However, what Zhang Heng didn't know was that while he was intensively contacting the only remaining fighting force in the world, some unexpected changes had begun to occur in several small towns next to Midgar City...
In the early morning, in a sparsely populated slum, a boy in ragged clothes slowly opened the door to a crack and peered into this familiar and unfamiliar world with vigilant and numb eyes. He observed for a long time until he thought that the outside world When everything was safe, he quietly walked out of the room and began to search for rare prey in the slums.
Rats, wild cats, wild dogs and even scavenging insects are the diet of humans on the planet today. As the planet's environment continues to deteriorate, most plants have withered due to lack of sunlight. Only the moss in the shadows does not need sunlight. The plants gradually grew and spread to the entire city.
Whizzing…
Walking in the dark and narrow gap, the boy held a steel knife in his mouth and slowly moved away a bunch of debris with his hands, looking for traces of edible insects and animals. These insects and animals were extremely alert and were hunting. Don't make a sound at all. Once you make a sound, all your efforts will be wasted.
Gu Gu Gu Gu…
A low cry came, and the little boy's hungry blue pupils suddenly lit up. He suppressed his nervousness and slowly pushed aside the garbage in front of him, and immediately saw a dirty pheasant with large black spots. He was unconsciously pecking at insects in front of the garbage dump. At this moment, the little boy immediately slowed down, like a cheetah about to hunt, hunched over and slowly approaching the prey...
Soon, soon...
Just when the little boy was less than six meters away from the pheasant, suddenly, there was a low friction sound from the garbage pile. The pheasant in front of him seemed to have noticed something, and it spread its wings without thinking, and was about to fly towards it. The little boy ran to the hidden location!
The little boy was about to launch an attack, but all he heard was a "swish" sound! A blood-red creature like a python suddenly attacked! Like an afterimage, it rushed in front of the pheasant in the blink of an eye. The python's head turned into a bloody mouth full of sharp teeth. With just one swallow, the prey that the little boy had tried so hard to get close to was immediately swallowed. The giant python was the first to get there and swallowed it!
"Sigh..."
The pheasant didn't even have time to scream before it died. It was as if it was being strangled by the neck and swallowed whole by the opponent!
The little boy felt a chill in his heart. He hid in the garbage and looked towards the outside world, but he discovered that the long flesh-red monster was not a python. It was simply the tentacles of an unknown monster!
Like the tentacles of an octopus, the monster's body is filled with slippery mucus, and the bottom of the tentacles is filled with dense suckers. Those suckers are extremely ugly. If a patient with trypophobia sees it, he will probably faint immediately. Not only that, in the tentacles At the root of the mouth, a huge mouth like a meat grinder opens and closes slightly. The huge mouth is divided into four petals like a flower, and in the middle are densely packed sharp teeth. This special mouthpart is simply unheard of, just like "Extreme Deep Cold" 》That kind of sea monster look!
The little boy subconsciously covered his mouth, suppressing the trembling of his body, and at the same time slowly retreated. The moment he saw the tentacle, he understood that the other party was not something he could fight against. What was he thinking of hunting at this time? , long gone.
However, just when the little boy retreated, suddenly, there was a cold and slippery feeling on the back of his neck. His body trembled slightly. He suppressed the trembling body and slowly turned around, only to see that he didn't know when , three or four tentacles appeared behind him, all facing him, and slowly opened their ferocious mouthparts...
"ah!"
From time to time, human screams could be heard in this small town that was still surviving, and then died out...
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Time passed slowly, and in the sky above Midgar City, hundreds of Falcon fighter jets were suspended in the air in an invisible manner, while Zhang Heng was sitting in the cabin with his eyes closed and meditating.
A battle may break out at any time, and Zhang Heng needs to maintain his physical strength and spirit for the coming battle.
However, until the dusk of the next day, the entire city of Midgar was still peaceful. Not to mention Jenova, there was not even a cat or a dog. But as time went by, Zhang Heng's expression became more and more solemn. stand up.
"Something's wrong!"
Suddenly, Zhang Heng opened his eyes suddenly, and he said in an unusually serious tone, "To stop the sorrow, send ten Falcon fighter jets to leave the battle sequence and go around the planet. I need to make sure nothing abnormal happens there!"
"Yes." Zhi Shang said skillfully, "Call numbers A090 to A100. This is the command center. Please answer when you receive it!"
"A090 received!"
"A098 received!"
"A100 received, please give orders from the command center!"
"When the numbered ten Falcon fighter jets are clicked, they immediately leave the battle sequence, divide them into ten positions, and check all parts of the planet for any abnormal phenomena. Any abnormal phenomena need to be reported immediately!"
"receive!"
Ten Falcon fighter jets immediately came out and erupted with ten sonic explosions in the sky above Midgar City. In the next second, they turned into ten streams of light and rushed towards their assigned directions!
At this time, Zhang Heng lowered his head silently and closed his eyes tightly, as if he was deducing something. For some reason, he always felt extremely uneasy. Today was too peaceful, as if it had no meaning at all. But Zhang Heng knew that since the Dimensional Star gave him seventy-two hours, there must be a deep meaning in it, and there could be no such thing as a useless thing that would make it useless and a pity to discard it.
He originally wanted to rely on his ability to predict, but when he thought about the upcoming battle, he suppressed this idea. If he lost too much mental power at this time, he would be in a disadvantageous state for the next battle.
However, since the city of Midgar is peaceful, there is only one possibility, and that is that something unknown happened elsewhere.
Just when Zhang Heng was deep in thought, the warning sound of the dispatched Falcon fighter came from the quantum communicator, "A100 calls the command center, there are thousands of humans in the wasteland dozens of kilometers away from Midgar City. Heading towards the city of Midgar, no, that’s not right! The opponent is not a human being, but a creature that seems to be under some kind of control!”
Hearing the words, Zhi Shang immediately walked up to Zhang Heng and opened the holographic screen device on the Falcon fighter. Suddenly, a desolate wasteland appeared in front of everyone, and on the ground, there were faintly visible stars moving slowly. The black spot - this is the on-site record sent back by the A100 fighter jet.
Zhang Heng showed such a look this time. He strode to the screen in a meteoric step and made a two-finger sliding gesture as if he were enlarging a cell phone photo. Suddenly, the screen in front of him was rapidly enlarged. When it was enlarged more than a hundred times, , finally saw clearly the so-called black spots on the ground.
Where are the black spots? They are clearly monsters with muscles all over their bodies and almost all their facial features deformed! All that is left of this monster is a huge abyss mouth that reaches behind its ears. It looks even more ferocious and terrifying than the Evil God of Vengeance!
Such black spots are densely packed, numbering in the thousands, and some are completely naked, but there are still some monsters with fragments of clothing hanging on their bodies, swaying constantly when the wind in the wilderness blows gently.
With just one glance, Zhang Heng could tell that these monsters were all mutated from humans!
"A093 discovered an anomaly. Southeast of Midgar City, we also discovered a large number of humanoid monsters, numbering in the tens of thousands!"
"A094 found an abnormality, the number of monsters reaches tens of thousands!"
Zhang Heng suddenly discovered that seemingly overnight, except for Midgar City, all humans around the world seemed to have turned into monsters!
Not only that, but in the center of Midgar City, there was also a faint and heart-wrenching sound of metal twisting. The sound was thick and harsh, as if there was a prehistoric giant beast under the ground of Midgar City, which was constantly struggling. , wanting to break free and roar out!