Chapter 174: Hero?

The captain's head was full of various questions.

He couldn't understand at all what all this was.

Individual skeleton monsters were not powerful. The dozen or so of them were basically elites among elites. Even if they couldn't compare to those martial artists, they were all sharp soldiers of ordinary combat skills. A dozen people besieged several skeleton monsters and easily dismantled them into bones.

Taking advantage of the gap in running, the captain also checked these bones and confirmed that there was nothing unusual about them. They were indeed withered bones after a long time of withering. And these skeletons as a whole had no hanging lines, machinery, or other driving forces. They were truly just withered bones combined together.

But this was even more terrifying.

A dozen elite agents and soldiers felt their worldview shattered.

Is this truly the human world?

Or is it that they have actually died unknowingly, and this is actually the underworld hell?

Everyone had no answer. And in this smoke-filled environment with a large number of skeleton monsters chasing, they could only run toward the human voices. No matter what was there, it was at least the only hope.

Actually...

This special action team was purely dragged down by the maintenance team in this area.

The maintenance team in this area was ordered to carry out various tests on the curtain weak point, including exploration and technological weapon testing, etc.

As maintenance personnel gradually gained a foothold in this world, they not only operated assets, acquired various houses and buildings, but even had their own companies and employees. Various social networks were gradually forming, and a few scientific research talents among them began to manufacture weapons and creations that approached the technological limit of this world.

The most rare thing was that this Dream World almost gathered all maintenance teams and maintenance squads, so various intelligence exchanges and various flashy operations continued. And the maintenance squad in this area testing weapons was one of them. They entered back and forth six times, each time testing and testing on the periphery, retreating when encountering monsters, and retreating when encountering monsters.

Skeleton monsters seemed to have no intelligence, but it didn't mean that the things in the depths of this curtain weak point had no intelligence, so...

At this very moment, the special action team naturally didn't know these things. They appeared for the first time after entering this grotesque scene.

A bone artillery shell bombarded from afar, just hitting two people in the team. One was broken at the waist from the back, and after being divided into upper and lower bodies, it hit another person behind him, almost directly embedded in the chest position of this person.

Both died on the spot... or rather, both didn't die immediately. Each screamed on the ground. The one who was broken at the waist was even more miserable, dragging his broken upper body and screaming constantly, reaching out to the group for help. The one whose chest was dented was fainted, and after a while, he probably died, which was much luckier.

Seeing this person with only half a body reaching out, even though this person was their teammate, everyone was terrified, their faces pale, and no one dared to reach out or stay for a moment. Everyone buried their heads and ran forward as if they didn't see it.

Despair, fear, grotesquerie...

All this was entangled with everyone like a nightmare.

This was different from any situation they had expected. This place was not a place where humans should stay at all.

"God, is this truly hell!?"

Someone screamed, and this sound seemed to attract the attention of some things. Everyone saw some kind of twisted shadow dash out from the smoke and fall directly on the person who screamed.

This person immediately stood still. Everyone subconsciously left his side. They saw this person suddenly laugh wildly, then use his fingers to scratch out his eyeballs, hold them in his hands, and hand them to the group, saying while handing them: "I saw good things, you come and see too..."

"Ah!"

Two women in the team screamed and ran wildly into the smoke without looking back.

The rest were full of fear, each horrified, and didn't dare to stay for a moment, leaving behind this thing that was laughing wildly and constantly scratching the organs on its face...

The group ran another tens of meters forward, and then they were so scared that they didn't dare to move. Because the two female team members who had just dashed to the front were standing still. Something that looked like a human but was terrifying and rotten was attached to them, and then they also laughed and tore each other's eyeballs, tongues, ears, and hair, tearing their faces into wounds and rotten flesh, bloody.

"Stay here, stay here with us."

The two female team members screamed and roared, tearing at each other, gradually turning into two bloody people.

Finally, someone's spirit snapped, roaring madly and running around, directly leaving the main force.

The captain immediately shouted: "Come back, don't..."

The person who fled directly had no sound...

The remaining seven team members looked at the captain. The captain's face was pale and roared: "Continue! Continue running forward, don't stop!"

Everyone didn't dare to neglect, followed the captain to continue running, and then they discovered in horror that three twisted shadows were floating behind them, and the two female teammates had no sound...

"God, save us..."

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

"I still have a daughter..."

Several teammates' spirits collapsed, crying and roaring while running. Watching the ghosts floating quickly behind them, someone aimed the firearm at his own head and kept pulling the trigger, but the firearm had no reaction. Just as the ghosts were about to catch up with them, suddenly a figure flew from the smoke.

