Chapter 45: A Cold?

  Chapter Forty-Five

  Lei asked with a big smile.

  "Climbing up is too damaging to our physical strength and too risky, while walking the stairs, we've already seen the consequences of that. Taking the elevator is safe for us and saves energy, why not?"

  This time, however, Matthew replaced Lin Chen and answered. The reason he said was basically the same as what Lin Chen thought, but the most important one, he didn't say it out loud.

  Climbing directly through that old and unmaintained water and electricity pipe tunnel, not to mention whether the pipe can withstand it, just the time spent is unknown!

  For Lin Chen, time is life, it's power!

  "Give you five minutes, if even a simple elevator without any program can't be controlled, use this gun to commit suicide."

  Lindun patted the revolver in the holster, walked to one side, stretched out his hand to touch his scorching forehead, and felt a sense of unease.

  "How is it possible for me to catch a cold out of nowhere? With my strengthened physical condition after training, I shouldn't be getting sick easily..."

  Lin Xun thought to himself, attempting to connect with the guide within the Abyssal Seal through his spiritual sense.

  (Guide, would you check my physical condition?)

  "Okay."

  The icy voice of the guide sounded in Lin Chen's ear, but Karanpur, who was only a few inches away, didn't react at all, and neither did the others feel anything out of the ordinary.

  Indeed, the guide's voice is inaudible to anyone except the corresponding contractor.

  "Okay, scan my body."

  "Performing this function in the task interface will deduct one day of survival time. Are you sure?"

  The guide's voice was like a thousand-year-old icy cold, almost instantly freezing Lin Chen's soul.

  Forget it, let's talk about it after the task is over.

  Lin Xun hesitated for a moment and chose No.

  If a scan is performed now, after deducting one day's survival time, his life will be left with less than four hours!

  Adding twice the survival time consumed by pet hunters is simply no different from looking for death!

  "Cough! Cough! Cough!"

  Lin's cough and fever seem to be getting worse!

  Has the condition started to deteriorate?

  Lin Chen glanced at Karanpur who was busy and urged: "Hurry up!"

  "I'm working hard, hurry up!"

  Kalamp didn't even turn his head, his eyes fixed unblinkingly on the tactical computer screen, his fingers flying across the keyboard, almost leaving a trail of afterimages!

  "What's wrong with you?"

  Alice walked over, furrowed her brow, and sensed that something was wrong with Lin Chen's body.

  "My cold seems to be getting worse, but it's no big deal."

  Lin Xun looked up at the heroine of this Resident Evil movie series and couldn't help but cough a few more times.

  "Nurse! Nurse!"

  Jade immediately shouted loudly for the medical staff in the team as soon as she heard that Lin Chen had caught a cold.

  "Hurry! Let Boss check it!"

  "Good!"

  The medical staff came over with their medical kits without any delay.

  "After a three-minute examination, she made the diagnosis: 'This should be ordinary flu, but I don't have any special medicine for colds here, so we can only wait until you go out and then proceed with further treatment.'"

  Indeed, as a combat team, they only carry various medicines, with physiques like mercenaries, who would still get sick!

  "Alright!"

  Karan slapped the keyboard heavily and leaned back in his chair, taking a deep breath.

  "Luckily, the elevator is now in operation. Within ten seconds, it will arrive at the sixth floor and wait for us!"

  "Alright, let's go."

  Lin Chen gave the order, and the mercenaries immediately sprang into action. Two of them slung their rifles behind their backs and quickly pushed a table from inside the surveillance room over to him.

  "Kalan, you lead the way."

  "Give it to me!"

  Kalamp regained his confidence, and without Hong, his talent was fully displayed. Lin Chen gave him five minutes, but he completed the task in less than three minutes!

  After Kalan, then Jed and Rae, followed by two Strike Team members, Matt, Matthew, and Alice.

  Due to physical reasons, Lin Chen voluntarily stayed behind at the end.

