This was a corridor that had a strong sense of age. The terrazzo floor was covered with messy footprints, and every few meters on the walls painted white on top and green on the bottom, there was a “safety exit” indicator light embedded, emitting a faint green light, extending into the darkness ahead.
Discarded metal parts were piled up haphazardly in the corners, and the uncorroded parts reflected scattered cold light under the faint light.
Looking around, the corridor had no windows and no lights on, filled with a heavy musty smell.
Zhou Zhen rushed out of the morgue door, already covered in sweat. He quickly took off his jacket, quickly scanned his surroundings, and immediately ran in the direction indicated by the “safety exit”.
Thump, thump, thump…
The heavy footsteps echoed in the corridor, which was as quiet as a graveyard.
Zhou Zhen ran through the long corridor, followed the indicator lights and turned a few corners, and finally saw a double door in front!
There was also a narrow pattern painted on the door.
Without any hesitation, Zhou Zhen immediately ran over and pulled open the door.
In a flash, he saw the pattern behind the door, which seemed to be an inverted scepter, with a two-headed snake coiling around it.
Not having time to think about the meaning of this pattern, Zhou Zhen had already seen that behind the door was a winding staircase leading upwards. Above the stairs, colorful light was projected down, clearly illuminating the steps.
He was immediately invigorated and couldn’t wait to rush up the stairs.
The dull footsteps quickly became louder, accompanied by increasingly bright light, Zhou Zhen finally stepped onto the last step.
Suddenly, as if entering a flat valley from a narrow cave, the view in front of him was suddenly clear. He found himself standing in a vast factory!
The entire factory was at least tens of thousands of square meters, filled with rusty equipment. A rectangular pit in the middle that seemed to be used for storing liquid had completely dried up. The concrete floor had cracked open like a spider web, with weeds quietly poking out from inside.
The walls around were thick, the windows for lighting were three to four meters above the ground, and they were large. The original glass was mostly broken, and the neon lights from outside were unreservedly shining in, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple in turn, making the abandoned factory unusually bright.
Zhou Zhen almost immediately saw the door not far away.
He immediately ran over, pushed open the door, and under the illumination of the overhead light, he ran along the weed-covered cement road towards the direction where the most light was coming from.
“Huff…huff…huff…”
Finally, Zhou Zhen rushed out of the rusty iron gate and appeared on a brightly lit street!
He was panting heavily, his lungs almost bursting. The mad run had exhausted his strength.
But, he had finally escaped!
Thinking of this, Zhou Zhen looked around and immediately saw that there were tall buildings all around. Each building required him to completely tilt his head back to barely see the top floor.
Through the gaps between the nearby buildings, he could see more and taller buildings in the distance, standing like bamboo shoots, like a real concrete and steel jungle.
Under normal circ*mstances, any one of these buildings would be enough to be a landmark.
But now, they were everywhere.
Between the skyscrapers, it was not the deep night sky, but countless lifelike fish, vivid dragons, and majestic ships, wandering freely. The subtle changes in the water flow, the howling of the waves, were all flawless.
If it weren’t for the fish, dragons, and ships occasionally transforming into lines of advertising words, the scene in front of him would seem like a real ocean hanging upside down in the sky, completely merging with these skyscrapers, coexisting harmoniously with each other; it also seemed like a magical underwater world.
Buzz!
The brutal roar of the engine suddenly sounded, and several coolly painted cars tore through the sky in the distance, rushing past one after another.
The long street was empty, without a single person.
Looking at the city in front of him, filled with technology and a sense of magic, Zhou Zhen was taken aback… Is this the future world?
However, before he could think more, a violent roar echoed through the night sky, roaring past his head.
Zhou Zhen immediately looked up and saw a row of gray-black aircraft flying neatly.
These aircraft looked completely different from all the flying machines he had seen before. They were cylindrical, and at one-third of the body, there was a hollow part, with two huge alloy structure arms, both clamping a diamond-shaped part, which emitted a faint orange glow in the twilight, like a night light gem.
The whole structure was complex and exquisite, without wings, and moved very fast, dragging long traces in the night sky.
As they flew over Zhou Zhen’s head, the huge body brought a strong sense of oppression. Soon, these aircraft hovered over a street in the distance, and then, the doors of these aircraft opened at the same time.
Boom, boom, boom!
The next moment, hundreds of fully armed personnel jumped directly from the cabin door without parachutes and landed heavily on the ground.
The entire street immediately shook slightly.
At the same time, in the distant sky, the lifelike seabed projection stirred up realistic currents, and a dense glow appeared among the rolling waves, quickly approaching.
This glow quickly reached the near side, and Zhou Zhen saw that these were not some plankton projected by the underwater world, but dense bombers!
The vermilion paint was particularly eye-catching even at night.
Their fuselage lines were smooth, almost shuttle-shaped, with sharp forward-swept wings, like a pair of blades. Between the wings and the fuselage was an engine spewing blue flames. The bombers flew very close to each other, and the tail flames gathered into a group, like fireflies on a summer night.
Standing on the ground and looking up, you could see that a terrifying amount of ammunition was hanging under the belly of the plane.
These bombers flew from a distance, and without any pause after flying over Zhou Zhen’s head, they immediately dispersed, lowered their altitude, and hovered back and forth over several nearby streets, as if they were looking for something.
Is this…
The Explosive Armor Rapid Response Team?
The Anti-Terrorist Armed Bomber Group?
Zhou Zhen’s face stiffened, he didn’t want to die yet!
With a quick thought, Zhou Zhen forced himself to calm down. He didn’t have any transportation now, and he couldn’t outrun the bombers!
Escape, he couldn’t escape!
He could only find a place to hide first!
Zhou Zhen quickly observed his surroundings and soon saw a small alley diagonally opposite.
Without hesitation, he immediately ran over.
This alley was flanked by hundred-story buildings, and looking up, you could only see a sliver of sky. The neon lights on the street cast an ominous red glow on it.
As soon as he entered, the stench hit him, and Zhou Zhen immediately held his breath.
The ground was littered with all kinds of garbage, broken bottles, rotten fruits, and all kinds of dirty papers… covering the original floor tiles completely.
A garbage can as tall as a person was placed at the boundary between light and dark, and the lid was stained with unknown things.
Zhou Zhen looked at the garbage can, this was the only place to hide here…
Without wasting any time, he immediately walked over and lifted the lid of the garbage can.
Inside was already half full of garbage, half of the miscellaneous waste was solidified vomit, and the other half was rotting fruits with maggots crawling on them.
Zhou Zhen frowned, ready to climb in.
But just then, a slender white hand suddenly landed on his shoulder!
“What are you doing here?”
