Volume 2 The Return of the Stars Chapter 49 Return to the Ruins
"It takes at least 30 years for this level of corrosion of metal to form." Lao Fu touched the rusty iron window with his hand, and at this moment they entered the suburban town under the guidance of Jiang Luo.
Most of the area has been eroded by vegetation, and it looks like it has been completely abandoned for decades.
But the time was clearly shown on the watch they took out, and it was still September of the 18th year. What went wrong, they couldn't verify it for the time being, so they could only follow Jiang Luo to continue to explore this "weird city in a few decades".
"You mean, you've seen some kind of creature that looks like a human?" When Lao Fu heard Jiang Luo's description, he felt that the experience of this day was really bizarre.
After the end came, he had also seen many strange mutated creatures, but they were still within his understanding and acceptance. However, what Jiang Luo said made him scratch his head.
"This is it!" Jiang Luo pointed to the supermarket building where the filmmaker guided him last night.
They crept inside, pushing open the iron door of the cold room, where there was still some blood in the utility room. Lao Fu was mentally prepared when he pushed open the second door, but the result surprised him.
There was nothing on the rows of iron hooks under the beam, and when the second door opened, the wind blew up the empty iron hooks and dangled in mid-air.
"How so?" Jiang Luo was thoughtful, he was sure that he had definitely seen them last night! Even his own clothes still have the blood of the shadow man who was killed!
By the way, the blood stains on his clothes, but when Jiang Luo looked down, he found that the blood stains left on his body before were gone like bubble water at the moment!
The blood stains left on the clothes could still disappear, let alone those on the ground, and there was no trace of anything in the cold room at this time, except for the cold iron hooks! It's like those filmmakers never existed......
Just when they were puzzled, Jiang Luo suddenly felt a chill coming from behind him, and he moved his body to the side out of conditioned reflex.
As if he had been hit by something, a crack appeared in Jiang Luo's left arm, and blood oozed out violently.
Lao Fu pulled out his pistol and shot twice at Jiang Luo's side.
The bullet remained in the air for a moment, and then some kind of translucent liquid oozed from the edge of the bullet, and the liquid became more and more, and the liquid flowed to outline a humanoid creature. The area around where it was shot appears a corpse-like whiteness, while the rest of the body is faintly translucent. Two bullets hit it in the abdomen respectively, and at this time it had no strength to "hide" again, so it could only lie on the ground and look at Lao Fu with a face without organs.
Jiang Luo got up from the ground with his injured arm in his arms, this creature that attacked him was the shadow man he had encountered last night, but this shadow man seemed to be very ferocious, Jiang Luo could feel his fiery rage.
Perhaps it was because Jiang Luo had killed their kind in front of them, so they were hostile and attacked by it.
Intrigued by the creature's sudden appearance and attack on humans, Fu and six other researchers pulled a syringe from their backpack and extracted a tube of blood from its body, which was like melted glass, translucent but rich in magazines.
"It's amazing they don't have red blood cells!" Lao Fu said.
Under the observation of the microscope, the composition of this blood is highly similar to that of human beings, but it is different, human blood is dominated by red blood cells, while the shadow man does not have red blood cells, but replaces red blood cells with a certain "glass factor", which looks like glass is translucent, and can be invisible with the entry and exit of oxygen!
Jiang Luo remembered being killed by him last night
The Shadow Man that was accidentally killed behaved almost exactly like the Shadow Man after being shot at the time. Their bodies are as fragile as normal humans, and a small bullet can completely incapacitate them. The only difference may be that they are photoinvisible due to their special cellular structure, but they are not really invisible, but cannot see them because the human eye captures light.
These figures can be easily observed if they are replaced with thermal imaging instruments, they are not cold-blooded animals, and they are extremely similar to humans except for their chaotic faces.
The shadow man who was shot was breathing the ground, Jiang Luo could clearly see his violently undulating chest, Lao Fu and the other seven people were wantonly studying it, extracting its blood and cutting off its body tissue.
