Chapter 35:

A church that collapsed for the most part stood on the east side of Xiaozhou Village.
Inside the church, the floor tiles in the corners have been lifted up by strong weeds and overgrown with tall weeds. The fragments of the seat were scattered in the wild grass, the statue of the was pushed to the ground, the wings of the back were broken, and several cracks appeared on the face of the stone sculpture. The carefully carved body was split with a knife and axe. It was red. The paint drew several big blood-red crosses severely on it.
A plainly dressed woman with a turban knelt down in the deserted grass, bowed her head in prayer.
"God, if you really exist, please save those who are suffering. I am willing to use my life to redeem the sins I have committed."
She whispered, and the sun shone from the broken roof and shone on her drooping neck. The deserted chapel was silent, and no one could answer her question. A bird stopped on the collapsed wings of the idol, tilted his head and looked at the world for a while, then let out a clear cry, spreading its wings into the blue sky.
Kong Haobo and his party came to the gate of the Eastern Research Institute.
Compared with the village where pedestrians occasionally appear, it's only after arriving here that it has gradually become inaccessible. The grass was high above the knees, and the iron gate that had been beaten was severely deformed, and it was opened obliquely, and occasionally made unpleasant creaks when it was shaken by the wind.
"Doesn't Lao Kong call sister Chihiro to come together? They seem to want to come here too."
"I can always feel that this place is weird, or let's check the situation by ourselves first."
"Yes, they are not high-level, and if something happens, they still have energy to protect them."
The young team members exchanged opinions and stepped cautiously into the grassy courtyard.
Green plants climbed on the fence of the yard. The grass in the courtyard was half a person high. Two tall modern buildings were formed side by side. Both seemed to have experienced severe damage. The glass was damaged, the walls were cracked, and the walls were stained with large walls. Area of ​​brown stains.
There was a little crunching noise from a certain part of the yard. The team members searched for it and saw a well in the corner. A woman in plain clothes and a headscarf was shaking her reel to fetch water by the well.
Hearing the noise, the woman turned to look at them, and reached out her hand to wipe the sweat from her head. Her expression was calm, she did not see any surprises, and she was obviously used to these sudden appearances of outsiders.
"Are you a person living here?" Liu Hezheng stepped forward to ask.
"Yes, I am the only one left here. I am responsible for taking care of the patients who have not left." The woman poured the water in the bucket into the big bucket she brought, and threw the bucket with the hemp rope into the well again with a plop "I know what you want, there is nothing you want here."
"I think you have misunderstood, we are not malicious," Liu Hezheng showed a generous smile that belongs to the elders, "I just heard about this and want to go in and see the situation."
The woman lowered her gaze and stretched out her hand to continue fetching water, "You can go in and see the situation by yourself, but please don't hurt them. They are just victims and have not done anything bad."
Kong Haobo and others walked in from the gate of the building. Compared with the houses in the village, the buildings here are tall and magnificent, full of the smooth and simple style of the post-industrial era. But in this vacant and dilapidated atmosphere, it seems even more permeating.
A few dark brown handprints were pasted on the wall outside the gate, and the corners and the ground were thickly condensed and no filthiness was visible.
Walked inward along the long corridor and passed through the hall as the facade. The light inside became very dim, all windows were made small, and anti-theft railings were reinforced.
Obviously there are various laboratories on both sides of the aisle. Some rooms are scattered with various strange experimental utensils. The inner wall of the huge glass flask is covered with sticky brown residues, rubber tubes, distillation flasks, etc. Most of the uncomfortable brown remains in similar glassware, similar to the color after blood has dried up.
Obviously, the experiment that took place in this place was not a pleasant experiment.
Going inside, there are countless traces of blood after dragging in the corridor, and the handrails on the stairs are stained with blood, making it almost nowhere to go.
"Here, what kind of place is this. Is it a research institute or a slaughterhouse?" Even the warriors who have experienced many battles will inevitably get hairy in their hearts.
"Shen'ai is such a perverted organization, and it is even qualified to compete with our creation."
A group of people walked up the stairs carefully.
There were two thick defensive doors in succession at the entrance of the stairs. At this moment, they were both broken open from the inside out. The door made of the solid magic body changed its shape and sagged on both sides. Obviously, something had desperately broke through the door and ran out from the inside.
Passing through the two doors, the long walkway is flanked by dark cages. These cages are chained with shackles and filthy and shabby beds, scratches from the mottled sheets and messy nails on the walls. It can be seen that this has obviously been used.
A member of the creation team accidentally kicked an empty tin can, and the tin can rolled away, making a series of echoes in the long, silent walkway.
Kong Haobo suddenly stretched out his hand, and the pair pointed forward, shooting a flame from his fingertips, burning all the way and rushing into a dark cell in the corner. The light of the fire lit up on the ground all the way, illuminating every corner of the cell. Mottled walls, shackles, gong barrels, dilapidated canopy beds, and empty bottoms.
"What's the matter" Liu Hezheng turned around and asked.
"Strange," Kong Haobo frowned, "I always feel that we have a pair of eyes looking at us."
Liu Hezheng glanced at the cell. The cell was small, with a long flame burning on the ground, and every corner could be seen clearly.
"Nothing, are you too nervous" Liu Hezheng patted Kong Haobo on the shoulder.
Kong Haobo looked at the slowly extinguishing flame, and had to nod his head, and continued to walk forward.
