Chapter 43 (I) Distress Signals
Hashima, mid-afternoon.
The long wait was exchanged for double irritability.
The previous irritability was due to the fact that the suction cup monster covered the lighthouse, causing the temperature to rise and the air to be thin, but at this time, it was because the four of them maintained a state of "sitting and waiting to die".
The whole morning slipped away from under everyone's noses, and the dark clouds gradually dispersed when noon came, and the blue sky and white clouds were restored, and the seabirds along the coast flew back, making miserable calls, hovering at the top of the island, not daring to fall, and finally leaving Hashima in groups and heading towards the mainland.
Tang Shuxing slowly touched Colin's position, and it had been two hours since he sat with Colin, the two of them were back to back, one sleeping, and the other guarding. In the morning, they also considered other ways to leave the island, even if they had wings, they couldn't fly out of the island now - the US troops were fully withdrawing, the surrounding area was a no-fly zone, and the sea was all under martial law.
Tang Shuxing sat there reminiscing about the past, still not guessing what Shangdu would do next, but when he kept recalling the conversation with Ji Mengsheng before coming to this island, he suddenly thought of a question - where did Xidao Xiuchuan go?
Ji Mengsheng said that he should get rid of Gong Liang Boli and Nishijima Hidekawa. Since Miyazuki Hirori came to Hashima with his henchmen, then Nishijima Hidekawa must also be on this island, where did he go? Or did the missile kill him? Or was he killed by Colin's sniper rifle?
No, it won't. If Hidekawa Nishijima had appeared at that time, I'm afraid he would have appeared a long time ago. Wait, if Hidekawa Nishijima doesn't show up, and Saga has other evacuation plans, it means that there is a way to get out of here? After Tang Shuxing thought of this, he immediately informed the others of this speculation, while cursing his own stupidity.
"You've got a point, I guess it's some kind of diving equipment." Gu Huaiyi said, "How did they get to the island before?" It is impossible from the air, the only thing is from underwater. It's the same as us. So they returned, perhaps, also underwater. β
Ji Kefeng looked in the direction where the second missile hit: "Earlier, they collectively evacuated in the direction of the mine, indicating that their evacuation tools are in that direction, we should go over and check." But quietly enough. The monster may have fallen asleep. β
"Maybe it's because it's not very active during the day." Colin also got up. After a few steps, the slight sound of stepping on the rubble made the monster in the distance tremble. Outstretched tentacles and waving lightly around him, Colin had to lie down and crawl in the direction of the mine.
"That thing doesn't seem to have the ability to see, but how did you hear it?" Colin wondered, "Our conversation is louder than the sound of stepping on the rubble on the ground, why didn't it alarm it?" β
"I don't know what to do." Tang Shuxing also crawled forward, crawled for a while, suddenly climbed out of the house, looked up to the sky and shouted, after this shout, the other three people all pinched a cold sweat, but they didn't find that the monster made any moves.
"I kind of get it." Tang Shuxing crawled back into the house and told the others to climb in the direction of the ridge outside, telling them to bypass the ridge and not to enter the building, but then he climbed over and said that he wanted to test whether his guess was correct.
"Xing Er, what are you doing!? To die? Follow us! Ji Kefeng, who was crawling towards the ridge, said angrily.
Tang Shuxing climbed back into the building before pressing the intercom: "It's okay, I'll experiment, there should be no problem." β
Saying that, Tang Shuxing stood in the building and shouted, shouting in the empty hall, after this shout, after two seconds, the sucker monster moved, stretched out the suction cup and waved towards the building where Tang Shuxing was, and then stretched his body and rolled quickly, stopping at the door and stretching out five tentacles, touching up and down, left and right.
"Sure enoughβ" Tang Shuxing crawled towards the back of the building again, and after crawling out, he took out his pistol and fired a shot into the building.
"Uhh
Ji Kefeng and the others, who were lying on the side of the ridge, watched dumbfounded, until the monster quieted down and shrunk into a ball, then he pressed the intercom and said to Tang Shuxing: "Xing Er, you are really dead, in case that thing finds you, you don't have any chance of surviving at all." β
"This thing relies on the vibrational frequency to find our location, if we run in an open place and produce violent continuous vibrations, it will follow, although we talk and echo in the house, but the frequency is not too high it can't be found, but if it is a gunshot or something, it will still instantly attract it." Tang Shuxing was actually laughing, "When I was under the mine, I didn't notice this, and in that environment, no matter what I do, it will vibrate, so it can detect me at any time, we ran out of the lighthouse, separate to dodge, this monster didn't know where to chase for a while, and then our footsteps stopped, it was equivalent to being blind in an instant." β
After hearing this, Gu Huaiyi, who was crawling, said, "According to what you say, maybe there is a way to kill it?" As long as this thing is finished, we can easily leave this place. β
"Yes, but let's find the place where the people evacuated first, and then see the situation, if it's not necessary, don't alarm this thing, it's important to escape." Tang Shuxing crawled from the back of the building in the direction of the mine, but suddenly heard a strange sound from the monster in the building, which was not loud originally, but the empty house provided an environment for the transmission of sound echoes, which invisibly amplified the buzzing sound like a mosquito.
