Chapter 1659: Suffocating Night
It was already late at night. Due to repeated notices from the Special Defense Department, at this time, the general residents of Nan City basically did not walk around outside. Occasionally, there were three or two people who really needed to go out, and they were all in a hurry, or called. Enough people go together.
This is especially true for residential buildings located in the old city.
The population in the old city is complex, and the security facilities in the community cannot keep up, so when night comes, everyone turns off the lights and goes to bed early, for fear that the light or the slightest sound will attract cannibals, but there are exceptions, and that is babies.
Violent crying first came from the home of a resident on the tenth floor of Xiangzhang Community, but the sound stopped before it lasted for long, followed by the sound of a cautious door opening.
People nearby and upstairs and downstairs heard the sound, but they were surprised but did not come out to take a look.
The person who sneaked out was a middle-aged woman. She held her child tightly and entered the elevator quickly and lightly. When the elevator reached the first floor, she tightened her coat, as if this could cover her tracks. Then she He quickly rushed to the security booth and knocked on the door gently.
“Brother Zhang, my child has a high fever, could you please drive us to the hospital?” the woman asked in a low voice.
There was no sound in the security booth with the iron door closed. The woman did not give up and increased her strength, making the door bang. "Brother Zhang, please, my child will die if you don''t go to the hospital!"
This time there was a voice in the small room, but it was not out of kindness, but because she was worried that she would attract other people''s attention.
"Who dares to go out this late at night? The nearby hospital can''t even send an ambulance. Why don''t you call the police or ask the Special Defense Department to see if they can send someone out." The security guard said in a low voice.
“I can’t get through either the police phone or the Special Defense Department,” the woman cried, “otherwise I wouldn’t have come downstairs, Brother Zhang, please.”
"Sister, I''m not cruel. Don''t you know that the owner of the shop next to me was killed a few days ago? He was also kind-hearted. He ran out when he heard someone calling for help outside, and he was killed on the spot." The security guard sighed and said : "If you really can''t contact the Special Defense Department, don''t go to the hospital. Go to the drugstore on the corner of the street. I know the owner. I''ll call him and ask him to give you some medicine."
The woman looked at the street outside, hesitant. Even if the Special Defense Department rushed to install more street lights, the green belts on the roadside, the trash cans piled in the corners, and the signs and other items placed outside would still cause a lot of damage. In the blind spots of sight, monsters seem to be born in those shadows, which makes people stay away.
But the breathing of the child in her arms became quieter and softer. The woman hesitated for a moment before leaving the community, lowering her head and running towards the end of the street.
??The distance from the entrance of the community to the corner of the street was only two hundred meters, but to her it felt like crossing a long river. When she finally ran to the door of the store, she knocked on the door and found that there was no sound inside.
She didn''t know whether it was because the boss didn''t dare to answer the question or because he wasn''t there, but she had used up all her courage to run across this street. It was far from the hospital and there were no cars on the road. This pharmacy was her only hope, so she I could only slap the door of the store over and over again, hoping for a miracle to happen.
?However, for several minutes, there was no movement in the pharmacy. The woman kept crying, but she had no choice but to turn around and go to the next pharmacy.
What happened was when she turned into the next street, the street light next to her suddenly went out for a moment. Although it turned on again soon, the woman was no longer in the place where the light was illuminated again. Just half a minute after she disappeared, the special defense players who were patrolling nearby arrived here. One of them listened to what was going on around him and said, "No one is there."
The female player who came with her frowned, "The security guard at Xiangzhang Community said that people came here. Could it be that no one opened the door and they found another place?"
?Several people have contacted the owner of the drugstore on the way, and the drugstore owner had closed his shop and returned to his hometown the day before.
??The tall man contacted the Special Defense Department to ask for permission, and immediately checked the surrounding cameras. When he saw that the woman disappeared when the street lights went out, he could not help but darken his face and said: "These dogs are really not human beings!"
??The female player has notified the colleagues in charge of the nearby area and said: "The other party dares to come out for activities during martial law. They must be very strong. It is best to have one D-class and three E-class activities together."
The large number of high-level players trained by the Beijing Special Defense Department headquarters and the military may give ordinary people the illusion that there are C-level players everywhere in X, but in fact, not only C-level players, but also D-level players are concentrated. In large or medium-sized cities, and small cities like Nanshi, it is considered good to have a few D-level players on duty. Therefore, the lack of progress in the disappearance case in Nanshi is also related to the weak strength of the Special Defense Department.
The original working model of the Special Defense Department is to provide support wherever there is an incident. Resources are limited, not to mention that priority must be given to the Special Defense Department headquarters and the military. So usually, when something goes wrong in one place, the Special Defense Branch can compare with nearby players. Many cities have applied to transfer people, but there have been a lot of things lately, and Nan City has been deeply buried in the early stages of the matter, so no one has come here for the time being.
??The players in the Nan City Special Defense Department basically work in shifts day and night. Anyone who has not entered the game is all pulled out on the street. In this way, it is still difficult to guard against those who just shoot and change places.
At first, the Special Defense Department was worried that a public search for these cannibal players might cause them to flee to other cities. However, what happened in the past two days made them realize that they had overthinking it. This group of people relied on their stealth skills to get home, and actually started to behave openly. Looting people and killing people is quite provocative to the Special Defense Department.
“Work in pairs,” the tall man said, “I don’t believe these beasts left no traces at all!”
The four players who came together immediately split up and chased in different directions, and then followed the location where the street lights went out in the surveillance camera. The female player group heard a woman''s cry a minute later.
?The two people hurried over, and when they rushed to the intersection, they happened to meet a figure. The figure was wearing black protective clothing and could not see his face clearly. However, when they passed by, the smell of blood on the figure alerted them.
The female player’s companion stopped her, “I’ll go after her. You go check to see if anyone is alright, and contact Lao Gao and the others to come over for support!”
Without hesitation, the female player turned around and entered the alley. Using the lighting props, she saw a woman with messy hair and blood on her neck huddled in the corner. After seeing her, she was so frightened that she immediately stopped crying.
The female player showed her ID, "I am a member of the Special Defense Department, number 2483. Are you Wang Huiqin? What happened just now?"
The woman nodded randomly, holding the child and talking incoherently that she was caught in the alley. Her captor said he would eat her first and then the child, and then bit her neck. However, someone suddenly stepped in and beat the cannibal player away. , and then people from the Special Defense Department appeared.
(End of this chapter)