Mermaid Reef

At two o'clock in the morning, the lights in the camp were dim, and no patrolling soldiers could be seen, but the atmosphere was abnormal.

The solid stone outpost facing the Arabian Mountains was full of people.

"Report, there are no abnormal sounds."

"No explorers found entering the cave."

The gray and black mountain body bathed in the moonlight looks like an unknown abstract painting composed of shadows in the military telescope.

Because they have been stationed here for more than a month, the observers can draw the distribution of rocks on this hillside with their eyes closed. Even if it is a blurry shadow, they can compare it with the daytime scene in their memory. , and then rule out the suspects one by one.

This is the No. 16 hour when Juan, Professor Teretin, and Mr. Rota entered the mysterious cave.

Ninth day since the ghost radio disappeared.

The monster hiding in the cave has not made any sound these days, and some people have raised doubts that the monster has dug a passage and escaped from the Arabiaca Mountain.

The person in charge of the camp decided to send the explorer into the cave after comprehensive consideration of several aspects.

In the first hour, some soldiers secretly bet on Juan's chances of survival.

In the fourth hour, the security of the camp was strengthened.

There must be people on all armored vehicles, and the wooden cannons and ammunition are all ready to prevent monsters from suddenly attacking and rushing out of the cave.

At the eighth hour, everyone was impatient.

At the tenth hour, the atmosphere started to get weird.

The exploration team sent into the cave should have returned anyway. After all, the use time of the flashlight is limited. In order to prevent getting lost, the same is true for the small flags, ropes, etc. that serve as markers. How many things can the backpacks of three people hold?Ten kilograms is the limit. Even without monsters, cave exploration is full of unpredictable risks.

This is why camp leaders are reluctant to let their soldiers venture into caves.

The cave is dark and narrow, with many twists and turns, and is full of height differences eroded by flowing water. There may be poisonous insects and snakes hidden in the rock crevices.

In this kind of place, the advantage of numbers is useless.

People who lack adventure experience will only die if they get into it.

But the soldiers in this "care" camp don't feel it, because in their eyes, the most ferocious and cruel people in the world are always "people". This is the common sense taught to them by the war more than ten years ago.

Whether it's an alien or a monster infected by a virus, wouldn't it be enough to wear more and thicker clothes and catch them out?After being delayed in the mountains for so long, the soldiers all complained a bit, thinking that the boss was procrastinating, not quick and straightforward.

These anxious emotions are particularly obvious tonight.

During the day, everyone received an order to guard against monsters rushing out and to attack freely. As a result, they waited until late at night, and there was no movement on the Arabika Mountain.

This is very difficult.

If the monster cannot be caught, it cannot be withdrawn, and it must continue to be stationed in the mountain.

The wild wolves and wild antelopes that originally existed in this mountain area were all scared away by the monsters. If they wanted to hunt and improve food, they had to turn over several mountains.

The signal in the mountains is not good, and the only signal receiving device has been fixed on a certain channel for a long time. I can't listen to news from Moscow, and I can't listen to sports broadcasts. Life is too boring.

"...Do you think the three foreigners died in the cave?"

In the camp below the outpost, a few soldiers sat behind a light armored vehicle talking in low voices.

They had a wine bottle in their hands, and they passed each other a sip in the cold wind mixed with ice chips at night.

"It's a Frenchman. If he hasn't come out for so long, he must be dead."

"Didn't the French just catch it yesterday? I heard that a Russian archeology professor working in France named Terekin, he also talked to me, and he was infected by the French with the cowardly surrender... ...the other one seems to be Spanish, or Latin American?"

"They are dead. We may send a team into the cave tomorrow to search."

"It should have been done a long time ago... Wait, what sound is this?"

The speaker was lying half-lying on the ground to be lazy, but suddenly he turned over and put his ear close to the ground.

There is a slight vibration.

There was a faint low roar.

"There is a situation!"

"The monster is still in the mountains, that's right! This guy hasn't moved for almost ten days, and I thought it really ran away!"

They jumped up excitedly.

"boom."

Suddenly a big hole appeared in the ground.

Two people were caught off guard and fell in directly.

There was another person struggling to grab the edge of the hole, kicking his legs wildly.

The others quickly grabbed his two arms, and watched helplessly as the armored vehicle next to him slid into the hole.

The soldiers on the armored vehicle reacted quickly, and jumped outside after opening the door.

There was chaos in the camp. Several burrows suddenly appeared, and one burrow was directly under the tent, swallowing more than a dozen boxes of supplies and resting people.

People screamed angrily, calling the names of those companions who fell into the cave, but unfortunately only a few people grabbed the rock crevices and had the opportunity to climb and escape.

Gray smoke invisible to the naked eye rose from the hole in the ground and slowly spread in the camp.

People's emotions gradually became frenzied, and with the sound of a wooden barn, the situation began to get out of control.

They seemed to think that the monster was hiding in a certain hole in front of them, and their companions had already been eaten, so they held their weapons and fired wildly at the bottom.

Some bullets were deeply embedded in the soil and rocks, and some bullets hit the sunken material boxes and armored vehicles. The stray bullets scattered in all directions. People were accidentally injured by the stray bullets and fell into a pool of blood.

No amount of shouting from the camp's tweeters could stop the chaos.

