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

"..."

Very good, even Xiaoqi has learned to be clever, right? So it is not good for artificial intelligence to be too "smart".

Just as Shirley was about to continue asking what the sound was about, the watch on her wrist suddenly started beeping and flashing red light.

"Oh no! There is a weird attack on Base No. 3, which is the only way to the abandoned city. Mr. Shen, please follow me!" Shirley hurriedly called for everyone to follow her to Base No. 3.

Passing through an abandoned neighborhood, the ground suddenly shook violently.

Shirley explained to Shen Ge as she ran: "Strong earthquake fluctuations...According to the seismic wave scan, they are coming from the east. It should be that the strange giant turtle in the east is about to wake up. Mr. Shen, for safety reasons, I suggest that we return to the underground base for a while and wait until the strange giant turtle falls asleep again, and then we can make plans."

"The giant turtle is weird? What level is it and what is its specific situation?" Shen Ge asked.

As they walked, Shirley explained to Shen Ge that there were three giant monsters in the abandoned city, the lowest rated one was level six, and the two highest were level seven.

They both regard each other as delicious food and a thorn in their eyes, and will fight each other when they meet, trying to turn the other into their own nutrients.

However, due to the strange characteristics of the three monsters, they are difficult to kill. Therefore, after each battle, the energy of the three high-level monsters will drop sharply, and they will fall into a period of sleep. This period of time is more suitable for the survivors of the Dawn Base to go out.

Usually these three high-level monsters will wake up once every two to three months, and then fight for at least one month.

Since the ratings of the three monsters are very high, a fight between them could destroy the city. Therefore, every time a monster awakens, the people at the Dawn Base have to find a way to lead them away from the abandoned city to prevent them from reaching the base and collapsing the underground base.

The giant turtle monster that Shirley mentioned is one of the two seventh-level monsters, and it is also the one with the strongest defense.

As soon as we passed through the safe passage and entered the abandoned city, we heard several sounds of breaking air coming from the sky.

call out!
call out!
call out!
A cannon shot exploded in the distance.

Shirley's face changed, and she looked at Shen Ge hurriedly and said, "It is the No. 3 base that is sending a distress signal. Mr. Shen, let's rush over now to help the soldiers at No. 3 base retreat, and then retreat back to the base and wait for the giant turtle to fall into a strange sleep before continuing the action!"

Wait until the giant turtle falls into a mysterious sleep before taking action?

According to what Shirley said, they would have to stay at the Shuguang Base for three to five months before setting off again? Shen Ge could wait, but could Cheng's mother?

Cheng's mother has been missing for several months, and her chance of survival is actually very slim. If there is no news of Cheng's mother among the team of survivors who entered here before, then her death can basically be declared.

Shen Ge just wanted to find information about the survivors as soon as possible, but he did not tell Shirley about his idea. Anyway, Base No. 3 was the only way to the abandoned city, so he might as well go there and take a look.

In the distance, at the gate of Site No. 3.

The captain of the stronghold was directing the soldiers to move supplies into the underground storage room. Shirley immediately asked the accompanying team members to help.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the team member entered the stronghold area, the soldiers in the stronghold, including the team member who rushed to help, looked up at the sky with horror: "Hands, so many hands! Be careful, run, there are so many trickster hands in the sky!"

hand?
Trickster hand?

At this time, Shirley and others, as well as Shen Ge and Camille, who were discussing countermeasures outside the original base, all looked up with confusion.

A huge vortex appeared in the center of the strange black fog in the sky, like a black hole, but nothing resembling a "hand" was seen.

Shirley and the soldiers who assisted Shen Ge in investigating the "spire" entered the stronghold together. Soon, like the soldiers in the previous stronghold, they were frightened and collapsed to the ground, pointing at the sky in horror and shouting things like "weird hand", "weird", "so scary" and so on.

Camille's face changed: "Captain Shen, could it be that the base has been affected by the strange energy and is causing hallucinations when entering?"

"You wait here." As soon as Shen Ge finished speaking, he walked straight towards the No. 3 stronghold without waiting for Camille to answer.

However, after entering the stronghold, Shen Ge felt nothing. There were only those "crazy" stronghold guards around him.

Shen Ge looked around. The eerie stronghold was eerily quiet except for the occasional "whoosh" sound from the top of a distant sentry tower, which fired flares into the distance. This made the soldiers around him, who were crawling in fear, look a little funny.

