The low, piercing, sharp chirping sound echoed in the mind, almost driving people crazy.

"Mr. Francis, can you still hold on?"

Valentine strode forward with a shotgun in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Behind him, Francis was panting and in a state of disarray.

"I, I am dying, Mr. Valentine."

"Hold on, don't let those monsters find you!"

While roaring, Valentine looked around.

The situation is terrible!

To be honest, Valentine had never expected the situation to turn out like this. They had sent a telegram through the city post office, but had not received a response from Fang Zheng. They also knew that Fang Zheng was out for some reason and might not be back for a while. So Valentine wanted to solve the problem himself.

In his opinion, the current situation is not completely out of control. The meteorite that fell from the sky has not only attracted the attention of the media, but also scholars and the government. Moreover, the current situation is already very bad. Plants and animals are mutating, and scholars have also warned that the water quality is polluted. In any case, as long as the media reports this, the government will definitely send a professional team to solve the problem - at least that's what Valentine thinks.

But after that, things took a turn for the worse.

The very next day, they found the body of a reporter who came to report the incident on the side of the road. He drove his car off the cliff at almost a mad speed and died.

Soon after, members of the investigation team from the university who were responsible for conducting tests and investigations also disappeared one after another, and their presence was nowhere to be seen in the entire camp.

Not only that, when they wanted to leave, they found that the car was damaged and the radio to the outside world was also inoperative. They could only hear screams that were almost like wailing. They wanted to leave on horseback, but they found that the horses had changed their temperaments and were as crazy as wild beasts.

Finally, the unbearable detective Valentine found the village chief, but the village chief stayed indoors and refused to communicate with them. In desperation, Valentine had to break into the house, but there, he and Francis saw only the village chief's body.

No, not just dead bodies.

“GAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

As the two continued to go deeper into the woods, suddenly, a monster jumped out from the bushes in front of them. Strictly speaking, it should be a strange appearance of two deer fused together. Their bodies seemed to have lost the boundary of separation and merged together from the middle. The originally beautiful fur had already become shriveled, like fish scales. And in their bodies, there was a faint purple glow.

“Wow!!”

Francis was also shocked when he saw the monster. Then he instinctively clenched the crowbar in his hand and smashed it hard at the monster in front of him. With blood splattering, the monster fell to the ground.

“Hoo…Hoo…”

Holding the crowbar tightly in his hand, Francis didn't even care about the blood spilling on his body, but stared at the corpse in front of him. In his eyes, Francis could see a translucent, colorful purple light expanding and emerging, and at the same time, the crowbar in his hand became hotter and hotter.

Over there.

Francis knew what his enemy was, an invisible monster. Detective Valentine had excellent marksmanship, but he was completely unable to cause any damage to the monster. However, his crowbar was different...

“Ahhhhhh!!!”

Feeling the heat of the crowbar in his hand, Francis roared, raised the crowbar, and hit it hard in front of him. With an almost imperceptible shock, Francis could see the strange color expand like a balloon, explode, and then disappear into the air.

Dead, is he dead?

Holding the crowbar in a daze, Francis couldn't help but turn his head to look around, but at this moment, Valentine had already stepped forward and grabbed him.

"What are you waiting for? Hurry up, it'll be too late to leave!"

“Ah, yes…!”

Mr. Van Helsing, help!

As Francis asked Fang Zheng for help, Fang Zheng couldn't help but sigh.

"Oh, I'm such a hard worker. I just came back from Antarctica, but now I have to run again..."

While driving on a country road, Fang Zheng complained to Nymph and Asakura Ryoko.

"Because these matters can only be handled by you, the master."

Asakura Ryoko was used to Fang Zheng's complaints, so she gave her answer with a smile.

"Besides, this also shows that you, Master, have a kind heart."

"You are quite good at talking."

Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders. Asakura Ryoko could be said to be a perfect beauty - well, except that she would cut others into pieces with a smile on her face without changing her expression.

By the way, before coming here, Fang Zheng also sensed the location of the two people, and then he determined that they were in a very remote village in New Orleans, and they had not moved for a while. I don't know if they are dead or have found a place to hide... Anyway, no matter which one it is, it is definitely not good.

“Squeak—!”

Suddenly, Fang Zheng braked and stopped the car on the side of the road. Then he opened the door, got out and looked ahead.

The road ahead was blocked by weeds and vines that had grown wildly. Vehicles could not move forward at all. The only way to move forward was to walk. However... the problem was more superficial.

That's the color.

Everything in front of me, whether it is trees, grass, vines, or other things, is a constantly shining purple color. Looking around, it feels as if the scenery in front of me was taken into a photograph and then smeared with purple ink.

