In the evening, residents of London suddenly saw shadows slowly emerging from the sky above their heads.
It was a monster that had never been seen before. Its fusiform body, searchlight-like artillery and iron tower-like landing gear, as well as its iron-grey, uneven metal armor, were all filled with a heavy steel texture. Just like what is shown in the steampunk fantasy animation, it is a group of steel behemoths that mix violence and cold mechanical beauty, spanning the sky of London like moving mountains, completely covering the entire sky!
Those are five battleships that cover the sky and the sun. Each one is bigger than the largest aircraft carrier in mankind!
Everyone looked horrified, some began to scream in despair and ran away, while others looked at the sky curiously, subconsciously raised their mobile phones, and took pictures of the unprecedented spectacle above their heads with great interest. In this smart phone Today, with the unlimited development of mobile phones, everyone is like holding a wireless mobile camera. Once there is any disturbance, the next second, the whole world can receive the news.
But today, it was destined not to be like this. Everyone had time to pick up their mobile phones, but the next second, a missile suddenly rushed out from the bottom of the huge battleship, like a morning star, and everyone had not even recovered. , the missile exploded directly in the air!
However, the expected flames that destroyed the world did not appear. It was like a dumb bomb. It only flashed a spark and a large puff of smoke, and then disappeared completely without any trace...
However, if you look from the sight of the spacecraft, you can see another strange scene.
From the beginning of the dumb bomb explosion, the entire city's power system seemed to have suffered a devastating blow. Just as the lights of an office building were turned on, they suddenly flickered twice and dimmed completely. Next, the street lights that had just been lit, As well as the cars that turned on their headlights, all the flashing machinery spread out like rays after the building went out!
A building, a street, a city area!
The whole of London began to burn out in a devastating manner, as if some black mist was spreading. In just a few seconds, the whole of London was completely covered in darkness, and it was a lifeless darkness!
Click!
Before those people holding mobile phones made any move, their mobile phone screens flashed with chaos, and then completely dimmed, flashing with sparks!
Electromagnetic bomb!
Many people finally understand what happened to them...
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Barry Lynch is a legal citizen of London. He was originally a college student at Queen Mary College. However, just a few days ago, several serial disappearances suddenly occurred in the school. It was also heard that the police even discovered a corpse. There were rumors in the school and everyone was in danger. Many people believed that there was a murderer in the school.
Later, the school simply announced the suspension of classes and gave all students a long vacation. For this reason, Barry left the school and lived in a low-rent house near the college. In his opinion, this vicious case had alarmed the public. The government believes that within a month, the suspect will be caught and schools can reopen.
However, shortly after leaving school, he felt something was wrong. He couldn't tell what it was like. In short, I don't know when the whole city started to become gloomy. The gloomy here did not mean Temperature and weather refer to the atmosphere of the city. Even on a sunny day, walking on the streets with people coming and going, Barry seems to feel a coldness that penetrates into his bones...
He didn't know where this feeling came from, but he found that he seemed to be afraid of the dark and being alone. He liked to stay in places with people at all times. One time after he went to Hyde Park at night, he suddenly... I was shocked to find that it was not just me, but many people had the same feeling as me. These people did not want to stay in their own homes, but looked for places with many people, and then stayed together like hugging each other for warmth.
Many of these people have received psychological counseling, and psychiatrists have also pointed out that this symptom is just a very common anxiety disorder. However, no matter how the doctor enlightens or even subconsciously hints, they cannot erase everyone's uneasiness. And I heard people mention that not only their group, but also many people with similar symptoms throughout the city, especially in parks and other places in the city center, some people even set up tents and lived in the parks.
This phenomenon has attracted widespread attention from society, and even the news media has reported this situation.
However, until this evening, Barry saw a scene that he would never forget.
In the evening, the sky slowly dimmed and the red clouds were flying. The sun had already set behind Notting Hill in the western suburbs. Only the bloody sun was left on the sky. Barry and his new friend Nick finished dinner at a fast food restaurant, feeling emotional. Somewhat depressed, I returned to my tent in the park and stared at the sunset above my head in a daze.
"Hey, Barry, I'm going to the bathroom, do you want to come with me?" Nick on the side patted his shoulder, bringing Barry back to reality.
"Okay." Barry smiled. This kind of thing is very common among anxiety patients in the park. After all, their symptom is the fear of being alone. Because Barry didn't say anything, he stood up directly, and the two of them walked towards the public toilet in the park. direction.
