Three days ago, Tianshui City, Zhenxi Village.
The dense fog covered everything in front of the eyes, and the strange fog was still spreading outward at a slow but not negligible speed, swallowing up the nearby wilderness bit by bit.
The abnormal incident had just happened. As soon as the Tianshui City Investigation Bureau got the news, all residents within a radius of 20 kilometers, including travelers passing by, had been officially notified to evacuate.
At this time, the white mist had already engulfed the three surrounding villages, and the area was still expanding.
Fortunately, here? It is located in a remote place, there are not many people in the vicinity, and the order of the Special Service Bureau is still timely. The evacuation work is not difficult to do, and the surrounding area will be cleared soon.
Outside the white mist, there is only a cordon pulled out by the authorities, which keeps receding as the mist spreads—it looks like an invisible transparent barrier, covering almost half of the range of the mountain range.
"… right here??!"
The helicopter hovered in mid-air, and the roar shook the air. A few figures jumped down from the fuselage, and every time they took a step, fine pieces of ice floes appeared in midair, and several people stepped on the ice floes and fell to the ground all the way.
This is a team of three men and one woman, from the headquarters of the Imperial Special Affairs Bureau. The leading woman is tall and tall, with neat short hair and heroic eyebrows, and she has a kind of capable and decisive air in every move.
As an experienced first-level investigator, as soon as Lu Jingfu landed, seeing the surrounding scene, she realized the seriousness of this incident, and her brows could not help but frown. She subconsciously looked at the person approaching from near the cordon.
These people are all investigators from the Tianshui City Special Affairs Bureau staying here. There are two purposes here. The situation here should be dealt with in a timely manner to prevent information from leaking out.
Lu Jing didn't talk nonsense, and asked straight to the point: "This is the first time such a large-scale abnormal event has occurred. How is the situation here in Tianshui City?"
"Not very good... no, it should be said very bad." Her voice was distressed and self-deprecating, "Ten hours have passed since the mutation started. Four groups of investigators have entered the White Mist successively. However, as soon as we entered the range of the fog, we completely disconnected from the outside world, and all signals disappeared—we saw the last scene on the bound device before we knew that everyone was entering The first time the white mist was hit, it fell down."
"... Later we specially transported the bodies of several investigators from the edge of the white mist through the sealed artifacts, and found that they were not dead or injured. They were breathing steadily, as if they were asleep, but Still unable to wake up. By observing the brain waves, everyone came to a conclusion that they were probably dreaming and trapped in a dream.”
It has been less than a year since the establishment of the Special Affairs Bureaus in various places. This is the first time that such an abnormal event has been dealt with. In the past, at any rate, there was a clear goal, but this time they didn't know what to do.
How should they deal with the illusory dream? They can't even find where the enemy is, as long as they enter the range of the white mist, they will be forced to fall into a deep sleep—so far, they have tried various methods, and even called many sealed items in the game, but nothing Method.
Seeing that the area of the white mist was still expanding slowly, the Tianshui City Special Affairs Bureau couldn't handle it anymore and had to ask other people for help.
Perhaps it was because their own work was not done well, and they had to ask other colleagues to clean up the mess? These people were very embarrassed? They could only tell the information they had gained in the past ten hours.
Lu Jing listened without saying a word, and after confirming that there was no missing information, she waved at the other three members of the team one by one, turned around and walked into the white mist.
The others couldn't stop them at all, so they heard her say firmly: "The source of the abnormality is here? What's the use of just staying outside and worrying? To solve the problem, you always have to go inside." She said He added, "If we don't wake up in the end and can't find any other solution, we can apply to the headquarters and use the only zero-level sealed item."
The eyes of those behind him widened.
Regarding the only zero-level sealed item, many people actually don't know the details. The only thing they know is that this sealed item has natural disaster-level power, but once it is used, it will also pay a terrible price.
The figures of the four people slowly disappeared into the mist.
Never came out again.
In the following three days, investigators from other branches of the Secret Service arrived one after another, but without exception, exhausting all means could not stop the white mist from spreading, and they attempted to enter the white mist to find clues The person never came out again.
Three days later, the white mist covered the entire wilderness and quickly spread to the nearby county town. Some people who had no time to evacuate were involved and fell into a deep sleep.
All this development seems so fast and weird.
There were so many people, and someone always quietly took some clips and uploaded them to the Internet. Even though it was quickly deleted by the authorities, some rumors were gradually spread on the Internet.
— On this day, when I was fishing for a thousand-word manuscript, I learned about this abnormal event that happened three days ago from the system 999.
In the group chat of the Special Affairs Bureau in Tianfeng City, this matter has already spread. Due to the extremely high level of this anomalous event, originally only the first-level investigators knew about it, but now that the anomaly has not been resolved and the situation has spread, the Secret Service no longer hides it from others.
Therefore, Yuan Buwei, who had just been promoted to a second-level investigator, understood all the causes and consequences logically.
[Host, are you not angry?]
There is no authority to stop the system 999 who is the god of the Internet. Three days ago, Yiliu was able to tell Yuan Buwei the news, but Yiliu didn't care.
It was not: "???"
