Volume 2 The Return of the Stars Chapter 40 Changes in Lake City
It had been about four days since he entered the ruins, and although Jiang Luo didn't know anything about this side, he could still tell the general direction through the towering light curtain.
A group of people encountered several invisible vampires of various sizes on their way to the ruins, but they were all shattered to pieces by the fire of their rifles. On the way back, Jiang Luo changed into new black clothes in the city, but the strange thing is that he traveled through most of the city, but he didn't encounter any monsters, and the whole Lake City was a little quiet, like a dead city.
Fortunately, when he returned to the safe zone, Jiang Luo finally saw the traces of people, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
More than 100 people from the entire mask organization secretly went to the ruins in the middle of the night four days ago, and at this time, the entire research building was empty, the building was locked, and Jiang Luo could only return to the camp where Liu Chao was before.
"Black ...... Mr. Black? How are you? Liu Chao, who was carrying two bags of grain, looked at Jiang Luo with some surprise, he hadn't seen him for more than half a month, he was still wearing a black dress and a black peaked cap.
"Aren't you ......" Liu Chao said and looked around, making sure that no one was paying attention, before lowering his voice and asking, "You have all disappeared for several days, what, they are back?" ”
Jiang Luo felt that Liu Chao's performance was a little strange, "What's going on here?" ”
"You don't know, after the masks disappeared en masse, the safe zone was besieged once by monsters that appeared out of nowhere, not those invisible vampires, but something else that looked like a human......."
Through Liu Chao's description, Jiang Luo could basically determine that the monsters that suddenly appeared were from the ruins, white and human-looking. According to Liu Chao, these monsters only operate at night, and the night after the Mask Gang disappeared en masse, they launched an attack on the safe zone camp, killing many people.
"This monster is very consistent with the folk myths that have been circulating in Lake City, and it has always been said that there has been a kind of corpse-eating monster on the West Mountain since ancient times-ghouls, I don't know if it's ......."
They entered the ruins four days ago and were attacked by a white monster that appeared outside...... In other words, it is very likely that they opened the ruins and released the monsters inside.
"Those, there are a lot of ghouls?"
"That's not it, it's not much, but it's fast, and everyone is scared, so ......."
The first time I found out that the ghoul attack was because of the death of four team members on duty at night, the death of these four team members was very miserable, they were bitten on the ground beyond recognition, and there was no good meat on their bodies, and the people who found it at that time vomited directly. At first, they thought it was some kind of mutant beast, so they set up an ambush the next night, but before the beast could wait for it, they captured alive a monkey-like creature, full of fangs, white and with a ghostly glow in the night. They put the little monster in an iron cage for research, but unexpectedly, they attracted a large number of ghouls on the third night. After dark, an army of ghouls the size of an orangutan burst through the safety zone and attacked the survivors by surprise, killing and seriously injuring them. In the end, someone proposed to release the little monster, so that the entire camp was not completely destroyed. An army of thousands of ghouls could completely destroy the entire safe zone, which was established on the basis that the invisible vampires never stepped out of the city for some unknown reason, and Lake City had very few monsters other than invisible vampires. Invisible vampires are scary and eerie, but they are sparse and "intellectually retarded", and after the initial scare, the survivors can quickly find a way to deal with it, but in the face of the sheer number of ghouls, the survivors have no means of defense other than some rudimentary cold weapons. But Jiang Luo had already experienced the ferocity of ghouls, and when they killed dozens of them with guns, the entire team lost most of them.
After the appearance of the light curtain, the people here experienced the bloody baptism of invisible vampires, but the number of survivors is still extremely high. There are more than a million people in Lake City, and at least 100,000 people live in the suburbs after the disaster, when the town's safety zone should be 3,000 at the moment. However, of these 3,000 people, excluding women, children, old and disabled, there are less than 1,000 able-bodied young and middle-aged people. Now there is a danger everywhere, a mutated rat can catch humans for food, and the survivors who are cowering in the inch of land must also solve their own problems of eating, drinking, and lazing. The team that goes out to find food every day may lose members, so the survivors of Lake City are struggling to survive, but they have no choice, the light curtain will completely block the way out, they are like a group of prisoners, detained here and waiting for death, in this situation, the survivors of Lake City will disappear completely in less than two years.
"What about the others?" Jiang Luo followed Liu Chao back to their small building, only to find that two people were missing, the middle-aged man and the little girl.
Liu Chao glanced at the people in the building with Jiang Luo behind his back, and the six young men and women in the building all pretended not to hear and didn't say a word.
"Ahem, be reasonable, I shouldn't have told you, but I ......"
"Jiang Daodao, you!" Liu Chao glared at Jiang Daodao and motioned for him to shut up.
"You say."
"A day ago, our team went out and had a conflict with other teams, they forcibly took her away because Xian Yuanyuan died ...... someone, and then Lao Xian chased them to them, and now I don't know what the situation is."