"Pa!"

This person rushed toward the ghost, slammed a punch at the closest ghost. With a roar, the entire twisted ghost was blown to pieces. The two ghosts behind seemed to be burned by fire, their rotten images suddenly turned charred, and they floated away into the smoke, screaming.

"Huang Shizhen!" Seeing this person, the captain's brain immediately flashed his name, age, identity, image, etc., and roared loudly.

This was exactly one of the twelve Hua Jin peak martial artists, a strong man in his thirties, bald, full of muscles, dressed as a monk, but there were no ring scars on his head.

He knocked over a ghost with one punch, saw the remaining two ghosts fleeing, and wanted to chase, but seeing the eight people behind him with snot and tears, legs soft, his heart softened, and he could only stand still and say: "Who are you? How did you get in!?"

The captain forcibly calmed down the sanity that was about to collapse, his hands and feet were soft, but he still stood straight and said: "We are the special action team of the Supreme Empire, suspecting that you are plotting against the country, so we followed you into this par... park. Now, please tell us clearly, what is this place, and what is the situation now!?"

Huang Shizhen smiled, didn't answer, just looked into the distance and said: "In such a miserable state, you are still playing official jargon with me? Believe it or not, I will turn around and leave now, and you won't live for five minutes!" The captain was angry, but his heart was trembling, and everything around him indicated that this was definitely not some trick, or some criminal activity he knew. Immediately, he slowed down his tone: "Mr. Huang, we are also acting under orders, and it is impossible for us to cause any damage to you and your friends. We cannot afford this responsibility, but falling here... we have already died so many people, and died so miserably."

Huang Shizhen sighed. He was actually kind-hearted, but he wasn't a monk. At this time, he could only say: "Follow up. They are attacking that big bunker. After it is taken down, they should rest for a while."

The captain immediately kept this information in his heart. At this time, he didn't say much, and led the team to barely keep up with Huang Shizhen, who deliberately slowed down his pace.

They truly saw the combat power of the Guoshu Hua Jin peak Grandmaster.

A hundred meters in just two seconds, with a spread of arms, more than a dozen skeleton monsters were knocked over. They even saw things completely composed of bones, such as tank, armored vehicle, tank, or other things, such as skeleton dogs, skeleton horses, etc., all turned into fragments under his fists.

And the ghosts that terrified the special action team were not even able to get close to him.

But in the captain's view, Huang Shizhen had no technological products on him, purely a pair of flesh fists. This information was also kept in his head.

The group walked for a while, and the smoke in front of them suddenly emptied. They saw a huge fortress appearing two hundred meters away!

This fortress was completely composed of bones, about thirty meters high, and its width and length exceeded one hundred meters. Skeletons and ghosts appeared from it continuously, and there were a large number of artillery muzzles standing out on this fortress, firing bone artillery shells at the surroundings. The most terrifying thing was that skeleton giants about five meters high appeared. These skeleton giants, besides bones, were also embedded with various metal armor plates, etc. It was more appropriate to call them semi-finished mechas than skeletons.

In this terrifying scene, more than ten "people" were besieging this fortress.

The reason they were called "people" was because the captain saw that each of these people was like a superman, jumping five or six meters, jumping seven or eight meters, with a pair of flesh palms and fists, smashing the hard withered bones to pieces. Even facing the skeleton giants, they could easily dismantle them. Especially one of them, jumping more than twenty meters, made the captain's eyes twitch, and he could even resist artillery shells!!

He had witnessed the power of that artillery shell. His own team members were still wearing bulletproof vests and were broken at the waist. But this artillery shell landed on this superman, actually rubbing sparks on his body surface, and then the artillery shell shattered, but he was unscathed...

!

All this made everyone in the special action team dumbfounded, each opening their mouths and staring blankly.

The captain sobered up slightly and immediately asked urgently: "What is this place? What... are these things?"

Huang Shizhen didn't go to fight. He sat in front of the group, acting as their protection.

Hearing the question, he thought for a while and said with a smile: "It was impossible for you to know, but since you have all entered and seen it, then hiding it doesn't make any sense... This place is called the Hidden Corner, the wound of the world, and the place where all kinds of horror and grotesqueries reside."

Then, Huang Shizhen told the captain some information about the Hidden Corner that he knew.

"Started appearing twenty years ago!?"

The captain's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly asked carefully.

