Darkness enveloped Haigu City.
The Shi'an Class C investigation team, the eighth special team, is heading towards the old city of Shi'an. Their destination was in the abandoned sewers of the old city.
Lao Bin was quite resistant to this at first, but to this day, he rushes more happily than anyone else - after two major tasks: "investigating the mysterious blockage of the sewer in the community" and "investigating the noise of the sewer cover in the middle of the night", Dr. Lao Bin successfully discovered something from the sewer. A new species of hallucinogenic mold has been discovered, and the paper will be published soon.
Fungal research is a blue ocean, and Dr. Lao Bin is so ambitious that he wants to live in the Shi'an sewer. What they expected came true. They had just received the mission of "Giant Centipede Surprised in the Sewers of the Old City", and Lao Bin was in a very good mood.
It would be nice to discover a few more new species of mold. The last new species of hallucinogens still has certain medicinal value. Lao Bin has already seen a future where his papers will be cited crazily.
"I haven't seen much of Group Nine recently," said his partner Tan Lele.
In the past six months, this corpse keeper has not gained much benefit. However, Tan Lele had a good attitude, and the task was safe and uneventful, so he followed Lao Bin to fool around.
Lao Bin: "Group Nine has been promoted to Level B, and the missions we will take will definitely be different."
But before, the mission of Group Nine seemed to be far different from theirs - that group of people seemed to be cursed, always encountering real major events. Zhong Cheng said he was such a promising scientific researcher. He had been employed for so long that he had no time to write a thesis, so he could only follow the strange and chaotic things every day.
"Yes, my uncle said that Xiao Zhong is dead, but I saw him in the company last time." Tan Lele lowered his voice, "As expected of a Grade B person, he is really mysterious."
Those little things suddenly exploded, causing violent winds to spread. Half of the corpse's jaws were blown off, and the corpse centipede roared violently.
Suddenly, the surface of the corpse mass surged twice, and a few broken arms and legs poked out, condensing into a pair of corpse jaws. The corpse jaws opened and closed, pulling out strands of mucus.
Residents walking nearby, men and women going out in the evening, office workers having a late-night snack after get off work, and drivers and workers coming and going... People from all walks of life will crowd this warm little shop. The temperature has been getting lower recently, so the Malatang business should be even more prosperous.
Only Lao Bin is still eating Malatang in Xilihulu.
Not long after the three of them left the Malatang shop, they heard a crushing sound of flesh and blood being squeezed. Then there was a loud noise, flames shot into the sky, and sand and mud fell like hail.
However, at the moment, there was only one table of people in the store - a table of sturdy workers sitting in the corner, eating like a gourd. Under the warm light, the scent is still the same, but the whole store looks very deserted.
"Everyone, go! Everyone, go!" a female voice boomed.
The whole mass of flesh and blood was like a red wine cork, blocking the door tightly, preventing anyone from seeing more. Who knows how big this thing is behind the door frame.
The workers added a plate of fried tenderloin and chatted quietly over the beer.
Seeing that the corpse mass was disturbed, Tan Lele stiffened and backed away. Eight groups of two and one Xu Fang quietly retreated to the back door, and then fled together.
"Well, when it gets dark recently, not many people come." Xu Fang, the proprietress, has lost a little weight.
There is a jewelry shelf next to the cashier, with cute fruit and vegetable amulets hanging on it. It looks like they are from a ghost market. A price sign saying "66 yuan/piece, 100 yuan for 2 pieces" hangs high on the shelf, dangling lonely.
"right."
Lao Bin followed Xu Fang's fingers and saw that the place where the God of Wealth originally stood was replaced by a portrait of the Great Celestial Master Zhong Yi. In the corner of the counter, defensive weapons and liquor were placed together. It was hard to tell whether they were intended to deal with evil objects or people.
There were no guests, so the night traveler simply pulled up a stool and sat down next to Lao Bin. She opened a few cans of soda to herself and pushed them to the two of them.
Being pulled hard by Xu Fang, the group of workers barely regained consciousness and rushed to the back door in a pee. Lao Bin didn't want to run, nor did he not run. He was so anxious that he trotted on the spot: "Old Tan, you should run too!"
"Wha, what..." What the hell? ! He has never seen so many dead people in his life!
