Chapter 50: Chapter 50 - Squatting
Before noon, Wild Lake was cordoned off and closed. After noon, even the road up the mountain was closed.
No way, this gang of anchors is the more they do not allow what to do, the more they come. Only closed the mountain wild lake, they dared to stick to the cordon in that a shot, the police, "collectors" are all shot into the scene. Although immediately stopped, but several of them are live mode, some of the scene has been leaked out. They also talked loudly and even took the opportunity to ask the staff questions, which was very annoying. So after all these people were cleared and brought down the mountain, the mountain was completely closed.
Then the gang started interviewing people all over town.
Not only looking for townspeople, but also tourists, and would ask other tourists for the video they had taken. But the tourists had been warned by the police not to give the video to unofficial people, so the anchors basically didn't ask for much HD video. In addition, the town was originally by this unexpected incident made some people panic, now these anchors are still watching watching the matter is not afraid of the earth everywhere arching fire, the town also do not love to take care of them.
There are also anchors that have moved to the hospital, wanting to squat on the injured anchor's interview. Considering that the injured anchor is already sure to have crippled hands, this time still want to disturb him, squatting people are also lack of great virtue.
Musk, one of the anchors, had a different course of action than the others.
He was looking for Middendorffi, Eli and Henry.
Originally, these three had checked out of their room in the morning and Musk thought they were gone. But then Musk was surprised to see Henry walking with the people working in the cordon, looking very familiar.Musk then realised that Henry and the others must have been sent by the officials to investigate the case, and they must know the inside story!
However, the three of them had checked out of the hotel in the morning and had gone nowhere.Musk figured that even if they had gone up to the mountains, they had to go back to town to eat and sleep, didn't they? Musk thought that even if they went up to the mountains, they would have to go back to the town to eat and sleep, and the only thing they did was to change the restaurant, and the town is so big that they should be able to find their new place.
In the end, Musk wandered from day to night without seeing Eli again.
Because Eli and Middendorffi went up to the mountain to live in a tent.
Camping, to put it nicely, and camping in the field, to put it badly. The good thing is that these two actually do not eat and drink like ordinary humans, and have spent a lot of time together in the wilderness, and now at least there are tents, even if it's not bad.
That said, this is the first time Eli and Middendorffi have been in the same tent. It was brought by the rest of the "collectors", and it was small enough to fit two sleeping bags. There was a light hanging from the roof, and it was warm and cosy.
Next to the other two tents, all "collectors". Originally, Henry said that no one else need to come for a while, but this trip and the lack of navigation, and corrosive white fog, Middendorffi also said that the bottom of the lake will suddenly appear strange energy, "Collector" still sent people to support. There were also some instruments that Middendorffi and Eli couldn't understand, but they were definitely high tech.
"These, ah, can even measure ghosts." Wong who was arranging the equipment by the lake explained, "It's said to be related to the magnetic field, and it also carries some kind of phased array radar ... details that we can't figure out, anyway, it's improved from the military equipment."
Middendorffi said, "I've seen in foreign films and TV dramas with equipment to detect ghosts, but I've never seen 'collectors' with."
"Because most of the objects are in motion, and the heat and radiation will change once they are brought on the body." Wong returned, "Used abroad, and mostly used to probe fixed locations like houses. To be honest, most of them don't work for shit, that's all film and TV drama bluffing."
Middendorffi thought for a moment, "So, those crucifixes, chanting, Taoist monks and such, can they really exorcise demons?"
"That I can't promise you." Wong replied, "But think about it this way, Bear... In our land, if an ordinary person encounters a ghost and recites God's blessing, does that help?"
Middendorffi understood, "It doesn't work."
"Haha, I can't say it's 100% useless, but it's 99.9% useless. But stuff and spells don't work, and ghosts can be fake, so doesn't a negative seem to work?" Wong set up the machine and twisted his head to look at Middendorffi, "By the way, everyone's saying you might be targeted by that Redmoon gang, are you going to have a special security system installed at your house? Not only is it usually burglar-proof, but it can also distinguish abnormal situations. That way even if you're not at home, or if you guys aren't paying attention, you'll be able to monitor it."
"No." Middendorffi said, "I don't like it."
Joking aside, could Middendorffi and Eli use that kind of monitoring in that home of theirs? Wouldn't that be dripping every day?
"Okay then." Wong didn't force the issue, "Come on, let's get things loaded up and let's focus on a little meeting. You also hurry to eat the fried chicken brought to you, you see Eli always staring at you with your fried chicken, do you take him as a waiter?"
Middendorffi did not refute him, and returned to Eli, who, although not close, had a good ear, and asked as soon as Middendorffi returned, "Do you want to eat?"
Middendorffi flicks a piece, "What's the texture of this?"
"When it's hot, it's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the meat is savoury." Eli described it to him, "Now that it's cold, it's not as crispy on the outside."
