Coming out of the lightning meadow, it was already 2 o'clock in the morning.

Since this mission does not require a special rush, the two of them will find a suitable place to sleep. Sleep for half a night, and as long as there are no major accidents during the day tomorrow, there is no suspense about arriving at the destination.

The place chosen by the two is very close to the place where Miao Pu was attacked last time he came to Fencheng. The main road looms on one side, with rest stops consisting of more than a dozen buildings along the road, including restaurants, inns, car repair shops and grocery stores, and abandoned fields on the other. It's not quite accurate to say that it is barren, the mutant plant is growing well, and at first glance it looks like a corn field waiting for a bumper harvest, and the two even saw some fruits that looked like corn cobs.

"It's ...... Mutant corn? "In agriculture, Zhai Wu is a layman, and he is not as good as Miao Pu, a student who studies plants.

"No, or rather, not all." Miao Pu recalled: "The last time I came, I saw abnormal weeds. Now it's so much changed. My first feeling was that the Huangcheng catastrophe had reappeared. The terrible thing is that before the Huangcheng catastrophe, the structure of various species was relatively stable, but here it is experiencing a catastrophe again on the basis of mutation. ”

Zhai Wu also knew that the core of the Huangcheng catastrophe was that from living things to matter, the stability of its basic structure was destroyed, and then mutations occurred. However, because the original structure of living things or matter is itself orderly, except for individual manifestations, the vast majority of mutations are traceable.

For example, even if a person becomes a monster, a discerning person can recognize its heels at a glance. Canine, feline...... Many monsters have become huge, or have fangs and claws, and their temperament has changed drastically, but they can still make out their way. And here, if it is really what Miao Pu said, it is close to the creation of the furnace, and it may be possible to pinch something together, and this result is undoubtedly even more terrifying.

"If this place is really experiencing the disaster of the Yellow City that day, doesn't it mean that the propagation mode of the source is not the energy wave diffusion type that we think?"

Miao Pu asked, "How much do you know about the causes of the Huangcheng disaster?" ”

"I only know that the path is the fault of the Aragami people. They infiltrate the ruins to steal important items, and the conflict leads to catastrophe. The specifics are not clear. In the face of the shortage of troops, 8733 repeatedly sent elite squads into the ruins, not without the purpose of finding the truth. The original rescue team was to rescue the surviving researchers in the ruins. ”

Miao Pu felt that the information provided by Zhai Wu was not very helpful in explaining the situation here. He thought for a moment and said, "I hope that the special phenomenon here is only caused by the particularity of the secondary disaster area, otherwise, no matter what the cause is, the result will be a big problem." ”

The peculiarity he said is that Fencheng is surrounded by lightning grassland, and no matter which direction you enter, you have to pass through a grassland area of at least 10 kilometers. The lightning grassland has formed a powerful energy barrier, and from a certain point of view, this area inside, including Fencheng, is an isolated island. In addition, compared with other surrounding areas, Fencheng is located in a lower position like a basin, and the conditions for ecological uniqueness are more abundant.

Zhai Wu also agrees with Miao Pu's statement, if it is really the experts who make a mistake about the diffusion model of source, then human civilization is afraid that it will be dangerous. Imagine that each region will inevitably experience the disaster of structural instability with the dispersion of source energy, rather than the secondary weakening, so is there still a good human being?

After such an incident, the two of them felt a little heavier unconsciously, and they didn't even have the interest to chat, so they discussed sampling and recording the situation here after dawn, and then chose a nearby house to rest.

Worried about the possible infection here, neither of them took off their armor and slept for a few hours. The only good news was that there were no monsters bothering them all the time.

On the 23rd, Zhai Wu got up earlier than Miao Pu. In fact, I just didn't have a good rest. It's not that Zhai Wu's psychological endurance is much worse than Miao Pu's, but without Miao Pu's strong force as support, it is impossible for anyone to be like Miao Pu, who can sleep when he says he sleeps and is still in deep sleep.

Although Zhai Wu is nearly middle-aged, his physical fitness is still good, and he can eat well after staying up for two or three nights, and he quickly cheered up and began to prepare for the new day's trip.

