Law Enforcer's Handbook

Chapter 268 When You Stare into the Abyss

The machine gunners couldn't beat the flying dragon, Song Lan thought it was reasonable.

And after Oleg mentioned that this kind of flying mutated creature can be hatched in this pothole, he knew that he had committed to the friend under the pothole.

The two waited for Oleg's team to finish the finishing work carefully. The purpose of this work was to clean up the mutated biological eggs at the entrance of the pit. Even the medical team who lived here for only one month didn't know How did these eggs come out? No matter how clean they were cleaned up the day before, a bunch of eggs would come out on time the next morning.

If the eggs are not cleared before nightfall, the mutated flying creatures will hatch.

Looking at the eggs ignited by the flamethrower, Song Lan saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart.

However, in order to prevent Oleg from turning around and rewarding him with a rocket to verify his identity, Song Lan had to suppress the thought of "Why don't you leave an egg and let me see what the mutant creature looks like" down.

It doesn't matter, it will grow out tomorrow.

He comforted himself so much.

After finishing the work, Oleg took the two of them to a closed building. Before the infection broke out, it was an indoor sports center. After a comprehensive disinfection treatment, it became a temporary base for the medical team. .

After taking off the exoskeleton armor, Song Lan finally saw Dr. Oleg himself.

A tall man with skin tanned by the harsh climate of the "outside", a cropped head, and a mechanical prosthetic body on his left hand. Compared with a doctor, his first impression is more like a boxer.

He took the two of them to the meeting room and said, "Our research has hit a bottleneck. If we want to obtain further information about the source of infection, we have to go deep into the pothole. I don't know, on the other hand, the small space inside is not suitable for exoskeleton armor to operate."

Although they dare to take risks, it does not mean that they are going to give away their heads without thinking.

As a medical team, they knew very well that without the protection of the exoskeleton armor, they might not even be able to deal with those mutated citizens, let alone the unknown mutated creatures hidden deep in the pit.

Going into the pit rashly is tantamount to giving away the head, but it is really not reconciled to let them give up now. This is the closest they are to the source of infection. Oleg has a hunch that the secret about the frequent infection in the third country may be hidden at this moment. Under that pothole.

Only by investigating the source of the infection itself will it be possible to tackle the virus at its root.

"Just a few days ago, Andrew rushed into the pothole alone."

"Are you sure he didn't fall by accident?"

Lu Xiang couldn't help asking, because judging from the memo left by Andrew, he was full of complaints about Oleg and the mission itself. It didn't look like he voluntarily went deep into the pothole to investigate.

According to the information she has so far, they can't fully trust Oleg.

First of all, he stole the "Commander IV" exoskeleton armor of the dispatched troops, and cut off the communication with the dispatched department, which means that he had planned it before he set off.

"Of course not. Andrew is the bravest boy I know. He has long proposed the idea of ​​sending an exploration team deep into the pit, and volunteered to start the exploration work, but we stopped him every time, but a few days ago , but he broke in alone while everyone was not paying attention."

Oleg's remorseful expression did not seem to be false. He was the closest person to Andrew at the time, but he hesitated before the decision to break into the pothole to stop Andrew.

"Actually, I've been thinking about one thing every night these days."

He looked out of the window of the conference room, the sun was about to set, and the night would come soon, and this long night was the culprit that drove the residents of the town crazy.

Oleg felt that maybe he was crazy too, "Deep in my heart, there may also be some kind of desire, hoping that someone can break the deadlock."

Conscience and sense of responsibility made him reject Andrew's proposal time and time again, but when Andrew broke into the pothole alone and created an "irresistible" reason for him, he hesitated.

And when he came back to his senses, Andrew's figure had already disappeared into the dark depths of the pit.

"Andrew stayed in the pit for nearly half an hour, and brought back a piece of news - besides the corrupted lair, there was also the breath of human life under the pit, and those people seemed to have returned to their original life. There are murals carved on the wall, it seems to be worshiping something, they seem to call it the "mother's nest."