When he arrived at the door of the toilet, Barry paused. For some reason, he had an unknown feeling.
The environment of the public toilets in the park is good. Special sanitation workers come to clean them every day. They are not full of odors and stains like public toilets in the countryside. They are always filled with the smell of air freshener. But standing at the door of the public toilets , but Barry had an eerie feeling, as if something was staring at him.
"Barry, what's wrong?" Nick on the side patted Barry on the shoulder, "Do you want to wait for me at the door?"
"Nick..." Barry shook his head, his face turned a little pale, "Let's find another toilet."
"Please, I can't hold it in anymore, okay?" Nick patted Barry hard, "We have to overcome fear. Didn't the psychiatrists say that this is just an anxiety attack? Maybe it's a new transplant from London in the spring. It's caused by the pollen produced by various flowers, anyway, who knows?" He said and walked in without waiting for Barry to answer.
Barry opened his mouth, and finally had no choice but to follow suit. He watched Nick walk into a cubicle, and then locked the rotating door lock of the cubicle. The green 'no one' sign outside the door automatically changed to 'occupied' red sign.
Seeing this, Barry could only shake his head, then walked to the cubicle next to Nick, unfastened his belt and sat on the toilet.
"Hey, man, did you know?" Perhaps because he was a little scared of the silent atmosphere, Nick next door suddenly took the initiative to start the topic, "Actually, I have seen ghosts."
"Hey, don't try to scare me." Barry was startled and immediately shook his head.
"It's true, I did see ghosts, and just a few days ago..." Nick's voice seemed to have become smaller, with a hint of uneasiness in his voice, "You know, I was originally a courier. A few days ago, when I was delivering express to Fournier Street, I saw a package whose address was No. 897 Fournier Street. There was a very luxurious single-family villa there. I drove my car and went from house to house in order. I sent the express there, but when it was delivered to No. 897, for some reason, I felt a particularly eerie feeling there... "
Barry gradually closed his mouth and listened to the words next door, only to hear Nick continue, "I didn't feel anything at the time. I just pressed the doorbell, but no one answered. Just when I was about to call the number on the package While I was on the phone, the door of the villa slowly opened automatically... "
"I didn't pay attention at the time, thinking it was just an automatic door. I walked in and shouted inside. Suddenly, in a kitchen not far from the corridor, a girl wearing an apron showed half of her body. Because of the distance, I couldn't see the question clearly, but I could only hear her shouting at me, 'Please wait a moment, I'll come back when I finish the work at hand.'"
"I still didn't think much about it, so I waited and waited there, but I felt that I had been waiting for at least five minutes, and no one came. At that time, I was a little annoyed." Nick's voice gradually lowered, "So , I shouted inside again, and then waited for more than ten seconds. Just when I was about to walk towards the kitchen, the girl leaned out half of her body and shouted to me, "Please wait a moment, wait until I finish my work." Just do the work at hand!'"
Barry was stunned for a moment. He vaguely felt something was wrong, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt nothing. "Did that girl come out to get the express delivery in the end?"
"Haha, if I took it, would I say I met a ghost?" I don't know if it was Barry's illusion, but he heard a vibrato in Nick's voice, "I had to wait patiently and wait. But, just when I couldn't bear it anymore, that girl appeared again... "
"Please wait a moment, I'll come after I finish the work at hand!" Nick said slowly, imitating the girl's tone, which was full of shrillness and drama. But when he heard Nick's nondescript words, Barry suddenly felt an indescribable feeling. Ice coldness enveloped his whole body. He subconsciously hugged his arms and asked in a low voice, "You mean, her third cry was exactly the same as the first two?"
"That's right..." Nick smiled bitterly, "I finally felt something was wrong. I started walking towards the kitchen, but when I arrived at the kitchen, I saw that in the kitchen..."
"There's no one there!"
Barry subconsciously shuddered and smiled bitterly, "Nick, you scared me..." But before he finished speaking, he was suddenly startled. There was an indescribable sound coming from the next cubicle...
It couldn't be said what the sound was. It was like the lag caused by the audio cassette, or like the friction sound made by stepping on the wooden floor. In short, it was a weird "gurgling" sound, which grew louder and louder as time passed. Seconds passed, and the voice got louder and louder...
"Nick? Nick?" A creepy feeling appeared in Barry's heart. He subconsciously tilted his head and put his ear against the partition. However, he was shocked to find that the wooden partition actually produced a strange ice... cold. At the same time, the gurgling sound was already close at hand, as if some strange thing was making the same move as himself, and there was only a wooden board between him and the strange thing!
