Chapter 996: Underground Qinggang, the Homeless People’s “Counterattack”!

"MMP!"

"Do these gopher guys usually eat dung? This is too smelly!"

Just when the people in Pingtan Shelter seemed to have discovered a new world, they were immersed in all kinds of novelty.

Far away in Qinggang City, the trio walking on the sewer pipeline maintenance route also saw another "New World".

Because the undead were poured out in large quantities and black ash was left behind.

The thick excreta that was originally stuck in the upper sewage pipe has been completely squeezed into the lower pipe and started to "ferment".

During this period when the sewage discharge window is about to open, wisps of escaping gas have begun to gush out along sporadic pipe leaks.

It is hard to imagine that there can be a smell that makes people feel their eyes burning even after wearing goggles.

He accidentally almost stepped on a puddle of black and yellow objects. The old man quickly moved his feet away and couldn't stop cursing.

"Hurry, if we can't get out."

"Eat what you had last night every day, and after a while, you'll end up with the same thing."

Tao Mengzhe, who was recording the sewage route on the side, glared at Lao Dao.

From last night to now, the three of them have eaten four meals that were like pig food to satisfy their hunger.

The taste of that thing is not bad, with only a faint salty and irritating smell. Generally speaking, it is still within the acceptable range of humans. Moreover, the raw materials added in the overall production process are very simple, and it is very easy to be absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract.

But the problem is that its ingredient ratio is simply too contrary to the living habits of humans on earth.

In the long-term cave environment, Blue Star humans lack a large amount of vertical space for activities and can only live in a small area.

In order to maintain the activity of muscle cells and prevent muscle atrophy throughout the body.

They can only passively increase the proportion of protein intake and encourage the body to better maintain activity levels.

But humans on earth live on a vast surface. Even office workers have enough space to meet their activities.

In comparison, carbohydrates that can sustain body consumption are the favorites of humans on earth.

Other ingredients can be obtained in sufficient amounts from different foods.

Such completely different food intake habits have led to the fact that the kidneys of Blue Star humans have become extremely powerful for more than two hundred years.

Even protein in a hunger-satisfying meal, which accounts for up to 41%, can be easily broken down by the intestines and stomach, and then metabolized by the kidneys.

Of course, if you are a muscular man like Chu Ling Mo Zi who only cares about the ingredients, you will definitely be ecstatic.

But for ordinary humans on earth who are accustomed to a five-grain diet, it is still a bit too reluctant.

Long-term consumption is very likely to put a huge load on the kidneys and gastrointestinal tract, leading to a series of complications.

"Don't worry, we will definitely be able to get out." The male gunman walking at the front comforted him.

Compared with the danger on the ground, at least underground is quite safe.

Although those radiation beasts received a huge size bonus, they were rampaging on the ground like tanks.

But those originally narrow sewer entrances and exits can no longer be easily accessed.

"Are you sure that if you go through here and pass the sewage window, you can reach the Wandering Jungle?" Finally reaching the end of the pipe, seeing Rosas rubbing the back of his head and turning around, the old man asked with a subtle expression.

"Probably, but I'm not sure if the gopher guys from Sunny Harbor Sanctuary set traps here before."

After groping on the wall for a while, Rosas suddenly pressed on a spot.

Creak.

The wall that had no gaps suddenly sank a small amount, revealing a window large enough for a person to bend down and pass through.

"That's it, it seems they haven't discovered it yet!"

The dark passage has no end in sight.

The male gunman took out the flashlight from the small pocket on the left and shined it. The light traveled far and hit a corner.

"This passage is about 400 meters long. As long as we pass through it, we can reach the abandoned sewage window in Wandering Jungle!"

"There won't be any radioactive beasts that suddenly pop out, right?"

"Of course not." Rosas shook his head firmly, but judging from his evasive eyes, it was most likely that he only knew this path and had not walked it himself.

After lingering at the door for a while, the male gunman was the first to squat down and enter the passage.

This was probably a path built by the Red Core Shelter to maintain sewage pipes. Fine perforated ceramic tiles were laid on the ground for drainage, and the top of the head was double reinforced with stainless steel alloy plates.

