Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 105: Red Cave Song

In a secret apartment on Prince Street in Ettingburg, a mummy-like person wrapped in bandages sat on a chair by the window, watching a transport vehicle of the Control Bureau passing by the apartment. Her male assistant in a suit and tie quietly walked behind her.

"Ms. Xianna, I just received news that he broke through the Lighthouse of Fear and the strange phenomenon has disappeared."

"I've always thought that the end of that tower is connected to the Sea of ​​Origin, and there is no limit to it. The location reached by Colonel Lion is the maximum height that humans can reach. That guy really has a lot of hidden talents under his command. There is actually such a person." Shiana said with a smile.

"Should we recruit him?" Zhang Xiaoqiang thought for a while and asked softly.

"Let's observe for a while. A strong will is only an admission ticket to the ruins. If you don't have the strength to match it, you will just die in vain. I only have one recommendation left. Unless he has the potential to surpass Lin Rizhe, it's better to maintain the original decision."

Zhang Xiaoqiang was stunned and shocked.

The original intention of his words just now was just to suggest that Shiana recruit this person as a substitute member, but Shiana actually had the idea of ​​recommending him.

Zhang Xiaoqiang didn’t quite understand why Miss Siana had such high expectations for this person.

Conquering the Beacon of Fear is indeed a shocking feat, worthy of being recorded in top-secret files.

But in the final analysis, the Lighthouse of Fear is just a safe weird project. Although its level is EX, its danger level is zero.

Conquering the Lighthouse of Fear only proves that Xia Shou has an extraordinary talent in resisting weird pollution, but it proves nothing else. Having a lower record than Xia Shou does not mean that one’s potential is worse than Xia Shou.

Colonel Lion, Soul Splitter, Green Python, many famous and powerful people, have lost to this rookie star in terms of the lighthouse record, but this does not mean that Xia Shou has the potential to surpass these predecessors.

In addition, if Xia Shouguang wants to compete with Lin Rizhe, the talented finisher, his current achievements are far from enough.

Lin Rize was promoted to lieutenant under Colonel Lion at the age of eighteen. During the "zombie frenzy period", he replaced Captain Li Wei in guarding the Zombie City. He himself had successfully survived three closed areas, possessed super-limit superpowers, and was favored by the Shears of Division.

If Xia Shou is a talented student who won the first place in the country with full marks in all subjects during the college entrance examination, then Lin Rize is a talented predecessor who once won the first place in the country with full marks in all subjects, and later won multiple gold medals in higher-end academic competitions.

That's why Zhang Xiaoqiang couldn't understand why Xia Shou regarded Xia Shou as Lin Rize's competitor.

Judging from the current objective results, this once famous Mr. Trump Card cannot be compared with Lin Rizhe at all.

"Ms. Xianna, Lieutenant Lin is much more suitable than him, right?"

"At the moment, he can't compare with Xiaolin, but it's still worth observing for a while." Xianna said.

……

Xia Shou was sitting in the car on the way back when he suddenly felt a gaze from the apartment next to him, but as the car moved on, the feeling of being gazed at was fleeting.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Shou's attention was drawn to the Public Security Bureau in front.

Because the Public Security Bureau in front of him had turned into a Rubik's Cube, a three-by-three Rubik's Cube.

It's as if someone cut the building into three-by-three geometric lines and then shuffled them around like a Rubik's Cube.

People were coming and going on the road, and such an unusual scene was happening right before their eyes, but no one noticed it.

Even if there are people who come to the Public Security Bureau to do business, when they walk to the door and see the bureau in this state, they will leave calmly.

It was as if these people subconsciously ignored this abnormal phenomenon.

"Why has the Public Security Bureau become like this?" Xia Shou asked curiously.

"This was caused by the battle between your captain and An Gangxiongwu when you entered the tower. He is now chasing someone. Although we have lost contact temporarily, nothing will happen to him." Edson said with great confidence.

"Then why do ordinary people subconsciously ignore supernatural phenomena?"

He had wanted to ask this question for a long time.

"This phenomenon is called the 'mortal ostrich phenomenon', which refers to the subconscious tendency of ordinary people to ignore abnormal phenomena when they see them.

No one has figured out the real reason yet, but the generally accepted theory now is that ignoring supernatural phenomena is a special recognition ability that the human species has evolved to deal with supernatural powers.

From another perspective, ordinary people’s ability to discern extraordinary phenomena is actually stronger and more accurate than that of all extraordinary people.”

"More accurate than the extraordinary ones? I can't even see it, so why would it be more accurate?" Xia Shou asked puzzled.

“Let me give you an example. You saw the police station that was messed up like a Rubik’s Cube just now.

