Obligations of the elderly

The birth of "evil" is to prevent "nian". Whenever the space medium in a certain place is unstable and "nian" may see this gap and take the opportunity to enter, this place will be born as the times require. For "evil" eggs, the number of eggs depends on the size of the crack, or the strength of the "year" behind the crack. If there is a slight leak, there will be only one egg, and if there is a serious leak, several eggs will appear at the same time. , these eggs will even continue to grow, until they grow bigger and bigger, until they grow enough to fight against the "year" that is about to come in from the opposite side——

"So...you mean...this monster is not Nian at all, but E?" After hearing all the man's narration, the director of the Continental Safety Commission frowned.

"That's right, the black beast in the video is not Nian, but E." The man affirmed.

Then, the director's brows furrowed even deeper.

This is Jizhou, the office of the Continental Security Committee in Jizhou, the committee has specialized offices on all continents, and Jizhou's office is in Higashishingu City, on the top floor of a skyscraper.

They are now in the meeting hall on the top floor, and there are two pictures projected on the light screen that has not yet disappeared. One picture is from a screenshot of a video that has been widely circulated on the Internet. The frozen picture is a black monster now; while the other picture is It’s a painting version, it’s a kind of yellow old picture, it’s painted a mass of black mucus, there’s a black egg in the mucus, the egg has broken its shell, and a black beast crawled out of it, although the painting version It looks very different from the photo version, but if you summarize the characteristics carefully, you will find that the characteristics of these two seemingly different beasts are surprisingly similar!They look very much like a living thing!

At this moment, apart from a few committee staff members wearing uniforms and badges, standing in this spacious conference hall, the other twenty or so people are dressed quite casually. They were all dressed outdoors, and a rough and natural atmosphere came over them. They were obviously not members of the safety committee.Take a closer look, there are four familiar faces among these people, two men and two women, three tall and one short, they are the palace fathers and palace mothers and their users.

It turned out that these people were the expedition team that the parents of the Gong family belonged to, the expedition team that searched everywhere and aimed at restoring old books, especially lost myths and legends.

Three years ago, after the old curator of the Yunzhou Library determined that the monster was likely to be a legend from a few picture books of fairy tales collected in the library, people from the Mainland Safety Commission have been looking for those books. Who would have thought that it took three years to find the revisioners of fairy tale picture books. This little-known team of restorers was even more difficult to find than fugitives. This time they were able to find them because they restored and completed a new picture book. The Book Revision Bureau handed in the new picture books, got the money, and was about to "go out" again, when they were finally stopped by the Continental Security Council, who were struggling to find them. They readily followed them to the nearest office of the committee—that is, Jizhou's office.

A considerable number of people in this expedition team are from Jizhou.

While the captain was talking with that head of the security committee, the palace father was still in touch with his son on his mobile phone.Thinking that his son might still be in class, he also used the text mode "intimately".

"A Si, Mom and Dad are in Jizhou now, where are you now, are you with Uncle?"

"Qiuxia! Dad is back in Jizhou! We are currently in Dongshingu City, and we need to cooperate with us for a temporary matter here. I guess it's nothing to do with your mother and me. We should be able to go back soon. Do you have anything tonight?" Are you free? Mom and Dad want to have dinner with you, ah, the premise is that these people can let us go tonight."

"Dongchun! Mom and Dad are back! We are in Higashishingu City now!"

"Aji! Remember Mom and Dad? We're back!"

……

After sending text messages to his sons one by one to harass him, Gong Dingzhou couldn't help being excited. He listened to what the captain said to those people for a while, but he didn't understand it, and then he stopped listening. Chatting with his sons is more important , although, before that, because of the signal problem, he hadn't contacted his sons for a long time...

The news was sent out, but after waiting for a long time, none of the sons paid attention to him, so the palace father could only rest his head on his wife's shoulder in frustration, and then turned his attention to the captain in front again.

"...We have been in the Black Soil Continent for the past three years. Well, we have visited many places there, and the legends about Er were all revised there. We made a big mistake before and mistakenly regarded Er as the year. This This time, I revised this error with the help of some tribal elders in the Black Earth Continent. We have revised all the fairy tale picture books in your hands this time. The whole body is black, with fleshy wings, and pointed ears... This creature should be Eucai Yes." The captain was still narrating the things about Er.

"However, we have always thought that E is a legendary creature. Does it really exist? Sure enough, no legend can be just a legend, it's just..."

Looking at the densely packed Eggs in the video, the captain hugged his chest and said: "It is said that E's will grow in number and size according to the strength of the years behind the cracks. Now these E's have been artificially bred by human beings. With so many reproductions, uh... so many errones gathered together, will it lead to instability in the space? Originally, no year will come, because of the existence of these errands, will some years be aware of their existence and come out of nowhere ?”

