Although it has undergone a blast that is enough to violate the laws of the old Chinese era, the engine of this motorcycle still needs fossil fuels as an internal combustion engine, even if Qi Lin's concentrating vortex can output enough energy to convert it into power that can make the internal combustion engine work again, without gasoline, this is just a decoration that looks good.

Pushing the motorcycle into the corner, Qi Lin dragged a large faded fiberboard billboard from the ground on the side and covered the body, and then drilled out of the crack overhead.

According to the image of the city sent back by the main brain drone, there should be several gas stations nearby, except for one of which was directly erased from the map by aerial bombs, leaving a large crater with a radius of more than 200 meters, the other gas stations should be relatively intact, but I don't know if there is any remaining gasoline in the oil tanks buried in the ground of these gas stations - this information, but the drone can't detect it.

This location is almost the city's internal transportation hub, with dozens of highways, including two highways and ten urban arterial roads, as well as a large number of overpasses and railway viaducts, which is why the petrol stations are concentrated in this area.

A large number of rusted car wreckage was piled up on the abandoned cracked asphalt road, the collapsed reinforced concrete bridge body was horizontal in the middle of the road, and countless cement blocks peeled off the broken bridge piers and scattered on the ground messily, Qi Lin could even see a small car with only one outer frame left hanging on a steel bar dozens of meters above the ground, and whenever the wind blew, the wreckage of the car would shake up, giving people the feeling that it would fall off the top of their heads at any time.

Bypassing a smashed overpass, Qi Lin crossed two more railroad tracks that had been completely deformed, and a dilapidated gas station finally appeared in his field of vision.

The iconic dome of the gas station has collapsed, and the yellow-and-red shell logo can be faintly seen from the gray ruins, most of the tankers have been crushed by the dome, and only the two tankers near the edge are in the "safety triangle" and have been saved.

Qi Lin took off the gas gun from the machine, but the gas station had already lost power, and no matter how he pressed the trigger, no half drop of gasoline flowed out of the muzzle.

“…… Fortunately, I was prepared. ”

Qi Lin hung the refueling gun back in its place, took off the assault rifle behind him, directly smashed the display screen of the refueling machine with the butt, and reached out to pull out the control chip inside.

Take out the nuclear battery block, adjust the voltage to the gear suitable for the fuel dispenser, then cut the wire of the fuel dispenser's own battery, and clamp the electric tong connected to the nuclear battery block - soon, the indicators and diodes on the dusty chip began to flash one by one.

If the gas station is still in normal operation, it is extremely dangerous to do so, and direct exposure to electrical sparks is likely to ignite the airborne mixture...... It's just that now it's hard to smell even a smell of gasoline in the entire gas station, and Qi Lin even suspects that even if he lights a bonfire here, nothing will happen.

The electrified fuel dispenser was back to work, but the gas gun was still not coming out of the gas gun - apparently, the underground tanks of the gas station were already empty.

When the war broke out and the social order was out of control, in addition to the people will grab food and other necessities of life, the priority and importance of fuel will not be low...... All in all, in the chaotic times of war, it is not too easy to get a car in the city, and the cost is almost zero, and with a car, the first thing to consider is the fuel problem.

Even those crazy rioters, they clearly understand that it is not safe to stay in such large cities, due to the nuclear binding strategy, after the key strategic objectives are destroyed, the second round of nuclear strikes will fall on these densely populated large cities, if you want to survive, the best way is to flee to the inaccessible northwest region, where the land is vast and sparsely populated, except for a part of the military bases and industrial areas, there are basically no targets worth focusing on, It is impossible for the hostile forces to waste their nuclear warheads on the wasteland and the Gobi Desert, and if they can escape to such a place, they will at least not have to be buried in the once prosperous big cities.

However, if you want to cross most of the Chinese border and flee to the northwest region, you need to consume a lot of fuel, and in order to get fuel, the first target must be to lock down the gas stations with large underground oil storage tanks.

The shells of these tankers have different degrees of smashing marks, a large number of broken fuel cards are scattered on the ground, and several bodies in the distance that have obviously been violently treated prove that this gas station has been ransacked by rioters, and since it has been ransacked, it is unlikely that the situation of the other gas stations will be much better.

There must still be enough gasoline in the abandoned city, but where this gasoline will be stored is a question, and Qi Lin has no time to go through the ruins one by one, as for the wreckage of the cars on the road, the gasoline in the fuel tank is estimated to have evaporated a long time ago.

Just when Qi Lin was worried about gasoline, a dull gunfire suddenly came from a distance-

"Guns? Is it human? ”

Qi Lin immediately raised his vigilance, quickly looked for a place to cover, and then looked in the direction where the gunshots came from.

The sound of the gun was very low, it should be a large-caliber full-power firearm equipped with a silencer, a single shot, mixed with the howl of some mutated creatures, it was very difficult to distinguish, judging by the size of the sound, the other party should be three or four hundred meters away from him.

The two options of the living dead and survivors left over from before the war can be basically ruled out, and the early eliminators who were exiled to the surface by the mastermind can also be ignored, not to mention whether these kinds of people can survive in the murderous abandoned city, and the kind of firearms that use large-caliber full-power bullets alone are not something they can get.

Since the other party only fired one shot, Qi Lin couldn't determine whether the other party was using a large-caliber assault rifle or an anti-materiel sniper rifle that existed in the old era, if it was the former, then the identity of the other party was more worthy of scrutiny.

A dispatch team that failed to return to the Underground Vault due to a failed mission or some other reason? Or a deserter who escaped from the battlefield during the previous Battle of the Sword Pavilion Fortress? Or are there no survivors of the purge who have been contained by free will?