When Miao Pu woke up, Zhai Wu had already solved the two physiological needs of releasing water and skimming. Zhai Wu consulted him on whether the way to dispose of excrement was correct, and Miao Pu realized that he had not defecated for some days, and with the weakening of two-thirds of the muscles in his body, his ability could not be used without using it, and his energy consumption was much lower than before.

At this time, it was reflected that in terms of energy intake and transformation, he had also grown, his dependence on food had become less and less, and if he didn't eat, he didn't need to excrete, even if some waste was discharged with the deliberate generation of a trace amount of sweat, and the ingenious design of mobile armor in this aspect was meaningless to him.

Zhai Wu received a jar of nutrient solution at the multi-purpose interface of the helmet for breakfast, while Miao Pu collected samples and recorded the anomalies in the place. Not only plants, but also many things here are different from the outside world, such as the soil, which is deep red and has a luster between moist and oily, reminiscent of freshly coagulated blood. I couldn't see it clearly last night, but this morning startled Zhai Wu, and Miao Pu was also a little hairy.

Also, the substance that was treated as snow last night was not snow at all, but some kind of grass wool, except that it would not melt, and its external qualities were exactly the same as snow. White, stepping on the "creaking" sound, can also be clenched into a tight ball.

In addition to the crimson barren fields, the roads, roofs, and wilderness were all covered by this pseudo-snow, and just such a scenery made Zhai Wu unable to close his mouth for a long time. So when Miao Pu analyzed: "If this grass floc is produced by this corn-like mutant plant in the barren field, then I am afraid that there will be another grassland area in the inner circle of the lightning grassland, which is this kind of pseudocorn area", he quickly recognized it.

Tens of thousands of acres of mutant grassland is not the point, and the weird grass catkins are not the point, the focus is on the kind of fruit that this mutant grass bears.

Miao Pu has found out that the prototype of this plant is a perennial herbaceous plant, and there is a tendency to transform into a perennial shrub after the mutation. It is regarded as a strawberry-like plant, and its fruit is preliminarily estimated to take 25 days from flowering and fruit to maturity, without pollination, and the yield is amazing, the energy content is good, and there is not a low sugar content. This means that the bottom species of a food chain system have been laid. And during the sampling process, he also found footprints and traces of the fruit being pulled and picked on the plant, which means that there are creatures that feed on it.

How did hares ramp in Australia?

This is a person who has read some news or books, and can tell one or two, which is nothing more than two things, 1 sufficient food, 2 no natural predators.

Now, Miao Pu suspects that he will experience a process similar to the one that infested hares in Australia, and that this process is much shorter than the time it took for hares to plague Australia.

There was nothing to pack up in particular, and there was no ancillary plan for looting supplies on this trip, and the two of them soon hit the road. The conversation naturally shifted to this mutant plant. Miao Pu had also read the report of Miao Pu's trip to Fencheng, so there were a large number of monsters in this area of Zhilu Dao that might have been mutated from four-legged snakes a month ago, and they were active in groups and extremely aggressive. He felt that the newly appeared mutant plants were afraid that they would fatten and strengthen this monster, and the Fencheng area would become a paradise for such monsters, at least on the periphery.

Oh yes, and the pig monsters. Zhai Wu was also deeply impressed by the Fencheng pig monster mentioned in Miao Pu's report. Pigs are also omnivorous, and there are very few things that cannot be eaten, so such a good appetite may make them have a strong ability to survive.

In addition, it seems that pigs are not afraid of dirty, and their immunity is strong enough, so they can easily become a source of germs.

Zhai Wu's understanding has to be said to be wrong, but Miao Pu, who has studied biology, knows that pigs actually love cleanliness very much......

As a result, before this topic could be discussed in depth, something went wrong, and the two saw three kinds of monsters, giant lizards, pig monsters, and zombies with Fencheng characteristics!

Compared with the almost recognizable changes of the three, it is necessary to rely on a good imagination to guess the appearance of their heels, and what shocks the two even more is the relationship between the three. Zombies ride pig monsters and chase and hunt down a group of fleeing monitor lizards!

