As if hearing Long Biao's words, this thing suddenly raised its head.
Several people lost their voices.
"It has no sense of hearing," Lian Chuan said.
"You know?" Long Biao immediately choked back, suppressing his voice, "It turned its head."
Maybe it's because their tasks don't require hands-on work, they just need to watch here. Long Biao talks more than usual. Usually, if the two of them cooperate in tasks, Long Biao basically doesn't make a sound, and everything has to be understood by Lian Chuan.
On the contrary, it will create an illusion that the two of them are quite in harmony, which makes Long Biao extremely unhappy.
"It can feel the vibration," Lian Chuan closed his eyes, "someone is coming."
The boss on the opposite straight ladder had already reacted, and slowly retreated to the roof.
The person is still far away, but Lian Chuan can hear it, or feel the vibration, and he can even judge that the footsteps that are different in weight and pace from ordinary people are due to the footsteps on his body. equipment.
He frowned.
This is the security team of the Ministry of Internal Defense.
A group of three is responsible for the internal security of the main city, one inside and one outside with the city guards. During the celebration day, both the security team and the city guards have sent extra manpower.
If people from the security team come over and see this confused K29-like monster below...
The situation will become very troublesome.
Theoretically, the cleaning team is also the son of the Ministry of Internal Defense, but compared to the city guards and the security team, the cleaning team is more like an illegitimate child who can't get on the stage, doing some dark work in dark corners, and being looked down upon by the elder brother and the second brother Internal defense is traditional.
"Who?" Cui Ping asked.
"Security team," Lian Chuan glanced at the direction the voice came from. Unfortunately, it seemed that the security team was going to patrol Xingpan Street, "It's almost here."
"What kind of mission is this?" Long Biao was very upset.
Although he didn't say anything later, Lian Chuan could see his intention from the position where Long Biao moved. Long Biao wanted to drive away the monster below and avoid the route of the security team.
This approach was not in compliance with the regulations. They were performing a non-contact mission, and the target's data only had the basic biological information scanned just now, so they knew nothing about it. Long Biao was obviously impulsive.
Lian Chuan gestured to the opposite side, telling the boss to pay attention to cover Long Biao.
He didn't remind Long Biao, after all, Long Biao sticks to the impulsive and irritable TAG, and the character design has never deviated.
And he also knew the reason why Long Biao did this.
When Long Biao rushed out from the side alley, Cui Ping also rushed out from another fork, forming an angle with Long Biao behind the monster.
As long as Lian Chuan and Boss are well controlled on both sides, they will soon be able to push the monster forward into the labyrinth-like dense alley deep in Xingpan Street.
It was risky, but he had to keep up.
Husband and wife can still divorce, and once the partner of the cleaning team is matched, they will not change again, and their lives are in the hands of the partner.
So when Long Biao rushed out, he had to rush out. At the critical moment, Long Biao couldn't be fooled alone, but two of them had to be stupid together.
The bet now is that the target will not attack, and flee in the direction they compress after being frightened.
However, as soon as they rushed out of the path, they had already lost their bet before they had time to see the target at a close distance.
The target suddenly turned its head, and propped up its body with its legs. The stretched legs and suddenly elongated neck made its upright height increase instantly.
In this heroic state, I am afraid that he will not escape, let alone escape because of fright.
Even planning to attack.
When the target made a dull howling sound from inside its body, even Lian Chuan, who dominated with speed, had no time to react.
Not only because the sound came suddenly, but also because it was loud, and the movement was like the alarm sounded by travelers when they rushed into the main city.
But there has never been a creature whose cry can stab straight into the brain like a blunt knife like the target in front of it.
Lian Chuan even felt that time stopped at the first moment, and the whole world was blank.
When Cui Ping woke up, he was already kneeling on the ground. According to his uncontrollable state, if he woke up later, he might have kowtowed to the target.
"Rewind!" Lian Chuan's voice rang in his ears, and then he was pulled up from the ground.
"Call for reinforcements." Long Biao retreated with them to the alley on the other side.
"No." Lian Chuan replied simply.
Before Long Biao had time to ask him the reason, this off-white thing wrapped in translucent aerosol rushed towards him, raising its arms.
Can't attack, this is an order that can't be disobeyed, he can only continue to retreat, trying to take advantage of the situation to lead this thing to another way, avoiding the security team that will come soon.
But although this thing doesn't seem to have a high IQ, its strength and speed are quite good. When Long Biao was completely defensive, he was able to throw him to the wall next to him with a swish of his arm.
The length of the arm exceeded Long Biao's prediction.
He didn't have time to be depressed about this mistake. Under the buffer of the exoskeleton, his back was still hurting from the impact.
The second attack started before he had fully landed.
He was hit in the stomach again.
But this time it was Lianchuan's caracal.
The boss knocked him out of attack range.
"Who is that over there!" Someone shouted, and you could tell who it was from the angry tone, "Ready to attack!"
