The Man Standing at the Top of the Food Chain

Leaving aside what happened after Li Guodong and his group drove away, and let the time go back a little bit, just after Tang Cheng, Alice and Rebecca entered the villa, Tang Cheng found that although the villa looked a little scary and gloomy, But there is not much strangeness, the silent atmosphere is just like a haunted house.

Of course, the three people present are all quick-witted people, and it is difficult to become a pig teammate. We all know that since this is the second research institute of the umbrella, it must not be as simple as it seems on the surface... As long as you refer to the hive, you will not It is rare to come across the simple concealment method of the umbrella company.

"Then, let's find the secret passage separately." Tang Cheng said lightly, and then he walked up the stairs to the second floor, wandering around.

Alice and Rebecca searched on both sides of the first floor.

Twenty or ten minutes later, the three returned to the stairs on the first floor and shook their heads at each other, expressing nothing. During this period, Rebecca reported twice that she was safe through the walkie-talkie.

"It seems that the Umbrella Company has done a good job of hiding here." Alice frowned, and asked Rebecca, "Didn't your colleagues come here before, don't they have any clues?"

Rebecca shook her head, "The only news I got is that there is a very scary monster in this villa. This is the information passed by my colleague before he died. Other than that, I don't know anything about it."

Afterwards, Tang Cheng inspected the first floor for a while, and said while analyzing: "I didn't check it very carefully on the second floor, because I think the chance of hidden secret passages on the second floor is very small. After all, according to the habits of the umbrella company, Their bases are generally underground. In addition, if there are really terrifying monsters here, it is difficult to block them with this villa. Most of them are locked underground so that they cannot come out. Therefore, if even If there is nothing abnormal on the first floor, then the only suspicious thing...is the stairs."

After speaking, Tang Cheng's eyes fell on the stairs in front of him.

As a straight staircase, unlike most buildings, the staircase of this villa does not lean against the wall, but is located in the center of the hall. At the same time, its body is quite wide, which can accommodate at least five adults standing side by side.

Alice nodded, "As far as the design is concerned, this staircase is indeed quite suspicious, but we have looked for it before, and there is no hidden mechanism on the staircase."

Alice used to be the security director of the hive, and her ability in this area was obviously top-notch, so her tone was quite confident.

"Perhaps, there is no mechanism here." Tang Cheng smiled slightly. He did not doubt Alice's judgment, but he had other thoughts in his heart. While speaking, he was already holding the hands of the two women, one left and one left. Walked up the stairs, "Come on, let me show you how to pretend and fly."

The two women looked at each other, their eyes full of doubts, wondering what Tang Cheng was up to.Of course, as western women, they are more open-minded, so they don't think there is a problem, so they let Tang Cheng drag them up the stairs.

Then, when reaching the fifth step, Tang Cheng stopped.

"What's wrong?" Rebecca asked instinctively.

Tang Cheng didn't answer, but made a silent gesture.

Three seconds later, there was a click, and the stairs trembled slightly. Alice and Rebecca immediately became vigilant, but before they could react, the stairs suddenly began to sink...

Really fly!But instead of flying to the sky, fly to the ground!

Of course, to be more precise, with the activation of the "organ", the entire staircase began to descend underground.

At this time, apart from Tang Cheng who remained calm as always, Alice and Rebecca were a little frightened, because the descending speed of the stairs was so fast that it was like an elevator that was off the line. , the three of them will surely die.

Fortunately, this kind of thing did not happen. Although the second research institute had been abandoned by the Umbrella Company, the equipment was not damaged. After a while, the sharp downward trend gradually calmed down, until there was a click, and the equipment stopped. Do not move.

Judging from the situation, the stairs seemed to have descended to the bottom.

This place is located underground, without sunlight, and the gap above was closed long ago when the stairs fell, and it was obviously impossible to continue to maintain power supply in the abandoned research institute, so the three of them saw nothing but a rotten smell. The smell wafted from the front.

Even though Alice and Rebecca are very skilled, they are a little nervous under such circumstances.

The two quickly turned on the flashlights to look around, and found that there were walls behind them and on the left and right sides, and only in front of them was a passage slightly wider than the stairs.

"It seems that this is the so-called Second Research Institute." Tang Cheng said.

"How did you know about the mechanism?" Rebecca asked incredulously, and Alice also looked at him curiously. Although both of them knew that there was something wrong with the staircase, it was absolutely impossible for them to find the way down so easily. .

Tang Cheng smiled and did not hide anything, "It's actually very simple. Generally speaking, there are only two ways to open this kind of secret passage. One is to set up a mechanism like a honeycomb, and the other is to trigger it by the person himself. , since we didn't find the mechanism in the villa, it means that the mechanism does not exist, so it can only be the second type..."

Rebecca quickly had a question, "Haven't you ever thought that maybe it's because we failed to find the mechanism, not because it doesn't exist?"

"Impossible!" Tang Cheng categorically vetoed, "If there is a mechanism, I will definitely be able to find it. Since I can't find it, it means that there is no one. There is no doubt about this."

"..." The two girls were ashamed, you are too confident, right?

It was because they didn't know Tang Cheng well. Anyone who knew him a little would know that Tang Cheng's extreme way of thinking, like the second disease, was normal in his life.To put it simply, what he thinks is right must be right, and if he thinks it is wrong, even if it is right, it will become wrong.

And once what he approves deviates from the reality, then he will think: It's not my fault, it's the world's fault!

To put it nicely, Tang Cheng has [-]% confidence in himself.

