On a straight avenue.
A black car was speeding along.
Ahead on the main road, yellow and black police tape had been put up, and several uniformed police officers were standing guard in front of it.
Noticing the car approaching, one of the officers squinted and took a few steps forward into the headlights.
He raised his hand in a pause gesture, indicating that the car should stop.
However, the car did not stop; it only slowed down slightly, and its headlights turned off during this process.
The officer frowned slightly, his gaze quickly sweeping over the car's license plate.
After confirming the license plate, he quickly turned around and waved upwards.
"Let them through!"
Upon receiving the order, the officers who were still standing next to the warning tape immediately put it away.
The black car roared forward with the accelerator pedal revving.
On the bus.
Han Ling glanced at the interception point she had just passed, then turned to look at Shen Heng.
" Shen Heng, is this near your school?"
"Hmm, it's about a seven or eight-minute drive!" Shen Heng mentally compared the map to the map.
"Hey... two incidents in one month, this place is pretty unlucky!" Han Ling laughed.
" Han Ling!" Wang Hai scolded in a low voice, indicating that he shouldn't joke about such a thing.
Han Ling quickly shrank back and kept quiet.
Seeing this, Shen Heng chuckled softly. He turned to look out the window, considered the time it had taken to get here, and asked:
"This place is a bit far, but it can only be considered the suburbs, still within the coverage area of our Linhai City. What if Calamity Beast appears in a more distant area?"
"Send the nearest Supervision Bureau over there!" Han Ling shrugged.
"What if it's a place like the Great Northwest, where there's only one village every tens of kilometers?" Shen Heng continued to ask.
"Uh... this..." Han Ling turned to look at Wang Hai.
Wang Hai calmly replied, "Same here, send the nearest Supervision Bureau over!"
"Is... it possible to make it in time?" Shen Heng asked hesitantly.
Silence fell over the car; no one answered...
Shen Heng nodded thoughtfully.
Actually, there's no need to ask this question; it's obvious that it's impossible to catch up, but...
Given this situation, why didn't the government organize the relocation of villages to cities?
Wang Hai glanced at Shen Heng through the rearview mirror, seemingly guessing what he was thinking, and said:
"The casualties in the village due to the Calamity Beast are lower than you think."
Shen Heng raised his eyebrows slightly upon hearing this, then frowned slightly. He pondered for a moment, then tentatively said:
"Because you can't find anyone?"
"You could say that!" Wang Hai nodded.
"Compared to when they appear in cities, it's not easy for the Calamity Beast to find places where humans live when they appear in the wild."
"Moreover, the Calamity Beast don't only eat humans; they also eat other creatures. And when they appear in the wild, humans who live in groups and are clearly intelligent are not their first choice for attack, at least not the first choice for those low-level Calamity Beast."
"So, although villages may seem unprotected, the number of people who die each year from attacks by Calamity Beast is actually far lower than in cities."
"After all, once the Calamity Beast appear in the city, their only food source is basically humans!"
Shen Heng nodded thoughtfully.
During the conversation, the car had stopped about two hundred meters away from a building.
As soon as the group got out of the car, a person in charge dressed in a black armed police uniform immediately came to greet them.
The person in charge walked up to Wang Hai and saluted.
" Captain Wang!"
Wang Hai returned the salute. "How's the situation?"
"It looks like some kind of Calamity Beast, but I'm not sure what it is exactly. Do you recognize it?" The person in charge pointed to the entrance of the building.
Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing.
Shen Heng also turned his head and looked toward that building.
It was a three- or four-story building, covering an area of at least 100,000 square meters.
At this moment, the building was completely dark, and only the words "Hi Nest " could be vaguely seen on the building.
Below those two words, you can see several gray and red ants lying helplessly on the ground, about the size of an adult's calf.
"Captain, they're Stone Fire Ant!" Han Ling, with her better eyesight, was the first to confirm the identities of the ants.
Wang Hai nodded slightly. He glanced at the unlit building, then turned and asked:
Why are there no lights at all?
The person in charge explained, "We confirmed with the owner of Hi Nest that their main power switch is in the basement electrical room. Before the Stone Fire Ant appeared, we heard a loud 'bang' downstairs. After sending people down to check, we soon saw Stone Fire Ant rushing up one after another."
Suddenly, a loud 'bang' sounded, and then swarms of Stone Fire Ant rushed forward... Shen Heng lowered his head in thought. So, it meant it occurred during the overlap of the two realms, and...
"One after another?" Wang Hai frowned as he looked at the person in charge.
"Yes, according to the owner of Hi Nest, it's one after another!" The person in charge nodded.
Upon hearing the person in charge's confirmation, Shen Heng frowned slightly.
As mentioned before, the Calamity Beast are projected when two worlds overlap. The projection area is not large; the most common size now is only two or three meters.
And now...
Shen Heng's gaze fell on the Stone Fire Ant, each the size of an adult's calf, at the entrance of the Hi Nest, as he recalled the words of the person in charge.
One after another? This time it's a rare, large-scale overlap of two realms?
Clearly, Wang Hai had also considered this possibility. He frowned slightly and asked again:
Is anyone still inside?
"Everyone who could run has run away. We don't know if there are any survivors inside. However, when we arrived, there were still some screams inside, but they gradually stopped. We don't know if they are all dead!" the person in charge replied.
Wang Hai nodded and turned to look at Shen Heng.
Shen Heng understood, turned his head to look in the direction of Hi Nest, and his abilities spread out like a tide.
Soon, a flurry of footsteps, strange buzzing, and fearful whispers came rushing in.
"There are many more, I don't know the exact number, but there are at least thirty or forty, scattered in various places. They must have found relatively safe places to hide!" Shen Heng replied, turning his head.
Wang Hai nodded, looked at the dark building, and began to make battle plans.
" Wei Leyang and I will go inside. Shen Heng and Han Ling will stay here and wait for further instructions!"
"Understood!" Shen Heng and Wei Leyang nodded in agreement.
"No, Captain, I can go in too!" Han Ling protested.
"Your sniper rifle will be difficult to use in this kind of building. It will be very dangerous if you are ambushed!" Wang Hai explained.
"No, I'll just follow behind you!" Han Ling insisted.
"This is a battle, not child's play. You need to understand your place!" Wang Hai turned to look at Han Ling and sternly reprimanded her.
"I..." Han Ling opened her mouth, but in the end, she could only lower her head and reply in a deep voice, "Understood!"
Wang Hai gave Han Ling a deep look, then turned to look at the person in charge.
Do you have a building map?