Hu Jiu and Du Zhong arrived in a new world.
The two passed through a time tunnel and appeared in a forest.
There were no messy rules, no messy games, and no Fierce Ghost or anything like that; everything seemed perfectly harmonious.
Du Zhong looked around but didn't notice anything unusual. His voice held a hint of excitement as he asked, "Are we going back to the mainstream time-travel plot?"
In the transmigration novels by Rotten Persimmons, the characters are always inexplicably hit and killed by dump trucks while walking on the road, then inexplicably transmigrate, and then inexplicably embark on the path to becoming a winner in life.
A rustling sound came from not far away, and several figures were hiding nervously behind the trees.
Hu Jiu, with his sharp eyes, spotted a few people and immediately called out, "You guys over there, come here."
The group of people chatted furtively for a few moments, then actually came over. The leader was a tall, stocky Caucasian man with brown hair and blue eyes, who said in a friendly tone, "Hello, did you also travel through?"
Were you also from another time?
Du Zhong replied earnestly, "Heavenly King covers the Earth Tiger."
The man looked confused. He only knew some simple Chinese and couldn't understand the meaning of "the king of heaven covers the tiger of the earth", so he could only say hello in simple and safe common Chinese: "Hi, have you eaten?"
Snap!
The man was flicked on the forehead by Hu Jiu from a distance.
The others were shocked to see this, but the white man who had been knocked down felt a sense of clarity, as if he had suddenly learned several languages. He hurriedly got up and looked at Hu Jiu with utter obsequiousness.
"Where did you come from? Why did you travel through time?" Hu Jiu asked.
The white man, Mike, hurriedly replied, "I don't know why I traveled through time. I only remember that in our world, the moon suddenly turned into an equal volume of liquid water. This water, influenced by gravity, all flowed towards Earth, causing a cataclysmic flood. When the world was destroyed, we discovered some strange passages. After jumping into the passages, we arrived here."
"Wow, it's a refreshingly unique apocalyptic flood," Du Zhong exclaimed.
Compared to bizarre Horror Games and chaotic rule-based tales, The Great Flood is indeed refreshingly unique.
There were many travelers in this forest, and soon they encountered dozens more. The group huddled together and followed behind Hu Jiu and Du Zhong, who appeared very strong and calm.
Hu Jiu's vision expanded, then returned after a moment. "This seems to be a primeval forest; I don't see any signs of human intervention here."
Everywhere you look, there are lush, green trees.
Is this going to be a survival show in the wilderness?
All the time travelers tensed up.
"I'm so hungry, can I eat this mushroom?" A woman picked up a mushroom from under a tree root and sniffed it gently.
Another person said, "It's best not to eat mushrooms you don't recognize; you're better off digging for wild vegetables."
The others frowned; they didn't recognize either the mushrooms or the wild vegetables!
Another person said, "The lack of food and water is a minor problem. In such a vast forest, I'm afraid there might be large wild animals, venomous snakes, and poisonous insects. That's the real survival dilemma."
Upon hearing this, everyone's expressions worsened, and they exchanged glances before finally fixing their gazes on Hu Jiu and Du Zhong.
These two don't seem like ordinary people.
Just as they were about to say something, Du Zhong suddenly pointed in a direction. "There's a small wooden hut over there, probably the forester's quarters."
Before Hu Jiu could say anything, someone in the crowd exclaimed in surprise, "Great! There's someone here!"
Whether there was anyone in the cabin or not didn't really matter. The fact that we saw man-made structures meant that this wasn't an endless forest, and that there was much more hope than the headless, fly-like state we had just been in.
"I can't see anything?" A young man looked in the direction Du Zhong was pointing. With his 2.0 vision, he couldn't see any trace of the wooden house.
Du Zhong smiled but didn't explain. He said there was a small wooden house over there, referring to a place 100 kilometers away, which was a short distance for him and Hu Jiu...
"Woof woof..."
A dog's bark suddenly reached my ears.
A tall, strong black dog, carrying a mangled human corpse in its mouth, slowly approached the group, its eyes fierce and its teeth bared.
"Ah, it's a dog!" The crowd erupted in chaos.
Although dogs are the most common pets, no one would dare to treat such a large dog, especially one carrying a corpse, as a pet.