Walking all the way to the end, the passage that turns left is slightly larger, barely enough for a person to bend down, stand up, and walk.

However, the closer to the sewage discharge window, the more obvious the putrid smell became. The noses of those who were exposed to the direct smoke began to feel sour, and when they opened their mouths, it was as if someone was pouring Xate into it.

In such a harsh environment, no wonder the Radiation Beast wouldn't ambush him.

Maybe even they can't withstand this continuous attack like a stink bomb.

"Come in!"

"It's safe inside!"

Holding back tears, the male gunman yelled.

The trio, including Rosas, began to walk towards the end of the passage with tears and runny noses.

Gan!

The old man couldn't help coughing several times and almost vomited out the hunger-satisfying meal he had eaten in the morning.

If it weren't for the fact that the experience gained on the game panel hadn't been increased three or four times faster, in this environment, even dogs wouldn't come!

Fortunately, the distance of this passage is not long.

After about five minutes, Rosas came to the end again and knocked at an inconspicuous place.

A door leading to the outside world quietly opened, and the "fresh" air instantly made the four people present shudder.

Of course, the freshness here is relative.

Although there is still a big gap with the air on the ground, it is full of strong odor.

But compared with the irritating smell just now, it can at least make people open their eyes now.

One step out.

With the light of the flashlight, the male gun brother went out of the pipe smoothly and stepped on the ground.

But the next moment, after seeing the surrounding scene, he was stunned.

Under the gray emergency light.

The platform ground where he is standing now is as huge as a square, with hundreds of pipes erected above his head.

At the end of the pipe, there is a heavy round alloy door with a height of at least more than 30 meters blocking it, like a gate to the sky.

Many corpses that have not yet weathered are hastily piled in front of the alloy door. It seems that they are already old.

In the near distance, there were several corpses wearing protective clothing, which were being transformed into "Giant View".

The sour and smelly corpse fluid flowed out through the gaps in the clothes, and a small pool accumulated on the ground. There were also some unfinished supplies scattered around.

Ugh.

The old Taoist priest who came down from behind took a look and finally couldn't help it. He lay down and began to vomit.

"They probably couldn't find a way out and suffocated to death in this confined space."

Rosas, who was used to seeing death, didn't care about this. He walked closer to observe for a while and gave a rough cause of death.

"When the sewage window is not open, the oxygen in the entire space will be sucked away by the huge exhaust fan, maintaining the negative pressure environment inside, thereby extending the calendar life of the parts. If you still want to get out at this time, there are only two ways."

"First, blow up the exhaust fan to restore the air pressure to normal."

"Second, leave through these hidden entrances and exits before absolute pressure is formed."

The few people lying on the ground are most likely to have run down from the upper entrances and exits in a panic when the Sunny Harbor Shelter cleared the mole man. Their backpacks are filled with a lot of supplies, including food, weapons, and some gadgets for emergency first aid.

But the strange thing is that they know how to get here, but don't know how to get out of here.

From the traces left near the place where they stayed, they couldn't even struggle.

"Could there be other causes of death?"

The male gun brother also came over and barely took a few glances.

The surface of the skin of the corpse after swelling has become a festering black and yellow, as if it was burnt.

The juice concentrated in the clothes that has not yet flowed out is a bit pale green, which is quite scary.

"Is it possible that they were poisoned first, and then came here and didn't have the energy to move forward?"

"It's possible. They left too few activity tracks."

Although the cautious dream hunter was reluctant, he still took out a small test tube from his backpack, which contained a slightly turbid yellow liquid.

"Brother, every grievance has its perpetrator, so don't seek revenge on me."

Muttering in his mouth, he opened the mouth of the test tube and poured the liquid on the exposed skin of the corpse.

Hiss

A faint burning sound was heard, and the liquid on the surface of the corpse instantly reacted with the yellow liquid.

A few strands of black precipitates that were not very obvious but did exist appeared at the reaction site.

"My goodness, is it such obvious arsenic poisoning?"

