Trickster Hunter

Chapter 374 City Debris

If there really is something strange among those relics...

Given the scope of activities of these scavengers, trying to track them down one by one is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

As he walked, Sun Hang suddenly felt that he might have missed some clues.

He originally planned to study the diary carefully after returning to the institute, but the impulse in his heart drove him to the door of a coffee shop and sat down at the tables and chairs on the street. Come down.

Sun Hang once again opened the "diary" "full of love for the goddess".

As Sun Hang turned, the pages, which were brittle due to the low temperature, kept making rustling sounds.

"Um?"

Sun Hang frowned, and he suddenly discovered that among these crazy words, some words seemed to be different.

It may not be obvious when you look at it directly with the naked eye, but if you gently rub the back of the page with your fingers, you can find that the owner of the diary deliberately increased his strength when writing this word, so that when he wrote this word, On the other side of the page, there were slightly raised marks.

Sun Hang circled these words one by one and found that they formed a smooth sentence.

"I must think of a way to escape from the goddess."

Sun Hang couldn't help but take a deep breath.

He suddenly realized that the scavenger's death did not seem to be that simple.

Perhaps, he knew the existence of the strange thing in the underground machine room from the beginning.

"He chose to betray the 'goddess' and failed, so he was punished?" Sun Hang muttered in a low voice, "Then... what is this 'goddess'... again?"

That weird thing in the underground computer room? Apparently not.

Then it could only be the being who took the videotape.

Could it be Anna?

Sun Hang thought for a moment and ruled out this possibility.

If it was Anna who did it, with her character, she would definitely "show off" in front of him - just like those children who have done "something awesome" and are eager to be praised by their parents.

Sun Hang felt extremely dizzy when he thought that there might be an elusive and unpredictable creature lurking in Tianfu City.

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Northern Xiazhou, East Siberian Plain.

The ruins of Baikal.

A well-equipped reconnaissance team is moving slowly through a reinforced concrete forest that looks like building debris.

B 77 "Aurora of Death" left a large, charred pit in its place after destroying the city of Baikal. With this large pit as the center, an area of ​​more than 100 kilometers has turned into an extremely dangerous contaminated area - any human or infected person who enters the contaminated area will be quickly transformed... in just a few seconds, It can last for tens of minutes, and no one is spared.

Just when the federal government was planning to completely abandon the Baikal ruins and shrink the border to Tatar territory, another change occurred.

Countless reinforced concrete structures that resembled the remains of human buildings "grew" in the pit... These structures broke out of the ground overnight, and they grew as fast as mushrooms after a rain. They smashed into the glassy ground, tore apart the charred soil, and rose up from the ground. Almost in just one hour, they created a "city's ruins" out of thin air.

At the same time, the intensity of pollution in the contaminated area has also dropped rapidly. After real-life testing, existing protective clothing can completely withstand the impact of the contaminated area - the remains of Baikal City are no longer a "forbidden zone" for humans. ".

The newly emerged urban remains were determined to be G-type monsters, provisionally numbered 790, and codenamed "The Remains of Baikal."

Within twenty-four hours after the "Baikal Skeleton" appeared, the Xiazhou Federation had dispatched more than fifty reconnaissance troops with more than 300 people to it...

This time, nearly two-thirds of the reconnaissance troops sent out returned to the forward base alive.

According to people who came back alive, there were a large number of strange objects wandering inside the "Baikal Skeleton" - but they could not be sure whether these strange objects were the advance troops swallowed by the contaminated area or the victims of Baikal City. who.

Some people believe that these strange objects are dead residents of Baikal City, but this view was quickly opposed by experts - the body of the "death aurora" B77 is a ball of plasma with a temperature of 17 million degrees Celsius. Even the buildings in Baikal City could not withstand such high temperatures and turned into ashes. How could humans, who were far more fragile than the buildings, have corpses left behind.

"If you look at it, those experts are just farting." A soldier in the reconnaissance team said, "Even these burned buildings can reappear, and of course those who died can also reappear... Maybe what the other teams encountered were not monsters at all, but the ghosts of the victims. "

"Wrongful souls are also a type of monsters." The tall and stocky machine gunner on the side muttered, "I would rather hope that they are zombies, zombies and other physical monsters... Our bullets can do nothing against spiritual monsters. None.”

"Okay, everyone, shut up and stay as quiet as possible." The team leader who was walking at the front turned back, "Don't you think these building ruins look weird?"

"It's very weird." The soldier who spoke at the beginning shrugged, "No matter how normal something is, if you put it in a high temperature of tens of millions of degrees and bake it for a while, it will be hard for it not to become weird, right? "

"Then just roast it, okay?" The only female soldier in the team rolled her eyes at him, "If you can only talk nonsense, just shut your mouth."

The team leader walked to the remains of a building, looked at it carefully, then took a few steps back, looked at it from a distance for a while, and finally shook his head: "It's weird... this feeling... …It’s like…”

"It's like a weird human body image in an AI drawing with seven or eight fingers and normally proportioned limbs put together in an irrational way." The sniper in the team who had never spoken suddenly said.

"Yes, that's the feeling!" The team leader nodded excitedly, "I just couldn't find a suitable description... It must be Glazkov. He is indeed a top student who graduated from the Baikal Academy of Fine Arts. You This metaphor really hits the nail on the head!”

