Act Eighty-Three. 【Strange Talk Radio】
November 7, the beginning of winter.
Since the early morning, the rain has fallen from the hazy sky, and the cold wind makes people shiver, this is a weather that does not want people to go out with an umbrella, and just wants to nest in the quilt and lie in bed.
As dusk approaches, the sky darkens and the temperature gets even lower.
"It's cold."
Looking at the station opposite through the window, Bai Ge couldn't help but say.
In terms of temperature, there is not much difference between now and the last two weeks, but the combination of cold wind and light rain allows moisture to penetrate the clothes, and some people on the forum jokingly refer to the southern winter as a "magic attack", which means that simply adding clothes cannot resist the cold.
Bai Ge has been in Jingjiang for five years, and he has a deep feeling for it.
Most of the houses in Jingjiang have no heating supply, the air conditioning is too dry, and Bai Ge lives on the second floor, which is very humid, so in winter, it has become Bai Ge's daily test to climb out of the quilt frozen into an ice hole every morning.
He wore a slightly thicker dark sweatshirt today, slacks, sneakers, and put his hands in the pockets on the belly of the sweatshirt in an attempt to keep warm.
Because he was cooperating with a colleague, Bai Ge did not change his appearance, which was polite.
"Aren't you cold?"
Bai Ge looked at the love around him.
She didn't wear complicated skirts today, only wore a sweatshirt and plaid skirt similar to Bai Ge's style, black stockings covered her legs, and brown leather shoes were shiny.
It's just that Bai Ge knows that Ailian's body today is not a daily use, but a combat model modified by Lao Huo, in other words, the current Ailian can take out a black and thick cannon barrel from under her skirt at any time to give the enemy a shot.
Bai Ge can't be provoked.
"I can adjust my perception so that it's a little more stunted by changes in temperature, and in short, it's not cold."
The black hair of love is scattered, and the strand of white hair is particularly conspicuous.
"Can you get a fever then?"
Bai Ge asked.
"What do you want to do?"
The black-haired girl looked Bai Ge up and down with disdainful eyes, clasped her hands in front of her chest, and made a defensive gesture.
"It's nothing, just ask curiously."
Bai Ge said, and glanced at the street outside the window again, he didn't want to encounter bamboo frost again today.
However, on weekends that are not long holidays, bamboo frost should not appear near the train station.
Who knows.
Bai Ge withdrew his thoughts and focused on the crowded train station.
He hadn't been on a train in five years.
Beyond the city, there is a wasteland.
In the vast land of the Zhuxia Federation, except for the cities built on top of the refuge, most of the area is wasteland, although the wasteland has a barren name, but it is actually not barren, there are mountains, forests, grasslands, and rich landforms.
These wastelands used to be dominated by all kinds of abyssal monsters, and they were an absolute forbidden area for life, until the appearance of the ascenders and the advent of the [Pioneer Era], those monsters were gradually swept away and destroyed.
Now, at least within the Zhuxia Federation, the wasteland is basically free of monsters, which ensures the safety of trains connecting various cities.
Despite this, most trains will not choose to leave the city at night, as far as Bai Ge knows, the only train that will run at night is probably the night train [Orient Express] that runs across the continent and connects the Western Regions Province of the Zhuxia Federation with the Pan-Western Sea Commercial Community New Constan City, this train has a travel time of nearly seven days, and two nights are spent on the wasteland on the way, which is a veritable wasteland train.
"But...... Why are the two of us in a hotel room? ”
Bai Ge looked at the room, this is a room on the third floor of a chain hotel, the window is facing the train station, and the view is wide, as for the room, there are two single beds, tables, chairs, and TVs, it is obvious that this is a standard room.
He still remembers the slightly surprised eyes at the hotel front desk when he checked in, as if to say that these two people came out to open a room at a young age, and the young people are really amazing now.
Fortunately, it is a standard room, so there will be no embarrassing situation of having to sleep in the same bed.
"Didn't you already talk about the process of this mission?"
Ai Lian glanced at the young man next to him and knocked on the table.
"Colleagues from the Fukuyama Provincial Abyss Relic Affairs Department will arrive in Jingjiang at 7 p.m., due to the characteristics of the Abyss Relic they carry with them and the train arrangement, so they choose to spend the night in Jingjiang, staying in the room next to us, we are responsible for supporting them, in addition, Fan Zhe and Tian Hong will also participate in the operation."
She repeated.
"What about Fan Zhe and Sister Tian Hong?"
Bai Ge is currently alone in the same room with Ailian, and is slightly worried.
"Tian Hong is doing odd jobs at the hotel here these days, and will patrol as a waiter, and Fan Zhe will meet with them."
Ai Lian said, sat on the bed, put his hands on his lap, and looked well-behaved.
"Tomorrow at 7 o'clock in the morning, our colleagues from Fushan Province will take the earliest train to Ningjiang, and our mission is over, it is very simple."
