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date="2021-01-03"

title="Episode 209 "

weight="115304"

series = ["Undying Patient"]

mode = "manual"

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"Hold on to me." The man supported his body and tied the two of them together with a long strap.

Su Jinzhi leaned on him and asked: "What will happen if I don't hold it firmly?"

The man's movements paused, and then he said, "It doesn't matter, I will hold on to you."

After speaking, he turned his body, grabbed the cable in the elevator corridor and started climbing. Su Jinzhi was backed by him, his legs swayed slightly in mid-air, and his feet were as high as a five-story building. Once the elevator shaft fell down, he would definitely die, but Su Jinzhi didn't feel scared at all.

The zombies that broke through the separation wall and fell from the fifth floor quickly rushed to the elevator entrance. Most of them were slow and lack the ability to think. Even if there was no way to go on, they would not stop, just like they did before. They fell from the elevator door to the elevator shaft one after another as they fell to the fifth floor.

Su Jinzhi and the others climbed up while listening to the crisp sound of the zombies falling and breaking their spine. To be honest, the sound was terrifying, but because it came from the zombies, it was still beautiful, but none of them looked back. Look down, because not all zombies are elementary zombies.

There are still several high-level zombies held in that isolation room. Compared with ordinary zombies, they move faster, have stronger bodies, and even have a certain amount of thinking ability. They observe Jiang Lishan’s climbing movements and quickly learn They grabbed the cable and snarled and chased up.

Xu Haoyu’s stamina was the weakest among his group, and Jiang Lishan climbed faster than him even with a person on his back. When Xu Haoyu was halfway through the climb, he suddenly felt something touched his leg: "Fuck?! What is touching my leg?"

"Zombie." The bear man stopped, raised his gun and made a cut on the forehead of the zombie who had caught up with Xu Haoyu, "Xu Haoyu, you fucking crawl faster!"

"Then you carry me!" Xu Haoyu also shouted, "I want someone to carry it too!"

Xiong Nan curled his mouth and said in disgust, "Then you should go down."

Su Jinzhi hugged Jiang Lishan's neck and comforted Xu Haoyu and said, "If you insist, we will be there soon."

Xu Haoyu: "..."

Xu Haoyu looked at Su Jinzhi with envy, and finally waited for everyone to open the elevator door on the seventh floor before pulling him up, shutting a group of high-ranking zombies slowly catching up outside the elevator.

"Will they open the elevator?" Xu Haoyu looked at the closed elevator doors and was still a little frightened. The psychological shadow left by the elevator this time was too deep. "I really don't understand, that big one. Isn’t it possible to install a staircase in the experimental center? An elevator must be installed?"

"If you install the stairs, these zombies will run faster." Xiong Nan removed the empty magazine and replaced it with a new one. He fired a few shots at the elevator and completely broke the key to the elevator, ensuring that the elevator cannot be opened again. Said, "If only elevators are installed in the laboratory building, then once an accident occurs, the floor can be quickly sealed to prevent the zombie virus from spreading."

The most important safety rule of the experimental building is to block it. Once any accident occurs, the base would rather abandon all the experimental personnel and materials in the entire building than allow the zombies to escape and repeat the tragedy that occurred in the end of the year.

Therefore, no matter which experimental center is near the base, only one mobile elevator will always be installed.

Xu Haoyu turned around after seeing that the elevator won't open again. However, after seeing the corpses and wreckage on the seventh floor, he took a small breath and looked at Su Jinzhi: "This is where you ran out."

Su Jinzhi nodded: "Yes."

Xu Haoyu shook his head and exclaimed: "Then your journey is really exciting."

"There are no living people on this floor." Su Jinzhi said, "I saw it when I left. Would you like to go to the sixth floor?"

"The sixth floor is the lounge for ordinary employees." Xu Haoyu glanced at the floor map of the experimental center on his laptop and said, "There may be survivors."

The flat-headed woman said: "Then go and see."

"Okay." Xu Haoyu nodded, took out the mini-bomb from his backpack, and walked towards the office next to him as he said, "I'll see where it can be exploded—"

However, he stopped in the middle of speaking.

"What's the matter?" The flat-headed woman also followed him, and when she saw everything in front of her, she was also silent.

Because Xu Haoyu can save the effort of blasting the ground or the ceiling. The ground on the seventh floor has already broken a big hole. Depending on the situation, someone had smashed it through with something, and there was a hole in the ceiling not far away. It looks like you can go straight to the eighth floor.

"I think..." Xu Haoyu swallowed, looking at the blood stains near the entrance of the cave, "We can save time to check the sixth floor."

Everyone suddenly remembered that when they were on the second floor, the elevator they saw was stopped on the seventh floor. The thing must have left from the second floor and went directly to the seventh floor. After they blew up the elevator, they learned how to break it. Open the entrance to the sixth or eighth floor.

But no matter what the person who made the hole is, it is unlikely to leave any survival.

