Chapter 16: The Devoured Nine Spirit Mountain
I have to say that the staff of the Secret Bureau have a very high level of professionalism, although in recent days, Jiuling Mountain is extremely calm enough to paralyze anyone's nerves, and if you stay here for a long time, you will be accustomed to thinking that this is a safe place, but when the middle-aged observer shouted that "run", everyone reacted immediately.
One word.
Run!
Once Chen Xian also asked Huo Fatzi curiously, why the work of investigating the clues of different cases should be handed over to those investigators who are not very strong, if the danger of the case is high, the investigators are very easy to sacrifice...... Didn't the upper echelons of the Secret Bureau think about this?
The answer given by Huo Fatzi is very simple, it is four words, and there are not enough people.
Handling cases and investigating clues are completely two concepts, as the saying goes, interlacing is like a mountain, and it is understandable that Chen Xian does not understand the complicated work, not to mention that in order to ensure the safety of the employees of the investigation department, the headquarters will take turns to summon investigators from all over the country to go to the capital for training every year.
The content of their training camp is also very straightforward, that is, it can be summarized in one sentence.
On the Art of Running
The investigators of the Secret Bureau don't dare to say anything else, just the skill of running away is definitely leading in the industry, although most of them are ordinary humans and not Inhumans, but their on-the-spot reaction ability is definitely not much worse than Inhumans.
For example, now.
The investigators who stayed behind in Jiuling Mountain to patrol the mountain day after day heard the middle-aged man with a telescope to observe around shouting the word "run", they swooped out and slipped out.
This seems simple, it seems that anyone can do it, but in fact, it is very difficult to react so quickly on the spot, and even Lu Yisheng and other strangers may not be able to do it, because the most important thing to overcome in this kind of thing is curiosity......
As long as someone shouts to run, they will definitely run, and they will never look for the reason for them to run, nor will they look for where the danger comes from.
So it wasn't until they ran out of Jiuling Mountain and came to the temporary residence at the foot of the mountain that they had time to ask the middle-aged man why they wanted to run, because from the foot of the mountain, nothing abnormal could be seen, and the entire Jiuling Mountain was as calm as usual.
"What the hell?" A young man was wiping his glasses, he had run too quickly and his glasses had been lost three times, if it weren't for his teammates who helped him pick them up in time every time, it is estimated that he would have to go back to the city to get glasses after this trip.
"Yes, Uncle Hao, what did you just find?" Someone also asked out breathlessly, "Won't there be another anomaly?" ”
"Water ......"
The observer they called Uncle Hao was still trembling at the moment, and it seemed that he had not recovered from his previous fear, and his pale face was covered with fine beads of sweat, and he couldn't tell whether it was because he was too tired from running or because he was scared...... All in all, he looked terrified now, and anyone could see the fear in his eyes that seemed to come from the depths of his soul.
"The Flood...... There was a flood on the top of the mountain...... Wrong...... It's a bug...... What a big amoeba ......."
Flood?
Amoeba?
Everyone looked at each other for a while, then turned back to look up the hill, and wondered if the observer was crazy. The mountains are calm and peaceful, like a fairyland, where does the flood come from? And what amoeba is there? Where?
At this moment, Jiuling Mountain suddenly shook without warning, and the feeling was completely different from the traditional earthquake, not so much that the tremors came from the depths of the earth...... It was better to feel that an invisible giant had kicked Jiuling Mountain.
The tremor was large, but only a little.
But this moment alone was enough to frighten the investigators' faces to turn pale.
"What's going on?! Was it an earthquake just now?! ”
"It doesn't seem like the ground is moving...... It's Jiuling Mountain moving......"
"Uncle Hao! What do we do now?! Are you withdrawing or are you waiting here for someone from the sub-bureau to come to our aid?! ”
Just when everyone was panicking, suddenly, the recorder with the notebook shouted loudly, and his tone had become as frightened as Uncle Hao.
"There's something on the mountain!! Look!! ”
Hearing this, everyone hurriedly looked up, only to see an extremely slender "black line" on the top of the mountain, like a hair strand that could not be seen at all without looking carefully...... It seems to be connected to the sky.
