They were not just joking and bickering just now. She threw the gun to Darente to expose her weakness to the enemy.
No guns, and a woman... If someone had been hiding nearby and watching them, and was looking at them with malicious intent, they should have jumped out at this moment.
Just like they treated the inexplicably missing Nightingale members and Shadow Lion agents, she tried to use this rough way to figure out what was going on here.
But unfortunately, nothing unusual happened.
It was already dark, but the lamppost at the entrance was not on. I didn't know if the power system was connected to other places, and other places thought that there was no one here and didn't need to waste electricity, so they turned off the power, or if the power station was hidden inside the school and someone had to turn it on.
The Blood Crystal Crow volunteered to look down on the school from above. After she flew away, Darent saw that Xia Yibing did not continue to talk. He knew that disguise was no longer necessary, so he handed his Korenko pistol to the woman and reminded her: "There are 9 bullets in it."
"Thank you. I still have 10 rounds left in my gun."
Knowing how many bullets are in the magazine is also a basic skill in this job. After all, there have been cases in history where rookies thought they could kill with one shot but ended up running out of bullets. Those were all bloody lessons.
Just knowing the bullets was not enough, the two men exchanged the bullet boxes they carried with them, stepped back a few steps, stood on the small slope at the door and looked down.
Looking down from here, you can see large tracts of swaying tree shadows. They are originally completely hidden in the night and cannot be seen clearly. It is the twinkling lights in the distance that serve as the background that set them off.
Yes, it's a slight slope.
Fran Middle School is located on a slope, on high ground, surrounded by walls with prison-grade barbed wire installed on the walls, and there are three iron fences at the main gate.
Neither of them was surprised by this, as they knew that this was not the school making a fuss, but rather a basic project that all remote settlements had to ensure.
These things are not primarily for protection against people.
Just like the three iron fences, the middle one is sealed on top, and its lifting switch is only meters from the ground. This is obviously prepared for children.
In times of crisis, children can hide here, or lock some dirt in the middle...it can save lives.
"Go in?" Darent asked, "or go back?"
He was more inclined to go back - if this was still a group mission, and only he and Hitzfeld came to investigate, he would definitely choose to go in. But this time it was not the case, after all, there were still several thousand soldiers behind them.
I can take a few hundred men and flatten this place during the day, so why should I take the risk of sneaking in at dark?
Not being afraid of death doesn't mean you have to seek death. Darent is very sensible and he is not stupid.
Xia Yibing didn't say anything. She took out a compass box from her arms to confirm the direction, then threw it to Darent.
"I agree to go back."
"But the premise is that we can still go back."
"What do you mean?" Darent took the compass and couldn't understand it for a moment after opening it.
No... why did the pointer change in the middle?
As he watched in surprise, the needle suddenly pointed upwards, and after a few breaths, it pointed diagonally upward to the left, which was a complete manifestation of magnetic field disorder.
"I checked it once before coming in, and the pointer was performing normally," Xia Yibing said, "but after we came up, I mean after we started to touch this anomaly, this thing stopped working."
Xia Yibing simply stated her judgment.
"Don't look at the light in that direction, and actually walk towards it, or you will get lost."
"Is it an illusion?" Darent frowned. "Let me ask first." He pointed to the city lights below. "Is the light you see in that direction?"
"Yes."
"Then the illusions we see are the same." Darent immediately analyzed part of the principle. "There is an unknown mysterious unity that exerts the same influence on us, rather than us each having different illusions."
"Interesting..." He muttered to himself, chin in hand, "The illusion that could make me fall for it... seems to be the thing that caused this place to become a restricted area."
That is the mysterious interference that caused more than 200 teachers, students, parents and agents to fall into a coma.
Originally it was said that the impact area was only about 50 meters from the center of the school, but now it seems that the area has expanded again.
"Do you plan to go outside?" Xia Yibing asked him.
