Walking into the city of Baal, which is submerged in snow, we find that the road surface is completely covered with heavy snow, and there are no footprints or wheel marks on the streets.

It often snows here in winter, and the lack of footprints does not mean that there is no one in the city, but only that no one is active outside.

Since it is likely that the person who fired the flare was someone else, why did they do it, did we expose our whereabouts, did they want to attract our attention, or was it just a coincidence?

Gu Yu and I each used our abilities to make a shield, and then we walked towards the location where the flare was fired.

There are many brightly colored buildings on the roadside, with yellow walls and blue roofs, white walls and red roofs, and pink and white school buildings.

"Ah Yu, look at the doors and windows of these buildings, many of them have been repaired." I pointed out a few buildings facing the street for Gu Yu to see.

"The total population of the Baal Autonomous Region is less than 50,000, and the population of the urban area is even smaller, even if 70 percent of the people become zombies, it is a small number for people who travel in groups, and I think there must be many small and medium-sized camps that want to settle here."

However, if there are mutant beasts and high-level zombies nearby, it will be a different matter.

If I were a survivor living here, I would think about water and heating first.

The water treatment equipment needs to be maintained by professionals, and a year after the end of the world, the water plant and power plant have been shut down, so I will not choose to live on the upper floor of the building, let alone live separately from my other companions.

It's a bit difficult to centrally heat the whole city because of the extremely low temperatures, so I try to live with other people and make sure that one or two buildings are heated, and only if they have their own boilers.

Electric boilers require electricity, and gas boilers require natural gas, neither of which meet the current criteria.

Coal-fired boilers inevitably emit flue gas, but we don't see a trace of smoke in the city.

Of course, there are ways to heat up without a fire, and maybe the people who live here have the ability to generate electricity, just like when we used electric heaters in the snowy mountains.

But this probability is very small, and one or two people with abilities can't guarantee the daily electricity consumption of dozens of people.

So I was skeptical that there were people living here for a long time, and the brainwaves I had detected before I came in were in the center of the city, but now they were suddenly gone.

We had to walk towards the location of the flare, which was also in the center of the city, a short distance from where I found the brainwaves.

We walked to the central square and saw a set of footprints in the snow, and someone had stood in the middle of the square, which was exactly where the flare was fired.

Then the man returned the way he came, but halfway through, the footprints suddenly disappeared, leaving a pool of red blood on the snow.

The blood was splattered, and it was not like the original injury, and if it came to this point, it should be that the person who fired the flare encountered a surprise attack when he was going back.

Fortunately, the footprints when he came were still very clear, and Gu Yu and I followed the row of footprints to the door of a shopping mall.

The mall has four floors, and the main door has roller shutters, locked and covered with snow, and it looks like it hasn't been opened for a while.

There were no footprints in front of the door, and Gu Yu looked up at the second floor of the mall according to the length of the last two footprints from the gate.

Above the mall gate was the window on the second floor, and Gu Yu pointed to the window facing us and said, "There is no snow on the windowsill, that window should be opened often." ”

I nodded knowingly and said, "He jumped out of the window." ”

Gu Yu made a 'hmm' sound, then controlled the air, unscrewed the handle of the window from the inside, and he asked me to wait downstairs, stepping on the air ladder and jumping into the window on the second floor.

After a while, he stuck his head out and said, "There's an ability elimination device in there, don't come in yet, wait for me to call you." ”

I nodded and said yes, and I was glad that it didn't do anything to him, otherwise he would have jumped into a trap by jumping in.

I thought of Qin Dong's space cage and secretly sighed that sometimes high-tech products are really unguardable.

But Gu Yu didn't destroy the cancelling devices, and I guess he was worried that they weren't just for us.

There's an ability cancelling device in the cover, so it's no wonder I can't detect brain waves in this building, or rather, when I found them, the device wasn't activated yet.

The devices were just activated, so I think they're mostly for us.

Then the flare should be fired to attract us, and I look around, and if they can place an ability elimination device in one building, they can put a few in other buildings to hide their presence, and then sneak up on me with an ability or a thermal weapon.

I'm not afraid of normal abilities, and bullets are a bigger threat to me than normal abilities.

But the surroundings were quiet, and five minutes passed, and nothing happened, until Gu Yu poked his head out of the window on the top floor of the mall and told me to go up.

I stepped on the spiritual black cloud and jumped into the window on the second floor, where Gu Yu had already cleared the ability elimination devices on the second and third floors.

There was no one from the first floor to the third floor, so the ability cancelling devices placed on those three floors were supposed to be specific to the two of us.

I followed Gu Yu to the top floor of the mall, it was too cold here, about the same temperature as outside, in such an environment, normal people could not live.

Sure enough, I saw many neatly stacked corpses on the ground, all sitting or curled up.

The corpses were frozen hard, and eighty percent of these postures were the movements they maintained before they died.

The men described it as withered, either starved or frozen, and in the middle of the ground lay a number of metal basins and woks, some of which were filled with ashes.

Obviously, this is the hot pot they used to bake the fire, and it looks like they haven't lit a fire for a long time.

