I Was Once a Legend

Chapter 23 - Floor 1 [3 more]

Dong Zheng and Allen briefly discussed the division of labor, starting with the cabinets on the left wall, and pulling out the cabinet compartments one by one to check.

Generally, when you pull it out, you can clearly feel that there are people inside the heavy ones. Dong Zheng pulled out seven or eight of them in a row, and only three of them contained corpses, which were basically complete, and the death was not very scary.Soon they finished checking the wall, but still got nothing.

Just as they began to search the mortuary cabinet facing the door, suddenly there was a muffled knocking sound from the cabinet on the far right, one after another, slow and heavy.

Dong Zheng was pulling his hand in the cubicle for a while, and he and Alan looked at each other, seeing the heavy "finally here" in each other's eyes.

"I knew it would come out like this." Allen pushed back the cabinet in his hand, because the huge fluctuations in his heart were a little out of control, and he made a loud "bang".

After a brief silence, the cabinet in front of them also made unpleasant noises one after another, and began to tremble with the impact.

Bang, bang!

Dong Zheng took two steps back, took a deep breath, tried to keep his voice steady, and said to Alan with a terrified face: "You woke them all up."

"I didn't do it on purpose." Allen raised his hands and stared at his blue eyes innocently. He hesitated for a while, and said weakly: "Eh... Let's search quickly, if we don't move fast enough, something terrible will happen .”

The two used the fastest speed to open all the cabinets that did not make a sound, and finally looked at the remaining eleven drawers that were thumping, and fell into silence.

Allen tentatively asked: "How about...one person and five first?"

Dong Zheng looked indifferent: "You woke them up, you come."

Allen hurriedly said: "It's better to have five people, it's faster, and there's nothing to be afraid of. You see, the people inside are dead, and we died in reality, so in a sense, we and the people inside Brothers are like dead people who can move, right?"

Dong Zhengcai didn't want to be like zombies: "I don't think I'm dead in this state."

The sound of the impact in the mortuary cabinet on the right was getting louder and louder, and the situation was not good. Dong Zheng didn't waste any time arguing with Alan, and directly opened a compartment for fraudulent corpses at hand.

He quickly pulled out the drawer, and before the undead inside could react, he quickly glanced inside, and after making sure there was nothing, he closed the compartment neatly.Before the zombies could react, they were locked in again.

"Sorry to interrupt."

The corpses are all placed with their heads inward and their feet outward, so there will be no direct contact with their faces.Seeing Dong Zheng start, Allen stopped dawdling, resisting his fear and unwillingness to open the cabinet door.

For a while, the only sound in the morgue was the sound of banging and the opening and closing of cabinets, which was so depressing that it almost made people crazy.

Dong Zheng put his hand on the handle of the third cabinet door, and was about to pull it open, when he suddenly felt a sudden pain in his temple, so sharp that it made him feel nauseous, as if someone had stabbed it in with a needle, and then stirred it violently .

He snorted, almost losing his sense of distance in a trance.The door of the mortuary cabinet slowly slid out according to the inertia, but this time, Dong Zheng did not react immediately.

It was too late when Allen realized what had happened, the alive and kicking Mr. Dead Man had already sat up, and rushed towards Dong Zheng with his big mouth dripping with black saliva!

"careful!"

The moment Allen yelled, Dong Zheng resisted the discomfort, grabbed its neck quickly, and slammed the corpse into the compartment before it opened its mouth to bite, and quickly closed it!

One leg of the corpse was still squeezed outside and twitched a few times. Allen helped lift that leg and stuffed it back into the compartment, finally closing it completely.

"what happened?"

Dong Zheng frowned and pressed his temple with one hand, feeling the throbbing there, took a deep breath and said, "Suddenly I have a headache."

"It's too timely for you to be in pain. You almost died." Allen was terrified. He had the key he just found hanging on his finger. A big rusty lock.

What happened to Cui Zuojing?

The distance is too far, and there are many staggered spaces, Dong Zheng can't know the specific situation of Cui Zuojing at all, only the intensifying headache tells him that Cui Zuojing has been away from him for too long.

If he didn't come back, he would really be unable to hold on.

Dong Zheng followed Alan and walked out of the mortuary. Before he took the last step, he heard a loud crash, and the favorite corpse bouncing in the cabinet on the right knocked open the cabinet door, and fell to the ground with a "plop"!

As if they had received some kind of order, the corpses on the gurney also sat upright one after another, and the white cloth covering them slowly fell down, revealing the pale and stiff faces of men, women, old and young.

They turned their heads in unison, opened their dark eyes, and stared at the two people at the door. The incandescent tube flickered twice and then went out suddenly.

"what!"

In the sudden darkness, Allen let out a girlish short scream, turned around and ran away without hesitation.

Dong Zheng was pulled down by him, but he didn't run away immediately. Instead, he quickly closed the narrow door of the morgue, and locked it simply while the door vibrated violently.

