pjbooks Chapter 386 Miller's Sights and Hearings
Chapter 386 Miller's Sights and Hearings
Are you afraid of me?
Lin Fan's words instantly froze the smile on Miller's face.
The air seemed to freeze at that moment.
A few seconds later, Miller seemed to realize what was happening, and waved his hand with a dry laugh.
"Lin, you're joking. Why would I be afraid of you?"
You know, I have great respect for you, and it comes from the bottom of my heart.
Without you, I would have died out there long ago.
Miller spoke very sincerely, without the slightest hint of pretense.
Am I just overthinking things?
Lin Fan stared at the other person for a while, but the doubts in his heart did not dissipate; instead, they became even stronger.
He didn't ask any more questions, but simply nodded, signaling Miller to continue leading the way.
Seeing this, Mi Liao didn't say anything more.
The two walked one after the other toward the breeding area.
Along the way, Miller would nod kindly to any survivors he encountered.
And so, the two walked through several corridors and turned into the corridor leading to the breeding area.
Once they reached this point, no more survivors appeared.
At this moment, Miller, who had been walking in front, relaxed and let out a long breath.
It felt like a huge burden had been lifted off my shoulders.
This action immediately made Lin Fan, who was following behind, feel strange.
"What's wrong with you?"
Miller remained silent upon hearing this.
Instead, he turned around and looked at the surveillance cameras at both ends of the corridor.
Then he grabbed Lin Fan's arm and dragged him to a blind spot in the surveillance footage.
"Lin, something's happened."
He lowered his voice.
"I feel like something's not right about this base."
After saying that, he didn't wait for Lin Fan to ask any questions and quickly continued talking to himself.
"On the third day after you left, I suddenly noticed that many of the survivors in the base had changed."
"Although they appear normal on the surface, they start to act strangely once it gets dark."
"Strange? How so?"
Lin Fan stared at Miller with some confusion.
Miller swallowed hard, a hint of fear in his voice:
"For example, the night before last, I happened to pass by the dormitory of a mid-level staff member while I was on patrol."
"I noticed that the door wasn't closed properly, so I instinctively went in to see if anything was wrong."
"But who would have thought that when I went in, the staff in that dormitory were sleeping in bed."
"Isn't this normal?" Lin Fan frowned.
"Sleeping is normal, but do you know what? That person slept completely still, with his eyes wide open, and what's even scarier is that he didn't move at all," Miller said with a look of fear.
"Not moving at all? Could he be dead?"
"I thought he was dead too. I even went over to check and found that he wasn't breathing."
At this point, Miller's fear deepened, and he continued,
"I was terrified at the time, so I rushed over and tried to wake the other person up."
"But no matter how I called out to him, he didn't respond at all."
"Later, just when I thought he was really dead and was about to go out to call for help, the man woke up right in front of me."
As if recalling that scene again, Miller's body trembled involuntarily at this moment.
"However, this is only the beginning of the strange thing."
"You know what? After that person woke up, he actually asked me what I was doing in his room. But he didn't know anything about my question, and just said that he was sleeping."
"Is it possible that they're just sleeping soundly?"
After listening to Miller's account, Lin Fan felt a little strange, but didn't think too much about it.
"Sleeping soundly?"
Miller was taken aback, but then said something that shocked Lin Fan.
"If someone is sleeping soundly, it's somewhat understandable."
"But you know what? Ever since then, I've been secretly observing, and there's more than one person sleeping like that in the entire base."
"More than one?"
"Yes, more than one. From my observations over this period of time, it turns out that this strange way of sleeping accounts for 30% of the people in the base."
"hiss--"
Hearing Miller's words, even Lin Fan couldn't help but recall that scene.
Hundreds of people lay stiffly asleep, like corpses.
It's a bit horrifying to think about.
One or two is understandable, but what about hundreds of people...
This is seriously wrong!
"And Helen, she hasn't shown up for two days."
However, before he could say anything, Miller spoke again.
"I asked her through internal communication, and she only said that there was a major research breakthrough in the lower-level laboratory and that no one should disturb her."
"She's done this all the time, but this time... I feel it's different."
Miller poured out all the words he had been holding back in one breath.
He looked at Lin Fan, his eyes filled with helplessness and longing.
In this eerie base, Lin Fan was the only person he could think of and the only one he dared to ask for help.
Lin Fan listened quietly, his expression growing increasingly grim.
Lying there, eyes wide open, no breathing...
These descriptions instantly reminded him of the hounds he had encountered in the Black Forest.
It's not exactly the same, but it's just as eerie.
Is it...
These survivors of the nuclear power plant have been taken into custody.
Suddenly, a terrible suspicion began to rise in his mind.
But something still doesn't feel right.
The hounds were initially controlled because they lived in the Black Forest.
However, the entire nuclear power plant is not shrouded in darkness.
How did they do it?
Or is it something else?
"Besides their strange behavior, what other outrageous things have they done?" Lin Fan asked.
Hearing his question, Miller thought carefully for a moment, then shook his head:
"If you ask me that, it seems there really isn't one."
Aside from some eccentric behavior, they didn't do anything outrageous.
Furthermore, they strictly adhered to the base's rules, even... more so than before.
What kind of operation is this?
Upon hearing this answer, Lin Fan felt his brain wasn't quite working properly.
"Okay, I understand."
After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't come up with a solution, so he patted Miller on the shoulder.
"Don't tell anyone about this."
From now on, you'll pretend you know nothing, but secretly you'll need to compile a list of all people behaving abnormally.
"Also, contact Helen again later and tell her I'm here, and see how she responds."
"clear!"
Miller nodded heavily, as if he had found his pillar of support.
The two then pretended to be nonchalant and walked into the breeding area.
Through the huge glass wall, he could see the sapling inside at a glance, which hadn't changed much since he left.
Lin Fan stepped forward and carefully sensed it.
I couldn't detect any aura from it that resembled the giant tree of the Black Forest.
It looks just like an ordinary sapling.
Could it be... that I'm overthinking it?