Even though he didn't understand why there was anything to be angry about, why didn't he just let go of any opportunity to exploit the tool system? He asked in a deep voice, "What do you think?"
The young man's face was slightly calm, and his voice was lowered, with a bit of threat, as if a storm was about to come.
System 999 was really frightened, and hurriedly said: [I? Didn't deliberately hide it from the host, but the host never asked the system to monitor the network at all times, and inform the host of such news as soon as possible.]
The original is not for again: "???"
… That's it? For this reason
He did not ask for this before, and he did not know why the system 999 was so panicked. After all, the occurrence of this abnormal event has nothing to do with Billion, and those who fell into the abnormal event are not responsible for what they did not do.
…Could it be that the words "enthusiastic citizen" are pasted on his forehead, so that this system actually thinks that he should be the first to notify him of any dangerous accidents anywhere, and then rush up immediately
Although the feeling system 999 seems to have a deep misunderstanding of itself, but? It's not because there is no explanation—will the slave owner? Let go of any chance to squeeze the slaves? —Instead, he took advantage of the trend to intimidate the tool system: "In any case, it is indeed because of your mistake that the whole matter has been delayed for three days and has not been resolved. It has spread to this point..."
System 999: [… Really?]
Yuan Buwei smiled: "Isn't it?"
Yiyi quickly changed his words: [Yes, it's my fault, it's all my fault.]
The curvature that was not the corner of the lips gradually expanded.
Next, the system 999 was in a trance, muddled, trembling, accepted a round of criticism and education from the host and brainwashed, deeply realized his previous slack, and determined not to sneak in the Internet for fishing and watching animation again. Work harder to create benefits for the host... Seems like somewhere? No? ?
System 999 was still suspicious of Tongsheng, and Yuan Buwei was already on his way to Tianshui City alone.
He was very interested in this eerie white mist.
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The floating white mist filled every corner of the field of vision, and the surrounding houses, streets, and various buildings gradually became illusory and empty in the mist.
Houses are collapsing, there are many strange shadows, the sky and the earth seem to be upside down, and the whole world is like a shadow in a lake, but if there are any slight ripples on the lake, all of these will be broken and heavy like a reflection. Together, twisted and hazy.
Fang Luo ran wildly on the street.
The whole small town seemed to be empty, and there was no one in sight. In the dense fog that could not be dispelled, there was something faintly surging around, and the shadow in the fog was chasing him.
The inexplicable fear was like an invisible stream of water, spreading little by little from his ankles, and was about to cover the top of his head.
"ah!"
Suddenly, there were several screams in the thick fog in the distance.
There was a faint chewing sound, and a strange growling sound faintly spread from the mist, which made him tremble all over, and hurriedly ran in the opposite direction.
"What's going on? What happened? How did things happen? Became like this?" Thoughts like this kept swirling in his mind, and all kinds of question marks filled his head, until now he didn't fully react.
As a college student who just graduated, I made an appointment to go on a graduation trip with a few friends. Because Tianshui City has beautiful scenery and many ancient architectural relics, they are also classified as one of the stops of the trip.
Unexpectedly, on the first day when he came here, he encountered such an accident. The country homestay where he lived was suddenly swallowed by a strange thick fog. When he opened his eyes again, friends It has disappeared without a trace, and the surrounding environment is a little more uncoordinated.
Obviously, it still looks like the same house, the same street, and the exact same environment, but there is always something wrong reminding him in his heart.
Until Fang Luo lowered his head and saw his feet—there was no shadow there?—and then turned his head to look around. All the buildings had no shadows? Instead, they were distorting and deforming...
At that moment, his hair stood on end?!
Everything in the dense fog is changing anytime and anywhere, whether it is houses, streets, or monsters hiding in the dense fog, Fang Luo has heard it with his own ears before? A burst of chewing and screaming, see? The bloodstains and the long?long?trails of drag... it terrified him.
The thing chasing behind got closer little by little, and a strange roar sounded in the dense fog.
Fang Luo's heart was about to jump out.
… Help! Help! Who can help me?? !
It seemed that a hand suddenly slapped him on the shoulder. Fang Luo jumped up trembling in fright, and turned around reflexively: "No, I? It's not delicious!"
Then, he was startled.
In the dense fog, there is a faint shadow? It seems to change from virtual to real, and it appears bit by bit in the fog.
A dark gray long? Windbreaker wraps a slender? Tall and straight figure. Under the slightly messy hair, there is a clean and well-defined face with a pair of pure black pupils.
Vaguely, he seemed to see a vague and terrifying phantom behind the other party, like an unfathomable black hole, swallowing all the light around him, and then the dark smoke drifted out.
He seemed to be staring into an abyss.
At this moment, Fang Luo even felt a much more suffocating horror than before. So much so that the original fear faded away in an instant. It was like being chased by a dog in the face of a sudden and devastating natural disaster, it was really unbearable to mention.
But this illusion lasted less than a moment. When he looked again, it was clear that there was nothing. It even made him wonder if he had been trapped in this eerie white mist for too long and had a mental problem, which led to such strange hallucinations.
Before Fang Luo could think deeply, the young man who appeared suddenly looked him up and down, then raised his lips slightly, showing a nice and polite arc: "You are the only one in this dream? Can you do me a favor? "