Chapter 49: The Bug's Thoughts
At the end of the morning patrol, Zhang Le did not go back to the tavern to rest in order to avoid running into Bailey, and slept directly in the utility room of the ranch.
At six o'clock in the evening, Isaac and John arrived. The two of them were not wearing strange clothes tonight, nor did they wear dark wind and heavy makeup, they looked much more refreshing, and what was even more surprising was that the two actually pushed a board cart over, and there was a huge box on the board cart, and there were obvious rut marks on the ground where the board car passed, it seemed that the weight of this box was not light.
Isaac first inquired about Zhang Le's whereabouts from the ranch workers, and learned that Zhang Le was resting in the utility room, so he asked John to wake Zhang Le up.
Zhang Le had actually woken up a long time ago, but he had been closing his eyes and feeling the subtle changes in his body. Since the last time Zhao Fei inexplicably gave Zhang Le another test, Zhang Le found that his body was in a delicate state, and there was a strange fluctuation scattered all over his body, as if he could control it, but he couldn't grasp the point of control. In the past two days, Zhang Le finally slowly found that point, which was more obvious in the palms of the two hands, especially the right palm. Zhang Le could feel that if he could mobilize the strange fluctuations of his body to reach the palm of his hand, then the white light on his hand could emit it. But this feeling of control is mysterious and mysterious, Zhang Le has no clue after trying for a long time, and every time he falls short.
Seeing that John told him to go out to work, Zhang Le had to stop the experiment and prepare for tonight's patrol. When it's time for the shift, Ms. McGee will definitely come to the ranch. At this moment, she was listening to the daily patrol report from the day shift security guard, whether there were any anomalies, etc. John and Zhang Le walked over, and Isaac saw Zhang Le and ran up to give him a warm hug.
When Ms. McGee saw that the night shift had arrived, she clapped her hands and said loudly, "Alright, now finish the shift." Isaac, John, and Jaime didn't encounter anything out of the ordinary. But today a new species has appeared on the periphery of the pasture, the giant locust, which is thirty to fifty centimeters long, belongs to the dominant mutant creature, and tastes quite good when roasted. Although the attack power is not high, it is a certain threat to ordinary humans, so you should pay attention to the situation tonight. Tomorrow I'll be posting a locust removal mission to the Postal Union, and I'm sure there's a new treat for Rock Town. ”
Although Ms. McGee's joke was not very funny, everyone laughed cooperatively, but the laughter was uneven and a little cold. Ms. McGee, of course, didn't care, and after speaking, she walked away.
Zhang Le walked to the group of security guards on the day shift, and saw one more face, which can be regarded as an acquaintance, the red-bearded Thiago, the guy who lost the competition for security with Zhang Le last time. Zhang Le and Adam came to a bear hug and asked, "You have a new partner so soon?" ”
Adam didn't speak, but secretly pointed to the back of Ms. McGee in the distance, and spread his hands helplessly. When the red-bearded Thiago saw Zhang Le, he laughed, took the initiative to step forward, raised his hand to give Zhang Le a high-five celebration, looking at Thiago's somewhat provocative look, Zhang Le secretly added a little strength, snap, Thiago shouted "ah", suddenly retracted his hand, and shook his hand while jumping his feet, his face turned red. The other day guards looked at each other, then laughed, and understood why the two night guards had chosen Jaime to be their partner.
The daytime security guards waved goodbye to Zhang Le warmly. It was completely dark, and the ranch workers added the last batch of forage and left, leaving only Zhang Le, Isaac, and John in the pasture.
Zhang Le noticed the huge box on the board car and asked casually, "What is this?" ”
Isaac laughed, "Mr. Jaime, we brought everything we could bring today, and if we can't catch the flyer, I'll have to quit my job as a ranch security." John on the side also nodded.
Half an hour later, the cattle and sheepfold was covered with very fine white threads all around and above them, and at the end of the threads hung a bell, and any slightly larger creature could not escape the alarm system. In addition, the entire cattle and sheep pen around the hidden position, placed ten high-intensity searchlights, one key remote control can be turned on, I am afraid that a fly in this strong light is nowhere to hide, a total of three remote control, one per person.
At the same time, a high-definition night vision camera is also placed on the watchtower, the lens is facing the direction of the cattle and sheep pen, and the camera is turned on all night. As for weapons, each person is equipped with an automatic rifle with a night vision sight, a pistol, five grenades, as well as two flares.
Even Zhang Le felt that this configuration was enough. Whether it's a real trapeze or a fake trapeze, as long as he/she comes, there is almost no chance of avoiding this trap, or at least revealing his true appearance, which also proves whether Isaac and John lied about what happened last night.
