Chapter 17: The Box of Calamity Under the Hive
Silence, a deathly silence. In the vast space, no one can be seen within sight. When Wang Zongchao walked out of the elevator, the sound of his shoes touching the floor immediately echoed in the hallway.
Connected to the outside of the elevator is an extremely advanced disinfection channel, 50 meters long, used to inspect and eliminate all bacteria carried by the entrant. Despite being unattended, the silver white zinc magnetic plates on the walls of the passage still played their due role, emitting a faint white light that shone on Wang Zongchao until he reached the end of the passage. There are two changing rooms at the end, one on each side. After changing into work clothes, one needs to go through a 50 meter disinfection channel before entering the laboratory officially.
Wang Zongchao silently walked forward. Since entering here, he had set aside any distractions, and now his only concern was to obtain the T virus buffer as soon as possible.
He walked slowly and steadily, taking every step and landing step to maintain the best reaction of his body in the face of sudden attacks, because he knew that as the main god's task, it would not make him too easy. Although his time was limited, if he became anxious because of it, it would only harm himself.
During a self inspection in the elevator just now, he has roughly figured out his condition:
The ugly granulation tissue that had been constantly growing at the wound site has stopped growing, and it no longer appears extremely nauseating and abrupt as before. Instead, it is becoming more and more flat, as if it is about to merge into its own flesh and blood. And the wound has completely healed from this, it looks like a scar that is too ugly at first glance.
The many granulation tissue at the site of the broken right wrist wound merged into a strange, somewhat skinless frog like section. Wang Zongchao could tell that this was the muscle tissue that had already been cut off, but now it had grown back in just two hours. He could even obey commands after trying to move it. It seemed that if this continued for a few days, his right palm might grow well.
However, Wang Zongchao was also aware that this was the result of Alice's blood temporarily containing the negative impact of the T virus on her body. Over time, the T virus could worsen her physical condition at any time, and there was still a great danger of losing self-awareness again. Otherwise, the completion of the main task would not have included the condition of "and escape from the hive while retaining autonomy".
Continuing forward, after passing through the disinfection passage, there is a long corridor with fluorescent lights shining brightly every meter around it. However, these are all induction lights, and within a range of more than ten meters from him, the lights are on. However, beyond this range, one will fall into endless darkness. This gave Wang Zongchao a sudden illusion, as if he were a thief sneaking around an ancient tomb with a torch. Maybe you will fall into the trap designed by the tomb owner and be dismembered by various mechanisms at some point.
On both sides of the hallway, there are not just walls. Not long after, you will see a work door connecting various large and small laboratories. Although Wang Zongchao kept looking ahead, he still observed various large and small containers placed in the enclosed glass containers in the laboratory with his peripheral light. Most of them were the remains of some organisms, some were thighs, some were arms, some were internal organs, and even brains, everything was available. There are also some relatively complete and peculiar animal specimens, such as pythons with two heads, centipedes over three meters long, and robust monsters with wolf headed gorilla bodies... These specimens not only have strange shapes, but also give people a strong sense of dissonance, like inferior works made by rushing masons.
If it is a creature that has evolved naturally over millions of years in nature, even if it looks strange and unknown, it has its own harmonious and reasonable body structure, while these laboratory creatures are completely different. It seems that they are indeed works created by biochemical technology.
As he walked, although Wang Zongchao still remained calm, his face had become increasingly gloomy because he noticed that in those laboratories, besides strange biochemical animals, there were also corpses of people placed in transparent containers. In addition to adult men and women, there were also elderly people, children, and even pregnant women whose fetuses had been taken out!
I see, this PANDORASBOX should not be seen as a laboratory, but rather as a living experiment center that is not inferior in scale to a beehive but more secretive. Honeycomb conducts pure virus research, while PANDORASBOX is completely inhumane, applying viruses to various organisms including humans to study the changes they undergo due to the virus.
When Zhan Lan introduced the plot of the movie to him, he didn't mention this point at all, and Wang Zongchao didn't understand whether she had missed it or if this place had never appeared in the original movie.
In fact, if people like Zhan Lan who are familiar with the plot of the bio series movies were here, they would be stunned and at a loss for what to do with PANDORASBOX, which had no original plot.
At the end of the long passage is a metal gate, which is probably the control room that the Flame Queen referred to. When Wang Zongchao pushed open the door and saw the prospect of the room, he couldn't help but gasp in anger.
But I saw that this room was much larger than a football field, with a height of over ten meters. However, it seemed like a world war had broken out inside. Various instruments were lying on the ground, and bottles and jars were haphazardly placed on the table. The ground was filled with glass shards and various damaged instruments and equipment. Blood and flesh were flying everywhere on the walls and floors, with no bones left. But because there is no complete body part, although it is disgusting, it is not enough to cause nausea. The human remains in front of us were divided into sections, overflowing with internal organs, not like casualties caused by explosive explosions, but more like a bloody hand to hand combat. It's as if dozens of humanoid beasts have been released to bite each other, which is chilling! There is a huge display screen hanging in mid air in the center of the house, which can be said to be the only thing in the entire room that has not been damaged.
