Xitong, who looked like a little girl of seven or eight years old, rolled her big eyes and looked around carefully. Seeing that there was no one nearby, her hair lit up slightly, and starlight escaped from the tips of her hair.
Immediately, sparks of light swirled around Xitong, and the scene around her distorted slightly. She flew to the treetops, caught the kite, and fell back to the ground.
Before he landed completely, he was suddenly hugged tightly from behind. Then the bird's voice sounded from behind: "Hehe, look what I found. Didn't you promise Tianyang not to use your ability casually?"
"When he comes back, what will you do?"
Xitong immediately shouted, "Auntie Xiaoniao, I didn't mean to do that. I saw that there was no one around, so I went up to pick it up. Please don't tell Dad, okay?"
Xiao Niao bent down and put her down, put his hands on his hips, and said with a straight face: "What did you call me? I'll give you a chance to reorganize your words."
Xitong pursed her lips and tried to call out in a delicate voice, "Little Bird Sister?"
The little bird chuckled: "That's right, I've told you so many times to call me sister, sister, I'm still young."
Xitong immediately asked: "Then can you keep this secret for me?"
The bird laughed and said, "That depends on your performance next time."
She turned around and walked towards the villa. Xitong followed her happily, holding Feng Wen's hand and asked, "Sister Xiaoniao, how should I behave?"
"Well, from now on, you can only call me sister."
"It's easy, I promise."
"Haha, I'll wait and see."
When two figures, one big and one small, entered the villa, the setting sun finally jumped below the horizon, the night slowly fell, and in the blink of an eye, the sky was filled with stars.
In the front-line base of the evil spirit's lair, Lin Ke looked at the stars in the night sky above his head and slowly exhaled a puff of smoke. He looked at his watch, then put out the remaining half of the cigarette and threw it into the trash can.
He put on his helmet, took his pistol, and walked out of the dormitory.
Soon, Lin Ke came to a corridor and heard a sound coming from the window.
"Do you know who our captain is?"
"Who is it?"
"Lin Ke."
"Lin Ke? I seem to have heard of him, but I can't remember him at the moment."
Hearing the soldiers inside discussing himself, Lin Ke stopped unconsciously and then listened to their continued discussion.
"I'll give you a hint, a bacterial contamination incident."
As soon as this voice fell, there was a "pop" sound from the window, as if someone slapped someone on the thigh, and then another sound was heard.
"I remember now. He was the captain of the patrol team that first came into contact with the infected evil spirit!"
"Oh, now that you mention it I remember it now. I heard that the team suffered a terrible defeat, with only three people left in the end."
"Besides Captain Lin, there were two other team members, but one went crazy and the other committed suicide."
"Stop talking now. After hearing what you said, I want to quit this team. If we follow him, we might all die."
"Crow Mouth, you want to be beaten, right?"
"Yes, beat him."
There was a burst of laughter and cursing from inside. Lin Ke's eyes dimmed slightly, and then he quickened his pace and walked into the door.
He knocked on the door, and the sound made the soldiers who were fighting inside turn around. Then they stood up one by one and lined up.
With their hands behind their backs, they stepped forward and said in unison: "Good evening, sir!"
"Good evening."
"I'm Lin Ke, your captain."
Lin Ke looked at these young faces and found that many of them were new recruits who had just left the barracks. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Many people died in the previous bacterial infection incident, especially the soldiers of Fort Ares. The fortress had to let some soldiers leave the camp early to fill the gap.
On the other hand, soldiers were recruited from all over the fortresses and even the settlements within the territory to ensure that there would be no interruption in the supply of troops.
But these new recruits have almost no experience. If they encounter a similar disaster again, who knows how many of them will never see their families again.
Lin Ke let out his anger, took out a list, and began to read: "Wang Huan, Chen Bing..."
After he called out three or four names, he said, "Those whose names are called, please step out."
Immediately, several soldiers stood up. They were relatively older, with a hint of murderous intent between their brows. These were all veterans, and the shortest service period was three years.
Lin Ke nodded and said to them: "Each of you will be responsible for managing two new recruits. The specific arrangements are as follows."
Soon, Lin Ke divided the team of twelve people into four groups, each with three people. The team leaders were veterans, with one veteran leading two recruits. This was the traditional practice of the War God Castle. This method of veterans leading new recruits could help the new recruits grow quickly and reduce their casualty rate.
After the assignment, Lin Ke gestured: "Let's go."
Sitting in the base vehicle, Lin Ke watched the changing lights and fires, watched the vehicle drive into the evil spirit's lair, and headed for the patrol area designated for them by the base.
In a trance, he seemed to hear the voices of his former teammates again and see them playing in the car.
But in the blink of an eye, those images and sounds disappeared.
