"嘣..."
"Ah…"
In the dimly lit basement, a flash of fire suddenly erupted. Thomas Li Ping, who was about to run into the tunnel, let out a terrible scream and fell to the ground. A spray of blood gushed from his right thigh, causing him to tumble two or three times before crashing into the wall of the tunnel. Thomas Li Ping didn't even let out a groan; he simply collapsed at the entrance of the tunnel, unconscious.
"Damn! You think you can run away?" Thomas Xu coldly glanced at Thomas Li Ping, who was lying in a pool of blood, and disdainfully spat at him. His gun undoubtedly frightened everyone, even Gao Chujiang, who was about to rush past Thomas Xu, quickly stopped in his tracks and took a few steps back with a grim expression while carrying his daughter. It dawned on them that no matter how fast they ran, the power to decide was actually in the hands of the one holding the gun.
"Ah... Li Ping!" Just as William Fang stopped, she let out a scream, completely ignoring the smoking Thomas Xu. While crying, she continued to rush into the tunnel, but unexpectedly, she was caught up by Liu Fei, who had been prepared. Liu Fei kicked her down and forcefully stepped on her lower abdomen, scolding, "You country bumpkin, behave yourself! If you want to see your dead man, you'll have to wait until we get there!"
"Dong dong..."
At that moment, two sudden heavy thuds echoed through the pitch-black tunnel, catching everyone off guard. They turned in surprise to look in the direction of the sound, only to see the two large iron doors that had been wide open suddenly closing by themselves, then eerily creaking open just a crack, leaving a narrow gap barely wide enough for a person to pass through.
"Do you all want to stay here with me? Why are you so slow?"
The little girl, who had been quietly watching everyone, spoke again. As she spoke, she slowly retracted her right hand that had just been waving. In a sharp, slightly eerie tone, she said expressionlessly, "I've changed my mind. I think it's enough for me to go alone. Otherwise, you can all stay here and be my little bears!"
"Hiss~"
Everyone gasped in shock. No one expected that her little bears were actually made of humans. Those headless corpses around them couldn't possibly be what she referred to as her little bears, could they?
As soon as she said this, everyone present, except for Jack, became alert. The number of spots dropped from four to one, which meant that unless everyone here had a selfless heart, anyone who wanted to step into that tunnel would have to face the schemes of others. Of course, this statement seemed more directed at Jack and Thomas Xu, as only those with a gun had a fighting chance!
Everyone exchanged chilling glances, while Thomas Xu, watching Jack who was lost in thought with his back turned, furrowed his brow deeply. From the flickering light in his eyes, it seemed something was making him hesitate. He gripped his gun tightly, then loosened it, and after half a minute, Thomas Xu finally let out a heavy sigh and said to Jack with a hint of helplessness, "Brother Lin, you go ahead first and think of a way for us over there. If it really doesn't work, we'll just have to accept our fate!"
"What do you mean accept our fate?"
Jack, who had been standing still, finally turned his head. He was also wary of Thomas Xu, or rather, it was a test for him. Jack was a hundred percent confident that he could take Thomas Xu out before he could draw his gun. However, Thomas Xu not only didn't draw his gun but also let him go first. Jack naturally didn't feel touched but instead added Thomas Xu to his list of trusted allies!
Jack smiled meaningfully at Thomas Xu, which left Thomas Xu momentarily stunned. He instinctively said, "What can I do if I don't admit defeat? That female ghost... Damn! You old bitch, how dare you..."
Thomas Xu suddenly shouted in the middle of what he said. Liu Fei, who had always been very close to the big iron gate, actually ran towards the tunnel without saying a word while Jack and Thomas Xu were talking. Although Thomas Xu paused slightly for the gun in his hand, he quickly pointed it towards it, but seeing Liu Fei's slender back, he seemed unable to calm down. The finger that was almost about to pull the trigger only moved slightly, but finally relaxed.
Seeing Liu Fei quickly running into the tunnel, then turning around and closing the big iron door with a look of absolute determination, Thomas Xu angrily spat at her back and cursed hatefully, "Damn it, I knew this coquettish old bitch was unreliable. If I had known, I would have fucked her a few more times last night. She would have been so fucked that she can't even walk today."
"Then you saved her." Jack smiled helplessly, with a puzzling pity in his smile. Seeing the puzzled look on Thomas Xu's face, Jack sighed, shook his head and said, "Oh~ I was careless, and I didn't find such a big flaw."
