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As dusk approached, the group finally passed through a large lush mountain forest and came to the Sunset Town shown on the map.
If the [City of Ashes] experienced by Ji Dong half a month ago was strange, then this Sunset Town could only be described as tragic.
The whole town was in a mess. There were traces of violence and destruction everywhere visible to the naked eye.
The town appeared to be razed by a large herd of wild boars that were given stimulants and blazed through the entire town. Many wooden houses’ doors, windows, and even walls had been destroyed. Whether in the house or on the street, it seemed as if a typhoon had passed through, and there were blood splatters everywhere.
But there were no bodies.
They walked around the town before it was completely dark.
There are no living people or corpses.
In the bedroom of a two-story villa, Fatty Huang pointed to the blood on a bed. He shrugged his shoulders and turned his head to look at his captain, “What do you think this means?”
The red-haired beauty touched her chin and looked carefully around the messy room.
A big hole was found between a window and a wall in the room. Judging from the size of the hole, it was enough for a brown bear to freely go in and out.
The bedside table and dressing table in the room had fallen to the ground and there was a large pool of dried blood on the mattress and carpet. Based on the shocking amount of blood, even people without medical knowledge could judge that the injured person probably didn’t survive.
“Look over there.”
Flaming Rose cocked her chin towards the direction of the broken hole in the wall. “Claw marks were found at the foot of the bed and on the windowsill. Blood can be seen leaving a trail mark from the room to the outside. It appears like the body was dragged away by something.”
They all looked around cautiously after hearing her conjecture.
Ji Dong spotted a lengthy bloodstain spreading from the hole in the wall to the house’s back garden.
This house’s owner was a plant enthusiast. The scattered lush flowers and trees reached the wall’s edges, almost indistinguishable from the mountains and forests further away.
The redhead concluded, “I guess the murderer hid in the woods along with the body.”
“All right.”
A local soldier from the [Film] popped in through the door and merely heard their captain’s instructions, so he barged into the room with a rifle and followed the trail of blood, “Let me see what sort of beast was so ferocious that it can take away all the people in this whole town…”
“Get back here!”
Flaming Rose spoke, “It’s getting late. Do you still want to explore the woods when it’s close to night time?”
The soldier of the special forces, who had just reached the yard’s edge, stood motionless and dared not violate the command. He could only sigh and turn back bitterly.
Participants, unlike the local troops who had no idea where they were, had seen the trailer. Naturally, they realized that the wild creatures such as boars and bears were not roaming Sunset Town. But rather, some horrible monsters whose origins were not apparent at all.
Now that they had arrived in town, it would only be a matter of time before they met those things. The participants had no intention to provoke those monsters who have yet to appear, especially when they weren’t fully prepared to fight against these strange monsters.
“Everybody, take a look at this.”
Suddenly the voice of Ji Dong came from another room.
Flaming Rose took her team to the study next door. She saw the curly-haired, doll-faced youth and a muscular handsome man standing next to an armchair. The handsome man with long hair was squatting by the desk. He bent down and reached out to pick up something from the ground.
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“What is this?” she asked suspiciously.
“I don’t know.”
Ji Dong pointed to the armchair, “There are many more here.”
In fact, Rose had seen, without his prompting, that the desks, chairs, and rugs in the study were littered with big and small rocks. The largest pieces of gray-black rocks were approximately the size of her palms, while the smallest were about the size of her fingernails.
“… Does it look like broken earthenware?”
The red haired beauty turned to Ji Dong and the others, “Does this have anything to do with our current situation?”
Ji Dong honestly shook his head, “I don’t know.”
Then he showed his wristwatch to Rose, “But the pointer on my watch turned white…”
“What the fuck!”
Rose scolded angrily. She threw down the unknown broken, black stone, turned and hurried out of the room, shouting as she briskly walked, “Everyone be careful. The color of the watches changed. Don’t dilly-dally!” She was very anxious, “Look for a nearby safe place to spend the night!”
The color of the pointer has now changed from green to white. This indicated that the participants’ “safe time” had passed and that they may encounter some unforeseen threats at any time.
Rather than wandering around town hunting for clues, the red-haired beauty decided that their main priority should be to seek a safe place and settle down to survive tonight.
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Most of the buildings in the town were made of wood. At first glance, they were very frail. It made people feel unsafe.
From the map, only the northernmost church and a small clinic in the west of the town was made of bricks and tiles.
Rose decided to use the clinic as a stronghold for the night.
However, when their group reached the small clinic before the sun had set, they didn’t feel any comfort.
This two-story clinic was even messier than most of the houses they had checked.
Almost all of the windows on the first level were shattered; the tables and chairs were misaligned, and the room furnishings were in shambles. Splintered glass, broken wood, and other small debris were strewn about. One also might walk on squeaking sundries with every step.
The main door panel was nearly demolished. The upper hinge was broken, leaving barely half of it to hang on to. At the very least, it did not collapse.
Anyone could see that staying overnight in such a building had nothing to do with “safety”.
However, the buildings in the entire town had been destroyed by those strange monsters, and no survivors could be found. At the very least, it demonstrated that there was no so-called “safety zone” in this location. So no matter where they intended to spend the night, it wouldn’t make much of a difference.
“The first rule of survival for horror films is to absolutely not allow ourselves to be alone!”
Rose gathered the crowd in the front hall of the clinic and gave orders, “Before dawn, form a team. No matter what you do, make sure you have at least two companions around you!”
Most of the ten local soldiers laughed.
They all appreciated their captain’s sense of humor and thought her metaphor was particularly vivid.
But obviously, with powerful weapons at hand, these people were quite confident and didn’t follow her order seriously at all.