Someone had already pulled out a gun, intending to shoot the big black dog and use it as food.
Among this group of time travelers, quite a few were armed. Just as they were confidently about to pull the trigger, a young man and woman suddenly spread their arms and blocked their way.
"No, you can't shoot!"
Dogs are man's best friend; you mustn't hurt them!
"Think about how much guide dogs, drug-sniffing dogs, and military dogs have contributed to humanity? How can you point guns at your own friends!"
"You're talking nonsense!" someone couldn't help but retort. "What do the contributions of guide dogs, drug-sniffing dogs, and military dogs have to do with this black dog that killed someone?"
The two sides started arguing, and their voices grew louder and louder.
Du Zhong looked at the man and woman with a look of surprise, "Wow, I always thought that only novels written by Fake Person contained saintly figures, but today I've actually met real ones!"
Hu Jiu also wore a complicated expression. "They were just arguing; no one laid a hand on them, and no one shot the Holy Mother first. They were quite civilized."
The black dog in the distance also showed a rather human-like expression, a little puzzled and confused, but this did not stop it from launching an attack.
It had a strange thing stuck on its muzzle, and strange things were also worn on its four paws.
Before the arguing transmigrators could react, the black dog was already galloping towards them.
The time travelers finally couldn't hold back and opened fire, but the dog nimbly dodged their shots and then pounced on one of the time travelers.
The time traveler reacted quickly, grabbing the two saintly figures from before and using them as shields.
The two saints were instantly cut in half at the waist by the black dog.
They weren't dead yet, but they stopped mentioning protecting dogs altogether and just kept screaming for help, but no one paid them any attention.
"Damn it, everyone be careful, the dog's paws are armed!" one of the time travelers shouted.
"Bang bang bang..."
Several gunshots rang out, but they were not fired by the time traveler's pistol.
The thing on the bucket in the black dog's mouth was actually a firearm that could fire bullets!
"Shit! Is that an alien dog?!"
Everyone was horrified; someone had already been shot and died on the spot.
Just as everyone was about to fight the black dog to the death, Du Zhong impatiently raised his hand, and a pitch-black chain appeared in his palm, which he then thrust towards the black dog.
"Awooo..."
The black dog was pierced through the body and died instantly.
Du Zhong dragged the black dog's carcass back and examined it thoroughly.
It took the others a long time to react, and their gazes toward Du Zhong changed repeatedly.
Without needing to communicate verbally, they all understood who the real powerhouse was.
Mike, who was the first to strike up a conversation with Hu Jiu, stepped forward and offered to help with the checkup.
The body that the black dog brought back was already dead; the fatal wound was caused by a bullet, not by a vicious dog bite.
Du Zhong stared at it for a while. The gun on the black dog's muzzle was only so-so in power, but no one would have thought that a dog could use a gun.
"Could it be alien dogs? Is the end of this world due to an alien invasion?" Du Zhong asked.
Hu Jiu raised an eyebrow. "Alien creatures? That's really interesting..."
A series of trending topics ignited the internet.
"Another citizen has been brutally murdered recently. According to police investigations at the scene, the killer may be an intelligent, alien being! All the evidence at the scene points to this conclusion!"
Alien Invasion...
"Pet mutation..."
The internet is full of all sorts of messy information. When Xiao Huang sees this, he just wants to laugh. These days, marketing accounts really have no bottom line. They'll write anything for traffic.
In a short video, a blogger posted photos, saying, "Look, these are the footprints! These are the footprints of a mutated creature! Similar cases have been occurring all over the world recently, with residents being brutally murdered. Many witnesses claim to have seen aliens, some even using firearms!"
"Many people took photos and videos, but unfortunately, the government has been covering up the truth, deleting related topics online, and forcing witnesses to sign confidentiality agreements."
"We urge the government to reveal the truth!"
Xiao Huang turned off the computer screen and stopped browsing these junk messages.
Just then, Xiao Huang's boss walked over with a document in his mouth. "Xiao Huang, take a look at this."
As a police officer, Xiao Huang quickly flipped through the documents and was shocked to find that they were investigation reports about alien creatures, almost identical to what he had just seen on the marketing account.
What the hell is this?
"Xiao Huang, what do you think about this?" the leader asked.
