Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 306 Radio

"Team leader, don't you think you are setting a goal for yourself?" Yin Xiang frowned.

"If you believe it, it exists; if you don't believe it, it doesn't exist." Ding Chao said casually.

"Okay, okay..." Yin Xiang nodded, "What should we do now? Should we go in directly?"

"Let's check the perimeter of the factory first." Ding Chao said, "We will work in groups of three, but we must ensure that we are always within the sight of the other two groups and the drones in the sky. Gather here in fifteen minutes."

Ding Chao picked two operators, and then said to Yin Xiang, "Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu, you take charge, go check the cargo loading and unloading area over there."

"Understood." Yin Xiang nodded, waved to Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu, and trotted towards the loading and unloading area where two semi-trailer trucks were parked.

Before Yin Xiang ran to the semi-trailer, a disgusting smell drifted into his nostrils - the closer he was to the loading and unloading area, the stronger the smell was.

“Tsk…what’s that smell?” Yin Xiang was stunned at first, then he reacted. He quickly put on the gas mask hanging around his waist, and then glanced at the multifunctional watch on his wrist.

In addition to the commonly used functions, the multi-function watches issued to these field operators can also automatically detect the air quality in the environment. If the oxygen content is too low or the toxic components in the air exceed the dangerous threshold, an alarm will be issued to the wearer.

Yin Xiang adjusted the power of the air filter valve to maximum, but even so, the red warning light still did not light up.

Is the watch broken? Or... is the smell just unpleasant and harmless to the human body?
"Team leader, there is a strange smell in the loading and unloading area. It smells terrible." Yin Xiang pressed the call button and said in the team's internal communication channel, "It's hard to describe what kind of smell it is... It's like rotten eggs that have been pickled in slop for several days, and then mixed with the smell of a dry toilet that has been in disrepair for a long time and no one has flushed it... I just took a small whiff and felt like I was going to vomit the overnight meal..."

"That's not a strange smell." Ding Chao's tone was very calm. "That's the smell of FL09 reagent deteriorating and volatilizing in a non-low temperature environment. It's harmless to the human body. The reagents piled in the loading and unloading area should have deteriorated. It's normal for you to smell such an odor."

"...Team leader, you did this on purpose? Sending me to the loading and unloading area to check?" Yin Xiang's face suddenly darkened. "I feel like my stomach is churning... I'm a little worried that I will vomit in my gas mask."

"I've only heard researchers describe the smell of FL09 reagent deteriorating and volatile, but I've never smelled it directly. I didn't know it would be so irritating. Sorry, please hold on for a moment." Ding Chao said.

"Forget it, considering that you... uh... your apology is quite sincere... uh... damn, I can't... talk anymore... otherwise I'm really going to... vomit... I... I'll... slowly..."

Yin Xiang pressed his chest with one hand and patted Ling Xiao with the other hand, indicating that he would lead the team for the time being.

Ling Xiao didn't say anything, but walked to the front silently and looked inside the open truck container.

"There's something inside." Ling Xiao said.

"What is that?!" Yin Xiang was startled and instantly took off the assault rifle in his hand and pointed the gun at the container.

"Some foam insulation boxes and some sturdy plastic stands." Ling Xiao added.

"...Huh." Yin Xiang let out a long sigh and put down his gun dejectedly. "I thought... there was something unusual. My dear brother, please say it differently next time... You can really scare people to death by saying that..."

"Oh." Ling Xiao nodded, "I'll go to the cab and take a look."

Ling Xiao took two steps at a time, jumped up on the ladder, and pulled open the door on the driver's side of the cab.

"How is it, did you find anything?" Yin Xiang, who was standing next to the truck, raised his head and asked, "I mean - did you find anything unusual? For example, bloodstains, body parts, signs of fighting, etc. If there is nothing unusual, there is no need to report it."

"There is a radio." Ling Xiao said.

