The number of monsters indeed exceeded Bai Luoluo’s imagination.
Even though he only held a dim flashlight in his hand, with this faint light, he could still barely make out the scene before him.
Li Qianqian and Motuo coordinated seamlessly in front, she seemed to not only emit sound waves but also turn them into long whips that could be held by hand, although the entity couldn’t be seen, wherever the whip went, there was blood, flesh, and blur. Motuo stood behind Li Qianqian, just like before, dealing with the monsters that slipped through the cracks.
At first glance, there were at least hundreds of these monsters, continuously rushing towards Li Qianqian, making the scalp numb for onlookers.
Li Guanshan accompanied Bai Luoluo behind, showing no intention of taking action.
At the beginning, the monsters would attempt to break through from Li Guanshan’s side, but after a sudden appearance of a wind wall from him directly killed more than a dozen monsters, no monsters dared to approach him again.
However, from the monsters’ decision to give up on Li Guanshan, it could also be seen that they had intelligence.
At this moment, there was still some distance from the nest, but the ground, walls, and even the ceiling above were stained with bright red blood. The corpses of the killed monsters piled up on both sides of the road.
Li Qianqian was killing monsters while crying “disgusting.”
Bai Luoluo was a little worried, but Li Guanshan calmly told him not to worry, that Li Qianqian always looked like this when killing monsters, and if he felt sorry for her, then he fell into her trap.
Bai Luoluo felt helpless.
As they continued to kill monsters and move forward, after walking several tens of meters, the number of monsters finally decreased.
Suddenly, Li Guanshan spoke up, “There’s light ahead.”
Li Qianqian was not in high spirits, her body was also stained with a lot of blood, to the point where her shoes were almost soaked with blood, she was disdainfully wiping the blood on her shoes against the wall, and looking up, she said, “What light.”
Bai Luoluo was also curious, but when the three of them approached, they found that at the end of the road, there was actually a still-operating box elevator.
The display screen outside the elevator showed that the elevator was going up, and at this moment, it had just reached the sixth floor.
Li Guanshan looked at it and said, “The monsters are indeed intelligent.” He raised his hand and pressed the button to go down.
Li Qianqian was quite happy, saying, “There’s an elevator, that’s great, we don’t have to climb so many floors…”
Bai Luoluo couldn’t help but admire Li Qianqian’s way of thinking. The thing she was most worried about was not having to walk anymore, rather than why there was an elevator here that they could use.
The elevator went up very quickly, but in a blink of an eye, it arrived in front of the three of them.
With a ding, the elevator door opened, revealing the steel structure inside.
“Go in?” Li Qianqian looked at Li Guanshan.
Li Guanshan said, “Let’s go.”
So the three of them, plus Motuo, directly got on the elevator.
The elevator door slowly closed, but Bai Luoluo was a little worried, saying, “Are we just going in like this? What if they cut the elevator cables…” His words had just fallen when he heard the piercing roar of an electric saw coming from above, as if someone was cutting something with an electric saw. Bai Luoluo hit the nail on the head.
Li Qianqian said, “…Water Source, you’re such a jinx.”
Bai Luoluo felt wronged, thinking that this was something that anyone could think of.
Seeing that the three of them were about to perish here, Li Qianqian and Li Guanshan still showed no signs of urgency. Li Guanshan had no expression on his face, while Li Qianqian was still drooling over the elevator’s steel structure, saying, “This is my third time riding an elevator, it’s so nice to see, look at this feel, look at this structure, it really is something only rich people can afford to ride.” As she spoke, she rubbed the surface of the elevator with a happy expression, seeming to want to cut off a piece and take it away.
“Uh-huh,” Li Guanshan even agreed, saying, “It’s a good thing.”
Bai Luoluo’s scalp was almost exploding, the piercing sound from above was getting clearer and clearer, and the elevator was also starting to shake unstably. Looking at the calm demeanor of the two in front of him, he trembled and said, “Th-th-then, what if they cut the cables pulling the elevator…?”
“If they cut it, what will happen?” Li Qianqian asked.
Bai Luoluo said, “…The elevator will fall down.”
“Oh,” Li Qianqian said, “That would be pretty serious.”
Bai Luoluo thought she truly understood the seriousness of the situation, but the next thing this girl said was, “Doesn’t that mean all this steel will be smashed?”
Bai Luoluo: “…” The focus is on the steel, not on us who are as fragile as eggs inside the steel. Oh wait, am I?
The sound of the electric saw from above had been ringing for a while, and Bai Luoluo could clearly feel the elevator tilting. It seemed that something above had already cut one side of the cables.
