Chapter 270: Apocalypse of the Living Dead (45)
On the Gobi Desert, the climate is dry and there are no clouds. The yellow sand in the sky was constantly raised under the rolling wheels, and the army-green jeeps were moving across the endless desert, and the midday sun was bound to burn the air.
The mission of the team led by Xiao Lan is related to the rainforest, and it is also related to radiation. According to the information obtained above, rainforests have appeared out of thin air in the vicinity of this desert area within a few years. It is logically impossible to have a "tropical rainforest in the desert", but judging by the speed of change in the natural environment after the catastrophe, nothing is impossible.
If the tropical rainforest only appears out of thin air, there is no need to mobilize a "special team", the appearance of the rainforest is secondary, and more important lies in the relationship between this "rainforest" and radiation. The area was cleaned up with nuclear weapons a few years ago, and under normal conditions for less than thirty or forty years, habitable conditions on the surface are impossible, but the radiation levels in the rainforest are surprisingly low. Their mission is to find out why the radiation is low in the "rainforest", and to find out why it absorbs radiation.
"It's ready, sir. After a long silence, a member of the team finally spoke.
Xiao Lan looked up when he heard the sound, and a touch of green appeared at the end of the desert horizon, which was where they were on a mission. The sudden appearance of the tropical rainforest, Xiao Lan could feel the abundant water vapor inside, and the high temperature also eased as he approached the rainforest, indicating that it was not a phantom but a real existence.
Chen Lao adjusted the radiation sensor on his body, and the value on it gradually decreased, but the radar display mark was not wrong. He bowed his head to confirm and said, "That's it, the radiation level has been decreasing."
"Parking on the side, we walked in. Xiao Lan commanded.
The jeep stopped near the rainforest, and everyone got out of the car to observe the spectacular sight in front of them. In their memories, they could rarely see such a dense forest, only from a distance, far from a distance to surprise people.
The desert and rainforest are bordered by green and yellow. In the rainforest, the lush foliage hides the scorching sun, the thick and well-developed root system is planted deep in the ground, and the sandy soil turns into a rich red soil, and dense mosses grow. The trees in the entire forest are roughly more than 100 meters high, and their root systems are well developed and practiced, and they even cover the ground, like a giant hand raising a huge branch.
The team kept moving forward, observing. The crowd felt the abundant moisture and felt the flow of water. Without perceiving it, after they walked more than fifty meters, they saw a large lake. The lake is surprisingly large, calm and without waves, the color of the water is crystal clear, and you can even see the swimming of aquatic plants and aquatic creatures, and hear the call of birds.
"It's a weird environment. "Chen Lao may be experienced, there must be a demon when something goes wrong, and he is only afraid of hidden danger under the peculiarity.
"Sa-sa-" The sound of the branches swaying loudly sounded, and everyone immediately mobilized all their visions to find the source.
"There are monkeys. ”
"It's a group of monkeys, about a dozen. ”
More than a dozen monkeys inhabit this large area of the lake, and when they encounter a group of outsiders, they rush out to warn them, and their hoarse cries fill the entire rainforest. The sound of the monkeys frightened the birds of the forest, and the birds flapped their wings and shouted, and flew away. A few birds and monkeys, not to be afraid, moved on. Unlike the others, Chen Lao took out his camera out of nowhere and took pictures of the birds and monkeys.
After filming, he said thoughtfully: "It's a very primitive biome, it doesn't seem to be infected yet." But let's keep going first, the team that comes later will investigate" Xiao Lan nodded in agreement, this rainforest does have research value, but now is not the time, the top priority is to find the cause of low radiation.
"Someone!"
As soon as the words of the people in the group fell, wooden spears thrown in the distance struck at their positions, and more than one, many pieces of bows and arrows also flew from the distance. Xiao Lan raised his hand and erected a large area of ice on the lake, which had been blocked before the bow and arrow arrived. Chen Lao picked up the bow and arrow that fell at his feet, the bow and arrow were crudely made and completely handmade. He then dipped the liquid of the arrow and rubbed it on the tip of his tongue, and it was a tingling.
"This arrow is poisonous. ”
Xiao Lan ran back and forth to dodge, observed the other side of the lake, and saw a figure. Their attire is peculiar, with no noticeable ability fluctuations on the other side, and no adepts. Once she came to her conclusion, she froze the surface of the lake with her ability and gave the order to act.
"At three o'clock, about five people, no heavy weapons, no ability perception, ordinary people. ”
"Action. ”
Ordinary people face the supernatural, and the results are obviously easy to see.
The "Transhuman" took the lead, launched the barb on his back, hooked the trunk of the tree on the other side of the lake, and with the help of the machinery on his body, sprayed fire, and glided over like this, and landed steadily on the opposite bank. Without waiting for the enemy to react, and before even the next attack could be launched, the reformers with their bare hands subdued the people.
After Xiao Lan walked to the other side of the lake, he directly began to interrogate: "Who are you?"
As soon as the ordinary people who were caught saw their posture, they knew that they had provoked someone who shouldn't be provoked, so they could only answer truthfully: "We were originally refugees from District 12, and we escaped from it half a year ago and came here to live, and we didn't want to be disturbed by attacking you." We are also begging to live on the orders of the chief, and outsiders must be killed. ”
"Chief?" Old Chen was puzzled by this primitive title.
"We chose to live as a tribe and didn't want to survive in the shelter. The other party continued to explain.
"Aren't you afraid of zombies?" said Elder Chen, fiddling with their weapons in front of them. As Chen Lao thought, these are very rough wooden weapons, which have a certain lethality to ordinary people, but have no attack power against zombies at all.
"We've never seen a zombie since we came here. ”
Hearing this, Xiao Lan subconsciously frowned and continued to ask, "Does your tribe have supernatural beings?"
"We are all human beings. The other party's expression didn't look like he was lying, and he also wondered why Xiao Lan asked like that.
There is a reason for this, in the common perception, the living dead swim in a very wide range, and there is basically no place not to go, unless that area has a great deterrent effect on the ordinary living dead, and there are only two reasons for the deterrent effect. It's either a strong Adept, or a Zombie King, since it's not the former, then it's the latter.
But if it's the latter, how can it possibly allow this group of ordinary people to live under their noses?
While Xiao Lan was thinking, "Bang!" A gunshot rang out in the distance, and a sniper bullet passed through many obstacles and struck in the direction of Xiao Lan's head