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For a moment, Ji Dong was so frightened that his hair stood up all over his body, his heartbeat bounced uncontrollably three times, and he was almost scared of myocardial infarction.
Others weren’t much better than he was. Annie threw herself on Rose and grabbed her camouflage coat. One soldier was so frightened that his wrists trembled and almost fainted out of fright.
Fortunately, even so, no one was stupid enough to shout on the spot.
Fortunately, they still have some sense, so that they wouldn’t die just as they entered the place.
Just as a group of people was still in a state of panic, Ren Jianmo patted Ji Dong on the shoulder and then pointed to the foot of the wall.
Following his instructions, the crowd soon found that an infrared sensing device had been installed on the wall. As long as someone passed by, it would turn on the light automatically and intelligently.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Those Skeleton Monsters were blind. Even if the light was on, they wouldn’t pose any threat to them.
On the contrary, when the opponent couldn’t see them, the place with the light gave them an advantage that was at least 100 times greater than fighting in the dark.
Ji Dong stroked his chest and felt his palpitating heart gradually calmed down. Only then did he have enough time to look at their current environment.
It was a deserted 20-meter-long corridor. There was no one except them, and naturally, there were no Skeleton Monsters.
Ji Xiao’niao remembered that, according to Annie’s drawn map, this was the logistics corridor, and those who would normally go through this door were mostly logistical and cleaning staff. In addition, when bringing the living materials needed by the Research Institute’s staff, they would also enter and exit through here.
There were several doors at both ends of the corridor. The Research Institute’s security system had all of the doors securely closed and forcibly locked at this point.
The space behind these doors were all warehouses, cleaning rooms, and the like, which were not of any value to Ji Dong and the others in terms of time and effort to investigate, so naturally they were ignored.
The crowd crept through the empty and silent corridor.
At the end of the corridor was a heavy metal door, which completely separated the two spaces.
The metal door also had a rectangular window about thirty centimeters wide and ten centimeters long, inlaid with a double layer of bulletproof glass.
Ji Dong pressed on the window to look inside—it was a very spacious space, similar to the open kitchen he had seen on a cooking reality show before. There were several cooking tables neatly listed, as well as kitchen utensils area, tableware area, side dishes area, and cleaning area.
Obviously, most logistics personnel were not spared from the biochemical crisis that broke out in the Research Institute.
The original neat and clean kitchen had turned into a post-battlefield ruin after the monsters’ mad hunt and the prey’s desperate escape.
The blood splatters could be seen on the kitchen table, walls and even the ceiling, while pots and pans were strewn over the floor.
The debris was also mixed with the “skin” shed by many infected humans as they transformed into Skeleton Monsters, which were scattered everywhere like piles of black broken tiles.
More importantly, there were now a lot of Skeleton Monsters with only a pair of withered bones wandering in the kitchen. He counted them carefully, and in his field of vision were twelve monsters, enough to annihilate the whole team, yet there could be more hidden from his view.
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Ji Xiao’niao’s forehead exuded a drop of cold sweat.
As a seasoned archery practitioner, his distance judgment could be considered quite accurate.
Ji Dong visually estimated that the straight-line distance from the door in front of them to the door leading to the dining area at the other end must be at least fifty meters.
——What is the concept of fifty meters?
The kitchen floor was not a plastic track, but a tile floor, and the path was not a straight line with no obstacles; they had to go around the kitchen counter and a few cabinets, but they also had to be careful of the pots and pans scattered all over the floor like a minefield.
This meant that they couldn’t really run through the kitchen as if running a 100-meter sprint…
“What to do?”
At this time, Mo Tiangen hit Ji Dong’s arm with his elbow. “Shall we bite the bullet and dash?”
Ji Dong frowned and whispered back two words, “It’s difficult.”
He was telling the truth.
If they wanted to cross the kitchen area without alerting the monsters, they would have to both hold their breath and maintain absolute silence, plus make a life-threatening mad dash to reach the opposite side and open the door in a very short time—it’s just, too hard, too hard!
If one person made a mistake, it would cause very serious consequences—they would be trapped in the kitchen by more than a dozen monsters. Even if they were not killed, they would definitely suffer heavy casualties!
“There’s no way out, let’s gamble!”
Rose gritted her teeth and made the decision for the others, then raised her chin towards Ji Dong. “Ji Xiao’niao, open the door!
“Ji Xiao’niao, open the door!”
“Wait, don’t rush!”
Ji Dong still felt that it was too risky to rush in directly. This was only the first level of the opening, it was always better to be as safe as possible.
He frowned and looked around.
“Ji Xiao’niao!”
Rose turned her back on the crowd, nodded at her watch with meaning, and urged in a low voice, “Don’t dawdle, time is running out!”