The security team that sent the head arrived as scheduled. Although they were shocked by what they saw, the three of them raised their weapons at the same time.
Unlike the cleanup team, the work of the security team is not that complicated. Everything that may threaten the lives and property of the people in the main city is their enemy.
Raising a gun is BIUBIUBIU.
Long Biao didn't make a sound, and it doesn't make sense not to make a sound at a time like this.
Eyewitnesses have emerged.
Witnesses are to attack the self-destruct target.
Eyewitness identities are sensitive.
But he didn't even have time to ask Lei Yu for instructions on what to do next.
The boss growled beside him.
He immediately looked across.
Standing across the street, Lian Chuan also raised his weapon and aimed at them.
"Who is he going to kill?" Long Biao lowered his voice.
"What is this?" Nail leaned against the mattress, and pointed to something in Ning Gu's hand with his toes.
"Flash bomb." Ning Gu said while carefully putting this thing into the bag.
"Follow my brother, you'll be fine," Nail said, "The head of the team said that his ability is about to catch up with Li Xiang."
"What's the use?" Ning Gu continued to put things in the bag, "The leader also said that any weapon in the main city has a range and power beyond his control."
"Then he didn't die every time he went there." Nail said.
"I'm not dead either." Ning Gu said.
"You didn't enter the main city." Nail continued.
"You dare not go." Ning Gu looked at him.
Nail laughed, and looked at the goggles in his hand. It was Ning Gu's old one. It was repaired and given to him. Although there was no air leakage, there was always a black line in his vision, making it uncomfortable to see.
He knocked on the goggles: "If you can go to the underground market this time, help me find a goggle."
"En." Ning Gu nodded.
Nail didn't say anything else, watching him put all kinds of things in the bag, all kinds of small equipment collected, those who beat people, those who carried them, those who escaped, and food.
"Are you back?" Nail couldn't help asking.
Ning Gu paused in his hands: "Why do you ask this?"
"Just ask," Nail said, "that's how I feel, if you have a chance to leave, you won't look back."
"The main city is not that attractive to me." Ning Gu said with some disdain.
"Outside the fog," said Nail.
Ning Gu buckled the bag in silence before raising his head and looking at him: "Old rules, don't tell others that I got in the car, or when I come back, you have to start running for your life, and I will bury you if I am too late To Tongue Bay."
The car was a train coming through the black mist, with steam coming from the closed front.
No one has ever entered the cab, but only knows that it comes and goes along a track with an unknown starting point and ending point, and according to an unknown law.
The starting point and the ending point of the traveler are just two small stops on its mysterious trajectory.
The car hasn't come yet, and no one knows when it will come.
But everyone will know when it comes.
In the black mist, the sound of the whistle sounded so far away that it seemed like an ancient monster, across the sky above the entire ghost town, high-pitched and mellow, so lonely that it was somewhat ethereal.
"This is the cry of a whale." The crazy uncle said.
Ning Gu didn't know what a whale was, and Uncle Crazy never drew it for him. When talking about other things, he always drew a few incomprehensible lines every time.
So Ning Gu reasonably deduces that the crazy uncle doesn't know what a whale is, and he can't even imagine a few chaotic lines.
But Uncle Crazy insisted that it was the cry of a whale, and Ning Gu guessed that his only reason might be that he thought it was impossible for a machine to make such a sound.
When the long and distant sound came from the air, a group of people who had been squatting or sitting on the edge of the iron frame for a day all stood up, and they all lit up the flash bottles in their hands and raised them up at the same time.
This kind of bright light can only appear at such moments, struggling to tear a thin opening in the black mist.
Like everyone else, Li Xiang looked to the right.
It's not because the sound is coming from the right. No one can tell which direction the sound is coming from. It's just that everyone knows that after the sound, the car will come from the right.
Follow the old track extending from the black mist.
"Our estimated time is pretty accurate," said the regimental leader. "Have you checked it?"
"Huh?" Li Xiang glanced at him. They have taken this ghost train to the main city countless times. The group leader rarely asks such a question, but Li Xiang didn't say much, just nodded, "It has been checked and nothing is missing."
"There are quite a lot of people going this time." The leader looked around, all the people stood up, but no one moved, they were all waiting for the leader's action.
Although these people are familiar with this train, they will never let their guard down.
After all, this car came from a place they couldn't go, and went to a place they couldn't go, and the people who disappeared on the car have long been uncertain. Even whether it is a dead metal object or a living body, the traveler There is no unified conclusion.
"Yes," Li Xiang whispered, "I didn't see Ning Gu, he should still be obedient."
"You also watched him grow up, how can you trust him so much?" The leader laughed, "If he was discovered by you, it was only because he was not afraid of being discovered. When he didn't want to be found, who would find him? "
Li Xiang sighed lightly.
"If he got on the train this time, he must be going to the main city." The head of the group stared at the train that was slowly stopping in front of them.