All of the above speculations are possible, but one thing is certain—the opponent has a weapon in his hand, and it is a large-caliber firearm that can pose a deadly threat to the evolutionary, Qi Lin feels that it is better to be cautious.

But no matter what, Qi Lin still planned to make contact with the other party, after all, it was too unusual for human traces to appear in this area, and what if there was gasoline in the other side's hand?

More than twenty seconds after the first shot passed, the second shot rang out again, and compared with the previous shot, the shooting position was more than a hundred meters away from Qi Lin...... It's supposed to be chasing some prey, or being chased by a predator.

The possibility of the latter situation is relatively small, there are no signs of activity of high-level mutant creatures in this area, and the general E-class F-class mutant creatures with large-caliber gunpowder firearms are enough to deal with it, and there is no need to be chased and flee, so the other party should be hunting.

I just don't know how many of them there are - from beginning to end, there is only the sound of a gun.

Under the cover of the wreckage of the car, Qi Lin bent his waist and silently and quickly touched in the direction where the gunshots came......

……

……

“…… Organized people? Gendarme? ”

A bonfire wrapped in a tin cover full of ventilation holes came into Qi Lin's sight, four men in the uniforms of the organization gendarmerie were sitting around the campfire, their weapons leaning against the stones beside them, and two other people were using daggers to handle a mutant creature slightly smaller than a bison, the back half of the mutant creature was almost completely shattered by a large-caliber full-power bullet, blood was flowing all over the ground, and the large-caliber assault rifle that fired this bullet was behind one of them.

Although Qi Lin recognized the gendarmerie uniforms on their bodies, Qi Lin could not determine their identities because the armbands on their shoulders were torn off...... Perhaps, none of this uniform belongs to them.

Qi Lin's hiding place was more than twenty meters away from these people, and with his hearing, he could easily hear the conversation between those people.

"Fourth, go get some sand and cover the blood on the ground, such a strong smell of blood, if you attract other monsters, it will be troublesome!" This is a voice with a strong Russian accent, although the articulation is not very accurate, but the Chinese is very fluent, it seems that he must have lived in China for a long time.

"What kind of monster can it be, we've been searching this area for so long, have you seen anything like that? Besides, where are you going to let me get you sand in this place? The voice came from the man who was carrying a large-caliber assault rifle and was skinning his prey with a dagger.

"Okay, okay, you guys make it a little smarter, I'll go to the side and give you the wind." The hairy man took out a badly worn metal flask from his coat pocket, took a careful sip, smacked his mouth, picked up the gun he was holding aside, and walked towards the periphery.

The weapon he used was a nine-millimeter caliber PD, and this type of submachine gun was the standard equipment for organizing the gendarmerie units, and if they had not obtained a complete set of gendarmerie equipment, then there should be no doubt about the identity of this group of people.

Merely...... Why is the organized gendarmes here?

To explore the surface of this kind of arduous and tiring errand with a high risk factor, will definitely not send the gendarmes, those dispatch teams are basically served by specially trained members of the special forces, as for the battle of the Sword Pavilion Fortress, in Qi Lin's impression, the composition of the organized troops, the gendarmes only account for a very small part, and it is rare to send the gendarmes to the battlefield outside the fortress to fight, their main task is to maintain order inside the fortress, even the "law enforcement team" of the front-line troops, It's all held by some low-ranking officers, and they don't have anything to do.

Could this group be a deserter who escaped from that war? Qi Lin couldn't be sure...... And, most crucially, he doesn't know if they have more companions.

With Qi Lin's ability, even if he wanted to kill these organization gendarmes, even if they were all third- or fourth-level evolutionaries, there would definitely be no problem, but if the other party had other companions, then Qi Lin's whereabouts would inevitably be exposed...... The identity of the other party is still unknown, if they have any connection with the organization, the Revolutionary Federation, or even the mastermind, Qi Lin exposing his whereabouts at this time will undoubtedly make the next rescue operation slide into the abyss of failure in advance.

Now, no matter which side of the force he is in, he is already a "dead man", even if he is free will and those new teammates who are about to make peace with him, except for a few of them, most of them do not know their identity, they only know that they are a free mercenary who was hired by the "boss", and they are "experts" in dealing with this aspect of the incident.

Yes...... "boss", although free will has been taken over by the mastermind, they still do not know the true identity of the mastermind, and within free will, the word "boss" has always been used to refer to the second mastermind hidden behind the scenes.

Of course, those few people who knew Qi Lin's true identity also received a separate warning from the "boss" in advance not to divulge any information related to Qi Lin to anyone.

This rescue operation is very important, Qi Lin does not want to cause the operation to fail because of his own recklessness, and at such times, it is always wrong to act cautiously.

He decided to crouch down a little longer, confirm their identities through the chat between the few people, and then make a decision on his next step.

……

The prey was quickly disposed of by the two men, and the broken pieces of meat and entrails were placed in a somewhat distorted marching pot, and the remaining meat and bones were skewered with steel drills and placed on top of the campfire.

"Finally there is meat to eat...... In the past few days, I have been eating compressed dry food every day, and I don't know what the meat tastes like......" A man wearing a tattered cloak pulled out a knife from his waist and kept poking at the barbecue, "It's a pity that there is no seasoning, so I can only eat it lightly." ”

"It's better to eat less, the radiation content in this thing is not low, we don't have Qinghuining anymore, if the radiation accumulates too much in your stomach, no one can save you." Said the man with a large-caliber rifle on his back.

"Whatever, who knows if he will die tomorrow, if he can eat a good meal, if it weren't for the luck of a few of us, it is estimated that he would have died in the Great Purge!"