Chapter 10: The Source

In this weird environment, to be honest, he doesn't want to stay too long, and it's best to solve it quickly.

Pushing open the glass door of the hardware store, Su Chen called tentatively: "Boss? ”

The hardware store owner's face was also filled with the same eerie smile as the vendors outside.

Turning a blind eye to Su Chen's greeting, he didn't hear it.

Su Chen deliberately approached him and looked at him, stretched out his hand and waved it in front of his eyes, but the boss was still indifferent and continued to maintain that stiff, weird smile.

A wisp of cold air crept up Su Chen's back.

Although Su Chen's heart was habitually bigger again after realizing the power of the peace talisman, it still made him feel quite uneasy to observe a living person like a wax figure face to face up close again.

Su Chen controlled his urge to escape, and quickly glanced around the hardware store, well, there seemed to be nothing else except the store owner and all kinds of tools, all kinds of hardware.

However, Su Chen didn't delay much, he grabbed an aluminum alloy folding post in his left hand, and an axe in his right hand, and quickly turned around and walked out of the hardware store.

In the sun, Su Chen felt a little better, he didn't notice that a layer of cold sweat had appeared on his forehead.

Barely stuffing the ladder and axe into the trunk, Su Chen walked into the hardware store again.

Nail guns, drills, chainsaws, full sets of wrenches...... Su Chen was a little dazzled. In the end, I picked a few sets that I was most likely to use. Among them, the nail gun holds the most. He thought it was both a versatile tool and a good thing to use as a ranged weapon. Well, the matching nails also take a few more boxes.

Su Chen did a cheerful job as this righteous and bright thief, and once again left the strangeness of the environment behind.

The dark gray shadow that snaked like a snake had sneaked up to the door of the hardware store, but if it lay dormant and you didn't pay attention, anyone would think of it as a somewhat strange shadow.

Su Chen was naturally no exception.

With a large pile of tools in his arms, and with the excitement of getting something for nothing, he stepped over the "shadow" under his feet and quickly returned to the car.

The moment the "shadow" was stepped on by him, it instantly became active, from the appearance of a snake with teeth and claws, to a dark gray vine, stretching out many thin, tender tentacles, the tip of the tentacles, there seemed to be a small hollow, and each tentacle seemed to have an autonomous consciousness, grabbing towards Su Chen's body.

However, it was as if there was a layer of invisible transparent armor on Su Chen's body, and those tender tentacles had not yet touched Su Chen's body, and they were pushed to both sides by an invisible force.

The "shadow" of a snake, insect or a plant, as if unwilling, turned into a fluffy mass again, spreading many tentacles and rising in the air. It's just that Su Chen has already loaded all the tools he picked into the car, closed the door, and drove on to move forward contentedly.

He also intends to explore a little bit of the source of this strange situation.

If it can be solved, it will be solved, and if it can't be solved, then of course it is to turn around and run!

Su Chen made up his mind and drove to the depths of the farmer's market.

Gradually, he discovers that there seems to be a pattern to the strange conditions of the farmer's market.

Those live chickens and ducks, live cats and dogs, just like humans, have become "wax figures" or "specimens", motionless.

But plants, items, and so on, don't seem to be affected in any way.

The whole market came full circle, and it didn't take long.

Su Chen never noticed that behind his car, the dark gray shadow that followed this group, followed him step by step, followed him unswervingly, and refused to stop a step.

It wasn't without trying to pounce on the car, but it was a bit funny. Like a fly and a mosquito splitting on top of smooth glass, it pounces on the car, staying for less than two or three seconds at most before sliding off the body.

After repeating the same process a dozen times, it seemed to give up trying to pounce on the car, but it persistently followed the car forward.

It's just that judging from its form, it is a bit far-fetched to describe its action as running. It is like a mess of unkempt hair, arching forward one after another, or like a criss-crossing mass of rope, bouncing forward one after another.

After Su Chen walked around the entire market, he looked at his stuffed cart, and then at the people in the farmers' market who seemed to have suddenly frozen at a certain moment, and chose to leave immediately with a little shame.

He did not call the police. After all, this kind of weird problem may not be solved by the flesh and blood of the police officers, plus police uniforms and firearms.

I just took some photos and planned to go back to the Internet.

Anyway, you can give others a heads up!

The shops around the farmer's market, now it seems that only the shroud shop is in normal condition as always.

Thinking about these things in his heart, Su Chen casually converted the car to an autonomous driving state and opened the miniature crystal screen on the car.

The situation at this farmer's market is so weird, could it have been discovered and reported?

Su Chen's fingers swiped across the display screen of the crystal screen, and quickly browsed a series of recent news, and there seemed to be only one news related to the farmers' market:

Live poultry outbreaks in farmers' markets in many places have been "specimen disease". The Blue Star Senate has ordered a halt to the live poultry trade. Suspected cases of infection should be burned on site and landfilled.

"Specimen disease" is suspected to be caused by an emerging virus. Infected live birds quickly stiffen and harden, forming a specimen appearance. Individual hawkers who are in frequent contact with live poultry, especially those who have been infected with "specimen disease", have also unfortunately been infected, with stiff limbs and bedridden, as of the day of the news report, there have been three cases of infection, and major medical institutions have not yet developed an effective solution.

However, there seems to be no follow-up to this news.

When it was first broadcast, it seemed that some experts said that this virus is very infective to humans.

And the endless natural disasters and entertainment stars that emerge every day naturally drown such an inconspicuous piece of news in the vast sea of information world.

At present, it seems that this "specimen disease" may be the source of this strange situation in this farmers' market?

However, Su Chen always felt that something seemed wrong.

Does the virus infection have the ability to make people of different occupations and different physical conditions turn into "wax figures" at the same moment? Still with that weird smile on your face?

Su Chen didn't have much expertise in viruses, but the cases of virus infections he had seen so far had a process of onset without exception. Individuals with different body resistance often have uneven onset times.

Besides, if he walked around in such a sloppy way, and hurriedly swept the goods, he could come to a seemingly just right conclusion so easily, which was really a bit beyond his psychological expectations.

It has to be said that his instincts were correct.