Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 389 Self-rescue
Ou Yang forced himself to calm down and analyze the situation carefully. He guessed that something unexpected had happened, forcing the research institute to close completely, with no one allowed to enter or leave. Even if the staff saw him on the monitor, they would not be able to carry out a rescue.

He suddenly felt a headache coming on.

The possibility of the higher-ups abandoning the research institute is very low, but not impossible. Continuing to wait may not yield any results. Moreover, there is neither food nor water here. If we don't leave while we still have the energy, it's uncertain whether we'll still have the energy to leave when we want to.

But what is the best way to get out of this awful place?
Ideally, underground buildings like this should take into account all kinds of unexpected situations and should have emergency exits designed in advance from the very beginning!

Thinking of this, Ou Yang immediately got up and walked through the entire ward from beginning to end. In addition to the stairs and elevator, he found a restroom.

Upon seeing the tap, Ouyang's eyes lit up. He immediately turned on the tap, bent down, tilted his head, and brought his mouth close to it.

A thin stream of water flowed from the tap, but the stream became thinner and thinner, and then stopped completely after only a few seconds.

Moreover, the water tasted very strange, and Ouyang spat it out without hesitation.

It's better to stay thirsty than to drink unclean water, otherwise, if it causes diarrhea or other illnesses, all hope of escape will be completely lost!
Opening the cubicle, you'll find flush toilets in the stalls, but just like outside, there's no water available.

Looking up, the ventilation openings are located in the corner of the room.

Underground structures, of course, require ventilation!

Ouyang immediately had the idea of ​​climbing out through the ventilation duct. He looked around and planned to find something suitable to step on to climb up.

But that side was far from the cubicle, and there was nowhere to get support.

This little problem wasn't difficult at all. Ou Yang rushed out of the bathroom and pushed a hospital bed back. It wasn't tall enough to lay flat, so he simply stood it upright against the wall, climbed on top of it, and finally reached the ventilation opening.

Only after removing the filter did we discover that the ventilation duct had a mesh structure inside, making it impossible for even a mouse to squeeze in, let alone a living person.

Ou Yang's face turned black and his chest tightened; he almost passed out!
"I refuse to believe we can't get out!" he said fiercely, searching room by room for a way out, while also taking care of the remaining infected.

After carefully searching all the wards, Ouyang found more than a dozen bags of injection fluid, with the labels indicating what medications were mixed into them.

Each medicine had a strange name, making it impossible to tell what it was or whether it was even safe to drink.

There were also a few bags without labels, but Ouyang wasn't sure if the labels had fallen off or if the medicine hadn't been mixed properly.

Apart from that, there were some clothes and a huge amount of daily necessities, which were of no use whatsoever for escaping.

After going around in circles, I finally had to return to where I started.
The stairs definitely wouldn't open, and although the elevator wasn't responding, he knew how to climb elevator shafts!

Prying open elevator doors is dangerous, but at this moment, who cares about that?

Well, the elevator in the research institute is also unusual. It's impossible to open it with just your bare hands. It wasn't until Ouyang found a stainless steel tray that the elevator door was finally opened.

Then, Ouyang was shocked to see that the elevator car was on this floor, and inside the car was a body with a bullet wound in the chest, wearing full protective gear.

On the wall, amidst the congealed bloodstains, were several bullet holes.

Ou Yang paused for a moment, silently apologized, and stepped into the elevator. The possibility of him being wise was extremely small, but he still pressed all the floor buttons.

As expected, the elevator car remained completely still.

Pressing the emergency call button again, I unexpectedly heard a hissing sound.

Ouyang perked up and quickly went over: "Hello, is anyone there? Can anyone hear me? Can anyone hear me—" No matter how he called out, there was no response from the other end.

With a helpless sigh, Ou Yang looked up at the ceiling and left the elevator. A short while later, he returned with a hospital bed. He stepped onto the bed and groped around for a while before quickly opening a cover. With a light jump, he grabbed the edge, climbed onto the top of the car, and officially entered the elevator shaft.

Ouyang was full of anticipation: all I had to do was climb up the cable... wait, where's my cable? Where did my thick cable go?

He entered the elevator shaft looking completely bewildered, hardly believing his eyes!

Upon closer inspection, it turns out that the research used an elevator without cables!

The car is equipped with motors and gears on both sides. The gears mesh with the trapezoidal teeth embedded in the wall, which drives the gears to climb up and down.

Ou Yang had heard of cableless elevators, but this was the first time he had ever seen one in person.

But he really didn't want to encounter this thing in this godforsaken place!

He beat his chest in grief and indignation: "God, are you playing a trick on me?"

Looking up, all I could see was darkness; I couldn't see the wellhead, but I could vaguely make out the elevator door on the floor above.

There is a height difference of about two floors between Ouyang's current location and the floor slab between the two floors.

Dejected, Ou Yang thought: If all else fails, I'll just climb to the next floor and figure out a solution later!
But this elevator shaft has no ladder or other similar structure, so there's no way to climb up!

Ouyang tried to use the ladder teeth to climb, but he found that the upper surface of the ladder teeth was not horizontal, but slightly tilted downwards, and his palm slid straight down when he put it on!

He kept flashing through his mind the items he had, trying to figure out which one could help him climb up, but after thinking it over, the only thing he could do was tear up the bed sheets and curtains and tie them into a rope.

But we can't find a fixed spot, and even with ropes, we still can't climb up!

Ou Yang had a headache and couldn't help but feel a little discouraged: Why is it so difficult to get out?

But if we don't go out, we'll just be waiting to die.

After leaving the elevator shaft and returning to the car, Ou Yang silently apologized and began searching through the corpse. He then touched a set of keys and a work badge that might be related to opening the access control.

Touching a corpse is never a pleasant experience, and this body had already begun to decompose; even through the protective suit, one could smell the pungent stench of decay.

Also because the body was already decomposed, Ouyang gave up the idea of ​​removing the protective suit.

After much deliberation, the only thing that could be used was a hospital bed, but the problem was that the bed was too big to fit through the exit on the elevator car.

Ouyang stood on the bed again, intending to widen the exit, but without disassembly tools, he had nowhere to start.

He wasn't a rigid person. Since he couldn't dismantle the elevator car, he immediately changed his approach: if he couldn't dismantle the elevator car, couldn't he at least dismantle the hospital bed?

Upon closer inspection, although the hospital bed used some welded parts, the main components were connected with bolts and nuts.

Ou Yang's eyes lit up, and he immediately began to disassemble the bed.

However, the quality of the hospital bed was exceptionally good. From one end of the bed to the other, only two screws could be turned by hand.

Ou Yang started having a headache again, so he decided not to think too much about it and first disassembled the moving parts such as the headboard and footboard. Then, with the thought of trying anything, he used injection fluid to wet the curtains that had been torn into strips, and then wrapped them around the bolts and corresponding nuts in the direction of twisting. Finally, he pulled hard from both sides, and the wet strips of cloth were wrapped tighter and tighter. Then suddenly, he felt a lightness and the tight nuts came loose!
(End of this chapter)