Apocalyptic Island - Chapter 25.2

Chapter 25.2

Even if the tsunami submerged the apartment, and everyone inside was dead, those mutated test subjects should not have died.

The last signal transmission time was the night before yesterday. But the tsunami came yesterday. The Rhine higher-ups didn’t have time to prepare for a rescue. They had already reached an agreement with the Binhai City government. All helicopters were temporarily assigned to the central command center.

Although a rescue was requested as soon as the tsunami happened, it was of no use.

You Zhi took off the glasses clipped to his chest, put them on his ear, and connected to his quantum computer. He commanded the helicopter to move to the front and start collecting all the data of the apartment.

The huge detector slowly lowered from above. The noise from the opened cabin door and the roar of the rotor blades tore through the tranquility of the sea.

All the waves disappeared. The hurricane created by the blades stirred all the seawater below as if it were boiling. Many fish schools that were on top scattered and fled.

The mercenaries, enduring the hurricane above their heads, quickly rappelled down.

They were carrying diving equipment and entered the interior of the apartment from the entrance on the top floor, which had been washed away.

The entire corridor was filled with foul-smelling, muddy seawater. A slight stir would stir up countless silt. The visibility was extremely low. There were still fish swimming in the freezing cold seawater, which was extremely dangerous, but the environment inside was much better than outside.

The mercenaries went down the stairs, following the directions of the quantum computer and the detector. The glass inside the apartment was not badly damaged.

After passing through the maze on the first basement, it was a living hell. Twisted corpses were visible from time to time in the rooms. In the corridor, one could also see incomplete or complete corpses and all kinds of internal organs soaking in the freezing cold seawater.

This was the masterpiece of two fish people. They ate all the humans who came out. In the end, it was no longer just simple eating, but an extremely cruel massacre.

Even the seawater could not wash away the dark red bloodstains on the central lounge.

You Zhi frowned as he watched the video from below. The first basement was not completely submerged in water. A few mercenaries couldn’t hold back anymore. They took off their oxygen masks and vomited uncontrollably in the foul-smelling corridor.

Then they were helped by their teammates and continued to move forward. They soon reached the entrance of the second floor.

The silt that had collapsed here had been washed clean by the seawater. The corpses of the fish people were floating in the seawater, piled up at the door, which was blocked by a large amount of waste.

The scene here was even more bizarre and ugly than the one just now. Other than the leading mercenary, almost everyone subconsciously turned their eyes away, only aiming the imaging device in front of them at the corpses of these fish people.

You Zhi’s voice came from the headset in his helmet: “Count how many there are here.”

After laboriously moving the corpses inside, the group finished counting. The image in the camera was not pleasant to look at, but You Zhi still watched it very carefully.

The leading mercenary’s muffled voice came through: “Commander, do we need to bring these corpses up? They look quite intact.”

You Zhi answered no, and adjusted the camera above. There were a total of twelve. How many were here? Where did the rest go?

The capsule pods below were not seriously damaged. They came out by themselves.

His knuckles locked on the central lounge they had just passed by. The blurry voice from the headset entered the mercenaries’ ears: “Go back and check that place again.”

The faces of a few of them turned a little pale. Although they were not very afraid of Variants, killing and massacring were two different things.

The scene of the massacre was too cruel and disgusting, but these people had no choice but to follow the orders from above.

This was also the first time they had encountered so many Variants. They couldn’t help but grip their guns tightly.

After a difficult return to the central lounge, everyone’s faces were not looking good. The eyes under the diving masks clearly saw the miserable situation here. There was almost no original color left in the places that were not hit by the seawater.

What they saw was all a dazzling red. They didn’t even need to take off their nose clips to smell the strong bloody smell in the air.

It was as if it had directly seeped into their chests, making their mouths water with sourness. It was a mess inside, but it was much better than outside. At least the glass here was not broken. A thin layer of ice had formed on the surface of the water. As long as a person walked in it, the ice would break with almost no resistance.

A few low sobs suddenly came from the air, but they stopped abruptly as if they were afraid of being discovered. A few mercenaries keenly captured this sound.

They used their flashlights to shine in the direction of the sound and continued to walk inside.

Due to physical exhaustion and violent panting, the image was shaking a little. You Zhi stared at the screen, constantly switching perspectives.

The leader walked at the front. The light from his flashlight shone inside. He saw two people standing on top of a low bookshelf that had not yet collapsed.

He immediately stopped and signaled to the back.