"Isn't a radio a normal thing?" Yin Xiang muttered, "It's very common for drivers to listen to the radio when they are bored while driving... Maybe the radio that comes with this truck is broken, so the driver bought a radio and put it in the cab."

"This radio is on." Ling Xiao said again.

"The car is not even locked... Everyone in the park disappeared very suddenly, otherwise, I wouldn't have smelled this disgusting odor." Yin Xiang's face suddenly changed when he was talking, "Wait, the radio is on? What's playing on the radio now?"

In order to achieve the purpose of information control, most of the radio stations in Shuzhou area have stopped broadcasting. Only a few official radio stations used to release various important notices and announcements are still in operation. Apart from repeating a notice of several hundred words thousands of times a day, there is no way you can hear any music, crosstalk or emotional programs on these radio stations. Logically speaking, no matter how bored this driver is, he wouldn't listen to repeated notices every day, right?
As drivers of "Tianfu Special Medicine", they have more accurate, detailed and faster channels to obtain these notification information, and there is no need to listen to the radio at all - after all, the content on the radio is for ordinary people to hear, and the content will naturally be "modified" to a certain extent.

"Is there anything playing on the radio?" Yin Xiang asked cautiously.

"No sound." Ling Xiao replied immediately, "Not even the noise of electricity."

"There's not even any electrical noise...then how do you know the radio is on?" Yin Xiang was puzzled.

"The power indicator light is on." Ling Xiao said.

“Maybe the volume is turned down to the minimum... take the radio down and let me take a look.” Yin Xiang said.

"it is good."

Ling Xiao quickly jumped down from the ladder, holding a palm-sized silver-white radio in his hand.

Yin Xiang took the radio. It was a "Diamond" brand radio, a very old brand - Yin Xiang remembered that there was an old-fashioned Diamond brand radio on the table in the living room of his grandmother's house in the countryside.

That thing, which is about the size of a brick, is about the same age as Yin Xiang’s grandmother... Yin Xiang once thought that this brand was gone, but he didn’t expect that it is still alive.

This is a portable radio with a built-in antenna, a type-C charging port, and can even connect to Bluetooth headsets...it is definitely a new model produced in recent years.

"There's really no sound..." Yin Xiang fiddled with it for a while and noticed that the volume was normal, there was no Bluetooth headset connected, and the radio was working... but the listening frequency displayed on the fingernail-sized LCD screen kept changing, and several numbers jumped back and forth. At first glance, it looked like garbled characters. "Is this radio broken?" Yin Xiang subconsciously patted the back of the radio with his hand.

The randomly jumping frequency band suddenly stopped, and the number displayed on the screen became 555.5MHz - this stunned Yin Xiang, he remembered that the FM range of radio stations in most parts of the Xiazhou Federation was between 87-108MHz, so what happened to the sudden appearance of 555?

Could it be that the new radio can also go beyond the originally set frequency framework? Is it so powerful?

If this thing is slightly modified, can it also be used to eavesdrop on military radio stations?
Just as Yin Xiang was daydreaming, a low cry suddenly came from the radio.

"Fuck you!"

Yin Xiang was startled and the radio fell out of his hand. Fortunately, Ling Xiao was quick-witted and caught the fallen radio, thus saving the radio from being smashed to pieces.

"Team leader! Team leader, come here quickly! I have found something here!" Yin Xiang didn't care about his pounding heart, and hurriedly pressed the call button and shouted loudly.

Half a minute later, Ding Chao and several field staff hurried to the loading and unloading area.

"Is this the radio you mentioned?" Ding Chao took the radio and checked it. "You mean, if I tap it, crying sounds will come out of it?"

"Yes!" Yin Xiang nodded vigorously. "That crying sound was quite creepy... The goose bumps on my neck and back haven't gone away yet."

"Can you tell whether the cry is from a man or a woman, an adult or a baby?" Ding Chao asked again.

“I can’t tell.”