There were no traces of weirdness or strange people in the field of vision. Xiao Qi conducted a weird energy test, and Shen Ge also observed through the weird eyes, but did not find any weirdness hidden nearby.

"Captain Shen, are you okay?" Camille felt a little anxious when he saw Shen Ge standing in the stronghold without any reaction.

Although she believed that nothing would happen with Shen Ge's strength, this was not "reality" after all, but "future". Who knew whether Shen Ge's special abilities would be effective here.

"I'm fine." Shen Ge looked at Camille and replied.

Camille made up his mind and rushed into the gate of the stronghold. He thought he would see some horrifying scene, but there was no reaction at all either.

"What did you see?" Shen Ge asked.

Facing Shen Ge's question, Camille was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "It seems... I don't feel anything, I just see these people... going crazy?"

Shirley, who was not far away, slumped on the ground, pulling the submachine gun in her hand and firing at the air, screaming in fear as she shot.

This made Shen Ge and Camille very curious about what she saw.
"Stop! Miss Shirley, stop!" Camille shouted at Shirley.

Shirley seemed not to hear her and continued firing her submachine gun into the air. While she was reloading, Camille grabbed her wrist and took away her gun.

"Ms. Shirley, wake up! Miss Shirley!" Camille squatted beside Shirley, put his hand on her shoulder and shook it continuously, trying to wake her up.

But it seemed to be of no use, Shirley was still struggling frantically.

At this time, Xiao Qi suddenly said, "Master, do you remember when you went to Sakura Island's 'Future'? In the base transformed by Fenghua Youna and others, a similar situation seemed to have occurred. Affected by the erosion of the high-level weird black mist, they had hallucinations, but you were not affected."

Shen Ge glanced at Camille who was hugging Shirley, and said thoughtfully: "If it is my strange energy that produces antibodies and makes me immune to the influence of strange energy erosion, then what happened to Camille? Could it be that... the strange energy erosion of this world has a deeper impact on the people of this world?"

Classmate Xiao Qi replied: "Master, this possibility is not high. I just inhaled the black fog of strange energy and compared it with the strange energy black fog in our world, and found that there is not much difference, and the degree of erosion of strange energy is even higher. But the survivors of this world have lived in this highly corrosive black fog of strange energy for many years, so their own antibodies are higher than those of people in the 'reality', such as Camille." Classmate Xiao Qi's meaning is easy to understand. In the "future", due to the continuous evolution of the weirdness, the natural erosion degree of strange energy produced will also rise. Relatively speaking, the survivors in this world will have a higher resistance, because people with poor resistance have long become nutrients for the soil.

If Shen Ge's guess is true, then Camille, as a time traveler, with the antibodies of people from the past, theoretically cannot withstand the erosion of the strange energy of the "future", and she will be the one to be affected.

But strangely, Camille did not have any hallucinations!

"Master, why don't we use the strange energy black fog that cannot be isolated in the strange domain to wake Shirley up and ask her what she saw?" Xiao Qi suggested.

"it is good."

As soon as Shen Ge finished speaking, the strange domain quickly spread out and covered Camille and Shirley. Shirley was still screaming, but suddenly she was stunned, looked up at the sky with a confused look, and soon calmed down.

"Mr. Shen...Mr. Shen!" Shirley looked clearly at the person in front of her, then looked at Camille who was hugging her tightly, and seemed to be still a little unconscious.

Shen Ge asked straight to the point: "What did you see?"

"Hands, hands! So many hands. The whole sky is filled with densely packed, pale, cold and wet hands of dead people!" Shirley said with lingering fear.

He was obviously still a little scared while speaking, and subconsciously glanced up at the sky again, until he saw nothing, then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"You are affected by the strange domain and have hallucinations. Remember, everything you see now is fake. Don't be fooled by the hallucinations!" Shen Ge said calmly.

Hallucination?

Shirley was stunned. She knew very well how real the horrific scene she had just seen was, but Shen Ge actually said that it was all just an illusion?

Shirley looked around and saw that her companions were still going crazy. Some even accidentally hit their own companions when shooting into the air. The scene was in chaos.

Seeing this, Shirley anxiously shouted at those who were shooting to stop, but no matter how she shouted, they kept shooting like crazy.

