0p0 Chapter 347 Lakeview Village (Part 9)
Chapter 347 Lakeview Village (Part 9)
Chapter 347 Lakeview Village (Part )
[Novelist: Wow, so many zombies?]
[Entomologist: The number of ghouls depends entirely on how many of Campbell's coworkers he kills.]
[Explorer: To be precise, the bodies that were neither incinerated nor missing limbs during the mining accident, and that were left unclaimed, were dumped at the bottom of the mine and ended up like this.]
[Mercenary: That means the number of people you killed far exceeds the number of ghouls.]
The agents looked at the ghouls that continued to advance like a tide, and their faces were filled with difficulty. Although the ghouls' lethality was not high, the astonishing number still made it difficult for the agents to deal with them.
"It's a biohazard..."
"If only grenades could be used, these things would have been blown up long ago."
"Let's find a way to open a passage and escape first."
The three agents began a straight escape, using their pistols to knock down the ghouls that blocked their way, and then fled to another mine before they could recover.
What surprised them was that after they entered the mine, the zombies retreated, as if they were afraid to go deeper.
[Novelist: This is where you blew them up, right?]
[Surveyor: They deserve it.]
[Entomologist: I saw a colony of poisonous ants. Looks like these three are in trouble again.]
[Composer: At least no one will die.]
Sure enough, before the three agents could catch their breath, one of them yelled, "Something's crawling up my leg!"
The agent lifted up his trouser legs and saw some large purple ants crawling on his legs.
"it hurts!"
"Did any of you bring any anthelmintics?"
The number of poisonous ants was small, but they still caused a lot of trouble for the agents. Although the ants were not very poisonous, the agents still felt sore and painful in their legs, and their legs were already blue and purple from the bites of the ants.
"I've had enough of this damn place. Not only are there mosquitoes outside, but there are also these ants inside."
"What are those strange zombies? There can't be someone doing biochemical experiments in there."
"This mine was closed a long time ago. Judging from the number of zombies, if they wanted to build a laboratory of this scale, they must have started construction before the mine was abandoned."
"However, the information says that after the mining disaster, this place gradually became deserted, and the new mine owner directly closed it after taking over."
"Well, let's report all this to Mr. Akai."
The agents left the mine and happened to meet Conan and Darren who wanted to come over to check the situation.
Conan looked at the three agents with a puzzled look on his face: "Uncles, why are you here?"
"It's Conan, don't mention it, look at the trouble we've suffered since we came here to search." One of the detectives rolled up his trouser legs to let Conan see the swollen wounds.
Darren leaned over, "Wow, you guys got bit by ants? Darren, here's some ointment to help relieve the pain of insect bites."
Darren handed over a box of ointment. After thanking the agents, they applied the ointment on the wound, and it really didn't hurt as much.
"Uncles, have you found anything in the mine?" Conan asked.
So the three agents told Conan everything about their encounter with the zombies and the poisonous ant swarm.
Conan was shocked: "Impossible! Who would conduct such a biochemical experiment in an abandoned mine?"
"It's true. We saw those miners, who looked like zombies, rushing towards us, and we could only shoot back..."
Conan, who knew about the potion in the Orletis Manor, keenly noticed that something was wrong. According to the detectives, the zombies stopped chasing when they reached a mine, and there was no movement after that, which was very suspicious.
"I want to go into the mine and take a look." Conan put forward his idea.
This scared the three agents: "Come on, Conan, even if you have good equipment, what can you do when you encounter those monsters?"
"Darren, please give me some of the insect repellent ointment."
"it is good."
It seems that Conan is determined to go down the mine to find out what's going on. The three agents can only pray silently that nothing big will go wrong and take care of Darren who is eating jelly at the side.
Conan put away his scooter, took out an air-filtering mask from his arms and put it on, then turned on the flashlight and slowly walked deeper into the mine.
"Sure enough, it's just as I guessed." Conan exclaimed as he shone his flashlight on the green mushrooms growing on both sides of the mine tunnel. He took out his collecting tools and collected some mushrooms, ready to take them back for Haibara to study.
Conan's guess is that what the agents saw were not real monsters, but hallucinations caused by the oxygen-deficient environment of the mine and the effects of these fungal spores.
These fungi grow on both sides of the mine tunnel, and their spores will affect people passing by, but in the mine in front, the ants regard these fungi as food, so as soon as the agents arrive there, the hallucinations gradually disappear.
It seems that it has been sealed for too long, and some strange species have evolved. Conan avoided the area where the ants were densely packed and turned to leave the mine.
[Explorer: That's a pretty good analysis, but it's a shame he didn't go deeper and see the big eye.]
[Novelist: If he really saw it, he would probably doubt you.]
[Reporter: I will send them some of my past “reports” later.]
[Entomologist: Just be careful not to get caught by the FBI.]
When Conan came out of the mine, he saw Darren playing the four-sided dice with three agents. After a while, Darren took out a twenty-sided dice, followed by an amethyst-like mineral, a golden puzzle piece without any image drawn on it, and a light bulb that could glow even without being plugged in.
The detective standing by was still sighing: "Children's toys nowadays are really bizarre."
"This is cool in the summer, very comfortable." Darren took out a hexagonal prism-shaped object. It was one of her personal belongings, the ice crystal. Another mask that could be worn on the face "called" her and she didn't bring it with her.
One agent held the ice crystal in his hand and exclaimed, "It's amazing that it can actually emit cold air."
"They probably added some special chemical to it, just like a simple ice maker."
Conan ran over and told the detectives a reasonable explanation for the appearance of zombie phantoms in the mine.
"So that's how it is. We did feel some kind of mist in the air at the time. At first we thought it was dust from the ground, but it turned out to be fungal spores."
Conan looked at Darren, who was holding a bunch of small items, and asked the detectives curiously, "Do you uncles know about Darren's situation?"
"Mr. Akai told us on the intercom earlier to try to comfort the girl. He said that she might be hiding some important information."
"Indeed, she doesn't look simple. She has snake-like scales on her body, but she's a simple girl in character."
Conan said: "If you want to ask for information, leave it to me. After all, I should be considered a playmate in her eyes."
Then Conan went up to Darren who was picking up the puzzle pieces scattered on the ground.