This scene made Zhai Wu subconsciously say a sentence that Miao Pu thought was a classic: "Could it be that we have arrived in the west of Mars?" ”

Mars is said to be because it is full of monsters, and the west refers to this situation, and this scene is indeed a bit of the flavor of the Indian ancestors riding horses and hunting in the movie.

The escapees rushed to the wolves, the pursuers pressed forward step by step, and the two sides screamed and screamed, the wind was galloping, and the hooves rumbled......

Although the hunting scene is so vibrant, people can't help but watch it with blood and emotions. But Miao Pu and Zhai Wu's attention was not on the various stimulating body movements, but on the utensils.

Saddles, chews, bridles, spear throwing...... Although these artifacts are so simple that they are completely clumsy items made by children under the age of 5 using the pile of rags as a material storehouse, they are enough to show that the zombies have recovered their wisdom to a certain extent. The reason why we use recovery, rather than re-enlightenment, is because if we simply become smarter, it is impossible to invent riding equipment in a short period of time.

"Can they still be considered human?"

In fact, when Zhai Wu asked this question, he already had the answer, and he asked, but subconsciously wanted to get recognition from Miao Pu, which is: Even if these zombies in front of him have recovered their original memories to a certain extent, they are still monsters.

Miao Pu also knew what Zhai Wu meant, and now he was not talking about a few, but probably hundreds of thousands of groups.

If the number is small, even if they are not thugs and do not deserve their crimes, in this cataclysmic area, death is death, and killing is killing. Just like the hunting team of the Dongyuan Township Militia, there are more than one case of manslaughter of scattered survivors, and it is difficult to confirm whether it was really manslaughter. There have even been firefights between hunting teams.

But when this number is large, the meaning is different. If the definition of these zombies is not monsters, but disabled people, or even disabled people who have the potential to recover most of their memories, what is the concept of slaughtering 100,000 disabled people? In addition, what is the concept of 100,000 beings with no low intelligence gathered together?

These don't need to be thought about to give birth to some perceptual cognition, so that people can pay attention to it.

"What the hell, we'll find out." Miao Pu said this very calmly. His psychological state is indeed calmer than Zhai Wu. Maybe it's because of the experience of fighting a large number of monsters more than once, but he doesn't have much pressure because of the quantity problem at this time.

He felt that the crux of the problem was not how many memories these zombies had recovered, or how similar they were to normal humans, but whether they still regarded themselves as human beings, and regarded humans in the outer world as human beings.

If the answer is no, then it is simple, humanity will not agree to a new intelligent group sharing the earth's resources equally, even if this intelligent group was once their own kind.

At this time, he will not pick up humanistic and philosophical things to block himself, what all beings are equal, it is pure nonsense, he never feels that human beings are so fraternal, and he just firmly believes that he is a part of human beings.

In fact, this group of zombies riding pigs did not take him and Zhai Wu as air, and with a strange scream, a group of about 20 horsemen from the hunting group rushed towards the two of them.

Because Zhai Wu was nervous, he had already held his gun and was ready to shoot, but when he saw the monster rushing at this moment, he fired immediately.

He uses a rapid-fire rifle commonly known as the "Big Mouth". Use 12. 7MM BULLETS, AT FIRST GLANCE THEY HAVE THE SMELL OF VINTAGE RIFLES. This weapon was urgently developed, or modified, to meet the needs of the cataclysmic zone. The structure is simple, lighter and more accurate than the heavy machine gun, it is easier to form enough firepower than a sniper rifle, the bullet is large enough, and it is easier to make a fuss, like Zhai Wu is now using, that is, the steel core armor-piercing bullet magazine.

His main fear was the tonnage pig monster, which was like a tank car when it charged, and it was extremely impressive, and it was difficult for people to remain indifferent to the group charge of such monsters, especially when they saw the thick and sharp fangs.

Zhai Wu's marksmanship is good, and the impact point of almost every bullet fired is in line with his original intention of shooting. But so what? In Canada, the killing of giant bears that charged against the shots of hunters and finally won the victory is not one or two, even if a bullet from the [Big Mouth] goes down, it can gnaw off a large piece of flesh like a tiger shark's bite, and even shoot the human body directly into two, but the pig monster is not comparable to the Canadian giant bear.

