Chapter 42: Monster Trails
The 87_87057 team continued to move forward, and by the time they were about to reach their destination, at least ten infected people had already died under Bai Qi's short knife, which also meant that at least ten crises had been resolved by Bai Qi, which made his prestige unprecedentedly high in this team whose greatest purpose was survival.
Seeing that the destination was approaching, the team involuntarily quickened their pace, but at this time, Bai Qi, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped and waved everyone to stop.
Looking at Bai Qi, who had been struggling all the way, suddenly bent over and looked around, looking around, he looked very nervous, which made the whole team immediately fall into extreme tension.
Daniel immediately made a gesture, and everyone spread out slightly, kneeling on one knee, raising his gun and aiming ahead, looking for the source of the danger.
Daniel gently walked up behind Bai Qi and asked, "What did you find?" β
Bai Qi didn't answer and asked, "How long has it been since we had an attack from an infected person?" β
Daniel pondered slightly, and said with some uncertainty: "There should be a block." β
Bai Qi said: "To be precise, we have not encountered an attack from an infected person on the road for more than two hundred meters. β
Daniel said: "What does this mean? β
Bai Qi didn't answer the rhetorical question, "Have you ever seen a huge monster that is more than three meters five tall and weighs more than half a ton?" β
Daniel was taken aback, "You mean mutants!" β
Bai Qi said: "You call it a mutant? It's fitting that the last time I encountered this monster was after entering a neighborhood that hadn't encountered an infected person in a long time. This powerful monster preys on the common infected in the vicinity, greatly reducing the number of infected people in a certain area. β
Daniel's voice suddenly became a little shaky, "You mean, we're on the territory of a mutant?" β
Hearing the conversation between the two, the others also looked at Bai Qi with a frightened gaze.
Bai Qi said: "I can only say that it is possible, but I am not sure, after all, I have only encountered this kind of monster once." β
After a pause, he added, "Although it is only possible, I still advise us to get out of here quickly, I don't want to face this monster for the second time." β
Daniel's face showed a look of struggle, and he asked again, "How likely do you think this is?" β
Bai Qi couldn't help but glance back at him and asked rhetorically, "What do you think it means to have such an abnormal situation in a place like this that should be a very dense concentration of infected people?" Even if it's not a mutant, there must be something else going on around here, and I'd rather be a mutant than an unknown danger. β
Bai Qi then persuaded: "I understand, you think that returning empty-handed will make you lose face, but for the sake of face, putting your own life in a dangerous situation will inevitably outweigh the losses, even if we return empty-handed today, tomorrow we will change directions, as long as we can harvest a bumper harvest, it can still show our strength, isn't it?" β
Bai Qi didn't expect that his persuasion had the opposite effect, he broke Daniel's inner thoughts in one mouth, making this person's sense of crisis even deeper, and this sense of crisis not only came from the outside world, but also from Bai Qi.
A word of persuasion from the tall, lanky Latina named George was the straw that broke the camel's back, "Head, I think I'm right, we'd better get out of here." β
Daniel's face sank, and he said: "Shiro is not sure that there is really a mutant in front of us, we are now less than five hundred meters away from our destination, there is no reason, without seeing any danger, give up the day's efforts and continue to move forward!" β
Everyone else looked at Bai Qi, hoping that he could continue to convince Daniel, but Bai Qi knew that it was useless to say anything, he hesitated for a moment, calculating his chances of survival if he really encountered a mutant, thinking about it, he felt that he had little chance of winning, and he would never enter that strange state when he was with Daniel and others, and let himself fall into a situation where he was powerless to resist.
Bai Qi was in a dilemma.
If he insists, Daniel will never compromise, and will definitely turn his face in the end, and turning his face at this time is definitely not what he wants.
After thinking for a moment, Bai Qi proposed a compromise plan, he pointed to a building more than a hundred meters away in front and said: "Let's enter that building first, attack the roof, and observe the situation, that kind of monster has a huge body and a lot of movement when it moves, it should be easy to find." β
The building Bai Qi was referring to was more than thirty stories high, the tallest building in the vicinity, and it was on the same street as their destination, the commercial center, and from that building, they should be able to observe the environment around the commercial center.