In this calm, almost eerie atmosphere, the elevator finally lost control.
In an instant, Bai Luoluo felt the fear of weightlessness, his whole body began to fall along with the elevator, every pore on his body exploded.
Going to die—this was the only thought in Bai Luoluo’s mind as he continued to fall.
The system, which had been silent since entering the underground, suddenly spoke up, “Don’t worry, just enjoy it. I’ve blocked your sense of pain, so it doesn’t matter if you’re turned into minced meat.”
Bai Luoluo thought, well, thank you and your entire family for that.
However, just when Bai Luoluo thought he was going to perish, he suddenly felt the speed of the elevator’s descent slowing down significantly, as if something was supporting the car from below, and the feeling of weightlessness gradually disappeared.
“Wind?” Bai Luoluo vaguely guessed.
“Yeah,” Li Guanshan said, “Scared?”
Bai Luoluo said, “Heh, how could I be scared?”
Li Qianqian sighed, saying, “Water Source, I know you’re not scared, stop trembling.”
A tear of sadness welled up in Bai Luoluo’s eyes, thinking, couldn’t you guys have given me a heads-up beforehand instead of waiting for this excitement to come?
Li Guanshan controlled the wind to slowly lower the elevator car.
Li Qianqian, using sound waves through the elevator car, observed the situation outside. She said, “There are quite a lot of them, looks like we’ll have to open the door and deal with them.”
Li Guanshan asked, “How many?”
Li Qianqian said, “A few hundred, some of them are quite large.”
Li Guanshan said, “Okay.”
Motuo had been very relaxed from beginning to end. When Bai Luoluo was trembling in fear, he was still standing beside him, gently tapping Bai Luoluo’s leg with his tail, as if comforting his emotions.
The elevator car quickly reached the ground floor, and Bai Luoluo found that there were actually drops of water stains dripping from above. Upon closer inspection, he realized that it was fresh blood.
Li Qianqian explained, “I’ve already taken care of the ones above.”
Bai Luoluo chuckled twice, thinking, what’s the point of him coming down with us, just dragging down the average combat power of this team?
After the elevator car reached the ground, something began to pound on the door. Li Guanshan waved his hand, and the elevator door was split into two, along with the monsters outside the elevator door being cut into countless pieces.
Li Qianqian walked out first.
This floor actually had electric lights, although the light was extremely dim, Bai Luoluo could still barely see the scene before him.
At the small exit of the elevator, there were countless monsters lying densely. These creatures still had human shadows on them, and even sparse hair could be seen on their heads. Their faces, which had degenerated into holes without eyes, were staring menacingly at the three of Bai Luoluo, with saliva dripping disgustingly from the corners of their mouths.
Bai Luoluo cursed.
This place was originally cramped, but unexpectedly, there were so many monsters.
Li Qianqian called out for her brother.
Li Guanshan said, “Hmm.” He and Li Qianqian had an understanding, and without her having to say much, he knew what she meant.
Li Guanshan walked behind Bai Luoluo and covered Bai Luoluo’s ears with his hot palms.
Bai Luoluo felt his face heating up and whispered, “I can cover my ears myself.”
Li Guanshan said, “No.”
Li Qianqian said, “Water Source, it’s okay, he can build a wind wall outside your body to block the sound waves for you.”
Bai Luoluo uttered an embarrassed “Sorry” when he saw Li Qianqian’s expression, thinking to himself, of course, he could do it without covering my ears. Ah, her brother really is a stinky rascal.
Bai Luoluo couldn’t hear anything, he could only see the mosaic of pixels in front of him.
Li Qianqian seemed to slightly open her mouth, and strong sound waves poured out from her mouth.
The overhead lights shattered directly into pieces, and so did the countless monsters in front of them.
Their bodies seemed to be shattered, directly turning into a puddle of blood. The blood was mixed with nauseating flesh, and one could even vaguely see something resembling internal organs.
The smell of blood filled the air, and the room in front of them turned into a slaughterhouse.
Li Qianqian made a disgusted expression.
Most of the monsters were dead, but there were still a few larger ones left. Their physical fitness was obviously stronger, and they rushed towards the elevator car where the three of them were located.
Li Qianqian didn’t move, and Li Guanshan slightly raised his chin, directly raising a wind wall to cut these monsters in half at the waist.
Li Guanshan glanced at Bai Luoluo beside him and asked, “Not scared?”
Bai Luoluo calmly said, “Not scared.”
A faint surprise flashed in Li Guanshan’s eyes. He thought that based on Bai Luoluo’s previous performance, he would probably be vomiting all over the place, but he didn’t expect Bai Luoluo to be so calm.
