abyss rose

Chapter 46

But in a daze for a moment, the old man's limbs had been reduced to black vine branches, winding and spreading out like a long snake.

The moment the gunshot sounded, the bullet penetrated the brow and chest that had not yet completely mutated.

The moment the blood flowed out, the black vine buds pierced the wound, and fleshy blood-colored flowers bloomed on the old body.

They are like gangrene, devouring half of the old man's body almost greedily.

But in just a few seconds, the old man who was lying on the bed a minute ago had no flesh and blood left.

The vines made of mutated flesh and blood are growing wildly at a frightening speed, and they are about to cover this small bedroom. Chai Yuening turned around and rushed out of the room, not even daring to wait for the elevator, all the way to the stairs. Run at full speed.

"What happened? Why did the alarm go off?"

"Where did the gunshot come from just now?"

"What kind of alarm is this?"

"It sounds... like an experimental accident alarm..."

A panicked crowd gathered downstairs, their eyes were full of bewilderment, no one knew what happened.

"Look... look above... what is that!" The voice of the person who said this was extremely trembling.

Someone followed his gaze and looked up, the blankness in his eyes turned into panic at that moment.

"Heivine! It's Heivine!"

The deafening exclamation awakened the bewildered people.

Chai Yuening, who had just run downstairs, looked up amidst the exclamations, and saw that countless vine branches had already stretched out along the small window of the bedroom on the thirteenth floor, covering a full three floors of the building.

The terrifying growth rate shocked everyone who saw it with their own eyes.

"How can the black vine grow so fast!"

"It's like... like it's alive!"

"Main, E3 area of ​​the main city... Huh, call the city defense station of the main city..." The security personnel in the residential area were terrified, and the hands holding the communicator couldn't stop shaking, "Black vines, there are black vines, very fast It, I don't know where it came from..."

"This is the city defense post of the main city, please calm down and explain the situation."

"That's right, here we have a black vine that grows very fast..."

The security guard spoke in a panic, when suddenly someone came to his side, and with a heavy breathing sound, he snatched the communicator from his hand.

"you can not do that……"

He subconsciously reached out to grab it, but saw the man press the button to send the communication.

"Emergency communication!" Chai Yuening's words were calm and clear, "The body of the single household living alone at 3-13, Unit 06, Building D, E[-] District of the main city has undergone a mutation. , the vines are spreading wildly, please send support as soon as possible."

After a short wait, a response came from the communicator: "The city defense station of the main city has received it. We will send support immediately. Please close the community immediately and gather everyone in a safe place!"

"You heard it all, do it." Chai Yuening said, and returned the communicator to the security guard.

After a while, the loudspeakers in the community sounded, and people moved away from the building that seemed to be parasitized by black vines, and gathered in an open space.

The base alarm that sounded suddenly stopped after 3 minutes.

People in the community were in panic, and I don't know how long it took before a gentle and resolute female voice sounded on the radio.

"Good afternoon, all base residents."

"Just now, the base sounded a city-wide alarm. The alarm signal was 'severe experimental accident alarm', and the signal was sent from the base research institute."

"After the alarm sounded, the military got in touch with the research institute of the base as soon as possible, and it has been confirmed that there was no dangerous experiment in the institute. The alarm was triggered by the experimenters of the institute. Everything is fine in the base. Everyone There is nothing to worry about, let alone panic."

"Please firmly believe that the floating city base will always be an indestructible fortress for human beings."

The base broadcast sounded, but the black vines in front of him didn't stop growing wildly, and it didn't take long for them to cover half of the tall buildings.

Chai Yuening stared blankly at the black vines struggling to grow under the scorching afternoon sun, and the fear in her heart turned into boundless bewilderment inch by inch.

The white-haired old man seemed to have been waiting for something to call him before shedding his human skin.

She has mutated, but she doesn't attack humans like wild beasts on the ground.

She seems to be just following the instinct of plants, clinging to everything that can be clinging, as if trying to break through the bondage, she desperately keeps growing outwards.

It's like looking for freedom...

The thin mist, floating under the golden sunlight, seemed to dissipate, but lingered for a long time.

People seem to have discovered that the crazily growing vines have no attack power, except for their terrifying growth speed, they are no different from those black vines on the ground.

They stood in the distance and pointed at it, and the initial fear dissipated amidst the discussions.

The people from the city defense station came very quickly. They brought high-temperature cutting blades specially used to clean up black vines, and ran into the tall building that had been completely covered by black vines.

At the same time, everyone was called to stand in line, and one by one, they were tested for infection.

Chai Yuening stood in the queue absent-mindedly, and the long wait made her feel a little irritable.

Suddenly, she saw the old man's family members leading an officer to her.

"It's her. She has been taking care of my grandma recently. There is no sign of infection on weekdays. How can it mutate?"

The man who spoke was in his early thirties, and when he mentioned the mutation of the old man at home, there was no trace of grief in his eyes, and the urgency to get rid of the matter was revealed between the lines.

His voice was very loud, and the people in line at the side cast surprised glances, and distanced themselves from Chai Yuening, as if they were afraid that they would be infected.

The officer took a deep look at Chai Yuening: "Did you send the distress message received by the city defense?"

Chai Yuening: "I sent it."