At this time, the radio had returned to its original state of randomly jumping frequency bands. Ding Chao looked at Yin Xiang suspiciously, then patted the back of the radio in the same way.

The number on the screen froze again, but this time it was fixed at 222.2MHz.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..." A strange laugh came from the radio and floated into everyone's ears.

"Fuck, this time the crying turned into laughter." Yin Xiang suddenly cursed, "This fucking laughter is more creepy than crying."

"Bring the testing equipment here." Ding Chao took out a specimen bag and carefully placed the radio in it. "Test whether this radio is a strange object."

The testing process took less than two minutes, and they got the answer - the radio itself was not a strange object, but the magnetic field in the factory park seemed to be distorted by some unknown force, which caused "problems" with the radio's FM function, resulting in those strange laughter and crying sounds.

"This must be related to the weird creatures." Yin Xiang said firmly, "Even if the magnetic field is abnormal, it is impossible to transform the noise of the electric current into crying and laughing! You all heard it just now! It was definitely laughter! And it changed into several different kinds of laughter!"

Several field operators who followed along couldn't help but feel a chill down their spines and nodded subconsciously.

"Report to the command center immediately!" Ding Chao nodded. After that, he seemed to remember something, picked up another communicator, and said, "Captain Geng, this is Ding Chao. You should have brought a high-power military radio, right?"

"Okay, then please adjust the frequency of the radio to 222.2MHz and 555.5MHz." Ding Chao said again.

Then, there was a silence that lasted for several minutes.

"Team Leader Ding, what's going on with that weird laughter and crying? I need your explanation." Captain Geng's voice came from the communicator. Yin Xiang, who was standing next to Ding Chao, could tell that Captain Geng's breathing was a little messy and he spoke very quickly, as if he was trying to hide some emotion - it was obvious that he was also frightened by those weird noises, just like himself.

"We don't know the source or meaning of these sounds either," Ding Chao replied. "My people found a malfunctioning radio in a truck in the loading and unloading area. When we tapped the radio, it automatically locked onto a frequency band... You guessed it, 222.2MHz and 555.5MHz... According to our judgment, the monster that attacked Factory 105 may have changed the magnetic field in this area, which caused the radio to malfunction."

"Team leader, I have an idea." Yin Xiang said suddenly.

"You go." Ding Chao nodded to him.

"Look, these two frequency bands, one is 222.2 and the other is 555.5... Do you find any similarities between them?"

"They are all made up of the same number?"

"Yes... In that case, then you can ask them to use military radios to try frequency bands like 111.1 or 333.3 to see if they can hear something different." Yin Xiang said.

"Okay, I'll let them try it right away, because I still need them to record all these audio files and send them back to the command center to see if they can analyze them..."

However, a few minutes later, bad news came back from Captain Geng.

They tried several other special frequency bands with military radios, and indeed heard some unusual sounds - for example, 111.1 was a whisper whose specific content was difficult to discern; 333.3 was intermittent gasps; 444.4 was some kind of strange friction sound... But when the soldiers recorded these sounds and sent them back to the command center, they found that those audio files, without exception, were all damaged during transmission.

"All damaged... Is it not just the magnetic field that is affected?" Ding Chao looked thoughtful. "Captain Geng, how about you try to play the strange sound heard by the military radio while communicating with the command center and see if the command center can record it."

"Do you think I haven't thought of this?" Captain Geng said unhappily, "I tried this method when the second transmission of the recording file failed. It didn't work. It was all fucking noise... The command center could only barely hear my voice, but they couldn't hear the crying, laughing, and murmuring coming from the radio!"

"...Speaking of which, is it normal when you play the audio files you recorded directly using the recording equipment?" Ding Chao asked.

"It's normal."

"Then don't use the Internet to transmit, just use the drone to bring the recorded equipment back." Ding Chao said, "Although it will waste some time, at least it can ensure that there will be no interference during the transmission process."

(End of this chapter)