"Crunch - crunch"
Close to the village entrance.
A simple wooden fence surrounded the village.
Wood musty smell.
There is a wooden high platform similar to a sentry tower in front of the village entrance.
There was an extinguished brazier on the top of the high platform, and a man huddled in the corner holding a spear moved his head slightly, apparently dozing off.
The wind blew the worn wood pieces under the watchtower, creaking in the dark, which seemed a little disturbing.
"drop."
"Entering the deserted village."
"Note: It is prohibited to reveal real-world information to any creature within the current secret area."
"The speed of time has been synchronized. The current speed of time is: 1 (deserted village): 1 (reality)."
"New mission: resolve the deserted village incident."
"Task time: no limit"
"Task reward: physical attribute improvement."
Um?
Got another mission?
Eliminate the deserted village incident?
Is this forcing yourself to confront that thing?
The sudden prompt from the system made him feel a little irritable for a moment.
To be honest, he didn't really want to face that thing.
Supernatural events are so difficult that they are often “unsolvable”.
Compared to supernatural events, he would rather fight against powerful mutants, so that at least he could have a real fight. If he could win, he would win, and if he couldn't, he would die.
After exhaling a long breath, Xiong Hanzi's face turned ugly for a moment.
Just now, they were thinking about whether to go to the woods to provoke that thing, but they didn't expect that they would end up confronting it anyway.
also.
To Lin An's surprise, the time flow rate in the secret realm was the same as that in the real world.
Two not-so-good news.
The only good thing is that the system reward is the physical attribute bonus.
From the looks of it, it saves you the trouble of finding ways to improve your attributes.
"Captain Lin...this village looks different from the movies I remember watching."
Whisper a reminder.
Standing in front of a deserted village.
Lin An nodded and carefully observed the village in front of him.
The old corpse in the mountain village mentioned by Xiong Hanzi was probably in the 1990s.
There are electric lights, running water and modern facilities.
No matter how backward the mountain village is, there are still traces of the post-industrial era.
But the village in front of me clearly belongs to before the 1960s, even...
More like modern times or the Republic of China?
Things like sentry towers look like they were built to defend against bandits and wild beasts.
At a glance, there were no telegraph poles in the entire village, not even a signboard.
The man dozing off holding a spear on the sentry tower was dressed like a hunter, wearing leggings-like boots.
The Republic of China... or earlier?
"Eye of Judgment!"
Dark blue mist rose, silently covering the entire village along with the newly acquired mechanical gossip.
The Bagua rotates and the exploration skills are activated at the same time.
"Hey, no abnormal information was detected..."
Under the suppression of the secret realm, Lin An quickly explored the village with some difficulty.
There are no abnormalities, no powerful living individuals.
With 177 people, the village is not big.
Without hesitation, Lin An jumped directly onto the tower, then grabbed Orion's neck, and sent Zhang Tie rushing into the center of the village, ready to arrest him at any time.
"boom!"
He jumped and landed on the guard tower, arms stretched out.
A sudden change awakened Orion from his sleep.
Feeling someone pinching his neck, he suddenly woke up with a fright and his face turned pale.
"enemy..."
Before the shout could be uttered, Lin An easily suppressed it.
There is no emotion in his eyes, and his mental power bursts out instantly.
"I'll ask you an answer."
"Who is your village chief?"
"Is there anything unusual in the village recently?"
"Where's the closest town to here?"
He asked three questions in a row without giving the man any time to respond.
Unlike in the movie, you still have to talk to the villagers and get information bit by bit.
Lin An prefers direct violence.
Orion, whose neck was grabbed and couldn't breathe, looked horrified. He couldn't understand how the man in strange armor in front of him jumped onto the sentry tower silently.
A robber?
Or officers and soldiers?
And Lin An's cold eyes with blue mist made people even more panicked.
Don't be a monster...
"Our...our village...the village chief is Huang Dawei, he lives...that..."
He raised his arm with difficulty and trembling, and pointed at the two rows of brick houses in the southeast corner of the village.
"Abnormal...what is abnormal...abnormal..."
Stumbling.
Lin An saw that the man dressed as an Orion could not speak clearly, so he threw him aside.
To determine the location of the village leader, he simply held his right hand empty.
Haven't recovered yet.
In the man's shocked eyes, he could see the majestic spiritual energy surrounding Lin An like the blazing sun.
In an instant, the roofs of the entire village were swept away by the powerful air current.
a mess.
"Arrests!"
Give an order.
Lin An directly used his mental power to control a large number of sleeping villagers.
Crying for father and mother.
"Ghost!"
"Is it a monster! Is there a monster coming!?"
"Help!!"
....
I couldn't understand what was happening to me.
The sudden turn of events shocked the villagers into confusion, and they could only watch as their bodies floated up uncontrollably.
Together with Xiong Hanzi's rush in.
I saw him throwing the villagers into the open space of the village one by one like a robber.
....
Three minutes later.
In the open space of the village, everyone looked at Lin An and Zhang Tie standing in front of them with fear.
There were 177 people in total, 101 men, 61 women, and 36 children, the youngest of which was an infant.
Crying loudly, sobbing in panic.
Anyone who was flown up by strange controls in the middle of the night and then thrown into the open space would probably be frightened.
In the middle of the panicked crowd, a little old man who was the only one who looked calm stood up tremblingly.
"Two...sir...sirs, I wonder if there is anything going on with your "night visit" to our village?"
"Are you a person sent by the imperial court?"
"Are the bloody corpses from the border coming again?"
Swallowing his saliva, he leaned on a cane made of vines and felt confused.
Looking at Lin An, who was wearing black armor, carrying a long sword on his back, and a strange mirror in front of him, many thoughts flashed through his mind.
Unlike other villagers who had little knowledge, he vaguely remembered the stranger mentioned by the storyteller in the town.
Is this the legendary "god" or a monster?
Although Lin An had put away his psychic powers now, he could clearly see the white light that just erupted.
Lin An frowned slightly after hearing the village chief's question.
The imperial court? Blood corpse?
Most of the villagers in front of me were wearing cloth clothes and scarves.
It seems that this secret place is in ancient times?
That would be completely different from the old corpse in the mountain village mentioned by Xiong Hanzi.
Listening to the word "bloody corpse" in the mouth of the village chief Huang Dawei, Lin An felt strange in his heart.
Don't be fooled by Zhang Tie.
This is an ancient apocalypse.
Cold weapons against zombies? !
