It's important, it's critical.

The map shows that there are four kilometers left from the target location. Of course, this is a straight-line distance, and it does not include the length required to turn around the road and twist the whole thing. Sometimes I feel helpless when I think about it, knowing that the place I want to go is behind a certain building, but I have to take a long detour and pass through several red light intersections to get there.

However, rules are rules, and it is on this that human society can continue.

Liu Tianming chose a relatively hidden place to step on the brakes. Just as he was about to push the car door, Zheng Xiaoyue, who was sitting in the passenger seat, suddenly said: "There is something that I think is very strange. ”

Liu Tianming stopped what he was doing: "What? ”

"I don't know if you feel that way, but we didn't encounter many infected people along the way."

Zheng Xiaoyue's plump chest was revealed from under the black shirt, and the content of the words was as easy to cause deep thought as the height of this ****: "Do you remember what you once told me———— the number of infected people in the normal form far exceeds the number of infected people in the mutated form." But do you calculate, how many mutated forms of infections have we encountered now? What about the normal form of the infected? Where are they? We rarely encounter them. ”

On this issue, Liu Tianming himself has also thought about it. He looked into Zheng Xiaoyue's eyes and asked slowly, "Why do you think this is happening?" ”

Liu Tianming has his own answer. Of course, it was just speculation, and he himself was not sure whether it was correct or not. But that's the most plausible explanation.

He now wanted to hear Zheng Xiaoyue's understanding of this issue.

"I think they've all been eaten. Infected in their normal form are hunted by mutant forms of infected, and the former becomes food for the latter. ”

The words that came out of Zheng Xiaoyue's mouth were completely consistent with Liu Tianming's thinking: "Do you remember the woman we met on the top floor of the Jinjiang Hotel in Chengdu?" That's what I thought at the time. We finally got the relics left by Song Jiahao, but she has more strength than any of us. Everything is eaten. She's also hunting, and she's eating other opponents. Although the normal form of the infected is also predatory to the mutant infected, they are no match for the mutated infected. It's like a boxing tryout, from the preliminary round to the semi-finals and then the finals. The one who wins the championship in the end has to kill everyone. ”

Liu Tianming had a gentle smile on his face. He stretched out his right hand and gently scratched Zheng Xiaoyue's nose: "You are very smart." That's actually a good thing. The more they eat and the more they hunt, the more time and effort we can save. Anyway, all biological nutrients are stored in their bodies, and as long as we find one, we can all eat enough. ”

Zheng Xiaoyue smiled: "Really? Do you think so too? ”

Liu Tianming nodded: "Okay!" Now is not the time to discuss this. Stay in the car and stay safe. I'll just take a look at it. ”

With that, he pushed open the door and walked out.

Looking at Liu Tianming's back gradually fading away at the entrance of the street in the distance, the smile on Zheng Xiaoyue's face slowly receded and turned into deep worry.

Of course, she knew that Liu Tianming would see this issue more clearly than herself. But danger is danger, and you don't know when it will come suddenly. The reason why the "boxing match" was chosen as an example was the result of Zheng Xiaoyue's decision after careful consideration.

She actually wants to use the example of "raising Gu" as a comparison.

Some people living in Yunnan know that ethnic minorities have the custom of raising Gu. It is a practice of keeping poisonous insects such as spiders, scorpions, and snakes together and letting them fight each other and devour each other. The one who won in the end had a combination of toxins from other species. It may not survive and die on the spot, or it may survive and survive.

Just eat the current king, and you will become the new king.

This is Zheng Xiaoyue's understanding of the mutant virus.

She worries about her husband.

Zheng Xiaoyue is very envious of Li Jiexin, who can follow the Yellow River to the northwest base to raise a fetus, and wait for the child to be born smoothly.

Zheng Xiaoyue never told Liu Tianming that she was secretly doing contraception.

Although she would love to be a mother.

Although she really wants to have her own children like Li Jiexin.

But in contrast, Zheng Xiaoyue was more worried about Liu Tianming's safety. She felt that she should stay with this man to protect him and do something for him at a critical time.

Now that the choice has been made, no matter what the outcome, it must be endured.

……

The city is full of dangers.

Liu Tianming, who was running at high speed, had just turned the corner when he suddenly heard several crisp gunshots, followed by frantic and hysterical shouts.

"There are too many of them, what should we do?"

