Sitting in the cockpit of the Falcon tank, Rita hung her legs on the console. The tank was not moving anyway, so apart from the somewhat unsightly posture, it did not cause any inconvenience.
Yawning, Lida checked the time and muttered, "It's been almost three hours. What is Liang Sen doing? He didn't even report his whereabouts."
She folded her long legs, stood up, stretched her shoulders and neck, and casually said to a soldier next to her: "Contact Captain Liang Sen, I'll go down and take a look first, and tell me if there is any situation."
She didn't think anything would happen to Liang Sen, and, until now, there had been no fighting or strange phenomena in the city.
Rita got off the Falcon chariot with confidence and saw Kunlan and Cangdu fighting back and forth. Kunlan was now one rank higher than Cangdu, but this guy, who was full of wildness, did not use his rank advantage.
The two did not use their star energy or abilities, they only exchanged combat skills.
Ji Yu was talking to the captain of the Storm Team. When she saw Rita, the girl came over.
"Captain Rita, I thought you were going to spend the night in the chariot." Ji Yu said in a joking tone.
Lida glanced at her and said unhappily, "Please spare me. Who can sleep in a place like that except for men like Han Shu?"
"Women, you have to be nice to yourself."
Rita looked at the girl and said, "You are more cheerful than before."
Ji Yu was stunned for a moment, then looked into the distance: "When you let go of some things, you will change."
Rita nodded slightly. She knew something about Ji Yu. She knew that both of the girl's parents had met with accidents, that she had armed herself with coldness and indifference when she first joined the Night Walkers, and that she would rather live in her previous home than move to a better apartment.
"Knowing that your father knows, he will definitely be pleased now that you are the captain." Rita said with a smile.
Ji Yu shook his head: "No, he will scold me. He hates me playing with weapons, let alone joining the Night Walkers."
Lida suddenly felt embarrassed.
Ji Yu laughed to herself: "However, after scolding me, he would praise me very implicitly. He is that kind of rigid person. Even if he is happy in his heart, he will scold you first."
After a pause, the girl sighed: "It's a pity that I will never hear him scold me again."
The two women, who were seven or eight years apart in age, looked at each other in silence. But at this moment, a soldier rushed down from the Falcon chariot and ran to Lida: "Captain, we can't contact Captain Liang."
"could not be reached?"
Rita was stunned for a moment. This result was beyond her expectations. She walked quickly to the chariot to try it herself.
Ji Yu calmed down and followed Lida closely, and the two women got into the car.
Lida picked up the communicator and contacted Liang Sen. Soon a prompt indicating that the signal was interfered appeared on the screen.
Seeing this, Ji Yu said nervously, "I'll contact Tian Yang."
She took out her communicator and tried it, but still to no avail.
"how so?"
Ji Yu looked towards the city with concern: "Captain Lida, how about I lead the team in to take a look?"
"No!"
Lida made a quick judgment: "It is very likely that you will lose contact after you go in. Don't worry, Liang Sen is experienced, not to mention Tianyang."
"They will be fine. As night walkers, we have to trust our companions."
"Then what shall we do
Is that so?" Ji Yu restrained his anxiety and tried not to let his emotions affect his judgment.
Lida shook her head and said, "No, we can't contact Liang Sen, which means there are unpredictable dangers in that city. We are too close to the city, so we must evacuate, or at least keep a relatively safe distance."
"In addition, I will report this matter to the expeditionary force command center. They will make the final decision and issue instructions on the specific follow-up actions."
"Go inform Kunlan and the others. We have to leave."
Ji Yu nodded, jumped off the chariot, looked in the direction of the city, and said softly: "Don't let anything happen, Tianyang."
... ... .
Xin'an City.
On the street, looking at the twisted corpse, Tianyang felt a strong sense of familiarity. It was as if he had experienced a similar incident, and in the same place!
But this is impossible. This is his first time exploring Xin'an City, so why would he feel familiar with it
Liang Sen came over and grabbed Tian Yang's shoulders: "You just said 'again', what does that mean?"
Tianyang calmed himself down and expressed his feelings. He did not hide anything and did not lower his voice intentionally, so everyone around him could hear it.
"Captain, you said you had a sense of déjà vu. Do you mean that you have experienced similar events?" Sean looked at the corpse and felt genuinely weird and frightened.
Tianyang shook his head slightly: "I just feel familiar, but I can be sure that I have never experienced a similar incident, let alone been to this city."
