After Waking up Beside the Villain

The sky was dark and cloudy with lead.

On the tarmac of a secret military base on the outskirts of Haicheng, a black car with a special license plate slowly drove in and parked near two dilapidated vans that clearly had the characteristic style of the seventh place.

The wind was strong and swayed across the vast open space.

The door of the car opened, and Chu Yunsheng came down with a gray shoulder bag of a moderate size, and greeted Hou Wanguo who came quickly.

"Deputy Hou, I'm sorry to trouble you."

"It should be!"

Hou Wanguo responded, shook hands with Chu Yunsheng, and habitually looked at this young professor who was doing expensive and easy work in the eyes of the field staff, and was a little surprised that this person did it for this first mission. The preparation was so perfect.

The jacket is pulled tightly and loose to a certain extent, which does not affect strenuous activities.The overalls are resistant to dirt, and the trouser legs are tightly tied to prevent mosquitoes, rats and ants from taking advantage of loopholes.The soles of the short boots have been specially modified, which are non-slip and waterproof, and have strong grip. The shoelaces are buckled with a clever knot, which is difficult to loosen, but can be untied quickly when needed.

Leather gloves, goggles hanging around the neck, a backpack of just the right size, and the faint smell of insect repellent powder on the clothes.

Hou Wanguo was a little bit skeptical whether this Dean Chu was really on the field for the first time, which was more perfect than many of their fieldwork preparations.

But this suspicion is a little unreasonable, because since the Security Bureau noticed these frequent weird incidents, most of the academic activities in the field have been restricted, or they have been taken over by the seventh office.

Therefore, the current generation of young scientific researchers in the research institute, except for the four-star or five-star talents who have the right to let the seventh division guards go to work in the field, the others basically have no field experience. The dean of the Nine Research Institute was promoted to a four-star talent, just enough to meet this standard.

They have seen too many professors who are about to enter the mountains in shorts and sneakers, not to mention the dangers of no man's land and the prevention of abnormalities, just a little experience in ordinary wild survival.

"Thank you for your hard work, see you later!"

Hou Wanguo was acquainted with the people who picked up and sent Chu Yunsheng off. After exchanging a few words of pleasantries, he waved goodbye, turned his head and shouted: "Ning Feichi!"

A young man in a red jacket, who was buried in the back of the van carrying two large backpacks, raised his head when he heard the sound, put on the backpacks one by one, and hurriedly walked towards Chu Yunsheng, with a sunny smile, and enthusiastically stretched out his hands, "President Chu, right? Come, come, just take it with me, I used to practice weightlifting, and I have great strength!"

Hou Wanguo came over and patted Ning Feichi on the head: "I don't have any eyesight."

"You're welcome, let's get on the helicopter first." Chu Yunsheng nodded towards Ning Feichi, and quietly dodged the hand he extended to take his backpack, and said calmly.

His backpack may seem light, but it is actually very heavy. Once people pass it by hand, they may guess the weirdness in it.

Moreover, in that metal box filled with formalin and special potions, Rong Chen's brain was placed. It always exudes hazy hallucinations and bewildered ravings. If others get too close, they will most likely be drawn into it In the vortex of madness and out of control, he was seriously polluted by spirit.

Seeing that Chu Yunsheng planned to support himself, Hou Wanguo and Ning Feichi didn't force it, and were happy.

The three chatted casually and boarded a helicopter that had been waiting on the tarmac for a long time.

In addition to the pilot, there were two other field staff from the [-]th Division on board. One of them was a short-haired capable young female soldier named Lin Yi, and the other was a very tall boy with fair skin and a shy face named Su Jie. .

These two people have impressions of Chu Yunsheng. In the middle and late stages of the original plot, they were all transferred to Lu Zhixian's subordinates to form a brand new team, with the grown-up Lu Zhixian as the captain.

But judging from the current timeline, Lu Zhixian should have just found out about the death of his parents and picked up the piece of rotten green nails.

After brief mutual introductions, the helicopter took off.

The four people in the seventh office and Chu Yunsheng sat down around the small table in the back row, opened the satellite map, and began to reconfirm the previously planned investigation route about the Xiaofengshan and Pingxi mining areas.

