Chapter 1: Despair and Fear
This world, which I once loved, hated, and wanted to escape, is finally ...... today It will be destroyed.
On top of the towering chimney, a scarred Yu Zhao looked into the distance, his shabby dark brown coat swaying in the wind, blood gushing from the break in his left arm.
He wanted to save the world, and from the moment he knew the history of the world, Yu Zhao was working hard until five minutes ago.
But he failed.
The strongest investigator, trusted by hundreds of millions of humans around the world, has failed.
The sky was a crimson swirl, and in the center you could see a pupil, distorting space like upper and lower eyelids, staring at the broken world without emotion.
The ground is collapsing, and mankind has fallen into the abyss after thousands of years of civilization history have been destroyed.
The sound of explosions and screams echoed incessantly, like a symphony in hell.
Yu Zhao staggered to the edge of the chimney, took out the last cigarette from his pocket with his still movable right hand, lit it, and swallowed it in the cold and darkness.
He couldn't help but wonder what was the source of humanity's demise.
It was about the accident 130 years ago, assuming history is as recorded in the book.
Call......
Huge eyes looking at the sky without any emotion.
Yu Zhao exhaled a puff of smoke, wondering if he could have been able to prevent that accident and prevent this guy from coming if he had been born a hundred and thirty years ago.
His consciousness blurred.
If there is if.
Eventually, the burning cigarette stopped in front of his mouth, and then fell from the chimney with Yu Zhao.
With the collapse of this tiny planet in the universe.
……
"Mr. Yu Zhao, I have limited time, can you briefly tell us about your condition?"
Yu Zhao was lying on a bed, his eyes closed, and beside him sat a lady in a white coat with a note in her hand, with long brown hair, an enviable proud figure, and a delicate face.
On the wall is a bust photo of the lady, as well as her diploma of a doctor of psychology - Ye Xiao, an outstanding graduate of the Department of Psychology of Perul College.
Yu Zhao took a deep breath and began to tell about what had happened these days.
"I'm a detective, not looking for cats and dogs and secretly filming mistresses, but a detective who deals with supernatural events. The reason why I call myself a detective and not an exorcist is because I don't believe in ghosts and ghosts in the world, and the truth is all man-made after my commission. ”
"However, what happened a week ago made me change my mind. In the process of processing the commission, I found a notebook, a note from about the sixteenth century, very old but quite well preserved. ”
"I looked up a lot of information and asked a lot of experts about the text, and I confirmed that it was a language that humans had not yet discovered. The contents of the notes are scribbled and illegible like a child's graffiti. For some reason, staring at this notebook, I felt fear, that great fear of the unknown. ”
"And it's not just this notebook that's weird, it's what happened after that...... Please forgive me, I can't keep my sanity. ”
Yu Zhao, who had his eyes closed, frowned, and his face was very ugly, as if he had fallen into great fear.
"When I came out of the office, I wanted to go to the client, but I saw it on the street...... Monster. ”
"It was a Freak monster from a Cronenberg movie, so frighteningly ugly that at first I thought I was dazzled or mentally ill, and that's when I booked the treatment. The monster had no physical presence and ignored my existence, and at the time I really thought it was my delusion. ”
"But not so long ago...... Things have changed. ”
"The monster noticed my presence, his scarlet eyes staring straight at me, did you know that jackals hunt? It was a look of staring at the prey, and it was creepy. ”
Speaking of this, Yu Zhao suddenly opened his eyes and got up to look at the office chair where Dr. Fang Cai was sitting.
He stretched out his arm and pointed there.
"Right now, that monster is sitting there."
In Yu Zhao's view, on the office chair sat a monster that was indescribable in words, with rotting skin and an ugly and deformed appearance, like a human head closer to that of a fish, slender arms, fingertips with nails turned out, and covered in transparent slime.
One glance is irrational.
The doctor shook his head and said, "But I can't see anything, there's only an empty seat there." ”
She closed her notes and got up from the chair next to the bed and walked to the back of her desk, next to the chair.
Bent down and look for something in the drawer of your desk.
Yu Zhao stared at the doctor, and in his field of vision, the doctor almost touched the monster that only he could see.
His breathing gradually became short, his heart beat violently, and cold sweat soaked Yu Zhao's clothes.
The monster's gaze gradually shifted from Yu Zhao's body to the doctor, and it turned its head stiffly, reaching out its rotten, slender arm to touch the doctor.
"Medical ......"
"Ah, I found it."
Yu Zhao wanted to call out to the doctor, but at this moment, the doctor suddenly got up and left the place, rubbing shoulders with the monster's fingertips.
The doctor had a key in his hand, a key to the medicine cabinet.
"Mr. Yu Zhao, you should have been under a lot of pressure recently, I will prescribe you some antipsychotic drugs, you can take them."
She took out a bottle of medicine and came to Yu Zhao with a bottle of water.
"It's a special medicine, it works after taking it, you can try it."
Yu Zhao rubbed his eyebrows, "I hope you're right." ”
He took the medicine the doctor had given, and when he looked at the chair behind his desk, the monster that had been sitting there disappeared.
