Late at night, the weather is good, the stars are bright, and a silver moon hangs high in the sky. There has been no wind or rain in Rongcheng in recent days. Although the temperature during the day is very high, at night, especially after the early morning, the temperature drops a lot.
An inconspicuous building on the edge of the city was brightly lit.
On the top of the building, a strange-looking reconnaissance weapon is set up to detect signs of strange beasts' activities 24 hours a day, covering a large area.
Dozens of such buildings for erecting reconnaissance weapons have been installed, and as time goes by, there will be more and more.
As one of the important large-scale cities in the coastal areas of the country, Rongcheng has far more manpower in the Superpower Management Bureau than in ordinary cities.
After the incidents of alien beasts attacking cities from the spirit world broke out one after another, the supernatural management agencies in cities across the country entered a state of tension. Investigators were on duty to ensure that someone could respond to accidents at any time.
"It's a shift change. Is there nothing wrong?"
At one o'clock in the morning, a team of investigators walked into the station and asked with a smile.
"No, everything is normal." The investigators who stayed up all night replied, got up one after another, put on their coats, and walked downstairs together.
Although everyone is a practitioner and young, sitting on duty without urgent tasks is very draining of one's energy. Many people yawned at this time.
"He Fan, your car hasn't been repaired yet? Take my car and let's go together." Wu An said to a very young colleague, who nodded hurriedly, "Sorry for the trouble, Brother Ha Wu."
"Hi, just a favor." Wu An smiled, took out his car keys, and walked to the parking lot.
As an old member of the Superpower Management Bureau, Wu An is several years older than these new colleagues. When the newcomers join the job, he is the one who leads them. For example, Luo Song, who has now graduated, is a classic old man who leads the new.
"Brother Wu, with your qualifications, there is no need to work the night shift!" He Fan was a young man who couldn't stop talking. As soon as the car drove out of the compound, he couldn't help but say.
"Yeah." Wu An admitted frankly, and then asked with a smile, "You think night shift is not good? I think it's good."
"Why?" He Fan asked curiously.
Wu An turned onto the cold street and said, "There are fewer people on the streets at night! Unlike during the day, if strange animals or gangsters appear at night, they will not be so constrained in dealing with them."
After finishing speaking, Wu An paused and added, "Moreover, if it is as told to us above, strange beasts from the spiritual world may suddenly appear in the city to cause destruction. If this is the case, we can avoid watching some people die."
But it was too late to save him."
He Fan was stunned. The atmosphere reflected by the lights on the dashboard in the car was a bit dreamy. He suddenly felt that Wu An's seemingly plain words were a bit heavy.
In silence, vehicles were driving in suburban areas at one o'clock in the morning. At this time, there were no cars on the street, and only the low hum of vehicle engines could be heard.
He Fan tried to liven up the atmosphere and began to talk about his recent experiences and new things happening on the Internet. He knew that Wu An didn't care much about these.
To become a senior investigator who can act independently, Wu An spends almost all his spare time training.
According to him, the more effort you put into training, the greater your chances of winning and surviving when facing strange beasts and gangsters in the future.
As a newcomer in the second batch of graduates from the Practitioner Academy, He Fan had experienced very few battles and lacked personal experience of it. He often felt that Wu An was a little too serious.
Just like now, I clearly just told a proud joke, but the only listener frowned.
"He Fan, do you feel something is wrong?" Wu An said in a deep voice.
"Ah? No!" He Fan was confused, and the light from the mobile phone screen shone on his confused face.
Wu An held the steering wheel and the vehicle drove at a constant speed, but his eyes gradually became sharper.
"Have you ever felt that the surroundings are too quiet?" Wu An said.
He Fan was stunned, observed carefully, and his expression became serious,
Yes, it's too quiet. Although it's one o'clock in the morning and most people are asleep, right now, looking out through the car window, the whole city is silent as if there is no movement at all.
Darkness surged, and a mysterious feeling of loneliness came over. It seemed as if only this car was left in the whole world.
"Squeak..."
Suddenly, the car under the seat suddenly made a sharp and harsh braking sound, and the body shook. Wu An turned the steering wheel fiercely, forcibly decelerating without warning, and completed a drift at the intersection ahead.
He Fan was caught off guard and was about to ask when he heard Wu An growl, "Look outside."
He looked blankly, and then his pupils shrank suddenly. He saw that the road ahead of the car was suddenly interrupted. Instead, there was no longer a reinforced concrete building, but a gray-brown palace wall.
