abyss rose

Chapter 1

"Affected by the growing season, the ground signal tower has been covered by black vines. Recently, the signal inside and outside the base is temporarily unstable. The military will recover and repair it as soon as possible. The estimated time is about half a month. Please wait patiently."

"Recently, there has been a surge of beasts. Experts believe that this is related to the growing season of black vines and the expansion of the fog area. I believe that with the efforts of the military, the tide will ebb within two months at most."

"According to research, the giant alien...scavenging invertebrates that passed through the base a few months ago...has a hazard index of..."

"Zi-"

In the old radio, the calm female voice was disturbed intermittently by the sudden rustling electric current, and in the end there was only the whistling electric current that seemed to never stop.

In the squad base transformed from a garage, a bare light bulb hung from the roof, shining a somewhat dim light.

The shutter door was ajar, barely wide enough for a person to stoop in.

The thermos cup held by the girl in the wheelchair with glasses was still steaming.

The woman sitting by the wall raised her eyebrows and glanced, then lowered her head and wiped the gun as if nothing had happened.

A tall man got out from under the armored vehicle, with the tool on his waist, walked to the radio in a few steps, and shot "bang bang" to the radio.

"Old Xiang, keep your voice soft." The woman cleaning the gun didn't lift her head.

The big man turned around and yelled at the other side of the wheelchair: "Lonicera, when are you going to replace this broken thing with a new one? It won't work at all."

"The signal tower at the base was buried, the signal problem, the new one and the old one are the same."

"It's such a bad day."

"When it really comes to the end, the head will be gone." Liandong said, "You'd better fix the car quickly, because everyone still eats by pointing at it."

"It's fixed, I'm going to install the chassis after I catch my breath, and I'm sure it will drive fast, smooth and stable this time."

"You always say that..." Lonicera muttered softly.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps from far to near, and a panting person came in, his eyes flickered around the three of them.

"No...it's not good..." He said out of breath.

The woman cleaning the gun raised her head, frowning slightly.

The big man unconsciously wiped the sweat from his palms on his body.

Lonicera: "What's wrong?"

"I, I heard from the city defense that... the captain and that bastard from District [-] went out to the ground!"

"When did this happen?"

"Just last night!"

"Old Xiang, Chassis!"

"immediately!"

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The boundless dense fog shrouded the ruins of human cities in the old world.

Just after a few days of spring rain, the air on the ground is humid.

The high-power fog lights of large armored vehicles illuminate the sight in the dense fog.

In the dense fog and under the lights, a kind of black vine can be seen everywhere in the ruins.

Known as black vines, the vines sprout in cracks in concrete floors.

Some stay underground, while others climb to high places, wrapping around poles, columns or walls like snakes and growing upwards, blooming succulent-like flowers.

Scholars at the base agreed that the heavy fog in the foggy area was all "vomited" by the black vines.Fortunately, the black vine doesn't attack any creatures, and the mist it exhales is not poisonous.

They just grow quietly among the countless ruins shrouded in dense fog. No matter the flowers or the vines, they all overflow with dark red or deep purple shimmer, adding a strange beauty to this dilapidated old world.

The resting compartment of the armored vehicle is dimly lit.

Clutching a stopped rusty watch in her hand, Chai Yuening looked silently at the tall buildings passing by through the small round window.

Outside the cabin door of the lounge, several loud voices who were overjoyed were estimating the value of the body of the giant insect beast that the base radio had mentioned countless times.

It was a giant rotten invertebrate arthropod mutant animal. A while ago, it left the dense fog area for some reason and ran to the ground in the misty area near the base. As a result, it was seriously injured by the military.

This kind of alien monster usually has great research value, and its hard shell makes it full of treasures. Whether it is sold to the military or sold on the black market, it is a lot of wealth.

Because of this, apart from the base military, many mercenary teams and bounty hunters have become very interested in it.

Luo Kun's mercenary group is one of them.

Five hours ago, this group of guys knew that they would step into the sixth-level risk zone if they continued to go deeper, but they were still fascinated by the high bounty of the giant beast, and chased the injured giant insect into the depths of the fog zone.

The armored vehicle followed in the footsteps of the behemoth to an old city that was not easy to drive.

Everyone jumped out of the car and explored the way with flashlights. Not long after, they were frightened by a sudden wave of beasts.

In order to escape for their lives, they even left behind a few fellow travelers who were too late to get on the bus.

As one of the people who was left behind, Chai Yuening was luckier than the other two who were devoured by the beast.

Relying on her own experience in facing danger, she survived successfully, and met a broken truck that could still start.

When I met this group of guys again, I also provided them with the direction of the giant beast's corpse "regardless of previous suspicions".

But the bounty for hunting the giant beast this time has nothing to do with her.

As the captain of the elite mercenary team at the base, she left the team alone at such a time when it was obviously not suitable for going out on missions, risking her life to cooperate with those outside the lounge who only care about benefits but not friendship, just because of a situation that has nothing to do with money. transaction.