"This thing is real, take the people away!" Tan Lele shouted, biting the fingers of both hands, and immediately began to perform the technique. Under the zombie's spell, the corpse mass stayed briefly for two seconds.
At this moment, the kitchen happened to have a few takeout orders. Sister Xu put them on the table next to the door and looked at them warily.
He could see that Tan Lele's abilities were limited, and the stinky corpse gradually returned to action. Tan Lele seemed to be holding on to a wall that was destined to collapse. It didn't matter whether he retreated or not.
"Old Song, you are superstitious."
"Run!" Xu Fang shouted. She threw all the amulets at them, then activated all the spiritual weapons and threw them at the corpse indiscriminately.
"This store is okay. I didn't see that the store next door was closed." A worker next to him who had eaten a meal interjected, "My friend is doing business nearby. He just sold his shop recently and plans to specialize in takeout."
Another worker said: "Hey, why not write to that swan arm? My aunt said that nothing will happen to anyone who sees that thing. If not, go around them and get some righteousness. It’s safe to work at night.”
Xu Fang: "I'm afraid something will happen. Recently, there has been violence, acid attacks, and street fights. There has been chaos everywhere. As soon as the sun goes down, the old, weak, women, and children don't go to the streets. It's just hard for us to do business at night... Hey, I'll kill all the guys. Take it out."
"Is takeout safe?" His neighbor burped, "No - what happened the day before yesterday, someone poisoned the takeout, and several people died... The poisoner hasn't been caught yet, so the store will It was burned, and the delivery boy was also beaten to a disability..."
Sister Xu just smiled bitterly.
Two seconds later, Lao Bin almost choked to death on the spicy soup—
After that, he drunkenly looked at the tall and tall Tan Lele, the wariness in his eyes undisguised.
The car stopped in front of "Sister Xu Malatang". After all, we were going into the sewer at night. After coming out, no one would have an appetite. It was the habit of the eight groups to fill their stomachs first.
Tan Lele was about to say something when she heard a gust of wind outside. He put away the innocent smile on his face and frowned. Xu Fang even walked to the counter and put her hand on a spoon-like spiritual weapon, intentionally or unintentionally.
Tan Lele hurriedly shook his head: "No, I just want to be safe. If you want to have late night snacks, you can have late night snacks. If you want to take leave, then take leave. How miserable are the nine groups? I rarely see them in the cafeteria."
At the door of the hotel, a large mass of flesh and blood was squeezed in, shaped like a centipede's head. Countless human bodies were smashed together on that thing, each head staring with cloudy eyes, and the teeth in the mouth were black and yellow, broken, and still hung with bloodshot eyes. The corpse-like thing kept squirming, and the mucus fell to the ground, emitting an unparalleled stench.
Malice like icicles filled the air instantly. Lao Bin shook his chopsticks and the entire bowl, including soup and water, fell to the ground.
On normal days, Sister Xu Malatang is always very lively.
"Yeah." Lao Bin got out of the car and stretched.
He also saw Lao Bin not long ago. Zhong Cheng said that he and Yin Ren hurried into the company, and it seemed that nothing was wrong. Lao Bin wasn't very interested in other people's gossip, so he changed the subject directly: "Why, Lao Tan, do you also want to be promoted to the second level?"
Lao Bin's original joyful mood dimmed a bit. He smacked the delicious flavor in his mouth and his legs felt a little heavy. The scene of men, women, old and young making a fuss in the store was a little blurry in his mind.
"It's better to believe that they exist than to believe that they don't exist. I haven't heard what others say. If you don't believe in ghosts and gods, you still have to respect them..."
Tan Lele: "Where have everyone gone?"
Tan Lele suppressed her blush: "I-"
Xu Fang opened the back door and grabbed the table of workers. Seeing such an evil thing for the first time, the workers collapsed one after another, and one even burst into tears and kowtowed crazily at the thing.
The small shop that was warm and cute just now was completely destroyed. There is gas and an open flame in the kitchen of Malatang, so those things may have touched something they shouldn't have touched.
Sister Xu's face turned pale, and she instinctively rushed back a few steps - the store had been blown into ruins, and there was only a mess inside. The portrait of the Great Heavenly Master Zhong Yi slowly floated down to her feet with flames.
The corpse centipede was nowhere to be found, disappearing as suddenly as it appeared.
