Deep in the empty corridor.
There was no Xing Wu, no Novsky.
Only darkness silently watched over the 11 soldiers inside the door.
"Where are the elders... where did the elders go?!"
Chen Xiaoyu's voice was already filled with terror.
Everyone stood frozen at the doorway.
Just then, Li Tie, who had just lost his balance and knocked Sergei down, subconsciously looked down at the ground.
He clearly remembered that he slipped on a tin water cup.
Li Tie pulled out a tactical flashlight and shone the beam at his feet.
The next second, the nearly two-meter-tall man felt his blood run cold!
That's not a tin water cup at all!
It was a mass of dark red, pulsating flesh, beating like a heart!
Li Tie's stomp just now caused it to burst into a pool of sticky, foul-smelling liquid.
At this moment, the shattered flesh and blood were spinning, heading straight for Li Tie!
"Back off! There's a monster!"
Li Tie felt a chill run down his spine and roared.
"Bang!!!"
Before anyone could react, the open hospital room door was suddenly slammed shut with tremendous force!
"Sizzle!"
Immediately following, accompanied by a strange sound, chunks of flesh poured out from the gaps around the door.
These chunks of flesh hardened in an instant, stitching the entire door to the wall, welding it shut!
They were completely locked in this dark hospital room, which was only a few dozen square meters in size!
"Turn on the lights! Quickly, find a ventilation opening!"
Sergei roared.
However, the beam of the flashlight hadn't even had a chance to sweep across the ceiling.
A low chuckle suddenly came from the darkest corner of the ward.
"Hehe... hehehe..."
Everyone focused the beams of their flashlights on the hospital bed in the corner.
That was Volod, a Su Country soldier who had lost both hands.
He had been leaning weakly against the wall due to excessive blood loss, but now he stood up straight.
To everyone's horror, they discovered that no blood was gushing from Volod's two severed wrists, nor were any tentacles growing back.
Instead, each of them grew a distorted human face!
The face on the severed wrist on the left is Ivan's head, which had been blown off.
The face on the severed wrist on the right is that of Su Country soldier who was killed while trying to escape!
The two faces attached to the severed wrists simultaneously opened their pupil-less white eyes and spoke in turn.
"There were two old monsters outside the door just now, and we didn't dare to speak..."
"Now that they're finally gone, it's our turn... to have dinner."
"Fire!!!"
Li Tie roared and pulled out his flamethrower to spray fire!
Another Su Country soldier quickly pulled out his flamethrower!
"I'll fuck you to death!"
The cramped, enclosed hospital room instantly transformed into a living hell!
Volod's body burned within the Goblet of Fire, but the faces on his two severed wrists ejected!
Along with its long, fleshy esophagus, it bit into the neck of a Su Country soldier standing nearby!
"Aaaaaah!"
The Su Country screamed and fell to the ground, his body convulsing violently.
Just a few seconds later, he became eerily quiet, then got up from the ground and lunged at his comrade beside him.
"Who is human?! Who on earth is human?!"
In the darkness, the beam of the flashlight swayed wildly.
Smoke!
The smell of blood!
The air was thick with the smell of burning.
The most terrifying thing about these flesh-and-blood monsters is not their strength, but their near-perfect [camouflage]!
They can mimic their companions' cries for help, their painful screams, and even reveal the most secret memories between their companions!
"Brother Tie! Help me! It's biting my leg!"
A China soldier's cry echoed from the darkness.
"Xiao Zhang!"
Li Tie rushed over without hesitation, just about to reach out and pull him up.
But instead, a huge mouth full of sharp teeth burst open from the soldier's chest and bit into Li Tie's throat!
"Ah! I fucking bastard!!!"
Li Tie was so frightened that he lost control of his expression, raised his meteor hammer and smashed it down, turning the man into a pile of minced meat, but he himself was also drenched in a cold sweat.
The chain of suspicion erupted completely within this enclosed space.
No one dares to trust the people around them.
Even comrades who were just back to back could tear off their skin and reveal their fangs in the next second!
"Don't come any closer! I'll shoot if you do!"
"It's really me! Sergei! It's me Boris!"
Bang bang bang!
Humans and monsters, monsters and humans.
Eleven people engaged in a desperate melee in the chaotic darkness.
Blood stained the walls, and severed limbs piled up at the feet.
"Don't kill me... don't kill me! I don't want to die!"
In a corner of the ward, Lu Ao was huddled behind a metal cabinet, clutching his head and trembling all over.
"Lu Ao, don't be afraid, I'm behind you."
Veteran Chen Dazhu, holding a gun, leaned against an iron cabinet, panting heavily.
As if grasping at a straw, Lu Ao turned his head. "Old Chen... what should we do..."
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out, exploding in Lu Ao's ears!
Lu Ao's voice stopped abruptly, a bloody hole appeared between his eyebrows, and his eyes widened.
Even in death, he retained that lingering desire to live and a sense of bewilderment, his body collapsing into a pool of blood.
