Liu Tianming sniffed hard, and the sense of smell now became more important than vision. He took a deep breath and ran briskly in that direction like a nimble cat.

It's snowing all the time, just not too much. Snowflakes fall to the ground and melt quickly. Liu Tianming held his breath and concentrated on diverging the detection consciousness of mutant cells, carefully searching for all suspicious traces around him.

The smell of blood in the air is getting thicker.

Liu Tianming, who had a keen sense of smell to catch the smell, slowly walked to the end of the road along this invisible indication line, and saw a hidden alleyway behind a large billboard that had collapsed from the wall on the second floor and was plastered with the eye-catching "Self-Service Adult Products Store".

It's small, it's very narrow. One corner of the billboard is on the ground, just blocking the entrance to the alley. Next to it, there is a green belt, and unmanaged bushes block the height of more than a meter from the ground. It's hard to discover the secrets hidden behind without getting up close and taking a closer look.

The alley is not deep, standing on the sidewalk outside, through the gap between the diagonal triangle-shaped billboards, Liu Tianming saw several scattered corpses lying in the open space inside.

The dead men had no clothes on them. A few strands of cloth, or a pair of trousers. It's tattered and dirty, barely a cover at best. All the corpses had their heads cut off. Liu Tianming saw that in the corner of the wall more than five meters away from him, he leaned against the head of a deceased. His skull had been pried open, and the area above his eyes was a blur of blood. The nose is intact down, with lips and sharp fangs that extend from top to bottom from the inside of the mouth, and are stained with mud and dirt.

This is not a human corpse, but a dead murderous corpse.

A child about 80 centimeters tall sat in the middle of the pile of corpses, holding a piece of brain that was estimated to have just been dug out of the head of the murderous corpse, and eating it with relish.

It was indeed a child.

The complexion is very white, with short and soft hair, and the pale yellow top matches the white corduroy pants very well, but the clothes on the body have not been washed for a long time and are very dirty. Especially in the knees and chest, there are large patches of blood remaining, which have long since dried up.

Liu Tianming raised the gun in his hand and aimed at the child who was eating.

Yes, he was eating. It is not the normal eating of ordinary humans, but the kind of food that infected individuals eat in order to obtain biological nutrients.

Liu Tianming is familiar with this kind of behavior, and he himself has done a lot of predatory behaviors of digging red patches from the brains of murderous corpses.

This kid ...... is an infected.

The induction between the mutant cells is so intense. The boy turned abruptly, stopped chewing, and stared at Liu Tianming with an indifferent and fearful gaze. At this time, Liu Tianming found that the boy's hands were unexpectedly long, about twice as long as a normal person.

It was a terrifying murder weapon that Liu Tianming had never seen before. The bones and joints of the fingers are not three nodes of a normal human, but more than seven of them. A boy's fingers can be bent like a rope and even curled to jaw-dropping degrees. At the tip of the finger, the hard nail is four to five centimeters long. The angle facing the palm of the hand is very sharp, like a well-sharpened knife. The boy sensed the dangerous aura emanating from Liu Tianming's body, and his hands subconsciously grabbed in the air, those fingers were like a controlled blade, ready to cut the opponent's throat at any time.

Liu Tianming had never seen such a monster, nor had he ever encountered this type of infected. He stared intently at the boy sitting in the middle of the corpse, and the muzzle crosshair locked on the boy's eyebrows. Although Liu Tianming believed that his superiority in speed was unrivaled, and he also had the ability to control the situation absolutely, for some reason, the mutated cells in his body continued to warn of danger.

The boy looks weird, but his strength is not very strong, and it can even be said that he is weak.

If his height is used as a criterion, his actual age is about two years old, or even younger.

Under normal circumstances, a child at this age can only be regarded as a baby, and it is barely enough to walk, let alone hunt a murderous corpse alone.

The second stage of the juvenile body, this is the strength of the boy. The mutant cells clearly list the evolution level of the opponent in his brain like a table, generating the most intuitive numerical information.

The danger message is still not dispelled. A large part of it came from the boy in front of him. This is one of the characteristics of mutant cells: whenever they sense an infected target, they will send a red flag to the host.

The boy rubbed his fingernails like blades, making a crisp "click" sound, and when the blades staggered, a dazzling spark flashed from time to time.

Liu Tianming clenched the bone blade on his right hand hard.