Ji Dong also looked at the watch on his wrist.
Somehow, the hand on the progress bar had turned yellow.
This was the indication of alert.
It was the [Peach Blossom Spring] warning the players that the plot had entered a dangerous period and they would encounter a more severe test than before.
“Don’t rush, don’t rush!”
Ji Dong twisted his two beautiful eyebrows into a Sichuan-shaped knot, desperately thinking whether there was any other more secure solution.
As he thought, he turned his gaze left and right and quickly settled somewhere.
That was an intercom telephone hanging in the corner.
“Annie!”
Ji Dong’s eyes lit up and immediately became energetic. “Can this phone still be used?”
His sudden question startled Annie. “I think… It can still be used, it should be possible…” she said after a lengthy pause, nodding.
Ji Dong continued to ask, “So, is there an internal telephone that can be used in the kitchen?”
Annie had a flash in her eyes and suddenly understood. “I see what you mean!”
She pressed her throat, and her voice trembled with excitement:
“There’s a phone in the kitchen area and one in the first stove, I remember the number!”
“Great!”
Ji Dong reached out and dug around on his body, fumbling for a piece of paper and a pen for Annie to draw him another floor plan to show him the location of the two telephones.
“Don’t panic.”
Ren Jianmo pressed Ji Dong’s flustered hand, then pushed Annie to the door and motioned her to look into the kitchen through the glass window. “Where are the two phones? Show us.”
Annie was somehow afraid of this unusually handsome-looking man, and when she was being stared at by Ren Jianmo, she didn’t even dare to meet his gaze.
The chestnut-haired woman hastily turned her head away and quickly gestured in two different directions.
It was really difficult to find two small internal telephones attached to the wall from such a narrow window view.
The best-sighted of all of them, Ji Dong, squinted for a while and finally found it with great difficulty.
“Call the food section!”
He decided on the spot. “As soon as the phone rings, we are ready to open the door!”
The crowd had by now understood Ji Dong’s plan and nodded with stony faces.
Annie gave out the internal phone number of the food distribution area.
Ji Dong pressed the number first, then gave a strong nod to Ren Jianmo who was standing by the door.
Ren Jianmo held his ID card and gave him a “ready” look back.
Ji Xiaoniao’s finger pressed hard and tapped the word [Call] on the touch screen.
“Duh-luh-luh! Beep, beep, beep!”
The phone sounded in a corner of the kitchen.
When the kitchen was bustling and full of smoke and fire, no one realized how loud the internal phone was, but at this moment, there wasn’t a single living person in the whole kitchen. Now that it was so quiet that the needle drop could be heard, the ringing tone came across as a little abrupt.
The Skeleton Monsters wandering in the kitchen all turned their heads and pounced in the direction of the phone.
Ji Dong, “Now!”
Ren Jianmo did not even wait for his command, at the moment of ringing, he inserted the ID card into the door lock.
The artificial intelligence quickly reported a string of IDs and then opened the steel door panel for them after a [Permission to Enter].
Rose held her breath and rushed into the kitchen ahead of them.
Four soldiers followed, followed by Mo Tiangen, who protected Annie, and finally Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo.
They held their breath, ran as fast as possible among the sundries on the ground, and paid attention to their feet carefully to avoid making too much noise.
Fortunately, the monsters were now led to the side dish area by the ordinary telephone—the farthest corner from the kitchen’s central axis.
The first Skeleton Monster, however, had approached the ringing phone, raised its sharp bone claw, and smashed the small machine on the wall.
The whole phone was shot down from the wall with a bang, jangling when hanging on the wall, wobbling but not falling off.
But the unlucky intercom was still ringing strong.
Another monster swooped in, opened its unusually protruding jaws, and like a python devouring its prey, ripped the poor phone from the wall with one bite and crunched it.
The telephone, which had been tenacious for two seconds, was completely muted.
However, in these ten seconds, the team composed of the players and the local people of the [Film] had all crossed the kitchen and stumbled to the door leading to the dining area.
They did not dare to breathe, holding a breath in their lungs, their faces already turning purple.
Rose pointed anxiously toward the door, signaling Ji Dong or Ren Jianmo to hurry and open it.
Ji Dong covered his mouth and climbed up, inserting his ID card into the slot.
However, the Research Institute’s artificial intelligence voice system, before opening the door, spoke first.
[Researcher TT2203, permission to enter.]
The dry electronic voice lingered throughout the kitchen, clear, loud, and attention-grabbing.
As expected, the Skeleton Monsters originally gathered in the side dish area turned their heads in unison, more than twenty black eye sockets, looking straight at the group of lambs to be slaughtered huddled in front of the door!
Thank you for the chapter！
Smort move for the phone but the system screwed them 🥺
Oh boy, quick run
Thanks for the chapter