In the gray sky, a group of black crows and sparrows flew through the forest, and their ugly chirping made the surrounding fog even more distorted.
"Those are people from Laisheng Company." Gu Jun said in a low voice, "I can recognize them, they are dressed like this in my memory."
In fact, those figures were obscured by the mist, and they didn't seem to be long mandarin jackets, but he could recognize them.
Xue Ba and the others were already ready to fight, except for Lou Xiaoning who couldn't hold a gun, the fire team's guns were all aimed at the enemy figures in all directions, but the fog was getting thicker, and those figures were hidden behind the giant tree, becoming invisible. visible.
"I can't see..." Yang Henan gasped as he quickly set up his sniper rifle, the thermal imaging sight couldn't penetrate the eerie giant tree.
Everyone was still panting, but the roar of the beast became more and more ferocious.
Gu Jun saw that some of the heavy beast shadows gradually came out of the mist, and now they could all see clearly that it was a creature that was unknown whether it was a different kind or a beast. It seemed to have the body of a wolf, but each one had the shape of a brown bear. The body shape, the fur looks like black thorns, the exposed fangs and the dripping sap are even more chilling.
Before Xue Ba wanted to shout some words of negotiation, suddenly, the surrounding alien wolves came rushing, everywhere, continuously.
"The fire team fires!" Xue Ba said immediately, Nong Hufang's face was full of determination, "Others stay here, don't waste ammunition."
Zhou Yi, Gao Mingpeng and the others pulled the triggers of their rifles. Two team members in each of the four directions started to fire.
The bullet casings fell on the altar with a thud. This weapon, the most trusted and relied on by human beings, continued to emit flames, and the recoil writhed their muscles, making their already exhausted bodies stretched to the point of breaking apart, falling apart into a pile of fragments .
Those ferocious beasts didn't know what fear was at all. Even though the ones rushing in front were spattered by bullets, the ones behind were still rushing towards them.
The near-death howls and stench and bloody smell of the same kind only aroused the madness of the different wolves. They rushed faster and more, like a storm tide.
"Ah..." Lou Xiaoning made an anxious voice.
Uncle Dan is responsible for keeping an eye on her. This kind of beast has rough skin and thick flesh, and a single shot to the body cannot knock it down, it must be headshot.
But they're fast, they're in poor form, and headshots are out of the question. As the leader of the team's firepower, Lou Xiaoning's hit rate has long been ranked first. If she was still a normal person, she could only stand and watch at this moment, feeling very suffocated.
Lin Mo and other scientific research team members were even more unbelievable. From the edge of the giant tree in the distance to the altar, the corpses of beasts had fallen all over the ground.
Wouldn't they be afraid? It really goes against nature...
But what Gu Jun thought was, are they real
Xue Ba was also suspicious of this, and immediately asked his partner Zhou Yi to put a wolf into the altar, and then killed it with a headshot. The two walked forward while firing, and kicked the animal carcass on the altar. It really existed there, and it was not an illusion.
However, the tide of the alien wolves has not weakened, and their ammunition has been removed by almost half. If this continues, the ammunition will soon be exhausted.
"Prepare to break through!" Xue Ba told everyone loudly, and then asked Gu Jun's thoughts: "Which way should we go?"
"I don't know..." Gu Jun really had no idea, only a little restlessness in his mind.
Based on his own feelings, Xue Ba decided to break out in the opposite direction to the high wall space. Lin Mo was carried on a stretcher by Gu Jun and Zhang Huo.
At the moment, while killing the alien wolf, they walked outside the altar.
But at this time, a strange voice came out of the mist. It seemed that the people from Laisheng Company were reciting a different language, and it seemed that it was singing... It was hazy, but it could penetrate everyone's hearts. Gu Jun became restless and dizzy, and murmured: "This seems to be... the ballad of this world..."
[The stone path is dark and silent, that is the beginning of life
In my mother's dream, poisonous snakes, worms and demons appeared
From morning to night, there was a lot of pain]
"Why..." The team walked dozens of steps, which was long enough to get out of the altar, but they were surprised to find that they were still in place, as if they had turned around, but they were clearly walking outside.
The fact that the bullets can be shot out and the beasts can run in should not be caused by the space, but because their spirits are affected.
Suddenly, they couldn't even find their way back to the winding stone ladder.
This feeling is like knowing that I am dreaming in a dream, and after some movements thinking that I wake up, it is just another dream.
At this time, everyone realized that the lack of the team was also a deficiency of the Tianji Bureau.
When faced with the abnormal power cast by the control, they have no equivalent tricks.
"It's those ballads!" Xue Ba shouted with twitching veins, trying to break the confusion of himself and everyone else, "Concentrate on putting aside distracting thoughts, don't listen!"
They can't understand what it means, but they can feel their minds are confused, and it's not so easy not to listen...
Whether it's because of high gnosis or understanding of the meaning, Gu Jun is the one who hears the most deeply, and there are already some visions flickering in front of his eyes.
The ballad sounded louder and more bewildering...
[Nightmare grows every day, waiting to break out from the earth
Mother wonders every day, is it a childish creature in the womb, or is it inhabited by ghouls
she sometimes thinks sadly
The birth of life is inseparable from pain
she sometimes thinks quietly
The birth of life is inseparable from pain]
"The birth of life is inseparable from pain..." Gu Jun muttered in a daze, and suddenly, those chaotic visions became clearly visible.
It was not an illusion, it seemed to be some memories he was born with, revived in front of his eyes.
This altar... Gu Jun remembered that this is the place where the aliens held their coming-of-age ceremonies.
The stone road, stone chamber, and winding stone ladder from Hawke City to the altar are all part of the ceremony.
Unlike the human civilization on earth who likes to build towers to get close to the gods, the aliens believe that the mother earth (goddess of life) nourishes everything.
Walking the ten thousand-step stone path is to go deep into the ground first, entering the stone chamber is to return to the place that symbolizes the birth of life by the mother, and climbing the winding stone ladder is the process of birth. The spiral stone ladder is not allowed to walk from top to bottom, only from bottom to top. Pushing away the altar is also a part of the ceremony, just like new life squeezed out.
Including the crumbling top of the stone ladder, which is about to break is also the original design of the building.
Because the mother is also at great risk during childbirth, and the birth of a new life is a kind of harm to the mother at the same time.
This ballad was sung all the way when groups of teenagers and girls who had just grown up participated in the ceremony...
"But why do I know this?" Gu Jun fell into a daze, "Why do I seem to have personally participated in it... Was it a childhood experience?"
The roar of wild beasts, the bangs of gunfire from the team members, and the sound of singing songs permeated in the mist, mixed into a strange sound.
Suddenly, there came another cold and seductive call that Xue Ba, Uncle Dan and the others could understand:
"Gu Jun, open your eyes, look around, open your eyes!"
This call hit Gu Jun's heart like a heavy hammer...
At the same time, following the call, figures of those men in black appeared in the mist around the altar, walking together from different directions.
Several snipers shot at them immediately, but the bullets just passed through the figure, and there was no scream. Was it just a distorted phantom...
The tide of beasts was still attacking, but they seemed to ignore those black-clothed figures. Xue Ba, Zhou Yi, and the others all wrinkled their faces. The team's automatic rifles had already run out of bullets. They were about to use guns like Gu Jun's submachine gun, but the ammunition was running low.
"Gu Jun, open your eyes, look around, and see what you are."
Figures of men in black came out of the fog from all directions and approached the altar.
Also at this moment, Xue Ba and the others were astonished to see that these people all had the same face.