Huang Shizhen nodded, and he laughed loudly: "You also remembered, right? More than twenty years ago, I don't remember exactly when, but suddenly, the technology that had been stagnant for more than a hundred years suddenly erupted. Many experts were discussing its rationality, what technological accumulation, humanistic accumulation, talent accumulation all reached the limit, etc... But I believe that within the government, there must be huge doubts left about this, right?"

The captain didn't commit himself, but his attitude let Huang Shizhen know he wasn't wrong.

He hummed an unknown song and said at the same time: "And this Hidden Corner started appearing from that time. Currently, we don't know the reason for the appearance of this Hidden Corner, nor do we know how to prevent its appearance. In the organization..."

"Organization!?"

The captain immediately asked: "You have an organization!?"

Huang Shizhen sneered: "Otherwise what? For more than twenty years, without us resisting all this for you, the whole world would have been swallowed up long ago. By the way, these Hidden Corners will grow. If they are not solved in a short time, their external area will expand continuously!"

The captain felt his head bulging. He pressed his temples a few times and asked seriously: "So speaking of this... are there Hidden Corners everywhere in the world?"

Huang Shizhen said: "Certainly. This is just one of countless Hidden Corners, and we have been guarding the world for more than twenty years!"

Of course, he didn't say that he had only joined this organization for less than a week, and this was just the first curtain weak point he entered.

The captain calmed down slightly at this time and immediately said: "Impossible! First, countries... no, just say our Supreme Empire, the internal intelligence department cannot be all wine bags and rice bags. If there is such a large-scale supernatural phenomenon, we cannot fail to discover it. Second, what you said also doesn't conform to logic. If there is truly such an organization, why not contact our three major empires? Do you really think it's those folk organizations in movies, which instead possess more powerful technology, resources, and organization than major powers? If it concerns human civilization and the safety of the world, why would they rather sacrifice themselves than contact us!?"

Huang Shizhen didn't answer directly. He just pointed to the ghosts flying in the bone fortress and said: "You saw those ghosts, right? Physical means are completely ineffective against them. We have thrown, beaten, and caused no damage to them at all. On the contrary, we will be possessed by them, damaging Qi, blood, and life. This kind of thing can be called the natural enemy of the living. This kind of thing..."

The captain asked: "But I saw you with one punch..."

Huang Shizhen said: "Because my physique is strong and my Qi and blood are vigorous. We have tested that as long as you move the martial artist's Qi and blood, you can cause damage to them. Even they can't get close. We have also speculated that even if it's not a martial artist, as long as the Qi and blood are extremely vigorous, this kind of ghost cannot hurt or possess them... But do you think this is normal?"

The captain was stunned and said: "What is normal?"

Huang Shizhen looked at the captain and said deeply: "Is this intensity normal? In legends, this kind of ghost is an unsolvable thing that can reverse curses, space, and even time. Haven't you watched various horror movies about ghosts? Why can just the vigorous Qi and blood of mortals resist them?"

The captain pondered. Huang Shizhen continued: "This is because their strength has not recovered at all. It's just a simple truth. The reason why they don't tell the three major empires, and don't announce it to the world, is because the fewer people who know about them, the fewer people who know about the Hidden Corners, the fewer people who know about those monsters, curses, legends, and urban horror, the weaker they are. But if more people know about them, and more people believe in them, they will restore their original strength. At that time, perhaps a single ghost could exterminate all of humanity!"

"This is not..."

The captain said two words and couldn't go on.

Because according to this statement, then Huang Shizhen and the organization behind him, their actions were logical.

Admittedly, contacting the three major countries and announcing it to the world could mobilize the most manpower and material resources to resist this Hidden Corner, but it would also cause the monsters inside to be invincible. Various nightmares, demons, ghosts, witches, etc., in legends would appear. If the monsters in those religious myths truly exerted the authority in religion, human civilization would not be stronger than an ant in their hands.

Huang Shizhen stood up at this time and said: "And the most important point, inside this Hidden Corner, technological means are completely ineffective! You should have also tested it, right? Since this is the case, what is the use of contacting the three major countries? Sending millions of mortals in to die?"

"And we... as martial artists who are guarded against, suppressed, and wished to be completely eliminated by you, it is we who are protecting and saving you!"

While speaking, Huang Shizhen greeted the front, smashed a ghost with one punch, Qi and blood burst out, and even burned the remaining ghosts that attacked, squeaking and fleeing far away.

Seeing this scene and hearing all this truth, the captain and all team members were incomparably shocked, and for a time, they couldn't say a word.

So they were all hiding in the darkness, fighting constantly, sacrificing constantly...

Heroes!?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 175 =====