doomsday exile

When Lu Di returned to the hospital, it was already dawn.

Before he entered the inpatient building, he was attracted by a screen on the side of the road that originally played a public service announcement.

"...Our city has entered a state of emergency. Please pay attention to the general public. Do not leave the city unless necessary. Minimize going out. Temporarily cancel all public activities and performances until those vicious criminals are caught."

Lu Di was a little surprised, he stopped to look at the screen.

In a city with a population of more than [-] million, the loss of most commercial and entertainment activities is not small, and there will be resistance from all walks of life, after all, it is related to the livelihood of many people.It seems that the difficulty of the matter is beyond imagination, for example, there is a dinosaur that has not caught something...

Lu Di was thinking, but he didn't expect the news to give an answer immediately.

"In the past 24 hours, there have been a total of eight infrasonic weapon attacks around the world, including three in Europe, two in North America, one in South America, one in China, and one in Japan, all of which are prosperous areas with a large population..."

The camera turned around, showing the streets full of high-rise buildings, as well as the police cars and ambulances surrounding them.

The wounded were carried out, and the ground was in a mess.

The video also captured some landmark landscapes, such as the Eiffel Tower, Washington Monument, Corcovado Mountain Jesus Statue, Tsutenkaku...

Lu Di slowly opened his mouth wide.

It wasn't that he was restless, but that he was really shocked.

Compared with these famous landmarks, the Shuangjiang North Road shopping mall in Shangdu is too cheap. To put it bluntly, it is simply not qualified, which makes people wonder how it became the target of attack.Shangdu is an emerging city, and there are basically no ancient cultural landscapes. If there is a selection of landmark buildings, the commercial square on Shuangjiang North Road will not be able to count to 99 in order.

Thinking of the peaked cap that discarded the suitcase and yelled at the ghost, Lu Di's eyes became colder, and his gloomy breath became heavier.

Anger was rampaging in his heart, and he couldn't find a place to vent it.

The number of people outside the building of the inpatient department gradually increased. They lingered in front of the scrolling news screen, whispering in shock.

A family member who accompanied the bed walked by Lu Di carrying buns and soy milk, and the mobile phone in his hand was broadcasting relevant news.

"... These cities are theoretically equipped with sonic jamming bombs to deal with this kind of attack. Why does it seem that the scale of casualties is so large? Whether there is any concealment or omission in the business capital, let's listen to expert analysis."

Lu Di decided to follow up and listen, but the other party couldn't see him anyway.

"This is caused by a variety of situations. Here is a statistical report. The response time of Shangdu is 117 seconds. That is to say, within 2 minutes after the alarm is triggered, the sonic jamming bombs are launched. After 5 minutes, high-intensity infrasound waves can cause great harm to people's bodies...

"For example, in Osaka, the population density is too high. The commercial street near the incident site is very prosperous. There are many lanes behind tall buildings, and some shops are narrow, which brings some difficulties to the rescue. After the attack, many restaurants caught fire. It is caused by the chef losing consciousness and unable to manage the stove.

"Among all the cities, the only city in South America that failed to launch the sonic jamming bomb is South America. There are almost no survivors in the range of the attack. Officials in Rio are trying to blame each other. The city's major disaster emergency system may be empty. The country's political circles have always Corruption is rampant... people have taken to the streets to protest."

The more Lu Di listened, the more anxious and puzzled he felt.

What kind of terrorist organization is this, making enemies everywhere so frantically?

Attacking so many countries and cities at the same time, what exactly do you want to do?

Lu Di has no lofty ideals, he is just a salted fish who sleeps all day, and suddenly finds himself being targeted by a lunatic one day, or a group of lunatics clamoring as if they want to overthrow the whole world, this is really enough.

Suddenly, a question popped up.

Were there visions of moth swarms in those countries prior to the attack?

If not, it was only for him.

What exactly do these moths do?

Lu Di made a decision.

Perhaps, instead of following the investigators, he should follow the moth's path to find the source.

Lu Di remembered that he had seen it on social networking sites, and the earliest witnesses were in the south of the city.

***

In Nanyun Mountain, among the dense forests, people in camouflage uniforms can be seen from time to time.

This is a large-scale mountain search operation.

In addition to looking for suspicious persons, it is mainly aimed at someone who may have dropped this batch of special moth eggs on Nanyun Mountain a few months ago. These moths are gene-edited creatures, not local species. The samples and live bodies have been urgently sent to a more authoritative biological research institute. up.

The business capital does not dare to relax in the slightest. Yesterday was a moth, but what if a group of butterflies and lizards come tomorrow?

In short, all the garbage seen in the mountains, whether it is empty beverage bottles, plastic bags or discarded boxes, are all picked up and waited for sorting.

It's best to find something, if you don't find it, it's a hidden danger and clean up the environment.

Nanyun Mountain is the place where the garrison of the Shangdu Base often conducts pull-up exercises. It is as familiar as a back garden. Everyone knows the way and divides the responsible areas of the teams at all levels. As soon as the sun rises, they will be ready and start operations.

At this time, only 16 hours had passed since the moth entered the city and the infrasonic attack occurred.

Trucks stopped at the end of the mountain road, next to the temporary tents, there were large and small instruments and satellite signal receivers erected.