Chai Yuening sighed angrily.

The girl who curled up with her knees in the corner for a long time suddenly raised her eyes and looked at her faintly.

The girl looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, with a petite figure, milky white complexion, long blood-stained silver hair scattered around, somewhat covering her face.

But her eyes are very beautiful, and she can't stop her beauty.

Those were a pair of rare brown-red eyes, the brown was not deep, the red was not deep, and they were as clear as the red amber.

Just like her, she was so beautiful in the dark corner that she was silent and quiet, as if all the noise outside had nothing to do with her.

Being watched by such a pair of eyes, no one can pretend that they did not see.

But the girl hasn't said a few words since she was rescued.

It may be a blow, or it may be overly frightened.

It was also the first time Chai Yuening saw this girl.

Just three hours ago, in the ruins of a city deep in the fog zone.

At that time, she didn't have time to return to the armored vehicle. In order to avoid the hunting of the herd, she fled all the way to the nuclear ruins area where there were relatively few black vines.

Herds of beasts like to move around where black vines grow, and some ruins where nuclear wars broke out are not conducive to the growth of black vines.

If the fog is not thick, there will be relatively fewer infected animals.

Along the way, she saw the corpse of the giant beast that was seriously injured by the guns of Luo Kun and his men.

After all, it couldn't escape too far, and died in a place that the group of humans dared not break into.

But Chai Yuening has no intention of collecting money at all, and just wants to escape quickly.

Such a huge corpse cannot be carried away by herself.

The cold city ruins were extremely quiet.

Ordinary low-level beasts will not appear in this area, but giant beasts with stronger survival and evolution capabilities often like to occupy this relatively clean territory.

In the foggy area, the quieter the more dangerous, it was her former fighting teacher who told her.

Chai Yuening was worried all the way, there were still two bullets in the gun, if they were all used up, there would be only one dagger left to defend herself.

Fortunately, she was not bad luck and found a broken truck.

The doors and windows of the truck were gone. On the driver's seat, the upper body of the driver's corpse was gone, and the lower body was already a rotting bone that had been eaten by countless things.

Chai Yuening was used to seeing such scenes, and stepped forward to tear apart half of the corpse.

With the car keys still in the car, the dilapidated car can still start.

This made her breathe a long sigh of relief.

But just as she started the accelerator and was about to leave, there was a very low whimper not far away.

It's like someone who is injured and is afraid of being discovered and endures the pain.

It's just that in such a quiet city ruins, even the slightest sound is very noticeable, and this suppression obviously has no effect.

Chai Yuening's heart suddenly reached her throat.

Human beings were injured by ground beasts, even if they were not eaten, even if the wounds were treated correctly, there is a certain probability of infection and mutation.

In the current growing season, the beasts in the foggy area are particularly active. Even if there are survivors in this high-risk area, [-]% of them will be infected.

She is one of the very few people in the base who have been to this area. She knows the way back, and there is a high probability that she can get back alive.

No one is a saint, and this is not a place where you can stay for a long time.

If the time is delayed, when night falls, the fog will thicken, and it will be more difficult to discern the direction.

At that time, she was sitting in that dirty driver's seat, as long as she stepped on the accelerator, everything behind her would have nothing to do with her.

But after struggling for a while, she still jumped out of the driver's seat, moved towards the source of the voice, and touched it lightly.

She thought, what if.

In case he was a victim who was not infected, wouldn't he completely cut off a living person's way of life if he left?

Take a step back, if it is an infected person.

If it is...

She can at least send a way, let the other party die in the appearance of a human being.

So, Chai Yuening met this girl.

It was difficult for her to describe her inner feelings at that moment, because she saw a girl who was incompatible with the ruins on the second floor of a dilapidated building.

At that moment, the girl was squatting by the broken wall, her body was covered with blood, and now she was half covered with blood-stained coat, revealing her milky white shoulders and neck.

The girl's right leg and two arms were seriously injured, and it was obvious that it was very difficult to lift up. At this moment, she was biting the blood-stained cloth strips torn from her clothes, as if she was bandaging the deepest part of her arm. that wound.

In her right hand, she held a bloody knife tightly.

Chai Yuening could see the purpose of that knife at a glance - it was used to gouge out wounds.

Experienced veteran mercenaries, in order to reduce the probability of being infected by alien beasts, often gouged out the entire wound.

This girl looks very young, very beautiful, and has a very petite body. No matter how she looks, she looks like a child from a rich family living in the main city, but she can treat herself so cruelly.

Chai Yuening subconsciously took two steps forward, and the girl raised her eyes.

She looked at the girl, and the girl looked at her.

Those blood-colored amber-like eyes were full of vigilance towards strangers.

It is vigilance, nothing else.

