Chapter 185: The Instinct That Gradually Awakens

The toy car is a good method, and the distance and direction of action are no longer as restricted as the fishing line, but this yellow eel blood replaces human blood - Wang Lu leaned into Xie Ling's ear and asked: "Hey, is this fish blood okay?" It's like I'm a mammal, but I'm a fish, and this blood is completely different, right? ”

Xie Ling was itchy by Wang Lu's heat, and turned her head sideways: "Alas, try it anyway, I don't want to squeeze my fingers all the time." ”

Wang Lu was speechless, just try it.

Wang Lu held the handle of the fire axe with both hands, and luckily, come on, zombie.

The electric motor of the toy car sizzled, and under Xie Ling's remote control, it flexibly bypassed the masonry on the ground, the fallen bicycle, and the flattened handbag, all the way to the zombie.

It's only 3 meters away from the nearest zombie.

Wang Lu pinched a handful of sweat in his palms - if the blood of the yellow eel could also stimulate the zombies, this distance should also work.

The zombie was standing stupidly in front of an overturned tricycle, seemingly not knowing whether to back away or bypass, and it tried to keep going, hitting its head a few times on the tricycle's stilted rear wheels.

Suddenly, it stopped, its head twisting from side to side, its nose twitching, as if looking for something.

Wang Lu could see it clearly from the telescope, and then excitedly patted Xie Ling on the shoulder: "It works, this yellow eel blood vessel is used, open it closer, get closer." ”

Xie Ling moved her thumb slightly, and the toy car took another step closer to the zombie, and the zombie roared as if it had been suddenly electrified, turned around and strode towards the toy car.

Wang Lu's eyes lit up, and he patted Xie Ling on the shoulder again: "Drive back." ”

In fact, without Wang Lu's orders, Xie Ling had already flexibly manipulated the toy car to drive back, while maintaining an appropriate distance from the zombies, so that blood could continue to play a role in luring.

Wang Lu was so happy that his mouth couldn't close, this toy car was so easy to use, to put it in the past, his fishing line would never be thrown so far, even if he could throw it, the positioning was not so accurate, and when he pulled it back, he was hindered by the debris on the ground.

With the toy car, he and Xie Ling can stay in a safer place and calmly face the enemy zombies.

It's just that the batteries of toy cars and controllers are too expensive, and batteries are definitely non-renewable materials now, but as long as there is a way to clean up the zombies, the batteries can be found in farms and small shops.

This is the difference between Wang Lu and Xie Ling, Wang Lu collects the whole pack of batteries in case of use, and Xie Ling uses it directly as long as he has a good idea - he can't hide it and can't give off the cubs, Wang Lu is really a small citizen mentality.

The toy car went around and around, and the zombies followed closely behind, making the usual "hehe" sound along the way.

I don't know why, Wang Lu suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart, and he felt that something was wrong.

Wang Lu held his binoculars and stared at the toy cars and the zombies following behind, squinting at the street - he found out where his uneasy feelings came from!

There were 3 or 4 zombies who were alarmed by the roar of the zombies following the toy car, and they also turned around and walked towards this side, and they moved faster and faster.

What the hell is going on?

It's not that Wang Lu hasn't seen many zombies walking together, but the distance between those zombies is very close, so that after alarming one, the other zombies have a chain reaction.

But now, the zombie behind the toy car is almost 10 meters away from the zombie, and the zombie farthest away from it is still staggering forward with its back to it, and now it's strange, it actually came to a 180-degree U-turn, and chased it all the way. It's like its mother calling it home for dinner.

Wang Lu's heart is full of alarm bells - danger!

If the toy car only attracts a zombie, he can still deal with it physically, but now that a guy has come 4 or 5 and only plans to have a dinner party, Wang Lu can not afford to accompany him.

Plus Xie Ling is also in vain.

No, you must not let the toy car return!

Wang Lu approached Xie Ling's face and said hurriedly: "Quick, drive the toy car in another direction, so many zombies are coming, we can't deal with it." ”

Xie Ling also noticed the abnormality, and wanted to change the direction of the toy car after listening to Wang Lu's words - but she immediately found that there was no small alley next to it, and the toy car could only lead straight to the back.

