Abyss Express

[Ectotherm·Cold-blooded animal]

In the south of London, next to the road from Winchester to Chichester, there are green low hills and dark forests stretching for more than 100 kilometers.

The time is four o'clock in the morning on January 11, 2025.

Boy Downing set off from London by car - taking his girlfriend Martha to Portsmouth for vacation.

The weather in January was not very good, perhaps related to the volcanic eruption in Tonga a few years ago, the whole world cooled down, the summer was cloudy and rainy, and spring came, with icy chills.

The Ford car was galloping on the road, and God seemed to be about to cry after hearing the riddle left by the old lynx in this land.

A few drops of mottled raindrops fell, hit the windshield, and stopped immediately.

The abnormal air pressure made the men and women in the car restless.

Fortunately, Tangning is a pistachio...

——He is a very cheerful person, healthy, uplifting, strong in spirit and strong in will.

"I've thought about it a long time ago. We set off at four in the morning and we can see the sun in Portsmouth at 8:30 in the morning."

"It's been such a ghostly weather for the past few days." Martha didn't have much energy, she lowered her eyebrows and squinted out of the dark window: "Really? When you drive to the beach, you can see the sun?"

Boy Tangning grinned: "Sure, I asked my uncle. He worked at a weather station when he was young. He has seen this kind of weather before. The air pressure at sea is different from that on land. If you want to see the sun, go to the seaside and wait for the sun. When we first came out we could see it and if a storm had to come we'd get at least an hour or two of sunshine."

Martha brushed her red hair, looking preoccupied.

She heard the raindrops hitting the glass from time to time, but it couldn't turn into a continuous, reassuring white noise. She was a little annoyed, so she stuffed a CD into the old Ford car stereo.

Music overshadows all anxiety and restlessness.

Boy Tang Ning stared straight ahead, not being distracted while driving was his best asset - this was also something Martha cared about very much. Although this boy was younger than her, he somehow made people feel at ease.

When she heard the music, Tangning said, "Are you worried, Martha?"

"A little."

"Is it because of the trip?"

"Yes. I don't understand"

"We haven't seen the sun for four months. Even cold-blooded animals need to be warmed up?"

"Um."

"How about I tell you about the arrangements for this trip?"

Martha didn't answer, she just turned her head and looked at Tangning's side face.

To be honest-this young and strong boy looks good, but this maturity that does not match his age makes Martha feel weird.

She resisted this journey in her heart, thinking that the rainy days that lasted for several months might be a good thing.

She doesn't like lively places, and living alone is her living habit. She is a travel photography blogger and doesn't need to communicate with many people.

Live alone in an old villa far away from the urban area, beside a sparkling silver lake.

Boy Tangning was naked, climbed onto her pier from the lake, and climbed onto her bed—

During the school's summer camp, Tangning went to the lake to swim. She made a bet that she would swim back and forth. In the end, she swam to the door of Martha's room, but she didn't have the strength to swim back.

—That’s how they met, very suddenly.

It was the little aunt Martha, a travel photography blogger, who pulled the shutter on the second floor.

It happened that a blond boy with a good figure climbed onto the pier. Just like the legendary mermaid.

Boy Tangning broke into her life, sweet and happy like glue.

let me guess? !

You must be thinking, this young couple in the off-screen scene, what weird things might happen to them next, right?

Take a break and don't rush.

The story could be told in one chapter.

Between the winding mountain roads, the dense forests on both sides flew by accompanied by street lights.

Tangning talked about the painstaking travel arrangements: "Let's go to Portsmouth Naval Base first. My uncle is there. He will take you to see the sun at the ferry terminal. There is a chicken restaurant fifty meters away."

Martha: "Yeah."

Tangning: "Then board the Iron Warrior and head to the Isle of Wight."

Martha: "Yeah."

Tang Ning: "Go to Robin Hill's Adventure Park and Monkey Paradise Zoo."

Martha: "Yeah"

Tang Ning: "Go to the Godshill campsite for a barbecue party. I brought a gun, which can kill wild boars! Martha, are you listening to me?"

Martha: "Listening."