In the middle wall of the room, there is a huge observation window that is ten meters square, and inside it is actually a greenhouse - or more accurately, a small forest!
I can't tell how big it really is. Looking around, there are endless trees of different sizes inside. Various vines hang on the branches, gently swaying under the influence of the wind blowing from somewhere, appearing quiet and harmonious. There is knee length grass growing on the ground. Looking through the gaps between the leaves, the roof is at least twenty meters high, with warm white light emitted from the overhead sun lamps.
Wang Zongchao certainly wouldn't think that this place was meant for vacation, not only because of the large hole on the observation window glass that was clearly violently broken, but also because of the flickering electric sparks on the edge of the broken tempered glass of the observation window.
It is obvious that the observation window was originally powered by high voltage electricity, but it may have been due to the Flame Queen being forcibly closed, causing the electricity to stop here for a certain period of time. As a result, some dangerous creatures destroyed the tempered glass and ran out, killing all the researchers.
The key now is, where exactly is the T virus anti serum to be found?
Strange and eerie places, unknown deadly dangers, life-saving straws that cannot be located, and a countdown to death, all of these combined are enough to make ordinary people collapse. Wang Zongchao took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, starting to carefully observe everything in the control room.
Then he suddenly shouted, "Don't hide, the rescue has arrived
Really... really? "With these stuttering words, a bald head resembling a Mediterranean peeked out from a circular container not far away. When he saw only Wang Zongchao, his face changed.
But Wang Zongchao took just one step and instantly stood in front of him. With a stretch of his left hand, he lifted him out like a chicken.
The person saw up close the ugly brown granulation tissue on Wang Zongchao's chest and right wrist, and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva in fear.
Wang Zongchao also frowned. He smelled a pungent smell of potion on the other person's body, indicating that the place where that guy was hiding was originally intended to hold the potion.
That guy is as thin as a monkey, with a face like a mouse, gasping for breath in shock and asking, "Why... did the company send you alone to rescue
Everyone else has died, killed by those ghosts outside the beehive! "Wang Zongchao replied coldly.
No! "The guy's expression twisted after hearing these words, clutching his small hair and nervously muttering," We're dead... we're dead... "
Do you want to get out alive
It's a dead end... impossible, as long as the virus leaks, the Flame Queen will definitely seal everything off, and we won't be able to get out... it's a dead end... "the guy continued to mutter.
The Flame Queen told me the password to open the door. As long as I can keep my mind in half an hour, I can use the password to get out! "Wang Zongchao reminded coldly.
Do you... do you have a password? "The guy's eyes lit up and he looked ecstatic. He grabbed Wang Zongchao's clothes and asked," What is the password
I will never tell you the password! "Wang Zongchao gently pushed the guy and he sat down on the ground, then said," I need T virus serum to unlock the T virus on my body. In half an hour, if I successfully detoxify and keep my mind, I don't mind taking you out by the way. Otherwise, everyone will stay together
You can't do this. I'm Dr. Luo, the person in charge of an important project in the company. The company has insured my brain for 100 million yuan... Take me out, and I'll give you money after I leave... "Before he could finish speaking, Wang Zongchao interrupted him." Where's the antidote
I, I'll look for it. "This guy named Dr. Luo also realized that he couldn't do without handing over the antidote, but when he shot to a platform and saw a series of messy decorations, his face changed again.
Can you find it? "Wang Zongchao's tone became increasingly cold, and a bad feeling began to arise in his heart. The task arranged by the main god was not simple, and it seemed unlikely that he could successfully obtain the T virus anti serum this time.
Dr. Luo had a mournful expression on his face, but he forcibly put on an ugly smile.
Then, he walked up to a control console and operated it a few times. The huge display screen hanging in mid air in the center of the house suddenly lit up and began displaying a scene:
The house displayed on the screen suddenly dimmed, and the electric sparks on the observation window glass also dimmed. Then, a huge monster broke through the observation window with incredible force and jumped into the house from the greenhouse. The monster was nearly 4 meters tall and looked very similar to the Bimon in Western mythology. The muscles on its thick limbs were bulging like rocks, full of explosive power. The most terrifying thing is his two claws, which are fifty centimeters long and shine like the sickle of death under the light.
The dozens of researchers present were in chaos, but they were quickly crumpled into flesh and blood like crumpled paper by monsters or picked up one by one and thrown into the forest in the greenhouse. Although they wanted to run away with the help of humans, the only exit was quickly blocked by monsters.
Desperate people, many of whom managed to escape into the forest through large holes created by monsters.
Wang Zongchao also noticed that one of the researchers took advantage of himself to grab a black metal box from behind the monster and try to escape, but the monster's tail hit him like a perfect home run, causing him and the box to fly straight from the hole into the depths of the forest.
Finally, when there were no more living people on the scene, the monster suddenly jumped and, while shattering a large piece of glass, jumped back into the forest, apparently enjoying its food.