Chapter 65: Has he been dead for more than half a month?
As Chu Bai led his team past, they saw several people lying at the entrance of the passage.
He and Chen Haohua arrived in the capital on the second day after the earthquake. At that time, the entrances and exits of the underground shelters in the capital had not yet been blocked by the earthquake. They brought all the survivors into the underground city for refuge.
After settling the survivors, he and Chen Haohua devoted themselves to rescue and reconstruction work, as well as carrying out secret missions.
He looked at everyone on the ground; each person had wounds that looked like they had been slashed with a knife, and some were missing limbs. Without exception, they were all in shock.
"Wow, the cut is so clean."
Chen Haohua squatted on the ground, observing the wounds of these people. Each wound had a neat cut, as if they were all manufactured by a machine.
Chu Bai glanced at the deep passage, his eyes darkening.
The command team split into two groups: one group went into the passage with him to check the situation, while the other group took the people to the hospital first.
Inside the passage, Xu Nan was panting heavily; he had exhausted himself today due to the excessive use of his powers.
As for Li Yi, his body was almost completely depleted. Even though he was cut in half at the waist, he didn't bleed much. There were only some specks of dark green blood on the ground.
When Chu Bai and his team arrived, Yu Miaomiao and Xu Nanwei had already left.
They only saw a green-haired man's corpse with no obvious external injuries and a hideous corpse on the ground.
The incision on the corpse was clean, but unlike the wounded outside, this corpse was oozing blackish-green blood, which was extremely eerie.
"Is this even human?"
Chen Haohua stared at the dark green blood. He had been through thick and thin, but looking at Li Yi now made him feel nauseous.
Several of the younger team members couldn't help but lean against the wall and vomit.
"Take them back first. I will report this matter to my superiors secretly. No one is allowed to discuss what happened today outside. Do you all understand?"
Chu Bai had a gut feeling that this matter was not simple. The person's bracelet indicated that he was a superhuman and belonged to the same team as the others outside. However, his green blood and the lividity on the corpse were unusual.
This type of livor mortis only appears more than half a month after death.
"yes!"
When Lu An returned to the villa, he looked exhausted and soon fell asleep on the sofa inside the tent.
The villa still showed signs of the chaos that followed the disaster.
It's not that they don't want to clean up, but rather that aftershocks, both large and small, are still occurring frequently.
Even if you clean it up, aftershocks will cause dust to rise again everywhere.
During this period, apart from going out for rescue and work, they will still live together in the living room.
As the aftershocks weakened and were unlikely to cause further collapses, the escape pods were put away.
Instead, a large tent was set up in the living room, which effectively prevented dust. Combined with Xu Nanwei's air-related abilities, the tent was as comfortable as camping in a forest.
Lu An rubbed his eyes and got up when Yu Miaomiao returned.
"The new underground well mining work has been completed, and I finally don't have to go to work anymore."
Lu An announced the good news weakly, feeling completely exhausted these past few days.
"Great! Let's have a good meal tonight to replenish our strength." As soon as she finished speaking, Yu Miaomiao's stomach rumbled loudly.
Only Xu Nanwei sat quietly to the side without saying a word. She had just gone through a great battle and was somewhat exhausted.
"What's wrong? You're not usually a chatterbox, why are you being so quiet today?"
Lu An went over and picked up the little girl, and soon she fell asleep on Lu An's shoulder.
"We ran into Li Yi," Yu Miaomiao replied softly. "He tried to kill us, but Weiwei killed him instead."
"What?" Lu An was so shocked he almost couldn't hold the little girl. The little girl noticed something was wrong and felt uncomfortable, so she adjusted her position and continued to sleep soundly.
"Why did he kill you? No, it shouldn't have been specifically targeting the two of you. Was it because we refused to join his team that he wanted to wipe us out?"
After Lu An finished explaining his guess, he found it somewhat unbelievable.
However, she felt that Li Yi's madness prevented him from thinking like a normal person.
"His ability is very strange, like the ability of some kind of mutated animal that I saw in my previous life, rather than the ability that ordinary humans would have."
Yu Miaomiao did not deny Lu An's speculation. Several times when she had contact with Li Yi, he had taken the initiative to provoke her. And everyone in the base knew that Li Yi was eliminating those who did not want to join.
"In short, things are probably not peaceful at the base lately, so we all need to be extra careful."
She also felt uneasy; perhaps Li Yi's matter was just the trigger.
Inside the hospital morgue, Chu Bai and Chen Haohua, suppressing their nausea, pulled out Li Yi's body to examine it once again.
"Brother Chu, you've looked at this over and over again more than ten times. What have you figured out? I really can't take it anymore."
"Can't we just report this and ask the base's police department to take over? Why do you insist on investigating it yourself? We're here to assist the capital's military in completing their mission, not to investigate a case. Aren't you just creating trouble for yourselves?"
After receiving a warning look from Chu Bai, Chen Haohua reluctantly shut up.
"You only know that we're here to assist with a secret mission, but you don't know the specifics of that mission. This might be the key to the mission..."
Chu Bai pointed at Li Yi, but was interrupted before he could finish speaking.
"Report: Five people were treated at the hospital, four of whom died despite resuscitation efforts, and one has been transferred to the intensive care unit."
"Okay, keep an eye on him, and report back to me as soon as he wakes up."
Chu Bai turned around and continued to examine Li Yi's body. After examination by the technical department, it was determined that the person had been dead for more than half a month, but Chu Bai clearly remembered that the body was still warm when he arrived.
Li Yi died from being cut in half at the waist, but tests also revealed that he was suffocating before his death.
Moreover, all ten of his fingers were badly mutilated, and blackish-green blood could be seen seeping out from between his fingers.
The blood tested positive for toxins, and it is almost certain that it has no relation to human blood.
The strange thing is that all of Li Yi's blood is like this, which means that this is Li Yi's own blood.
The green-haired man also died of suffocation, but he had no external injuries.
He concluded that the two deaths were caused by the same person. Now, all they need to do is wait for the person in the hospital to wake up, and then they will know who did it.
Completely baffled, he closed the morgue drawer and left with Chen Haohua.
The rescue operation in the underground city has ended, and the hospital is still overcrowded, but fortunately no new patients have been brought in. With proper planning, everything will improve.
All of this is thanks to the sufficient supply of new drugs from the research institute, which has temporarily alleviated the drug shortage.
The research institute provided Yu Miaomiao's team with the full amount of sub-crystals, and even a little more. When Yu Miaomiao saw the sub-crystal points in her bracelet, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but turn up, she had become rich overnight.
The researchers said that this was far from enough to express the base's recognition of their contributions and wanted to issue a commendation to the entire base, but Yu Miaomiao stopped them.
They don't want to be famous.
However, even if they didn't want to be famous now, they were already famous long ago.
Rumors circulated among the superpowered individuals that Yu Miaomiao's team had wiped out Li Yi's team, because many people had seen Li Yi's team follow Yu Miaomiao's team into the passage.
After that, the entire Yi Tie team was carried away by the military...