Chapter 44: The Crypt, the Scales
Hui An suddenly shook the Zen staff in his hand vigorously, and the iron rings hanging on both sides of the shovel head at one end made a loud sound.
The hesitant crowd was attracted by the voice, and their eyes were cast on him.
Hui'an said: "No matter what happens outside, we always have to go out and have a look." The poor monk is not talented, count one, I don't know who is willing to go along? ”
A hint of admiration flashed in Meng Hegong's eyes, in terms of courage alone, this little monk who was nearly half younger than himself was better than him. Whether it is the pride of being a leader or as a former soldier, he will never be allowed to be left behind, and he laughs without hesitation: "I am naturally counted as one." ”
Luo Xiaolin was inspired by the two of them, and when he was about to speak, Wei Baiyi took the first step forward and said: "If it is to observe the situation, three people should be enough, and then count me." ”
"I ......" Luo Xiaolin was unwilling to speak, and Han Yu next to him was already eager to try.
Meng Hegong raised his hand to stop them: "Doctor Wei is right, three people are enough, you all stay." ”
Hui'an also spoke to appease Han Yu.
Although there were a lot of guns and ammunition at hand, for Hui An, Meng Hegong, and Wei Baiyi, the help they could provide was already very limited, and it was far less practical than their own martial arts and abilities. So they didn't hold a gun, but each took a lamp, and then Hui'an still had a Zen staff in his hand, Meng Hegong activated his ability to put on a stone armor, and Wei Baiyi still held a snow-bright scalpel, they all had extremely rich combat experience, so naturally they took Meng Hegong, who had the strongest protection, as the tip, and Hui'an and Wei Baiyi as the two wings, forming a small triangular arrow formation, and walking out of the door together.
Outside the door, pillars of light from three lamps shot into a dead darkness. The eyes of the three of them followed the pillar of light in all directions, and their hearts were full of spirit.
"There's blood over there." Hui An suddenly turned the light in his hand to the left front.
Meng Hegong walked with the light.
Less than twenty paces away, they simultaneously saw a large and shocking stain of blood on the ground.
Hui'an first used the lamp to shine around for a while, and after not finding anything unusual, he temporarily broke away from the formation of the three and stepped forward, bent down and dipped a finger on the blood on the ground, and said to the two people behind him with a solemn face: "This blood still has residual warmth, it should be Peng Zixiang's." ”
Meng Hegong said in a deep voice: "Peng Zixiang is an evolutionary after all, although his bouncing ability is a bit weak in frontal combat, it is most effective when used to dodge. What was it that kept him from even running for his life or even shouting for help? ”
Wei Baiyi replied lightly: "I'm afraid that there is nothing else, it can only be zombies, and it is a mutated zombie." As for him, he didn't have time to call for help, either because the zombie's strength was too strong, or because the zombie's attack was unexpected. Based on my estimate of the rate of zombie mutation, the latter should probably be larger. ”
For the mutant zombies, Meng Hegong really has a sense of changing the color of the tiger, just because the impression of the tragic scene of his first battle with the mutant zombies is too clear, so although he has made great progress now, even if he can win against a mutant zombie alone, a trace of horror in his heart always lingers.
Hui An shone the light on the roof of the garage for a while, and muttered, "Recently, listening to the radio broadcast, mutated zombies have been found everywhere, and they are divided into several types. You and I have each encountered the largest number of mutant zombies, known as 'Hunters', with their lizard-like climbing abilities and the habit of attacking from the top down, and now there is not the slightest trace of climbing and scratching on the roof of the garage. ”
Meng Hegong and Wei Baiyi also illuminated with a lamp, carefully observed the top of the garage, and sure enough, they didn't find a trace of it.
"I also made a prediction earlier, the abilities of human evolutionaries are different, and there should be different types of mutant zombies, but I don't know which type of zombie to attack Peng Zixiang belongs to?" Wei Baiyi first muttered a few words, and then asked Hui'an, "With your eyesight, you may be able to see how that mutated zombie attacked Peng Zixiang?" ”
Hui An turned the beam of light from the lamp to the ground, and after a moment of careful observation, the beam of light turned to a truck with a canvas canopy not far away, which appeared to be used to transport troops. He turned his head and asked Meng Hegong and Wei Baiyi: "Peng Zixiang should have chosen this car, but unfortunately he has been killed, I wonder if you two can drive it?" If I'm not mistaken, we can see something just by moving this car out of the way. ”
Wei Baiyi didn't answer, she stepped forward directly, took off a hairpin from her head, and poked the steel sheet on it into the keyhole on the door to play with it slightly, and it took less than a minute to open the door, and then she sat in the cab, and it was still less than a minute, the truck had started, and drove forward more than ten meters in a low motor roar.
"What's that?" After the truck moved away, Meng Hegong shone the ground with a light, and at a glance he saw a hole the size of a bucket in the ground.
Hui'an replied: "The mutated zombie that killed Peng Zixiang should have come out of this hole." ”
Meng Hegong stepped forward on full alert and shone a light into the cave, but saw that the hole was about two meters deep, but there was a horizontal acupoint connected to the bottom, and he didn't know where it led.
Meng Hegong was a little distracted, and was stunned for a moment before asking: "This kind of zombie actually has the ability to sneak underground, is it the mutated zombie called 'stalker' that was mentioned on the radio?" ”
Wei Baiyi stopped the car but did not turn off the engine, got out of the car and walked to the entrance of the cave, looked down carefully for a while, and suddenly squatted down and put a hand in it.
"Be careful!" Meng Hegong hurriedly reminded him.
Before he finished speaking, Wei Baiyi's hand had already been withdrawn, and there was a piece of baby palm-sized, yellow and black on his slender white fingertips.
"Sure enough, it's a stalker!" Hui An and Meng Hegong said in unison.
"It should be good." Wei Baiyi nodded and said, "The radio said that the stalker was covered with a layer of scale armor all over his body. When sneaking underground, these scales automatically open, causing its entire body to resemble a giant drill that cuts through dirt and rock as the stalker rotates. ”
Hui An stretched out his hand and took the scales, and pinched them with a little luck in his hand, but the scales were only slightly deformed: "Good sturdy scales, if the scales of the stalker's whole body are like this, it will be really troublesome to deal with." ”
As the three of them spoke around the hole, they seemed to have forgotten to observe their surroundings, and behind Hui An, a piece of hard concrete about two feet in diameter silently turned into powder and then collapsed downward. Immediately, in addition to a bloody mouth full of jagged teeth, even the eyes, ears and nose were covered with a layer of yellow-black scales of the ugly head quietly poked out.