The night came up and engulfed the whole mountain.

In the courtyard of the martial arts hall, it was empty, and the surrounding headlights illuminated the entire courtyard, but in the surrounding houses, it was only a large area of darkness.

Only the study room is bright, and if you look into the room from the outside, you can clearly see the silhouette of a rattan chair, as if asleep.

……

"Whew~"

"Woo~"

When Lin Tuo transferred his consciousness to the clone and began to fall towards the land, the first sound he heard was the howling of the cold wind.

The wind was not very strong, but it was probably because of some kind of reverberation through the nearby mountains, so it was very loud and faint, as if the earth was crying.

The eyelashes fluttered, and when I opened my eyes, I was greeted by the cold wind and the fine snow chips that swept straight into my face.

The chill drilled into the clothes from the neckline and neck, and Lin Tuo, who was far beyond ordinary people, also shivered subconsciously.

"It's cold!"

The thought came to him.

and subconsciously tightened the zipper of the thick coat at the neckline...... Before entering, he judged that the temperature in the sand table was very low.

Therefore, he first put his clone into the martial arts hall in the sand table, found a light down jacket, cotton shoes, and gloves for the winter, and armed himself fully.

Although with his current body, he can bear it in single clothes in winter, but he is not a masochist, and he naturally wants to fight to keep warm if he has the conditions.

For now, it seems like a wise decision.

Looking around vigilantly, there was a dim wilderness, very empty, with mountains in the background, and a dilapidated road not far ahead.

The ground beneath your feet is covered with a layer of snow that is not too thick, and it is clear that it is a harsh winter.

At this moment, it is about dawn, and there is still a distance from dawn.

Lin Tuo adapted to the environment and confirmed that there was no danger around, so he raised his head and looked into the sky.

In the dim night, there were wisps of black clouds overhead, and only a few starlights penetrated through the gaps, barely providing some vision.

"It's better than I expected." Lin Tuo took off one of his gloves and exposed his right hand to the air.

In addition to the cold, he could faintly feel a tingling pain.

The aether in the body is more active than usual.

"Radiation." Lin Tuo spit out the word lightly, his eyes a little heavier.

From the description of the operation log, he judged that the "annihilation bomb" that caused the disaster should be some kind of superweapon with less power than nuclear weapons, but similar in nature.

Although it is not a nuclear weapon, it is clear that the energy generated by its explosion still produces some kind of "radiation"-like phenomenon.

and led to the death of countless lives.

Before Lin Tuo came in, he was mentally prepared, he believed that since many ordinary people here could survive, there was no reason why he couldn't bear it if he was already tempering.

Things went as he expected.

"This level of radiation does give me a tingling pain, but it's mild, and as long as I don't stay for long, it's not a big problem."

Relieving himself, Lin Tuo put on his gloves again and began to identify the direction.

Recalling the lights of the suspected gathering place that he had glimpsed condescendingly in this area, he took a deep breath and ran at a uniform speed along the dilapidated and completely unnavigable road.

"Along this road, you should be able to find the city."

……

……

"Rumble ......"

At the same time, it was somewhere separated from Lin Tuo by a mountain.

If you zoom out and look down from mid-air, you'll see three modified cars in a chase on the snow-paved wasteland.

The smaller of them, leading the way, without driving lights, left the two cars behind and stumbled like a mad cow across the wasteland.

There was a hoarse roar.

Behind it, a little farther away, the other two modified off-road cars are more "relaxed" with their lights on unscrupulously.

The hideous, huge tires rolled up patches of snow, leaving four deep ruts in the wasteland.

If you zoom in closer, you will find that there are several soldiers wearing ink-colored military cotton clothes and holding firearms in the car.

At this moment, a man sitting in front of the co-pilot with epaulettes and obviously an officer had a gloomy expression and said:

"Where have we been?"

The back seat of the car.

When a soldier heard this, he held a flashlight and pressed a paper map to his knee with the other, looked at it, and replied:

"Ahead is the mine town, it's not far away, at most five minutes, you can get there."

"Mine Town? It seems that the hunter must have been running there, the car was not satisfied with the fuel tank, and after running so far, it must have run out of gas. The officer said.

Immediately, he raised his voice and shouted:

"Everyone, cheer me up, check the guns, prepare to arrest, if you let the other party go, wait until you return to the company, everyone will be punished!"

"Yes! Chief! ”

The sound was mixed with the sound of a firearm pulling the safety.

……

After a while, the outline of a small town appeared in their field of vision.

Collapsed buildings, dilapidated walls, and outside the town, there stood a broken and rusty steel windmill, which at first glance looked like a ruin.

Only the sparse lights in the town indicate that there is human life.

As the soldiers' vehicles approached, there were bursts of violent dog barking and a noise in the town, and faintly, there was a flash of fire.

"Boss, the other party abandoned the car!" The driver shouted as he pointed to a vehicle that was paralyzed on the moor and turned off outside the mine town.

"Keep going." The officer said, at the same time, pulling out a pistol and pulling the trigger towards the sky.

"Bang!"

In the low sound of breaking the air, the noise in the town suddenly stopped, and the two cars drove along the dilapidated road into the square in the center of the town as if no one was there, and then stopped.

I saw that many people had gathered in the town.

Compared to the soldiers who are armed and wear thick military uniforms, these people are much more miserable.

Most of them were short and thin, their bodies were dirty, tattered, unrecognizable clothes, unkempt, their faces covered with dust, and there was a foul smell on their bodies.

Holding a "weapon" such as a wooden stick or steel bar, he gathered together in horror and timidity, and looked in awe.

Under the firelight, some people can be faintly seen, and there are obvious deformities on their bodies.

This is the outcast of the mine town.

"Where's the person in charge here?" As a group of soldiers jumped out of the car with their guns in their arms, they cautiously swept their guns around.

The officer squinted his eyes and asked sharply.

No one answered.

There was only horror on the faces of the homeless.

"Here! Here! "Suddenly, there was a commotion behind the crowd.

A nervous but neutral voice raised.

The crowd dispersed like a tide, and a middle-aged man wearing a shabby cotton jacket on the upper body and a pair of relatively intact cargo pants on the lower body hurriedly squeezed out.

Behind him, there were several thugs with rifles.

However, compared to the guns in the hands of these soldiers, those tattered rifles are no different from burning sticks, and the deterrent effect is far greater than the actual effectiveness.

"Sir, I'm the head of Mine Town, I don't know what you have to say?"

The person in charge quickly glanced at the soldiers' clothing and the insignia on the car behind him, and said with a smile.

While speaking, he deliberately straightened his chest, making a polished metal badge hanging on his chest more conspicuous.

The badge is a brass with a burning flame carved into it, with a forest standing in the middle of a snowy field in the background.

That's the emblem of the Burning Company.

"We're on a capture mission," said the officer, looking down at him with a blank face, "and a revenant has stolen the company's belongings and killed and wounded our men, who recently abandoned his car and entered the town. ”

Speaking of this, the officer suddenly tilted his head slightly, his towering nose twitched, and said:

"I confirm that the target is in this town and has not left yet, now, you, immediately gather everyone to assist us in our search! Did you hear me clearly? ”

……

……

Meanwhile.

In a collapsed building in the southwest corner of the town's central square.

A figure looked through the window, looking at a scene in the square, his eyes flickered, and then the figure moved, silently, like a tanuki disappeared.

……

Not far away.

In another shadow, Lin Tuo, who was wearing a black down jacket, slowly walked out of the darkness, glanced at the disappearing figure, and showed a thoughtful expression.