The dead apartment hallway was silent.

In the empty environment, there were only a few slight wheezing sounds, and the silence was terrifying.

Meng Lei stood on tiptoe, carrying a sharp harpoon in his hand, tiptoed through the narrow and dark corridor, and came to the door of apartment 401 on the first floor with a solemn face.

During this period, after Huo Ye and Hans sensed Meng Lei's intentions, they also silently took out the guy and followed vigilantly.

Including Zhang Chao, the entourage in the house, who was already preparing to rest, also gathered around under Zhang Chao's signal, and cautiously walked out of the hall of the 402 apartment and blocked the corridor outside the door of the apartment opposite.

Everyone held their breath and pressed against the wall of the hallway, listening intently to the movement in the room.

The weird "snapping" sound just now was really weird, and everyone was filled with curiosity and doubt.

What happened in the opposite room?

Soon, Meng Lei passed through the deep corridor that flickered and flickered and came to the center of the apartment hall.

Under normal circumstances, he has no interest in snooping on other people's privacy, and that behavior is very rude.

If there is really someone on the other side, no matter how much movement the other party makes, even if it pokes a hole in the roof, it has nothing to do with him.

But apparently this was not the case, and there was a sudden strange noise in the opposite room, which was unoccupied.

This had to make him more vigilant and find out the truth of the matter.

After all, Meltwater Apartment 401 is now the nest of the team entering the city, and all possible potential safety hazards around it must be clarified in advance and strangled in the cradle, so as not to be caught off guard.

Standing in the corridor outside the door of apartment 401, Meng Lei put away his harpoon and pressed his ear to the door to listen to the movement in the room.

The cool metal door panel penetrates through the skin, penetrating the slightly damp chill into the bone marrow.

Inside, everything was quiet, and no unusual sound was heard.

It was as if the noise they had just heard was just a collective hallucination of all of them.

Meng Lei raised his eyebrows suspiciously, looked sideways at Zhang Chao who was holding a diving knife on the side, and then glanced at him.

Roughly speaking, once there is any abnormal situation, the door will be broken in as soon as possible.

Zhang Chao nodded understandingly, immediately clenched the diving knife in his hand, took a deep breath and took a step back, bent his back, and was ready to go.

Seeing this, Meng Lei no longer hesitated and knocked on the door gently.

"Winter Winter ......"

A rhythmic light percussion sounded, dispersing the suffocating dead silence in the hallway.

There was still no movement in the house, as if there was really no one inside.

Meng Lei was a little unrelenting, and raised his hand to ring the doorbell again.

The crisp visiting bell rang across the other end of the room, perhaps in disrepair, the electronically synthesized bell had been somewhat out of tune, with strange syllables and a faint hoarse electric sound, which sounded extremely uncomfortable.

However, the doorbell rang for a long time, and there was still no response in the house.

Meng Lei took a step forward and got a little closer.

Through the cat's eye on the door panel, you can see that the lights in apartment 401 are off, and it is pitch black inside, and no light is coming out.

This made Meng Lei feel even more confused and self-doubting.

Did you really hear it wrong?

The sound didn't come from this room, but from upstairs or somewhere?

Just when he was struggling.

In the deathly silence of apartment 401, there was a sudden sound of rustling.

It was not loud, like some kind of soft creature covered in slime, gently squirming on the floor, making a "zizi" grinding sound.

"There's something in there!"

Meng Lei was immediately alert, and subconsciously held his breath.

The movement in the room of apartment 401 was strange, there were no footsteps or whispers, it didn't seem to be artificial, which made him feel a bad premonition.

He immediately clenched the harpoon in his hand, took a step back quietly, and then turned his head to look at Zhang Chao behind him.

This situation was not normal, and at the moment he could not expect the people in the house or anything else to open the door.

Therefore, in order to find out the truth,

Even at the risk of paying compensation to the landlord tomorrow, he would force his way in to see what was going on inside.

meanwhile

After receiving Meng Lei's signal, Zhang Chao immediately gestured to the other combatants who were blocking the corridor.