Xiao Huang immediately realized that if this were false, the leader wouldn't need to question it so seriously. The leader's serious attitude meant that this matter was unusual.
Xiao Huang tentatively asked, "Could there really be alien creatures?"
"Congratulations, you got it right!" The leader, with a stern face, issued a new mission order to Xiao Huang, "From now on, you will be transferred to the Special Operations Unit to carry out classified missions."
"Huh, me?" Xiao Huang pointed to himself, thinking he had misheard.
"You heard me right." The leader patted Xiao Huang on the shoulder, his expression meaningful.
In a forest, the sound of gunfire was deafening.
A well-equipped force of a thousand men encountered an enemy, their opponents being a pack of equally well-equipped dogs.
"My God, so many dogs that can shoot!" one soldier exclaimed in surprise.
Are these dogs aliens or mutants?
"Never mind all that, let's just survive first!"
Not far away, Hu Jiu and Du Zhong were leading a group of transmigrators, secretly spying on the fierce battle.
Du Zhong said, "These dogs must have been militarized. Their equipment isn't very good, but their operational efficiency and combat tactics are surprisingly high, subtly surpassing the human army on the other side."
Hu Jiu said, "That human army seems to have traveled a long distance; everyone is exhausted and in very poor condition."
Du Zhong nodded. "That's true."
Mike stared at them in bewilderment for a long time, then suddenly exclaimed, "I've seen them before!"
All eyes turned to him, and Mike hurriedly explained, "I've seen that army before. They're from the same world as me. When the floodwaters engulfed the land, they jumped into a time portal..."
"They're transmigrators too? That's strange." Du Zhong stroked his chin thoughtfully. "A human army from another world is locked in fierce combat with an army of dogs. Where are the original humans of this world? Are they all dead? Why would they allow such a large force of dogs to be formed, and why would they be armed with lethal weapons!"
"Anomalous Lifeform do exist!" the Special Operations Unit leader said very seriously.
Xiao Huang, who had just joined the Special Operations Unit, was shocked. Those outrageous rumors on the internet were actually true!
"Next, you will be handling top-level state secrets. You know the rules: all information is strictly prohibited from being leaked, or you will be treated as treason," the leader said.
The Special Operations Unit arrived at a secret research base, and after numerous checks, they finally reached the core laboratory.
"These are the Anomalous Lifeform we discovered," the leader said, pointing to the huge specimen container.
Staring in disbelief at the familiar yet strange creature in the container, Xiao Huang was dumbfounded.
How is that possible!
"Isn't this just a common pet? It seems to be a breed I've never seen before. Why would the government define it as Anomalous Lifeform?" a member of the Special Operations Unit couldn't help but ask.
The leader explained, "This is nothing like the pets we keep. This creature possesses high intelligence, knows how to use firearms, and even has its own civilization and language!"
"The government discovered these Anomalous Lifeform many years ago, but recently, for some unknown reason, their Anomalous Lifeform have suddenly surged, and they seem to possess technology more advanced than ours."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Huang felt a chill run down his spine, his ears trembled slightly, and the hairs on his body stood on end. He instinctively asked, "Can we defeat these Anomalous Lifeform?"
"The military is fighting these creatures, and we are in a difficult situation," the leader replied.
"No matter what, this creature must be eliminated! Only one species with advanced intelligence is allowed to exist in this world!" a member said through gritted teeth!
"That's right! Eliminate the aliens and protect our home!"
"These intelligent, Anomalous Lifeform look almost exactly like the pets we keep as pets. I think we should exterminate all pets in this way, better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free!"
"Wait!" a taciturn Special Operations Unit member suddenly spoke up, "Since the other side possesses more advanced science and technology than us, can't we find a way to subdue them and then obtain these technological achievements?"
The leader nodded. "Many scientists think this way, and some sociologists even believe that since the other side is an intelligent being, we can try to communicate with them; we don't necessarily have to go to war. However..."
At this point, the leader paused for a moment. "This has nothing to do with us! Our duty is to obey orders from superiors; we don't need to worry about anything else."
So what is our task now?
"Inspect," the leader said. "To prevent Anomalous Lifeform from disguising themselves as pets and infiltrating our society, we must conduct rigorous inspections of all pets in the city!"