NABC Chapter 95 Nest
Chapter 95 Nest
There are 15 minutes left before the meeting officially begins.
In the conference room on the sixth floor, in addition to all the members of the security department, Wei Yan, the hotel's acting manager, also came to the conference room.
One of the survivors with the least injuries from the search team attended the meeting as the representative to report on the entire incident.
No one spoke in the entire conference room; everyone waited quietly for the meeting to begin.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the meeting room became heavy.
Finally, three minutes before the meeting was scheduled to begin, Wang Xiao, who had changed his clothes, strode into the conference room carrying his 'Swift Shadow' combat suit and a bag of documents.
Upon seeing Wang Xiao, everyone stood up and bowed.
"Boss."
Wang Xiao calmly said, "Sit down."
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Wang Xiao continued, "This meeting is rather special. I'm sure you've all heard some of the comments about the search team this morning."
Although I'm very reluctant to admit it, this is the truth.
This is also the first time since our Peace Hotel was established that an employee has died while on duty.
So, in order to find out the cause of this, let's proceed with...
Just as Wang Xiao was about to have the survivor from the search team explain the situation, the communicator that Wang Xiao had placed aside suddenly rang.
Feng Wan's voice came over: "Boss, Xiong Sanzhuang wants to apply to attend this meeting."
Upon hearing this, Wang Xiao picked up the communicator and said in a deep voice, "Give the communicator to Xiong Sanzhuang."
After a moment, Xiong Sanzhuang's voice came through the communicator.
"Boss..."
"Have you thought it through? If I see you still acting like that, you can quit your job at the hotel."
After a moment of silence, Xiong Sanzhuang's tone suddenly became firm as he said, "Please give me another chance."
Wang Xiao replied, "Come up to the conference room on the sixth floor."
"Yes."
While Xiong Sanzhuang went upstairs, Wang Xiao stood at the head of the long table and spread out a hand-drawn map of the area near the Chenghua District Power Maintenance Center in front of everyone.
Although the overall drawing is not very detailed, some of the more prominent buildings have been marked with special symbols.
When people see the actual object, they can immediately understand their location in the area based on the reference points.
"Thump! Thump! Thump"
Hearing the knocking on the conference room door, Wang Xiao said, "Come in."
As the conference room door opened, Xiong Sanzhuang walked in, his eyes somewhat red. Although he still looked tired, he was much better than when he first returned to the hotel.
At least for now, I'm still a man.
As soon as he entered, Xiong Sanzhuang's eyes darted around, not daring to look directly at Wang Xiao. Wang Xiao also remained silent, just quietly watching him.
Only after Wei Yan led Xiong Sanzhuang to a seat did Xiong Sanzhuang dare to look directly at Wang Xiao and call out in a low voice, "Boss."
Wang Xiao said, "Remember what I said? I hoped that when I saw you again at the hotel, you would be able to fully explain the entire operation. Now, can you?"
When asked by Wang Xiao, Xiong Sanzhuang hesitated for a moment, then nodded vigorously and said, "I can."
"Then let's begin. I need to know everything that happened in your operation yesterday, not a single word!"
"Liu Shan, you can fill in the details for your captain."
"Okay, boss."
Liu Shan was one of the survivors of the search team.
Xiong Sanzhuang took a deep breath, stood up and said, "Then I'll begin."
Yesterday, after welcoming the new security personnel to the hotel, we set off for the Chenghua District Power Maintenance Center at around 10:00 AM as planned.
The process of clearing out the zombies along the way went relatively smoothly, without encountering any major obstacles.
Around 1 p.m., we arrived at the Chenghua District Power Maintenance Center.
Upon arrival, following the blueprints provided by the electrician from the Yinghua Hotel, we found several usable generators in the repair shop.
Xiong Sanzhuang paused, his voice becoming even lower: "Everything went smoothly during the time we found the generator..."
The problem arose when we had finished collecting the model and information of the power generation equipment and were preparing to leave.
The guards suddenly discovered a door had appeared out of nowhere on a nearby street.
door?
Wang Xiao asked, "What kind of door?"
Xiong Sanzhuang was stunned for a moment, then said, "It's about three meters high and two meters wide, with glowing, twisted patterns on the edges. The insects crawled out from those doors."
After saying that, Xiong Sanzhuang blurted out, "Boss, you, didn't you see it?"
Wang Xiao's expression turned slightly grim as he said, "When I arrived, I didn't see the door you mentioned at all..."
Xiong Sanzhuang exclaimed, "How could this be! There are so many doors, how could there be none!"
