C9 Red Eye Disease(9)

Alphonse Elric.

He could actually hear the name of the third person who had been missing all this while.

Aoba and I looked at each other.

"You guys know him?" The office worker keenly noticed the change in our expressions.

"No, we don't know him." I said.

"Is that so?" The office worker didn't continue asking.

Fifteen minutes later, a faint white fog appeared in front of the two cars.

"Is it fog?" Aoba looked outside.

Ten minutes later, the fog on the highway was getting thicker and thicker. It had started to hinder the normal driving. Yukio, who was sitting in the driver's seat, and the office worker beside her turned on their headlights and slowed down a little.

"I have a bad feeling..." Aoba said in a low voice.

My intuition also sensed that the white fog that suddenly appeared was unusual. This did not seem to be a natural fog, but it did not have a dangerous aura.

At this moment, Aoba and I's mobile phones started to vibrate.

Aoba took out her purple mobile phone from her shirt.

Because I was sitting close to her, I could clearly see the screen of her phone. Her phone received a new message. This was undoubtedly sent by Black Hand. The only thing that can send text messages for our phones is Black Hand, and we can only call each other. But we can't send text messages. This is the fact that Aoba and I confirmed with each other yesterday.

In addition, the text messages sent by the Black Hand will neither show the phone number nor the name of the sender. This aspect is blank.

Aoba opened the message.

"Destroy three of the five strongholds on the map."

This was the only line of text in the text message. There was also a cursory map attached to it.

Aoba clicked on the cursory map and the picture immediately enlarged. It was the map of Beaver City. The northwest, northeast, southeast, southwest and south of the map were all marked with a red cross and combined with the text message. It was estimated that they wanted us to choose three of the five locations and destroy the so-called stronghold mentioned by the Black Hand.

What does this stronghold mean? If we only understand it from words, the stronghold is the same as the base of human activity. Do you mean to let us destroy it? Do you mean to make us enemies with the people inside?

Who would be in these five strongholds? Patients?

Based on the current situation, this was very likely.

Although he didn't know what the Black Hand was trying to do by sending us to this world, if it was as Aoba said, If all of this was a game, then the Red Eye was like the core setting of the game. This Beaver City was the main stage of the game. We are human players, and the sick are the enemies that hinder the survival of players. There is an irreconcilable conflict between the two sides. I don't think that these five strongholds are filled with innocent ordinary people, and that they are all patients.

However, the message that the Black Hand sent to us has always been very short, to the point that there are too many uncertainties.

"What should we do?"

In order to not let Yukio hear, Aoba used a very low voice to ask me.

To be honest, I am also uncertain.

If the previous ideas are all valid, then the instructions given by the Black Hand are the main storyline missions of the game. What will happen if we don't complete the main storyline missions in the game? Obviously, it would be blocked. However, this was reality, and couldn't be completely considered from the perspective of the game. If I were the mastermind behind the game, watching the players not carry out the main storyline mission, As for what it is... It's hard to say. It's hard to expect what we want to see to happen.

However, is it because of this, because of my lack of clues, evidence, and wishful thinking, I have to return to Beaver City and follow the instructions of the Black Hand to destroy those inexplicable strongholds?

If I can prove that my idea is true, I will immediately return to Beaver City without saying anything. But now, even I feel that this idea is very immature, and I am even ashamed to say it out loud.

Think about it in a better way. As long as we leave the Beaver City, we will be safe. Right now, we are also on the way, and our safety is very close. We are at a place where we can reach out our hands. Could it be because of one of the orders of the Black Hand? We have to go back? At least for now, I can't find a reason why I have to go back. Emotionally speaking, I'm not willing to go back so honestly.

Furthermore, unlike me and Aoba, Yukio has a reason to leave Beaver City. If we suddenly tell her that we want to go back, she will definitely not listen.

While thinking silently, I also took out my phone and confirmed the contents of the message. It was indeed the same as the message Aoba received.

Leave, or return?

