Headache.

Guessing more and more of her bottom line, she wants to use the almighty Occam razor, but Zheng Rui also knows that this is not the time to use it at all.

Zheng Rui: Fang Tong, can you see the entrance to the basement that is the farthest away on the other side? There should be a xenomorph corpse nearby.

Fang Tong: I can't see clearly...... Only one dot can be seen.

Zheng Rui: I need a clearer vision, and you're — forget it, I can't let you go.

Fang Tong: Where to go?

Zheng Rui: Let's go and see if it's closer—let's go, put on the short-sighted glasses of the commissary owner, it should be fine.

Fang Tong: This is too dangerous, I don't know the situation on the other side yet!

Zheng Rui: Wait, let me take a look at the map.

She leaned over to Bian Na and Zuo Youcheng: "Sister Na, is there any visual blind spot or anything like that in the basement of the opposite community?" ”

"Dead end?" Bian Na picked up the sketch they had drawn in the notebook and looked at it, "There is a row of holly hedges on the north side, which most people can't notice behind it, but I can't see it at my height...... Maybe you're on tiptoe. ”

"It's not easy to turn over." Zuo Youcheng said, "This place can't be used as an ambush location, at most it can be used for reconnaissance." ”

"Scouting is enough." Zheng Rui looked at the map and thought for a moment and said, "I went around the wasteland to the north, and the fence happened to be the closest obstacle to the entrance to the basement on the east side. ”

"Xiao Rui, are you going over again?" Bian Na said worriedly, "I don't know the situation on the other side now, so don't act rashly......"

Fang Tong has been watching here for more than three hours, and there is no movement over there. You can't see anything here, you have to get closer. Zheng Rui lowered his eyes and said calmly, "If I can keep my distance and have you here to continue to give me vision during the journey, then even if someone from the other party comes out halfway, I should be able to escape immediately." ”

"That'...... All right. Bian Na hesitantly glanced at Fang Tong, who was looking out on the ground, as if she was taking care of Zuo Youcheng next to her and didn't say anything.

Like Zheng Rui, she couldn't fully trust Fang Tong. However, now the conditions are insufficient, and it is impossible to "use suspicious people", so we can only "use people without suspicion".

"Give me the glasses, I'll cover you." Benna finally said to her.

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With the electromagnetic beam cover of the young lady, Zheng Rui felt much more at ease.

She connected Bian Na, Zuo Youcheng, and Fang Tong to their consciousness, allowing them to modify the map projected in her mind at any time. In line with her previous belief that the psychotype can be used as a "signal booster", with Fang Tong's mental type, the connection between her and Bian Na and Zuo Youcheng has become much more stable.

However, in principle, everyone is connected to Zheng Rui's "server" separately, so the existence of the spiritual type may not increase the "bandwidth" of signal transmission. But Fang Tong at least made Zheng Rui's "server" more stable in decoding other people's signals.

And in order to prevent someone on the other side from actually lying there watching like them, she deliberately pretended to be patrolling her own tube building area, first circled around the commissary, and then left the old workers' compound to the north, and walked behind the small mound in the wasteland.

The old workers' compound and the north side of the new community opposite were originally going to be built, so the ground on the north side was bulldozed and this small mound was shoveled out. Later, because the economic development of this area was not good, the project was equivalent to being completed, and weeds here grew into wasteland.

Zheng Rui bypassed the mound on the west side of the road, and after confirming to Fang Tong and Bianna that everyone was still coming out from the basement of the new community opposite, she quickly crossed the road and hid behind the green belt in the north of the new community.

The green belt also has a holly fence, but it is only half a person high, and it is too far from the basement to be clear enough for Zheng Rui to see.

The high fence mentioned by Bian Na is the ecological fence of the kindergarten attached to the community, and now the kindergarten building has been bulldozed, and the fence has been left because it is made of pure plants. Because the kindergarten is built inside the complex, this fence is also very close to the residential building, where you can see the basement entrance very clearly.

Zheng Rui watched the movement of the shared map, and squatted behind the holly bushes in the green belt, and when she reached the gap in the holly fence of the original kindergarten—probably the small door that used to face the outside of the community—she first glanced in to make sure that no one had quietly entered.

She walked over to her intended location and found that the holly fence was indeed very high. Not only Bian Na definitely can't see it, but even Zheng Rui, who is seven or eight centimeters taller than Bian Na, can't see the other side when she stands on tiptoe.

Fortunately, she found that although the top of the fence was dense, the old leaves at the bottom of the roots had almost fallen off and exposed the gaps, and she should be able to see the outside when she lay on the ground.

Zheng Rui leaned down and looked out, through the gap between the thick branches of holly, she could clearly see the entrance to the easternmost basement, and the half-shaped corpse stretched out from the entrance steps, which was exactly the same location as she remembered.

That's weird.

Zheng Rui was on the steps the whole time when he fought with the alien, and when he finally cut off its head, the alien's huge body blocked the entrance to the basement. It stands to reason that if someone goes down again, they should move the alien corpse a little bit first. However, its current state is exactly the same as when Zheng Rui left, indicating that the gang should not have been to that basement yet.

But there were supplies in that basement, and the alien was dead at the entrance, so whatever guess, they should have a look when they returned.

Therefore, Zheng Rui felt that they probably hadn't come back yet.

Zheng Rui: I want to go closer.

Fang Tong: That's too dangerous!

Benna: Don't go!

Zuo Youcheng: Big guy, take it easy!

Zheng Rui: Don't be nervous, I guess they haven't come back yet.

Benna: How is that possible? It's been a day!

Zheng Rui: It's been a day, but the alien corpse blocking the entrance hasn't moved, which doesn't make sense.

Zuo Youcheng: So maybe it was deliberately reset?

Zheng Rui: Why do you want to deliberately reset? They don't have to.

Benna: Rui, you really take it easy.

Zheng Rui: Well, I'll be careful. Fang Tong, release your emotions for a while.

She soon felt unusually calm, completely free from mood swings, and all mental activity was controlled by reason.

Zheng Rui stood up, walked out of the holly fence to the opening in the community, and walked straight to the alien corpse.

Benna: Little Rui! How can you just walk in the clearing!

Zheng Rui: Based on the current information, it is assumed that they did not return, so there is no need to hide. And if they have already returned, even if they dodge, they will not be able to hide continuously, they will still be seen. So it's the same whether you hide or not.

Zheng Rui walked to the alien corpse, squatted down and took a closer look, the traces of blood clotting on it were continuous, indicating that no one had turned it over.

When the mood is calm, it is also not affected by fear, and at this time, Zheng Rui will not have any discomfort no matter how disgusting and terrifying the scene is. It's actually a rather strange feeling, and Zheng Rui thinks that there must be ethical problems with deliberately doing this kind of experiment—fortunately, it's not an experiment, and there's no ethical scrutiny anymore.