In the dark.

The wind blew up on the flat ground, startling a dozen oddly shaped birds to fly into the dark sky.

Beasts of prey are scurrying among the ruins.

The lower obstacle leaped over and met the ruins of the towering buildings, which, despite the collapse of the slope, were still close to a ninety-degree steep slope, and did not avoid the slightest evasion, the claws crushed the protruding stones, and the terrifying power of the knotted muscles under the gray-black hair erupted all the time, making it still walk on the ground even on this "cliff".

If you zoom in, you can see that there seems to be a person sitting on the back of this terrifying beast.

On the saddle cushion made of sand and gravel, Zhu Jue sat cross-legged, the three sun moon sword was placed horizontally on his knees, his back was against the chair cushion, and the oncoming air flow was dispelled in front of him, so even if the wind chimes ran fast, he still sat very steadily on it.

The distance from the settlement to the polluted area is not far, although there are various obstacles along the way, but at the speed of wind chimes, only two or three minutes later, Zhu Jue saw a broken sign in the North 3 District on the side of the street.

"Wind Chimes, slow down!"

Bending down and patting the forehead of the wind chime, the surrounding scenery gradually returns to its original state.

Oh~

Moving closer to the side of the street, the wind chimes shook their heads and roared excitedly, and the three flexible tails behind them flicked wildly, slapping the nearby gravel.

Recently, the wind chime has been keeping its petite size and following Zhu Jue's side, and it has long wanted to find a chance to stretch its muscles, so after leaving the settlement, it replaced the work of a scavenger, restored to its original strong body, and carried Zhu Jue all the way forward by leaps and bounds.

Raising his foot sideways, the scavenger immediately stretched out a platform on the left side, supported Zhu Jue's soles in the air, and carried him down.

The wind chime didn't change back immediately, but rubbed around Zhu Jue, and Zhu Jue also let it, anyway, with its coat color, as long as it is well hidden in this environment, no one will be able to find it, and he will still go back later.

Looking at the surrounding environment through camera glasses, compared to the barely neat street plan of the No. 37 community, the No. 40 community is undoubtedly much more messy, and the map stored in the audio-visual stick is only marked with rough icons, because there is no network, Zhu Jue cannot check his real-time location, and can only rely on intuition to find the location of the polluted area.

Luckily, it wasn't completely clueless, and there was a disgusting stench in the air, the same smell that the community of Zhujue 37 had smelled before.

The contaminated area is nearby.

"Wind chimes, can you find the source of the smell?"

When it comes to smell, wind chimes are undoubtedly more sensitive than Zhu Jue.

Woo~

Holding his head high and sniffing the smell, the T-shaped black sinuses swelled, and after a while, he whimpered with some grievances, obviously disgusted by the smell, twisted his head and twisted it twice on Zhu Jue's shoulder, and waited for the latter to hold and rub it before retracting it again, flicking his tail and walking forward.

Walking forward for a few minutes, Zhu Jue suddenly saw a small Ferris wheel standing in the middle of the road, about dozens of meters high, and several completely scrapped mechanical puppets could be seen in the ruins nearby, with limbs hanging down and their faces split, revealing the dusty parts in it.

Spread out his perception and approach the polluted area, he had to guard against infected people hiding in the dark, but to Zhu Jue's surprise, until he walked through most of the streets, he still didn't detect the existence of any infected people or even living beings.

In fact, since he entered North 3 Ward, he has not even seen the corpse of an infected person.

This is not like what should be in a polluted area.

The wind chime arched Zhu Jue's waist behind him, urging him to move forward, and then ran around the latter to the viaduct in front of him, as if he had found something, Zhu Jue hurriedly raised his heels.

Climbing the escalator that had long been unable to be activated, stepping on the fence on the side of the overpass, the smell became stronger and stronger, and Zhu Jue took out a telescope with night vision from the space ring.

"Finally found it!"

The palm of the hand clenching the telescope tightened, and he whispered to himself.

About 100 meters away, between the ruins of three high-rise buildings arranged in a zigzag pattern, black and purple layers of infection spread among them, covering the buildings and the streets, slowly and strangely wriggling.

It's like a ghost.

It's definitely not okay to go directly to it like in community 37, just above there was a battle in community 39, and now the Ouroboros organization must be on guard, Zhu Jue doesn't want to startle the snake.

