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◎But he can't see?◎
Countdown to day six.
Zhu Ning originally planned to sleep soundly, preferably until the next morning.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Zhu Ning was awakened by the sound of Song Zhizhang knocking on the door.
Zhu Ning went to open the door with sleepy eyes. A little red hat was floating in the living room. Xiaofeng had already opened the door.
Zhu Ning took the opportunity to pick up Lin Xiaofeng and carried her sideways. The little girl laughed at her.
Song Zhizhang leaned against the door and looked at her. He felt that Zhu Ning's spirits had improved. "Someone is looking for you."
Zhu Ning was playing with Xiaofeng and asked, "Who?"
"A lady." Song Zhizhang gestured. "She's blind in one eye."
Blind in one eye? Zhu Ning searched his mind and thought that he didn't know this kind of person at all.
Song Zhizhang didn't give Zhu Ning a chance to think, "I've already let her in."
Zhu Ning: "You just let strangers in like that?" You're not afraid of letting a wolf into your house.
Song Zhizhang smiled at her: "The Noble Queen's Store will not refuse any lady."
Zhu Ning: “…”
Song Zhizhang: "Do you want me to refuse?"
Zhu Ning: "No need."
She seemed to have guessed who it was.
Song Zhizhang turned and left. About three minutes later, he walked into Zhu Ning's house alone.
She was wearing a black wool coat, a khaki scarf around her neck, and a long braid tied up at the back of her head. The highlight was her right eye, which was covered with a black eye patch.
It was indeed Huo Wenxi, faster than expected.
Zhu Ning put Lin Xiaofeng down and let her hide behind him. Even though he had guessed it, he was still a little surprised that Huo Wenxi would come to him in person.
"You guys chat." Song Zhizhang waved to Lin Xiaofeng. Little Red Riding Hood stopped in the air and ran towards Song Zhizhang, who carried her back to her room.
"Minister?" Zhu Ning spoke only after Song Zhizhang left.
She looked carefully at Huo Wenxi's eye mask. There were some dark red blood stains on the edge. Huo Wenxi had just been injured not long ago.
Zhu Ning actually found it a little hard to imagine Huo Wenxi entering the Queen's Store, passing through the group of dancing men and women, and then going into the basement, where there was a holographic stripper in the corridor.
Every step here is probably challenging Huo Wenxi's bottom line.
Zhu Ning asked, "Is there anything wrong, Minister?"
If you just want to find Zhu Ning, just call her directly. He came here in person to inspect her.
Huo Wenxi: "It's not convenient for you to go to the cleaning center now, so I can only come to you."
Zhu Ning was silent for a moment. Some people in the cleaning center had always suspected that Zhu Ning was not a natural human being. If Zhu Ning went back, being pelted with rotten eggs would be the least of his worries, but being assassinated on the road would be the worst.
Extreme environments will give rise to extreme emotions and lead to extreme actions.
Zhu Ning asked, "Would you like to sit down?"
The house is not big and there is not much place to sit, so we can only sit at the dining table.
Huo Wenxi didn't mind Zhu Ning's tiny house. She sat on the right side. Zhu Ning had never had anyone come to her house before, and this was her first time entertaining guests. She went to the bar to pour her some water and asked, "What would you like to drink?"
Huo Wenxi: "Ice water."
Huo Wenxi looked around Zhu Ning's residence and asked, "Is this the kind of place you live in?"
Zhu Ning was still wearing home clothes, and a hat had just floated away from him. It was obvious that he was a person with superpowers.
Huo Wenxi took a closer look at the red hat, but didn't ask anything in the end. She just thought that Zhu Ning's home was warmer than she thought. Was Zhu Ning living here?
Zhu Ning: "What?"
When Huo Wenxi came to inspect, Zhu Ning showed it to her openly. It was pointless to hide it at this point.
Huo Wenxi: "To deepen my understanding of you."
Huo Wenxi is from the investigation team. Her daily task is to investigate, and she can infer a person's general character through clues.
This room proves that Zhu Ning is a person with worldly desires. He is not a god without desires, nor is he so unshakable.
Zhu Ning took the ice cubes and then placed a glass of pure and harmless ice water in front of Huo Wenxi.
Huo Wenxi didn't drink it directly, but looked at the glass of water for a long time.
Zhu Ning asked, "You don't dare drink?"
Huo Wenxi is blind in one eye. As an intuitive animal, she should be accustomed to applying her intuition to all aspects of life.
More often than others think, you can tell if a glass of water is poisoned or if you’re going to get into a car by intuition.
It can be said that intuition and luck are bound together, and she can avoid most of the dangers caused by accidents in the world.
Now Huo Wenxi is really like groping in the dark.
