Chapter 9: The Red Dress in the Wilderness
Ren Yi sat in the co-pilot of the first car, staring closely at the tablet in his hand.
On the screen, two flashing red dots mark a bright yellow trail on the map.
One of the red dots stopped halfway through, leaving a lone yellow line stretching forward.
The red dot that stopped flashed and the display was ahead.
The convoy's engines roared and chased after the red dot.
"There are still thirty kilometers to go, and there are changes in caution." Ren Yi's voice echoed through the six trucks.
Ren Yi let Astragalus concentrate on driving, and he was responsible for guarding the surrounding movements.
At this moment, a red object suddenly appeared in the field of vision ahead, lying horizontally on the road!
"Another corpse!" Ren Yi exclaimed.
The huge front of the car roared in an instant, and the astragalus slammed on the brakes, squeaked, and the tires drew a long line of smoke on the ground, and stopped steadily in front.
It was a woman in a long red dress, lying on the loess road pressed by countless wheels, her long hair scattered, and the red dress dirty and spread out.
She had four bullet holes in her chest, and her limbs were twisted and deformed by the wheels. The blood on the ground had dried up and turned black.
Ren Yi couldn't bear to glance at her from the right window, she was in a miserable death, her facial bones were deformed and protruding, and her eyes were cloudy.
"Our assumptions are correct. This should be the mutated woman, and the homeless people she met before were killed by her. Now they've dealt with her. Astragalus said, holding the steering wheel.
"A woman in the wilderness...... Why would you wear a dress like this? It's very inconvenient to move. ”
Ren Yi didn't have a trace of relaxation on his face, still frowning, looking at the female corpse on the ground.
It seemed to be a pajama, with two slender shoulder straps, and a slender upper body without any embellishment. But the lower body is very much like a dress, with a large flowing skirt that drags down to the ankles.
The breeze blew, and the corner of the red dress fluttered gently with the wind.
It should be a silk texture with a shiny sheen. Blood-like bright and pure red.
But neither pajamas nor dresses are suitable for this strange post-advent world, let alone the ferocious wilderness.
"Which city escaped perhaps?" Astragalus scratched her head, "Anyway, they've eliminated her, so we should be able to take it easy next." ”
"Not necessarily." Ren Yi said, "What if her pollution spreads?" The homeless people in the car may have mutated. Still have to be careful. ”
He gestured to the screen. On the map, a stagnant red dot is thirty kilometers ahead, constantly flashing.
"Our car is right in front. If the pollution is really gone, why is the car not moving? ”
Astragalus also frowned and strode to the driver's seat.
The engine of the lead car roared.
Through the walkie-talkie, Astragalus yelled, "Cheer me up!" ”
The long earthy yellow dragon of armored vehicles marched again.
Ren Yi looked up, and he could already see from a distance that the road ahead had turned a forty-degree turn, revealing a huge silhouette at the corner.
Everyone clicked their weapons on their loads, and slowly approached the turning foothills.
There was no movement.
The moment the vehicles converged, Ren Yi and Astragalus glanced at each other, suddenly jumped out of the car, rushed over, and opened the opposite driver's door.
Brush!
The convoy flung over like a long snake, and all the dart masters in the right window raised their guns at the same time.
Boom!
Surrounded by a field of gunfire, another corpse was caught off guard and rolled to the ground.
Another man dressed as an outcast, wearing a dirty denim vest and a pistol and dagger in his pockets.
His mouth was wide open, his pupils dilated, and the muscles on his face stiffened in a terrified expression.
A large bloody hole had been torn open in his throat, and the wound had been split into several petals, revealing the bright red and soft flesh inside.
There was no movement in the car.
Ren Yi boarded the car and found that the weapons, ammunition, food reserves and emergency medicines in the car had been looted.
"You're really right, there is more than one mutation." Astragalus was outside the car and touched the corpse with the barrel of a gun.
Ren Yi jumped out of the car and also leaned over to look at the wounds of the corpse.
"Another suspicion...... Ren Yi scratched his hair anxiously, "there was lipstick near his wound." It shows that it was a woman who attacked him. But thirty kilometers ago, the mutated woman had been thrown down. Could it be that there was a woman in the car? How could there be so many women in the car of a group of homeless people? Or a well-groomed woman? ”
Ren Yi shook his head irritably, the wilderness environment was harsh, and the vast majority of the displaced people who survived were men. From the clothing and belongings of the two corpses, it can be seen that they are an organized armed force, not ordinary fleeing civilians.
Then there should be no men and women. And she is exquisitely dressed, with nails and lipstick, how can she survive in the wilderness?
…… Kidnap? Human trafficking? Or what is the peach deal?
