I asked Erha's consent and scanned his brain, and his situation was exactly the same as Cheng Yifeng's.

He was hypnotized by Blue Crystal, and his expression resembled that of Erha was that he simulated the behavior of a big dog in a hypnotic state.

However, he only looks like a dog in his expression and certain movements, and his thinking and speech skills are not limited.

I asked him if it was Blue Crystal that retained some of his consciousness, and he shook his head and said no, it was the master's strength that was getting weaker and weaker.

In fact, Lan Jingjing only asked him to take me to save her, but she didn't say that she knew about Lu Zhi, and the chips in the second half of the sentence were added by himself.

I thought about it for a moment, and thought it was Aquamarine's hypnotic ability that had been weakened by her reduced vitality.

Now Lan Jingjing may be the same as me who used to be locked up in the experimental center, undergoing various tests and being tortured to the point of dying.

If it is a normal hypnosis, even if the hypnotist dies and there is no key word to dispel it, the hypnotic effect will last for life.

But Aquamarine's hypnosis is an ability that doesn't work as her power wanes.

This is good news for me, the things that pretend to be me, the traversers, the reborn, everyone has weaknesses, and no one is invincible.

Recognizing this fact has strengthened my confidence that there is no fear of an enemy, and that there is no fear of a strong enemy, and that the enemy is invulnerable.

We teleported all the way, and I helped Erha treat his hypnotism by the way, and I had experience in treating Cheng Yifeng, so it was easier to treat Erha, and his hypnotic effect was reduced a lot.

The hypnosis level of the simulated dog posture is shallow, and it didn't take me much time to help him relieve this layer of hypnosis.

And loyalty is the deepest level of hypnosis, which is more difficult to eliminate, but fortunately, Erha did not resist my treatment.

I asked him if he knew what I was doing, and he said yes, and he knew I was helping him.

This is a good sign, he recovers quickly, of course, thanks in large part to the weakness of Aquamarine.

Early in the morning of the second day of the new year, we arrived in the city of Bell, which was close to the Soviet country, had a vast grassland, and the river flowed through the city, making it a good place to settle if you didn't think about farming.

However, the mutant beasts on the grassland are definitely indispensable, and it may take a lot of abilities to settle down, so it is not suitable for a solo survivor life.

In winter, the grasslands were covered with snow, and we encountered waves of cattle, sheep, and reindeer that I had only seen on TV, and they did not attack us.

I felt less nervous about the presence of such gentle animals, and I was always worried that my parents would encounter ferocious beasts on their way in.

According to the scope of Zhou Li's clairvoyance ability, Gu Yu looked for glass products near the highway, and if his parents moved here, Zhou Li would definitely set his 'eyes' to stare at the highway into the city.

But we didn't find the medium that Zhou Li had to use, and it was obvious that my parents didn't have a smooth migration.

For some reason, they didn't settle down in Bell City, and there was nothing wrong with the surrounding snowfields, which were mostly in the city.

When we walked into the city, we realized that there were a staggering number of dead bodies in this place, and there are very few cities that do not smell of decay, and before I came in, I did not expect that there would be so many corpses in it.

Contrary to Bone City, most of the bones in Bell City are humans, and there are very few animals, and depending on the degree of decay of the corpses, they have been dead for a long time.

There are many ordinary people in the small town, and the plague is prone to occur in the place where the corpses are piled up, even if Merlin has healing abilities, but the plague virus that appears after the end of the world is very likely to mutate, and they dare not stay maybe just out of caution.

Besides, the corpses need to be incinerated in a centralized manner, which can't be done for a while, judging by the number of corpses we see, I'm afraid it will burn for several days with Zheng Chao's fire-based ability.

It is also necessary to move out the corpses in the building and in all corners, a huge city, at least hundreds of thousands of people live, and there are only about 100 people in the small city, and it may not be possible to move it in the spring of next year.

Long Tao and they can use the ability to violently move corpses, so that the buildings in the city will be destroyed, and as far as we can see, there are corpses in every building in Bell City, and every room is full.

Of course, just for this reason, it is estimated that it will not make Long Tao and them give up this.

We wandered around the streets of the city for a long time, Gu Yu's expression was serious, and after inspecting a few buildings, his brow furrowed slightly.

I felt as if he had discovered something, and it was information that was unfavorable to us, so I asked, "Is there a secret message left by Long Tao?" ”

"No, they didn't leave a code." Gu Yu didn't say anything else, but his footsteps didn't stop, and he occasionally stopped on the side of the street or in the corner of the wall.

After my treatment, Erha's behavior is no longer so much like a big dog, but he keeps shaking his nose and sniffing around when he enters the city.

The city was full of corpses, and my nose was full of corpses, and the bitter cold wind could not blow this unpleasant smell.

I don't even want to take a deep breath, so I admire Erha's 'bravery' very much.

Erha kept smelling in such a stinking environment, and I couldn't help but ask, "What do you smell?" ”

There was no living creature in the city, which had been detected before I came in, so I knew he couldn't have smelled a living person.

"Incense." Erha said while smelling.

"Huh?" I looked at him strangely and said to myself, this guy doesn't like to eat carrion, does he?

Fortunately, he immediately explained: "There is a floral scent. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to a building in the distance, which looked like two minarets, with a statue in the shape of a horse's head on the spire.

