Chapter 534 Superposition
The intersection was thick with fog, and the street scenes in the distance looked hazy and eerie in the fog. The distant street lights swayed slightly like the eyes of living things. Between the intersection of lights and fog, suspicious shadows flashed by from time to time - perhaps they were entities generated in the fog, or they could be tactical walking robots patrolled by the Secret Service, or more likely they were just illusions.
There is no doubt that it is extremely dangerous for a person to enter that fog.
So Li Lin stayed obediently in the "safe zone" around No. 66 Wutong Road, observing this foggy foreign land while waiting for Zheng Zhi, Yu Sheng and others to come back.
The good news is that this wait is not too lonely - thanks to the widespread use of the new "Spirit Fox" relay nodes, he can still contact the real world here, and at the same time connect to the Secret Service's dedicated channel within the Fog City. Now there are hundreds of deep-sea teams operating in this huge alien maze city. Although the fog isolates them from each other, he can feel more at ease when watching the news of various action teams refreshed from time to time on the public channel.
"...So, I'm here guarding the house now," Li Lin said, sitting at the door of the express delivery point, phone in hand, sending a message to his colleagues from the Second Brigade of the Special Service Bureau. "Honestly, this thick fog is really a bit creepy. After being alone for a long time, I always feel like something is going to emerge from the fog. No wonder the bureau issued a notice prohibiting solo exploration of this place."
The phone buzzed as a new message popped up. Xu Jiali replied in the group chat, "Forget about playing alone. Even teaming up is risky. The last time I led a team and encountered the 'clown', we almost got into trouble. That thing teleported in the fog and even the bell couldn't lock it. Luckily, I was more skilled..."
"There is a deep-diving team operating near Wutong Road. Have you seen them?" another colleague asked.
"They came my way fifteen minutes ago and said hello," Li Lin typed quickly. "The team led by Sister Liu—they were all startled because they didn't know No. 66 Wutong Road was coming. The team originally planned to take a shortcut through this alley, but now the shortcut hasn't worked, and they have to write a report when they get back..."
"What report should I write?" Ren Wenwen suddenly blurted out - as a logistics clerk, she was particularly sensitive to these words.
"The contact report from No. 66 Wutong Road. They've entered the cordon," Li Lin said with a smile on his face. "Although Brother Yu isn't here, that's the rule. They're not on the permission list."
Xu Jiali: "...the world is a giant makeshift team."
Ren Wenwen: "Who says it's not?"
Li Lin looked at the messages in the group happily, and then rubbed his fingers unconsciously.
The temperature around him had dropped without him noticing, a slow and imperceptible drop—a strange chill gradually seeped into the mist, making his fingers feel a little numb.
Li Lin's spiritual intuition was suddenly triggered, and he woke up instantly. He quickly put down his phone and looked around.
Everything around was normal, and there was no change in the fog.
But the vague feeling of coldness was seeping out of the fog bit by bit, and becoming more and more obvious.
Something's not right—go hide inside first.
With this thought in mind, Li Lin turned around without hesitation and walked towards the outpost disguised as a courier collection point.
Just as he was about to take a step, he suddenly saw a shadow emerging from the fog out of the corner of his eye.
Above No. 66 Wutong Road, high up in the layers of fog, a huge and slender shadow suddenly swept past.
Then two more equally slender shadows appeared nearby.
Shadows moved slowly across the sky, stirring up the mist high in the air.
In the next few seconds, Li Lin felt a terrible paralysis spreading in his brain - human imagination was working uncontrollably, and his brain was filling in some possible real structure hidden in the fog from the shadow of the limb that he had caught a glimpse of. His brain fought against the sudden fear in his subconscious to make the terrible image emerge completely in his mind. Then, he finally realized what he had seen.
A giant spider, a foreign god, is strolling in the sky of the foggy city.
A huge black spider web appeared and disappeared in the fog, and the alien god was crawling slowly on the spider web. Perhaps it was due to the obstruction of the fog, or perhaps it was because he himself had not completely "entered" this dimension, so that no matter how hard Li Lin opened his eyes, he could only see a small part of his existence - he could only see a few huge limbs moving blindly above Wutong Road as if sleepwalking, and every swing of those limbs seemed to cut through this piece of time and space, stirring up layers of ripples at the edge of the spider web.
"Oh my god..."
Li Lin tried desperately to look away and take a step forward, but he found that his whole body seemed to be frozen and unable to move. The strange cold feeling had penetrated into his bones. The moment he saw the spider web, he seemed to have become a bug caught in the spider web. In a futile struggle, he could only watch those limbs pass through his sight again and again, and then suddenly, the huge shadow stopped in the fog.
