Chapter 55: Traces

"Where's those bastards?" I asked eagerly as I looked at the computer screen.

"I haven't found a specific location yet, but I've found some clues." Qi Yuhang said while manipulating the computer.

"What's the situation?" I asked.

"By comparing the images obtained from the reconnaissance in the last five days, I found that there are problems in these places." Saying that, Qi Yuhang pointed to the pictures arranged on the screen and continued: "The behavior of the zombies in the area from Xinye Street to Yongguang Road is abnormal, you see that these five pictures are excerpted every day for five days. ”

Looking at the picture Qi Yuhang only gave us, I knew what the anomaly he was talking about, some zombies in the picture kept hitting the wall on the side of the street, the first one didn't see anything, but the back one was a little outrageous, these zombies in the picture didn't stop hitting the wall somewhere, until the fifth one Some zombies even wiped out their faces, revealing white, broken skulls.

Although zombies don't feel pain or think, they still have instincts, such as the desire for flesh and blood, sensitivity to sound and light, and of course they also know to run around alive when they hit things, and they rub their faces against the wall like this and keep banging up, which can only show that they are being controlled.

"Did you find Luo Ao's gang?" I asked excitedly, finally finding the crumbs.

"That's not it, I found the anomaly in this area and carried out a key reconnaissance here, but I never found any trace of Luo Ao's gang, and the results of the reconnaissance with the heat sensor did not find a living reaction, not to mention that there is not even a live mouse in this area." Qi Yuhang said helplessly.

"Maybe we're thinking something wrong." Venna said with a frown.

"What's wrong?" I asked curiously.

"We see that Luo Ao is basically no different from normal people, so we habitually regard them as 'people', but in fact, they may no longer be able to be called 'people'." Venna pondered.

"Sister Na, can you make it clear, although they eat people, they shouldn't be zombies, right?" Pony asks curiously.

"I've tested their genes, in fact, their genes are closer to mutated zombies, but I've seen them behave like ordinary people, I don't think about it any way, now it seems that maybe they just have the appearance of humans but the essence is zombies." Venna explained.

"You mean that they could be - cold-blooded?" Lodge asked.

"Yes, maybe they are cold-blooded, we are used to using thermal imagers to distinguish and look for them, but if they are cold-blooded, our method is like looking for crows in the night, and we can't find them at all." Wen Na said.

"Isn't that all these days in vain?" Pauline patted Qi Yuhang's head and complained.

"Ouch" Qi Yuhang screamed when he was photographed: "Sister Paulin, it's not my fault, why are you beating me?" ”

"What, can't you fight now?" Pauline glared and shouted, and slapped her hand again.

"Okay, don't make a fuss, now that the area of their activities has been determined, the next step is to focus on reconnoitring this area, and we must find them out." I rubbed my forehead and said, things are really getting more and more troublesome, if it is really as Wen Na judged, these "ogres" are all cold-blooded, it is really too difficult to find them in such a zombie-ridden environment, and it is still an appropriate metaphor to find crows in the dark.

"In the last fifteen hours, I have been almost scouting in this area, and I have found no trace of them in either ordinary or infrared cameras, not even suspicious." Qi Yuhang said helplessly.

"Even if their blood is cold, but their behavior is no different from normal people, can they still pretend to be zombies?" Rocky walked back and forth with his arms crossed.

"Anyway, since their area of activity has been basically determined, we will focus on searching here, even if we dig three feet into the ground, we must find them." Since the problem can't be solved by jishu, it can only be manually searched in the simplest way, and I don't believe they can hide in the sky.

"Wait, you just said digging three feet into the ground, I think I know where they are." Rocky said suddenly.

"You mean they're underground?" I looked at Rocky quizzically.

"Yes," Rocky smiled and nodded, "They should be underground, but it may not be as simple as three feet." ”

"How do they live underground? Could it be that they will still run away? Uncle Bao asked suspiciously.