"Dean Chu wants to check Xiaofeng Mountain himself. It is because Rong Chen's experiment has not progressed, so he plans to go to the field to see the area. Is there any other research direction?"

Hou Wanguo raised his eyes and asked casually: "After that, why did we go to the Pingxi mining area?"

He looked at the magnetic field monitoring report and abnormal data analysis on Chu Yunsheng's application, but he always felt that it was a bit plausible and not enough to link the two places together.

And apart from the abnormality after Rong Chen's death, Xiaofengshan did not have any problems. Someone even submitted an application to cancel the restricted area. The so-called mine disaster in the Pingxi mining area also found the source of infection. The spiritual pollution of the unknown existence, everything has been brought under control, and it is only a matter of time before it returns to normal.

From the point of view of the seventh place, which has experienced too many strange things and seen too many restricted areas, these two places are too ordinary to be too ordinary, and they don't deserve too much attention.

If it wasn't for the strangeness of Rong Chen's corpse, the Seventh Office would not have searched Xiaofeng Mountain more than once.

"I did a second analysis on the magnetic field monitoring data of the Sixth Research Institute, and also sorted out the strange incidents encountered in the surrounding towns in the past two years with Xiaofengshan and the Pingxi mining area as the two centers, and the types of weird incidents, The nature, impact, and descriptions of what those survivors have experienced."

Chu Yunsheng didn't believe that the Seventh Office hadn't studied the materials he sent, and Hou Wanguo asked again at this time, just suspicious and cautious.

He simply said: "The detailed content does not need to be repeated too much, but the results show that these two regions are unusual."

Lin Yi called up the data sheet on the tablet, and said: "In the past two years, 130 strange incidents of various sizes occurred in Xiaofengshan and Pingxi mining areas respectively. The time was different, but the numbers were the same. Xiaofengshan was all infected by heterogeneous species. , the Pingxi mining area is all mentally polluted. The only exceptions are the Xiaofengshan Rongchen fall off the cliff and the Pingxi mining area accident two weeks ago."

Su Jie said: "These two events seem to be reversed."

Ning Feichi rubbed his chin thoughtfully: "Xiaofengshan, which is always infected by different species, has a case of Rong Chen who can't distinguish the category, but it is highly likely to be mentally polluted. And the Pingxi mining area, which has always been mentally polluted, It was a heterogeneous infection."

"Looking at it this way, it seems that there is indeed a problem. But I remember such a coincidence in other places, and it was mentioned in the year-end report last year."

Hou Wanguo said: "It may seem like a coincidence alone, but combined with other data, it is indeed worth investigating. However, the reason why President Chu selected these two places from so many restricted areas in the country is Rong Chen's matter?"

The secrets that he knew a week ago, and Hou Wanguo's excessive attention to Rong Chen's body, made Chu Yunsheng feel more and more that there were some secrets about Rong Chen hidden in the seventh place.

"Correct."

Chu Yunsheng responded, and then said, "Has the follow-up of the mine accident in the Pingxi mining area been dealt with?"

Lin Yi nodded and said, "Two days ago, the deputy department and my colleagues from the Qianxi branch returned all the non-abnormal remains from the Pingxi mining area to the families of the victims. Nothing special happened."

"After sending it back for cremation, you evacuated all monitoring?" Chu Yunsheng looked at Lin Yi.

Lin Yi was startled, and frowned: "Dean Chu, do you mean that there is still a follow-up? Our process of dealing with heterogeneous infection has always been like this, and there have been no problems. With limited manpower, there is no way to carry out follow-up and redundant work." monitoring investigation."

After speaking, Lin Yi's voice paused, and his eyes fell on the comparison and analysis of the data of Xiaofengshan and Pingxi mining areas displayed on the tablet.

She understood what Chu Yunsheng meant.

The Pingxi mining area used to be full of spiritual pollution incidents, and now a heterogeneous infection suddenly appeared, so this heterogeneous infection is really an ordinary heterogeneous infection, without the slightest level of spiritual pollution?

No one can guarantee it, and neither can they.

Although judging from their experience, they don't think there will really be any follow-up to this incident.

