In the psychic town, Zhuang Ci and a group of people searched slowly and finally found traces of other investigators entering.
They all disappeared on the same street, but the surveillance camera disappeared and it was impossible to find out why. All residents of that street were killed, and when asked about nearby residents, none of them were willing to speak. The public security of the entire town has completely collapsed.
Now, they have to go out in groups, as the locals are obviously hostile to them and full of hostility. It only takes a small spark to completely ignite the conflict between the two sides.
"There are three main tasks now. The first is to find Lin Chu. With her around, we can better carry out the next step of work. The second is to find traces of 'it' in the town. The last one is to find other investigators who have also ended up in this world." In the small room, Zhuang Ci quietly arranged the tasks.
There were four of us in total, and after the tasks were assigned, everyone sat together to discuss.
"Until now, they haven't sent any signal." Zhuang Ci began to read out the list, including Xu Xihe's name.
"Once we have gathered six people, send half of them to explore that street. The street is now blocked by the police, and the degree of danger is unknown. Don't explore it for the time being..."
As they were talking, they didn't notice that the ground beneath their feet shook very slightly for a moment.
The sky outside the window darkened rapidly.
Zhuang Ci was about to speak when the investigator in front of her suddenly widened his eyes in horror and pointed out the window behind her: "Sister Zhuang Ci, you... you look..."
"Hurry up!" Zhuang Ci didn't know what was behind her, but since it made them look so scared, it must be something bad. She ran out the door without looking back, and the others also reacted and ran out the door quickly.
The ground was shaking even more violently, and I could clearly feel the tremors. If I didn't pay attention I would have thought it was an earthquake.
After Zhuang Ci ran to the door, she subconsciously looked back. She wanted to see what was outside the window.
What comes into view is the eyes...
A huge human eye appeared outside the glass window! Compared with it, Zhuang Ci was probably not even as tall as the eyeball.
The eye was staring at her intently. Being stared at like this, Zhuang Ci couldn't help but feel cold all over. She couldn't help but imagine how big this thing must be...
"Sister! Run!" She finally reacted when someone pulled her hard, and the group ran down quickly.
The stairs were shaking, dust, building debris, etc. were falling down, the building was falling apart, and when they finally escaped to the ground, the whole building collapsed.
But what was strange was that the huge eyes they had just seen disappeared.
Zhuang Ci had imagined a lot about that huge eye. She wondered if there was some giant humanoid creature that appeared in the town, or if the eye was projected by some kind of device. But now...
She felt a little uneasy.
There was nothing to see, only a collapsed building. There were still many people in the building who had not had time to escape. There were corpses buried under the rubble, and one could smell the strong smell of blood on them, which could not be covered up even by the thick dust.
An investigator asked quietly, "Do you want any help?"
Their usual rules include trying not to involve ordinary people. Now that they are in another world, they are not sure whether ordinary people in another world also need protection. Zhuang Ci thought about it and shook his head: "It's not necessary. We can just call the police and let them handle it."
She didn't want to have anything to do with this weird town. Although she really wanted to know what the eye was, there were so many weird things in the town that she didn't need to know everything.
The investigator said okay and stood aside to call the police.
Inside the police station, on the third underground floor, the phone rang.
A soft, pale hand stretched out from the gap in the cabinet, trying to answer the phone. The freezer was quite old, and the grinding part made a harsh sound when pushed and pulled. But the hand still insisted on squeezing out from the gap in the cabinet, then grasped the handle and pulled the cabinet out a long way in one breath.
Then, the hand stretched out very far to reach the red landline phone on the table beside him. It seemed to be frozen for a long time and a little stiff. After two attempts, he finally reached the microphone and pulled the long telephone cord back.
"Hello... Hello? May I ask... what happened?"
A faint crackling sound of electric current came from the other end, and the female voice was stiff and cold.
The investigator felt a little strange: "Hello, I want to call the police. We are at xx Road... here..."
After listening to him, the other end replied: "Okay..."
"We will find you as soon as possible..."
"Hello? Hello? Don't worry about finding me. We're leaving soon. Just come to this street." The investigator was about to say something, but the other party seemed to have heard nothing and repeated again: "Don't worry, we will find you as soon as possible."
"What? Are the police here too weird?" The investigator frowned. He hadn't noticed anything weird yet, but he just felt something was wrong. Just as he was about to turn off his phone, a sneer suddenly rang out from the other end of the screen.
"What's wrong? Hurry up." Zhuang Ci turned around and saw his teammates still standing there motionless, so he couldn't help but urge them.
The next second, a pale hand stretched out from the phone screen. This hand fiercely grabbed the investigator's head. Before anyone could react, the hand grabbed his hair and pulled it hard towards the screen.
