Chapter 340 'People'
Although he was well prepared, the unusual movement in the darkness still made Shi Diyuan's face darken. He looked in the direction where Lin Xian and the others left, and their figures quickly disappeared into the darkness.
At first, they thought the distorted darkness was a kind of black fog, but now everyone understands that it is the visual blur caused by the expansion of space and time over a short distance.
Being in such a place, you can feel the huge distortion of time and space with your naked eyes within a radius of several kilometers, which makes people feel depressing as if the whole world is extremely unreal.
"Prepare fire!"
On the Infinity side, Luo Yang, Shuqin and others all stood on the roof of the train. The G3 electromagnetic railgun and 1130 were all raised. Sasha drove the Sally loaded with ammunition in front of the train line. Everyone was on full alert.
The surrounding dark forest was filled with constant earthquakes and strange tides, but the view was obscured by the twisted black fog, making people feel uneasy. The only thing that could be seen was the huge ridgeline in the distance.
“Look!”
At this time, someone shouted, "That mountain!!"
Instantly, everyone's eyes turned to the strange huge mountain range in the west, and they found that the "mountain" had been twisted into a solid entity, with its edges and corners completely separated from the outline of the surrounding mountains.
At this time, the "mountain" was obviously not a "mountain", especially after seeing several huge ridge-like spikes twisting up into the air.
Everyone realized that it was an extremely huge unknown dark creature.
In an instant, everything in the train line fell silent, and everyone seemed to hold their breath at this moment. Stewart transformed into a tiger, and the pupils of the tiger's eyes slowly condensed, and a great sense of oppression invaded everyone!
More and more spikes began to appear, and then the outline of the huge "mountain" gradually rose, appearing like a giant insect with thousands of long legs, and began to move slowly in a certain direction.
"Fuck, this bug is bigger than the mountain!"
Suddenly, someone in the joint convoy cried out in surprise.
"Did they discover us?"
"It…it's not moving in our direction."
"Is that direction the center of Xingyuan?"
"Oh my god, that's horrible!"
Beep beep.
Shuqin's power armor radar detected a circle, and then quickly said in the channel: "Everyone calm down, no creatures are found approaching!"
"Don't fire!"
The two assault teams led by Dalou and Liang Lei also calmed down the anxious atmosphere among the people.
Under such extreme pressure, if someone becomes frightened and opens fire first, bad things could happen.
For a moment, panic was spreading rapidly among the teams on the train line.
Shi Diyuan's voice sounded on the public channel at this time: "Everyone calm down, our front is safe, don't be impulsive, wait patiently!"
The captains of more than a dozen convoys came to their senses at this time and began to control their panic.
"Don't be afraid! Stay still!"
"We are safe now!!"
“Take a deep breath, take a deep breath!”
After more than ten minutes, the panic on the entire front was finally suppressed. After the train front had not been attacked for a period of time, core leaders of the convoy, such as Shi Diyuan, breathed a sigh of relief.
"The convoy is safe for now. Brother Lin, how are you doing?"
Shi Diyuan immediately contacted Lin Xian, and after a slight delay, Lin Xian's voice sounded in the captain's channel.
"So far... it's going well."
On the other side, the exploration team flew quickly over the dark forest with KIKI's special ability. The spatial distortion caused by time expansion seemed to make people inhale the sticky world into their nasal cavity, causing their heads torn in pain. According to the vital signs of the power armor, everyone's heart rate had exceeded the limit.
Without the protection of the Heterogeneous Rubik's Cube, the strong environmental pressure and the invasion of darkness made it difficult for them to breathe.
In addition, in the barren forest and terrain below, there were constantly surging black shadows. Abai, who was surrounded in the middle, kept breathing rapidly in the channel: "13 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 16 o'clock..."
“A lot!”
“Are we marked?”
"No……"
"accelerate!"
KIKI's telekinesis was working at its maximum, taking everyone to fly quickly. Ning Jing and the others concentrated and held their breath. The distance of 85 kilometers was not far for flying, but the faster the speed, the stronger the discomfort.
Except for Grace.
