Chapter 258: The Great War - The Terrifying Mountain Ghost
For three days in a row, there didn't seem to be anything unusual except for the mirages that often appeared in the sky, but the people in the city were always nervous, patrolling day and night. Our bullets were also soaked in the nectar of the mandala, and the shopkeeper of Sui was also wandering around the city like a nervous disorder, his words became less and less day by day, and I heard Sister Hu say that the shopkeeper of Sui insisted on feeding this black mandala flower array with his own blood every day, and the strength of his body had dropped to a very dangerous state.
It was nearly dusk, the shopkeeper of Sui carried a machete on his back, and took us to the city tower again, he said that this was used by him to cut the Japanese, and he stayed here after the last time, and was soaked in black mandala nectar for 20 years, which is waiting for today.
Da Zhang was amused: "Old Sui, I'll lick your knife, I'll see if there is any taste of sugar gourd." ”
The shopkeeper of Sui was not angry, saying that he had killed the mountain charm, and let the knife drink blood, so he gave it to Da Zhang, he wanted to retire when he was old, and the task of guarding the land should be handed over.
Da Zhang hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't, you still have to continue to fight on the front line, I used to think that you were not very good, but now it seems that you are really our brother's nobleman." ”
The shopkeeper of Sui suddenly turned heavy on his face, and told us that the mountain charm is just a small trouble, and after this is solved, there will be bigger things to happen, and if we can survive alive, he will tell us what the new trouble is. In fact, the crisis of this world has been brewing since the end of the last century, and recently, that day is gradually approaching, and the reason why he will abandon his previous grievances is to unite more forces to fight this crisis, otherwise we would have been pinched to death by him hundreds of times. Then he tells us many of the strange things he dealt with in his youth.
Dazhang and I listened to it with a straight hair.
I don't know when the sky is dark, the walls of the city are brightly lit, the mountain wind doesn't know when it stops, and there is silence around. We rested on the walls, where we have made our home since yesterday.
"On the day of the full moon, which is the time when the charm of the mountain is at its strongest, they are coming!" the shout of the shopkeeper of Sui suddenly came, without any warning. Da Zhang and I were drowsy with guns in our arms, and we were excited by this shout.
Hurriedly raised his gun and looked at the city, and sure enough, a large number of black-armored soldiers retreated from the mountain pass to the city, and in an instant, the screams of the black-armored army filled the entire space.
Sister Hu was already standing in the middle of the city gate tower, holding a long black sword in her hand, and shouted loudly: "Don't panic!
Shopkeeper Sui looked at the chaos under the city and shook his head vigorously: "Is this flower array already so fragile? The guards of the mountain pass are almost crushed at the touch of a button, and they don't even have basic resistance?"
"Yes! The ability of the mountain charm seems to have evolved a lot after twenty years of cultivation in the human world, and the peripheral flower array seems to be unable to affect them at all, and our arrow array has completely lost its effect!" said a thin black boy who seemed to have just retreated from the mountain pass.
"How many?"
"I can't count it, it's all over the mountains!"
Sui shopkeeper Huo Di pulled out a machete: "The old man is on personally, go and cut him dozens first, reduce the pressure on the city!"
"Don't!" Sister Hu advised, "General Sui has lost too much blood recently, don't be reckless, without the help of the mandala flower array, you will have no way back! Once this position loses your support, it will definitely not be able to hold it!"
Dazhang and I held our guns and looked outside the city, the guards in the valley and the mandala flower road seemed to have all retreated to the inner city, and there was not a single mountain ghost outside, and the attack seemed to have stopped.
"Ran away?" I wondered.
"No! Not showing up is the most troublesome!" Sister Hu's tone raised a few more tense points.
"Yes! 20 years ago, the mountain charms were like animals, they had no thinking, they were just affected by instinct and rushed to the city!
Suddenly, the sound of "da-da-da" gunfire came, and I turned my head to look at Da Zhang's side, and shouted, "What are you studying!"
Looking sideways, a few bald mountain charms slipped out under the city wall, and the mandala flower array around the city really worked well, and these guys faltered before they reached the city wall, and a large burst of shots knocked down a few.
"Fuck, such a waste!" Da Zhang was happy, turned his head and shouted, "Shopkeeper, you rest, I'm alive!"
"No! No! It's definitely not that simple!"
Before his words fell, dozens of mountain charms suddenly jumped out of the sea of mandala flowers, different from the bald man who shot down in a big way, with the help of the moonlight, I could clearly see that these monsters were glowing with a faint red light!