Tang Shuxing stopped, turned his head to look at the house, listened quietly, and at the same time said to the others with a walkie: "You go first, I have something to do." β
"What are you going to do?" Ji Kefeng was a little anxious.
"Don't worry, it's okay, I'll just stop and listen." Tang Shuxing simply turned off the intercom for the time being, slowly got up, and squatted at the door to look at the sucker monster carefully.
Although the suction cup monster turned into a round ball in the room, and the suction cups were all searched back, close to the body to protect them, it was still clear that the suction cups were open near the ground, firmly sucking the ground, fixing its body, and at the same time, the suction cups were still shrinking frequently.
Tang Shuxing gritted his teeth and slowly crawled towards the monster, and then listened to the strange "buzzing" sound, compared with the suction cup, and found that the frequency was completely gentle, and the length of the "buzzing" sound was also different.
Tang Shuxing pondered for a while, took the risk to turn on the intercom with Ah Yue, and after calling the other party, he said in a low voice: "Ah Yue, I'll listen to something for you, you listen carefully." Then, Tang Shuxing took the intercom off his ear, stretched out his arm, and placed it closer to the sucker monster.
Tang Shuxing gritted his teeth, sweating profusely and waited there for several minutes, then he carefully took the intercom back and asked Ah Yue, "What do you hear?" β
Ah Yue immediately replied at the other end: "What sent it?" It was clearly Morse code, and it was an international code, sending out a distress signal. β
"Morse code!? A distress signal? Tang Shuxing immediately stopped and froze, and slowly turned his head to look at the sucker monster in the room, this thing actually uses the sucker to make a buzzing Morse code, why does it send this? And who is it contacting? Who to call for help?
A very bad premonition filled Tang Shuxing's whole body, he turned around and climbed towards the mine as fast as he could, and at the same time informed the others of the news, but because there were only two intercoms, which were to contact Ah Yue and the others, there was no way to leave one of them, so he had to give up.
"In addition to the distress signal, the Morse code just now also constantly sends out a gathering signal, as if calling someone to gather towards the person who sent the code." Ah Yue explained over there, "You told me who sent it?" β
"It's a monster!" Tang Shuxing said as he crawled, "The sucker monster that attacked us, that thing may be a thing left over from the early days of the Japanese to make biological weapons, it has intelligence, and its intelligence is close to that of humans, and it knows how to use strategies, and it almost suffocated us in the lighthouse before." β
After hearing this, Ah Yue on the other end knew that it was not good, and immediately said: "You guys find a safe place to wait first, I am still continuing to think of ways to maintain restraint." β
"There is a huge difference in strength, we can't do it if we don't restrain ourselves, anyway, you hurry up and find a way, let's continue to move in the direction of the mine, if the sucker monster summons other things to come, we will be 100% dead!" Tang Shuxing crawled quickly in that direction, covered in mud except for his eyes.
Tang Shu estimated that these monsters should not be able to move too freely under the scorching sun, so the monsters were exposed to the sun before, maintaining a state of sleep, and then woke up and began to send codes in a cool room, and now the scorching sun is in the sky, even if those things come out, it is estimated that they are looking for a cool place to stay, waiting for the night to come.
In other words, they must flee the island between nightfalls, otherwise there is no chance of survival.
But there is also a bad place under the scorching sun, that is, when Tang Shuxing climbed around the mine to meet Gu Huaiyi and the others, the four clay figures exposed to the sun were about to turn into terracotta figurines, and all the mud on the surface of their bodies was dried by high temperature, forming a thick mud shell, which made people uncomfortable.
However, everyone who stayed at the edge of the mine clearly heard the strange sounds coming from the ground, and these sounds were long and short, with their own frequency, and they were completely Morse code.
"We're going to have to get out of here, or we're going to have to finish the fun." Tang Shuxing looked around, but did not find any place to leave, and although this place is not far from the sea, there is still a distance of 100 meters, and as far as the eye can see, there is no boat, and there is no place to hide the boat.
How were the Sakaga people going to leave? (To be continued......)