Who says a sickly daughter can’t break through the weirdness?

"Wait a minute, why hasn't the fog up ahead dissipated?"

Another investigator asked this question.

Everyone looked over and discovered that the dissipation of the fog formed a strange semicircle.

Lin Qiutang stared intently at the scenery along the way left behind by the train, and suddenly an idea flashed through his mind -

Why does the fog look like it's been swallowed by something?

That's right, that's it!

It’s not so much that the fog is slowly dissipating, but rather that something is devouring everything along the way, including the fog!

That's why only the fog behind the train dissipated!

If my guess is correct...

The Kuroshio Current is chasing this train!!

Chapter 86 Half a Foot into the Underworld

"Do you feel it!?"

Lin Qiutang stood at the front of the car, and next to him was Chu Tieshan, who was fully armed and looked like a steel mecha.

"Where the fog has dispersed, something seems to be moving!"

She subconsciously protected Shen Qinyin behind her, her eyes fixed on the rear of the train where "there was nothing" after the fog dissipated.

Xu Xiaogang, an exploratory officer, and several other qualified individuals with exploratory abilities had their eyes nearly popped green. They concentrated their mental strength to the extreme, but they still couldn't detect the approach of the black tide.

Shen Qinyin frowned and stared straight ahead.

Her perception network can cover nearly three hundred meters. With Tang Miao's blessing, she can detect entities and strange beasts up to four hundred meters away!

Coupled with the extraordinary vision brought by the third eye, within a range of 400 meters, even if she was in the fog, for Shen Qinyin it was no different from walking in the moonlight.

But even so, the strange black tide was still "observed" by her third eye only when it was only fifty meters away from her!

Even at this distance, the black tide that Shen Qinyin saw was still a little blurry!

"Everyone, pay attention to the direction of the rear of the train!"

Lin Qiutang raised the torch and spoke so, with an uncontrollable tremor in her voice.

She had no detection abilities, so she couldn't see what was behind the train.

However, based on the fog that was constantly engulfing them, and as an investigator, Lin Qiutang almost instinctively developed a strong sense of crisis.

If they were caught up by that thing behind them, they would all be sent to the underworld!

Chu Tieshan held the explosion-proof shield and meteor hammer tightly in his hands, walked from the front of the car to the rear step by step, and then slammed the shield into the ground.

"Give me a torch!"

He stretched out his hand to the side, and Wu Dalong, his right-hand man and also a telekinetic operator, immediately handed him a lit torch.

Chu Tieshan held the torch, weighed it in his hand, then aimed at the empty area behind the train and threw the torch out!

The next moment, a terrifying scene appeared that made everyone's expression change drastically!

The thrown torch drew an orange-red arc in the night sky. When the torch flew about fifty meters, a large area of ​​black haze suddenly appeared above the empty railway tracks!

The black mist was like sticky black blood. The moment it came into contact with the flames, it instinctively retreated to the sides, leaving a black and twisted hole where the torch was!

But soon, the black tide closest to the torch began to wriggle irregularly, and tentacles that looked like black mud emerged from it and suddenly pounced towards the torch!

These tentacles evaporated like water vapor the moment they were burned by the flames, but the evaporated parts were covered by a thicker black tide the next moment, as if countless densely packed little black bugs were coming one after another to repair the broken holes.

The next second, the torch was completely devoured by the black tide, and the last trace of flame was extinguished like a candle in the wind.

"Damn, it turns out they are such a bunch of things!"

It was also the first time that Chu Tieshan saw the real appearance of Hei Chao, and his face under the helmet suddenly became gloomy.

Based on the intelligence brought by the crashed soldiers, they had a general understanding of the Kuroshio Current and had conducted many simulations to deal with it.

But at this moment, he clearly felt how terrifying the disaster was that could cause the entire provincial military region to be completely lost and almost wiped out!

It is obvious that they can have physical contact with objectively existing objects, but they have no entity and cannot be seen. The so-called Locard material exchange principle does not apply at all!

The Kuroshio Current is like evil thoughts in the natural world, coming from "punishment from God."

These evil thoughts are nothing but idealistic consciousness and imagination, which can never exist in reality.

But it is something that does not exist in the real world at all, and it can cause harm on the physical level!

What on earth does this thing, which violates the microscopic properties and laws of motion of matter, rely on to exist?