Stretching out his hand to touch the mustache on his chin, the captain said: "You said...Pudova Island suddenly disappeared, could it be that a year suddenly appeared?"

This idea came to him on the spur of the moment, but as the words fell, he saw the face of the bureau chief opposite him suddenly pale, and the captain who always loves to joke suddenly realized something.

"No way...it won't really be guessed by me, right?"

There was a moment of silence in the meeting room.

"Immediately, issue a notice to the police stations in various places, instructing them to conduct population checks on all residents within the jurisdiction, and to conduct a comprehensive inspection of all houses within the jurisdiction, regardless of whether there are people living there or not, to fully investigate suspicious situations!"

"Also... a comprehensive call for investigators to investigate the waters below Pudua Island. I will personally lead the team."

Clenching his fists, the director gave the order.

***

Only members of the Security Investigation Bureau and people from the local police stations know this order. Although they don't understand why the higher-ups suddenly issued this notice, but because the order is very high-level, everyone still strictly implements it.

Ordinary residents in various continents just feel that there are suddenly more policemen on the streets during this period, not only going to their homes and companies to conduct various investigations, but also seeming to have more inspections.

However, since the censuses are conducted irregularly in all continents, everyone is not too vigilant. After all, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and all places have to prepare for a long holiday. You can temporarily press the pause button for work and school. There are too many people in the mall. Everyone They all started buying new year's goods.

"Do you want to check the building in front?" Two policemen are patrolling the roadside. The festive atmosphere on the roadside is so strong, they are also a little distracted, and festive music is playing everywhere. Teenager goods, come and buy them when you are not on duty.

This is Yunzhou, Sanyang City, a city near the sea. Jizhou faces it across the sea. There is also a port leading to Jizhou. Although it is not large in size, it is a small city with a prosperous economy.

The police station on their side also received the order issued by the safety committee, and now the two patrol officers are just two ordinary policemen who received the order to carry out the order.

The census is out of their hands and it's done, nothing out of the ordinary, what they're doing now is building inspections.Because the above said that all buildings should be inspected, they started to inspect the buildings in the area from the morning. There are a lot of high-rise buildings in their area, and they inspected layer by layer. After a day, they can be said to be Tired to death, but even so, they still haven't finished patrolling, and now they are working overtime.

The one who asked the question just now was the taller of the two patrolmen, let's call him the taller.

"Yes, it's about to be demolished, but it hasn't been demolished yet? It's considered a building, and it's in our jurisdiction. It needs to be checked." The shorter colleague next to him looked at the front and said.

"But...it's an empty building that hasn't been demolished for a long time, and it's said to be haunted..." The tall policeman was a little hesitant.

"What the hell is going on? Isn't your weapon a will-o'-the-wisp, nicknamed a ghost? Are you still afraid of ghosts? We are afraid of you, right?" The short policeman obviously didn't have this concern, and his steps were not slow, but a few steps faster. .

"I... I was afraid of this, and I didn't know how to do it. After the contract was signed, my weapon became one of the things I fear the most..." Hesitantly followed behind his colleague, gritted his teeth, and the tall policeman lit a fire. My own "wild-o'-the-wisp", three faint green flames floated around him immediately, illuminating a small area around him. Seeing him like this, the short policeman simply turned off his own flashlight, and relied on his colleague's device for lighting .

"Thank you, Zamu." He also thanked his colleague for his weapon.

"No thanks. ’ A ruffian male voice replied.

Ignoring the back and forth between the two, the tall policeman just muttered: "Hey, I remembered that this building needs to be checked, so I came here early in the morning to check it, why wait until late at night..."

However, despite what he said in his mouth, when he actually entered the building, he still checked the building carefully and tremblingly.

This is a building that has been abandoned for a long time. It used to be a well-known shopping mall in the local area, but then suddenly there was an incident where an escalator fell. Many people were killed and injured, and the number of people involved in the event exceeded 20!The compensation alone drained the owner of the mall, not to mention the endless lawsuits and follow-up treatment of the victims who survived the catastrophe, the snowball got bigger and bigger, and finally the boss had to sell the mall, but The shopping mall where this kind of thing happened is not easy to sell. This place has not been sold for several years. It was the news last year that it was finally sold and it will be demolished soon, but it has not been demolished yet. I don’t know what it is what happened.

They walked on the marble floor on the first floor. No one came for a long time, and a thick layer of dust had already accumulated on the ground. However, because the soles of the shoes matching the police uniforms were very hard, when their soles stepped on the floor, they could always There was a crisp sound, accompanied by echoes, which showed the emptiness here more and more.