"Uncle Bao, you don't go shopping when you see it, there is the largest underground shopping mall in the city in this area." Pauline laughed.

"I'm talking about a little deeper than the underground mall." Lodge Road.

"I often visit the underground mall here, just two floors, so where is there a deeper place?" Pauline said unconvinced.

"It is a civil air defense project, and the underground shopping mall is only the upper layer of the civil air defense project, and there are more passages, warehouses, cantonment stations, and shelters under it, and almost every city in our country has such large-scale civil air defense facilities." Lodge Road. "If Luo Ao and them are hiding in civil air defense facilities, then we can't find them, and Qi Yuhang's drone can't explore deeper underground at all."

"Then we'll go down and look for it, and this time we must find their lair." I resolutely said that I can't go on with these guys, I must find them and destroy them.

"If we want to go underground to search our current situation, we can't do it, we don't have the necessary equipment, and if we go down, we will simply look for death." Lodge Road.

"What do you need, and what else can't you find in such a big city?" I said nonchalantly.

"Night vision, navigators, tactical flashlights, glow sticks, explosives, ropes......" Rocky counted the equipment he needed.

"Don't talk about it, it's an extraordinary time for everything to be simple, see if you can find something simple." I said with a humble heart.

"Forget the night vision device, although we have a car one, but that thing uses too much power, it's inconvenient to use, even if you carry a battery, it won't take long and it's impossible to have one per person, as for other things? Let's see if we can find some civilian supplies instead, but I don't know where to find these things. Rocky was also helpless.

"I know where to find these things." Qi Yuhang said suddenly.

"Union Mall!" I also thought of the place he said, United Mall is also a relatively famous place in the city, where it sells some out-of-the-way things, such as professional audio equipment, outdoor equipment, military products, antiques, foreign trade clothing, etc., anyway, it is a place where some strange goods are gathered together.

"Yes, that's where it is, and it's also on Xinye Road, which can explain where Luo Ao got so many katanas." Qi Yuhang said with a smile.

There are several floors in the United Mall that are buying and selling antiques, I don't know if the antiques are real or not, but there are a lot of katanas, sabers, and spears sold as collectibles, I remember that there is a shop specializing in selling katanas, and the knives in it are often tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of yuan, I don't know who buys them, and the shop collectively calls the katana - Taidao.

"Even if we can find something replacement, we don't have the blueprints for the city defense project, and it's easy to get lost." Lodge said.

"The drawings are fine, they were in those hard drives you brought back last time, I just didn't download it to the receiver, now you can download it." Qi Yuhang was full of confidence.

"Then that's fine, but let me say that I won't agree to go down if I don't have enough equipment, cave fighting is very dangerous, I'd rather go home than let everyone take risks, understand?" Rocky said solemnly.

"Okay, listen to you in this operation, after all, you are an expert, we are here to kill people, not to kill ourselves." I said.

We are no longer anxious when the direction of action is determined, but this operation is a little difficult, because the place we are going to is relatively close to the city center, so the armored car can't drive in, so I decided to let Pauline and Qi Yuhang's group stay where they are in place and be responsible for responding, and the rest of the people will go through the roof, which is much safer, and Wen Na and Uncle Bao were originally left behind, after all, one of them has just evolved and the other is mentally evolved and is not suitable for this dangerous operation, but they don't agree to live or die, There was no choice but to take them with you.

The five of us jumped from the top of the tall buildings in the city, and thanks to the efforts of the city planning department, the whole city was so crowded that we didn't even encounter a gap of more than 20 meters, and the distance of less than 20 meters could easily jump over even if we were carrying heavy weapons and equipment.

If there is a little trouble, it is that Uncle Bao is not rich in experience, and he often does not master the strength well at the beginning, either too much force or insufficient strength, and then there is Wen Na, the universal spiritual power evolutionary, although she has made great progress after the last war, but it is not enough to complete this long-term, large-scale rapid march, so she has become my gentle burden, and the second half is basically completed by me holding her, but it is still a very happy thing for me to come.

