Rae asked with a big grin.
"Climbing up is too physically taxing and dangerous, whereas taking the stairs, we've seen what happens when you take the stairs, and taking the elevator is both safer and less taxing for us, so why not?"
This time it was Matthew who answered instead of kevin, and the reason he said was basically the same as what kevin thought, but the most important one, he didn't say.
Climbing straight up through that ageing utility tunnel, not to mention whether or not that pipe would hold up, would take an unknown amount of time!
For kevin, time equals life, equals power!
"You have five minutes to kill yourself with this gun if you can't even control an elevator with little programming."
KEVIN patted the revolver in Callump's holster and made his way over to the side, reaching up to probe his burning forehead, sensing a hint of something amiss.
(How can I catch a cold for no reason, with my strengthened physique it should be hard to get sick ...)
kevin thought in his mind and tried to use his spirit to connect with the Guide in the Abyssal Ring.
(Guide, will you check my physical condition?)
"Could be."
The Guide's icy voice rang out next to kevin's ear, but only a stone's throw away, Kalamp didn't respond to the task, and several others didn't feel anything different.
It was true that the voice of the Guide was inaudible to all but the corresponding Contractor.
(Okay, scan my body.)
"One day of survival time needs to be deducted to perform this function in the mission realm, are you sure?"
The Guide's voice seemed like ten thousand years of ice, freezing kevin's soul almost instantly.
(Never mind, let's wait until the mission is over.)
kevin stayed for a moment and chose no.
If he were to be scanned now, his life, after deducting a day of survival, would be less than four hours!
Combined with twice the survival time consumed by a pet hunter, this was nothing short of a death wish!
"Cough cough!"
kevin's coughing and body heat seems to have gotten worse!
（Is it getting worse already?)
KEVIN glanced at Kalamp, who was busy, and urged, "Hurry!"
"I'm working on it, soon!"
Without looking back, Kalamp stared unblinkingly at the screen of the tactical computer, his fingers flying, leaving almost a trail of static on the keyboard!
"What's wrong with you?"
Alice walked over and frowned as she sensed that kevin's body, seemed to be in some condition.
"My cold seems to have gotten worse, but it's not a problem."
kevin looked up at this heroine from the Resident Evil movie series and couldn't help but cough some more.
"Corpsman! Corpsman!"
As soon as Jedi heard that KEVIN had a cold, she immediately shouted for the team's medic.
"Quick! Check it out for Boss!"
"Yes!"
Without a moment's delay, the paramedic came over with a medical kit.
After a three-minute examination, she confirmed the diagnosis, "This should be a common flu, only I don't have any special medicine for colds here, so I can only wait until I go out for further treatment."
Indeed, the only thing they carried as a combat team was various injury medicines, and with a physical fitness like the mercenaries, who would get sick!
"There!"
Kalamp tapped the keyboard heavily, leaning his back against the backrest of the chair for a moment and breathing heavily.
"Fortunately, the elevator is now up and running, and within ten seconds it will be on the sixth floor waiting for us!"
"Okay, let's go."
KEVIN ORDERED, and the mercenaries immediately functioned, two of the raiders slinging their rifles behind their backs and darting to push a table in the surveillance room.
"Kalamp, you lead the way."
"Leave it to me!"
Kalamp regained his confidence, and without the Red Queen, his talents, were on full display, kevin gave him five minutes, and it took him less than three, to complete the task!
After Callump, there was Jedi and Rae, then the two raiders, Matt and Matthew, and Alice.
Due to health reasons, kevin volunteered to stay at the end.
"I'll pull you up."
Alice, who was agile enough to climb up the ventilation duct, didn't just leave, but turned around, went to the other side of the vent, and held out her hand to kevin.
"Thanks."
KEVIN had now felt the weakness of his body, coupled with the consecutive battles, it could be said that he was the one who had lost the most physical strength, and climbing the mountain, a ventilation duct, seemed a bit difficult for him now!
Alice's hands weren't like the usual ones of the great ladies, what with their softness and smoothness.
Quite the contrary, on her fingers, kevin could distinctly feel the rough gun calluses on the belly and knuckles!
In contrast, kevin's fully restored hands were more like a woman who bathed in milk all day long, delicate and smooth.
After Ellis grabbed kevin's palm, her arm slightly lifted, and she who didn't show much muscle actually lifted kevin's entire body directly!
kevin also took the opportunity to use his strength to easily climb up the ventilation ducts.
Matthew in the front, after sensing that kevin had come up, blurted out, "Okay, Kalamp, lead the way."
With that, he began to crawl forward.
Naturally, kevin followed, and Ellis, having pulled kevin to the other side of the vent, was now behind kevin at the far end of the line.
Crawling slowly along the ventilation ducts so narrow that only one person can crawl through, especially in the case that there are still zombies roaming around below, the pressure of the crowd seems a little big, not daring to say a word, and even more so, not daring to make the slightest noise, just silently crawling.
At the end of the ventilation ducts, connected to the utility tunnels, it took the crowd about eight minutes to crawl there and free their hands!
The scene in the utility tunnels was not far from the scene in the movie, damp and with the appearance that no one had come to do maintenance for a long time, the wires in the transmission power were wrapped in pipes and held in mid-air by rusty screws.
"Everyone climb up."
kevin pointed to the pipe above the heads of the people, as long as they didn't walk too fast, this pipe, enough to bear the weight of these people.
"Everyone try to spread out a bit, even if there are walkers down there there's no need to panic, they won't be able to reach them."
Kevin made it a point to instruct the crowd after they had all climbed the pipeline, and only after he knew that they all nodded that they understood, did he let Kalamp start to lead the way, and he himself followed behind him.
"Can we really get out of here?"
Matt couldn't help but be a little skeptical, and after a few minutes of walking and crawling up and down the pipe, he was thoroughly confused as to where he was going.
"MD, you believe you can crawl back the way you came and wait!"
Grumpy Rae turned around and glared at Matt without a good look, from the very beginning, she had looked at the man with a bad taste in her mouth.
Maybe it was a little loud, and this tunnel has seemed too empty and silent, Rei's voice, suddenly carried a long way, vaguely reflecting echoes!
"No good!"
kevin said in his mind.
"Everyone pay attention, the sound might draw the walkers in."
kevin gave them a precautionary shot in advance, lest they fall right into a pile of zombies when the time comes, like the plot developed in the movie.
kevin's grave tone instantly caused the crowd's spirits to tighten completely, even forgetting to walk for the moment, their eyes uneasily surveying the bottom of the pipe to see if any walkers had caught up with them.
"What are you looking at, let's go, the elevator on the fifth floor is waiting for us."
kevin had to lower his voice to urge.
"Oooooh!"
Kalamp hurriedly accelerated his speed, and the ones behind him immediately followed, fearing that they would slow down a step and fall into the surroundings of the zombie horde!
In fact, the utility tunnels are hardly ever visited, and it's unlikely that walkers would specifically seek them out and converge in such a pile without being stimulated.
KEVIN speculates that in the original episode, the fact that so many walkers were pooled in the utility tube tunnels, and that they were arguing was one reason, as well as the fact that they were carrying wounds and giving off the scent of living blood, which made the walkers, who may have had a keen sense of smell, sense and come after them!
Of course, right now kevin doesn't have that American time to test the zombies' sense of smell, and it's the formal style of the prudent to do everything according to the worst-case scenario.