The Empty Sixth Floor

Jinrui Hotel has quite a few entertainment facilities, including not only a golf course but also a bowling alley. The reconnaissance team searched around and finally selected the bowling alley as the temporary campsite for tonight on the 17th.

The originally smooth floor of the stadium is still covered with a layer of dust, and no other obvious traces can be seen. If there are mice or cockroaches moving here, the dust on the ground will leave footprints. However, now there are no obvious traces when they enter, which is why the reconnaissance team recommends this place.

The 17th and others have explored many times and rarely come across places with so few insect and mouse activities, even in urban hospitals. This is indeed very strange, but everyone has gradually become numb and accepted this situation, and of course, they will not be complacent because of it, still maintaining a twelve point attention.

With a long bar counter, rows of golf lanes, stylish automatic ball returning facilities, and a bouncy sofa, looking at this tall bowling alley, many people seem to hear the sound of bowling balls hitting bottles one after another in their minds. However, nowadays, things change and people change, and the pitch black venue has long fallen into silence.

The convoy selected a row of sofas as as the base for the campsite. Under bright lights, some soldiers began to remove various equipment from the vehicles to set up the campsite, while others climbed up using ropes placed by awakeners on the sofas and relied on searchlights to provide security on the 40 centimeter sofa.

Tom and Ouyang Haotian, along with several other armored Awakeners, were sent to the bar by the 23rd Pi, where there were still many drinks and snacks left, even though they were still in their shelf life for most of the past six months.

The space for food supplies transported by the fleet is limited, although some were only replenished from the first floor kitchen. Now that there are ready-made ones here, it is naturally better not to use the food reserves in the vehicle. Their task is to bring back various biscuits and drinks for tonight's dinner and tomorrow's breakfast.

Chocolate is a very good high calorie food. Ouyang Haotian found a cabinet of Snickers and tore them open at the scene. He asked the big guy to share a piece before speaking.

Dry food began to be distributed, and the soldier and Zhang Dong, who were the first to discover the repairing effect of earthworm body fluids, woke up leisurely again.

Cockroach mucus does indeed have a magical and rapid healing effect, but there are still side effects, which are causing them to experience slight hallucinations, hallucinations, and low fever, but all of this is after applying it for half an hour.

According to the examination of the accompanying medical personnel, both of them are in good physical condition and have no obvious other symptoms. Currently, it appears that this side effect is still within an acceptable range. However, they still need to be observed for a longer period of time, and even take the Tianlong ship back a week later for a more detailed physical examination in the hospital.

Regarding the decision made on the 17th, the 23rd was still somewhat dissatisfied. After dinner, he nagged while holding Tom on patrol. This is also the first time Tom has heard the 23rd express his personal emotions. In his opinion, the elite soldiers of the Special Investigation Department who do not use public names and all use numerical codes are simply robots and rarely express their personal emotions.

Not to mention anything else, he wanted to invite the 5th to dinner before, but the other party refused. He suspected whether these people had any personal feelings.

If it weren't for Zhang Dong's incident, the team should have taken advantage of the darkness to arrange half of the 6th floor, so that a complete frontline base can be established on the 6th floor as soon as possible tomorrow morning. Afterwards, the team can be assigned to explore with the higher ups and search for other survivors in the building.

Now it's another day's delay in vain, which seems to affect the progress on the 23rd. After all, the Tianlong will arrive six days later, and they have to rush back to the subway station one day in advance.

Tom, however, disagrees slightly with the complaint on the 23rd. On the 23rd, the focus was on task progress, while on the 17th, it was to ensure the quality of the task and its subsequent development. If Tom stood in the position of the 17th, he would still make the same choice as the 17th.

Of course, he did not express this viewpoint, after all, the 23rd was just a casual chatter, probably just to release his emotions, without any intention of seeking his opinion.

The night was also spent peacefully, coming out of the subway station. Their actions were extremely smooth, so smooth that it almost felt like they were in a shelter. On this trip, they were not attacked by any mosquitoes at all, causing some to suspect that their heavy weapons and ammunition were useless.

Of course, this emotion only reflects the teasing between soldiers. The discipline of the team is still there, let alone those who can come out to participate in the mission. Not a single one is innocent, knowing that they cannot slack off for a moment outside, otherwise they will die.

During the evening, on the 17th, soldiers were asked to kill two earthworms, one large and one small, and extract a lot of body fluids, filling a large water tank filled with water. Earthworms are not easy to feed without the soil, and the convoy cannot carry so many, so we have to kill two roads first. For number 17, these are precious healing potions. As for the remaining small one, I dug a pile of soil and put it in a jar, and then put it in for cultivation. Six days later, the Tianlong ship will come and be transported back for research.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the team reorganized and after breakfast, packed up their things. The convoy set off again and arrived at the safety staircase, laying a canvas path as usual, and then went up to the sixth floor.

According to Zhang Tianhui's introduction, although the sixth floor is not as big as the fifth floor, it has a gym, yoga studio, multiple nursing rooms, as well as a sauna massage and beauty salon.