Xie Ling didn't panic, she quickly pressed a button, and the bucket on the toy car suddenly moved, raised it high, and tilted again, pouring all the yellow eel blood in the bucket to the ground. …,

The toy car continued to retreat, but the zombie that followed closely behind threw itself to the ground, sticking out its tongue and licking it on a pool of blood on the ground.

After a while, the zombies that followed closely also pounced, and 5 zombies were lying on their stomachs or kneeling on the ground, you pushed me and squeezed them, competing for the small pool of yellow eel blood.

Pity the yellow eel blood, there is not much, after it is sprinkled on the ground, it is absorbed by the ground a lot, where can it withstand the competition of many zombies, and the first zombie licked out a little taste, and the zombies behind can only smell the smell to relieve their hunger.

Seeing that there was no blood to eat, the 5 zombies pushed for a while, then dispersed and began to wander around the streets again.

Xie Ling and Wang Lu glanced at each other, and they both saw four words in each other's eyes-hell!

The toy car had already driven back to Xie Ling's feet, and Wang Lu stretched out his finger to dip some blood on the bucket, put it under his nose and sniffed it - it didn't smell weird.

Could it be that the bereaved households are particularly sensitive to the blood of yellow eels, so much so that this small pool of blood actually attracts zombies in such a large area as the surrounding area?

Wang Lu raised his head and asked Xie Ling, "Is there any yellow eel blood?" ”

Xie Ling nodded, and took out two plastic film bags that also contained blood from the bag - a pound of yellow eel has almost two taels of blood, this is still Xie Ling from the girl in the same dormitory, the girl suddenly grew a lot of acne one day, and it was not cured with a lot of ointments. The girl went to the vegetable market early in the morning to ask for the blood of the yellow eel from the fish vendor. First, she had a sweet mouth, and secondly, it was useless for the vendor to take the blood of the yellow eel, so he gave it to her generously. As a result, Xie Ling and other classmates saw acne girls in the dormitory every day with blood on their faces and more terrifying than horror movies.

Wang Lu took a bag, tore it open, and poured it into the toy car bucket, but only poured a little before stopping.

Wang Lu whispered to Xie Ling: "Try again." ”

Xie Ling nodded, and drove the toy car towards the zombie again.

Maybe it's because the amount of blood is small and the smell is not much, but this time the toy car almost drove to the heel of a zombie who was missing an arm, and it was discovered by the zombie.

The toy car was almost caught by the zombie with a missing arm who reached out and grabbed it, but fortunately, Xie Ling reacted quickly and let the toy car retreat a few steps, so that he escaped the zombie's attack.

After the toy car widened the distance between it and the zombie with the missing arm, one turned around and drove towards Chen Wei and Wang Lu's hideout, this time Xie Ling sped up slightly so as not to alarm the other zombies.

The armless zombies that followed the toy car were the same as ever, yelling, sniffling, and chasing......

Then, several zombies around also chased after them, two of them with strong physiques with full arms and legs ran fast, almost forming an encirclement of the toy car, fortunately the toy car itself was extremely small, under Xie Ling's operation, after pouring out the blood in the bucket again, a smoke escaped from between the zombies' legs.

Wang Lu picked up the toy car and looked at the zombies who were about 30 meters away in front of him, licking the ground in vain for a long time and then scattering, his face was heavy.

He could see clearly just now that Xie Ling was driving the toy car to approach the zombie with missing arms walking on the outermost side of the street, in front of him was a middle bus that had caught fire, on the left was two motorcycles that had crashed into a pile, and there was no trace of other zombies in the storefront room on its right.

If it had been placed in the past, Wang Lu had seduced him with a fishing line tied to a bloodstone, and this zombie with a missing arm would have been lured over quietly, and then Xie Ling would have shot his head with a crossbow.

However, when the zombie with the missing arm just now, several zombies far away from it moved one after another, to paraphrase the phrase used in Wang Bi'an's composition class, that is, "all the same", no, this is simply more neat than playing mahjong after making an appointment. Fortunately, it was a toy car that was used as bait, and if it had changed to Wang Road, it would have been surrounded by a group of corpses.