The shaking of the ground became more and more severe, and more and more holes appeared.

The person who was running there one second, disappeared the next second.

The ground of the camp seemed to have become a sieve, full of holes.

Tents and vehicles were toppled, and a small explosion occurred in the distance where ammunition was stored.

The man who managed to retain his sanity looked at the chaotic scene around him and pressed his painful forehead, unable to understand why everyone suddenly went crazy with red eyes.

"It's a hallucination, they have hallucinations..."

A vague sound came into the ears, the light and shadow flickered, and the thick smell of gunpowder was smelled again.

"Calm down! All leave the camp and gather at the post!"

The person in charge of the camp roared with all his strength, and seven or eight figures stumbled out of the smoke.

They were all in a mess, their eyes were blurred, and their expressions were terrified.

This kind of fear came very suddenly, but it was as strong as a tsunami, and it instantly broke up the firm will that had condensed into a wall.

Their consciousness seemed to be struggling in the flood, and they couldn't even think completely. They could only follow the familiar voice and run with the current, and resisted the madness of their companions according to their instincts... Just when their fear was about to reach its peak, they were about to be killed. When the flood engulfed, all the sounds suddenly disappeared again.

The camp was quiet.

The deafening roaring and fighting sounds and the sound of bullets just now... are gone.

People standing outside the camp could tell through the smoke from the fire, but there was no one inside.

——It was like a monster appeared and devoured all the living people in an instant.

"Quickly put out the fire!"

One sentence woke up everyone.

Baked for too long, the ammunition will explode.

That's when they're really done.

People were very vigilant when rushing into the fire, thinking that they would see a hideous and terrifying monster entrenched in the camp.

but.

The living and the dead fell to the ground together, as if in a coma, even if they were burned by the fire, they were unconscious.

The constant vibration from the ground also disappeared.

The monster is out already?Or hide back underground?

A soldier stood dazedly in the camp, carrying his unconscious companion who was nearly burned by the fire.

That's when he saw a collapsed tent squirm.

"do not move!"

He yelled loudly, as if to vent his fear and anxiety.

Before he could pull the trigger, a woman's voice came from inside.

"No, no, help!"

It was the female assistant of Mr. Rota who was taken hostage in the camp. Her face was full of tears and she struggled to get out.

"You've been here? What did you see?"

The two couldn't speak the same language, even if they shouted at each other, they couldn't communicate.

The soldier walked over cautiously, and suddenly saw a figure standing on the edge of a hole out of the corner of his eye.

He turned quickly, picked up his weapon and was about to aim.

It was a man in a strange shiny mask, dressed like a theater actor.

A sharp tingling sensation suddenly appeared for no reason, and the soldier pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The bullet flew in front of that strange man, as if it had disappeared. There was no blood, no sound of being shot, nothing.

"what--"

The soldier dropped his weapon and fled with his head in his arms.

Only Mr. Rota's female assistant was left staring blankly at the front. There was no masked person in her field of vision. In her view, the soldier suddenly went berserk and swept away a magazine in the air.

***

Gemil stepped on the collapsed tent and walked to the biggest hole.

He wasn't surprised that the humans in this camp could see him.

In the past few days, Gemil has encountered such a situation many times-all are listeners of the ghost radio station.

If you don’t listen to it many times, even if you have been exposed to mystery, saw a lot of strange things, or even suffered a serious illness, but with the complete disappearance of the ghost radio station, this kind of bad luck will disappear from their lives.

If the ghost radio station is used to "connect" with other evil gods, their relatives, and mutant creatures, things will be complicated.

Ordinary mutated creatures are fine, they just have a chance of being infected with mutated creatures. If the power of other evil gods is involved, the risk of death will increase several times or even dozens of times.

Gemil thought that if he slept with Jason on the bottom of the sea for one more year, he would not have to worry about waking up. Those humans who abused the mysterious power of the ghost radio station would all die. As long as the remaining humans do not want to die, they will not continue to use it. Ghost radio.

Anyway, it's not the time to wake up!

There is no death peak yet, because the ghost radio has only been on for half a year.

The evil god doesn't care about the life and death of the ants.

What Jason cares about is that among the people who use the ghost radio, the probability of glowing ants is very high, much higher than the normal population!

This is much easier than normal searching!

The ghost radio station is automatically screened again!

You are right, except that the workload is a bit heavy.

It takes a lot of time to watch a group of ants and a group of ants.

Gemil drove away Typhon, wandered around the human city a few times to see if there was anything Jason was interested in, and then accompanied Jason to look for glowing ants. Occasionally, when he encountered a suspicious place, Gemil would Separate from Jason, and ask the sleeping evil gods if there is any trace of repair materials for the rock palace.

Gemil would show up at Mount Arabiaca because he "discovered" that Jensen stayed here all day.

Got a new investigator?new game?still--

When Gemil arrived at the camp, he saw the chaotic scene.

Something hiding deep underground seems to be about to escape.

Wait, is it the same kind?

Gemil looked at Jason in the mountain cave in the distance, and then at the ground.

Is this an evil god who was scared away by Jason?

Then of course Gemil had to cooperate with Jensen, for example, to block the exit.

Gamil walked into the camp, his aura instantly made the guy give up the idea of ​​running away, and retreated to the ground again.