Chapter 411: Evil and Treachery
18:35.
It's getting dark.
The originally dead Haiyan Island seemed to be submerged by the deep sea. The air was filled with the salty smell of sea water, mixed with the smell of rust and decay, like the breath of some ancient creature, slowly seeping into every inch of space.
This atmosphere of despair seemed even more terrifying than on land, as if the entire island had suddenly sunk into a bottomless ocean, filled with fear and suffocation.
Outside the rail station, on the originally deserted street, there was suddenly a rustling sound and countless strange whispers. It was like countless wet limbs being dragged on the concrete floor, or like some sticky liquid slowly seeping out of a sewer.
“Tick-tock.”
A drop of black liquid fell from the platform ceiling, hit the rail, and instantly corroded into a wisp of green smoke.
Then, the second drop, the third drop...
The whole city seemed to be "awakened" by some indescribable existence.
On the sea in the distance, darkness surged in like a tide, swallowing up the last ray of skylight. Below the sea level, countless twisted black shadows slowly emerged from the water. They had no fixed shape, sometimes resembling humans, sometimes like some kind of arthropod, or just a wriggling mass of black meat, covered with a sticky liquid, glowing with an eerie oily sheen in the moonlight.
“Hehe…”
A low sound, like bones rubbing against each other, came from all directions.
The street lights outside the rail station suddenly flickered, and then went out with a "pop". In the darkness, something was climbing along the wall, and its sharp claws scraped on the metal surface, making a harsh sound.
The Infinity's engine was off, its lights were off, and all of its window shades were down.
“Here they come.”
Vanessa's voice was low and tense. She looked through the gap in the sunshade at the platform outside the orbital station. Countless noises began to sound around the quiet orbital station. On the platform in front, a "person" slowly stood up - if that could still be called a "person", its limbs were twisted out of proportion, its head drooped, and its neck tilted back as if it was broken, revealing a face without facial features.
The next second, it suddenly raised its head, and its empty "face" stared straight at the train.
A chill rushed over her instantly, and the bulletproof windows of the Infinity suddenly began to be covered with frost. A hand pressed on Vanessa's shoulder, telling her to move away from the window.
Since coming out of Star Abyss No. 5, Lin Xian hasn't felt this kind of fear of the coming night for a long time. This time, he also felt a solemn and weird feeling.
“Stand back.”
Inside the carriage, all the team members looked heavy-hearted, and even their breathing was suppressed. Chen Sixuan felt the coldness and spoke in a low voice.
"It's like a hundred demons parading at night. Why are there so many of them? And... they seem to be in a hurry?"
Bang!
Just as Chen Sixuan finished speaking, suddenly, the entire Infinity carriage shook violently. It seemed that some creature climbed up from the outside of the carriage, making a dull and heavy sound, and the entire carriage shook as if it was empty.
The atmosphere of everyone in the car suddenly tensed. Lin Xian frowned, raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and be ready to fight back at any time.
Lin Xian was extremely worried at this time. Viola's cleanup work at the East Port had not been completed yet, and it was extremely dangerous to go out to sea at night. He did not want to start the Infinity and escape in the middle of the night unless it was absolutely necessary. Looking at the grand scene of hundreds of demons parading outside, he was afraid that it would not be so easy for them to retreat.
Chuckling…
The huge railway station seemed to have returned to the grand scene of "crowded people". Weird sounds were heard from each platform and passage. On the platform next to the Infinity, a large number of dark shadows passed by, and countless harsh scratching sounds were heard on the armor of the carriage, which was creepy.
But at this moment, the noise outside the car was getting louder and louder, as if more fighting monsters had climbed onto the Infinity. Rows of eyes slid across the armored plates outside the car, and everyone held their breath. At this moment, the Mexican girl who was rescued raised her hand and made a gesture to Lin Xian to keep quiet, and the black woman also signaled for everyone to remain calm.
Then she pointed to her wrist and said to Lin Xian, where there was a small screen showing a countdown.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Just as the countdown on Geddy's wrist ended, the strange body in the track station outside the carriage seemed to suddenly become restless, with continuous squeaks and eerie roars, and the movement began to get louder and louder, as if it was moving faster and faster in a certain direction.
In the darkness, everyone in Infinity looked at each other, listening to the dense noise outside, no one dared to breathe loudly. Sasha stood next to KIKI and pinched her nose, and Mo Xiaotian next to her also did not dare to breathe.