"It must have stood here and watched us." The flat-headed woman walked to the monitor screens on the seventh floor that started working again because the power was restored. Those screens monitored everything from the first to the seventh floor, and there was some blood stains on the screen. The appearance was wiped off by hand, as if someone had touched one of them across the screen.

The flat-headed woman pressed a few more times on the keyboard, turned on all the video devices on the sixth floor, and shook her head after watching it once: "I really don't need to go, there is no liveliness on the sixth floor."

"Twenty-five hours have passed since we got here." Xu Haoyu was silent for a while, and then continued to ask, "Then shall we continue to go up or—"

Jiang Lishan glanced sideways, glanced at Su Jinzhi without a trace, and said: "Let's rest here for a while. We don't know what that thing is yet. We have to be a little bit prepared."

The flat-headed girl glanced at her hand and said, "Then take a rest on the spot. You can eat something to replenish your strength. After half an hour, we will continue to go up."

The bear man nodded, sat down in a clean place, took out the dry food from the backpack to replenish his strength, and took a bite of the kettle.

Xu Haoyu's expression was a bit painful. He looked at the corpses and broken limbs on the ground, frowned and said, "Aren't you nauseous when you eat these things? I'm going to vomit just by smelling it."

"You will get used to it by smelling more." Jiang Lishan said after taking a look at him, "The surface of scientific research, smell is the least sensitive of all the five senses."

Xu Haoyu curled his mouth: "But I feel these smells are raping my nose."

Everyone was amused by his statement for an instant.

Su Jinzhi said: "Would you like to go to my room?"

"Your room?" Jiang Lishan looked at him.

"Yeah." Su Jinzhi replied, "It's on the seventh floor. It might be...cleaner."

Su Jinzhi is telling the truth, because he will not be actively attacked by zombies, so those zombies will not run to his "room" to make trouble. When he left, his quilt and room were still white.

"Okay, okay, let's go." Xu Haoyu's eyes lit up as soon as he heard the clean words, and stepped a few steps in front of Su Jinzhi and said excitedly, "The mountain will lead us to go!"

The flat-headed girl also said: "Then go to Shanqian's room and have a look."

Su Jinzhi walked ahead when he heard the words and led them towards his isolation room, but when he left, he said that the room was white and clean. When he saw it again, there were bloody footprints on the ground, and the bed was also white. There is a blood palm, it seems that someone has been here before.

However, everyone did not notice this place. Su Jinzhi did not say how clean the isolation room was when he left, so they felt that this room with only a string of bloody footprints was indeed much pleasing to the eye than the outside scene.

"Shan Qian, is this where you usually live?" Xu Haoyu walked over and sat down on the bed.

"Yeah." Su Jinzhi's expression was a bit solemn, "Someone has been here."

Xu Haoyu didn't hear him clearly: "What?"

Su Jinzhi pointed to the bloody footprints and said: "When I left, there was no such footprints in the house."

Jiang Lishan asked him: "Are you sure?"

"OK." Su Jinzhi nodded.

"Don't doubt it." Xu Haoyu shrugged, "It must be the guy who made the hole."

The ponytail woman sneered when she heard Xu Haoyu's words, and looked at Su Jinzhi: "So why did that guy come to you?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes focused on Su Jinzhi.

Su Jinzhi said: "I don't know."

Jiang Lishan walked a few steps forward, blocking in front of Su Jinzhi, and turned the subject away: "Let’s eat."

Anyone with long eyes can see Jiang Lishan's maintenance intentions, so the ponytail woman only glanced at them when she saw it, and then walked aside, opened her backpack and started eating.

Jiang Lishan took Su Jinzhi to a corner to sit down and handed him a compressed biscuit: "I'll eat it for you."

Su Jinzhi ran with them for so long. To tell the truth, his stomach and body have been protesting. He also carries a lot of food in his backpack, but he has not opened a bite. At this time, he saw the compressed biscuits that Jiang Lishan handed him. He didn't have much appetite, but Jiang Lishan gave it to him, so Su Jinzhi finally said "thank you" and took the biscuits.

After speaking, he put down his backpack and opened the zipper to show everyone: "I also have a lot of food here, do you want to eat it?"

Xu Haoyu took a look and exclaimed, "Wow, you still have chocolate! I have never seen this brand of chocolate! Can I eat it?"

"Yes." Su Jinzhi gave the chocolate to Xu Haoyu, and handed others some sweets, and he kept the compressed biscuits that Jiang Lishan gave him and sipped it.

"Where did you eat so much?" Xu Haoyu asked Su Jinzhidao with a mouth full of chocolate.

"Some were given to me by Dr. Charlie, and some I found from outside." Su Jinzhi replied, pausing to eat the cake, "There are a lot of snacks on their table."

Xu Haoyu sighed again: "The food in the experimental center is really good."

"Will it make you work here?" Xiong Nan approached him with a smile and asked him.

Xu Haoyu glanced at the blood stains outside the isolation room and shook his head quickly: "Forget it, no matter how good you eat, there is no guarantee for your life."