Just like the outer wall of an ancient city in movies and TV shows, it stands tall and cuts off the path ahead. Above it happens to be a turret.
The towering city wall is covered with lights, and there are vaguely armored and sword-wielding guards patrolling, but they seem to turn a blind eye to the modern city on the other side.
"Where is this?" He Fan was horrified, but before he could react, Wu An stepped on the accelerator, and the black car roared like a beast.
In the night, there was a roar, like an arrow leaving the string, speeding in the opposite direction!
Just a few seconds after the car left, the asphalt road was suddenly replaced by a brick road, and the modern intersection with road signs and traffic lights suddenly disappeared.
The world overlaps at this moment, with modern cities and silent facilities being replaced by another world that resembles an ancient city.
"drop……"
The car's sharp horn echoed, and the pointer on the dashboard in the car had reached the far right side.
In the car, Wu An's expression changed from cold to ferocious. Through the rearview mirror, he could clearly see everything happening behind him.
Classical pavilions and houses rise from the ground, and the long street lamps disappear one by one.
Residential buildings have turned into classical restaurants with red lanterns hanging, and modern commercial buildings have turned into ancient houses.
If you raise the angle of view and look down from the sky.
You will find that at this moment, on the outskirts of Rongcheng East District, an area has been shrouded in hazy white mist.
The white fog in this area is still spreading in all directions, and a black car is running away on the road.
"Brother Wu! This vision should be caused by strange beasts from the spiritual world. Do they really appear in our realm?!"
In the car, He Fan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked ugly. He was just a newcomer who had just joined the job. The biggest "battle" he had experienced was a week ago, when he cooperated with his seniors to arrest a gangster with mid-level strength.
.
The current scene was completely beyond his experience.
"The superpower effect can affect such a large range. The opponent's minimum is the third level peak! Or even higher!" Wu An said word by word amidst the roar of the engine.
"If I guess correctly, there is the so-called space crack in the sky behind us. The spiritual weapon used to detect the alien beast does not respond. It should be that the alien beast is exerting its supernatural power on us through the space crack."
"Let's go back to the bureau! The strange beast's power has affected such a large area, the director and the others must have sensed it!" He Fan said nervously.
Wu An stepped on the accelerator, but his words were a bit heavy, "Not necessarily, something is wrong this time!" After a pause, he suddenly said, "We can't get trapped. Does the communicator have a signal?"
"No more!" He Fan said.
"Now we're in trouble." Wu An's head sank.
As he finished speaking, a sudden change occurred. Behind the vehicle, black figures jumped out from the ancient city, facing the wind, and suddenly turned into a three-meter-tall giant.
Pig-headed man?
Wu An and He Fan were shocked when they saw the figure clearly.
These giant pig-headed men held machetes also made of black shadows, which reminded Wu An and He Fan of the executioners in ancient execution grounds.
"Huh..." In the cool night breeze, the black shadowed pig-headed people made a cry like a night owl, carrying machetes, jumping along the streets, chasing, and hacking at cars.
"Bang!" The rear window glass was instantly cracked with white cracks, and then a series of sparks were drawn from the metal body.
"Damn it!" Wu An turned the steering wheel hard, and the car body swam, throwing the black shadow pig-headed man away, but he couldn't get rid of it completely.
The car was attacked from time to time, and the rear compartment quickly became riddled with holes.
"Brother Wu! We can't get rid of them like this!" Seeing this, He Fan said anxiously, holding the spiritual weapon long sword.
His awakened power is to increase his running speed. Sitting in a car, he cannot use his power at all.
"Switch positions, you drive!" Wu An said suddenly, then took He Fan's weapon with his free right hand and slashed towards the roof of the car.
With the sound of "tearing", a large piece of iron sheet flew out and hit a black shadowed pig-headed man.
As the strong wind blew in, He Fan subconsciously followed Wu An's instructions and pressed the accelerator with his left foot. Then, the freed Wu An jumped up, turned over and climbed onto the roof of the car, and He Fan took over the driving task.
"Buzz...bang!"
Wu An spread his right hand toward the back, the air vibrated, and a cyan air cannon flew out, knocking down a black shadow pig-headed man.
Then, his hands fired continuously, and his whole body turned into a fort, firing out air cannons one after another.
Despite the shaking of the car, Wu An's attack was steady and precise.
The pressure suddenly eased. In the car, He Fan was speeding along the road while paying attention to the battle situation, his eyes full of reverence.
"Brother Wu, we're leaving the suburbs!" He Fan shouted. According to the internal combat experience manual, the range of influence of alien beasts' abilities is limited and cannot grow endlessly.
