Today's era is different from the past

The light of electricity gradually dispels people's fear of darkness, but the wilderness filled with night is still a dangerous place for monsters to occupy. In order to ensure the safety of traveling in the wild at night, all street lights on the road will be equipped with qualities of magic cubes that can effectively disperse monsters, and will be checked and replaced regularly.

These cube arrays can continuously emit a high-frequency sound wave that humans cannot hear. Most monsters will feel quite uncomfortable when they hear these sounds, and will actively avoid the areas covered by sound waves when they act. At the same time, in order to prevent the failure of a single cube array and cause gaps in the defense structure, the mutual distance between the lampposts must be guaranteed to be within a certain level, so that a network to defend against monsters can be effectively organized.

Theoretically, as long as the cube array is still operating normally, the safety around the road can be guaranteed.

And now, the ironic counterexample has happened.

An unidentified corpse fell under the street light that provided "protection" for the highway. It looked terrible and was undoubtedly killed by a monster.

Under the dim light source, his miserable face appeared before Curt.

He was a man in his sixties and had no vitality at this time. His gray hair was stained by his own blood, and several deep bone-observing lacerations tore open the flesh on his body. The largest wound was dragged from his shoulder to his side, almost causing his body to split in half.

The limbs connecting the torso were torn off by brute force, and white bones could be seen where the meat was connected. This was undoubtedly the trace left by the cruelest violence - every joint was broken, and then it was randomly wiped into a piece of residue.

Several large holes were torn open by sharp objects on his fat torso, and the internal organs were dragged out, and the main organs should only leave uneven tooth marks in the human position. The black blood has now gradually dried up, and they slowly flow out from the wounds on the corpse, dyeing the road with a stinging red color.

“It’s so disgusting.”

Even after many battles, he couldn't help feeling unhappy about such a tragic situation. The traces left on the corpse revealed the extreme violence. Such cruel methods did not seem to be done by humans. But if he was said to have been preyed by monsters, the corpse would appear too complete again.

Although monsters have certain ecological characteristics that are distinguished from wild animals, their essence is still not much different from ordinary creatures. He doesn't know what monsters or beasts are around Katris that will destroy the corpses of prey and only eat his internal organs.

The long red marks extended from under him and pointed to the nearby trees shrouded in the night. From the black bloodstain, this was not the first scene of his attack. After being attacked by monsters, he tried to escape to the road, but unfortunately he still did not save his life.

The middle-aged man's head was twisted, and his neck and torso showed a wonderful angle. His inexplicable face was frozen at the moment before his death. Perhaps he never expected that the road that should have dispersed the surrounding monsters became the place where he was cruelly killed by the monsters.

Thinking about whether it was the magic cube array that failed, Curt approached the flashing street light and checked it a little.

Several cracks were left on the iron base of the street lamp, which looked like the sharp claws of beasts. These wounds penetrated the iron shells that were half a centimeter thick, directly cutting off the line of the Rubik's cube array used to connect the whole. Not only that, the core of the cube array power source used to disperse monsters also disappeared.

The lamppost was destroyed by monsters, and the cube array that lost its energy supply had stopped working. Without the cube array, the sonic spells prepared to disperse monsters naturally could not continue to spread to the surroundings. Now the flashing light is still left because the overall line has not been cut off.

This may explain some of the problems.

This middle-aged man did not abide by the regulations that "cannot move outside the road unless special circumstances are in special circumstances" when he was operating near the highway. He encountered a certain kind of monster. The sound waves emitted by the magic cube array originally used to drive away monsters were backfired, and angered the monster he encountered.

The final result was that the man's plan to escape the pursuit of monsters failed. The angry monster tore him apart and then moved the target to the street lamp. It easily destroyed the steel lamp post with its sharp minions, and also took away the magic core sealed in the lamp post.

No, this is ridiculous.

Curt shook his head, and he felt that his inference was illogical.

It is not surprising that monsters have intelligence. Many monsters have a certain level of understanding ability. However, they have developed to the point where sharp teeth and claws are enough to tear steel, and their thinking and intelligence know how to extract the core... This level should not be called monsters, and their performance is even better than most humans.

So what if it was not the result of monsters, but the result of humans? The damage method would seem too rough - it was like the "murderer" did not cause these wounds to kill, but deliberately destroyed the corpse to satisfy his cruel desire to harm.