They passed through this cell area, through the sky walkway connecting the two buildings, to another building. This is supposed to be a dormitory building for employees. The environment looks much better than the experimental building just now. Each room is brightly lit and furnished with comfortable beds, sofas and other living furniture.
Strange noises were heard in many rooms.
Kong Haobo carefully pushed open a door of a house, but the conditions inside the house made the young soldiers behind him couldn't help taking a step back.
In the middle of the room sits a middle-aged man. From his imperfect skin and sparse hair, it can be seen that this is a real human being. He is sitting on a chair in pain with his hands covering his face, and the clothes on his back are cracked. Open, layer upon layer of terrifying monsters bulged out from the crack. Those monsters were carried on his back and slumped all the way to the ground. The huge and heavy weight made him almost unable to move.
He is neither human-like nor completely demonized. He can only be regarded as an inhuman monster.
"Miss Danqin, is that you?" The man heard the movement and didn't turn his head. "I have already said that there is no need to waste food. A monster like me should starve to death."
After he said this, he put down his palm and turned his face to see Kong Haobo and the others at the door, "It turns out that it is you outsiders again, let's go, there is nothing you want here."
"Who are you" Kong Haobo said suspiciously.
"I was originally a resident of Xiaozhou Village, but now I am nothing more than a monster that is neither human nor ghost."
"What the happened here"
"What happened?" The man put down his face covering his face, opened his eyes and shrunk his neck, and whispered in a very uncoordinated tone, "Everyone here used to believe in God, and it was because they dedicated their families to the temple to serve the Holy Spirit. Rong. As a result, those people are doing devil's activities under the banner of gods. Crazy, this world is already crazy."
Kong Haobo withdrew from the house and got goose bumps.
Liu Hezheng did not give him time to hesitate, and firmly pushed open the door of the next room. Inside this room is a woman. Her upper body is still a human, but below her waist she has turned into a mollusk-like body. She is on the ground. Crawling, desperately stretched out his bone-thin arm to the person outside, let out a twisted laugh.
Walking all the way forward, all I saw were such half-human, half-devil monsters.
Some of these people are already delirious, just talking some chaotic syllables. There are also some people who painfully state their life experiences under questioning.
"We are failures, so we were discarded here."
"There is nowhere to go. Someone escaped here, but they were killed by the villagers and their families as monsters. Those corpses are still hanging at the gate of the city."
"Even my mother is unwilling to take me back to the village, who has turned into a monster. Uuuuuu."
"Thanks to Miss Danqin, she is the only one who has been taking care of us."
"I am not a monster, I am a human, I am a human."
"Leave here, don't bother us anymore, there is nothing you want here."
Sorrowful, painful, and hateful words came in chaotically.
The young soldiers who had never been afraid of the terrifying monsters stopped.
"Don't go in, let's go back."
"It's too much. It turns out that the powerful semi-demonized warriors in God's Love were forcibly built with such nasty and disgusting means."
"We still need to go deeper." Liu Hezheng took out the notebook he carried and turned to a page of hand-painted architectural drawings. "You must follow the president's instructions to explore the deepest point here."
In a dim basement of this building, a bird with its wings closed stands on the ground. On its face like a girl, the dark red eyes gradually faded away and returned to normal. Black and white pupils.
"There is a person who is very keen and almost caught my peep." She said.
Next to her is a hospital bed connected to various instruments. On the bed lies a skinny man with white hair. The man has his eyes closed, his face is wearing an oxygen mask, and all kinds of life-sustaining devices are connected to his body. Pipeline. He did not speak, but a strange and deep voice came from his body.
"A Tier 8 fire saint, such a top master has been sent, it seems that Chuangshi will not let this secret go."
"Let me drive them away," the girl's voice said.
"No, I'll go personally, let me think about it, do you want to kill, or keep him and become our partner. Okay, this time, let them also experience the pain of you and me."
A section of red liquid was injected into the infusion pipe, and it has been injected into that thin arm. The skin that looked like an old man began to plump up, and even the dry white hair was given a silver luster. The man slowly sat up from the hospital bed, took off the oxygen mask on his face, and revealed She turned to the girl with the human face and bird body, and smiled slightly.
"Let's go and meet these new friends together."
Outside the gate of the institute, Ye Peitian and Chu Qianxun stood in the wild grass.
"Are you sure you want to go in Pei Tian?" Chu Qianxun said.
Ye Peitian raised his head and looked at the golden wing logo hanging on the gate.
"Once, I just wanted to use killing to solve all hatred. Kill all the people I hate." He turned his face and glanced at Chu Qianxun, "But now, I want to stop the root of all this evil."
He took Chu Qianxun's hand and said, "Qianxun, when I destroyed God's love at the Goose City base, I learned a news. One of the keys to God's love transforming human technology is hidden in Xiaozhou Village. I think Find it and destroy it."
The two walked into the gate of the institute, in the dim corridor, through the mottled laboratories, and through the silent operating rooms. There were blood stains remaining on the pale operating table, and various people scattered on the side. Kind of hideous utensils, with restraints hanging down.
Chu Qianxun squeezed Ye Peitian's hand. No matter how he heard of Ye Peitian's experience, he would not as well come to such a place in person. It was shocking to see such a scene. However, Ye Peitian walked in front of her, his steps were steady and his hands were steady, without a trace of fear.
Only then did Chu Qianxun realize that this man was much stronger than he thought. In spite of such hardship, he can still have a firm and warm heart, can reach out his hand to others, show his smile, and can hold his hand like this and walk in front of her.
Chu Qianxun couldn't help speeding up and keeping up with him.