It quickly went from dying to completely deflated, its corpse resembling a dehydrated mollusk that had completely deflated after shedding a large amount of translucent liquid, making it look like a deflated inflatable doll.
"How can it wither, doesn't it have any organs, no muscle tissue?" Intrigued, a researcher used a tactical knife to cut open its skin.
Following the palm-sized wound he had cut out in its abdomen, Jiang Luo saw the internal structure of the shadow man, as simple as a tree, without human internal organs or muscles, and in the translucent rubber layer was a mass of translucent flesh, as if those flesh were its organs.
The researchers took out their cameras and photographed it, carefully recording every detail of it.
This is a never-before-seen "subhuman race" that has a lot of research value.
Jiang Luo didn't want to watch it anymore, the scene was a little "bloody". He leaned against the door of the cold storage and pondered. For some reason, seeing those filmmakers being studied as specimens, he always felt bad in his heart.
Tick, tick, tick......
Suddenly there was a slight sound of water drops in the empty building, from far and near, from small to large, and finally like a torrential rain! In the frenzied sound of rain, Jiang Luo felt a certain kind of indignation.
He suddenly found that the dust on the ground was trembling, Lao Fu walked out of the cold storage, he put an infrared meter on Jiang Luo's head, Jiang Luo found through the infrared meter, there were dense shadow figures standing outside the building, their faces were full of "anger", and they were gradually running towards the cold storage.
"This ......" Jiang Luo remembered the shadows who were hung in the cold storage last night, who released them?
"Hurry up, they look like they're going to attack us!" Lao Fu said, closing the door of the cold storage.
However, the locks of the cold storage are rotten and precarious under the onslaught of the filmmakers.
"Run inside, back door!" Old Fu's teammates found an arm's length passage deep in the cold storage, and everyone had to lie on their stomachs to get into the hole, but that meant they had to abandon their equipment.
"When is this, life is the most important thing!" As the captain, Lao Fu immediately decided, "Just bring those specimens with you." ”
With a loud bang, the Shadowman broke through the second door, sending a fierce cloud of dust in the cold storage. They also seem to have intelligence, and soon discover the "dog hole" that has been opened, and their bodies burrow into it like snakes.
There was a murmuring sound echoing in the passage, and they were chasing after them!
Jiang Luo's heart tightened, but it was difficult to see the scene behind his feet when he was lying in the passage. Through an exclamation from one of the team members who crawled at the end, he learned that the Shadow Man had caught up and that someone had been caught!
It was not difficult to imagine what happened to him with the screams that echoed in the passage, and the slightest touch of those invisible shadows could leave a long wound on Jiang Luo's arm.
These shadow figures are like mollusks, and their speed in the passage must be faster than that of them crawling, but fortunately, the passage is narrow, and the last team member dragged the shadow man while sacrificing, his body blocked most of the passage, and the shadow man could not catch up for the time being.
But the rest of them didn't know anything, still shrouded in the unknown fear that was chasing after them,
"Be careful!" One of the team members who climbed at the front reminded him that the passage in front of him had changed from parallel to downward, and he slowly slid down against the wall of the passage.
After about half an hour of sneaking down, they fell into a "deep well" with a "snap", and there was no sky on this deep pit, and there were no walls on the left and right.
They walked along the only passage in the pit with their flashlights until they saw a strange wall door.
Jiang Luo chuckled mentally, the six-pointed star pattern, the weird closed eyes, and the mysterious text between the inner and outer rings...... This is the ruin door he opened in the first place!
Here are the ruins? Why did an ordinary cold storage passage lead to this ruin?
However, Jiang Luo didn't have any time to think about the reason, and the passage behind him moved again! The shadow figures came after them, but there was no other way but this wall door!
Jiang Luo recalled the number pressed by the scientist at the beginning, and after a while, he inserted his finger into it again!
At the moment when his fingertips were punctured, a strong sense of fate echoed in his mind! It seems that he is destined to return here!
The hand of fate has already arranged all the endings, no matter how you struggle or escape, you will only return to that destined path in the end!