"Li Hao." Hei Zeming thought for a moment and suggested, "I don't think there's any need for us to avoid the difficult place anymore. There are only two possibilities that have blocked our signal over there: first, the zombies have poured into the shelter from other passages, and the shelter is finished; Two, in order to avoid this possibility, the Vault has closed all passages, which means that we have been abandoned. Intellectually, I think the second option is the most likely. ”

The one who asked for directions was Laixi, but the answer was black and clear.

It is not right to say that Hei Zeming answered Laixi's question, but on Laixi's question, Hei Zeming made his own judgment and suggestions to Li Hao. It should be said that his inference is very reasonable, in the past 10 days, they have patrolled this area all over the place, and every time they patrol a new area, they will also expand the monitoring facilities to new areas, so there is no doubt that the command center of the Vault has obviously seen everything that has just happened through the monitoring equipment at this time.

However, their walkie-talkies could not be contacted to the rear.

If it was the first possibility that Hei Zeming deduced, even if the shelter was attacked by zombies, they could hear something the same, but they switched several channels, and there was silence on the intercom.

Silence is clearly an artificial shield.

As a result, there was a brief silence in the crowd.

It was really short, and soon Li Hao stretched out his hand and pointed to the inside of the passage and said: "About 500 meters into it is a fork in the road, to the left, leading to an area that we have not explored, but according to the exploration and research we have carried out on the distribution of this underground passage these days, it is very likely that the passage leads to the ground." To the right, we walked through and could return to the shelter. I'm going back to the shelter, and I want you to go back with me, but you can choose to leave the other way. ”

Of course Li Hao wants to go back, Zhao Ji is still in the shelter, and if he wants to leave, he has to take her with him.

And hearing Li Hao say this, the disciple who followed him took two steps forward without hesitation, and he didn't know Li Hao, of course he chose the possible way out.

Hei Zeming and Long Qi glanced at each other, Long Qi shrugged his shoulders, Hei Zeming smiled, and said to Li Hao: "The above just said that we want to go together, we can't break the contract so quickly, right?" The more we come to the end, the more we need the spirit of contract. ”

Li Hao was too lazy to say anything, anyway, this black lawyer wouldn't follow his words no matter what he did, and then he took Xi's hand and said, "Come on, you come with me." It's not a commanding tone, but it's not a discussion.

He didn't think much about it at this time, the last time he met Laixi, he called Laixi to go with them, but Laixi wanted to go back to find Hei Zeming, and then Laixi missed the appointment. Although there is still a sect member by Laixi's side now, Li Hao doesn't care anymore, he may die wherever he goes in the end of the day, but if they are separated again this time, they will not have such good luck to meet again.

Lai Xi looked at the bewildered disciple and said, "It's hard to live alone, Song Yuanming, you can go with us." ”

This disciple is a tall and thin young man, although he is wearing a black robe, with a bullet bag on his chest, his hair is messy, and his face is full of beard, he looks like a fanatic, but if you look closely, his skin is very fair, his eyes are not big, but there is a melancholy feeling in his eyes. Before the disaster, he was only a freshman in college, studying history, but it seems that what he studied was only useless in the end times, and later he persuaded himself to join the Pure Land religion in order to survive.

At this time, Song Yuanming found that Lai Xi was obviously the same as Hei Zeming, who was called a "traitor" by him before, and Li Hao, who was very capable of fighting and was not afraid of death (in fact, he was not afraid of infection), and he also had a great friendship, if he said no, it seems that they should not kill him directly, but as Lai Xi said, in such an environment, it is difficult for a person to live, he hesitated for a moment and said: "Holy envoy, abandoning faith will be punished." ”

Lai Xi smiled and said, "Isn't the punishment we received enough? You don't really believe the doctrine, do you? ”

Song Yuanming said solemnly: "But if it weren't for the care of the Lord God, we would have died a long time ago." You can't accept the favor, and you turn your head and don't recognize anything. ”

Hei Zeming quite appreciated Song Yuanming's point, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Live first, and then think about how to repay your main god." "Time is pressing, and there are some zombie-specific roars in the back passages, and I don't know if as more zombies pour in from outside, those tall and conscious zombies who were hiding in these chaotic passages have been wiped out, but no matter what, they can't waste time here like this.

