As the saying goes, money makes the devil grind.

This applies the same everywhere.

Even if you change the world and change the planet, as long as there is a place where human beings exist, you can't escape the word "secular".

As a new stack of banknotes was stuffed into the bag, the attitude of the two security officers immediately changed significantly.

put away the gloom on his face, and also covered up the impatience in his heart.

Even the light machine gun on his chest, the muzzle of the black hole slowly lowered, and he was no longer on guard.

It's just that although their attitude has eased, the two security officers did not directly let them go, and still stopped in front of Meng Lei and his party.

And reminded everyone that the city has not been stable recently, and try not to wade into this troubled water.

Hearing this, Meng Lei couldn't help but be even more curious.

"Something weird is happening in the city?! What the hell is going on? I see that there are so many sea monster corpses piled up in the passage, and no one has cleaned them up, as if there was a flood in the past, is it related to the changes in the city? ”

With a look of doubt on his face, Meng Lei took out the cigarette in his pocket, gave one to each of the two security officers, and spontaneously ignited one in his mouth, leaning against the bulkhead on the side, making a deaf look.

One of the middle-aged security officers lit a cigarette, took a deep puff, and said in a deep voice:

"Don't tell me, it's as you guessed, there was indeed a flood in Modo City a few days ago! The whole city was almost submerged! The weird thing also started from that time......"

Meng Lei nodded meaningfully, his eyes flickered, and he pouted at the middle-aged security officer.

"Brother, tell me in detail, what's going on."

"Well, to be honest, I still don't know what's going on."

The middle-aged security officer sighed heavily, a trace of dazedness and fear flashed in his eyes, and continued:

"It was about three days ago on the night, that night, completely without warning, a great earthquake suddenly struck the city of Modo! To be precise, there was an extremely strong earthquake in the ocean outside the city!

The earth's crust that kept Modo City standing violently shook, the sea churned, and the white sand filled the sky, destroying a large number of building structures for a while, causing the sea water to pour in, submerging most of the entire city!

You don't know what it was like, it was terrible, like the end of the world.

The dome was full of broken holes, and the sea water rushed down from the cracks, covering the whole block in a short time, as if the sky had fallen, which was terrifying! ”

Speaking of this, the middle-aged security officer looked terrified.

Obviously, the scene at that time had a very deep psychological shadow on him, and it has lingered until now.

Meng Lei raised his eyebrows slightly, and through the other party's simple description, he was completely able to make up the picture at that time.

Located more than 3,000 meters below sea level, an earthquake would be devastating.

When the outer wall was broken, the equalization system was broken, and the infinite sea pressure did not completely engulf the entire city in an instant, it was already a blessing in misfortune.

But one thing Meng Lei didn't understand was that how could there be an earthquake here in Modo City?

From recent understanding, he knows very well.

Every building under this dark icy ocean was built in a gentle area with a stable geological environment, and after a long period of geological exploration by the pioneers of Tia, it was almost impossible for there to be too frequent and significant geological changes.

Otherwise, if something happens, it will be an absolutely devastating disaster!

Therefore, the earthquake that occurred in Modo City was inevitably a little too strange.

"Could it be...... Is this earthquake related to space tides? ”

Meng Lei frowned slightly, and did not shy away from mentioning the doubts in his heart.

The outbreak of space tides is no longer a secret, and the reports of major media on the phenomenon of tides have long been overwhelming the entire network, which can be said to be well known.

And various anomalies caused by space tides are also emerging in an endless stream around the world.

Meng Lei was very skeptical that this inexplicable earthquake would also be related to space tides.

However, the middle-aged security officer shook his head when he heard this, and sighed helplessly:

"Who knows, this earthquake came and went so quickly, it only lasted for a moment, and then it was quiet again, and no one knew why."

At this time, another security officer, who was standing aside and never spoke, lowered his head and smoked silently, suddenly sighed:

"It's also fortunate that this earthquake didn't last too long, and it didn't cause too much damage to the overall structure of Modo City, otherwise, this place would have ceased to exist a long time ago."

