Invade the World

  Chapter 167 The Gate of Void Death

  "……"

  The man with glasses sitting in the passenger seat did not speak, and motioned for them to put on the equipment. Qian Yingxiu and her companion nodded in agreement, and moved the backpack beside her feet neatly and tied it with a belt around her waist.

  The thick outer wall of the off-road vehicle blocked the gloomy rain, and no sound from the outside could be heard. Only the inaudible vibration caused by the water droplets constantly beating on the roof and windows of the car.

  But when she pushed the car door to go out, thick water vapor soon poured into the car with the patter of rain, swallowing all the members of the psychic team who got out of the car.

  The night is dense and silent, surrounding this residential area in the old city. The off-road vehicle drove all the way, and through the window she saw several residential buildings that had been demolished and remodeled.

  The surrounding sceneries, the concrete pavement, the trees and grasses planted next to the road, the meadows not far away, and the old-fashioned houses all seem to have been smeared with a layer of color.

  The lampshade of the street lamp above the head was shrouded in a hazy halo in the steaming mist.

  Qian Yingxiu put on the brim of the hat, the rain in the sky was not heavy, the raindrops rolled from the surface of the jacket, but the coldness kept drilling down the gaps in the sleeves and neckline.

   "The goal is there, right?"

  The man who followed her down from the back seat of the car put down the bag in his hand, and watched side by side with the woman at the three-story old house not far away.

  The little-headed man who spoke was nicknamed Aping, who was about the same age as her, and Qian Yingxiu had the best relationship with colleagues.

"The main task this time is to explore the internal environment of the haunted house. If you are referring to the suspected Type A evil spirit'Song Deshou', it is actually not our goal," Qian Yingxiu heard her voice slightly dry. , "It is a good thing that we can observe its law of action. It doesn't matter if we don't find it, safety first."

   "You took too seriously, Young-soo."

  Apping sighed, lifted the travel bag containing the communication equipment, and asked the team leader who turned off the engine and got off the vehicle:

  "Can I go first? By the way, set up the temporary signal base station for transfer."

"you go first."

  The man was talking in a low voice with the man with glasses beside him, turned his head and replied.

  The leader is a tall, taciturn man. According to Qian Yingxiu’s experience with him on several missions, he is a very reliable team leader, not only the ability as a psychic, but also the perseverance that is not surprised when faced with critical situations. I heard that he is a very reliable team leader. Veterans.

  Appin crossed the road and headed towards the haunted house.

  The endless sound of rain echoed in my ears.

  Qian Yingxiu stared at the end of the road. There were wild grasses everywhere outside the house. Parthenocissus covered the entire wall; the glass windows were mostly broken, and the inside was dark and rumbling, and nothing was visible.

   Appears to be a long-abandoned building, but according to survey data, it is very likely that there are living people living here, as well as... multiple distant creatures including an A-type evil spirit.

   "This house...looks like a living creature"-the moment this thought came to her mind, Qian Yingxiu was taken aback and stared at the building intently.

  The rain was rushing underground, and the haunted house under the night was quiet and solemn, without any abnormalities.

  Qian Yingxiu couldn't help pinching her palm with her fingertips.

   "Anything?"

  The captain seemed to have noticed her anomaly and walked over to ask.

   "...No." The woman whispered, "But, I'm a little uncomfortable."

  "Don’t underestimate your intuition. I heard that the sixth sense of perceptual psychics is more accurate than ordinary people. Very few people can even perceive future crises..."

   "I'm far from reaching that level."

  Qian Yingxiu shook her head and denied it.

"I'm just thinking that it is not easy to deal with a haunted house that can give birth to a type of evil spirit. The manpower here is also very short. Originally this kind of task was assigned to others, but now we can only send our team to do it. "

The so-called regional official agency generally means that each city has a team responsible for special environmental investigations and special operations. Each team is a relatively complete group that can independently deal with all kinds of supernatural threats that occur in the region, including uncovering hidden Possessed in the crowd and regularly clean up newly born haunted houses.

