The spire, the spire, was emitting a dazzling orange-red light, which was particularly eye-catching in this dark environment, so that there was nothing else in his eyes except the spire.

Until the dazzling orange-red light occupied all his eyes, and when he couldn't help but close his eyes, all the sounds around him disappeared, as if the whole world was in silent silence.

“Huhu…”

He was thrown into the water and almost drowned. The feeling of finally jumping out of the water made Pabs breathe heavily.

"Captain, what's wrong?"

Nich's face appeared before Babs.

"You, you!"

Babs was shocked and rolled and crawled backwards with a "bang".

The faint white light in the morning sprinkled on the surrounding canyon land, adding a layer of white gauze to the brown land. The sudden distraught appearance of Babs made the few people who had just gotten up look at him.

"Captain, what's wrong with you? Why did you lose your respirator?" Nichi stood aside in shock, a little confused.

Not only him, but also Aolla and others watched him.

Babs was sweating profusely, looking at Nichi who was talking normally, but he couldn't believe whether he would turn into a monster in the next moment.

However, the environment present was normal, and it was no longer the dark place in his nightmare. It seemed that it was the next morning. The two soldiers did not disappear, but stood by and looked at him strangely.

So, is everything that happened just a nightmare?

Breathing slightly cloudy air, Babs's mind was a little dull. The deeper he thought, the more confused he became.

"Okay, our captain looks like he had a nightmare."

Shrugging his shoulders, Nichi put away his astonishment expression and sighed, "Captain, get up quickly, we still have four hours of hiking today."

When he came to Babs, Nich reached out and tried to pull Babs on the ground.

Looking at Nich's big hand that was stretching over, Babs hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth, and still stretched out his right hand and Nich's hand to hold it.

But it was this handshake that the situation suddenly changed drastically.

Nich's originally good arm suddenly wriggled and torn apart, revealing layers of blood and blood covered with blood vessels below. The torn skin seemed to have produced life and quickly covered Babs' palm.

“…”

With a scream of horror, Babs suddenly retracted his arm and looked up at Nich: "You..."

The rest of the words were not said, just because Nichi, who had become a monster in his imagination, did not change any changes, and was staring at him inexplicably.

"What's wrong with you Captain?"

"You, your hands...huh?"

Just now, Nichi's arm skin was obviously torn apart, but at this moment, he saw that it was completely unscathed, and there were any traces of tearing.

"What's wrong with my hand?"

He looked at his hands around and wonderedly, and Nichi said depressedly: "My hands are very good."

Babs, who was stunned on the ground, was completely confused with fear.

Did you get confused by yourself, or did you have hallucinations because of last night’s nightmare?

This time, Babs no longer wanted Nichira to get up by himself. He barely stood up from the ground and took the respirator handed over by Olola.

"I might have had a nightmare, so I'm a little..."

"Nothing, everyone will have nightmares. I remember a long time ago when I was a child, I was scared of thunder."

Nich looked up at the canyon in the distance and couldn't help but sigh: "Today I'm going to walk for more than four hours. God, if I don't wear this protective suit, I'll be happy to walk for eight hours."

While wearing protective clothing, Nichi complained: "Anyway, we have taken it off more than once, so why not just put it on again, right?"

"Not for this."

Olola said frivolously: "We are not wearing protective clothing now to protect against bacteria or viruses."

"Then why?"

"You don't want to be bitten by something invisible, do you?"

"What invisible thing?"

Olola glanced at him calmly: "When in the spire in front, Clara and I found tiny holes on the nearby ground, which were suspected to be the entrance and exit of some unknown creature. This kind of thing is very small, maybe a soft creature like an earthworm, but it is better to wear protective clothing before you don't know the characteristics of this creature."

Hearing Olola's words, Nichi didn't dare to be careless and quickly put on his protective suit.

But Babs next to him was still absent-minded. After slowly putting on his protective suit, he said with a haggard expression: "Is it time to set off?"

"By the way, captain."

After Nichi put on his protective suit, he casually called him.

"What's wrong?"

Babs was still a little confused. He heard Nich calling him behind his back. Before he could look back at him, he heard another sentence: "Join us..."

“…”

Babs's whole body stiffened, and he didn't even dare to turn around and look at him.

"Captain, what's wrong?"

"You, what are you kidding?"

Babs trembled all over and slowly turned around. Seeing that Nich had not changed anything, he felt relieved.

"Captain, your face is very bad, are you uncomfortable?"

Ignoring Nich's care, Babs reluctantly kept calm: "What do you mean by saying 'joining us'?"

"oh."

Nich smiled slowly: "It means literally, join us..."

Visible to the naked eye, like in Babs' nightmare, the skin on the entire face was torn apart, revealing the hollow black hole inside.

“no,no,no!”

Babs stared at Nichi's change in disbelief. He panicked and moved back, and was shocked to find that Aolla and the others also followed him, but their faces all turned into dark holes.

"Join us, join us..."

"No, you monsters! You all go to die, you all go to die."

Babs' spirit finally collapsed. He shouted, unable to understand what was happening. His fear was condensed to the extreme, but instead he became boundless anger. He no longer cared about these terrible monsters, rushed up and grabbed Nichi's neck, and pushed it to the ground, trying to strangle the monster to death.

"Go to die, go to die, you monster, you damn monster."

As he tried his best to pinch the monster's neck, Babs' boundless anger mixed with fear forced him to exert unprecedented power.

Aola and others around him rushed up.

...

...

"Quick, pull him away."

The two soldiers played a huge role at the critical moment, stepped forward and pulled Babs away with all their might, and pressed him to the ground, stopping his crazy actions.

"Ahem..."

After being strangled by Babs who suddenly went crazy, Nich broke free and immediately lay on the ground and coughed violently. The respirator that fell to the ground during the fight with Babs was also stomped on by Babs.

"Are you okay?"

Clara gently patted Nichi on the back, trying to make him feel better.

"I, ahem, it's okay."

Touching his neck, Nichi was still scared: "What's wrong with him, why did he suddenly go crazy?"

"I don't know." Clara shook her head, obviously not sure why Babs suddenly attacked Nich.

"What happened over you?"

Hunter's voice sounded beside everyone's headsets, and through the cameras on everyone's heads, something seemed to be found in the command center.

"General, the captain's mental state suddenly became a little unstable. He attacked Dr. Nich."

One of the soldiers looked at Babs who was suppressed to the ground and said to Hunter in the headset.

"Mental state is unstable?"

Hunter's voice was filled with confusion. How could it be possible? Why would a good person become unstable in mental state?

Besides, it would be fine if others were unstable. Babs is a psychologist and he should have a better understanding of his mental state. It is really ridiculous to say that his mental state is unstable.

"Yes."

"You guys come back first, don't have to stay anymore. Be optimistic about Babs."

After a pause, Hunter gave the final order.

"Yes, General."
Chapter completed!