Chapter 58: The Ghoul Mystery (2)
The wolverine is known to Lu Xun, the largest species of the weasel family, fierce by nature, and eats everything, even brown bears are not afraid, and in nature they are also on a par with the head brother.
But this is the downtown area of Shanghai, how can there be a wolverine? Shouldn't that thing be rolling in the snow in Siberia?
Lu Xun would rather have some kind of animal dig up Edward Haytham's grave, let alone a wolverine, even a brown bear doesn't matter, normal animals are much less dangerous than hunters, but Lu Xun knows very well that there are no large carnivores in the safety zone, not only the safety zone, there are no large predators in the entire urban area of Shanghai.
The emergence of hunters has squeezed out the ecological niche of the original large carnivorous mammals, and the position of large cats, bears and canines in the food chain has been robbed, and the survival ability of hunters is far beyond normal creatures, even the fierce king of beasts such as Bengal tigers can not compete with hunters, they are entrenched in cities, hunting prey at will, only weasels, rats can follow behind their butts to pick up some scraps.
Lu Xun flipped through the hunter files in his hand page by page, which included all the hunters known to mankind so far, numbered from one to seventy, of which there were forty-three categories of lurkers, twenty-three categories of marauders, and four categories of killers.
Lu Xun is the person who has seen the most types of hunters in the academy, he counted it himself, he has seen two types of lurkers, three types of marauders, and two types of killers, a total of seven categories, except for hunters, he has also seen all the infected xenomorphs, cat demons, titans and ghouls, as long as ordinary people see one of them, it is basically a dead end, but Lu Xun has survived to the present, and his hands and feet are sound.
The Slayer has only discovered four categories so far, and Lu Xun has seen two of them, one is Siren, a Siren, a half-human, half-snake monster, number sixty-seven, and one is Alien, which translates to alien or alien, number sixty-eight, this thing used to hide under the ground in the safe zone to lay eggs, and was killed by the academy with all its might.
There are two other types of Killer Lu Xun that he has not yet seen, one is Argus and the other is Jinmenju, one numbered sixty-nine and one numbered seventy.
According to the ranking rules of the Hunter Profile, the further down the number, the more dangerous it is, and the Killers ranked sixty-nine and seventy are necessarily more powerful than the Sirens and the Alien Queen, with Argus said to have appeared in the early days of the Doomsday Virus outbreak and was finally eliminated with incendiary bombs by the A10 attack aircraft.
It's hard for the Land Patrol to imagine that an attack plane would be used against a creature, could it be that the skin of that thing is as thick as tank armor?
As for Jinmenju, this thing is a legend, and there are no sightings of it on Lu Patrol, let alone any relevant information, but it is very strange that it is listed in the archives in a grand manner, and it is also numbered in the seventieth place, and it is undoubtedly the most dangerous of all hunters.
Lu Xun went to the colonel for this, saying that it was very loose to include such a mythical creature in the file, and it was better to delete it, but Sean refused, and the colonel's answer was very subtle, he said that if you haven't seen it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
"You expect to find clues in this file?" Lao Jia asked.
Lu Xun nodded.
"Did you find it?"
"Nope." Lu Xun shook his head, "I still can't figure out the motive and intention of digging up the grave and stealing the corpse, Lao Jia, what kind of creature do you say, and for what purpose will you dig an old grave?" ”
"Ghouls." Lao Jia replied.
Lu Xun was stunned, "Ghoul? ”
"A monster in Arabian legend that likes to eat corpses and dig graves." Lao Jia said, "They have no interest in the living, they only like to dig up graves and dig up corpses." ”
Lu Xun was taken aback, thinking that this description was really in line with the current situation.
But ghouls are just demons in myths and legends, and they can't really appear in real life, let alone in safe zones. A creature that only eats carrion cannot survive in nature, most scavengers are omnivorous, hyenas and coyotes don't mind eating carrion, but they won't refuse if fresh food is available.
"You see, this lurker is numbered fifteen, and its name is 'scavenging wart,' and it is the only category of hunters known to date that feeds on carrion." Lu Xun spread out the file, "The reason why it eats scavenging is because this thing is slow and not good at hunting. ”
"But it's not good at digging, and if there's fresh food, it won't let it go." Lu Xun said, "This thing says that it moves slowly but compared to other predators, it actually has a certain predatory ability, at least it can run faster than people...... Creatures that are not interested in living things like ghouls and only like to eat corpses do not exist. ”
Lao Jia was also puzzled.
Lu Xun is right, logically speaking, ghouls cannot exist.
"What's more, the security zone's defense system is not porous, and if something intrudes into the academy, then an alarm will be triggered immediately." Lu Xun said, "If something really sneaked in, then the alarm should have sounded a long time ago." ”
"You're so confident in the defense system you've designed?"
"I didn't design the defense system alone." Lu Xun shook his head, "I just made improvements on the basis of Colonel, Omega and Zhao Gao, even if you don't have confidence in me, you should trust the three of them." ”
"So...... Can the possibility of alien creatures committing crimes be ruled out? ”
Lu Xun nodded.
"Can be ruled out."
After Ai Ye finished washing, he walked into the office lightly, sat down at the desk and began to eat breakfast.
Lu Xun looked at the little girl, in a daze, thinking about the problem in his heart.
Ai Ye was furious by him, "Lu ...... Brother Lu Xun? ”
Lu Xun was still staring at her, frowning.
Ai Ye was frightened, she thought she had done something wrong, she didn't dare to eat any more, slowly put down the food in her hand, shrank back and shrank back little by little, and finally shrank behind the sofa and hid.
It took Lu Xun a long time to come back to his senses and decided to have breakfast first and discuss it with the director later, but when he saw that Ai Ye was gone.
"Girl?" Lu Xun got up and walked over, and found the little girl shrunk up behind the sofa, she covered her ears and buried her face in her lap, "Girl, what are you hiding here?" ”
"Brother Lu Xun glared at me, it's terrible......" The girl flattened her mouth, and her voice was like a mosquito.
Lu Xun couldn't cry or laugh, pulled her out, and the two of them had breakfast together.