Dense vegetation covers the ruins of human structures that seem to have become a distant past, and the once-bustling streets and alleys are either wrapped in clumps of vegetation, or roamed by dangerous mutants, and in some places have become animal territory; Animals that had once been domesticated by humans are now wild again, and are hostile to invading humans as if with hatred. The slightly damp air smelled of decay, the whistling breeze whistling through the dead city, and from time to time you could hear some trivial sounds like the ghosts still haunting the city whispering about their misfortunes, and the occasional birdsong seemed to warn the people who had broken into the forest of the dead city not to go any further, and the orange protective cloth that had been blown away by the wind and worn, fluttered in the wind on the vines that were growing at an alarming rate, as if urging people to leave quickly.

Walking in the grass almost as tall as a person, the restlessness and anxiety gradually increased. Wu Fei, who was at the forefront, complained while holding a broad-bladed machete to clear the way for the team: "Chen Mo, are you sure that this path is the right one?" ”

"That's right, this should be Nanhu Square, after this section of the road, and then a piece of grass, we should be able to see the plane." Chen Mo said that the South Lake Square is a leisure square around the artificial lake, in order to green the city, the municipal government did not work less, this square is one of the models, all kinds of trees from Southeast Asia take root here, a large area of green lawn from time to time has special care, now it seems that the greening at that time is really quite effective.

Not long after dawn today, Chen Mo and the others were divided into two groups according to the plan of last night's small meeting, most of them returned to Qingshan with the wounded, and Chen Mo and Wu Fei and a special operations soldier entered the forest to look for the plane that fell last night. Not long after entering the Dead City Forest, the three of them were submerged in a rainforest-like city, where danger could arise at any time, and strange noises were constantly coming from the surroundings, hallucinating their hearing, and they could die if they were not careful. The forest of the dead city, which occupies most of the city's urban areas, is expanding day by day, and this sea of green is swallowing not only the lives of the city, but also the small hope of those who survive. The plants of all kinds in the city are reclaiming this natural territory at an unprecedented rate, and they are growing like crazy in retaliation by the comfortable branches and leaves of humans.

Wu Fei stopped and put down the knife, took a breath, wiped his sweat and looked at the big trees and weeds as tall as himself around him, and teased: "Think about the past, this was my favorite place to come, and now ...... Alas, it's like surviving in the wilderness. ”

"Aren't we all trying to survive at all times? It's the same everywhere. Chen Mo smiled, "Actually, what I'm curious about is why these plants grow so fast." ”

"I don't know, there is a theory that these plants are also infected with the virus that broke out this crisis, but we humans have become zombies and plants...... "Wu Fei pointed helplessly at the different plants around him with the tip of his knife, "...... Don't die long. Okay, let's not talk about that, just keep going. If you're in the right direction, we should be out of here. ”

"You can't be wrong, there's already a smell of aviation gasoline in the air." After Chen Mo and Wu Fei, the soldiers holding rifles on guard sniffed left and right and said.

"Is there one?" Chen Mo moved his nose, took a few breaths of air, and thought carefully, "Why didn't I ask?" ”

"Have you ever smelled aviation gasoline?" Wu Fei said with a smile.

"No ......"

"That's fine. Anyway, all I smelled was the smell of rotten meat from zombies, the smell of sweat on my body. Wu Feigang made a joke disapprovingly, but Chen Mo suddenly hesitated in place, his blurry eyes wandering as if he had seen something familiar, "What's wrong?" ”

Wu Fei stepped forward to ask, but Chen Mo quickly regained his state, shook his head and smirked: "Huh? Haha, it's fine. Just thought of something. Let's move on. ”

In fact, there is no need for Chen Mo to explain, Wu Fei can also guess, Chen Mo must have thought of which of her friends because of what she just said, and as for who it was, she didn't bother to ask more.

After glancing at the soldiers behind the team, Wu Fei turned around and continued to open the way, but when she was about to cut down the next knife, the grass in front of her was a little abnormal. The weeds that were moving towards either side indicated that something was approaching from the other side, and the sound of slow, chaotic footsteps suggested that the other might be who they were.

