Pingzhou, Gaoak City.
Gaoqiao City is a small city in Pingzhou. Its geographical area and population are not much different from Yungu City, but it is the area with the fastest growing number of abnormal cases since the outbreak.
As the leader of the city's special task force, Ma Pengfei has been completely overwhelmed with work these days and has not had a good sleep for several days and nights.
After receiving the notification from the headquarters from the state special adjustment center, he originally thought that his superiors had developed some latest weapon to deal with anomalies, and he felt really happy.
He called his subordinates to quickly sift through all the previously collected anomaly information, especially the pictures and images, and then packaged it and uploaded it.
According to the idea of dealing with anomalies, Ma Pengfei believes that the headquarters has most likely developed a weapon that can locate and conduct tracking attacks.
The feedback from the headquarters was quite fast, and the "weapons" were delivered in just three days.
Ma Pengfei immediately asked his brother to receive the goods and unpack them. After opening them, he was a little dumbfounded. He saw that the box was full of packaged wood carvings.
These wood carvings were lifelike, and a few of them looked like the anomalies that the special team was investigating recently.
"Why do you make so many abnormal wood carvings? Are they going to be sold?" One of the special operators asked in confusion.
Along with the delivery of wood carvings, there was also an urgent message from the headquarters.
Ma Pengfei didn't say anything, but immediately took it apart and took a look. His eyes were like copper bells, and he murmured to himself: "Use wood carvings to contain anomalies?!"
"How to contain it?" Wan Jun, the deputy team leader next to him, leaned over and asked while looking at the urgent documents.
"They say the anomaly can be contained by touching it with a wood carving!" Ma Pengfei looked at the words in his hand, not even believing his own words.
"This is the headquarters..." Wan Jun picked up one of the wooden sculptures that looked like an old woman, "Can you contain Grandma Meng by touching her with this thing?"
Grandma Meng is an anomaly that only appeared recently. She often appears after people fall asleep in the evening. Her characteristic is that as long as she stands next to the bed of the target human, no matter how many people are lying on the bed, they will all have nightmares and follow the people in their dreams. Scenes randomly produce conditioned reflexes in the body.
When this reflection reaches a certain level, human thoughts will fall into chaos, resulting in suicidal, crazy, and uncontrollable physical behaviors.
In other words, it is very likely that he will kill himself in his sleep.
The images of Grandma Meng were all captured by the surveillance camera at a target's home. This strange old woman always had her back hunched over, her long gray hair was hanging down, and her face was baggy. She looked particularly scary in the surveillance video.
Because I was walking around the house at the beginning, I was monitored and filmed from different angles, and the resulting image data was relatively rich.
It's easy to touch this dreamy old lady with a wood carving, because the special team has mastered the pattern of this abnormal appearance and knows where she will choose as a target recently.
It's just that some of the humans who were invaded by her in dreams have already suffered from mental disorders. They suspect that Grandma Meng is still controlling those people, so they have never dared to attack her directly, for fear that the people controlled by her will suffer more. serious consequence.
If Grandma Meng was contained just by touching her with a wood carving, then this case would be too simple. In advance, let a special operator sneak into the target house and wait, and then find an opportunity to touch the anomaly with a wooden sculpture. Can you do it?
"I always feel unreliable. What's going on with the headquarters?" Ma Pengfei was surprised.
"Yes, even if it is really effective, is this method effective for every anomaly with different characteristics?" Wan Jun also nodded.
A few days later.
In a dark alley, five or six special operators were crouching at the entrance of the alley.
Each of these special operators held their breath and quietly observed a garbage can in the alley. At this time, a khaki-colored dog with mixed hair was digging into the garbage.
Not long after, the yellow dog bit an object, took two steps back, and pulled the object out of the garbage heap.
After careful identification, it turned out to be a corpse.
The corpse was wearing a suit that had been chewed to pieces and was slightly fat. It didn't look like a scavenger who froze to death or starved to death here.
After the yellow dog pulled the body out, it looked around in a humane manner. When it turned towards the entrance of the alley, it was obvious that the dog's eyes were scarlet and looked extremely ferocious.
Saliva dripped from the corner of its mouth. After the yellow dog found no danger, it quickly lowered its head and began to eat the fat corpse on the ground. The eating movements were very fast. After a few mouthfuls, the man in the suit lost half of his chest.
This yellow dog is called "Corpse Dog" and has been present in Lushan City for more than half a month. After selecting a target, it will quietly follow and bite the target to death.
It may select several targets in one night and bite them to death. When it cannot finish eating, it will bury them and then eat them in order.
