Chapter 624 - Waterdrop (1/2)

A sudden gunshot awakened Chu Yunsheng from his dream. His chest undulated violently, and he gasped heavily.

He felt so uncomfortable, but he couldn’t find the source of the discomfort. He did not know why he would have such a dream? Was it a sign of something?

Since the nightmare he had in Shu Du city, he had a strong repugnance toward all dreams and was unwilling to recall the content of the dreams he had. He did not even want to have any dreams.

He was afraid that once he had it, it would become true.

So when he heard the first gunshot, he immediately became alert and completely stopped himself trying to remember what he was dreaming of.

The surroundings were still very dark even after he opened his eyes. There was no trace of light, only a quiet breathing sound behind the desk in the opposite corner of the room.

Chu Yunsheng once joked with Edgar that even if he fell asleep, he would still keep one eye open. During that period of time, many of those, who fell deep sleep, would often wake up finding that insects had already appeared before them. Some would even be killed while they were still in the dream.

Vigilance was always the most important in dangerous dark nights like this, so as long as it was not in zero-dimensional s.p.a.ce, being vigilant towards the surrounding environment has already become his habit.

The gunshots were getting closer and closer, noisy and filled with panic, mixed with the noises of someone crying for help, the middle-aged man and others crowded behind the desk also woke up one by one, their facial reactions could not be seen in the dark, but their nervous breaths could be clearly heard.

“There were still troops that haven’t left?” Chu Yunsheng glanced at the light outside the window, turned to the middle-aged man in the dark, and whispered.

“We are the last batch, but we are trapped here before we have time to transfer.” The middle-aged man heard Chu Yunsheng’s voice and calmed down a little. But from his voice, Chu Yunsheng could hear a sense of frustration.

If they had left early, they probably wouldn’t have been trapped here.

“Trapped here?” Chu Yunsheng was confused. He has been wondering why there were still people in Nanjing. It should have been an empty city. Even if they didn’t catch up with the main evacuation force, it was not impossible to walk there, so why did they still stay here? So when he heard the middle-aged say that they were trapped here, he immediately asked, “What do you mean?”

The middle-aged man sighed and said, “We also want to leave, but we can’t get out. On the last evacuation day, a huge ‘waterdrop’ descended from the sky with those floating monsters, and the whole city was wrapped in ‘waterdrop’ with us, we can’t get out of it.”

“Waterdrop? Can not get out?” Chu Yunsheng frowned and seemed to remember something. This sense was familiar to him.

The middle-aged man explained dispiritedly, “We once walked to the eastern edge of the city, but it was covered with floating monsters, so we had to avoid it. Eventually, we found an area that did not have any floating monsters. Thinking that this time we could finally escape from the city, we went out of the city from that area, but then we completely lost our direction. The further we walked away from the boundary of the waterdrop, the blurry our surroundings were, and in the end, everything all disappeared. We couldn’t see roads, buildings, it was competently empty. Without any choice, we decided to split up and see if anything could find anything, but then we even lost contact with our people, and when we finally came out of that empty place, we noticed that we have returned to this city, and only one-tenth of the people get out.”

Chu Yunsheng was taken aback. This was exactly like the fog city. He could not help but think that no wonder he had a familiar feeling. But at the same time, he was also very worried. Because when he was in the fog city, he had Professor Sun, and a bunch of scientists to figure out how to get out of the fog city, but now he did not have anyone. Moreover, at least the fog city had some clues that people could use to figure out the sequence, but this one had no clues at all.

There was also another problem. There were no floating monsters in his memory, but now there were floating around in this city. Logically speaking, it must have been created by the Pseudo-Monolith, and it was likely to be the residual memory left by the Pre-Cambrian beings. Maybe it was the conflict between his memory of other people’s memory that was why this “huge waterdrop city” was created.

But if it was indeed like this, then how was the fog city formed?

Chu Yunsheng felt like his head was in a muddle. The fog city was the only place that he could not figure out what happened to it. The monsters inside were not the same as the monsters outside. Especially Flaming Birds, which had no physical body at all, but its strength was very terrifying. At that time, he was almost killed by one of them.

In any case, he needed to think of a way to go back to Shanghai first. Things were progressing toward an unknown place that was beyond his ability to understand. It was not something he could figure out by himself. He must seek help from other people, especially scientists.

At this time, the gunshots outside were even closer. And it seemed like they were heading toward the building where Chu Yunsheng was staying.

“I am going to check it! Maybe they are soldiers.” Chu Yunsheng took out the night vision device and put it on his head. If they were indeed soldiers, it would be better to discuss the solutions with them.

Seeing Chu Yunsheng was about to leave, the middle-aged man quickly asked, “Will you come back?”

“Shh!”

Chu Yunsheng suddenly whispered to him.

Just when he finished adjusting the night vision device, he noticed that there was a transparent floating monster slowly moving upstairs from downstairs. Its movement was very slow, and there was almost no energy fluctuation, it was just like it was slowly pus.h.i.+ng upwards by the airflow.