[The current environment will continue to pose a fatal threat to the human body, and the outer armor cannot resist it. It is not recommended to stay for too many missions. ]
Being in the darkness, Lin Xian also noticed this problem. The horror he felt after Aksai was swept into the dark tide continued to oppress the nerves in his body. He knew that other people must feel the same way.
Hearing Grace's reminder, Lin Xian's mind was rapidly calculating.
The most important part of the current plan is the connection design between the superconducting suspended magnetic anchor array device in Silent City and the White City rail line. As long as these two points are solved, the joint train line can be started immediately.
Therefore, Lin Xian wanted to go straight to Baicheng Rail Station, and while investigating the terrain, he also checked for clues about Hu Lushou's group. Only if he solved the connection plan to Baicheng Rail Station, he would be considered 1/3 successful.
As for that strange giant, Lin Xian planned to avoid it. If necessary, he would also arrange for non-living things like Grace to conduct investigation.
The elite team already had the highest peak ability index among these thousands of people, but even so, Monica Qian Dele, Ning Jing and others all had serious expressions. It was obvious that the severe physical burden also caused them stress.
"Grace has scanned this path and found no dark creatures. We are also in a silent state. As long as we don't encounter them head-on, we should be able to..."
Lin is now speaking within the band, trying to lighten the dull atmosphere.
Ning Jing responded: "Abai is keeping an eye on our situation. If a mark appears, we must stop immediately and deal with the strange entity to avoid a snowballing situation."
"That makes sense. If thousands of people trigger a strange tide like before, we won't even have anywhere to escape." Qian Dele said.
Buzz, buzz, buzz. Twenty-five Thunder Falcon 2000 drones were rotating in a circle behind Lin Xian. They looked like a circle of red arcs under the black night sky. Lin Xian was wearing a Black Hawk armor, and the holographic vision in front of him displayed various parameters.
"We are almost there. We are now more than 40 seconds behind the train."
While flying, Lin Xian was also making relay signal devices and drones for transportation and delivery, which were used to connect the distance between White City and Silent City, and were also used in emergencies.
KIKI held up the telekinetic shield and flew quickly with a group of people. Among all the people, her mental power could be said to be the strongest, but her face was also pale. She led everyone over several mountains. At this time, the surroundings began to become flat, with mountain roads and scattered buildings appearing. In the sight range of everyone's power armor radar, in the distance ahead, a small town with many buildings was located in the valley.
"We've arrived at White City."
"Wait!" At this time, Ning Jing suddenly called KIKI.
"Abai sensed something was happening ahead."
"Let's stop first." Lin Xian said.
The front was filled with black fog and could not be seen clearly. Abandoned and dilapidated houses appeared in front of them. Upon hearing this, KIKI immediately controlled everyone to slow down and then slowly landed.
The black asphalt road was not as messy as the dilapidated cities that everyone had experienced in the past. On the contrary, the ground was much cleaner than other doomsday cities. There was nothing except dust and mist that seemed to be seeping from the ground.
The abandoned vehicles, scattered suitcases, and dead bodies that had been fled did not exist.
The entire city seemed to be frozen at the moment Xing Yuan appeared. All the green plants and trees were dead and decayed. Lin Xian stood on the ground, and suddenly a cold feeling rose from the ground. He looked at the dark street in front of him, and vaguely felt that there was something there.
"What did you find and where is it?" Lin Xian asked.
Ah Bai pointed to the sky and said, "It disappeared again just now, in the sky."
[My observation system did not find any abnormal creatures. Do you need me to go and investigate? ] Grace said at this time.
Lin Xian shook his head. If he wanted to investigate, Grace would have already discovered it when she came here. Although Grace had extremely high computing power, it did not mean that she could capture the strange body and the dark aura.
"Be careful, we are not robots, those ghost things can see us." Monica said seriously at this time.
Chen Sixuan picked up the Meteorite 3 and looked up at the street, then shook her head: "I don't see anything, but it would be a bit risky for us to go in directly like this."
"But if we don't go in, there's no point staying here." KIKI crossed her arms: "Do we have any other choice now?"
Xiaoqing, who usually doesn't talk much, stood up and said
"Listen... to Ah Bai."
Hearing this, everyone looked at Abai who was wearing power armor.