"Listening?" Tangning just continued to watch the road and drive. The young man was a little anxious, "But, you seem to be full of resentment? Is it because of me? Is it because I woke you up at four in the morning? I have discussed it with you a lot. This time, you personally agreed, and promised to complete this journey with me!"

Martha: "Promising is one thing"

Tangning casually pressed the pause button on the CD player and turned off the music, "Honey, I fell in love with you to make us both happier. If there's something that doesn't make you happy, why do you do it?"

The speed of the car also gradually slowed down, as if it was about to stop on this lonely and cold rainy night road.

"Don't stop." Martha couldn't explain clearly, she didn't understand why she was so anxious, she lit up the CD player again: "I don't know, I don't know, anyway, you have the final say, I didn't disobey you I mean, but I just can't be happy, I feel bad."

Tangning: "Very bad?"

Martha: "I vaguely feel that there is something on this road that has been following us."

Tangning's expression froze. The young man looked in the side-view mirror and slowly slowed down the car.

He slowly, slowly focused his eyes on the mirror——

——Martha followed her boyfriend's eyes, trying to see something strange in the side-view mirror, but she couldn't see anything.

Martha asked nervously and quietly: "What's wrong? Did you see anything?"

Boy Tangning swallowed heavily, and cold sweat began to break out on his forehead.

Martha continued to ask, "Don't keep silent. Is it a ghost? Or some kind of monster? In the car? Outside the car? Why are you slowing down? I'm scared. Tangning!"

"I saw..." Tangning's tone trembled, as if an electric current was passing through her whole body, "There's nothing! ~ There's nothing in the back seat! It's really scary!"

Immediately afterwards the young man became hippie smiling.

"Who do you think will come out to run mountains at four o'clock in the morning? Fujiwara Takumi?"

He was joking with his female companion, Martha, and his eyes were still fixed on the front without the slightest slack.

"The most powerful thing in the night is the gray wolf or the bear. We have guns, don't be afraid! Martha, I'm by your side! Even if it's a vampire, I'll be like a cold-blooded animal, and use my beloved big shotgun to scatter him! "

Martha was angry and amused, and only felt that there was vitality in this young man.

"What the hell is going on in your head?"

Tangning: "Scared you?"

Martha nodded, her face turning red and then pale: "It's scary."

Tang Ning: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have set the departure time at four o'clock in the morning. But you know - if we come during the daytime, we won't be able to see the sun on the coast of Portsmouth."

Martha smiled and shook her head: "I didn't mean to blame you. Don't do this in the future, I have a bad heart."

"Deling! Your Royal Highness!" Tangning took the time to salute, "Your knight Tangning will definitely protect you!"

Hearing this sentence, Martha didn't know what to say. In the end, I just lowered my head to swipe my phone to write messages, update a post on INS, take pictures of the scenery outside the window, and write a new travel diary.

Tangning asked again, "Martha, what is that uneasy feeling you're talking about?"

Martha replied immediately: "I can't say it, it's as if the two of us will suddenly be quiet, the same as now."

A full five seconds passed, and neither of them spoke.

Only the quiet mountain road surface, occasionally there will be the sound of stones being crushed by wheels and flying away.

In addition to the melodious music in the CD player, drowsy classical music.

In the old vehicle, the dust projected under the fluorescent light.

There is also the lower half of the faces of the two people illuminated by the blue cold light source.

Other than that there is nothing else.

Martha finally said: "That's the feeling. I always feel that there are other things on this road."

Tangning said carelessly, "I won't scare you again, don't worry! Stop thinking about it."

Martha is serious, showing off the red spots on her arms.

"Maybe it's just random thinking. I have a skin disease, and the doctor said it was neurodermatitis. If my health is not good, my spirit will also have problems. It should be like this."

Tangning nodded immediately, "Yes, you can watch TikTok less. Recently, I've been secretly looking through your viewing records. They're all gods and ghosts. It's scary!"

Martha pouted, and immediately turned on the phone——

- Show off Mimir Springs Bazaar Orchestra or Passengers' work.

"This is not a mythical ghost! It's a series! Look at these green screen special effects! And this dragon, how real!"

