Chapter 168 Chapter 168
While Qingtong was training as planned, in the faraway United States, an event that would be recorded in history was about to begin.
The incident started with something strange happening in a small town in Mississippi, USA.
Mississippi is located in the southeastern part of the United States. It is very well-known throughout the United States, both because of its history and because of its current situation.
A long time ago, Mississippi was very rich. It was an agricultural area and a major cotton production area. Three-quarters of the world's cotton was produced here. It has the longest and most extensive river in the United States. The river is even ranked fourth in the world in length. The long river has always been the birthplace of civilization. But today, it has become one of the poorest states in the United States.
Although poverty is only relative within the United States, Mississippi's economy is still in the upper middle range when compared to the rest of the world.
The real problems in Mississippi lie in public security, race, and natural disasters. These factors combined have resulted in a declining population in Mississippi, a very low employment rate, and people basically relying on agriculture for their livelihood.
At the same time, this state is also one of the states with a high religious rate in the United States. More than 60% of the residents have their own beliefs, and the beliefs are very diverse. Some are well-known religious sects, and there are also some very small religious beliefs. In history, new beliefs have been born here, but they soon disappeared in the long river of history for various reasons.
It happened in a town called Borghaven.
It started with a man named Bethel. When he was driving to the town, he met a child with pale skin and completely black eyes without whites. The child stood in the middle of the horse and blocked Bethel's car.
Because it was dark, Bethel was sitting in the car and could not see the child's face clearly. He just saw a child's figure when the headlights turned on, so he stepped on the brakes and the car stopped more than two meters away from the child. Bethel had just lost his job and was in a bad mood. He got out of the car and walked to the child, grabbed the child's collar and yelled: "You stand in the middle of the road, don't you want to live, you..."
Halfway through his words, Bethel met the child's completely black pupils. He was so frightened that his mind went blank for a moment. Then he heard the child ask him in a childish voice: "I want to go to Uri, can you take me there?"
Uri City, an address name I have never heard of.
Bethel slowly loosened his hand, stepped back, and stared at the child warily.
This child is definitely not a human being, he is weird!
"I want to go to Uricheng. Can you take me there?" The child looked at him and repeated it again.
Bethel opened the car door in a panic, got in, drove around the child and ran away. That night when he returned, he told other people in the town what happened to him.
Everyone who heard it was very scared. They asked about the time and location and warned people around them not to walk on that road after 7pm.
Anyway, there was usually no need for people in their small town to travel far away at night, so the strange incident was ignored. However, after the mayor got the news, he reported the strange incident to the newly established US strange intelligence investigation department.
But the response was that there was a shortage of manpower and no reliable means to deal with weird things, so the residents of the town were asked to be careful not to get close and wait for manpower and a way to deal with weird things to come, and then they would come to deal with it.
"The team that is going to China to learn the secrets has just left today. You have to wait for them to come back." The investigator on the other end of the phone said, "As long as they come back, we will definitely give priority to your affairs."
"Okay, that's it." The mayor said and hung up the phone.
Fortunately, everyone knows the location and time when the strange child appears, so as long as you don't come into contact with him, you will be fine.
Everyone thought so, but Bethel died the night he met the strange child.
It was his wife who found his body. When she woke up in the morning, she saw her husband dead, his body stiff and his eyes wide open in fear. How terrified she must have been.
The news of Bethel's death spread quickly in the town, and people were immediately in a state of panic. Everyone was terrified of the appearance of a child with all black eyes.
The day after Bethel died, someone saw the child with all black eyes on the roadside about 800 meters away from the town. The child was standing on the roadside looking in the direction of the town. When he saw a car passing by, he turned his head to look at the car and made eye contact with the man.
The driver didn't dare to stop the car, he stepped on the accelerator and went home.
He told the residents of the town about his encounter with the black-eyed child. There was a very smart red-haired girl in the town. She immediately discovered that the place described by the man was different from the place described by Bethel. After comparing the maps, she found that the place where the child was found today was closer to the town than yesterday.
