Fog Formula-Warning Book of Fog City Search Chief's Strange Talk

A not-so-popular piece of knowledge—humans are actually not creatures with a strong sense of direction.

Judging the direction is almost entirely based on vision and relies heavily on reference objects. Once the eyes are covered, you can’t even walk in a straight line. Even without any external interference, you can easily get lost in the open field and fall into the “ghost hitting the wall” situation. Dilemma. Humans' sense of direction is far inferior to that of migratory birds who can sense geomagnetic changes, and even dogs that can distinguish directions by smell.

Therefore, once caught in an environment where certain visual functions are restricted, regardless of subjective willingness or not, the final direction of movement can be easily compressed to only one.

This is also the reason why Jian Shenxiu chose to follow the road without hesitation after realizing the situation. One is because other attempts are meaningless. If they haven't found the "door" at dawn, they will be completely lost in this space when the fog clears. The second is that the abnormality mentioned in the report of the search bureau is that there is an abnormal heat reaction in the area of ​​the resort at night, and it is suspected that there are abnormal gatherings of people.

Since this is the only way, if there are other "people" in the fog tonight, they will also appear on this way.

What exactly is that unusual heat—see it for yourself.

The chilly night wind blew past, lifting the searcher's long black hair, revealing his pale face underneath. Seeing Shenxiu walking firmly in the mist with Marchesias, the leather boots made an unusually harsh sound in this quiet environment, and even the black gun in his hand seemed damp because of the mist, and tiny water droplets adhered to it. On the cold body of the gun, it was slippery and chilly when held.

Even though both of them are wearing bathrobes, their aura always gives you the illusion that they are wearing trench coats and top hats. Their slender figures are slender and their backs are chilling, and their dark clothes are almost integrated with the surrounding environment. For a moment, you even feel that they also belong to this fog, and are resonating with the weirdness in the fog.

Just like the witch hunter in the story, holding a crossbow soaked in holy water to hunt down wizards in the shadows. According to legend, those witch hunters are also members of the wizards themselves, so they can fight against all kinds of weird and unpredictable witchcraft.

After walking for about ten minutes, the two arrived at the position of the first lamp. With the pace of the two of them and the distance between street lights in reality, it would never take such a long time, but in this strange fog, this distance has been greatly elongated. They moved forward steadily, but it took several times longer than normal to reach the first street light.

When we got close to the streetlight, the light seemed to become normal again, it was no longer blurred like a ghost like before, but became clearer as we got closer. The warm yellow light was squeezed by the thick fog, but it could still illuminate a small area below, like a small island surrounded by thick fog and darkness. Looking up, the Victorian-style hexagonal street lamps radiate light as in the evening, and countless tiny water droplets dance like fireflies in the beams of light.

"It's really the streetlight of the resort."

The two stopped at the same time tacitly, and Markesias said while looking at the familiar street lamp. They didn't know how many street lights of this height, style, and color had been seen during the day. Seeing it again on this occasion at this moment, there is actually a kind of intimacy.

"There is also the serial number of the power supply station on it." The boy looked closely for a while, took out his camera and took a photo.

"It's a pity that I can't contact the bureau now, otherwise I can even check which one it is."

"You can check it when you get back." Jian Shenxiu nodded, "Now this thing at least proves that we are still in the resort."

He said, looking at the darkness in front of him. In the distance, there is still a light source like this lamp shining in the fog ahead, and in the darkness farther away, street lamps follow one after another, guiding the two of them along the way.

"But if you go further back," Shenxiu said in a deep voice, "it might not be a 'resort' anymore."

This is the first light on the road. The number "first" often has a special meaning in the implicit. Because the so-called "door" does not always refer to a door in the physical sense, sometimes it is also a "conceptual boundary". Just like the legendary Wangchuan Stone, which represents the boundary between life and death, a living person must stop when he reaches the Wangchuan Stone in Huangquan, and after that, there is Santuchuan, a kingdom that belongs only to the dead. Perhaps the same is true of this lamp. The area in front of this lamp may still be the real world shrouded in mist. But once you step past this light, you are really walking towards the hidden place.

"Go ahead."

After thinking about this point clearly, he stopped stopping when he saw Shenxiu, and walked forward directly. He came here to see what was behind that door, so why would he stagnate here.

"..."

However, as soon as he took a step, he froze again, because the surroundings also changed instantly with the step of the beam of light. With the help of the light from the street lamp behind him, one can see that the surrounding thick fog is stirred suddenly for a moment, as if the space itself has also moved with this step.

In the perception of the two, it seemed that something suddenly changed in the fog at that moment. This change was so subtle that the two of them couldn't even tell what it was that changed for a while, and this change was so crucial that they suddenly realized its existence as soon as it appeared.

what exactly is it?

Seeing Shenxiu's pace stopped, looking at the fog in front of him, his face was cloudy and uncertain.

bright? No, it was still dark.

distance? No, the next light source is still unclear.

temperature? No, that alone has not changed at all.

What the hell is that? What has changed in the environment?

"It's the voice."

Markesias whispered beside him, his five senses were keen, and he discovered the truth one step ahead of the divine cultivator.

"There are voices in the environment."

Yes, it is sound.

Jian Shenxiu suddenly realized that the young man was right. Once he found the key point, it was not such a hidden problem. The scene started to have "sounds". It's slight and vague, but it's there.

This is also a change that can only be discovered after coming out of the previous environment. The environment in which people live is filled with all kinds of noises, such as the chirping of insects, the singing of birds, and even the sound of earthquakes and so on. No matter how quiet the environment is, there are all kinds of subtle sounds in the background, and people are used to it. It is precisely because of the dead silence and no sound environment just now that the two of them were able to discover the imperceptible change of "the appearance of a sound".

"Can you hear what the sound is?" Jian Shenxiu lowered his voice and asked, afraid of disturbing the senses of the young man beside him.

"I can't hear you clearly." The boy frowned, trying to hear those subtle voices clearly. But that's just an extremely subtle sound in the environment, weak like the undetectable background noise in a tape recorder. So the boy shook his head helplessly after trying it for a while, and gave up this idea.

"Too small to tell."

"Understood, be careful and move on." Jian Shenxiu took a deep breath, then nodded slightly. Generally speaking, it is normal to have sounds in the environment, but in the privacy - normal never always means safe.

They walked in the direction of the second light in silence, and quickly got away from the light source behind them. Thick fog enveloped the positions of the two of them, leaving only the invisible darkness and the ethereal lights in front of them.

But see that Shenxiu is not in a hurry, no matter what kind of things are waiting for them on the road ahead, the other party will come out after all. And no matter what happens at that moment - that moment will be the time when they tear each other apart.

All they have to do is look for it. Find the trace of the other party, and then——

Give the other party what they deserve.