Chapter 348 The Most Needed Thing
At 6:30 in the afternoon, the sky was dim.
In the southern part of the city, near the suburbs, in an abandoned house.
Su Xia cooked a simple pot of vegetable and lean meat porridge, simmering it over low heat, stirring it slowly, and the aroma was fragrant.
No matter how good the medicine is, it cannot compare to the comfort that a bowl of hot porridge brings to the body.
The warmth brought by the flickering fire made this shabby little house less cold, adding a bit of human breath and driving away the chill of hell.
“Gurgle gurgle…”
The vegetable porridge rolled in the pot, bubbling and emitting bursts of fragrant and warm white mist.
Su Xia took a spoonful from the pot to taste it and felt that it tasted good, which showed that her cooking skills were excellent.
Then he took out a small bowl, made a bowl for Su Qi, and said to her: "Try it."
"Thanks."
Su Qi was wrapped in a thick plush blanket, sitting by the fire. Clear traces of tears could still be seen on her face, but her complexion had become rosier and not as pale as before.
The flickering firelight reflected in her eyes, driving away the emptiness in their depths.
The baby in her belly was about eight months old. It was more obvious when she was sitting than when she was lying down, and her belly was bulging.
This child, like Li Qian's daughter, is a posthumous child.
Unlike the rest of the family members of the Old North Wind organization, Su Qi was more aware of what her husband Zeng Gong had done, and knew what her husband's disappearance meant.
She was very strong and silently endured the sadness and pain brought by her husband's death, and planned to give birth to the child .
But before the child was born, she encountered danger.
Su Xia sat opposite her and asked patiently: "Tell me what happened."
"good……"
Suki responded softly, her voice a little hoarse.
She held the hot porridge in her hand, quietly looking at the flickering firelight in front of her, a little absent-minded, as if she was lost in some memories.
About half a minute later, she said, "That happened half a month ago."
She had already learned the current time from Su Xia.
Then she slowly narrated the story, telling about how she was kidnapped.
At that time, she was working in a processing plant in the south of the city, doing simple packaging work and the money she earned was enough for her own use.
But the factory owner saw that she was seven or eight months pregnant and did not dare to let her continue working in the crowded and noisy factory. Fearing that something might happen, he let her go back to rest and promised to pay her the minimum wage for the next few months.
But she felt that she could still work, and after being persuaded by her boss to go home, she planned to find a simple part-time job to earn more money to supplement the family income.
After all, children are money-eating beasts, and they will definitely need a lot of money in the future, so the more money they can earn, the better.
Later, she saw a suitable job on a job advertisement on the street and called the number on the advertisement.
"What kind of job?" Su Xia asked.
"Guarding the cemetery, the hours are flexible, and the price is reasonable." Su Qi replied softly.
"It's fake. Many people are rushing to do this kind of job. There is no need to post advertisements." Su Xia made a direct judgment.
There are similar advertisements on Earth, all with low requirements and high salaries. Anyone with a little experience can tell that something is wrong.
Those recruitment advertisements are basically designed to defraud people of a few hundred dollars for "deposits" or "physical examination fees." Many young people who have just entered society have been deceived.
This type of advertisement is particularly common in many new first-tier or second-tier cities that do not have pillar industries.
But this world is more dangerous than the one on Earth, and cheating people out of money is considered a good thing.
If you are not careful, you may lose your life.
During the phone call, the other party asked about Su Qi's specific situation and learned that Su Qi was pregnant. He then gave her an address and asked her to go there to register.
But when Su Qi arrived at the place the other party mentioned, she found that there was only a dilapidated factory area.
The factory had been abandoned long ago and there was no cemetery nearby.
What was waiting for her was only a van and several kidnappers dressed in black.
"They had guns in their hands and threatened me to get in the car." Su Qi softly recounted the situation at the time, "After I got in, they blindfolded me."
Perhaps in order to ensure the health of the fetus in her belly, the other party did not use any drugs on her, but simply blocked her perception.
Then the van started, carrying her to an unknown destination.
Suki didn't know how long she had been in the car, but she felt it was more than an hour.
When the vehicle stopped, the men took her out and removed the cloth covering her eyes.
She found herself in a windowless space, surrounded by a dark grey, with the pungent smell of medicine floating in the air.
"What's that smell?" Su Xia asked.
"I don't know. I don't quite understand." Su Qi shook her head slightly.