"That's a rookie's choice." Darent chuckled, "How about we cut the door open after Heihei Baby comes back? Come to think of it, I haven't done this kind of thing for a long time..."
"...Let me remind you that she doesn't like people giving her nicknames."
"It doesn't matter, that's because she didn't meet me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Darent felt something hit his head. Before he could reach out to touch it, the thing crawled from his scalp to his face with its claws and teeth bared.
It was a giant mountain spider.
There are many kinds of spiders in Sara. Even small categories like mountain spiders have many species. The body of this one is nearly the size of a fist, and its eight claws opened are larger than the palm. Their venom is particularly severe, and they usually hunt by wandering around.
Darent suddenly stopped moving. He remained motionless throughout the whole process, allowing the giant spider to crawl from his face all the way to his chest, then pounced to the ground and quickly crawled into the shadow of the bushes.
Then there was the sound of flapping wings, and the blood crystal crow landed on the wooden man's head and said meaningfully, "It's a pity that it didn't like you."
"Oh baby I don't understand what you mean..."
"That species of Audra spider has existed for several epochs." Blood Crystal Crow said proudly, "They like to dig holes in tree trunks and hide inside them. They also lay eggs directly inside the tree trunks."
“…This isn’t funny.”
"Black and white baby isn't funny either."
"Stop arguing." Xia Yibing interrupted them, "Yusirion, what did you find?"
She was more concerned about how to get out of here because she felt that the reaction of the "Audra Spider" was a little unusual.
Winter means famine for the barbarians, and it is the season when there is a shortage of food. This thing was provoked like this but didn't get angry. It didn't bite Darent directly, but chose to flee in panic?
There is indeed a saying that the lower the animals... such as insects, the more they have an almost instinctive spiritual perception. It is not ruled out that it sensed something, and the location of this thing should be in the opposite direction of its escape.
"I didn't find anything." Blood Crystal Crow was also unhappy when he said this. "From the sky, there was no one, and there was no light. I think they are dead."
"That's it." Xia Yibing nodded her chin and said nothing.
When she looked up again, the concrete rainproof gate of Fran Middle School loomed like a giant monster in front of her. The night fog began to spread around her unconsciously, and she realized that she had to make a decision as soon as possible.
Whether going back or going in, Darent could only follow her arrangements.
"Cover me." She said, took out a metal pin from her bosom, straightened it into a wire and put it towards the door.
Darent whistled.
The security chief's lock-picking skills are well-known far and wide, and not everyone can appreciate them up close.
correct.
He even had the urge to think of a certain gray-haired detective.
Yes, she is also good at dealing with heart locks...
Thinking of Hitzfeld, his mind inevitably became distorted. Because he was surprised to find that he and Xia Yibing were not nervous at all when they were doing this kind of thing - this might be because they knew that Hitzfeld was also in this city.
What did that sentence say?
The fact that there is no news is itself definite news.
We haven't contacted them for such a long time. With her sharp mind, she should have noticed something was wrong soon.
That's really nothing to be afraid of.
With a clang, the woman pulled the chain off the iron felt. They cracked the three doors one by one and finally entered the school.
After entering, they immediately found something unusual - the school was filled with thick night fog, which was so thick that it was abnormal. They could not even illuminate more than ten meters away with their small flashlights!
This was already abnormal to a certain extent, because the Blood Crystal Crow never saw any fog when it flew overhead and looked down.
It's obvious that "there is a problem here" is written on his face!
"Maps, are the batteries enough?" the woman asked.
"I'm sure it's enough."
"Then don't turn off the flashlight. I want to use the light to confirm that it's you."
"What do you mean, wait...you're going to split up here?"
"Yes, it's too dark here. I just checked and there are electric wires connected to the school. There should be a power station there. Let's send someone to turn on the power."
"Who's going, then?"
good question.
The Blood Crystal Crow had been standing on Darent's shoulder and found the words interesting.
With her experience, this kind of adventure can be described as playful. She was not nervous at all, but was analyzing how the two of them should divide the work and cooperate.
