The red moon returns

Chapter 435: Infected Lair

The door opened and closed, and a figure flashed in.

He was wearing a grey cloak that covered his head and body, and he looked so sneaky that the word "suspicious" was almost written on the cloak.

Old Sven or Little Jack? No, neither, the size is wrong.

Lynch was just thinking about it when he saw the cloaked man look around. After making sure that there was no one in the room, he took off the hood of his cloak.

I don't know him, but I seem to have seen him somewhere.

Fuck, no, it’s him.

"It's Jackson, Mayor." With the cover of the phantom sound, Lynch was not worried about exposing each other's voices. "He should be here to see his son. It seems we found the right person. Little Jack is with old Sven."

The city lord's face was full of tension and anticipation. He closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths to calm his rapid breathing. He quickly walked through the porch without even looking at the stairs leading to the second floor and the basement. He went straight to the fireplace, reached in, pulled something inside, and then twisted the candlestick on the wall.

With a creaking sound, the bottom of the fireplace slowly moved sideways, revealing a staircase leading downwards.

"Hiss, this is a regular customer. I can't be so skilled even with the blueprints." Lin Qi curled his lips, "But I don't have to worry about how to open the door without being discovered. I'm going in, wait for me to come back."

"Stop talking nonsense and be careful."

Natalie is still such a rough bitch, but I like it.

Lynch grinned, and silently fell behind Jackson with a pistol and a cane.

The tunnel was pitch black, but there seemed to be a faint light at the end. The city lord walked down holding the candlestick. He looked back before going downstairs. Then he pulled the pull ring on the wall to close the entrance to the secret passage, and then went down all the way without any fear of the dark environment.

Following the spiral staircase downward, Lynch estimated that he had descended at least twenty or thirty meters before finally reaching the bottom. However, before he set foot on the ground, a strange low roar came from deep underground.

As the city lord approached, countless low roars sounded at the same time, one after another, crazy, chaotic, and irrational. The roars were like wild beasts that were ready to devour people seeing flesh and blood that they had not seen for a long time. The almost materialized bloodthirsty aura was enough to make people tremble with fear.

Lin Qi's breathing was a little disordered, but the city lord acted as if nothing had happened. He just paused, then muttered a few words in an incomprehensible language, and then continued walking as usual.

Lin Qi behind him whispered to the conch: "Can you understand what he said?"

Judy's voice came out of the conch: "Is it worth it?"

"what?"

"He said so."

"understood."

Lynch nodded and followed.

The area below was more like an underground lair than a basement. This environment looked familiar to Lin Qi. Thinking carefully, it was very similar to the photos taken by the female reporter Maya when she interviewed the mountain people. The only difference was that one was a solid cave and the other was a rough hole in the ground.

The underground tunnel, which was more than one meter high, was winding. The oil lamps in the grooves of the walls were small, and the weak light made the tunnel dark. Whenever there was a roar from the depths, the air flow would make the flames sway, as if the light of hope could be extinguished at any time. Following the footsteps of the city lord, we went deeper into the tunnel. There were several caves on both sides. It was pitch black inside, and we couldn't see clearly what was going on. Only waves of rotten smells were faintly coming from the darkness.

Lynch frowned and tried to concentrate his vision to see more clearly. However, just when he was most focused, a large red dot suddenly lit up in the cave, followed by a deafening roar.

I'm eating lemon, can you give me some fucking warning?

Lynch was suddenly attacked when his attention was most focused. His heart almost exploded and his hair stood on end. Although the roar was terrifying, what really made Lynch nervous were the red dots that suddenly appeared. They were obviously the faint light reflected from the blood-red eyes of the infected.

The red dot flashed by in a flash, and a rough estimate showed that there were at least a dozen infected people inside.

There are more than I imagined. Are these the infected people who know how to escape?

However, while Lin Qi was thinking, he had already followed the city lord to the second cave. Looking at the equally dark cave, Lin Qi suddenly had an ominous premonition and quickly prepared himself mentally. At the same time, the experience just now happened again, and there was another roar of the infected.

Why else?

Lynch's heart tightened, realizing that Old Sven had quietly converted a large number of infected people within a day. The infected people in these two caves alone were enough to cause a lot of trouble in the city. If there were more...

Looking at the tunnel ahead, which seemed to be of unknown depth, Lynch swallowed his saliva and felt a wave of fear in his heart. Fortunately, he did not rush in rashly, otherwise, in such a small space, these fearless infected people alone would be a troublesome problem, not to mention that the two most important targets had not yet appeared.

The situation was better than expected. Only the first four caves were filled with infected people, about 50 in total. Lin Qi was quite thankful that he had contained the spread of the infection. These people should have been transformed one by one with food. Otherwise, God knows how many infected people would be hiding here. If they were released into the city outside, they would not even need the plague canopy, and would be enough to destroy the city within half a day.

I just don't know where these people came from. Lynch guessed that there was another exit underground, otherwise dozens of people coming in and out of Dr. Swain's house would be a huge joke.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the city lord in front of him sigh softly. Lin Qi noticed that it suddenly became brighter not far away, and light came out from a cave.

The city lord immediately quickened his pace. Before he reached the cave entrance, he heard a hoarse voice with dissatisfaction in the tone. The city lord became more and more impatient. While responding, he trotted into the cave.

Lin Qi didn't dare to follow in too arrogantly. He just lay at the entrance of the cave and peeked in carefully. There was only one person inside. He was not a ghoul as imagined, but an old man in human form. His eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to those of Dr. Swen. He should be the human form of her father, Old Swen.

This place also looks like the mountain caves photographed by the Maya. There are many strange red figures painted on the walls, which look like words or murals. There are many thin lines hanging from the ceiling, with strange skeletons and wooden men hanging on them. There are bottles and jars scattered on the ground, and a pungent and unpleasant smell wafting through the whole cave.

"Can you hear clearly?" Lynch asked unconsciously in a low voice, "What are they saying?"

"The mayor is blaming Sven for causing such a big commotion. Didn't they agree to just spread the problematic flour? Who knows how many more citizens will die now." Judy briefly recounted, "But he didn't care much. He then asked when Jack would be truly resurrected. They said..."

"You said he could be resurrected, I believed you. You said we must bury him and let the crops suck out the dirt in his body, I believed you. You said we must use those people for experiments to ensure Jack's resurrection, I also believed you. We are old friends, I never doubt you, no matter what the cost, I just want my Jack back."

"Has he come back now?"

"That's not my Jack at all. He doesn't look like a living person at all. He can't remember anything and can't even speak."

"Really? Why do you think I called you here today?"

Old Swain gave a very strange smile, and then Lynch felt his scalp tingling. He watched a strange body that could barely be considered a human slowly walk out of the darkness opposite the cave entrance.

(End of this chapter)