"Flaw? What flaw? You mean..." Thomas Xu stared at Jack with wide eyes. It wasn't until Jack nodded with a wry smile that he said in shock, "Is all this an illusion? Are we hallucinating due to the corpse miasma here?"
Unexpectedly, Jack shook his head slightly and explained, "The hallucination is indeed an hallucination, but it is definitely not because of the corpse miasma. I guess even the corpse miasma does not exist here, and all this should be because there is something hiding here that we have not discovered."
"I suddenly discovered that this game is quite fun..."
Before Thomas Xu could speak, the little girl spoke again, and her eerie face revealed a very happy expression. She tilted her head and said to everyone, "I'll let you go alone again. There is only one chance. Whoever you fight for will be the one."
"I'm fighting for your sister, and you still want to play this game with us. I'll beat you to death, you're a charlatan," Thomas Xu's face flashed with anger. As he spoke, the rifle in his hand rang, and this time he no longer used burst fire. In anger, he fired six or seven bullets in a row.
Six or seven rounds of bullets drew clear lines of fire in the dark basement. Almost instantly, they penetrated the body of the strange little girl. But something unexpected happened to everyone. The bullet seemed to be hit in the air. There was no trace of the little girl's body. There was no change at all, except that her figure floated back and forth like smoke gently blown by the wind. And with the penetration of a large number of bullets, the little girl's erratic figure suddenly disappeared. Finally, as she disappeared, the terrifying scene around her suddenly changed.
"I...what the heck...where are those mutilated corpses? Where's the corpse miasma? Why are they all gone? Where did so many boxes come from?" Thomas Xu looked at the strange scenes that suddenly appeared around him with a gun in his hand. He rushed over with a flashlight and kicked a cardboard box on the wall.
"Stop kicking. Didn't I say it? We were all deceived by hallucinations. There is something here that affects our brains, turning these neatly arranged boxes into headless corpses that look terrible." Jack glanced at the surrounding environment solemnly, but found nothing wrong. Then he slowly turned his gaze to the two closed doors in the tunnel. He raised his gun and said softly, "I think that thing should be in this tunnel."
"Dong dong dong..."
Just when Thomas Xu was full of anger and wanted to use a gun to knock off the lock on the door, there was a very urgent knock on the stairs behind everyone, and then he heard a woman anxiously shouting outside the door, "Jack... Husband... open the door quickly and let us in. We are surrounded by living corpses, help."
"It's Sister Bai Ru???" Thomas Xu turned around and looked at the small iron door on the stairs in shock. Who could that crisp and anxious voice be if it didn't come from Bai Ru?
"Do you think it's possible?" Jack didn't even look back, and said to Thomas Xu with a smile, "It seems that the thing in the tunnel is anxious. After we recognized it as an illusion, it can no longer interfere with the vision of so many of us at once. It can only start with hearing. If you open the door according to its intention, you already know what the consequences will be."
"Damn it, why did this damn thing imitate the sound so much? It seems like his IQ is not low." Thomas Xu frowned irritably. He turned around and ignored the screams coming from outside the door. He raised his gun and accurately hit the lock with just one bullet. Then he stepped forward and turned the doorknob hard, and the door locked by Liu Fei was suddenly pulled open.
"Ah Jianwei, what are you doing..."
There was another woman's scream. This startling sound almost made everyone's fragile nerves collapse. They looked back subconsciously and saw that William Jianwei, who was walking with Jiang Yan, suddenly ran up the stairs like a madman. In desperation, he dragged Jiang Yan who was holding him to the ground, but William Jianwei didn't even look. He went up the stairs a few steps and shouted, "Mom, I'm here. Don't be afraid, I'll come to save you."
"Holy shit, that kid must be hallucinating too." Thomas Xu was so frightened that he raised his gun and shot. A bright red bullet shot into William Jianwei's thigh with a whistling sound in the blink of an eye, but he obviously underestimated William Jianwei's determination at this moment. Although William Jianwei fell to the ground with a scream, his hands endured the pain and resolutely pulled open the door to the backyard.
As the door opened, William Jianwei's originally hopeful eyes were extinguished. How could there be a mother outside who he thought about day and night? Apart from the stinking living corpse, it was also a stinking living corpse. There could not be a half-living person. As soon as the door opened, he fell down in one breath. Seven or eight living corpses came in, and they all immediately wrapped themselves around William Jianwei's young body. Before William Jianwei even finished screaming, he was torn to pieces by the excited corpses. Red hot blood and a large number of internal organs were instantly scattered all over the floor.