"Bastard, it's all your bad idea, you can get food here. Now we can't get out, they've blocked all the exits. ”

"I don't want to die...... Help me! Who's going to save me! ”

The sound of cursing and shouting came from a long distance, Liu Tianming stopped in place and held his breath, quickly turned around, climbed a street tree with flexible and vigorous skills, jumped on the windowsill of a nearby residential building, and climbed all the way to the roof of the building along the metal buckle frame on the drainage pipe.

The sound is coming from the north direction.

It was a deep, thin alleyway, right between the two buildings. Several men with backpacks huddled at the end of the alleyway, some with machetes and others with pistols. On the opposite side, a large group of hideous-looking corpses swarmed from the entrance of the alleyway. They held sticks and stones in their hands, completely sealing off the escape routes of the survivors.

There was simply no way to escape.

The pistol is estimated to be out of bullets, and the previous shots may have been the last few rounds. From Liu Tianming's location to the place of the incident, even if it is too late to rush over now. He could only stand on the roof of the building, silently watching the survivors huddled at the bottom of the alleyway being overwhelmed by the corpses. From the moment the first corpse pounced, there was a scream of pain that was not like a human voice.

The smell of blood quickly spread, and the hungry corpses were stimulated even more frantically, they pushed and squeezed me like swarms of ants, beckoning the survivors with various weapons in their hands, stones fell from the sky like raindrops, and the sharp screams quickly turned into Ai Ai's painful moans, and finally they were completely drowned out by the sound of footsteps and metal impacts,

The corpses roared like beasts. Their vocal organs are evolving, but they can't shout like humans. A new round of scramble began, and the steel rods and clubs were smashed at the same kind, and the murderous corpse that was smashed in front of them turned around and threw themselves at the same kind, but they did not guard against the other predators taking the opportunity to seize their own positions...... Corresponding to these savage and rough movements is a scalp-tingling, "click-click" gnawing sound.

Liu Tianming had no desire to continue watching.

He turned away and jumped towards the nearest lamp pole, clinging to the smooth, straight metal pole with both hands, and quickly slid to the ground.

The location of the relics marked by Song Jiahao in his last words this time is the infirmary of the sports school.

Standing across the road, above the fence, Liu Tianming saw the six-story school building. They are neat and beautiful, with red tiles on the edges, and look out of the ordinary in the middle of the surrounding commercial buildings.

No breath of the infected body was found, and the mutant cells never issued a danger signal.

A smile appeared on Liu Tianming's tense face.

No one likes trouble, and he is no exception.

This means that there are no strong opponents at the location of the relic. There may be groups of corpses of varying sizes, but the murderous corpses are hardly a threat to Liu Tianming. Unless their populations are large in the tens of thousands, and they operate in a narrow area. Otherwise, the murderous corpse is the appetizer for the core members of the team.

This time, I guess it will be easy.

Just as Liu Tianming took a step and ran across the empty road, a rough voice suddenly came from the depths of the bushes next to him.

"Hey! Can you give me something to eat? ”

It was so unexpected.

Mutant cells do not respond to any animal other than infected and mutated organisms, including humans.

Liu Tianming's ability to discern and hear has evolved to a very advanced level. Despite this, he noticed something unusual in the bushes around him, and even a living person was hiding.

This means that the other person is quietly and silently, motionless, and even his breathing rate is quite slow.

Liu Tianming instinctively stopped, turned around, and aimed the assault rifle in the direction where the sound came from.

The bushes shook for a while, and Liu Tianming first smelled the smell, and then saw the person hiding inside.

It was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties on the surface. The hair is long, and the thick beard is covered with dust and fallen leaves. The shirt was torn with many tears, and the shoulders were connected to the sleeves with threads. The left side of the trouser was half gone, and there were several scratches on the calf that peeked from below the knee, and it was already scarred, and it looked like black lines.

He stinks: strong body odor, feces, corpses, dirt and all sorts of inexplicable odors...... In short, it was these stenches that interfered with Liu Tianming's judgment and made him unaware of this guy hiding in the bushes. It's no wonder that the zombies have evolved into living bodies, and they no longer decay like the original zombies.

Now, the whole team has developed a new concept of combat———— and in most cases, where the smell comes out, it often means safety.

The middle-aged man held a knife in his hand and looked at Liu Tianming with a vigilant gaze, as if judging the combat effectiveness between each other and whether the other party was worthy of his trust. The judgment almost immediately came to the conclusion: he saw the gun in Liu Tianming's hand and knew that he was in a weak position.

(End of chapter)