Middendorffi nodded as he ate, signalling that he remembered.
Henry, who was passing by, took one look and lectured, "Middendorffi, you don't wash your hands before grabbing something with them to eat.Eli, he doesn't remember and you don't care?"
Middendorffi and Eli: ...
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The little meeting of the "collectors" was actually analysing the white thing.
They've got the live video of the Broken Hand anchor at the time. The recording has been taken down, and the rest of the footage is being deleted from the internet, just in case gory videos are not allowed to be distributed online.
And the "collector" hand this, and even did the video processing, than at that time the live screen are clear.
"This, it really looks like a humanoid?"
A colleague specialising in analysis looked at the video, pressed pause, and gestured: "Look, the limbs here have basically been separated out. Here's also the head, and doesn't the bump on it kinda look like the distribution of the five senses? It's just that everything isn't that clear yet."
Henry took his own phone and pulled up the previous video to compare, "Isn't it more humanoid than before?"
"Or maybe it's more obvious because it's closer this time?" Wong said, "The man's ship is almost plastered, disliking it so close, that's why you can see the dents and bumps in a sea of white. From a distance, who could see it."
"Speaking of which, the boat is sticking so close, but I checked that boat of his and nothing happened at all." Henry pointed to the small boat that was being towed onto the shore not far away, "This anchor himself had so many of his hands cut off, yet there are no signs of abnormality on the hull of the boat. This 'White Mist Man', is he not attacking non-living things?"
Middendorffi said, "It is energy."
The crowd looked at him, "What?"
"It doesn't attack things that don't have energy, and things that are low in energy, it doesn't actively attack. It doesn't attack to hurt, it attacks to devour and thus gain energy." Middendorffi said those two sentences before pausing for a moment before saying, "... I'm guessing."
"Drink, you said it so surely earlier, I thought you had confirmed it." Wong was a happy man, "But you have a point, since it was attracted by the energy at the bottom of the lake, that proves its 'tendency'. But, how is that going to destroy it? Also, where exactly does the energy at the bottom of the lake come from? A groundwater source?"
Middendorffi and Eli had previously agreed not to reveal the source of the energy at the bottom of the lake just yet. So they kept their mouths shut about the source, and only Eli answered the question of destroying the "White Mist People": "I can crush it completely. But there's no guarantee that the same thing won't gather again in the future."
My colleague also said, "If it can really evolve into a human form, then if we don't monitor this place all the time in the future, will it completely assume human form and blend into the society, thus causing more harm?"
Wong said, "Another 'pseudo-human'-like thing? I've blown up three or four pseudo-humans recently, don't bother me with this stuff."
"This thing may not even be manageable with a Vaporiser, and who knows if the bullets will go straight through the white mist, or if they'll be corroded by it?" Henry said, "I'd suggest taking a water sample and going back to check for any special ingredients. Anyway, looking at it now, the radiation levels aren't high, so at least we don't have to worry about radiation hazards, right?"
"Well, I'll go collect it later." The colleague said, "By the way, if you guys want to go back to the town to take a shower, eat, or whatever, it's best to take care of it all at once, and come back before dark. We're not entirely familiar with this mountain yet, so don't get yourselves lost in the mountains now and need rescuing before we settle things."
Wong said, "That's okay, we still have our thermal imaging drone with us, so we won't have much trouble finding people or wild boars in the mountains."
"I won't have to go down there. The fried chicken, dry food and water you guys brought with you today will be perfectly adequate." Henry paused and then looked to Middendorffi and Eli, "What about you guys?"
Middendorffi stated, "Just on the hill, no need to go down."
"You guys are pretty tolerant, that's fine, no one is going down there today." Henry said, "That thing might come out one day, so if it doesn't come out we'll be prepared for a protracted battle. If there's anything we need to go down, we'll wait until daytime and then go down to the town to solve it."
The crowd said they understood.
Then this night Middendorffi lay side by side with Eli in a tent.
Neither of them went into their sleeping bags, tried, but felt a bit constrained, so they just lay there. middendorffi even held up her mobile phone for fun, shining her face in the pitch-black tent, not afraid of Eli next to her looking.
As a result, the two saw a clip of Musk live together.
He got in front of the camera and said mysteriously, "Guys, that long-haired handsome guy that I risked my life to film for you last time, he's supposed to be one of those special departments! He went into the cordon, I saw it with my own eyes! He must have come to investigate that white thing that hurt someone, no wonder he's a long black handsome guy, probably some kind of Taoist heir with long hair ..."
Eli looked speechless.
Middendorffi, on the other hand, inclines her head to look at him, "'Heir to a Taoist family', 'handsome man with long black hair'?"
Eli: "..."
Middendorffi: "This is when I'm supposed to laugh, isn't it?"
Eli raises his hand straight up and yanks his face : "No laughing."
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