Hou Wanguo rubbed the space between his brows, and said simply: "Qianxi Province, Northern Henan Province, and Guangdong Province, the remains belong to these three provinces. Send a message to the local branch and send people to monitor the families of the victims and cremate them. The funeral home for a week, and field workers who have been in contact with the remains are not allowed to be alone during this period and take off their sanity monitors to supervise each other."

"receive."

Ning Feichi snapped his fingers, picked up an internal communicator in the shape of an iron box, and started typing with a crackling sound.

Since the doubts raised by Chu Yunsheng made them a little skeptical, it is naturally best to act cautiously if it can be done.

The first half of the flight was spent discussing materials on Xiaofengshan and the Pingxi Mining Area, and in the second half, all five of them lay back in their seats, sleeping, meditating, and recharging their energy.

two hours later.

The helicopter landed near Xiaofeng Mountain, and two vans picked up Chu Yunsheng and the others, all the way to Taiping Town, where they were arranged to live in a guest house.

Due to the death of Rong Chen, Xiaofeng Mountain was listed as a restricted area, and it is still in a state of blockade. There are secret troops surrounding the mountain. Chu Yunsheng and the others need to go through the formalities and confirm their identities. They can't really enter the mountain until the next day.

Silent all night.

In the early morning of the next day, Chu Yunsheng and the seventh team drove to the foot of Xiaofeng Mountain after receiving the confirmation permit. They took all kinds of equipment and set foot in this mountain according to Rong Chen's original climbing route obtained by the seventh office. It is a quiet and green uninhabited mountain that is shrouded in fog all year round.

When the backs of the five people were covered by the trees one by one and disappeared on the winding mountain road, a few crows perched on the ancient trees at the foot of the mountain suddenly screamed and flew up.

Rong Chen's original route took two full days to reach the cliff because of the stop-and-go.

Chu Yunsheng and the others did not intend to live broadcast or shoot videos. The seventh place was also familiar with the road, so their speed was much faster. Before noon, they arrived at the first time Chu Yunsheng saw in the dream. Rong Chen's cave.

"Rong Chen rested here the first night, as if he was afraid of something, and blocked the entrance of the cave with gravel all night."

Ning Feichi carried a set of strange monitoring equipment on his back, and held something like an antenna in his hand, walking around to detect: "No abnormality."

"Then keep going."

Hou Wanguo looked around for a while, waved his hands, and then looked at Chu Yunsheng: "Dean Chu, do you need to rest?"

"Need not."

Chu Yunsheng shook his head and said.

During the week of waiting for the application to be approved, he specially used some simple martial arts from the previous world to strengthen the body's exercise, and also improved the physical potion originally developed by the Ninth Academy using the technology of an unknown civilization to improve his physical fitness.

Although the time for exercising and taking the medicine is still very short and there is no obvious effect, his physical strength and fighting skills have improved to a certain extent in the past few days, so that he can't even sustain such a little weight consumption.

"Dean Chu's physical strength, this!"

Ning Feichi smiled and gave a thumbs up.

The seventh place has been enhanced physically, not beyond the scope of ordinary people, but also quite healthy. Chu Yunsheng doesn't need to rest, so they naturally don't need it. Lin Yi and Su Jie don't care whether they rest or not. The five of them didn't stop any longer and continued to climb upwards.

Soon, they followed the stream into a darker and deeper forest.

Chu Yunsheng saw the old mountain road covered with weeds and moss that Rong Chen used to walk, but strangely, all those jet-black stones carved with strange patterns that made Rong Chen stop to record had all disappeared.

Apart from the thorns and shrubs on both sides of the mountain road, there are only some deep black traces that are almost integrated with the soil, as if the ashes left after something was burnt.

The detector in Ning Feichi's hand swept over there, but there was no response.

"This mountain road is very difficult to walk. It is said that it was left by the mountain people who went to the mountain to hunt in ancient times. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were too many wild animals and few people went into the mountain, so it gradually fell into disrepair."

Lin Yi said as he walked: "A few years ago, Xiaofeng Mountain was going to develop a tourist attraction. Qianxi Province sent people to clean it up, but they didn't find any wild animals. The development was also due to restrictions on funding policies and the like. It's over."