"The proportions and structures of these buildings are very strange." Sniper Glazkov continued. "Although they appear to have been baptized by a fire and the structure of the buildings has been greatly deformed, some things cannot It’s changed... look at this building.”

Graz pointed to a four-story building not far away.

"There are no doors or windows on the first floor, but there is a door across the second floor. As for the third floor, the two windows are closely next to each other, and the other window is located at the junction of the second and third floors..." "While there are some eccentric designers who would design houses like this, I don't think this whole street of houses was designed by this type of designer," Glazkow said.

"Look, there's this!" The female soldier quickly ran to a restaurant and held up a signboard that was taller than her.

The sign was smoked black, but the words on it could still be vaguely seen.

"Do you recognize the words on this sign?"

There were six people in this reconnaissance team, five of whom were Siberians. The most commonly used language in Baikal City is not Chinese, the official language of the Xiazhou Federation, but Russian, the Siberian Federation. As their mother tongue, it is impossible for them not to recognize the words on this signboard.

But several soldiers stared at the sign for a long time, but no one recognized what was written on the sign.

The structure of these words is very similar to Russian, but they are not Russian.

They are more like a "new character" created based on the original Russian glyph structure.

"Is this...encrypted Russian?" the machine gunner murmured.

"No, it's not Russian." Glazkov shook his head. "I tried to compare it with Russian grammar and similar glyphs... and the result was a mess. I couldn't read it at all."

"In other words, this is a completely self-created text?" the team leader asked doubtfully.

"No...these words are actually the same as buildings." Glazkov said, "I don't know if you have ever been exposed to AI drawing. When you import a normal picture into the AI ​​software for secondary processing, the original picture Wherever there are words, AI will turn them into a weird code between words and symbols... Combined with the shapes of these buildings, I now even suspect that we are in a city generated by AI."

Graz swallowed and said, "To be more precise, it's in an image of... city debris drawn by AI."

"You mean...we are in the painting?" The soldier who spoke first was stunned. "No, Graz, this is absolutely impossible! The ruins of this city really exist on the ruins of Baikal. We are all on board. I went up to the sentry tower of the forward base, and I kept staring at the ruins of the city on the way here... How could it be a painting? "

"I was just making an analogy. I didn't say we were in a painting." Glazkov squatted down, picked up a handful of sand from the ground, and rubbed it between his fingers.

"I have an idea." The team leader pondered, "The original Baikal City has been destroyed, not even the wreckage is left... and the wreckage of the city we are in now is a G-shaped treacherous place. Thing... This weird thing tried to imitate a human city, but it failed to imitate it well, so it became like this. Do you think it makes sense?"

"A city that imitates humans? Why do monsters do this?" the machine gunner asked.

"Are you stupid? If you ask why the monster did what you did, why don't you ask your girlfriend why she lost her temper?" said the soldier who spoke first. He weighed the submachine gun in his hand, "I never do. I will think about the motives of the monsters. I only know that as long as a monster appears in front of me, I will sweep it into a sieve without hesitation! "

As soon as he finished speaking, a black figure flashed behind the window in the wreckage of the building closest to him.

"Who?" The soldier immediately picked up the submachine gun in his hand and aimed at the window.

"What's wrong?" The captain frowned, "Maxim, what did you see?"

"Something flashed from behind the window!" Maxim said, "I can guarantee it with my head! It must not be my imagination!!"

"Everyone! Be alert!" the captain shouted immediately, and the other four people quickly gathered around and used some obstacles on the street to form a defensive formation with crossfire.

"Captain, should we... go in and search?" Maxim hesitated for a moment and asked.

The building had no doors, only a window on the side near the street.

If there was something in there, it's definitely still in there now.

"Don't worry yet." The captain took out the drone's controller from his backpack and opened the folding joystick.

The drone that was originally suspended above everyone's heads and in "follow mode" immediately dropped its height and slowly approached the window.

Sniper Glazkov also pointed his sniper rifle at the window.

The moment the drone just passed through the window, a violent vibration came from without warning, and accompanied by a collapse sound, a large pile of bricks and rubble falling from a high place instantly hit Wu. Man-machine buried the drone in the ruins.

The captain immediately stretched out his hand and pushed Maxim to the ground. After the shaking was over, he shook off the sand that fell on his head and asked loudly, "Is anyone hurt?"

"No!"

"Still alive!"

"I'm fine, Captain!"

"I'm fine, just a little scratch on my face."

"What on earth just happened?"

"I don't know either." The captain dusted himself off, "But there is bad news, we lost the drone."

"So, the vibration just now was to destroy our drone?" Maxim looked a little strange, "But... if the other party wants to stop our exploration, they will directly collapse these buildings. It’s enough to bury our entire team alive, there’s no reason to only target drones…”

"Shut up!" the female soldier said immediately, "If it turns out to be what you said, will you be satisfied?"

"Attention everyone, retreat to the intersection... If a secondary collapse occurs, be careful to avoid high-rise buildings." The captain said while turning on the radio communicator, "The 19th Reconnaissance Team calls the base, the 19th Reconnaissance Team calls the base , we encountered an unknown earthquake in the L3 area. Some buildings collapsed on a small scale, and the drone was damaged, but there were no casualties. Someone witnessed something that looked like a strange object. It has not been confirmed yet... We need drone support, and we still need it. Need...Hello?"

"What's wrong Captain?"

"Suka BuLei!" The captain patted the communicator hanging on his shoulder angrily, "The signal interference is too serious! Normal communication is impossible at all!"