Chapter 389: Flesh, Bitterness, Weakness (19) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update of 35.2w nutrient solution) [VIP]

Danger was detected. The protective shield of zone 08, which should be called the environmental system of zone 08 at this time, the big glass ball covering the entire zone 08 turned into a scarlet color that was so rich that it was almost dark. In this scarlet color, a long and narrow black slit on the edge of the sky was like a long and narrow eye, watching everything that happened here.

It looked like it was raining in the sky, but if you looked closely you could see that those were aircraft whose pilots had lost their abilities and were falling uncontrollably.

Among these aircraft, there was an old model that shuttled back and forth, avoiding attacks from above.

At the beginning, the movements of this aircraft were very unfamiliar. It narrowly escaped danger several times and was almost taken down by a falling aircraft once. Fortunately, the old model has its advantages. For example, compared with these new aircraft that pursue lightweight, it is particularly resistant to smashing.

After being knocked down by the aircraft and falling seven or eight meters, the old aircraft finally rushed forward, dodged another time-controlled aircraft on the right, and climbed to a high altitude.

At this height, there are basically no aircraft that can cause an attack, and at its feet, countless aircraft are falling uncontrollably toward the ground like falling meteors.

Most of the aircraft in the sky have fallen to the ground. The safety measures for vehicles in the future era are quite good. 95% of the aircraft did not explode into fireworks at this time, but fell to the ground in some embarrassing postures under the protection of emergency automatic driving.

Or rather, it hit the ground.

With such an emergency and hardcore landing, the unconscious pilot and passengers in the aircraft would probably suffer a concussion or remain unconscious for several hours.

It's better than losing your life.

Bai Jinshu had almost half of his body hanging in the front, trying hard to keep the aircraft hovering normally. He threw Lu Gang on the driver's seat to the back with one hand and finally let out a breath slowly.

The barrage finally let out a sigh of relief as if they were actually there, and relaxed a little:

[I was so scared, I thought the main thing was sent here. 】

【Why so sudden? 】

【Who saw what happened just now? 】

[I didn't see it clearly, my network was stuck, and before I knew it, the host had already started flying the aircraft.]

[My network card is stuck too, and there is no sound for several seconds. ]

[That's not the network card, it's the room manager turning it off. I didn't have time to blur it out.]

[@房管, are you okay? Isn't the footage you saw five minutes behind what we saw? ]

A blue announcement popped up above the live broadcast room: [Changed. 】

The moderator of the live broadcast room has been changed.

The second message appeared on the bulletin board: [Just now, the image and sound caused a san check at the same time. ]

After this sentence, the property manager no longer responded to any questions on the barrage, and seemed to be concentrating and waiting for the next scene.

If something goes wrong within the project, there will be a series of failures if nothing unexpected happens. If some fatal information is accidentally missed, causing a large number of investors in the live broadcast room to fail together, it will be considered a serious work accident.

The property manager stopped replying, and the investors on the barrage became inexplicably nervous:

[So what happened? Is there an invasion of C-type creatures from outside? What's going on with that black gap in the sky? Are all the aircraft falling because they are all dizzy like Lu Gang and Wen Qinqin?]

【Why is the Lord always looking at that gap?】

[Hiss... Don't you think that gap is weird? It feels like a crack in some space. It's scary if you look at it for a long time.]

[Because it’s too dark.]

Indeed, the weird thing about this crack is that it is extremely black. Humans always have some inherent fear of darkness and the unknown. Facing such a crack, no one would not feel creepy.

While investors were paying attention to the crack, Bai Jinshu sat in the driver's seat, retracted his gaze, roughly studied the structure of the aircraft, and found the autopilot button.

Understanding its driving logic and actually being able to fly an aircraft are two different things. As we all know, just as 70% of aviation accidents occur during take-off and landing, it is not difficult to stabilize the aircraft in the air and prevent it from falling, but as a complete novice, how to make the aircraft land smoothly is very difficult.

The thing that broke open the crack rushed into the sky from the direction of the urban village. After the scream, Bai Jinshu, who was busy controlling the aircraft, did not see clearly where the thing went after breaking through the protective shield.