Huo Wenxi looked into Zhu Ning's eyes. She seemed to be provoking him. In front of Zhu Ning, Huo Wenxi picked up the water cup and took a sip, as if to return the favor to her.
Zhu Ning laughed and found Huo Wenxi quite interesting.
Huo Wenxi: "There's still one eye left, it should be able to recover."
Huo Wenxi's words always carry weight. Zhu Ning guessed that she had some kind of advanced technology and would probably be able to use her supernatural powers again tomorrow.
However, she said that she still had one eye left, proving that her right eye might really be useless.
Zhu Ning asked, "What happened to your right eye?"
Huo Wenxi: "I saw some things I shouldn't have seen."
She only said this sentence, and Zhu Ning immediately realized what Huo Wenxi had seen, just like she had once glimpsed a corner in Li Xin's memory and shuddered all over.
There is a saying that you should not let the brain discover the existence of the eyeball, otherwise the brain will kill the eyeball.
Huo Wenxi's current situation is strangely fitting.
Huo Wenxi, wearing black leather gloves, pushed a file bag to Zhu Ning and said, "My investigation team is back."
Zhu Ning estimated that it was indeed time.
Zhu Ning opened the folder, and a chip fell out. Huo Wenxi said, "It will take about four hours to read it completely."
Even the most original material without any editing takes a lot of time to watch at double speed. During this countdown stage, the cost of viewing time is extremely high.
Huo Wenxi: "Do you want to see it?"
Zhu Ning didn't mention that with her ability, it would only take a few seconds to check all the videos. "I don't need that."
Huo Wenxi lost one eye after seeing it, and it’s hard to say what the consequences were for Zhu Ning after seeing it.
Zhu Ning asked, "What's inside?"
Huo Wenxi placed one hand on the table. She paused for a moment before saying, "The investigation team followed my orders and walked out of the first-level protective wall. Only one of them survived, and the sole survivor went insane."
Zhu Ning frowned. Investigators are high-level talents at a higher level than demon hunters, which is equivalent to the cleaning center losing a group of talents.
And crazy? What did they find?
"They retraced Jiang Ping's investigation route. Everything ahead was normal. The deserted village had been cleared, and the mountain behind had been razed to the ground. They had only photographed some ruins and found some video and written materials. Initially, nothing unusual had occurred. However, my order was to expand the search area by five kilometers."
Zhu Ning nodded. Huo Wenxi's judgment made sense. Only by expanding the scope could one find something unexpected.
Huo Wenxi took out his cigarette case and asked, "Do you mind?"
Zhu Ning thought that smoking was bad for your health since you were blind in one eye, so he said, "Whatever you want."
Huo Wenxi lit a cigarette and said through the smoke: "That's when it happened."
There are fifteen people in the investigation team outside the wall, and their team name is Gaoshan. This is the strangest task they have taken, because they don’t need to go out of the wall, but just stay outside the first-level protective wall.
But instinct told them not to relax.
They walked all the routes in Jiangping, and the last stop was a deserted village, which was nothing special.
The mountain team expanded the search range and reached the first location five kilometers away from the deserted village. It was a forest and there were no key coordinates.
A thorough search was conducted but nothing major was found. Everything was normal here, as normal as an ordinary forest.
There is not much danger outside the first-level protective wall itself.
By the time they finished their investigation, it was already night. It was unsafe at night and they had no way of returning.
The investigation team outside the wall had extensive experience staying overnight, so they did not panic. Instead, they sent a return signal to the cleaning center, indicating that they were about to return.
The signaling went smoothly, and their protective helmets were still functioning.
After sending the signal, the investigators stayed where they were and counted the supplies. Since they had not walked far, the supplies they brought were not consumed much and they were very abundant.
They put up the protective shield, and most of the team members fell asleep, leaving only two people to stand guard. They worked in shifts, and would call the next group of guards after an hour.
There were two people in charge of the first batch of guards, named Xu Beihu and Wei Qi.
Although standing guard is boring, the two men are experienced and it is impossible for them to fall asleep.
Wei Qi stood guard in front of the camp. The forest was very quiet, without even the rustling of leaves, as if the whole world had fallen asleep.
He was in a daze and nodded. When he looked up again, he found that his teammate next to him was gone.
He opened his eyes blankly. Forty minutes had passed and he had no recollection of it. Could it be that he had really fallen asleep?
How could he sleep standing up for so long?
Wei Qi felt very strange because he had no memory of it at all. It was as if those forty minutes had quietly evaporated.
Thick fog rose around them. The other teammates were still asleep. He looked into the fog and asked, "Xiao Xu?"
He called out several times, but no one responded. Investigators have some instinctive reactions that are beyond ordinary people.
He realized that something might have happened.
He called out to a teammate, "Hey, wake up, Xiao Xu is missing."
