Mist

Chapter 24

One floor.

Two floors.

It was just a short distance of going down two floors, it was clearly very close, but it became a path to survival that almost seemed unreachable.

The respite from their future selves seemed to have given them a chance to breathe.

Time seemed to have slowed down. The wave of zombies resurrected, the building gradually restored itself and the giant spider appeared hanging from a thick spider thread. At this very moment, all the changes that happened were processed in slow motion as a result of heightened senses and pumping adrenaline.

Ji Yushi supported himself using his purple hand and followed the teammate in front to jump down when he suddenly found the floor below him gone.

“Thud!”

As soon as his feet landed, seven or eight pairs of pale hands stretched out from the sides. He looked up and saw several distorted faces with grey eyes and drooling mouths rushing towards him.

“Bang, bang, bang——-”

The teammates behind him fired rapidly and a gap suddenly opened before him.

“There is a gate here!” Tang Qi shouted. His gun continued to fire rapidly. The giant spider that was injured by the gunshots staggered and knocked down a bunch of the zombies.

“Quick!”

Zhou Mingxuan cursed. Together with Song Qinglan, they leaned back.

The half-open gate only allowed for them to squeeze through.

After everyone went through the gate, Duan Wen quickly went and pushed the hydraulic level, “Broken! Fuck!”

The gate couldn’t be closed. Zombies madly drilled in.

But at any rate, it was better than having no place to hide. Everyone continued to shoot while retreating. Their goal was the next floor down.

“Slap!!” The road ahead was blocked.

An unknown object had fallen from the sky, blocking their way.

It wasn’t a zombie and it also wasn’t a giant spider. Its slimy body was covered in mucous and it curled up painfully on the ground as if it were a person.

“Chun’er!!”

Duan Wen recognised him first and rushed forward to help him.

“How is he?!”

“Take him along! We have to go!”

Zombies filed in from the gate that couldn’t be closed, and new zombies were constantly emerging from all directions on this floor.

“Boom! Boom!” The gate made a loud noise and the number of zombies suddenly reduced a little. It was the giant spider ramming itself against the gate. Cracks had appeared on the walls on both sides of the gate, and it looked like it was on the verge of crumbing under the pressure!

Together with Duan Wen, Ji Yushi knelt down and supported Li Chun up.

Li Chun’s entire body was covered in mucous, including his nose and mouth, making it hard for him to breathe. He looked like he was about to suffocate. The mucous was extremely slimy and sticky, Duan Wen tried several times but couldn’t get it off. He was so anxious, his eyes were red, “What to do?!”

The situation was critical. Ji Yushi threw down his gun and used both hands to pry open Li Chun’s mouth, “Hold him down!”

Duan Wen looked at Ji Yushi who was still extremely calm despite the purple arm and bleeding abdomen and watched him grab the mucous layer and, with blue veins on the back of his hand looking like it was about to burst, he cut out a small hole in Li Chun’s mouth.

Air instantly poured into the throat and then into the lungs. Li Chun couldn’t help but stiffen and then start to gasp for air.

In just those few seconds, there was a deafening ‘clang’. The giant spider had already broken through the gate and rushed in together with the wave of zombies!

The giant spider was in front and all around them were zombies.

They have seemed to reach a new crisis.

Everyone froze for a moment.

Even with the existence of a time anchor and the fact that they could be resurrected after death, they were still humans made up of blood and flesh. An unstoppable hero suddenly arriving to save the day like the movies didn’t happen, they only had themselves to rely on.

The bombs they had brought along were almost all used up. The assistance from ‘Team 6’ just now seemed to be a reminder to them of how important it was for them to be well equipped.

But the next second.

Song Qinglan suddenly spoke, “Team B is here.”

Everyone heard another voice in the public channel. It was their own voice, “Hold it up!!”

“Hold it!!”

“Ten minutes, I’m coming!!”@@@@

“Boom——–!!”

The sound of the spacecar could be heard through the communicator.

Team B was rushing over to them with great force and great speed!

The spirits of everyone were lifted, “Kill!!”

Replacing the despair from earlier, a fire of hope rekindled in everyone’s heart. Even when faced with such a dire situation, they will open a bloody path up!

The giant spider was at the forefront and was knocked to the ground by Song Qinglan’s energy cannon and its juices splattered all over.

This attack was very emboldening. Song Qinglan had no scruples, “Go!!”

More and more giant spiders appeared. Large and small, it was as if they had smashed open a spider’s nest.

Song Qinglan heard Ji Yushi yell, “Down there, at nine o’clock. The fastest way to the control centre!!”

The base was too large, and the internal passages were also very complicated.

The so-called go down two floors and follow the path for half a circle, if it was a normal person, they would have already lost their way amidst such a fierce battle and chaos, but it wasn’t the case for Ji Yushi.

Relying on his strong sense of direction and memory, he managed to perfectly distinguish the right direction.

Humans turned into zombies that no longer had the ability to think for themselves and only knew to eat.

Animals and insects underwent various changes.

This colony named PU-31 had completely collapsed.

There was no command centre for the Tianqiong system in this era. That cold system had hijacked this group of guardians and the aim of this mission was very clear.

