Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 179 Refusing to Open

"Hmph! I suspected that you were a fake. The Xia Shou I know is not so mean." Liu Yilong twisted his body with a smug look on his face, as if he was enjoying it very much.

"Stop arguing. I think Xia Shou's idea of ​​Occam's razor theory is very good. How about we..."

Before Baihe finished speaking, footsteps were heard at the entrance of the temple, and No. 58 and his team members walked in carrying the corpse of a moon beast.

They used the corpse of the moon beast as a cover to block the moonlight and walked through the illuminated area.

As long as the killed moon beasts have not been deliberately processed, they are not considered to have been mixed with the idea of ​​human transformation, so they can be used as a cover.

Xia Shou counted the number of people on the other side. The team of four men and two women became three men and two women, and one person was missing.

"Did you also encounter the moon beast?" Bai He took the initiative to speak.

No. 58 nodded: "Yes, one of us died."

After saying that, No. 58 looked around and found that he was the only one from Lin Tiandong's team.

"Captain Lin, where are your team members?"

"One of us died, and the other three are not convenient to walk in the moonlight. I asked them to stay on standby for the time being."

Excluding Su Weiyu, the people present now include Xia Shou, Bai He, Wu Lang, and Liu Yilong.

The team No. 58 has five people.

Adding Lin Tiandong alone, even without counting Su Weiyu, the number of people reached enough to activate the core area.

"We have enough people. Should we start?" No. 58 asked for the opinions of others.

At this time, Lin Tiandong stood up and said: "The core area is likely to involve the Seven-branch History Tree. Once activated, the health of all those entering the village will continue to deteriorate, and then they will kill each other. By then, it will be impossible to unite and cooperate.

I suggest that you do everything else you can before activating the holy land."

No. 58 looked at the other party and said, "Are you referring to the forbidden item No. 103 [Scorpion Spine]?"

"That's right. You are also one of the candidates for the transformation plan. You should know how much the unobtained part of the scorpion spine will increase the success rate of the experiment. I want to find the remaining parts of the scorpion spine while we can still move." Lin Tiandong said.

Xia Shou immediately raised his hand to object: "I object, there are only ten people here now, even if we add the three people from your team who didn't come and the one member we didn't find, there are only fourteen people. If five more people die, the holy land cannot be activated.

Finding the entrance to the Seven-branch Historical Tree is our primary purpose for entering the village, and the Scorpion Ridge is second. "

No. 58 stroked his chin, pondered for a while, and spoke calmly: "I agree with Xia Shou's statement. According to the known information, the monster that took away the remaining part of the scorpion spine is very powerful. It is not only immune to conventional thermal weapons, but can also absorb most kinetic energy impacts. Fighting with such a monster is too risky."

Lin Tiandong smiled silently: "Indeed, the risk is very high, but it's not a big deal for me. The information says that its attack method is ordinary physical attack, which I am immune to. Now I am also immune to moonlight, so I want to give it a try."

“But we can’t open the holy land without you.” No. 58 said.

"Give me a day, I'll come here tomorrow night." Lin Tiandong said.

No. 58 looked at the corpse of the moon beast at his feet with a serious expression and said, "In this village, there are many beasts like this one that glow on their bodies. It's lucky that all ten of us are here today. We may not be able to get together tomorrow night."

"I will hunt them. You can't even protect yourselves, right?"

Lin Tiandong stood up alone, walked out of the temple without looking back, and walked farther and farther away in the moonlight.

"What kind of person is that!" Liu Yilong sneered. "Lin Tiandong is just such a person. If I were him, I might not do as good as him." No. 58 smiled at Liu Yilong, "Forgive his bad temper. He is actually a good person."

"How can this guy be a good person? This is pure personal heroism!" Liu Yilong said angrily.

No. 58 sat down on the steps of the altar, straightened his dirty suit, and said, "Since there is no way to open the holy land for the time being, I will tell you a story."

No one objected.

Just like No. 58 said, they are now missing one person and there is no way to open the holy land.

But only Xia Shou knew that there were actually enough people, because including Su Weiyu, there were exactly ten people.

He just needed to find an excuse to get everyone to cooperate with him in trying to open the holy land when there were only nine of them.

Then, with the addition of Su Weiyu, the holy land will naturally open, and everyone will feel "normal" afterwards.

The reason why Xia Shou was not in a hurry to open the holy land was due to many considerations.

Ling Xiao's whereabouts are currently unknown. Since she was able to leave signposts in the stone forest maze, it means that she must have found the temple in the end. However, she is not in the temple now, and there is no trace of her in the village during the day.

Then she may have encountered some trouble, which prevented her from returning to the normal village during the day, nor staying in the temple at night.

If they open the holy land now, everyone's health will begin to deteriorate, which may cause trouble for Ling Xiao.

In addition... Xia Shou had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

While Xia Shou was lost in thought, No. 58 began to tell his story.

"As everyone knows, in the supernatural world, whenever there is a sixth-level strange death, large-scale strange phenomena will inevitably occur. This level of spell power leakage can no longer be absorbed by ordinary death prisoner barriers, and third-level death prisoner barriers must be used.

In 1978, the extremely high-risk monster [The Strange Swamp Monster] died due to the exhaustion of its natural lifespan.

After its death, all creatures within a radius of hundreds of miles began to develop amphibious characteristics, and the natural landscape gradually evolved into a swamp. The fan-shaped area of ​​100 kilometers in the southern suburbs outside the city was completely reduced to a swamp area with a depth of 1,000 meters. The indirect impact on the stratum covered the entire city.

The analysis result of this disaster is that within a few days, all the buildings outside the city near the swamp suburbs will sink, and the building foundations of the entire city will be completely destroyed within a year, and the area will become unsuitable for human habitation.

The social impact and economic losses caused by this are immeasurable.

The worst thing was that the authorities did not have enough level 3 death row inmates at the time to stop the expansion of weirdness, and could only watch the weird phenomenon gradually spread.

At the last moment when the situation was about to become completely irreversible, it was the fourth-level finisher [Fisherman] who stepped forward and, using an unknown method, absorbed all the leaked cursed energy by himself and prevented the disaster.

After absorbing all the cursed energy, he disappeared and it was not until thirty years later that the Control Bureau found his whereabouts.

That year, after solving the "spread of the strange swamp incident", the fisherman's mind was affected by unknown factors. He left the control bureau alone and lived in seclusion beside a lake in northern China.

Decades later, he fell in love with an 18-year-old local girl and married her.

The couple gave birth to two children in 00 and 01, namely Lin Rizhe and Lin Tiandong.

The clue that allowed the control bureau to find the fisherman was a case of patricide. "

(End of this chapter)