If we use conventional physical methods to cut the building into pieces, and then stack them up in a random order to create the same appearance as it does now, ordinary people will be able to see it at a glance and they will be surprised.

But now, this building has become like this because of Baihe's ability, so they can't see it. Although the appearance is the same, ordinary people can distinguish which things are caused by extraordinary power and which are caused by physical means. They can ignore the supernatural phenomena caused by extraordinary power very accurately.

This is something that most extraordinary people cannot do."

"I see, that's interesting!"

"Haha, it's really interesting. There is also a theory that says that from an individual perspective, the extraordinary people seem to be the chosen ones of heaven, but from a population level, the mortal group is the most evolved state, and we are the inferior ones." Edson said.

Xia Shou nodded, feeling that he had learned something new.

Ten minutes later, the car stopped in front of the auto repair shop. Xia Shou once again went through the closet elevator in the office and returned to the underground control bureau.

Edson immediately found someone to decipher the fragments that Xia Shou brought back.

As Edson said, the deciphering of the fragment was very quick, taking only half an hour.

Half an hour later, the translator came to Xia Shou with the deciphered version.

"According to my guess, the author of these texts probably learned these contents from more ancient books, and then wrote them down in the aristocratic sacred language." The translator said to Xia Shou.

"That is to say... this is no longer the original version." Xia Shou frowned.

“Of course, but don’t worry too much about it. In fact, all the books we read now are not the original ones. It can be said that any work will inevitably lose information after being translated.

Therefore, even for modern masterpieces, the translated ones are not considered the original versions.

As for the more distant Greek myths, Norse myths, and other fables, all of them have undergone various modifications in details, which is inevitable in the process of text transmission.

As for the language used in this fragment, it is more secretive than the common language in the secular world and has no application scenarios in daily life. Therefore, even if it is translated, it cannot perfectly restore the artistic conception. We can only roughly summarize the content. "

Xia Shou nodded and picked up the deciphered page. The translated content only filled half a page.

Su Weiyu on the side also came over curiously and read the clues that she had finally obtained.

It is already written at the beginning of this page that this passage comes from an epic book called "Song of the Red Cave", which records how the mother of the Blood God became pregnant with the Blood God.

It begins with a description of a very strange scene...

[In the 700th year after the Silver Moon was knocked off its edge by the Summer Hunt, the Red Duke finally made up his mind to march out and attack the Silver Moon City.

He carried the corpses of 30,000 brave warriors down the frozen waterfall in winter. The biting cold wind protected the warriors, and when they arrived at the thousand-foot-high wall of Silvermoon City, the joints of their limbs were still as hard as steel frozen in the cold winter.

Amid the howling of 30,000 corpses day and night, a corner of Silvermoon City's wall collapsed, allowing the Duke to conquer the city, and the thousand-year-long celebration in the city came to an end.

To celebrate this unprecedented triumph, the Red Duke threw beasts and humans into an arena that rotated day and night, causing them to fight day and night.

The corpses of beasts and humans kept gushing out from the edge of the arena like pulp ground on a millstone, and the blood flowed day and night.

The Duke put all the corpses and blood into a deep cave. There was no sunlight in the cave and every corner was occupied by shadows. This place was also the resting place for the victors.

Countless corpses and blood of the defeated were rotting in the cave. There was no fresh air at all, and very few living things could live there for a long time.

But occasionally, there were living creatures that could live in the caves, but the Duke never bathed them or provided them with any drinking water.

The corpses of their enemies are their food;
The blood of their enemies is their drinking water.

On the night when the silver moon was completed again, a skinny dog ​​came from the west, jumped onto the rotating arena, tore the three-headed lion into pieces, and was then escorted by the people of the city into the honorable residence of the winner.

It sleeps restlessly among the rotting flesh and blood, its wounds scab over and heal in the stench of corpses, and its hair is coagulated into hard lumps by the dried blood plasma.

It is fighting all the time. During the day it engages in 33,000 bloody fights, and at night it sleeps with its eyes open in a red cave.

It won every duel, constantly devouring the courage and strength of the defeated, and regarded fear and wailing as food. Its skinny body became stronger and more terrifying, and finally became as majestic as a hill.

So the Duke asked his most beautiful daughter to wear a red dress and asked her to cut off his head and place it on a bone plate made from a lion's skull as a dowry to be presented to the great and undefeated beast.

The entire city's population witnessed this grand wedding. Hundreds of thousands of eyes watched as the Duke's daughter stepped on the skeletons of hundreds of beasts and humans and entered the deep red cave. The sounds of joy coming from the cave continued for three months.

On the third day of the third month, the Duke's daughter conceived and walked out of the cave, while the giant beast consumed everything and withered into a small pile of bones.

It is said that its bones are like blood, always bright red. 】

(End of this chapter)