The night wind was strong and cold. Not far away, the iron sheet of the window of a small building blew "popping" really loudly, becoming another sound in addition to the sound of the wind this night.

Zero and Agatha didn't speak, but the silence didn't last long. A moment later, Agatha's voice reached Zero's ears with the sound of the wind ringing again.

"Captain Zero, do you have a dream?"

Zero was slightly stunned and looked at Agatha in surprise.

Dreams, what a beautiful haode word. However, dreams belong to the old times. At that time, resources were already starting to be tight, the economy was not so good, and unemployment was high in many countries. But overall, shijie is still beautiful haode. At least there is no ubiquitous radiation, no mutant creatures competing with humans for living space. Although there were wars, they were limited, and only occurred in the civil strife of certain countries, and did not involve entire continents, or even entire shijie.

The old era is a dream that all mankind cannot go back to. It was a blue sky, the clouds were white, the rain would not carry strong radiation, and the snowflakes were romantic. Looking at it now, the old times are like a fairy tale, existing in everyone's heart.

Dream is a word that people in the old days often talked about. At that time, no matter how hard life was, people would always have their own dreams. As long as you have a dream, no matter how hard your life is, it can be colorful.

And in the new era, life is gray for most people. People who struggle on the line of life and death every day, how can they have dreams.

For these fighters, they are certainly better off than ordinary people. However, their mortality rate is not lower than that of ordinary people, but may be higher. Ordinary people can survive as long as they have food, and warriors simply don't know if they will survive today. Therefore, for them, the dream is even more distant, and no one even thinks about it.

Zero didn't expect Agatha to ask such a question. Perhaps, women's nerves are always more delicate than men's. Like Kaede, Zero bets that he never thinks of dreams.

"It's ridiculous. Agatha bent her legs and buried her face between them: "People like us shouldn't have dreams ......"

"I think people who still have dreams are far more respectable than butchers who only know how to kill. Zero asked lightly, "What is Captain Agatha's dream?"

Agatha looked at the endless night sky, and the look in her eyes became a little profound: "My dream is that one day I can marry myself, own a house, plant some flowers, and have one or two children......"

As she spoke, she laughed to herself: "It's ordinary, a dream with no ambitions." ”

"There is no such thing as ordinary or noble dreams. Zero shook his head in the negative.

Agatha smiled, "Although Captain Zero is usually very cold, he can't see that he is a very gentle person. So Captain Zero, do you have a dream?"

Zero also looked up at the sky, but for some reason, his breath became colder and colder. To zuihou, it was even mixed with a touch of murder. The cold wind didn't make Agatha feel cold, but she shivered at Zero's icy breath. And then Zero's voice rang out, his voice like a howling cold wind, with some strange whistling sound in the hollow.

"Yes, my dream is to destroy this shijie!"

Agatha's breath froze, for she could feel that Zero wasn't joking.

"It's night, Captain Agatha go and rest, tomorrow we have to hurry. The cold murderous intent on Zero's body disappeared, as if it were Agatha's delusion.

Perhaps because of the murderous intent that emanated from Zero, Agatha didn't say anything more, nodded and left. After Agatha left, Zero looked at the sky and said slowly: "Only Shijie who completely destroys this shit can realize your dream......"

The sound gradually dissipated in the night wind, perhaps, no one would understand the dream of zero.

And zero, you don't need others to understand!

The wilderness is quiet, and at noon during the day, the radiation is at its strongest. No one or other creature haunts the time, and the heat rising from the earth distorts the scenery and makes it seem so unreal.

On the roads along the coastline, only the occasional hot wind passes. The heat wave was gusting, and even the mutant grass with the most vigorous vitality on both sides of the road lowered its body, looking listless. It's only spring, but the temperature is as high as midsummer, and in real summer, the daytime temperature can reach up to 60 degrees!

A living male corpse roamed the highway, dressed in a dirty suit, with an off-white shirt loosely draped over its thin body, and a tie loosely draped around its neck, as if maintaining its dignity in life.

The face of the living corpse was missing a piece of flesh, revealing a white skull. Occasionally, a maggot crawls out of its head, and the living corpse gropes for it with its hands, then brings it to its mouth, chews it with its black and yellow fangs, turns the worm into a mash, and swallows it. But that's all there is to the food of the living corpses, and nothing else can be found.

The living corpse walked numbly across the road, and in the distance was an endless wilderness, with the occasional dark shadow visible, the silhouette of a city ruin. A few tall but crooked towers are the only decorations, and there may not be humans there, but there may be mutant beasts inhabiting them. In the case of living corpses, mutants can also be food in the absence of humans.

It walked to the other side of the road, and as it reached the middle of the road, there was a whistling sound in its ears.

That's not the sound of nature, it's the thought in the head of the living corpse, that's all. With its intelligence, it is unable to comprehend the special sounds made by the power unit of a car's engine when it is running. But that didn't stop the living corpse from turning around to observe, but it didn't move when a gunshot rang out in the distance.

