Chapter 104: Instinct
The unfinished building surrounded by barren grass hides into the storm, as if surrounded by dark and dull smoke, leaving only a dim and vague silhouette. The wind whistled in layers of sand and dust, like a mythical flood that flooded the earth, swallowing up everything around the road. Military trucks were parked at the guardrail at the corner of the road, appearing and disappearing with the agitation of the wind and sand, like a lonely boat crumbling on the rough sea.
Even though he had the infiltrating force to remove the wind, Ivan was still almost blinded by the wind and sand, and hurriedly put on the windproof goggles prepared in advance, so that he could confidently and boldly observe the surrounding scenery.
Buzz ——!
The sound of the wind in the depths of the sky suddenly became messy, and Ivan subconsciously raised his head, his hair fluttering, just in time to see the wind fly into the air with pieces of weeds lifted from the barren meadow. Driven by the surging wind, it seems that countless weeds flutter in the sky, converging into dark green rivers hanging directly above the unfinished real estate.
The river is flowing—the weeds swirling around the unfinished development, like a dark green halo.
Woowoo——!
Above the canopy, the wind swept through the clouds, causing them to swirl and stir like whirlpools. Layer by layer, it rises upward, and the middle part collapses and hollows out, revealing a dark blue vortex high in the sky. The sky surged in all directions, and dark purple-purple lightning shuttled through the clouds, and the lightning reflected the top of the clouds, and a strange roar similar to water absorption hung down from the sky.
At the same time, Ivan felt a sudden change in the direction of the wind, and if it had been a thrust from west to east, now it was a bottom-up suction. It was as if a gap had been cut through the sky, and it was continuously spraying gas towards the cosmic starry sky. The huge suction force hangs down in the air, as if to uproot the entire unfinished real estate.
"That's the exaggeration of the fourth day!?"
Evan hurriedly hunched his back and lowered his center of gravity, grabbed the door frame and got into the cab at once, and then reached out and grabbed it, throwing the stiff corpse out.
Whoosh——!
As soon as the driver's deformed body left the cab, it was pulled directly into the air by the strong wind - like a kite with a broken string, swirling and flying higher and higher with the wind, and soon disappeared into the clouds.
"Calm down, I'll drive the truck...... I'll drive!"
Ivan pulled the deformed door hard and sat in the cab, still recalling the details of driving a big truck in his previous life.
In his previous life, in order to get a driver's license, he once learned driving skills from the old squad leader of the squadron for a period of time. Since most of the fire trucks are such large trucks, it should theoretically be able to get started directly. But that was more than ten years ago, not to mention cars over the years, he hasn't even touched a bicycle, and now he can only walk by feeling!
"Whew...... Whew......"
He took a deep breath to relax, his eyes fixed on the left and right mirrors and the rearview mirror, and his hands were in the right direction. Then step on the clutch to the end, hang the reverse gear, release the handbrake, slowly lift the clutch, and do it in one go.
Buzz Buzz——!
Under the stream-of-consciousness operation of Evan's hands, the military truck did not turn off the engine very facelessly, and the body of the vehicle only shook slightly, and then slowly retreated away from the guardrail.
"Looks like I'm a genius!"
He couldn't help but praise himself, then turned on the microphone on the left side of the steering wheel and said to everyone in the back compartment:
"As you've probably all seen, now that the wind has turned into a bottom-up suction, we have to find a place to take shelter before the wind gets stronger. I'm not asking anyone's opinion, at this time life safety is above all else, and I refuse any objections. ”
"Take refuge! If we are exposed to the wind like this, we will be doomed sooner or later. "This is Researcher A.
"No comment, hurry up and get out of this hellish place. "This is Researcher B.
"Whoever has an opinion, I'll blow up someone's dog's head!"
"......" This is Rarity who has nothing to say.
In this case, even Rarity, who was the most radical before, has no opinion and acquiesces in his choice.
"Very well, let me know as soon as there is anything in the rear compartment. ”
Seeing that no one jumped out of the way, Evan didn't turn off the microphone and kept in communication with everyone. Then he stepped on the accelerator, or drove the big truck by feeling, turned around and drove all the way towards the unfinished real estate.
