Chapter 191 The Second Layer
Even though they were separated by glass, You Xi was disgusted by the way this thing was squirming.
It was such a small thing, only the size of a palm, and it looked like it had no beginning or end. If you get closer, you will find that its color distribution is not even, and there are traces of lines on the deep and shallow blood red, like the internal organs or flesh of some creature...
But it moves, and the part that sticks to the glass seems to be able to absorb it and not fall from mid-air.
So, this thing is alive?
But where did it fall from? The car is now in mid-air, and the appearance of this thing is really strange.
Could it be related to this thick gray fog?
"Boss You, we should have reached the villa, but the visibility is too low and we can't see the parking platform clearly." The parking platform is not big to begin with, and it is impossible to park the car accurately under such visibility.
"Let me take a look." You Xi looked at the car window and concentrated secretly.
This thick fog, which almost had a real texture, was actually close to the state of water mist. She might be able to freeze it directly into ice, and then control the broken ice to move away, so as to clear the way home.
However, a moment later, You Xi stared outside the car in astonishment.
This thick gray fog could not freeze!
Just as she was surprised, several blood-red soft objects fell on the car window. They fell in two places, one was outside the glass near You Xi, and the other was outside the windshield near Jian Shou.
Because they were both relatively close to the glass, it seemed that the creatures sensed their presence and purposefully stuck to the outside of the car.
As for the target in the car, probably because he was unconscious in the middle of the car, he was relatively close to the roof, so one or two of them also landed on the roof. The
more You Xi looked at these things, the more disgusted she felt, especially when she realized that they were coming for them in the car.
But in the current situation, she didn't know what the gray fog outside was, and whether it was dangerous, so she couldn't just open the door in mid-air. So the question was, if she couldn't open the door to dispel the fog, how could she land the low-altitude vehicle safely on the platform?
Oh, right, the lights.
She thought of the several night spotlights installed outside the villa, and immediately called Hei Mu on her watch phone.
The call didn't go through, and she didn't know whether her signal was bad or the other party's signal was bad. She remembered a post on the Internet that someone said the signal had deteriorated recently, and began to suspect that this situation was actually related to the fog.
While she was hesitating, a fine, light golden light suddenly spread out in the foggy area in front of the car. This light fell in the thick fog. Although it seemed dim, it cleared the passage from the low-altitude car to the villa platform with absolute power.
You Xi was only surprised for a moment, and immediately stood up, commanding Jian Shou to rush to the platform as fast as possible.
As the car was speeding, Youxi felt a chill on her wrist. She looked back and found that it was the man who had fainted in the seat who had woken up.
He looked extremely weak and could not even make a sound. He finally moved a few fingers and gently placed them on her wrist.
The familiar weak look and the way he looked at her confirmed Youxi's inner guess.
Sure enough, she quickly recalled a familiar voice in her mind.
[It's me.]
Youxi: I knew it was you...
**
Jian Shou performed exceptionally well and only took one-third of the usual time to quickly stop the low-altitude car.
Xing Min once again emitted a fine light golden light to clear the gray mist in the area where the platform was connected to the window. But after doing this, the man who had just woken up fell into a coma again.
Jian Shou didn't know why the gray mist would automatically clear, but he knew that this was their only chance to return to the villa.
He quickly moved to the car door, wanting to carry the unconscious person out of the car for You Xi.
"Let me do it, your hand injury hasn't healed yet." You Xi said, and jumped out of the car neatly, turned around and carried the person on the seat down.
Jian Shou pulled out the long dagger that You Xi handed him when leaving the villa, picked off several blood-red soft objects that were stuck to the car window nearby, protected her side, and closed the car door with her backhand after she carried the person down.
Those blood-red soft objects fell on the platform. I don't know if it was because there was no gray mist in this small area, but the thing began to twist and wriggle as soon as it landed, and kept rolling.
If this thing had vocal cords that could make sounds, You Xi felt that it was probably screaming loudly at this moment.
In just a moment, when they walked all the way across the platform and reached the steps, the soft bodies that fell on the platform had curled up and were motionless. The soft bodies that were originally flesh and blood seemed to shrink and wrinkle, becoming dry and burnt.
So, this thing was born from the gray mist?
"Mr. You!" Jian Shou reminded her, probably because he noticed that her pace slowed down.
You Xi immediately rushed down the stairs in a few steps. At the window, the anxious Yan Shang and Xi Yuan had already opened the window. Xi Yuan saw that she was holding someone, so he jumped onto the windowsill and leaned out to meet her.
At this moment, a blood-red soft object fell from the area above the window frame that was still trapped in the gray mist, and landed right on Xiyuan's neck.
He uttered a low cry, and felt a stinging pain on his neck, and subconsciously reached out to touch it.