In fact, no one in the team expected that Andrew would come back, and the news he brought back was indeed of breakthrough significance.

At least, for the first time, they realized what they were facing.

"I suspect that the entire underground pit is the "Mother's Nest". The things those people worship are hidden in the deepest part of the nest. Andrew's return has brought us confidence. We have already started planning to go deep into the pit to explore. But that night, Andrew put on the exoskeleton and ran out."

It was the consensus of all of them not to go out after nightfall.

Oleg read the information in the memo. Andrew mentioned in the memo that he escaped because he was worried that other people would find out that he was infected, but this obviously did not match what they learned.

"Are you sure that Andrew was infected when he saw him?"

Oleg asked solemnly.

"Sure, the skin on his face has been festered, and he has completely lost his mind. He doesn't even know how to get out of the exoskeleton armor...Why do you ask?"

"Because on the day Andrew came back, we had tested him six times, and the result was that he did not have any signs of infection."

Oleg's face was serious, this was exactly the news he didn't want to hear.

As a medical team, how could they not conduct a full physical examination on Andrew after he returned from the pothole?And all the results of the physical examination are known to Andrew himself, so logically speaking, it is impossible for him to come up with the ideas in his memo, unless...

"Unless he encountered something else in the pothole, which caused him to lose his mind, we are sure that there was no sign of infection on his body before he left here. The infection should have happened after he left here .”

And this seems to confirm another guess in his mind, "The closer you are to the source of infection, the easier it is to become mentally disturbed. This is also one of the symptoms of infection. We can only conduct physical examinations, and we cannot know whether the infected person is mentally healthy or not." affected."

If this conjecture is true, then they will never be able to understand the nature of the "mother's nest".

Because even if they did reach the deepest part of the lair, they would probably have gone crazy long ago.

"Then leave it to us to investigate."

Song Lan volunteered.

In order to have a more friendly communication with the "mother", he wished that Oleg and others would not follow him.

"You guys?"

"Unified Technology has long thought of the possibility of a similar situation, so it is equipped with special countermeasures in the exoskeleton armor. This is the latest technology of Uniform Technology... the strength of the "Doom Warrior I"."

　Small theater its 46:

　　On a certain day of a certain year, a certain month, Thursday, afternoon.

　　This day is the day when the department pays salaries. According to the tradition, every month at this time, Song Lan will invite Lu Xiang to have a meal at the most high-end restaurant in the area.

　　According to his observation, food may be the only interest in Lu Xiang's life.

　　She is always in a particularly good mood this day, and she always smiles when she sees everyone.

　　Whenever she finished her dinner, Lu Xiang would sigh, "Your level is no worse than that of high-end restaurants."

　　This is because Song Lan's level is still improving.

　　He used the few subjective initiatives in his life on this, and the recipes for dinner every day were carefully prepared.

　　Lu Xiang always felt that he was an executive chef who was delayed by the coalition government.

　　"Mr. Song Lan."

　　After coming out of the high-end restaurant, Lu Xiang deliberately imitated the tone of the reporter during the interview, and asked, "Where does your motivation come from?"

　　"power?"

　　Song Lan thought for a while and replied, "Maybe it's because the work in the afternoon is too busy. I can think about what to eat for dinner for two hours."

　　When you spend more than two hours every day thinking about what to eat for dinner, you can also prepare an exquisite recipe.

　　But this was obviously not the answer Lu Xiang wanted to hear. An orange light flashed in her eyes, and Song Lan's cell phone rang immediately.

　　After Song Lan glanced at the content of the message, Lu Xiang asked again, "I'll give you another chance to answer this question again."

　　"About this question." Song Lan coughed lightly, and changed into a formal tone when facing an interview, "First of all, I would like to thank my wife..."

　　
　
(End of this chapter)