Immediately afterwards, the person in charge of the second bounty formation of the heavy fleet took a deep breath,

Immediately rushed forward like lightning, flying up and slamming into the heavy metal door of apartment 401.

"Winter!"

A low, loud muffled sound echoed through the silent corridor.

Zhang Chao's kick can be said to be full of strength, the force is incomparably huge, and the entire door trembled slightly under the strong impact.

However, although the metal door looks shabby, it is unusually sturdy.

After shaking it heavily, it soon stopped moving and returned to normal again.

Only in the center of the gate, a large footprint was left black and filthy, and the expected result was not achieved in the first place.

"Damn, this door is really strong!"

Zhang Chao, who was shocked back by the huge anti-shock force, complained with a trace of embarrassment on his face, and immediately prepared to repeat the previous action.

But at this moment, the target in the room seemed to be disturbed, and there was a clanging sound through the door.

It seems that furniture and furnishings have been knocked over, and there has been a rush of chaos.

Seeing this, Meng Lei immediately realized that something was wrong, and immediately shouted:

"Break down the door, don't let that thing in the house escape!"

As soon as the words fell, several combatants gathered in the corridor closest to the door immediately rushed forward without hesitation and slammed the door panel with their shoulders.

For a while, the muffled sound of "桄桄桄寄" resounded in the corridor.

After a few seconds,

After all, the dilapidated metal door was not as heavy as the hatch of the airlock chamber, and with the concerted efforts of everyone, it was finally overwhelmed, and at a certain moment it burst open, and the lock was forcibly broken.

Suddenly, the door frame of a black hole was like an entrance to another world, presented in all directions.

The next moment,

The rich smell of the sea, mixed with a strange taste, turned into a wave of air.

The clanging sound did not stop immediately as the door was slammed open.

Through the surging light flowing like water from the corridor, everyone vaguely saw that in the hall of apartment 401, there was a huge strange shadow flickering by, like a frightened beast, rushing around the room.

The shape of the shadow is very strange,

I don't know if it's because of the distortion of the light or other reasons, it looks like a bulge covered with teeth and claws, like the spikes on the body of a sea urchin, hideous and terrifying.

And from any point of view, it seems to have nothing to do with humans.

Seeing this scene, the first few people who broke the door into the house looked stupid on the spot, only to feel that the blood clotted all over their bodies, and their hands and feet were cold.

"This ...... What is this?! ”

Someone whispered, looking at the huge shadow that was rushing wildly in the room, and was stunned for a moment.

Before that, no one could have imagined that in the opposite room where they landed, there would be such a strange thing hidden, which made people subconsciously think that they were dragged into the illusion cage again without realizing it.

Really, the shape of this thing is so weird that it can't be associated with anything in reality.

Then

Meng Lei didn't care to carefully distinguish the smell components in the air, and he didn't have time to think too much.

The moment the door opened, he immediately yelled at the surroundings:

"Turn on the lights, turn on the lights, and stay safe!"

Hearing this, everyone suddenly woke up, and while deliberately keeping a distance from the shadow not far away, they hurriedly fumbled around the room, looking for the location of the chandelier switch in the hall.

These fighters who followed Meng Lei's side, along the way, can be regarded as experiencing strong winds and waves, seeing too many unusual things and phenomena, and their psychological quality has been greatly improved.

Even in the face of the current situation, he did not show too much panic.

However, the layout of the rooms in the Meltwater Apartment is not the same as that of other buildings.

The overall structure of the 401 apartment is almost completely different from the 402 apartment where Meng Lei and the others settled.

The first few fighters to rush into the house groped in the darkness for a long time, but they did not find the location of the light switch.

Soon after the crowd successfully broke down the door, the strange creature in the house seemed to realize the danger.

Seeing that the location of the gate was blocked, it was obviously impossible to break through from that direction, so he rushed directly in the direction of the window that was completely opposite to the gate.

