Chapter 292: Abnormality
It was that familiar sensation again.
As soon as he entered the channel, Chen Chen was overco by a sense of weightlessness. At the sa ti, his eyes seed to lose their vision and his ears lost their hearing. In other words, Chen Chen lost all sense of his body, leaving nothing but an intangible consciousness, floating in the endless darkness...
Nonetheless, this feeling only lasted for a mont and the next second, Chen Chen’s eyes saw light again.
At this mont, he was already standing on a pile of rubble. Next to him, there were two other Black Knights and the small Bugatti Spaceship that had followed behind. The Black Knight who had co beforehand was standing quietly before him.
“Click, click, click...”
Chen Chen’s six scanners quickly popped out of his back and scanned the surroundings swiftly, but only detected a few wild cats and dogs in the ruins. Everything else was normal.
“Drone.”
After that, Chen Chen said softly.
At Chen Chen’s command, the four M-1 drones upon the Bugatti Spaceship took off in silence. As they took off, their shape quickly turned blurry. By the ti they had flown for dozens of ters, these four drones had completely blended into the air and vanished without a trace.
The drones were much faster than humans at searching. After a few minutes, the four drones had examined everything within one kiloter. This was all sensed by X-112, the clone of Little X, who duly reported each update.
“Sir Commander, no signs of human activities have been found within one kiloter. There’s only a large number of animals and plants...”
“Expand the range and find out what the conditions are like within ten kiloters,” Chen Chen ordered.
After the order was issued, the drones moved toward the unknown to explore further.
During the drone exploration, Chen Chen jumped off the ruins and walked toward a nearby apartnt that had not collapsed. Although this apartnt was already entangled in vines, it was made of conventional reinforced concrete instead of ordinary wooden boards. Therefore, the structure had not collapsed under the assault of wind and rain over many years.
The original glass doors of the apartnt had been damaged long ago. It was dark and empty inside, like a gaping abyss. As Chen Chen and the three Black Knights entered, a cloud of dust was stirred up by the breeze.
Chen Chen squatted and touched the ground. A thick layer of ash had accumulated. Based on the thickness of this blanket of ash, no one had entered this place for decades.
Even after seeing this, Chen Chen still did not take the situation lightly but walked in cautiously. After that, he let a Black Knight take the lead as they looked through each room in the apartnt.
This apartnt had five floors, each of which had ten rooms in a row, connected by a corridor. At both ends of the corridor were stairs leading up and down. This was the simplest layout for apartnt buildings.
All the doors in the apartnt were anti-theft doors made of alloy, which had remained intact for so long. However, most of the anti-theft doors on the first and second floors exhibited signs of damage. It seed that soone had forcibly broken in. Even so, those marks were very old as well.
After walking around these rooms, Chen Chen did not find anything special. There was nothing else but so rotten furniture. Chen Chen even found a wallet that had not been taken away in ti, with a large amount of cash still inside.
However, all food-related items had disappeared.
“In other words, the people who broke in later took only the food, but not the money.”
Chen Chen reflected out loud, “In that case, soone must’ve pried open these doors and broke into the apartnt after the governnt collapsed. These people had adapted to a world of anarchy. They were searching for food all over the place, yet they wouldn’t spare a glance for money.”
After silently imprinting this clue into his mind, Chen Chen moved past these opened doors and walked toward the highest floor of the apartnt.
Those who broke in must have had plenty of options, yet they only pried open the doors on the first and second floors. Starting from the third floor, only a few doors were pried open and most of them were intact.
There were even fewer doors that were pried open on the fourth floor and by the fifth floor, none of the doors had been pried open.
After noticing this, Chen Chen no longer hesitated. He beckoned and a Black Knight imdiately stepped forward and tugged violently at the first door that had rusted long ago. There was the sound of tal being twisted, then a loud bang. The door was forcibly opened by the Black Knight.
These Black Knights were like mini supern who were perfectly fused with the T-virus in the first place. After they put on the GS Combat Suits and the PK Armor, their power was augnted to a terrifying point. Twisting open a rusty iron door was a walk in the park.
When the door was opened, the sound of splitting tal ruptured the ancient silence of this apartnt. The sound rippled into the distance, echo after echo...
At this point, Chen Chen frowned because he suddenly realized that this apartnt seed a bit too quiet. It was unlike the ruins that he had just co from. There, after just a glance with his PK Armor’s infrared vision, he could detect many insects and a few wild animals.
However, in this apartnt, forget about wild animals, there was not even a single insect chirp.
“Sothing is wrong.”
Chen Chen took a step back abruptly and said, “Let’s withdraw!”
Without any hesitation, the Black Knight who had just opened the anti-theft door followed Chen Chen down the stairs.
Along the way, Chen Chen could not help but feel his nerves tensing up. He felt that even the air had solidified for so reason. There seed to be sothing in this apartnt, which was slowly awakening after the noise they made.
‘Is it just in my head? Or...’
Chen Chen felt cold sweat drenching his back. He had not seen anything but for so reason, he felt his hair standing on end. This chill crawling down his spine made him bite the bullet and quickly flee from the apartnt.
Only when they had gotten out of the area of the apartnt did Chen Chen slowly exhale. The heavy feeling had faded gradually after he left the apartnt.
He could not tell what kind of feeling it was. The air seed to be weighed down by sothing heavy. The atmosphere that was once light and relaxed beca as sluggish as a swamp, turning into a more suffocating pressure.
This was sothing that only Chen Chen could feel.
It was just that this feeling was rather indefinite.
Chen Chen could not help but glance down at the PK Armor he was wearing. It seed that this armor had blocked off his feeling, only...
“What kind of feeling was that?”
Chen Chen frowned. He could tell that this feeling did not arise from the five senses, so it must have been an instinctive ntal reaction to a part of reality. Strictly speaking, it should fall under the category of his sixth sense.
“In other words, I’ve sensed sothing that I’ve never noticed before and whatever it was caused a direct response in my mind, resulting in a sense of danger?”
This feeling was not groundless. Rather, it was more subconscious. For example, when Chen Chen scanned the area just now, he had observed many animals living in the ruins. Although the surroundings were deserted, they were full of life.
However, after entering the apartnt, although Chen Chen had overlooked the presence of those small animals out of habit, the difference in the surroundings still put his subconscious on guard. Thus, Chen Chen’s conscious mind would only feel that sothing was off, without being able to pinpoint what exactly.
It was only in the next mont that the subconscious mind realized what was wrong — the small animals around were gone. Only then did Chen Chen experience a shocking realization and he left the apartnt quickly.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen turned around again and looked at the apartnt behind him.
Even so, when he got a good look, his pupils shrank furiously!
At so point, all the doors in the apartnt had been opened...
It was as if the apartnt was waking up from a deep sleep. It had opened its dense rows of “eyes”, staring vacantly at Chen Chen who was standing before it...
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