"It's 5:00 pm now, with an orange rain warning, please pay attention to travel safety."

In the dim porch, the mobile phone with the screen lit up faithfully reported the real-time weather conditions. The middle-aged man in a brown jacket and a dark face bent down and put a waterproof plastic bag on his leather shoes, and a black umbrella was placed beside him.

"Severs, your resident certificate is still on the table, how can you even forget this?"

The woman ran out of the kitchen with her resident's ID and reminded her.

Siphus turned around and looked at his wife, stunned for two seconds as if he was unresponsive before speaking: "Sorry, I don't know... I forgot."

"Hey, you got home two days ago and was it because you saw those ghosts?"

Looking at her husband's dark circles and a listless mental state, her wife helped him tidy up her shirt with a little distress, stuffed the resident's ID into his pocket, and said softly,

"You will get better after injection of the drug later. Yesterday, Mr. Newcast from the epidemic prevention institute said on the news that their drug can improve a person's mental state."

"I know, don't worry."

He hugged his wife, picked up an umbrella and pushed open the door.

Huh ~

The oncoming wind and rain made Siphus, who had just opened the umbrella, stand a little unsteadily. He hurriedly leaned the umbrella forward, wrapped his empty left hand tightly with his jacket, and the cold wind was still persistent.

The sky was gloomy and at least Seavers, who lives in the No. 17 community, had never encountered such weather.

The street lights on the street turned on early, and the light passed through the heavy rain curtains, illuminating only a small area. The shops on both sides were closed. Today is a special day and no one opened a store.

Siphus frowned and looked at the dark street not far away. He could not see the road ahead, so suddenly he felt an urgent feeling that he was not as good as going back.

However, he only took leave today. Because the storm was too heavy in the first half of the day, it was finally a little bit smaller now, so he had to bite the bullet and trot along one side of the street, with the target of a nearby bus stop.

Fortunately, the distance is not far. In 5 minutes, Siphus could see the virtual light sign marked with the bus stop. However, compared to the deserted past, today there was a lot of people.

There is no doubt that these people are rushing to the government's medical center. Even airboats are not easy to use in this weather, and buses have become popular travel tools.

Siphus rushed over. Since this was just a small bus stop on the street, there were not many people inside, so he could only wait outside with an umbrella. Looking at the bus arrival time displayed on the light sign, Siphus's eyes unconsciously fell on the people who were hiding from the rain under the roof of the platform shed.

The jade amulets hanging on the chest, the cross necklaces, the strings of Buddhist beads wrapped around the hands, and some other patterns with religious meanings were tattooed on their shoulders.

As ghosts appear more and more frequently in the lower city, this type of thing is especially popular. Siphus has read some religious classics and even learned from some ancient legends that ghosts should be under the jurisdiction of the underworld Yama. That is what the book "Religious Culture Guide" says.

Recalling the content on the page, Siphus's sight was more attracted by the fluorescent evil ghost tattoos on the chests of several young people.

This probably means to suppress evil with evil, but the hideous pattern really made him uncomfortable. He couldn't help but recall the group he saw when he was drinking with his friend two days ago... He could not recall too much and forced himself to turn his attention away from those fluorescent tattoos.

As attention returned to himself, Siphus soon discovered that there were many people around him looking at him, to be precise, looking at the position of his back, like something was there.

What's wrong?

The moment this thought arose in his mind, the wetness and coldness on his spine suddenly came to his mind. Siphus was stunned at first, and then raised his hand to touch it.

From the trouser legs to the neck, I don’t know when it was shaved through the rain, and he was wearing beige trousers when he went out, so it was no wonder that others looked at him.

The problem is that he always holds an umbrella on the way he comes and leans forward deliberately in order to cover the wind and rain as much as possible. Logically speaking, even if he doesn't cover it, he should be soaked in the wind and rain in front of him, and it's not the turn behind him...

Drop ~

Siphus had not yet thought about the reason, but the bus entered the station at this time, hurriedly squeezed into the bus and grabbed a seat to sit down.

Perhaps they finally found a place to breathe a sigh of relief. The passengers chatted in groups of three or three, talking about the various strange things that happened in the lower city area recently, and people burst into screams from time to time.

At this time, Siphus had no intention of participating. His eyes were staring at the sliding raindrops on the car window, which was clearly the opposite direction he was when he came!

Two lights suddenly lit up on the street outside the window, which also reflected on the car window, causing many passengers to turn their attention. Then someone said that it was the truck of Wu's aircraft. Somehow it was still operating in this weather, while Siphus was stunned in his seat, looking at the passengers around him in panic, wanting to see the expression he wanted from their faces.

Because what Seaphus saw was different from other people...

In his eyes, the truck was surrounded by a pitch black mist, and from time to time, several twisted tentacles extended outward. It was simply a truck full of the most terrifying thing in the world!

What's going on?

Panic occupied Siphus's entire brain. He wanted to tell the news about it, but was worried that they would report it as a lunatic. It would not be a good thing to be locked in a mental hospital at this time, let alone he had to get the medicine...

Yes, this must be because I saw those monsters myself before, it was just some hallucinations that arise after being mentally confused.

As long as you can get the potion, you should be able to recover.

Aren't you on the way to get the medicine?

A cigarette was trembling and lit, and the tobacco was curled up and burning, and the slight dizziness when spitting out the smoke barely relieved Siphus's condition.

The road ahead was very smooth, and he didn't see anything he shouldn't see anymore. When the bus arrived at the station, he followed the others to the medical point. This time he learned to lean his umbrella backwards, and the wind and rain did come from that direction.

Everything seemed to be back to normal.