Now that the location of the infected area has been confirmed, the location of the core bone tree is naturally the next target to be observed.

It stands to reason that the zigzag building is surrounded, and the empty space in the center is undoubtedly the best place to place the bone tree, which is blocked on three sides, leaving only one vacancy, and it is easy to defend, but standing here on the overpass and looking through the telescope for a few minutes, Zhu Jue never saw the existence of the bone tree.

Is it behind the building?

The height of the bridge is less than 10 meters, and it is obvious that you can't see the situation behind the building, and the Ferris wheel behind you becomes the best observation deck at this time.

It took a moment to stand at the top of the Ferris wheel and take in the view of the polluted area in the distance.

The vision crossed the building, and to Zhu Jue's surprise, he still hadn't found the existence of the bone tree!

As the core of the infected area, the bone tree must be in the center, and the area covered by the contaminated area in front of you may be larger than that of the polluted area of community No. 37, but it is limited to this, you must know that the height of the bone tree is about 6 meters, and it is impossible to hide in the building, such an obvious target, under normal circumstances, it should be visible at a glance.

Jingle bell~

The phone rings.

"Hello?"

The scavenger took out his mobile phone from his pocket, connected it and put it to Zhu Jue's ear.

"Zhu Jue, we contacted the Ranger organization, they are in the settlement, there are a lot of them...... The situation is a little strange, it seems that they are preparing for a large-scale battle. ”

In the alleyway full of debris, Su Zi and Gu Yinxing stood behind a few plastic boxes, observing the people on the street outside who were adjusting weapons and carrying ammunition.

When they were walking around the settlement before, they accidentally saw the dense firelight here, and when they got closer, Gu Yinxing recognized the mark painted on their weapons again.

"Fighting?"

Turning the binoculars, Zhu Jue thought for a while, and then said,

"Aren't they going to storm the infected zone?"

"No, not a sortie, but a defense, they are building fortifications, machine guns are mounted in the windows of houses on both sides of the street. ”

Gu Yinxing grabbed the box with both hands and turned her head to see as much as possible about the situation on the street.

When Chang~

Perhaps because of her impatience, Gu Yinxing's hands subconsciously increased the strength, and as a result, the already loose plastic box was crooked, and the empty bottle inside fell to the ground, making a few crisp sounds when rolling.

"Who's there!"

The people in a state of imminent war were in a state of high tension, and the sudden murmur unexpectedly attracted attention.

"Sorry...... What now?"

Turning his head, Gu Yinxing's face turned a little red because of embarrassment.

"Zhu Jue, I'm afraid we'll have to contact the Ranger organization in advance. ”

Suzi waved her hand, signaling that they would not retreat, they were not here to find trouble, and leaving at this time would make the Ranger organization think that they had bad intentions.

"Handle it yourself when it's safe to do so, I have some situations on my side, so I hung up first. ”

On the other end of the phone, Zhu Jue also found some special circumstances.

Since the bone tree has not been found for a long time, Zhu Jue thought about finding an infected person to follow, and finally found the location of the bone tree.

The infected body was not difficult to find, and he turned up the magnification of the telescope and swept around the ruins of the three buildings, and Zhu Jue quickly discovered their whereabouts.

That's right, them!

In the empty floor of the ruins of the building, nearly 20 horrific infected subjects stood in a rough count.

There are elongated infected bodies that look like dried corpses that I once encountered in Community 37, and there are also infected bodies with black and purple pustules and dozens of tentacles on their arms...... There are also some monsters that Zhu Jue has never even seen and are difficult to express in words.

They stood on the outer edge of the empty layer, huddled together, hidden in the darkness, motionless as if commanded to do so.

Zhu Jue had never seen such a situation, the bone tree was not there, what were these infected people gathered for?

A certain moment.

The front-end infected body suddenly leaned forward and fell under the force of gravity, and its actions were like a starting signal, and the other infected subjects around it also began to move forward, jumping out of the empty layer in an ugly posture.

It was also at this time that Zhu Jue suddenly discovered that there were also infected people "jumping" in the other two buildings......

Obviously, the mass occurrence of such eccentric behavior is not because they feel that they are too ugly to think about it.

Someone is controlling these infections to gather!