"It's simple......"
Bai Ge twitched the corners of his mouth.
If it was just a matter of simply staying in a room in a hotel with love, Bai Ge felt that it was indeed not difficult.
But what they have to deal with is an abyssal relic, and it's activated.
"Anyway, do you remember what activation is?"
Ai Lian seriously helped Bai Ge review.
"It's just that the abyss relic has a will similar to its own, and it takes the initiative to release the ability."
Of course, Bai Ge remembered these instructions.
To put it simply, a good boy like Arsene Ropin's monocle who can lie quietly in his rightful place occupies less than half of the Abyssal Relic.
More Abyssal Relics have the ability to animate.
According to the manuals of the four major observatories, activation is divided into three stages.
The first stage is the initial activation, in this stage, the abyssal relics will be extremely accidental to the outside world to use their own historical fragments of the ability, the ability strength is also low, there are traces to follow, according to the abyssal relics themselves, the risk level of the abyssal relics at this stage is between the observation level to the cautious level, and a small number can reach the danger level.
The second stage is further activation, the abyssal relics at this stage will actively use the ability of historical fragments against the existence of the outside world, the strength of the ability increases, and it is irregular, and more importantly, this process will continue to intensify, until the next stage, to this level of activation, the risk level of the abyssal relics mostly exceeds the danger level, and some can approach the event level, that is, the degree of harm may reach a city.
The third stage is full activation, at this time, the abyss relics are similar to the revival of the historical fragments, and even produce their own will, the level of wisdom is no different from ordinary people, and they can flexibly use their own abilities, and the fully activated abyss relics are at least at the event level, and those abyss relics at the apex are at the despair level.
In other words, most of the so-called [Natural Disasters] are actually powerful abyssal relics that are fully activated, and according to Bai Ge's knowledge, the higher the abyss relics, the easier it is to activate.
It is said that there are some fully activated, near-catastrophe-level abyss relics that are controlled by humans in some way and used by people, which seems to be related to the nature of the historical fragments of the abyss relics themselves, but it is clear that at the level of Bai Ge, there is no right to know this knowledge.
"This [Strange Talk Radio], I think it's an abyss relic that has been initially activated."
Bai Ge confirmed again.
"Well, this abyss relic was found in the coastal area of Fushan Province, and since there is no suitable upgrader for the time being, it was decided to transport it to Ningjiang for preservation."
Love bowed slightly.
Generally speaking, in the case of low-level Abyssal Relic, the local Abyssal Relic Affairs Division has some discretion to dispose of it after the declaration, and if the branch happens to have the right person to be promoted, then it is allowed to destroy the Abyssal Relic to obtain historical fragments.
However, this situation is very rare, and Bai Ge is a special case, so most of the risky abyssal relics will be transported to Ningjiang and preserved at the Purple Mountain Observatory.
That is the reason for today's mission.
"However, this abyssal relic looks a little tricky......"
Bai Ge recalled the information he saw at Ailian's house.
"ROA-2303, [Strange Talk Radio], Personality Level: Level 2, Risk Level: Hazardous, Notes: Initial Activation."
"The abyssal relic is a broken portable radio in the style of an old era, the size is 150*80*240mm, the main body is black, the surface is seriously corroded, it was found on the beach in the shallow sea isolation zone area of Qingquan City, Fukuyama Province, a patrolman found it, took it back to the duty room, the next day, people found the body of the patrolman, he died of frostbite and internal bleeding, half a day later, the Abyss Relic Affairs Department intervened and contained him."
"The Abyssal Relic can still be used without a battery, but it cannot receive signals of any wavelength, and usually only a murmur will occur when turned on."
"The specificity of this Abyssal Relic is that every twelve o'clock in the evening of Zhuxia Standard Time, the radio automatically activates and plays a deep male voice in standard Mandarin, which attempts to tell a story with elements of the supernatural, ghostly, and bloody."
"Records show that when the story is told, there will be abnormal physical changes including magnetic field disturbances in the space of ten meters around the radio, and when the story is successfully told, there will be unidentified creatures that are suspected to be ghosts in the story, and these unidentified creatures have different manifestations depending on the story, including a woman with long hair in white, a black scorpion, a burly giant, a disabled soldier, etc."
"These unidentified creatures are hostile to all creatures, will try to kill everything they see, and can move away from the radio at the speed of a normal human walk, looking for other targets until dawn."
"According to research, when the radio tells a story, it reacts to some of the words spoken by the outside world, such as asking questions about the content of the story, and the voice on the radio will respond to the questions, thereby delaying the completion of the story, and when there is no means, this behavior is regarded as a measure to prevent the further activation of the abyssal relics."
"Let's put it bluntly...... Is it a radio that likes to tell ghost stories? ”
Bai Ge tilted his head, and he saw out the window that two people were walking towards the hotel, one of them carrying a black suitcase in his hand.
They're coming.