It is clear that the boy, like himself, has a special weapon created by the mutation. However, whether a weapon is hard or sharp is only one aspect of combat ability. His evolution level was too low, not even a primordial body, and he was not Liu Tianming's opponent at all.

The boy sat there without moving. But in Liu Tianming's opinion, the boy's eyes were full of horror, and there was even a faint expression of fear on his face.

The boy knew that he had encountered a strong opponent, and Liu Tianming had enough strength to crush him. He didn't dare to make any hostile moves, nor did he dare to run away———— it would be stupid to do that, the boy had no advantage in terms of speed, and rash action would definitely cause the other party to attack. Especially the gun in Liu Tianming's left hand aimed at him, the boy knew very well the power of that weapon.

Because he has seen it.

"Don't!"

Just as Liu Tianming was about to pull the trigger, a scream came from the roof above the alleyway. It's very sharp, with a howling misery. Liu Tianming subconsciously looked up and saw a white figure jumping down from a dozen floors directly above his head, accompanied by the sound of glass being smashed.

The mutant cells no longer emitted additional warning messages.

This is a woman, and an infected.

She's too old. His face was full of wrinkled fine lines, and his gray-white sparse hair was scattered in the wind, like tiny silk wool that had just begun to spin on a marshmallow machine. The cheekbones and forehead were large, the nostrils were constantly open, and there was not a trace of blood on the sides of the pale and emaciated cheeks.

Even infected subjects must obey the laws of Earth's gravity. Without gliding or flying devices, any creature that falls from this height will either fall to death or be seriously injured.

Even Liu Tianming would not challenge this rule.

The woman's left leg was broken, bent at an eerie right angle below the knee. She lay in a pool of blood, dying, struggling to raise her head, glaring at Liu Tianming with red eyes, and screaming in pain.

"Please, be merciful! Let him go. ”

"I know who you are, you're just like us. But lift up your noble hand and let him go! He's still a kid, he doesn't understand anything! ”

"He hasn't killed anyone, he hasn't killed anyone since he was born. He's not even a year old, and I killed all those monsters, and I gave them to eat. ”

Liu Tianming looked at the woman who was lying on the ground and pleading with him, and couldn't help but raise his head and look at the broken glass window directly above.

Sixteenth floor, from where she did jump.

The laneway is narrow and flanked by tall buildings. This also caused the woman to jump out of the window, instead of falling in a straight line or arc, her body first touched the wall of the opposite building, creating a certain degree of cushioning, forming an angle in the air, and then landing.

She was not killed on the spot, but only broke a leg, which is a great luck in misfortune.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Tianming did not take her who lost her combat effectiveness to heart.

In fact, the woman is also weak, and her evolutionary level is even lower than that of the boy who sat in the middle of the corpse pile, only reaching the first stage of the juvenile body.

After taking a few steps forward, Liu Tianming squatted down in front of the woman covered in blood, looked down at those eyes full of misery, and asked seriously, "Why didn't you eat him?" ”

This is the question that Liu Tianming cannot understand the most.

Infected individuals have a natural tendency to prey on each other. As long as they discover the existence of the other party, they will fight endlessly, and the strong will not hesitate to devour the weak and turn them into their own biological nutrition. This biological trait is present from the early stages of infection and never changes.

The old woman endured the sharp pain from her broken leg and struggled to explain: "He...... He is my son. ”

Son?

Liu Tianming was startled at first, and then became relieved.

If so, then everything has a normal answer. It can be seen that the relationship between the old woman and this child, just like herself and other core members of the team, has the same source of infection. Therefore, there is no predatory thinking with each other.

"When the virus broke out, it became very chaotic in the city. A lot of people are grabbing things. They set fire to the bank, and they heard that the vault was blown open with explosives, and all the money inside was robbed. Later, I don't know why I threw all the money all over the street. ”

"My man was eaten by those monsters, and I and a few other women were caught by those thugs. It's okay, they think I'm old, so they just let me help them cook. The young and beautiful women suffered, and several of them were played to death and eaten...... I'm really not lying, they are tired of canned food, they want to eat barbecue, and they hang people on iron racks and cut them one by one, saying that it is so fresh. ”

"There was a man who got drunk and a** me. I took advantage of the chaos to escape. It's just that I don't know why, I'm in my seventies, I have no menstruation for a long time, and I'm still pregnant with his child. No one believes this kind of thing, but I really didn't lie, and I don't know why it happened, but he is really my child, I really gave birth to it! ”

(End of chapter)