Chapter 102
The daylight in the shopping mall began to dim. The shop doors on each side of the aisle became blurry, growing darker the further away, and even the air was tinged with dampness and stickiness.
In a blink of an eye, we found that there were only 18 companions left. Everyone was mentally prepared and checked their equipment and their own environment.
Surrounded in the middle. Professor Ai looked at the environment with some surprise. This time the strangeness was different from the time he calculated. He thought he had entered a ghost town, but it was somewhat within his expectations. It was indeed another kind of strangeness.
They have no advantage in collecting strange information. They all risk their lives. The death rate of strange information is very high, and only those who survive can bring back information.
This is also the reason why they cannot give up the situation in the ghost town. The only temporary safe place is the ghost town. The last time they entered and exited, there were no casualties, which was a record. The owner inside, let's call him a human for now, is friendly and communicative.
Therefore, putting in a lot of effort into research is definitely a breakthrough in dealing with strange events and cannot be given up.
The strangeness we encountered tonight hasn't yet been matched to any recorded strangeness. The team members are well-trained, elite members of the army, protecting Professor Ai in the middle as they advance rapidly.
The terrain here is completely different from that of the underground mall. Their most important task now is to explore the weirdness while ensuring the safety of the team, to find out whether they can reach the ghost town, and to rescue the people who have entered the weirdness without delaying themselves.
As they walked, they noticed the air was becoming increasingly sticky, as if they had walked from the edge of the mud into the middle of a pit. Their noses began to be filled with a fishy smell, and they briefly thought they might have gone in the wrong direction as they were getting closer and closer to the center.
It wasn't the direction they were going in that was wrong, it was the space they were going in. The strange appearance of these things themselves was forming completely and bit by bit before everyone's eyes.
It is damp here. There are countless pipes that leak water. The liquid flows down the walls, making the walls of the entire passage covered with moss, like distorted faces carved on the wall.
The stench became stronger and stronger, and everyone knew what it smelled like. Sure enough, not long after they walked, they saw scattered white bones on the ground not far away.
A team member went up to check: "The bones, apart from the joints, have been gnawed clean. He's been dead for a few days. Because most of it has been eaten, there's not much of a rotting smell."
There were only a few large bones scattered on the ground. Everyone was alert and continued to move forward. On the way forward, there were more and more piles of broken bones, all of which were eaten up quite cleanly.
He still couldn't match this place with the information. This environment made Professor Ai feel a little unfamiliar. He judged that it was very likely not the weirdness they knew, and there was no sign that could match it.
Professor Ai has given up checking the information in his brain and started concentrating on recording this strange feature.
"Stop, there's a sound." The one who shouted stop was the team member with good hearing.
The entire passage was silent, with only the sound of their footsteps and the occasional dripping of water. Everyone stopped to catch the sound of what he was saying.
There was a ding at the beginning, the sound of metal hitting metal, and judging by the sound it was from quite far away.
The second sound of metal collision was clearly getting closer.
They couldn't see anything in front of them, and wherever the flashlight shone, it was all dark.
Ding ding ding.
The sound grew louder and louder, like the collision of metal copper sheets tied together, and it was also approaching. In the dark passage, there was pressure from an invisible force.
We had made several contingency plans before coming in, so no one was panicking at this time. Judging the location by sound is also a basic operation.
Just as the shadow in the darkness appeared at the edge of their sight, amid the rise and fall of the sound of metal collision, the next second, it suddenly broke through the darkness and pounced on them.
"Go!" the captain gave the order.
The team members all turned on the 200,000 ultraviolet lumens in their hands and shone them in all directions. This group of people was like the shining sun, with 360 degrees of brightness around them.
The thing retreated just as quickly as it pounced on us. Its shrill cries continued to ring out, and its shadow could no longer be seen.
The team members took their flashlights and shone them around, eager to whistle: "This thing is really useful."
"That's right. It worked very well the last time we went in. We improved it a second time after we came back, and the effect is even better." This is a team member who has been in the game twice.
They were talking about the weapons and equipment in their hands. Professor Ai quickly sketched on his notebook while the pattern on his retina was still there. He put down his pen and began to recall and observe.
He is a person who obviously has a strong religious color of southern countries, or more like a belly dancer, with wide trouser legs and countless decorations on his body. Those that jingle are the ornaments on his body, and his face is painted with thick gold oil paint.
The reason why the word "he" is used here instead of "she" is that it makes people feel very weird. Without a woman's breasts, the breasts give people an abnormal feeling.
Because it's just a momentary impression, that's all you can see.
Everyone was extremely careful on the way down, always prepared for that thing to attack again. I don't know if it was scared by the flashlights in their hands, but there was no harassment at all along the way.
Professor Ai wanted to look at it a few more times to see clearly what it was and thus judge this strange situation.
Wherever this group of more than ten people went, there were delicious meat and bones. If they didn't attack them, it might be because they were really scared by what they had in their hands.
These creatures have never met an opponent, and they have never had any opponents in the weirdness. All living things are snacks, so when they encounter such a small setback, they retreat faster than anyone else.
Just as they were wondering why the thing didn't continue its attack, they heard a sound, like a scream and a cry for help. The distance was quite far and the sound was very vague.
Without much hesitation, they looked at each other and then quickened their pace to rush over there. Their mission also included rescuing others (fellow countrymen) to the best of their ability.
When I got closer, I could hear what they were shouting over there.
"Master, help me, help me." The voice was panicked and sounded very young.
"...Taoist Lord, kill without mercy." A relatively calm voice recited the Taoist mantra, and after it was finished, there was a series of clanging sounds of metal colliding with metal.
"Master! Watch your back!"
"Ah, puff." There was a sound of flesh and blood hitting the ground. You can imagine that he must have been thrown far away.
They also arrived and as they turned the corner, they instantly opened the 200,000 lumens in their hands.
After a scream, the golden body that was rushing towards the two people on the ground suddenly turned abruptly in the air and disappeared at the other end like a fly.
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There is a creature in this world called the sashoumei. Even if Lu Daju didn't want to admit it, he realized that his son might have some unspeakable connection with this creature.
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