"Was it alcohol?"
"No, I've smelled the smell of alcohol, and it's different from that place."
"What about this?"
Su Xia took out a small bottle of coal phenol soap solution, sprayed it from a distance, and asked if this was the smell.
But Su Qi still couldn't tell them apart, and they didn't seem similar.
She is just an ordinary person, not a researcher who has worked in a laboratory or biological factory for a long time, and is not sensitive to the smell of various potions and solutions.
Su Xia didn't have much to do about this. She couldn't let the pregnant woman try the smell of various chemicals one by one.
He just wanted to determine the location of that place, there must be other ways.
"What happens next? What are the characteristics of that place?" Su Xia asked.
"There is blood on the ground, and someone is mopping up the blood..."
Su Qi is a very strong woman. When she recounted her experience, a trace of pain flashed in her eyes, but she still endured the discomfort and continued to tell the story.
The place was very dark, and in addition to that peculiar pungent smell, the air was also filled with a strong smell of blood and a disgusting stench of decay.
There were rusty old chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, the light was dim and could not illuminate the entire space.
Just in the illuminated areas, you can see a lot of bloodstains.
There are a large number of separate cages on both sides. The surfaces of those metal cages are covered with black and brown marks. I don’t know if it is rust or blood. It looks dirty.
Countless screams were heard from the darkness deep ahead, many of which were from children and women, as if countless suffering souls were struggling and wailing.
Walking in it is like going deeper into hell step by step.
"Later, they took me to a separate room and someone who looked like a doctor checked me and the baby in my belly."
The examination results were very good, both she and the baby in her belly were quite healthy.
Su Qi could see that the doctor had a satisfied expression on his face, and he waved his hand, asking the men in black to take her to a deeper place.
That dark and depressing space seemed to have no end. The further you went inside, the more screams and wails you could hear.
Those sounds echoed in my ears, making me feel terrified.
"Do you still remember what the doctor looked like?" Su Xia asked her.
"I don't remember. He looked very ordinary."
More than half a month of pain and despair penetrated deep into Su Qi's soul, making it impossible for her to remember too many things.
She only remembered that as she went deeper, people gradually emerged from the depths of that dark space.
Those people were also wearing black clothes and black masks. Most of them were pushing carts carrying corpses. There was a corpse covered with white cloth on each cart.
Many white cloths were stained red with the blood from the corpses. Some of the corpses had uneven stomachs, as if they were pregnant like her.
She could even see the blood dripping from the corners of the white cloth, drop by drop, dripping all the way from warm to cold.
At that time, great fear surrounded her.
Soon, she was escorted to another dark room.
The room was very depressing, like an interrogation room. The lighting was dim and there was only a huge mirror. No one knew what it was used for.
"That's a one-way mirror," Su Xia told her. "People on the other side of the mirror can observe you, but you don't know those people are observing you."
"I guessed it."
At that time, Su Qi was like a little white mouse, feeling terrified and uneasy in the room, and could only allow people on the other side of the mirror to observe and discuss her.
And her fate depends on the thoughts of those people.
Not long after, the door opened, and several men in black came in and took her out.
"After that, they locked me in that coffin..."
What happened next is related to the landfill.
In another separate room, Su Qi's body was fixed tightly, and several people in white lab coats began to insert various needles and tubes into her body.
The process was hopeless, and she could only watch herself being sealed in the cold iron coffin little by little.
Moreover, through the communication with those people, she learned that she would be buried deep underground.
Only if the child can be born normally will she have a chance to leave the underground alive.
"In fact, those words were said to you deliberately, just to make you fearful and desperate, and then stimulate your desire to survive." Su Xia said.
"Why?" Su Qi didn't understand.
"For this."
Su Xia took out a small silver-gray oval metal can.
This jar was previously in the corner of the breeding chamber, connected to the last hose connected to the umbilical cord.
The liquid inside is believed by those people to be able to extract a substance called "fetonutrient".
Those people believe that the mother's umbilical cord provides small amounts of this substance to the fetus as it grows.
However, if the mother's desire to survive can be activated through fear and despair, she can produce a large amount of this substance in a very short period of time in order to prolong life.
After Su Xia told Su Qi about those people's ideas, she still didn't understand.
“Is…is this true?”
Fear and despair, these two emotions do exist.
The cold metal coffin cannot completely isolate the outside world.