The video just played to the scene where Wen Bucai fell from the sky.

Tang Ning snorted, "Tch! It's so fake! There's no dragon like this. It looks like it's dead. It's grabbed by the neck. It doesn't move or resist."

Martha was worried: "Now we travel photography bloggers, what we make is not as exciting as the special effects team, and I don't know what to do in the future. What kind of job should I find to support myself?"

Tangning cheered her lover on: "A fake is a fake, it will never be as good as the real one! Honey, the things you shoot are the best!"

"Although that's the case." Martha gestured at the phone: "The number of views and likes won't lie."

Tangning whistled, smiled and joked, "God! Hurry up and manifest! Some werewolves, vampires or something! Let my lover's Instagram account skyrocket! ~ No matter how bad it is, a ghost is fine!~"

Martha was not at all happy when she heard the joke.

She was sullen: "You are just teasing me! I want to scare you too!"

Tangning: "How should I do it?"

Martha: "Fake suicide."

Tangning: "You did this last time. You lay in the living room and pretended to have a heart attack. I kissed you for a long time before you [hahahahahaha] got up."

Martha: "Then cut the wrist and let blood?"

Tangning: "Don't waste the ketchup!"

Martha: "I don't care, anyway, I want to scare you!"

[Pain And Lus · Pain and Greed]

The voice has not yet fallen——

——Tangning's pupils shrank slightly.

Ahead of the road, headlights cast a blurry black shadow.

At the critical moment, Martha pushed the steering wheel violently!

Immediately afterwards, there was a screeching sound of brakes, and the old Ford sedan rushed towards the guardrail.

Martha just felt her body being jerked hard, bouncing between the seat belt and the seat.

Tangning's mind was muddled, but this kid was very reliable. Before he lost consciousness, he grabbed the short-barreled shotgun in the car's storage compartment.

In just ten or so seconds, the young couple regained consciousness immediately. Thanks to Boy Tangning's good driving habits, he was able to maintain the car's attitude during the crisis of overtaking the steering wheel at high speed, and finally brought it to a steady stop.

"Honey, don't play like this next time." Tangning put down the gun.

Martha's face was full of cold sweat: "Didn't you see it?!"

Tangning: "What did you see?"

Martha: "Looks like we almost hit something!"

Tangning: "What is it?"

Martha: "Looks like a human!"

Immediately afterwards, Tangning fell silent.

Another eerily quiet five seconds passed.

Tangning said, "Should I get out of the car?"

Martha shook her head: "Don't!"

Tang Ning said seriously, "I have to get out of the car and have a look. If I hit someone, I have to save him. It's late at night, and I can't even see the moon—this guy ran into the middle of the road without a word. You can’t sit idly by.”

Martha pursed her lips, her face full of displeasure: "Who would come to this ghostly place at such a time? We came here with the lights on! Music on! No matter how you say it, this guy should stay out of the way!"

Tangning said stubbornly, "This person was probably attacked by wild animals in the forest, and he would lose consciousness when he lost blood. He finally saw us, so he didn't have time to think about so many things."

Martha didn't understand: "How can you let go of your guard at this time? What if we read it wrong? What if it's not someone, a wild boar? A bear?"

"I have to check it out, too. I have a gun." Tangning insisted on her own thoughts, "Music and lighting will drive away wild animals. Only people will be attracted by these things."

"Alright! Alright! I don't know who is crazy!" Martha said so, but she still held Tangning's arm, "Please, my dear, don't go."

Tangning gently stroked Martha's face.

There is only tenderness in his eyes, only love.

"I love you, I'll be back. Just to take a look, anyway, I want to see if there is anything wrong with the car, if it brakes or the radiator blows, we will call the police immediately. This is not just to protect the strange shadow we just ran into , but also to protect ourselves.”

Martha was so frightened that she was about to shed tears: "Don't beg you, you seem to be possessed recently. You bought a lot of strange things on the online shopping platform and asked me to follow you to Portsmouth. What happened to you? Have you fallen under some evil spell? I'm afraid! Tangning!"