Obviously, these guys are no longer very affected by the many mandala flowers, and they are rushing in the sea of flowers, faster than we imagined.
"Break the ghost arrow!" Seeing this situation, Sister Hu waved her long sword, and the archers in ambush within the city wall fired a salvo with bows!
The rain of arrows came out at will, and even obscured the moonlight.
The black feathered arrow seemed to be more effective than the gun in Da Zhang's hand, and there was no place outside the city to hide, and the nearby mountain charms were pierced into hedgehogs and fell to the ground wailing.
I let out a long sigh and it seemed that things were better than I thought.
Silence, terrible silence, no sound or swaying among the flowers.
Isn't it time to celebrate the victory? I think Shopkeeper Sui and Sister Hu seem to be overestimating these things.
None of them spoke, and I understood that the numbers were far from matching, and the enemy was still there.
Now we can only wait and see.
At this time, there was another shaking in the flowers, and everyone on the city wall set up their bows one after another, preparing to shoot the next volley, and suddenly there was a shout from under the city wall: "Don't let go of the arrows! It's me! I'm Li Tiancheng!"
"What?Director Li?" I was suddenly stunned, wasn't he killed by the shopkeeper Sui?
"Keep firing arrows!" Shopkeeper Sui didn't seem to know Director Li at all.
"Stop!" I shouted, and I suddenly felt complicated again.
"Keep put!" shopkeeper Sui simply took my words as wind in his ears.
Sister Hu raised her long sword, as if to give an order.
Time can't give me any consideration, if this continues, Director Li below will definitely die, I must not watch that old man die, that is our colleague!
I lost the rifle in my hand, pulled out my pistol, and stepped behind Sister Hu with one lunge, covering her mouth with one hand and holding the gun against her temple with the other. This person doesn't have anything else remarkable except for her weird voice, and if I cover her mouth, she can't do anything to me: "Stop it all!"
The shopkeeper of Sui was at a loss by this sudden change: "What are you doing? Little cub, are you crazy?"
"Stop! here's our people, can't be killed!" I didn't have time to explain to him more.
"Fart! It's all mountain charms down there!
"What's that sound about? It's our director's voice!
"The high mountain charm will peep into people's hearts and simulate the voice of acquaintances, don't be fooled!"
At this time, a figure walked out of the flowers under the city, and when I looked, it was Director Li Tiancheng and Director Li.
I hugged Sister Hu tighter: "Simulated voice! Can the body also be simulated?"
I then turned my head and shouted to the city: "Li Chu, I'm Liu Siyuan, I'm here!"
"Xiao Liu! Da Zhang! You're still here! Great! Open the door! Don't be deceived by the guy surnamed Sui! He's not a good person! I'll explain it to you!"
The shopkeeper of Sui suddenly pulled out his machete and was about to cut at me.
Da Zhang stopped in front of me, and pointed a gun at the shopkeeper Sui: "You're welcome to fucking get close to me again, I don't believe what you can do to us after you shed so much blood!"
The aura on the shopkeeper of Sui changed drastically, and I knew that he wanted to use his strange ability to control us, and he couldn't even shout in his heart.
Da Zhang was about to shoot, and at this critical moment, the shopkeeper of Sui suddenly trembled, only to see that he hurriedly held on to the city wall behind him, and it seemed that he no longer had the strength to exert that ability.
The situation is changing dramatically, and I don't know who to believe. Sister Hu is struggling desperately in my hands, and the shopkeeper of Sui is about to die, but Director Li is calling us outside the city, who should we believe? What should we do? It's time to choose again!
It's not 091 here, no one will guide you on what to do, everything is up to you. The drastic change in the situation made my heart tremble, and if I made a mistake this time, the consequences would be unimaginable. On the one hand, it is to release a thousand-year-old monster, and on the other hand, it is the leader who stabs himself, no matter how he chooses, it seems that the ending is not good enough.
I hugged Sister Hu and shouted to the people around me, "No one is allowed to move!
The black-armored villains around me all saw that I had kidnapped Sister Hu, and they didn't act rashly.
"Listen to me this time! Never open the door for him!" the shopkeeper of Sui softened obviously.
"Da Zhang, Xiao Tian, take care of the shopkeeper Sui, I'll go down to see Director Li myself! If there is any accident, shoot me like a hedgehog!"
Da Zhang took a gun and put it against the head of the shopkeeper of Sui: "Master, don't force me, we don't have a choice!"