When humans face these things that they don’t understand, can we really continue to believe in so-called physics and science?

"34, 35, 36..." Xu Xiaogang, who was in charge of the exploration mission, swallowed his saliva, and the hand holding the psychic vision detector trembled slightly. "The value of the psychic vision detector is gradually increasing..."

Shen Qiyin remembered that Lin Qiutang had told her that pollution levels between 1 and 30 were considered normal, and the pollution levels of the fog were probably within this range.

Ordinary humans would lose their sanity in such an environment within an hour at most and become a mad or insane walking corpse.

Shen Qiyin had come into close contact with that thing. When it was within five meters of her, the polluting ability of that thing could make someone like her who had enhanced her mental power have the illusion of disorder and chaos in an instant. If she stayed there for two or three minutes longer, the pollution would be so serious that it would be irreversible.

Even I can't withstand its pollution, let alone the ordinary people in the carriage.

"That thing is chasing the train," Shen Qiyin said gloomily. "We haven't even come into contact with it yet, and the pollution level has already started to rise. This shows that this thing can penetrate physical barriers. Perhaps the pollution level inside the carriage has also increased."

Hearing this, Xu Xiaogang quickly jumped down from the carriage connection, knocked on the door, and exchanged information with the special forces inside.

After a while, he returned to the roof of the carriage, his face as black as coal: "You are right, the pollution value in the carriage has gradually climbed to 15 points. If that thing continues to approach, the pollution value will get higher and higher.

By then, there's no need for it to devour us; the pollution alone is enough to wipe out everyone on the train."

Chu Tieshan turned to look at Meng Yue and asked in a deep voice, "How many Rationality Capsules are left?"

"There aren't many left. Most of them are stored in the cargo hold at the command center and can't be taken away. The current stock on the train can't guarantee that everyone can get a box."

Meng Yue gestured and added, "Given the current number of survivors, each person will probably only get one box of Sanity Capsules, or 10 capsules."

"Send them out and tell them not to panic. The organization will definitely bring them safely to Huaibei Province!"

There was no trace of panic in Chu Tieshan's voice. He gave orders calmly, and the investigators and the remaining military and police officers under him had no complaints and obeyed his orders. As soon as his orders were given, the team members quickly took action.

Shen Qinyin stroked the telekinetic ring on her finger and began to think about how to break the deadlock.

Jinchuan City, the provincial capital, is only more than 600 kilometers away from Yunlan City. Excluding daytime, it took the Kuroshio nearly 40 hours to spread here.

If calculated in this way, the spread speed of the Kuroshio under normal circumstances does not seem fast, but now, the green train has a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, but it cannot get rid of it.

If this continues, they'll catch up sooner or later. What should I do?

Chapter 87: Unspeakable, Unable to Look Directly

Shen Qinyin looked up into the distance and saw that the fog in many places appeared to have irregular "gaps".

These gaps were "gnawed" out by the black tide.

Let's simulate the scene and compare the Kuroshio Current to a tide slowly pouring into the city. At the beginning, it should be even, eroding the city bit by bit in a flat manner.

However, when "prey" appears somewhere in the city, the closest part of the black tide will accelerate until it swallows the other one.

At this uneven speed, the part where the Kuroshio spreads in will show scattered gaps, resulting in some places where the fog has been eaten away, but some places are still shrouded in fog.

This information can help Shen Qiyin verify the relevant intelligence obtained from the USB flash drive: the purpose of the Black Tide is quite clear, it knows that it must capture the "prey" in front of it.

In other words, Kuroshio, like an entity, possesses a certain degree of "self-awareness" or "instinct".

According to the intelligence sent back from the front line, the black tide has a source and clones, and these tide-like black smogs are released from the source and clones.

The black tide that spread to Yunlan City was just one of its clones.

Shen Qiyin looked at the fog that was gradually engulfing her, and suddenly an idea came to her mind:

If the source of the Kuroshio Current is considered a "living being," then what about the fog? Does the fog also have a "source," and is that "source," like the Kuroshio Current, a "living being" of some kind?

Continuing along this line of thought, can the reason why the black tide swallows the fog be seen as these two "creatures" fighting for their territory?

Just like the lurker in the basement and the green haze...

"The psychic vision detector's value has increased again!!" Xu Xiaogang shouted while holding the detector. "The value has reached 48 points!!"

"Well!!"