Turn off the energy transmitters, let all the energy be released at once and let everything within range be sucked into the empty void.

Once all the energy transmitters are turned off, PU-31 would lose all its energy and no longer be able to sustain itself. In the end, it would be sucked into the crevice of the universe and disappear completely.

The crevice between parallel universes created PU-31.

And it will be the one to destroy PU-31.

When Ji Yushi finished saying this, the pipe shook violently again. The vibration had reached their feet. Everyone had a look of horror, “Let’s move!”

“Boom!”

Not far away, a ventilation duct broke open and a ‘tongue’ about three or four metres shot out towards them.

The ‘tongue’ retracted itself again amidst the gunfire.

The grappling hook was only twenty metres long. If they wanted to go down from here, they would still be a few metres away from the ground. It wasn’t long enough.

Song Qinglan looked around, “There is a maintenance ladder ahead!”

Sure enough, several metres away against the curved wall of this base was a maintenance ladder.

The pipe shook violently. The thing inside went back and forth and its ‘tongue’ shot out from another nearby place to attack! This time, everyone saw it clearly. That ‘tongue’ really made it hard for them to distinguish what animal it was. There were some suckers on the back, but the front was like a normal tongue and there was also a small fork on the tip of it. They couldn’t tell if it was a gecko or a snake.

Everyone sprinted over as fast as they could.

They headed straight for the ladder and slid all the way down. No one paid any attention to the pain on their palms.

It may have been a long time since it had eaten something so fresh. That ‘tongue’ that Li Chun had escaped from seemed very irritated and continued to wave around from inside the pipe. With a ‘crash’, the pipe about thirty or forty metres long broke off and collapsed onto the ground.

Song Qinglan got onto the maintenance ladder last. He only had time to see a slimy and fleshy mass appear from the pipe on the ground. It was an extremely disgusting sight.

Following this loud noise, the zombies that no longer fell through the hole above them reappeared.

These zombies originally couldn’t find their directions and were wandering about aimlessly but after being attracted over by the sound, they started falling through the hole in the ceiling like dumplings.

The lower ground was lively. That ‘tongue’ swung about furiously, trying to get rid of the bothersome zombies, but those zombies didn’t feel any pain. Many of them even had broken bones from the fall but even if they only had an upper body left, they still desperately crawled towards the moving ‘tongue’.

The ‘tongue’ was surrounded. The zombies which didn’t care about their life or death surrounded it and started tearing into the ‘tongue’, forcing it to retreat back into the pipe.

The giant spiders couldn’t hold back anymore.

They crawled down along the walls, also wanting to get a piece of the pie.

The giant spiders were afraid of the ‘tongue’ and the ‘tongue’ was afraid of the zombies. With the three of them in the same place, they no longer cared about their fears.

For the living, this was hell!

“Ji Yushi!”

Song Qinglan’s roar from behind reached his ears. Ji Yushi turned back and saw a large mouth appear behind him. The top closed down and the bottom closed up, it was about to bite off his head in one go.

“Move aside!”

Someone suddenly appeared on a spider’s back. It was also Song Qinglan!!

The man’s face was serious, and his eyes were indescribably cold. At this critical moment, he shoved a bomb into that spider’s mouth.

Instantly knowing what he needed to do, Ji Yushi rolled away. The other person also slipped off the spider’s back.

“Boom!”. The sound was deafening. The spider’s innards flew everywhere and its body was blown to pieces.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

Many gunshots sounded. Several familiar figures hung from the hole in the ceiling. One after another, they occupied the advantageous position of being on higher ground and shot at the zombies and spiders below.

There was a total of six people there. Team B was here!

With their fighting power instantly doubled, the situation was reversed!

The two Song Qinglan’s were exactly the same. They didn’t need to communicate at all and turned their heads back at the same time and yelled, “To the control room!!”

Ji Yushi ran to the control room. As he shot down the zombies, he saw his other self.

They were both running through the gunpower smoke.

It was like looking in a mirror.

JI Yushi saw his other self’s expression suddenly change, “Behind!!”

Accompanying this reminder, the other party threw the gun in his hand over!

The small Diamond Bird was silvery white all over.

It drew an arc in the air and fell into Ji Yushi’s hands.

Without even stopping to think, Ji Yushi caught the gun thrown over by his other self with his left hand, turned his head and saw that the ‘tongue’ and popped out of the pipe again. This time it had split into two and it flew towards him like a snake!

Ji Yushi held a Diamond Bird in each hand and shot with perfect accuracy. He was a perfect double gun wielder. Firing the two guns at the same time, he very easily shot a section off the two ‘tongues’.

Immediately afterwards, he continued running and threw the gun back.

The other Ji Yushi was similarly calm. He continued to run after receiving his gun.

One bent down and slid over the pipe on the ground that was blocking his way.

One jumped and landed on the shoulder of a zombie. With a twist of his legs, his perfect Jiu-Jitsu skill broke the zombie’s neck in an instant.

Without needing to say anything, the Ji Yushi wearing a black combat uniform and the Ji Yushi wearing a white T-shirt looked like twins.

With thirteen members of the Tianqiong seventh squad, they were currently in their best condition to fight.