A sound of thunder announced the arrival of a midsummer rainstorm. The entire city was shrouded in rain, and the heat of the past few days was completely cleared away. Many people opened their windows and breathed in the moist air, which was so refreshing.
Chen Xue stood in the corridor on the east side of the first floor of the hospital. All around her, the ceiling and even the ground were forcibly opened with doors, windows, pipes and the like, but there was nothing. Lan Yushu was using the compass to detect, but still found nothing.
"Sister Chen Xue, let's leave here first! This place is too weird..."
He Nianqing just disappeared when the three of them walked around a corner. When Chen Xue found out, he immediately opened all the places where people might be hiding, all the way to here.
There were no traces, not even a distress signal was sent out. Chen Xue really wanted to turn this place over completely, but her strength was not strong enough to demolish the entire building.
"Could it be the same as that bus..." Lan Yushu racked his brains for a starting point.
"This building is not a living thing. I've already tried it." Chen Xue gritted her teeth and stepped out of a door on the wall. "Let's evacuate and contact the team leader and Lu Ning."
"Okay, okay..."
Lan Yushu quickly followed and escaped from this strange building.
The sound of heavy rain covered everything in the city, and the people in the house fell into an inexplicable dull atmosphere. Shu Xingruo brought out some food from the kitchen for everyone to replenish their energy. There was also an egg on the table, which Yuan Xi took out. Everyone tested the hardness of the eggshell, and even a hammer couldn't break it open.
"The bus, the woods, the mountains...it seems like these places where ghost stories came alive overnight." Xiao Shifan frowned. He didn't expect so many people to choose to act at the same time. Everyone can understand this from the information sent by Cheng Wuling. The strange stories must be inseparable from the so-called star spirits. But even though they defeated the two monsters, they couldn't figure out the connection.
Lu Ning felt her eyes hurt.
She couldn't help but rub her eyes, but after her vision blurred for a while, she suddenly saw the scenery outside the window change.
In the heavy rain, several black figures like tall buildings stood in the distance. Even dark clouds could not hide the black vortex in the sky. And before she realized what happened, a giant hand made entirely of unknown material emerged from the clouds. Under medium pressure, a real impact instantly made her vision go dark.
"ah!!"
A scream came from the living room. Lu Ning was curled up and twitching in the corner of the sofa with her head in her hands. Blood was slowly flowing out of her facial features, making her look extremely scary for a moment.
"What's wrong?"
Shu Xingruo rushed to her side and held Lu Ning's wrist tightly, finding that her hands were cold.
"Ahem - I, I probably... know..."
His line of sight was not cut off. Lu Ning endured the pain to maintain the scene in front of him. A feeling of lightness made his eyes gradually move towards various areas of the city.
In the familiar square in the city, there was no one on the decorated celebration floats. The 3:12 pm on July 26th on the big screen was the only light still flashing in the darkness. Crowds of people could still be faintly seen from the shadows of the building. A broken flag was rolled up in the air in the strong wind and pierced into the center of the screen like a spear. After a burst of sparks, the last light disappeared.
Continuing forward, a pickup truck without a license plate stopped on the side of the road, and a young girl was dragged out of the car by a black monster. The girl had already lost her breath, and her eyes were still staring at the sky. The other two companions in the car were even more miserable. One had his heart dug out, and the other had his head cut open in the middle. Blood was spread all over the car. Inside.
The clothes of the three victims looked very familiar.
"The future? No... is it real, or..."
Waves of dizziness rushed through her head, and Lu Ning tried her best to maintain consciousness. She felt that there was something here, and it should be something very important.
The monster's claws tore the girl's body apart, and as the internal organs flew out, a piece of paper stuffed in her pocket was thrown out and fell to the ground, instantly covered in mud.
At this moment, Lu Ning saw it, and at the same time, she reached her limit.
——She had the exact same piece of paper in her hand, which was one of the "envelopes" she took from the bus when she entered here at the very beginning.
Interruption of consciousness.
that's me"!
Lu Ning rolled off the sofa, hit her head on the edge of the coffee table, and couldn't help but let out a cry of pain.
Such movement also alarmed Shu Xingruo in the kitchen. She put down the things in her hands and returned to the living room, just in time to see Lu Ning sitting up covering her head.
"Are you OK?"
The bleeding from the seven orifices before was too scary, but no one present understood what happened, so they could only help Lu Ning wipe away the blood. After that, Xiao Shifan and Ye Fei left first, leaving Yuan Xi here to communicate until Lu Ning woke up.