"Don't touch it!" Youxi stopped him, and then handed the person in his arms to Yan Shang in the window, and told him to carry the person to her room first, and then reminded him: "Be careful, put him down gently, he is seriously injured!"
Yan Shang agreed, and her eyes swept across the person who was delivered, and fell on Youxi again. Then he saw the blood on her clothes, and he wanted to ask her how she was and whether she was injured, but she had already turned around and went to Xiyuan.
With swift movements, she took the long dagger from Jian Shou's hand, grasped Xiyuan's neck with one hand and pulled him down,
and with the other hand, she quickly and accurately picked off the bloody soft thing on his neck. The soft thing stuck to the human body seemed to be harder to pick off than the one on the glass, as if it was attached more firmly. After it fell to the ground, it rolled and squirmed on the fog-free steps just like the previous ones, and soon dried up and turned burnt.
Youxi jumped onto the windowsill, and Jian Shou immediately closed and locked the open window.
The small area that was originally cleared was slowly filled with gray fog from all directions again, and the fog gradually spread to the window, blocking everything from the outside world.
At the same moment, the sound of machinery rang in her mind.
[Random Mission: Within one hour, find the seriously injured and unconscious patient in bed No. 5 at the temporary medical center in room No. 3 at the foot of the mountain resort and bring him back to the villa. Completed. Number of Star Coins: 735.]
You Xi didn't care about the skyrocketing number of star coins for the time being. She took a step back and looked at the window vigilantly.
Hei Mu, who had been waiting in the corridor, seemed to know what she was worried about. He said in a deep voice: "Master, don't worry. As long as the window is closed, this gray fog will not spread into the room. In addition, the indoor air filtration system has been turned on, so there shouldn't be any problems."
"Okay." You Xi nodded. Maybe she was standing too close to the window. In the gray fog, several blood-colored soft objects fell and stuck to the outside of the double-layer glass.
When she stepped back about one meter, this soft object seemed to have automatically loosened the glass as if it had lost its target, and slid gently from it, and then disappeared under the window sill.
She was almost certain now that this thing was staring at a person. She thought of Xiyuan who had just been touched by it, and hurriedly pulled him, pinched his chin and turned him to the side, and stood on tiptoe to carefully check his neck.
Sure enough, there were several red blood spots on his slender white neck. After a closer look, she found that these blood spots were actually extensions of the soft thing, something like tentacles.
Because the software was picked off by her, and there was no thick fog in the room, the thing had begun to dry up and burn. The broken part was already hanging weakly outside his skin, and a part extended into his flesh...
Youxi turned to look at Xiyuan: "Doesn't it hurt?"
He lowered his head and stared at the face that was so close to him. His chin was still pinched by her fingertips, and her other hand was holding the back of his neck. He swallowed subconsciously, but his cheeks quickly became hot.
After a while, he shook his head gently.
"Hei Mu, go to the storage room downstairs and find a medical kit. There are surgical tweezers and knives in it. Disinfect them and give them to me. Be quick!"
"Yes!" Hei Mu always did things quickly and efficiently. After a moment, he had taken out what she needed.
On the other side, Xiyuan was taken into the bathroom of the suite by Youxi. Jian Shou brought a chair and placed it next to the sink. Youxi pressed Xiyuan to sit down, still twisting his chin so that his neck was facing the sink.
Jian Shou, who was standing by, turned on all the lights in the bathroom at her request, and then turned on the flashlight on his watch and mobile phone to shine on Xiyuan's neck for her.
Xiyuan didn't realize something was wrong until then. For some reason, his thoughts and reactions seemed to be much slower than usual.
He was about to move when the fingers holding the back of his neck tightened again.
"Don't move." Youxi looked at him and took the sterilized scalpel from Hei Mu's hand. "Do you believe me?"
At such a close distance, he could almost feel her light breathing. He didn't say a word, but looked at her and nodded lightly.
"Be good." You Xi smiled comfortingly while the hand holding the scalpel quickly and accurately cut into the areas around the blood spots on his neck.
Blood gushed out instantly, but Xi Yuan seemed to feel no pain at all.
You Xi gathered her mind and focused on the cut, carefully avoiding the major arteries on his neck, and finally cut the skin around all the blood spots.
She threw the scalpel into the pool, then took the surgical tweezers handed to her by Hei Mu, and carefully pulled out a red blood thread about 1 cm long from the flesh at the blood spots. There were
five blood spots in total, and five blood threads were finally pulled out.
The blood threads were thrown into the pool, and without the nourishment of human flesh and blood, they soon dried up and charred in the white porcelain basin.
You Xi checked again and confirmed that there were no whiskers left, then she breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the blood off his neck, disinfected it, and put a gauze on it.
She had done what she could, and the rest depended on whether this strange blood-colored software had other side effects.