Curt turned around and decided to observe the man's body carefully again.

The medical white robes that were worn on the outermost layer became dirty under a lot of blood, and the same was true for his clothes and pants. They seemed to have been used for a long time, not much different from the rag, and even if they were not torn apart by the previous attack, they had been seriously worn out.

There was no complete pocket on the ragged clothes, and there was no other space for hiding things on them. This middle-aged man who was indeed "nothing" did not leave even a thing that could prove his true identity. Curt felt that this was really abnormal.

The empire has strict management of resident identity. Even a homeless vagabond must have a small sign that can indicate his identity. Otherwise, the local management department has the right to arrest him and cannot release him before he is confirmed - this is well-known common sense.

Curt still remembers the degree of enforcement of this regulation. When he brought Liqi to the Dominic Region, he was reviewed by the Household Registration Administration for a long time because he had no identity certificate. After experiencing a lot of troubles and suffering a lot of losses, he barely settled down.

Could it be that he was left in the process of escaping when he was attacked by a monster?

Curt looked in the direction where the blood was extended, and the dark shadows of the tree swayed gently in the night wind. The light of the street lights was not very clear, and he could only see a few red marks pointing out the direction where he escaped. They were scattered on the concrete floor beside the road, extending to the depths of darkness that were hard to see with eyes.

Curt originally wanted to pursue these bloodstains into the forest to find out, but after taking two steps, he stopped again. This was not an incident that he should intervene. Now he should report the situation to the security team first, and ask them to send people to block the scene and investigate the incident.

A radio communication system is installed in the car regularly for contacting the headquarters, and the machine can also be used to contact the guards if necessary.

"Wow——! Help, help!"

When he decided to be moved, the driver's scream suddenly came from the direction of the regular car, and there was a harsh metal sound.

Curt was not far from the car body, and he immediately turned around when he heard the sound - the outer armor on the rear of the car was regularly knocked out and several dents were made, and a huge black shadow lay on the top of the car.

Why is it something I have never seen before? Curt couldn't help but be stunned.

The monsters living near Katris have basically been investigated by the Books and Scholars Bureau, and the relevant ecological information was also informed to the mercenaries by the Mercenary Management Office. The thing that appeared in front of me was like the lying gibbon, just like those rock spiders, and was an undiscovered special monster.

The black shadow was a creature that looked like a twisted gibbon. Its body size was only slightly larger than an ordinary person. Its fur was pitch black and perfectly integrated into the night. On its skinny torso, there were two forelimbs comparable to door posts, full of incongruity.

The terrifyingly huge forearms are undoubtedly its most powerful weapon, and the protruding bone spurs on it are still stained with undried blood and residue. It is the murderer who killed the middle-aged man at Curt's feet, lurking around before, waiting for the next victim to fall into the trap.

The cube array inside the surrounding lamp posts does not seem to have lost its effectiveness, so it makes sense. This monster is not afraid of the spells prepared to fill the lamp posts to disperse the monsters. Judging from its fierce behavior, this middle-aged man will encounter unexpected problems even if he does not walk out of the defense range of the street lamp.

It kept waving its forelimbs and slapped the regular car armor, and the sound of metal was endless. The armor that was enough to defend against the shooting of the mechanic gun was just a layer of crisp skin under the thick forelimbs. It was already scarred in just a few strokes and would be penetrated in no time.

The driver seemed to be scared, leaning against the operating wheel, cringing in the driver's seat and staring at the monster trying to penetrate the roof of the regular car. There was nothing in the car that could be used as a weapon, so he had to grab a wrench, intending to use it to give himself a little courage.

He was at a loss, and the regular car was not moving fast enough to throw the monster lying on the top of the car. Now if he attempted to escape from the car, it would be like he was throwing himself into the trap; if he was guarding the car, the monster would not be able to penetrate the outer defense long.

He could only pin his only hope on Curt who got out of the car to investigate. Although he was not sure what this young man with a gloomy face dressed like a dead person could do, it was just that when a person was in danger, even the smallest possibility would regard it as the key to survival.

In other words, he can only hope here.

"Help, help!"

He shouted loudly at Curt at the top of his voice, and at the same time he secretly prayed in his heart that the young man would not be saved by death, and would use him as the abandoned son who dragged him to the monster on the roof of the car.
Chapter completed!