There was no trace of joy and anticipation in those eyes when human beings grasped at straws, nor was there any fear of being killed by the same kind of human beings who were about to mutate due to infection.

This look in the eyes made Chai Yuening a little at a loss.

After a long period of silence, Chai Yuening put the gun back to the best place on his waist, and then waved his empty hands to indicate that he did not have any malicious intentions.

She moved forward again, and the girl's eyes moved along with her.

Finally, she stopped one meter away from the girl, leaning her back against a remnant wall, and gave the girl a friendly smile.

"Do you need help?" Chai Yuening asked.

The girl's gaze was still fixed on her, which made her very uncomfortable.

After a brief moment of embarrassment, Chai Yuening took out a roll of clean medical gauze from her tool bag.

"Maybe you need this."

As Chai Yuening said, she moved the hand holding the gauze forward a little.

The girl's vigilant expression froze for a moment, and after a few seconds of silence, the vigilance in her eyes eased slightly.

Chai Yuening was afraid that he would frighten her by going forward, so she just threw the gauze on the girl's lap through the air, and once again stood still and watched silently.

It was very difficult for the girl to bandage the wound alone. Chai Yuening, a bystander, frowned and wanted to help several times, but she would be stared at if she moved her feet a little. In the end, she had to stand aside for a long time.

As the sky above his head was getting dark, Chai Yuening began to feel a little uneasy.

She frowned and looked at the girl in front of her: "I'm leaving."

"At night, the road will be difficult to read." Chai Yuening said, "I don't know what happened to make you so wary of a similar person... But no matter what happened, this place is very dangerous. You are seriously injured. I I want to help you, if you are willing to accept, you can go with me, there is a car not far away, I can find the way back to the base."

I don't know if she remembered something, but the girl's eyes could not help but wander, as if she was lost in thought for a while.

"If you don't mind, I can take you home first when you arrive at the base."

I don't know what touched her heart, and the girl's expression was a little more blurred than before, like a small animal that couldn't find its home in a rainy night.

Such gazes made people feel a little distressed.

Chai Yuening looked up at the misty distance, and sighed softly: "Or, you can sense signs of infection in your body and dare not go back? If so, I really can't take you back, you know Yes, even if you are not discovered by the city defense, you will be killed when your body changes. If you want to fend for yourself here, I respect you. If... you want to die in a human form, I can also ..."

At this point, she paused for a while.

What can she do?

There are still two bullets in the gun at her waist, she can indeed give this girl a ride.

She had learned a similar lesson in the book. When a human being is infected by a strange beast, if he can die before mutating, that is the most dignified way to die.

People don't call this murder, but redemption.

Human beings, living in this world, no matter how difficult it is, they should come and go as human beings.

But for some reason, when she met those eyes full of helplessness and bewilderment, she couldn't make herself say such cruel words.

For a moment, she wished that the girl had no signs of infection, and wished that she could send the girl home.

A moment of silence was gently broken by a sentence.

"I'm not infected."

The girl's voice was extremely cold, and that was the first sentence she uttered.

In the end, she raised her eyes and looked at Chai Yuening again: "I... want to go with you."

Chai Yuening froze for a moment, then nodded after regaining consciousness.

She lowered her head and took out a reagent from her bag, and tentatively said, "Just in case, you... why don't you test it first?"

It was a reagent used by the base to simply test the infectivity, the civilian version, the accuracy rate is not very high, but it is somewhat useful.

No matter how kind-hearted she was, she didn't dare to take a person who had been injured in the fog zone by her side without doing any tests.

It's just that the girl was too vigilant before, she didn't dare to take this thing out at all, for fear that if she took it out, the girl would lose control of her emotions like most people who are afraid of being killed after being infected.

But it turns out that she was overthinking.

The girl took the reagent very calmly, and under Chai Yuening's guidance, dripped her own blood into the reagent.

While waiting for the test results, Chai Yuening only felt that her hands were covered with cold sweat, and every minute and every second was too long.

It wasn't until the pocket watch showed that a quarter of an hour had passed, and the reagent fused with blood still showed a relatively normal color, which made her breathe a long sigh of relief.

She took two steps closer, and seeing that the girl didn't dodge, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows with a smile, wiped the cold sweaty hand on her body, and then stretched out towards her generously.

The cool spring breeze messed up her short blond hair, and couldn't remove the warmth from the corners of her mouth.

The girl was slightly taken aback.

She pursed her lips, completely suppressed the guard in her eyes, and held the hand that was offered to her.

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The author has something to say:

This article is double strong, the wasteland of the last days, human x alien, and the alien is a vest boss.Part of the world view refers to "The Spirit Cage", and the other part is self-made.

The subject matter of this article is very cold, and it is entirely for love. Collection and commenting are very, very important to me. To care for authors of cold subject matter, and to create a sustainable and beautiful tomorrow, start with bookmarking and commenting.It is said that with every point of warmth, the little author will have more motivation to code words!