Wang Lu rubbed his temples, what the hell is going on, why did such a strange thing happen to Lu?

Xie Ling bit her lip, thinking deeply about something, and after a while, she muttered: "Brother, in fact, when you were sick, I went into the town once, and I also encountered a similar thing, when there was only one zombie on the street, I also used a toy car to lure it over, the zombie was very weak, it was a little girl, I thought I could clean it up with just an axe." Unexpectedly, seeing the toy car luring it over, a zombie suddenly ran out of the store next to it. I swear, I hadn't heard this zombie make a noise in the store before, and it just rushed out and chased the toy car with the little girl zombie. At that time, I was just thinking about luring zombies with toy cars, and I didn't have much experience, so I just smeared my finger blood on the bucket. And because I watched the little girl's zombies be weaker, I was also more relaxed, and by the time I found new zombies, the distance was already too close. Fortunately, the zombie was not strong, it was an old aunt, and the child was about the same height as the child, so it took me a little effort to kill them all with a fire axe. ”…,

Wang Lu frowned: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?" ”

Xie Ling lowered her eyebrows and said: "I always thought that I was careless for a while, I didn't find the zombies in the store in advance, and I was afraid that you would be too worried, so I didn't tell you." ”

Wang Lu didn't blame Xie Ling, he just shook his head: "It's not your carelessness, if I guess correctly, these zombies are learning to hunt together." ”

"Partnership?" Xie Ling's mouth was half-open, and her eyes widened.

Wang Lu stared at the zombies wandering on the street in front of him: "I have encountered many zombies attacking me together before, but those attacks are all chaotic, in a local dialect, that is, each is in charge of its own, each taking care of its own head, regardless of its head, it is not even a group fight, as long as I prepare in advance and break them one by one, the number of zombies does not form much of an advantage." ”

"But today, the actions of these zombies are very strange, they seem to be cooperating with each other, just like a pack of wolves cooperating to hunt, discovering, instructing, surrounding, and attacking together."

Xie Ling's face turned white, and she trembled and said, "Brother, isn't this, isn't this the most terrible thing you ever said - zombies, zombies can also learn?" ”

Wang Lu shook his head with a calm face, and after a while, he shook his head: "No, this can't be said to be learning. The zombies still behave very stupidly, even worse than cats and dogs, and several kittens and cubs that have not yet been weaned will cooperate to hunt and kill the mice caught by the mother cat. Rather than learning, I think it's an instinct, a predator's instinct. ”

"It is the instinct of many carnivores, such as wolves, jackals, and even lions, to connect with their peers and hunt their prey together. Don't forget, our ancestors were nothing more than a group of big monkeys who loved to eat meat, they lived together, hunted together, and for a long time, it was only natural for them to cooperate with each other out of instinct. ”

"Zombies are just slowly awakening this instinct that sleeps deep in human genes."

Xie Ling's hands trembled unconsciously, and she felt that Wang Lu's analysis not only did not calm her down, but became even more panicked.

Listen - how simple it is, the predator's cooperative instinct is awakening.

This is still "awakening", so I let myself be almost attacked by two zombies last time, and this time I failed to lure twice in a row, if this is "fully awakened", the zombies should not go against the sky.

Wang Lu saw fear in Xie Ling's eyes, and he patted her shoulder comfortingly: "Don't be afraid, this kind of instinct is nothing remarkable, really, many group animals in nature do, but instinct is instinct, no matter how awesome it is, it can't beat this (he flicked the top of his bald head) - wisdom." ”

Wang Lu said: "I was just like you at the beginning, I was frightened by these strange zombies, but if you think about it, this instinct for cooperation is not terrible, and we have many ways to deal with them." If your crossbow is repaired, even if a group of zombies cooperate to besiege the two of us, we only need to occupy a safe vantage point, and we can destroy them with our crossbow arrows alone. Unless the zombies can bring in the entire town's accomplices. ”

