Chapter 403: And This Ability
The temperature in the three northern provinces is getting colder and colder, and we have experienced the catastrophe of zombie armies, and we have not encountered bandits or small camps on the road.
But when Gu Yu found a new mark, my luck collapsed little by little, and we found more graves, and those names weighed down my brain, and my chest was like a lump of cotton.
I counted the number of dead and kept doing the subtraction until the number was zero, and I closed my eyes in despair.
The ordinary people in the small town are almost dead, and it is said that it is because except for my parents, all other ordinary people died under the clutches of this unknown disease.
Judging by the location of the last graves, the disease appeared after they left the town, and the largest number of deaths occurred in the first few days, and then slowly decreased.
Buried outside the city of Bell are the last of the sick and the last ordinary survivors of the town.
Is nature really going to exterminate humanity?
My heart is filled with grief, not only for the survivors of the town who have died, but also for the future of humanity.
"Mom and Dad must still be alive, Long Tao and Ah Ying will protect them."
"I know."
Erha suddenly sighed when he heard the conversation between me and Gu Yu, his expression was lonely, and there was undisguised sadness in his eyes.
We walked back to the town on foot, and through these days of treatment, Erha had basically recovered, and his loyalty to Lan Jingjing was shaken, and he didn't mention going to save her, but he often stared at the sky in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Do you have a place to go?" I wanted to know Erha's plans, so I asked.
The blows of the past few days, although not so disheartening as not to discourage me, have lost interest in many things.
Now that Erha has recovered, if he doesn't want to continue to rescue Lan Jingjing, there is no need for us to act together anymore.
"No, home, family, camp, friends...... It's all gone. ”
I suddenly understood why he showed such a sad expression just now, Gu Yu asked him about the past, after the outbreak of the end times, his family mutated into zombies, he was trapped in the company with his colleagues at the time, he especially regretted going to the company to work overtime that day, but he didn't see his family for the last time.
Later, he desperately ran home, his parents were bitten by zombies while escaping from the house, he was rescued by neighbors, and met two friends at a camp set up by the military.
Not surprisingly, their camp was eventually submerged by a horde of zombies, and he escaped and hid alone.
During this period, he also joined other camps and teamed up with others to hunt in the wild, but in the end, he was the only one who survived.
He met the migrating Xindu team halfway, and he was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, and wanted to steal some food, but he was beaten up, and he happened to let Lan Jingjing see it.
The place where he and Xindu's team met was not far from Crane City, and it was also relatively close to Su Guo, perhaps Xindu went to Su Guo to avoid the tide of corpses at that time.
In fact, they may also flee to Bangzi Island, but it is estimated that there are no fewer zombies there than in China, and the Su country is vast and sparsely populated, so if they want to avoid it for a while, they will naturally choose the Su country.
"What are your plans for the future?"
"One step at a time."
"Are you still going to save Blue Crystal?"
"I want to see her die."
"I understand, but you know very well where the new capital is, there is no need to be so angry."
Erha nodded, fell silent, and began to look up at the sky again.
Gu Yu and I exchanged a look, we didn't deliberately ask about Erha's ability, and there was no chance for him to show it along the way.
We decided to go to the Bal Autonomous Region to find our parents and them, and Erha would have followed, but now that he has completely recovered and given up the idea of rescuing Lan Jingjing, then we will face the problem of his whereabouts.
Erha's surname is Ha, his ancestor is a banner person, his hometown is in Ji Province, and his real name is Hashan.
"We're going to the Baal Autonomous Region, do you want to come with us?"
"Can I go to your camp?"
I looked at Gu Yu and saw that he didn't object, so I nodded: "Okay, if I can find them." ”
Although Hashan's state is not good, he can still listen to the persuasion, and it is better to take him to the Bal Autonomous Region to settle down than to throw him in the wilderness.
We used teleportation to the outskirts of Bell City to the river where the grave was found, and then continued on foot, lest we miss the mark left by Long Tao.
Bad things happen, after the mass deaths of ordinary survivors, we find the graves of the Paranormals.
But the cause of death behind the tombstone this time was not an unknown disease, these people died from the attack of mutant beasts and plants.
Long Tao specifically noted that they died by accident and accident, and I was slightly relieved, and my tense nerves relaxed.
As long as the virus has an infection range, or that it only infects one group, then everyone else is safe for the time being.
Qiu Dehai is not lying about the future, and I must recognize this fact.
Since no human beings can survive in the future, the role of the Xindu vaccine is particularly important.
Once it is determined that the vaccine they have developed is a parasitic butterfly, the 'future' they see as the future will be the present.
Although the small city does not represent the whole world, and the changes in the small city do not represent the course of the world, it is a microcosm of the world, composed of ordinary people, supernatural people, and high-level zombies.
Now that ordinary people except my parents have passed away, there are only two possibilities in front of us.
The first is that the mortality rate of the virus is not 100%, my parents have their own antibodies, and the second is that my parents are no longer ordinary people.
In any case, the number of ordinary people is decreasing a lot, and at this moment, I don't insist on whether my parents can retain their identity as 'human'.
As long as they can survive and keep their memories and sanity, or take a step back, as long as they can keep their sanity.
It may be selfish to think like this, of course, the choice is still in the hands of parents, but before they choose, they have to choose.
