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Chapter 113 The Shadow in the Depths of the Machine Room
Chapter 113 The Shadow in the Depths of the Machine Room
Meanwhile, inside the waterwheel engine room.
The narrow space could only accommodate a maximum of four people walking abreast.
Vice squad leader Zhou Yong, with three team members, was at the forefront, shields raised in front, knives in their right hands, casting vigilant glances at the surrounding machinery.
It seemed that some electricity was still retained in the engine room.
Around the corner leading to the lower level, one could faintly see the dim yellow light.
Besides that, the interior of the engine room was almost completely dark, making it difficult to even discern the faces of the comrades at their sides.
Click.
Someone turned on a flashlight.
The bright beam instantly illuminated the space ahead.
Visible were bones scattered everywhere and an unidentified viscous substance sticking to the walls, glistening with a greyish-brown sheen under the flashlight.
It appeared to be the remnants of muscle tissue after rotting away.
The team member in front immediately swallowed hard.
He was a bit scared.
But Xu Lin was right behind him.
In the days of training, three people had been shot dead on the spot by him for deserting just before combat.
Thinking of this, the team member could only grit his teeth and continue walking forward, constantly calming himself down inside.
The horde of zombies outside hadn't been able to do much to them.
How many could there be inside?
The four in front soon reached the stairs heading to the lower level of the engine room.
The light shone down the stairs and it seemed as though something was startled in the darkness, disappearing into the deeper recesses before the team could react.
Everyone who saw this paused instinctively, then turned to look at Xu Lin.
Xu Lin didn't speak.
But his eyes, even colder in the darkness, gave the answer.
The mission was not yet complete.
Onward.
With his signal, the others could only forcibly suppress the panic in their hearts and proceed downwards once more.
It wasn't long before the four in front reached the spot where the shadow had vanished.
There lay half a carcass.
The chest was torn open, like a wallet turned inside out and emptied, with half the ribs gnawed away.
On the external skin were numerous marks resembling those left by claws.
Some shallow, some deep, the deepest slicing through the skull.
More surprisingly, from the traces on the ground, this half-corpse seemed to have been alive just a few minutes ago.
Or rather, it still had the capacity to struggle and writhe.
Until a sharp weapon pierced the skull.
Clearly, this should have been a zombie's body, yet the other half was nowhere to be found.
No skeletal remains resembling a lower body were left around.
But judging from the torn wounds, it looked as if it had been violently ripped apart by some powerful force.
Xu Lin fumbled in the corpse's pockets for a while but found nothing.
The team then moved deeper again.
They had now reached the first underground level of the waterwheel engine room.
The surroundings were still dominated by several massive waterwheels, their huge shadows swallowing up the occasional skeleton that appeared in the corners under the beam of the flashlights.
In truth, these were just the tip of the iceberg of the entire hydroelectric station's waterwheel array.
Their true form lay buried beneath.
Then came the second level.
The third level.
Only when the sound of rushing water became clear in everyone's ears did this freshly formed combat group finally reach the deepest part of the engine room.
Zhou Yong stood at the top of the stairs, slowly directing his flashlight ahead.
Suddenly, a crouching figure emerged into the field of vision.
The light startled it!
The figure turned abruptly, a pair of crazed, blood-red eyes, then let out a shrill scream with its head thrown back!
The instant the shout arose, the surrounding darkness erupted with a familiar sound!
Rustle, rustle!
It was the sound of zombies crawling on the ground!
At the same time, the zombie that had just appeared in the light had already straightened up its body, its enormous frame towering like an iron tower.
And when this zombie turned around, its bloated belly also came into everyone's view.
Like a garbage bag ready to burst at any moment.
The skin was nearly transparent.
"Roar!!!"
The giant-like zombie let out a roar and charged straight at the people!
Xu Lin, seeing this, immediately shouted:
"Spread out!"
"Scatter right now!"
All twenty members of the combat team were gathered at the stairwell.
Upon hearing his order, many ran towards the sides near the water wheels, but in the chaos, there were still people who couldn't dodge in time.
Then there was a loud bang, a man was sent flying from his spot like a cannonball!
The shield that fell to the ground was completely dented!
The others didn't even have time to go help him before the vast shadow came crashing down on the man, causing his body to burst open like a soda can in an instant.
Lachang, who had barely dodged the impact, widened his eyes in disbelief.
It was like a human cannonball!
How to fight?
The shields that could stop ordinary zombies were like paper mache against this one, breaking at a single touch.
On the other side, Xu Lin's expression darkened as he realized the situation was amiss.
The space was too narrow.
The enemy's body was huge.
This allowed the opponent to maximize its advantages, while making dodging extremely difficult for them.
They had to find a way to get out of here.
Thinking this, he didn't hesitate to pull out his pistol from his waist and pulled the trigger on the huge shadow in the darkness!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Three bullets fired in a row!
Without the illumination of light, it seemed only one hit its target!
"Roar!!!"
Another roar!
The tall shadow stopped its bending motion and turned its head to throw the corpse in its hand towards Xu Lin!
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The already mangled body smashed into the water wheel in an instant under its massive force!
Then it broke completely in the middle.
The blood plasma scattering from the air made Xu Lin subconsciously lift his arm and step back a few paces.
Before he could raise his head and open his eyes, a dull sound rang in his ears, and that massive shadow was already charging towards him with an unstoppable momentum!
There was a loud boom.
Even with the water wheel absorbing most of the impact.
Xu Lin's body was still sent flying like a kite with a broken string.
He hadn't even gotten up when he spit out a mouthful of blood on the ground, feeling as if all his bones were about to break from the collision.
"Watch out, Captain!"
An urgent warning suddenly sounded in his ears.
Xu Lin's eyelids twitched, and he saw the shadow approaching him again.
He seemed to have seen his end in the next second, but just then, two hands suddenly grabbed him and violently dragged him to the side.
Thud—
The ground seemed to tremble.
Xu Lin scrambled up from the ground to see the light of a flashlight turned on, and several team members had charged behind the zombie with the light.
The oddly shaped machete still exhibited an extremely powerful destructive force at this moment.
In the blink of an eye, deep cuts up to ten centimeters were slashed into the zombie's back, and the dark red flesh rolled out from the sides as the machete slid through.