One by one, one by one
"Ah——!h
While Evan was concentrating on driving, a painful moan suddenly sounded in his ears, as if it was close at hand, coming from behind, and directly converging in his mind through his eardrums.
"Huh!?"
He suddenly slammed his temples high, and the green tendons on the surface of the skin of his whole body squirmed like thin snakes, swelling and thickening the muscular membranes. Prepare your defenses and open up your senses and start inspecting the source of the strange sounds.
At this moment, in front of the corridor at the entrance of the unfinished real estate in front of him, a figure with pale skin faintly flashed.
"Has it started to appear?"
When Evan noticed this scene, his heart sank, and his eyes scanned the space around him, searching for the miserable white figure that passed by.
Woowoo——!
A cold air flow suddenly blew outside the window, and the trinkets in the carriage were blown to jingle, which seemed inexplicably strange in this dim and noisy environment.
After looking around, Evan Fuzhi's heart throbbed, and he subconsciously looked at the rearview mirror.
At this time, in the picture of the rearview mirror rapidly retreating, a blurry figure with pale skin is reflected. It knelt on all fours on the white pavement, crawling forward quickly with its hands and feet in a deformed, twisted position.
The figure seemed to be very light, and the wind blew the shadow of the tree, and it also swayed with the deformation.
But he could ignore the suction force that descended from the sky, and just crawled naked on the road, pulling out a long blood stain. As it crawled, it seemed to be able to draw a dim and gloomy background behind it, and it seemed awkward and quickly approached the military truck.
The temperature in the carriage seems to have dropped sharply, and there is a sense of tranquility in the air. The sound of the howling wind seemed to be fading away, and the silent silence was like a large net, drowning Evan's figure.
“......”
With the shadow of the building on his face, he tried to stay calm, and slammed on the gas pedal with his feet, trying to speed away the ghosts behind him.
However, no matter how much Ivan accelerated, it could maintain a slight speed like a truck, slowly but surely closing the distance - the temperature in the cab was getting colder and colder, and the strange smell of blood was getting stronger.
"What's going on...... What's going on...... What's going on?"
Seeing that the corridor at the entrance of the unfinished real estate in front of me has changed from small to large, it is rapidly approaching in the field of vision. Ivan was getting more and more flustered, and the faster he accelerated, the stronger his feeling of panic and irritability became.
Since mastering the penetration power, his mixed martial arts skills have touched the threshold of the master level. Practicing the technique of striking and exerting force, stealing the membrane, and exerting force out of thin air, has risen to the level of mysterious cells. And in turn, the body can affect the consciousness, shine into reality in the dark, and realize the good fortune and evil fortune about yourself in the whim.
Even when I was secretly photographed before, I could have a sense of strangeness, and my body reacted faster than I realized.
Now Ivan's sense of crisis on a whim is getting stronger and stronger, but the problem is that he can't radiate his divine power now, so he doesn't know what's wrong at all.
Obviously, the ghosts behind him are getting closer and closer, and the suction force hanging down in the air is getting stronger and stronger, but the instinct of the body is constantly warning it, as if it is a mistake to continue driving!
"Damn it!"
Ivan gritted his teeth, broke out in a cold sweat, and slammed on the brakes, choosing to trust his fighting instincts.
Squeak – Squeak——!
The sprinting military truck slowed down suddenly, and its wheels were locked in the disc brake world, bursting into a sparkling spark. Along the way, two straight forward marks were pulled, and they glided forward for a distance of 100 meters with a wailing sound before slowly stopping.
“......”
Ivan panted slightly, leaned forward slightly, and was pressed to the steering wheel by a backward and forward inertia. Just before the contact, there was a sudden shock, and he relied on the penetration to remove this force.
The rear compartment was also noisy, everyone gasped for a while, and the sound of items falling to the ground was also tinkling. Only this time everyone learned to be obedient and fastened seat belts, so no one was thrown out by inertia.
"Oh my God!"
Ivan raised his head and suddenly felt a chill on his back, and subconsciously stared at his round eyes - where is the road in front of him to enter the real estate, there is directly an old high wall rising from the ground, and it is only ten meters away from the front of the car!