"Shhhh Wu Fei stepped back vigilantly and stood in front of Chen Mo.

Chen Mo also pulled out his pistol and stared at the messy swaying grass, and the sound of his heartbeat became clear as the footsteps approached. The soldiers behind them had already raised their rifles, ready to fire at the monsters that burst out. The sound of footsteps was getting closer and closer, and the footsteps stopped abruptly just as they felt like something was about to pop out of the weeds.

The three of them held their breath, restlessly waiting for the next second. Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice came from the weeds, and a woman said in a well-rounded accent: "Friends on the other side, we are human beings, there is no malice, don't attack us." ”

This sudden remark made Chen Mo and Wu Fei not know how to deal with it for a while, but the soldiers standing behind them still had some experience in dealing with this kind of emergency. He lowered his gun slightly and said, "You raise your hands and come out, we won't attack you." ”

The woman in the bushes said, "I'm afraid it's a little difficult. ”

"Why?"

"Because some of us are hurt." As soon as the woman's words fell, she saw her help a man taller than herself out of the weeds.

The soldier raised his gun vigilantly, but lowered the muzzle of the gun when he saw that the other man did not seem to have malicious intent, although his finger was still on the trigger. Seeing this, Chen Mo wanted to step forward to help the strange woman, but was blocked by Wu Fei in front of him. After calming down and looking at the other party, Chen Mo realized that Wu Fei's stop was not unreasonable. The woman in the navy blue jumpsuit supported a man in jungle camouflage on her left, and a Type 05 submachine gun in her right hand, her blood-stained face with a friendly but still alert expression. The man's waist was injured, and the waist of his camouflage uniform was soaked with blood, but it seemed that the bleeding had stopped temporarily at this time, and it was only because of excessive blood loss and exertion that his body was a little weak. He held a saber in his left hand, and it was also a posture that could not be taken lightly.

"You'd better put your weapons down." The soldier behind Chen Mo pointed his chin at the gun in the woman's hand.

The woman smiled lightly, raised her eyebrows and said, "Your vigilance is necessary, but it is best to be polite to your superiors." With that, the woman gestured with her eyes for the soldiers to pay attention to their identities.

At this time, the soldier, Chen Mo and Wu Fei realized that this woman was a pilot, although there was no obvious rank mark on her navy blue one-piece flight suit, but the man wearing the jungle camouflage uniform also had a two-bar and two stars on the collar, he was a lieutenant colonel, he could be regarded as the highest-ranking officer Chen Mo met after Liu Licheng, the commander of the special forces in Tianyang. The soldier's collar badge was only a second lieutenant, and the so-called rank of the lieutenant in the army crushed people to death, and the expression on his face immediately appeared hesitant.

"Flying Eagle." The soldier suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and coldly came up with this word, which seemed to be completely out of tune with the current situation, and the gun in his hand was slightly raised at this time, as if he was ready to raise his gun and open fire.

Chen Mo and Wu Fei stood in the middle and looked at the soldier confusedly, he seemed to be waiting for the woman to reply, and when the two of them stupidly shifted their attention to the woman, the woman had calmly replied, "Snow leopard." ”

Chen Mo only realized now that the two of them were talking about the code, but he didn't expect it to be really like in the movie, not to mention, he was really a little nervous, but after thinking about it again, if he asked Du Yuheng, would he be able to answer the code? I'm afraid I'll just answer indiscriminately, and I'll be killed by friendly forces in the end.

After being treated as a friendly soldier, the atmosphere immediately became much friendlier. With the help of both sides, everyone walked out of the lush meadow. At first, the female soldier simply reported her name and that of the officer, saying that she was a survivor of the downed plane, but because the place she was in at that time was not suitable for staying for a long time, it was not until after she walked out of the grass that Chen Mo and the others had the opportunity to ask about its origin.