The car stopped, Lin Ke put on his helmet, stood up and said, "You have all read the inspection procedures, so I won't go into details. I just want to emphasize one point. If you find a demon, report it to me immediately and don't engage in battle without authorization. We are not a combat team. Unless there is an order from above, our work is mainly to monitor and track. Do you understand?"
"Understood!"
Seeing the soldiers respond in unison, Lin Ke nodded and opened the car door: "Get out!"
After getting off the car, the inspection team formed a standard formation, a conservative formation that could be used for defense during action. Maintaining this formation, they advanced deeper into the passage.
As the numbers on the warning signs every ten meters turned to zero, Lin Ke knew that he had officially entered the lair of the evil spirit. He looked around casually and found that the passage had been renovated and many new surveillance cameras had been installed.
He had heard before returning to the base that these monitors had added a new function that could read the energy spectrum of living things.
After the previous bacterial swarm incident ended, the base research laboratory sorted out previous materials and documents and discovered that the infected people, whether they were humans, animals or monsters, would show a special spectrum.
In response to this discovery, the surveillance cameras in the nest and even in the city have added this new function. Once the infection spectrum is discovered, the surveillance camera will immediately sound an alarm and transmit the data and real-time images to the information center of the Ares Castle. If a similar incident occurs again, the Ares Castle will respond quickly and initiate several targeted strategies, including emergency isolation procedures for the city, to prevent large-scale infection from happening again.
"Whether we are human beings or fortresses, we are constantly moving forward... .....never letting the past catch up with us
An opportunity to come up!" Lin Ke's eyes became more determined.
Two hours later, they returned to the base vehicle and went back to base.
In the car, Lin Ke checked the 'safe' option in the mission briefing, and then sent the report to the mission record library at the base.
He put down the electronic board, took out a cigarette and lit it.
"What a bummer! I thought I could see some evil spirits, but there wasn't even a ghost."
"Are you stupid? Don't you see that evil is bad?"
"What are you afraid of? Aren't the evil spirits that appear in the safe zone low-level? And last time, the fortress went deep into the nest and swept it. Even if those things can be reborn, they won't appear so soon, right?"
The soldiers were talking in low voices and Lin Ke did not interrupt. His smoking figure was reflected in the car window, and the red light of the cigarette butt flickered.
At this time, deep in the lair of the evil gods, in the passages marked as red areas by the fortress, a large number of various evil gods were quietly going deeper. They were orderly and well-organized. They did not look like a group of wild beasts at all, but more like a disciplined army.
At this moment, in the distance of the passage, far away beyond their sight, a faint roar was heard.
All the gods and monsters, the light whiskers on their necks all lit up and floated up, and then all the gods and monsters responded with roars, and the huge sound echoed in the nest for a long time.
In the Jinxi Manor, Xitong was sleeping on her side. At this moment, a strand of her hair suddenly glowed slightly and stood up, with the tip of her hair pointing in the direction of the evil god's lair.
Xitong didn't notice anything unusual at all. She turned over, pressed down the naughty hair, then unconsciously kicked away the quilt and stepped on Hongxiu's face with her little feet.
Hongxiu woke up vaguely and saw Xitong's little feet stepping on her face. She smiled and patted the little feet, then covered them with the quilt, hugged the little guy, and soon fell asleep again.
... ... ... .
Dream world.
Tianyang yawned, sat up from the bed, and saw that the wooden bed on the other side was empty, as if his father had woken up.
He jumped out of bed, washed his face with water, and seeing that his father's Juque was still placed against the wall, he did not pick up his own Huanghuo and walked out of the house.
From a distance, he saw that his father was surrounded by a group of foreigners. No one knew what the two sides were talking about. Although they spoke different languages, they understood each other's minds and laughter could be heard from time to time.
Tian Yang was about to go over when he suddenly had an idea and turned around to see Xuan Lao standing behind him. This "immortal" was wearing a black robe and a white ritual mask, motionless, like a ghost.
Nowadays, there are very few things that can scare Tianyang, but he was still slightly startled when he saw such a person standing behind him unexpectedly.
He tried to ask: "Master Xuan, do you have something to ask me?"
Old Xuan didn't say a word, and even his chest didn't rise or fall. It was so quiet that Tianyang thought he was dead.
After waiting for a while and seeing no response from Master Xuan, Tianyang shrugged his shoulders and turned to leave.
At this time, he heard an old voice coming from behind, and some inexplicable words sounded, but Tianyang understood the meaning of the words.
"There is a smell on your body, the smell of my people. I smelled it yesterday..."
Tianyang stopped, turned around, and pointed at his nose: "Master Xuan, are you talking to me?"
Old Xuan did not react at all and just stood there quietly, like a stone sculpture.