Lin Xian noticed this anomaly, slowly released the gesture that was about to let everyone attack, and calmed down.
Sure enough, after a burst of violent commotion outside, it soon became quiet. Although there were still eerie sounds in some dark corners, there was no trace of the intensive hunting formation just now.
Seeing that the surroundings had become quiet, Lin Xian's eyes flashed, he looked at the black woman and asked.
"What did you do?"
"Enemy attractant."
The black woman introduced herself at this time: "Geddie, this is Vanessa, thank you for letting us into your shelter."
"Lin Xian."
Lin Xian stretched out his hand and shook hands with her. Unexpectedly, when he heard the name, Gaddy's eyes suddenly changed. He held Lin Xian's hand and said:
"Lin Xian, Infinity?!"
"Yes, you know me?"
"Are you really Lin Xian?" The girl named Vanessa also stood up, slowly took off her hood, and looked at Lin Xian carefully.
"It's me, there's a problem?!" Lin Xian asked back.
Vanessa and Geddie's eyes met, and then they smiled in disbelief.
"Oh my god, we actually met the Sword Wielder."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xian immediately realized that with the global broadcast of the Phoenix Society, his identity could no longer be kept secret. He had been used to it, but after stepping onto the ocean section, he began to feel that he might need to keep a low profile. After all, the advent-style Phoenix Society in the Crimson World had not been completely eliminated, and he could never be sure who would target him.
"Let me tell you about the situation first." Lin Xian lowered his voice at this time: "Why are there so many strange bodies here after nightfall? Also, what's going on with you?"
"A lot? This is still a very common situation." The woman named Gaddy said calmly, "These strange creatures all 'walked' from the seabed. Even before dark, they can move in the deep water. After dark, they will appear on the islands and land in large numbers. So their numbers are very large. They are both marching and hunting."
"No wonder..." Lin Xian said in a deep voice. He thought of those indescribable strange bodies under the Taku Deepwater Port. It turned out that all kinds of strange bodies were spread under the sea, just like hidden under the snow layer in a blizzard. As soon as it got dark, Haiyan Island was surrounded by a tide of strange bodies.
"Have those monsters discovered any target?"
At this moment, Monica keenly sensed that the sounds outside seemed to be gathering in one direction, and immediately whispered
"Is this the effect of the attractant you just mentioned?"
"Yes." Vanessa said at this time: "After nightfall, the number of strange bodies at sea is too dense. In many cases, even without the dark mark, it is very easy to be discovered. Therefore, we will use a kind of attractant, which is synthesized by cold dark reagent and biologically active enzyme. To a certain extent, the fluctuation of the mark will be higher than that of people without the dark mark. Just a little bit is enough to cause attacks in a large range."
"You mean, the Dark Mark bait?" Chen Sixuan remembered the strange container she encountered at Hengshanguan Station before.
"Almost. Now most survivors at sea have to rely on this method to escape." Gaddy replied: "The sea is too big. Otherwise, there is no other way to escape."
"The soul-devastating values of these monsters are very high."
In Car No. 2, Shasha looked at the monitoring screen of the information center with a surprised look on her face: "How scary."
KIKI looked at Lin Xian: "Fortunately you took back all the drones. I felt that any movement would have been discovered."
Lin Xian looked at the time and asked the two people
"What organization are you from? Why are you here?"
"Falcon Sea Group." Vanessa said
Gaddy also said: "We are sea rangers."
"Sea Rangers?" Qian Dele frowned slightly: "Are you survivors who use ships as shelter?"
"right."
The girl named Vanessa said at this time: "We have all received the information from Dawn City. We originally thought that some train groups might go back to the ocean section, but we didn't expect that the first train group we encountered was your Infinity. Let me remind you that many deep-ocean base stations in the Pacific G3-G9 have become shelters for some alliances. Many of them are also former train groups. It is not easy for them to pass through."
"Robbery?" Lin Xian said.
"Almost. The orbit around the star is too restrictive. There are more situations on the sea than on land. Your train group is not as safe as on land."
Lin now understood that there were very few trains entering this section of track, and the resources should be at the base station nodes, the shelter islands, and the survivors' ships. Encountering an incoming train would indeed attract attention.
This problem might cause some trouble, but Lin is now more concerned about the special situation he is currently facing.
"Ocean, those strange creatures...why do they appear in broad daylight?" Lin Xian asked at this time.