So far, it seems that the software will quickly extend its whiskers to penetrate the skin after it comes into contact with human skin, which is why Xi Yuan initially cried out because of the pain.
But after the whiskers penetrate the skin and flesh, they should secrete something similar to an anesthetic, which is why he didn't feel the pain later.
You Xi always felt that she had vaguely connected a lot of fragmented clues, but there was still some missing information about the most critical part.
Xi Yuan was still a little unresponsive until the gauze was put on him. He inadvertently tilted his head to look at his blood-stained collar in the mirror of the pool, and the blood drops falling into the basin. After being stunned for a second or two, he fell backwards and passed out.
Youxi: ...
"Sorry, he seems to be a little dizzy..." Yan Shang supported him and explained hurriedly.
"It may not be dizzy, this thing may have other functions that we don't know." Youxi pointed to the pool.
Afterwards, she asked Yan Shang to send Xiyuan back to the room, and then asked Hei Mu to take a photo before cleaning the pool and give it to Jian Shou, who would upload the photo and the information about the blood-red software he had obtained so far to the Internet.
This is an unknown danger, and information sharing will help both her and others.
Before leaving, Hei Mu asked if she needed to temporarily place the person she brought back in another room. Although there was only one room for one person, there was someone on duty every night, so it was enough.
"No, let him stay here for now, and you go find some new men's clothes for backup."
Hei Mu looked up at the person who was unconscious on the sofa and nodded in agreement.
**
The gray fog outside slowly faded away before dusk. During this period, the network and signal in the villa were sometimes available, and the screen of current affairs news turned into a snowflake.
The situation at the resort's shelter was not good. The thick fog came suddenly, and at that time, many people were outside the building.
Some people saw the thick and strange fog spreading and were frightened. They subconsciously ran indoors and closed the doors and windows. These people were not in serious trouble because they acted cautiously.
But there were also some people who did not or could not take shelter indoors in time. After the thick fog spread, they were completely lost. They groped forward in the fog, trying to find their companions, but they did not know that there were other things in the thick fog...
Not long after the fog dissipated, the barely restored network and live video were immediately flooded with large and small "Red Lotus" related news.
Whether it was text and pictures, or shaky and blurry videos, each piece of news was transmitted from a relatively safe area near the "Red Lotus".
——Red Lotus is dead! Really!
——At this time, if you look out the window, you can see the terrifying huge "petals" waving, but today those long blood-red soft bodies are hanging there! Look carefully, see, it is really motionless!
——It happened here too! There was a lot of fog before, and because someone had been reported missing during fog, everyone was very scared, not only did they close the windows, but they also stayed far away. But just when the fog cleared, the nearby "Red Lotus" didn't move at all! The "sharp teeth" in the middle were exposed, and usually the "sharp teeth" would only appear when there was a disturbance that generated suction...
...
The news spread from all over the planet, and not all "Red Lotus" in all regions had abnormalities, because the gray fog was not global in nature.
But this time, wherever there was fog, the fog concentration was very high, and visibility was less than one meter. But after the fog dissipated, the "Red Lotus" in the gray fog area lost its activity, with its "petals" drooping and "sharp teeth" exposed, as if it was dead.
Is it really dead?
At the same time, the troops were also excited because of this news. The drones were the first advance troops. They took off from a relatively safe area and slowly approached the death zone of the "Red Lotus".
Count down 20 meters... 10 meters... 5 meters... 1 meter!
The drones flew safely into the death zone, which should have triggered the alarm of the huge software. They would flutter in the air and repeatedly hit the nearby ground ruins. But now, "Red Lotus" has no reaction at all, its long soft body is curled up and shrunken, and some parts are even broken.
No one filmed the plane flying smoothly all the way to the top of "Red Lotus".
Everyone stared at the camera nervously, but as people on the Internet said, the "sharp teeth" in the middle are not protected by the "petals", they are exposed and motionless.
A moment later, a test missile was launched from a nearby troop station.
The missile hit the "sharp teeth" accurately, and a huge fire exploded. After the smoke dissipated, the once indestructible "sharp teeth" were partially blown off, but they were still frozen there motionlessly, as if they were completely... dead!
"Red Lotus" is really dead!
This news immediately exploded in all the evacuation areas, and people spread the news crazily. Current affairs news also sent videos from all over the world about the current situation of the "Red Lotus" in the death zone after the fog dissipated.
Without exception, the originally terrifying "Red Lotus" had all lost their vitality and strong defense!
This gray fog restrained the "Red Lotus"!
Some people understood and were extremely excited to spread the new news online.
People were tired of such a life of displacement and fear. They lost everything in this disaster. Now they got the news that the disaster was about to end, and they were overjoyed.
Some people frantically browsed posts and videos online, confirming the news over and over again. Some people ran out of the building, raised their arms and shouted in the ruined city. Some people hugged their families and cried while laughing...