"I'm fine." Lu Ning rubbed her head and sat back on the sofa. She quickly went through everything she saw in her mind. After clearing her thoughts, she continued, "Who else is here? I have some important things to ask for. explain."
"We are here."
As soon as the bedroom door opened, Yuan Xishi walked out, moved a stool and sat against the wall; Sun Mozhu was sitting on the balcony paying attention to the movement downstairs, and just waved his hand at this time.
"I'll just tell you what I just saw. I saw a Danma on July 26th, where the end has already ushered in."
"The end of the world? So fantasy?" Yuan Xi tilted her head, "And it's ten days from now? Can your eyes see the future?"
They didn't mean not to believe it, but their expressions seemed a little caught off guard.
"Giant monsters are roaming in the city. There are no pedestrians or troops. Everyone is hiding in the building waiting to die. All systems are almost paralyzed."
"Hiss." Yuan Xi took a deep breath.
"The worst situation." Sun Mozhu thought thoughtfully.
"But fortunately, this is probably not the future. When I tried to see more things, I saw a car escaping from Danma. The three people in the car had been hunted by monsters, and one of them was 'me' .”
"What?" Shu Xingruo's expression changed, "You said - what does 'you' mean?"
"Yes, that person has a completely different face, but he has the same set of clothes as me, and a piece of information that was also obtained from the distribution center before coming here."
Lu Ning pointed at herself.
"That should have also replaced my current identity, another 'tourist' from the distribution center. She was ten days ahead of us. When she died, I was able to see through her eyes - or... I temporarily peeked into that world out of resentment.”
"Based." Yuan Xi crossed her arms and said slightly questioningly.
"When I first arrived in this world, I also saw the doomsday scene of another Danma. There was no rain, and there were also giant creatures destroying the city. However, it may be because I was not familiar with my abilities at the time, so I failed to observe like this. It lasted too long. The reason why we guessed it was another world is because we all know that there is more than one such testing ground, right?"
"This is not enough evidence, but I won't disbelieve you." Yuan Xi raised his chin slightly, "If your words are not false, then we at least know that destruction will come in at least ten days, so that forty days the term……"
"It's the longest time limit for our opponents!" Shu Xingruo could also hear it. "Rather, it's the last time limit for our opposing camp to launch a devastating disaster even if it fails!"
"...Therefore, the mission of us pursuers is to 'stop'. This makes it clear that if we don't stop it, the doomsday you mentioned will come to Danma, and we who have not completed the mission will have no way to escape, and the result will be certain It's death." Sun Mozhu took over.
Should we say that we are worthy of being survivors? Lu Ning only expressed it briefly, and they already understood what he meant.
"We don't have much time, right?" Yuan Xi is a person who is quick to act. Now that she knew such news, she immediately took out her mobile phone and walked back to the bedroom to call someone. Shu Xingruo also started sending messages in the group of explorers. It was obvious that the previous step-by-step plan had to be adjusted.
As for Sun Mozhu, she had nothing to do. She knew very well that it was important to stay calm at this juncture, especially as a force unit.
Lu Ning felt a sense of exhaustion coming over her at this moment. Her previous abilities seemed to be overstretched, and her eyes returned to their normal state again. In order to replenish her strength, she immediately went into the kitchen to find something to eat.
At this moment, Lan Yushu called.
He Nianqing was missing, and this news made Lu Ning feel a little bad.
She explained the problem of being overstretched. Lan Yushu said it didn't matter, they would come over soon to check on the situation, and the team leader was also returning to the city.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Ning thought about what happened yesterday. The bad feeling became clearer and clearer, and she gradually understood the problem...
Why did those strange stories break out almost overnight?
As urban legends, they should have been hidden in Danma and difficult to investigate. Although the "key" in Shu Xingruo's hand was something that pointed directly to the core, so many strange stories were discovered overnight without any contact with each other?
Ghost train, hospital, midnight bus, corpse forest...
"We were led...the bad thing is we didn't even know if it was a decoy or something else."
If she knew that Lake Tosu had also been visited, she would probably understand something even more.
"The timing was just right, it came to our door just after we had won a victory, and this kind of mutual testing still had winners and losers. It didn't lose the sense of mystery and also eliminated the powerful feeling brought by being too secretive and unknown. This... …It’s also too familiar.”
Lu Ning smiled bitterly.
Lure the enemy deeper.