Only when encountering more difficult enemies, such as high-level evil spirits that can act independently, groups that use psychic abilities to conduct criminal activities, or even supernatural events that may cause large-scale chaos, will detachments in different regions appear at the headquarters to support leadership Case of joint action under the following.

In fact, the status of each regional detachment is relatively independent. In order to better handle affairs, the detachment will be responsible for different tasks including providing logistical support, preliminary investigation, communication with civil volunteers and other official departments, media control, etc. The team is convenient for division of labor and cooperation.

  Some group members are mainly composed of psychics, and some groups even include ordinary people, such as experienced criminal police.

  But the core position in a detachment is undoubtedly the action team where Qian Yingxiu and others belong. The internal members of this type of team are basically psychics, including members of the investigation department and those who are good at frontal combat.

There are three officially numbered action teams in the Jinjiang City Detachment. Their tasks are more dangerous than ordinary teams. They are all carrying out clearance of haunted houses or destroying possessors, not this kind of preliminary investigation task... although it is indeed very important.

For a haunted house with a high degree of threat like No. 41 Anning Street, the general approach is to monitor and control, while the clearance plan will be relatively postponed. The important thing is to ensure that the internal supernatural threats will not leak out and affect ordinary people. People's daily life.

  Maintaining social stability is their top priority. Of course, if it is the kind of haunted house that has become a den of evil spirits, it needs to be dealt with as soon as possible, and the specific situation is analyzed in detail.

  But no matter which response strategy you choose in the end, the first step is environmental investigation.

   "Don't take it too seriously." The captain smiled and comforted, "The investigation task is safer. This is a good thing. If something goes wrong, you can immediately retreat."

   "Doesn't this just explain the danger of the haunted house? After all, Director Sun is here..."

  She lowered her voice subconsciously.

  The man with glasses serves as an instructor in the Jinjiang Special Operations Detachment. He is assigned by his superiors. He usually does not act with the group unless it is to perform confidential tasks.

   "Let's go."

  Before the captain could answer, Guidance Sun walked towards them, and they temporarily interrupted the conversation.

  ……

  The three people crossed the road and came to the door of the haunted house.

  Ping, who was in charge of communicating with the headquarters, was wearing a large headset, squatting in front of a communication device like a speaker, and making an "OK" gesture when he saw them coming.

   "Okay, it's not too late."

  The captain gives an order.

  "Are you ready to enter? Everyone wears a mask."

  The environment in the haunted house is perilous, and even the air you breathe may hide maliciousness enough to kill.

She had seen it with her own eyes before. The team members who were lifted out of the haunted house grew mushroom-like growths from their mouths. People are alive with anger, and they are actually victims of distant powers. Finally died in an extremely painful struggle.

  After dissecting the corpse, the medical staff found that his internal organs were all entangled with mycelium from another world. The reason was that he had inhaled excessive air inside the haunted house containing a certain spore-like substance.

  However, if the team can have a strong enough Perception System psychic, no matter how deep the hidden danger is, it can be discovered in advance... But, as Qian Yingxiu herself said, she is still far away from that level.

   Put on protective masks, and help each other check whether the holes in the work uniforms are tight, and then the four people made a final confirmation with gestures.

  "Thorn...thorn..."

  The sound of electric current came from the earphones that were already equipped.

  Guide Sun pushed **** the seemingly collapsed door, and found that it was motionless like a copper wall and iron wall.

  Of course, everyone knows that the door of a haunted house cannot be pushed open so easily, unless the owner of the haunted house intends to "invite" outsiders into it—for example, to lure ordinary people into the house and create possessors manipulated by it.

  Qian Yingxiu saw the captain carefully take out a glass jar from his pocket and walked to the door.

  Without having to look closely, she knew what was in the jar.

  ——That is a fragment of a door.

  I heard that it was an item obtained from a far-reaching world-class haunted house incident in the 1980s. It can resonate with most haunted houses in the world.

  The main body of the door of the haunted house, code-named "Void", is kept in a laboratory, and part of it is processed into special props that can be used by people.

  Qian Yingxiu has seen it before. In fact, there is only a very small piece of wood chips, but that ability is genuine.