His teammate woke up immediately. He was supposed to be the next one to stand guard, but he was woken up early, as if something had broken the rules they had set.
"What should we do?" the teammate asked, "Wake up the others?"
Wei Qi thought for a moment and said, "You two should stay up and watch for a while. I'll go take a look."
If nothing happened and he called his teammates to suffer, he would probably be laughed at for a whole year.
Living outside the wall and resting can keep your mental state stable.
His teammates told him to be careful and to call for help if he was in danger.
Wei Qi tied a rope around his feet and tied the other end to a fixed pole in the camp so that even if he got lost he could find his way back.
Moreover, the special device of this rope allows his teammates to pull him back if he is killed.
Before leaving, he made sure his communication device was working properly, then took a deep breath and went into the fog. His helmet had automatic navigation and could locate the base camp behind him, which was shown as a red dot on the helmet.
The physical distance was only five meters, but when I looked back I could no longer see the campsite. Covered by thick fog, it looked almost the same in every direction.
Wei Qi walked for a while, less than ten meters, and saw a person's back in front of him.
A normal person might feel relieved to see his teammate in this situation, guessing that he probably got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, or came to check on him because he heard some unusual noise.
But he didn't think so. Instead, he felt it was very strange, because if the distance was only ten meters, the other party would definitely have heard him calling Xiao Xu's name.
Can you hear why they don't respond? Is it because they can't respond at all? Or... they're not teammates at all?
He didn't let his guard down, knowing that the most frightening people outside the wall were his teammates. He immediately raised his gun and pointed it at the back of Xiao Xu's head, "Xiao Xu?"
The man in front did not move. It was quiet in the thick fog, as if he was the only one left in the world.
He swallowed, took a half step forward, and poked the man in the back with his gun.
Bang!
Xiao Xu suddenly fell face first to the ground, his whole body falling straight down like a corpse.
When his body touched the ground, it shattered into countless pieces with a bang, like a thin and brittle porcelain.
He was caught off guard and the remains of his teammate hit his leg.
Wei Qi's whole body stiffened, and he felt as if his calf was hit by a handful of stones. It wasn't a stone, it was... broken bones.
The sound of heavy breathing echoed inside the helmet. At that moment, the blood in his body froze, and he lowered his head with a stiff neck.
Climbing.
The teammate's broken into countless pieces of flesh and bones were wriggling, making a disgusting and sticky sound.
And crawling right at his feet.
It had already touched his calf, and the protective suit transmitted a strange feeling, as if leeches were crawling all over his body.
He came to his senses and immediately ran back. He had to tell the rest of his teammates. The location of the camp was marked on his helmet and there was a rope tied to his feet.
He had only walked ten meters when he ran and yelled, "Hey! Get up! Something happened!"
"Xiao Xu is in trouble!" he shouted, "Go to emergency immediately..."
His voice gradually became lower and his steps gradually slowed down.
The campground was empty.
The captain and the successor team members were gone, only traces of the stationing were left.
The other end of his rope was still tied to a fixed pole, and he looked like a dog tied at the entrance of the village.
How...how is this possible?
He had only been out for five minutes at most. If these people had left, there would have been no way they would not have called him. If they had been attacked, there would have been no way there would have been no sound at all.
Why are all the people gone?
The fog grew thicker, and he felt something wet on his back, as if something was crawling and sticky towards him.
He turned back with a stiff neck, and saw his teammate's body parts wriggling, but he couldn't tell the direction in the darkness.
He picked up the weapon on the ground, fully armed himself, and called his teammates on the channel, but there was no response.
Everyone has his own positioning point. The strange thing is that he can see the positioning of his teammates on the helmet. The remaining thirteen people are gathered together, just twenty meters away.
Their positioning points are very dense, as if... they are stationed there.
He glanced at the thick fog, where the sounds of unknown creatures crawling could be heard intermittently. He then glanced at the empty camp behind him.
Should I stay here and wait for my teammates to come back, or go and check the location of the helmet logo?
The disgusting and sticky sound became louder and louder. He took a deep breath and prepared to look at the logo on the helmet.
After all, it’s not far, only twenty meters, and even if it’s a trap, we can get back soon.
He walked towards the helmet through a thick fog, not making any noise because it was difficult to determine whether the thing was a teammate.
Soon he finished the twenty meters and came to an open space. The trees here were not so dense, and there were some stones placed on the ground by people, like some kind of formation.
But there was no sign of human presence, and of course no human beings at all; it was empty.
He looked at the helmet screen again and enlarged the helmet display, which showed a dozen red figures. His remaining teammates were in this position, and he was overlapping with them.
Something wrong with the helmet system?
Or... his teammate is right here, but he can't see him?
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