The Internet was full of news related to "Honglian". Areas that had experienced fog were cheering for the death of "Honglian", and areas that had not experienced fog were looking forward to the arrival of gray fog.
In this situation, places like Youxi that stayed awake and issued warnings about gray fog were quickly drowned out.
In fact, there were many rational and calm people. Some people also saw small blood-red software on the glass windows of the building. Some people's family and friends happened to be outside during the fogging period, but now the fog has dissipated for a long time, and they have not returned...
But no one noticed these small sounds.
Until late at night, the excited people still did not sleep. At this time, the troops had already noticed something was wrong because of the number of missing people reported. If
someone went missing during the fog, it might be an accident once, but it could not be an accident if it happened twice in a row and in different places!
At the same time, the news reported also included information about small blood-red software. However, this kind of thing will dry up and burn as soon as it leaves the range of the gray fog. Although the wound is paralyzed, it was determined to be non-toxic after testing, and it does not seem to be very harmful at present.
After all, the gray fog will not occur all the time. Just notify the people and pay attention to quickly enter the nearest building when the fog starts next time, stay indoors and close the doors and windows.
**
Xing Min woke up once in the evening.
At the time, You Xi was doing a plank on a yoga mat nearby. When she noticed something was happening on the sofa and stood up to check, he just looked at her and said two words before fainting again.
You Xi: ...
Xing Min said: removed.
From his arms hanging down from the sofa, it can be inferred that what he meant by removed was the splints on his arms and legs. You Xi removed the splints and carefully examined them, and found that the fractures on his arms and legs had healed.
She roughly understood that the body he found this time was originally seriously injured and on the verge of death. He used his own energy to stabilize the body and appeared near the resort, where he was taken to the medical center for treatment by rescue workers.
However, because he consumed energy, he fell into a coma, so he assigned her a random task to bring him back personally.
Now he is still repairing this body, and it is estimated that he will not be able to really wake up for a while.
Youxi removed all the plywood for him, covered him with a thin blanket, dimmed the lights in the room, and went downstairs to eat.
At this time, the gray fog outside the window had dissipated, and the surrounding mountains and forests and the resort at the foot of the mountain were clearly visible again.
But because of the head-on confrontation with that small software, the people in the villa were very vigilant. No one opened the window, and decided not to go out until things were really clear.
Youxi first went to the second-floor window to check the platform where the low-altitude vehicle was parked. The software obviously had no interest in things other than the human body. At this moment, the gray fog dissipated, and the several software that were originally attached to the car glass disappeared without leaving any trace.
The dry and charred one on the platform was still there, but it still maintained its previous state and had not changed.
Looking down from the window, the ground around was also clean, without any blood-red software left.
During dinner, Hei Mu asked about the person rescued by You Xi.
"He is a very important friend and will stay with us in the future. When I am not around, we will follow his orders."
This is a very important sentence, and it is obvious that the relationship between the other party and You Xi is not ordinary.
Several people were a little surprised, but no one questioned it, and they all nodded in agreement.
Xi Yuan fainted in the afternoon because of bloodsickness. Seeing You Xi at this moment, he remembered the scene at that time. I don’t know if it was because he felt embarrassed about bloodsickness, or for some other reason, as soon as You Xi’s eyes moved over, his cheeks immediately turned red.
You Xi:...
Is she fierce?
At the end of the dinner, he held her and apologized to her for what happened before. First, his recklessness caused her trouble, and second, because of the blood dizziness, he even dizzy when he saw his own blood, which was really useless.
Although You Xi said that even if he didn't know anything, as long as he wanted to stay, she would not abandon him.
But with the current situation outside, if it weren't for You Xi's protection, he would probably have died several times.
He didn't want to be a burden all the time, so from now on, he would work harder than before. In addition to physical training, he would seriously learn various fighting skills from Jian Shou.
"Jian Shou's hand injury hasn't healed yet." You Xi reminded him, "How about this, starting tomorrow, I will teach you how to fight." She looked at his eyes that widened suddenly, and added, "Be prepared, I will be many times stricter than Jian Shou."
"I'm not afraid! I will definitely study hard!" "
Come on." She smiled and went upstairs.
**
The next day, there was no sunshine.
Everyone who got up early and opened the curtains or walked to the window was surprised to find that it was foggy outside again.
It was not the light white fog in the past peacetime, but the very, very thick gray fog seen in the video or photos yesterday.
Everything outside was covered by fog, the sky, the trees, the buildings... everything seemed to have disappeared.
At this time, most people were still happy, because they hoped that this gray fog would kill the "red lotus" near them, so that the disaster would pass and they could rebuild their homes.
But they didn't know that the disaster had just begun.
From this moment on, the gray fog would spread little by little until it covered the entire planet.
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