Su Qi was lying in the coffin and could clearly feel that many things were dumped on the coffin, and there was a rumbling machine rolling over it, causing the whole coffin to tremble, and she was buried deeper and deeper.
The suffocating feeling of being buried alive made her extremely painful.
"I don't know either. That kind of substance probably doesn't exist. The things in this jar may only have a psychological comfort effect." Su Xia is still young and cannot understand those people's obsession with longevity.
But he felt that even if he entered old age and frailty, he would not resort to such extreme measures.
"You are lucky. They a relatively mild method to torture you." Su Xia said.
"Buried deep underground... is that considered gentle?"
Su Qi took a deep breath. How could such torture be called mild?
Su Xia explained: "If I'm not mistaken, those bodies covered with blood-stained white cloths you saw there might have been tortured in a cruel way. Anyway, all you have to do is activate fear."
Compared to psychological torture, physical pain can also cause fear.
Su Xia had no doubt that those people would use any means to get the so-called fetal hormone .
"So, there are many people like me who are missing?" Su Qi thought of the key point.
"Yes."
Su Xia nodded and said, "Not only pregnant women, but also growing children and teenagers are all targets. Their vigorous vitality is what those people crave."
He felt thousands of metal coffins under the landfill, but that was just one of the many ways those people tortured people.
It is conceivable that countless people are being tortured by other means.
The entire Seahorse City only has a population of several hundred thousand people, how can it withstand such a turmoil? Even if there are refugees flowing in all the time, a large number of disappearances will definitely attract some people's attention.
Even in Coral City, disappearances caused by the underground estates have been reported.
In this world, there are always some people who do not seek money or fame, and are determined to pursue a complete truth for ordinary people even when facing the threat of death.
"It's easy to bury one thing, but it's difficult to bury tens of millions of things," said Su Xia.
"Are there any other people alive in that landfill?" Su Qi held the hot porridge, a worried look on her face.
"Yes, there are many more." Su Xia answered truthfully, "They are all buried shallowly like you, like seeds buried underground, waiting for the day of harvest."
"Then we..."
"No, we can't save them now. It's easy to alert them."
It was easy for Su Xia to just save someone from the landfill.
But what about the other missing people?
The other party is hiding in deep darkness, like a quietly dormant poisonous snake, and now we don’t even know who is behind it.
If there was a chance, Su Xia would like to rescue more, but there was really no chance to rescue those from the landfill.
"The materials used to make those metal coffins are not expensive, and the price of making them is relatively low. The other party does not seem to care about the value of a coffin at all. Each time, they only take the life substances they want, and then abandon the coffin and the creatures inside in the garbage dump. And... what awaits those creatures in the coffins is a second deep burial, which is also a real burial alive."
If we can find a factory that makes this kind of coffin, can we find a breakthrough?
Su Xia thought about it, then shook her head, denying the idea.
Haima City is very large, and the other party’s factory must be hidden very secretly. We can only start from the source of material supply and investigate slowly.
If he was given enough time, he should be able to find it, but now he doesn't have much time.
"time……"
Su Xia looked at the sky outside. He could do this task, but the time and place he came were too unfortunate. It would be better if he could just move to another city.
At this moment, a prompt suddenly popped up for the task.
[Deep Buried Hell]
[Hint 1: For a better tomorrow, someone died in the cold darkness]
[Two years ago, a talented singer emerged in Haima City, and his album swept all the major charts. But just when everyone thought his star would continue to shine, he was suddenly found to have committed suicide in the basement of his home.]
【Maybe you should go to that singer’s home】
[Note: The mission map has been updated]
[Note: The mission rewards have been updated and can be redeemed after completing the mission]
On the mission map, another small red dot appeared, which was probably the singer ’s home.
Mission rewards also appeared.
Su Xia clicked to check and found that there were only two rewards in total.
The first reward is a [New Psychic Filter]. The name seems a bit like the previous [Alienation Filter], and it should also be able to purify psychic energy.
That [Alienation Filter] is very unstable and is a three-no product. The last time I was purifying the glands of insects, it broke right at the beginning of its use.
Later Su Xia had to restart it because the instructions said "restarting can solve 99% of problems."
"I hope the reward this time will be more stable, at least not a three-no product."
Su Xia thought so and clicked on the second reward. When he saw the name, his heart trembled and he almost stood up.
This reward is what he needs most right now!
【Anti-position device】