"Ghost! Ghost!" The worker who drank the most peed his pants and shouted at the top of his lungs. "There is a ghost, there really is a ghost...!"
He screamed incoherently, and his eyes filled with tears of fright. There was a strange kind of relaxation in his expression, as if all the recent chaos had been solved.
"Bless the Bodhisattva, bless the Buddha, bless the Jade Emperor..." He lay down on the ground and hit the soil with his forehead. "I will burn incense when I get back, and I will pay tribute when I get back... God bless me..."
Not far away, the shrill chorus of sirens of fire trucks and police cars came closer and closer.
Lao Bin stood not far from the fire. His mouth was half open, and there were bursts of sharp ringing in his ears. Other sounds became dull and heavy, as if they were separated by a film of water.
If you have knowledge and protection, it is not a dangerous mission. Shouldn't they encounter such a thing
how so
Lao Bin once believed that Haikou just had a bad atmosphere recently. Whether it was a murder or a rumor, as a fat young man who worked nine to six, Lao Bin had no sense of crisis. In his class photos, he was shown playing games and talking about love, and his life was as usual.
He even felt that the "Haigu Crisis" was an exaggeration. With the development of the Internet, it is easy for everyone to just listen to the wind and rain. Maybe this kind of thing happened more often in the past, but it was only recently that it broke out. At this moment, he truly realized that something had completely changed.
A physical evil object appeared in the city, and the evil object contained genuine human corpses. They all looked like newly dead people, and there were at least hundreds of them.
The city is no longer safe.
Thinking of the wedding house that had just paid the down payment and the life that had just entered the right track, fear crept up Lao Bin's back. He shuddered on the spot, swallowed, and walked towards the pile of ruins again.
"Brother Bin, what are you doing!" Tan Lele's head was still bleeding after being hit by the flying rubble.
"I have to, I have to see clearly." Lao Bin returned in confusion, his face covered with sweat, "That is a physical evil object, and there must be an escape route. I... I must help Shi'an catch it. If this continues, it will messy."
Lao Bin's eyes drifted past the several workers who were slumped on the ground, repeating them as if in sleep.
"It will be chaotic if this continues."
the other side.
"No." Meng Huai crossed his arms, "We can't take those two people with us in this operation."
"Qi Xin's attitude is ambiguous, but Yin Ren is a serious Shi'an employee. He is very capable. Taking him there is an extra layer of insurance." Lu Xiaohe tried his best to explain.
But she could only explain it so far.
Whether "Yin Ren is the legendary Great Celestial Master Zhong Yi" or "Yin Ren seems to be a fearful cub from the other side", there is no evidence and can easily be regarded as crazy statements. Meng Huai didn't trust them 100%, and speaking out would only cause more trouble.
They didn't even dare to make Qi Xin's identity too clear. They only said that he was a third-party consultant with some background from the other side.
Seeing that Meng Huai was indifferent, Lu Xiaohe looked at Zhong Cheng for help and said. Unexpectedly, the man just held his backpack and remained silent.
Not long ago, after learning about Shi'an's actions, Meng Huai gave his own idea - after conducting adaptive training for Shi'an and others, they divided into two groups and quietly sneaked into the white space to save people.
At present, everyone does not know the true situation of the missing persons, and it is not appropriate to use this small force to alert the enemy. So Meng Huai decided to use Lu Xiaohe's mother He Huan as the rescue target and try to rescue this confirmed target first.
"This trip was originally meant to sneak in and save people, not to compete. It's good to have strength, but the most important thing is to have a clean foundation. Qi Xin and Yin Ren's aura is more like Yuanwu, and I can't cooperate with them without any grudges. "
Meng Huai spoke sincerely.
"But I can promise you that if the person can be rescued, they can be allowed to intervene in the 'rescue' aspect."
Zhong Cheng pushed up his glasses and said, "Ms. Meng makes sense."
There was a trace of shock on Lu Xiaohe's face, while Huang Jin's face was numb and he almost rolled his eyes—among you, the person with the darkest background is this person named Zhong. Besides, Zhong Cheng said that he carried Yin Ren's blood oath. It was hard to say whether Qi Xin could find them. Yin Ren would definitely find Zhong Cheng said.
Meng Huai's small class just said that let alone blood oaths, even ordinary spiritual contracts, or even a sentence that you know and I know, are considered very important "GPS positioning functions" on the other side.