  People can use the fragments of the "Void Gate" to forcibly open the door of the haunted house, or through the resonance between other fragments placed in the real world, find the way to the real world and evacuate in time.

  In front of this door, the most troublesome thing to deal with the haunted house phenomenon is the two things of "entering" and "leaving".

Because the internal environment of the haunted house is isolated from the real world, if the evil spirit that controls the haunted house does not want people to enter it, it is not easy for outsiders to open the door between the two worlds; not to mention that even if you enter, the ending will be the same. Back.

  Only people with special power or strong enough to cross the distance between them, and even those who can resonate with individual haunted houses, can open the door of haunted houses, and these two kinds of people are very few in the world.

   "Squeak—"

  The door was opened, revealing the dark and gloomy scenery inside.

  Four people stepped forward and filed in one by one.

  *

   "I heard that this haunted house only appeared recently, but according to the record, there were rumors of a haunted house several years ago?"

  Aping’s voice came from the headset.

  Everyone turned on the flashlight, and four bright beams of light swayed back and forth between the black ceiling and the wall.

   "Yes, as you can tell from the appearance of this house, it has been abandoned for a long time."

  Qian Yingxiu walked forward cautiously and replied at the same time.

  Occasionally when the flashlight light flashed from her feet, she could see black shadows like tadpoles roaming on the floor around the four of them.

  This anomaly did not arouse the attention of the players, because it was an evil spirit controlled by Qian Yingxiu himself.

  Compared with other psychics, Perception psychics have another specialty, that is, they can work effectively for a long time. This is because the loss caused by controlling evil spirits is often closely related to the intensity of interference in the real environment or human consciousness.

   "Song Deshou, his son Song Jing, his daughter-in-law Qi Qiufang, and grandson Song Yao, this was originally a place where a family of four lived."

   "Later, Song Jing and Qi Qiufang both died, Song Deshou and his grandson moved back to their hometown, and they moved back only when they were in high school."

  "We sent people to his hometown to investigate. Since high school, the grandfather and grandson have been estranged from their former relatives and friends, so no one knows when they moved into this house."

  "As for how Song Deshou became an evil spirit, whether this boy named Song Yao is the key is still unknown."

   "If Song Yao is really a psychic..."

  Apping’s voice sounded a little hesitant.

   "After we catch someone, at least let him stay in the youth correctional facility for a few years."

   "He killed people...and more than one!"

  The speaker glanced at him, and Aping, who was a little bit angry, closed his mouth subconsciously.

  The voice of Sun's guidance is a little cold:

   "You all know that if you want to completely clear the haunted house, you must at least eliminate the controller as the ‘master’ and expel other evil spirits as the ‘node’."

"Of course, everyone has read the plan. This time the task is not to clean up, but to investigate the environment. If you really meet Song Deshou, in the event of a head-on conflict, you need to make a decisive decision when you choose to retreat, and you must ensure that the members The safety of his life is the top priority."

  In fact, it means to run away as soon as you run into it.

  They are all experienced members. The captain and Director Sun can also be regarded as the kind of powerful combat effectiveness among the second-level psychics. With the strength of a few of them, they are enough to contend with high-level evil spirits in a short period of time.

  The reason for setting the rules is on the one hand because of the mission requirements; on the other hand, in the haunted house environment, the evil spirits may also have some more incredible abilities, which should not be underestimated.

  "What if you meet other evil spirits?"

   "That is our goal."

  Guide Sun answered decisively.

  "If the internal ‘node’ can be removed, it will not only weaken the overall power of the haunted house, but when the elite personnel sent from the headquarters will join in later, it will be able to go straight to Huanglong."

   "Yingxiu, do you have any gains?"

  Walking in the front, the captain turned his head and asked.

"……Found."

  She stared in amazement.

   "Look ahead!"

  A woman in white clothes walked silently in the corridor in front of them like a ghost.

  If Song Deshou is the owner of the haunted house, then according to their experience, this house has a human-shaped evil spirit other than it... it is a high probability that it is a node!

   "It appeared so soon?"

  Aping’s voice was surprised.

   "Go, keep up!"

  The four decisively moved in that direction.

  (End of this chapter)