Wu An on the roof of the car said, "It's too late."
"What?" The next second, He Fan saw in the rearview mirror that the white mist following behind him suddenly accelerated, like a wave, and was about to engulf the boat that the two of them were struggling to support.
His face turned pale, and at this moment, Wu An's voice rang in his ears, "Keep running, run out, and notify the bureau!"
After saying that, Wu An suddenly jumped up on the roof of the car, left the roof of the car, and hit the white mist that was chasing after him. At this moment, a golden aura bloomed all over his body, like a blazing torch, and the sword in his hand was a spiritual weapon.
Straight cut.
Wu An exploded the spiritual energy in his body, and with the power of one person, he temporarily stopped the spread of the white mist.
Although the delay was only less than two seconds, it was enough.
Amidst the roar of the engine, the dilapidated car rushed off the road, crashed straight into the cold river water, and escaped being swallowed by the white mist.
"Wow..." He Fan, who was soaked all over, broke through the water, raised his head, and saw the white mist that had stopped spreading on the road.
In the clear night sky, in addition to a silver moon hanging high in the sky, there is also a space crack with a diameter of several meters.
He took out the communicator from his pocket, saw that the signal had been restored, and hurriedly called, "Headquarters, headquarters, we...were attacked by alien beasts from the spiritual world!"
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Rongcheng, General Administration of Supernatural Powers Management.
Suddenly, a rapid siren sounded, startling everyone working the night shift.
"What happened?" Xie Yurong, who had just finished a video conference with the Beijing authorities, walked out of the office and saw doors opening on both sides of the corridor. People walked out in a daze and rushed towards the central hall.
"I don't know." The others shook their heads.
Xie Yurong's heart sank, and she suddenly thought of what was said in the meeting just now, about the inland river city of South Vietnam being attacked by alien beasts and a city district being destroyed.
Feeling uneasy, she quickly walked into the central hall and saw all the people on the night shift gathered. The big screen on the wall no longer showed the domestic map, but the city of Rongcheng under the satellite.
In the lens, there is nothing strange about the entire city.
"Director, the personnel on duty in the suburbs of the Eastern District reported that they were attacked by strange beasts from the spiritual world, and a large area has fallen!" Seeing Xie Yurong's arrival, Han Xue, who arrived first, said in a deep voice.
The scene was in an uproar.
"How is this possible? The monitoring system did not detect any abnormalities!" the person in charge of the early warning department questioned, "Even if the whereabouts of the alien beasts are hidden, there is no way there are no signs! If there are, even if the system cannot accurately locate it, it will still be there."
You can detect it in advance! This is unreasonable!"
"Han Xue, please explain the content of the report in detail." Xie Yurong said.
"According to the situation at the scene of the reporting personnel, it is speculated that the spiritual beast may not have come in person, but directly used its supernatural power on us through the space crack..." She did not continue, but everyone present heard it.
Got the underlying message.
This spiritual beast has not yet arrived, and the warning weapons placed throughout the city cannot provide a warning.
"How cunning!" someone murmured.
The tragedy brewing in the river city of South Vietnam has just ended a few hours ago. Is it possible that similar incidents are about to happen in China?
"Stop! Director, we will take people to the scene of the incident immediately. We cannot let the danger expand further." Someone shouted, but he quickly reacted,
The situation ahead is unknown, and if you lead people there rashly, you will fall into the trap like the River City in South Vietnam. Once there is a loophole in the city's defense, alien beasts will most likely take advantage of it, and even repeat the tragedy of the River City.
Alien beasts are never without intelligence, especially the alien beasts in the spiritual world.
"Don't panic! The situation is not as bad as we thought!" Xie Yurong said calmly, "What we have to do now is to prevent uninformed ordinary citizens from falling into it."
After saying that, Xie Yurong pondered for a few seconds, and then issued an order, "First, issue a notice! Request our surrounding cities to cut off relevant roads, railway traffic routes, and all airports across the country to stop flights to Rongcheng!"
"Second, order the Public Security Bureau to evacuate the crowds in the East District. As for the crowds in the North, Central and South Districts, they will be evacuated based on the development of the situation."
"third……"
She paused and suddenly looked at Han Xue, "Han Xue, please contact Lin Fei to explain the matter and tell him that we need his help."
"Yes!" In the hall, the people in charge hurriedly responded and dispersed.
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PS: Thanks to "Huang Xiaoxinghuang" for the 2000 point reward.
This chapter has been completed!