"I'll go down first, you wait for my news."
Chen Bufan looked at the cave entrance in front of him and said to Jiang Tong who was also fully armed beside him.
He held a shotgun tightly in his hand, and the cold metallic texture made him feel like he was going to kill monsters.
"Okay, be careful."
Jiang Tong responded softly. She was holding a HK416 rifle, with an M4 shotgun on her back and a Glock 18 pistol hanging firmly on her thigh.
He wore a bulletproof vest over a white short-sleeved shirt, his tactical vest was hung with magazines, and his belt was a row of ammunition chains filled with No. 12 buckshot bullets.
At this moment, they are like experienced warriors.
The two of them stood in front of the hole they had discovered earlier and looked down.
The scene inside the cave was very different from before. The originally wet ground had now become dry, and the heat had disappeared without a trace. Perhaps it was because no insects had been crawling here for a long time.
After observing carefully, Chen Bufan felt that there seemed to be no potential danger, so he jumped without hesitation and jumped straight down from the ten-meter-high cave. The height of ten meters was not a challenge for him.
There was a muffled sound.
Chen Bufan landed steadily at the bottom of the cave.
He quickly picked up the spray gun in his hand, turned his body vigilantly, and looked around the surrounding environment. Soon, he found that there was a passage in only one direction. This passage was narrow and low, with a height of less than one and a half meters.
Chen Bufan lowered his body, bent over and looked into the passage.
This is a tunnel that extends downward at an angle. The walls on all sides are bumpy and uneven, as if they had experienced countless years of erosion. The tunnel is pitch black, and even with Chen Bufan's sharp eyesight, he cannot see the end at a glance. However, it is gratifying that there are no signs of insects here, so it seems relatively safe.
"Tongtong, come down, it's safe." Chen Bufan shouted loudly towards the cave entrance above.
"Okay, move aside so I don't step on you." Jiang Tong responded, then took a step forward and jumped down.
"Hey! Stop it! Put me down quickly!" Jiang Tong's coquettish voice rang out crisply in the tunnel.
It turned out that when Jiang Tong jumped down with a serious look on his face just now, he thought he could land steadily.
But who would have thought that before her feet touched the ground, Chen Bufan stretched out a strong and powerful arm at lightning speed and hugged her tightly in his arms.
In an instant, the feeling of having no feet touching the ground and losing balance made Jiang Tong scream out in surprise.
"I'm just worried about you and afraid that you might fall. I mean well." Chen Bufan explained softly with a faint smile on his face.
"Hmph, okay, okay, just blame it all on me, you annoying guy!" Jiang Tong rolled her eyes at him coquettishly.
Chen Bufan slowly put Jiang Tong's soft body down. After Jiang Tong stood firmly, he smiled and said, "Okay, now I'll walk in front to explore the way, you follow behind me and keep an eye on the back."
"Okay, I know. Let's go." Jiang Tong nodded in response.
So, the two of them bent down slightly, crouched down and crawled into the narrow tunnel which was only about 1.5 meters high, and began to move slowly towards the depths.
Chen Bufan walked in front, always keeping a high level of alert, his sharp eyes vigilantly scanning the movements around him. Jiang Tong followed closely behind him. For some reason, as long as she looked at the tall and straight figure in front of her, she felt full of security.
The cave was winding and slowly extended underground. Chen Bufan and Jiang Tong groped their way forward in the pitch-black darkness. After walking for more than 500 meters, they finally saw the first turn in front of them.
From then on, there would be a very sharp corner every few dozen meters.
As we went deeper into the cave, the air around us gradually became more humid. We could smell a thin layer of mist in the air, with a faint fishy smell.
Chen Bufan silently calculated the distance he had walked in his mind. When he calculated that he had walked a full two kilometers, he stopped.
Jiang Tong, who was following behind them, remained highly alert at all times, holding the gun tightly in both hands, and his eyes were fixed on the direction behind them.
At this moment, Chen Bufan's keen ears caught a slight sound, which was the sound of water dripping from the top of the cave into the pool.
However, unlike the clear and pleasant sound of ordinary water drops falling into the water, the sound that came into the ears at this moment seemed a little strange, as if it had an inexplicable sticky feeling.
He turned his head, his eyes met Jiang Tong's, his lips moved slightly, and he said to her in a very low voice: "Be careful."
Jiang Tong nodded in understanding, turned on the safety, and then gently placed his finger on the trigger of the gun, ready to deal with any emergency at any time.
After receiving the response, Chen Bufan took another step forward.
As he moved forward step by step, the strange sound of dripping water became clearer and closer, and the sound source was getting closer and closer. After turning another corner, the cave came to an end. There was no road ahead. After walking a few meters forward, there was an exit that was a little more than one meter wide.
"Tick-tock...tick-tock..."
The sound of dripping water came from below the cave entrance.
Chen Bufan and Jiang Tong squatted side by side, leaning forward slightly, their eyes looking out of the cave entrance where there was little light. They slowed down their breathing for fear of disturbing the unknown danger lurking outside the cave.
When his sight finally reached the outside world, even someone like Chen Bufan, who had experienced many life and death tests, couldn't help but feel his hair stand on end and his scalp tingling.
What appeared before my eyes was an abandoned subway station. The sturdy ceiling of the past had disappeared, replaced by a dilapidated and devastated scene.
It was unknown what creature destroyed it so thoroughly that not only were there huge holes in many places, but one could even catch a glimpse of the scene above the ground through these holes.
The only light in the subway station came from the uneven holes above the head, making the whole space look gloomy and eerie.
At this moment, Chen Bufan found that he was close to the subway platform. His eyes moved slowly and saw that the once busy subway track was now empty without any trace of any vehicle.
However, even more surprising was the scene on the platform and on the railway.
Looking around, all the places where one could stand were densely packed with rows of half-meter-high eggs of unknown origin. These eggs stood in a uniform manner. Chen Bufan guessed that their mother had obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Around these eggs, a large number of human and zombie corpses were scattered densely in all directions.
Many corpses were soaked in black and red blood, emitting a pungent stench.
Chen Bufan looked closely and saw many human corpses that had died not long ago.
Due to being soaked in blood for a long time, these corpses have taken on the appearance of terrifying giants. Their swollen and deformed bodies are difficult to look at directly, and they are crawling with maggots and bacteria.
Most of the dead were young and strong men and women, some of them were naked or wearing hospital gowns.
Chen Bufan had sharp eyes and found many needle-like wounds on the arms of the corpses. He wondered what these corpses had suffered before they died.