Chapter 178 The city of hell, what is it? (8.516K double update
One question after another seemed to surround him like a heavy fog. Higashinohara's brows frowned slightly unconsciously, and he fell into deep thought.
Hela, who was following him, walked around and looked around at this "Hell City" whose air was full of withered and corrupt atmosphere. She felt that the architectural style of the "Hell City" was no different from the world they lived in.
Are there really strange monsters here?
Why haven't I seen anything until now?
But thinking of some unknown tasks, she became serious again and cheered up again.
Finally, when I looked up, I noticed the figure of the young man walking in front, elongated by the dusk.
At this moment, what makes Hela curious is not what Higashinohara is thinking under his slightly frowning brows.
But even though this young man with gentle eyebrows was thinking about it all the way, his steps never stopped for a step. Even when he encountered a crossroad, he didn't hesitate at all, and he naturally chose one.
Step forward in the direction.
This is compared to the other teammates in the headset team voice who are walking in the dead city where the light is gradually dimming like them, and reporting on the situation and location from time to time.
Higashinohara's performance didn't look like they were embarking on a thrilling and tense exploration in a place called "hell", but rather like they were strolling out for a walk after dinner.
Observing this, Hela immediately remembered it in her heart.
She made a very keen judgment:
This boy must have awakened abilities such as [Kamaitachi], which allows him to survey the surrounding terrain through environmental factors, so he can be so leisurely.
It seems that I really followed the right person in this investigation.
Hela felt a little happy in her heart. Coming to this strange and strange world, having a teammate who could detect the surrounding environment was really a rare help.
She was really thinking about this in her mind, but at this moment, Higashinohara who was walking in front of her suddenly stopped - Hela who was following behind would have bumped into Higashinohara's back if she hadn't reacted quickly.
"What's wrong?"
Hela subconsciously asked.
Immediately, she seemed to realize something, looked around warily, lowered her voice and asked again, "Did Nishimiya-kun discover something?"
Higashinohara nodded and said, "Well, it's getting late."
Hela couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when she heard the words. She raised her head and found that the light around her head gradually dimmed, and the orange-red dusk gradually deepened, giving this "city of hell" an intoxicating luster.
Below the more distant horizon that she could see was a thick dark blue, and the darkness seemed to have begun to move and stretch its waist, preparing for a grand debut.
No matter in which world, human beings seem to be afraid of darkness, because unknown dangers may lurk in the darkness.
At this time, there was a "sizzling" sound of electricity in the ears of Higashinohara and Hela, and the cold voice of Gray Mine, the captain of the investigation team, sounded on the team channel.
"Attention all groups, half an hour has expired. Return to the meeting immediately after receiving the notice."
"One set received."
"Group 2 received it."
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Higashinohara and Hela's temporary team were organized into Group 7. After he followed the crowd and said "Group 7 received", he turned around and looked at Hela with a smile.
Only then did Hela realize what Higashinohara meant when he said "it's getting late" just now. She couldn't help but laugh dryly, thinking that this guy didn't speak completely and made her nervous in vain.
Next, the two people who received the message returned along the original route.
On the way back, Hela, who followed Higashinohara, was once again convinced that Higashinohara had probably awakened some ability to detect terrain. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why this boy could memorize everything after walking through the same road.
Of course, she will never admit that she is a "road crazy"
After returning to the appointed gathering point along the original route, all the other six groups also returned.
Even the elite team from the Adjudication Division's execution team set foot in this world for the first time. After just half an hour of survey, everyone's faces were full of confusion.
They couldn't understand the characters of Higashinohara's previous life at all. Even if they saw bulletin boards and newspapers on the street during their investigation, no one knew what happened in this hellish city.
After checking the survey recorders carried by everyone, Gray Mane could not help but frown, and his face looked a bit gloomy.
He was on a mission. In seven days, he had to find the "key" and the location of the next "boundary" door that could accommodate higher-level ability users to enter.
But at this moment, night has fallen quietly, and the dim light cast by the dust-like moon overhead has become the only light source in this hellish city.
The night wind whimpered slightly in the withered and rotten air, and the blurred gaps between the tall buildings in the distance were like black holes like an invisible abyss, so wet that it could swallow a person whole at any time, even without spitting out the bones and dregs.
Gray Mine is the captain of the investigation team. Although he wants to complete the mission, he also wants to spend seven days here safely and wait until the [Border] door behind him opens again alive.
At this time, seeing everyone gathered and waiting for instructions, Gray Man thought for a while and said, "I have just asked you to detect the surrounding two kilometers from different directions. From your detection recorders,
I haven’t found any abnormalities so far.”
"This at least shows that the place we are currently in is safe for the time being."
After hearing Gray Mane's words, everyone around him, who had been nervous and anxious since arriving in this "city of hell", could not help but heave a long sigh of relief.
No one wants to encounter something weird and scary as soon as they arrive here. After making sure that the surroundings are safe, at least we can spend a night to have a buffer and accept the time to explore slowly.
At this time, the captain of the investigation team, Gray Mine, suddenly pointed in a certain direction and spoke again, "I just took people to investigate there. It is an empty house that can still be inhabited. In the next few days, we will stay in that house."