Huang Jin couldn't help but take out the photo sent before the mission. On the back of the photo, there were comments from the trio on the other side. In order to ensure that "you know and I know", these comments are also written in advance and then glued on.
[I miss my wife. Zheng Xing]
[Guitar girl! Zhong Chengfeng]
[What a lovely girl. Meng Huai]
Only the comment that Yin Ren wrote to him was vague and pointed in the distance - after the causal lamp was ready, this man was afraid of being discovered by Meng Huai and the others, so he slipped back to Qi Xin.
Damn it, Da Yuanwu looked like two middle school students dating behind their parents' backs. Huang Jin hated him and slandered him.
"That's it?" Ge Tingting puffed up his chest, "Sister Meng's team is a four-person team, and ours is a four-person team. With Brother Zhong, it shouldn't be a big problem... But when the time comes, how will we find Sister Xiaohe's mother? ?”
"You will know when the time comes." Meng Huai said.
The next day, Meng Huai took the other six people out of the room and officially started the search and rescue.
Everyone has a backpack on their back, bulging with a mixture of elements, flesh and blood. What they didn't know was that not long after they went out, the backpack Zhong Cheng mentioned was empty.
All the flesh and blood inside was eaten by Yin Ren. Yin Ren himself transformed into his true form, shrank his body, and stuffed himself into Zhong Chengshuo's backpack.
[The destination has arrived.]After the earth-shaking turbulence, Zhong Cheng said he threw his thoughts skillfully.
[What does it look like? ] Yin Ren asked curiously.
Zhong Cheng said that he would directly package the memories and hand them over to Yin Ren.
Among the colorful colors, the white mass is particularly eye-catching. It is like a tumor swallowing countless capillaries, or like a nest built by unknown insects.
Thick snow-white silk threads penetrated the tunnel, stirring up waves of twists. The originally ordered and beautiful tunnel became a mess. Countless pieces of information are floating in the air, while thousands of giant elements guard the surroundings of the "nest". They are busy patrolling, like worker bees crowded on a hive.
The nest is not as simple as a honeycomb. It has spider web-like "feet" that stick firmly in all directions. And embedded in this messy white silk thread are hundreds of round spheres the size of a stadium. White balls are scattered on the net in an orderly manner, like some kind of fruit.
The "nest" in the center of the nest presents an irregular hemisphere. It is huge, perhaps bigger than a hundred world-class football stadiums stacked on top of each other. The end of the hemisphere is hidden in the clouds and mist, and it is unknown where it leads. The exposed side of it is connected to thick and uneven milky-white hoses. They extend around like climbing vines, and finally disappear into the white vortex on the tunnel.
The distance between everyone is not close, but the pressure of this thing is close to that of a planet.
[...] Yin Ren's mind went blank for a few seconds, [This thing is a bit strange, and I didn't detect the aura of "love".]
[Well, I don’t have any special feelings either.]Zhong Cheng said throwing back his thoughts.
Yin Ren: [Those elemental objects are not very strong.]
[I agree with Meng Huai’s judgment and I won’t do anything if I can. In the first trial, the situation on the other side was unknown, so rescuing Ms. He Huan was considered a "success".]
[I understand, please be careful.] Yin Ren did not show off, but became serious.
Zhong Cheng was silent for a while: [Be careful?]
[Qi Xin mentioned this to me. She said that the initial explanation of love was to prepare some food reserves for herself to avoid getting stuck in the cracks and becoming too weak. This is consistent with our initial speculation... Now it seems that we may not be convinced.]
Yin Ren handed over the memory.
That was what Qi Xin showed him, what the "white space" looked like.
It's just a thin spider-like web with small round balls hanging on it. No matter the size or scale, they are all incomparable to the thing in front of me. There weren't many Yuanwu guarding the place, so it wasn't as bustling as it is now.
[There were many more people missing twenty-nine years ago than recently.]
Yin Ren sighed.
[But this thing is hundreds of times bigger than it was twenty-nine years ago. Brother Zhong, prepare your lamp. This exploration may be more dangerous than Meng Huai and the others imagined.]
At the same time, Meng Huai also gave instructions.
"We are now officially divided into groups. The three of us will take Fu Tianyi and Mao Wangfeng, and the four of you will go inside and look for Ms. He Huan."
"Remember, you only have twenty-four hours."
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