Meng Lei nodded thoughtfully, and then asked, "What about later?" What's really going on in the city? ”

The middle-aged security officer sighed heavily and said worriedly:

"Although the earthquake did not last long, the disaster caused by it was also quite serious, many areas of the city were flooded by the sea, and there were not a few alien sea monsters that poured into the city with the torrent, including the docks, which did not resume operation for a long time.

Even so, the post-disaster reconstruction and repair work is not particularly difficult.

As the largest outpost of the hydrothermal wasteland, Modo City has a well-developed emergency response system that can be remediated in a very short time.

However, when an earthquake struck.

However, some strange phenomena began to appear frequently in the city, which seriously affected the construction progress and caused a wide range of panic.

There are many people who claim that when walking on the street, they will always see some terrifying hallucinations inexplicably, and what was originally normal suddenly becomes distorted and hideous.

Those illusions are very real, as if multiple layers of space collide with each other, forming some kind of overlapping phenomenon.

Another example is that there is some unknown force that has a serious impact on people's spirits.

In short, this hallucination has a wide range of effects, and there is no regularity to speak of, as if it happened randomly.

Some soothsayers say that the previous earthquake has brought the evil of the darkness into the city, and that an unknown existence beneath the abyss is gradually waking up, and that an even more terrifying disaster is coming.

This statement has been widely circulated in the past two days, causing widespread panic! ”

Hearing this, Meng Lei couldn't help frowning deeply.

"Hallucinations? Another hallucination? ”

Hearing the word hallucination, he now felt a headache inexplicably.

The previous encounters are vivid, and the mental effects caused by the Abyss Banshee have not completely subsided.

Nowadays, he is quite sensitive to the word hallucination, and always recalls some bad things.

The two security officers in front of them didn't know what happened to the fleet before, and when they heard Meng Lei's whisper, they all muttered, and said with great emotion:

"Oh, yes, hallucinations, terrible hallucinations!

There are many people in the city who have fallen ill, tormented by hallucinations, and have serious mental problems, and the entire city of Modo is now shrouded in an inexplicable panic, and the atmosphere is very tense. ”

After a pause, one of them came forward with a cigarette in his mouth, as if he was afraid of alarming something, and added in a low voice:

"I don't think the soothsayers are talking nonsense.

Since the flooding caused by the earthquake, the city really seems to have become a little different, I can't say it specifically, the feeling is subtle, it is terrifying, I have lived in Modo City for decades, and it is by no means alarmist! ”

Looking at the other party's serious eyes, Meng Lei took a deep breath and nodded with a solemn expression.

He did not think that the two security officers were deliberately trying to prevent him from entering the city, making up nonsense here and deliberately creating panic.

For them, there is nothing good to be gained from such behavior.

But what Meng Lei couldn't figure out was, what was the reason for this large-scale collective hallucination?

As far as he had learned, the factors that could trigger insanity were the screams of the Abyss Banshee, and the other was a mysterious spiritual pollution relic.

Obviously, the hallucinatory incident that occurred in the city of Modo could not have been caused by the former.

Because the two security officers never mentioned a word about the banshee, it proves that the source of the hallucinations is not from sounds.

In this way, it seems that there is only one explanation left.

At the time of that earthquake, there may have been a spiritual pollution relic washed into the city by the sea, hidden in some unknown corner, and as time passed, the pollution effect of exposure to the air became stronger and stronger, which led to frequent hallucinations.

This situation is not impossible.

Modo City is so vast, several times the size of the lower area of Sil City, and a relic the size of a human head was washed into an inconspicuous corner by the sea, and it was difficult to find it in a short time.

Meng Lei put forward his own guess, but the two of them shook their heads again.

"Man, since the hallucination incident, more than one person has made the same judgment as you, but the mayor mobilized more than ninety percent of the armed forces in the city, rummaged through every corner of the streets and alleys, and found no suspected relics."

The middle-aged security officer flicked off the cigarette ash, and his blue eyes stared at the empty airlock room behind him with a gloomy meaning, and said:

"In addition, the outbreak of spiritual pollution relics is based on itself, radiating outwards and uniformly affecting the surrounding environment.