Liang Sen pondered for a while and said, "In the field of inspiration and intuition, the Harmonizers are the best. They are extremely sensitive in terms of perception. If it is them, they should be able to grasp the real reason."
Tianyang spread his hands and said helplessly: "It's a pity that I'm not a peacemaker."
Liang Sen nodded: "I know, but other ranks of Ascendants also have sharper senses than ordinary people. The higher the rank, the more so."
"You feel a sense of familiarity, and in my opinion, this should be your body or brain reminding you."
"It's possible that you did experience similar events in this city. But your memories of this have been modified, deleted, or replaced. In short, the relevant memories are gone."
"But your body and your brain remember. That's why it feels familiar."
Tianyang felt a chill rising up: "Captain Liang Sen, according to what you said, we have actually experienced this before, but I forgot it. But my body and brain remember it, so I feel this familiarity."
"What about you guys? Do you feel familiar with it?"
Liang Sen shook his head: "Unfortunately, I don't have that feeling."
He looked at the others again: "What about you?"
Sean and the others looked at each other blankly and shook their heads, indicating that they did not feel familiar.
Tianyang frowned: "Could it be the 'Soul Devouring Bug'? Is there a similar monster in this town?"
The 'Soul Devouring Bug' will devour human memories and manipulate those memories. If it is that kind of bug, it is not surprising that it can modify and delete memories.
But Tianyang shook his head again.
The Soul Devouring Bug would not bring down darkness and then strangle people in the darkness. If the Soul Devouring Bug had such a strange way of killing, perhaps he and Kun Lan would have died in that town long ago.
At this moment, another soldier's lighting device began to flicker. The soldier's face in the helmet changed expression.
He looked at Liang Sen in panic: "Captain, save me, save me!"
lamp
The light flickered more violently, and between the switching between light and dark, it seemed as if invisible devil's claws were reaching out to the soldiers.
The soldier couldn't bear the pressure and ran screaming towards the nearest companion.
The companion did not panic and even reached out his hand to offer support.
But at this moment, darkness suddenly fell.
The soldier's body, everything, everything was shrouded in pure darkness.
It was a darkness that light could not penetrate, it was a darkness that sound could not convey, it was like a nightmare that descended into the real world, appearing before everyone's eyes.
After a few seconds, the lights came back on. At this time, there was a sound of inhalation around.
Also, there was a second twisted body on the ground.
"We have to go."
Liang Sen shouted, "Shoot a flare into the sky and we'll go back the same way we came."
He took out the communicator again and planned to contact Rita.
Looking at all this, Tianyang had a familiar feeling again, and his intuition told him that all this was in vain.
really.
Although the flares rose into the sky and the light fell on the earth, when darkness appeared, the silver light in the sky could not stop it.
Liang Sen couldn't contact Lida either. Their communication with the outside world had been cut off. Everyone returned in vain, and people kept falling asleep in the darkness along the way.
After all the soldiers died, it was the turn of the Ascendants, one by one.
In the end, Lian Liang Sen died.
Tianyang's mind was blank. For the first time, he felt helpless. He could only activate his alien body and rush out of the city's steel wall at an extraordinary speed, rushing into the road filled with car wreckage.
He was in a trance until he heard someone talking.
"This city refuses entry to outsiders."
He saw Liang Sen, looking at the chariots with their guns pointed in the direction they were coming from, and then he looked back at himself: "What's wrong, Tianyang?"
"I... "
"I don't know either."
Tianyang shook his head, feeling a little strange, as if he had missed something important.
On the other hand, he felt inexplicably familiar with Liang Sen's words, as if Captain Gao Shanying had said them before, and more than once.
"What are you daydreaming about? Let's go."
Liang Sen smiled and pushed him, then walked towards the steel wall. When he saw him about to step over the gate, Tian Yang shuddered and blurted out.
“Don’t go in!”
Liang Sen turned around and looked at Tian Yang with a strange look in his eyes: "What's wrong?"
Tianyang held his head in his hands: "It's a bit strange. I think it will be dangerous if we go in."
Liang Sen laughed: "There are all kinds of dangers in the world of adversity. We are walking in the dark, so why would we be afraid of danger?"
"Tianyang, you're a little out of shape today."
As he spoke, Liang Sen had already walked into the gate.
Tianyang had no choice but to follow.
He saw the slogan "Not allowing a single infected person to enter the city", the streets filled with countless tents, and the rooms that left records of despair.
As darkness came again, explorers fell one after another. He rushed out of the door with a blank mind and a dazed state.
"This city refuses entry to outsiders."
Then, he heard the familiar voice and words again...