48 Hours a Day

"After Mr. Thame is finished, look at me and I will look at you. But none of us will go down voluntarily. Although we don’t know what is hidden in the ruins below, it’s just separated by ice. I can feel a strong discomfort at a glance, let alone go deep into it. The monster we bumped into on the ice sheet may be its nest below. If I can choose, I can’t wait to turn around and run, but The few remaining retired soldiers are watching us eagerly.

I know that if they run away at this time, they will take out their guns without hesitation, not to mention that Mr. Thame is by my side. Even that monster is not his opponent. I don’t think I can get from him. I was able to escape with my hands. Seeing that we were all silent, Mr. Thame's face gradually showed impatient expression. At this moment, the Chinese couple spoke again, and the woman among them said let's go down. .

"The rest of us were stunned when they heard this. I didn't expect someone to volunteer. I originally thought that a lottery would be used to select an unlucky man. Mr. Thame seemed very happy and charged them. With a thumbs up and praised again and again, I and the doctor looked at each other. I knew it was time to make a choice.

"Personally, I don’t want to go down to that city under the ice, but among us, except for Mr. Thame and his men, only the Chinese couple who are left seem to be in control. They told me some secrets about this ruin. Since they volunteered to go on, does that mean that the following is not as dangerous as we thought.

"On the contrary, staying on it seems to be a relatively safe choice, but we have helped Mr. Thame find his destination. In other words, we people are no longer useful to him. Will he try to prevent us from going back? After talking nonsense, killed us all?

"I was fighting fiercely in my heart, and finally decided to continue to follow the Chinese couple, because the stone they gave us before proved to be very useful, and I am willing to believe that they still have a way to overcome the difficulties. So I took the doctor and told Mr. Thame that we also went down.

"Mr. Thame and the Chinese couple both seemed a little surprised, especially the man in that couple. He also advised us not to think about it. He bluntly said that there may be some unexpected dangers below. He and her The reason why my wife is willing to take the risk is that after weighing it up, she feels that they have a higher chance of surviving than us. In addition, their research direction is indeed related to the city below. His original words are, This helps us know where they came from.

"I didn’t know what this sentence meant, plus it was translated to me by a doctor. I didn’t know if there was any omission in it. In fact, I only cared about the previous sentence of this sentence. Going with his wife has a higher chance of surviving than us. This is the fundamental reason why I finally decided to continue following them.

"Seeing that we had made up our minds, they stopped persuading them, and Mr. Thame wished that more people would go down and help him get that thing. After learning that we were willing to join, he almost couldn't hide his smile. After that, he let the retired soldiers cook and let us have a good meal. After we finished our meal and packed up, he drove the others aside, leaving only five of us."

"I asked him, what exactly did you let us go down and get, he said he didn't really know. Although he had done some investigations before, but because there were too many targets, he didn't know what was taken in the end. What is it, but he said that we would know when we saw it, because it was the only thing in the city below that didn’t belong there, and he also warned us not to go to the palace in the center of the city anyway in."

When Sarchus talked about this, I don’t know if it’s because the alcohol has faded a little, so that the color of fear reappeared in his eyes, and Songjia has been completely attracted by his story, seeing Sarchus stop and immediately asked, " What did you take out of that city under the ice?"

Sarchus took a deep breath, "A baby boy, about two years old, we found him on an altar-like building, not far from the huge palace, where it seemed to be going on at the time. What a weird ritual, but fortunately no one else was there, but I will never forget the weird scene. The baby is connected to a huge tentacle through the umbilical cord, and seems to be absorbing nutrients from it. The owner of the tentacle has a huge body like a mountain, but it lies quietly in the huge palace in the middle of the city, where Mr. Thame warned us that we must not go.

"We can't see what it looks like, we can only see a dark outline. The doctor and I took a look and then retracted our gazes, but still felt terrified. We just wanted to crawl on the ground. It has a tentacle stretched out. The palace, hugged tightly with the baby boy, as if he were born as one."

"To be honest, I don’t want to touch the thing on the umbilical cord at all. Although he does look like a human baby boy, he is in good health, there is nothing abnormal, and he has heartbeat and breathing, but like other things here, it also makes I feel nausea and fear from the bottom of my heart, and through the umbilical cord, I can clearly see that his blood circulation is also connected with that tentacle owner's blood circulation, which means that there is also that one on its body. Monster's blood.

"If there is a choice, I just want to walk away, but because of Mr. Thame’s explanation, I have to endure the discomfort in my heart and go forward and tear him off that tentacle. This process is better than mine. It’s easy to imagine, and I don’t even need to cut the umbilical cord, because the other end of the umbilical cord is a spike-like thing inserted in that tentacle. The connection between the two is just imitating the fetus and the mother, but not It is as reliable as the fetus and the mother.

"I tore him off, stuffed him in my travel bag and started to run back, only after running less than 20 meters, I heard someone calling me behind me and told me to stop. After that, the woman in the Chinese couple He walked over and touched the baby's chest and nose, saying that we have to go back, because the baby is in a very bad condition after leaving the tentacles, his heartbeat and breathing are getting weaker and weaker, and it is impossible to return to the ground alive. "