"I've been stuck in this hellhole for over three years. First time I've seen humans."
"We could've talked this out. Who opens fire right off the bat?"
Lu Xiao held a roll of gauze, continually stuffing it into the bullet holes in his body.
After lying on the ground earlier and listening for a while.
Lu Xiao had more or less figured out that these people wanted to take him away.
He had no idea where they wanted to take him, but he was very curious.
The seven-person team exchanged glances.
Seeing that Lu Xiao was still so lively, Dart felt much of his anxiety ease.
"Sly, carry him. You all withdraw first. I'll cover the rear."
The man called Sly was the team member responsible for taking readings.
At that, he set down his scanning equipment, then hoisted Lu Xiao off the ground onto his back.
"Thanks... buddy."
Lu Xiao's hoarse voice rang out.
Sly instinctively wanted to turn his head, but when he remembered Lu Xiao's hideous, terrifying face, fear immediately suppressed that instinct.
He squeezed a few words through his teeth.
"Y-you're welcome."
Another male team member bent down to pick up the scanning equipment, then sucked in a sharp breath.
"This thing's that heavy?"
Sly snorted coldly without speaking.
The others immediately ran back the way they had come.
Dart followed at the rear of the team, moving backward as he watched the surrounding darkness warily.
Before long, panting came from the darkness.
It sounded especially terrifying on the empty street.
Dart immediately tensed, his gaze as sharp as an eagle's.
Scarlet light flared in the darkness, like a pair of lanterns.
They were some creature's eyes.
Lu Xiao sniffed, instantly losing any desire to act.
"Filthy lizard."
He had killed countless things like this over the past three years.
Lu Xiao had only one assessment of it.
"Tastes awful!"
He curled his lips, sneering inwardly without speaking.
Hiss, hiss!
A sound like a snake flicking its tongue rang out.
A lizard the size of a small calf darted out of the darkness.
It was called a lizard because it had a lizard's head.
Its body was humanoid, crawling through the shadows in a bizarre, contorted posture.
It was utterly horrifying.
Dart, however, let out a small breath of relief.
"It's a low-level lizardman."
Without a second thought, he raised his gun and fired a burst at the lizardman crawling in the shadows.
"Whine, whine, whine!"
A series of pained cries rang out, like a stray dog being beaten.
After emptying his magazine, Dart reached for a fresh one at his waist.
Click!
In less than a second, Dart had changed magazines.
The team members sprinting ahead did not dare look back.
Carrying Lu Xiao in the center of the team, Sly shouted.
"Captain, you're so cool!"
Beside him, Xiao Yu panted as she said in exasperation.
"You're still being slick at a time like this?"
Sly seemed to have excellent stamina. Even after running so long with someone on his back, he was not the least bit winded.
"Why else do you think my code name's Sly?"
Just then, Dart's grave voice rang out.
"How far to the door?"
Xiao Yu raised her hand. A watch sat on her wrist.
A screen of light formed over her watch.
It displayed a dense network of roads, like a maze.
Among them, a red dot flashed rapidly.
"The map says one kilometer."
Hearing that it was one kilometer, everyone quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Only Dart remained vigilant.
He quickly took out his radio and shouted into it.
"This is Dart! We're one kilometer from the door, pursued by a suspected level 1 anomaly! Prepare to receive us!"
"Repeat! We're one kilometer from the door, suspected level 1 anomaly! Prepare to receive us!"
At the same time, a busy tone came from the radio, followed by a bang, as though the radio had been tossed onto a table.
"Support team, prepare to receive them. Bring contained object Sequence 069."
"Make absolutely sure the field team is safe!"
Then came voices that grew more distant.
"They're even deploying Sequence 069. Just how much importance are they placing on this containment target?"
Sly muttered under his breath.
At that moment, Dart had to reassess Lu Xiao's value.
"No wonder the doctor wanted us to bring him back even if he was a corpse."
Sly grinned.
"069's containment class may be safe, but every deployment comes with conditions!"
He turned toward the team member who had fired first and teased him.
"You sick?"
At those words, the team member shuddered.
"Why me?"
Sly scoffed.
"Why do you think? Still, I have to say, you looked pretty cool firing that gun. Fast, too."
The man's mouth twitched, but he understood that if he had not fired first, things might not have become so troublesome.
"I... probably am?"
He spoke shakily.
Dart's grave voice came from behind.
"Enough, Sly. Stop teasing him."
Hearing that, the man breathed a sigh of relief.
Clearly, the captain had a solution.
But Dart's next words brought him out in a cold sweat.
"Liuguang, cut off your hand."
Hearing Dart's order, Liuguang froze.
He glanced around and found the other team members all hurrying along with their heads down. Nobody looked at him.
Sly offered reassurance at that moment.
"Don't worry. Cut off your hand, and Sequence 069 will reattach it for you in a bit!"
"Otherwise, when it's time to pay the price, if you don't have an injury or illness, you'll be in for some real suffering!"
Hearing that, Liuguang shuddered again.
Then he drew the dagger at his waist and chopped down at his own hand without hesitation.
Slash!
The dagger was extremely sharp. Liuguang's hand fell to the ground, the cut clean.
Xiao Yu hurriedly bent down to pick up the severed hand.
There was no time to treat Liuguang's wound now.
Liuguang gritted his teeth as blood spurted from the stump of his hand.
For a moment, the smell of blood in the air grew even stronger.
Lying on Sly's back, Lu Xiao watched the scene unfold, unable to quite understand it.
"Why cut off his hand?"
Hearing this, Sly was just about to say something.
Suddenly!
Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep!!!!!
Hearing that sound, Sly was instantly alarmed.
He knew that sound all too well, but this was his first time hearing it in the Dark Prison.
"Captain! The Dark Prison reading has reached the threshold! A supernatural anomalous creature is approaching!"
By now, Sly's voice was trembling slightly.
Even Dart felt a chill shoot straight up his spine.
His previously calm mind now sank into fear as well.
Xiao Yu raised her wrist and spoke in a tearful voice.
"Three hundred meters to the door!"
Three hundred meters was a mere fraction of what this team covered in their usual training.
Yet now, it was like an impassable chasm.
Heavy panting rang out in the darkness.
The faint roar of a chainsaw could be heard.
"Run!"
Dart screamed at the top of his lungs.
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of the spinning chainsaw was already distinct.
From a distance, they could see a humanoid creature holding a chainsaw, its entire body wrapped in bandages, approaching the team.
It moved fast, often covering dozens of meters in a single stride.
In just an instant, the Blood Saw Man was less than ten meters from the team.
A rotting stench wafted over.
Even through their masks, the team members could smell the nauseating stink.
Dart raised his gun and fired, pouring a burst of bullets into the Blood Saw Man's bandage-covered head.
The bullets struck the bandages on its head, throwing off showers of sparks as though they had hit the hardest steel.
The bullets could not hurt it in the slightest.
To the team members, the sound of the chainsaw was like a waltz heralding death.
Despair filled everyone's hearts.
At that moment, they were less than a hundred meters from the door.
Meanwhile, Lu Xiao fell deep in thought, with no telling what was on his mind.
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