Chapter 48, Qi Yuan

After Si Xu finished cleaning the base, Jiang Ran found the place where the food was imprisoned in the base.In the dark dungeon, when footsteps were heard coming from far and near, the originally quiet people became restless.

They huddled together like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and curled up in the corner of the dungeon.

It was like this every time, those people came down, picked one of them who was pleasing to the eye, and took away, and then that person never came back.

"Woooo." As the footsteps approached, someone broke down emotionally and let out a mournful cry, and was immediately covered by the people around him.

——It’s all a scam, what Xiling Base!This is not the Xiling base at all!Those in the base lived off the supplies of passers-by, and when supplies ran out, they began to feed on people.

This is not the base they thought was safe, but a real hell.

……

Holding a torch, Jiang Ran stepped into the dark and damp dungeon, and walked in the direction of the sound.

There was an unpleasant rancid smell in the air, and through the flickering light of the torch, the situation in the dungeon could be clearly seen.

Looking at the people with different expressions in the corner, Jiang Ran wrinkled his nose and decided to make a quick decision.

"Are there any supernatural beings among you?"

……

Unexpectedly, it was a beautiful girl who came down this time. The people huddled in the corner of the dungeon exchanged glances with each other, and no one answered Jiang Ran's question.

"Are there any supernatural beings among you?"

The girl repeated it again, but still no one answered.

"If there is no answer, it means no by default." The girl glanced at the lock hanging on the door, frowned and pondered, "Does anyone know where the key to this lock is?"

This time, someone finally found out and spoke.

A thin girl slowly crawled out from the crowd, with her hands on the iron gate, she looked at Jiang Ran quietly with her eyes.

Due to malnutrition, her cheeks were deeply sunken, making her eyes big and round. The dark pupils were like black agate, bright and full of life.

These are eyes with a soul.

Jiang Ran looked back at her without looking away.

The girl looked at her in silence for a moment, then said softly: "The key is not here, it is in the hands of the administrator."

"Okay." Knowing that he couldn't open the door lock with his own strength, Jiang Ran gave up and turned to leave, "You guys wait here for a while, I will find something to open the door."

After the flames disappeared, the dungeon returned to darkness.

Someone asked the girl leaning against the door: "Qi Yuan, what did that girl say?"

"She said she was going to find something to open the door."

"Open the door? Could it be that she came here to save us?"

Because of this sentence, there was a commotion in the crowd.

The light of hope was rekindled in the dim eyes, and they began to discuss in low voices.

"Are they here to save us? Are they from Xiling Base?"

"But didn't those people say that the Xiling base is far away from here? Why did the people from the Xiling base come here?"

"Maybe it's the new superpowers who don't want to join forces with them, so they came to save us?"

"That girl," said the girl by the door calmly, "is not a supernatural being."

In stark contrast to the excited voices of the crowd, her calm words made the people in the dungeon instantly quiet.

"Not a supernatural person?" A girl hiding behind was unwilling to let her hope be broken, and snorted, "Qi Yuan, you are not a supernatural person, how can you be so sure?"

The girl curled up, put her cheek in her arms, and replied sullenly: "Because, she can't unlock the door."

That's right, if it's a supernatural being, how can it be impossible to even open this door lock?

The group of people who had hoped once again fell into despair. They even affirmed that the strange girl would not come back after leaving.

"Why didn't you catch her at that time?" The girl who questioned just now was full of anger and despair, and pointed her finger at the girl by the door, "Qi Yuan! You thought she would not come back to save us, why did you Don't hold her?!"

The girl was silent and didn't reply.

The dungeon fell into dead silence again.

Time passed unconsciously, and the girl who left did not come back.

"Hey, tell me, next time those people come down, who will they take away?"

In the silence, someone couldn't help speaking in a low voice.

"Can you stop talking about this topic? No matter who you take away, it's not something to be happy about?"

"I'm not happy either, I just feel that it's better to die early and live sooner... In this way, pigs and dogs are not as good as living, and it's really better to die."

"You say that every time. When you came down to lead people last time, why did you hide so far behind?"

"..."

"Hey, speaking of it, we will be arrested. No matter how you think about it, it's Qi Yuan's fault! If she hadn't exposed those people back then, those people wouldn't have arrested us at all!"

"What are you talking about—do you want to be like those people, eating human flesh and drinking human blood? Even in the last days, you still have to abide by the basic morals of being a human being!"

"Yeah, we complied, and now it's someone else's food..."

"What's the use of hindsight? Complain now, and those people won't let us go!"

"I'm just saying, why are you so fierce?"

After discussing a few more words, footsteps suddenly came from outside the dungeon again.This time, it was obviously not alone.

The people who had been imprisoned for many days were startled like birds, and they huddled together again.

The girl leaning against the door raised her head and looked at the person who came back again.

Holding a torch, the girl leads a young man by the hand and descends the moss-covered steps.

Because she was walking in a hurry, the girl's foot slipped, and the man immediately supported her and grabbed her waist to prevent her from falling again.

Seeing the interaction between the two, Qi Yuan opened his eyes slightly, and stretched out his hand to Jiang Ran: "Are you here to save us?"

Asking this question, she already had the answer in her heart.

Although it was the first time she met the girl, she had an intuition that these two people were not companions with those devils in the base.

She's here to save them.

……

After cutting off the lock on the gate of the dungeon, Si Xu kicked open the iron gate and glanced at the dark cell.

