Fast Forward To three thousand and seventy seven

Dinner is over.

The members of the expedition who had enough to eat and drink were arranged to the room already prepared in the observation station, and the action time was set for tomorrow morning.

Xu Jiu puts his backpack and tracing light on the bed. He doesn't mean to rest. He goes straight out and climbs the top floor of the observation station.

Zheng Yi has been waiting here in advance.

Straddling the fence at the edge of the platform, looking back at Xu Jiu, Zheng Yi lit a cigarette between her fingers and spat,

"It looks like it's going to rain tomorrow. It's really unlucky. Nothing's going well."

Look up.

Dark clouds piled up in the night sky and there were no stars and moons.

The oncoming night wind, with wet and cold, blew the corners of the windbreaker and made a sound of hunting.

"What's the second thing the stationmaster said?"

With one hand on the fence, Xu Jiu jumped up and sat outside with two legs. Xu Jiu waved his hand and refused. He and Zheng Yi met alone after everyone separated. Naturally, it was not a coincidence, but they discussed it at the dinner table.

The second thing the webmaster said had little to do with the environmental changes around the crown specific area, but mentioned what happened on the night of the abnormal outbreak of the crown specific area.

At that time, even if Xu Jiu rose to the sky at the gathering point of Wushan mountain, he saw only a dark red halo like hell magma rising to the sky, while the people in the observation station watched the whole process.

Because of the sudden accident, the mystics in the observation station fell into chaos. The rapidly deteriorating mental state forced others to look after these people for the first time. In the process, an accident happened.

The special constitution of the mystics makes their ability start to run wild after they are affected by the shock wave at a close distance!

Even the elite stationed in the observation station are inevitably affected in the face of the spiritual impact from their peers.

That alone is enough. The observation station is not without equipment and drugs to treat mental disorder. However, the problem lies in the subsequent experience of these affected people.

"The source of the ability of the mystics is very special. Their violent behavior will produce a certain degree of mental pollution around them. This is certain. People at the observation station think that as long as their mental state returns to normal, even if it is not affected, they do not know that there are sequelae."

The awakening ceremony is the core secret of the secret society, which involves the problem of evil. Xu Jiu has to keep it secret for them and can only explain it in another way.

"So the members of the observation station, including the webmaster, will continue to have the same dream in the near future and have the symptoms of sleepwalking?"

Zheng Yi fiercely turns her head and looks at Xu Jiu.

"Yes, I'm afraid that's the reason, but it doesn't matter how. The real key lies in the content of their dreams."

Xu Jiu rubbed the light tracing knife handle across his leg and recalled the webmaster's description of the dream.

The members of the observation station have all dreamed of appearing in the cities in the crown level special area recently, not the cities that have become relics, but the prosperous cities that seem to be located in another space.

They saw a large number of strange "people" or humanoid creatures.

According to the stationmaster, a considerable number of people on the street in the dream have strange organs, square noses, fins on their backs, strange sharp corners on their foreheads... Such strange limbs can be seen everywhere.

The dreamers mingled among them, completely out of control, just blindly moving forward.

This is the general content of the dream, and the scene seen by each member in the dream will be more or less repeated, which undoubtedly means that they have entered the same dream.

Not only that, the members of these observatories noticed the same thing in their dreams.

That is, all people in the city are pursuing something. They often gather together and shout some slogans. However, because they don't know the language and can't walk with their own mind, it's difficult to find out what they are pursuing.

"I think these people are influenced by the mystics and are too close to the crown level special area. In short, what they see is that nine times out of ten things have happened in the ruins of that city."

I wanted to ask about the situation in the crown level specific area, but I learned these strange phenomena from the webmaster. Xu Jiu only felt that his mind was rising.

"Is it possible that what they dream of is what is happening in the city ruins?"

Before, Zheng Yi said that there were a large number of invisible residents in the urban relics in the Wushan gathering point. Now this inference can not be said to be groundless.

"Maybe, rather than studying whether the 'people' they dream of are the residents you found in the ruins of that city, I care more about whether those 'people' will change accordingly when the evil energy is diffuse."