"Is it strange?" Vanessa looked at the group of people and said, "The superpowers in your team are quite powerful. Haven't you seen the evil spirits that roam in broad daylight?"
"No."
"We have indeed never seen any strange creatures roaming in the daytime. Of course, human creatures, zombies or red men do not count. What you faced just now should be some kind of strange creature, right?" Ning Jing said at this time.
Vanessa and Gaddy's eyes met, and she said immediately, "We call this kind of evil spirits. They can appear during the day and have many forms. The most common ones are the Split-Tail Man and the Red Bone. But they didn't appear at the beginning. From our observation, these creatures are constantly evolving. At first, they appeared in stormy or cloudy days, or inside some buildings and sewers, and they wouldn't stay there for too long. But in the past few months, these evil spirits have become more and more adaptable. Not only can they move in the sun, but they are also constantly evolving. The threat value is getting bigger and bigger, and it is difficult to deal with them with ordinary weapons."
"But they all have one thing in common, which is that they have a very short lifespan, usually only two or three days." Geddy crossed his arms and said calmly, "They look like the vanguard of the Dark Tide."
At this time, Ning Jing said to Lin Xian: "Captain Lin, we discovered that these monsters have evolved biological force fields that can resist basic energy weapons. They are not like ordinary C-level or D-level weird bodies."
"What, a biological force field?"
KIKI was a little surprised, and floated up from the swivel chair, crossed his arms and said, "Isn't this even more difficult to deal with?"
Everyone's expressions became serious when they heard this. If ordinary strange bodies could have defensive force fields, then it would definitely be bad news for the survivors.
"I didn't expect the strange body to evolve so quickly?" Chen Sixuan frowned.
"Humans are evolving fast," Lin Xian responded, and then he looked at Vanessa and Gaddy and asked, "Can you tell us who the group that attacked you are, and what's going on on Haiyan Island?"
"certainly."
Vanessa said at this time: "Even if we don't tell you, you will soon become their target."
"What's the meaning?"
Vanessa looked at Lin Xian and the others in disbelief, and said bluntly: "Come on, you are Lin Xian, the Sword Master, and your team is full of powerful warriors. Isn't it normal to be targeted?"
Lin Xian was puzzled, but the woman named Gaddy looked at him seriously and said
"The person I'm talking about is called Weiland, the leader of the Holy City Organization, the Advent Cult. They gain power by hunting down strange entities and other superpowers. They are connected to the Crimson World and the Divine Revelation."
"etc."
Qian Dele came out and frowned, saying, "Is there some difference between the information from your sea rangers and our land survivors? What do you mean by the lattice you just mentioned? Don't these people called the Holy City Organization know that hunting people with special abilities is not very helpful for their own special ability evolution?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at Vanessa and Geddie.
Vanessa's eyes flashed with some doubt when she heard this, and then she swept her gaze across everyone and finally fell on Xiaoqing, because she had seen Xiaoqing take action before.
So she opened her mouth and gently uttered two words.
"offend."
Before she finished her words, the girl's figure suddenly flashed, and in an instant she appeared in front of Xiaoqing like lightning, and a small knife that she had taken out from somewhere stabbed out swiftly!
bite!
In a flash, Xiaoqing had already made a swift move, with the gun blade across her face, accurately blocking Vanessa's attack.
Unexpectedly, Vanessa, who had suddenly made a move, saw this scene, raised the corner of her lips slightly, and said: "I'm sorry."
When Xiaoqing heard this, she immediately noticed that the other party's aura suddenly changed. An invisible shock wave from the blocked dagger flashed silver microwaves like a materialized biological force field, which shook her away. Xiaoqing's body sank and she was shaken several meters away before she stabilized.
Hiss!
In an instant, everyone's weapons were pointed at Vanessa and Geddy, but at this time, Vanessa raised her hands and said harmlessly
"Sorry, I just want to test whether you have the lattice."
After saying that, she looked at Xiaoqing, who was shocked by her, and continued
"You don't have any special powers. Your peak evolution level alone is already at the Destruction level. It looks like you're about to break through to the Angel level."
Xiaoqing put away the gun blade and responded indifferently: "7200"
"Cool~" Vanessa responded.
Lin Xian looked at Gaddy and Vanessa at this time, wondering what the two were keeping secret, while Gaddy stood up and spoke to Lin Xian and Xiaoqing.
"Captain Lin, my friend, Vanessa's peak ability..."
“It’s 14,000!”
(End of this chapter)
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