Wrapped tightly in his gray uniform and cotton clothes, the man trotted down the street against the cold wind of the night, and the howling wind passed through the lanes on both sides of the street, making a strange low sound, like the howl of a wild beast, desperately burrowing into the sleeves and necks of people.

The man ran for a while, enduring the darkness that enveloped him on all sides, his neck hunched, his hands folded in front of his chest, and the sign of the Sixth Steelworks was half obscured.

Knock knock~

knocked on the door, and soon there were footsteps inside.

The door opened, and inside stood his wife, holding a candle and looking worried.

"How's it going, Goren?"

Welcoming her husband into the house, she asked as she patted the snowflakes on his shoulders.

The candle flame swayed and flickered under her movements, and the shadows of the two of them on the walls on both sides were constantly distorting and conflating......

As workers living near the steel mill, the gunfire from the steel mill before and after the power outage last night kept the two of them awake all night, for fear that something would happen to the factory, knowing that this job represented a source of income for their family.

Because of this, early this morning, Golen wanted to go out to inquire about the situation, but when he encountered the government's distribution of supplies, he had to go to the relief point first, register, and carry goods, and only had free time in the afternoon.

The results obtained are regrettable.

"Something's wrong, Lina, we might have to go to your parents' for a while. ”

Goren had no intention of going into the house, and took his wife's arm and whispered.

Their children were playing with blocks, and the sound of the clashing of the blocks could be faintly heard in the hallway, and Goren didn't want to scare the children.

"What's the matter, why do you suddenly go to my parents, the power outage lasts for days, and they are in trouble right now. ”

The solemn expression on Goren's face obviously frightened Linna, and he didn't care that his finger holding the candle was stained with wax oil, but just took a step forward and said.

"I heard Mr. Lind say that there seems to be some kind of monster in the steelworks...... You know, his house is right next to the steel mill, and last night he saw through the window a dozen or so garrison airboats flying into the mill from other neighborhoods, and the sound of gunfire and the roar of monsters...... He didn't see the garrison's airship fly out of the steel mill!"

There were a number of houses around Mill No. 6, most of which were houses for the workers of the Mill, and Mr. Lind, according to Golen, was the person in charge of a workshop in Mill No. 6, so his residence was only a street away from the Mill.

The airboats of the garrison department are extremely rare in the low-level community, and more than a dozen of them appeared at one time last night, and it is difficult not to attract attention.

"Mr. Linde knows a friend who lives in the No. 30 community, and he contacted him this morning, from the 35th to the 40th, the entire 5 communities have fallen into a power outage, and the news outside and the government's propaganda vehicle all say that the central system is malfunctioning, it is all a lie, and the truth is that the power outage is caused by the appearance of monsters!"

The information he had learned not long ago made Goren's emotions still a little excited, and he looked at the materials distributed by the government in the corridor, and the little bit of caution that he had earned before disappeared without a trace, replaced by a panic welling up from the bottom of his heart.

yes, it's long overdue, isn't it?

The government of Thousand Sails City will actually give free things to civilians in these low-level communities, and the good things that used to only appear in dreams have become a reality, and there must be a conspiracy behind this!

"Monster...... You mean those monsters who are outside of Thousand Sails City?"

For people living in megacities, the monster of spiritual pollution sources often exists only in the news and propaganda.

"God knows what kind of monster it is, anyway, Mr. Linde has already contacted the airboat to prepare for evacuation, I have an idea in my mind now, leave here immediately, I have thought about it, I will call my parents later, and ask them to go to your parents to meet up, our two families will put together their savings, take the airboat to the community above for refuge, and then come back after the government announces that it is okay!"

"But there are other expenses for the accommodation of the two families......"

Linna hesitated, although the family had some savings, but she couldn't help this level of spending, and said subconsciously.

"People are about to have an accident, you still care about the money, do you think life is more important or money is more important?"

As the head of the family, Goren still showed the determination that a man should have at this time.

"I'm going to tidy things up, do you still have battery on your phone?"