Xiao Tian seemed to be still hesitating, and I was anxious: "Stand firm! Come and get a gun, and look at Sister Hu for me!"
It took me a suffrage to call Xiao Tian back to her senses, and she hurriedly ran over, took my gun, and at the same time covered Sister Hu's mouth with her hand, and Sister Hu twisted her body vigorously.
"Eldest sister, don't move! Let Xiao Liu go down by himself!"
I grabbed my rifle again and walked down the tower alone: "Open the door!"
No one listened to my orders.
I was furious and fired two shots into the sky: "I'll count to three, and if I don't open the door, I'll do it immediately!"
"1!2!Prepare to shoot!Kill the guy surnamed Hu!" I could only threaten them.
At this time, the heavy city gate suddenly creaked, and it seemed that this method of taking hostages was quite effective.
A crack opened in the gate, and I flashed out of the city, and the door behind me closed.
Full moon, sea of flowers, confrontation, enemies, colleagues, humans, monsters, choose! I'll choose! I looked at Director Li standing in the distance, took a long breath, and strode over.
There was only the faint sound of the wind around me, and the black petals floating around me, and Director Li stood in front of me with his hands behind his back, still the kind old man, at least for now, I didn't see anything wrong.
"Xiao Liu, I really didn't expect you to break in alive!" Li Chu seemed to be quite worried about my safety.
Listening to his tone, he seemed to know this place very well, and he seemed to have said that he had only been to the mountain pass and rocky valley before, and I suddenly became a little more vigilant: "Hehe, thank you for your concern, I didn't expect a lot of things, I don't know how you got here?"
"It doesn't matter how I got here, the important thing is that we can take this secret out and dedicate it to the country, you know the value of that thing inside!" Director Li didn't seem to want to answer me directly.
"What is it, what is it worth?" I pretended to be stupid.
"I'm your boss, you don't have the right to ask me!" Director Li's tone seemed to change slightly.
"My boss is Lei Tianming, not you, you can come to this place safely among so many monsters, I need your explanation!"
"Weapons, biological weapons! The code of evolution! It's all in it, it's the mirage! My duty is to bring it out! If so, we can conquer everything! It's the duty of a soldier!" Director Li finally gave me a vague explanation, "Open the city gates, let us in, I know you are in control of the situation." ”
"A soldier's duty is to defend the country, not to conquer!" I refuse your request! You are with monsters, does the minister know?" I flatly rejected his request, "Without a direct order from the head of the headquarters, you can walk over my corpse!"
"So you're a rebel with an iron heart?" Director Li still used his official position to pressure me.
"Yes!" I replied very firmly. Since he couldn't explain why these mountain charms were with him, and I had never heard of us in 091 developing this kind of biological soldiers, I would never have carried out his orders.
"Hey, hey, okay, Xiao Liu, it's a man. You go back, I won't embarrass you, after 10 minutes, I'll let you understand what evolution is and what is our future!"
Back in the city, I asked Xiao Tian and Da Zhang to put Sister Hu and the shopkeeper of Sui away. I'm sure it's Director Li below, but I'm not sure the correctness of his actions. Such an action, it can't be arranged by 091, we don't have any behavior of developing biological weapons, I choose the Sui shopkeeper, this is gambling, I can only choose the side that I think has a greater chance of winning.
The shopkeeper of Sui saw my actions and let out a long breath: "You didn't choose the wrong one!"
"I hope so!" I don't understand why Director Li is in the midst of these monsters, but he has not changed in any way.
The shopkeeper of Sui lifted his spirit, picked up the machete, and looked at the city, with indescribable confusion in his eyes.
"This supreme city is cast by mixing soil and boulders after the mandala flower is pulped, the rhizome of this main flower has penetrated deep into it for thousands of years, and any mountain charm will lose its strength if it comes close to here, and today these mountain charms seem to be completely immune to these, it seems that there is only a hard top!"
I looked at the quiet city: "Director Li said, in ten minutes, we will experience what evolution is, what is the future of mankind, it seems that the attack is imminent." ”
When the shopkeeper heard the word "evolution", he seemed a little irritable: "Evolution, evolution, survival of the fittest!"
Sister Hu didn't have time to pursue my recklessness just now, so she hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?"
"The instinct of living beings is to evolve! It is to adapt to the environment! Those who fail will be ruthlessly eliminated by nature, this is the rule. These things can be so close to this place now, they have undoubtedly evolved, evolved to the realm of being able to break through here! It seems that the old Li Tou is not wrong. I thought this person was weird outside the mountain, but I didn't see anything wrong with him, so I set fire to his house for insurance, but I didn't pinch him to death with my own hands, it seems that I made a mistake!"