"He's coming towards us!" someone exclaimed.
Panic spread immediately, and those who valued their lives and had money began to pack their bags, planning to leave the town as soon as possible.
But more residents have nowhere to go, not to mention in this era of complete weirdness, where is the truly safe place?
"What should I do?" The man who met the child with all black eyes today cried, "Will I die tonight?"
No one comforted him, and no one could comfort him.
That night, he died.
Like Bethel, he died stiffly with a terrified expression on his face as if he had seen a horrible scene.
Now it is certain that even if I don't talk to the kid with all-black eyes, I will still die if he sees me.
That evening, three families packed their gifts and drove away.
Less than half an hour after they left, they all drove back in unison. When they got off the car,'s expression was stiff. The mayor went up to ask and found out that they were clearly walking on a road where they did not encounter the child, but they saw the child from a distance. Because everyone did not dare to get close, they tried to drive around and leave here, but no matter which road they took, they would see a child standing on the side of the road from a distance.
This town is not shrouded in a mysterious sphere, but because of a child, they are imprisoned here in disguise. Walk away? No kidding, how many hours do you think it takes to drive from this town to the nearest city?
"It won't let us leave," someone whispered in fear. "We are its prey. We are captive and no one can escape."
After saying this, he began to cry bitterly.
Some held a cross, some held a book, and began to pray quietly. The objects of people's prayers were different, but their desire for salvation was the same.
At night, those who could not leave went home and slept with the others.
When they woke up the next day, one of the people who wanted to leave was dead.
This is not the scariest thing. The scariest thing is that on the evening of the day this man died, a child with all black eyes stood at the edge of the town, and he was wandering there.
Everyone saw him, which meant that everyone would die one by one.
Not to mention the frightened residents, even the mayor couldn't stand the psychological pressure. He called the Bureau of Paranormal Investigation again and again. At first, the other party answered the phone, but when they heard that the matter was so difficult, they fell silent. When he called again, the phone was no longer connected.
All of them were abandoned.
"I've said it before, these politicians are totally unreliable, they don't want to save us at all!!" The unshaven, red-haired man stood in the square in front of the town church and expressed his views in front of everyone, "We can only save ourselves. Did you see that kid with all black eyes? He's waiting to kill us one by one! Are we just going to sit there and wait to die?"
"Where is this? Mississippi! Ever since Mississippi became increasingly impoverished, we should have known that those guys who only care about money look down on us and don't think of us. In their eyes, we are just the lowest of the low, living in the lowest level of society! We'd better disappear as soon as possible!"
"Drinking water safety has always been a problem. After a storm and flood, the water that flows out is so dirty, but what do those politicians say? They laugh at the water being as dirty as ours!" The red curly-haired man roared with his eyes wide open, "Tornado, blizzard, flood! No one cares about how we live, just like they don't care whether we are still alive!"
"Why should we still count on them? People are born free, and we have the right to choose how to live and how to die!" The red curly-haired man shouted, "The end of the world has come, and monsters are appearing all over the world. Only by fighting can we have a future! How did the awakened appear? Aren't they born by fighting with monsters? Today, it starts with me! I fight with monsters, and unfortunately I die, and you will take over from me as the next one. If I awaken, I will definitely take you to a brighter future!"
After saying that, the man rushed to his house, took out a hunting rifle and walked out. Behind him was the red-haired girl who was holding him and begging him not to act impulsively.
"We will have other ways, we must have them, let me think about it, really, I can think of them." The red-haired girl was about to cry.
The man took a deep breath and patted the red-haired girl on the shoulder: "Annie, there is no other way. No one will help us. We can only do it ourselves. If I really die today, you have to fight hard on your own."
After saying that, he walked towards the child with all black pupils.
The child looked up and watched the man approaching him. In the distance, the townspeople and Annie looked over here nervously.
