Plague Doctor

The sky darkened. The grass wavered but the black robed figures stood motionless. The group of 100 plus agents stopped moving. The walkie-talkies crackled with reports from the scouts posted at both the front and rear of the group. Leaders like Gu Jun used their binoculars to look around. Without them realizing it, black-robed figures had materialized next to the wilted trees on the plain. These figures blocked all directions, including the shoreline where they came from. There were probably more than several thousands of them.

"Damn it, where did these people come from…" Bruce cursed. None of his teammates was able to answer him. Before departing for the mission, they read the files provided by Phecda. The core members of Lai Sheng Company believed they were reincarnated individuals from a different dimension. They wished to usher in a new era and take control over Earth. To achieve that purpose, they cooperated with the R'yleh Cult.

"What… are they holding?" Paulina Grisman asked, "Knives?" Gu Jun's eyes narrowed around their hands. Those were scalpels and they all had Carlot designs…. He used the binoculars to look around. The black robed individuals' right hands all held a silver scalpel with the blade pointing down.

"Ah Jun?" Xue Ba, who also noticed this, prompted Gu Jun. Only Gu Jun knew how to utilize these kinds of strange instruments.

"I too have no idea what's going on…" Gu Jun said darkly. His heart was pounding so hard it almost jumped out of his chest. "The enemy intends to stop us from going up the hill… or else they would not have shown up so soon…" Like what Lou Xiaoning claimed, they were at the right place and their arrival was probably not welcomed. The storm probably had nothing to do with the cultists either or else they would have all sunken to the sea already.

"Snipers!" Gu Jun shouted with fury in his eyes. "Open fire." To be honest, he did not anticipate success from the snipers because Gu Jun knew the cultists would not have stood there as sitting ducks. However, they had to do something. Instantly, the snipers opened fire. The large calibre bullets could easily break one's spine. The black-robed figures did not move to evade. To Gu Jun's surprise, the bullets hit their targets. The black-robed individuals did not appear to be an illusion and they did not possess the spell to defend themselves…

Bang! One of them had their head explode while another had gained a big hole drilling through their chest. Their black robes instantly dyed with blood. They collapsed but soon, they climbed up from the ground.

"Jesus Christ!"

"I'm not dreaming, am I?"

"Those are not humans, what are they…"

The snipers gasped in shock. The expression of the various commanders darkened. How did they survive that? Their vital organs like 'brain' and 'heart' were moved to other locations of the bodies?

The team had limited resources and it was not the time to waste bullets. Puloscov suggested gruffly. "Captain Gu, we should try mortar missiles." Gu Jun approved. Perhaps blowing them up would help. The artillerymen moved into action. They fired off a mortar at a cluster of individuals gathered near the hill. The mortar shell exploded. The 3 closest individuals were instantly vaporized. Their broken body parts showered in a rain of blood…

However, what happened next chilled the agents' heart. Through the binoculars, they saw the broken muscles slowly wiggle to gather at one spot. They fitted into place like a puzzle to reform three individuals. Then the three calmly picked up the scalpels that dropped to the ground in the explosion. The black robes did not reconstruct themselves so the figures' actual appearance was exposed. They had no bone structure or organs like brains or heart, they were a coagulation of some kind of dark red rotten flesh.

"My god."

"What in the world are those…"

The agents were shocked. This was a first time encounter even for Gu Jun. His heart wrenched and his brain trembled. Unlike the enemies that he had faced in the past, this creature had broken through the limitation of biology. They were quite literally products of darkness. He was suddenly reminded of a sentence, 'Creature of worm and maggot breaking through the barrier, reshaping and reforming…'

A voice then rang in his heart, 'What is life, what is death…'

At that moment, all the black-robed individuals removed their hoods. The exposed faces delivered a huge mental blow to the agents. These non-humans retained the shape of human heads but their faces were composed of dark red flesh. These creatures were beyond the agent's comprehension of abnormal creatures. While the agents were stunned, the robed individuals moved. They gripped the scalpel and closed the circle around the agent.

"Captain Gu, what should we do?" Bell asked. "Will Ancient Seal work on them?"

"They are influencing our minds! I can feel that…"

"We mustn't let them come any closer!"

The wind howled. The low clouds suppressed the life on the plains. 'Is that the sound of wind or thunder?' A blurry voice echoed around them. It was the sound of someone chanting a word in repetition. None of the agents understood it. However, it appeared to arouse some activity from the sedated agents.

"Ah…" Carl Douglas pressed his head like something was trying to force its way out. Suddenly he shouted, "We'll all die today, yes, today will be our last!"

"Give him a disoprofol shot stat, knock him out!" Uncle Dan ordered immediately. Gu Jun already told him that once these people started to show any sign of madness, they should be immediately sedated. Instantly, the medical members apprehended all 16 mentally-unstable agents and injected them with the sedatives. After 40 seconds, the agents drifted off.

However, the other agents fell increasingly under the influence of the sound. The voice appeared to carry some kind of dark magic with it…

Since the Spell Department offered a lesson in the foreign language, Xue Ba finally picked up on the word. It was a foreign term.

Tragedy! The term was also synonymous with destruction and death.

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