Chapter 138: Reptilian Corps
"Boom"
The pony smashed a window down with a table, and when I approached the window, I saw a commotion of zombies on the road and on the rooftop, but after finding nothing more attractive, the dead creatures regained their composure and began to wander endlessly.
I put a silencer on the muzzle of the gun and killed the zombies on the rooftop one by one, and after a while, there was nothing moving on the rooftop, and the pony was about to jump over the window, but I was suddenly stopped, maybe because I was a step higher than the pony, I felt that the rooftop was not really calm, there seemed to be something waiting for us.
Sure enough, under the pony's puzzled gaze, five zombies crawled out behind some shades in the corner of the rooftop. Yes, they crawl on all fours, but these zombies are not clumsy, on the contrary, they are extremely agile, as if they were born to move on all fours.
"A mutant zombie?" Pony asked quietly.
"Probably not." I shook my head and said, "Mutant zombies don't live in groups, and they don't have any special places other than being able to crawl on all fours, so they can basically be regarded as enhanced zombies that can crawl." ”
"That's not right!" Ouyang Lizhi pointed to the crawling zombies and said, "You see that their movements are obviously purposeful, the first one should be the leader, he is checking the corpses on the rooftop, and the other four are in charge of guarding." ”
As Ouyang Lizhi said, a zombie who seemed to be the leader was lying on those corpses and groping around, while the others were scattered in four directions with their heads up and constantly patrolling back and forth, could it be that these zombies already had consciousness? Thinking of this, my heart involuntarily jumped a few times, and I quickly picked up the binoculars to carefully observe these new varieties.
Through the binoculars I could see the guys more clearly, their bodies didn't change much, just to make it easier to crawl, their legs were slightly spread outward. In addition, their fingernails and toenails have mutated into sharp nail hooks, which are both conducive to crawling in steep places and a sharp tool for prey.
At this moment, the retilian corpse who looked like the leader held the head of the zombie I had shot in the head and stuck out his scarlet tongue to add to the wound, and then threw the corpse aside like garbage, and jerked his head up to look in our direction, and I realized that there were cloudy white eyes on his ugly face.
"Whew~"
The leader of the reptilian corpses let out a howl, and the other four vigilant creepers immediately turned their heads in our direction, and then all five of them howled excitedly, and they quickly backed back some distance. Then they accelerated and sped up in our direction, no different from a car with full power, apparently trying to speed up and jump.
"Kill them!" I commanded decisively.
"Puff~Puff~Puff~Puff~"
The rifle equipped with the silencer made a slight sound of continuous shooting, and the pony fired several points in a row, and the five accelerating creeping corpses flipped onto the roof as if they had tripped over, and even two of them fell out of the roof directly after being hit because of their speed, causing a commotion among the zombies on the road again, but just as these reptilian corpses had no interest in ordinary zombies. The ordinary zombies showed no interest in the creeping corpses and quickly regained their composure.
"Now it's time to pass." I put down my binoculars and said.
The pony nodded, stepped on the window frame and jumped directly onto the rooftop, where he searched. Giving me a safe gesture, I turned to Ouyang Lizhi and said helplessly: "Although I don't want to do this very much, there is no way to do it. After speaking, before Ouyang Lizhi could react, I carried him on my shoulders and jumped out of the broken window.
"What are you doing? Isn't there anything you can't explain in advance? After Ouyang Lizhi was put down by me, he immediately suppressed his voice and roared.
I shrugged my shoulders and smiled, "The result is the same if I tell you or not." And not to tell you, isn't it more exciting? ”
"You ......" Ouyang Lizhi was speechless by my almost rogue provocation.
"Alright." I patted Ouyang Lizhi on the shoulder and said, "Everyone will be companions in the future, and there is no need to take it seriously when joking." ”
"I don't think you're kidding." Ouyang Lizhi stared at me and said, "I know very well. You are constantly tempting me and suppressing me, but I can tell you unequivocally that you don't need to do so, according to your classification I am just an intellectual evolutionary, and a non-combat intellectual evolutionary, and without my men, I can do nothing but rely on you, I know this better than you, so I don't need you to keep reminding me, and I am convinced that in the days to come you will find that I will help you far more than your companions. ”
"You're right." I didn't deny Ouyang Lizhi's statement, and said bluntly: "I am indeed testing and suppressing you, but the reason is not only what you said, but more importantly, I want to make it clear to you, you must make a difference with the help of your peers, if you can't recognize your own weaknesses, and just blindly use other people as tools, then sooner or later you will be abandoned, remember my words, no one is indispensable in this shijie, only those who are willing to sacrifice for others will be protected by others." ”
Ignoring the stunned Ouyang Lizhi, Xiaoma and I began to examine the corpses of those crawling corpses, for people like Ouyang Lizhi, his extremely intelligent mind is also a huge obstacle to his survival, he calculates all the time, he treats himself as a chess player, treats others as chess pieces, or uses, or abandons, without considering the feelings of others, which is also the reason why his subordinates fear him, but do not love him, if he can't put himself in the right position, then it is only a matter of time before he is collectively abandoned.
