Chapter 15 The wind blocked the call. Awww.a ...

The sound echoing in the sky became clearer and clearer, the ground began to vibrate faintly, fine dust was raised, and the sunlight slanting into the house passed through the floating dust, revealing exceptionally beautiful beams of light.

The living room floor was littered with broken wood pieces and bowls and basins with tooth marks on them. For a moment, there was not even enough space to step.

Chu Xiuyan, who had regained his composure at this time, was holding a handful of blood crystals that had fallen from his body in his hands. His chin rested on the back of the chair, his vision was unfocused, as if he was wilted. He looked a little depressed, and not at all as irritable as he was a few minutes ago.

Zhang Chun looked at the young man, his heart gradually sinking.

The negative impact has increased. How high is Yunyan’s pollution level?

There is a pollution value detector in the Yellowstone settlement, but it has been broken for almost half a month and is completely unusable.

The beast tide was approaching. If the team of superpowers at the ruins base discovered the similarities between Yunyan and the aliens...

Zhang Chun thought about this, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Yun Yan, if the beast tide attacks next time, when there are strangers nearby, you should try not to rush forward, and run towards Cui Zhiyong and me as much as possible, and don't expose your abnormality..."

"Uncle, you make it sound like I'll be kidnapped by some weird uncle if I go out alone."

Chu Xiuyan said listlessly: "And what could be wrong with me?"

Zhang Chun was stunned and stammered: "Ah? Do you want me to tell you? That is, you are not an alien...?"

The young man yawned and said nonchalantly, "Uncle, are you stupid? That's a superpower. My superpower is - transformation into a superhuman!"

“…”

Zhang Chun picked up the chopsticks and hit the boy's head hard with them with an expressionless face.

Chu Xiuyan's dodge ability was temporarily reset to zero, and he took the hit without a care. His sight flickered, and he suddenly noticed the huge steel building that appeared in the distance outside the window. His eyes widened immediately, and he pointed out the window with trembling hands, and said in shock:

"What the hell is that thing that feels like it's several hundred meters tall, is pitch black, looks super scary, and is even moving?"

Zhang Chun was startled by the adjectives Chu Xiuyan said. He looked in the direction the boy pointed and suddenly said, "I haven't seen the sentry tower for a long time. It feels like it has been built a lot taller."

Chu Xiuyan instantly became alert, rushed to the window with a chair and sat down, taking a closer look at the huge monster high in the sky in the distance.

Under the blue sky, a nearly 100-meter-tall steel monster is moving slowly. It is pointed at the top and wide at the bottom, with a cubic base. Mechanical tentacles can be vaguely seen moving it. The overall main color is pitch black, with blood-red patterns, making it look particularly cold and weird.

"It's a mobile sentry tower that is a fusion of blood crystal and technology." Zhang Chun added, "It's basically responsible for guarding, patrolling, and deterrence."

"Is there anyone up there?" Chu Xiuyan asked curiously.

"Of course."

"But it's so high, wouldn't it be difficult to escape if we encounter danger?"

Zhang Chun said: "With a special protective layer, death crises rarely occur... But if they do happen, we can only pray that there is a high-level team of psychics nearby who can rush to rescue us in time."

"An isolated island..."

The black-haired boy leaned his chin on the back of the chair and pushed his toes on the ground, causing the chair to shake.

He didn't know what he was thinking about, and suddenly asked, "Uncle, are there any super-technological spaceships or intelligent robots in this world?"

Zhang Chun couldn't figure out what the boy was thinking, and was a little surprised, but he told the truth: "No."

Chu Xiuyan: "Then, then wasteland punk?"

"No."

"Artificial intelligence? Omnic crisis? Deus ex machina?"

Zhang Chun: "... None of them. And what you are talking about are all of the same kind."

Chu Xiuyan scratched his hair, racking his brains to find a new setting, and suddenly an idea came to him, "Spiritual energy revives, the gods descend, Ragnarok!"

Zhang Chun: “…”

He slapped the boy's head heavily.

The system was speechless: [If there is any setting, it should be the global evolution of life. ]

…

"唳——"

High in the sky, a sharp whistle of wind was heard, and a giant bird over two meters long flapped its wings. Its pair of scarlet eyes looked down at the ground in search of prey, and then it suddenly tilted and crashed straight into a giant building not far away.

Bang!

The giant bird's neck was broken and it fell from the sky.

And its target, the special glass that was more than five meters wide, made a crisp sound, blood flowed slowly, and was then washed away by the water.

"Oh my god, this is too scary..."

A young man who was only about one meter away from the glass surface witnessed the scene and gasped in horror, covering his chest. He was wearing a blue uniform with the number T308.