In a dilemma, I took out a coin from my pocket.

Leave it to luck.

I tossed the coin and watched it spin rapidly in the air. Then, I caught it.

"Directly, everything is the same." I lowered my voice, "The back, go back"

Aoba heard my voice and looked nervously at my right hand that was holding the coin.

I opened my palm.

The coin was on the front.

Aoba heaved a sigh of relief.

Yukio noticed the unusual activity on our side and asked, "What is it?"

"Nothing much." I said.

Another 20 minutes passed. The density of the fog was getting more and more excessive, and the visibility was so low that it made people suspect that there would be a car accident at any time.

Yukio could not help but slow down the speed of the car. The speed displayed on the meter also dropped to below 50 kilometers per hour.

"I have never heard of such a big fog here before." Her expression was slightly irritated.

Meeting such a strange thing on the way back was indeed not a good sign.

The red car that had been running beside us earlier has already run to the front. Through the fog, we can vaguely see its tail lamp.

Suddenly, we discovered that the red sports car in front of us has stopped for some reason.

Yukio frowned and also stepped on the brakes, stopping right behind the red sports car.

"What happened to them?" Aoba asked doubtfully, "Why did they suddenly stop?"

Could it be that some of them had become patients? Such an inauspicious thought surfaced in my heart.

Bang! Bang!

A light knocking sound came from Yukio's window.

We all looked over and found that the person who knocked on the window was the office worker who drove the red car. His face was very ugly, mixed with fear, confusion, disbelief and other emotions.

Yukio lowered the window.

"What happened?" She asked.

"It's a long story." The office worker's voice was trembling, "I don't know how to describe what we saw. Even if I told you, you wouldn't believe me..."

He swallowed his saliva.

"So, come down personally and take a look. You'll know after looking at it."

With that, he turned around and walked forward.

We looked at each other in dismay.

"I'll go down first." I opened the door on my side.

"I'll go down too." Yukio also opened the door.

"You stay here. I will go out and take a look at the situation." I turned my head and said to Yukio.

Yukio took out her pistol and shook it at me. She said, "I won't be in danger."

"We can't leave Qing Ye alone in the car." I looked at Aoba.

"That... I'm fine." Aoba weakly raised her hand.

In the end, they got off the car together.

We walked forward and saw the office worker standing in front of us.

Next to the office worker was his wife and daughter. The two of them stood there motionlessly. Seeing us walk over, the office worker made a slow gesture.

"Slow down, don't walk too fast. Be careful of falling down."

Falling down? What did that mean?

My doubts were quickly solved.

The road in front of us disappeared and was replaced by a bottomless cliff. We were like victims walking to the edge of the island. However, what we saw was not the sea, but the endless natural chasm.

Yukio walked to the edge of the cliff.

Slap.

A small piece of rock broke from the edge and fell into the abyss. After a long time, she could not hear the sound of it falling.

"What is this..." the wife of the office worker muttered to herself.

I also want to know, what exactly is this? Why did the road disappear and become a cliff that can't be crossed?

Yukio looked at the bottom of the cliff in a daze and did not make a sound for a long time. Then, she hugged her head and suddenly let out a heart-wrenching howl. Her voice was filled with obvious sobbing and incomparable despair.

To her, bringing Mr. Three Cycles out of Beaver City was the only way. It was also her last hope, but at this moment... Her hope was trampled by the heaven's evil intention, and it was torn into pieces. I don't know how much despair she is feeling, but her cries have infected me. It makes me feel sympathy from the bottom of my heart, and it makes me feel deep sorrow for her.

Finally, Yukio stopped crying. She weakly knelt on the ground, as if she had lost everything. She sobbed helplessly.

Aoba looked at her back and revealed a very remorseful expression.

"Am I... Shouldn't I have said those words to her?" She asked me.

Aoba was the one who suggested that as long as she left Beaver City, the patient would be able to recover. From this point of view, Qing Ye had ignited the hope of Yukio to save her family and indirectly caused Yukio to feel despair at this moment.

