Chapter 473 [Chapter Hidden in the Abyss] Seventeen: After Arrival

Within a few words, the burning flame of the shuttle mining machine engine not far away seemed to become smaller, and the quiet air made the surrounding darkness thicker.

The air underground is very heavy, and fine dust can be seen in the light. Fortunately, everyone is wearing gas masks, otherwise they would have suffocated due to the dirty air.

The light also seemed to be blocked by the filthy air. In addition to the increasingly smaller firelight, the overhead searchlights could not even allow people to see clearly the scene three to five meters in front of them - at most five meters away, the vision was blurry.

In a daze, Chen Yan seemed to see some tiny microorganisms in the dust. The microorganisms fed on light, so the light gradually weakened and disappeared after being eaten layer by layer...

Chen Yan shook his head vigorously, and the tiny dusty microorganisms disappeared again under the searchlight beam.

He faced the darkness that was so thick that it could even swallow the light, and he thought he was in the [wilderness] in a daze.

'No... the visibility here is much stronger than in the [Wilderness].'

Chen Yan finally came to his senses and patted the spherical Tunguska:

"Where are other teams of miners most likely to appear?"

The spherical Tunguska is also afraid of such darkness, but now that there is no Swarm around, although it is very nervous, it is no longer so scared that it can't even speak as before.

It replied:

"There is a checkpoint in the center area of ​​the A-17 fan blade. There are not only batteries but also food supplies. In order to guard against the monster snake group, the checkpoint itself is also protected by wall armor. The miners are most likely to encounter danger.

where to!"

Chen Yan thought, from this point of view, the team most likely to go to the checkpoint is actually the kind of team that does not have a shuttle mining machine - if there is a shuttle mining machine that can directly escape the A-17 fan blade, why go to the checkpoint?

Running?

But now, with almost no other option, they can only go to the checkpoint and hope for that elusive luck.

The remaining four people followed the direction pointed by the spherical Tunguska, left the scope of the fire and entered the darkness.

The A-17 fan blade is a large downward slope. Every 50 meters or so down the slope, there is a fork in the road where the telephone pole is. Chen Yan counted in his mind. At about the 13th fork in the road,

The spherical Tunguska signals to turn left.

The four of them turned left into the fork in the road where the mine was located, walked around a corner covered by a rock wall, and saw a checkpoint with pale lights a few dozen meters away.

The checkpoint is located on the right side of a circular mine track. The entire track extends from the cavity in the top rock wall, passes the checkpoint, and disappears into the darkness of the mine in the distance.

Although this track does not look new, it has obvious signs of use and is of a thick "iron rod" style, suitable for the latest shuttle mining machines.

The track is not broken, indicating that there may be shuttle mining machines passing by or even stopping here.

The team members looked at the checkpoint and the parking lot outside the checkpoint. Most of the panic caused by the thick darkness was dispelled by the pale light.

Although they had not shown their panic before, they had more or less fear in their hearts. Even if they could rely on courage to suppress their fear, they still only buried the fear in their hearts.

At this time, the checkpoint with pale lights seemed to be the only light refuge in this dark hell.

They soon arrived outside the checkpoint gate.

Chen Yan reached out to knock on the door, but found that the door was not locked.

He immediately realized that something was wrong, took his hand back as if he was electrocuted, and pulled out the Egret Type 1 in the next second.

The door opened slowly, and the tidal smell of rotting blood came into the darkness behind the door. The smell seemed like dead rats fermenting in the sewers for half a month in the summer.

At this moment, Chen Yan only had one thought in his mind:

'You can clearly see lights outside, how can it be dark inside!'

He pulled the trigger under the pressure of abnormality and fear.

"boom--"

The huge gunshot echoed in the mine tunnel space. Chen Yan was pushed out by the egret-shaped recoil. At the same time, a painful and harsh hissing sound came from the darkness. The darkness in the checkpoint dissipated, and the lights were brightly lit the next moment!

"Grass!"

Chen Yan got up cursing, only to see that the atmosphere in front of him was already tense - several guys wearing thick miners' uniforms stood inside the door, each holding a thermal weapon in their hands, and Paulkin Walker and Jack Baldo also

Not to be outdone, even though they only had two guns, they pointed the muzzles at the heads of those on the opposite side with their guns loaded.

The atmosphere was already suffocating for a moment, but what Chen Yan wanted to know more was what had just happened - how could that one shot break through the darkness and reveal the real checkpoint space behind the darkness?

Is the "darkness behind the door" itself a form of life form in the [Giant Forbidden Zone]? That's why it was broken by empowered bullets?

What did the Egret-1 bullet just break?

He didn't have time to think about this for the time being, so he just said to the people at the checkpoint:

"There is strength in numbers! Let us in, or you will have to face the monsters in the dark on your own!"

The captain of the miners' team across from him was a guy with somewhat nervous eyes. One of his eyes was still intact, but the other eye was a prosthetic eye that could not see things, but Chen Yan always felt that he was looking at himself with that prosthetic eye.

Chen Yan said again:

"I'm afraid you don't know that those things in the darkness can 'resurrection', and every dead person may be their minions!"

The captain's expression suddenly changed, he suddenly turned his gun and aimed a hail of bullets at the heads of his teammates.

The blood flower exploded very close to Chen Yan, and no one could avoid it.

The attacker did not fall to the ground stiffly like a corpse. His head was smashed, but his body was still standing. There was no blood splattering on his neck, but there were countless small "strange snakes" crawling from his beaten neck.

It came out and devoured his flesh and blood along his body. In the blink of an eye, he had eaten up all his body inside the miner's suit.

It stands to reason that the volume occupied by the strange snake crawling out of his neck cannot be larger than the volume of his body. But now, the entire miner's uniform is filled to the brim with "strange snakes", making it look bloated from the outside.

It was unbearable, as if it was going to explode at any moment.

At this moment, the people inside and outside the door reached a surprisingly unanimous tacit understanding - they simultaneously fired at the miners' uniforms that were about to be crowded soon.

"Da da da……"

Chaotic gunshots resounded in the small space, and a sharp scream erupted from the miner's uniform. A group of darkness crawled out of the miner's uniform that fell to the ground, trying to escape deeper into the mine.

The intense firepower was instantly transferred to the pitch-black mass of indescribable things.

In an instant, black flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the thing was beaten out of shape almost instantly.

When people inside and outside the door saw this scene, they immediately felt a huge sense of security. This sense of security came from the hot weapons in their hands, from the abundant ammunition at the ready, and from the bodies of strange creatures that exploded under the muzzle of the gun.
Chapter completed!