Zach Marks is a maintenance worker at the water supply plant. This is his tenth year working at the water supply plant, and he knows that the plant is more than three times older than this.
Since many years ago, there have been some rumors about infiltration in this water supply plant. If you talk about it in detail, it is actually not a very new story. It is just like the old hospitals and old dormitories where people are often visited.
Rumors circulated that those crumbling buildings were inhabited by evil spirits or something.
Zach thinks that probably all buildings with remote addresses like this will breed such stories when they reach a certain age, which are used to scare newcomers and children. Old Zach never believed in those ghosts and gods.
, he felt that those horror stories were nonsense and things people made up to scare themselves. He had worked in this water supply plant for ten years and knew every shadow and corner of this place well. He closed his eyes.
He can cross the entire factory, so what is there to be afraid of?
The time now is two o'clock in the morning, and he is leading a new person who has just been transferred to perform pipeline inspections. Earlier, there were deep strange sounds coming from the water pipes, and there were also creaking sounds like old wooden doors.
, it sounded like something was about to be crushed by a heavy object.
Zach has never seen anything like this before. Is there something wrong with the water pressure?
The newcomer following him was shaking like chaff the whole time and couldn't even hold a flashlight steadily. He kept muttering in a low voice: "It's a long-tongued monster, it must be a long-tongued monster..."
Zach asked: "What is a tongue monster?"
"Haven't you heard?" The newcomer looked at him in surprise, "There have been a lot of rumors recently, saying that there is a long-tongued monster in this area, and it comes out to do evil at night. It specializes in picking out lone passers-by, and its long tongue
As soon as it was rolled, the person was swept into the darkness where it lived and was eaten, not even the bones and residue were left..."
Zach rolled his eyes.
Do all the young people these days believe this? They are really hopeless.
"Relax, kid, it's just some pipe failure." Zach said as he looked around with his flashlight. "We just need to find where the problem is now, and then we can... huh?"
Zach was stunned.
He shined his flashlight somewhere in the pipe and slowly walked closer.
Through the golden beam, he seemed to see some kind of liquid... He was not sure if it was liquid, but it was some kind of black and sticky stuff that was slowly dripping from the water pipe towards the floor.
Zach had never seen anything like this, but at this moment, he suddenly felt an extremely ominous premonition for no reason, as if every cell in his body was instinctively warning him of the danger that was just around the corner.
He felt like a sheep facing a lion.
...
Richard suddenly sat up from the bed. He sucked air into his lungs, panting like an asthmatic patient.
He was sitting on his bed, and the electronic clock on the bedside table stopped at 02:11.
He was awakened by a nightmare.
It was a rather abstract nightmare, and Richard was not even sure what he was dreaming about. He only remembered some sporadic sounds, and some image fragments of unknown meaning. He remembered that it seemed to be a rather dark space, surrounded by
It was full of complicated pipelines, maybe it was a factory. He remembered a bloody mouth with the smell of blood blowing in his face, and whip-like things flying in the dark air, like ferocious snakes.
He still remembered the screams, the heart-rending screams, like the sounds of despair that could only be made when a person's fear exceeds the limit.
Then he realized something else.
Richard calmed his breathing and stretched out his palm. A faint white light lingered in his palm, gradually condensing into the shape of a white rod.
Evolve the Truster.
Just now, his power of light was upgraded.
Now, the Evolution Truster was shining like never before in his hands, and the dark green light in its dim core was flickering. Although it was a very hazy feeling, he seemed to be able to clearly feel it with his body.
Every time the light flickered, it was as if something was calling him.
Almost instinctively, Richard got up, changed his clothes, grabbed the Evolution Truster and left the house.
...
2:35 a.m., Bakers Water Works.
The cordon was raised, all irrelevant personnel were cleared, and the entire water supply plant was immediately blocked. Several transport planes bearing the SHIELD eagle emblem were parked in the open space outside the water supply plant, and a Quinjet
The fighter jets remained on alert in the air.
Senior SHIELD agent Phil Coulson wore his iconic suit and watched SHIELD agents armed to the teeth jumping off the transport plane. The one leading the team happened to be the one who went to the Daily Planet with him last time.
Questioning Agent Ward Grant.
Like everyone else, Ward was wearing a black combat uniform specially designed for Aegis and holding a submachine gun in his hand. He walked up to Coulson: "What's going on inside?"
"The 'Longtongue' appeared." Colson said, "Two workers were involved."
Ward frowned: "Are you kidding?"
"Unfortunately, no." Colson said solemnly, "We have been paying attention to the rumors of this 'long-tongued monster' for a while. Although it is ridiculous, it is true that people continue to disappear. There is something hidden in this place...
..Something quite dangerous that we must deal with carefully."
Ward glanced at the entrance of the water supply plant behind the blockade: "And now that thing is inside?"
"Our experts are trying to determine this and should soon..."
"It's right there."
Before Colson finished speaking, a black doctor in a white coat came over with a tablet in his arms, his expression a little unbelievable: "You won't believe this. What's hidden in this has very special meanings."
Incredible vitality, I've never seen readings like this...and you should check this out, this is a thermal image."
He handed the screen to the two of them, and Coulson and Ward moved closer together. There was only a large red area on the screen, and nothing could be seen.
Coulson was confused: "Why is this area all red?"
"That's the problem!" The black doctor held his breath, lowered his voice and pointed at the water supply plant, "This means that whatever is hidden inside, no matter what it is, its size is so large that it exceeds the thermal imaging drawing.
The limit. And... it should be alive."
Ward and Coulson looked at each other.
"You know," Ward said, "I'm starting to feel like I don't want to go in."