If it had just rushed straight through like this, I am afraid that it would have turned into a ball of sky-high flames with people and cars now.
Then he looked back, but he didn't see the white figure chasing the truck before, and behind him was just a chaotic barren meadow under the raging wind. The road on which the military trucks were originally driving was in the northwest direction, which was about 300 meters away.
“......”
While Evan controlled the military truck backwards, he recalled the details he had seen before, and almost understood what was going on.
It seems that the moment that monster first appeared, it interfered with his vision, and at the same time created an illusion to approach step by step. So that he keeps accelerating, accelerating, accelerating and accelerating, and finally rushes to the high wall and crashes the car and dies.
The previous driver probably encountered a similar situation and was finally scared to death.
One by one, one by one
After experiencing the interference of this 'blinding method', Evan was much more confident and drove the truck back onto the road.
I don't know if it was affected by his gradually calm will, this time the miserable white figure did not come out to interfere again, and the military truck quickly drove into the unfinished real estate. Evan walked around the neighborhood and found a high-end house that looked very sturdy, and smashed the roller shutter door with everyone back into the garage.
After turning off the car, he tied everyone together with a safety rope, and then wheeled a sledgehammer to smash the door all the way into the basement.
However, because it is an unfinished building, the door here is not locked at all. The group was able to climb up the stairs from the garage unhindered, and soon entered the hall on the second floor.
Although it is a ruined building, at least the house is very luxuriously built, and the hall is spacious and bright. Through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass, you can overlook the scenery of the entire community. According to the unfinished planning outside, there should be a wide courtyard, at least the courtyard has not been planned, I don't know why it is rotten here.
Two men and one woman, three researchers, plus Evan, White Bear, and Seal, a total of seven people sat in the hall with nothing to do, silently watching the chaotic sky outside.
"You are all scientists, can anyone explain what this suction from the sky is all about?" the seal asked in a deliberate loud voice when he saw that the three of them looked lost and depressed.
"Probably the swirling starry sky is disturbing the weather...... A large low-pressure cyclone formed over the town......" Researcher A weakly explained.
"What do you take science for!?"
Rarity raised a thin eyebrow on her face, walked up to the seal, and looked at him with her hands on her chest:
"Science is not theology, it is not omniscient. It is a general term for the knowledge system of discovering, inventing, and creating practices, and for human beings to explore, study, and perceive the laws of change in the universe! If we want to know the principle of this kind of meteorology, we must further study and explore, and even if we can't reach a conclusion in the end, it is science!"
“......”
The seal looked up at the figure of the female researcher, with an unclear expression, and squeezed out a sentence for a long time: "If you don't know, you don't know, I said a lot of big truths...... It's not like you don't know anything. ”
"You!"
Rarity's face flushes from his choking, and she sits back in a fit of rage.
"Ladies and gentlemen, there are a lot of quarrels these days. ”
Evan walked into the hall with a bucket of water and placed it in front of everyone:
"Now we need to think about the worst-case scenario, where all the supplies are here at the moment, just a bucket of river water. If the wind doesn't stop, we're going to be stuck here forever...... What the ending will be in the end, you probably know it in your hearts. ”
"You said the wind wouldn't stop!?"
Rarity panicked all of a sudden, and her previous swaggering aura disappeared, and she looked at Evan with a blank eye, "Then what should we do, you have superpowers, can you take us with you?"
"Calm down, I'm just thinking about the worst-case scenario. ”
Seeing her pitiful appearance, Evan thought of the puppy shivering in the cold wind, but his tone was still as pessimistic as ever:
"After all, the situation is getting worse and worse now, and I won't hide some things from you, the reason why I braked hard just now is because I met a creature that does not belong to this world. It turned out that the reason why the driver died suddenly was probably a supernatural attack. In a way, the appearance of those monsters is just the beginning, and everything in the future, including the entire town, will collapse faster and faster!"
"Even now, the wind is too. ”
The white bear took his words and continued with an indifferent expression:
"This situation may be in line with what you call the laws of science, but it is not normal. Even if this fluke subsides, it is likely to recur in the future. And judging by the change in the direction of the wind, the eastern mountains are no longer safe, and if you know of a hidden bomb shelter or underground base, you better let us know quickly. ”