Although the city is not big, it should be easy to find some firewood, and it is really unbelievable that these people are frozen to death.

Besides, if the tree dies and the person lives, even if there is no food or drink, it is a big deal to move a nest and then go somewhere else to make a living.

I told Gu Yu about the doubts in my heart, and he said, "They haven't eaten for too long, they can't move when they're hungry, and they don't have the strength to find firewood. Moreover, they may not go because they can't. ”

"Can't go?" I asked, puzzled.

"Leave the door and skip the window, why do you think that?" Gu Yu asked rhetorically.

I touched my chin, thought for a moment, and said, "Afraid that something will break through the door, or follow them in?" ”

The reason why I say that there is a 'thing' is that I don't think this method is like a way to defend against people, and if you defend against people, you will definitely not be able to prevent it.

The doors and windows of the building facing the street outside have traces of repair and reinforcement, and I thought they were damaged by zombies after the disaster.

Now it seems that something else may have attacked the city, and the survivors who once hid here fended off their attacks by reinforcing the doors and windows.

But then something must have happened to make them escape, and they died, but we don't know the reason yet.

At present, we only know that the last few remaining survivors starved to death on the top floor of the mall, and they did not even have the strength to collect firewood.

I looked at the corpse and frowned, "No, I still felt a lot of brain waves before entering the city!" ”

I'm sure this mall is where I sensed my brain waves, but the ability cancelling device affected my 'detection' and blocked them out.

Gu Yu just wanted to speak, but suddenly, there was a muffled 'bang' sound from the other side of the top floor, and Gu Yu and I immediately looked there.

The entire floor space is about more than 1,000 square meters, which has obviously been cleaned up, and the original shelves and counters of the mall are stacked on the side of the window, probably to block some cold.

On the side near the staircase was the sleeping area, where the corpses were neatly stacked.

Gu Yu hadn't checked the shelves and counters before, he made a standby gesture at me, and then gently walked over to the location where the sound came from.

When he got closer, he noticed that there were ability cancelling devices on both sides of the shelves, who would guard against a bunch of shelves and counters?

There must be something strange in this, Gu Yu walked to the counter where the sound came from, the counter was empty, and he opened the cabinet door below.

Then a curled figure rolled out of the cabinet, a low whining from its mouth.

Gu Yu tore open the adhesive tape on his mouth, and the man immediately shouted excitedly: "Help, help us!" ”

Hearing him say 'we', Gu Yu looked at me, and I tacitly prepared that the spiritual black cloud could rush over at any time to restrain those who wanted to hurt him.

Gu Yu retreated outside the 'encirclement' of the ability elimination device, and then used his air tentacles to open the doors under the other counters.

A total of thirty-five people were pulled out, and the flashes were the brain waves I had sensed earlier, but only one of them was awake, and the others were all in a coma.

Gu Yu calmed down the man and asked him a few questions, and the man answered them all honestly, and they turned out to be people from the safe zone.

I was amazed and listened carefully to the man's story, and it turned out that after the division of the safe zone, there were two kinds of differences.

Tumu advocated moving overseas, believing that it would be safer to move to a small island in the sea, while another group advocated moving to inland areas such as forests and grasslands, so a small battle broke out, and then the safety of the family was separated.

At this time, I realized that Tumu had already led people out of that temporary station, and even if Gu Yu and I returned to that place smoothly, we would not be able to see his people.

The person who separated from Tumu was Guo Wei, Guo Wei took his followers and some of the scientific research results of the safe zone all the way to the north, originally they also took a fancy to the primeval forest, but unfortunately Xindu also took a fancy to it.

When Guo Wei led people to the primeval forest, Xindu had just set up camp there, and the two waves of people could be said to be front and back.

And although Xindu has been hit hard in the zombie tide, their core strength is still there.

Tumu took away more than half of the abilities in the safe zone, and with Guo Wei's strength, they couldn't compete with the new capital at all, so they could only continue to move north.

Later, they went to Bell City, and after seeing so many dead bodies, they also gave up their plans to settle there in favor of a wider world.

However, there are already people in the Bar Autonomous Region, and Guo Wei and the other party are of equal strength, and if they have to fight, they will only lose both.

Fortunately, the other party is willing to accept them, even if it is only a temporary peaceful coexistence, they will agree.

They need to recuperate so much, but they never imagined that the so-called peaceful coexistence is just a trap in disguise.

Even though he knew that people's hearts were sinister, he did not realize that the real danger did not only come from cannibalism.

There are not many people who harm people, but it is relatively rare for people to form an alliance with mutant beasts and harm their own kind.

But Guo Wei and the others caught up with this matter, they took every precaution to prevent the people who were 'kind' to take them in, but in the end they were betrayed by these people and sold to the mutant beasts that were rampant here.

I suddenly thought of the pool of blood in the snow in the square, since Guo Wei's people were all locked under the counter, could it be the mutant beast he said that attacked the person who set off the flare?

The time between when we entered the city and when the man was attacked was very short, and I hadn't noticed any animal brain waves before, could it be that there are still ghost beasts in this city?