Only the participants knew that what Rose had said was indeed the truth that would keep them alive.
The interior of the small clinic was not large. It was impossible for everyone to come together.
So they found several relatively intact rooms in the second floor’s northeast corner, formed groups of three to five, and took turns watching the night.
Ji Dong, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen naturally stayed in the same room.
The red-haired beauty took two guns, full of ammunition clips from the soldiers’ spare equipment, and threw them to Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo who both didn’t have a gun.
“Gather at six tomorrow. I’ll be next door.”
She paused and added, “But only if we can all live safely until tomorrow.”
Ji Dong thought that she was one of those who had a crow's mouth that had to set up a flag for her people. Nevertheless, he thanked the other party for her kindness when she lent some guns to them.
When Rose left, Ji Dong closed the door and reached out to touch the wall by the door.
He felt for the light switch and pressed it.
The round ceiling light in the room flashed twice and came on.
“Huh!”
Ji Dong breathed a sigh of relief. “Fortunately, there was no power failure.”
With that, he took out a swiss army knife from his pocket, and walked half a circle around the foot of the wall. He found a power socket, sat on the ground, and directly began prying open the socket cover.
“Hey, what are you doing?”
Mr. Dagen was puzzled by Ji Xiao’niao’s behavior.
Ji Dong had no expression on his face and replied dryly, “Charging.”
Mo Tiangen: “???”
Ji Dong clumsily opened the cover and exposed the copper within. He then took a deep breath, raised his right hand, extended out two fingers like a fork, and was going to touch the copper wiring.
Mo Tiangen: “!!!”
Ji Dong raised his head and looked pitifully at Ren Jianmo. “This… This voltage should be 220 volts? It’s a standard voltage, isn’t it?” His voice sounded more hesitant.
Ren Jianmo nodded his head and replied perfunctorily, “Probably.”
Ji Dong: “…”
——I’m so angry, but keep smiling!
Mo Tiangen from beside him finally understood, “Is this your power?”
“To be exact,” Ji Dong continued, “this is the preparation for my ability.”
After that, he took another deep breath, summoned up his courage, raised his fingers, and poked at the metal sheet.
——Anyway, if I get electrocuted, I won’t die!
——If I’m rescued in time, I shouldn’t die… Right?
A sharp tingle raced through him before he felt the chilly sensation from the metal as the skin on his fingers made contact with the copper.
But the feeling of the current flowing into his body was not as painful as he imagined.
He felt that what he was touching was not a piece of charged metal, whose voltage could kill people, but a small hairy hedgehog with soft thorns.
——Thank God! Thank the gods and buddhas. This is standard voltage!
Although he knew that this was his power, he could only use it in the [Film] and couldn’t get familiar with it in advance while he was in the [Peach Blossom Spring]. Therefore, Ji Dong was like a big girl climbing her sedan chair for the first time. He not only had no experience but also he had no bottom in his heart.
The power triggered by Ji Dong was called the [Ordinary Power Bank]. But if he were to be honest, it was really just a “power bank”.
He could store electric energy in his body and release it when necessary.
Although this ability sounded like a low-configured, yellow, electric mouse, it seems quite useful. Unfortunately, it was not the case at all.
First of all, when charging, he must directly make contact with charged objects, such as wires, sockets, or other similar things. The rechargeable voltage was limited to 110 V or 220 V for standard civil use.
In other words, if Ji Dong dared to grasp the high-voltage line with his bare hands, he would still become a roasted bird on the spot.
What’s more, the power stored in his body, whether used or not, would gradually deplete over time.
In other words, if he wanted to recharge his power in “Film A” and save it for “Film B”, this cheating opportunity wasn’t possible. If he wanted to be a powerful person, Ji Dong could only find a place to recharge every time.
“Waa, that’s your ability? It’s too troublesome! If you encounter a [Film] with a medieval background, it will be completely nullified!”
After listening to Ji Dong’s explanation, Teacher Dagen felt both worried and helpless.
“Also, how long will it take you to fully charge? I think you’ve been grasping that for ten minutes?”
“Judging from the current progress, it will take another hour or so…”
“OK, you stay here and recharge your power first.”
Mo Tiangen rolled his eyes and lost interest in his stupid power. He turned around and left, “I’ll take a rest first. Wake me up after you are done, and I’ll keep the vigil for the rest of the night.”
Given Mr. Dagen’s performance in the last [Film], Ji Dong had no hope for his “vigil” and waved him off.
He sat at the foot of the wall, one hand tugging his hair strands that have risen and curled into a ball due to static electricity while waiting for the power to be fully charged. He thought of what Mo Tiangen just stated.
Indeed, Mr. Dagen was right.
He had done some research during the previous ten days of preparation and was aware that the backdrop of each [Film] was not fixed. Perhaps, it was still a contemporary city with smartphones this time. Yet next time, it might devolve into a primitive tribe that communicates solely by roaring.
Not to mention a [Film] without electricity, even a [Film] that presented difficult access to electricity would make it troublesome to charge, his power could be useless entirely, which would be the worst case scenario.
But currently, it’s too late to say anything.
A power wasn’t easy to get. Many people were still fighting to death for it!
Furthermore, once the powers in their bodies were activated, they couldn’t be readily altered unless there was an extraordinary opportunity. It was also impossible to have multiple abilities at the same time…
——So, what else could he say? Just make do with it!
Ji Xiao’niao could only comfort himself in this way.
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Why can’t the power be charged before entering the film? And if you go to a film that might not have electricity can you not buy a power bank with your points? Or a solar charger?
Well it said that his power could decrease with time and it could only be used when he’s inside the [Film], atleast from what I understand 🤷♀️