Next to an old newsstand, the five decided to take a short break; According to the location of the map and the description of the female soldiers, they could reach the site of the plane crash after walking for about half an hour. The female soldier's name is Li Qin, who is the co-pilot of the plane, and the officer named Yang Shanao did not introduce her identity too much.

Faced with these two strangers who suddenly appeared, Chen Mo decided to break the embarrassment first and handed Li Qin, who was busy wiping the sweat on his face, a pot of water. Li Qin happily took the kettle, smiled gratefully, and then gave the water to Yang Shanao, who was asking the soldiers to examine his wounds.

"Are you the only survivors on the plane?" Chen Mo asked hesitantly.

"Not at first, but now it is." Li Qin checked his gun, brushed the hair on his sideburns, and said, "The captain let us hide in the armored car in the cargo hold when we made a forced landing, and then put down the armored car when we made a hard landing." Thanks to this bold approach, we probably had eight people alive. ”

"But now it's just the two of you." Wu Fei, who was standing on the side and was in charge of guarding, interrupted.

"Yes. Our plane crashed into the jungle at the other end, a long distance away from where the armored car was dropped, so we also wanted to find the plane. But the first night we were surrounded by hordes of mutants, you know, at night those things were bloodthirsty monsters, and there were only three of them left until the next day, one of whom was seriously injured and died this morning. ”

"The variant you are talking about...... It's a zombie, right? Wu Fei said curiously.

"Zombies, zombies, the living dead, strange ghosts...... There are all sorts of names, but our people call them variants. Yang Shanao explained.

When Wu Fei heard this, he said excitedly: "Wait, it sounds like you know these zombies very well, and you also drove a plane over, so there must be a base or something like that?" Are we the only ones who are so bad? ”

"You have a lot of questions...... Yang Shanao smiled bitterly, "Yes, we have set up a protected area in Hainan, and it should be said that Hainan Island is the only province that has not been affected by large-scale infection, as for other places...... It's all the same as here. The central government has re-established a temporary institution in Hainan, where social order is basically stable, and we have begun to study the virus of this crisis. ”

“hts89……”

"That's right," Yang Shanao nodded like a university professor asking a question, "This virus has now mutated again, but we have developed a vaccine against the subspecies HTS89, but unfortunately the vaccine cannot cure HTS89 itself." ”

"What I want to say is that we actually have people who are working on this virus, and we have also created a vaccine for a variant of the virus...... It's just that it failed. Wu Fei said in a slightly sarcastic tone.

"It's not surprising that anyone with medical knowledge would want to try to develop a vaccine." Yang Shanao seemed to be able to hear Wu Fei's sarcasm, but he seemed to hope that Wu Fei would understand the price of the so-called great medical achievements.

"Okay, uh...... I have a question about that, but I don't know if it's appropriate to say it......" Chen Mo raised his hand as if he was listening to a lecture and asked, "Where did you originally want to go?" ”

Li Qin seemed reluctant to tell the truth, but Yang Shanao replied quite happily: "We were going to a base in Gansu this time, where there is also a reserve where we have been contacted, and the people there are also working on vaccines. But not long ago, they lost contact with us, so they sent us to investigate, but we didn't expect that one of our researchers had inhaled the spores of the lesion; I don't know if you've ever seen a plant that mutates from a human, from which a spor is emitted, and those who inhale it will become an alien after death. And our researcher died of a heart attack on the plane, and the result was ...... Our tragedy happened. ”

"At least you're lucky." Chen Mo lowered his head, perhaps it was Yang Shanao's words that reminded him of the catastrophe that night in Qingshan, "We are all lucky, and we can all survive until now." ”

"You're right. But for now, we have to find the plane that crashed. ”

"Why? To take the liberty of saying that the survival rate of a plane crash is almost zero, and even if they survive, who do you think will survive in this perverted forest for a few days? ”

Wu Fei's words hit the nail on the head, but Yang Shanao not only refuted, but also calmly explained: "I know what you mean, in that case, why do you also have to look for that plane?" ”

"That's ......"

"Hehe, you don't have to hide it, you must have another purpose besides hoping to find survivors from the outside world. That's right, I can tell you that there really was something important on that plane, and that's what we were looking for. ”

"Sir......