"I want to go to Uricheng. Can you take me there?" The child asked the same question.
The red curly-haired man raised his gun and aimed it at the child's forehead: "I can send you to hell. Bye, weird."
There was a bang and a black spot appeared between the child's eyebrows.
The red curly-haired man fired several more times in succession until the bullets in the gun were used up. He pulled the trigger several times but heard blanks. He cursed a few times.
The child's forehead was covered with black spots, and a few seconds later, his head split open from above, and bullets were spit out of the child's forehead.
The child's eyes bulged out, his mouth opened and he let out a sharp howl, then he stretched out his hands to the red curly-haired man.
"Dad——" Red-haired Anne cried and tried to get up, but was stopped by the mayor.
"No..." Anne watched her father and the child fighting, but because she was too weak to bear the bite, she was bitten on the throat. Unlike the other dead, Anne's father was bitten to death alive.
His hands dropped, the gun stained with blood.
"I'm the next one." The plump brown-haired woman took out an axe from her home. "If it's an awakened one, I hope I can awaken the kind that can repair houses. The roof of my house is leaking and I can never fix it."
The fat woman is already in her forties. She was a very beautiful lady when she was young, with cute freckles on her face, but now time has taken its toll and only wrinkles remain.
"Let me go." Anne reached out to grab her axe, but was stopped by the fat woman.
"You are only seventeen years old, kid." The fat woman tied her hair into a bun. "I don't have any children, and my husband left early. I don't have anything to worry about."
After saying that, she raised the axe and approached the child with all black eyes step by step.
"Wait, there is a way, there must be another way." Annie's hands kept shaking, and suddenly she remembered the weird live broadcast.
In a remote town like theirs, there are very few young people, and the older people are basically busy with farm work. In cities, the computer penetration rate is very high, but in this kind of countryside, everyone just has a mobile phone to contact people. Even if a mobile phone is inexplicably installed with a weird live broadcast software one day, usually no one opens it. When the weirdness does not really appear in front of them, everyone thinks that it is far away from them.
They knew a little about the weird live broadcast, but almost no one knew about the newly added weird illustration module.
Annie took out her phone with trembling hands and clicked on the newly added weird illustrations. However, there were thousands of items in it and she could not find them all by flipping through the pages. Just when Annie was about to collapse, she found the information about the child with black pupils.
【Black pupil child
Danger level: C
The poor child lost on the roadside is helplessly looking for his home. He will ask everyone who appears in front of him, asking them to take him to an address. Don't agree to it, because if you agree, your soul and body will belong to it. Don't reject it, or your death will come soon. No matter where you escape, it can take your life thousands of miles away. In this way, it seems that you will die if you meet it? Not necessarily. The perception of the black-eyed child is very poor. Don't look it in the eye. Its eyes, imprinted in your pupils, are its guide to find you, and are the rope around your neck. Avoid its gaze, stay away from its direction, and don't see it again after escaping for thirty days, and you will be safe. In addition, if you accidentally look it in the eye, don't give it a chance to let it follow you all the way home, otherwise you will not be the only one in danger. 】
"Don't look at it..." Annie said excitedly, "Don't look at its pupils, look at the rest of it. You will die if you look at its pupils!"
"It's too late." The fat woman holding the axe whispered, "The first time I saw it, I saw his completely black pupils."
Therefore, she had already been on the death list.
Not only her, many residents who saw the child with all black eyes realized that it was a strange child after seeing the child's eyes. They were also put on the death list, and this number accounted for 80% of the town's residents. If they didn't fight the monster, they would only wait to die.
"Annie, does that strange APP say how to wake up?" the brown-haired woman asked loudly.
Anne lowered her head and flipped through the software for a long time, making sure she had seen all the functions. She shook her head and said, "No."
"Really?" The brown-haired woman laughed softly, "Then it depends on fate."
She rushed over.
She is dead.
The axe split the black-eyed child into two halves, but the two halves quickly merged together. The child screamed and strangled the fat woman to death.
