The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

But even if she wanted to find Shen Ge, she was powerless. Seeing the strange cockroach rushing towards her again, Fang Mingyue made up her mind and decided to give it a try and detonate a high explosive under it.

At this moment, a figure fell from the sky and stepped on the strange cockroach's head with a "bang". Then a silver light flashed, and the strange cockroach's head rolled to the ground.

"Xiao Fang, I think you're right. After I go back, I've decided to ask the minister for a month's vacation, and then go out for a trip to relax. I'll touch her fish for a month first!"

Shen Ge twisted his neck, without even looking at the beheaded level 3 monster at his feet, and jumped directly off the monster's corpse.

"You, this, it..." Fang Mingyue knew that Shen Ge was powerful, but she didn't expect him to be so powerful that he could kill a level 3 monster with just one sword.

Shen Ge stopped talking nonsense and said straight to the point: "There are many strange things hidden in the old buildings nearby. The situation is much more complicated than you think. There is no problem with your decision. Let them continue to move forward along the established route. Leave the strange things around here to me."

After Shen Ge finished speaking, he leaped up and stepped on the "air" to reach the rooftop of a shop nearby. Then he jumped into the shop and disappeared from Fang Mingyue's sight.

"Shen Ge!" Before Fang Mingyue could finish the rest of the words, the other person had disappeared. She could only choose to believe Shen Ge at this time.

When Fang Mingyue rushed to the entrance, she found that the manhole cover had been opened, which meant that other team members had entered the sewer first.

Fang Mingyue jumped down into the hole, which was about several meters deep. A distance ahead were the extensive pipes and passages of the Dajing underground drainage system.

As soon as she reached the bottom, Fang Mingyue heard several gunshots echoing from the block above. It sounded like a "revolver" and was followed by a strange growl.

Although Fang Mingyue was worried about Shen Ge's safety, she knew that what was more important now was to complete the mission, which was related to the safety of the entire shelter.

It was pitch black in the sewer and nothing could be seen. Not knowing how many strange things were hidden in the darkness, Fang Mingyue did not dare to call out to her teammates and could only walk forward cautiously with a flashlight.

After walking for dozens of meters in the general direction of the "Penguin Building", Fang Mingyue came to a "cave" about a dozen square meters in size.

A dark, indescribable object hangs upside down in the center of the cave. It is like a pool of black sludge and black blood condensed into a half-human, half-monster thing, with drops of black blood still dripping from its body. On the ground, there was black blood at least ten centimeters deep in the entire cave, which was extremely disgusting.

The indescribable mass was hanging there, "dripping blood", and the whole thing looked like a piece of melting meat. Its lower body was melting and bleeding, while its upper body had dozens or even hundreds of black blood vessels extending into the cave wall, as if it had merged with the wall.

"What... is this?" Fang Mingyue had never seen anything so disgusting and weird before, and almost subconsciously took out the weird energy detector to scan.

"Level 4 strange energy strength!"

Fang Mingyue obviously didn't expect that such a disgusting thing turned out to be a level 4 monster. She immediately stepped back cautiously, fearing to alarm the other party.

Before she took two steps back, she suddenly bumped into someone. The other person seemed to have not expected Fang Mingyue to suddenly step back, and subconsciously raised his hand to pinch Fang Mingyue's neck.

The beam of light in Fang Mingyue's hand swept across the opponent's movements. She reacted extremely quickly. She leaned back to avoid the attack and raised her hand. The dagger in her hand slashed across the man's throat. It was only a fraction of a second away from piercing, but he dodged it at the critical moment.

Fang Mingyue slid down with the dagger in her hand and slashed the man's chest. Blood splattered all over her. Just as she was about to stab the man in the heart, she suddenly heard a gunshot.

The man suddenly had a gun in his hand, and the bullet went straight through Fang Mingyue's shoulder. This shot also slowed down her attack, giving the man a chance to avoid the fatal blow.

"City defense team uniform, are you from the City Defense Team? Who are you?" Fang Mingyue saw the City Defense Team's combat uniform from the other party's coat that was cut open on the chest.

Since the main responsibility of the city defense team is to maintain order in the city, unlike the exploration team and the ghost hunting team who need to frequently enter and exit areas covered by ghost energy, the research department made major adjustments to their combat uniforms.

This kind of combat uniform is different from the combat uniforms of the Exploration Team and the Ghost Hunting Team, which mainly focus on ghost energy defense. The effect of ghost energy protection is slightly worse, but the effect of bulletproof and cold weapon protection is still good.

This is also why Fang Mingyue could have pierced the opponent's chest with the first slash of the knife, but she only penetrated less than one-fifth of the way.