"Did you witness the mutation of that old man with your own eyes?" the officer asked, "Are there any other witnesses besides you?"

"She mutated. I saw it with my own eyes. She was lying on the bed. At that time, she said something weird, and the alarm rang, and she mutated." Chai Yuening said, "Before the complete mutation, I shot her twice, in the heart and forehead. , she must have died under normal circumstances, but it is of no use to her, the mutation has not stopped at all."

"There are no witnesses. Isn't this just your nonsense? My grandma hasn't been out of the house for many years. How could she be infected? Even if she is infected, it can't be her problem, maybe it's..."

"Quiet." The officer interrupted the old man's family and asked Chai Yuening seriously, "You said she said strange things before she mutated?"

"Yes, she said..." Chai Yuening hadn't finished speaking when she saw the officer winking at her.

She frowned, and swallowed the words that came to her lips.

"Could you please come with us?"

"Yes." Chai Yuening nodded.

After being led to jump in line for an infection monitoring, Chai Yuening was taken to the city defense center.

In the rest room with cameras, the officer poured her a glass of warm water and asked seemingly casually, "That man, what did you say to you before the mutation?"

"She asked me to listen, I don't know what she wants me to hear... She blew there for a while, and then her eyes were very empty, like a dead person, she turned and smiled at me, and then said..." Chai Yuening recalled After a while, he said seriously, "What did she say... here I am, I have waited, his call."

"Who?"

"I don't know, I just said 'he'."

The officer was silent for a few seconds, raised his eyes and asked, "Are you sure that's all she said?"

Chai Yuening nodded: "I'm sure."

The officer wanted to say something, but suddenly there was a sound from the communicator.

He turned and walked out of the room, leaving Chai Yuening alone.

Not long after, the door was pushed open, and the officer stood at the door, looking at her with a complicated expression.

"Is your name Chai Yuening?"

"I'm."

"Then please come with me again."

"Where are you going this time?"

"Base Research Institute."

The officer said, turned and walked ahead.

At that moment, Chai Yuening quickly stood up and followed closely behind as if sleepwalking.

In fact, she knew that today's alarm was by no means simple.

She had done a lot of work for the military at the base of the dungeon. Even though she hadn't been to the city defense center of the main city, she had been to the city defense building in the outer city many times.

Even if it's just the alarm system in the outer city, there will be at least three protection programs, and there is no possibility of accidental touch.

Is the alarm program of the main city of the floating city more random than that of the outer city of the dungeon?

The old man's mutation is too weird. She has been to the land so many times since she was a child, hunted and killed an unknown number of strange beasts, and seen an unknown number of human beings who died of mutation, but she has never heard of anyone who was hacked. Vine infection is lethal.

Human scientists have unanimously determined that black vines are not infectious unless energy is extracted in a special way and injected into organisms.

Moreover, she has been taking care of the old man for several months, the incubation period of human infection and mutation cannot be that long, not to mention the old man's family members said that the old man has not left that room for many years.

It's all so weird, it doesn't make sense at all.

Something must have happened to the base research institute.

This conclusion drawn from the bottom of my heart made Chai Yuening restless on the way to the research institute.

Could all these abnormalities have something to do with Chu Ci?

How is Chu Ci now, will she have a chance to meet her?

As long as she thought of this, she felt that her heart was about to jump out.

But when she actually came to the base research institute, what she saw in front of her eyes made her calm down quickly.

People in the floating city would not know that while the main city army assured them that the base was absolutely safe, the fully enclosed high-tech research institute was already covered with black vines.

The researchers hurried through the fog.

Cleanup personnel sent by the military were also running through the fog.

"I can't hide it, they grow too fast, there is no time to clean them..."

"Not only the research institute in the main city, but also the black vines stored in the outer city have grown abnormally, and even sliced ​​samples can grow by themselves!"

"They seem to be stimulated by some kind, they..."

"It seems to have suddenly come alive..."

"What's going on with your research? Didn't you say that there will be no problems?"

"Sorry, we don't know either..."

Their words were full of anxiety.

Chai Yuening passed by an ordinary laboratory, and she saw a black vine used to extract the energy body, growing outwards from the broken glass jar at a strange speed.

Just like the old man who had a mutation.

Chai Yuening stared blankly at everything passing by in front of her eyes. When she was in a state of confusion, she was taken into an office where the fog was thinner.

A familiar voice woke her up.

"Chai Yuening."

"Dr. Yi?" Chai Yuening frowned and asked, "What happened here?"

"You may have already guessed why I asked you to come here." Yi Shuyun looked at her calmly, "There is something wrong with this experiment, we may need your help, but I must remind you that once you know something , then before the end of the experiment, no matter whether you can really help us or not, no matter what happens outside, you will not be able to leave here."

"Are you afraid of facing the truth? If it is far more cruel than you imagined." She said, with a smile that almost sighed, "If you are afraid, leave now, keep your mouth shut, and you can still be an ordinary person." people."

"I'm not afraid." Chai Yuening took two steps forward, "Doctor, please tell me what happened here?"

Yi Shuyun was silent for a long time, and slowly closed his eyes.

"Sample A0027 showed signs of non-infectious mutation for the first time in the latest fusion experiment."

"The sample's mood is extremely unstable, and the human will...is disappearing."