  "I'll pull you up."

  Alice, who had nimbly climbed up the ventilation duct, didn't leave directly but instead turned around and reached out her hand to Lin Xun from the other side of the vent.

  "Thank you."

  Lin Xun now feels the weakness of his body, coupled with the intense battles, it can be said that he is the person who has lost the most physical strength. Climbing this ventilation duct seems a bit difficult for him at present!

  Alice's hands were not like those of a typical young lady, neither delicate nor silky smooth.

  On the contrary, on her fingertips, Lin Xun could clearly feel the rough calluses on the fingertips and finger joints!

  In comparison, Lin Chen's hands, which had undergone a thorough restoration, were even more like those of a woman who bathed in milk every day, smooth and delicate.

  Alice grasped Lin Chen's palm and with a slight lift of her arm, she surprisingly lifted up Lin Chen's entire body!

  Lin Xue took advantage of the situation and borrowed strength, easily climbing up the ventilation duct.

  "Alright, Kalanp, lead the way," Matthew said loudly after sensing that Lin Xun had already come up.

  As he spoke, he began to crawl forward.

  Lin Xuan naturally followed up. Alice pulled Lin Xuan and went to the other side of the ventilation port, at this time behind Lin Xuan, at the end of the team.

  Crawling slowly through the narrow ventilation ducts that only allow one person to pass, especially with zombies wandering below, everyone's pressure is a bit high, not daring to say a word, even more afraid of making any noise, just silently crawling.

  At the end of the ventilation duct, connected to the water and electricity tunnel, everyone spent about eight minutes climbing there, freeing their hands!

  The scene in the water and electricity tunnel is not much different from the scenes in the movies, humid, and it seems that no one has come to repair for a long time. The wires carrying electricity are wrapped in pipes, fixed in mid-air with rusty screws.

  "Everybody climb up."

  Lin Xun pointed at the pipe above everyone's heads. As long as they didn't move too quickly, this pipe would be able to bear their weight.

  "Everyone try to disperse and open some distance, even if zombies appear below, don't panic, they can't reach."

  Lin Xun reminded everyone after they all climbed the mountain pipe, and only let Kalanpu lead the way after seeing that everyone nodded in understanding. He followed behind him.

  "Can we really get out of here?"

  Matt couldn't help but feel a little suspicious. After walking and crawling on the pipe for several minutes, he had completely lost his sense of direction.

  "MD, you think you can climb back along the original road and wait!"

  Lily turned back and glared at Matt with a bad temper, from the very beginning, she didn't like this man.

  Perhaps the sound was a bit loud, and this tunnel seemed too empty and quiet, Le's voice suddenly echoed far away, faintly reflecting the echo!

  "Not good!"

  Lin Xun secretly thought in his heart.

  "Everyone be quiet, this noise might attract zombies."

  Lin Xun gave them a preventive shot in advance, so as to avoid the plot development like in the movies, where they would directly fall into a pile of zombies.

  Lin's serious tone suddenly made everyone's spirits tense up, and they even temporarily forgot to walk, their eyes uneasily scanning the area below the pipe to see if any zombies were following them.

  "Look, let's go, the elevator on the fifth floor is waiting for us."

  Lin Chen had no choice but to lower his voice and urge him on.

  "Oh!"

  Kalanpu hastened his pace, and those behind him immediately followed suit, fearing that if they slowed down for a moment, they would be surrounded by the zombie horde!

  In fact, almost no one comes to the hydroelectric tunnel, and zombies won't come specifically without stimulation, nor will they gather in such a large group.

  Lin Xun speculated that in the original plot, so many zombies gathered in the hydroelectric tunnel, they quarreled and were injured, emitting the smell of human blood, which might have been sensed by the zombies with keen sense of smell, and chased after them!

  Of course, Lin Chen didn't have the American time to test the zombies' sense of smell now, everything was done in the worst possible way, this was the style of a cautious person.

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