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The footsteps in the corridor grew closer.
The two covered their mouths in terror, hearing only the heavy footsteps and their own heartbeats.
The senior colleague mustered his courage and left the door slightly ajar to block the two figures from view.
"Da da da……"
The footsteps reached the room where the two were hiding, and without stopping, they headed away into the distance.
In fact, Dou Tang had noticed the two of them, but now he wanted to destroy the hooded man's base first. As long as the monster's headquarters was destroyed, the ordinary people trapped in the building would be safe and sound.
Following the bloodstains on the ground, Dou Tang arrived at the stairs of another basement.
"You guy..."
Just then, the old loudspeaker on the stairwell wall started broadcasting.
This loudspeaker is clearly part of the hospital's original infrastructure. I never expected that the hooded man, besides having modern cameras and walkie-talkies, would also be able to operate such old-fashioned equipment.
Dou Tang glanced at the security camera in the corner, smiled, and then calmly continued walking down into the underground.
As you step underground, a strong stench of blood fills the air.
The smell of blood was so strong that it masked the original pungent stench of decay, and Dou Tang also smelled some formaldehyde.
The entire underground space was a terrible sight.
Many walls were pushed down and destroyed by the monsters, leaving only the load-bearing pillars with half of the walls still standing.
Through the broken walls, one can see that each room contains cages haphazardly pieced together from steel pipes, their design suggesting they could be destroyed with the slightest touch.
In these cages, without exception, all of them held the same kind of monsters seen before. Some monsters were fat and some were thin. The fat monsters were even more disgusting than the ones seen before. Without their skin, thick layers of pale yellow fat hung on their muscles, as if they would fall off with the slightest touch.
Those precarious layers of fat and muscle were connected only by white fascia, trembling incessantly with the monsters' restless agitation.
In addition, there was excrement and blood. Since these monsters lived entirely in cages, the bottom of the cages was already piled with excrement, and the blood flowing from the monsters' bodies mixed with it, creating a nauseating stench.
At a glance, there should be no fewer than ten such cages in the entire basement.
In one corner of the underground space, there remains the only intact room.
At this moment, the hooded man they had seen earlier was escaping out of the building carrying a briefcase. Upon seeing Dou Tang, he let out a strange cry, turned around, and ran towards the other side of the stairwell.
Dou Tang's eyes sharpened, and he stomped the ground, rushing out.
"Damn it...you asked for it!"
The hooded man roared, pulled out something that looked like a TV remote, and forcefully pressed down all the buttons on it.
"Zi-"
A series of electromagnetic lock clicks rang out, and one by one, the cages holding the monsters were opened. The monsters inside suddenly raised their heads, and pairs of crimson eyes lit up from the darkness.
The hooded man originally intended for ordinary people to arrive at the testing ground last. Imagine these people walking down the path with flashlights, timidly advancing in the darkness, when suddenly, pairs of crimson eyes shone from the darkness. Shining their flashlights, they saw hideous, fleshy monsters.
For a hooded man, that must be the ultimate enjoyment.
But not now. Now, if these test subjects can hold off that monster for even a minute, the hooded man will sincerely say thank goodness!
One by one, the prison doors opened.
Dou Tang snorted coldly, clenched his fists, and glared angrily.
"Don't even think about running away!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a monster appeared in his field of vision, its gaping maw emitting a foul stench.
Enraged, Dou Tang frowned, stretched out one hand, fixed the angle of his forearm and upper arm, and used his entire arm as a weapon, delivering a whip-like punch that whistled through the air.
"Snapped!"
The fist and forearm struck the monster's chin and neck simultaneously, and with a cracking sound of bones breaking, the monster was knocked to the ground like a rag doll.
Dou Tang roared and charged at the hooded man who had already stepped onto the stairs.
The hooded man glanced back and was terrified.
A cherry-red light rose from the man in the high school uniform.
Like a blazing flame igniting in the darkness, the cherry-red light engulfed the pitch-black vortex, swallowed the blue flames' eyes, and expanded into a round, solid form.
Round, chubby jelly beans appeared underground.
But it wasn't over yet. More dreamy and ambiguous warm colors began to emerge on the Fall Guys. Pale blue and light pink appeared together, transforming into ferocious and realistic dragon scales, and shaping them into a majestic dragon head and wings.
"Wu, Hu—"
"Roar!!!!"
The Fall Guy, dressed in a dragon suit, roared in anger.
A wave of air erupted, and pink light drifted, bathing the entire underground in a dreamlike, colorful rainbow light because of the appearance of this strange entity.
The hooded man stared wide-eyed, motionless, the shock before him scattering all his reason and leaving him in a dazed state of astonishment.
The dragon took a deep breath.
The dragon opened its mouth.
"Roar--"
First came thick black smoke.
Then came a loud roar.
Finally, there was the intense, scorching light and heat, like the blazing summer sun, which was a name
It is an invisible substance of fire.
The entire underground area was illuminated and bathed in the dragon's breath.
The hooded man stared wide-eyed at everything before him in disbelief until he was engulfed by the flames that consumed everything.
Driven by instinct, the monsters tried to escape, but no creature could survive the dragon's breath. They howled and wailed, their bodies convulsing, their flesh melting into charred matter in the flames.
The entire underground area was transformed into a sea of fire, and the roar of the giant dragon echoed throughout the underground.
Chapter 15 My brother's intervention is a match for everyone.
The floor is hot.
The air was filled with roars from underground, roars from hell.
The senior and Bai Linlin were utterly terrified; no normal person could remain calm after hearing such a sound.
