wait, sir, there's also a gun!"
Aren't you going to take the gun?
Before Li Qingqing could turn around, Qingchen grabbed her arm.
"No need, we won't need guns anymore."
"Do you think an assault rifle with only twelve bullets would be effective against those Transformers?"
Li Qingqing recalled the few movie scenes that remained in her mind and subconsciously shook her head.
Let alone assault rifles, even twelve fully armed special infantrymen didn't think they could take down a single Decepticon robot by focusing their fire.
Thinking about the enemies she might face next, Li Qingqing couldn't help but show a contradictory expression of anticipation and fear.
The girl smiled wryly and followed, casually glancing around the room. She tore a strip of cloth from the bed sheet beside her and tied her hair up haphazardly.
He then ran a few steps and helped the stiff-moving Qingchen up.
As the two entered the passage behind the closed door from the corner, the last bit of light in the duty room disappeared completely.
The two newlyweds, a man and a woman, walked completely into the darkness.
They walked hand in hand, and although there were no torches to light their way like yesterday, Li Qingqing felt that it was nothing special.
I didn't even feel scared at all.
At that moment, she suddenly understood a sentence.
That is, the best way to overcome fear is to face it directly.
How did you rest yesterday?
Li Qingqing rubbed her neck and asked curiously:
"Uncle, you know what? I thought I'd have nightmares or not be able to sleep, but I fell asleep as soon as I lay down, and the quality of my sleep was pretty good."
"I had a bit of a headache when I woke up, but I was fine after taking the medicine."
Qingchen laughed in the darkness:
"That's normal, because the antidote we took yesterday at noon couldn't completely make us immune to the toxins here."
"It only has the ability to detoxify, so as the effects of the medicine wear off, the symptoms of poisoning will appear."
"The gaseous toxins produced by the rapid accumulation and sedimentation of a large amount of decaying organisms can cause people to fall into a coma, then become weak, and finally suffer respiratory failure and cardiac arrest."
Hearing this series of words, Li Qingqing stared wide-eyed in astonishment, looking utterly incredulous.
He only spoke at the very end.
"So, sir, I didn't sleep well, I'm poisoned???"
Seeing Qingchen nod, Li Qingqing suddenly understood and exclaimed:
"Oh, that explains why you made me drink a sip of the potion before bed and then another sip after I woke up."
"So you were afraid I'd die?"
Seeing the figure in the darkness nod, Li Qingqing gave a thumbs up.
"Hurry up, uncle."
"Find that so-called control room you mentioned and turn on the ventilation system first."
"I don't want to fall asleep and never wake up again."
Qingchen smiled and continued:
"Wouldn't it be better to die in your sleep? At least then there's no pain, right?"
Li Qingqing tilted her head and thought about it for a while, and finally felt that it actually made some sense. Because she found that it didn't seem so bad after all.
After all, being shot, falling to one's death, or being poisoned all seem to be painful.
Plans can't keep up with changes.
The two were walking.
Li Qingqing felt the arm she was holding suddenly stiffen.
Then Qingchen turned to the side, grabbed Li Qingqing's other shoulder with his right hand, and pressed his entire body against hers.
Li Qingqing's expression at this moment: ⊙_⊙
The two of them abruptly stopped and stood motionless against the wall.
Li Qingqing quickly realized what this person was doing, and immediately held her breath to minimize the sound her body made.
A dozen seconds later, Qingchen looked up in the darkness, staring at a certain spot, and murmured:
"The designer of this game is a real psychopath. They couldn't wait to start exploiting the newcomers as soon as the screening was completed..."
"Is it a certain death?"
Looking at Qingchen, who was talking to himself, Li Qingqing said nervously:
"Uncle, what do you mean by this?"
Wait, could it be those robots? Are there Transformers in the bomb shelter now?
Li Qingqing is not stupid; on the contrary, she can be described as intelligent.
She had guessed it yesterday: even if the veterans could clear out the first batch of robots in time, the timing of the second batch's arrival was entirely up to the game's designers.
The best-case scenario is three or four days from now; the worst-case scenario is now.
Faced with the problem, Qingchen chose to answer it with a question.
"Don't you think it's too quiet here, as if something is missing?"
Upon hearing this, Li Qingqing paused for a moment before remembering something.
He suddenly turned his head to look at the passage from which the two people behind him had come.
Yesterday, they only knocked that office worker unconscious; they didn't kill her.
The reason is simple: after this white-collar worker killed Feng Li.