Settled in the house and waited until seven days to complete the task."
Higashinohara looked in the direction pointed by Gray Mine. It was an extremely dilapidated old residential building about two hundred meters away from them. It looked a bit like the alleys of Jianghai, hidden in this cloth.
In a steel jungle full of high-rise buildings.
Naturally, everyone had no opinion on this.
Even those tall buildings in the distance may look better and be more in line with their aesthetics.
But everything in this "hell city" has come to a standstill. The elevators in the high-rise buildings may have fallen into the elevator shafts and may collapse at any time.
In comparison, aesthetics can be set back a bit.
Soon, Higashinohara followed the group of people and approached the residential building.
In front of the iron door of the guard downstairs, there was a house number with the red paint peeling off. On it were the four characters "Pujiang Community" that only he recognized.
Higashinohara glanced briefly and then withdrew his gaze, landing on the residents' bulletin board on the other wall. Among the vaguely identifiable announcements, there were only two announcements from the neighborhood committee: "Congratulations to XXX and Ms. Ma Baoli on their happy wedding", and "Congratulations to Mr. Wang Dongyang for taking the exam."
Common community announcements about "Going to XXX University".
The group of people walked into the dark corridor, and under the dim moonlight, Higashinohara realized that this five-story residential building was really extremely dilapidated.
The handrails on the corridor were rusty and the narrow, dark staircase was in dire shackles.
There are rubbles everywhere, there is a nauseating smell in the air, and there are even large sunken holes in the corridors. It is no small miracle that this building did not collapse.
At this moment, the investigation team was divided into groups again to conduct a secondary inspection of the building.
As soon as Higashinohara climbed up to the third floor, he found a dark figure crouching at the corner of the corridor. He was slightly startled and subconsciously pointed at the tactical lighting, only to find that it was a common black trash can on the roadside. He didn't know who had moved it and put it there.
On the walkway.
Phew. It was just a false alarm.
Next, after another round of repeated inspections that lasted about half an hour, a dozen people from the investigation team ran all over the upper and lower floors and regrouped to summarize the situation.
At this time, they finally determined that this was an abandoned residential building. It was empty and there was nothing noteworthy about it. It was a suitable place for them to stay for the next few days.
At this moment, the nervousness and uneasiness that everyone felt when they first stepped into this building disappeared, and smiles and joy gradually appeared on their faces.
Just as humans cannot adapt to the dark, things like houses always give humans an inexplicable sense of security. Sleeping in a house is a completely different feeling than sleeping in the wilderness.
During the remaining time, everyone gathered together and had a simple dinner according to the allocated rations.
While eating compressed biscuits, Higashinohara noticed that the Celestial Being team at the Adjudication Department had significantly more rations than them.
Others have also noticed this, but everyone seems to be used to it, and no one has any objections. If the gods and they eat the same thing, I am afraid they will not adapt to it.
Higashinohara was thinking about some of these things.
At present, the environment they were in did not allow them to wash themselves. After dinner, everyone went into their rooms according to the rooms assigned by the captain of the investigation team, Gray Mine, to prepare for rest.
A group of two people were left outside to work in the early and late morning hours.
Higashinohara is not on duty tonight.
He walked into the room he was assigned. This was a small apartment with two bedrooms and one living room, suitable for a family of three. The furniture in the room was dilapidated and decayed, and it was almost unrecognizable from its original appearance.
After entering the door, Dongye opened the window for ventilation, then took out a marching blanket from his backpack and made it on the floor.
Next, he was not in a hurry to go to bed, and he probably wouldn't be able to fall asleep.
Everything that happened today was so bizarre, astonishing and unbelievable - from the moment he was uneasy when he first stepped into the gate of the Adjudication Division in the morning, to unexpectedly arriving at the so-called "hell" through the [Border] gate in the afternoon, and then
I found that I had returned to the world in my previous life.
At this time, Higashinohara was doing the daily exercises in the "civilian training method" as usual, while thinking about these things in his mind, trying to find the clues that he had ignored today.
However, until he finished the last set of push-ups and finished his daily exercise, he didn't sort out any neglected areas and just lay down on the floor.
Gradually, the physical soreness and exhaustion and the fatigue and relief from mental stress came over him. After a while, Higashinohara fell into sleep.
The night is getting darker.
I don't know how much time passed, but in the haziness, Higashinohara vaguely heard a familiar "dong dong dong" sound coming from the ceiling above his head.
He was a little dazed at first and didn't pay much attention. He just thought it was the noise on the floor. Anyone who has lived in an apartment knows that this is inevitable, so he turned over and continued to sleep.
Can sleep and sleep
In the darkness, Higashinohara suddenly opened his eyes without warning!
Outside the window late at night, a dim ray of moonlight passed through the dust in the air, and the ground above his head shook with mottled shadows.
Lying on the floor, Higashinohara suddenly realized that he was not in a rented apartment in Aragaki Apartment, but in the empty and dilapidated residential building where he had just settled today.
He clearly remembered that before going to bed, the captain of the investigation team, Gray Mine, lined up two groups of fourteen people in order to facilitate management and communication, and arranged them all in a room on the second floor of this abandoned residential building.
Why is there floor noise on the third floor from the ceiling?