This is the small control room at the top of the giant watchtower. There are two figures sitting inside. The older one is controlling the direction in front of the console and sending information to the main control center in the ruined city.

"Tower Three, everything is normal."

Then, the elder frowned and looked at T308 beside him. "Assistant, don't be so startled. Didn't the trainer during the on-the-job training remind you to be alert at all times?"

T308 quickly straightened his face and said, "I'm sorry, sir."

He calmed down his nervousness, turned around and continued what he was doing. The red dots marked nearby on the display were escaping in different directions - the red dots represented mutated creatures, which meant that they could be dealt with simply by operating the sentry tower.

As the sentry tower moved, there were continuous loud rumbling noises, thick smoke and dust rose from the ground, and the red dots on the display screen disappeared in large pieces.

T308 breathed a sigh of relief and pressed the directional control key at the same time, maneuvering the sentry tower away from the blue dot. Life detection showed that it was a human settlement and could not be approached.

Sentry tower workers are the most dangerous and highest-paid profession in the base. Although the rotation frequency is high, most of them are ordinary people and therefore have limited tolerance for the outside world. Basically, they will have a mental breakdown after two or three rotations and retreat to the second line.

It was T308's first day at work, but he quickly adapted to the external environment and work pace. He was somewhat delighted at this moment. Operating the sentry tower was not as difficult as his predecessors had said. Although the giant bird did scare him, it did not penetrate the special protective layer, right?

He began to relax, imagining what he would do after getting a large salary. He would move his parents from the lower class district to the middle class district, give his girlfriend some gifts, and maybe get married...

Lost in his beautiful fantasy, he didn't notice a crow landing outside the glass window. Its pitch-black feathers did not reflect any light, looking eerie and dangerous.

The crow's scarlet eyes moved slightly, reflecting T308's dazed face. It seemed that it could vaguely hear vague voices, "a better life", "Mom and Dad", "children"...

It didn't react at all, just flapped its wings and let out a loud scream.

T308 in the control room's brain went blank for a moment. All his thoughts disappeared. Blood flowed from his eye sockets, nose, and ears. Two seconds later, his body fell forward uncontrollably with a loud noise.

The older man, who had his back to him, didn't know what was going on and angrily asked, "T308! What are you doing?"

No response.

"T308!?"

The older man had a bad feeling and without even turning his head, he shifted his body to the left and slammed his palm heavily on a red button.

However, the shrill sound was faster than his movements. The older man's eyes went dark and his head ached violently, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted on pressing the button. However, due to loss of strength, he accidentally pressed the green communication button next to it.

A hint of human displeasure flashed in the crow's eyes, and it flapped its wings and landed outside the glass wall where the elder was.

The communication in the control room was connected, and the commander from the main control center of the ruined city asked: "This is the control center, sentry tower No. 3, what happened?"

The elderly man lying on the control panel suddenly straightened up, his pupils dilated, and his lips, which were still bleeding heavily, moved up and down. He said calmly, "I'm sorry, it was T308's fault. A giant bird hit the glass earlier and he was scared."

Commander: "Is T308 here?"

The young man who had long been dead on the back straightened up stiffly and said vaguely, "I'm here. I'm sorry."

Commander: "Received. We will discuss your punishment after we return to the base. Please continue your mission now."

"I see." said the older man.

Communication ended.

The two bodies in the control room fell again.

In the dead silence, the terrifying and huge watchtower stood there, silent and motionless, as if it were already dead.

The crow flapped its wings and flew high, uttering long cries one after another, its scarlet eyes directed towards the ground.

The lush forest raised clouds of dust and accompanied by loud rumbling noises. Animals with hideous looks and hair as coagulated as blood ran through the woods, their scarlet eyes full of cruelty.

At the front were nearly a hundred white wolves, led by the wolf king, who had bloodshot eyes and howled loudly towards the sky.

The dark crow received the signal, circled in the air for a moment, and quickly flew south.

There is another mobile sentry tower there.

…

Zhang Chun woke up in the middle of the night and subconsciously fell to the ground to sense the information coming from the ground.

Safe, no anomalies.

But his hands were shaking.

"strangeness……"

The supernatural power told him that everything was normal.

His intuition made him alert that danger was approaching.

The two completely different responses gave him a splitting headache.

His past experience made him clearly understand that this was abnormal, so he immediately got dressed and went out. He kicked open the door of the room opposite, but found that the room was empty and there was no sign of the black-haired boy. He was furious and went to the living room, picked up a loud speaker and ran out.

"Dear villagers, please go to the underground shelter immediately!"

He repeated it over and over again, and when he saw the villagers running out of their houses and rushing towards the village center, he activated his special powers and the passage to the underground shelter opened.