Su Jie stepped over a piece of jagged rocks that blocked the road, panting and looked down at the satellite map in his hand: "There are about 700 meters left, and we will reach the place where Rong Chen fell off the cliff."

Chu Yun prestige looked ahead, and suddenly felt an inexplicable peep.

He subconsciously wanted to find the source of the peeping, but found that the feeling of being peeped seemed to come from all directions, from the depths of the dark and dark forest around him, and he couldn't find the real trace.

It was as if behind those silent and sneaky forest leaves and under the bushes, there were pairs of cold and malicious eyes silently watching him.

The horror of the reptile falling down the spine instantly invaded the nerves.

Chu Yunsheng's footsteps stopped.

Hou Wanguo, who was walking at the end, was stunned for a moment, and raised his head to look at Chu Yunsheng: "Dean Chu, what's wrong?"

"Someone is watching us."

Chu Yunsheng didn't choose to hide it, and said directly.

Everyone in the seventh place stopped at the same time, frowned and looked around, then looked at each other and shook their heads: "We didn't feel anything, Dean Chu. Those who can be selected into the seventh place may not be in the TV novels." Those special abilities, but the mental threshold is higher than that of ordinary people, and they are more sensitive to abnormal situations."

"But what you said... we didn't feel it."

Following Chu Yunsheng's gaze, Hou Wanguo stared at the forest behind him for a few seconds, then wrapped his backpack in front of him, unzipped the zipper, took out a folding short rifle with a strange shape that looked like a water gun, and handed it to Chu Yunsheng.

"The Falcon Rifle is a new achievement of the Fourth Research Institute. It uses some unknown civilization technology from the ruins of the ancient desert country. The energy bomb it fires is much more powerful than ordinary guns. It can penetrate ten meters thick steel plate from a long distance, and it is not easy to go off."

He pointed to several places on the gun body, and briefly introduced the gun to Chu Yunsheng: "According to the regulations, these weapons cannot be distributed to you on a daily basis, but in the restricted area, all personnel in the Security Bureau have the right to use them temporarily."

"Take it, Dean Chu."

Seeing this, Lin Yi and Ning Feichi frowned at the same time, their expressions were defensive and disapproving, as if they wanted to stop them, but they still didn't speak in the end.

Out of the corner of Chu Yunsheng's eye, he caught a glimpse of their reaction and probably guessed their thoughts.

In the eyes of the Seventh Office, the Nine Research Institutes are a gathering place for geniuses and a concentration camp for lunatics. Most people's mental state is not very stable and they are easily polluted by spirits.At least [-]% to [-]% of the weird incidents within the Security Bureau were contributed by the research institute.

Bring a weapon to the people in the research institute, and at some point it is likely that there will be one less companion and one more powerful crazy enemy.

However, Chu Yunsheng has developed a considerable immunity to abnormal situations during the frequent telepathic connection with Rong Chen in the past few days, and he can continue to have slight hallucinations and hissing without changing his face.

He is probably the most stable mental state of the few people present.

He took the Falcon Rifle and replaced the normal gun on his belt with it.

After that, Su Jie led the way and moved forward. The wind and sea were calm along the way, as if they had made so many preparations to come here, and they just had a relaxing and leisurely autumn outing.

But Chu Yunsheng could still feel that weird sense of peeping.

It exists intermittently, sometimes near and far away, like tarsal maggots, unable to get rid of, only sticky and sticky to the back of your head and the side of your neck, with a frightening and ominous coldness.

Before sunset, the five of them successfully arrived at the cliff where Rong Chen fell to his death.

This cliff looks very ordinary.

It is close to the forest behind, with few rocks, and there is a wide open space that is very suitable for camping. Looking out from the edge of the cliff, the mountains in front are undulating, with a wide field of vision. Facing the west, there are red clouds that are as red as blood, and the sinking sun .

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the mountains are reflected in gold, and the large dark green forests are gradually dyed with layers of sunlight, like red maples everywhere.

If you ignore the weirdness that happened here and the cold and nowhere to look for peeps, this is a refreshing and lingering sunset view.