"It doesn't matter, Li Qin, it's not a big deal to tell them." Yang Shanao's bright eyes flashed, and Chen Mo and the others couldn't help but get goosebumps, "That plane has the latest results of our current research, an experimental vaccine, although the effect is unstable, we can already treat diseased plants; That's right, I think you've guessed it, there's something wrong with this forest, and even the plants that suddenly grow so densely in this city, they're all infected with HTS89 just like us, and now, our vaccine can cure those infected plants. These were originally to be handed over to the personnel there for further study after confirming the safety of the Gansu base; And if this vaccine is used on a mutant, it will kill it immediately, which means that once cornered, this vaccine is our ultimate weapon to repel the mutant. ”

"Oh my God...... There is hope! Wu Fei hugged Chen Mo excitedly, but after thinking about it, she turned around and asked worriedly, "But can the vaccine you said still be safe and sound after the plane crash?" ”

"There should be no problem, the vaccine is in a special safe that is stronger than a black box."

"That's great! Let's go! Otherwise, you'll be in trouble by a scavenger or some other bad guy. Wu Fei patted her ass and stood up, hoping to find the wreckage of the plane immediately.

"Who are you talking about?" The attentive Li Qin asked Chen Modao.

"Oh, a bunch of bad guys, and they're bitter enemies with ours."

"Like other cities," Yang Shanao, who heard Chen Mo's simple explanation, said with a smile as he stood up with the help of the soldiers, "Our ships often anchor in some coastal cities looking for survivors, and we can find some people more or less. The cities where the survivors lived were all sorts of powers, and people fought for supplies and territory, all like primitive societies. ”

"But we're not the same. Our leader is the veritable mayor of the city! Chen Mo said proudly, "Before the crisis broke out!" ”

"Oh? Are you saying the mayor of the city is still around? What about the relevant departments, the army or something? ”

"Originally, we had a well-established safety zone, but it was destroyed by scavengers the other day." Wu Fei hated, "Those mongrels have caused a catastrophe in our safe zone with a problematic vaccine......"

While everyone was sentimental, the movement in the grass behind them in the direction of the green hills caught everyone's attention, and each of them drew their weapons almost simultaneously, facing the strange jungle not far from them. A ragged man swaggered out of the grass. He had a long iron rod in his left hand, a pistol in his right hand, and a weed in his mouth, seemingly not worrying about anyone or mutants attacking him. However, after only two seconds of staring at each other, the man spat out the weeds in his mouth, turned and ran.

"It's Li Sicai!" Wu Fei was the first to react and hurriedly chased after him, "Hurry up!" ”

The fast-moving soldier flew after hearing Wu Fei's words, Wu Fei followed closely, and after Chen Mo ran two steps, he turned back to pick up Li Qin and Yang Shanao, who had not yet understood what was happening.

"Who is Li Sicai? Your enemies? Li Qin asked Chen Mo while helping Yang Shanao to keep up with Wu Fei and their footsteps as much as possible.

"Well, I don't know, but one of us has met that guy before, and he's a cunning and cold-blooded pervert." As soon as he thought of Li Sicai that Du Yuheng had described, a sense of disgust arose spontaneously from Chen Mo's heart, "The contradictions in this city are more complicated than you think, let's talk about it later when you have time." ”

Chasing through this rainforest-like urban forest is most likely to get lost. As the leader of the biker party, Li Sicai naturally knows something about the dead city forest; The old wolf, the map of the forest they found from the armed bus was drawn by him. However, in this situation of escaping, he actually ran as soon as he could, completely ignoring what would be on the other side of this lush foliage.

Without Li Sicai himself noticing, he took Wu Fei and the others who were chasing him to run around the place where they met just now, and the wreckage that suddenly appeared in front of him just blocked his way, he didn't find that it was the landing gear of an airplane, but found a way out by his side; The voices of the soldiers and Wu Fei got closer and closer, and Li Sicai quickly sped up and rushed into another patch of grass like a hare.