Up to the sixth floor, the cool wind poured in, causing Tom and others to scream inwardly.

Like these large hotels, the internal sealing is done very well, even if there is a rooftop garden on the fifth floor, the interior is still sealed after half a year, and the plants in the garden cannot even spread in.

There is such a strong wind coming up from the sixth floor, and most likely the windows outside are broken, and the area is not small.

The male ant armor pushed open the safety door, and the convoy rushed in, leaving everyone stunned.

I saw vines crawling everywhere on the sixth floor, just like the rooftop garden on the fifth floor.

"This may be the reason why Wen Sitian stayed here for four hours the night before the micro disaster." On the 23rd, he pulled out a vine leaf, which was twice his head size. He observed and said, "A species of ivy, I'm not sure if it's red silk grass, but it's a bit abnormal that it thrives in half a year."

Zhao Xin on the side asked in confusion, "Hey, instructor... leader, what is a species of ivy? Are there many species of ivy?"

On the 23rd, he nodded and handed the leaves to Liu Lian, gesturing for him to take them to Tom sitting next to him. "ivy is a nickname for various plants, not just this one." Then he raised his voice and asked Tom, "Tom, what do you think?"

Tom looked at the ivy handed to him by Liu Lian and thought for a moment. Fortunately, he decided carefully and said, "I'm not sure if it's true, but being careful is not wrong."

If insects mutate when they eat human flesh, will plants mutate when they absorb human corpses?

There was speculation about this on the 23rd, which is why I wanted to ask Tom, and Tom also thought the same way. They just don't want to speak up rashly without evidence, so as not to affect everyone's morale. This thing still needs specific evidence to be said.

The wheels were bumping forward on the vine covered floor, and the speed naturally slowed down, which led to walking for an hour before reaching the center of the sixth floor.

This is a large hall with an open space, with several sofas, chairs, and tables placed on one side. On the other side, there is a huge floor to ceiling glass, but the glass window has a big hole, and the wind outside the building blows in recklessly, which is also the reason why the entire floor is cool.

The vines in the hall grew the most densely, and they were surprised to find that many branches had red flower buds scattered everywhere, like strings of lanterns.

At this point, the leaves are getting bigger and denser, making it inconvenient for cars to drive in again. And this is also the hub leading to Building 1 and Building 2. According to the plan, there are two emergency staircases on the left and right sides of the corridor by the window. One of them is the one they just came up from, and the other is the one leading to Building 1.

So on the 17th, the campsite was placed next to the reception desk in the lobby, and then divided into four teams to search this floor to confirm if there were any survivors.

Due to the initial appearance, there should be no threat here, so Tom and Ouyang Haotian came out of the male ant armor and replaced it with his single worker ant armor.

When setting up the campsite, the roasted squid team retrieved three flower buds for them. After cutting them open, they found that they were no different from ordinary flowers and had no special features.

After leaving more than thirty soldiers, the four teams set off separately.

Tom led Zhao Xin's shark team and ten soldiers in a group of six cars.

The rest are led by Pan Mingda's Wolf Team, Pasha Team, and Squid Roast Team. It can be said that all four teams are centered around the Ability Team, and then mixed with ordinary soldiers to participate in exploration.

After multiple battles, it has been proven that the various abilities of the Awakener Squad, combined with Awakener Armor, are sufficient to take on the core combat power when facing mutated creatures. Combined with a sufficient number of weapons from ordinary soldiers, it can almost have a very good suppressive effect.

Although many people, especially ordinary soldiers, are unwilling to admit this, it is an undeniable fact.

The future is the world of the awakened, where ordinary humans are either eliminated or can only become slaves. This viewpoint seems to have a bit of a market in Courtyard 8. I complained to Tom before Courtyard 5, but fortunately, most of the soldiers in the Special Investigation Department, including Courtyard 5, can suppress the Awakened in terms of combat experience and physical fitness. So they are all relatively honest and honestly refer to the 5th and others as instructors.

But for those awakened individuals who did not join the Eighth Courtyard, the shelter is not so easy to control.

Tom can clearly feel this in the metal forging factory. Several metal forgers have a very arrogant attitude towards ordinary workers, and the workers are not compatible with them.

This sense of detachment became even stronger when the outside world learned that Shen Jiayi was also an awakened person.

Some even claim that it is precisely because the highest leader of Shen Jiayi's shelter is also the Awakened, that the treatment of the Awakened in the shelter is particularly high. They believe that these ordinary people will soon become slaves to the Awakened.

Although Tom felt that Shen Jiayi was not able to create class conflicts because she was also an awakened person, and that her reuse was only because the awakened person would provide an advantage in battle, it was obvious that others did not think so.

This is probably the reason why Shen Jiayi has been hiding that she is an awakened person. According to Number 5, even Number 1 did not know that she had awakened. Tom felt that she did this not want the outside world to have bad associations because of her identity.