It really works!
Yu Zhao smiled from the inside out.
Sure enough, it was just something wrong with my spirit!
"Thank you, doctor, it's gone."
The doctor smiled easily, "Very good, we can talk about the cost." ”
……
After sending Yu Zhao away, the doctor came to the desk.
Her expression changed suddenly, her face was gloomy, there was no previous feeling of calm and relaxation, cold sweat instantly spread all over her face, and her rapid breathing proved her panic.
Trembling, he took out his mobile phone in his pocket and dialed the only number in his address book.
Upon connection, the Medic's words were "Captain, the infected have left in your direction, and D-3 is about to complete its invasion." ”
After that, her delicate hand was no longer able to hold the phone, so she could only make it fall freely according to the rules of physics, making a "bang" sound!
The doctor also fell to his knees limply with the phone.
Gasping for air, longing for fresh air to come back to their senses.
In front of her, the chair in which the monster had sat was covered in clear, fishy slime.
……
It was raining outside the hospital, and the sky was pitch black.
"Great, the monster is finally gone"
Yu Zhao looked around, and the only living creatures in his sight were humans.
Excitement, excitement from the heart.
I'm finally back to normal!
However, as time passed, the excitement did not last long.
About half an hour or so, in the dense flow of people, the monster with a fish-headed human body appeared in front of Yu Zhao again.
In an instant, his brain buzzed!
No!
I just took the medicine, how can I hallucinate again, what's going on!
Yu Zhao panicked and took out the medicine given by the doctor from his pocket, took out two tablets and swallowed them directly!
I took the medicine and should be fine.
It's okay.
But when he opened his eyes again, the monster was still standing in front of him, staring straight at Yu Zhao with its scarlet eyes like a prey.
Yu Zhao was desperate.
Then, a sharp pain came from his chest, and he clutched his heart, breathing faster than ever.
A few seconds later, he collapsed to the ground in pain.
Boom!
The voice caught everyone's attention.
Two seconds later, just when everyone was still thinking about whether to help him, Yu Zhao stood up again as if he was fine, picked up the umbrella, and shook his rain-soaked hair.
The flow of people is surging again.
The monster still existed in Yu Zhao's sight, but there was no longer fear on his face, and after a brief pause, he moved his left arm, and then calmly took out a cigarette from his pocket with his right hand, lit it, and swallowed it.
Against the flow of people, he walked past the monster as if he was ignoring it, and calmly turned into an alley.
The monster stiffly turned its head to look in the direction Yu Zhao had left, and after being stunned for a few seconds, it decided to follow.
The pouring rain washed away the slime on the ground, making it disappear.
……
"Damn, the target has deviated from the established course! Captain, what to do! ”
On the roof of a tall building, three men in black suits stood in the rain, they did not have umbrellas, but the rain seemed to be avoided by some external force.
"Tsk. What happened to this infected person after he fell? It feels completely different. A middle-aged man with a beard said with a frown.
The infected person naturally refers to Yu Zhao, and it was this man who was contacted by the doctor before. The captain of the team - Zou Li.
As members of the Bureau of Investigation, their job is to find the humans who have come into contact with the Shadow Realm for various reasons, that is, the infected people they call them, and hunt down the Shadow Realm monsters that invade the real world through these infected people, the Void Monsters.
There are many types of virtual monsters, and different virtual monsters have different code names in the Investigation Bureau, such as the monster in Yu Zhao's eyes, its code name is D-3.
According to the degree of danger, from low to high, this is divided into six levels: E, D, C, B, A, and S.
"Captain? Chase or not! ”
Hearing this, Zou Li rolled his eyes helplessly, "Nonsense, how can you not chase it?" ”
Then, his expression became serious.
This is due to the sudden change of route of the infected person, resulting in the failure of the previously established battle plan.
Damn it!
With the three of us having no chance of surviving the D-3 battle, according to the rules, in the absence of a Level 2 Investigator, it would take at least five junior investigators and equipment to have any hope of winning against the D-Class Phantom Monster, let alone protect the infected Yu Zhao at the same time.
But now......
Once D-3 completes the invasion of the physical world and does not eliminate it in time, more infected people will appear, and if there is a serious loss of control among the infected, more "doors" will be opened, giving more monsters a chance to invade the physical world, creating a vicious circle.
Zou Li clenched his back molars, and he gave orders with the belief that he would die.
"This is Group A, notify Group B, the direction of the infected person has changed, lock the position of Group A, our sanity can be maintained under the influence of D-3 for five minutes at most, Group A will control the [virtual monster] codenamed D-3 at all costs, I hope Group B will hurry up and bring the equipment to join my Group A."
After saying that, the other two people present knew what the order meant.
Sacrifice and dedication are the oaths they made before entering the Investigation Bureau.
Picking up the silver-white metal suitcase beside him, he stretched out his feet and fell into the air without fear.
Step by step.
The three of them walked in the rain curtain like this, and quietly approached Yu Zhao at a high altitude where no one was looking.