Because they couldn't be sure whether it was more dangerous to stay here and wait for people or to go to the power station and turn on the power switch, this not only tested their courage, but also their ability to judge the situation.
"You stay here." Xia Yibing decided, "I'll go turn on the light."
With the mountain spider as an example, she thought the closer to the school gate, the safer she was.
You can't let Darent do that dangerous work. She claims to be stronger than the wooden man, and Darent may not be able to handle what she can handle.
After reminding her to be careful, Darent and Blood Crystal Crow went back to their old job - staying here and guarding the gate.
No question as to why not act together.
Because he also understands that sometimes it is easier to get out of a situation alone than with two people.
After making the decision, Xia Yibing rushed into the night fog with a flashlight.
There was a swirling mist all around, and there was nothing in the empty campus. She could not hear any sound except her own breathing and footsteps.
She didn't explore slowly like a rookie, but started running right away - running and running in the direction of the wires, running across the playground into the school building, and walking quickly along the corridor.
Boom!
Suddenly, she stopped abruptly.
I seemed to have heard some noise just now...
There was some hesitation because she wasn't sure if she had heard correctly.
But soon she chose to trust her "intuitive feeling" and temporarily changed direction. She no longer walked towards the room at the south end of the corridor on the first floor to find the power room as expected, but turned into the corridor entrance from the middle and walked up carefully.
The second floor is a mess.
When I came in, I found that the place was in a terrible mess.
The corridor was full of dragged tables and chairs, as if some crazy bad students had deliberately moved these things from the classroom and thrown them around randomly, even piling them up as high as a mountain, almost blocking the aisle in the middle.
The good news was that the fog had thinned a little inside the building, and visibility had improved relatively. She was sure that if anything appeared nearby, she would be able to spot it instantly.
But is it really so?
After coming up and squeezing through some narrow gaps blocked by hills of tables and chairs, Xia Yibing looked left and right, but seemed to have found nothing.
She seemed to have stepped on something, so she shone the light downwards and was surprised to find that it was a thick cable.
electric wire?
No...this is all about cables...but how could such cables appear on the second floor?
Who would put the power room on the second floor? What's going on with this Fran Middle School?
Surprised, Xia Yibing first shone the flashlight around to make sure there was nothing hidden in those places. At the same time, she squatted down carefully and began to carefully examine the protruding cable.
wrong.
When she touched it, even with the leather gloves as a barrier, she immediately noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with the cable.
This feeling... is not the usual cable sheath, it is harder? Smoother... and elastic...
Her heart skipped a beat, and the first thing she thought of was the nonsense that the Blood Crystal Crow had told her, saying that if there was no "great Yusilian, the whole world would become a flesh and blood monster, and people would live in the body of the flesh and blood monster, just like the bacterial cells inside, constantly supplying it with nutrients."
Hitzfeld has always been interested in this kind of story, but Xia Yibing always sneered at it. She believed that there was a clear element of exaggeration in it and that it was just a statement made by the Blood Crystal Crow to glorify its own achievements.
Could this really be the case?
Xixinna... She said Xixinna was the first place where the virus landed. So it is possible that the most dense virus residues are buried deep in the strata here. If these things are similar to the Mimics and have not died out but have been stubbornly waiting to see the light of day, and someone happened to bring them out this time, then these strange phenomena at Fran Middle School...
She began to wonder whether she was touching an electrical cable or a blood vessel.
There is an easiest way to verify it.
Xia Yibing pulled out a dagger from her waist and tried to cut the skin of the thing directly.
She didn't cut deep - if this was a blood vessel, who knows what kind of creature it was connected to. She didn't want to alarm the other party yet, so she tried to be cautious.
She made a shallow cut, peeled off a layer of skin, and brought it to her nose to smell it.
It doesn't have the strange smell peculiar to insulating materials, but it also doesn't have the usual fishy smell of biological tissues.
Instead, it smells a bit fragrant?