Li Qingqing overheard this person complaining about losing 1,000 reward points for killing a teammate.
So she and Qingchen ultimately decided to simply strip the white-collar worker naked and tie her to the gate valve of the passageway.
From last night until this morning, this person had been awake for a long time and kept cursing the two despicable people.
Just before they left the duty room, they heard this man begging for mercy.
Because of the poisoning and injury, this person may be somewhat weak, but certainly not to the point of being completely silent.
It was even unusually quiet in this air-raid shelter filled with darkness.
Moreover, not only human voices, but also the scurrying of mice in the corners, had vanished without a trace.
So, where did they all go?
Or, to put it another way, are that white-collar worker and the rats underground still alive?
That's what I was thinking.
Scenes from various horror movies I'd seen before kept popping into my head uncontrollably.
But before Li Qingqing could even begin to feel fear,
A very faint but continuous buzzing sound came from the passage behind them.
This interrupted the girl's thoughts.
The sound was very weak and faint; if the two of them hadn't been sitting still and holding their breath, it would have been easily missed.
Li Qingqing swore she would never hear it.
The sound was like an electric current running through metal, or like some kind of precise mechanical joint repeatedly rotating and rubbing.
That is, at the same time as the sound appears.
Qingchen raised his hand, signaling Li Qingqing to calm down.
As the two of them came to a complete stop.
The tranquil darkness instantly engulfed everything.
Only the buzzing sound grew clearer, mixed with a soft "click" like gears meshing, as it approached from afar.
It seems as if it's slowly getting closer.
"It's not a rat!"
Li Qingqing lowered her voice to a very low hue, which trembled slightly.
"It's not just a rumor..."
Qingchen did not answer this somewhat naive question.
He very slowly pulled out one yellow talisman after another from the backpack behind him.
Then, adjusting his breathing, he squatted down and ran his fingers across the ground.
He picked up a thin piece of metal from the ground.
He put the fragment to his lips, blew on it gently, and then held it close to his ear.
After a moment, he spoke in an almost inaudible whisper:
That office worker is dead!
"...There's something behind us, not a living thing, it's a machine..."
Li Qingqing's back was instantly soaked with cold sweat.
It's obvious they hit the jackpot.
What you fear most is what you encounter.
The veterans had just left when they encountered these robots the very next day.
The entity that brought them in had no intention of letting the newcomers survive.
"retreat."
Qingchen only said one word before trying to pull her back.
But he was too slow.
So much so that the two of them hadn't walked more than a few steps,
The buzzing sound in the distance suddenly changed into a sharp hum.
This time the sound finally became clear.
Simultaneously.
Two scarlet lights appeared in the darkness at the end of the fork in the road.
They hovered in mid-air, like the eyes of some kind of monster, firmly locking onto the location of the two people in the darkness.
Upon witnessing this scene, Li Qingqing covered her mouth with her hand.
Immediately following this was the rhythmic thud of metal feet stomping on the ground.
Step by step, unhurried yet carrying a precise sense of pressure, they slowly approached them.
Having never encountered anything like this before, Li Qingqing reacted in a way that was very typical of an ordinary person.
That is, freezing in place, with your mind completely blank.
They even forgot to run.
This is the most basic reaction of an ordinary person.
Fortunately, she wasn't alone at the moment.
She saw Qingchen trying to shield her, but his slow movements seemed so powerless at this moment.
The red light is getting closer.
The buzzing sound was mixed with a mocking electronic synthesized voice.
However, the sound was intermittent, as if there was a problem with the equipment connection:
"Life signs...detect..."
"Another person of Asian descent?"
"Clear!"
"Continue the cleanup!"
As the last two words were repeated over and over.
A giant-like silhouette, its head resting on the ceiling of the passageway, finally emerged from the darkness.
The figure was about three meters tall, with a matte blackish-gray body and dangerous blue arcs of electricity flashing at the joints of its arms and legs.
Four black run-flat tires were mounted on the back of the limb joints.
A short tube, resembling a cannon muzzle, protruded from its back and slowly adjusted its angle as it moved forward, aiming at them.
In the darkness, a faint, calculating glint seemed to flash in Qingchen's eyes.
He suddenly threw the metal fragment in his hand forcefully towards the wall in the opposite direction!
Clang!
A crisp clanging sound echoed through the passageway.
The robot's red light instantly shifted towards the source of the sound, and the short tube on its back lit up with stored blue electricity. (End of Chapter)