Lin Xian's eyes were slightly stern. He nodded and walked towards A Bai and said, "Okay, from now on, all of us will use A Bai's perspective. Unless the radar can directly capture it, we will pretend not to see it."
The role of Abai, a humanoid dark aura detector, is even greater than that of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum. The Hell Black Chrysanthemum only senses the marks that have been made on the body, while Abai can observe the situation in a certain area in advance.
The more than 1,000 people on Longshan No. 1 have an extremely high survival rate, and Abai has made a great contribution to this.
So Lin Xian chose to act with Abai as the center at this time.
Ah Bai nodded: "Some strange things suddenly appeared and disappeared. It didn't seem like they were moving, but..." He thought for a moment and found an adjective: "Flickering."
Lin Xian gave Grace an order at this time: "Grace, you lead the way."
【OK】
"We'll follow behind. As long as they're not marked, just ignore them and make sure we get to the White City Rail Station first."
"OK."
"clear!"
Everyone understood at this moment. After Grace started, she tiptoed towards the darkness ahead. Everyone surrounded Abai and followed Grace into the streets of White City.
Lin Xian controlled 25 Thunder Falcon drones to follow and stand by outside the team. As the footsteps of several people sounded, echoes continued to appear in the empty streets in the darkness. It was so quiet that it seemed as if they were the only ones left in the whole world.
As the lights swept over, many shops on the street were still open, but all the signs had decayed and the paint had fallen off, making it impossible to see the contents. The items in the shops, including clothes, were rapidly decaying into some kind of grey filamentous substance.
"This is extremely unusual. Even if more than 10 years had passed, the textiles should not have deteriorated to this extent."
Ning Jing swept the flashlight across a clothing store. The rows of women's clothing inside were almost entirely made of gray-brown pieces of cloth hanging. This gave her an illusion that even with the flashlight, the world was colorless.
So she immediately looked at herself and found that her judgment was wrong.
"It's definitely not okay to use common sense to understand what's going on here." Qian Dele said in the communicator: "No matter what you see next, you have to look at it with a perspective that breaks through your cognition."
Lu Xingchen on the side followed Lin Xian and KIKI with a stern expression. He looked vigilantly at the darkness around him and felt the infinity ring on his wrist. For some reason, after putting on this thing, he could hear a lot of strange noises inexplicably.
It was like sticky blood flowing, like a rotten esophagus breathing, and everything made him uneasy.
"Brother Lin."
Lu Xingchen was just about to tell Lin Xian about the strange feeling he had felt, but at this moment, Abai suddenly stopped, and everyone else stopped too.
"What's wrong, Abai?" Lin Xian asked.
Ah Bai stood there, looking around in panic, and then said nervously
"Be careful, there are monsters!"
"Where?"
As they were talking, everyone had already begun to gather their formation and look towards the surrounding streets.
But no matter how I looked, there was nothing but dark, empty streets all around.
There was not even the sound of wind, and everything seemed to have stopped in time.
Lin Xian stood there, wondering why he had such a thought. He then looked at the timing system under the holographic panel of the Black Shadow Armor.
10:34.
He didn't know if it was because of his eyesight, but Lin Xian felt that the 59 seconds after the 34 minutes seemed to have lasted a long time.
He stared at the motionless number 59, his pupils shrank slightly, and an extremely terrifying and bizarre feeling suddenly hit him.
In an instant, Lin Xian took a deep breath. At the same time, other people's voices were ringing in the communicator next to his ear, but these voices seemed to be stretched out in this second.
59.
59.
00.
Suddenly, the numbers finally started to move and the time came to 10:35.
'ha……'
Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief, but at this moment, everyone, including him, felt their hair stand on end and a strong sense of fear hit them.
Because at this moment, the empty and dark street where they were originally was suddenly filled with
It’s full of people!
Lin Xian, KIKI, Brother Huo, Chen Sixuan, Ning Jing, Xiaoqing, Abai, Monica, Qian Dele, all of them had their pupils shrink immediately, and countless figures strangely appeared around them at that moment.
There are people in front, beside, behind, in the middle, and all around.