I decided that if the vaccine developed by Xindu was really a parasitic butterfly, I must get some, and as for whether to use it or not, I left it to my parents to decide.
We've been south with Joe and Tom for so long, and they've both been healthy, so the bad news in the town was like a slap in the face to the head and messed up my brain.
However, immersed in a gloomy mood can't help anyone, I am very grateful to Gu Yu for his silent companionship, he understands me, many things can only be thought out by myself, and I will naturally come out after thinking about it.
I told myself on the bright side, after all, there were still many people who survived, except for those who were sick and died unexpectedly, most of the supernatural and high-level zombies were still alive.
In the area within 100 kilometres of the Barr Autonomous Region, we have not found any more graves, which is good news.
"Wait, I sensed it!" My psychic tentacles sensed brainwave activity, and there was more than one.
Gu Yu looked at me, and then Erha suddenly shouted, "Look. ”
In fact, we didn't need him to remind us to see a red light rising from above the city of the Baal Autonomous Region, which I recognized as a flare gun.
There are people in the city!
After the excitement, I immediately calmed down, and just because there was brainwave activity didn't mean that the other person was one of us.
The flare was not necessarily because Zhou Li saw us and wanted to tell us that they were there.
Gu Yu picked me up and grabbed Erha, and we crossed the highway and teleported to the edge of the city.
The buildings here are not high, the scenery is picturesque, and the city is located on the steppe in winter, like a relief on a snow wall.
If it was Long Tao who fired the flare, we should be able to feel the shield of the Ancient Great Array from where we are standing at the moment.
"No, it's not them." My black cloud condensed into dozens of tentacles and reached left and right, one touching the nearest building to the left, but met no resistance.
Using the method of the Ancient Great Array, Gu Yu taught Long Tao before leaving, if they chose to settle here, they would definitely use the Great Array to protect it.
On the way here, we didn't find glassware, originally I thought it was because the grassland has a wide field of vision, and it is not convenient to place glassware, first, it is easy to be found, and secondly, the perspective is not good.
Now it seems that I have thought too much, Long Tao and Zhou Li have not settled here at all.
But there are graves of survivors of the town on the road, and there is no fork in the road on this route, which means that we are right, they originally intended to settle in the Bal Autonomous Region.
So what is the reason for them to abandon the city again?
Is it because this place is already occupied?
"Better confirm." Gu Yu looked at the falling flare and said.
"Okay, Hashan, you wait here for us to come back, and if we don't come back in an hour, you go south and try your luck at Zobar."
Zobar is also an autonomous region, located southwest of the city of Bell, closer to the city of Bell than the natural area of Bell.
It's just that the natural area of Baal has more abundant water resources and is more suitable for a large number of survivors to settle, and he is only one person, and he can go almost everywhere.
"I want to go with you." Hashan wrinkled his nose, sniffed twice at the air, and said with a determined expression.
"Your ability is to enhance your sense of smell?" I asked, Long Tao could see the virus in the air, and it was not enough to prevent ordinary survivors from contracting unknown diseases, even if Hashan's sense of smell was against the sky and he encountered real danger, he could not help.
"No, I'll transform."
"Transfiguration? Becoming someone else's? ”
"You watch."
Hashan said as he stretched out his arms forward, his shoulders contracted, and made a 'pounce' motion.
Then we saw a 'huge' husky appear in front of us, the hair on the back is black, the belly and limbs are white, but his eyes are not blue, but black, Hashan, who has transformed into a big dog, stares at me with a fierce face.
I felt like six dots were floating above my head, and it would be nice to say that it was an ability, but what was its strength and power?
But since they showed it to us, I couldn't hurt people, so I nodded and said euphemistically, "It's okay, it's quite special." ”
Gu Yu was not so tactful as me, he directly stretched out his index finger, pointed to the ground where Ha Shan's forelimbs were stepping, and ordered: "Sit, wait for us to come back." ”
The clothes that Hashan wore before were still hanging on him, and the size of his transformation was like that of an adult tiger, and the clothes were not big at all, and the big dog's head was exposed outside the collar.
I felt that Gu Yu's actions were a little disrespectful, and he just wanted to say a few words for Hashan, but he sat down obediently, his pointed ears trembled twice, and he looked like a good baby.
"Uh......" I opened my mouth and swallowed back what I wanted to say, and then another question came to mind: "What if we don't come back and he keeps waiting here?" ”
"He's just going to shapeshift, not exactly a dog." Gu Yu said: "This is his ability, it should be able to switch." ”
"Then why didn't he come back?"
"Maybe there's a limit, but it will take a while to change at a time."
"Whew, the reversal is too sudden, let's go quickly, and strive to go back quickly."
Before teleporting, I glanced back at Ha Shan again, and made sure that he was still sitting in place, so I was relieved to leave with Gu Yu.
Let Hashan's transformation ability make trouble, the heaviness in my heart has been relaxed, before he was hypnotized by the blue crystal crystal to have the behavior of a big dog, who knew that after the hypnosis was lifted, he 'dog' had to be more thorough!
The question is, what else can his transformation ability do other than sell cuteness?
I guess Lan Jingjing didn't know that he had this ability, if she knew, she might not be interested in him, she likes to turn 'people' into 'dogs', she can be changed, I'm afraid she won't be interested in staying around.