His head was stuffed into a palm-sized screen. Now, a mobile phone was strangely pressed against his neck, and he was holding the phone in his hand. If it weren't for the strange scene that just happened in front of him, this could be called a good work of art.
"Found it." The last words came from the other end of the phone on the screen, and then the phone was hung up.
The phone fell to the ground as his hand loosened. The headless body fell straight down, and the head... disappeared.
It happened so quickly and suddenly that the other people didn't have time to react and one of their companions died.
Zhuang Ci took a deep breath and said, "Let's go."
"Now, we have to find other investigators. We can't go to the police station anymore."
Mo Xun, the girl who first found Zhuang Ci, suggested: "They are likely outside the psychic town. Should we leave the town first?"
Zhuang Ci: "I have thought about this possibility, but now, we can't leave the town. The people in the town mentioned that the cultural festival might be a turning point."
Xu Xihe, who is being sought by Zhuang Ci and others, is in danger.
"Xihe? What's wrong with you?" His friend waved his pale hand in front of him, and he smiled with his equally pale face. It was fine under normal circumstances. But now... Xu Xihe always suspected that the red spots on his neck looked like corpse spots.
"It's okay." He smiled awkwardly and tried to get up, hoping to use the opportunity to go to the kitchen to escape, but was held down.
"You saw the news, right?" My friend laughed, his skin turning blue at a speed visible to the naked eye, and blood oozing out.
Xu Xihe suddenly froze in place.
The air in the room quickly condensed, and he smelled an increasingly strong smell of blood and flesh. His hands and feet were cold, and just as the corpse's arms were about to wrap around his neck, he immediately ran towards the door.
Outside the door stood dozens of unrecognizable corpses.
As soon as he opened the door, his footsteps suddenly stopped. Xu Xihe closed the door with his backhand, looking around, trying to find other escape routes.
But it was too late.
Behind him, cold hands grabbed his neck and pulled him to the other side of the wall.
… Am I going to die
No! There is something very important that I haven’t done yet… What is it
Xu Xihe was held by the neck and lifted into the air, kicking the corpse with his legs. But it was useless, his weak struggle was just a joke in front of the ghost.
Forgot something
What else is there to do
Suddenly, the image of a faceless girl flashed through Xu Xihe's mind.
One hand grabbed his head, the other gripped his shoulders, and the hand that was strangling his neck loosened.
Just before the head was pulled off, the two hands suddenly stopped moving. Then, they retracted into their friend's sleeves.
My friend staggered to his feet and walked out, joining the group of bodies that had died in the car accident waiting outside the door. Then, they slowly went upstairs, intending to look for a new family.
The danger is gone.
Xu Xihe sat there, breathing heavily, rubbing his neck. His neck was pulled so hard that it hurt. Just now, just a little bit, his neck was almost broken! Fortunately, he remembered everything.
Xu Xihe rolled up his sleeves.
On the inside of his elbow, there was a red mark.
Xu Xihe didn't know where the others had gone, and the means of contact between them could no longer be used. He quickly went to the computer and operated it, sending a small program to the group.
This program contains secret codes used by investigators to communicate with each other. I believe that if their memories have not disappeared, they will come looking for me after seeing it.
Behind him, a blood-red statue of a deity suddenly appeared on the TV cabinet.
Another time and space in another world.
The archaeologists finally finished collecting data and prepared to go back. Considering that there were countless spores outside the door that could infect the human body, they were fully prepared and wrapped their bodies and faces tightly, leaving no skin exposed.
"Are you ready?" Captain Yang took the lead, his roar muffled by the mask still loud.
"Ready!"
There were indeed not a single missing person, and there were even two extra people. After Captain Yang confirmed this, he reached out and slowly opened the door.
It took a lot of effort to pull it from the inside out. Captain Yang finally opened a crack and could already see the flashing green fluorescence outside the door.
He didn't say anything and continued to push. The others followed suit and pulled inside, finally opening the door wide enough for someone to pass through.
"Okay, we can now..." Daozi was helping at the door. Seeing this, he turned around and happily planned to call others to go out together. But the moment he turned his head, a black shadow as fast as lightning jumped in from outside the door -
Daozi was still laughing when he suddenly felt a chill in his throat. Then he couldn't speak anymore and fell down, holding his throat.
He saw a lot of blood spurting out, staining his clothes.
"knife!!"
"Brother Dao!—"
Before others could react to what was happening, the black shadow, about half a person's height, continued to rush through the crowd. In just a few breaths, it had already claimed several lives.
“Ahh—”
Only now did they realize how scared they were and started to squeeze towards the door.
Lu Yanli was also standing by the door. The moment the unexpected happened, he rushed out.