He saw two balls of scarlet light.
A few seconds later, he realized that they were two eyes - the spider leaned down from the sky, revealing a blurry female upper body. A large black veil surrounded it, making it impossible for Li Lin to see its appearance. Only those doomsday-like eyes were looking down at the small insects on the ground through the fog.
The end is near.
Li Lin took a second to decide where to bury himself, then quickly sorted out his unfulfilled wishes. He also tried to strike a brave and fearless pose, so that when the body collectors arrived, they might even say a few good words about him in the operation report. He didn't expect to become a beautiful girl in a card game in a few years, but at least he wanted to become a typical case in the annual Secret Service work summary, a positive one...
He felt his brain trembling, his rationality evaporating, his blood freezing bit by bit, and his soul beginning to escape from this body uncontrollably.
But suddenly, those scarlet eyes seemed to be in a trance for a moment - the terrible pressure was suddenly relieved.
Li Lin heard a vague mumbling sound coming from the fog.
"whee……"
Li Lin: “……?”
"Yu Sheng's friend..."
The big spider shook its body, talking to itself as if in a dream, and then laughed inexplicably, with a hint of weirdness in its laughter: "Hehe~"
He seemed very happy, swaying on the spider web, and then slowly crawling towards the depths of the fog, muttering to himself as he crawled.
"Why aren't you going home yet... Where are the silly fox and the C-buckle?... Weave a web, weave a web, oh, stick it together, stick it together and it's fixed... We all worked so hard to make this, we have to fix it, first collect the broken pieces... Hehe, add a soldier, awesome, crawl, crawl, crawl over %￥%#@..."
The big spider crawled slowly along the spider web, muttering to itself as it went, as if it was dreaming about something.
The chill that had seeped into his bones suddenly disappeared, and his nearly boiling rationality quickly calmed down. Li Lin took a deep breath and felt that he had regained control of his body. He had no time to sort out the chaotic information in his mind. He instantly took out two large doses of rationality blockers specially distributed to Secret Service agents, injected them into his body accurately like muscle memory, and then ran into the sentry post, while quickly taking out his mobile phone.
His first reaction was to call Yu Sheng, but no one answered.
Then he called Zheng Zhi again.
This time the call was connected quickly.
"Something happened here!" He spoke quickly as the phone connected. "I saw a giant spider crawling across the sky. Its lower body was a spider, and its upper body was that of a human. I just tried to call Brother Yu but couldn't get through. Tell him about this and come back quickly!"
Zheng Zhi was obviously startled by the sudden news. He hesitated for two seconds before speaking hurriedly: "Ah, we are on our way back. Brother Yu..."
Zheng Zhi hesitated for a moment, as if he didn't know what words to use. Then, Irene's voice rang out from the receiver. She seemed to have snatched the phone away from him. "Hey, Yu Shengyoushi is out. He'll be back soon. You should find a safe place to stay first—go to No. 66 Wutong Road. I'll open the door for you."
Li Lin was stunned for a moment, and quickly came out of the sentry post. Then he saw the door of No. 66 Wutong Road being opened from the inside - three Ires stood together and opened the door for him.
As the door opened, Irene, who was at the top, was caught on the door handle. She was dangling there and yelling, "Hey, Xiao Linzi, come hide here..."
Li Lin took two meters and stumbled, his face quizzical: "Can you change your name?"
"You've chosen!" Irene, who was hanging on the door, turned her head and glared at Li Lin, "Why don't you just continue standing outside?"
Those scarlet eyes looked like two dancing stars through the mist at the intersection.
Li Lin hesitated as he walked towards No. 66 Wutong Road. For a moment, he even felt that he saw the phantom of the huge spider again.
But the figure of a short man hanging on the door handle and dangling back and forth quickly washed away the nervous hesitation that emerged from the bottom of his heart.
He exhaled and walked forward quickly.
After all, life is what matters - it is better not to be a typical case.
The door to No. 66 Wutong Road slammed shut. Irene jumped down from the doorknob and casually said to Li Lin, who had just entered the room, "Go get your own drink. The TV in the living room is mine, the TV in the dining room is mine, the sofa is mine, the coffee table is mine—other than that, you can find a place to stay."
The other Irene clattered to the living room window, climbed onto the sill, and looked out through the glass at the foggy neighborhood.
"Where is the spider..." The little doll muttered while sitting on the windowsill, its scarlet eyes flickering.
In the puppet's ruby-clear eyes, the phantom of the giant spider was slowly fading.
(End of this chapter)
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