Red wine down the hatch, feasting on hotpot, the five who had just experienced a brush with death now seemed rejuvenated, cheerfully raising their glasses.
"KIKI sister, has your superpower really evolved?"
Just as the wine glasses were set down, Sha Sha couldn’t wait to ask.
KIKI nodded, proudly boasting, "Thanks to someone’s blessing, I can clearly feel that my superpower has leveled up!"
"No wonder it was so impressive." Chen Sixuan’s eyes sparkled, "I haven’t even thanked you for saving me just now."
"Why thank me when Sister Chen, you’ve saved all of us countless times already?" KIKI said nonchalantly, her eyes slyly glancing towards Lin Xian, "Speaking of which Lin Xian, weren’t you going to share where you vanished off to these past two days?"
Lin Xian just chuckled, "Don’t you know where I went?"
At his words, KIKI blushed and hastily said, "I... I mean, how did you... end up there?"
The other few listened to their exchange with blank expressions.
Lin Xian took a deep breath, stood up, walked over to the couch, picked up the radio, and brought it over.
"If there’s no other explanation, then I must have been captured by this thing."
"1542, Mysterious Radio!"
Lin Xian then recounted to everyone what he had seen after the incident, but he only glossed over the part involving KIKI, mentioning that he saw the process of KIKI becoming Fallen and shared his analysis.
Lin Xian’s narrative drastically changed the expressions of the others.
"So that was really your footsteps after all!" Sha Sha seemed like she was listening to a horrifying story, frowning, "So Brother Lin, did you kill me over there?"
Lin Xian laughed sheepishly, "That was purely a misunderstanding; that thing was trying to destroy my mental defenses."
At first, Lin Xian thought it was a supernatural event, but looking back, it appeared that not only the night, but many unknown forces were also assaulting the mental will of survivors.
Sha Sha’s eyes lit up, "So Brother Lin does care about me, seeing me being killed nearly drove you insane, hehe."
Lin Xian was momentarily stunned; was this really where the young girl’s focus was?
Chen Sixuan, standing to the side, looked a bit frightened,
"So I turned off that radio, and it happened to remind you?"
Lin Xian nodded, "Right, thanks to your prompt, and for adjusting the frequency using the light, otherwise I would never have made it back."
"Smart, Lin Xian!" KIKI listened with amazement, "Are you saying, after I passed out, there was an invisible monster sucking my blood?"
"Ugh..." KIKI recoiled clutching her neck, her face turning pale, "How disgusting..."
Lin Xian’s expression grew grave; he looked toward Building, "Building, do you remember what I said when we escaped Yuchi that day?"
"At that time, I was wondering why, whether it was sound or light, it would only attract Zombies and Ghouls. When the Abnormalities were alarmed, they seemed to be already around us."
"And this time, being captured by the Mysterious Radio made me feel that some things might have always been around us, just out of view. Some appear only in the night; others need special methods to be seen..."
His words caused the women’s complexions to shift slightly, and Sha Sha couldn’t help but shiver, looking around fearfully,
"My God, are you saying that those terrifying things could have always been right beside us?!"
Lin Xian said solemnly.
Upon hearing this, everyone’s countenance changed.
The speculative analysis on Abnormal Bodies stemmed from Lin Xian’s conjecture; although not absolutely certain, it served as a caution for everyone.
It also made him more cautious, and through this event, Lin Xian recognized the importance of another device.
The Soul Swinging Value Detector!
This device can detect special values produced by threats such as Abnormal Bodies, Zombies, etc. In a certain sense, it is definitely a world-saving discovery. As can be seen from Lin Xian’s countless narrow escapes from death along the way, it’s very important for humanity to actively avoid danger to preserve the fire of survival. Otherwise, ten thousand lives wouldn’t be enough to die.
"I think I might know what this 1542 radio station is all about!"
At the dining table, KIKI squinted her eyes towards Lin Xian, "Mysterious phenomena, but unrelated to Superpower Users. Lin Xian, have you looked at the early information on the Angel Plan I gave you?"
Lin Xian took out the small portable hard drive, frowning.
"I haven’t, I’ve barely slept these days, no time to look at this..."
KIKI then snapped her fingers, picked up the hard drive, and ran to Carriage 2. After operating on the computer, she returned with a mobile screen.
"I think, it should be this thing."
"We focused on Superpower before, but ignored these strange and unusual events. Take a look."
The mobile screen was showing information from an earlier Angel Plan project.
Lin Xian took it and saw that the file was titled "Global Investigation Report on Mysterious/Extraordinary Phenomena"
This report came from a special department under the bygone Federation Government’s Angel Plan called the Special Item Investigation Department, which, in its investigation reports, recorded many mysterious phenomena gathered in the early polar nights, and these phenomena all had one thing in common:
That is, each of the mysterious phenomena was triggered by a certain specific item, and these items belonged to some existing objects on Blue Star, which began to trigger mysterious events after Apocalypse Day and were considered to have been tainted by some special force, turning them into extraordinary objects.
These objects were called "Taboo Item" by the Angel Plan, which meant "specific items that can cause regional or contagious mysterious/extraordinary events"
And in this early investigation report, more than a dozen bizarre mysteries/extraordinary phenomena were collected, but only two were confirmed and contained by the Angel Plan.
Taboo Item SIID-01: Big Ben
Location Found: Lisbon City, Big Ben Tower
Physical Features: The original Big Ben in Lisbon weighs 13.5 tons, the clock face is 6.7 meters in diameter, and the hour and minute hands are 4.27 and 8.75 meters long, respectively. The pendulum weighs 305 kilograms.
Investigation progress:
July 9th, first investigation, 3 experimenters died, investigation report communication lost
July 10th, second investigation, 2 experimenters died, investigation report communication range confirmed to be 300 meters.
July 11th, third investigation, 3 experimenters died, investigation report experimental animals aged rapidly, communication range increased, causing the death of peripheral personnel.
July 12th, fourth investigation, 4 experimenters died, ...
Assessment of Characteristics: This Taboo Item has the characteristic of aging life forms within a range; the speed of the life form’s movement will accelerate this characteristic, and it will slow down in the darkness...
Containment Conditions: Arrange several experimenters without hereditary diseases to hold hands and enter in the dark, do not run, and grab the hour hand before all containment personnel die of aging.
Containment Department: Angel Plan Federation Lisbon City branch.
Taboo Item SIID-02: Mo-857404 Taxi
Location Found: Dragon Country, Mo City
Physical Features: A standard yellow-painted 4-seater taxi produced in 2057, with a highly decomposed male corpse in the driver’s seat
Investigation progress:
July 25th, first investigation, 1 experimenter disappeared, investigation report confirmed to be within the urban area, after 02:12 at night, waving on the roadside will lead to mysterious disappearances, bystanders unable to observe.
July 26th, second investigation, 1 experimenter disappeared, investigation report experiments conducted simultaneously in four locations in the city, personnel at Point C (northwest) disappeared, confirmed that the Taboo Item would only appear at one location.
July 27th, third investigation, 9 experimenters disappeared, investigation report survivor critically injured, survivor’s report...
Assessment of Characteristics: This Taboo Item possesses the characteristic of being able to move over large distances; the farther the requested destination, the greater the cost required. The sole survivor reported that a distance of 13 kilometers cost half a kidney.
Containment Conditions: Require a close destination, survival after paying the price.
Containment Department: Angel Plan Federation Mo City branch
KIKI opened a bottle of Coke and took a sip, then said to Lin Xian,
"Although there are not many investigation reports, now that you mention it, I feel that radio station is very likely one of these kinds of things."