boyutpedia Chapter 156: This appearance would terrify both carbon-based and silicon-based organisms!
Chapter 156: This appearance would terrify both carbon-based and silicon-based organisms!
"We've arrived, fellow travelers." With a hissing sound of brakes, the tires came to a stop as the brake pads rubbed against the ground. Golden sand flowed out from the gaps in the tire tracks, kicking up a small puff of smoke as it hit the ground.
"This is Edmund, a ghost town that has survived from the Wild West era..." the guide introduced to the other tourists as they walked forward, his footsteps crunching on the sand.
Bumblebee decided to send the message through an insider to warn the tourists and get rid of them.
This included Rosa, but as she went down, she also keenly felt a gaze, as if some scanning system was scanning her...
Is he trying to kill himself? What is he trying to do? Rosa searched through the previous Tomb of Ai data for anyone who could become invisible, and she actually found one.
It's called Mask, and it looks like a mosquito. It's probably like the Thousand-Faced Man who was punched to death by himself and slammed against the wall. It also has a universal gear that allows it to transform into other people's appearances.
However... since he's going to imitate me, to what extent can he imitate me at most?
Rosa was curious and decided to play along with him.
On the other side, the mask being scanned gradually revealed shock on its faceplate, followed by fear.
He can't scan through it; the only thing he can do is imitate its appearance... although he probably imitates the appearance of others too... but...
His scanner could at least see some details of the parts, including the vehicle's shape, but this one was different.
He was hiding there, wondering what was going on, when he saw the female pilot slowly walking out. He quickly hid. This time, Rosa looked away and pretended not to know anything, so that the other party would feel more comfortable playing with her.
"Back in its heyday, this gray street was teeming with cowboys, gamblers, miners, fugitives..." The tour guide turned to the other tourists and explained, "Now Edmund is deserted..."
"Or it just looks like..." The tour guide suddenly spoke up from behind as the tourists were preparing to visit, and his meaningful words startled them.
The tour guide continued, "There are many legends about this abandoned old town, such as this mine..." The tour guide pointed to the distance, to the mine that had been abandoned for who knows how long, with the dilapidated wooden supports at the entrance looking very old.
However, due to the dry environment, they are well preserved, at least they don't rot or anything, and the whole town is like that.
"Many people have said that they can still hear the sound of picks shoveling soil and the laughter of the old miners... coming from afar..."
It's a very interesting legend, like the Kuchisake-onna, Bloody Mary, and the urban legend of Kisaragi Station.
Rosa really enjoys listening to these kinds of legends, like listening to gossip that's very old but never gets old. Legends always have a filter on the past, like dirty, yellowish-brown glass.
With such dilapidated glass, you might want to lean against the windowsill and peek out from behind this pane of glass called time...
It feels like seeing memories from the past through an old object—memories of people from that era, stories from that era, and the style of that era.
Everything had a sense of antiquity, yet it was also something new and unfamiliar. Isn't that strange? The old past could be combined with the new.
That's the charm of legends, especially urban legends. This novelty is accompanied by a chilling thrill, which made her very interested in them for a while.
So Rosa also wanted to show them the "stories" of her grandparents' generation, and to "share" these "exciting" memories passed down from their elders.
Back then, she was curious and asked her grandparents what Cyn looked like before. Cyn directly retrieved and sent the image to her from Uzi. Her grandmother got really angry with Cyn at the time...
It was certainly thrilling, though. Apparently, that was what Cyn looked like before she was merged with her grandmother—a human who had been dead for who knows how long, dressed up like a skin...
She remembered what Cyn had said back then, what was that human girl's name again... oh right, Tasha.
Cyn said that Tasha did not abandon her "pets," so she would not abandon her either; she kept her promise and always "carried" her with her.
Until that time he merged with Uzi...
The tour guide was still introducing the ghost town's platform and the abandoned train underneath it, saying that the roar of the train could still be heard from afar.
Suddenly, the door of the house closest to them in the ghost town started moving on its own even when there was no wind, startling everyone. At the same time, the tombstone also suddenly shook violently on its own.
The tourists and tour guides were so frightened that they huddled together. The sudden sound of a train rumbling in the distance made them take another step back into the ghost town.
It's all the Autobots' doing. The doors that move on their own are caused by Tianbao and Shuiliu, the tombstones are caused by Pingpao, and the train roar is caused by the Iron Fist.
Just then, Rosa's projection was finally set up.
The moment they stepped into the ghost town, a fog suddenly rose around them... and even the sky began to turn gray.
The projection acts as a filter on the sky, and the fog on the ground not only blocks the sunlight from reaching the ground but also adds a layer of color to the sand, making it lose its luster when illuminated by the sun.
To make it all seem more realistic, Rosa even found some wooden planks somewhere to shield them from the direct sunlight and reduce the heat.
Of course, it was blocked by an extended body, and all of it was projected and hidden.
"Can you feel... it seems to be getting colder..." Each of them had a wooden board covering them, so they would feel cooler without the heat of ultraviolet rays... but it also depends on when they were placed there.
Just moments ago it was a bright and sunny day, but in the blink of an eye it became a cloudy day, and even in the desert they could see fog around them.
To avoid giving herself away, she even turned up the sky filter a bit, so that it would look like a cloudy day to the Cybertronians.
So, the moment the filter and fog appeared, everyone was surprised, but the heat from the ultraviolet radiation on their bodies told them that everything was fine.
The huge discrepancy between sensory perception and vision left everyone puzzled, even halting their movements. Some of the more timid Gangsuo even became nervous and afraid.
At this moment, the tourists and tour guides were even more frightened, instinctively thinking they had stepped into some kind of place... like a ghost's territory...
So what can you see in this place that doesn't belong to the living...?
At that moment, they heard chewing sounds and sensed that the terrifying anomalies around them, such as the rumble of the train, the shaking of the tombstones, and even the growling, had all disappeared. They hesitated, wondering whether they should go over and take a look.
Having no idea what they were about to see...