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, everyone'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 they 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."
砰的一聲槍響，小孩的眉心出現一個黑點。
紅卷發男人又連續開了好幾槍，直到槍裏面的子彈用光，扣了幾下扳機都是空彈的聲音，紅卷發男人低罵了幾句。
小孩的腦門全是黑點，幾秒後，他的腦袋從上面裂開，子彈從小孩的額頭被吐出。
小孩的眼珠凸出，嘴巴張開發出一聲尖銳的嚎叫，伸手撲向了紅卷發男人。
“爸爸——”紅發的安妮哭着要撲上來，被鎮長拽住了。
“不……”安妮看着自己的父親和小孩打成一團，但因為力氣扛不住詭異，被壓着一口咬在了喉嚨上。和其他死去的人不同，安妮的父親，被活生生啃死了。
他的手垂下，槍被血染紅。
“下一個是我。”胖乎乎的褐發女人從家裏拿出一柄斧頭，“如果是覺醒者，我希望可以覺醒能修補房屋的那種，我家裏的屋頂漏水總是修不好。”
胖女人已經四十多歲了，她年輕時是一個很漂亮的美人，臉蛋上有着可愛的小雀斑，但現在歲月無情，只餘皺紋。
“我、讓我去。”安妮伸手就要搶她的斧子，被胖女人攔住了。
“你才十七歲，孩子。”胖女人将頭發紮成丸子頭，“我沒有孩子，丈夫也早早的就走了，我沒什麽牽挂。”
說完，她舉起了斧子，一步步靠近了全黑瞳小孩。
“等等，有辦法，一定有其他的辦法。”安妮的手不斷在顫抖，突然她想起詭異直播來。
他們這樣偏僻的小鎮，年輕人很少，年歲大的人基本都撲在農活上，城市裏電腦普及率很高，但在這種鄉下，大家有一部可以聯系人用的手機就夠了。就算哪一天手機莫名其妙安裝了一個詭異直播的軟件，平時也基本沒人打開。當詭異沒有真正出現在自己面前時，所有人都認為那些離自己很遙遠。
他們知道一點詭異直播的事，但裏面新增加的詭異圖鑒模塊，卻幾乎沒什麽人去了解。
安妮顫抖的手摸出手機，點開裏面新增添的詭異圖鑒，然而裏面內容上千條，一頁頁翻根本就找不完，就在安妮看的要崩潰的時候，她找到了黑瞳小孩的信息。
【黑瞳小孩
危險度：C
迷失在路邊的可憐小孩，無助的在尋找自己的歸處。他會詢問每一個出現在自己面前的人，請求對方帶它去一個地址。不要答應它，答應後，你的靈魂和身體就會屬于它。也不要拒絕它，否則你的死期很快就到，無論逃去哪裏，它都能在千裏之外帶走你的性命。這樣一來，好像遇到它怎麽樣都會死？不一定，黑瞳小孩的感知力很差，不要和它對視，烙印在你瞳孔中它的眼睛，是它尋找你的指向标，是它套在你脖子上的繩索。避開它的目光，遠離它的方向，逃上三十日後不再見它，你就安全了。另外如果你不小心和它對視，千萬不要給它機會讓它一路跟你回家，否則危險的可就不止你一人了。】
“不要和它對視……”安妮激動的說道，“不要看它的瞳孔，看它其餘的地方，看了瞳孔才會死！”
“已經晚了。”拿着斧子的胖女人低聲說道，“我看到它的第一時間，就看到了他全黑的瞳孔。”
所以，她早就在必死的名單上了。
不僅是她，很多看到全黑瞳小孩的居民，都是因為看到了小孩的眼睛才發現這是詭異小孩，他們也都上了死亡名單，而這個人數占了小鎮居民的八成，不與詭異搏鬥，就只有等死。
“安妮，那奇特的APP上面有寫怎麽覺醒嗎？”褐發女人高聲問道。
安妮低下頭又翻了半天軟件，确認已經看過了所有的功能，她搖搖頭：“沒有。”
“是嗎。”褐發女人低笑道，“那就看命了。”
她沖了過去。
她死了。
斧頭将全黑瞳小孩劈成了兩半，但那個兩半很快就融合到了一起，小孩尖叫着，掐死了胖女人。
安妮緊緊的閉上了眼，她幾乎要握不住手機。
果然就如網絡上說的，想要給詭異造成傷害的，只有詭物。
詭物？
“對了，還有詭物！！”安妮看向大家，“有人擁有詭物嗎？就是……那些很古老的東西，或者有深刻歷史的東西，存在詭力，有詭力的東西才會對詭異造成傷害。”
