When the members of Team 5 had assembled in the sleep pod, Kei-87 did not give any additional explanations about the gathering news he had just released, but instead asked us to return to Earth as quickly as possible. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoM6-2 didn't travel with me, and she and M6 had other important work to do - work that would determine how long we could stay on Earth this time without being discovered.

I was amazed at the tacit understanding of the members of Team 5, none of them asked why, no one asked where to go, no one asked what the risks would be, and perhaps, as M6-2 put it, was a "long-awaited" operation.

We landed in an empty wilderness, where nothing but gravel, dust, and dead branches saved from a huge building with a typical Gothic spire, as if it had been burned by fire, and the end of the spire was hidden in the fog. Although there are no religious signs visible on the outside, I inexplicably identify it as an abandoned church. It doesn't give people any sense of sacredness or solemnity, but rather a heaviness and ominousness, and the sporadic rays of light through the dark clouds on its mottled bricks make it look even more eerie.

"Return to the landing, get out of the device, please get ready." This time it was not Duan 28 who spoke, but Ji 87.

Untethered from the landing gear, I was able to get a closer look at the building. I found that there were several rings carved on the ground around this building, and the wall of this building facing us was just above the center, that is, where the stained glass windows in ordinary churches are, and there was also a hollow ring, but if you looked closely, you could see that there was a small gap directly below the ring. Our landing devices, placed in a row, look like tombstones in front of a church, surrounded by these rings.

"We're going into this place of the hell?" Tin 16 asked.

"Yes." Ji 87's expression was very serious, "I asked the Van Xi Xingren to analyze the data of all the locations that the investigation team had inspected, and finally found out dozens of locations that were deliberately hidden by the first team, and this is the smallest area, and it is also the easiest place for us to start and investigate at this stage." ”

"I don't feel good about it." Cloud 09 clutched her cane as a weapon.

"It's almost like writing 'I have a problem' on the wall." Ning 08 also flattened his mouth unhappily.

"Looks like that's the only entrance," KC66 pointed to the broken wooden door facing us, and he had circled the building while everyone was complaining, "Not even a window here, to be exact." ”

"Then go through the main entrance." Ji 87 has always been in a state of smiling with a strained face since the beginning of this operation, which makes me very unaccustomed to it. He nodded to everyone, reminded everyone to equip their weapons, and then gently poked the wooden door with the sword he was holding in his hand, the door squeaked, and it was easily pushed open, and a wisp of white mist came out of it, and I felt Ning 08 shiver next to him.

"I hate this kind of unclear vision." Tin 16 muttered quietly beside him.

I carefully stood behind and peeked in, but I couldn't see anything but fog.

Suddenly, a gust of wind swept by, and the wooden door was blown back and forth, as if beckoning us to enter.

"Shall you go in now?" End 28 asked.

Ji 87 took a deep breath and turned to us, "I believe that after entering this time, we can find crucial clues, but I can't guarantee what will happen after entering." The reconnaissance lasted two hours, and after two hours, if no clues were found, we returned to the subgap. In case of danger, use the emergency disengagement button directly behind the ear to force a return to the subspace. If anything goes wrong, please put all the blame on me when you are asked about it, you came with me without knowing it, and I will take full responsibility, do you know? ”

"I have a question," I said, raising my hand, "how is it an anomaly?" ”

"You think you might not be able to go back to the sub-gap, that's an anomaly. So, I'll go in first, and if everything is okay, I'll use the headphones to notify everyone to come in one by one in a first-come-first-served order. ”

"It's too dangerous to be alone, I'm with you, right?" Duan 28 said.

"No, you, as the captain, should stay outside to organize everyone, the biggest risk is enough for me to bear alone, after all, I provoked it." After speaking, Ji 87 plunged into the fog.

1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, the fog slowly spreads around us, but there is no movement in the headphones.

I took advantage of the waiting time to quickly fumble around all the equipment on my body, and I was roughly familiar with the placement and purpose of each thing, so that I could calm down a little.

"We're just waiting outside?" Tin 16 looked impatient.

"He's not going to press the force return button as soon as he enters, is he?" Ning 08 asked Duan 28.

"If someone presses the force return button, I'll have a notification here," he replied, "let's wait 2 more minutes." It's not a good environment to use headphones to contact him, and I'm worried that our voices will affect his judgment of the environment and make him miss some key ambient sounds. ”

"What is the purpose of Team 1 to hide this place?" Cloud 09 touched the moss wrapped around the exterior wall of the church, "You say, will there be a group of humans gathered here who have not yet cocooned?" ”

"Would humans use this kind of shelter where the door opens with the push of a button?" Fa-01 was loading her large-caliber pistol, which glowed elegantly silver even in the white mist.

"Maybe there's a secret door to the underground, and it's just a façade to avoid those aliens?"