This action is to seal the evil spirit again. Xu Jiu is obviously more concerned about the possible crisis than spending time studying the secrets in the crown level specific area.

"You can only take one step at a time. Anyway, as long as you seal the evil back, the bad situation in the crown level special area can be alleviated."

Zheng Yi can probably guess Xu Jiu's idea, but he can't figure out the situation for a moment. The cigarette is about to burn and his fingers don't notice it.

After all, I decided to focus on the main goal of this trip.

It's hard to say. Zheng Yi knows that this is probably her last journey. No matter what happens in the crown level special area, it has nothing to do with him, because he can't return to Wusu city alive!

"It's raining. If there's nothing wrong, I'll go back and have a rest first. Come to me whenever you have anything."

Feeling the raindrops hanging from his hair, Xu Jiu didn't prepare to get wet outside in the evening. He said hello and turned around to leave.

"Xu Jiu, if there is an accident on this trip, I hope you can take care of Madeleine and them. These people are the backbone of Wusu city in the future... They shouldn't be in it."

With her back to Xu Jiu, who had just walked out a few steps, Zheng Yi said.

"Don't worry, I won't pull down any of them within my ability. It's you who can fight for yourself."

"Ha ha, I've already arranged it."

With Xu Jiu's promise, Zheng Yi answered with a smile.

TA~

Raindrops fell on the burning end of the cigarette, and the water penetrated, and the not bright Mars immediately darkened.

Zheng Yi was stunned, put her cigarette in front of her, looked at it and threw it away. Her body suddenly bent in the gradually dense light rain.

Back to her room, Xu Jiu hung her coat on a hanger.

He stood in front of the window and stared at the gray clouds over the distant crown level special area for a while. Instead of going to bed, he went to the sofa and sat down.

It is needless to say that the officials of Wusu take care of all aspects of the observation station. Although the place is small, all kinds of facilities will not fall behind. The layout of this lounge alone is not much different from that of a single room in an ordinary hotel.

Taking off his shoes, he drove his legs to the wooden table in front of the sofa. Xu Jiu opened a can of drink and watched the program on TV.

He's not going to bed tonight.

The observation station is too close to the crown level specific area. The station master just made it clear that most of the personnel here have been affected.

In the past, but now the round bead is forcibly sealed by him because of the riots. The spirit vision can't use it, and the independent resistance to the evil energy is completely ineffective.

On the premise of failing to ensure environmental safety, Xu Jiu won't be greedy for those hours of sleep. Moreover, with his current physical quality, it won't have any impact if he doesn't sleep all night.

Take out the mobile phone to connect to the network of the observation station. Xu Jiu wants to contact Vanessa and see the current state of Fuling. Only here does he open the chat software. Xu Jiu suddenly gets up and looks back at the wall on the right.

Just now, there was a strange sound coming from inside, like something shuttling through the wall and the sound of falling rubble.

Put the phone back in your pocket and press it against the wall.

The perception instantly spread away, and a flash of confusion flashed in Xu Jiu's eyes. Through his own perception, he found that the wall in front of him was not thick, and there lived a mysterious scholar next door, who was lying in bed, a distance from the wall.

Can this observation station also be a bean curd residue project?

Xu Jiu shook his head, returned to the sofa and began to send a message to Vanessa. He didn't notice the thin black fog penetrating into the wall.

......

I was speechless all night.

Not only did the rain last night not stop, but there was a faint trend of expansion.

The stationmaster of the observation station said that Zheng Yi and his party could stay for two more days and act again when the weather cleared up, but they were directly rejected by the latter.

It's spring now. The rain on the wasteland is not accurate at all. If it rains for three or five days, will they wait here?

When the weather clears up, I'm afraid only God knows what the hell has become in the crown level special area.

So the group immediately went to the crown level special area after breakfast.

A few kilometers away, take the off-road vehicle prepared by the observation station, and it didn't take much time to reach the periphery of the crown level specific area.

Xu Jiu got off first, covered with a layer of air cover, and intercepted all the rain.

He turned his eyes to the continuous twisted shrubs in front of him. When he was on the top platform of the observation station, because he was far away and high, he just felt that there was a strange thorn bush here.