I finally understood how Director Li was calculated outside the mountain, but the shopkeeper of Sui seems to be very calculating this person.
I told the whole story of Director Li's youth, and the shopkeeper of Sui woke up like a dream: "This person used to come in with me! I came here to send a tranquilizer to this place to do a mirage suppression experiment, but it was very unsuccessful, that experiment almost woke the guy up, and stimulated him to secrete a large number of purple seeds, could it be that the seeds were planted in his body at that time? Then this kind of seed has been brewing in his body for more than 30 years! Where was he in the autumn of 1945?"
"According to the information, he should be in the Northeast, and our boss was in the Northeast at that time!"
"No wonder, he didn't participate in the attack on the city 20 years ago, and he has evolved for another 20 years!"
I didn't think Director Li was a traitor, so I hurriedly argued: "But he has been conscientious for so many years, and he has not done anything weird. Although I have organized people to go deep into this place many times, they have not succeeded. I don't believe he's a monster. ”
"Hmph!" the shopkeeper turned his head to me, "What is the most basic behavior of life? It is not faith! It is instinct! Just like when you are hungry and you want to drink water when you are thirsty, under extreme conditions, it is not consciousness that determines behavior, but instinct! When the mountain charm attacks the city, it is the most basic instinct of the main body to rescue. For a long time, these monsters will not be aware of the changes in their bodies, and even if they are killed, they will not awaken, but now it is different, now is the time when the mirage is the strongest, and the mirages that appear everywhere are just strange scenery for us, and for these hidden creatures and weapons, it is a summoning! The summoning of the mother body is the key to unleashing their power! I also do not doubt that he is your loyal warrior, but driven by the most primitive desires, how long can he hold on? Even if he still has loyal behavior, the most fundamental purpose is to release that thing!"
The shopkeeper of Sui explained, and I heard that I had a big head, so Director Li is a biological weapon that has been brewing in the world for more than 30 years, and it is still inside our 091, which is really a big trouble.
"The most troublesome thing is how far he has evolved. Oda replied coldly.
I'm grumpy, and I'm in trouble!
"In the past few days, I have consulted a large number of ancient records in this city, and there are more detailed records of mountain charms in ancient books, and the huge power is only the first step in their evolution......"
Before Oda could finish speaking, there was a sudden commotion in the team on the right, and bursts of screams came.
We were in the middle of the tower, and we hurriedly turned our heads to look.
I can't see clearly, the broken limbs in the black-pressed team erupted like a volcano!
"What's wrong?" Sister Hu, as the commander, was not as flustered as me and Da Zhang, "Report your situation!"
The shopkeeper of Sui struggled to get up and picked up the machete: "Let them stand down!
Xiao Tian hid behind Da Zhang: "Sure enough!
I held the gun and didn't know what to shoot: "Sister Tian, you understand." ”
"It's too late, it's all up!"
"All stand down!" The shopkeeper Sui didn't know where the strength came from, so he rushed forward with a machete, and I followed closely with Dazhang.
In this moment, the small phalanx of dozens of people over there had already died, and the remaining black-armored warriors were almost scattered.
I haven't seen anything over there until now, I'm just blindly following. When we arrived, there seemed to be nothing but stumps all over the ground.
"Shopkeeper, what are you chopping, what about people?" Da Zhang held up his gun and looked around.
"Right in front of your face!" the shopkeeper of Sui raised his hand, and a blood stain was suddenly drawn in the space in front of Da Zhang!
Da Zhang was startled, and hurriedly retreated: "Ouch Mom! What is it?" and swept around with a gun as he returned.
The situation was even more complicated, and the space in front of him unexpectedly gave birth to many blood spots in a row.
I finally understood, the enemy is transparent!
There was a strange scenery on the opposite side of Da Zhang, the two mountain charms were like acting in a movie, the patterns kept changing, the shopkeeper of Sui went up with a knife and cut off the head of one of them, and Da Zhang also shot and killed one indiscriminately.
There was no more movement around.
Oda rushed over and inspected the mountain spirits on the ground, these monsters emitted a strange reddish light. "According to the ancient books in the city, the so-called charm is the most demagogic monster in the legend, and the advanced ones can be ever-changing, simulating various sounds and changing various forms. You see, their bodies can change like this, so it's hard for us to notice!"