After briefly communicating, the Red Driver showed the relevant evidence—a sports camera was embedded in the first button of his collar, clearly recording all scenes, Catherine was indeed following him the entire time.
"We saw that Catherine had a body temperature and a shadow; she was definitely alive."
Midnight Howl said in a low, horrified voice, "The recording mentioned that this place is affected by a temporal anomaly. Could it be that both Catherines are real, just in different timelines?"
No one could answer his question. Zhao Zijing lowered her face, her expression serious, "In The Tall Grass?"
"I think it’s more like ’Horror Cruise,’" Li Cheng said casually.
’Horror Cruise’ is a drama suspense film produced jointly by the UK and Australia in 2009. Its theme revolves around an endless death loop.
’In The Tall Grass’ is a thriller horror film from the United States released in 2019, adapted from a novel by the famous author Stephen King.
The original novel is a classic Stephen King-style cosmic horror, while the movie incorporates an infinite loop setting similar to that of ’Horror Cruise’.
The existence of two Catherines was too peculiar. Zhao Zijing lowered her face, her eyes wandering suspiciously, beginning to doubt whether there was another her in the grass.
Zhao Zijing was initially part of the Special Affairs Bureau, having undergone all the thorough training and ideological education of the bureau before being assigned to the Global Supernatural Alliance to handle paranormal incidents worldwide.
She was not lacking in experience, ability, will, or character.
She believed she would not fall into boring philosophical puzzles like "which of the two mes is real." If there truly were another her, she would come forward and cooperate with herself to find a way out of this grassy area.
Since no counterpart had appeared, it either meant no such counterpart existed, or the grass had some other mechanism...
Li Cheng, however, saw things more openly and smiled, "If it is indeed the setting of ’Horror Cruise’, that’s not without its benefits. At least we won’t run out of food."
"Kill oneself and eat one’s own body, right?"
The Red Driver couldn’t help but retort, "Aren’t you afraid of prion diseases?" Follow current ɴᴏᴠᴇʟs on ⓝovelFire.net
"What are you talking about? I’m a vegetarian."
Li Cheng scoffed and then stared at the Pocket Monster ’Stinker Flower’ next to the Red Driver’s feet with a strange glint in his eyes, muttering "Smells foul but tastes yummy..."
Startled by his gaze, the Stinker Flower quickly hid behind the Red Driver, shivering uncontrollably.
"Alright, stop fooling around."
Zhao Zijing could no longer stay serious after that disruption and said helplessly, "At least now we have some Intel.
One, staying here and waiting for 48 hours to pass to exit the killing field is infeasible. The Mercury Alloy Guild proved that.
The only way out is to complete the mission and place the battery in the designated location.
Two, Cliff from the Mercury Alloy Guild, a close-combat Transcendent, went mad and massacred his teammates. If he is still alive, he is likely in this grass. We need to act quickly."
In the Global Supernatural Alliance’s database, this Cliff has already been listed as MIA, Missing In Action,
and there isn’t much information about him other than that he possesses Level 20 body enhancement abilities.
Zhao Zijing had no desire to fight in this eerie tall grass. After confirming that it was impossible to store the bismuth yellow corpse and the metal monument in her Backpack,
she immediately called everyone to board the armored vehicle, bypassed the pit, and continued in the direction indicated by the radar map.
"The battery’s charge has dropped again..."
Midnight Howl anxiously patted the Task Battery, originally at 80% charge, now below 70%, uncertain if it would still be effective.
"By the way, Mr. Ant."
Catherine hesitated for a long time, raised her arm and timidly said, "Can you use those prophecy paintings again? Since ’I’ have already been cut in half once, perhaps the new paintings will have different content?"
[Suicide Notebook] The cooling time isn’t long; Li Cheng took out seven pieces of paper and tested them one by one again.
The final results are completely consistent with the previous times; the Red Driver vomits out his organs, Midnight Howl drowns in the water, and Catherine is still bisected at the waist (this girl is almost crying).
The only difference is Li Cheng, who stands together with Gray Rain, and both of their bodies are erased by a large chunk simultaneously.
Li Cheng rubbed his chin, thought hard, and still pulled out the Electronic Pet Egg, releasing Gray Rain.
The sudden appearance of the 800-plus kilograms Gray Rain made the rear carriage sink significantly.
Mendoza, the bandaged man, and other ordinary people quickly grabbed hold of the handrails to avoid being unseated.
At this moment, Gray Rain, dressed in a tank top, beach shorts, and slippers, is sitting cross-legged, happily scrolling through her phone, looking totally lazy and carefree.
"Right now, I’m fully equipped and radiating positivity..."
"Come back, battlefield thrill, my proudest belief..."
"Cai Xukun, Chen Linong, Fan Chengcheng, Huang Minghao, Lin Yanjun, Zhu Zhengting, nine percent."
Her phone emits inexplicable external TikTok sounds; it takes her a while to realize she isn’t inside the Pet Egg anymore and quickly looks up at Li Cheng, "Uh, are we still in China?"
"We’ve arrived at the killing field."
Li Cheng pulls Gray Rain to sit beside him and introduces her to the others: "Let me introduce my partner here, a heavyweight. She’s a hundred-battle veteran, interstellar pirate, a multiverse-level escape convict among other identities.
Don’t be fooled by her slothful looks; her real power is no less than mine."
This statement was fraught with irony; the Red Driver said nothing out of politeness but inwardly, he was intensely criticizing—
Heavyweight? Only her weight seems heavyweight enough, even shaking the vehicle. Truly, sisters united can break steel.
Considering Li Cheng’s bizarre words and actions, the Driver didn’t believe a word about the claimed veteran and escape convict; he just assumed it was more of his usual bragging.
"Sigh, keep it low-key, low-key."
Gray Rain waved her hand cheerily, quite enjoying the flattery.
Li Cheng had originally planned to call Gray Rain out only in extreme danger.
However, since the prophecy painting already showed Gray Rain, there was no need to worry too much.
After hesitating for a moment, Midnight Howl asked: "Isn’t there no network here? Why are you able to scroll through TikTok?"
"I downloaded them in advance."
Gray Rain responded as if it was obvious, "This phone has about 1Tb, I downloaded over 800Gb of short videos, enough for several months.
There used to be some ’root’ file that took up a lot of space in my phone, I thought I’d delete it to make room for more videos, but it caused my phone to crash several times. Not sure why."
...As long as you’re happy.
Including Midnight Howl, everyone had a constipated expression as they looked at Li Cheng and Gray Rain sitting together, only able to marvel at their fortune for having such incredible teammates.
The armored vehicle moved forward along the road; every so often, players in the back carriage took turns sitting at the lookout point, vigilant of the surrounding tall grass.
Unexpectedly, the armored vehicle wasn’t attacked at all. After a two-hour drive, Zhao Zijing’s exhilarated voice came from the front driver’s seat, "We’re here, disembark!"
Everyone followed one after another down from the vehicle, only to see an open area ahead as barren as the pit with the [Bismuth Yellow] corpse, without any grass.
On a nearly 300 meters wide open ground, a solitary Y-shaped metal pipeline was exposed.
The blue arrow on the radar map points to the left side of the Y-shaped pipeline.