Chapter 121: Night Demon
The sky was black and rumbling, and lightning struck one after another, as if it was about to tear the sky.
Having left the airport for more than ten miles, Fang Dong's mood calmed down a lot, but he was silent, not knowing what he was thinking. Everyone tried to talk to him, but they didn't see him answer, if he vented his grief in his heart, it would be normal, but it was not easy to say that he closed himself off like this.
Langchen was carefully observing the cracks caused by the attack of the mutant zombies on the glass window, looking preoccupied. The scene just now was too dangerous, this type of zombie had never been seen before.
"What was that just now, it's too violent." Zhang Zhao muttered, the shoe on the sole of his foot broke a hole, which was caught by the mutant zombie, fortunately he didn't catch it, otherwise he wouldn't be able to sit here intact now.
"It's Daredevil, in the early days of the zombie virus outbreak, those zombies who were trapped in the dark evolved in a short period of time." Lang Chen said solemnly: "They are extremely aggressive, their sense of smell and hearing is far greater than that of any living being, and they will not leave any living creature wherever they go. ”
Daredevil, it's not easy just to hear the name. Zhang Zhao asked curiously, "Have you ever seen this before?" ”
"Yes." Langchen turned his face out of the window, as if looking at the street scene covered by the rainstorm: "Just because I have seen ......"
Lang Chen's expression changed, and sadness crept up his brows: "Night demons are what I call them, because they can barely survive in the dark, and once they are exposed to the sun, their skin will quickly fester. No one knows why this kind of zombie appears, perhaps, it can't be said that it is zombies, they have sentience, they have senses, and their skin and bones are very hard. They do not spread the virus by scratching and biting, and often eat up the corpse. ”
"Like I'm the one in the legend?" Zhang Zhao gasped, if this was the case, it would be even more terrifying than the mutant zombies he had encountered before.
"Nope! They are more terrible, and killing is their first nature. Langchen cupped his forehead, as if he had made some important decision, and then said: "Half a month before the outbreak of the zombie virus, the people in our town tried their best to resist, thinking that they could survive it, but they didn't expect that in a nearby mine, more than a hundred night demons suddenly emerged, and overnight, almost all of the town's more than 8,000 people were killed. If it weren't for the dawn, I probably wouldn't have survived. ”
"They...... Zombies evolve so fast. Zhang Zhao felt his breathing slow down.
"Yes, according to my observation, at the beginning of the virus outbreak, a small number of zombies will change within ten to fifteen days for special reasons, and then stabilize after a week. The virulence of the virus is the strongest in the early stage of transmission, and the virus carried by the mother will only be diluted through repeated transmission. ”
"It's like a vampire, there are two generations, one generation after another?" Even Wang Wu understood the truth.
Langchen smiled bitterly: "Almost, the mutated zombies basically changed in the early stage of the virus, and most of the zombies produced later were ordinary zombies, and their body functions degraded rapidly. However, this is not entirely certain, after all, since they can change in a short period of time, they will slowly change with the environment. ”
If this is really the case, then in a few years, those zombies may change due to the environment. For example, the fragile bones and skin now, such as ordinary zombies, will have a resistance to water, and it is possible that they will evolve into a state that is more adapted to the environment in the future. To say that zombies have wings, this is not all bragging in the doomsday movie, so far, there is no creature whose evolution speed is comparable to that of zombies, and the potions produced by the Iron Shield Company have directly changed the genes of human beings. In this way, the living environment of human beings will become even worse in the future, and it took hundreds of thousands of years to climb to the top of the food chain, but in a few years it will fall to the bottom.
"Unexpectedly, there is also a ...... here" Langchen's mood became heavy.
The truck finally returned to base safely, and the rain became lighter. After the inspection and release, someone else came to unload the cargo. Zhang Zhao took Langchen to find Li Zijing, and specially asked Wang Wu to look at Dian Fangdong, this guy was not in the right mood, he was afraid that he would not want to do something stupid.
Li Zijing was discussing things with several team leaders, and when he saw Zhang Zhaohuo coming in in a hurry, he asked, "What's wrong?" Something went wrong? ”
"Brother Li, Cheng Peng, they haven't come back yet?" Zhang Zhao asked.
"They went to the airport to meet you, didn't they meet?" Li Zijing knew Zhang Zhao and knew that something must have happened: "What happened?" ”
Now there is no even the most basic communication tool, and it is impossible to contact Cheng Peng and them, and if they send someone out to find them now, the chance of encountering them is not great. The rain stopped, the zombies became more active, and some of the zombies at the airport had already broken out of the fence, even if Cheng Peng and they ran into it, they would not be hard to bump into, and it was not the zombies that made people worry, but those night demons.