Bai Luoluo, on the other hand, couldn’t be less calm. But because the scene was extremely bloody, he could only see an endless mosaic— in fact, there was not a single corner of the room he could see clearly.
Li Qianqian couldn’t hold back and gagged a few times.
Li Guanshan: “Let’s go.”
Li Qianqian trembled and said, “Brother, sometimes I really doubt if I’m really your biological sister.”
Li Guanshan glanced at her and slowly said, “If you weren’t my biological sister, do you think you would have survived until today?”
Li Qianqian: “So you’ve wanted to kill me several times before, right?”
Li Guanshan said, “Not just before, even now.”
Li Qianqian started to wail.
Bai Luoluo sometimes admired Li Qianqian. This girl seemed to be able to wail so earnestly no matter when or where, and if it were their first meeting, he would probably be deceived by her superb acting skills.
Leaving the elevator car, they entered the room covered in flesh and blood.
Bai Luoluo felt uncomfortable stepping on the ground because it felt like stepping on a pile of rotten meat, soft, wet, and sticky.
Li Qianqian warned Bai Luoluo to be careful, saying that if he slipped here, he would probably be abandoned by the cold-blooded Li Guanshan.
Li Guanshan said, “If you keep babbling, you might have less in your mouth.”
Motuo’s paws were also wrapped in a layer of breeze, separating his paws from the ground to prevent his fur from getting wet with blood.
The place where the elevator stopped should be the bottom floor.
Different from the desolation above, there were traces of human habitation here.
Bai Luoluo remembered the radio they had found upstairs.
“They can still generate electricity.” Li Qianqian was incredulous and said, “Impressive…”
Li Guanshan remained silent.
After leaving the room that had been ignited into a blood-red color, they arrived at a long corridor with prison cells made of iron bars on both sides, indicating that fierce animals had been imprisoned here.
Although it had been a hundred years, most of the bars were still intact, indicating that they were made of some kind of alloy with extremely high quality.
Li Qianqian quietly cut off a few pieces and stuffed them into her bag.
Li Guanshan pretended not to see it.
There were lights on the corridor, and after observing, Li Guanshan concluded, “Their intelligence must be quite high.”
“Why?” Li Qianqian asked curiously.
Li Guanshan reached out and directly twisted off a light bulb from the ceiling, saying, “The tungsten filaments inside were replaced recently.”
Li Qianqian took it and looked at it, saying, “Interesting.”
Bai Luoluo nervously watched their actions, afraid that they might get electrocuted.
Throwing the light bulb aside, Li Qianqian pondered, “This base is extraordinary. Have we found something we shouldn’t have?”
Li Guanshan coldly said, “Things that shouldn’t be discovered shouldn’t exist.”
At the end of the corridor, there were paths on both the left and right sides. Li Guanshan observed and chose the right side. The bars around them also became thicker, indicating that the creatures locked inside were becoming more ferocious.
From some of the facilities in this base, it was obvious that before the apocalypse, they had conducted research on biology and had achieved some results. However, it was unclear what these results had brought them.
The corridor finally came to an end, revealing a room that looked somewhat like a control room. The door of the control room was half open, and Li Qianqian said there was no one inside. After they went in, they found that there were indeed no living people inside, but there were two bodies lying on the chairs in front of the monitors.
After Li Guanshan went forward to observe, he said, “They’ve been dead for some time.”
Li Qianqian asked, “How did they die?”
Li Guanshan said, “There are traces of sharp objects inserted into their abdomens.”
Li Qianqian pondered, “Were their bodies eaten?”
Li Guanshan nodded.
It seemed that almost everyone who died here had their bodies almost completely consumed.
Coming out of the control room, Li Qianqian said, “There’s no way forward here. Shall we go left?”
Li Guanshan shook his head and said, “There’s a way.”
“Where?” Li Qianqian looked puzzled.
Li Guanshan pointed to the top of his head.
Li Qianqian couldn’t help but curse.
Li Guanshan quickly climbed up the wall and removed a piece of the ceiling, revealing a ventilation duct. Li Qianqian sniffed the air inside and said, “It’s incredible that this duct is still in use.”
Li Guanshan said, “What’s so incredible about it? Although they have mutated, they are still a kind of organism, and oxygen is an essential condition for survival.”
Li Qianqian nodded. She looked up at the ceiling with a bitter expression and said, “Brother, can I request to go last?”
Li Guanshan said, “You can.”
Li Qianqian made a victory sign with her hand.
Bai Luoluo looked helplessly at the ventilation duct, which was only enough for one person to crawl through at a time.
Moreover, there wasn’t much dust in the ventilation duct, as if it were regularly used.