As for the ambush site, each of the three men guarded one direction, only the direction facing the creek was blank. Zhang Le was wearing the 700 New Zealand dollar luxury outdoor suit, dark gray-green mosaic invisible pattern, wearing a coat and hat, lying in the grass, even during the day, it was not easy to find. Isaac and John hid in the canopy of a large leafy tree, and the two easily jumped up to the three or four meters high branches.
The night was getting deeper, and Zhang Le regretted lying in the grass a little. Because, nocturnal creatures began to appear, and the ground was where they lived. There are known centipedes, centipedes, earthworms, worms, spiders, ants and snails, as well as strange mollusc nematodes that you don't recognize. These creatures are only slightly larger than their pre-nuclear counterparts, and some of them are still deformed and mutated multi-headed, multi-body and multi-order deformities, these small deformed creatures that are usually unnoticed have actually adapted to some specific environments, and are in an advantageous position in the competition with their peers, because at this moment, Zhang Le saw a two-headed centipede easily kill a normal single-headed centipede.
Just when Zhang Le endured his nausea and was about to get up and change to a more refreshing place, the strange fluctuations in his body suddenly became regular under the stimulation of the environment, and they rushed to the palm of his hand, this was the first time Zhang Le clearly felt the trajectory of the fluctuations in his body, and the first few times he was confused and emitted white light. Zhang Le didn't want the white light to be emitted at such an inappropriate time, so he consciously manipulated this fluctuation to slow down. Fortunately, before the white light was emitted, Zhang Le finally controlled the fluctuations.
The palm of his right hand felt hot and became extremely sensitive, and all the movements within half a meter in front of his palm seemed to be imprinted in his mind, although Zhang Le's eyes did not look there.
"I'm so hungry, there are a lot of bugs here, I'm going to weave a web here." A clear consciousness entered Zhang Le's mind.
"Weaving webs, eating insects, am I a spider?" Zhang Le was baffled by the strange consciousness that suddenly appeared. But when Zhang Le lowered his head, a ridiculous situation appeared, a spider the size of a thumb was hanging a silk thread, passing through the palm of Zhang Le's hand and sliding to the ground. The spider landed on the tip of the grass, twenty centimeters above the ground, and began to weave its web, and at the same time, the strange consciousness disappeared.
Zhang Le suddenly thought of the lady Gianna who claimed to be able to feel the emotions of living beings, this seemed to be a similar ability, but also a very strange ability, and it seemed to be a less useful ability. Comparatively speaking, Zhang Le prefers the domineering white light that can carbonize animals.
Zhang Le stood up, moved his body that had been uncomfortable for a long time, and then squatted down and swept around with his palms on the various small animals crawling on the ground.
"Kill it, eat it."
"Eat it, kill it."
"I'm full, I'm going to sleep."
"Mating, mating, I'm going to mate with a female centipede, why isn't there a female centipede? It's all public! ”
Zhang Le swept the insects with the palm of his hand for a while, and found the flaws of this skill, especially compared to Gianna's skills, first, it must be close to each other, the distance is about one to two centimeters, and second, it can only feel the current thoughts of the creature.
Zhang Le stood up and couldn't help complaining: "These insects think about these things every day, the quality of life is obviously not high, how good human beings are, in addition to thinking about eating, drinking, sleeping and mating, occasionally thinking about poetry and distance!" Also, there are quite a lot of single dogs in the bug world! ”
Zhang Le walked to the utility room where he slept during the day, there was a small window, and Zhang Le felt that it was also a good idea to ambush there.
Another three hours passed, and there was no sign of the flyer's arrival. Just when Zhang Le was so bored that he wanted to doze off, a sound of wings stirring came. Zhang Le was excited, and under the instinctive reaction, Zhang Le's right palm was hot again, and coincidentally, a giant locust thirty or forty centimeters long landed on the platform of the window, and its tail happened to be on Zhang Le's upward palm.
"No one, keep getting closer."
"Yes."
A clear consciousness came to Zhang Le's mind again. The locust's head was facing outward, but he didn't find Zhang Le behind him, and flew closer to the cattle and sheepfold.
A strange feeling appeared, the moment the locust's tail touched Zhang Le's hand, an invisible and intangible thing was absorbed by Zhang Le's palm.
Then, the hot palms suddenly cooled, and the strange fluctuations in the body became extremely weak. Zhang Le forcibly urged the fluctuations in his body to converge into the palm of his hand, and the warm feeling appeared again.
"There are traps, there are traps, leave quickly, leave quickly......" The strange information was halfway through, it broke, and Zhang Le's palm returned to its normal temperature.
"Jingle bells, jingle bells,......" The direction of the cattle and sheepfold rang rapidly. Ten searchlights turned on at the same time..... and the surroundings were as bright as day, and the giant locusts that had just flown past Zhang Le were entangled in the silk thread that tied the bell, and they were struggling and fluttering vigorously.