For a moment, everyone looked at the other survivor, Liu Shan.
Xue Wu asked, "You saw the door too?"
Liu Shan nodded excitedly, "Yes! I went with Brother Xiong! I swear on my life, everything Brother Xiong said is true!"
These words sparked a quiet discussion among the others in the meeting room.
Wang Xiao remained silent.
He now seemed to understand how these abyssal creatures came into this world.
The door might be the crack mentioned in the process of unraveling the information.
This door seems to restrict not only the level of the creatures that can pass through, but also the time limit.
This also explains why he didn't see the door when he arrived.
Therefore, Xiong Sanzhuang and Zhao Shan were most likely not lying; they really did see these abyssal fissures, which we'll tentatively call "doors."
Wang Xiao tapped the table lightly and said, "Wei Yan, after the meeting, gather some information about the door and contact the Qin Group."
Wei Yan adjusted his glasses, wrote the matter down in his notebook, and replied, "Yes."
The Qin Group recently planned to expand into the city center, and if there really is a gate, they should be more likely to receive the news than other survivors.
After assigning the tasks to the gatekeeper, Wang Xiao looked at Xiong Sanzhuang and said, "Continue, tell me everything you've seen and encountered."
Seeing that Wang Xiao was willing to believe him, Xiong Sanzhuang continued, "Those insects did not take any immediate action after they came out of the door."
Once a zombie heard the noise and approached them, the insects, as if receiving some kind of command, began to rush towards the zombie.
They tore through the zombies' skin, burrowed into their bodies, and soon the zombies began to undergo visible changes, as if they had been parasitized.
The head, limbs, body, and the entire body underwent insect-like changes.
Upon hearing that zombies could be parasitized by insects, everyone present, except for the two members of the search team and Wang Xiao, wore an expression of disbelief.
They hadn't even figured out the existence of the door when they received the shocking news that a worm could parasitize zombies.
Xue Wu asked, "You said that the parasitized zombies undergo insect-like changes. What exactly are those changes like? Could you describe them in detail?"
Xiong Sanzhuang looked at Xue Wudao and said, "They will grow some insect-like features such as carapaces, compound eyes, and insect limbs."
For example, the eyes of a fly, the forelimbs of a mantis, and so on.
Almost every one of them changes differently, and some can even maintain a human-like physique while undergoing these changes.
Speaking of this, Xiong Sanzhuang couldn't help but think of the insect-like zombie that even he found difficult to deal with.
Wei Yan raised an eyebrow and asked, "Could it be an alien?"
Wang Xiao continued, "Calling them aliens is an understatement. These insects that came from the door are far more disgusting than you can imagine."
The insect-infested zombies are far more ferocious, agile, and troublesome than ordinary zombies, whether in terms of speed or strength.
If you cannot kill the parasites inside the organisms they infest at the same time as decapitating them, the organisms they infest will regenerate in a very short time.
Furthermore, they possess a certain evolutionary ability, enabling them to significantly shorten this evolutionary time through feeding.
After hearing Wang Xiao's description, everyone was immediately startled.
If zombies don't have a fatal weakness, then things are going to get very bad.
Especially those mutated zombies.
Mutant zombies are already difficult to deal with, and without their weaknesses, even those with special abilities would probably not know where to begin.
Just as everyone was praying that the mutated zombies wouldn't be parasitized, Xiong Sanzhuang's next words completely made everyone uneasy.
"During our evacuation, in addition to seeing ordinary zombies parasitized, we also saw mutated zombies..."
The entire conference room fell into complete silence.
Just as everyone was at a loss for what to do, Wang Xiao frowned and asked, "When you first discovered them, how many black insects were there?"
"There should be at least a hundred of them near the power center alone."
Xiong Sanzhuang tried hard to recall, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Later, as the doors kept opening, the number of them also increased. We were in such a hurry to evacuate that we didn't have time to observe them at all."
Liu Shan, who was standing nearby, added, "Boss, I don't know if it's just my imagination, but I feel like there's some kind of commander among those insects."
Wang Xiao asked, "How did you figure that out?"
Liu Shan replied, "During our evacuation, if we encounter even one worm-like zombie, we will inevitably be surrounded and intercepted by worm-like zombies from other places."
It's as if all our information has been shared by these insects through some means.
After listening to Liu Shan's speech, Wei Yan almost blurted out, "Wait, isn't this the operation of the nest?"
Upon hearing Wei Yan's words, Wang Xiao looked at the map on the table and suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
If it really is a nest... then everything is in danger.