The closer you are to the source, the more intense the pollution is, and it is easy to locate it.

However, the current situation in the city is that there is no pattern in the occurrence of hallucinations, and they may appear at any time and place, which is fundamentally different from the influence of spiritual relics. ”

After a pause, he snuffed out the cigarette butt that had burned to the end in his hand, and said in a deep voice:

"So, it's a very strange phenomenon, there's never been a precedent before, there's no experience to draw on, and we still don't know what the trigger for hallucinations is."

After listening, Meng Lei fell into deep thought.

Randomness, this is indeed a characteristic that a mentally polluted relic does not have, and it is incredible.

In this way, the occurrence of this mysterious phenomenon, combined with the inexplicable changes mentioned by another security officer, the changes in Modo City do seem a little weird.

"That'...... Did you report this to the Alliance? What is the response plan given by the Alliance? If this kind of strange thing happens, the lockdown will only make the situation worse, and even if it can't be solved, the alliance shouldn't make this decision, right? ”

Meng Lei asked again, still having doubts in his heart.

Knowing what is happening in the city, he believes that lockdown is not necessarily the best option, but will cause more serious panic, which will lead to a complete loss of control.

For those pirates, the so-called rules are nothing more than a reality.

Under normal circumstances, due to the deterrent power of the Moken family in the local area, perhaps they will honestly walk on the edge of the rules, and will not easily provoke right and wrong.

But once you really encounter a life-and-death crisis, who will care about you?

"Alliance?! Heh......"

The middle-aged security officer suddenly sneered when he heard this, and said sarcastically: "Now that the space tide has broken out in an all-round way, chaos is frequent in various places, and the alliance is too busy to take care of itself, how can you still have the energy to pay attention to the affairs here?!"

Besides, the affairs of our Modo City are not handled by the Alliance.

There are other reasons for the lockdown. ”

It is not difficult to see from this sentence that the relationship between the Moken family and the alliance does not seem to be harmonious, which further confirms Meng Lei's previous conjecture.

Perhaps, the Moken family is not controlled by the Alliance, but a serious local snake.

It's just that he doesn't have the heart to think about that right now.

Since the lockdown was not a decision of the alliance, and there were other hidden reasons in it, he naturally had to figure out the ins and outs of the whole thing.

"Can you tell us why?"

Meng Lei refilled the cigarettes for the two security officers, showed a curious look, and asked the bottom of the matter.

At this time, after some conversation, the two security officers had completely let down their guard, their attitudes had changed one hundred and eighty degrees compared to before, and they were very friendly to Meng Lei.

One of them cautiously approached Meng Lei and whispered mysteriously:

"To tell you the truth, the reason why Modo City is completely banned is actually not necessarily related to that strange hallucinatory phenomenon.

The point is that the mayor's eldest son mysteriously disappeared in the city, and no one has been seen alive or dead, and no one knows where he went.

Rumor has it that he was secretly killed by someone.

It is also said that after returning from the abyss, he was contaminated with the ominous and evil in the darkness, and was dragged into the mysterious illusion cage.

There are all kinds of theories, which are quite bizarre, but no one can come up with evidence.

The mayor was furious, so he issued a lockdown order, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving until he was found! ”

"Missing? Hai Yuan?! ”

Meng Lei pondered these two terms, and vaguely felt that there was a big problem here.

"Which abyss did he go to? When did you go? What are you doing there? ”

Immediately afterward, he continued to ask questions, and his curiosity became heavier and heavier.

The older middle-aged security officer took a deep breath, spat out the smoke ring heavily, and said in a deep voice:

"Speaking of which, the disappearance of the eldest young master is not unrelated to this earthquake and strange hallucinations.

In fact, after the earthquake struck, the government detected the location of the source of the earthquake, the epicenter of which was located in the abyss 30 kilometers east of the city of Modo.

As a result, the Office of Security and local scientific research institutions set up an investigation team to go to the local area to find out the situation.

And the mayor's eldest son is one of the leaders of this investigation team......"