Boy Tangning unbuckled his seat belt.

Martha yelled, "I'm scared! Can't you hear? Are you fucking deaf! Let's go now! Get out of this place! Whatever you bump into! Whether it's a man or a ghost! Go right away!" "

Boy Tangning opened the car door and went to check the car without hesitation.

Martha calmed down at last, because it is useless to be angry.

Tangning has always been this kind of person.

like a cold-blooded animal—

——Never scruples about her feelings.

In front of the bright headlights, Tangning walked around the car in the rain.

From the bumper, there was no trace of blood.

Then he circled around to the bright red taillights with a gun, but he didn't see any blood.

Looking into the dark and wet road, I can't see any so-called "dark shadows"——

"—Come back! Tangning!" Martha screamed, almost hysterical, swallowed by fear, "I'm scared! I'm really scared!"

Boy Tangning turned on the flashlight of his phone and carefully groped the road.

Eventually he found three bloody broken bones in the wet road.

These bones were soaked in a thick pool of blood, and there was still a lot of sticky liquid in the blood, like snot and saliva.

Martha: "Come back! Don't go any further!"

Tangning still didn't give up, he could recognize the appearance of the bones -

— much like a human canine tooth and part of the nasal cartilage.

When he came to the iron guardrail next to the road, he found that the iron fence was deeply sunken, as if he had been hit hard by some ferocious beast.

Some black cloth was hung on the railing, which was brought down by scratches from the rough edge of the iron railing. There was a strange ID in the cloth.

So that means—

——There was indeed a person just now who rolled down from the low slope of the forest.

Judging from the smell on the clothes, this is a woman wearing Gucci's perfume.

She was so badly wounded that her entire mouth was rotten off along with her nose.

After hitting the iron railing, she lost consciousness and walked onto the road in a daze. She was almost killed by Tangning.

There's nothing else around—

——Tangning stepped back step by step, feeling great fear in her heart.

He doesn't know what these things represent, but he knows that this woman who can dress and dress up with Gucci perfume. It wasn't dead, and it wasn't a monster—a monster wouldn't care what it smelled like on a cold, rainy night.

But that's out of his control. It was hard for him to imagine how terrible the impact on the iron railing would be to produce such a drastic deformation.

He stepped back step by step, looked into the distance with his gun in his hand, and retreated into the car.

Martha breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately moved her body over the gear lever.

They hugged each other tightly, kissing fiercely as if they had escaped death.

Tangning: "It's okay, honey."

Martha: "Let's go, let's go."

Tangning started the car, "You don't want to ask me what I saw?"

Martha rolled her eyes: "I don't want to know! I! I don't want to know at all!"

Tangning just put her teeth and nasal cartilage into a plastic bag and prepared to hand them over to the police officer, instead of trying to scare her girlfriend.

The vehicle restarted and the music played again.

Martha was still restless—

——She felt that little Tangning seemed to have changed during this period of time.

He started to fiddle with some mysterious magic props, researched various alchemy instruments, brought back a lot of silverware, and made these silverware into small beads, not knowing what to do.

Tangning put down the gun and grabbed her lover's hand.

"Don't worry, Martha."

Martha gradually settled down. Little Tangning's palms were hot and very warm.

B106 mountain road——

——In a simple public toilet.

9527 clutched his broken arm, just finished hemostasis, and hid beside 3301.

330 was completely unrecognizable, half of his face was gone, his teeth and mouth were exposed, his body trembled and convulsed with pain.

Two best friends are hiding in a room, avoiding the pursuit of monsters.

9527 lost a lot of blood, his face was pale, and he said in a super low voice, "How did these animals get here? Do you have a clue?"

3301 lost his nose, his teeth leaked, and whimpered: "It is said to be a virus artificially synthesized by holy blood and rat kidney cells. Someone used this formula more than 500 years ago to transform the mortal body into a human body. Become a vampire."

9527: "Can you still smell them?"

3301: "My smelling glands are all broken, I think you're just embarrassing me."

9527: "How to kill them?"

3301: "We don't have sterilized ammunition, we need silver bullets! We need silver bullets!"