To put it bluntly, he is a super psycho who is self-centered, firmly believes that the world revolves around him, and even gravity is for him. He is arrogant, arrogant and narcissistic.

but!

The most incredible thing is that Tang Cheng's paranoid and extreme way of thinking rarely makes mistakes, which also leads some people to be in awe of Tang Cheng, or, in the hearts of those people, the existence of Tang Cheng alone is Incredible enough.

"Of course, there is another more important reason." Tang Cheng didn't care about the strange eyes of the two women, but just smiled, "I wrote a novel before, and the main character was based on myself. The Mechanism Master Killer, the most commonly used is this kind of automatic trigger mechanism. The mechanism setting of the second research institute is actually a little childish. If I set it up, it can be made more refined, such as... ..."

"Okay, I don't need to explain this in detail." Afraid that Tang would start a long story, Alice quickly interrupted him. She didn't have much time left, so she didn't have time to talk nonsense.

As for Rebecca, she was startled when she heard the words machine-machine killer, and even wrote herself as a killer, and said it openly. If this was in a peaceful age, she wouldn't mind Invite Tang Cheng to drink coffee at the police station.

"Really? That's a pity." Tang Cheng sighed with regret, but stopped talking, and walked up the stairs with a flashlight.

Soon, Tang Cheng saw a bitten and incomplete corpse lying less than one meter away from the top of the stairs. The dirty clothes could vaguely tell that it was a staff member of the research institute. It has rotted and stinks, and the only remaining hand is tightly grasping the ground in front of it.

Tang Cheng took a few glances, and immediately laughed, "Haha, this guy is really unlucky. He was caught by zombies at the last moment even though he was only one meter away from the finish line. It's really pitiful."

He said it pitifully, but his expression looked very happy.

Although Alice and Rebecca wished that all the people in the Umbrella Company were dead, they didn't have such a bad taste like Tang Cheng. Looking at the corpse, they all frowned.

Because judging from the wound on the corpse, the other party was obviously not bitten by a zombie, but more like some kind of large animal.

Like... Creepers!

"Maybe soon, we will become as poor and unlucky as he is." After saying such a sentence, Alice walked forward first.

Being in the dark, even with the help of a flashlight, after all, there is only one area of ​​coverage, so it is difficult to look around, and the light source of the flashlight may also attract the enemy, which makes people feel uneasy.

"It seems that we should find the power switch first. Although I don't know if the power supply system here is still useful, but the current situation is too unfavorable for us." Rebecca suggested.

Tang Cheng didn't object, but just asked, "Do you know where the power switch is?"

"Leave this to me. The Umbrella Company has certain rules for the construction of the research institute. Although I dare not say that I fully understand it, I still need to be familiar with it. In addition, there should be some reminders in the aisle." Alice Said.

So, the job of leading the way was handed over to Alice, and as she said, the position of the power switch was indicated in some places, so the three of them felt a lot easier.

During the period, another 10 minutes passed, and Rebecca reported that she was safe by the way.

At the same time, Tang Cheng looked at the mission prompt and found that there were only four or ten minutes left before Alice's mutation time. Although the time was a bit tight, if everything went well, the antibiotics should be found before the mutation.

However, will a sub-quest with such a huge reward really go so smoothly?

The answer is obviously impossible.

A few minutes passed, and when the three of them reached a crossing, suddenly, a deep voice rang out from the surroundings, accompanied by the sound of chewing like a wild animal.

In such an environment, this sound was particularly terrifying. Alice and Rebecca quickly raised their guns, and their flashlights shone around, their eyes full of vigilance.

"Get out of the way!" At this moment, Tang Cheng suddenly yelled.

Alice and Rebecca didn't know, but they believed in Tang Cheng and retreated instinctively.

Then... bam!

In the messy light, I saw a huge monster jumping down from above, just hitting the position where the three of them were standing before.The monster's movements were very quick. After a slam, before the flashlights of the three of them came over, it immediately returned to the wall and hid. The three of them could only see its small half.

"What's that? A creeper?" Rebecca exclaimed.

"It looks like it should be... Oops, I didn't expect there to be so many creepers here." Alice said in a deep voice.

Yes, there was not only one monster just now, because the previous chewing and growling sounds did not come from the same direction, and even when the monster rushed over, there were more sounds.

If that monster is really a creeper, then they are very likely to face multiple creepers!

"Ah!" Suddenly, Rebecca exclaimed again.

"What's wrong?" Alice asked quickly.

"The walkie-talkie... broke." Rebecca said dejectedly.It turned out that at the moment of dodging just now, Rebecca accidentally fell to the ground, just in time for the walkie-talkie in her arms to fly out and smashed into pieces.

"It's bad if it's bad, as long as the person is fine." Alice breathed a sigh of relief, and said as she walked over, "Whether it's a creeper or another monster, let's continue to the power room..."

"Wait!" Before Alice could finish speaking, Tang Cheng stopped her quickly.

Alice's heart moved, and the flashlight immediately shone on Tang Cheng, and found that Tang Cheng was squatting on the floor with a serious expression on his face, as if he was listening to something.

"Run!" Ten seconds later, Tang Cheng stood up abruptly, turned around and ran back quickly while shouting.

Seeing him like this, coupled with the fact that there was a slight sound under their feet, the two also realized that something bad had happened, their expressions changed, and they turned around and ran away.

And just after the three of them ran for more than ten seconds, suddenly, the floor under their feet trembled, and then centered on the intersection, the surrounding floor split quickly, and the whole room fell down with the nearby room.

With the sound of bang, bang, and bang, all the research rooms in this area collapsed, and Tang Cheng and the other three inevitably fell down.