“Hey, it’s quite clean.” Li Qianqian remarked, “These monsters are just as particular as my brother.”
Li Guanshan said, “Li Qianqian, just because I don’t let you pick your toes and eat doesn’t mean I’m particular.”
Li Qianqian retorted, “Brother, don’t slander me!”
Li Guanshan sneered.
Bai Luoluo couldn’t help but chuckle.
Li Qianqian was exposed and felt a little embarrassed, but she didn’t dare to provoke her brother’s anger here, or she might be left alone here.
The ventilation duct was quite long, and they could continue to the right.
Bai Luoluo noticed some dark red bloodstains on the wall of the ventilation duct. He reached out and touched them, surprised to find that the bloodstains were fresh but seemed frozen due to low temperatures.
Li Guanshan and Li Qianqian must have noticed this too, but they didn’t mention it, probably to avoid making Bai Luoluo too nervous. Was Bai Luoluo nervous? Of course, he was. How could a normal person not be afraid of crawling through narrow ventilation ducts in such an abandoned base?
Li Guanshan’s crawling speed should have been fast, but considering Bai Luoluo, he deliberately slowed down.
Bai Luoluo, afraid of lagging behind, desperately crawled forward, not noticing when Li Guanshan suddenly stopped, and he bumped his head against Li Guanshan’s buttocks.
“Ouch!” Bai Luoluo exclaimed.
Li Guanshan said, “Watch where you’re going.”
“Yeah, watch out, his butt is hard, be careful not to bump your forehead red,” Li Qianqian teased, still holding a grudge.
Li Guanshan gritted his teeth and scolded Li Qianqian.
Li Qianqian quickly explained, “Don’t worry, I haven’t touched my brother’s butt, it’s just a guess.”
Bai Luoluo laughed and cried, feeling embarrassed. Li Guanshan regretted not being able to give Li Qianqian a smack for her nonsense, but he let her continue talking nonsense.
Li Guanshan said, “Move a little to the right up ahead, the left side is all blood.”
Bai Luoluo quickly crawled to the right, and indeed, as Li Guanshan had said, the left side of the ventilation duct was covered in blood, with some small pieces of meat mixed in. After glancing at it, Bai Luoluo shuddered and said, “Huh…? Why are these meat chunks still moving?”
Li Guanshan had obviously seen it too but didn’t mention it, saying, “It’s probably the same thing as the meat we saw in that room before.”
“So this ventilation duct is likely used as a passage for transporting food?” Bai Luoluo asked.
Li Guanshan said, “That’s possible.”
After a moment’s pause, he asked Li Qianqian, “Have you heard any sounds?”
Bai Luoluo couldn’t hear anything and still felt the uncomfortable silence around him.
Li Qianqian, being a new human, looked puzzled and said, “Yes, it sounds like the noise of machines running…”
Li Guanshan said, “Something seems off.”
“What do you mean?” Li Qianqian asked.
Li Guanshan said, “Our abilities, whether it’s wind or sound, have a necessary condition for their existence.”
Li Qianqian instantly understood what Li Guanshan meant and said, “Damn, are they planning to create a vacuum environment here? How could they achieve that in such a large area!”
Li Guanshan said lightly, “Don’t forget, this place was originally a biological laboratory. They probably considered this situation when building it.”
Li Qianqian asked, “What should we do?”
Li Guanshan said, “There’s definitely more than one machine. You and I will go over there and dismantle them quickly. Motuo will stay here with the water source. Motuo, don’t wander around. We’ll be back soon.”
Li Qianqian could only agree, comforting Bai Luoluo not to be afraid and saying that Motuo was reliable most of the time, except during his mating season.
Bai Luoluo listened with a wry smile, telling them to go ahead and wait here.
So Li Qianqian and Li Guanshan quickly disappeared at the end of the ventilation duct, and Bai Luoluo witnessed their lightning-fast speed, once again realizing how much he was lagging behind. If it weren’t for them taking care of him, these two siblings would have probably cleared out the nest and left this place long ago.
Bai Luoluo touched Motuo’s head and slowly said, “Motuo, am I a particularly troublesome burden?”
Motuo licked Bai Luoluo’s hand intermittently, listening to his words and humming a few times to comfort Bai Luoluo.
Bai Luoluo hugged his big head, pressing his forehead against Motuo’s, murmuring, “Ah, you’re still adorable. Come here for a kiss.” He kissed Motuo’s smooth forehead again.
Motuo pounced directly onto Bai Luoluo’s body, and for a moment, the sight of a man and a leopard together seemed particularly harmonious—until Bai Luoluo vaguely heard some strange noises.