"These reptilian corpses only have mutated the nails of their eyes and limbs, their nails are extremely sharp, and they can fully support them to crawl in steep places, but it is not known that their eyes will mutate into the way they are now, are they all blind?" The pony tossed me a nail that had been pried off a reptilian finger.
I took the nail and looked at it repeatedly, and sure enough, as the pony said, this nail was much sharper and thicker than a normal nail, and judging by the length of the nails and the degree of wear, these creeping corpses often crawled in some very steep places, which means that the area of activity of these guys is not limited to flat ground, it seems that they have a wider space to move.
Throwing away the nail, I crouched in front of the corpse of a reptilian corpse, and opened his eyelids with my hand, and the cloudy white eyeballs appeared in front of my eyes, and then I realized that this cloudy white did not appear cloudy, but a crystal white like jelly, which seemed to indicate that these reptiles were not blind, but they had mutated a new visual ability.
"They should have mutated visual abilities similar to heat sensing abilities, and these should not be all, they should be a brand new mutant zombie, but they are still far from the real mutant zombies, it seems that our shijie is becoming more and more colorful." Ouyang Lizhi's words came slowly, it seemed that this guy had woken up from the conversation just now, and there was a little less flattery in his tone, and he had returned to that kind of cold and arrogant attitude again.
"Is there any basis for what you say?" I asked.
"First, when the boss zombie found us, he couldn't see us in the window from his point of view, so he should have found us through other means, and I think the body temperature should be a very haode way......"
"What if they found us by hearing or smelling?" Before Ouyang Lizhi could finish speaking, Xiao Ma raised his own question.
"No way, these reptiles shouldn't have changed their sense of hearing and smell, otherwise they should have discovered our location when you smashed the window, and if their sense of smell is particularly sensitive, then Weishenme will have to lick the blood from the zombie's wound to determine if these zombies are food." Ouyang Lizhi easily refuted Pony's question.
"Then Weishenme said that they are new mutants, maybe there are only a few of them who are this kind of reptilian corpses?" The pony is visibly unconvinced, and the question she asks is a bit of a gamble.
"It's simple." Ouyang Lizhi glanced at the pony with a little contempt and said, "If you can carefully observe the traces around you, you will find that those scratches are definitely not just caused by these five reptilian corpses, the same mutant is at least much more than what we have seen." ”
Pony and I listened to his words and looked around, and sure enough, under the seemingly ordinary scenery around us, both the ground and the walls were covered with dense scratches, but most of these scratches were dotted and not noticeable, so I didn't care about the pony, but under Ouyang Lizhi's reminder, we all noticed this, and it was indeed as Ouyang Lizhi said, if it was just these five reptilian corpses, even if they kept crawling back and forth for most of the year, it would be difficult to form such a dense trace, It seems that our time here will not be too lonely.
"That's not the most important thing right now." Ouyang was determined to hit the railroad while it was hot: "You should also find that these creeping corpses have begun to appear in a simple division of labor, at least there is a distinction between the leader and the subordinates, what I am worried about now is that if their number is too large, will there be a general leader?" If that's the case, we're in big trouble. ”
"This?" I scratched my head and said irresponsibly, "Let's talk about it then, we won't be here for long anyway." ”
"I wonder how you got to where you got here! Is it just a stroke of the case that you have passed such a serious situation? Ouyang was determined not to be relentless.
"In the past, I really had to think carefully about such a situation, but now I don't have you, in the future, if you use your brains and we will do it, everyone will definitely be able to live longer." I smiled and patted Ouyang Lizhi on the shoulder, and then walked towards the rooftop door with the pony.
Leaving only Ouyang Lizhi with a helpless face, this guy seems to be about to find his place in the collective. (To be continued......)