39. The Cursed Man
Seeing the miserable situation of the Akashi base, although a few of the remaining dozen young people still had guns in their hands, based on Gu Zhuo's experience, it was obvious at a glance that they were just newcomers who had just learned to hold guns.
Indeed, Akashi was right, looking at these guys, it was impossible to pose any threat to him.
Thinking of this, Gu Zhuo shouted to Akashi:
"Okay, then I'll get out of the car and talk to you, but just like last time, I'll come alone!"
After Gu Zhuo shouted, he loaded the two guns in the glove box and put them into his waist.
He took two more mini walkie-talkies, hung one on his collar, and handed the other to Chaoying.
In this way, no matter what the other party said to him, Chaoying could hear it clearly. After fixing the intercom, Gu Zhuo continued to talk to Chaoying:
"I'll get out of the car first and ask him what happened. You wait for me in the car. You can also know everything we said through the intercom. If something unexpected happens, I can deal with it better outside than you can outside. A few, so you won’t get caught.”
After Gu Zhuo finished speaking, he was about to get out of the car when Chao Ying grabbed him:
"But I don't know how to drive the Doomsday Fortress. If they attack you, I won't be able to help you in the car. I might as well get down there."
Hearing this, Gu Zhuo smiled mysteriously. He said with confidence:
"You don't have to worry about that. After the Doomsday Fortress is upgraded, it has a new feature that even you, the designer, don't know about."
"new function?"
Chaoying questioned that every part of the Doomsday Fortress was designed by her, so there should be no place she didn't know about.
"I'll tell you later, or you'll find out by yourself soon. Anyway, don't worry, I'll get out of the car first."
Gu Zhuo betrayed the situation and took Sam out of the car according to the old rules.
After getting out of the car, Akashi walked straight over. He put the gun in his waist and wanted to smile to face Gu Zhuo, but the smile he smiled was uglier than crying.
"Akashi, tell me everything about what happened in the past few days."
Gu Zhuotong said to Akashi.
"Before I tell you everything that happened, I want to ask you a question."
Akashi suddenly came over cautiously, his expression changed, and he became very serious.
Seeing him like this, Gu Zhuo subconsciously became vigilant and put his hands on his waist, ready to draw his gun at any time.
"whats the matter?"
"You don't need to be on guard against me. What I want to ask is good for all of us. Has anyone in your car been scratched or bitten by the monster?"
It seems that Akashi has always been convinced that there were many people in Gu Zhuo's car.
There were only Gu Zhuo and Chaoying on the Doomsday Fortress, and at most one Sam. Although they were also attacked by monsters, they were not harmed by them.
Gu Zhuo also checked Sam's body carefully and found no wounds.
"No, none of us were injured, what's wrong?"
Hearing this, Akashi breathed a sigh of relief and told him:
"It's good that no one is injured. Those monsters, as long as they are bitten or caught by them, even if they are lucky enough to escape, they will be infected by the virus and become another new kind of monster."
"New monster!?"
This is information that Gu Zhuo doesn't know at all.
"You come with me."
Akashi said, turning around and walking towards the small shed. When he passed by the dozen or so young people, they all gave way to him, and then followed him step by step.
It seems that Akashi has completely become the spiritual support of everyone else.
Gu Zhuo decided to let Sam wait where he was, and he walked behind him.
When he walked to the small shed, Akashi did not go in. He stopped where he was, turned to look at Gu Zhuo, and waited for him.
Gu Zhuo walked to him and stood with him in front of the shed.
Then, Akashi walked towards a rickety flat-roofed hut next to the shed. As he was leaving, he told the dozen young people to go into the shed without following them.
"Their spirits are too fragile now. I'm afraid that if they see a scene like that again, it will accelerate their collapse."
Akashi whispered to Gu Zhuo, his tone was very serious.
Gu Zhuo didn't say anything, and the two of them walked all the way to the door of the small room.
As soon as you get close to the small house, you can smell a stench coming from inside. The stench was like sewage mixed with rotting meat, mixed with the smell of blood.
Gu Zhuo frowned in disgust, and goosebumps appeared on his body unconsciously.
Akashi walked to the small room and opened the door. Just listen to the sound of "Gada", which is the sound of the door key being locked.
Akashi put his hand on the doorknob, and before walking in, he looked back at Gu Zhuo:
"Are you sure you want to come in? The things inside may destroy your psychological defenses. I don't know if you will lose your mind after reading this."
Gu Zhuo was even more confused by what he said. Fortunately, his psychological quality has always been very strong. He has faced the blood moon for so long. Could the things inside be more terrifying than the blood moon?
"Since you can manage not to be disturbed by it, then I should have no problem. Take me in."
Gu Zhuo answered him.
Hearing this, Akashi smiled bitterly with a helpless expression:
"After all, if I can't survive, everyone here will die. Even for them, I have to survive."
