Chapter 24 Chapter 24 (1/2)
Ouroboros
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.
“Roger.” Song Qinglan carried Shen Mian and fired another shot in the direction pointed out by Ji Yushi.
The entire floor shook.
This time, he had blown a large hole on the floor!!
The grappling hook made its appearance and Tang Qi and Tang Le went down the rope first. Zhou Mingxuan shot down a few zombies and followed and then Ji Yushi and Duan Wen quickly secured Li Chun and went down as well.
Wind whistled past their ears.
As they slid down at a high speed, zombies that chased after them fell down the hole endlessly.
Unlike those crazed zombies, the giant spiders stopped before the hole and no longer chased after them. It was as if the place below was a forbidden zone for them.
The corridor on the lower level was bright, quiet and completely empty.
The ceiling was too high, and the ventilation pipes above criss-crossed through the entire building, forming a system of its own.
Everyone in the squad followed the zipline and stopped on a thick ventilation pipe that was more than ten metres away from the floor above. There was also another twenty or thirty metres below them so even if there were zombies, it was impossible for them to climb up.
They all untied themselves and there was a look of relief on everyone’s faces.
Song Qinglan’s eyes quickly swept over them, making sure that everyone was still intact.
Tang Qi and Tang Le inspected the surrounding area while Duan Wen and Zhou Mingxuan helped dig away the mucous on Li Chun’s body.
Ji Yushi sat on the side catching his breath.
The white T-shirt on his body had long lost its original colour and his face was unnaturally red. Under his short sleeves, one arm was purple and red, a sharp contrast to the other.
On their way here, Ji Yushi had sustained the most injuries in the team.
What’s more, he was also originally wounded.
“How are you?!” Song Qinglan knelt down and asked.
Seeing the concern in his eyes, Ji Yushi didn’t hold back, “Help me, take out the painkiller. The wound, opened.”
Ji Yushi’s spoke unevenly, and his lips were pale from enduring the pain.
His tone and words were less distant than before. It was like it was his first time allowing the other person to get close to him.
Song Qinglan asked, “Where’s the medicine?”
Ji Yushi gestured sideways, “Pocket.”
His purple arm was trembling, and his other hand was covering his abdomen. It seemed that he couldn’t free his own hands to grab it.
Song Qinglan did as he was told and reached into his pant pocket.
In front of everyone, this slightly intimate action was no longer strange. No one was in the mood to tease them anymore, but at such a moment, at a moment where their lives were hanging from a thread, Song Qinglan suddenly felt his heart turn hot. The reason for it was unclear.
The small bottle of painkiller was taken out.