Li Xiang turned his head in surprise.
They all knew that Ning Gu would secretly follow them before, but because of the leader's words, he never left the parking spot.
When the head of the group said these words, Li Xiang couldn't tell what it was like, feeling or worrying, or bewildered.
It always feels like something is going to happen.
The car stopped silently on the track in front of them.
The car is not long, sometimes it has seven carriages, sometimes it has eight carriages, each carriage is the same, empty and has no windows, only two opposite door openings, waiting quietly.
"Does it look like a monster's mouth?" Nail squatted beside Ning Gu's legs and asked softly.
"Well, I don't know if it was spit out or pulled out after I went in." Ning Gu said.
If you spit it out, you are alive, and if you pull it out, you are dead.
He touched a small metal cube in his hand, and he could occasionally find really good things there.
As long as the small round button on it is pressed, all his biological breath can be temporarily blocked, and Li Xiang, who has sentience, cannot find him.
Although there are too many people gathered now, even with Li Xiang's powerful perception, he would not be able to tell the difference, but he still wants to be safe, and he wants to go to the main city to see.
Never had such a strong urge.
The head of the group walked towards the hollow on the carriage, stepped on the edge with one foot, and looked inside.
When he got up and entered the carriage, the travelers who had been as quiet as sculptures before let out a loud howl and rushed towards the carriage at the same time.
Some people jumped directly into the car, some climbed onto the roof, and some ran along the track, jumping up and kicking towards the car and moving forward, as if flying close to the car.
Knowing that every time someone will not come back, the trip to the main city is always a carnival of gambling, no one thinks that it will be him.
Or, don't think about it at all.
They are travelers.
Just like this train, it has no origin and no destination. It has a gathering place, no home, an instinct to live, and no fear of being wiped out.
Just another trip.
From the time when the first person bumps into the car to when the car starts to move forward, the time in between is very short.
Ning Gu couldn't wait until the end, he had to rush up to avoid Li Xiang when there were the most people in the car.
"Goggles! Don't forget!" Nail whispered behind him, "Bring them back to me!"
Ning Gu made an OK gesture behind him.
The goggles are not important to help him find a feather's nail in squinting wind all the year round.
Nail was just afraid that he would not come back.
"Lian Chuan, we will ask a few questions about today's mission, please answer them truthfully."
"it is good."
There were four people in the conference room, and Lian Chuan sat on a chair in the middle.
There were three people sitting in a row behind the long table opposite, Minister Chen in the middle, Xiao Lin, the highest officer of the security team on the right, and the clerk of the Disciplinary Committee of the Ministry of Internal Defense on the left.
Lian Chuan has experienced this kind of scene many times, and it usually occurs after the task is completed in a different way.
But if I remember correctly, it was the first time that the cleanup team fired at the security team.
Xiao Lin's face was livid, and from the moment he walked into the meeting room, his eyes had been slashing back and forth on his face.
"During today's mission, you shot and killed three security guards," Minister Chen looked at him, "Is it true?"
"True." Lian Chuan replied.
"The reason for the killing?" Minister Chen continued to ask.
"This mission needs to ensure that there are no witnesses." Lian Chuan replied.
"Why don't you use a recovery device to attack?" Xiao Lin suppressed his anger, "Do you want to use a destructive weapon?"
Lian Chuan looked at him, and answered after a while: "Make sure there are no witnesses, including making sure that witnesses never show up again."
"Why didn't you ask for instructions?" Xiao Lin asked.
"No time," Lian Chuan replied, "I also need to make sure the goal is self-destruct."
"Sure, sure," Xiao Lin nodded with a sneer, "The other party is your compatriot, your comrade-in-arms, don't you think you need to ask for instructions?"
"No need, no time," Lian Chuan repeated, "There are only two elements in the mission, the target self-destructs, and there are no witnesses."
"So you think they are just witnesses?" Xiao Lin asked.
"Yes." Lian Chuan replied.
Xiao Lin stared at him for a long time, then spit out two words: "Cold-blooded."
Before Xiao Lin spoke again, Minister Chen raised his hand to stop him.
At the same time, as if to match Xiao Lin's evaluation, the bright lights in front of him suddenly went out, and the surroundings fell into darkness.
Just for a moment, like a blink of an eye.
Only when the lights came back on did people in the room notice that the absolute darkness was not just the absence of lights in the conference room.
The bright sunlight of the main city outside the window also disappeared.
Just for a moment.
The author has something to say: 096 in the previous chapter has been changed to K29. 096 is from the SCP Foundation, SCP-096, The Shy Guy, a shy person. According to the Foundation’s CC agreement, it needs to be written by citing the setting for creation Indicate the source and sign it, I neglected to write it in the last chapter (thanks for reminding my sister), I am very very sorry. Then I carefully studied the agreement, and considering that this story is not a derivative creation based on SCP, in order to avoid any inappropriateness, I still changed the name and form.