The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

There was strange black fog in the distance and a strange hand in a deep pit nearby. Shen Ge decided to go to the distant pyramid to investigate the situation first.

After walking for about twenty minutes, Shen Ge's red mist armor's strange leather boots rolled over the hot gravel, and light red strange energy steam was steaming on the surface.

Thirty meters behind him, Camille was using a weird tactical dagger to pry open a metal hatch half-buried in the sand; the rusted hinges made a teeth-grinding creaking sound.

"Captain Shen, here is the logo of the International Anti-Spider Organization!" Camille wiped the yellow sand off the hatch, revealing a blue and white shield-shaped logo corroded by acid.

If I remember correctly, at the beginning the international community took air support and detection measures against the strange organization, and first launched hundreds of resource capsules and simple safe rooms into the strange space. Many of the materials used to build the church were removed from the resource capsules and simple safe rooms by Captain Ryan and his team.

Camille's breathing suddenly became rapid, and the tip of the spooky tactical dagger trembled and pointed at the inner wall. Several fresh bloody finger marks left messy tracks on the metal surface.

At this time, the two were surprised to find that this portable safe room, which was located next to the pyramid and half buried by yellow sand, had actually been built into an "entrance", with a deep tunnel leading to the underground.

Seeing this, Shen Ge stretched out his bloody tentacles, which swarmed into the hatch like a swarm of snakes. The eye sensors of the Red Mist Armor switched to thermal imaging mode.

There were seven life forms curled up in the underground secret room, three of which were continuously releasing abnormal energy fluctuations. When he walked along the passage into the underground, laser aiming points from more than a dozen gun muzzles lit up at the same time, converging into a dazzling red dot on the chest of the red mist armor.

"Hold your fire!" Camille yelled.

The appearance of the red mist armor was too "scary", and it was not the first time that Shen Ge was mistaken for a weird or strange person. Fortunately, Camille shouted in time, and the people hiding in the underground secret room were about to shoot when they heard a human voice, and someone immediately shouted "Wait".

Then, the man noticed the weapon in Camille's hand and said in a hoarse voice: "Put down your weapons. Who are you and how did you get here through the group of tricksters in the surrounding sand?"

Camille suddenly rushed out from behind, took off the gas mask of his combat uniform and said excitedly: "Lieutenant Hawke? I'm Camille! Last year at the Helsinki training center..."

A man with a mechanical prosthesis walked out of the crowd. His left eye had been transformed into a multi-band scanner, and the blue light swept back and forth across Camille's face.

When the mechanical eye finished scanning her face, the man's broken mouth pulled out a twisted smile: "Oh my God, Camille, it's really you! Praise God, I didn't expect that there were survivors among your first batch of anti-ghost warriors who entered the blockade area. We thought the rescue team was wiped out... Ahem, sorry, I was too surprised! Uh, is this... your team member? What's this look of him, the latest anti-ghost armor?"

Shen Ge took off his red mist armor to reveal his original face. He was very curious whether the cyborg in front of him had completed the transformation before entering, or whether he became his current appearance for some reason after entering here.

"Hello, I'm Shen Ge, the anti-ghost agent of the Great Celestial Empire. I came to Australia this time to deal with the ghost disaster." Shen Ge said.

"Shen Ge!"

"Shen Ge from the Great Celestial Empire!"

Not only Hawke, but even the surrounding anti-Ghost warriors were stunned.

Ever since the Sakura disaster, Shen Ge's name has spread throughout the world. His fame can only be described as well-known. As long as one is a member of the Weird Organization, there is no one who has not heard of his name!

Even the classic rumor of the Great Celestial Empire, "Shen Ge is here, we are saved", is familiar to Hawke and others.

The main reason was that Shen Ge’s record was too brilliant. Not only was he able to escape unscathed from one disaster after another, he also successfully suppressed the spread of the disasters.

After a brief introduction and mutual business compliments, under the leadership of Hawke, Shen Ge and his companions entered the renovated "temporary base" below.

Shen Ge squatted in the shadow cast by the water tank, watching Lieutenant Hawke dip his mechanical fingers into water to draw a schematic diagram on the metal table.

The ventilation system continuously pumped 40-degree hot air into the shelter. The air mixed with the smell of sweat was filled with the unique smell of tranquilizers, which was quite sour and refreshing.

"Today is the 23rd spatial collapse." Hawke poked a dent in the concentric circle pattern and continued, "The black fog advances meters each time. Now the safe zone is only a circle with a diameter of eight kilometers."

