Old houses, plastic plaques scattered on the street, words such as "Big Rice Bucket Canteen", "Wanjia Hotel", "Deep Space Hotel" and so on are covered by dense mold.
There are also rusted and abandoned vehicles parked on the roadside.
The crowd outside seemed to turn a blind eye to this dilapidated street and dispersed.
Only these people from the Abnormal Foundation walked into the dilapidated streets.
"This is the downtown area of the past, and a huge disaster occurred more than 40 years ago."
"At that time, [it] could not perfectly control its power and turned many humans into distortions."
"Therefore, this area has become a forbidden area for civilians. Under [its] influence, people will subconsciously ignore this place and cannot discover its existence."
"Those distortions... still exist?"
"Of course. There are a lot of monsters, and humans are too fragile, but under [its] control, they will not rashly enter human territory. Otherwise, human society would have been in chaos."
"[It] doesn't want humanity to perish before it actually escapes."
Chen Xinyi's palms were a little sweaty. [It] hadn't really escaped yet, but it actually caused this series of phenomena. It was really... terrifying!
The Bali Baba Building in front is 888 meters high and was once a landmark building.
At its peak, with a market value of one trillion, tens of thousands of people worked in this building, and the number of surrounding staff* was more than 100,000.
But now, the building is dilapidated and decaying.
The cables had not been maintained for a long time and were covered with moss.
Spider webs spread wantonly in the stairwell.
The smell of decay can be smelled from a distance.
Chen Xinyi saw several sneaky "things" visiting them on the roof of the building, with pairs of scarlet eyes staring at them.
Occasionally, you can see a few tightly wrapped humans passing by here.
"What are these?" Chen Xinyi asked.
"Some civil forces are united because of certain religions or special reasons. We currently can't find a way to fight [it], we can only seek some external variables." The lady from the Anomaly Foundation said. "As long as they
If we don’t deliberately cause damage, we won’t take the initiative to provoke them.”
"In fact, there are many folk heroes, just like those in Qingtian Hospital... they have made some contributions in obscurity."
"There are also some anchoring powers of lesser demon gods distributed in our world. These are small boosts, but these boosts are slightly smaller."
Chen Xinyi nodded silently.
[Game], is it the biggest variable?
She doesn't know... I hope...
"The dividing line between humans and distortion is this old street."
"Here, its intensity will actually be lower."
"Because these distortion phenomena have turned into chaotic existences and can hardly provide spiritual buoyancy... so there is not much interest in them."
"Now it is beginning to maintain the existence of human society intentionally or unintentionally, and even tries to maintain the smooth operation of society. After all, only the existence of human beings can maintain anchoring. It may also be learning how human society operates. This is
It really worries us.”…
Chen Xinyi swallowed and nodded again.
In fact, besides nodding, she didn't know what to do.
The lady did not dare to delve too deeply into this topic and said in her heart: "Our major factories are still operating normally, and our water plants, power plants, and farms are also operating normally, and there is no social chaos. However,
It is a technological product that is too sophisticated, but it is really difficult to produce.”
"We have no market competition here... Every company has been around for a long time, and everyone just goes to and from work step by step, taking a little break to fish, and the market naturally loses its vitality. As for why this is the case, you
You should be able to guess it."
"Anyway, [it] cannot understand why the world has lost its vitality."
Chen Xinyi heard the subtext.
When you panic, it forcibly modifies your memory so that you don't panic.
You don't work properly. Well, it makes you work properly!
This... is a world that is gradually dying.
However, as the population gradually dwindled, people began to become somewhat insufficient.
…
[Danger - No passage ahead!]
A red sign, with a mysterious supernatural effect, blocks this street. This sign was placed here by the Abnormal Foundation. It is regarded as the "rules" here and can prevent some ordinary people from entering by mistake.
After all, there are also heroes among ordinary people.
There is also a line of scrawled small words written on the sign: "It may be some animals that have been exposed to nuclear radiation. I advise you not to know what is good and what is good."
"Leave immediately if you are not prepared."
I don't know who wrote it.
Decades of development* have resulted in the formation of various strange unspoken rules throughout the world. People voluntarily follow and maintain these "rules" while adding a small amount of annotations to pass on their experiences.
"Actually, some experiences are not completely correct. They are just blind people trying to grasp the elephant."
The team enters a dangerous street.
"Dong...dong dong."
As the block went deeper, something like a meat mountain moved staggeringly out of a certain building.
Like a fat, upright pig, with long tusks in its mouth, and the scales on its back snapping together, making the sound of gold and iron, this monster may weigh a ton.
Two Anomaly Foundation employees untied a backpack with expressionless expressions.
Exposing the white salt inside.
A full twenty kilograms!
"Roar"!
After the "monster" discovered them, it opened its mouth full of sharp teeth and swooped over with a roar. Its "dong-dong-dong" footsteps were extremely loud in this deserted neighborhood.
But the two employees didn't even blink. They grabbed bags of salt and threw them hard at the monster. Soon, the monster roared, and like a slug, the water in its body analyzed and it fell to the ground paralyzed.
.
The two men stepped forward and quickly dissected the monster and peeled off the skin and flesh.
Then, he picked up the balloon-like sac in its body. It was heavy, probably weighing more than 50 kilograms, and was filled with clear and transparent yellow oil.
"This is a special kind of fuel. Its calorific value is very high. It can be used to make the rare item 'Eternal Lamp'. 10 grams of fuel can burn for a long time. It can also be used to make fuel cells."
"The explosives made with this kind of fuel have the ability to kill souls. This guy's level is not high, and there are not many of them. We hunt a few every day, and it won't find it... We have been doing this for several years."