Regardless of their rough skin and thick flesh, the lack of sensitive nerves alone can allow them to accomplish the feat of losing both sides before the blood runs out, which is what they hate or are terrible.

Before he even finished firing a 10-round magazine, Zhai Wu had already begun to salute Miao Puxing. He already clearly felt that if Miao Pu couldn't come up with an effective way to deal with it, it would be inevitable for the two to be collided and trampled on, and it would not be strange to even die here.

There is no shelter at all, and the terrain is great for cavalry.

peers are enemies, and Miao Pu is actually very tired of eating hard or being a big guy. But with this kind of way, almost all of them have a kind of unreasonable momentum that no matter what moves you make, I'm just a bunch of unreasonable momentum to smash and push over. Whether it's a coincidence or not, this simple and singular approach is often extremely effective.

He has heard a lot of jokes since he was a child, and his ears are calloused, and he has never seen such high-end skills in reality, although there are some light and agile ones, and they can frequently and successfully dodge, but they are not as chic as described in the book, but they are mostly embarrassed, often jumping up and down like a duck being picked up by a dog, full of sad taste.

This is not to say that Miao Pu does not believe in the existence of four or two thousand catties, but that it is not easy to successfully master this kind of high-end skills. Moreover, there is a proportion in any confrontation, and it is only when the skill is faced with the strength of the force that the relative height of doubling can the success rate be greater.

Bringing this formula into reality, if you want to deal with pig monsters, especially dodge the charge of a group of pig monsters, it is estimated that it must be the level of the legendary "people do not stick to the flowers and leaves", and this level is the most agile and agile spirit he knows the way, and it is far from being able to do it, in the words of the ghost himself during the small talk: "The brain cells that need to be sacrificed at that moment can't afford to die!" ”

As a result, even if he usually looks down on the foreigner's iron-fighting and clanging crude benzene fighting style, in actual combat, he is still actively moving in this direction, or even more extreme, such as exchanging injuries for injuries. For this reason, when discussing combat skills with the team members, he sighed more than once: "The gap between reality and ideals is often so ironic." ”

"Crunch, crunch" Miao Pu casually threw the rope of the hanging bucket aside, and walked forward steadily.

At this time, the pigs have arrived, the ground in this area is trembling, the snow-like grass is like sand grains in the vibrating sieve, trembling and jumping, the hideous faces of the zombies on the back of the pig monster are already clearly visible, the scorched yellow fangs with black saliva are as if they smell a fishy stench from more than ten meters away, Zhai Wu suspects that being bitten by such a mouth, the wound is no less than dipping in the manure pit for many years, and there may be how many viruses will be brought into the body.

Boom! There was a dull sound, like a tightly tied cloth bag being violently pressed, and a crimson mist erupted from Miao Pu's body, spreading in a wide-angle cone shape with the midline in front of it.

It's not an ability, it's not a light rush, it's not a fire rush, it's an air explosion at most, and the formation is a strong wind.

But as soon as the pigs were blown by the wind, they immediately let out an unheard scream as if they were in a fiery furnace, and hurried to flee. This kind of escape is panicked to the nature of insanity, and regardless of external objects, playing is according to the will of the heart, or any thoughts are gone, just a big "escape" on the head.

The results can be imagined, crowding and bumping, trampling on each other, how miserable the fall is, and how miserable the fall is, there are at least 5 scenes staged between breaths. I suspect that being bitten by such a mouth is no less than being dipped in a dung pit for many years, and how many viruses may be brought into the body.

Boom! There was a dull sound, like a tightly tied cloth bag being violently pressed, and a crimson mist erupted from Miao Pu's body, spreading in a wide-angle cone shape with the midline in front of it.

It's not an ability, it's not a light rush, it's not a fire rush, it's an air explosion at most, and the formation is a strong wind.

But as soon as the pigs were blown by the wind, they immediately let out an unheard scream as if they were in a fiery furnace, and hurried to flee. This kind of escape is panicked to the nature of insanity, and regardless of external objects, playing is according to the will of the heart, or any thoughts are gone, just a big "escape" on the head.

The results can be imagined, crowding and bumping, trampling on each other, how miserable the fall is, and how miserable the fall is, there are at least 5 scenes staged between breaths.