Chapter 33: Land Crisis

Another day of patrol work, the budgies are becoming more and more proficient in flying skills, the lines of their bodies are more fluid, and the seabirds around the Lychee and the Ice Dragon base seem to regard the budgies as the king of birds, and a large flock of seabirds fly around the budgies, which is spectacular.

Leaving the dangerous rainforest area, Zhang Le came to the central coastal plain of Angola. This kind of environment is naturally Zhang Le's favorite. Not only is the scenery beautiful, but it also has a wide view, making it easy to find mutated creatures and escape in case of danger.

From above, there are sparse villages by the sea. Zhang Le is now a bold artist and is not afraid of any locals, but it is naturally better to avoid meeting. Walking along the coast while observing the surroundings, with Zhang Le's night vision and hearing ability, it is naturally easy to avoid pedestrians.

But what puzzled Zhang Le was that after walking a distance of five or six kilometers, he didn't find any trace of human beings. There are also far fewer creatures on the beach than before. Zhang Le felt a little uneasy. On the reef-filled beach, Zhang Le saw a stretch of sand, a strange stretch of sand. The beach is full of dense footprints, small footprints, the size of cat's paws, but not with fleshy pads like mammals, but in clusters, like insect crawling marks.

Zhang Le has a little numbness, if this is an insect's footprints, then the size of this insect is not small! What's more important is that the quantity will certainly not be less.

Zhang Le put the dismantled wings back on, and then ran to a high slope. There was a village about two kilometers away, and at night, Zhang Le could only see a vague shadow.

After a brief hesitation, Zhang Le decided to go forward. With the auxiliary gliding effect of wings, Zhang Le, who was running fast, flew directly over the ditches and bumps. The village is getting closer, but Zhang Le is getting more and more worried. Zhang Le found that he had overlooked a very important problem, that is, when Zhang Le was flying at high altitude, he never found the light. It's only about seven o'clock in the evening, and even in the last days, it is impossible for humans to go to bed so early. That can only be two explanations, either there is no one or it is inconvenient to turn on the lights. In either case, it's not a good sign.

After crossing a high slope, the view suddenly widened. There is a village more than 400 meters ahead, with Zhang Le's eyesight, everything can be seen clearly, the houses are a few bricks, most of them are adobe thatched houses, it seems very poor, and more importantly, there are ruined scenes everywhere, showing that the village has been damaged recently.

Getting closer, Zhang Le's expression froze, and human bones were scattered everywhere in the open space in front of and behind the house.

Zhang Le is no longer a rookie who is afraid when he sees a dead corpse, but in this foreign village, it still makes Zhang Le a little surprised to suddenly see so many white bones as clean as new. Normally, even if a human has been dead for half a year, the bones should not be so shiny as new, and there will always be a trace of residual tissue or tissue fluid soaking the bones. The scattered human bones were neither scars nor gunshot wounds, but it was clear that they had been attacked at about the same time.

"I'm afraid it could only be an attack by mutated creatures." After thinking about it, Zhang Le only had this answer in his heart, which was a bit similar to the mandrill tribe in the tropical rainforest, but those monkeys were doves occupying magpies' nests, but what kind of mutated creatures were here, obviously not settled creatures. Insect? Zhang Le somehow remembered the footprints on the beach. It seems that only insect creatures can gnaw bones so cleanly.

Zhang Le remembered Shen Wei, whom he met less than a month ago, according to his introduction, Angola was generally peaceful, but he didn't expect this to happen now. Originally, Zhang Le also planned to go to the Chinese settlement here to have a look.

Zhang Le ran around the village again, but still didn't find anything. Could it be that these insects slaughtered a village of people, and not a single one of them died? This combat power is a bit too strong!

Zhang Le flew into the sky and began to fly south along the coastline. Three hundred meters, five hundred meters, until it flew to a height of about 1,000 meters, Zhang Le saw a little light in the east and southeast. Although it is obscured by white clouds, this distance is at least hundreds of kilometers away. Zhang Le changed color in shock, the degree of destruction of this creature was probably not weaker than that group of mutant crabs.

The wind at high altitude is too strong, and it is easy to have unexpected situations. Zhang Le lowered the flight altitude to about 300 meters and continued to fly along the coastline. An hour later, Zhang Le gave up his inspection. There are no traces of large animals on the surface within the line of sight, you must know that this is Africa, the continent with the most wild animals, but rabbits and voles or something, Zhang Le has seen a lot. Both animals burrow, and it appears that this mutant horde is currently only active on the surface, with the ocean and underground being off-limits for the time being.

Zhang Le, who came to the conclusion, was not only not happy, but was even more worried, how should humans on the African continent deal with these mutated creatures? There are still more than 200,000 Chinese here!

It was not early, and Zhang Le, who had found nothing, flew back to the Lychee, and when he landed on the deck, he saw Li Jun, Wang Daqing, Wang Zhigao and Chen Zhiming chatting on the side of the ship.

"Zhang Le, how is it, the inspection is going well, right?" Li Jun first asked enthusiastically. Li Jun is really the person who envies Zhang Le the most, he likes challenges and excitement the most, and Zhang Le's current work is obviously the most exciting and the most valuable. But since the last Clown Town incident, Li Jun found that he was basically a burden, so Li Jun was embarrassed to join the land reconnaissance work in the future.

"Alas, don't mention it, the land is very dangerous, terrifying and scary, and I don't know what kind of mutated creatures have come, which are fiercer than the crabs last time, and all the people in each village are dead, and there are only bare bones and sticks left, and the thieves are clean." These are all big men, rough nerves, Zhang Le's mood is very depressed now, so I also want to find these people to share the ideological pressure.

Several men changed color in unison, the last crab incident left a deep impression on everyone, and the huge scratches left by the giant crab are still on the deck.

"Are we dangerous?" Li Jun asked with a solemn expression.

Zhang Le smiled reluctantly: "The sea should be fine for the time being, according to my observation, this creature should not be able to go into the water, but the people on land are dangerous." The destructive power is quite large, a radius of 100 miles, all of them are blank, I want to report to Director Zhao, we must speed up and return to China, otherwise maybe when we return to China, all the people on the land will die. ”

Zhang Le left an explosive news and left in a hurry. The few people left behind looked at each other. It was not for nothing that these people went to bed so late, because they heard that Zhang Houde was going to be ready to receive Ouyang Ji's mutant gene medicine injection tonight.