His mechanical prosthesis suddenly twitched and the gears made a harsh friction sound. He didn't know whether it was due to an old injury left by the battle or an old problem caused by the modification of the mechanical prosthesis.

"What's even more terrifying is the time difference. We've clearly been here for eleven months and nine days, but the rescue team's recorder we found last week shows..."

"Less than a month has passed in the real world." Shen Ge continued, pinching the half-melted recorder chip with his fingertips. In the holographic projection, soldiers in combat uniforms were reporting, and according to Lieutenant Hawke, they actually entered the strange space two days later than Camille's team.

However, the time they stayed in the strange space was much longer than Camille, which shows that the passage of time in each strange space is indeed different.

An anti-ghost warrior named Karina suddenly lifted the dust sheet in the corner, revealing more than 20 corpses covered with white cloth. Some of the corpses had arms transformed into arthropods' sickle legs, and some had skulls cracked and coral-like ghost energy crystals grew out...

"We had 142 people at the beginning." Her voice sounded like sandpaper polishing metal, obviously caused by the long-term severe water shortage caused by this desert terrain.

"There are less than one third left now, and after each strange energy storm, some of our companions will begin to mutate." Lieutenant Hawke continued with Kalina's words.

Kalina added: "You saw the strange hand and the strange energy fog moving forward at the same time outside, which means a new strange energy storm is coming."

Camille frowned and asked, "Strange Energy Storm?"

"That's right, a sandstorm containing terrifying and tearing strange energy. The most terrifying thing is that there are a large number of humanoid monsters lurking in the strange energy storm. Our soldiers died in battle after battle, and now there are only these few people left." Lieutenant Hawke sighed.

At this moment, the alarm above the underground base suddenly sounded, and the strange energy detector on the top of the bunker burst into electric sparks.

Kalina's tactical eyepiece dimmed automatically, and through the observation window she saw a black wall of clouds rising from the horizon. That was no ordinary sandstorm. Billions of strange black fogs accompanied the sandstorm and strange humanoid shapes moving around, dyeing the entire sky black.

"Six hours earlier than expected!" Lieutenant Hawke pounded on the console frantically, sparks flying from his mechanical prosthesis, and roared angrily: "Damn it, the backup generator has not been repaired yet. The defense matrix modified by the portable safe room can only maintain..."

Before he finished his words, the entire bunker shook violently. Sand poured in through the vents like living things, gathering on the metal floor into an ever-growing black mist of strange energy.

Shen Ge's rotten blood tentacles suddenly stabbed behind Camille, nailing a survivor who was undergoing alienation to the wall. The man's spine was breaking through the skin, and the dense barbs on the joints were hanging with pieces of flesh. "The alienation speed is so fast?" This time even Shen Ge was surprised. He had never seen a situation where alienation occurred directly after inhaling a strange energy.

wrong!

According to Lieutenant Hawke, personnel will be mutated every time a strange energy storm begins. It doesn't sound like they will be mutated after inhaling the strange fog.

"Take those who can move to the second underground floor!" shouted Hawke, the center back.

At this moment, Xiao Qi suddenly tore off the blood-rotten tentacle that had pierced the waist of the alienated survivor, and strange energy patterns in the shape of blood vessels appeared on the surface of the red mist armor.

"What happened?" Shen Ge asked curiously.

Xiao Qi replied, "Master, it is corroding the Corrupted Blood Tentacles. To prevent the main body from being affected, I cut off the connection with the Corrupted Blood Tentacles in advance and switched to remote control using the Blood Spider as the middle end, just in case."

"Okay." Shen Ge believed that Xiao Qi would never make a mistake in this regard. Even if the alienated survivor's strange energy erosion was not strong enough to affect the red fog armor, it is better to be safe than sorry.

When the first wisp of sand wrapped in strange black mist penetrated the observation window of the bunker, Shen Ge's blood-rotten tentacles had already wrapped around Camille and Kalina's waists and retreated rapidly.

The bulletproof glass melted into asphalt-like slime in the strange sandstorm, and thousands of bandage fragments poured in through the gaps, automatically weaving into a human-shaped outline in the smelly air.

"Fire!"

Lieutenant Hawke's mechanical prosthesis ejected a grenade launcher, and the blast knocked over three humanoid figures wrapped in mummy bandages.

These humanoid creatures were lying on their backs with their limbs dislocated, charred muscle fibers exposed between the gaps in their bandages, and their tongues split into seven tentacles with barbs, just like the name that Karina screamed out -

"Desert Licker!"

"It's Desert Lickers, there are a lot of them!"

"Everyone, join the battle!"