"Actually, when I first returned to Earth, I had an even more terrifying thought," Ning 08 said, "Maybe our biological armor has been added with some special filters, causing us to see the Earth differently from the real Earth." In other words, nothing has changed on Earth, but we were captured by aliens and transformed into weapons, and the aliens we are shooting may be earthlings, and in the eyes of earthlings, we are monsters. ”

"Yes, you mentioned it to me." Cloud 09 nodded, "But I don't remember how I convinced you at the time." ”

"I can't talk about persuasion or persuasion, because it was just my whimsical at the time, after all, if we were really used by the Puma people, then the act of returning to the cha itself would not have been implemented into such an aimless routine. The Puma people never said that they wanted us to kill all these aliens, they didn't say what they wanted us to destroy, they just let us come down to find clues by ourselves, and such invaders inevitably don't pay attention to efficiency. Of course, it's also possible that they just like to go around the bend in this way, and can be observed as some kind of experiment or game. After all, aliens don't have the same brain structure as humans, and there's no point in guessing about them, so I gave up thinking about them in the end. ”

"It's really good for you to talk about this in this environment." Tin 16 rubbed his knife back and forth on the wall impatiently, "How is it, he's been in for a while, shall we go in?" Or contact him? ”

"I'll go in and have a look, you guys wait outside." Duan-28 took a deep breath and began to walk through the door.

"And then we're going to wait? What if you don't move anymore? I'll go too. ”

"Then I'll come along." KC66 echoed.

"Let's all go in together, since the time is only two hours, there is no point in wasting manpower waiting." After Fa 01 finished speaking, several other female team members also agreed, because they didn't want to be left here alone.

"The size of this door can only pass one person at a time, so everyone line up and follow me to enter in turn, after entering, everyone stops at the door and does not move, if the visibility inside is very low, please contact each other with headphones in time."

The others lined up according to Duan 28, and because everyone was fast, I was standing just the farthest from the door, so I was the last one in line. Standing in front of me is Ning 08.

"Are you scared?" She didn't know whether she was nervous or expectant, and she kept laughing and stomping her feet back and forth in place.

"You're not afraid?"

"Of course I'm afraid." She said aloud in a tone that she should have taken for granted.

"You've been inspected so many times, are you still afraid? So what do I do? ”

"You're a boy. There's no danger to your life in this outfit, right? It's like playing a haunted house. ”

"What does 'probably' mean?"

"I don't think you should rely too much on this kind of technology that you can't even tell, it may fail one day. Okay, grab your weapons and get ready to go in. She still had the axe she had brought with her from the previous return.

I groped around all my pockets and chose to bring a gun.

"Duan 28, has successfully entered the house, the visibility in the house is almost 0, there is no abnormality for the time being."

"Tin 16, it's here."

"KC66, entered."

"Law 01, has successfully entered."

"G17, in."

"Cloud 09, has entered the house."

As I got closer to the door, I felt my heart beat louder and louder, almost drowning out the sound of my headphones.

"Ning 08, come in."

Finally, Ning 08's figure also disappeared into the entrance of the mist, and I urged myself to move my legs.

Stepping through the door, it was like walking through heavy clouds, and I felt a resistance pushing me out, but the strong wind outside the door was pushing me inside.

"Aya 17, it's here."

As Duan 28 said, I couldn't see anything in the house except fog, I reached out and carefully groped forward, obviously Ning 08 should be not far from me, but I couldn't feel anything.

At that moment, the sound of an organ suddenly sounded around me, and it was not music at all, but rather something was messing with the keyboard, which was disturbing.

I boldly stretched my hand forward a little more, and suddenly I felt my left hand being grabbed.

"Ning 08? Is that you? ”

No one responded to me, but I felt something different in the movement of the air in front of me, as if someone had evacuated some of the air.

"Ning 08?" I tried to shake that hand back, but it suddenly let go, as if something had spilled on my hand. I withdrew my hand and raised it to my eyes so that I could see through the white mist why it had suddenly become wet—

It is purple plasma mixed with pieces of flesh.

I raised my gun in a panic and fired it in that direction several times, not daring to think about what had just grabbed my hand.

"Anyone else? Is anyone else there? "The fear almost engulfed me like a thick fog, and I tried to get out, but I couldn't find the door. I felt like every step I took, I bumped into something I shouldn't have touched.

I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but in the direction of my shot just now, the fog seems to have faded a little, and I can vaguely see something lying on the ground, but at this moment, I have long lost my curiosity and the like, I just continue to frantically change weapons to attack the "things" that may exist around me.

After some time, I felt that there should be no living creatures around, so I pulled out my sword and swung it forward, or rather, "ahead" as I thought it was.

Gradually, the fog tends to get thinner and thinner.

I finally saw the wall. It is old and mottled, but after all, the product left by mankind, even if it has been hated by time, still makes me feel very dear at this moment. I ran towards it, but the moment it touched the wall, it flipped over and sent me somewhere else.