Chapter Twenty-Three: Waiting for the Goal

Qiu Tian thought for a while and said, "I didn't believe it at first, but now I don't know. ”

Comrade Liu said: "There have been too many unexplainable mysterious events in the world, remember, just the current science cannot explain them. In the future, scientific explanations for these events may be found. ”

Qiu Tian didn't speak, from yesterday morning's investigation of the villagers, to the overnight tracking, the two of them have been in action for more than 20 hours, basically without rest, and they have to track those creatures for a while, they need to take a break. Comrade Liu and his wife ate some things (all of them were special food), rested for three hours, and did a simple test of the environment here, and there was nothing special about it.

Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian continued to move forward, passing through a gentle hillside and entering the dense woods, where the scorching sun was in the sky and the damp and sticky heat wafted in the woods. The two of them rarely spoke along the way, although they followed the route left by the monster, except for some trees and grass were destroyed, but found no other traces, now although in broad daylight, the sun sprinkled into the mountain is sufficient, and the environment in the mountain can be seen clearly, but Comrade Liu and the two still dare not relax their vigilance, in case danger occurs.

Qiu Tian thought to himself: As soon as those creatures move extremely fast at night, they can't catch up at the speed of people traveling in the mountains, and only during the day, they stay to avoid the sun, and he and Comrade Liu can take advantage of the opportunity to catch up during the day. However, even in the daytime, do not dare to take it lightly and act rashly, after all, there are still too many secrets and mysteries in the mountains, and you need to act cautiously in the mountains.

Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian walked through a dense forest again, and there was a waist-high grass in front of them, Qiu Tian walked a few steps, suddenly noticed something, and quickly stopped, held his breath, and did not make a sound.

Comrade Liu also noticed it, and the two raised their guns and aimed at the grass. The front is very wide, the woods are on both sides, and the grass is too dense to look down on the situation inside, so that people dare not let their guard down.

Qiu Tian glanced at it for a while, but didn't see any movement, he felt that something was hiding in the grass. A swarm of flies flew in the grass, Qiu Tian walked over cautiously, and saw a creature faintly in the grass, lying motionless.

Qiu Tian gently brushed aside the grass with his gun, and first saw the rotten limb, which was a creature that had been twisted and deformed, and he didn't know what it was.

Comrade Liu said coldly: "This is a wild boar. The two of them looked carefully at this fat dead boar, the body of the wild boar had been severely beaten, the bones were shattered, the limbs were twisted and deformed, and the skin and flesh were beaten in many places, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

Qiu Tian had been aiming at this dead wild boar with a gun, this wild boar was huge, and it was beaten like this, but it was not eaten, it was just thrown here, which was very strange. What happened here is so weird that people can move even when they die, let alone this dead boar?

Comrade Liu looked at it and said, "This wild boar should have been killed by those creatures last night, and it seems that this wild boar encountered those creatures and was besieged." ”

Qiu Tian looked at the carcass of the wild boar, this wild boar was very strong, if it fought with its bare hands, I am afraid that a few men in the prime of life would not be its opponents, but now they are beaten like this! It can be seen that those creatures are extremely ferocious, and they will attack frantically whenever they see a living thing.

Comrade Liu squatted down, took out some instruments, and began to examine the dead wild boar, and after about half an hour, Comrade Liu's originally flat face suddenly flashed with a trace of excitement.

Qiu Tian was very strange and asked Comrade Liu: "Comrade Liu, what's wrong?" ”

Comrade Liu said: "It seems that this creature will not infect other animals except humans. He pointed to the dead boar and said, "Judging from the corpse, this boar must have had contact with those creatures, but it has not mutated so long after it died." "The carcass of the wild boar, though decomposed and smelling of rancidity, was nothing special and motionless in the grass. The direct sunlight shone down on the carcass of the wild boar and there was no reaction.

Comrade Liu also carefully observed the flies flying around the carcass of the wild boar, which also danced normally in the sunlight and did not make any special moves. Qiu Tian nodded, this wild boar was attacked by those creatures like this, and it has not changed for several hours after it died, and it was exposed to the sun, so it should not mutate. Comrade Liu said very reasonably, those creatures will not infect other animals, this is definitely good news, if all animals on the earth will be infected, it will be a catastrophe in the last days.

Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian knew more about those creatures at the moment, and they also had more confidence in their hearts. Comrade Liu left a GPS tracker on the carcass of the wild boar, and the two of them followed the signal and continued to move forward, deep into the mountains and mountains to the north. Along the way, Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian found several more animal carcasses in the mountains, some of which had been dead for several days and were about to rot away, and some of which had just died, at different times and in different places. The animals had all died tragically, killed by the creatures, but there was nothing unusual about the corpses.

Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian went all the way without stopping, climbing over two big mountains and several small hills, and did not rest in a clearing until evening. Qiu Tian drank some water, watched the sunset, still worried about Xia Yong's safety, and asked, "Comrade Liu, has the support team arrived?" ”

Comrade Liu had a gloomy face and said, "I will be notified if there is a situation over there, and we don't have time to pay attention to the situation over there now." ”

Comrade Liu looked at the tablet, and the three tracking signals were in the mountains ahead.

The creatures moved very slowly during the day, almost stagnating, and although Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian were far behind at night, they also took advantage of the day to catch up. Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian observed the location of the signal, took out a laptop from their backpacks, and combined with the map of the mountains, those creatures were in a large dense forest in the mountains in front, and the terrain in front of them was that there was a large open grassy area behind the mountain that separated the other mountains, so that there was a large flat area in the valley without any mountain trees blocking the sun, separating the mountains, so those creatures were likely to wait until night to cross the grassland.

Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian were now very close to those creatures, and Qiu Tian looked at Comrade Liu as if asking, "Are we going to carry out any action?" But Comrade Liu was not in a hurry to catch up with those creatures, he was waiting to see how they would move next. Comrade Liu said: "Don't act yet, and don't come into contact with them until we know what they're going to do. ”

Comrade Liu was very calm, Qiu Tian also relaxed a little, and acted with Comrade Liu, just like in a class, Qiu Tian thought to himself: Comrade Liu, this old man, must have experienced a hundred battles, and he has dealt with this kind of incident without less, no matter what kind of strange things he encounters, he can face them calmly, deal with them calmly, and make correct plans anytime and anywhere. Comrade Liu and Qiu Tian took a short rest and waited for the evening action.

Comrade Liu used some instruments again and sorted out the collected materials, and as the sun set, there was a trace of burning clouds left in the sky, and the sky became dark. Comrade Liu saw that the tracking signal on the tablet quickly moved and began to move northward, and those creatures began to cross the grassland, and the destination of their movement was the red area displayed on the tablet.