Until we turned a corner, several power armor about two meters high rushed through the rain curtain and rushed past the street. Behind were the brigade of fully armed guard soldiers, and reconnaissance machine balls were suspended in the air, constantly releasing high-power lights while illuminating most areas of the street.

Siphus immediately became nervous. It was obviously not an ordinary incident that could make the security department treat it like this.

But he didn't hear the gunshots, and the soldiers were just patrolling nearby, unlike the battle that was about to break out.

Then, the lights of the medical point and hospital were very bright. Under the heavy rain and gloomy sky, it was like a lighthouse on the dark sea, making people feel much more relaxed and trotted with the large army.

Unsurprisingly, a large number of people were crowded at the entrance of the medical point. Fortunately, the Qianfancheng government had already responded, not only using physical iron railings to separate the crowd, but also specially allocated a large number of bionic people and security personnel to cooperate.

However, what is really eye-catching is the army of bionics that remained unmoved in the heavy rain. Siphus had seen them on the news. Three days ago, the Qianfancheng government restarted the sealed bionics troops on the grounds of people's safety. At the same time, it also placed a large order to the three major machinery groups, requiring another batch to be manufactured in a short period of time.

Order is deliberately emphasized here.

Siphus stood among the crowd holding an umbrella, not far ahead was the greenhouse built by the government, listening to the complaints of others beside him.

The weather is very poor, the medicine is too expensive, and the rich have door-to-door delivery services, and the government doesn't care about the poor at all... topics like this are very popular among the crowds who have to queue up in the rain.

I heard that some people have started selling limited-rate medicines online, and the price is even more high. They said they didn't use it for their family to exchange for money, but the shipment volume is quite large. Those who don't know it thought that his family had hundreds of relatives.

Obviously, some people got some medicine through internal channels, and even sold it ten times or even twenty times, while there were still a lot of people rushing to buy it in several satellite cities near Qianfan City.

If it were normal, Siphus said he would not have to go and talk to them a lot, and he would not be criticizing reality, but he would definitely have to pull a few people out and scold them.

However, today, all he thought about was to go in and inject the medicine immediately, and then take his family back together.

The crowd was not moving fast. After all, it was rainy weather and the visibility was low. Even if there were people who maintained order, scratches and frictions were inevitable. Siphus lowered the handle of the umbrella and shrank under the bones of the umbrella. The wet and cold touch behind him had already made Siphus very uncomfortable. He could only use this method to avoid being wet by more rain.

Just as Siphus shrank and moved forward, a trance was inexplicably felt, and the buzz kept hovering in his mind, which made him turn back and forth with some difficulty, smoking a cigarette in big mouthfuls, watching the rain outside flood the smoke he vomited, and nausea and irritability kept pouring into his heart.

"What's going on...Damn, why..."

After whispering a few words, Siphus always felt something was wrong, and looked around unconsciously, trying to find the source of uneasiness.

So he saw a man under the street light not far away.

His dress was not special, and it could even be said to be so ordinary that it could be seen everywhere, but Siphus's vision was frozen on him, to be precise, his side.

There was clearly only one person under the street lights, but Siphus saw dozens of phantoms in the shadows!

What is that?

"Hey! The one in front, hurry up. If you want to get wet in the rain, hurry up and go to the side. We don't have time to wait with you!"

The people behind the team saw that Siphus had not moved their steps for a long time and shouted. The latter had to turn around and continue to follow, and no longer think about it.

After entering the medical point, the rest will be simple. Modern medical technology ensures that the whole process is very smooth.

What Seaphus had to do was take out his resident certificate, after scanning, he followed the crowd, walked past a machine one by one, put his arms in it, and saw the indicator light turn green and then left. Then he showed the resident ID of other family members to receive the medicine, and went back to inject it by yourself.

A family only allows one person to come and collect it. This is a decision made by the government to prevent overcrowding.

As the crowd left the other side of the front door of the medical point, Siphus carried the plastic bag. I don’t know if it was a psychological factor or the agent did play a role. Siphus felt much better, and the heavy rain outside seemed not so unbearable.

"Hey, Annie, I'll go home right away and prepare supper quickly, everything goes well."

Siphus was in a better mood and couldn't wait to report his safety to his wife. While speaking, he still couldn't resist his gaze and looked at the strange man under the street light.

He is still there.

Just next to the crowd, he raised his hands high, and the figures that appeared around him were emitting black and purple mist all over his body.

The distance between the two sides was too far, and Siphus could only look at a rough look and didn't understand what he was doing, but the goose bumps that filled his body reminded him of the coming danger in another way.

A momentary pause.

The black umbrella in his hand floated into the sky, not because Siphus didn't hold it tightly, but because a gust of wind suddenly blew around. Not only him, but also the crowd around him was also tilted, not just the umbrella, and some people even blew away the bags of medicine in their hands.

Shocking sounds came one after another in the crowd, but Siphus felt that all the sounds were leaving him at this moment.

On the contrary, some strange sound was sounding inside my body.

Another strong wind came from the opposite direction, and Siphus staggered forward and knelt on the ground. The next second, a cold feeling rose all over his body. The strong vomiting made him retching, and his saliva mixed with turbid liquid kept sliding from the corner of his mouth.

There is something wrong with the medicine!

This was the first thing that Severs thought of at the first time. The reason was very simple. With the lights of the medical point, it was normal for him to see the people on the other side, and only the people on their side fell to the ground.

"Everyone keeps calm! Stand in place and withdraw the medical point in an orderly manner!"

The soldiers of the security department noticed something was wrong and began to maintain order.

"How could my hand be like this...I seem to be sick..."

“There is a problem with the potion!”

"Monster, look over there, what is that!"

"keep Calm!!!"
To be continued...