Girls Frontline: Griffin Security

Gray, shabby;

Thick fog, rust.

These four words are enough to summarize Silent Hill, because Xu Bin really can't find any other words to describe this place.

It was a small town that had long been dead, buried between the mountains by trees and thick fog. It seemed natural that the town would fall into such a dead silence.

Xu Bin led the team walking on the street, looking at the several corpses that appeared in his sight from time to time, and he couldn't help feeling sad in his heart.

Ever since the group entered the residential area of ​​Silent Hill, there has been constant tragic scenes along the way, with corpses being seen everywhere...some are humans, and some are monsters. It is hard to imagine what exactly happened here.

"Commander, I took pictures of the bodies." RO635 trotted over from the back of the team, handed the digital camera in his hand to Xu Bin and said, "These dead should all be local residents. They died from various injuries, including but not limited to blunt blows, sharp stabbings, and teeth biting..."

"Hmm..." Xu Bin nodded and checked the photos taken by the humanoid, and soon found new clues: "RO, you overlooked some small problems..."

"Ah.... Sorry, please point it out."

"Look at this photo, of a dead person lying in moss..." Xu Bin handed the digital camera back. "There is no moss growing where the skin of this guy is in contact with the moss, but some moss is growing under the parts covered by clothes."

After hearing the commander's description, RO enlarged the photo and found that it was true...

But what does this mean?

He looked at Xu Bin with a puzzled look on his face, and found that the latter was scratching the back of his head. After thinking for a moment, he explained:

"The moss around the body showed no signs of being scratched, which suggests it germinated from spores after death."

"The fastest growth cycle of moss takes 1 to 2 months. Do you know what this means?"

After listening to the commander's question, RO lowered his head and thought for a moment...

Then, an absurd and bold guess immediately emerged in my mind.

She looked up at Xu Bin in shock: "Are you trying to say... these bodies won't decay?"

"Well, that's probably the case." The latter nodded and then said nothing more.

His guess was not without reason: the climate in the town was hot and humid, and the corpse had been exposed to the air for several months in such an environment, and it should have rotted beyond recognition.

Why do these corpses in the photos still look like humans? Their skin is slightly dry, but you can still see that there is moisture in their bodies. They are not wrinkled like bacon jerky like the mummies in the pyramids.

Xu Bin also zoomed in on the hands of the corpse in the photo... Like the neck, head and other parts not covered by clothes, there is no moss growing around them. It seems that there is something on the skin of the corpse that can kill the moss and microorganisms in the surrounding environment, which is probably why they have not decayed until now.

But what is the principle of embalming? How is it related to those monsters? What is the cause of death? Why didn't any of the townspeople escape?

A series of confusing questions flooded into Xu Bin's mind, making him feel overwhelmed.

To be honest, he really wanted to dive into an air-conditioned room, take out a piece of scratch paper and work hard on the puzzle for three days and three nights, just like he did when he read mystery novels before.

This was a hobby he had always had in the peaceful times... But obviously, those carefree days were long gone. Xu Bin didn't have time to do that now. The only thing he could do was to find the survivors as soon as possible and take them out of Silent Hill.

After scratching their heads and thinking all the way, Xu Bin's team finally followed the map and arrived at Sunderland Street in the Old Silent Hill. A two-story house was in front of them. This was Ellen's home.

Turning his head to look at the latter, he found that Ellen was holding the letters tightly in his hands and stroking them like a timid child.

Such expressions and actions made Xu Bin think of his childhood playmates in Longguo... They looked like this when they were about to go home to face their parents after attending the parent-teacher meeting.

After giving Ellen a sour look, Xu Bin led the team into the courtyard...

There was an old children's slide and two swings in the yard. Xu Bin walked over to the swings and took a look. There were two groups of words written on them with a marker: Ellen's throne and Ryan's throne.

Ryan... Ellen had mentioned this name before, and it seemed like he was his younger brother. His parents had sent him a family photo, and the man in the photo who was about the same age as Ellen was him.