"Jiang Daodao, if you don't speak, no one will treat you as a dead person!" Liu Chao shouted angrily, and then turned his face to Jiang Luo and explained, "Mr. Hei, it's not that I don't want to save them, and I can't help it, they don't know where to get two pistols....... I know you're a stunt, but you're a man of flesh, so you can't fight bullets, right? ”
Jiang Luo weighed it in his heart, he didn't have much feeling for the father and daughter, although they saved him at the beginning, he also saved them once, it was a tie-in, and he didn't need to take any more risks. Judging by his healing abilities, the damage caused by the pistol bullet should not be fatal enough, but the pain is certain.
Now his physical state is a little strange, he was initially impaled through the abdomen by a tyrant corpse monster on the outskirts of the Demon Capital, but he did not die. Then there was a heat flow and black granulation in his body, which obtained a strong healing ability and improved all aspects of his physical fitness, but at the cost of his body becoming weaker and weaker due to the inability to keep up with nutrition. In the process of being abused by the clown man, Jiang Luo vaguely remembered that he had a very strange dream, at the moment when the clown man's heart was cut, a will that did not belong to him appeared in his mind, Jiang Luo felt that he was like another person at that time, fighting with the mutated clown man. Previously, black flesh sprouts were generated by heat in his body, but after encountering the terrifying shadow pillar during his escape, the black flesh in his body withered and withered like a weed encountering paraquat, and he was still unable to generate a trace of heat flow in his body.
Fortunately, due to the experience he brought before, his body still remembers that feeling, and only needs to recall that state, Jiang Luo can reach an extraordinary level, if you have to compare, in addition to the healing ability and reaction speed of Changtai, Jiang Lu's physical level at this time should be about the same as that of a soldier who often trains.
If it were in a normal society, Jiang Luo's behavior would be ungrateful and ungrateful, but now, everyone who is tired between life and death knows that those previous moral standards are bullshit. It's only important to be alive, don't say anything to help others, it's already good not to hurt others!
Seeing Jiang Luo's silence, Liu Chao breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that the person in front of him was very powerful, and he had seen his ability when he hid in the cabinet - an almost terrifying self-healing ability. At first, he also suspected that this ability came from his devouring the flesh and blood of mutated monsters, so he also secretly ate the white flesh of the transparent vampires he brought back, of course, he did experiments on others at first, but it didn't seem to have any effect. Do you have to eat raw? But the unprocessed white meat is so fishy that it's hard to swallow.
Jiang Luo is certainly powerful, but no matter whether he wins or loses, as long as he hits that group of people, it will be himself who suffers, so Liu Chao doesn't want anyone to cause trouble. When Jiang Daodao spoke, Liu Chao's anger was true, but at the same time, it was also a temptation, but fortunately, Jiang Luo's attitude was relatively vague.
"Mr. Black, there may be some ghouls coming tonight, I'll go out and make some preparations...... Fortunately, there are fewer and fewer monsters in the city, and some signs indicate that they seem to be disappearing, and once they all leave the city, we can go back to the city and live in the city, and we will not be afraid of the attacks of those monsters with high-rise buildings......"
Seeing Liu Chao go out, the squirrel-looking girl walked up to Jiang Luo's side, and she said cautiously and quietly: "Mr. Hei, in fact, Xian Yuanyuan was not captured by them at all...... Jiang Daodao also listened to Liu Chao, only Liu Chao was present when he went out, and no one knew what was going on, but I met Lao Xian once, and he told me that Liu Chao killed their people, and then handed Xian Yuanyuan over to them to fight their lives...... If you don't believe me, you can ask Lao Xian......"
Hearing Sister Squirrel's words, Jiang Luo was a little moved, but in any case, he didn't want to risk his life, "Why are you telling me this, if I'm not mistaken, Liu Chao definitely doesn't want to hear someone say that." ”
"Mr. Hei, I know you're not the same kind of person as him, not in the first place...... Of course, this is just my intuition, I sympathize with Xian Yuanyuan, she is just a child, but in the hands of that group of people, I don't want to know what the ending is...... In fact, nine out of ten of our girls are like this. They won't force you, but if they don't follow their advice, you won't have food or shelter...... I used to think it was incredible, but when you really feel the feeling of starvation, you know why a woman would want to go to bed with the most disgusting man in the world for a slice of bread......"
Jiang Luo looked at the women among the young people sitting in the building, they looked no different from normal times, except that their clothes were dirty and worn.
"What the hell are you trying to say?"
"If you can, I hope you can save Xian Yuanyuan, she is still a child after all."
"Heh, as you said, if your life is gone, what do you care about?"
"But ......"
"I'm sorry, I don't have the ability to fight with a pistol."
Jiang Luo raised his hand, he always felt that the squirrel girl's performance was very weird, and there was a feeling that she seemed to be inducing himself. But she did attract Jiang Luo's attention, and although the painful experience before and after made Jiang Luo constantly warn himself not to meddle in his affairs, the only remaining trace of conscience still made him decide to go and find out at night.