The most urgent task now is not to see the crack, but to see what the urban village is like.

Bai Jinshu glanced at the gap from afar, and controlled the aircraft's autopilot system to stop on the roof of a tall building closest to the village in the city.

It's not that he didn't want to stop on the ground and at a stop, but in the wave of aircraft landing just now, most of the external platforms in zone 08 that could be used for landing were damaged, and a large number of aircraft were piled on the ground. At first glance, there was no place to land.

Perhaps replacing them with some experienced aircraft pilots would work, but obviously neither Bai Jinshu nor the autopilot system could do it.

The top of the building is not a traditional landing point, but there is no better choice now. The aircraft stumbled and landed on it. Bai Jinshu opened the door on the driver's side and finally stepped on the ground.

Wen Qinqin and Lu Gang were still asleep, and time was running out. Bai Jinshu didn't have much time to accommodate the two of them, so he could only lock them both in the back seat with seat belts, and then turned off all the start buttons of the aircraft to prevent them from pressing any buttons they shouldn't when they went into temporary madness.

After doing all this, he straightened up, looked at the blood-red surroundings, and took a long, deep breath.

He remembered the building.

According to the map obtained from Lin Cheng, the captain of the Mobile Squad 7, there is a civil defense facility inside this building.

Most of the civil defense facilities in zone 08 are actually a huge elevator. When a disaster occurs, a countdown will be started, and after the countdown is over, all the refugees in the elevator will sink into the underground.

The sinking depth is very deep. According to Zhang Lu and others who have experienced it once, it takes at least half an hour to get from underground to the ground.

Considering that they were experiencing the torture of the buzzer noise at that time and felt every second was like an age, the time estimated by their physical sense may be a bit exaggerated. The actual descent time should be more than 20 minutes.

Bai Jinshu compared the descent time when he went to Michigan University in his mind. The location of this human air defense fortification should be deeper than the lowest level of the underground part of zone 08.

The scream that caused SC had a lethality that decreased with range.

Standing on the top of a tall building and looking around, you can see that there are already many tiny dots moving far away from the urban village.

Those who were not in a coma.

Sound waves are transmitted in the air with almost no obstruction, so the pilots of aircraft flying in the sky were not able to escape. The people on the ground in zone 08 were sitting in high-rise buildings when the abnormality occurred. There was still some distance away from the urban village where the screaming appeared, and there were countless buildings that would attenuate the sound waves.

The farther away from here, the greater the probability that the people will not be affected by this sc.

Under city-wide alert, most of the road obstacles in the city were removed, and green indicator lights were turned on on the streets, guiding everyone into the nearest civil defense fortifications.

Looking from this angle, some people in the crowd were fleeing in panic, while others stopped and looked up.

They were looking at the rift.

There was no time to observe here any longer. On the screen, the young man with vertical pupils took a last look into the distance in this rich blood-colored light, then turned and went towards the elevator of the building.

He now has to get back to the urban village as quickly as possible.

*

【She Mochu: Are you awake? 】

【She Mochu: @All members】

Two latest messages popped up in the temporary group chat, and after a few minutes, no one responded.

Bai Jinshu clicked his tongue, flicked his wrist to close all the foundation's panels, and looked into the distance.

The world seemed to be covered with a layer of scarlet blood. People were unconscious everywhere on the ground. The sky and the earth were all blood red. I don't know which aircraft's engine structure was scrapped in the forced landing just now. There was a faint dust and smoke spreading inward from the aircraft landing platform at the edge of the platform along the wind direction.

There was a very distant alarm sound coming from afar, accompanied by a cold male voice: "Thirty."

"Twenty-nine."

"Twenty-eight."

The last half-minute countdown for the civil defense fortifications started.

[Damn... this scene is too apocalyptic. ]

[It feels like a scene that would appear in a disaster movie.]

[If this scene appeared anywhere other than the Foundation live broadcast, I would think it was an expansion pack for a new game and praise the rendering.]

[The Lord stands alone between the blood-red city and the corpses on the ground, looking into the distance, omg...]

[What corpse? He is not dead.]

