Chapter 30 Felt Gu Qianyang’s Aura
Perhaps seeing hope, Ma Jianhua’s movements became a bit more energetic.
But the problem was that he was getting more and more injured, and blood was constantly flowing down.
Seeing this situation, a police officer next to Ma Jianhua said.
“Captain Ma, let me switch!”
“No, hurry up and go!”
However, Ma Jianhua was already red-eyed from fighting. He swung his fire axe relentlessly, preventing the pursuing decaying corpses from getting close to everyone.
“It’s safe up ahead!”
After Liu Haoyu smashed the last decaying corpse blocking the way with his skull-crushing hammer, a wide and empty tunnel appeared before them. It was even darker inside, but fortunately, there were no more decaying corpses.
“Run!”
Liu Haoyu called for the police officers behind him to follow, then took out three Divine Fire Talismans, completely igniting the road behind them.
The flames quickly spread to the decaying corpses, and they tried to break through the wall of fire to catch up with everyone.
But without a surrounding encirclement, their staggering steps could never catch up to Liu Haoyu and the four police officers.
They could only watch them escape into the depths of the tunnel.
———-
After running for an unknown amount of time, when the nauseating stench of decay faded, Liu Haoyu stopped and said to the police officers behind him.
“No one fell behind?”
“Thanks to you,” Ma Jianhua shook the blood off his axe, “We all survived safely… but your axe is quite useful.”
After saying that, he handed the fire axe to Liu Haoyu, but the latter did not take it, only saying calmly.
“Officer Ma, you should keep this thing. I have better gear.”
“That’s true…”
Ma Jianhua sat on the ground. After the adrenaline wore off, he felt a burning pain all over his body. The sweat flowing into his wounds made him wince.
“But I still have to mention… your attire makes it hard for us police officers not to misunderstand.”
Ma Jianhua thought that Liu Haoyu using a fire axe was already explosive enough, but he didn’t expect that he would look even less like a human when he picked up the skull-crushing hammer.
“Just tell me if this thing is easy to use.”
“It’s naturally easy to use…”
As Ma Jianhua spoke, he suddenly saw Liu Haoyu throw something over. He reached out and caught it, only to realize that the other party had thrown a black pill.
“You have too many wounds. To avoid corpse poison, eat this. It can detoxify.”
“Okay…”
Although the black pill looked a bit strange, if you were to visualize it, it looked like a pill pushed by a dung beetle, but Ma Jianhua still swallowed it in one gulp.
“Ugh!!”
As the pill entered his mouth, the explosive taste almost made Ma Jianhua vomit his dinner.
“Don’t chew, just swallow.”
Liu Haoyu said, swallowing one without changing his expression.
After all, as the vanguard, he also had scratches left by decaying corpses on his body.
“Hoo… hoo…” Ma Jianhua panted and said, “I almost thought I ate a big mouthful of… do you guys have any wounds?”
“No, no.”
The other three police officers repeatedly shook their heads. Looking at Ma Jianhua’s twisted expression when he took that mouthful, it was indeed a bit frightening.
After resting for a while, Liu Haoyu spoke to the police officers.
“This is an underground tunnel. If we continue forward, we might find an exit.”
“Indeed, walking in this direction will take about 3 kilometers to get out of the tunnel. I don’t know if Captain Wang and the others have escaped.”
Ma Jianhua stood up from the ground and hoisted the fire axe onto his shoulder, saying.
“I don’t know when those monsters behind us will catch up, and I don’t know if there are still these monsters ahead. For safety’s sake, we should move as soon as possible.”
After speaking, he beckoned to the officers to start the next step.
“Brother Liu, because we don’t know if there are any ambushes lurking in the dark, you be in the middle of the team, I’ll be at the front, and Xiao Zhang, you’ll be at the back, keeping a constant lookout.”
“Understood!”
After the previous incident, Ma Jianhua was well aware that if they encountered such a horde of decaying corpses again, it would be almost impossible for them to escape with their abilities.
The mastermind hiding in the dark might also launch a surprise attack directly on Liu Haoyu. As long as Liu Haoyu died, he wouldn’t have to make a move himself; they would all perish in this tunnel.
The group continued to advance in the tunnel. After an unknown period, Ma Jianhua, who was leading the way, suddenly stopped. This was a fork in the road, and light could already be seen ahead, indicating that they were close to the exit.
However, he clearly saw that the entrance to the emergency escape passage on the side of the tunnel was covered in bright red bloodstains.
And on the ground, he also saw a Type 05 micro submachine gun.
This was equipment used by the armed police. The magazine was empty, and there were still traces of un-dried blood on it.
“It seems they entered this escape passage…” Ma Jianhua shone his flashlight into the escape passage. There were more bloodstains inside, extending all the way forward: “Or perhaps they were forced into it by some monster…”
“Captain Ma, should we go in?”
Facing his teammate’s question, Ma Jianhua fell into thought.
But the still-warm blood on the magazine made him take a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind.
“We don’t abandon anyone, we don’t give up. We’ll find them alive or dead… Let’s go.”
However, after Liu Haoyu entered, a red shadow in the darkness grabbed him, and the young girl’s solemn voice rang out.
“I feel Gu Qianyang’s aura…”
———-
At the same time, inside the escape passage, Wang Wenqi stopped.
Only two team members remained behind him, one surnamed Li and the other surnamed Zhou. Apart from these two, the other team members were either separated or had already sacrificed themselves.
“Hoo… hoo…”
The breathing of the two remaining teammates behind him became increasingly strange, as if someone had intentionally recorded their breathing and then played it back with a voice changer to stretch it out.
“Captain Wang… the passage seems to be shrinking…”
Xiao Li’s voice became very strange, with a bubbly sound, as if it were coming from underwater.
Wang Wenqi looked back, feeling as if he were hallucinating.
He saw Xiao Li’s body slowly melting, as if he were being swallowed by the floor.
Even the beam of the flashlight was becoming distorted, as if being twisted into a rope by an invisible hand.
“Have we been here before… are we… unable to escape?”
“Unable to escape…”
“Unable to escape…”
“To escape…”
Another police officer, Old Zhou’s voice also became extremely strange, as if mixed with another person’s voice. The various bizarre scenes made Wang Wenqi, a member of the Special Task Force, feel a sense of despair.
He slowly raised his gun. Given the current situation, the two remaining teammates behind him… should also be dead.