"Bang la la"

Just as everyone was busy looking for the switch, there was a sound of glass cracking.

The strange shadow slammed through the window, jumped out of the hole wrapped in the curtain, and quickly disappeared from everyone's view.

Through the dark streets and alleys outside the window, the surging light projected from the sky.

At the moment when the shadow rose into the air, Meng Lei vaguely saw that the lower part of its body seemed to be a pool of wriggling flesh and blood, like the gastropods of some kind of mollusk.

A large amount of slime enveloped the mass of flesh, leaving specks of glittering filaments in the air.

A hard protrusion with a dark purple glow, flickering in the light, and then tightly wrapped by the curtains, as if it were the shell of some kind of creature, very eerie.

"What the hell is that?!"

At that moment of shock, Meng Lei was also suddenly shocked in his heart.

He was not shocked by the form of the strange creature, after all, he had seen all kinds of messy and strange things since the time crossing, and even the thalamus fungus that was so weird that it didn't look like it should exist in this dimensional space, he had dealt with it intimately.

He was shocked that such a strange thing could appear in a densely populated human settlement!

Where did this creature, which is clearly not part of the human world, come from?

Has the security environment in Modo City been chaotic to such an extent that even the invasion of alien creatures has not been discovered?

When you think about it, it's a little too scary!

"Quick, catch up, don't let that thing run!"

After a short pause, Meng Lei was the first to react, and immediately roared loudly, picked up the harpoon in his hand and strode in the direction of the window.

The city is mixed with non-humanoid strange creatures, and this matter is not big or small.

If the creature itself isn't too threatening, it's all right.

But if this creature carries infectious infections such as painted skin parasites or thalamic fungi, it will undoubtedly pose a huge safety hazard to Modo City!

Meng Lei felt that even if he didn't consider it for the public, it was only for his own safety.

Either way, you have to figure out what that weird thing is, even if you can take a closer look.

After all, as long as it is something that can be observed with the naked eye, Goldfinger can give relevant hints.

This is also why, as soon as the door opened, Meng Lei immediately asked people to turn on the light, just to learn the truth through the hint of the golden finger.

Unfortunately, that thing was running too fast.

The glimpse just now was too short, and he didn't have time to concentrate at all, and successfully summoned the golden finger.

And as he hurried to the edge of the broken window, he peered through the shattered window frame.

In the dark alleys, the strange creature has long since disappeared, and I don't know where it has gone.

fortunately

Where the other party passed, a large number of slime traces were left on the ground along the way.

The refraction of light is very obvious.

Meng Lei didn't have time to hesitate at the moment, and immediately jumped out by the edge of the window, and shouted behind him at the same time:

"Leave a few people to cordon off the scene to look for clues, and the others will come with me!"

While shouting, Meng Lei turned out of apartment 401, carrying a cold and bright harpoon in his hand, and chased all the way down with the slime remaining on the ground.

Hearing this, Huo Ye and Hans also jumped out of the window one after another, and followed closely behind Meng Lei to search.

The crowd ran wildly and walked through the alleys near the Meltwater Apartment.

The remaining slime on the ground pointed them in the right direction, and they didn't chase after them, but the speed of the other party seemed to be amazingly fast, and no matter how much they chased them, they could never keep up with each other's footsteps.

Eventually, in the hinterland of living quarters lined with buildings.

At one point, the slime on the ground suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, as if the strange creature had flown away out of thin air, and no trace could be found.

Meng Lei did not give up, and led everyone to search carefully around, but he never found anything.

The strange creature seemed to disappear out of thin air, and it disappeared from the world as it ran, which was incredible.

In desperation, Meng Lei could only go home, and regretfully returned to the Rongshui apartment.

And when he came to apartment 401 again, the chandelier in the room had been turned on, and the living room was in a mess, as if a big war had taken place.

Meng Lei stepped into the room with a solemn face and asked in a deep voice:

"Did you find anything?"