Anne closed her eyes tightly, she could hardly hold the phone.
As they say on the Internet, the only things that can harm monsters are monsters.
Weird creature?
"Oh, and there are also ghosts!" Annie looked at everyone, "Does anyone have a ghost? They are... those very old things, or things with a deep history. They have ghost powers, and only things with ghost powers can cause damage to the weird."
"We don't have that kind of stuff in a small place like this," someone said.
"The Bureau of Weird Investigation must have it!"
"I, I picked one up before." A man with sunken cheeks suddenly said, "It was a two-headed fork, a very old thing, dug out from the soil. After the red sun, the thing could float by itself, a few centimeters above the ground. Later, it was bought and exchanged for 200 yuan."
Two hundred yuan is not a small amount. At least the man with sunken cheeks is very satisfied.
It was just a piece of scrap iron that was dug out of the ground. Even if it could float, it would only be a few centimeters high and useless. The man had studied it for a few days but found nothing. He told a person who was driving by here as a joke. The person was very interested and after confirming that it could indeed float by itself and had no tricks, he bought it.
"A two-headed fork...ha, a thing for training slaves." A dark-skinned man sneered.
The double-headed fork is a torture device. It is a collar worn around the neck with a double-headed fork connected to the front. The upper fork is against the jaw, and the lower fork is close to the sternum. It is used to teach disobedient slaves. People who wear this thing will be tied up and have to keep their heads up at all times. They cannot sleep, otherwise they will be injured or even die if they lower their heads.
This is a form of punishment and also a form of execution. If the person is tied up like this for a long time, one day he will drop his head powerlessly and die after being pierced by the fork.
"I remember that guy's car. It was from the Bureau of Paranormal Investigation!" the man with the hollow cheeks said excitedly, "They have strange things. They must have them. A lot of them!"
After saying that, the man with sunken cheeks cursed again: "Damn it, I was cheated. Strange things must be valuable, right? That thing must be more than two hundred!"
Yes, more than two hundred. This sharp weird thing can be used as a weapon. Even if you add two more zeros, there are still people willing to pay for it.
Life is always more important than money.
"Call the Bureau of Uncanny Investigation?"
The mayor shook his head and said, "The call is not going through. They won't answer our calls anymore."
"Damn it, those are the politicians!"
"Go look for it, maybe there are other strange things! If we find one, we will be saved!"
Everyone was rummaging through boxes and drawers, finding a bunch of old stuff, but after checking, none of it looked like a weird thing.
"Is it because the ghost can't be seen? Why don't we give it a try?" someone asked with a little hope.
No one spoke.
The bodies of the red-haired girl's father and the fat woman were still lying there. The child with all black eyes raised his head and took one step per minute, slowly approaching the center of the town.
Everyone gathered in front of the church, some were already holding the cross tightly and kneeling down to pray.
"Matt, it's useless!" Someone stepped forward and snatched the cross, threw it to the ground, pointed at the church and shouted, "If this thing can protect me, I am willing to pray to it every day. But in the end, God will not even look at us!"
The woman whose cross was taken away was kneeling on the ground. How could she not know about this?
It's just that there is still a little hope in my heart, hoping for God's blessing, hoping for good luck, hoping... to be saved.
Anne's several discoveries did not bring hope of breaking the deadlock to everyone. In the end, everyone still had to try to fight the weirdness one by one to fight for the chance to wake up, or... die.
"Whoever sees the child's eyes goes up first. I'm the mayor. I'll be next." The old mayor said. He scanned the things everyone had obtained and picked up a few that looked offensive. He took all that he could. "We'll know if it's a weird thing or not by attacking it, right?"
He was asking about Anne.
Among the town residents, only Annie plays with her phone more often than others, and is more concerned about the weird live broadcast than them.
Anne's eyes widened and she nodded blankly.
The mayor walked towards the child with all black eyes. The child raised his head and asked, "I want to go to Uri Castle. Can you..."