At the same time, the image displayed on You Zhi’s hand completely froze for a moment and then became extremely blurry and slow. It seemed that the signal was a little bad.

The two people on the low cabinet seemed to be frightened by the light. They huddled together nervously. The crying that they could no longer suppress was squeezed out of their throats.

“Don’t kill us, don’t! Wuwuwuwu…”

It was the voices of two girls. The leading mercenary breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, several flashlights shone on the two of them.

They saw two young girls looking at them in a panic. Their clothes were tattered and a little wet, sticking to their bodies.

Their faces were so dirty that their features were barely visible. They were trembling as they stared at the people who had come.

The group completely relaxed. They walked forward a few steps and handed two spare oxygen tanks and diving suits to the two of them: “Don’t be afraid. We are the rescue team sent by the headquarters. Are you the only two here? Are there any others?”

The two girls cried for a while and their emotions calmed down a little. They reached out with trembling hands and took the diving suits they handed them, putting them on.

Everything seemed very normal, except that when they stood up, their height looked a little tall.

One of them shook her head and said: “No. There are Variants massacring people below. We ran here. The most dangerous place is the safest place. There are no living people outside.”

The group cast sympathetic glances at the two of them. The two of them didn’t know how long they had been in this dark place. If it were them, they might not have been able to endure in such a place.

While they were putting on their diving suits, the leading mercenary surveyed the basement and found no one else. He then reported the situation to You Zhi: “Commander, there’s nothing else down here. Should we continue to search or go up?”

You Zhi’s cold voice came from the headset. His words sounded distant, as if they were being said from a very far distance: “Come up. Bring these two researchers with you.”

The mercenary didn’t pay too much attention, thinking that the signal was bad. He said yes and gestured to the others.

The two girls subconsciously hugged their heads and crouched down again, saying with a tremble that they were hungry and tired and couldn’t walk anymore.

There was no other way. Two mercenaries had to carry the girls on their backs, tying them with straps to secure them. They planned to take them up this way.

At the same time, You Zhi restarted the recorder. All the images were as if they were fast-forwarded.

They were clearly displayed in front of his eyes. His eyes widened when he saw the two girls. Regardless of the image continuing, he shouted into the walkie-talkie: “Run!”

The leading mercenary’s headset rang out. Everyone was startled. They continued to move forward, a little confused. The leading mercenary immediately felt that something was wrong. He immediately turned around and tried to throw off the girl on his teammate’s back.

As he turned around, he saw that the girl who was just pitiful had already turned into a fish head. With her mouth full of sharp teeth, she bit off his teammate’s head in one bite.

The teammate who was just carrying the girl had now become a headless corpse, falling into the freezing cold seawater. The leader’s eyes instantly turned red.

The image played to the latest real-time perspective. Gunshots and screams rang out in the originally quiet corridor. After a few gunshots, all the images fell into the water one after another.

Only one moving image was left. The fish person, whose eyes were stained crimson with blood, was slowly approaching the leading mercenary who was sitting on the ground.

It chuckled twice and used its long fins to hold down the mercenary’s head, forcing him to look directly at it.

In the image, there was another fish person frantically grabbing and eating the other headless mercenaries on the ground. You Zhi stared at this scene, unable to hear the noise of the helicopter outside.

He gripped the display in his hand tightly. His breathing became heavy with excitement.

He didn’t care about the lives of these people at all. He was carefully observing the fish person. This was the test subject!

The fish person leisurely took out a clean work badge from the pocket of the clothes that were barely hanging on it. It took off the glasses on its helmet and held the work badge in front of the mercenary.

The woman on it had long black hair and a pair of cold eyebrows and eyes. She was very delicate. The number was BioSurv-4399. The fish head asked softly in the girl’s voice from before: “Do you know her?”

The mercenary found that he was completely unable to speak. His heart was filled with fear. He could only shake his head repeatedly.

The relaxed expression on the fish head’s face changed. It opened its mouth and swallowed his head. You Zhi watched the close-up image in front of him, breaking out in a cold sweat. He gripped the player tightly so that it wouldn’t fall.

The next second, the last display also went black. The first team was completely wiped out.

These test subjects were clearly kept in the capsule pods. Why were they released, and why did they die? The appearance of this Variant was completely different from the original fish person.

The system automatically captured the work badge in the image just now. You Zhi’s dark eyes were fixed on the number on it.

“Aix, who is this?”

Aix’s gentle voice sounded: “Starting authority query. BioSurv-4399, entry-level researcher Wen Yishu. Query complete.”

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