[For the first time, I realized so strongly that She Mochu is indeed a savior protagonist in a comic. ]

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The landing site is some distance away from the urban village.

Bai Jinshu rushed all the way from here. Except for the alarm sounds coming from afar, there was an astonishing silence wherever he passed.

And this silence seemed to be gathering strength for the chaos to come.

Bai Jinshu climbed over a low wall, knowing full well that once these people woke up, the temporary frenzy after the san check would be the beginning of the disaster.

Only a few people were able to escape this SC and enter the civil air defense fortifications. The screaming almost paralyzed three quarters of Zone 08. At least 75% of the population would immediately fall into uncontrollable madness after a brief coma. During this period of time, anything could happen.

The only hope now is that the mobile team and the team from the University of Michigan did heed their warnings and prepared manpower in advance to deal with this unknown disaster.

But now it seems that the mobile team is likely to have been disabled as well, otherwise the remaining exploration team members would not have failed to reply to his message.

The thing that rose up in the urban village and broke the protective shield just now had a human-like outline and strange wings. Gu Qiang's hybrid happened to be a Shatak bird. Bai Jinshu felt vaguely uneasy, but She Mochu's thinking prevented him from thinking about that possibility.

Fortunately, a phone call came in time:

"Senior!" Gu Qiang's voice, "Great that you answered the phone. You are okay. Where are you now?"

"On the way to the village in the city." A slightly distorted voice came from the microphone.

Compared to She Mochu's usual voice, the words on the other end of the phone now sounded a little hasty, with some unconcealable panting, and through the noisy wind sound, one could tell that the other party was running very fast.

It’s not that there is no means of transportation on the ground in the interstellar age, but now the ground is full of people who have suddenly fainted, and it’s faster to run than to use any means of transportation.

"Senior, what is the situation around you now?" Gu Qiang asked quickly.

"Everyone is unconscious," Shemochu answered simply, "Something rose up in the village and broke the protective shield in the sky, accompanied by a scream."

"Ordinary people have no resistance to the screaming. The closer to the urban village, the more severely affected by the SC. All aircraft in the sky are affected and fall. The last half-minute countdown of the civil air defense fortifications has ended."

That sounds absolutely terrible.

Gu Qiang took a deep breath. A girl with purple skin and black combat gloves came over and asked, "How is it? Have you contacted your senior?"

"We've made contact," Gu Qiang quickly pointed to his phone, "The senior is now near the village in the city. Everyone else is unconscious except him."

"Hello, I'm the captain of Team D, an action team under the Zone 08 Academy of Sciences," the girl took over. "Can you describe the situation in detail?"

"What's the situation?" She Mochu's voice sounded very young during the phone call.

"Did you see clearly what the creature was that broke the protective shield in the urban village?" the captain of Team D asked.

"I couldn't make out what it was. I could only see that it was something with a humanoid outline and large wings."

"Do you know where it went after it broke through the shield?"

"I didn't see clearly. Too many things fell. It might have fallen back into the village in the city." The person on the other end of the phone breathed quickly for a moment, as if he was climbing something. After a few seconds of pause, there was a sound of landing. "The sky... The protective shield was broken by it, so it might have flown out."

"Captain," a man holding a cotton swab on his arm came up from behind Gu Qiang, "Our team and the students who were temporarily assigned have all had their blood drawn. We can leave now."

"Okay," the captain of Team D nodded at him and raised his chin towards Gu Qiang, "Gu Qiang, you come with us."

"Then I'll go and smoke..."

Gu Qiang rolled up his sleeves, but before he could finish his words, she interrupted him: "You don't need to. Those who go now are all able to replenish san. This batch of blood must be sent to the mobile team first. We have to go to support the village in the city first."

"Then zone 08..." Gu Qiang was a little worried.

"The first batch of blood has just been sent to the mobile team base," the D team member continued, "There is a mobile team in the zone 08 urban area. We are the only ones who can go to the urban village."

The urban village is a lawless place in the entire zone 08. Not only is the level of technology still stuck in centuries ago, but the map data there has not been entered into the mobile team's top hat panel.