The living corpse's whole body shook violently, and a line of blood bounced up on its head. It fell to the ground with a bullet hole in its eyebrow. Then, with his eyes still open, the floor of a car whizzing past was reflected. After driving past the other car like this, a heavy tire slammed down on its head, completely crushing the head of the living corpse to shreds!

Behind the three SUVs, followed by five light motorcycles, each with two riders, a total of ten soldiers became the escort of the convoy. It's just that none of the three off-road vehicles need any protection from soldiers, and the tight-fitting black tactical suits show that they are not only warriors, but also elite warriors.

Zero was sitting in one of the buggies, he was wearing goggles. Although it does not cause any harm to ordinary people in terms of ability, it can still affect perception, at least vision, of light that is too strong can affect perception, or at least judgment in terms of vision. Therefore, whether it is Zero or anyone else, they all wear the standard Asgard goggles on their faces.

A tablet brain in his hand is showing a topographic map, and Zero's finger is swiping across the screen, and the topographic map is constantly changing. The lenses of the goggles reflected the topographic map of Zhi's brain, which could be seen to be the environment near the coastline road, and there were some flashing red dots in them, apparently some markings. These markings represent all the settlements or bases they have passed through in the past three days, and the thirty or so bases, large and small, are empty.

Yes, there were no deaths, no bodies, just no people.

But the people in these bases are also not as simple as moving elsewhere, because they have found traces of fighting in these bases, which indicates that there have been violent clashes in the bases. But apart from the bloodstains, the base where there was not a single corpse left only weirdness and confusion for Zero and the others.

These bases are found because Agatha followed the traces of energy left behind by the creator Gourad. Agatha's ability is mainly in Kamchat, and his other ability, energy perception, is also a very remarkable means of reconnaissance. In addition to being able to discern the nature and strength of energy, it is also possible to trace the traces left by them. Because of this, Zero and others were able to find such bases one after another.

There is no doubt that these bases have been visited by creators at one time or another. But where the people in the base have gone is an unsolvable mystery.

And Agatha's description of the energy left behind by the creator weighs on everyone.

"It was an energy that had no ups and downs, and was almost terrifyingly constant. If I had to describe it, I would say it's a soulless energy. That's how Agatha described it.

You must know that the energy of no living creature will be constant, even if it is a living corpse with only instinct, the energy of the living corpse will fluctuate during the time when eating and not eating, let alone after entering the state of imminent battle, because of the difference in combat conditions, the fluctuation of energy will be more obvious.

But as far as Agatha recalls, until he was killed by Zero-One, the creator's energy was still the same, as precise as a machine. Biological weapons are often described by humans as machines, but since the word "creatures" is put on, some biological instincts are retained. For example, when you are afraid, you will retreat, and when you are angry, your combat power will increase slightly, and so on.

And the creator gave Agatha the feeling of being a machine in the garb of a creature, with no soul, no instinct, only a series of programs that were faithful to orders!

So, where did the creator Gourd and the other three companions come about? They are called creators, and who created them? All the answers point to the "queen" that Gulard said before he died.

The final question left to Zero and others is also the task of their trip. That is, where is the queen now?

It can be speculated that as long as you follow the traces of energy left by the creator, you can finally find the location of the queen and the kingdom of the living corpses. But the problem is that the energy traces of the creator are weakening.

Energy cannot remain permanently, and it will gradually dissipate due to the influence of the external environment. In fact, the ability to keep Agatha tracked for three full days, the energy characteristics of the creator have already amazed Agatha, a person with the ability to perceive the domain. The creator is a very special biological weapon, which does not have the slightest combat power in itself, but it is capable of producing different types of living corpse weapons. In addition, it has the property of being able to retain energy for a long time, just like a bioenergy battery.

Because of this property, the traces of energy it left on the wilderness could be tracked by Agatha's perception, otherwise it would have dissipated into the air long ago.

But even so, the traces of the creator have become scarcer and rarer, but they still have not found the existence of the living corpse kingdom. When the traces of energy are completely dissipated, Zero's actions will become like looking for a needle in a haystack, and they will rely heavily on luck.

Zero constantly observes the path of the creator in his brain in order to find certain patterns in it. At this time, the convoy disembarked from the road, and under the command of Agatha, they drove onto a side road under the coastline road. What appeared in front of Zero's eyes was the canyon terrain he was familiar with, and after opening the canyon, it was a wilderness terrain of a flat river. At the end of the road was a rolling mountain range, and Zero knew there would be a base there.

Z7 base!

That's where Zero woke up from his slumber and lived for two years. There, there are many memories of Zero. Although many things in those memories are not pleasant. But no matter what, the Z7 base is zero's first home.