"This is not your fault." I can only say that.

No one would have expected such a thing to happen.

Only the seven or eight year old office worker daughter ran to Yukio's side, hugged her, and comforted her in a soft voice.

"What happened to her?" The office worker walked over and asked.

I hesitated for a moment and briefly told him about Yukio.

"Her father became a patient. Did you put him in the car?" The office worker was shocked. He looked at Yukio and sighed deeply. "It's really... too unlucky."

Yes, it was too unlucky.

Whether it was the Mr. Three Cycles turning into a patient or the current situation, it was as if fate was tormenting the family of Three Cycles.

Since leaving Beaver City has become empty talk, then we can only consider carrying out the message command of the Black Hand.

After a long time, Yukio finally stood up and returned to our side.

"Let's... go back." Her expression and voice were filled with tiredness that could not be removed.

"Go back where?" I asked.

"My home." Yukio said dejectedly, "There are many empty rooms at home. Are you still willing to stay there?"

"Of course!" Aoba immediately expressed her stance.

Yukio gave Aoba a very forced smile.

We and the office family returned to our respective cars. The two cars adjusted their direction and the front of the car faced the way back.

"What do you plan to do next?" I asked the red car on the other side.

"What else can we do?" The office worker was also very disappointed with this experience. "After returning to the city, we plan to collect food and lock ourselves up at home... Who knows when we will get infected with the Red Eye and become patients..."

If they stayed in Beaver City, anyone would become a time bomb. It was not surprising when they would become patients. It was no different from waiting for death quietly.

Even I, the Superpowered, am no exception.

The car started up and we left the cliff.

...

Half an hour later, we and the office family left the foggy area.

Along the way, no one spoke, the atmosphere was very silent.

"Eh?"

Suddenly, Aoba made a sound.

"There is someone in front." She said.

It was not strange that there were people on the highway. We would occasionally see patients wandering on the road. If we could not avoid them, we would just knock them away. However, the situation now was different. This time, the person blocking our way was not an ordinary patient.

About 200 meters ahead of us, a person wearing black clothes is standing motionlessly like a tree. He is looking at us.

150 meters... 100 meters... 50 meters...

He did not move at all, he only looked at us silently.

"Is he a normal person?" Aoba was not sure.

That person clearly noticed us approaching, but he did not do anything. If it was a patient, he would not be so obedient.

Yukio did not have the intention of slowing down the car. She just slightly adjusted the direction of the car to ensure that it would not hit him.

Suddenly, he raised his hand and pointed his palm towards us.

In the next moment, an orange fireball appeared in front of his palm out of thin air, and quickly became a meter in diameter.

This unexpected scene attracted my attention. What's going on? Is he a Superpowered? Looking at his attitude, he seems to be planning to attack us. My intuition is also warning me that he has a strong hostility towards us.

But why?

There isn't much left to think about.

"Yukio, be careful!" I shouted.

"I understand." Yukio gripped the steering wheel tightly.

When the distance between the two parties was only 30 meters, a huge fireball shot out from the man's palm. Its speed was as fast as a football that was forcefully shot by a football player. We are getting closer to him, and the fireball is attacking us. The sports relationship between the two sides makes the distance between them shorten even faster.

In the blink of an eye, the fireball hit the red car that the office worker is driving next to us.

Bang!!!

A violent explosion suddenly sounded, and the flames lit up the surroundings. The red car was completely destroyed, and the flying debris broke the window on our side.

Chi - -

Yukio stepped on the brakes and the car that we were in swung its tail. I hugged Aoba tightly so that she wouldn't fall out of her seat due to inertia.

The car finally stopped.

I let go of Aoba and immediately got out of the car. I looked at the wreckage of the red car.

The wreckage was burning. The shell of the car had become tattered and charred. A charred arm was exposed and it did not move at all.

A family. All three of them had died inside, and no one had survived.

I turned to look at the culprit.

That person raised his palm again and aimed at me. Another scorching fireball condensed.