Chapter 22: Seven Nights (7)
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He jumped off the rubble and clapped his hands. This is the last trap, and the eight traps they have placed in eight different locations, and judging from the map, they form a large circle centered on the Zhao Gaolu patrol station, with a diameter of more than a kilometer.
Lu Xun looked up, the cage was set up in a collapsed residential building, which tilted down and smashed on the adjacent building, whose side walls were smashed to pieces, broken cement prefabricated slabs inserted into the ground, steel bars supporting each other, such ruins had a lot of cavities and crevices, and mobile creatures like ghouls loved this kind of narrow and dark space.
The exterior walls and floors of the buildings were covered with black scorched marks, the earth had been turned up and charred, the rubble and rubble were piled up, and the abandoned armored vehicles had fallen to the side of the road, rusted into empty shells, but the scars still remained on their shells, and it was hard to imagine what had happened to those who had been ordered to defend the line here.
Standing in the middle of the road, he could see the fierceness of the battle, the tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and heavy mecha were burned to the ground black, and the helicopter gunship crashed into the roof of a residential building, and the huge rotors were still hanging in the air more than 20 meters high.
The dense bullet casings under his feet were mixed in the dirt, and Lu Xun kicked with his feet, raising more bullet casings than stones.
This was the Pudong Security Zone in Shanghai, one of the largest security zones in the world...... Later in the world, it was also one of the deadliest safe zones in the world, and the destruction of this safe zone was certainly an unprecedented blow to humanity.
Lu Xun took a deep breath and turned to look at Zhao Gao.
Zhao Gao is inspecting the trap, the nylon cage is fixed to the floor with a wire cable, with its back against the high wall to shelter from the wind and the sun, all the infected and hunters do not like the sun, the ghoul is an aggregate of infected cells, there is no fixed shape and no skin and hair, the lack of protection of the outer skin, strong sunlight and ultraviolet rays are a great threat to the ghouls.
"Blood!" Zhao Gao stretched out his hand to greet.
Lu Xun took down a bucket of deer blood from the cargo bed of the pickup truck, climbed up and wanted to hand it to Zhao Gao, but one accidentally stepped on a thin cement slab, one end of the cement slab was violently cocked, and the friction of the gravel under it decreased and began to collapse, and the young man suddenly lost his balance.
A hand reached down and firmly grasped Lu Xun's wrist, pulled him up, and then took the iron bucket.
"Be careful." Zhao Gao reminded, "These prefabricated concrete slabs have been soaked by long-term wind, sun and rain, and the interior is actually very fragile and cannot bear the weight of an adult." ā
He began to smear the cage with deer blood, the dark red blood flowing down the impermeable nylon cloth, and the thick smell of blood permeated.
The purpose of applying deer blood is to mask the smell of humans on traps, just as hunters apply lard to animal traps to hide the smell of rust, nylon is a man-made chemical fiber, and polyamide is not a material in nature, and the strange smell of nylon cloth is likely to arouse the suspicion of prey...... Although there is no evidence so far that ghouls possess a keen sense of smell, Zhao Gao and Lu Xun must eliminate all uncertainties just to be on the safe side.
They want to make sure they get it right the first time because they don't have a second chance.
Lu Xun then stuffed a large piece of venison into the cage, they brought out a total of dozens of kilograms of venison, Zhao Gao emptied an entire cold storage, these meats were originally the college's reserve food for half a month, and in the next half a month, there were no meat stars in the college's cafeteria.
Lu Xun turned his head to look at the sky, the sun had set in the west, and the clouds were burned red.
It was now four twenty p.m., and in two hours the hunters would be out for their activities, and they would have to return to the station before then.
"Can we catch that thing?" Lu Xun jumped down and paced along the road, "Will the ghouls be fooled?" ā
Zhao Gao finished brushing the deer blood, threw the empty iron bucket on the pickup, and shook his head.
"It depends on how smart the thing is...... Biologically speaking, ghouls are just a mass of slime mold-like creatures, and their IQ is not much higher than that of worms. Zhao Gao replied, "But according to historical records, ghouls are undoubtedly an extremely cunning xenomorph, they will even evade the surveillance of cameras, if we are facing such monsters, then our trap will be difficult to hide from them." ā
"They're likely to see through our trap?" Land Tour Head.
"If you see through it, you can see through it." Zhao Gao pointed to the cage at a high place, "As long as you haven't gotten into it, it's not a trap...... Our goal tonight is not to catch it, but to confirm its existence, and the food we gave it as a greeting gift. ā
"But doesn't that attract other hunters?"
Lu Xun asked leisurely, he stood in front of an American-made M2A3 "Bradley" infantry fighting body, this armored car had been scrapped for many years, the broken tracks were spread on the side of the road, the load wheels had long been gone, and the young man gently knocked on the rusty armor of the infantry fighting vehicle, and the body made a dull sound.
"Absolutely." Zhao Gao said, "This is a high-level forbidden area, it is normal for other hunters to exist, and if there are hunters who visit here, then it is very likely to tear our cage to pieces." ā
"How can I prevent it?"
"There's no way to prevent it." Zhao Gao shook his head, opened the door and started the car, "This is one of the risks that must exist...... We can only pray that it doesn't happen, or that it doesn't happen so quickly. ā
Lu Xun followed into the carriage and sat in the passenger seat, suddenly slightly stunned.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Gao turned his head.
"Have you been here before?" Lu Xun asked.
"Nope." Zhao Gao shook his head.
"But you're familiar with the streets around here?"
"Just looking at the map." Zhao Gao's face was expressionless.
Lu Xun nodded, and he secretly glanced at Zhao Gao beside him, who was hanging up with a flat face.
He didn't fully believe what Zhao Gao said...... Lu Xun just remembered a small detail, when he climbed up the ruins with deer blood, he accidentally stepped on a prefabricated slab that caused the rubble pile to collapse, and the cement slab was on the way uphill, but Zhao Gao went up and down more than a dozen times, and every time he passed from there, he avoided the mine.
The map doesn't show which board in the ruins can't be stepped on...... The only possibility of avoiding such a hidden mine is that he knew there were mines here.