"What the hell, how do you know this?" The male gun brother squatted down and looked at the dream hunter curiously.

According to his understanding, the dream hunter's main job on Earth is just an ordinary university librarian.

Occasionally, he goes out to help people run weddings and arrange opening ceremonies as a side job.

The only thing that can be said is that they graduated from the top 2 Beijing University.

"Well, I occasionally read it in a book when I was free, and I didn't expect it to be useful."

Reading books is okay.

The dream hunter continued with a serious face: "Arsenic poisoning is not common now, but you must know about arsenic. Eating too much of that thing will cause arsenic poisoning. But they should have been dead for at least a week, and now there is such a high arsenic reaction in their bodies. It seems that the dose they took at that time should have exceeded the lethal dose by dozens of times."

"Didn't that guy say it was hypoxia?"

"Hypoxia?" The dream hunter nodded slightly: "That's right. Arsenic is highly toxic. Once it enters the body, it will cause serious damage to the cell respiratory enzymes, so that tissue cells cannot obtain oxygen normally, resulting in hypoxia. In addition, look at their nails. Generally, the bodies of normal deaths should not fall off and break in such a short time."

A detailed and meticulous autopsy is not the strong point of the few people present.

Based on the only information, we can only get the above information.

However, this information is enough for the next exploration.

"My Lords."

"We have to push their bodies over, otherwise we won't be able to leave next time we come here."

After getting over the taboo in my heart, I was not so afraid of what was happening in front of me.

The diligent Rosas may not have the word "respect" in his worldview. He found a crowbar from somewhere and quickly pushed all the bodies into the sewage duct on the ground, and threw some remaining supplies on the ground into it.

"We have to speed up. Once the window is opened, we only have half a day to stay."

"Soon, this place will be filled with a lot of urban water."

Except for the bodies on the ground, there are no other traces worth exploring.

Stop and rest for a while.

More than half an hour later, accompanied by a creaking sound, the heavy alloy door began to magically move to the left, and a fresh air that was so refreshing that it refreshed people came from the gap.

Gurgle.

Gurgle.

Hundreds of sewage pipes on the top began to work, rushing through the previous obstruction and going further away.

Seeing this, Rosas hurriedly got up and called the three people to walk sideways along the wall of the gap.

"Go up here and you will reach the Wandering Jungle!"

On the other side of the sewage window, there is a staircase leading directly to the upper floor.

Although many places have been rotten and broken, it is generally okay to walk.

Climbing up the stairs with difficulty, the alloy door at the end is still open, and cold wind blows out from it.

"What floor is it?"

"Should it be the sixteenth floor?" Rosas fumbled on the wall uncertainly for a while, but still couldn't find the place where the floors were marked.

"Sixteenth floor?" Dream Hunter frowned: "Wandering Alliance, hasn't the place below the twelfth floor been completely sealed off?"

"Of course it's sealed off, this is their lifeblood."

Rosas smiled and motioned the three to follow him in.

And through this passage, the surrounding space suddenly opened up.

Different from the interconnected design of other shelters, the Red Core Shelter has been a bit unconventional from the very beginning, wanting to completely separate each floor and set it up with different functions.

For example, this floor is specially used for

"Is this planting underground?"

No one maintains it, and only pale lights are on in the entire space.

It's like walking into a vegetable greenhouse, with rows of steel frames hundreds of meters long on both sides, and many plants hanging.

The soilless cultivation method is adopted, and the roots of these plants are in the water.

It's just that because the wanderers were captured recently and there are few people to maintain them, many plants have shown certain signs of withering.

"Fuck, who said that wanderers can't farm, are they secretly digging the roots of the mole guys behind their backs?"

"On the surface, they are still relying on the mole guys to survive, but in fact they are secretly doing this way"

"This is"

"Counterattack!"

Even if you don't know these plants on the shelf, you can find a lot of grass plants at a glance.

However, just when the dreamer wanted to go forward to take a closer look.

Suddenly.

The rifle on the back of the male gun brother appeared in his hand at some point, bursting out with blazing flames and roars.

"Get out of the way!"

"There is a radioactive beast!"