Chapter 21 Blood Moon
Although these hills are deserted, they are not desolate - at this moment, the mountains and plains are full of people with lighting equipment. Judging from the uniforms, there are people from the Public Security Bureau, people from the Anomaly Investigation Bureau, as well as soldiers from the Tianfu City Guards and A regular soldier of the Xiazhou Federation.
Sun Hang and the others jumped out of the car, and were immediately greeted by two investigators - both of them had the emblem and identification code of the Investigation Bureau on their uniforms. They were obviously full-time members of the Investigation Bureau.
"Any new discoveries?" Yang Qi asked.
The two investigators shook their heads in unison.
"I have a question," Sun Hang said, "How did you confirm that this place has turned into what it looked like undeveloped decades ago - instead of leaving a barren hill after the entire cemetery disappeared? ?”
"Because they found this at the scene." Yang Qi took an opaque evidence bag from an investigator and threw it to Sun Hang.
"Can you open it and take a look?" Sun Hang asked.
Yang Qi nodded.
Inside the bag was a tinplate biscuit can. The paint on the surface of the can was slightly scratched, but the scratched areas were not rusty. Sun Hang turned over the biscuit can and found a line of text printed on the bottom of the can.
"Production date: January 10, 4653 lunar calendar. Shelf life: 24 months."
This is a jar of butter cookies. The lid of the jar is obviously deformed and has almost no sealing ability. Even the bottom of the evidence bag containing it has a lot of golden cookie crumbs accumulated.
Sun Hang gently pried open the deformed lid with his nails and found that there were several pieces of biscuits that fell apart in the can.
This kind of butter cookies are not individually packaged inside, and the tinplate can on the outside is their only packaging.
Sun Hang picked up one of the cookies and found that not only had the biscuit not deteriorated or become moldy, it had not even been affected by moisture. He could hear the crispy sound of the biscuit being squeezed when he gently pressed it with his fingertips.
"Biscuits produced sixty-six years ago, even the shelf-stable compressed biscuits, cannot remain in this condition," Yang Qi said.
"Tsk." Wang Xiyi took the can and picked up a biscuit... The next second, the biscuit turned into powder in her palm and fell back into the can.
"We initially thought that the space where the cemetery is located and the scene decades ago may have been displaced in time and space." Yang Qi said, "But based on your description, those missing people may not have been there for decades." not the past, but the future time and space”
"No, I don't think so." Sun Hang shook his head, "If it's just time and space travel, the travelers themselves shouldn't become so old... From the pictures I saw, I think it's the space and time they are in. The flow rate is accelerated thousands or even tens of thousands of times.”
"If the speed of time is simply increasing, you should see skeletons instead of living people who are getting older." Yang Qi frowned, "Human beings need to eat and breathe to maintain body metabolism. If the speed of time is increasing, If it had become thousands of times faster in an instant, those people would have died long ago.”
"But getting older is one of the symptoms reflected by metabolism." Sun Hang retorted.
"...You are right." Yang Qi sighed, "The abnormal phenomena caused by strange things cannot be explained by our known scientific theories... It is precisely for this reason that you are the only ones infected like this. Only those who confuse the virus can compete with the evil things.”
"Then what do you think I should do now? Like this group of people, turn over this barren mountain?" "Wait, no matter how urgent we are, we can only wait." Yang Qi said in a deep voice, "Wait until the resonance induction appears again. .”
At this moment, a familiar voice suddenly came from not far away: "0420? Are you still alive?!"
Sun Hang turned his head, and sure enough, 0401, wearing a gray uniform without an emblem, was holding a shovel, standing on a hillside, staring at him in astonishment.
"You seem to want me to die?"
"No... no, no, no, I didn't mean that, I was just surprised..." 0401 waved his hands repeatedly, "It's just that you failed to run out of the basement that day, and you didn't return to the investigation bureau later. I thought you had... …Wait a minute, what you are carrying on your shoulders is—they actually gave you a gun?”
"There are wild beasts in the wilderness at night. Isn't it normal to have a gun?"
"Damn it, why didn't I? No! You are no longer a temporary investigator! What happened after that day?" 0401 wanted to continue asking, but an ominous dark red light suddenly covered the entire hillside. He interrupted 0401 abruptly.
He turned his neck stiffly and looked towards the sky.
Between the gloomy clouds, a full red moon hung high, emitting a strange blood-red light.
"Damn it." Wang Xiyi cursed in a low voice.
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"Why did it happen at this time...I'm in trouble now." Yang Qi also frowned.
"What is that?" Sun Hang asked as he looked at the blood moon in the sky.
In his only remaining memory, there was no information related to the "Blood Moon".
"'Phenomenon' strange object, blood moon, serial number 'Yiliu'." Yang Qi said, "According to the observation records over the years, there is a certain probability that the blood moon will appear on the night of the full moon every month... Today It’s May 15th, 4719 in the lunar calendar, which happens to be the night of the full moon.”
"Blood Moon...is it dangerous?" Sun Hang asked.
"The blood moon itself will not cause direct damage, but every time the blood moon appears, the beasts in the wasteland will become particularly violent, and the abilities of various monsters will also be increased... The most deadly thing is For those infected with the devious virus, the infection process will also be aggravated," Yang Qi explained, "So every time the blood moon appears, each city-state will be facing a formidable enemy. Curfew, strengthening patrols and city defense are the most basic measures. At the same time, investigation tasks and monster subjugation tasks in various places will also be urgently suspended. All investigations Members and hunters will be recalled and ready to prepare."
"Calling hunters back is not actually to guard against possible monsters," Wang Xiyi added with a frown, "but to guard against unstable hunters turning into monsters... Hunters whose infection process is close to the dangerous threshold will be infected. Locked in a special room, once a mutation occurs, it will be immediately 'harmless'..."
"Have you ever been imprisoned?"
"I was imprisoned once. When the blood moon appeared, I had just released my beastly state. I injected five inhibitors in a row to maintain my human form. I almost died." Wang Xiyi said in an understatement, as if she almost died in the story. It's others, not herself.
(End of chapter)