It was as if all the people in Baicheng who died in the Star Abyss appeared on the streets. These people looked emaciated, as if all the blood plasma had been sucked dry, with black holes in their eyes, and their mouths wide open as if they were extremely torn, and they stood beside them with an incomparably horrifying look on their faces!
A woman with a rotten face stood directly in front of Lin Xian. Through the mask of the black shadow power armor, he could even see the dry flesh and blood in the empty eyes of the female corpse.
Everyone in the team was shocked by this scene and they all held their breath at the same time.
All of a sudden, the originally empty street was crowded with people. Their clothes were almost completely faded. These people just stood there quietly, motionless.
It did not attack Lin Xian and the others, nor did it make any sound.
At this time, Lin Xian looked down and found that many black vascular networks had appeared on the ground at some point, connecting each corpse. At the same time, many brown-red tissues similar to sarcomas appeared in the streets on all sides. This immediately reminded him of what he had seen in Underground City No. 9, and he immediately felt that something was wrong.
"Abai." Lin Xian asked Abai, "Have we been marked?"
"No!" Abai responded immediately, his voice trembling and a little scared.
KIKI whispered, "What should we do now? These things don't seem to be attacking us."
"Burned them?" asked Brother Huo.
Lin Xian remembered something at this time: "Grace!"
【I am here】
"Plan a new waypoint so we can avoid this street."
Obviously, the current situation is a new situation that was triggered after Lin Xian and his friends arrived. This must be related to the fact that they are living people. At this time, Lin Xian’s first concern is the dark mark.
【150 meters ahead, turn right. 】
"action!"
At Lin Xian's command, everyone immediately began to rush out of this strange group of people according to the route information that Grace synchronized to the power armor holographic panel.
At this time, as they left, the people who were standing there all began to turn around and head towards the direction where everyone left.
"Some strange entity must be controlling these corpses. This might be the territory of a high-level strange entity!"
Lin Xian rushed directly onto a building, then ran at high speed on the roof with a group of people. At the same time, he observed the situation on the streets around him and expressed his judgment.
"I was really scared just now. These things suddenly appeared, just like when it got dark." Qian Dele said with some fear at this time.
When Ning Jing heard this, she immediately responded, "Dark Tide, but it's always dark in here?"
"Aren't the dark tide and the night the same thing?" KIKI said nervously while flying in the air.
"It's possible!" Monica made a guess at this time: "I guess, maybe by combining the current expansion range of Star Abyss No. 5 and the time of the tide, can we calculate some correlation?"
Lin Xian shook his head: "We don't know the situation outside now, but this is also an explanation."
rub!
The propulsion device of the Black Hawk armor was used frequently, carrying Lin Xian all the way up a tall building. He looked at the street below. The densely packed black corpses all raised their heads at this moment, "watching" their movements with their black hole-like eyes.
Lin Xian felt horrified. There was no way to retreat now, so he could only flee as fast as possible.
At this time, Lu Xingchen, who was flying in the air, hovered in front and pointed to the street in another direction and said to Lin Xian:
"Brother Lin, I noticed that there seemed to be something staring at us. I wonder if it was my illusion."
Lin Xian and everyone else immediately stopped on the roof of a building and looked in the direction Lu Xingchen pointed.
We discovered that there was a highway tunnel over there. Such tunnels are not uncommon in a mountain city like Baicheng.
But after hearing what Brother Huo said, Lin Xian immediately became alert.
"Abai?"
Unexpectedly, at this time, Abai shook his head: "I... I feel danger, but there is no dark aura."
Everyone looked at the dark and empty tunnel, which looked like a semicircular abyss.
Lin Xian's eyes darkened. He immediately picked up the flashlight, increased the power and shone it over there, but it was still just darkness.
He removed the flashlight and said, "This place is too weird, we should..."
"Lin Xian!" At this time, KIKI suddenly called out and interrupted Lin Xian's words.
Immediately her flashlight shone over there.
In an instant, a huge white humanoid creature appeared in the tunnel. Its entire body almost filled the tunnel, and its terrifying face was distorted like the night.
Click, click, click~
As if emitting some kind of terrifying laughter, the humanoid creature quickly shrank back into the tunnel.
This scene instantly made everyone feel cold all over!
(End of this chapter)
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