Bang bang bang!
The other party fired several shots in a row. Fortunately, Fang Mingyue had already expected that the other party was coming for her. What she said just now was just to divert attention. While speaking, she had already turned off the flashlight and retreated into the cave where the weirdness was.

Fang Mingyue judged from the gunshots that the other party was using the city defense team's standard pistol. The bullets should have been used up, but there was no guarantee that there were spare magazines or other firearms. Therefore, she did not rush out rashly, but listened quietly to the movements in the passage, trying to find an opportunity to counterattack.

At this moment, several gunshots were heard from the other end of the corridor. Fang Mingyue immediately recognized that these were the revolver gunshots that had echoed in the block before.

Is Shen Ge here?
Or was it that the person who fired the shots in the block earlier was not Shen Ge, but that man's companion?

Fang Mingyue couldn't be sure whether the person coming was this man's accomplice or reinforcement. She could only hide against the wall with her body hunched, pressing the wound on her shoulder, and continue to listen to the movements in the passage to prevent the other party from suddenly attacking.

At this moment, with a "bang", a heavy object was thrown at Fang Mingyue's feet. Just as she was about to fight back, she heard a familiar voice: "It seems that someone doesn't want you to complete the mission, or in other words, doesn't want us to return alive."

The person who spoke was Shen Ge. After he solved the strange problems in some key locations in the block above, he also jumped into the sewer. As a result, he heard gunshots as soon as he came in.

So Shen Ge activated "Invisible + Silent" for the sake of caution. After confirming that the person with the gun was not Fang Mingyue and her team members, he shot him in the face with a few shots and crippled his hands and feet, then threw him at Fang Mingyue's feet.

With two "clicks", the flashlights in Shen Ge and Fang Mingyue's hands lit up at the same time, but one swept towards the ground and the other swept towards each other.

"Shen Ge!" Although Fang Mingyue had known for a long time that Shen Ge would not be in any danger, she felt relieved and excited at the same time when she saw him standing in front of her unharmed.

"Come and see who this person is." Shen Ge said as he squatted in front of the man and pulled off the mask on his face. Under the mask was a skinny face, as if he had been hungry for a long time, and even his eyes were sunken.

"Priest Lu?" Fang Mingyue recognized the other person's identity immediately after seeing the face clearly. He was one of the priests of the New God Religion and was said to be the former captain of the city defense team.

"Priest? So you are a member of the New God Church? I heard that you believe in weirdness as the new god? I see that your god didn't say he would protect you." Shen Ge teased.

Priest Lu stared at Shen Ge coldly without saying anything. First, he didn't expect that the strangeness outside and the hidden subordinates couldn't stop Shen Ge. He was caught by Fang Mingyue just when he was about to attack him. Second, Shen Ge crippled his hands and feet. Now he was a lamb to be slaughtered. Nothing he said would help. "The bishop sent you?" Fang Mingyue took out a dagger and put it against Priest Lu's throat, trying to force him to tell the reason why he was following her.

But Priest Lu kept silent, allowing Fang Mingyue's dagger to cut his skin, and he kept glaring at Shen Ge fiercely with gritted teeth.

"Why are you looking at me? She's the one asking the question. Didn't your bishop teach you that it's polite to look at the other person when they are talking? Tsk, your local cult is too rude." Shen Ge looked at Priest Lu with disdain. The look in his eyes, as if he was looking at garbage, immediately made the other party spit out blood.

I don't know if Priest Lu was brainwashed too badly by the New God Cult, or if he was really a man who could not bend under the pressure. No matter how Fang Mingyue forced him, he would not say a word.

Seeing this, Shen Ge also squatted down, raised his hand and pressed his fingertips on the center of Priest Lu's brow, and began to inject strange power to hypnotize him: "Let me do it!"

Shen Ge's ability to hypnotize others is still to be developed. So far, he has only used it on Fang Mingyue and others who were trapped in the strange domain, and he only used it to pull them out of other strange domains.

He originally wanted to create an effect similar to that of obedient water on Priest Lu, making him answer Fang Mingyue's questions honestly, but after several attempts he found it difficult to achieve.

Since it is impossible to hypnotize him in this "gentle" way, Shen Ge can only resort to more violent means and directly let Priest Lu fall into his own strange domain, allowing him to experience the real "terror".

The experience was naturally intercepted from Shen Ge's "experiences" in Rongshan Mental Hospital. Although the initial experience did not scare Shen Ge, that was because he was immune to ghosts. If it were any ordinary person, whether it was the old man under the bed or the dean of the Neck, it would be a problem to last a few minutes, let alone a few months.