Alan ran faster than a rabbit, and he was almost out of sight. Dong Zheng hurried to catch up. He had just run two steps, and the headache that he had temporarily ignored because of nervousness and fear hit him again, making him I staggered under my feet.

what are you doing...

Dong Zheng took a deep breath, and pinched his leg hard, so that another kind of pain forced his mind to keep up with Alan.

The two people who ran to the elevator on the other side of the corridor stopped. The elevator door was broken and wide open, and the faint red light in the elevator shaft could be seen.Allen looked up and saw that the elevator was hanging between the first and second floors, and was stuck by a large group of plants.

"walk the stair?"

Dong Zheng hummed, and the two turned around and pushed open the closed door in the stairwell. Dong Zheng immediately held his breath in the flying dust, but he still couldn't hold back his nose and coughed twice.

Naturally, there was not much light in the stairwell, and the sign of "safe passage" vaguely pointed out the direction.

The only things that can be brought into the box are those obtained from other boxes, as well as some specific items, such as clothes, food, water, or a small number of weapons specially made by the weapon dealer.

And Dong Zheng Allen didn't get any lighting tools and weapons here at all, so he could only explore in the dark with his bare hands.

The door of the morgue was locked, so there was no need to worry about the possible danger from below. The air in the stairwell was extremely dull due to the lack of circulation for a long time, and plants growing in the corners could be seen everywhere.

The two walked upstairs in silence, neither of them noticed that not long after they passed by, the vines that were originally wrapped around the handrail of the stairs moved slowly towards them like poisonous snakes lurking in the shadows.

Sitting by the wall at the corner was a half-remained corpse, wearing a hospital gown, which had been dried so hard that its face and age could not be discerned.Parts of his legs disappeared, and a dense group of weeds entwined and grew from the severed limbs, like a weird potted plant.

"Okay, I can probably understand the relationship between this place and plants." The surrounding area was too quiet, and Allen said subconsciously, "Plants vs Zombies in reality? Parasitic?"

It was as if he was afraid that if the sound was louder, something would be disturbed.

Dong Zheng shook his head, there are too few clues, and all his thoughts can only be guesses up to now.

Dong Zheng walked around the corpse and just took two steps up when he suddenly heard a woman's voice in his ear: "I'll be discharged from the hospital in three days."

The voice was very soft, like a whisper in a lover's ear, and it was very close, right next to his side face.In an instant, Dong Zheng was frozen, his hair all over his body brushed up and stood up, Alan in front didn't seem to hear it, and was still walking up.

"After we get out of the hospital, let's go to the park in the suburbs and take the kids with us. I haven't been out for a long time." The voice murmured again. Dong Zheng lowered his head, and a thin hand was stretching out from behind him, gently Grabbed his right arm, as if to hold him back.

Dong Zheng closed his eyes hard, then opened them again.

Not a hallucination.

I don't know how he saw this in the near total darkness.

Even through the clothes, the place touched by that hand still felt the piercing chill. Dong Zheng took a deep breath, and without waiting for the woman to speak again, he stepped up the three steps without hesitation, and used the fastest speed to catch up with the person in front of him. Allen.

The moment he broke free, a mournful cry exploded from behind, and countless hands stretched out from the shadows, desperately trying to grab something.

Dong Zheng's trousers were tightly clenched, and he ignored it completely. As he took a step forward, his dry and brittle fingers were unwilling to let go and were torn off. Gululu rolled down the stairs.

Allen had already pushed open the stairway door on the first floor and walked in. Dong Zheng finally glanced back when he left the stairwell. The ends of the branches and leaves grow out, and in the palm of the hand is a strange mouth full of sharp teeth.The black flowers the size of a washbasin were trembling slightly, making a woman's voice.

He quickly closed the door.

Cold sweat had already wet the back of his jacket, Dong Zheng recalled everything just now, his fingers trembled uncontrollably.

As a firm atheist who received materialist education since he was a child, he has never had similar fantasies in his 26 years of life, let alone being afraid of ghosts. The fear is even deeper.

Finally, the first floor was no longer dark, and there were lights in the long corridor. Allen breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around to find that Dong Zheng's face was pale with his lips tightly pursed. His heart that had been a little relieved suddenly lifted up, and he asked cautiously: " What's wrong?"

"There was something in the stairwell just now." Dong Zheng whispered, "All the plants here may have intelligence, they will imitate humans, so be careful."

"Um... I know." Allen stared at a point behind Dong Zheng, hesitated to speak, his eyes slowly moved to the top of Dong Zheng's head, and a bean-sized drop of cold sweat dripped from the corner of his forehead.

He swallowed hard, and looked at Dong Zheng.

The moment the eyes of the two met, Dong Zheng fell to the ground immediately, and at the same time there was a loud "crash", the leaves of the gladiolus pierced through the place where Dong Zheng's head should have been, and the window glass was smashed to pieces with great force!

"Damn fuck! What the hell is this!" Allen screamed and helped Dong Zheng get up, and the two rushed to the other end of the corridor in a hurry.Pushing open the double doors, Allen bumped into something before he could see clearly.