Huang Qi thought thoughtfully: "Is it possible that he didn't die in a short period of time after being attacked by that mutant woman, and he has persevered here?" ”
Astragalus makes sense. In the wilderness team, injured companions must be cared for as best they can until the last moment. This is an unwritten rule, and in a bad environment, everyone can be injured. If the boss only cares about self-preservation and has no humanity, and throws his injured companion as a burden, his subordinates will immediately turn back.
"I'm not sure how long a person with a broken throat will last." Ren Yi shook his head and said worriedly.
If it wasn't as Astragalus guessed, it meant that there were other mutants in the car, or even more than one. There is still danger ahead......
The dart master who checked the condition of the vehicle came back and said to Astragalus and Ren Yi: "The car has oil and there is no breakdown." ”
"In other words, they took everything from the car and left the car behind, not because there was a problem with the car?"
Ren Yi was thoughtful.
Astragalus had a flash of inspiration, "It's because the number of people has decreased, and there is no need for two cars!" ”
"Stopped!" The dart master who was holding the tablet for Ren Yi shouted, "Let's take the opportunity to catch up!" ”
Ren Yi looked sideways at the screen, shocked. There are no hidden spots on the map, and they don't park here for no reason.
Something must have happened again, and most likely, they were going to leave another dead body behind.
"Get in the car!" Ren Yi raised his hand, everyone immediately returned to their respective vehicles, and the convoy started again.
The red dot stagnated, and soon, the distance between the convoy's positioning and the red dot gradually decreased.
Twilight begins to quadruple. The last one, No. 5, quietly appeared in Ren Yi's field of vision.
"Attention all." Astragalus stopped far away and pinched the walkie-talkie.
The convoy immediately stopped, and there was a click of weapons loading in the walkie-talkie. Everyone quietly got out of the car and slowly wrapped up along the sides of the truck.
Ren Yi stopped far away, holding his breath and concentrating, "the sky is round and the place is round" slowly appeared in his mind.
"'Yanshi'." Ren Yi said silently.
Ren Yi's five senses were suddenly magnified, and he walked towards the wilderness in front of him.
All the senses seemed to condense into a myriad of messy threads, the most messy near car five, entangled into six intricate spheres, countless threads stretched out, and still intertwined.
Ren Yi took a deep breath and let his consciousness dive towards the center of the thread.
The sound of breathing, whispering, the sound of a gun being loaded, the chatter of your teeth when you are extremely nervous......
There were six people in the car, each armed with a weapon, ready to defend themselves.
Ren Yi knew it in his heart.
"There seems to be movement in the car?" He feigned a reminder.
"You stand back," Astragalus turned his head sideways and smiled suddenly, "deal with them, I can solve them in two seconds!" You've got it. ”
Suddenly, the body of the No. 5 car in front of me began to shake violently.
There was a fierce tearing and screaming inside.
Knock, knock! The iron sheet was violently struck.
Through the glass, Ren Yi vaguely saw those people as if they were haunted by nightmares, waving their teeth and claws at the air, and tears flowing.
"Ahh I don't care about you! "Someone was thrashing desperately at the air.
"Help! I was wrong! "Someone knelt down and kowtowed like pounding garlic.
"Leave me alone!" Someone was rolling in the car.
"What's going on?" Ren Yi was surprised and asked with his mouth open.
"My abilities." Astragalus smiled indifferently, "'Distort the senses'." ”
Astragalus's subordinates were all dart masters who were familiar with his combat routines, and immediately rushed forward.
A few minutes later, the six homeless people in the car were all tied up and thrown in the clearing.
They are all normal in appearance and have no abnormalities.
When!
There was another heavy thud, and a tall dart master took a black canvas pocket from the car and threw it on the ground.
The zipper is half-open, and the inside exudes a dazzling golden color.
Gold bar.
Night has completely fallen.
One of the homeless leaders gradually woke up, noticed something unusual, and began to writhe vigorously.
Swish! Swish!
Suddenly, the bright lights turned on one after another, focusing on the man.
Sensing the danger, he struggled even harder.
"We're just here to get what belongs to us." Astragalus slowly walked out of the light and spoke gloomily.
"Please let us go!" The man immediately sat up on his knees in the direction of the sound.
"She's coming!" The leader turned a deaf ear to Astragalus's words, kept shouting in horror, and struggled.
"Let me go!"
…… Who's coming?
This is a big man of one hundred and sixty or seventy pounds, tall and large, with a long scar on his blue scalp, and he can be regarded as a ruthless character in the wilderness in any case.
But now the man was distracted and incoherent, and the only use of his burly muscles was to kowtow under the cowhide rope.
Ren Yi frowned, and looked at each other silently, it seemed that things were far more complicated than imagined.
The burly man trembled uncontrollably, his eyes unable to focus, and he yelled in an uncontrollable screech.
"Otherwise, even you will die!"
At this moment, the headlights from behind Ren Yi were inexplicably dim, as if they were blocked by something.
Ren Yi instinctively turned back.
A miserable white face emerged from the night and poked into the back of Ren Yi's head!