Chapter 100: Arrival (4th Update, Asking for Monthly Tickets!!)

In the laboratory, Ding Junyi had a focused expression, her hands quickly zooming in on the floor plan of the 52nd sub-level on the screen, using auxiliary lines to explain the route to Lin Xian’s group.

The other two, Zhao Yan and Xu Wen, also had concerned faces. The current situation was a matter of life and death for them, and everyone was trembling with nervousness.

On the other side, inside the elevator, on the large screen, Ding Junyi was giving the group a detailed introduction to the route.

Kiki and Lin Xian watched, quickly understanding the general direction of the route.

“This underground city is really a big factory. It takes two kilometers to run from the freight elevator to another research area on one floor,” Lin Xian said, taking a deep breath.

“This is considered small…”

Kiki muttered under her breath, “After all, it’s a huge project for hundreds of thousands of people. A single floor has to house several thousand to ten thousand people, and some are work and commercial areas. There are even roads and rapid transit here. Whatever is on the surface, they have it here too.”

Lin Xian nodded and stood by the elevator door, saying, “We’ll focus on traveling later. If we encounter trouble on the way, don’t get bogged down in a fight. I’ll lead the way, Dalou will cover the rear, and Kiki, you stay in the middle.”

“Okay~”

“Got it, Brother Xian.”

Their goal was to first find the research area where Ding Junyi and her group were. Because there was protection there, they could be temporarily safe. Lin Xian needed to first sound out these people, and then evaluate the next deployment with Kiki. If it was feasible, he would bring the group back to the Infinity first, and then reassign tasks for moving supplies.

His psychological expectation was to be able to get out of the underground city before dark tomorrow, and then return to the Jiangyu line along the southern route before entering Yubei City.

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The screen in the elevator was still playing various advertisements from the original underground city, giving a strong sense of a lively life, as if a rich life of toil was about to unfold underground. This formed a sharp contrast with the deathly silent and terrifying underground city.

“Ew, so disgusting. How is that delicious?” Kiki couldn’t help but shiver when she saw the advertisement.

Lin Xian said in a deep voice, “Don’t say that. There’s a global food shortage now. When we run out of food, you might fall in love with this stuff.”

“Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey, I don’t want to eat cockroaches…”

Dalou looked at the advertisement with a strange expression, not saying a word. He was probably also wondering what it would feel like to eat cockroaches.

[Elevator has arrived. 52nd Sub-level: New Dumeila Research Level. This floor is restricted to first-class citizens and special personnel. Permission F3.]

Lin Xian glanced at it. Hiss. The elevator doors opened, and the light from inside the elevator slowly fell on the pitch-black ground outside. The entire K2 area was in a complete power outage.

The three stood inside the elevator, raising their guns and waiting for a moment. Besides the various advertisement sounds from the elevator display, the surroundings were completely silent.

“Let’s go.”

Lin Xian gave the order decisively, and the three moved out quickly.

Clomp, clomp.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the empty space. The flashlight beams shone around, revealing various cargo loading and unloading areas. After running for a distance along the main road, they discovered that this floor was full of various scientific laboratories and offices, with no residential or commercial areas. The level of the internal buildings was very high.

Many laboratories were also dust-proofed, and the corridors were very wide. The only problem was that there were no reference points. In this kind of research floor, it was particularly easy to get lost without signs and a route map. The offices and rooms all looked the same everywhere.

And most of the areas were still pitch black. Fortunately, Ding Junyi had given them the route direction in advance, otherwise Lin Xian’s group would have had to search for the way for a long time.

Thump, thump.

The three hurried on. When they ran from Area K2 to Area F1, the corridor finally had lights. The sound of their running echoed continuously in the corridor.

The windows of the laboratories they passed were all bloody. The howls of zombies began to come from many rooms. Soon, the howls became more and more numerous, gradually triggering a chain reaction.

“Just run, don’t look back.”

Lin Xian raised his hand and fired a wind gun, taking care of a zombie at the corner ahead. To minimize the pressure of the zombie tide, he chose not to open fire directly.

The three moved quickly, but they all stopped at a corner.

In the corridor ahead, countless zombies of various forms stood densely packed. They were all wearing white research uniforms. Hearing the sound, they all turned their heads, the tentacle mouthparts on their faces slowly opening.

“It’s this kind of thing again!”

Lin Xian frowned. He had wanted to avoid shooting as much as possible, but seeing this thing, he immediately got a headache. Without another word, he opened fire.

Bang bang bang!!

Flames from the gunfire swept through the corridor. The tentacle-headed zombie monsters crazily rushed toward the three, their mouthparts wide open, as if they could swallow your head in one bite if they got you!

With their previous experience, the three didn’t dare to be careless. All the bullets were aimed at the monsters’ faces.

Soon, the ground was covered with twitching, tentacled zombie monsters. Zombies kept running from behind, and Dalou began to shoot backward. Lin Xian took out his knife and hacked his way through the still-twitching zombie monsters to avoid any accidents.

Crash!

A glass door was shattered. Lin Xian fired several wind guns to take care of the zombies behind. The three broke through, and in a circular elevator hall ahead, countless black insects, strange spiders, and zombie monsters began to charge at them, blocking the way forward!

“Hey!”

Kiki’s eyes flickered with a fluorescent light. She raised her hand and waved. A huge impact instantly sent these monsters and zombies flying, finally clearing the path.

The three didn’t hesitate, advancing quickly against the tide of zombies.

On the other side, in the laboratory, Zhao Yan, Xu Wen, and Han Qiming watched the several surveillance screens with anxious expressions, all breaking out in a cold sweat. The surging tide of zombies and monsters seemed as if it could swallow Lin Xian’s group at any moment. At this moment, their hearts were in their throats.

If these people with metahuman abilities and a large number of firearms couldn’t break through, then they, a few powerless scientists, would have no hope of survival.

In comparison, Ding Junyi had a blank expression. She wasn’t even looking at the surveillance at this moment, but was constantly operating something on her work computer.

“Director Ding, what are you doing?”

Zhao Yan looked at this scene and asked with confusion, “Don’t we need to remind them of anything?”

“What needs to be reminded has already been reminded. They are not on the wrong path at the moment. What we can do is open the door for them as soon as they arrive. Other than that, we should not waste time and organize useful things.”

“We don’t have any supplies to organize here.”

Ding Junyi didn’t even look at her, focusing on her operations. “Research data, abilities, blood plants, underground city logs, they might be useful in the future. Teacher Zhao, I suggest we take the sample of Calamity Blood Plant No. 1 along with the sample cultivation chamber. If that’s not possible, then prepare to initiate the destruction program.”