A wave of goosebumps appeared on Barry's body, and he suddenly had a feeling that if he didn't leave immediately, he would definitely die!
This feeling was indescribable, but it stimulated all the adrenaline in Barry's body. He pulled up his pants at an indescribable speed, then quickly pushed open the compartment door and ran out of the toilet!
The moment he ran out of the toilet, the cold feeling immediately faded away. Only then did he bend down with his hands on his knees, breathing heavily!
The crowd around him looked at Barry with strange eyes, but Barry couldn't care anymore. He shouted to the crowd, "Nick, Nick is still in there, he was attacked by a strange thing!"
These people were all people who had the same anxiety disorder as him. After hearing Barry's words, three or four brave people immediately walked into the toilet. Under Barry's guidance, they kicked open the door of Nick's cubicle. !
The compartment was empty.
Nick is missing…
Many people fell silent. They all knew that this was not the first time such a disappearance occurred. Countless disappearances had been reported on the news, but this was the first time that someone disappeared directly under the eyes of everyone.
"Something that we can't understand is happening in this world..." These were the words of a wise old man. Just as he finished speaking, huge warships began to slowly appear in the sky. emerge.
The moment he saw these battleships, Barry could no longer hold on. He rushed out of the park, took a taxi, and drove towards the suburbs! He must leave here immediately, leave this increasingly deserted city, otherwise, he cannot believe that he will be the next one to disappear
However, the car only drove for a few seconds when a burst of thick smoke suddenly erupted from the hood. At the same time, the whole car was like a stalled scrapped car. It lost control and hit the street light next to it!
At the same time, the city, which was still lit up with lights, was completely plunged into darkness!
Boom boom boom!
All around, dozens of cars collided with each other at this moment, and countless pedestrians screamed one after another. When Barry and the taxi driver who had a bruised head and bloodied their head climbed out of the car, they were shocked to find that the whole city was At this moment, I fell into a deathly silence...
No, it was not silent. Barry suddenly saw that one of the huge battleships was floating not far above his head. At the same time, the hatch at the bottom slowly opened, and a container-like thing began to be lifted from above. Put it down!
"Be careful!" Barry yelled, turned around and ran away with his head in his hands. Before he could escape very far, he felt a sudden shock under his feet, and at the same time a deafening crash came. He stopped in shock and walked behind him. Looking over, I was shocked to see a metal cabinet that was bigger than a two-story villa being thrown down from a height of more than a thousand meters! It smashed through the convenience store on the roadside and flattened the taxi I was riding in just now...
What is this, aliens attacking the earth
Barry felt like he was going numb. He stared blankly at the metal cabinet. However, before he could recover, the metal cabinet suddenly made an exhaust-like sound, as if the air pressure was being relieved. At the same time, , the side of the metal cabinet facing Barry began to slowly rise like a rolling shutter, revealing the dense red light inside, like the eyes of a demon from hell...
It was a group of things that could only be seen on TV. Skeleton-shaped robots were densely placed in a superimposed posture in a huge metal cabinet. As the cabinet door opened, these robots rushed out like a flood. , within seconds, hundreds of skeleton robots emerged like a tide!
At the same time, a long and sharp siren sounded faintly over the whole city. The sound was extremely loud, as if it could be transmitted dozens of kilometers away, penetrating everyone's eardrums. At the same time, those skeleton-like robots From his mouth, an electronic radio voice automatically sounded—
"Citizens of London, this is the Stellar Life Sciences Foundation. We will take over London from now on. From now on, London will enter a state of military control. The entire city has been blocked. Everyone is asked to return to their homes. Anyone on the street Anyone staying on the street will be arrested by the Foundation! Repeat, all citizens please stay at home. Anyone staying on the street will be arrested by the Foundation! Thank you for your cooperation.”
"From now on, all stores in the city are prohibited from operating. Once discovered, they will be punished by the foundation. If there are special circumstances, please hang a blue flag in front of your door, or use bed sheets, etc. All blue signs will be banned. Yes, we will come to serve you within ten minutes!”
"The city adopts a curfew system from 18pm to 8am the next morning. No one is allowed to go out during this period. Please note that citizens, once we find anyone staying outside, we will arrest them... This is not a drill, repeat , this is not a drill! For the safety of you and your family, please do not make unnecessary resistance. The foundation is friendly and we promise not to harm anyone!”