Xie Ling said annoyedly: "But the problem is that the crossbow is broken now." ”

Wang Lu snorted: "Isn't there a beast trap then?" Just now, if we put the beast clip on the way for the zombie to chase the toy car in advance, let the beast clip catch one of the zombies, and then - and then we wait, I don't believe it, the other zombies will stay here forever, you also see, as soon as the blood on the ground is licked just now, the zombies will go their separate ways, and as soon as the other zombies leave, the zombie caught by the beast clip is not the dish in our hands, and it is up to you to chop horizontally or vertically. ”

Xie Ling's mood relaxed a little, she looked at the toy car in Wang Lu's hand: "Then what now?" Go back to the mountains and get the trap? ”

Wang Lu shook his head: "Forget it, I came to the town, originally just to see if we haven't gone down the mountain for a while, the situation of zombie activities in the town, and to see if the materials we originally accumulated are enough." ”

Xie Ling hurriedly said: "The materials are enough, if you save a little, you can use it for three or four months." ”

Wang Lu snorted: "That's okay, I'm too lazy to climb the wall and climb over the house, let's go." ”

"Where?" Xie Ling's eyes narrowed.

Wang Luha smiled: "Xie Ling, do you like to eat roast duck?" ”

Two hours later.

The boat was moving slowly in the Yinjiang River, Wang Lu was at the stern, and Xie Ling was looking at the bow with a telescope: "It should be almost there, right?" ”…,

Wang Lu also looked around, the two of them were looking for the small beach that came ashore when Wang Bi'an was lost last time, but it was already dark at that time, and everyone didn't see the surrounding terrain very clearly, and now they can't find it for a while.

Wang Lu comforted: "It should be almost there, I can row much faster than Wang Bi'an, this kid." ”

However, Xie Ling's interest was not here, she carefully calculated: "Brother, how many ducks do you think we can find?" You see, according to what King Bian said, he chased a duck, and that ...... The man also had one in his hand, and when we came all the way, we saw ducks on the side of the boat. ”

Wang Lu smiled: "It's hard to say, maybe the duck we saw was chasing the same one as Wang Bi'an." ”

"Ah, so there are only three ducks in total, and one of them has already been twisted and decapitated and died?" Xie Ling was a little frustrated.

Wang Lu almost laughed: "These ducks are all stocked in a group, those three ducks must have accidentally left the team, don't worry, when we find the duck house, there must be a lot of fat ducks quacking at you." When the time comes, you can eat roast duck, duck pot, braised duck pieces, and duck in sauce. ”

Xie Ling turned her head and glared at Wang Lu: "Brother, look at what you said, people seem to be just foodies." That being said, the saliva was pouring out of her mouth.

The two were talking and laughing, when suddenly there was a bang, and the boat stopped.

Wang Lu and Xie Ling both shook back and forth on the boat, and they stabilized themselves by holding the side of the boat. Xie Ling took a look at the water with the boat's bon: "Brother, there is a hurdle underwater, so I docked the boat." ”

Wang Lu also looked at it: "It's not a big deal, I'll get off the boat and drag it in the water." With that, he began to take off his pants and prepare to enter the water.

Before he untied the belt, Wang Lu suddenly thought of something: "No, Xie Ling, we can't cross this underwater hurdle, and Wang Bi'an will definitely not be able to get over." There was no need to paddle any further, Wang Bian must have turned back from here, and the place where he landed was nearby. ”

With clear instructions, Wang Lu and Xie Ling were much easier to find, and not long after paddling back, the two recognized a small beach and a large melon field on the shore, maybe they could find the watermelon rind they ate last time.

Wang Lu and Chen Wei went ashore and walked all the way in the direction of the house in the woods that Wang Bi'an had described.

Although the main purpose of this trip is to look for ducks, this house that used to smoke in Wang Bi'an's mouth also has to be explored. It's always right to be prepared.

The two walked for a long time, and sure enough, they saw a half-corner tile exposed in the woods, Wang Lu quietly gestured to Xie Ling, one of them held a fire axe, the other carried a woodcutter, ten meters apart, and the cat slowly moved forward with his waist.