By the time Sherron and Mark returned, the sun had already set, and the city abandoned by humans was plunged into darkness. Under the influence of "telepathy", everyone naturally accepted Xie Lun's existence without feeling anything wrong at all.
At first, Xie Lun thought that the so-called car failure was just a conspiracy of the tour guide. A search of the tour guide's memory revealed that he was innocent and knew nothing about the problems with the vehicle.
The reason why they were reluctant to take out the satellite phone at first was the same as what Mark and the others asked about. They were worried about the high phone bills and were unwilling to make calls. They thought that since there were many rooms here, Mark and others could just find a room and stay overnight. Nothing will happen.
But now the tour guide's cousin is driving over. Although they have to wait for several hours, everyone doesn't have to hide here all night. That's why Mark and the others dared to spread out, play adventure games, and try to find usable parts from abandoned cars that had been turned into scrap metal.
Since there was no conspiracy, Xie Lun was too lazy to continue hanging out with these idle young people. When he was about to leave, a boy holding a DV camera came back and said to the others excitedly: "I'm over there. We found an underground passage, it seems like no one has gone in, why don’t we go take a look?”
"Underground passage? In a place like this?"
Xie Lun immediately became alert. This sounded very much like the kind of place where those young people who commit suicide often go in movies.
Xie Lun felt that as long as a person with a slightly normal mind, in this time, place and environment, after hearing such a suggestion of suicide, the first reaction would be to reject it.
But as expected, several other people, including Mark, nodded excitedly and asked the DV man to take them on an adventure.
Seeing the death-seeking expressions on these young men, Xie Lun was in a daze, wondering if they had been drugged by the Three Eyes Alliance. However, the Three Eyes Alliance does not have an underground base in Chernobyl, so we can only say that these young people are bold and lack the education of society.
However, the tour guide was obviously not interested. He held a cigarette in his mouth and said lazily: "That's the underground storage room, right? It's not interesting, it's dirty and damp, and there may be rats and snakes in it."
As soon as they heard that there were rats and snakes, the two girls among the five were immediately frightened.
Dorothy hugged Mark's arm and timidly whispered: "Since it's not interesting, let's not go, right?"
"What are you afraid of? Afraid of mice and snakes? If you're afraid of those things, you might as well be afraid of whether there are any mutants hiding underneath."
Mark laughed at his girlfriend with a deadly look on his face.
"Maybe not." The tour guide blew out a smoke ring and said quietly to the side. "It is said that during the evacuation, many people were reluctant to leave their hometown because they were attached to their homeland, so they secretly found a place to hide. It is said that this place was After several years of isolation, there are still people who have escaped from it, and no one can say whether there are still people here."
His eyes, illuminated by the light and dark of the cigarette, looked a little strange, staring at the five Marks: "It doesn't matter that there is no radiation here now, but the nuclear radiation index here was so high back then. If those people could survive, Maybe he really became a mutant because of nuclear radiation."
Mark was stared at by the tour guide with strange eyes. Dorothy even put her head into Mark's arms, not daring to raise her head to come out. The other three people also had ugly expressions, but Xie Lun was the only one who laughed secretly in his heart.
The tour guide didn't have any bad intentions, he was just worried that Mark and others would wander around and get lost if it was dark and the roads would be slippery, and they might encounter some wild animals, so in order to protect their safety, he made up such a story to scare them.
But looking at the expressions of these five people, the tour guide's purpose of telling the story was achieved.
The tour guide threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stepped on it with his foot, and said in a deep voice: "So you should stay here honestly. We walked around this building during the day. There is no sign of wild animals, so it is quite clean. And the road we left is very close, so if the corresponding car arrives, we can see it."
Having said this, what else can Mark and others say. Fortunately, the tour guide's car was fully equipped, including not only food and mineral water, but also sleeping bags and a small tent. Naturally, the tent was reserved for the two girls, and the other men had no choice but to get into sleeping bags.
only…
The tour guide was a little confused when he saw the number of sleeping bags. Before setting off, for the sake of insurance, he had clearly prepared a sleeping bag for everyone, but now why was one missing
Did the guy who wrecked the car also steal a sleeping bag
But there was no shortage of food and water, so what was the use of stealing a sleeping bag
He would never have thought that it was not that there was a sleeping bag missing, but that there was an extra person in the team.
Of course Xie Lun would not accompany them to drink the cold wind here. Although it was not snowing heavily here like in the Far East, the cold wind was also blowing. If everyone did not wear thick cold-proof clothes, they would not be able to survive the night. But before leaving, Xie Lun must get the video tape from the camera in the hands of the DV guy.
That DV must have captured me, so if I use my ability to erase my image in the videotape, I might as well just destroy the videotape. After that, if everyone's memories are cleared, it will be seamless.
At this time, the DV boy was sitting cross-legged on his sleeping bag, looking through the videos he had taken that day.
"Can I see it?"
Xie Lun came over and smiled.
The DV boy was stunned for a moment, then obediently handed the camera over: "Of course."
"Thanks."
Xie Lun smiled and took the camera. Just when he was about to take out the video tape, his eyes simply passed over the camera playback screen, and his pupils suddenly shrank slightly. He reached out and handed the camera to the DV guy, pointed at the picture played on it, and asked, "Where did you film this?"
"I just took this photo when I went out for a walk."
The DV boy held his eyes on the bridge of his nose and asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, I just think this place is a bit scary and dark."
Xie Lun has already found the shooting location from the memory of the DV guy. Then he erased the memory of himself and this video recorder from everyone's minds, turned around and disappeared.
In the playback of the camera just now, Xie Lun actually saw a green light flashing past the corner of the screen, but Xie Lun could still identify it as a pair of eyes emitting green light.
It seems that the deer girl is right, there is indeed something strange in Chernobyl.
Is it really like the story told by the tour guide that there are humans mutated due to nuclear radiation in this long-abandoned city
Xie Lun stood in front of a residential building and looked at the dark basement entrance in front of him. From the analysis of the video footage, the mysterious black figure with green eyes should have come from here. According to this routine analysis, if Mark and the others really come here to explore, they will definitely be in trouble.
"You are lucky to have met me."
Before Xie Lun left, he set up a phantom barrier around Mark and the others. As long as they didn't seek death and had to go out and run around at night, the barrier could definitely guarantee their safety.
But if they were so idle that they had to go out and wander around this city that had been abandoned for decades on this dark night, then it would be no wonder that something happened to Xie Lun.