Latent Syndrome

Chapter 216 215. Cabin in the Snow

the next day.

Colin was extremely eager to follow the progress of the Liberty City investigation, but everyone in Section 4 was like a useless person. They had no information and no progress.

It just means that SCT is still in the latent stage and there is no trace at all.

The third day.

The same is true.

Things are becoming increasingly out of control, perhaps because the Los Angeles video was widely disseminated and the number of infected people increased day by day. The public gradually became aware of the truth behind all this, and some infected people who were too late to be exterminated went on a killing spree, and all Internet posts were banned. Don't come.

Various coded references were invented to prevent offending Tabu.

The fourth day.

Early winter has passed, and the weather is getting colder and colder.

Light snow has begun to fall in Liberty City, and the small ornamental lake in the park has also been covered with a thin layer of ice. The hazy wind and frost have cast a layer of cold winter over the entire steel forest.

Colin is currently living in a little-known youth hotel. The decoration of the big hotel makes him feel uneasy. He has trouble sleeping and feels that it is too unreal. Only in this environment can he have a safe zone to get back on track.

The feeling of sitting still and waiting to die made him extremely uncomfortable, because every day that dragged on, the symptoms of all infected people worsened faster. This was not a simple addition or subtraction.

Rather, it is a geometric superposition, just like the research in the second department. As the number of infected people increases, this strong current of succession makes everyone fall faster.

And there are also dark forces contributing to it.

Also on this day, Colin received a call from Pym in Las Vegas, saying that it was an emergency and that he must meet with Colin immediately, and asked Colin not to tell anyone, not even the Countermeasures Bureau. Neither can people who are involved in major events with far-reaching consequences.

Now Pim was on his way from Free City, using encrypted means to send Colin his location and asking him to meet at the designated place.

Although Colin didn't understand the intention, because it was located in a quite remote place, no longer in Liberty City, and completely isolated from the modern city.

At the border with Connecticut, there is a deserted wilderness that no one cares about.

According to Pim's tip, it used to be a favorite place for mountaineering enthusiasts. However, due to many accidents and the closure of the mountain due to bad weather and heavy snow, many enthusiasts died and the number of people became increasingly sparse.

The device Pim sent the message to himself was not a communication terminal from the Countermeasures Bureau, but an ordinary mobile phone. However, according to him, it was encrypted, so there was nothing to worry about.

The meeting point was a safe hut on a peak, used as a refuge for climbers encountering heavy snow.

Although Colin didn't know why Pim kept it so secretive and didn't even disclose it to the Countermeasures Bureau, was this his personal behavior?

Or is it that Pim is setting a trap for himself, waiting for him to jump in?

Even Pym once expressed his gratitude to Colin because Colin killed the Pope and avenged many of his friends.

Despite this, Colin still didn't trust him very much.

However, even if it is a trap, Colin must jump into it. Every time he kills an infected person, everyone's condition will be alleviated.

He now wants to gather all the infected people together and carry out a massacre.

Late this night.

The wind and snow made the road conditions very bad. Even if the high beam was turned on, the visibility was extremely limited.

The roaring sound in the sky reached Colin's ears through the car window. There was no starlight in the silent night, just pure darkness, completely pure.

The only light source is the car's headlights. If you turn them off, you will be completely lost in this darkness and heavy snow.

The hemorrhagic ringworm on his arm was aching and chilling. Every time Colin activated his power, the wound would hurt violently. It was hard to describe the chill that penetrated deep into the bone marrow.

Just like the oral area with the densest nerves, the perforation of the black carious tooth reaches the pulp of the tooth, and the freezing liquid of the ice cube flows in, seeping into all the gaps and connecting to the nerves, which is a gnawing feeling that reaches the soul.

Just like the burning of being immersed in an icy lake, when the temperature is low enough to freeze flesh and blood in an instant, people no longer feel cold, but a weird ablation.

Colin felt the ablation. The small iron fragments lined up on the ringworm were his cavities. The extremely cold burning spread from that area to every part of his body.

Causing conditioned reflex spasms and twitches in his body.

But he had to continue to activate his abilities. Without these, he would be just a mortal, a mortal... unable to reverse this situation that was darker than the end of the universe.

A slightly eroded eye formed on the back of his hand, and a wandering bloody light erupted, allowing Colin to find the road and find the refugee hut on this high peak with no street lights at all, only continuous woods and rocks.

The bloody light spread for miles, and the flash of scarlet was like a supernatural event, allowing Colin to explore all the scenes.

That should be the shelter Pim mentioned, a simple wooden house with the windows sealed with wooden boards and the protective iron plates inlaid on the wooden door bearing the claw marks of wild beasts.

But that place is inaccessible by vehicle. If you continue driving on this road, you will have to bypass the mountain range.

Colin immediately got out of the car and closed the door tightly.

Then I thought of what Pim said about the secret. Even though the weather was so bad, it was still around ten o'clock in the evening and there was no one on this road at all.

But considering the possibility, Colin decided to destroy the car. His arm quickly fell off and dissolved, falling to the ground to form countless black and red centipedes larger than human fingers. These dense centipedes were under his control. , spread to the entire car, and the crawling and crawling scene can make people with trypophobia faint.

These centipedes chewed up the car, leaving not even a scrap behind.

After doing all this, he braved the wind and snow, and on a deserted winter night, went to the hut where no less than ten victims died.

Climbing over countless mountains and rocks, the altitude of this peak is more than 3,000 meters, and the shelter is built on the mountainside. Even if Colin is an infected person at the top, it took a lot of effort to reach it.

There was no sound in my ears, only the endless whistling and the coldness that penetrated the end of the universe.

Has Pim not arrived yet?

Colin thought this as he pushed open the iron wooden door. The temperature inside was slightly higher than outside, and there was an old musty smell. All the wooden furnishings had swelled and cracked over the years.

He closed the door, and there was no light in the room. It was dark. Colin just used his blood eyes to explore everything around him. He found a wooden bench, wiped off the dust on it with his hands, and sat down.

As time passed, Colin turned on his phone. There was no signal here and it was outside the service area.

He was not in a hurry at all, just thinking about how things would progress.

After waiting here for more than an hour, it is now close to early morning.

There was finally movement outside the house.