But now in front of him, Xu Jiu found that one of these "shrubs" was more than five meters high, entangled with branches and thorns, and forcibly set up a wide isolation belt between the light barrier and the wasteland.

Coupled with the gloomy sky and hazy rain, it looked like a city wall at first glance.

Let alone people, I'm afraid those vigorous rabbits can't get in.

In the face of this situation, Madeleine took the initiative to stand up and hold the handle of the knife in her right hand. She was just stopped by Xu Jiu on the way.

"Don't bother so much. You all stand behind me."

Walking to the front of the team, Xu Jiu raised his hand with a fist. The dark blue pillar of fire with a diameter of more than three meters suddenly burst out. In the blink of an eye, he opened a channel and immediately waved to disperse the flame.

Carrying the tracing light, Xu Jiu stepped forward. Xu Jiu was the first one, and his sight wandered around. Soon he was attracted by the purple and black soil layer on the ground. Even if the soil of the wasteland was drenched by rain, it should be brown.

"This jungle is polluting the wasteland. If we continue to expand like this, I'm afraid the surrounding area of this crown level special area will become a restricted area in the future."

Walking behind Xu Jiu, Zheng Yi also noticed the change of the ground. When she was talking, she suddenly found that Xu Jiu in front stopped and turned her head to stare at a place in front of her right.

Others followed and looked at it. At a glance, they saw the black silhouette seen in the photos distributed by the webmaster.

More than one!

They were in the twisted jungle only more than ten meters away from the team. Xu Jiu could clearly see that these black silhouettes showed a flat state, but the body was composed of an amorphous colloid, which looked like a materialized ghost, which was very strange.

"Can we observe whether there is evil energy on them?"

As I said before, because the round bead was sealed, Xu Jiu couldn't even use his psionic ability without taking the initiative to unseal it. He had to turn around and wave to the nearest secret instrument and ask.

The mystic who got the instruction pulled down his special glasses, then looked at Xu Jiu and nodded. It seemed that he couldn't fully express his meaning, so he trotted up and said,

"Sir, that dark shadow is full of high concentration of evil energy. I suspect it is a strange one."

"High concentration... I see."

Xu Jiu glanced at the spectacle device on the secret instrument's face. Although it was not as good as psionic vision, it also had a part of the function of detecting evil energy.

Unfortunately, the production process is extremely cumbersome, and there are only a few sets in the whole secret society. Xu Jiu originally wanted to borrow one. After thinking about it, he still gave it to these secret ceremonies. After all, some props and equipment on hand need to be used with glasses, but Xu Jiu's demand is not so urgent.

"It's weird. Why do I think they're all looking here?"

Albert frowned and walked to Xu Jiu and asked in a low voice.

The cicada molting apostles like Albert, who are good at long-range attack, are very sensitive to the attention from the surrounding. Now he has noticed the peeping eyes, but the source of these eyes makes him a little uneasy.

"Just try."

Xu Jiu snapped his fingers, and a fireball suddenly shot at a black silhouette.

As a result, the fireball directly penetrated the body of the black silhouette without causing any waves.

"There was no collision. It's probably a collection of evil energy... Don't worry about it. Do our business first."

After a short test, Xu Jiu, who had no harvest, resolutely gave up further exploration and moved on.

On the top platform last night, Xu Jiu had reached a consensus with Zheng Yi to give priority to returning the sealed sneakers back to their original positions anyway.

After crossing the jungle wall, the party finally came to the strange light barrier. Xu Jiu stopped and looked back at the team. The people were waiting in a solemn atmosphere.

Xu Jiu turned his eyes to Zheng Yi and raised his eyebrows. The latter immediately understood, turned to the other team members and said loudly,

"Ladies and gentlemen, how important is the success or failure of this operation? I don't need to say more... According to the original plan, first go to the urban relics to find the ticket and start!"

Xu Jiu's original intention is to let Zheng Yi say two words to boost morale. He didn't think that the latter didn't intend to talk nonsense at all.

After saying that, Zheng Yibian replaced Xu Jiu to the front of the team and stepped into the different light barrier with her head held high.

This action is more effective than any language!