Before the child finished speaking, the mayor picked up a pair of old scissors and stabbed the child's head fiercely. The scissors cut the child's face, but the wound healed quickly in the next second.
"No." The old mayor sighed and started to change one.
The child's expression gradually became fierce, and he opened his mouth to bite the mayor. The mayor endured the pain and picked up another object to try.
One after another, the blood flowed down the old man's body until he died.
He tried everything, nothing worked, the old man died, and he didn't wake up either.
"Mad!" someone shouted angrily, "Next, me!"
Anne covered her face and knelt on the ground crying. Not only her, but other young people were also sobbing. Under the clear sky, bloody events were happening, lives that voluntarily died, a merciless weird, a phone that was blacklisted, an abandoned independent town in the wilderness, only they who were stared at by the weird were weeping for their fate.
They seem to have been abandoned by the whole world.
"Who will save us?" Anne held the necklace on her chest. Her fingers were so strong that the edge of the square pendant scratched her skin. The blood stained the pendant red. She murmured softly, "Mom."
She recalls her parents, who had always protected her, but her mother had died long ago and her father's body lay before her.
No one rescued them.
The red-haired girl recalled her father's words: the only thing that controls her destiny is her own struggle.
She once believed in God and prayed very devoutly, but God did not favor her or anyone in this town.
A man died, and the red-haired girl couldn't remember his name because it was too long. According to the man, he put the names of his ancestors in the middle name.
"It would take about three minutes to pronounce my full name." The red-haired girl remembered him once jokingly saying this.
"But I won't change it. I will put my name in my son's middle name to make it longer." said the man.
His son was just seven years old. The man and his family were originally driving away from here, but halfway through the journey, the man's son stuck his head out of the car window and pointed at the road ahead: "A kid with all black eyes!"
His son was the first person in his family to make eye contact with the strange child.
If death has an order, then his son will die either tonight or tomorrow night.
If you don't fight, you will die.
Everyone has someone they care about, and everyone wants their loved ones to survive, so they are so anxious.
"Next... me." Red-haired Anne stood up. She glanced at the ground and found that all the suspected strange objects had been used. None of them was real.
The ghost's hopes were dashed.
"Mayor, let those who haven't seen the pupils..." Anne was halfway through her words when she remembered that the old mayor had already lain down, and she looked at the others.
The mayor's wife raised her hands tremblingly and said, "I haven't seen it, but I'm old. Even if I survive, I won't have many days left. I'll be the next one." Then she pushed her granddaughter out.
"Annie, the child's mother divorced my son and married someone else. She went to Florida. After you escape, take her to live with her mother." The mayor's mother raised her lips stiffly, "I'll try too."
The mayor's son went to the city to work and was involved in a local gunfight and died. As mentioned before, the security in Mississippi has always been poor.
"I want to go to Uricheng, can you take me there?" the child's voice rang out.
Everyone turned around, some met the eyes of the pair of black pupils, while others remembered that they could not look and immediately lowered their heads to look at the ground.
The child has walked in front of everyone.
It looked up and asked, "Why don't you want to send me there?"
This is the first time Weird Kid has changed his lines.
Anne looked into the eyes of the strange child and felt her blood freeze. The child's mouth showed sharp fangs and it opened its mouth to scream: "Why don't you want to send me there?!"
"Run--" Annie shouted, and she subconsciously grabbed the hand of the town's eldest granddaughter.
Everyone turned and ran, except the mayor's wife. She looked at Anne and her granddaughter leaving, lowered her head and asked the strange child, "Where is Uri?"
The strange child closed his open mouth and looked up at her: "I want to go to Wulicheng."
The mayor's wife nodded: "Uricheng, a good place..." She fumbled in her pocket and took out a pistol.
He put the gun to the weird kid's head and fired several shots in succession.
Anne, who was running away, heard gunshots. She turned around and saw the mayor's wife falling down with her hands hanging down, her head bitten by a huge mouth.
