Paris, subway station entrance.
In front of Lin Yi was a motionless escalator leading into the dark underground, and the steps were covered with bloodstains.
Following the usual horror tropes.
He should immediately encounter those extremely bizarre things and experience some supernatural phenomenon.
Those entities lurking in the shadows are waiting to devour any intruder—
Every last one of them!
"Don't scare me like that, boss!" Da Chuan anxiously stared into the darkness, his forehead already drenched in sweat.
He had heard many horror stories about the subway while at the Louvre, and shadows had already formed in his heart.
"Stop being so jumpy. Look at you, built like a bear. You'll be perfect as a meat shield at the back. While the monsters are biting you, we'll have enough time to escape."
"Boss! I—"
"Solomon, take the lead."
"Yes, boss!"
As the light from skills activation flickered, Solomon transformed into a stone man.
He began to cautiously walk along the escalator towards the subway platform.
He wore a headlamp on his forehead and chest, as did the others.
A few people held a flashlight in each hand to illuminate the road for the rest of the team.
When the last team member stepped onto the escalator, the already terrified Da Chuan clambered onto it almost in a frantic crawl.
Inside the subway station.
"This smell!" A soldier covered his mouth and nose, stumbling back. "It's like the stench of rotting flesh mixed with rust..."
As soon as the team descended into the subway station, they were immediately enveloped by the intense stench of decay.
The empty platform was eerily silent, with no sign of the expected zombie horde. This abnormal calm only made their nerves tighter.
If there were dozens of zombies below, they could just kill them and be done with it.
But now, they had to remain vigilant constantly, worried about something terrifying suddenly jumping out.
"Melanie, how's the scan?"
"Sorry, boss... I can only see 10 to 20 meters ahead from the nearest light source. Night vision mode doesn't work in absolute darkness."
After inspecting the subway station, the team didn't find enemies but found many signs of enemy presence…
Over a hundred skeletons gnawed to the bone, marked with rodent-like teeth marks, the scraps of decayed flesh glistening under the light.
The stench was so overpowering that the warriors' eyes flowed with tears.
Fortunately, Lin Yi found dozens of gas masks when looting that pharmaceutical company.
Once the soldiers put them on, they could finally breathe normally.
The design of the Paris subway is dual-track parallel.
So, the military jeep could perfectly and steadily drive along the tracks.
Mechanic Louis, this time you really outdid yourself!
He reinforced the wheels, installed floodlights on the vehicle, and equipped it with a small gasoline generator to power the military vehicle.
In addition, there were some seemingly unlikely features to come in handy.
For instance, an air filtration system!
Lin Yi sent that group of elated soldiers back to the shelter, while he, Xiao Chuan, and Solomon boarded the military jeep.
"This air filtration system is a lifesaver!"
Lin Yi said, taking off his gas mask and breathing in the fresh air deeply.
"I thought I was going to die..." Da Chuan also muttered, removing his medical mask and gasping for air.
The current setup is—
Xiao is the archer, with good eyesight, responsible for scouting, Solomon is the driver, and Da Chuan, with a pale face, blocks the car door with his body, ready to act as a meat shield at any time.
As for Lin Yi, he acts as the trump card to rescue the situation, ready to support at any moment.
The floodlights illuminated the tunnels before and behind the vehicle. While the effect wasn't ideal, they still allowed easy identification of enemies within 20 to 30 meters of the jeep.
The jeep drove along the tracks, its engine quietly roaring, occasionally crushing the scattered bones in the tunnel...
Inside the vehicle was also quiet.
Except for the calm boss, the others' pupils slightly contracted in the darkness, staring at the road ahead, waiting for trouble to appear.
This anticipation is both exhausting and nerve-wracking!
But one minute passed, then two, five, ten, and trouble still did not appear.
The only thing they had to do was stare into the darkness, waiting for some bizarre entity to jump out.
Then, um, swallow them all...
Lin Yi was quite bored, attempting to pass the time and break the silence, he thoughtfully stroked his chin and spoke.
"Xiaochuan, have you and Melanie reconciled?"
"No, boss, she doesn't really talk to me," Xiaochuan said gloomily and helplessly, "I don't know how to talk to her..."
"Melanie, what do you think, how should Xiaochuan talk to you, how to coax you so that you'd be satisfied?"
"Boss! Now is not the time to discuss this!"
The voice of the black girl was full of anger, annoyed by Lin Yi's inopportune question.
But Lin Yi was intrigued!
He leaned back comfortably in his chair.
"Hahaha, I understand, you girls like to play this game,
making men unable to guess your minds, but I can unfortunately say that these little tricks simply don't work.
We men are very dim-witted in this regard unless you directly tell us what you want.
Otherwise, we will never figure it out!"
Lin Yi laughed again, having been young himself once; he had seen it all.
Melanie just snorted in response.
The conversation ended here, and Lin Yi turned his attention to the always-panicked Da Chuan.
"Da Chuan, tell me, what horror stories about the subway have you heard?"
"They say the Spider King lives down here..."
As Da Chuan trembled while recounting, the jeep continued to travel through the tunnel. Aside from a few straggling zombies, nothing too frightening appeared for the time being.
Except for one zombie's intestines, dragging on the ground, crushed into paste by the wheels.
Da Chuan told Lin Yi many of the stories he remembered about the subway.
There were many stories, but most were extremely absurd. If the "Weird Tales" publisher was still around, these stories would have been front-page news.
The more Da Chuan spoke, the more frightened he became, and the more frightened he was, the more he spoke, his face already turning deathly pale and bloodless.
Ten minutes later.
At one of the subway stations, they found a small group of zombies, but when the jeep passed, the zombies could only roar helplessly,
with a few particularly stubborn ones jumping onto the tracks and beginning to clumsily chase the vehicle.
Fifteen minutes later, the military jeep drove past another platform, but there was a large group of zombies.
Xiaochuan shot arrows, his compound bow humming as it pierced through several of the zombies around the car, but this seemed to provoke the other zombies.
Many zombies immediately began pursuing.
There were no mutated ones among these zombies, so the military jeep quickly left these pursuers behind.
Twenty minutes later.
The jeep could go no further.
According to Solomon's assessment, there were at least four trains crashed together here, blocking the tunnel with wreckage, making it completely impassable.
Solomon suggested, "Should we return to the platform and finish the rest of the journey on foot?"...
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