Cui Zhiyong found Zhang Chun, held his shoulders, and asked anxiously: "What happened? Did you see anything?"

"That's the problem!" Zhang Chun said seriously, "My ability tells me everything is normal, but my intuition says danger is coming soon!"

"So dangerous that we need to open the shelter?! Does your instinct tell you that the thing that's coming is..."

Cui Zhiyong's voice suddenly stopped.

Shu Xiumei came over with the civet cat, looked at Zhang Chun, then looked at Cui Zhiyong who had a grim look on his face, held the child's hand tightly and then loosened it, exhaled softly, and said: "Please be careful with everything. If it comes to the end, please let us also..."

Zhang Chun interrupted her, "No, there won't be that chance. Go in quickly and don't waste time."

Cui Zhiyong opened and closed his mouth, but the words he wanted to say were stuck in his throat, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.

When the civet cat passed by Zhang Chun, it raised its head and seemed a little hesitant, but finally bit its lip and said, "Uncle Zhang, don't die."

Zhang Chun: "...Okay. Also, don't mess around with Yun Yan anymore."

When all the villagers entered the shelter, Cui Zhiyong let out the breath he had been holding and said in a low voice, "It's a beast tide, right?!"

After he finished speaking, he shook his head vigorously and said in disbelief, "Impossible. The sentry tower said that the beast tide would come in half a month, and only two days have passed! It's impossible for me to travel to half a month later by sleeping, right?"

Zhang Chun walked quickly towards the entrance of the village and said quickly: "I will go to the entrance of the village to guard it, you quickly go to the back mountain to find Yun Yan."

Cui Zhiyong hurriedly followed beside him and was shocked when he heard this: "Why did he go to the back mountain again?!"

Zhang Chun also wanted to ask, but now was not the right time.

The anticipation of danger made my head ache and my limbs seemed to become weak.

It is five o'clock in the morning and the sky is still dark.

There was deathly silence at the entrance of the village. The black dog in the kennel was taken away by some unknown villager and taken into the underground shelter.

The woods in the distance were pitch black. The moonlight was setting, and only the rustling of leaves in the wind could be heard. In the eerie silence, suddenly, a pair of scarlet eyes lit up in the darkness, followed by a second pair, and a third pair...

Soon, densely packed, large patches of scarlet eyes lit up in the woods. They were eerie and cold, and they cast sinister glances at them in the darkness, which was extremely creepy.

In an instant, Cui Zhiyong felt a chill in his heart and goose bumps appeared all over his body.

He almost whispered, "Fuck..."

Zhang Chun took a deep breath and said, "Listen, I will hold them back for ten minutes. You quickly go to the back mountain to find Yun Yan. He is... very strong. Very strong."

When he spoke the last part, his voice became hoarse and trembling, as if he was hesitant about whether to drag the other party into danger... The young man was indeed very strong, but not strong enough to fight against tens of millions of strange beasts.

Cui Zhiyong said decisively: "You can't stop him, and the mountain is so big, who knows where he ran to."

He snatched the loud speaker from Zhang Chun's hand, turned it up to the highest setting, turned around, and shouted towards the back mountain: "Yun Yan! Return home quickly, your family is in danger!"

The loud echo made the strange animals in the woods restless. A monkey rushed out hastily, but was pierced through the head by a spike that jumped out of the ground. It fell to the ground, trembled twice, and died on the spot.

The strange beasts in the woods became a little afraid when they saw this.

"Strange, this reaction..." Zhang Chun saw this and had a terrible guess in his heart, "Could they be intelligent?"

Cui Zhiyong, who was still calling out to the mountain, scratched his ears and looked at Zhang Chun: "Did you say anything?... Forget it, let's fight harder and make more noise. If it doesn't work, we can burn down the village. That kid is very smart and will always react."

“…”

Zhang Chun sighed, "You don't have to die with me."

Cui Zhiyong stared at the strange beast in the woods and sneered, "I have told you many times that no matter what I do, it has nothing to do with you. Just like now, I am not standing here because I sympathize with you, but because I want to be a hero... a hero praised by everyone."

Zhang Chun heard this and chuckled, saying, "It's not easy to be a hero."

The moment the words fell, tall white wolves slowly walked out of the dim woods, and the wolf king in the lead had a pair of scarlet eyes filled with human cruelty and pleasure.

Then, the howling of wolves filled the night sky.

…

Back mountain.

Chu Xiuyan, who was walking towards the top of the mountain, seemed to hear someone calling his name. He turned around and looked in the direction of the village, but his view was blocked by lush trees.

When I listened more carefully, I couldn't hear anything.

The leaves spun in the air, slowly flew towards the red-haired man standing on the treetop, and then gently fell into his palm.

The wind blocked the call.