They fled in panic, their flashlights unable to illuminate one direction, waving wildly in their hands as they ran. At that moment, all they wanted was to escape this place and get away as quickly as possible.
When they escaped back to the corridor leading to the consultation room, they found that the people who had been in the room had also come out and were anxiously pacing around the corridor.
Only Huaiyin seemed to be thoughtfully stroking her chin.
The corridor grew increasingly hot, and everyone was sweating profusely.
A photographer was using a shovel that a senior colleague had brought back to chip away at a fire door. But the old-fashioned fire door was very hard, and after chipping for so long, only a small hole had appeared.
"You're back just in time! Let's get started!" one of the photographers shouted.
The senior colleague rushed over, grabbed a fire axe, and chopped at the roller shutter door, saying, "We saw a ghost! No, not the monster I told you about before, but a ghost! A ghost with glowing blue eyes!"
Upon hearing this, Huaiyin, who was standing to the side, seemed to be deep in thought, but still did not respond. Instead, she silently stepped back, pretending to be an ordinary person who was overly frightened.
At that moment, thick smoke suddenly began to appear in the air.
Linlin looked in the direction the thick smoke was coming from and immediately saw that thick smoke was billowing from the stairwell not far away. After the fire started underground, the foul-smelling smoke from the burning filth floated up the stairwell, as did the flames.
Flames rose up from the wooden handrail of the stairwell, scorching the walls and gradually spreading.
"Cough cough cough..."
Two female fans coughed, and Linlin quickly covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve, while Huaiyin took out a scarf from somewhere and wrapped it around herself.
She said coldly, "Keep going, you must escape. I'll go see if I can contain the fire!"
"What, what are you talking about!" Photographer A exclaimed in surprise, reaching out to stop Huaiyin.
"Stop dawdling! I have to go! Don't worry about me!"
Huaiyin shouted, even drawing his long sword.
Linlin stared at her with red eyes, her voice trembling slightly: "Little Sister Mu Gui...you, did you originally intend to commit suicide?"
Huaiyin was stunned for a moment.
What is this person imagining?
...Could she possibly think that she actually wants to commit suicide here?
"You're the kind of person who wants to participate in a paranormal program and then look for a suicide spot, right? I know, I've met people like you before!" Linlin tried to approach Huaiyin, but Huaiyin forced her back with his long knife.
But she still didn't give up, appealing to her emotions and reasoning with her: "I understand, a girl like you must have gone through something to become such a calm person, right? But no matter what you've been through, you can't give up on life!"
"If you need anything, you can tell your sister, and she can help you! As long as you don't give up, everyone will help you!"
The senior colleague was sweating profusely as he hacked at the roller shutter door. With the fire brigade behind him caught in a midst of internal strife, he simply didn't have the energy to mediate.
Linlin wiped the sweat from her face and continued to look at Huaiyin with hopeful eyes, saying, "Look, we were in danger before, but we still survived, didn't we? As long as we don't give up, there is always hope. Sister Mugui, don't give up on your life so easily!"
Huaiyin ignored her completely, shook her head, used her long sword to force Linlin back, and took a few steps back at the same time.
Looking back, the corridor was filled with thick smoke.
"Thank you for your kindness, but I feel like you've misunderstood something, but... I hope we meet again someday!"
She finished speaking coldly and ran towards the thick smoke without looking back.
Linlin wanted to chase after him, but the photographer next to her stopped her and shook his head at her.
………………
Huaiyin squinted and rushed into the thick fog, took out the swimming goggles she had prepared beforehand from her pocket to use as protective goggles, and began to grope her way through the fog.
It wasn't as pungent as I had imagined.
She was surrounded by thick fog, but surprisingly, she didn't feel too uncomfortable. Apart from needing goggles to protect her eyes, she felt fine.
Covering her mouth and nose with a scarf, she rushed towards the stairwell where the fire had spread.
As soon as she reached the top of the stairs and saw the burning wooden handrail, she sensed a figure rushing up from below the stairs at an extremely fast speed.
Without thinking, driven by her instinct to retaliate, she swung her long sword at the attacker.
"Clang—clang!"
The long sword was caught between two fingers by that figure.
She blocked the incoming longsword head-on... Before Huaiyin could even be surprised, she saw the newcomer's eyes burning with blue flames.
"Brother... um..."
Before she could speak, she was picked up and carried back to the place where she would do this almost every night.
Nestled in each other's arms.
Dou Tang carried Huai Yin and ran down the corridor, in the opposite direction from Lin Lin and the others.
Holding Princess Doutang in her arms, Huaiyin shyly sheathed her long sword, then wrapped one arm around Doutang's neck, pressing herself even closer to Doutang's chest.
Dou Tang squinted as he walked through the thick fog, and said coldly, "Don't think you can get away with being cute."
Huaiyin shrank his neck.
"Shouldn't we just leave those ordinary people alone?" Dou Tang asked again.
“They…they can escape on their own. Those people are all good people and very capable,” Huaiyin whispered.
Dou Tang snorted coldly: "Hmph, he is a good person, no doubt. If you can't even tell the difference between a good person and a bad person and you come out with them, I will be very angry."
Huaiyin, unusually playful, asked, "Eh? Are you angry but worried?"
"All."
The two were in a scorching, smoky corridor, yet it felt as if they were strolling in their own backyard, chatting casually.
Dou Tang quickly found a room with its windows sealed off. After entering, he put Huaiyin down, jumped twice on the spot, took two steps back, and then launched a flying kick.
"Bang!!"
He kicked the iron plate used to seal the window away, sending the wooden window frame and the iron plate flying outside. Dou Tang jumped outside as well.
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