NCCnovel #582 - A Quiet Place
#582 - A Quiet Place
Under the red cloth is a transparent glass ball display cabinet with a diameter of about 3 meters, suspended on a metal base.
Looking inside, the interior of the sphere was filled with light blue damping gel, surrounding an irregular mass of black and red substance.
It seems to be in a bent state, with a hard black shell covering its surface and red mucus oozing from the gaps between the shells. Its entire body slowly contracts and expands as if it is breathing.
No, not "like", it is just breathing.
This item number 20 is a living thing!
If you look more closely, you can see several black whip-like tentacles with cracked ends, attached to the inner wall of the glass and swimming slowly.
Its head has no facial features, only a circle of spiral bone plates facing the guests, and in the center of the bone plate is embedded a cloudy spherical crystal, which seems to be some kind of organ of the creature.
As the last item came on stage, the ballroom fell into a brief silence, and the restless atmosphere stagnated slightly.
Seizing this opportunity, the host spoke again and introduced the event to everyone in her professional voice:
"Ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to introduce to you the final collection of the evening..."
The host raised his hand and the beam swept across the surface of the glass ball. The black and red substance in the gel suddenly shrank, and the mucus smudged in the light blue like blood:
“This item is neither equipment nor a feature, but a ‘biological matrix’ brought out from a dungeon.
“It was born in silence, but feeds on sound waves. This body does not belong to the map of any known species—it has no eyes, but its heartbeat can be heard by its kind thousands of miles away; it has no sharp teeth, but it can tear apart the hustle and bustle of a city.
"Pay attention to those tentacles clinging to the inner wall... They are not struggling, but listening... Yes, at this moment, the friction of your clothes, the trembling of your Adam's apple, and even the pulsation of your blood vessels are all its feasts."
At this point, the host grabbed the gavel that the waiter had just brought over and slammed it hard on the spherical glass display case.
With a muffled sound, one of the tentacles suddenly twitched, and the cilia scraped against the glass, making a sharp buzzing sound, and the black shell also began to tremble.
Although there was no sign of breaking out of the cage, it still caused the guests to exclaim in surprise.
A certain fear of unknown beasts engraved in the genes has been awakened.
What on earth is that?
The same question is floating in almost everyone's mind.
And the host obviously also saw this.
She put down the gavel and tapped the microphone with her fingertips. Her voice was like silk wrapped around a knife blade, carrying a chilling murderous aura:
"I need to warn you all, if you don't have enough confidence to contain and manage it, please don't participate in this auction. If you let this monster escape, it will have the power to destroy our world."
Looking around at the guests, the host successfully achieved silence.
She's not kidding...
Gao Yi couldn't help but become more serious. He stood up straight and thought quickly in his mind.
According to the host, this monster can capture prey through hearing, and it is a "biological mother", which means it can give birth to more monsters?
If nothing unexpected happens, something of this level is the long-advertised "copy source quality".
The host's next words also confirmed Gao Yi's guess:
"This creature came from the Level 5 Sword instance, the Land of Silence, and was the core product of that terrifying instance. With it being brought out, that instance should have fallen into chaos. If nothing unexpected happens, its level will drop rapidly, or even be eliminated directly."
But if you think about it carefully, if you leave it until now, [Land of Silence] might be downgraded due to the disappearance of the "copy source quality", then wouldn't that be a waste of time?
That being said, it’s still a good thing that it’s sold out…
While Gao Yi was thinking, Zheng Qiqing came over and said to Gao Yi in a low voice, as if she had discovered some secret:
"If I remember correctly, there is a movie called A Quiet Place? Could this monster be from that movie?"
"You...haven't you seen it?"
Gao Yi was indeed a little surprised. For players, watching horror movies is basically a compulsory course. After all, sixty to seventy percent of the copies are directly based on horror movies.
The pink-haired girl on the other side tilted her head:
"Ah, maybe I had other things to do when it was released, so I didn't go to watch it."
"Can't I watch it at home?" Gao Yi suddenly remembered something, but still asked the question.
"Of course you have to watch movies in the cinema! What kind of movie is it if you don't watch it in the cinema!!"
Zheng Qiqing tilted her neck back and said exactly the same words as her sister.
In a sense, these two sisters are indeed very similar...
In response to this, Gao Yi did not make any further comments, but simply recounted the general plot and setting of "A Quiet Place" in brief words.
Simply put, the poor Earth has once again been invaded by alien creatures, some kind of creature without vision but highly developed hearing began to wreak havoc on the surface.
The result of this situation is that any behavior that makes any sound will attract the monster's pursuit and attack.
And this is also the main theme of the entire "A Quiet Place", the fear of not being able to make any sound.
In a short period of time, the total human population decreased dramatically, and the familiar doomsday state arrived.
The classic, not-so-bright protagonist and his family somehow survived to the end and built a house in the suburbs.
And she was very determined to have several children under such circumstances.
The following story is about a not-so-intelligent child who causes high blood pressure and his not-so-intelligent parents who take turns getting sick...
"Will it attack when it hears a sound?" Zheng Qiqing subconsciously lowered her voice. "Will that monster chase after the train? Will it tickle the air when it rains?"
I have to say that this pink-haired girl is quite smart. She thought of all this in an instant.
"According to the setting of the movie, the sounds of the natural environment will be ignored by the monsters, so you can talk normally next to the waterfall." Gao Yi replied.
“Then why not just build your house next to the waterfall?” the girl expressed doubt.
“So this is a bad movie…”
Gao Yi spread his hands and said helplessly.
Although the movie is not really great, the monster is indeed very oppressive. It is agile, stealthy, almost impossible to kill, and extremely sensitive to sound.
As a copy of "5 of Swords", it is worthy of the name.
Even a high level of eccentricity can imagine how the silent battles of the players in the dungeon were carried out...
But no matter what, the copy of "The Quiet Place" is already a thing of the past.
The current "Ripple Masquerade" actually brought out the "matrix" which is the "source of the copy".
Aren’t they really worried about a group of these sound-seeking monsters appearing in the “real world”?
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