The beam of the flashlight swept over.
Li Tie and Chen Xiaoyu rushed to the corner, staring in shock at Chen Dazhu, who was holding a still-smoking pistol, and Lu Ao lying on the ground.
"Old Chen! What are you doing?!"
Chen Xiaoyu's eyes were bloodshot.
Chen Dazhu, his face deathly pale and trembling, leaned against the wall, pointing at Lu Ao's corpse and gasping for breath, "He... he mutated!"
"I just saw a slit open on the back of his neck; he was trying to sneak up on me and bite my neck in the dark!"
"I had no choice... I had to shoot!"
"This..."
Li Tie stared at Lu Ao's corpse and gritted his teeth.
In this purgatory where truth and falsehood were indistinguishable, he had no time to verify anything.
"No time! There are more and more monsters! Blow up the wall! Charge out with me!"
Li Tie roared and turned the power of the specially made high-pressure flamethrower to the maximum.
The blazing fire dragon instantly incinerated the two mutated Su Country soldiers who rushed forward into charred remains.
He then pulled a High Explosive Grenade from his waist and stuffed it into a crack in the softened wall.
"Boom!!!"
A huge hole was blasted through the wall of the ward with a violent explosion!
"Go! Go quickly!"
Li Tie led the way, wielding a meteor hammer, with Chen Xiaoyu providing cover with a gun, Sergei close behind, and Chen Dazhu stumbling and falling at the very back.
Four people stepped over the limbs and blood scattered on the ground, and over the broken bricks, and crawled out of the hole in the wall!
They didn't even dare look back at the ward, running wildly down the corridor until they finally broke through an iron door.
A room labeled "[Radiology Department]".
"Clang!"
The four men rushed into the room, and Li Tie and Sergei worked together to push the table over and block the iron door.
"Huff... huff..."
Safe House, only the panting of four survivors could be heard.
The original team of 11 people is now down to just 4.
Li Tie, Chen Xiaoyu, Sergei, Chen Dazhu.
Chen Xiaoyu collapsed to the ground, exhausted, covering her blood-stained face with her hands, tears streaming down her face.
"They're all dead... completely dead..."
He choked back tears, his voice filled with endless sorrow, "Lu Ao... was he really infected?"
"He can't even bear to watch someone kill a chicken..."
Sergei, who was tightly bandaging the wound on his thigh, fell silent upon hearing this.
Li Tie put down his meteor hammer, walked to the corner, and patted Chen Dazhu, who had been keeping his head down.
"Old Chen, don't blame yourself."
Li Tie sighed and comforted him, "In that situation, your judgment was correct in order to survive."
"If he really has mutated, if you hesitate for even a second, you'll be the one who dies."
"No one will blame you."
Chen Dazhu sat in the shadows, head bowed, motionless.
"Old Chen?"
Li Tie frowned, sensing that something was wrong.
Chen Dazhu slowly raised his head.
Using the dim light streaming in from the pale, fleshy mass outside the window, Li Tie, Chen Xiaoyu, and Sergei saw Chen Dazhu's face at that moment.
The corners of his mouth were tearing upwards.
That wasn't a human smile at all; the skin had been torn and ripped open, revealing rows of interlocking teeth and bones.
"Yes... his judgment is certainly correct..."
[Chen Dazhu] spoke, but his voice sounded like a reverberation of several people stacked together.
"That idiot Lu Ao... he wasn't infected at all."
"His flesh tasted exactly like the sour, rancid smell of a normal human being."
"What... what did you say?!"
If Li Tie were struck by lightning, he would grab a meteor hammer.
[Chen Dazhu] stood up, licked the blood from the corner of his mouth with relish, his eyes filled with pleasure.
"I killed him, not because he tried to ambush me."
"But because..."
"In the darkness, what it feels like to have your most trusted comrade suddenly point a gun at your head..."
"The despair and fear that erupted from his face..."
"It's really... delicious."
"Sizzle!"
The moment the words left his mouth, [Chen Dazhu]'s entire chest burst open!
Countless thick tentacles with barbs and a cavity full of fangs erupted with a roar within this cramped Safe House!
"Oh no!"
Li Tie had just picked up his meteor hammer when the tentacles came hurtling towards him!
Just as the tentacle inside Chen Dazhu's chest cavity was about to pierce through Li Tie's face!
"Bang!"
A deep gunshot rang out from outside the door!
The bullet pierced through the iron gate and went straight through Chen Dazhu's fang-filled chest.
The Instant Death attack left it frozen in mid-air.
Immediately afterwards, "Whoosh!"
A sharp Sword Qi burst through the door!
The sword light shredded Chen Dazhu into black ashes, leaving not even a drop of blood behind.
The iron gate was pushed open from the outside.
Xing Wu, carrying his longsword upside down, and Novsky, carrying the Mosin-Nagant, entered one after the other.
Xing Wu looked at the three still-shaken individuals and reached out his hand.
Are you alright?