“我們這種小地方，哪裏有那種東西。”有人說道。
“詭異調查局一定有！”
“我、我曾經撿到一個過。”一位臉頰凹陷的男人突然出聲道，“那是一把雙頭叉，很舊的東西了，從土裏刨出來的。紅日後，那東西可以自己漂浮着，離地幾厘米。後來，被買走了，換了二百米元。”
二百米元，不算少了，至少臉頰凹陷的男人非常滿意。
不過是一件從地裏面扒拉出來的廢鐵，就算能離地漂浮，也不過幾厘米高，沒什麽用處。男人原本也研究了幾天，但什麽都沒研究出來。講笑話一樣和某個開車路過這裏的人說了，那人聽後很感興趣，确認這東西的确能自行漂浮，沒有什麽小機關後，就花錢買下了。
“雙頭叉……呵，教訓奴隸的玩意兒。”一個膚色很深的男人嗤笑道。
雙頭叉是一種刑具，戴在脖子上的項圈，前段連接一根雙頭的叉子，上面的叉子抵着下颚，下面的叉子貼近胸骨，這是教訓不聽話奴隸用的東西，戴上這東西的人會被綁起來，時刻擡着頭，不能睡覺，不然頭一低下就會受傷甚至死亡。
這是一種刑罰，同時也是一種處決方式，就這樣持續綁着，人總有一天會無力的垂下頭，被叉子刺入後死去。
“我記得那人的車，是詭異調查局的！”臉頰凹陷的男人激動的說道，“他們有詭物，他們一定有，還有很多！”
說完臉頰凹陷的男人又罵了一句：“該死的，我被騙了，詭物很值錢對吧，那東西絕對不止二百！”
是的，不止二百，這種鋒利的詭物完全可以當做武器使用，就是再加兩個零，都有人願意買單。
命永遠比錢更重要。
“去打電話給詭異調查局？”
鎮長搖了搖頭：“打不通了，他們不會再接我們的電話。”
“見鬼，這就是那些政客！”
“去找找，或許還有其他的詭物！只要有一件，我們就有救了！”
所有人都在翻箱倒櫃，尋找出一堆老舊的東西，但經過查看，沒一個像是詭物。
“是不是詭物看不出來吧，不如我們試試？”有人抱着一點希望問道。
沒人說話。
紅發少女的父親和胖女人的屍體還躺在那裏，全黑瞳小孩擡着頭，一分鐘走一步，正在緩慢的靠近鎮中心。
所有人都聚在教堂門前，有人已經握緊了十字架，跪地祈禱。
“瑪德，沒有任何用處！”有人上前搶走了十字架，往地上狠狠一摔，他指着教堂高聲道，“如果這東西能庇護我，我願意每日都向他祈禱。但結果呢，神壓根就不會看我們！”
被搶走十字架的女人跪在地上，這種事她怎麽可能會不知道呢？
不過是心中還有那麽一點的期盼，希望神明的垂簾，希望能有好運，希望……能得救。
安妮的幾次發現沒有給大家帶來破局的希望，最終還是要一個個的嘗試着和詭異搏鬥，争來覺醒的機會，或者……死亡。
“看到小孩眼睛的先上，我是鎮長，下一個，我來。”老鎮長說道，他掃視着大家得來的東西，撿了幾樣看着有攻擊性的，能拿的全部都拿在手裏了，“是不是詭物，攻擊一下就知道，是吧。”
他問的是安妮。
鎮子居民中，只有安妮平日裏玩手機多，比他們更關心詭異直播的事。
安妮眼神發直，愣愣的點了點頭。
老鎮長走向全黑瞳小孩，小孩擡起頭問道：“我想去烏裏城，你可以……”
小孩的話還沒說完，老鎮長就拿起一把陳舊的剪刀，狠狠的刺向小孩的腦袋。剪刀劃傷了小孩的臉，但下一秒傷口快速愈合。
“不是啊。”老鎮長感慨道，着手換一個。
小孩的表情逐漸猙獰，它張開口咬着老鎮長。老鎮長忍着痛，拿起另外一件東西來嘗試。
一件又一件，血順着老人的身體往下流淌，直到老人咽氣。
他嘗試了所有的東西，沒有一個是詭物，老人死去了，他同樣也沒有覺醒。
“瑪德！”有人憤怒的吼道，“下一個，我！”
安妮捂着臉跪在地上痛哭，不只是她，其他的年輕人也在低聲啜泣着。清朗的天空下，血腥的事件在發生，一個個自願赴死的生命，一只毫不留情的詭異，被拉入黑名單的電話，被遺棄的位于野外的獨立小鎮，只有被詭異注視的他們在悲泣自己的命運。
他們像是被整個世界抛棄了。
"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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