After feeling a little relieved, Manny took the camera to the intersection, where there was a huge flower garden, like a small park.
In the quiet morning, the sun-drenched flowerbed is quiet.
Manny sat down by the pool in the center of the flower garden, then turned on the camera and started viewing the playback.
At first, everything in the picture was normal. There was no other sound in the town at night except the rumbling equipment, so Manny adjusted the playback to 1.5x.
The time soon came to midnight, and the wind seemed to have picked up at this time, because Manny saw the tent moving slightly, but it soon subsided again.
And when Manny was about to slow down and take a closer look, a strange scene appeared.
"Eh?!" Manny thought she had seen it wrong, so she paused the screen and rewind for 10 seconds, then played it back at normal speed.
This time Manny watched it very carefully, but when the playback reached 1:11:27 in the morning, an internal combustion engine that was originally located on the left side of the tent and was converted into a generator disappeared in an instant.
"This..." Manny's heartbeat began to accelerate. She raised her head and looked around. The town was very quiet and there was nothing unusual. However, in this quietness, Manny smelled a terrifying aura.
Rubbing her eyes, Manny continued to look down, but within a few seconds, the picture began to rise rapidly upwards, and then there was a click, the camera fell to the ground, and the lens pointed upwards, facing the gray sky.
But why did it fall? Was there a strong wind last night? Or... did "it" push the camera down on purpose?
Manny didn't dare to think any more. She raised her head and looked around again. Everything was the same as before, and there was no danger.
After taking a deep breath, Manny could only cheer herself up secretly, and then continued to look down.
But she didn't know what she was expecting... maybe she was expecting the camera to record some unusual sounds... or maybe... she was hoping to see the shadow of "it".
However, until 4:30 in the morning, the picture in the camera was always gray with no starlight in the sky. Other than that, there was nothing abnormal.
Manny felt a little disappointed, but she ignored the abnormality in the sky itself...because before she fell asleep, the starry sky was bright.
After 4:30, some strange crackling sounds appeared. After carefully identifying them for a while, Manny determined that they were the sound of burning flames. It seemed that the fire at the initial starting point was very small and had not spread yet.
At about 6:11, the fire obviously got bigger, and not long after, Manny appeared in the camera. She saw herself walking past in a hurry, and then came back with a fire extinguisher to start putting out the fire...
…
The battery was still 9%, so Manny turned off the camera. She sat blankly in the flower garden at the center of the intersection, wondering about various possibilities.
But here, except for the weirdness, everything else is blurred and deliberately hidden.
Although Manny was sure that she would not wake up here for no reason, she found that when she woke up, she faced a desolate and mysterious world.
After sitting like this for a long time, Manny sighed, sorted out her mood, and said to herself: "Well... Anyway, there is still something gained!"
After that, Manny got up and walked towards the place where the fire broke out last night.
Looking at the ruins still smoking, the mechanical equipment was burned beyond recognition,
Manny found the location of the device that disappeared from the camera based on the traces.
The pegs used to secure the tent on the ground are still there, but the "generator" placed behind the tent last night has completely disappeared, leaving only an empty space on the ground, as if it had been teleported away.
Yes! Teleport!
Manny soon realized this possibility.
If the understanding of space in the Earth era is limited by the scientific level, Manny is not an Earthling. She is an engineer who was born at the forefront of human civilization on the planet Gaia. The concept of space teleportation is not unfamiliar to her.
Although the technology of over-distance phase transition has not yet been realized, it is still possible to "grab" such a large thing and then transport it to somewhere within a certain distance.
Thinking of this, Manny felt much more relaxed.
But is it really as Manny thought, that there is a force playing a small game of "teleportation" secretly?
In order to confirm this, Manny made a rough volume measurement of the missing "generator", and then roughly calculated the limit range of the "generator" that could be transmitted based on the weight of the same type of machine.
'One thousand nine hundred meters...just near the two streets of the town...' Manny determined the range, then brought her handmade simple electric torque burster and began to search the surrounding area.
This kind of electric torque blaster is different from the traditional electric shock device in the imagination, because it is an instantaneous attack weapon. It will fire arcs to enemies within a certain range in a very short period of time, causing a chain reaction, and has extremely high lethality.
Of course, Manny's handmade simple torque burster is far from as powerful as the real military model, but it is still enough for self-defense.