Just as Xu Xiaogang finished speaking, a special forces member suddenly covered his mouth and knelt on the ground as if he had seen something extremely terrifying, and then vomited with a "Wow"!

Before anyone could even think about the other team's situation, another team member holding a steel knife screamed, "Ah ...

He raised the steel knife and slashed at the air around him! The steel knife hit the nearby supply box and the roof of the car, leaving a striking scratch!

“Moderately polluted?!”

Lin Qiutang used his telekinesis to grab the frantic team member out of thin air, making it impossible for him to exert any strength and he could only kick around in mid-air!

"Quick, give me the medicine!"

"use this!"

Shen Qinyin threw the can of mental soothing capsules she was carrying over.

This is an upgrade from the Sanity Capsule. It has a more powerful effect against pollution and restores more Sanity than the Sanity Capsules used by the Special Service Team.

The situation gradually calmed down after the two team members took the capsules, but as long as the surrounding pollution level does not drop, they will probably fall into this crazy state again in less than ten minutes.

Shen Qiyin held a jade pendant that she had prepared in advance to ward off evil spirits and took a deep breath.

Facing the black tide, low-level items like the Holy Wood are completely useless, and the Auspicious Jade can only slightly slow down the opponent's speed. At least an exorcism item like the Evil-Repelling Jade Pendant with a value of more than 50 is needed to produce a more obvious effect.

Back then on the plane, Shen Qiyin had to use a brass pocket watch worth 100 desire stones to completely dispel the part of the black tide carried by the soldier who was "infected" with the black tide.

What she has to face now is a large-scale black tide that can affect the entire city. It is impossible to completely disperse it.

Unless she can locate Kuroshio's clone.

But even if we locate such a terrifying thing, what effect can this little lust stone in our hand have?

"55 points! The pollution level inside the carriage has also broken through 30 points!" Xu Xiaogang reported again, cold sweat already pouring down his forehead uncontrollably. "That thing is still approaching us, but I can't sense anything at all!!"

Shen Qinyin looked back at them, and everyone's faces were extremely gloomy.

They would rather deal with more than a dozen level 2 double-headed falcons or even level 3 strange beasts at the same time than fight against this mysterious object that has no ability to fight back and can only watch their team being disintegrated bit by bit.

Psychological pressure is more terrifying than physical pressure. What is scary is not death, but the process of waiting to die.

A pair of hands reached out from the side and held her arm tightly.

Shen Qinyin turned her head and saw Tang Miao also staring at the "nothing" air behind the train, with cold sweat sliding down her cheeks.

As the black tide approached to a distance of thirty meters, the special vision provided by her third eye allowed her to clearly see the black tide that other qualified people could not see -

The space was like a torn oil painting, the flowing black substance was as thick as blood, and in the surging black tide, countless tentacles were dancing wildly, as if arms were waving at her, and rows of arms were crawling on the ground one after another.

After staring for less than ten seconds, Shen Qinyin felt a sharp pain in her brain!

The scene in front of him was painted with a strange blood red at this moment, as if some strange filter was turned on. It was clearly a black tide, but it looked like surging blood!

I was actually contaminated...!

Even just by observing closely with the third eye, that thing can actually exert an even more powerful pollution ability!

Incomprehensible, unbearable to look at, unconfrontable...

Each one of them alone would be a mountain that could make people breathless, but now these three things can be combined into one.

Shen Qinyin couldn't help but smile bitterly.

What kind of world have I been thrown into? In other games, the Black Tide is always a super boss that appears in the middle or even late stages.

It hasn't even been three months since I came here, and the "intensity of the game" has skyrocketed.

It was clear that not long ago, I was still using the holy wood worth 5 desire stones and the exorcist holy spear worth 1 desire stone to fight against strange beasts and fog, and occasionally I would encounter a human elite monster worth hundreds of desire stones.

In the blink of an eye, he found himself on the run, forced to gamble with an indescribable and incomprehensible "monster" disaster that could destroy a nation.

It's just funny.

"Tang Miao, sister," Shen Qiyin glanced at the two people closest to her and said, "I will use your mental state as a reference. If you ever notice any signs of misperception, tell me immediately!"

"Qiyin..." Lin Qiutang opened her mouth, bitterness and regret revealed on her face, "The danger of the Kuroshio is even more exaggerated than I imagined. I shouldn't have asked you to take the train with me to help the evacuation team.