Now, Zero is back. But he didn't feel like he was going home, and in addition to the change in his state of mind, there was another important reason. The Z7 base was approached by Agatha, in other words, the creator has already been here!

The convoy stalled in front of the gate of the Z7 base, and Zero jumped out of the buggy. The boots stepped on a few pieces of rubble, and they splashed and fell to the ground, making a small sound from the collision. The sound was not loud, but it was abrupt in front of the silent base gate, and the feeling of dead silence was even heavier.

There was no need to enter the base, Zero was already sure that there was no one in the base anymore. After all, too many bases have confirmed this, as long as they are visited by the creator, the people in the base have probably become food for the creator, otherwise there will be one or two corpses left behind. But no, let alone corpses, not even a little scrap of flesh.

The hydraulic steel doors at the Z7 base are still closed, but there is a gap in the middle of the gate that is large enough for off-road vehicles to pass. The edges of the notch are smooth, and it does not look like violent destruction, but rather the result of melting corrosion with substances such as strong acids. Such a gap is not uncommon in the bases explored by Zero and others, and it seems that it is a special skill possessed by the creator or his biological weapons, and this skill is mostly used not in combat, but in destroying the entrance to the base.

Fortunately, the creator was killed by Zero and others as soon as he arrived, otherwise if it were allowed to produce a living corpse with this special ability, it would be absolutely impossible for Remut to hold out until the arrival of Asgard reinforcements.

Johnny and Jonah walked ahead, six servants fanning out, guarding Agatha, who was walking behind. In the back, there are two teams, Zero and Berrien. Walking in Zuihou were the remaining four servants, and such a team rushed into the Z7 base, and they quickly came to the operation area along the passage.

The Z7 base is a semi-living and semi-industrial production base, and its power source is two high-power power units deep in the base. Now the power unit has stopped moving, so the base is pitch black. In addition to blocking strong light, the goggles of the Zero also have some other small functions. Infrared vision is one of them, so darkness is not a difficult thing for them.

There was a slight deviation between the work area and Zero's previous memory, and the deviation came from several minecarts parked in the work area. Zero remembers that only Old Jack had such a minecart before, but now there are four more, and it seems that the production tools of the base have been improved a lot. In addition to this, Zero also saw five tactical platforms hanging above the entrance and exit of the mine.

In addition to being a deterrent to workers, these things are supposed to be used to defend against certain deviant creatures that live underground. Overall, the Z7 base has been upgraded by a notch in terms of production kits and weaponry, and it seems that the Parkland chaebol will not abandon this remote base. It's just that now, the Z7 base is as quiet as a ghost.

The sound of footsteps broke Zero's thoughts, but it was the servants who went to the living quarters of Kamcha to return. After listening to the servant's brief report, Agatha shook her head at Zero and the others: "Like the previous bases, there are traces of fighting, and there are no corpses. Gentlemen, this is a base on the coastline Zuihou, and it can be said that there are no human beings living here from Remut!"

The Z7 base is already a base in Zuihou on the south side of the coastline, and after that, the mainland trend will turn to the mountains to the west. Nearly 10,000 kilometers long, the Twin Towers Mountains stretch and entrench in the middle of the western land and coastline. There is a peak at each end of the north and south of the mountain range, which is shaped like a minaret, so it has the name of the twin towers. Behind the Twin Towers is a flat land, with settlements built on the ruins of old-time cities, occasionally populated by adventurous traders but rarely seen in the eyes of the people of the coastal cities.

After all, the Twin Towers make it extremely difficult to travel between the two sides of the mountain, which is also a common situation in the new era. The complex geographical environment makes the distribution of human beings no longer as dense as in the old era, and the inconvenience of transportation and the lag of information make it very difficult to inherit and exchange knowledge and civilization. As a result, there is a huge gap between human civilization in the region.

It may be that the human civilization on this side of the mountain is very advanced, but the human beings on the other side of the mountain live a primitive life. The gap between civilizations is so great that it brings wars and conquests.

If the Z7 base does not have any instructions from the Living Corpse Kingdom, then the Zero people will inevitably divert westward, crossing the Twin Towers Mountains and setting foot in the mysterious land to the west.

Who knows what will be there?

Just as Zero was about to leave the Z7 base, Zero suddenly stood still and quickly looked in the direction of the gate of the mining area. The gate of the mine is not completely closed, but a gap is revealed for one person to pass through. In the middle of this gap, a dark shadow flashed through the Zero goggles.

It seems that the Z7 base is still dead.

Zero immediately ran towards the door, his speed was so fast, almost a stride, and the next moment he was already swept to the door with a piece of afterimage. Zero didn't stay, flashed inside the door. As soon as he entered the mine, he suddenly stopped.

An old-fashioned two-hole shotgun was right on his head, but judging from the constant shaking of the shotgun, it seemed that the owner of the shotgun was not in such a calm mood at the moment.