9527: "I didn't expect that the price of taking a long vacation is this kind of field work, so bad luck!"

3301: "Do you still have any panacea? Give me some?"

9527 shook his head: "It's used up."

3301: "Why did you bring two?"

Nine Five Two Seven: "It's better than you don't bring any."

3301: "Originally, after reading the task briefing, I thought it was a very simple job. You know, I spend a lot of money on medicine. So."

The two originally wanted to make up for their vacation performance. When the employer went to the Mimier Hot Spring Market, under the arrangement of the station, they took on a seemingly very simple field task.

The mission location is not underground, but in the suburbs of Winchester in London——

——A passenger found a mysterious bat-shaped flying object here.

The results of DNA sampling showed that there were artificially synthesized blood of rats, earth dragons, and some ancient creatures, as well as many molds and microorganisms that mutated because of this blood, which had the characteristics of the brand of Vita—probably related to the mad butterfly It is related to the holy religion, and also related to the legend of vampires.

9527 and 3301 thought they were going to check their performance, and the schedule was to investigate during the day and go back to Tianqiong Station to sleep at night-wander around a few times to collect some evidence and clues before going back.

Unexpectedly, these bat-shaped beasts were very cunning, and found an opportunity to break Sansan Lingyi's nose.

In the continuous rainy weather, these things that are neither human nor ghost can even show up in the market. They fought with 9527 when they went downstairs to buy soy milk and drink coffee. They fought for two days and two nights, using weapons to block The road drives the station attendant from the complex city to the isolated countryside.

"Where is it safe? We have to take a break." 3301 covered his tongue and stuffed it back into his mouth, finally stopping the bleeding.

9527 was so angry that his blood pressure rose, and the broken arm started to spurt blood again: "The mobile phone broke in the rain. I was talking on the phone with my sweet and soft employer! Who knew it would happen suddenly"

3301: "Don't hold it!"

Two sisters stare at each other in a cramped toilet cubicle.

3301 and 9527 tied their arms.

9527 helped 3301 cover their mouth and nose

"Qi, are we going to die here?"

"Impossible, my face value is so good! According to the conclusion of villains in movies and TV shows, those with big breasts and good looks will generally live for a long time!"

"But we are not villains, and besides, this is not acting in a movie."

"Don't be discouraged."

"Will someone come to rescue us?"

"I don't know, now we don't have weapons that can kill them, so we can only hide, hoping that the rain will wash away our smell and pheromones."

From the top of 3301's head, two furry spirit wolf ears popped out suddenly, and they heard something, "Shh! Be quiet! Shut up!"

The crisp sound of high heels trampling on the road sounded from outside the toilet door.

9527 didn't dare to take a breath, and saw a tall woman with a swaying gait passing by the crack of the toilet door.

Seventh brother met her in the elevator of the hotel.

We went downstairs together to make soy milk and eat toast. This beautiful woman was still talking about the clothes and perfume of the two sisters for a second.

As soon as she walked out of the door, her terrifying parted lips were revealed. She changed from an elegant woman to a vampire—she immediately started shooting at the slightest disagreement.

Without warning, very, very suddenly.

At that time, 9527 still remembered that he and Jiang Xueming had just finished talking about the coffee shop at the station.

The woman drew out her gun and called for three or five companions to surround her.

The two sisters chased and fought these freaks, and ran for their lives to hide.

Two days and two nights without rest.

9527 only felt that his brain was going to explode——

——She was very tired, and only had a strong will to survive to close the open door of death again.

They held their breath and withdrew all their spiritual pressure, for fear that the hunter outside the toilet would become suspicious.

The sound of the high heels became hasty, as if he smelled a strong stench next to the toilet door, and he was about to leave immediately.

They didn't feel at ease until the noise of the separation of flesh and blood from the cavity, the deformation of the meat membrane and the vibration of the air was heard in the distance.

—The monster left.

"Let's go, Sansan!"

"Where are you going?"

"Change your clothes and go back to report to the BOSS."

The Ford sedan is parked on a deserted beach in Portsmouth, where the epidemic has turned into a ghost town for several years.