"quick!"

The ghostly rifles fired at the ghostly warriors created a blue web of fire in the corridor of the bunker. However, the ghostly bullets, which were powerful enough to tear apart armored vehicles, only caused ripples on the bandages when they hit the mummy-like humanoid bodies.

Kalina's tactical eyepiece instantly analyzed sixteen energy refraction paths. These bandages were transmitting the attack energy to the strange black fog in the sandstorm.

"Stop shooting!" Kalina's roar was drowned out by the screams that came one after another.

The barrel of a young soldier's gun suddenly exploded, and at the moment when the flying metal fragments pierced his carotid artery, three bandage tentacles had already emerged from the sand and entangled his legs.

As everyone retreated in horror, the figure that was dragged towards the sandstorm suddenly swelled and exploded, and countless bandage fragments and blood rained down on the fortifications.

Kalina trembled as she raised the tactical tablet. The holographic projection showed despairing data: "Energy resistance 97%, physical resistance 83%, regeneration rate... God, 27% of damage is repaired every second! The strength of these humanoid monsters is more than twice as strong as last month!"

The entire bunker suddenly let out a wail like a dying beast, and black asphalt-like substance seeped out of the cracks in the load-bearing walls. Shen Ge's invisible strange domain suddenly expanded, cutting the space within a range of fifteen meters into a diamond grid. Several mummy-like humanoids that broke through the defense line strangely crashed into the boundary of the strange domain, and their bandage-wrapped bodies immediately broke into sand-sized fragments.

"Collapse!"

The "collapse" released by Shen Ge's seventh-level weird energy fused with the red mist weird energy is no longer as simple as dragging the target underground. It is even powerful enough to tear the opponent apart through the twisting of weird energy.

"Lead people to retreat to the pyramid!" Shen Ge's red mist armor burst out with blood vessel-like light streams, and the corrupt blood tentacles intertwined into a rotating crown of thorns behind him. In an instant, a blood net spread out across the sky.

The moment he stepped out of the shelter, countless pairs of dark green pupils lit up in the sandstorm, and tens of thousands of bandaged tentacles shot up into the sky from the depths of the sand sea.

"There are quite a lot of them!" Shen Ge is now certain that this strange space is connected to a fragmented world, because only in a collapsed world can there be so many humanoid creatures.

The gate at the entrance of the pyramid not far away was sizzling under the corrosion of strange energy. Lieutenant Hawke used his mechanical prosthesis to hold the gap in the door, and sparks from the hydraulic joints splashed on Camille's blood-stained combat uniform.

When the last survivor fell into the corridor, Lieutenant Hawke's scanner suddenly made a shrill sound, and on the holographic screen, a strange parasitic mark similar to the shape of a scarab flashed in everyone's body.

"Something's wrong..." Camille held his throbbing temple and swept the wall of the corridor with his strange tactical flashlight. The originally mottled hieroglyphs now glowed with a fluorescent green light, and the beetle-patterned wall rotated strangely with the angle of light.

"Lieutenant Hawke, have you been to the pyramid before?" Camille asked.

Lieutenant Hawke was still busy holding up the gate and had no energy to answer his question, so Kalina answered for him: "The gates of the pyramids here have never been opened before, otherwise we would have used more solid pyramids as the base to build the base. There were a few small pyramids that opened their gates before, but there was nothing inside, empty."

Camille suspected that the strange space that Lieutenant Hawke mentioned, where alienation would occur among the survivors after every strange energy storm, might have some relationship with these parasitic monsters in the form of scarabs.

Even the parasitic monsters are in the shape of scarabs. It can only be said that it is worthy of being a strange space with an Egyptian desert background.

Shen Ge's figure flashed in from the gap in the gate, with asphalt-like bandage residues sticking to the surface of the red mist armor. When he pulled off the gas mask of a dying warrior, everyone gasped. The surface of that person's eyeball was covered with a chitin film, and the pupil was split into six compound eye structures.

"Their alienation is not that simple. I guess it was during the parasitic energy storm that happened to trigger the parasitic weirdness lurking in their bodies. Have you encountered any special situations before, or used any parasitic energy-related potions?" Shen Ge asked.

Lieutenant Hawke lowered the gate and fell into deep thought. He said, "Is the parasitic type weird? We don't seem to have used anything before... Wait."

"Energy inhibitor! We were trapped in a temporary camp in the desert by the black fog for a while. We happened to find a resource cabin with the latest type of energy inhibitor. Then, in order to avoid being affected by the black fog, we all injected the new type of energy inhibitor!" (End of this chapter)