This fat man in a suit was killed last night. He had been dead for two hours when he was found by the special investigation team, and was buried by corpse dogs under the heavy garbage in this large trash can.
At this moment, all the special operators were clenching their fists tightly and staring unblinkingly at the terrifying corpse dog and in the direction of the large trash can.
The chewing sound of the corpse dog sounded very harsh, but if you didn't look, you would have thought it was a stray dog gnawing on the bones and scraps of meat found in the garbage dump.
After a while, the corpse dog gradually lowered its guard and turned its attention to the delicious corpse in front of it.
Its head slowly approached the innermost part of the big trash can, and half of its head was almost completely inserted into the fat man's chest.
At this moment, one of the special operators waiting at the entrance of the alley suddenly snorted softly, as if he was talking about something, and it seemed that he just sneezed that was suppressed.
The corpse dog that was feasting immediately turned its head and looked at the entrance of the alley with alert eyes. But almost at the same moment, the garbage pile that was just under the body of the fat man in the suit suddenly moved violently. A special coordinator who had been lurking here suddenly He sat up covered in blood and quickly thrust something in his hand towards the corpse dog who was looking towards the alley.
The object in his hand was a wooden sculpture, a wooden sculpture that looked no different from a corpse dog.
The moment the wooden sculpture happened to touch the left front leg of the corpse dog, the corpse dog in front of him shook suddenly, as if he wanted to escape because he felt fear.
But after being pulled, its left front leg could no longer leave the wood carving. Instead, it was quickly pulled in by the wood carving, leaving only some blood stains on the surface of the wood carving.
Although they had considered this scene in advance, when the wooden sculpture quickly absorbed the corpse dog, all the hidden special team members were still stunned.
Especially the man who was lurking under the corpse and holding the wooden sculpture in his hand at the moment. He could feel the wooden sculpture vibrating slightly. Was the terrifying, cunning, and difficult to capture and kill corpse dog contained like this? !
Not long after, all the hidden special operators rushed out, and four or five strong flashlights lit up, illuminating the area around the trash can.
"It's put in! I saw it put in with my own eyes!"
"How can this thing really contain anomalies directly?!"
"Holy crap! I thought the corpse dog was going to run away again, and I almost took out the prepared guy."
"Let me see if it will escape from the wood carving again?"
Suddenly, the entire garbage alley was filled with sounds of surprise and curiosity.
If these special agents were to capture or kill the cadaver dogs, it might take several days or even a fierce fight to do so.
Because the corpse dog's reaction is too fast, and regular damage cannot kill it at all. As long as the damage to it is not continuous, its recovery speed can almost exceed the speed of being injured.
According to the speculation of the special team, this guy's strength level should be at least medium to high, but because he looks like a dog, his characteristics have also become weird.
Just touching the opponent and catching the target is a scene that none of the special operators present dare to imagine.
After a while, the wooden sculpture was turned over and looked over several times in the hands of each special coordinator. They were surprised to find that the wooden sculpture had just absorbed the anomaly, but it looked ordinary and nothing unusual at all.
"Seal down the scene and notify the Sheriff." A man who seemed to be the leader ordered.
"What about this wood carving?" others asked.
The leading man replied: "What else can be done? The headquarters has ordered that once the containment is successful, it will be immediately sealed and sent back to the headquarters."
…
In a dark living room.
Regular snoring sounded from the direction of the bedroom, and the owner of the house was obviously fast asleep.
The time displayed at this moment is 3:15 am.
But there was a person standing in the dark shadow in the living room. She was an old woman with a bent back, long gray hair hanging down, and her whole body looked chubby, standing hunched in front of the sofa.
Although she had been standing there, the old woman looked like a dead person, with no movement in her body.
The special operator, who was lying on the bed pretending to snore, was extremely nervous at the moment. A sound as thin as a mosquito came from his headset covered by the pillow, but he used his own snoring to cover it up at the right time.
The voice in the headset said: "Mother Meng is still standing in the living room. You continue to pretend to be asleep. Don't move or turn over for the time being."
The person pretending to be the special coordinator's wife was also a young female special coordinator. She was also pretending to be asleep at the moment, and the two of them cooperated closely.
At this moment, surveillance cameras were installed in several important corners of the room, and the voice in the headset was the exact location of Grandma Meng by watching the cameras.
After waiting for about ten minutes, the voice in the headset came again: "She is moving. She is moving towards the bedroom. Pay attention to the time to protect your own safety."
The snoring male special agent's heart was in his throat. He tried his best to keep his breathing steady and continued to snore. He didn't dare to narrow his eyes to see. He was guided by the voice in the camera.