Even if they had a three-dimensional map of the urban village on their panel, they would not be able to act here, because there were no external streets that would automatically evacuate and clear all obstacles once the alarm was sounded.

If you only rely on the map to grope your way forward in the dark here, you will be tripped and killed on the road after just a few steps.

Only the University of Michigan's action team can enter this area during an alert.

"I'm outside the village in the city," She Mochu's calm voice came from the microphone, "I'll go in first. I have some suspicions to investigate."

He was talking about the place where he paid his death.

Gu Qiang hurriedly put on his combat equipment while shouting, "...Senior!"

"What's wrong? Any other questions?"

"You... be careful!" Gu Qiang paused, "We will come to find you right away!"

Although this senior is from zone 02 and is half human and half god, that place where one's life is saved may be very dangerous at this time.

The person on the other end of the phone seemed speechless for a moment: "Be careful first."

*

Bai Jinshu hung up the phone, took a deep breath, and walked towards the village in the city.

She Mochu has good physical fitness, or rather, all investigators have good physical fitness. Even after running at full speed for more than twenty minutes with obstacles all over the ground, after stopping, he did not feel how much burden it had caused to his body.

Many people fainted on the streets of the urban village, but considering the terrible population density here, the fact that there are only so few people lying on the streets is enough to show that most of the residents of the urban village have actually gone into the basement.

This place is closest to where the screaming occurred and has received the greatest impact. Many of the people who fell on the ground had their eardrums bleeding. If they are not treated in time after waking up, they will most likely be left with lifelong disabilities.

Zhang Lu had once described to him the location of the place where her life was to be saved. Bai Jinshu identified the location in the village in the city and walked towards the building she described.

The closer you get to that location, the more people you see lying on the ground.

From a distance, Bai Jinshu saw at the edge of his sight that there seemed to be a big hole blown in the side wall of the top floor of a building.

There were still bits of stone falling at the edge of the cave. He squinted his eyes and vaguely saw a figure standing on the edge of the wall.

He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but he felt that he and that “person” looked at each other from a distance for a moment.

The thing that broke the protective shield indeed appeared from the "life-saving" place in the urban village.

Bai Jinshu glanced at the temporary group chat that still had no reply, and quickened his pace towards his destination.

The road in front of the building was already littered with broken pieces of cement and glass. There was no time to go around, so Bai Jinshu, with a cold face, simply climbed over the piles of construction waste.

Even the investors who often made jokes were frightened by his cold face, which looked as if he was ready to kill someone in the next second, and became much more obedient.

[Hiss, I feel like the Lord is very angry.]

[If it were you, would you not be angry? So many people in the urban village might die. ]

[This is the first time I have seen a cult that can make such a big noise. ]

[But now that so many people are unconscious, the Lord can now go all out. 】

[Should it be possible? ]

[It is estimated that this evil god can be eliminated before the action team arrives. ]

The elevator, which had been out of service for a long time, was standing next to him with its door closed. Bai Jinshu went upstairs from the emergency passage and stepped onto the top floor.

The highest floor of this building is the 28th. The wind is strong at high altitude, not to mention that almost half of the walls of the floor have been broken through. As soon as Bai Jishu pushed open the safety fire door, he felt a gust of wind blowing in his face.

Along with the strong wind came a faint smell of blood.

He looked around and walked towards a door.

The bloody smell became stronger. When I pushed open the door, I saw a figure standing behind it.

The only difference was that this "person" was not an evil god, nor a creature of the Kelpie family.

Standing in the fierce wind was the calm woman.

Bo Jun's skirt was blown in the air. When she saw Bai Jinshu push open the door, her expression was still calm.

Bo Jun stretched out a hand and took out two earplugs from his ears. He looked up at him, his eyes fell on his eyes, and his voice was a little hoarse: "It turns out that I recognized the wrong person. You are really from the Academy of Sciences."

"What do you mean by mistaking someone for someone else?" Bai Jinshu didn't intend to waste time talking to her. He took a few steps forward, intending to get all the clues from her in the most direct way.

Just when he was about to use She Mochu's ability to empty her mind and drag her into Yig's realm, Bo Jun suddenly looked away and turned to look at the black gap in the sky, muttering something in a low voice.