"Yes, something happened, Zhou Tu and they turned against the water, poisoned Xiao Zhu, and designed to almost kill us." Zhang Zhao clenched his fists and scolded: "Fuck, this bastard, if he hadn't run away, I would have killed him with my own hands." ”
This is completely different from being betrayed, what Zhou Tu did directly endangered the lives of Zhang Zhao and several of them, and even killed someone. Originally, there was a chance to put aside prejudices and accept them, but now that this happened, Zhang Zhao's heart was full of murderous intent.
Li Zijing's face also changed, he didn't expect that his base would accept these survivors outside, and this would happen. Although the person was brought back by Zhang Zhao, after all, he was the first to agree to go to the airport. Li Zijing is a person with a strong sense of responsibility, he and Wang Ying are similar in some ways, but the starting point is different. This is also the reason why Zhang Zhao has always admired this big brother, some people, even if they play some tricks, in the eyes of friends, are also transparent.
"In addition, we found a nest of mutated zombies at the airport, these zombies are different from what we have met in the past, and they may no longer be described as zombies......" Zhang Zhao said Langchen's description of the night demon before, and the people in the house all lost their faces after listening to it.
"How many?" Li Zijing pondered for a while and asked.
"I'm not sure, there were probably five or six of them that attacked us." After Zhang Zhao finished speaking, Lang Chen continued: "To evolve into a night demon requires a specific environment, and the proportion is relatively high, the night demon lives in a group and rarely acts alone, according to this view, there must be some kind of factor in the airport cargo warehouse, so that most of the zombies trapped in it become night demons." ”
Li Zijing knew Zhang Zhao, if it wasn't for a particularly tricky incident, he wouldn't have acted in such a hurry. Through the explanation of the two, he pondered in his heart for a while before he said, "Langchen, do you have any ideas?" Against this kind of monster. ”
The base has also encountered mutant zombies before, although it is different from ordinary zombies, it is not as strong as Zhang Zhao said. The Daredevil is a new creature, full of wildness, and its danger has surpassed the current understanding of zombies. The night demons who live in packs are like wolves in the wilderness, one or two are not scary, but they are a group. As Langchen said, a hundred night demons can destroy a town in one night, and if there are the same number of night demons in the airport warehouse, the base is estimated to not be able to hold out for even an hour.
"The Daredevil has a strong sense of hearing and smell, and I'm worried about whether they're already coming after me, so let's get ready." Langchen said.
This news was like a bomb dropped in the crowd, and the team leaders present began to whisper in panic, and some people even began to be hostile to Zhang Zhao and them. They may think that it is Zhang Zhao's responsibility to provoke the night demons, and if they hadn't gone to the airport warehouse, such a thing would not have happened.
Zhang Zhao ignored them, and this hostile mentality was inevitable. He suddenly thought of something, and said: "Night demons don't come out to act during the day, and when night falls, they are active, and they should be very sensitive to ultraviolet rays. ”
"I know where there are purple lights, and there is a factory of survival lamps around, where there are relatively few zombies, you can go and look for them." One of the squads said.
"Okay, Liu Fei, you take someone right away and get everything you can use back."
Time was urgent, Liu Fei left first, and took advantage of the day to go to the lamp factory five kilometers away from the base. The rest of the people were not idle, discussed countermeasures, and went their separate ways to prepare.
Just as Zhang Zhao and Langchen were also about to leave, Cheng Peng came up from downstairs, covered in mud, and when he saw Zhang Zhao, his expression was displeased, and he snorted coldly.
"Captain Cheng, you're back, what's wrong?" Zhang Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw him come back safely.
"You're embarrassed to ask, say I'm going to pick you up, and when we go to the airport, we won't even see you except for the hordes of zombies. I thought you were all besieged, trying to save you, tossing for most of the day, but I didn't expect you to come back first. Cheng Peng was straightforward and did not shy away from criticizing: "I said Team Zhang, you guys are too inauthentic in this matter, and we almost can't come back." ”
"Cheng Peng, Zhang Zhao is not what you think, come on, let me explain the reason to you." Li Zijing put his arm around Cheng Peng's shoulder, and secretly put his other hand behind his back, signaling Zhang Zhao for them to go first.
After going downstairs, Zhang Zhao took out his cigarette, but he didn't expect it to be all broken, he twisted and connected the two together, lit it and took a puff before saying, "I don't think we should go back here today." "He's beware, as Langchen said, the night demon will trace the base.
"It's useless, the Daredevil will continue to expand their territory, and even if we don't come back, one day they will find here." Langchen put the weapon box on his shoulder, raised his chin at Zhang Zhao, and left.