I made a closer look, and found that it was a high tower of a large bridge, and there was a beam between the two towers, and there were words on it, but it was so far away that I couldn't see what was written.

Except for the two horse heads, the bridge has been covered with snow, and in such a season, there is not even a single grass, where are the flowers? Not to mention the floral scent!

But there is no need to lie in Erha, abnormal phenomena often mean unknown dangers, maybe parents have discovered the abnormality here, so they did not stay, maybe they have encountered an accident.

I hurriedly suppressed my thoughts and stopped them from drifting in a bad direction, if there was danger, Long Tao and they would definitely use their abilities, and the buildings in the city were well preserved, and there was no sign that there had been a fierce battle.

I asked Gu Yu, "What do you think?" ”

Gu Yu has been observing the environment here since he entered the city, and although he has not found any clues left by Long Tao and them, other clues are also helpful to us.

Gu Yu pointed to a few places to show us, and his expression became more and more serious, just like I just thought, he must have found an important clue.

So I took a closer look at the places he pointed out, namely the intersections, the rooftops, the store and the cars parked on the side of the road.

After I had seen these places, he said: "There are no bodies or cars at the intersection, there are corpses on the roof, there are guns around the corpses, the shop windows are intact, and there are those cars on the street, there are no corpses in the cars, the cars are parked neatly, and there are few vacant parking spaces, what does this mean?" ”

He threw me the question, and I looked at the places he said repeatedly, starting with the closer ones:

"There are few empty parking spaces, they are neatly parked, and there are no bodies inside, which means that these people did not choose to drive away when they died, and there were no car accidents on the road. There are no traffic jams and no bodies at the intersection, which means that they did not panic when they died, and they did not run around. There were corpses on the roof, probably guards who were on guard, and the guns were not in their hands, indicating that they were not in combat mode when they died. ”

Gu Yu nodded, his expression did not ease at all, and I realized the seriousness of the problem after I finished speaking.

The population of the urban area of Bell City is probably less than 300,000, and the total population of the pastoral area and the county-level cities below is more than 2 million.

Just now we found out that every building in the city is stuffed with people, and the number of corpses adds up to definitely more than hundreds of thousands.

It must have received survivors from all directions, and most of the corpses were concentrated in the building, and although there were many on the street, they were only a small fraction compared to the number of corpses inside.

There are many tents and bungalows erected on the streets, and the bodies on the street may have lived on the side of the street before they died.

The guards did not make a fighting stance, the survivors stayed indoors and did not escape, and the doors and windows were not reinforced.

All kinds of signs tell us the fact that these people died very suddenly, with lighting tools by their side and some flashlights turned on.

No one wastes batteries on flashlights during the day, and it's on the street, so the time of their death is almost certain to be at night, and it's not an exaggeration to say that they died overnight.

The zombie siege and the attack of mutant beasts are far less terrifying than the death of the people in the city in their sleep.

Being in a dead city, and we don't know what they've been through, naturally extends the terrible associations to ourselves.

We wandered around the city for a long time, and perhaps before we knew it, one foot had stepped into the ghost gate.

I suddenly looked at Erha, he was stunned by me, although the behavior of the big dog is gone, but the eyes are still stupid and innocent.

"There are no living creatures, will their death have something to do with the fragrance of flowers that Erha smells?" I didn't want to be scared at all, but a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in my head, and my eyes might be a little cold.

There are so many corpses in Bell City, but they don't attract carnivores, which only means that the 'Grim Reaper' who lives here has not left.

"If it's the fragrance of flowers that kills people, it's too late for us to quit now." Gu Yu thought for a while, pointed to the bridge and said to Erha, "Where does the aroma come from over there?" ”

Erha didn't ask us what we were doing to find Huaxiang, and nodded and said yes.

We teleported him to the vicinity of the bridge, and I finally could see what was written on the beam between the two towers.

That's the name of the bridge, but some of the strokes are obscured by white snow, so you can only guess it.

The river under the bridge has frozen, and the thick snow has buried the surface of the river, and the bridge body has also been plated in pure white color by the thick snow, and it looks like a bridge of snow sculptures from a distance.

But when I got closer, I found that the bridge was not only covered with snow, but also full of white flowers the size of a fist.

The flowers have seven petals, I can't name them, like white clouds falling on the bridge, no wonder you can't see the flowers here from a distance, they blend with the snow, and the stamens are also white.

The flower has no leaves and no stems, and it blooms on the surface of the bridge, as if it were grown out of reinforced concrete.

Standing at the head of the bridge, I finally smelled the floral fragrance that Erha said, the cold fragrance lingers, the taste is light, and the anthocyans are elegant.

I've heard that in the jungle, the more showy the flowers, the more dangerous they are, and the flowers we see don't seem to be quite in line with human experience.

The cold of more than 30 degrees below zero, these seemingly fragile and thin petals, but they were not harmed at all, even if they were destroyed by the cold wind, they still bloomed in the wind.

To say that this is not a mutant plant, it is to open your eyes and talk nonsense, thinking of the black and red flowers you encountered in Xia City, neither Gu Yu nor I had any intention of touching it.

However, we are afraid of it, there is a person who has not understood the power of mutant animals and plants, Erha curiously stared at the white flower standing still in the cold wind, stretched out his finger and poked its petals.