At this time, his "wife" lying next to him also received the news.
Not long after, a slight sound of footsteps sounded at the bedroom door.
The sound was very soft, and if you were asleep, you wouldn't hear it at all.
But at this moment, the two special operators who were pretending to be asleep were highly concentrated, so they heard everything clearly. Because they had seen the image data of Grandma Meng, they could even outline a picture of Grandma Meng in their minds based on the sounds they heard. The figure walked over crookedly.
After waiting for a moment, the footsteps stopped beside the male special coordinator, and there was no movement.
At this time, the male special adjuster did not dare to open his eyes, and the tension in his heart became stronger and stronger. He felt that the old woman was bending over, putting her face above him, and observing her carefully.
But at this moment, a strong sense of sleepiness came over without warning. The two special operators suddenly felt that their minds were empty for an instant, and their whole bodies seemed to be bathed in warm water, and an indescribable feeling of comfort washed over them.
The sense of autonomy was rapidly passing away. At this moment, the voice of captain Ma Pengfei came from the headset, and the voice became significantly louder.
"Now, do it!"
The male special coordinator suddenly trembled and opened his eyes. He felt briefly confused at first, and then fully woke up. He wanted to put his hand out of the bed, but at this moment, a corner of the wooden sculpture he was holding was exposed under the bed blanket.
But the next second, he was suddenly startled when he saw that the person standing next to his bed was not Granny Meng, but a slender, beautiful young woman with only a faint wisp of clothing on her body.
The young woman leaned down, and a wave of fragrance hit her face, but suddenly her body trembled violently and she let out a piercing scream.
The scene in front of him suddenly collapsed, and the male special adjuster suddenly opened his eyes and found that he had fallen asleep just now, but in fact he had not woken up at all.
And the beautiful young woman she saw in the dream was still the hunched-over Mother-in-law Meng.
At this moment, Grandma Meng let out a violent scream. Her body was being quickly absorbed by a wooden sculpture, and it had been completely stretched and deformed.
The wooden sculpture was held by a hand extending from the closet at the back.
The quilt was lifted, and the male special agent lying on the bed also had a wood carving of Grandma Meng in his hand. The man who had hidden it in the closet to shield his breath also had the same wood carving in his hand.
Because Grandma Meng has very weird abilities and the circumstances under which she enters dreams are special, so when they submitted the application, what they requested from the headquarters was two wood carvings of Grandma Meng.
Soon Grandma Meng was taken in by the woodcarving, the closet door opened, and Wan Jun, the deputy leader of the special task force in Takaoak City, walked out.
The female special coordinator who had been forced to sleep had also woken up, and everyone stared at the wooden sculpture in Wan Jun's hand in surprise.
"This thing... is so useful! It's like an artifact!" Wan Jun said to Ma Pengfei, the team leader on the other side of the headset.
"From now on, no matter what method we take, we will immediately collect the image data of all abnormal cases we have and report them to the headquarters as quickly as possible." Ma Pengfei said: "Then we will separately target other abnormalities in the wood carvings that we already have, and catch them One to contain the other.”
Heshan City.
Gu Fei and Ding Wenying sat in the secret room, staring at the seven wooden sculptures they received this time.
Among the seven wood carvings above, two have already contained abnormal targets, and no abnormalities appeared 24 hours after being contained, showing complete tolerance.
Looking at the remaining five uncontained wooden sculptures, Gu Fei swallowed his saliva and said, "Have you contacted Shen Xing?"
"We contacted him yesterday." Ding Wenying nodded, "I asked him to prioritize completing the anomaly list we submitted."
"As long as we ask, I believe he will not refuse." Gu Fei nodded.
"No, he refused." Ding Wenying said.
Gu Fei: "..."
Ding Wenying explained: "Now all abnormal lists have to go through three levels of screening. That is to say, when my demand list reaches Shen Xing, it may have changed beyond recognition. And..."
"And what?" Gu Fei was surprised.
"Shen Xing told me that Deputy Director Wan of the Special Investigation Headquarters, Director Pei of the Public Security Headquarters, as well as Director Wang of the City Hall and Director Qin of the Kuazhou Civil Affairs Department are all calling him, and they must give priority to all kinds of connections. The right to customize wood carvings." Ding Wenying shrugged, "Currently, Shen Xing's phone has been restricted from incoming calls, and is answered by his work team, so I can no longer contact him directly."
Gu Fei sighed softly: "This kid's wings have grown and he already has his own work team. When I was his age, I was still being teamed up."