After saying that, he pushed the door open completely and led Gu Zhuo in.
As soon as he walked into the house, the stench attacked Gu Zhuo even more intensely, as if it had turned from an olfactory attack into a real physical attack, hitting Gu Zhuo's nose. Gu Zhuo covered his nose with his hands and squinted his eyes.
Akashi took out two medical alcohol masks from the drawer next to the door and handed one to Gu Zhuo.
Putting on the medical alcohol mask, the nose was filled with the smell of alcohol. Although it was also very pungent, it smelled much better than the stench in the room.
After a little relief from the discomfort caused by the stench, Gu Zhuo began to look at the room.
This room is very dark and cold inside. Even if it is snowing outside, the temperature is much higher than the temperature inside this room. Gu Zhuo shuddered, feeling that the coldness was not coming from outside the body, but a chill emanating from the bottom of his heart.
Since there was no light in the room, Gu Zhuo could not see anything and could only vaguely make out the outline of Akashi in front of him.
It was precisely because of the darkness that his other feelings were amplified many times.
In the darkness, he could hear a low groan. The moan was hoarse, like corroded metal, and it made people feel uncomfortable.
Biological instinct told Gu Zhuo to get out of here quickly. But Gu Zhuo resisted the urge to escape and continued to follow Akashi.
"Are you really ready?"
Akashi's voice suddenly sounded in the dark room, like a ghost.
"Um."
Hearing Gu Zhuo's affirmative answer, Akashi turned on the light in the room.
As soon as the lights in the room were turned on, the room instantly became bright. The light at this moment made Gu Zhuo slightly uncomfortable.
After he adapted to the light in the room and adjusted his vision again, he finally saw the scene inside the room clearly.
The room was designed like a simple operating room, with an operating bed in the center.
On the operating bed, a creature was restrained with chains, handcuffs, belts, and other things that could restrain others.
And that low groaning sound was also made by that creature.
When he saw the creature for the first time, Gu Zhuo's breath froze, and he understood why Akashi was worried that his reason could not accept it.
Akashi had already turned his head away from looking at the creature.
What lay on the operating bed was more like an indescribable red pus mass than a living thing.
There are pustules of different sizes all over the abscess mass, and from time to time a puff of air will come out of the pustule, which is like black mist. That black mist is the source of the stench.
On the edge of the pustule, there are several things that look like hands. Those hands were spread out, as if Void wanted to grab something.
But the most unacceptable thing is that there is a human-like head on the top of the abscess.
The head was the same blood red as the abscess, like a fleshy ball with facial features.
Meatball's mouth was still making low moans at this time, which sounded a little more painful.
When it saw Gu Zhuo and others beside it, it struggled hard. Dozens of hands on the edge of the abscess began to struggle to break free. However, there are too many things that bind it, and it is impossible to break free.
It had no choice but to move its huge body, and the pustules on its body burst one after another due to its movements. However, after rupturing, they will grow back in new places, and then emit foul-smelling black mist.
The impact of this scene on Gu Zhuo was like a piece of dirty mud filling the bottom of his heart. The mud was completely smeared on his face, and countless corrosive creatures rushed out of the mud, trying to pull Gu Zhuo into the never-ending abyss.
"Snapped!"
The lights suddenly went out.
It was Akashi who turned off the light.
The room suddenly became dark. The moment the darkness invaded, Gu Zhuo's eyes immediately lost the image of the abscess.
After losing his image, he breathed a long sigh of relief and felt that the sticky nausea that had been blocking his heart disappeared.
"see it?"
Akashi's voice sounded again.
Hearing Akashi's voice at this time, Gu Zhuo felt so kind.
"I saw it."
he answered.
"Let's go out and talk. You don't want to stay here for a long time, do you?"
"Um."
After saying that, the two left the rotting and stinking room together.
After leaving the house and standing outside again, Gu Zhuo took a deep breath and glanced towards the Doomsday Fortress.
When he saw the Doomsday Fortress, his heart was filled with a sense of security, and then all the discomfort in his heart was swept away.
Akashi locked the door again and put the key in his pocket.
"That thing wasn't human before, was it?"
Gu Zhuo asked in a deep voice.
"Well, he was one of us before. He was scratched on the back by the group of monsters and was about to die. But the monster was attracted by other people at the time and was not in a hurry to eat him. He also became the only one who had A person who fell into a group of monsters and still saved his life.
"We thought he was lucky and saved him. Unexpectedly, a few days later, he would become like this...
"This guy, we all call him, the cursed person..."
Akashi spoke with a heavy tone, as if he was being weighed down by a heavy burden, making him breathless.
Gu Zhuo looked at Akashi's empty sleeves again and asked:
"Then what happened to your hand?"
"my hand?"
Akashi smiled bitterly.
"My hand was bitten by a monster and torn off."