Xiong Nan sneered: "Look at you for what you are."

Su Jinzhi watched them play, and the corners of his lips also slightly curled up. After a while, he wanted to put away the compressed biscuits that he hadn't eaten many bites. Jiang Lishan kept paying attention to his movements and asked him when he saw them: "Stop eating?"

He suddenly let Su Jinzhi stunned for a while, and then said: "Well, I'm already full."

"But you didn't eat much." Jiang Lishan stretched out his hand and gestured on the compressed biscuits, "Your meal is my bite."

Su Jinzhi laughed and said, "That's because you ate too much."

Xu Haoyu was attracted by their conversation, and he leaned in and said, "Yes, Shan leads you to eat more. You eat too little."

"I really can't eat it anymore." Su Jinzhi shook his head.

Jiang Lishan didn't force him anymore, and said in a low voice: "Then you put it away and eat after you go out. The eating environment here is really not very good."

Xu Haoyu said again, "Yes, yeah, I admire you for living in this kind of place. If I keep being locked up here, I will definitely go crazy."

"Actually, it's okay." Su Jinzhi lowered his eyes, "I won't feel anything when I get used to it."

Xu Haoyu was puzzled: "Don't you even miss the outside world?"

"I don't know what the outside world looks like." Su Jinzhi said, "I have been in the laboratory."

"It's impossible..." Xu Haoyu murmured with a frown, "All the experimental subjects were sent here after being infected. How could you stay here forever?"

Su Jinzhi smiled, and casually made an excuse: "That might be because I forgot."

"Yes." Xu Haoyu believed this excuse. In his opinion, some research will make people lose their memory. "It's okay, Brother Yu, I will take you to see the scenery outside."

Su Jinzhi said: "Okay."

Xu Haoyu patted Su Jinzhi on the shoulder like comforting his little brother, and went to find Xiong Nan to continue talking.

When Su Jinzhi saw him leave, he sat next to Jiang Lishan. Jiang Lishan noticed his approach, but he only glanced at him sideways, then turned his head and continued to drink his water.

Su Jinzhi asked him: "Have you seen the outside world?"

"Of course I have seen it." Jiang Lishan said.

Su Jinzhi asked again: "Can you tell me what the outside world is like?"

Jiang Lishan curled his lips and said to him seriously: "The scenery near the experimental center may not be very good. It is a desert covered with black stones."

"Oh, that doesn't sound very good." Su Jinzhi frowned slightly in response to his words.

"But the scenery outside the base is very good. There are many green plants. I know a place where there is a large sunflower garden. I can show you when you go out."

"Sunflower garden?" Su Jinzhi's heart moved and looked at Jiang Lishan.

The man said: "Yes, I still have photos, let me show you." Then, he took out a crumpled photo from his shirt pocket.

The man in the photo is wearing a black military uniform with deep eyebrows and gentle gaze ahead.

Su Jinzhi looked at the familiar photo, trembling his hands and gently touched it, and said softly, "These flowers are so beautiful. Who took this photo for you?"

However, the smile on the man's lips stopped when he heard his question. A few seconds later, he frowned slightly, seemingly wondering who took this picture for him.

"Yes..." He hesitated, as if there was a name jumping on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't say anything.

Su Jinzhi felt that this might be a breakthrough point that would allow Jiang Lishan to recognize the falsity of this world. Because such a photo could not appear out of thin air, he asked anxiously: "Who is it?"

The man's lips opened, as if he was about to speak, but the flat-headed woman suddenly stood up and announced: "Okay guys, let's go now. There is not much time. You can rest as you like when you get on the helicopter."

"I can't remember who took the picture for me for the time being." Jiang Lishan also got up and reached out to Su Jinzhi, "Will I tell you when I remember?"

Su Jinzhi looked at his eyes, pursed his lips, finally smiled, gently placed his hand on his palm, and said, "Okay, I'll wait for you to remember."

Jiang Lishan dragged him up from the ground and walked outside together. When she reached the entrance of the cave, the flat-headed girl took a deep breath and looked at everyone and said, "Okay, this time, is the mountain led first?"

"Yeah." Su Jinzhi replied, "I'll do it first. I will tell you if there is any danger."

"That's fine." The flat-headed woman smiled at him and handed him the hanging ladder. "Be careful."

The sixth floor is the rest floor for ordinary employees, the eighth floor is where the meeting rooms and accommodation areas of the high-level staff of the experimental center are located, and the ninth floor is where all important materials of the experimental center are stored, so the video surveillance cannot see the situation on the first floor. .

After climbing up, Su Jinzhi patrolled the surrounding area. The hole puncher was obviously imitating them, because the place she chose was also a closed office, which could avoid sudden attacks when she came up.

Su Jinzhi gently closed the unclosed door of the office, then walked to the entrance of the cave and said to the people below: "This is also an office. There is no danger. Come up."

When everyone heard this, they continued to climb along the hanging ladder and reached the eighth floor, which was only one floor away from their final destination.