Martha and Tangning stood shoulder to shoulder on the pier——

——They waited quietly for the sunrise.

Martha held Tangning's hand, "You make me feel very warm."

Kid Tangning raised his cold gun, "Yes. Martha, we've finally arrived at our destination."

Martha: "You found out? Did you?"

Tangning: "The first time I kissed you, I realized that your body temperature was horribly low."

Martha: "You want me to bask in the sun, do you want to break up with me? Do you want to break up with me?"

Tangning: "I love you."

Sister Martha's body began to deform——

——Her back swelled, piercing through her clothes, two twisted sprouts emerged, and a pair of tender pink bat wings suddenly opened.

Her nose protruded, her face deformed, and her eyes became blood red.

The fangs and toes and claws came out all at once, and the mouth was divided into four petals.

Little Tangning didn't speak, but just watched all this quietly.

Martha's voice became hoarse and wild, asking: "Do you still love?"

Little Tangning looked at the unrecognizable lover, and it seemed that it was inappropriate to say anything now.

He just waited, waiting for a golden chicken egg to slowly emerge from the sea in an extremely far, far away place.

There are many questions that go unanswered.

for example--

Why would a monster be willing to fall in love with humans for so long.

Why is a human being willing to spend so long with monsters day and night.

They take care of each other, joke with each other, and scare each other.

Until Martha's body began to show traces of Vita's brand, it was like the hometown of the underground world, reminding her with this fatal call, asking her to return to the underground world.

Until the Portsmouth sun rises from the sea.

Little Tangning finally said, "I love you even more now."

Sunlight kills 90 percent of bacteria and viruses in nature.

Martha shattered into pieces under the warm light, and Madam Bai, who burst out from her body, died quickly with her distorted fleshy body, and couldn't live for a few seconds.

Perhaps it was the momentary [pain and pleasure] that moved Martha's heart.

To change from an immortal vampire to an ordinary girl who is tender and open to death.

Little Tangning stomped her legs and swept all the dust on the pier into the sea.

Then he raised his gun and wiped away his tears. He flipped open the certificate, took the ticket from the folder page of the certificate, and embarked on an unknown road of suffering.

On the edge of the ancient and mysterious South China Sea city.

Taking advantage of the sun to hide in the clouds——

——Mrs. Mary and her followers flew back to the castle wall and entered the deep spiral staircase.

Four hundred meters underground—on another platform zero, the train with the symbol of the Mad Butterfly just left the platform.

Mary took off all her clothes, uncovered her blood-red curly hair, and talked with her good sister about the strange things that happened recently in the bathhouse.

"It's a pity to let the two little girls run away."

"You went with the subordinate, how could you miss it?"

"No way, they are hiding in the toilet, I will never touch this kind of filth! It makes me sick to smell it!"

"You should have cured your cleanliness a long time ago! Sooner or later, it will become your dead door!"

"Being dirty means becoming ugly, and being ugly will kill me soon! Beauty means strength! And I like the clothes of those two little girls very much. Such beautiful people should live longer. If more people die, The bad aesthetics of this ugly world just get more and more outrageous."

"Well, Sister Mary, I don't know what to say about you. These are your minor problems, but our Sister Martha was really moved, and she died."

"How did you die? Maggie? Can you tell me in detail?"

"There are surveillance cameras on the wharf in Portsmouth. I think she must love that child very much. Without any resistance, she stood frozen in the sun and died, smashed to pieces."

"Oh, stupid."

"She originally had a life of hundreds or thousands of years. There are so many good-looking and fun men in the world. Why bother to lose her life for just one person?"

"Emotions make a person weak and impotent, and lead her to death."

"That's right! The time has come, it's time to take care of the Vita brand on your body! Sister!"

In the bathhouse—

—Mrs. Mary tugged at the brass showerhead water valve.

Immediately, bright red hot blood sprayed down, washing away the red spots on their skin.

Holding hands, the two sisters jumped out of a rain of blood into the large bath on the terrace.

She is a stunner with skin like creamy fat, slender waist and buttocks.

A cold-blooded, ruthless killer who wants human blood as an appetizer.