Standing on the edge of the cliff and looking down, Chu Yunsheng naturally didn't see the pilgrims that he saw in Rong Chen's dream.

"There is still no abnormality."

Ning Feichi circled around, walked back and said.

"Camp and stay overnight as planned," Hou Wanguo said, "If there is still no abnormality tonight, I will return tomorrow morning."

Ning Feichi put down the hill-like backpack on his back, took off the tent and started camping, and said with a narrow smile to Chu Yun, "President Chu may have returned in vain, but there is still the Pingxi mining area, where a strange incident just happened , the source of infection has just been cleaned up, so we can collect some things."

Lin Yidao: "It's a good thing that there is no abnormality. After going back this time, Xiaofengshan should be able to lift the ban."

Chu Yunsheng was not as optimistic as they were, and he could even vaguely sense that tonight would not be an ordinary night.

"Don't let your guard down," Chu Yunsheng reminded.

Hou Wanguo also said with a bit of sternness: "Take it easy for me. It will be a matter of the future to lift the ban. Now this place is still a restricted area. Because of my negligence, I couldn't react abnormally and lost my life. That is Serve it right."

"Yes, deputy."

Lin Yi and the three of them all answered solemnly.

While the five people were talking, they had already clearly divided their labor and made preparations for the overnight stay. Before it completely darkened, the two tents and the temporary fire had already been set up.

The bright flame rose up, boiled the water, and half of it was suppressed, leaving only a small cluster for heating, and the light on the edge of the cliff was supported by a few cold light tubes hanging in front of the tent.

The five of them ate the compressed biscuits they carried with them in hot water, and their bodies, which had been blown cold by the mountain wind in late autumn, finally regained some warmth and vitality.

The four people in the seventh office were divided into two groups, and they were on duty in the first half of the night and the second half of the night respectively. Chu Yunsheng, a researcher, was put in a tent alone and could sleep all night.

Under other circumstances, Chu Yunsheng would choose to watch the night with them, but tonight is different, he needs to be alone.

The night is getting darker.

On the edge of the cliff of Xiaofeng Mountain, the wind is harsh and the autumn is bitterly cold.

In the tent next door, Hou Wanguo and Su Jie had already fallen into a deep sleep, with two snoring sounds, one big and one small.

Beside the small fire, Lin Yi and Ning Feichi sometimes sat down, sometimes walked around and inspected, and heard the sound of Xi Suo.

Chu Yunsheng opened his eyes in a dark shadow, quietly got out of the sleeping bag, and opened the backpack.

The top cover of the metal box was removed, and the strange and pungent smell of potion overflowed slightly.

Chu Yunsheng stared at the gently wriggling brain soaked in the transparent liquid for a few seconds, and then opened the black notebook with a strange sense of brief contact with Rong Chen's spirit.

He thought about it for a whole week, and also studied this black leather notebook for a whole week, and determined that its secret probably needs a special method or timing to trigger its manifestation.

According to the information Rong Chen gave him, it is most likely to draw a new pattern in the notebook.

Of course, it can't be a pattern that I smeared indiscriminately and has no origin.

So Chu Yunsheng chose from the original plot a strange pattern that Lu Zhixian dreamed of in his precognitive dream before fighting the fleeing No. 001 test subject.If nothing else, it should have a certain relationship with Rong Chen.

He can try to draw this pattern at other times, but in the dark, his subconscious is influencing him, making him come here, come to this ordinary but seemingly full of treacherous and terrifying cliffs, and draw this pattern.

"Will their lives be in danger?"

Chu Yun said in a low voice.

In the metal box in his arms, the flesh and blood brain was wriggling normally, conveying some chaotic and strange illusions.

In the illusion, the four people in the seventh place were chased by some shadows, and quickly escaped from Xiaofeng Mountain in the dawn light. Except for some minor scratches, they were safe and sound.

Chu Yunsheng's expression eased a little, and he gave up the plan to go out and use the special means planned to send those four people away.

Ink dripped.

He picked up a pure black pen, and slowly drew a distorted and mysterious pattern on a blank page of the black leather notebook.

Beside the fire, Ning Feichi suddenly turned his head.

In the cold night wind, there seemed to be a strange sound.