"Captain Shen, are they also hallucinating? Can you, can you help them! Please!" Shirley begged.

Shen Ge originally wanted to see how powerful the strange energy erosion produced by this giant turtle could be. The other party was at level seven, and he was also at level seven.

Then the strange domain expanded rapidly, instantly covering the entire No. 3 stronghold. In just a few seconds, the soldiers who were almost driven crazy by the hallucinations came to their senses, calmed down, and looked up at the sky in confusion, as if wondering how the monsters in the sky suddenly disappeared.

"Fa, what happened?"

"Where's the trick hand?"

"Why are all the monsters in the sky gone?"

"What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and move your things!"

When the soldiers came to their senses and realized that they no longer saw those horrific scenes, they immediately gathered together and started moving things.

The commander of the stronghold found Shirley and asked about what happened just now: "Captain Shirley, did you see those horrible monsters just now?"

Shirley nodded: "I was also affected. Mr. Shen said that we were affected by the erosion of strange energy and had hallucinations. This is Mr. Shen. He saved us from the hallucinations."

Shirley concealed Shen Ge's identity as a "time traveler" and only introduced him as a senior soldier from another anti-evil organization, who was assisting the Dawn Base in a secret mission.

After the captain of the stronghold thanked Shen Ge, Shen Ge asked some more information about the "survivors", but unfortunately the captain knew nothing, and the situation was urgent, so he only chatted for a few words and then returned to his post.

Shirley looked at Shen Ge with admiration and thanked him repeatedly: "Mr. Shen, you are indeed not an ordinary person. You can stay awake under the influence of the strange domain, and even ignore the influence of the strange erosion to rescue the soldiers in the stronghold. If it weren't for you, the consequences would be disastrous!"

After a pause, she continued, "Now that the giant turtle has strangely awakened, the situation is urgent. Why don't we follow the soldiers at the base back to the Dawn Base!"

"No need, you can go back with them first. Now that we have arrived at the abandoned city, I can handle the rest by myself." Shen Ge said.

"This, this is not possible." Shirley really wanted to say that since they were sent by the leader to assist Shen Ge in the operation, it was impossible for them to abandon him and go back alone.

But then he thought that if Shen Ge hadn't been there, they would probably have been killed by their own people. He was busy but couldn't help, and instead caused a lot of trouble for Shen Ge. He didn't have the confidence to say this for a moment.

As for the few close associates sent by Rogers, after witnessing Shen Ge's strange methods, they just watched quietly from the side and did not express any opinions from beginning to end.

Before setting off, Rogers repeatedly reminded them to focus on finding out Shen Ge's strength and finding information about the "Spire", and to try their best not to make enemies with the other party.

Furthermore, the strange scene just now also made them realize that Shen Ge was by no means an opponent they could deal with, so it would be more reliable to honestly build a closer relationship with him.

Shirley tried to persuade Shen Ge, but she found that Shen Ge was determined to continue going deeper into the abandoned city, so she could only let her team members return to the base with the stronghold soldiers.

Although those close associates of Rogers did not want to take the risk of entering the city together, they knew very well that if they ran back at this time they would definitely be beaten to death by Rogers. Therefore, they chose a compromise and told Shen Ge that they also chose to go back, but in fact they followed him secretly and ran away when there was danger.

Shen Ge naturally saw through their tricks, but did not expose them. As for Shirley, with several locals "leading the way", she could also find out some information about this world.

Shen Ge also helped the people in the stronghold to stay in the strange area for a while, allowing them to withdraw from the stronghold before taking back the strange area.

After entering the abandoned city, the two "time travelers" Shen Ge and Camille finally understood why Shirley regarded a box of instant noodles as a treasure.

Because the environment of the abandoned city is even dozens of times worse than the cities in those wasteland apocalypse disaster movies. Due to the frequent high-level weird battles, the so-called abandoned city cannot even find a half-collapsed building or even a slightly intact wall.

Rather than a city, it is more like a larger "waste" dump. The buildings have been crushed into pieces by giant monsters, and at a glance, there is no end to the "stone and earth piles".

Rumbling--

As the three of them stood on the wasteland and observed the environment, a strange noise suddenly sounded in the distance, and then the ground shook, as if some huge monster was about to break out of the ground! (End of this chapter)