The number of monsters indeed exceeded Bai Luoluo’s imagination.
Even though he only held a dim flashlight in his hand, with this faint light, he could still barely make out the scene before him.
Li Qianqian and Motuo coordinated seamlessly in front, she seemed to not only emit sound waves but also turn them into long whips that could be held by hand, although the entity couldn’t be seen, wherever the whip went, there was blood, flesh, and blur. Motuo stood behind Li Qianqian, just like before, dealing with the monsters that slipped through the cracks.
At first glance, there were at least hundreds of these monsters, continuously rushing towards Li Qianqian, making the scalp numb for onlookers.
Li Guanshan accompanied Bai Luoluo behind, showing no intention of taking action.
At the beginning, the monsters would attempt to break through from Li Guanshan’s side, but after a sudden appearance of a wind wall from him directly killed more than a dozen monsters, no monsters dared to approach him again.
However, from the monsters’ decision to give up on Li Guanshan, it could also be seen that they had intelligence.
At this moment, there was still some distance from the nest, but the ground, walls, and even the ceiling above were stained with bright red blood. The corpses of the killed monsters piled up on both sides of the road.
Li Qianqian was killing monsters while crying “disgusting.”
Bai Luoluo was a little worried, but Li Guanshan calmly told him not to worry, that Li Qianqian always looked like this when killing monsters, and if he felt sorry for her, then he fell into her trap.
Bai Luoluo felt helpless.
As they continued to kill monsters and move forward, after walking several tens of meters, the number of monsters finally decreased.
Suddenly, Li Guanshan spoke up, “There’s light ahead.”
Li Qianqian was not in high spirits, her body was also stained with a lot of blood, to the point where her shoes were almost soaked with blood, she was disdainfully wiping the blood on her shoes against the wall, and looking up, she said, “What light.”
Bai Luoluo was also curious, but when the three of them approached, they found that at the end of the road, there was actually a still-operating box elevator.
The display screen outside the elevator showed that the elevator was going up, and at this moment, it had just reached the sixth floor.
Li Guanshan looked at it and said, “The monsters are indeed intelligent.” He raised his hand and pressed the button to go down.
Li Qianqian was quite happy, saying, “There’s an elevator, that’s great, we don’t have to climb so many floors…”
Bai Luoluo couldn’t help but admire Li Qianqian’s way of thinking. The thing she was most worried about was not having to walk anymore, rather than why there was an elevator here that they could use.
The elevator went up very quickly, but in a blink of an eye, it arrived in front of the three of them.
With a ding, the elevator door opened, revealing the steel structure inside.
“Go in?” Li Qianqian looked at Li Guanshan.
Li Guanshan said, “Let’s go.”
So the three of them, plus Motuo, directly got on the elevator.
The elevator door slowly closed, but Bai Luoluo was a little worried, saying, “Are we just going in like this? What if they cut the elevator cables…” His words had just fallen when he heard the piercing roar of an electric saw coming from above, as if someone was cutting something with an electric saw. Bai Luoluo hit the nail on the head.
Li Qianqian said, “…Water Source, you’re such a jinx.”
Bai Luoluo felt wronged, thinking that this was something that anyone could think of.
Seeing that the three of them were about to perish here, Li Qianqian and Li Guanshan still showed no signs of urgency. Li Guanshan had no expression on his face, while Li Qianqian was still drooling over the elevator’s steel structure, saying, “This is my third time riding an elevator, it’s so nice to see, look at this feel, look at this structure, it really is something only rich people can afford to ride.” As she spoke, she rubbed the surface of the elevator with a happy expression, seeming to want to cut off a piece and take it away.
“Uh-huh,” Li Guanshan even agreed, saying, “It’s a good thing.”
Bai Luoluo’s scalp was almost exploding, the piercing sound from above was getting clearer and clearer, and the elevator was also starting to shake unstably. Looking at the calm demeanor of the two in front of him, he trembled and said, “Th-th-then, what if they cut the cables pulling the elevator…?”
“If they cut it, what will happen?” Li Qianqian asked.
Bai Luoluo said, “…The elevator will fall down.”
“Oh,” Li Qianqian said, “That would be pretty serious.”
Bai Luoluo thought she truly understood the seriousness of the situation, but the next thing this girl said was, “Doesn’t that mean all this steel will be smashed?”
Bai Luoluo: “…” The focus is on the steel, not on us who are as fragile as eggs inside the steel. Oh wait, am I?
The sound of the electric saw from above had been ringing for a while, and Bai Luoluo could clearly feel the elevator tilting. It seemed that something above had already cut one side of the cables.