"Professor Xia, the base is calling."

The white-haired old man put down the map and entered the tent.

What appeared on the projection screen was a strange metal ball.

Oval in shape, smooth in appearance, there is a very high-end speaker on the front, like a small speaker.

Then the speaker spoke—

"I found an abnormal image of moth scale powder in the mall. The image has been transferred to the computer, please check it quickly."

The metal ball speaker is Yan Long's "auxiliary equipment".

Because Yan Long's real body does not have the ability to express language, although it can send out regular biological signals, it needs to be translated by an instrument, which is very inconvenient, so Professor Xia researched many similar conversion devices.

After returning to the base, Yan Long left immediately, and Chen Yan needed to be sent to a special isolation and closed area for 72 hours.

The isolation was to protect Chen Yan's brain.

Because the brain area is very susceptible to the influence of external brain waves after receiving external intervention, it takes a period of time to recover.

At the same time, when loading and disengaging, the scientific research personnel at the base must also wear protective helmets throughout the process to avoid brain wave interference to the greatest extent. Therefore, when Yuan Zhongxia went to visit Chen Yan, he also wore the fully enclosed helmet that looked like an astronaut.

In order for Yan Long to walk around in the base and talk at any time, Professor Xia made many similar gadgets.

Including but not limited to spherical speakers, roller robots, and a new generation of electromagnetic biological wave positioning radar.

The last one counts as a job.

When the moths swarmed this time, Yan Long happened to be on duty. He was born with the ability to sense biological waves, which doubled the speed of analysis.

Professor Xia trusted Yan Long very much, and this time was no exception.

"An abnormal pattern is formed on the scale powder? Let me see."

Professor Xia opened the encrypted email from his wrist computer, then put on his glasses, and zoomed in on the glass picture on the third floor of the shopping mall.

"...Is this a sound wave? No, it's like a stable biological electromagnetic field."

Professor Xia became more and more engrossed, stretched out his hand to gesticulate on the projection, and said with bright eyes: "These lines are biological microwaves! It's incredible, did an invisible life form penetrate the glass? Or is it a highly aggregated, A living body with stable particles and perfect shape, look at this symmetrical pattern! Maybe I should call it a brainwave spirit body?"

The metal speaker remained silent, as if knowing that Professor Xia would have such a reaction.

"Yan Long, it's unbelievable that a stable spiritual body really exists! Before this, I thought it was just a hypothesis! Human beings or intelligent creatures will get rid of the shackles of the body under certain circumstances, metamorphose like moths and butterflies, and evolve into spirits. body life."

"He's a 'ghost.'"

"It is also very suitable to say that it is a ghost. It has no entity, but it can be stably transmitted as a particle... Wait, you mean a ghost? The one in the urban ghost talk?" Professor Xia held his glasses in surprise and stared at the picture in a daze.

Yan Long used the mechanical voice of the speaker to ask rigidly: "So we can't be sure whether the 'ghost' is alive?"

Professor Xia instinctively replied: "Yes, no, he may have transformed after death, or he may have been alive. The main reason is that there is no precedent, so it is difficult to analyze and judge."

Yan Long thought silently, this is troublesome, the three mall employees in the Seventh Hospital of the City may not be ghosts.

After all, no one stipulates that ghosts cannot go shopping in the daytime, take the subway at night, make human friends, and go out to find the murderer angrily for human friends.

However, the people on the subway did see that Lu Di was the first to pick up the suitcase and smash the dinosaur.

In such a crowded subway, the incorporeal ghost has long been "penetrated". The illusion created by the ghost is only a deception and cannot completely replace the human brain.

This kind of unreasonable flaw will definitely be noticed!

So the ghost must have had an entity at that time.

"So, can this kind of spiritual life form possess human beings?"

"Well, not in theory. Like you, it will affect the person's brain, which is easily disturbed after detachment. If the foreign consciousness stays for too long, the person will experience cognitive confusion. He can't figure out what he is The ghost is still the same person... Of course, there is one exception, a vegetable person with a sleeping consciousness."

Before Professor Xia finished speaking, a hurried voice suddenly sounded from Yan Long's side.

This is the voice of the base announcing an emergency.

The oval metal ball rolled neatly on the spot and left the call projection.

In less than a minute, the metal ball came back and told Professor Xia in a mechanical voice: "A video appeared on the external network. Someone announced that he was responsible for this series of terrorist attacks. The professor has permission to view the video, and the video is being transmitted."

Professor Xia was taken aback for a moment, he was still immersed in the idea of ​​a spiritual life body.

Seeing the prompt that popped up on the computer, Professor Xia directly opened the video.

"...we are about to reveal to the world a terrible truth that you have been blinded for far too long!"

Blurred video, shaky hand-held footage, and a man wearing a red clown mask.

He waved his arms, with a telescope behind him, and he read in English with a weird voice changed by the computer:

"The world is going to end, this is not a joke! There is a huge meteorite coming, our scientists, all countries have discovered it long ago, and then what did they do? They are secretly building spaceships! Me, you, all of you here You, and many more poor people know nothing!

"When the disaster strikes, we will have to die! Take the place to escape from the earth, the spaceship cannot hold 70 billion people! Kill the person you hate, because the other party will also kill your wife and you for the ticket child!"