Chapter 24: Seven Nights (9)
The terrible howl pierced through the air and irritated the eardrums, making people shudder uncontrollably, Lu Xun had never heard so many hunters screaming, his scalp tingled, he stepped back into the hall, and reached out to pull Beretta out. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Zhao Gao frowned and turned his head to look out of the door.
"This ...... What's going on? Lu Xun swallowed, "Is it a hunter?" ā
"It's a hunter." Zhao Gao nodded slowly, "But don't be too nervous, it's far away from us." ā
The screams were cascading, reflecting from building to building, and finally gradually subsided.
"This ...... How many hunters do you have to have? Lu Xun was surprised, "What are they doing here?" Is there a meeting? Can't sleep in the middle of the night and get up and sing? ā
"The area of Shanghai's urban area is 6,340 square kilometers, and there are 3,170 hunters for every two square kilometers, but this is only a conservative estimate, and the actual number is far more than that." "Because we have confirmed that some hunters live in groups and have social behaviors, we believe that the minimum number of hunters in Shanghai should be more than 10,000." ā
Lu Xun can't imagine what the concept of 10,000 hunters is, before they stuck to the safe zone, the hummingbird hunting team only needs to deal with the hunters around the safe zone, one kills one, and two kills a pair, in Lu Xun's mind, hunters are synonymous with "powerful" and "rare", when describing the number of hunters, the unit of measurement never exceeds a single digit.
But now Zhao Gao suddenly put the order of magnitude "10,000" on the hunter's head, smashing Lu Xun's brain in a daze, 10,000 infected people are invincible, what do 10,000 hunters have to become? Every monster can drown them with a spit, right?
This is a one-sided disparity in strength, which cannot be looked up to and touched at all.
Lu Xun realized that the safe zone was just a small reef in the middle of the ocean, and the current peace and security were actually fragile, and the reason why they had survived until now was not because the academy was too powerful, but because they had not encountered any decent storms at all.
As long as one-tenth of the hunters in the city gather to attack, they can easily break through the defense of the security zone and directly level the academy, and in front of a thousand hunters, the executive department and the hummingbird hunting team will not have the slightest chance at all...... To resist such an attack, at least a heavy mechanized division is required.
Before Lu Xun, he also thought that the defense wall of the security zone was impregnable, with heavy machine guns, off-road vehicles, anti-tank missiles, and heavy attack mecha and humanoid weapons like killing embryos, but now it seems that the wall of the security zone that is more than three meters high is actually no different from paper paste in the eyes of the other party, and 10,000 hunters are not a wall that can withstand at all.
He suddenly thought of the Pudong Security Zone in Shanghai back then...... That security zone is known as the largest and most powerful defense in the world, with a whole army guarding it, from machine guns to tanks, from light weapons to heavy weapons, including helicopter gunships...... But they were destroyed anyway.
Lu Xun is now stepping on the original site of Shanghai's Pudong Security Zone, and outside the door is the wreckage left over from the original war, those rusty tanks and armored vehicles were once the pride of mankind, and they are invincible war machines.
What was once the most formidable security zone is now nothing but overgrown ruins.
The Land Patrol and the Shanghai Pudong Security Zone are located on the same land, and the hunters can break through the powerful Pudong Security Zone, as well as the Shanghai Naval Military Academy Security Zone.
"I don't know what they're doing." Zhao Gao shook his head, "I haven't seen such a situation before, hunters are cautious and never howl indiscriminately, they are not mad dogs, howling will reveal their location, which is a big taboo for hunters who like to hide their whereabouts." ā
The screams outside the door almost spanned the entire city, the hunters relayed each other, you sang and I appeared, Lu Xun didn't know if the academy could hear these sounds, these weird and terrifying howls were enough to wake up the entire academy and cause alarms.
Lu Xun turned around and retracted into the compartment, closing the door and closing the partition.
"Lao Jia." The young man spoke suddenly.
"Huh?"
"Do you know wolves?" Lu Xun asked.
"You know...... Lao Jia nodded, "Why did you suddenly ask about this?" ā
"Do you know why wolves howl?" Lu Xun then asked.
"The howl of a wolf pack is a form of communication, and the wolf is a creature that communicates through sound, such as when a male needs to find a female during the breeding season, and howling is also a way to confirm the status of the pack." Lao Jia replied, "The highest ranking wolf in the wolf pack, or the wolf king, will be the first to howl, and the other members of the same kind will be allowed to continue howling, and the wolf with too low status cannot even participate in this process......"
"Do you feel a bit similar between the two?" Lu Xun interrupted Lao Jia.
"Similar?" Lao Jia was stunned, "Wolves are social animals, but most hunters live alone, right?" Could it be that the hunters also have so many moths? The hunters who just howled are almost all over the city, are so many hunters in one group? With such a large group of hunters, you can fight invincible opponents all over the world, right? ā
Lu Xun frowned and was silent for a long time, "Is it really impossible?" ā
"Ahh Lao Jia comforted, "According to the information available, social hunters must maintain the connection between their individuals by blood, just like the killer you met last time, the mother and offspring form a matrilineal community. However, it is difficult for other hunters to form groups with each other, because many hunters do not even belong to the same biological classification, and different hunters are very different from each other, and some even prey on each other, and they cannot communicate with each other, so it is impossible to form a community at all. ā
Lu Xun nodded slowly, "I'm just a little uneasy in my heart. ā
"Uneasy?"
"You've said that before, right? Howls within the pack confirm the status of the individual. Lu Xun said, "If those hunters howl just now are the same purpose...... Is there necessarily a king of hunters? Just like the wolf king of the pack. ā
Lao Jia was stunned.
"I've thought the same thing before...... "is there a king in this city who is above all the hunters?" ā
"Killers?" Lao Jia asked.
"No...... Not a killer. Lu Xun shook his head, "The Killer is indeed powerful, but I don't think it's at that level...... If that King of the Hunters really exists, it must be a creature beyond all of us can imagine. ā