In this calm, almost eerie atmosphere, the elevator finally lost control.
In an instant, Bai Luoluo felt the fear of weightlessness, his whole body began to fall along with the elevator, every pore on his body exploded.
Going to die—this was the only thought in Bai Luoluo’s mind as he continued to fall.
The system, which had been silent since entering the underground, suddenly spoke up, “Don’t worry, just enjoy it. I’ve blocked your sense of pain, so it doesn’t matter if you’re turned into minced meat.”
Bai Luoluo thought, well, thank you and your entire family for that.
However, just when Bai Luoluo thought he was going to perish, he suddenly felt the speed of the elevator’s descent slowing down significantly, as if something was supporting the car from below, and the feeling of weightlessness gradually disappeared.
“Wind?” Bai Luoluo vaguely guessed.
“Yeah,” Li Guanshan said, “Scared?”
Bai Luoluo said, “Heh, how could I be scared?”
Li Qianqian sighed, saying, “Water Source, I know you’re not scared, stop trembling.”
A tear of sadness welled up in Bai Luoluo’s eyes, thinking, couldn’t you guys have given me a heads-up beforehand instead of waiting for this excitement to come?
Li Guanshan controlled the wind to slowly lower the elevator car.
Li Qianqian, using sound waves through the elevator car, observed the situation outside. She said, “There are quite a lot of them, looks like we’ll have to open the door and deal with them.”
Li Guanshan asked, “How many?”
Li Qianqian said, “A few hundred, some of them are quite large.”
Li Guanshan said, “Okay.”
Motuo had been very relaxed from beginning to end. When Bai Luoluo was trembling in fear, he was still standing beside him, gently tapping Bai Luoluo’s leg with his tail, as if comforting his emotions.
The elevator car quickly reached the ground floor, and Bai Luoluo found that there were actually drops of water stains dripping from above. Upon closer inspection, he realized that it was fresh blood.
Li Qianqian explained, “I’ve already taken care of the ones above.”
Bai Luoluo chuckled twice, thinking, what’s the point of him coming down with us, just dragging down the average combat power of this team?
After the elevator car reached the ground, something began to pound on the door. Li Guanshan waved his hand, and the elevator door was split into two, along with the monsters outside the elevator door being cut into countless pieces.
Li Qianqian walked out first.
This floor actually had electric lights, although the light was extremely dim, Bai Luoluo could still barely see the scene before him.
At the small exit of the elevator, there were countless monsters lying densely. These creatures still had human shadows on them, and even sparse hair could be seen on their heads. Their faces, which had degenerated into holes without eyes, were staring menacingly at the three of Bai Luoluo, with saliva dripping disgustingly from the corners of their mouths.
Bai Luoluo cursed.
This place was originally cramped, but unexpectedly, there were so many monsters.
Li Qianqian called out for her brother.
Li Guanshan said, “Hmm.” He and Li Qianqian had an understanding, and without her having to say much, he knew what she meant.
Li Guanshan walked behind Bai Luoluo and covered Bai Luoluo’s ears with his hot palms.
Bai Luoluo felt his face heating up and whispered, “I can cover my ears myself.”
Li Guanshan said, “No.”
Li Qianqian said, “Water Source, it’s okay, he can build a wind wall outside your body to block the sound waves for you.”
Bai Luoluo uttered an embarrassed “Sorry” when he saw Li Qianqian’s expression, thinking to himself, of course, he could do it without covering my ears. Ah, her brother really is a stinky rascal.
Bai Luoluo couldn’t hear anything, he could only see the mosaic of pixels in front of him.
Li Qianqian seemed to slightly open her mouth, and strong sound waves poured out from her mouth.
The overhead lights shattered directly into pieces, and so did the countless monsters in front of them.
Their bodies seemed to be shattered, directly turning into a puddle of blood. The blood was mixed with nauseating flesh, and one could even vaguely see something resembling internal organs.
The smell of blood filled the air, and the room in front of them turned into a slaughterhouse.
Li Qianqian made a disgusted expression.
Most of the monsters were dead, but there were still a few larger ones left. Their physical fitness was obviously stronger, and they rushed towards the elevator car where the three of them were located.
Li Qianqian didn’t move, and Li Guanshan slightly raised his chin, directly raising a wind wall to cut these monsters in half at the waist.
Li Guanshan glanced at Bai Luoluo beside him and asked, “Not scared?”
Bai Luoluo calmly said, “Not scared.”
A faint surprise flashed in Li Guanshan’s eyes. He thought that based on Bai Luoluo’s previous performance, he would probably be vomiting all over the place, but he didn’t expect Bai Luoluo to be so calm.