Li Hao had already taken a step forward and ran towards the depths of the passage. He was very worried that those zombies had already poured into the shelter, and once the shelter was attacked by zombies, it would be difficult for the people in the shelter to escape, and Zhao Ji would also die; He was even more worried that the shelter would close all passages indiscriminately, and that Zhao Ji might encounter many unpredictable dangers if he stayed alone in the shelter.

In short, no matter what, what Li Hao is thinking about now is to hurry back to Zhao Ji's side, no matter what he will encounter, find her, and everyone will face it together. After living through so many things, Li Hao is no longer so afraid of death itself, he just doesn't want to leave any regrets.

ran for a while, and unconsciously turned around, Li Hao saw that Laixi was following him closely, so he stretched out his hand and pulled her to run together.

And just when Li Hao desperately ran back to the shelter, Zhao Ji had already found something strange in the shelter.

These days, Li Hao went out to patrol every day with the patrol, and Zhao Ji stayed in the shelter like a full-time wife and stayed at "home" with nothing to do, but she was never really idle in reality.

For this shelter full of weirdness, after repeated analysis with Li Hao and her own patient and meticulous observation, they basically determined that at least one-third to one-half of the people in this shelter were not normal people. Just before Li Hao became the patrol leader, they had seen two people suddenly mutate, or conversely, two zombies suddenly lost control after being controlled. And what controls the two zombies is the mysterious armbands on their arms.

These days, Zhao Ji secretly observed, and found that many people in the shelter were wearing similar armbands, many of them, between one-third and one-half. And even people who don't wear armbands don't seem so normal, and most of them have nothing to do like her, except for the pointless brainwashing in the square every day, which is why she just mixes around and doesn't particularly attract attention from others - because many people are like that.

When Li Hao became the patrol captain, they met No. 2 together, and No. 2 arranged the position of patrol captain for Li Hao. Zhao Ji thought that No. 2 would also arrange a job for her, on the first day Li Hao went out on patrol, she was also called to the administrative center, where she was mentally controlled, she almost lost her sense of self, that day, if it wasn't for Li Hao to restrain herself from the precipice, and finally use a more extreme way to rescue her from the controlled state, she doesn't know if she will never have a chance to wake up again as time goes by.

The next day, she ventured back to the administrative center pretending to be under control, trying to find out more about what the two men would do to her, but she didn't see her again, and no one told her what to do, as if she didn't exist.

When she doesn't exist, it's probably because she acts like a lot of other people, muddled, able to walk and talk, but seems to have no thoughts, like a walking dead. It didn't matter if she was wandering around the administrative center or strolling down the street, no one cared about her.

There were times when she pretended not to know the way and didn't remember the time, but before Li Hao went home from work, she would hear the radio, and the radio would inform everyone who should go where, and then the people who were wandering aimlessly on the street went to the place where they should go according to the requirements on the radio, and she heard the radio telling her to "go home", and just like those people, she followed the route prompted by the radio to go back to "home".

At night, when they hid in their huts to discuss these conditions, they basically agreed that most of the people who came to this shelter were controlled by a kind of hypnosis, and the zombies here were also controlled, and under this kind of control that they never understood, the surviving humans and zombies unexpectedly achieved a kind of coexistence.

Although weird is full of weirdness, but after they analyze it, it is also logical, in fact, they feel more and more that this is like an experiment. This vault is a large laboratory, and they, including the zombies that are controlled, and even the zombies hidden in the passage who do not actively attack the vault, are the subjects of experimentation.

But who exactly is doing this experiment? What is the purpose of the experiment? When did this experiment begin? They have never been able to find the answers to these questions.

They found that a small number of people, especially those in the patrol, were not under mind control, probably because the patrol members also needed to keep a clear head to deal with emergencies, and although they were not controlled, they were undoubtedly under surveillance.

After analyzing this layer, Li Hao wanted to leave immediately, but it was Zhao Ji who proposed that they hold on for a while longer to figure out what the situation was here. But they are also preparing to leave, Zhao Ji seems to be wandering unconsciously every day, and has already figured out the layout of the inside of the shelter, while Li Hao took the opportunity of patrolling to find out the outer routes, and they also discussed that once there is an uncontrollable situation, they will leave immediately.

And once the two are separated, the first person Zhao Ji is looking for is ......

Zhuokai people.