“Woo… Roar…”

Erha lowered his body, stared fiercely at the purple in front of him, opened his mouth and let out a greedy roar.

"Okay, you can't eat this. It will upset your stomach."

"This is a two-way erosion of information, Master, what should we do?"

"No big deal."

Facing Nymph's curious question, Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders and took a step forward.

"Just burn it all."

"call--!!"

When Fang Zheng stepped into the woods, everything around him started to burn, including the trees, flowers, and even the birds and animals on the branches. Soon, the scorching flames devoured the original purple, dyeing the entire world bright red.

Fang Zheng just walked forward along the path step by step.

The flames spread all the way before his eyes, as if the Burning Legion was unstoppable. The purple light didn't even have time to escape before it was completely engulfed and burned. Not even the air could escape the invasion of the First Fire.

However, the flames did not burn for a long time. Instead, the flames just swept across those things. Where the initial fire passed, the originally burning trees, flowers, plants and animals turned gray and white, and then turned into piles of dust and scattered in the wind.

If you look from the sky, you can clearly see that the large area of ​​purple was wiped out by the bright red firelight and turned into gray and white. And Fang Zheng just went forward, forward, and forward again. He left the woods and came to the town.

The situation in the town was not much better than other places.

The whole town was dark, with heavy rain pouring down. The swaying lights flickered with an eerie purple color, but even this dark night could not stop the invasion of the flames. The bright red first fire ignited the dark night sky and quickly began to burn. Where the night was burned out, the azure blue sky and sunshine reappeared once again.

“——!”

A sharp cry like tinnitus quietly emerged. Fang Zheng raised his head and looked forward. He saw several huge, thick tentacles that seemed to be made of condensed colors extending from the well at the end of the road. Obviously, these alien visitors also realized that their crisis was coming, and they wanted to leave, but unfortunately... now they have merged with this land and have no way to leave.

"Go ahead."

Fang Zheng snapped his fingers, and soon, a spark flew across the air and fell into the well in the distance. Then, the purple tentacles that were flapping wildly quickly retracted.

“——!”

A dazzling column of fire shot up into the sky, illuminating the entire world bright red.

When Fang Zheng found Francis and Valentine, they were hiding in a cellar, shivering, and it looked like they hadn't had a drop of water for days. It looked like they were not far from death. As soon as they saw the water and food in Fang Zheng's hand, they pounced on them like wild beasts and devoured them... Well, it looked like they were really close to death.

"You guys are so weak."

Looking at the two people who were covered in dust and had pale and skinny faces, Fang Zheng couldn't help but sneer.

"Didn't I tell you a long time ago that we should only investigate and not cause trouble?"

"Fei, I'm very sorry, Mr. Fang Zheng..."

After eating a piece of bread, Francis finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"We, we..."

"It's not his fault, it's my fault."

Valentine, who had recovered his breath at this moment, spoke in a low voice with a livid face, then he lowered his head and confessed his "stupid behavior" to Fang Zheng in detail.

At the beginning, it was just as Valentine and his team reported to Fang Zheng in the telegram, but later, because Fang Zheng had not responded at that time, and the meteorite incident also attracted the attention of the media, scholars and the government, Valentine wanted to try to solve the problem himself without Fang Zheng's assistance. He believed that as long as he cooperated properly with the government and scholars conducted investigations together, he should be able to figure out everything.

Yet this is the result.

Being chased by monsters, they had no way to escape and could only hide in the cellar left by the hunter and shiver. If Fang Zheng hadn't come, they would have collapsed in a few days.

"hehe."

After listening to the two people's stories, Fang Zheng laughed.

"So, now you have learned your lesson? Then you still want to continue? This time, you should understand that this is not a game."

Fang Zheng folded his arms and looked at Francis and Valentine in front of him with a smile. It was not unexpected for these two people to do this. You know, when Francis met the Deep One, and when Valentine met Cthulhu later, Fang Zheng basically rushed up to fight and that was it. They themselves were not in any danger of life, so it was inevitable that he would have some thoughts.

But this time... I think they will finally understand that this is not an ordinary game.

Indeed, to Fang Zheng, even Star Color was just a creature that he could kill with a spark. However, to Valentine and Francis, it was a monster that was deadly enough.

Obviously, all he had to do was report the matter and leave, but in the end he decided to solve the incident on his own... Well, that's human nature.

"So, what do you think now?"

“…”

Hearing Fang Zheng's question, the two raised their heads and looked around - just now, this place was still a boundless forest under the dark night sky, shining with purple light, but now, looking around, everything is gray and white.

At this moment, they finally understood what they were dealing with.