It was already noon when we arrived at our destination, the scorching sun was shining on the lifeless earth, and there was a rancid smell in the air, and we reached the roof of the Union Mall to find that the door to the stairwell was open, and a decomposed corpse with white bones lying in the doorway, looking at the yellow-brown cement floor around the corpse, it was a sign that the person had been dead for a long time, probably at the beginning of the disaster.

Wen Na raised her hands and used her mental power to move the corpse away, we walked down the stairs, the top floor of the mall was full of calligraphy, painting works and utensils, pushing open the door of the stairwell, the hall was dim, there were scattered calligraphy, paintings and paper, and some zombies were still wandering inside.

We walked into the hall Rocky and Pony opened the way in front, they handed over the guns to me and Uncle Bao, the two of them held the newly arrived Tang knife, and cleaned up the zombies one by one, we just walked on the first floor of Xiangxia, and as soon as we got out of the stairwell, our eyes were stimulated by a light.

From this floor, antiques are sold, and the reason why this place is so bright is because there are many holes carved out of the outer walls, and there are no zombies here, and there are traces of reaction in the stalls, which proves our judgment that Luo Ao and his gang obtained weapons here, and their range of activities should also be in the vicinity of this area.

Then go down further, the four floors of the antique area are basically a model, we are more sure of our judgment, the next is the outdoor and military sales floor we are looking for, I didn't expect that we and the opponent will be in the same place to find tools to eliminate each other, this is really a very ironic thing.

Although this floor has also been turned over, it is not serious, obviously they don't value the things here, so it leaves us with a chance, we rummage around looking for the equipment that Rocky wants, but I really admire the merchants here who really sell everything, and can sell everything, not to mention that at least glow sticks and ropes are also sold for things that can neither be eaten nor played, and there are still a lot of stocks that seem to be selling well, and I don't know what people who live in the city all day need these things for.

"Damn, what the hell are these people doing? How can you get anything? Pony shouted in surprise, it seemed that the kid was so irritated that he squirted dirty words.

We were all curious to see what had surprised him so much, only to see that he was looking through something that looked like a monocular and something that looked like a camera lens.

"Where did you find this?" Rocky took it and looked at it, "There are still night vision devices for sale here?" Moreover, it is still an American product, and it is a waste for the state to send those spies, and if these small traders were sent out earlier, maybe even the F-22 could be reversed. Rocky was clearly frightened by the ability of these vendors.

"What is this, you see there are Russian goods here, although they are all outdated things, but they are real military goods." Pony said as he took out a few night vision devices from the dark compartment of the counter.

"It's easy now, with these things, at least we don't have to worry about exposing ourselves underground." Rocky fiddled with the night vision device in his hand.

The next thing we found was that all the accessories except for the weapons could be found here, tactical flashlights, laser sights, and Picaninny rails were basically all found here that Rocky needed, which made Rocky, a professional soldier, a little unbearable, and he and the ponies used these things to modify the heavy machine gun we used.

Originally, this bulky weapon is not suitable for individual use, in fact, they are not designed for individual use, only those of us who have evolved can rely on their own liliang to withstand its weight and strong recoil, every time I shoot I am carrying a handle in one hand and a gusset machine in the other, aiming is basically impossible.

Rocky and the ponies solve this problem by attaching a laser sight to each machine gun's crosshair retainer, and he also asks everyone to bring headsets and earmuffs, in his words, "The sound of gunfire in the tunnels will shatter your brain." ”

By the time we had prepared everything, it was already dark, we decided to rest here for the night, and then go deep into the underground tomorrow to look for Luo Ao and them, lay traps and arrange for the sentry to settle down in the dark, it had been a long time since I had spent the night in the city, listening to the long-lost roaring outside, I unconsciously tightened my clothes, stood by the hole in the wall and looked out.

Hordes of corpses wandered back and forth in the moonlight, and it was still the death-dominated shijie here.