Bai Luoluo, on the other hand, couldn’t be less calm. But because the scene was extremely bloody, he could only see an endless mosaic— in fact, there was not a single corner of the room he could see clearly.
Li Qianqian couldn’t hold back and gagged a few times.
Li Guanshan: “Let’s go.”
Li Qianqian trembled and said, “Brother, sometimes I really doubt if I’m really your biological sister.”
Li Guanshan glanced at her and slowly said, “If you weren’t my biological sister, do you think you would have survived until today?”
Li Qianqian: “So you’ve wanted to kill me several times before, right?”
Li Guanshan said, “Not just before, even now.”
Li Qianqian started to wail.
Bai Luoluo sometimes admired Li Qianqian. This girl seemed to be able to wail so earnestly no matter when or where, and if it were their first meeting, he would probably be deceived by her superb acting skills.
Leaving the elevator car, they entered the room covered in flesh and blood.
Bai Luoluo felt uncomfortable stepping on the ground because it felt like stepping on a pile of rotten meat, soft, wet, and sticky.
Li Qianqian warned Bai Luoluo to be careful, saying that if he slipped here, he would probably be abandoned by the cold-blooded Li Guanshan.
Li Guanshan said, “If you keep babbling, you might have less in your mouth.”
Motuo’s paws were also wrapped in a layer of breeze, separating his paws from the ground to prevent his fur from getting wet with blood.
The place where the elevator stopped should be the bottom floor.
Different from the desolation above, there were traces of human habitation here.
Bai Luoluo remembered the radio they had found upstairs.
“They can still generate electricity.” Li Qianqian was incredulous and said, “Impressive…”
Li Guanshan remained silent.
After leaving the room that had been ignited into a blood-red color, they arrived at a long corridor with prison cells made of iron bars on both sides, indicating that fierce animals had been imprisoned here.
Although it had been a hundred years, most of the bars were still intact, indicating that they were made of some kind of alloy with extremely high quality.
Li Qianqian quietly cut off a few pieces and stuffed them into her bag.
Li Guanshan pretended not to see it.
There were lights on the corridor, and after observing, Li Guanshan concluded, “Their intelligence must be quite high.”
“Why?” Li Qianqian asked curiously.
Li Guanshan reached out and directly twisted off a light bulb from the ceiling, saying, “The tungsten filaments inside were replaced recently.”
Li Qianqian took it and looked at it, saying, “Interesting.”
Bai Luoluo nervously watched their actions, afraid that they might get electrocuted.
Throwing the light bulb aside, Li Qianqian pondered, “This base is extraordinary. Have we found something we shouldn’t have?”
Li Guanshan coldly said, “Things that shouldn’t be discovered shouldn’t exist.”
At the end of the corridor, there were paths on both the left and right sides. Li Guanshan observed and chose the right side. The bars around them also became thicker, indicating that the creatures locked inside were becoming more ferocious.
From some of the facilities in this base, it was obvious that before the apocalypse, they had conducted research on biology and had achieved some results. However, it was unclear what these results had brought them.
The corridor finally came to an end, revealing a room that looked somewhat like a control room. The door of the control room was half open, and Li Qianqian said there was no one inside. After they went in, they found that there were indeed no living people inside, but there were two bodies lying on the chairs in front of the monitors.
After Li Guanshan went forward to observe, he said, “They’ve been dead for some time.”
Li Qianqian asked, “How did they die?”
Li Guanshan said, “There are traces of sharp objects inserted into their abdomens.”
Li Qianqian pondered, “Were their bodies eaten?”
Li Guanshan nodded.
It seemed that almost everyone who died here had their bodies almost completely consumed.
Coming out of the control room, Li Qianqian said, “There’s no way forward here. Shall we go left?”
Li Guanshan shook his head and said, “There’s a way.”
“Where?” Li Qianqian looked puzzled.
Li Guanshan pointed to the top of his head.
Li Qianqian couldn’t help but curse.
Li Guanshan quickly climbed up the wall and removed a piece of the ceiling, revealing a ventilation duct. Li Qianqian sniffed the air inside and said, “It’s incredible that this duct is still in use.”
Li Guanshan said, “What’s so incredible about it? Although they have mutated, they are still a kind of organism, and oxygen is an essential condition for survival.”
Li Qianqian nodded. She looked up at the ceiling with a bitter expression and said, “Brother, can I request to go last?”
Li Guanshan said, “You can.”
Li Qianqian made a victory sign with her hand.
Bai Luoluo looked helplessly at the ventilation duct, which was only enough for one person to crawl through at a time.
Moreover, there wasn’t much dust in the ventilation duct, as if it were regularly used.
“Hey, it’s quite clean.” Li Qianqian remarked, “These monsters are just as particular as my brother.”
Li Guanshan said, “Li Qianqian, just because I don’t let you pick your toes and eat doesn’t mean I’m particular.”
Li Qianqian retorted, “Brother, don’t slander me!”
Li Guanshan sneered.
Bai Luoluo couldn’t help but chuckle.
Li Qianqian was exposed and felt a little embarrassed, but she didn’t dare to provoke her brother’s anger here, or she might be left alone here.
The ventilation duct was quite long, and they could continue to the right.
Bai Luoluo noticed some dark red bloodstains on the wall of the ventilation duct. He reached out and touched them, surprised to find that the bloodstains were fresh but seemed frozen due to low temperatures.
Li Guanshan and Li Qianqian must have noticed this too, but they didn’t mention it, probably to avoid making Bai Luoluo too nervous. Was Bai Luoluo nervous? Of course, he was. How could a normal person not be afraid of crawling through narrow ventilation ducts in such an abandoned base?
Li Guanshan’s crawling speed should have been fast, but considering Bai Luoluo, he deliberately slowed down.
Bai Luoluo, afraid of lagging behind, desperately crawled forward, not noticing when Li Guanshan suddenly stopped, and he bumped his head against Li Guanshan’s buttocks.
“Ouch!” Bai Luoluo exclaimed.
Li Guanshan said, “Watch where you’re going.”
“Yeah, watch out, his butt is hard, be careful not to bump your forehead red,” Li Qianqian teased, still holding a grudge.
Li Guanshan gritted his teeth and scolded Li Qianqian.
Li Qianqian quickly explained, “Don’t worry, I haven’t touched my brother’s butt, it’s just a guess.”
Bai Luoluo laughed and cried, feeling embarrassed. Li Guanshan regretted not being able to give Li Qianqian a smack for her nonsense, but he let her continue talking nonsense.
Li Guanshan said, “Move a little to the right up ahead, the left side is all blood.”
Bai Luoluo quickly crawled to the right, and indeed, as Li Guanshan had said, the left side of the ventilation duct was covered in blood, with some small pieces of meat mixed in. After glancing at it, Bai Luoluo shuddered and said, “Huh…? Why are these meat chunks still moving?”
Li Guanshan had obviously seen it too but didn’t mention it, saying, “It’s probably the same thing as the meat we saw in that room before.”
“So this ventilation duct is likely used as a passage for transporting food?” Bai Luoluo asked.
Li Guanshan said, “That’s possible.”
After a moment’s pause, he asked Li Qianqian, “Have you heard any sounds?”
Bai Luoluo couldn’t hear anything and still felt the uncomfortable silence around him.
Li Qianqian, being a new human, looked puzzled and said, “Yes, it sounds like the noise of machines running…”
Li Guanshan said, “Something seems off.”
“What do you mean?” Li Qianqian asked.
Li Guanshan said, “Our abilities, whether it’s wind or sound, have a necessary condition for their existence.”
Li Qianqian instantly understood what Li Guanshan meant and said, “Damn, are they planning to create a vacuum environment here? How could they achieve that in such a large area!”
Li Guanshan said lightly, “Don’t forget, this place was originally a biological laboratory. They probably considered this situation when building it.”
Li Qianqian asked, “What should we do?”
Li Guanshan said, “There’s definitely more than one machine. You and I will go over there and dismantle them quickly. Motuo will stay here with the water source. Motuo, don’t wander around. We’ll be back soon.”
Li Qianqian could only agree, comforting Bai Luoluo not to be afraid and saying that Motuo was reliable most of the time, except during his mating season.
Bai Luoluo listened with a wry smile, telling them to go ahead and wait here.
So Li Qianqian and Li Guanshan quickly disappeared at the end of the ventilation duct, and Bai Luoluo witnessed their lightning-fast speed, once again realizing how much he was lagging behind. If it weren’t for them taking care of him, these two siblings would have probably cleared out the nest and left this place long ago.
Bai Luoluo touched Motuo’s head and slowly said, “Motuo, am I a particularly troublesome burden?”
Motuo licked Bai Luoluo’s hand intermittently, listening to his words and humming a few times to comfort Bai Luoluo.
Bai Luoluo hugged his big head, pressing his forehead against Motuo’s, murmuring, “Ah, you’re still adorable. Come here for a kiss.” He kissed Motuo’s smooth forehead again.
Motuo pounced directly onto Bai Luoluo’s body, and for a moment, the sight of a man and a leopard together seemed particularly harmonious—until Bai Luoluo vaguely heard some strange noises.