In a blink of an eye, the monster that had attacked the mayor's wife ran towards her. Anne pushed the little girl away in fear and was knocked to the ground by the monster.
The mayor's granddaughter was only eleven years old. The consecutive loss of two relatives had already dealt a heavy blow to her emotionally. The girl cried and tried to help Annie, but Annie yelled at her, "Stay away from me! Run!"
The little girl sobbed and hesitated for a long time before turning around and running away crying.
Anne's hands were blocking the strange child's face. The child pressed on Anne, opened his mouth and bit her arm. Blood flowed from the arm, dripping on Anne's face and hair, blending into her red hair.
She once believed in God, but also hated God because of God's indifference. But at this moment, Anne had a new idea in her mind. If someone could save her at this time, no matter who he was, even the devil, she would be willing to regard him as her belief, her God.
Anne stuffed her hand into the strange child's huge open mouth, trying to cause even a little harm to the strange child through such an action. Her blood was smeared on the strange child's mouth, and the saliva left by the strange child flowed into Anne's body through the wound.
The next second, Anne felt her heartbeat suddenly speed up and her body began to burn. Burn marks began to appear on the surface of her skin, as if something was burning her cells internally.
What is this?
Awakening?
Is she waking up?
As soon as this thought flashed through her mind, she felt an intense pain, which was even more severe than the pain of being bitten on her arm, where the bone was visible. Annie screamed in pain.
Someone came to help with weapons, but no matter how hard they hit, they couldn't hurt the monster that was pressing down on Anne.
All the wounds on Qiyi's body disappeared as if they had never happened.
Just when Anne was in so much pain that she felt she was about to die, a man's cold voice rang in her ears: "Hold on, take a deep breath, feel the power in your body, don't resist, obey it, let it flow into your blood vessels and penetrate into every cell of your body."
Anne's eyes widened as she saw the strange child on top of her being knocked away. A skeletal hand was placed on her forehead. Although it was cold, Anne felt warmth in her heart.
"It's transforming your body." Kailett leaned over and looked at the red-haired Annie lying on the ground. "This is a necessary process for awakening. It's a bit dangerous. Many people will die because of their own immune system's rejection reaction. But fortunately, my ability can help you a little. For example, it can make your immune cells unable to resist and protect your fragile heart."
Something flowed into her mind from her forehead, bringing a slight stinging pain, but miracle was that her body didn't hurt as much.
After using his ability of "Infection", Kailett stood up and looked at the strange child who was struggling to get up.
The townspeople came out from their hiding places, some holding weapons, others standing there staring at Carrett.
"Lord Kairet, eleven people died here." Louis said loudly.
This was the second time Louis followed Caret to the strange place. He was a little nervous, but much better than the first time. Caret said that Louis' boyfriend did not come with him because he had signed a contract with him.
Kailett said calmly, "Really?"
The half-skeleton boy looked at the strange child. The strange child instinctively realized that the person in front of him was not someone he could defeat, so he turned around and wanted to run.
But it was too late. The strange child started screaming miserably when he was halfway through the run. His whole body began to burn and he soon fell down.
Kailett walked up to the strange child and stepped on its body: "Dedicated to our God."
After that, he used the system to recycle and decompose the strange corpse.
Just then, red-haired Anne woke up, and Caret recovered the cells that had separated into Anne's body: "Let's go."
"Wait a moment." Anne sat up with difficulty. She did not choose to stand, but knelt down directly in front of Kairet. "Anne Martinez Jones, from today on I will become your most devout believer. You have given me new life, hope, and a future. Praise you, you are my monarch, my truth, and where you live is where my heart is."
The rest of the people came out one after another, knelt down like Anne, read out their names and began to pray: "From today on, we will become your most devout believers..."
Watching a group of people praying in unison, Kailett had a look of confusion on his face.
He had solved many strange things and saved many people, but this was the first time he had seen such a battle.
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