With it to embolden her, Manny's search process became relatively easier.
But in the next two days, Manny's relaxation gradually became serious.
…
fifth day
It was another familiar morning, and the sun came on the hour. Manny, who had not slept all night, moved her body, opened the door, and continued to search the area.
But this time her pace slowed down significantly, her mind was confused, and the scene she saw in the flooded villa last night kept appearing in front of her eyes.
…
It was 11:03 late at night the night before.
Arriving at a villa in the southeast corner, she pushed open the ajar door. As soon as she entered the room, Manny was shocked by the scene in front of her.
I saw a radiating white mark in the center of the main hall of the villa spreading to all directions, almost covering the entire main hall.
Carefully came to the trace, and after looking down, Manny determined that a strange explosion had occurred in this villa. The explosion did not cause a fire, but it also eroded the original things in the main hall, leaving only the chandelier and
Frescoes on the ceiling.
After looking at these murals carefully with the light on, Manny felt very strange...
Because it is obvious that the things depicted on the murals are not uniform. Some of them are more Nordic, and they seem to depict a battle between humans and giants, while the other part is somewhat in the style of the central curtain, with pale ancient trees surrounded by golden light.
The man was sitting under the tree with his eyes closed. The people around him were holding swords on one side and looking fierce as if they wanted to kill him, while on the other side they were kneeling on the ground as if they were repenting or giving thanks.
Finally, around the chandelier, that part of the mural showed obvious colors of one black and one white.
In the same color, the left side depicts a group of people drowning in the black ocean, and on the other side of the light, a group of naked people surround a man wearing a mask like stars holding the moon.
What are these...
The more Manny looked at it, the more frightened she became, and the more she looked at it, the more confused she became... If the owner of this villa wanted to convey something through these murals, it would be too messy...
After looking around for a while without any clue, Manny took a photo and continued deeper into the villa.
After bypassing the main hall, there is only a study room, a dining room, an unknown room on the first floor, and an underground warehouse entrance that is locked by a chain.
This was also the first time Manny found a place so tightly locked up in the town.
So Manny's curiosity was instantly aroused, but thinking of the things she saw in the main hall, Manny felt that sometimes it is better to restrain her curiosity. After all, she also knew that her strength was limited and she had to risk death.
There is a degree.
But not opening it is not a normal person's way of doing things, so after hesitating for a while, Manny decided to open the lock first.
However, during the process of unlocking the lock, Manny encountered some small troubles, that is, except for the crowbar and some wrenches that she initially found in the mall, she did not have any handy tools around her. Manny was sweating anxiously, and ultimately failed to break the lock.
Open that chain.
In the silent night, while removing the lock of the underground warehouse in this empty villa, Manny felt that her courage was getting bigger and bigger.
Thinking of this, Manny stopped and decided to continue during the day.
After resting for a while, I saw that the time was already past 1 am.
This time happened to be the time when the weird scene happened last night. Considering safety issues, Manny decided to continue past this point.
So Manny sat down in the study next to the warehouse.
As soon as she sat down, Manny suddenly noticed something flashing in the gap of the cabinet opposite the desk.
This discovery made Manny immediately alert. She stood up slowly, and then slowly sat down again.
As a result, the thing flashed again.
'It seems it's a matter of angle...' Thinking of this, Manny looked back at the empty study room. There was nothing in the cabinet behind her, and there was no book on the table, but Manny always felt that there was something behind her.
Same.
So Manny stood up first and checked the bookcase behind her.
The bookcase is very high, reaching all the way to the roof. The door is unlocked. When you open it, only dust is flying, and there is nothing else.
I tried pushing the cabinet left and right, but it didn't move at all. It seemed like there was no mechanism.
But the flash before made Manny feel that this room was not that simple.
So next, Manny turned on the switch of the torque blaster, and then carefully came to the cabinet opposite the desk. She first looked carefully along the gap. After making sure that she found nothing, she came to the cabinet.
side, push hard.
There was just a "click" sound, and the cabinet moved, and the subsequent movement did not require Manni to exert any force, and it moved about half a meter to the other side.
Then it seemed as if some mechanism was triggered, and the previously fleeting light emitted from the cabinet and hit the globe on the desk.
Then the globe was lit up, and the scattered light instantly filled the entire study, and the hidden past slowly appeared in front of Manny's eyes.