They remained quiet throughout the operation. After entering the abandoned hotel room and sealing the doors and windows, Shen Chao asked Custer to leave a drone to guard over them, and the other three began to scan the whole city.

At the same time, he himself turned on his multi-purpose and prepared to search for nearby radio signals. Hopefully get a radio signal from Neville.

According to their previous calculations based on a map of New York and photographs from the field, Dr. Neville's house was in a small residential area near Manhattan in the East Side neighborhood.

And they are now dozens of kilometers away from there in a straight line. According to earlier predictions, there must be a lot of abandoned vehicles and debris blocking the roads in New York City at this time.

So they need to use the drone to explore the roads in the city and find them a way to Dr. Neville's location. Only then can you go.

Other than that, just out of an abundance of caution, they will run a scan of the entire city to search for survivors. By this time, the sun had almost completely set, and only a little afterglow remained.

Shen Chao successfully scanned Dr. Neville's radio autoplay channel. As in the film, Dr. Neville broadcasts a city-wide broadcast on all frequencies on the AM channel.

On the radio, as in the movie, Dr. Neville introduces himself and then says that he can provide food and shelter to any survivor in New York.

Shen Chao tried to contact him, but after 10 minutes, there was no response on the radio. It seems that Dr. Neville must have been out of the radio for a long time.

"This is indeed a good person. Alice commented after listening to the recording on the radio. If she hadn't been wearing a helmet, she might have habitually played with her hair.

"That's right, but seeing is believing, if we can see him tomorrow." After Shen Chao turned off the communication channel, he sat back on the ground and whispered. Both they and Alice leaned against the corner of the room, avoiding the window. Custer is guarding the door and operating the drone outside.

Mutant ghost cries had begun to appear in the city, and the sounds were not at all human-like and more like some kind of beast. And one after another, it sounds. There are at least thousands of mutants left in the city.

A few minutes later, the first mutant appeared in their sight, of course. It's from the perspective of their drone. The reason why they chose this place to spend the night was because it was a relatively safe place to be hundreds of meters away from the nearest mutant settlement.

Soon, groups of mutants gathered on the road, and they were all settlements one by one. None of the settlements are led by a mutant who is clearly in the lead.

There doesn't seem to be much intersection between the various mutant settlements, and there is no reaction when they meet them on the road. At most, they screamed at each other, and they didn't know if these mutants were greeting or dividing the territory.

After observing for half an hour, Shen Chao and the others found that these mutants were obviously walking in the direction of the outside of the city. Although each settlement does not belong to each other. But they were all moving outside the city.

Only the mutant population in the city farther away from the edge did not make a big move, but their number was also very small, Shen Chao estimated that less than 3% of the mutants in the city were gathered in the central area of the city according to the previous scan results. Everything else is on the edge of the city.

Moreover, these mutant settlements in the city center are generally very small, and the largest settlement has only 14 mutants. On the contrary, the closer you get to the edge of the city, the more huge the mutant settlement becomes, with the largest settlement having more than 300 mutants. …,

They followed up and observed for an hour or so before they realized what was going on, and it turned out that these mutants themselves were also made up of a certain social structure, although very primitive. But these mutants are indeed social animals. Survive on the strength of the collective.

The main food source for these mutants is wildlife near cities. Due to the long period of desertion, New York City has been transformed into a large meadow with many herbivores that live outside the city during the day to feed.

These herbivores and some carnivores, such as lions, only appear in the city during the day and exit the city before nightfall. Because these clever wild animals know the dangers of spending the night in town.

The intelligence of mutants has long since disappeared, but the hunting instinct is still there, and the use of them is far beyond the physical strength of ordinary people. They gather at night and hunt en masse outside the city.

The closer you are to the settlements outside the city, the more convenient it is. It is also easiest to get prey, the closer to the edge of the city. The easier it is to catch up with these wild animals.

From this point of view, these mutants are not completely devoid of intelligence, but their IQ has degraded to the animal level, and they only have instincts such as foraging and hunting.

They spent the night observing the behavior of many mutants from a safe distance with a drone, and soon they made new discoveries. It turns out that these mutants are not unorganized.