At the same time, the "floods" that had been seen by observers before finally broke through the mountain forest and swept down from the mountainside of Jiuling Mountain, and the monstrous torrent of black metal was like a beast breaking through the confinement, frantically devouring everything in the mountain, and the black lake in the cliff was their source......
They're fast.
In just a few seconds, he submerged most of Jiuling Mountain under his huge body.
Whether it is the plants that grow in the mountains, the animals that live here, or even the soil and rocks that have existed for an unknown number of years, everything has been swallowed up by them, and the scene of birds and flowers here is no longer there, and it has been replaced...... It's a nightmare picture with a metallic sheen.
"Withdraw!! Evacuate!! ”
"What the hell is this?!"
"Hurry up and report to the substation!"
Under this terrifying scene, the investigators did not dare to hesitate, and left the temporary residence at the foot of Jiuling Mountain almost immediately, only the recorder was relatively "calm", gritting his teeth and using the camera to shoot those terrifying pictures in the mountains.
However, when everyone hurriedly fled a distance of hundreds of meters, the black torrent raging in Jiuling Mountain stopped without warning, and it happened to stop at the foot of the mountain...... Stopped at the junction line between Jiuling Mountain and the outside world!
Feeling the cold breath coming from behind them, the investigators didn't dare to stop, didn't even dare to turn their heads, and continued to run for about two hundred meters, until then no one noticed that the black torrent in the mountain had stopped.
At his exclamation, the other investigators stopped and looked back.
It was a terrifying and strange picture, but it also revealed a hint of strange beauty.
The black liquid covered by Jiuling Mountain almost solidified into a colloidal substance, shimmering in the sun with a metallic luster, like semi-dry asphalt or magma, which no longer continued to invade the mountain, but stopped and squirmed finely...... This huge mass of gum should be a whole, everyone thought so, and after it enveloped Jiuling Mountain, it lifted hundreds of huge tentacles and stretched out into the sky, as if it wanted to pull the sky down together!
The state of those tentacles is very similar to the tentacles of molluscs on the earth, each tentacle is nearly fifty meters long, the root is thicker and the front end is thinner, showing a streamlined change, and the diameter of the thickest part is also about ten meters......
If you only see these huge tentacles, you may involuntarily think of those mythical and legendary North Sea monsters, because it is undeniable that the tentacles of those giant octopus sea monsters hidden in the deep sea are very similar to them, but if you look at them with their own body...... This monster that devoured Jiuling Mountain was more like an amoeba worm.
Its body has been in an amorphous state from beginning to end, in addition to those terrifying and conspicuous tentacles, its body surface also extends many pseudopods of variable shapes, and at the same time, a strange flute sound gradually sounded in the mountains and forests.
The strange flute sound was even higher than that of the well-known instruments, and the volume was getting louder and louder, until finally, the flute sound seemed to have become a kind of high-frequency weird scream, and the people far away from Jiuling Mountain only felt extremely strong discomfort when they heard these sounds, and there was a disgust that seemed to be deeply rooted in the genes, almost called biological instinct.
The monster that devoured the Nine Spirit Mountain was still squirming silently, and there seemed to be liquid flowing through the dense cracks on the surface of the body, and there seemed to be something strange hidden in it, maybe it was the monster's eyes?
The speculation came out of nowhere, but everyone thought about it for the first time, as if the human sixth sense was telling them the answer....... the monster was watching them with an abominable and even evil gaze, and the source of these disturbing gazes was in the millions of eyes of the monster.
At this moment, under the scorching sun of this clear sky, it seems that even the sunlight is beginning to become cold and biting, and the cool air is also beginning to be eroded by an ominous aura...... In the eyes of these staff, the so-called apocalyptic scene may be nothing more than that.
Just when everyone's fearful emotions were about to crush their own reason, in the black torrent on the top of the mountain, surrounded by those huge tentacles......
A giant with the silhouette of a human slowly stood up.
It comes from these strange black substances, and its entire body is transformed by them, and the height from head to toe is at least about 100 meters!
The first time this humanoid creature stood up, everyone not only felt the terrifying aura emanating from its body, but also felt the energy surge that spread like a landslide and tsunami, as if even the heavens and the earth were infected by its desperate aura, and everywhere was a picture of the coming end.
At this moment, everyone's sanity was on the verge of collapse.
"This ...... What the hell is this......"