Ellen walked forward and stroked the swing that belonged to her, not knowing what she was thinking.

But it was obvious that this guy didn't dare to come in now.

He was afraid that he would find three bodies when he entered the house, his father's, his mother's, and his brother's...

Xu Bin also understood his anxiety, so he decided to give him a few minutes to prepare himself mentally, while he walked around the courtyard.

Although I can feel Ellen's anxiety about her parents at this moment, I still envy people who have a father and a mother!

Looking at the wooden slide in the courtyard, Xu Bin couldn't help but feel sad again... This thing seemed to be made by Ellen's father himself. It didn't have the stainless steel trademark nailed on by the manufacturer, only the smooth bevel that his father had painstakingly cut with a knife and two lines of words:

"I hope my dear Iron Ellen can become an excellent journalist in the future."

"I hope my beloved big planter Ryan can become a hero who solves human famine in the future as he wishes."

He touched the steel nails on the slide bracket twice. They were nailed firmly by Ellen's father, and he was afraid that he would not be able to get them out even if he tried his best.

Xu Bin thought that the time was almost up, so he turned around and prepared to take Ellen into the house to face reality... hopefully it wouldn't be the worst reality.

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But at this moment, a scream suddenly came from the second floor...

“Ahhhh——!!!”

Hearing the scream, the humanoids immediately became alert. UMP40 stepped forward to protect Xu Bin, and the AR team tacitly divided into two groups to surround the house...

Ellen realized it later and rushed to the door in two steps. He took out a bunch of keys from his bag and began to try frantically:

"It's not this one... nor this one... Damn it, which one is the key to this place!"

"Get out of the way and let me come!"

M16 walked up and pulled him away roughly, then kicked the door open with a "bang"... There was no other way, special situations require special treatment.

After kicking the door open, RO and M4 immediately walked in with their guns drawn. They switched the tactical flashlights hanging next to the gun barrels to variable-frequency strobe mode, which soon illuminated the dim inner room so brightly that it was blinding.

The two girls at the back door of the house kicked the door and rushed into the house at the same time. Not long after, gunshots rang out... Since Xu Bin was hiding in the yard to protect Ellen at this time, he didn't know what the humanoids had encountered inside.

But at this moment, AR15's head suddenly popped out from the second floor:

"Commander, be careful! That thing is rushing down!"

"What?"

wow-

Suddenly, there was a sound of glass breaking. The window downstairs was smashed by something, and a dark figure that looked like a human jumped out at the same time. It fell to the ground and rolled several times in a twisted posture, then stood up and showed Xu Bin its true appearance...

A humanoid monster covered in black and scarred came into view... It was skinny and kept covering its face with its hands, as if it was afraid to look at humans.

Snap, snap, snap——

The humanoids' gunshots soon rang out, and the bullets made the monster run around in the courtyard in pain like a headless fly.

What made it difficult for the humanoids was that this guy ran very fast and without any purpose. This forced them to stop shooting... The commander was in the courtyard, and no one wanted to hurt him by mistake.

“Ah! Ugh!”

A shrill scream came from the monster's mouth...

Compared to the screams of animals in pain, this sound is more like the roar of humans after experiencing regret and despair.

Anyway, none of this is the point! The point is that this black thing is running towards you with its hands covering its face!

"cao!"

Seeing the monster rushing towards him, Xu Bin simply stopped hiding, stood up suddenly, pulled out his tactical dagger, and stabbed it into the monster's throat...

There was a strange "puff" sound, and the monster's body went limp and fell to the ground.

With the experience of fighting with the monster with a broken face before, Xu Bin didn't dare to show mercy at this moment. He continued to exert force with the hand holding the knife, and without much effort he chopped off the monster's head... It should be dead now, right?

At the same time, M4 also ran downstairs first:

"Commander, are you injured? ....Ah!"

This picture, which should have been mosaiced, scared M4. Xu Bin could only say helplessly:

"Don't look at me like that. I don't like chopping people's heads off either...but it has to be dead first."

After saying that, he kicked the monster's head away.