Daniel thought about it, and still agreed to Bai Qi's plan, on the one hand, he was also very worried, in fact, he also felt that Bai Qi's speculation was very reasonable, according to his previous experience, abnormal situations often mean danger. On the other hand, he could also feel that if he vetoed this plan, he would probably fall out with Bai Qi completely, and Bai Qi's concession would also allow his boss's majesty to be maintained by Cheng DΓΉ in some way.
Everyone continued to walk, Bai Qi walked as he watched, and when he consciously searched for it, he soon found traces left by the mutants, such as the deep dents in the roofs of many car wrecks, and the traces of the violent destruction of the doors of many shops on both sides of the street, which indicated that there was probably a huge and heavy creature moving here.
When Bai Qi pointed out these traces one by one, Daniel had nothing to say, and no one else was willing to move forward without Bai Qi's objection.
In desperation, Daniel could only order everyone to turn around.
Just as everyone turned around and was about to return, a heavy and familiar footsteps in front of them made Bai Qi eager to turn around and shoot Daniel.
Without hesitation, he turned and rushed into a nearby building, shouting, "It's in front of us, go upstairs, don't let him see us." β
The sudden sound of heavy footsteps made everyone's faces turn pale, and it was obvious that they had all seen such a terrible monster.
Everyone rushed into the building with Bai Qi without hesitation.
Inside the building, there are more traces of mutant activity, and it is clear that this huge monster often enters the building to hunt.
Everyone quickly found a safe staircase and rushed up desperately, but the collapsed gate and the bent and deformed railing along the way let everyone know that the inside of the building was not safe, but now, they had no better choice.
Everyone rushed to the roof of the building as fast as they could, and the iron gate leading to the roof was deformed and fell to the ground.
Bai Qi didn't care about this, he rushed to the edge of the building, carefully poked his head out, and looked down.
A monster larger than the mutant they had encountered that day was walking from an east-west street into an intersection they had just passed, where it stopped and sniffed.
Looking at its movements, Bai Qi's heart immediately rose to his throat, he knew that this monster had much greater sexual interest in normal humans than mutants.
The monster hesitated at the intersection for a long time before walking in the opposite direction to the building where Bai Qi and the others were at this time.
Looking at the figure of the monster far away, Bai Qi let out a long sigh of relief.
At the same time, Bai Qi heard several heavy exhalations around him, and when he looked back, Daniel and the five were also lying on the edge of the building carefully, observing the monster.
Vincent, a big-nosed Latina who couldn't help but sit on the ground with his butt, complained, "We should have listened to Bai a long time ago, and now that we are blocked by that monster on the way back, what should we do?" β
Vincent's complaint in his words slapped Daniel in the face like a resounding slap, causing him to glare at him viciously.
It seemed that Daniel had accumulated a lot of power in the past, and Vincent immediately lowered his head when he saw Daniel's cold and vicious eyes.
Glaring at Vincent fiercely, Daniel glanced at Bai Qi again, but at this time Bai Qi was too lazy to say anything more.
Daniel looked at the back of the mutant and said, "This monster must have been attracted by the corpses of the infected we killed before, and those corpses will attract a large number of infected people to this street, and that monster can find a lot of food on this street, so he won't come back anytime soon." β
Speaking of this, Daniel lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said: "I have a good idea, let's go on, according to the original plan, go to that commercial center, since this is a predatory area for mutants, there are probably no infected people entrenched in that commercial center, we will collect food as fast as possible, and then continue to the north until we get out of the territory of this mutant, and then turn to the east ......"
Daniel's idea suddenly made Bai Qi's eyes light up, this idea seems crazy, this guy has not even forgotten to collect food until now, but as long as he thinks about it, he understands that this method is actually the best way now.
Speaking of this, Daniel suddenly asked Bai Qi, "You once walked through the predation zone of an infected person, how big is it?" β
Bai Qi said: "More than a kilometer." β
Daniel nodded and said, "Okay, then we'll go four blocks east, then turn south and return to the police station." β
The others also heard the feasibility of Daniel's idea and nodded their heads, and George nodded and complained, "Why are we still collecting food?" Isn't it good to just leave? β
Daniel ignored his complaints, turned his head to look at Bai Qi, Bai Qi shrugged, nodded and said, "I have to say, this is the best way at the moment." β
Daniel immediately said: "In this case, then what are we waiting for, act immediately." β
Bai Qi didn't say a word, and took the lead and ran towards the safety stairs.
The crowd came downstairs again and quickly ran towards the commercial center in front of them