As expected, Priest Lu only lasted three minutes before he began to struggle violently, shouting "Don't come over, don't eat me" and so on. Just as Shen Ge was about to wake him up and let Fang Mingyue continue to interrogate him, the other party kicked his legs and straightened up!

"?"

???

Shen Ge and Fang Mingyue were both stunned, obviously not expecting such a situation.

Fang Mingyue looked at Shen Ge blankly and asked, "Shen Ge, is this...fainted from fright?"

Shen Ge raised his hand to feel the other person's breath, then pressed his neck, looked at Fang Mingyue and said awkwardly: "It seems... dead?"

“……” It’s you who did it. Don’t you know whether it’s a scam or not?
Seeing Fang Mingyue's helpless eyes, Shen Ge felt even more helpless: "I didn't expect that a dignified priest would have such poor psychological quality. He would die from a simple shock."

"What happened to him just now?" Fang Mingyue asked curiously.

Shen Ge asked tentatively: "I worked in a hospital before the end of the world, and I know a little bit of hypnosis. This is reasonable, right?"

Shen Ge felt a little reluctant when he said it himself, but Fang Mingyue actually nodded and said, "It's quite reasonable."

"As long as it's reasonable, I was thinking of hypnotizing him to lower his resistance so that you can interrogate him. But who knew that the stimulation was too great and he died directly. Alas, if such a person can become a priest, it is not difficult to see what kind of people the New God Cult is." Shen Ge also took the opportunity to discredit the New God Cult, trying to divert Fang Mingyue's attention.

In fact, Fang Mingyue's focus has never been on Shen Ge's ability, but she couldn't understand why the New God Cult would send a priest to follow her secretly and even want to kill her.

"Oh no, now is not the time to worry about the New Cult. Shen Ge, let's go! This is a dead end. There is a level 4 monster in the cave behind!" In fact, when Fang Mingyue discovered the level 4 monster, she was sure that the team members would definitely not take this road. Their task was not to clear the monsters in this area, but to get to the Penguin Building as soon as possible to find a way to lure all the monsters over there, and then carry out the search and rescue mission.

What's more, a level 4 monster may not be defeated even with the whole group's strength, not to mention that there are only her and Shen Ge now.

"Well, I know, I'm here to find it." Shen Ge said truthfully, without any exaggeration, because in his plan, it would be best to deal with all the third and fourth level monsters around before going to the Penguin Building to prevent them from jumping out to make trouble at the critical moment, or feeding a high-level monster.

"..." Fang Mingyue's eyes twitched. She was very doubtful whether she had heard it wrong. That was a level 4 weirdness. It would have been fine if he didn't hide from it, but why did he deliver it to her door on purpose?
"Um...can I ask out of curiosity, what kind of job did you do in the mental hospital before?" Fang Mingyue asked curiously. She really couldn't imagine what kind of person was not afraid of even the 4th level weirdness.

"Oh, being studied."

Shen Ge said this and walked towards the cave.

"..."

Fang Mingyue seemed to hear a voice in her ear in a trance, "He is kidding you." How could someone's job be studied in a mental hospital?

Shen Ge walked into the cave, waved the flashlight left and right, and observed the situation in the cave.

"Shen Ge, I know you are very powerful, but this is a level 4 monster. If we alarm it, we will be in big trouble." Fang Mingyue reminded in a low voice.

Shen Ge replied: "Don't be nervous, this monster seems to have fallen into a deep sleep."

"Sleeping?" Fang Mingyue was a little surprised.

Shen Ge nodded: "When the weirdness has absorbed enough weird energy, it will fall into a deep sleep before transformation. It will gradually transform the swallowed weirdness into its own weird energy before it can start the next stage of transformation. Usually at this time, the weirdness will choose a relatively safe place to sleep, and it is generally difficult to find it."

"Then this is?"

"Those who are often eaten by monsters should know that even if a greedy monster enters a dormant state, its body will instinctively devour the invader, and this monster is no exception."

"Ah?" Fang Mingyue obviously didn't understand what Shen Ge meant, and the sentence "anti-ghost warriors who are often eaten by monsters" was full of loopholes. If the environment did not allow it at the moment, or if Shen Ge was her subordinate, she would definitely start training him directly.

"To put it simply, what you see is an illusion. It is very likely that we are already in the belly of the weirdness. Don't look at me in surprise. I can only say that this weirdness is well hidden. It may have merged with this block, or just merged with the sewer. Anyway, from the moment we jumped down, we have been in its belly!" (End of this chapter)