They hunt at the behest of their leader, and each settlement has a mutant who appears to have a certain level of intelligence directing the hunt, and the higher the intelligence and the more subordinates, the more prey the settlement can hunt.

Moreover, different mutant settlements will also compete for territory. There are also considerable conflicts between larger settlements. In just one night, they observed six large inter-settlement conflicts.

The largest one, with a total of hundreds of mutants participating, can also be seen from their hunting and conflicts, there is also a clear difference in the IQ of mutants.

Some of the smarter ones hunt and fight with clubs, and the vast majority do so with their bare hands, and of course, when they do, these mutants are bouncing around like monkeys, very mentally retarded.

Seeing that the mutants were so scattered and had a low IQ, Shen Chao really felt that he might have looked up to them a little bit before. At this level, there is no threat to the tens of thousands of mutants in the city.

According to the organizational ability and combat effectiveness of these mutants, with their current equipment level, as long as Shen Chao and them are given a week, they can empty all the mutants in the entire New York City.

Although numbers are also important in battle, without intelligence, soft targets with strong limbs alone cannot face modern weapons, and it is not known how this plane fell.

In Shen Chao's opinion. Three years ago, as long as one percent of the United States troops in this plane survived the first wave of infections and were fully organized, they should have been able to easily eliminate these mutated creatures.

Of course, it's also possible that the number of these mutated creatures was much larger at the time. The army could not cope. After a night of observation, Shen Chao determined that there were less than 100,000 mutants in the city.

Among them, there are less than 40,000 on the east coast, that is, in the direction of Shen Chao. And the number continues to decrease. It's hard to imagine how New York City, with a population of more than 10 million, became what it is today.

However, based on what he observed at night, Shen Chao believed that even without their intervention, these mutants would most likely perish on their own within a few years. Based on two main reasons.

1. In last night's scan, they didn't find any little mutants, none of them, no babies, no children. It looks like these mutants are most likely infertile. …,

2. The non-stop struggle between the various settlements, in just last night, the battle between the different settlements left the corpses of 15 mutants.

At this rate, in a few years, the density of mutants in New York City will drop to very low levels. Of course, these are still far away, and for now, they need to make the most of this day to find Dr. Neville and establish contact with him.

As soon as the first rays of sunlight appeared, they left the hotel. Last night, they had already figured out the road to the depths of the city, although it was not very smooth, but Shen Chao expected them to reach their destination in less than 2 hours.

When they came out, they encountered a few mutants on the road, which seemed to explain why Dr. Neville waited until the sun had fully risen before going out, and it wasn't completely safe in the morning.

Shen Chao didn't mean to get rid of these mutants, according to last night's observations, he thought that the combat power of these mutants was actually very weak, and now he needed to actually test it.

Trying to attack them was a small settlement, with a total of 11 mutants. Plaster-white skin, distorted countenance. There is no hair on the body. This was Shen Chao's first impression after seeing these mutants with his own eyes.

Then he pulled out his weapon and began to experiment. He pulled out an M8 Avenger rifle from behind him, opened the folded firearm, and opened fire.

He shot calmly, moving the muzzle of the gun, these mutants who ran and jumped very fast in the eyes of ordinary people were not much faster than babies crawling in his eyes, and he shot these live targets with precision.

These mutants are no different from ordinary people in terms of their ability to resist hits, and they are very powerless in the face of Mass Effect firearms, and they are all killed with one shot. In particular, he basically aims at the head.

When he shot the second mutant, Alice and Custer also joined the battle, and their position in the car was not as easy to get out of the car as Shen Chao, so the pace of joining the battle was a beat slower.

As soon as the firepower of the three people was concentrated, they killed these dozen mutants almost instantly. During the short battle, Shen Chao noticed a very interesting phenomenon, these mutants often spurted out a large amount of blood after being shot, which was much faster than the blood loss rate of normal humans.

This proves from the side that the super long strength of these mutant creatures comes from excessive blood pressure and heart rate, and such a large blood pressure is a very large burden on the body. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )