doomsday exile

The underground base of Shangdu.

A gray-haired old professor pointed at the enlarged moth picture on the virtual screen and said:

"Insects such as moths have an excellent property that they can detect the ultrasonic waves emitted by bats when they hunt."

The picture was replaced by the image detected by the instrument. In the echoing sound waves, the moth suddenly changed its flight trajectory, and by means of sudden falling and moving, it precisely avoided the detection range of the bat in this round of ultrasonic waves.

This is not the wisdom of individual organisms, but the result of thousands of years of natural evolution.

Special hunting skills, special coping strategies.

Small insects like moths have a relatively simple nervous system, but for humans, they can also dig out treasures.

"...Professor Xia, do you mean that these moths didn't gather in Shangdu for no reason? Someone drove them away?"

The person in charge of the base is also an old man with gorgeous hair, straight back, tall and burly, if you put on a hat and look at his back, it is difficult to guess his age.

At this time, his brows were furrowed, because the Shangdu base only detected infrasonic attacks. As for ultrasonic waves, there are many instruments in a city that can emit ultrasonic waves, such as hospitals, such as machines that use high-tech to crush solids.

If you check them one by one, it is obviously a big project.

Professor Xia shook his head and continued to explain: "The situation is more complicated than this, because moths are sensitive to sound waves, and moths are among the organisms proposed by the Earth Federation Academy of Sciences to be modified by gene editing. Although it was not implemented in the end, there is no guarantee that which country or private research institute does not have this plan. Since the neurons of insects are relatively simple, as long as the relevant technology is mastered, they can be used as scouts.”

"What scout?"

"The moth's reaction before attacking a particular location can prove that there is no threat there ... Of course, this is my guess, and no one would normally feel that there is a threat in a shopping mall."

Professor Xia's words had a deep meaning, and everyone understood it.

Yes, infrasonic attack, why do you want to get a bunch of moths first?

It can't be to force the crowd into the mall, can it?

"How did these moths gather in one place?"

"Gene-edited insects are very easy to control. They only need an instrument that emits special information waves. Insects like moths that need to mate immediately after emergence will be attracted and fly directly. Of course, such things are usually placed in High enough to spread far enough."

The person in charge of the base nodded and ordered the staff around him to search the top platform of the mall building.

"anything else?"

"We've done detection when we see an unusual concentration of moths."

The screen changed, and a very clear map appeared, with more than a dozen radar detection results beside it.

The red line is the movement route of the moths. It can be seen that they flew from several directions and finally converged on a commercial square on Liangjiang North Road.

But looking forward, all the moths came from the south of Shangdu——

"South Cloud Mountain?"

Everyone in the command room was surprised.

The area of ​​Nanyun Mountain is not small, the altitude is not high, and it is located in the subtropical zone, so it is a popular place for camping tourism in autumn.

As for the slightly deeper and remote mountainous areas, the army often goes to train and station, so for them, Nanyun Mountain is as familiar as their own back garden.Now the back garden is full of moths? !

"...Last month, I did hear about the increase in insect pests in Nanyun Mountain."

Moths are caterpillars before they emerge, and who cares about caterpillars except the forestry department?

The old professor turned the scene to a laboratory where several researchers in white coats were busy. After hearing the sound, he adjusted the camera to a sealed glass box on the table, which contained gray-black moths, some of which were already dead. Yes, and some are thumping.

"Is this the moth you caught just now?"

"Yes, a stream of moths happened to pass by our base. Yan Long notified us of an abnormal situation, and dispatched personnel to capture it half an hour ago."

Everyone was about to ask what was the abnormal situation. After all, the Shangdu base was on the outskirts of the city, and the number of moths gathered at the beginning was not that exaggerated, especially——

"Yan Long?"

This is the most special member of Shangdu Base.

"What did he find?"

The old professor solemnly pointed to the complex ripple pattern and said: "The moth cells and neuron activities send out regular fluctuations... the short-lived communication from the moth group, this kind of communication will appear every once in a while, and will be transmitted to everyone. Moth, after each transmission, it will change the flight direction, it is like a marching army. It is this incident that aroused our suspicion. Yan Long applied for the mission, and I authorized to skip the normal process. Now Yan Long should We have already arrived at the shopping mall on Shuangjiang North Road."

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Moth corpses covered the ground and green belts, leaving the square empty.

The shopping mall building seemed to have been washed with scale powder, and it was glowing with a peculiar illusion, strange and blurred.

Standing on the roof and looking into the distance, there are still some scattered moths wandering.

"Snapped."

After confirming that there was no detonating wire and no dangerous substances, Yan Long took out a miniature high-definition dynamic camera that was small enough to hide in the palm of his hand and quickly pressed the shutter a few times.

Then a hand wearing a protective glove pulled open the shell that looked like a pencil case. The silver metal shell was covered with a layer of rubber, which weakened the detection effect of the metal detector to the greatest extent. A long antenna protruded from the shell. The interior is a precision component structure.

This thing is tied with black tape on the back of the table under the lightning rod. If you want to find it, it will take a lot of work.

But to Yan Long, this kind of thing that continuously emits artificial biological waves and attracts moths is as obvious as a candle in the dark.

After stopping this thing from working, Yan Long took out a sealed bag and put it in.

The others on the rooftop heaved a sigh of relief.

After all, General Yao, the person in charge of the Shangdu base, personally said that if nothing can be found on the rooftop, everyone will be in a state of distress.

Although I don't know what the function of this thing is, but the mall was attacked by infrasonic weapons, and any suspicious items must not be let go, let alone the things that were explained above.

Yan Long was wearing the uniform of the special execution team.

Strictly speaking, this is Chen Yan's clothes, and he is Chen Yan in the eyes of others.

——Appearance Zhouzheng, burly figure, sharp eyes, a person who just walked out of the smoke and flames of the breath.

"This officer is a bit strange, he doesn't seem to like talking?"

"I don't know. It seems to be a quirk of the special execution team. Maybe it's not convenient to disclose the information."

Yan Long had no expression on his face, and went straight into the stairs.

He taps what looks like a watch on his right wrist a few times, and a small projection screen and a virtual keyboard appear immediately.

"Return to the base, the item has been found, and now the second task is performed."

After typing, he turned off the wrist computer, entered the ninth floor of the mall through the safe passage, and scanned every corner in turn.

The shopping mall has been blocked, a group of policemen wearing protective helmets and heavily armed are constantly transporting unconscious victims out, ambulances are waiting at the intersection, and medical staff are arriving one after another in the distance, busy testing the unconscious people .

After the infrasonic attack, the victim first felt dizziness, nausea, then severe abdominal pain and muscle cramps.

The internal organs will be damaged due to resonance, and finally the blood vessels will burst, the nerves will be confused, and the systemic organs will be severely damaged and die.

So everyone was very nervous as if they were facing an enemy.

The wounded were carried out one by one. There was no bleeding from the mouth or nose, and no one was blue and unable to breathe.

"These are all infrasonic secondary injury syndrome. They are not life-threatening for the time being. They have sequelae of vomiting and diarrhea. They should be sent to the hospital for further observation..."

There is no good news after that. There are older people and middle-aged people who are usually too tired. The infrasound wave induced myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction. When the rescue team found out, the situation was already very critical.

The moth corpses were all scooped up and stuffed into sacks, and then put into huge airtight jars.

In the office building near the shopping mall, someone was also injured by the sound wave attack, but the symptoms were relatively mild and they remained awake. The entire area was effectively controlled within 10 minutes of the incident, and all follow-up treatments were carried out in an orderly manner.

For the assailant, this means that it is more difficult to escape.

"Unfortunate."

Before a man wearing a peaked cap whose face could not be seen clearly entered the hotel parking lot, he found that the surrounding area was blocked by roadblocks, and no one was allowed to pass through. Heavily armed men carried detectors of unknown purpose and checked everywhere. Not even the trash can.

The peaked cap was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead. He was the most risky person in this operation. Before retreating, he had to disassemble the equipment into parts and hide the suitcase with protective clothing in a safe place. Although there was a detailed retreat plan, but If you are caught at the scene and get stolen goods, it's useless to say anything.

The peaked cap backed away quietly, trying to figure out where he could put the box down.

Let things be found, at least he can't be caught here.

Peaked Cap is obviously very familiar with the surrounding terrain. He walked around to the alley behind an office building, where some shared bicycles were parked in a mess, and there was a trash can full of takeaway lunch boxes. He threw the suitcase in, and then Close the lid of the trash can.

Going around to the other end of the alley, the peaked cap looked back and found that there was no one there. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he saw a person standing silently in front of him.

The peaked cap almost jumped up in fright, and then realized that it was just a young man in his 20s, with his hands in his pockets, half-worn clothes, pale face, thin build, looked like a student, probably poor, with no A branded item.

"What?"

The peaked cap's confidence returned, and he glared at him viciously, cursing, "What are you doing in the middle of the road, robbery?"

The peaked cap didn't wait for anyone to answer, and Niu rushed over angrily, trying to push the kid away.

As a result, he pushed empty.

"..."

Seeing his elbow pass through the young man's chest, the peaked cap shivered, and then he slowly opened his mouth wide, his face full of horror.

"You're looking for me, aren't you?" Lu Di turned her head and asked calmly.

"Fuck! You bastard! You're cheating on me!"

The peaked cap cursed indiscriminately, his voice trembling, he thought those words were bluffing, but he didn't expect it to be true!

"There really are ghosts... Are you the evil ghost they want to wake up?"

Lu Di frowned. Although he didn't like the name ghost, it sounded better than evil ghost anyway.

——There is not much time, he must solve this guy as soon as possible and ask for useful information.

"Wake up? Them?"

Lu Di suppressed his anger, he knew he had to calm down.

The organization that can get infrasonic weapons is definitely not easy.

Why target yourself?How did you expose yourself?What are these people up to?Lu Di quickly analyzed, he wanted to judge the extent to which his identity had been leaked.

The peaked cap was very decisive, and ran away, listening to the movement behind him while running.

——Has the ghost caught up?

The peaked cap secretly rejoiced, buried his head and ran wildly, and suddenly saw a black high-top combat boot stepping forward.

"puff!"

Before the peaked cap could figure out the situation, a pain in the abdomen made the whole body shrunk into a shrimp. Then his right hand seemed to be clamped by iron clamps, and he couldn't move.

"Forgive, forgive..."

The peaked cap was so painful that tears flowed down his face, and he couldn't speak clearly.

Yan Long held down the suspicious suspect with one hand, and stared at the back of the alley as if he saw something.