"There is another 10%, I didn't use it much today, I'll contact my parents. ”

Pushing his wife's shoulder, she quickly began to tidy up, took out her mobile phone from her pocket with her free hand and dialed her parents, and walked to the living room as she spoke.

The two old men did not understand what Goren was doing, and at first thought that he was just looking for trouble, so Goren had to sit on the sofa in the living room and repeat what he had just said to his wife.

"Dad. ”

The son's voice came from the side, and Goren, who was talking to the two old men, pointed to his phone, and then waved his hand to signal him to be quiet.

At this time, he didn't care whether the child would be frightened by the content of his words, and it was the right thing to find a way to convince his parents first.

"Daddy, my building blocks ......"

The child looked at the half-missing bricks on the floor, then looked at the kitchen next to him, patted the armrest of the sofa, and his voice trembled.

"Dad will play with you later, now I'm talking to your grandparents, you play by yourself first." ”

Goren didn't pay attention or didn't have time to care about his son's situation, and without looking back, he pushed his son's shoulders and told him to go away, and the child's strength naturally couldn't resist his father's strength, so he staggered back a few steps, turned to look at the kitchen with the door open, and was shrouded in darkness.

Children are always sensitive to changes in the outside world, and the darkness that was common in the past now looks a little strange.

Old door frame edges.

The black, slender tentacles are slowly retracting the two triangular blocks.

At the same time, more terrifying tentacles that exude a nightmarish aura are emerging from the darkness....... What should have been a shadow of nothingness is now like smoke that has been confined for a long time, waiting to erupt.

What are they looking forward to?

Brush pull~

Golen, who was on the phone, suddenly heard the muffled sound of the heavy object being dragged behind him, and subconsciously looked back.

Nothing......

Wrong.

What about the son?

"Anthony, where are you?"

shouted into the hallway of the entrance, but there was no response, and Goren was stunned.

This is his home, his son was still behind him a few seconds ago, he shouldn't have worried about anything, but there was always a lingering sense of horror in his mind.

Burst~

Suddenly, there was an unpleasant splash in the kitchen, sounding like the sound of water leaking out when a sewer pipe bursts.

"Anthony, are you in the kitchen, now is not a good time to play hide and seek, come out quickly!"

Putting down his phone for a while, he picked up the candle on the low table in front of him, got up and walked to the kitchen, he noticed the building blocks by the door frame, and his tone was a little urgent.

However, when he reached the kitchen door, he held up the candle in his hand and let its light shine into the kitchen.

Goren suddenly lost the ability to speak...... It's not that he doesn't want to say it, but what appears in front of him is something that he can't explain in words.

Large clumps of black goo were gushing out of the kitchen sink, spreading unbridled throughout the modest kitchen, in fact, by the time Gorren discovered the phenomenon, they had taken up a third of the kitchen, some of which had even reached the ceiling.

The black, sticky tentacles still crawled everywhere in the kitchen, and Gorren suddenly saw a triangular block slowly sinking into the black mass at the edge of the pool, and as if he thought of something, he threw the candle in that direction as if he had gone crazy.

The dim candlelight took on an indescribably terrifying color on the clumps, and the psychedelic phosphorescent light spread like a ghost in the kitchen.

Goren took a step forward and stretched out his hand as if to save something, but the next second he was forced by the fear in his heart and the instinct of his body to turn around and run wildly into the hallway.

In his wife's astonishment, which then turned into a cry of extreme terror, Goren trembled and tried to open the doorknob, but before he could succeed, countless tentacles were drawn from the darkness behind him, completely enveloping his body.

Before he lost consciousness completely, Goren finally opened the door and felt the wind and snow pouring in with what little physical sense he had left.

In a trance.

He saw what seemed to be trees growing on the street at the door......

No!

It wasn't a plant, it was an amorphous, viscous liquid.

It is constantly expanding, branching out countless tentacles and dancing madly!

The wind and snow in the depths of winter can't stop it even the slightest.

It's late!

Goren thought......