There was a strange smell in the air, and there seemed to be a heavy fog at the end of the street, a vast expanse of white, blocking the view.
It's like the modeling in the game has reached the boundary and everything is blurry.
The security officers got out of the car and distributed weapons, in case there were uncertainties hidden in the fog, and asked everyone to hold them for self-defense.
The car at the front honked its horn and shouted through its loudspeaker, "Is anyone here?"
This sentence echoed in the not-so-wide streets, but there was no response.
Going further, it would be inconvenient for large armed vehicles to enter. After consultation, everyone decided to get down with weapons and walk into the city.
Tang Rou held the laser gun and Alphinaud was on her wrist. She didn't panic at all.
He has now returned to his juvenile form, which looks almost the same as when she first took over. The only difference is that his body was dark green at that time, but now it looks like paint diluted with water, showing a
A light blue color with a translucent texture.
Alphinaud once returned to his cub form. At that time, he was upgraded to a level A experiment and suffered serious injuries that were difficult to recover from.
The energy in the body could not support it to maintain its human form, and it turned into a cub.
As the wound healed, Alphinaud returned to his human form.
.
The city's weirdness is on display.
It clearly looked like an empty car, but leisurely singing sounded on the street.
When I walked in, I discovered that it was a commercial street.
The bar speakers were playing songs, a neon sign was placed at the door of the barber shop, white smoke was rising from the chimney of the bakery, the alluring aroma of bread spread far away, and the water column of the fountain at the intersection moved beautifully with the sound of music.
The scene was too weird, so they decided to get back to the car first.
But when they turned around, the street behind them changed their appearance, with rows of houses blocking the way they came from, as if the city was alive and changing as they moved.
They were like a group of guinea pigs observed from the perspective of God by the third force, unable to find a way out and falling into chaos.
The team leader shouted, asking everyone to stay in formation and walk together, not alone.
Tang Rou touched the soft little octopus on her wrist and asked softly, "Does this have something to do with the diary you showed me?"
Baby octopuses can't talk.
He would just look at her with love.
Okay, since it's so cute, of course I choose to forgive it.
Tang Rou rubbed the octopus's little head back and forth, making it dizzy, feeling painful and happy at the same time.
They stopped near the bar, and many people walked in. The leader reminded everyone, "Don't touch anything here, especially food and drink."
Duolong was about to reach out to the wine bottle on the shelf, but then took it back angrily.
Lin Li caught a glimpse of something shiny on the table. He walked over and found that it was a lady's earring with diamonds surrounding the pearl in the middle. It looked very delicate.
He picked it up, looked at it, put it down, walked around the bar, and when he came out, he found that the earring had disappeared.
Tang Rou followed in. There was a wireless charging tray at the door. She pinched the slender tentacles of the little octopus and put her phone on it.
Unexpectedly, the charging symbol actually lit up on the screen, blinking on and off.
The date displayed in the upper right corner of the screen is July 17.
This date is also somewhat familiar.
The time showed that it was close to 12 o'clock, and the day was almost over.
July 17th…
What was the date on the diary she saw?
Aslan sat on the high chair next to her, lowered his voice and leaned into Tang Rou's ear, "Rou, I remember why I feel that Os City is so familiar."
"Why?"
"Didn't I tell you before that I saw several cities marked in red on Xiao Ning's documents? One of them is Os City."
There are few people in this area for a reason.
A hundred years ago, there was no city here, only a huge nuclear power plant composed of nuclear reactors, which could provide energy to hundreds of nearby cities.
Unfortunately, an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale caused a serious leak in the nuclear power plant. Later, due to staff errors, nearly ten tons of sewage leaked. The exhaust gas polluted the nearby air, and the water was discharged into the deep sea.
The ecology of the area has been catastrophically destroyed, and animals and plants have also experienced varying degrees of mutation.
A hundred years passed in a blink of an eye.
As the population expanded, everyone had to turn their attention back to these formerly abandoned lands. Therefore, small and medium-sized towns began to settle here. Compared with other cities, it can be said to be vast and sparsely populated.
Tang Rou was quiet for a while and had some guesses in her mind.
The city of Os has been in a state of disorder for a long time, and the union has neglected its jurisdiction. Often, this kind of place is most likely to breed crime.
Likewise, it is also the most suitable place for experiments on living people.
The breeder Doron was so thirsty that he couldn't help but want to find something to drink from the bar shelf, but was stopped by the traffic police. He was restless and accidentally glanced out of the glass window and asked everyone suspiciously,
"Do you think it looks a little red outside?"
Everyone followed his voice and looked over, and found that indeed, the earth was covered with a layer of faint red.
Tang Rou turned on her phone and took a look. The battery was charged to 30%. At the same time, the time jumped to 00:01 in the morning.
The date shows that it is now July 18th.
Doron exclaimed again, "There is someone outside!"
This shout attracted the attention of everyone in the bar.
People did appear outside the window, and there was more than one.
It seems that the whole city has the habit of staying up and out at night. There are more and more people on the street. There are employees of beverage shops handing out flyers, and busy bosses and cashiers have appeared in bakeries that were just empty.
There are many pedestrians walking around on the street, there are children chasing and running on the roadside, and there are couples sitting and cuddling together by the fountain.
The street lights also turned on.
The city wakes up.
Everyone opened the door and went out, standing in a strange and normal city, with more and more confusion in their hearts.
Aslan walked up behind Tang Rou and answered calmly in the face of her questioning eyes, "I think it is safest to be with you now."
As she said this, she looked at her "bracelet" and meant something.
This is true.
The earth is a little red, as if a layer of gauze has fallen.
Looking carefully, she found that the red thing didn't seem to be the earth, so Tang Rou raised her head.
It's today's moonlight, a little red.
A sentence flashed in my mind, "July 18th, blood moon, another blood moon."
That diary.
From the moment I entered this city, everything that happened strangely matched what was written in the diary.
There were strange plants growing in the flower beds on the roadside. Aslan looked at them and suddenly asked, "Rou, do flowers eat butterflies?"
Tang Rou was staring at the researcher walking towards the fountain in the distance, and answered absentmindedly, "The pitcher plants and flytraps are probably fine, right?"
Aslan asked again, "Can the flower eat mice?"
A researcher reached out to hold the water in the fountain, but he screamed and couldn't help blowing air as he held his hand, as if he had been burned.
Tang Rou looked at it and replied, "Of course not, the mouse is too big."
"...Can flowers eat cats?"
Tang Rou looked away and turned to look at Aslan, "Are you a primary school student? Of course not."
Aslan pointed to a rose not far away that was devouring a stray cat, and asked in a trembling voice, "Then why are the flowers here edible?"
I saw that the cat's body had disappeared, and the flower stem protruded into a flexible and huge arc like the belly of a snake. Outside of the bright red petals, only half of the cat's legs were twitching and a curled tail remained.
Tang Rou took a breath of air and reached out to touch the little octopus, but was horrified to find that her wrist was empty.
What about Alphinaud?
"Atherland, it seems like..."
Tang Rou turned around, there was no one around her, only her voice echoed around her.