Bai Jinshu frowned and took a step forward. He could only hear her soft voice floating in the wind: "The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. The Spirit of God moved over the face of the water as if it were heaven."

"Do you want to know the truth?" As if he knew what he wanted to hear, Bo Jun said this, then suddenly turned his head and stared at She Mochu's vertical pupil with an ambiguous expression, "Next, be careful of your companions."

Just as he finished speaking, Bo Jun fainted on the spot in the fierce gust of wind at the top.

There was a crisp sound of something falling to the ground. Bai Jinshu looked down and found that there was a pool of blood under her feet. The surface of the blood was surging due to the strong wind.

Bo Jun fell in a pool of blood, and a sharp knife fell with him.

All the blood was dripping from the palm of her hand. Before Bai Jinshuo came, she had been pressing the knife into her palm, relying on the pain to stay awake.

The faint smell of blood he smelled when he entered this floor just now must have come from here.

It was incredible that Bo Jun had lost blood and suffered from hypothermia for such a long time, but he could still hold on until Bai Jinshu came here.

And she seemed to know that the person she was waiting for would choose to use some abnormal means to force a confession, so she said a few words to sow discord and immediately fainted on the spot.

Amid the fierce wind, Bai Jinshu's expression looked particularly ugly.

She Mochu had ways to force confessions from others using some abnormal means, but when faced with a person who was unconscious due to blood loss, hypothermia, forcibly waking him up would only result in a corpse.

But corpses can't talk.

At this point, even though Bai Jinshu suspected that Bo Jun's words were meant to sow discord, he couldn't help but think further.

She said she recognized the wrong person, and said that she was "really from the Academy of Sciences", so she knew from the beginning that the person with abnormal pupils was a mixed-race student accepted by the Academy of Sciences, that is, the University of Michigan, and what she was looking for was a mixed-race student from the Ke family who had not enrolled in the University of Michigan or was undercover at the University of Michigan.

When they met for the first time, Bo Jun mistook him for this person and left him the key to open the access control door. She also emphasized the key again when they met for the second time. Does that mean that the person who originally intended to contact her did not get what he deserved?

What does the latter sentence mean?

Bo Jun asked him if he wanted to know the truth. She believed that everything she did was to reveal the truth. What was the truth?

Bai Jinshu subconsciously looked up at the sky. Could it be that the sky of zone 08 was an environmental system, and the real zone 08 was likely to be in a special terrain, or the sun had already disappeared in the real sky?

What is her relationship with the "thing" that broke the shield? Is that thing the one she wants to give the key to?

And "Be careful of your companions."

Will the other members of the exploration team be safe? Or has the University of Michigan been infiltrated by a cult?

Bai Jinshu quickly opened the temporary group chat, and a message appeared at the bottom of the screen: [Zhang Lu: Wake up. ]

[Zhang Lu: We were dragged into the SC by a scream just now. The Academy of Sciences sent us a special medicine that is said to suppress temporary madness. Everyone has returned to normal.]

The special medicine sent by the Academy of Sciences...I'm afraid it was the blood drawn from the hybrids on the other end of the phone just now.

[She Mochu: Are you all right? ]

【Zhang Lu: We are fine, but zone 08 is in real trouble.】

[Wei Ye: Brother Chu, we are following Lin Cheng from Team 7. Zone 08 is in chaos. The people who woke up from coma have all gone crazy. The manpower prepared by the mobile team is not enough. The police officers in the police station have all come out without taking shelter.]

[Ming Qingrong: We just ran into Ji Yu. Ji Yu and his men were all equipped with powerful anesthesia guns. The order they received was to anesthetize anyone who fell into temporary insanity and could not be controlled, or who was too harmful to society. The guns they had were not enough, so we asked Li Qun to follow them first.]

Shi Liqun's fixed attribute [Fear of Insufficient Firepower] is equivalent to an infinite number of mobile magazines, which is like a god-like emergency weapon when resources are scarce.

The rest of the people talked at once and quickly told Bai Jinshu about the current situation.

[Si Panxuan: All civil defense works in zone 08 are inoperable. The buzzer and light shield were destroyed at some point. If a C-type creature appears now, everyone will be doomed.]