"Hui, the echo is so loud..." the tall policeman whispered.

"Of course, this shopping mall is designed with high ceilings and has thirteen floors!"

"I heard that the number thirteen is unlucky. I don't know who thought of it. Make it a thirteenth floor..."

"Really? I've never heard of that."

"I, I know a lot about this!" The tall policeman said casually.

All the brands have been removed from the cabinets, but the decorations from that year are still there. The two police officers are locals. They also visited this mall in the early years. They haven’t been here for a long time. When they saw these counters, they felt a little familiar. .

Of course, the tension still prevailed in the tall policeman's heart!

"Hey, did you hear anything?" After pricking up his ears and listening for a while, he looked nervously at himself.

"...Don't use your will-o'-the-wisps on me, I didn't feel it at all, I was taken aback by you two." After being slightly startled, he immediately calmed down, and the short policeman said to his colleague angrily.

"I'm sorry, but there was really some sound, like the sound of dripping water, tick...tick..." The tall policeman said with a pale face, with a green fire close to his cheek.

Sure enough, you are the scariest——I commented on my colleague again in my heart. Just as the short policeman was about to say something, he suddenly heard the voice of his colleagues.

"He was right, I heard the sound of dripping water too, coming from the middle side. 』

Both of them said that, the short policeman stopped involuntarily, and listened carefully. He didn't hear any sound at first, but just as he was about to move forward again, "tick"...

He suddenly heard the sound of some kind of liquid falling.

The body turned precisely to the direction of the sound, and it was indeed the direction that the colleague said.

"Over there... is the atrium, right?" After carefully recalling the structure of the shopping mall, the short policeman said, taking out the flashlight again, he decided not to use the fire from his colleagues, the fire was too scary.

They walked towards the courtyard.

The so-called atrium is actually the middle of the mall. The interior of this mall is a cylinder, with all the shops on the side, and the elevator in the middle. There are straight elevators, escalators, and stairs. I remember there is a big chandelier on the top... He couldn't remember any more details.

Thinking in his heart, the two policemen had come to the middle, the "tick" sound didn't happen all the time, it always disappeared suddenly when they were listening carefully, and then sounded again when they were about to give up.

"This is the bottom of the escalator, no, it can't be the blood of the people who died that year, right?" the tall policeman said tremblingly.

"Hey! Don't keep telling ghost stories! You mean the souls of those people are still here. When you look up, they are all standing on the escalator, bleeding?" The short policeman was about to be tortured by his colleagues. He said it, he took a flashlight and took a picture of it - the escalator was missing a floor over there, but it was because of the lack of a floor that there was no escalator there, so It is even more impossible to have those undead who are still bleeding.

The tall policeman saw it too, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Then, he saw his colleague swipe down the flashlight, took a photo at the side, and finally landed on the floor casually.

During this period of time, because he didn't hear the sound of the liquid ticking, the tall policeman slowly relaxed, but at this moment, his usual calm colleague suddenly said in a strange tone:

"wrong."

"Why, what's wrong? Don't speak in such a tone..." The tall policeman was taken aback.It's really... His colleague has never spoken in this tone, he has always used this tone.

A faint green flame flew to his colleague's cheek, and he saw his colleague frowned, looking down, and his colleague's gaze fell on the floor.

Couldn't help but also looked at the floor, the tall policeman said: "The ground, the floor... Is there something wrong?"

The black floor, there is nothing wrong with it!What's wrong, don't be scary!Shocked and frightened, he looked up at his colleague.

Then, he saw his colleague's expression was even more strange.

"The color is wrong. I remember very clearly that the floor of this shopping mall is white, all of which are white, and there is no black one."

As he said that, he squatted down and stretched out a finger to touch the floor: it was sticky, wet... wet to the touch.

really!Here's what dripping!

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard a colleague yelling: "It's dripping again! It's dripping again! It's dripping on my hat!"

Ignoring his colleagues, the short policeman directly jumped the light of the flashlight to the largest high beam, and shone straight up!

And then, on top of the broken escalator, on the gigantic chandelier that was ornate in memory but now dilapidated... oh my god... what did he see?

A girl with platinum hair?No... not just a girl, but also a huge monster, black, with huge wings... a monster that has never been seen before... and the girl is condescending and looking down at him, the light of the flashlight reflects orange-red light in its eyes, He saw a drop of black liquid dripping from the huge monster.

tick...

Hit him at the foot.

No, it wasn't the strangest sight he'd seen tonight.

Behind that girl and that monster, oh my god... what is that?A... crack?

Not only that, he saw a huge claw protruding from the crack, protruding out bit by bit, accompanied by the silent cry of the black monster, he saw the giant claw and its owner slipping through the crack Out--