"Can everyone still move?" Jiang Ran picked up the girl by the door and asked the others, "If you can still move, let's go out and talk."

Unexpectedly, these two people really came to save people, those people were stunned, rushing out of the dungeon.

"Thank you." Thanking Jiang Ran gratefully, Qi Yuan walked out of the dungeon with those people.

Rescued...Finally rescued—this life that my parents sacrificed everything to protect, struggled and finally survived.

……

I have always felt that the dungeon is the most dangerous place in the world. When those people walked out of the dungeon, bathed in the moonlight again, and saw blood and corpses at a glance, a few timid girls fainted from fright.

"Here...was attacked by zombies?"

"No." Si Xu, who was following behind the group, answered lazily, "I killed them—all of them."

The man's words made the expressions of the others change.

"You, killed everyone?" The girl who had quarreled with Qi Yuan covered her mouth with horror on her face, "Those people, there are innocent people among those people, you killed them all? You..."

Hearing the accusation in the girl's words, Si Xu asked indifferently: "What's none of my business?"

"What did you say?"

"Innocent people, what does it matter to me?" Si Xu was in a bad mood today, his tone sounded gloomy, and even the temperature around him dropped, "It doesn't look good, kill me."

"You, how can you say that?"

The girl still wanted to talk, but Jiang Ran, who was beside Si Xu, was speechless. She waved the torch in her hand and passed the girl's nose.

"Ah!" The girl took two steps back in fright, her face paled.

"Have you said enough?" Jiang Ran sneered, "If you think we are cruel, you can go back to the dungeon, and I will lock the door again-in this way, you can wait for a non-cruel person to rescue you. What? Sample?"

Before recovering from the horror of burning her face with a torch, the girl subconsciously shook her head when she heard that she was going back to the cold basement.

Jiang Ran nodded with satisfaction: "Since you don't want to go back, just shut up obediently."

His eyes swept over the faces of all the people present, and after he roughly figured out what they were thinking, Jiang Ran smiled in his eyes and said softly: "The two of us are from Xiling base, and we came out with the ability team to collect supplies. , I feel that this base is different, so let's take a look.

"We already know what the supernatural beings in this base rely on to survive. In order to maintain the safety of the residents of Xiling Base, we killed these people.

"Saving you is just a matter of convenience, and you don't need to be grateful or grateful.

"If you have no place to go, you can go back to Xiling Base with us—of course, if you feel that you can't accept our style of doing things, everyone will just break up here, and they have nothing to do with each other."

Jiang Ran spoke very clearly, after those people looked at each other briefly, they pushed a person out to speak.

"If the two of you don't mind, we will follow you to the Xiling base."

Jiang Ran nodded in agreement without showing too much expression.

"My name is Jiang Ran." Deciding to go on the road together, Jiang Ran briefly introduced his name, "There are still a few hours before dawn, you can find a place to rest first, and go on the road tomorrow morning."

After those people took two steps, Jiang Ran added: "There are corpses everywhere here, and the smell of blood is too strong. You'd better stay away from here to avoid being attacked by zombies—just gather at the gate tomorrow morning."

After those people left, Si Xu led Jiang Ran to the gate.

The base was full of corpses, and the smell of blood wafted out, quickly attracting the surrounding zombies and mutant beasts.

"Tired?"

Knowing Si Xu's plan, Jiang Ran was in high spirits: "Not sleepy!"

"Well, then practice hard." Si Xu patted her head, "Get used to the night mode."

night mode?Jiang Ran laughed: "Hearing what you said, it feels like a game, the kind where you can restart infinitely after you die."

"No." Si Xu corrected her, "Dead is dead, buried in the ground and turned into bones, there is no so-called soul, and there is no afterlife."

He was so serious, Jiang Ran nodded hurriedly: "I know, I will be serious."

"Yeah." Several zombies staggered over in the field of vision, and Si Xu pushed her forward two steps, "Go."

……

In the early morning of the next day, people who had rested all night followed the agreement and arrived at the gate of the base. When they saw the corpses of zombies and mutant beasts piled up at the gate, they almost dropped their jaws in shock.

Jiang Ran was recording her final record. When she heard the movement, she casually pointed to the van in the open space.

"The car is a bit small, so you can squeeze as long as you can get to the base."

"You... Did you kill those people just to attract these zombies?" Someone asked in a low voice.

Jiang Ran glanced sideways at the speaker—it was the girl who accused Si Xu of being cruel last night.

"What's your name?" Jiang Ran put away the gun, folded her hands in front of her body, raised her chin slightly and looked at the man.

"Shu Yue."

"Shu Yue..." After murmuring the name again, Jiang Ran said, "How long have you been arrested?"

"I don't know." They were locked in the dark dungeon, and they couldn't see the sun rise and set, and time passed.

"Aside from locking you up, did those people do anything excessive to you?"

Shu Yue shook her head.

"Oh, that's how it is." Jiang Ran hooked her fingers with a smile, "Come with me."

"Where to go?"

"Take you to a good place to see the scenery." After walking two steps, seeing that she was not moving, Jiang Ran said, "Come on, don't worry, I'm also an ordinary person, and I'm not interested in women."

Si Xu didn't stop the two girls from leaving.

He glanced at the other people who were stunned, and said coldly: "Get in the car...the zombies are coming, I won't mind my own business."

"..." What he meant was that the zombies were coming, so he wouldn't care about them.

 The daughter-in-law of Team Chu came out, she is a lovely young lady~
  
 
(End of this chapter)

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