【Zhang Lu: Not only that, among those who have gone crazy temporarily, the proportion of believers of that evil cult is too high.】

[Jia Li: I could hear people outside the base saying things like, "My child, life is a cycle with no end" and so on...]

Ammunition is in urgent need now. Tranquilizer guns are only used to tranquilize those people who have fallen into temporary madness, lost self-control and attacked those around them, posing a great threat to society. For those who just gather together and recite silently but do nothing, the police cannot shoot even if they want to do something.

What is also visible to the naked eye is that as these chants are being performed, more and more people are calming down.

This relieved a lot of pressure on the police, so although most police officers felt that something was wrong, they still did not stop them.

【Wei Ye: Brother Chu, where are you? 】

[She Mochu: Village in the city, be careful, maybe the University of Michigan has been partially infiltrated by a cult.]

[Zhang Lu: Okay, we heard that most of the action team from the University of Michigan has gone to the urban villages, and a small part is supporting the urban areas. The order we received is to put on top hats and take all the people to a safe place. Brother Chu, you should be careful too.]

It seems that the people in the mobile team are fine for now.

Below, the unconscious people have gradually woken up, and the village in the city is in chaos.

Bai Jinshu put away the panel and glanced at the crack in the distance.

A group of aircrafts were flying towards the village in the city. They were probably the action teams from the University of Michigan.

Bai Jinshu made a prompt decision and turned around, heading towards the direction they landed.

Due to the lack of landing conditions in the urban village, the aircraft can only hover on the top of the tall building, allowing the members of the action team to climb down along the ladder.

Gu Qiang jumped down from the ladder and ran towards Bai Jinshu: "Senior!"

"Are these all from your Team D?" Bai Jinshu looked behind him.

There were a little more people than he had imagined.

"These are the first batch of teams A to E. The situation was urgent and there were not enough people, so we temporarily transferred some students from the University of Michigan in advance..." Before Gu Qiang finished his words, another person ran up behind him.

"Senior?" The figure was a little short.

"It's really you. I thought I was seeing things." After running closer, Bai Jinshu realized that this person was the short student Grover whom he had met in the University of Michigan not long ago.

He was only half a year away from graduation, so it was normal for him to be transferred.

"Senior, your gene prosthesis," he hurriedly returned to the aircraft after seeing Bai Jinshu and took out a box from it, "The situation is urgent. The Academy of Sciences doesn't have time to customize it, and they probably won't have the resources to make these for a long time. These are all the snake-related eye prostheses that Qiu Xianjun took out directly from the warehouse. I don't know which one has a higher degree of adaptability. Senior, take them and try them all."

"She was also transferred here?" Bai Jinshu looked behind Grover.

"No, Qiu Xianjun is a pre-training talent of the Academy of Sciences and will not come to the surface," Grover explained. "If she did not have a pre-training quota at the Academy of Sciences, she would not be able to bring out so many prosthetics. She did not even report it. It would be terrible if she was discovered later."

Bai Jinshu opened the box and took a look. As expected, there were at least a dozen vertical pupils in the iron box. At first glance, they looked like a box of glass marbles.

"One is enough for me. How can I return the rest to you?" He looked at Grover.

"I'll come back to find you," Grover touched his phone with his and added him as a friend. "Qiu Xianjun has also been transferred away from the Academy of Sciences in advance. I don't think she'll be able to come out in the short term. Senior, just give it to me. I'll find a chance to secretly pass it in to her."

Bai Jinshu nodded.

The members of the action team have almost gathered. Grover and Gu Qiang will also return to the team immediately. For these K-type hybrids, it is not dangerous to deal with the people who have fallen into temporary madness. But thinking of Bo Jun's words, Bai Jinshu still said something extra: "Be careful, don't be careless."

"Don't worry," Grover waved at him, "Senior, I'll be back on the team first!"

The action teams began to make the final confirmation on the top of the tall building.

"Check the communicator."

"Check the equipment."

"Check the alarm."

"Check the medications."

"Everything is fine?" The captains looked at each other and said, "Let's go."

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