"Well..." Jiang Xiao faltered, "before the minaret came to the corner, you suddenly found me and said you were willing to supervise me and let me follow you."
An Yu couldn't help but put down the dry bread and sighed in a low voice: "It's really ridiculous."
Qin Zhilu glanced at him, "Did you agree?"
"No." Jiang Xiao explained with a strong desire to survive: "Please don't mind, people's behavior in dreams is illogical. I was also puzzled. At that time, I clearly wanted to be your supervisor. But in the dream, I was very resistant and rejected you many times."
"I mentioned this to you many times?"
"Yes, you are very persistent..." Jiang Xiao's words stopped abruptly, "I'm sorry to waste your time by telling you this."
Qin Zhilu hung up the phone. An Yu saw him frowning and was about to ask what was wrong, but Qin Zhilu looked at him first and asked, "How did you sleep the rest of the night?"
An Yu nodded.
"Dream?"
"No, I rarely dream." An Yu paused, "Have you had a nightmare? A dream similar to Jiang Xiao's?"
"It's not a nightmare." Qin Zhilu's voice was a little ethereal. "I didn't fall asleep, but my consciousness was blurred for a while. In my dream, I felt a large group of broken and waving red light, which seemed to have some kind of attraction. , leading me to touch.”
An Yu's steps suddenly stopped.
Only Yan and Dian could see the broken red light of the sky. Eye once said that whenever serious paranormal phenomena are calmed down, the broken red light in the sky will quickly accumulate, just like the chaos returns from the human world to the universe, but slowly they will dissipate, and the dissipated part will merge into Qin Zhilu.
"What shape?" An Yu asked.
"It's hard to describe. They have been fluctuating disorderly, without boundaries, as if they have occupied all time and space..." Qin Zhilu's eyes looked through the window at the wind and snow outside, and then back to the frost flowers on the window. "Maybe what I'm seeing is chaos itself."
*
Kaos was called by Qin Zhilu early in the morning to transport the corpse. After one night, the bloody branches and leaves in the chest and abdomen of the corpse protruded and wrapped around the limbs and neck. The skin and flesh were strangled, the eyeballs were bulging, and the disemboweled The incision that broke his belly seemed inconsequential, and the man looked like he had been brutally killed by something growing out of his own body.
Kaos had never seen such a terrifying thing, and his face turned pale. Jiang Xiao also glanced at it and looked away. Only An Yu looked at the corpse seriously. He stepped forward and squatted down, carefully taking samples from the person's facial features, fingernails, abdominal cavity, and even branches and leaves, and tested them one by one with the terminal.
"It's really strange." An Yu whispered: "The signs of distortion develop rapidly when dying, but the genetic entropy remains unchanged. Even the genetic entropy of these branches and leaves is less than 10. It seems that plants and people are just twisted together, and there is no change in gene entropy." No genetic fusion occurred."
"When chaos transcends the scope of genes, genetic entropy becomes a useless indicator." Qin Zhilu glanced at the corpse for the last time, "It means that this person is not aberrant. He and this plant are simply submerged in chaos. Maybe. This is true in District 99, but it’s still in the early stages.”
"Submerged into chaos?" An Yu frowned in confusion, "What do you mean?"
"Chaos has thousands of manifestations, and genetic aberration is only one of them, and it is a very early manifestation. As the disaster develops, the world will accelerate towards the essence of chaos - that is, the integration of all things."
An Yu shook his head, and Qin Zhilu continued to explain: "Suppose you live in a neat and closed room. At first, the books are on the bookshelf, the quilt is on the bed, and the water glass is on the table. But as time goes by, you will naturally develop activities and use The positions of these items will gradually become chaotic, and they themselves will become damaged. For example, book pages will be scattered everywhere, and the water in the cup will hang on the wall of the cup and spread into the air. Unless you actively exert external force to place them, Otherwise, chaos will only continue to intensify, which is entropy increase. The entropy increase in the system will not reverse itself without external interference. Under extreme assumptions, the molecules inside books, quilts, and water cups will also begin to become chaotic. When the chaos on the material level Go down to the molecular level, and deeper still, and everything will gradually come together."
"Science has deduced that the universe began with a big bang. Everything you see - the sky, land, oceans, living things and matter, they are all highly differentiated, with clear boundaries, and order appears above them. But thermodynamics The law also points out that the end of time is heat death, and without external interference, everything will gradually reintegrate with activity and return to the original mass."
Qin Zhilu paused for a moment, "For more than twenty years, human beings thought they were suffering from huge disasters, but in fact, compared to the final outcome, these hybrid aberrations at the genetic level are nothing. At least there are rules to follow. Real chaos makes no sense and everything sinks simply and rudely.”
An Yu seemed to understand, "Did you see this ending in Area 95?"
"It's not there yet, but it's very close." Qin Zhilu paused, "Let's go to the religious activity room in District 99. According to the data, it happens to be in the apartment building where Siena lives."
Jiang Xiao finally recovered from Qin Zhilu's story, "Religion?"
Qin Zhilu glanced at him and said, "This super abnormal body should be very good at mind control."
An Yu took the terminal in Jiang Xiao's hand and clicked on his mental power, "We suspect that in your dream it was not the superior asking for your following, but the super abnormal body asking for it."
Jiang Xiao was stunned when he heard this, and then his pupils trembled - at some point, the mental power number on the screen had dropped to a dangerous orange "72".
Qin Zhilu's tone was very calm, "I was surprised that you didn't submit to it in the dream. It seems that the experience in the equal zone is indeed effective."
*
"Siena seems to dream a lot." Qin Zhilu recalled while walking in the frost and snow. "It is said that during those years when her brain was in the brain, her brain waves were very active in her sleep. She said that staying in the laboratory for a long time would cause... The illusion of being swallowed up by a void, but fortunately she can always be healed in her dreams.”
An Yu gathered up his windbreaker. The windbreaker on his body was still not covered with snow, while Qin Zhilu and Jiang Xiao were already covered with snow.
He asked: "Did the brain study her dreams?"
"She would take the initiative to tell the researchers about her dreams of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy. They were all ordinary dreams. I vaguely remember that the researchers liked her very much, because among those monitored, she was very rare and never had any dreams. Any abnormality, complete character, fearful and fragile, but also lively and innocent.”
An Yu paused upon hearing this, and then shook his feet and continued walking forward until the snow accumulated on his shoes.
As if by illusion, he felt that the commander was a little depressed when he said these words, although the voice was as calm as ever.
Kaos led them to a small three-story narrow building and said with a sigh: "District 99 advocates labor and harvest, the religious culture is very weak, and the only society has no clear doctrine, so it is placed in an abandoned activity on the first floor. In the room. Everyone usually gathers together to read myths from unknown sources to relieve boredom. The last activity was more than a month ago, and each activity has garrison supervision records. Hunting has been difficult recently, and the members have no thoughts. The Siena family is in On the second floor, her supervision partner lives on the third floor, so we’ll watch it together later.”
He opened the door and was about to lead the way when the terminal suddenly rang. It was a call from the Black Tower in the main city.
"You accept, you don't have to go in with us." Qin Zhilu waved his hand, "It is probably related to this mission. The Black Tower probably has control instructions."
Before An Yu entered the door, he saw Kaos lowering his head and rubbing the snow with his toes, and said yes to the other end of the terminal in a low voice.
Jiang Xiao explained while checking the facilities in the activity room: "The Black Tower is probably notifying him of the handover. They found another person in the garrison to take over us. I met him yesterday. That person is indeed more organized and has good skills. , but it’s just a bit pessimistic.” He paused as he spoke, and said with a wry smile: “It’s no wonder he is there, seven or eight people in the garrison are missing, and everyone is very pessimistic.”
The activity room was small in area, and there was a thick lime pillar standing next to the fireplace. On the pillar was carved a man with thick hair and beard. There is a two-step high platform built in front of the stove, with old books and manuscripts scattered on it. There are more than a dozen chairs scattered in the open space in front of the platform, and a few old chests of drawers are squeezed in front of the windows on both sides. There were piles of miscellaneous items, including half-eaten dried meat.
There is a staircase built above the fireplace. This space is rigidly separated into a small attic, covered with wool felt. It is said that it is used for divination. The divination contents of people in District 99 are basically related to hunting harvests.
An Yu squatted on the table, picking up the manuscripts with strange totems on them and reading them one by one.
Judging from the painting style, they should be painted by different people. Some paintings depict nondescript creatures spliced together from several animals, with humans holding bonfires worshiping below. Others depict the sky and constellations, or an eye filled with sparks, an arm covered with thorns... and more Many of the paintings show popular crosses, with strange-looking people tied to the racks.
"It is indeed a folk activity group." Jiang Xiao glanced at the paintings coldly, "They have kneaded many gods from mythology together, and they seem to have created many of their own."
An Yu continued to turn over the pages without making a sound, and pulled out a piece of dense parchment - this one was more totemic. A large area of blood dried on the parchment. The blood was not continuous. There was a piece in the corner and other parts. It was torn, and the edges were rubbed and blurred. The coarse gravel-like color outlines a huge figure on the blood. There is a book on the figure's chest. The radiating lines around the book outline a luminous effect. There is an eye on the cover of the book.
An Yu stared at the painting for a long time. Seeing this, Jiang Xiao squatted down and sniffed the parchment, "It's stained with sheep's blood, and it still smells fishy. I guess it wasn't long after the painting. What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just feel that this painting is a little more organized." An Yu clipped the parchment back again and looked up at the attic covered by wool felt, "What's in the divination room?"
"A bunch of low-quality candles and crystal balls, a mess of divination cards, all of them are evil gods." Jiang Xiao took a deep breath, "The atmosphere here is too strong, and I intuitively don't have any clues about super abnormality."
While they were talking, Qin Zhilu stood motionless in front of the window, as if in a daze. An Yu looked over there several times before realizing that he was actually staring at the frost condensing on the window, and even tested it with a terminal.
The commander might have been driven crazy by this weird place, An Yu thought.
Qin Zhilu turned around and said, "Let's go to Xiye's house."
The three of them left the activity room and walked upstairs. Jiang Xiao was very vigilant all the way. An Yu believed that whenever any abnormality appeared, he would instantly transform into hundreds of thick tentacles and snake tails, and whip those dirty things into pieces.
But after last night's accident, An Yu was tense throughout the whole process. He had been feeling every space in the house, trying to smell the smell of distortion, but his intuition told him that there were only three of them here.
An irregular piece of parchment hung on the door of Xiena's house. It looked empty at first glance, but An Yu's eyes narrowed and he whispered: "It's the same as the one underneath."
"What?" Jiang Xiao was stunned for a few seconds before reacting, "The sheepskin does look like the same one, but it is empty."
An Yu pointed to the corner, where there was a small irregular blood stain, which would be almost ignored if you didn't look carefully.
"This piece is also included in the painting below."
Jiang Xiao frowned and looked at it for a long time, "Are the shapes exactly the same? I think it's a coincidence. The focus of the painting below is obviously not this small stain."
An Yu held the short sword of order in his hand, his wide sleeves drooped down to cover the tip of the sword, and said to Qin Zhilu: "Sir, I'll go get the painting below and take a look."
Qin Zhilu nodded, "I temporarily added a device to your terminal last night. It will vibrate when a creature suddenly approaches, so be careful."
An Yu nodded, "Thank you, sir."
This small building is very old. When An Yu returned to the activity room, he could hear the creaking sound of Qin Zhilu and his friends' feet on the floor above him. He quickly pulled out the parchment painting from the messy pile of manuscripts. The isolated blood stain was indeed the same as the one hanging on Siena's door.
He rolled up the painting and held it in his hand, turned around and stepped off the stage in two steps.
The moment his feet landed on the ground, An Yu's figure suddenly froze.
The air seemed to fluctuate for a moment. Just as he suddenly looked back, the fabric attached to his waist suddenly vibrated violently, and a numbing sensation rushed along the skin to the central nervous system. The moment An Yu was about to raise the knife with his backhand, A tall bearded man suddenly appeared in front of him. He was glaring with anger and swung a sharp ax at him!
In an instant, red flashed in the golden eyes, and the space folded——
The man instantly appeared a few meters away!
An Yu breathed a sigh of relief and was about to swing his sword, but saw the figure disappear again in an instant. He raised his head suddenly, and the terrifyingly tall figure shrouded his scalp again. In an instant, the sharp ax struck at the top of his head. He clearly felt the touch of his flesh and skull being cut open. Pain that was colder than frost exploded from top to bottom. But what was stronger than that pain was the intense fear in his heart.
die.
In an instant, it seemed as if ten thousand thoughts exploded in An Yu's brain——
Where did this person come from?
Why can you instantly touch your face again after being bounced away from the space?
Also - he shouldn't be greedy and want to stay alive, he should just use the space to tear this guy's throat out.
The strong smell of blood went up the throat, passed through the nasal cavity, and rushed straight to the brain with warmth and pungency.
This was the first time An Yu had truly come into contact with death. It came so unexpectedly, without a fierce battle with the abnormality, and without letting anyone figure out any of the ins and outs.
Only from an inescapable axe.
At the moment when life and death were intertwined, he listened to his thundering heartbeat, and a thought suddenly came to his mind -
This guy must be killed! With his elusiveness, the commander and Jiang Xiao would be unable to avoid him!
People who are afraid of death will have courage when they are about to die.
An Yu actually felt that he was dead, and only the consciousness that was still crazy and intertwined in this moment was left.
But despite this, he still tried hard to swing the blade.
However, as he was thinking about it, the depths of his consciousness suddenly shook violently, and the pain tore him apart. He even heard the sound of an explosion deep in his body, but it only lasted for a shorter moment! ——
In a trance, all the pain disappeared.
An Yu stood on the stage holding the sheepskin painting. One foot had just stepped off the stage, while the other foot was still on the stage.
There was no sound around him, only his own violent breathing and the frantic heartbeat in his chest.
He immediately touched his neck - there was no wound, no blood, the carotid artery was pulsing rapidly and regularly, and there was no pain in his whole body.
what's the situation?
Was it an illusion just now?
An Yu suddenly looked back at the pillar behind him - this time he finally took a closer look at the statue. A tall and burly man with thick hair and beard, holding a sharp ax in his hand, stared directly at him.
Although it is just a statue.
The air seemed to be frozen here. An Yu stepped on the table with one foot, holding the parchment in one hand and a knife in the other, confronting the statue.
After a few seconds, his heartbeat calmed down, and he finally blinked lightly.
The pair of golden eyes became more focused, and the pupils shrank to a point. He pursed his lips tightly, stared at the statue, and slowly - slowly removed his other foot from the platform.
The moment his feet left the platform, he watched the statue come alive from the pillar, the terminal trembled crazily again, and the giant man appeared out of thin air again, holding a sharp ax and pressing it down from above his head——
