Chapter 16 Interlude (Recommendation Vote Requested)
Long Yuehong was startled, instinctively grabbed the "Berserker" assault rifle next to him, and jumped up.
Just when he was hesitating whether to throw away the lunch box he was holding in his other hand, Jiang Baimian looked around unhurriedly:
"There's no movement......"
She immediately smiled at Long Yuehong:
"Don't be nervous, isn't this really close yet?
"Sit down, sit down, and eat when the can is hot."
As she spoke, she patted the grenade gun nicknamed "Tyrant" placed beside her.
On the other side of the bonfire, Bai Chen observed carefully for a while, and then returned his attention to the food.
"But, team leader, there is something approaching us! Aren't you worried about being suddenly attacked?" Long Yuehong couldn't understand Jiang Baimian's attitude.
Jiang Baimian stared at the cans that had already been opened and said:
"Isn't this a matter of discussing Yao's precautions?
"If that thing hasn't come close, have we been waiting for it here without eating? If you are really hungry and tired, it will affect your performance."
She gradually smiled:
"In short, as long as the sky hasn't collapsed yet, it won't affect our filling."
Long Yuehong sat down suspiciously, looking up at Shang Jianyao from time to time, afraid that he would make mistakes and fail to detect the enemy who had entered the danger zone.
As the flames swayed, the juice in the can melted away, and the indescribable fragrance continued to spread around.
This is a complex mixture of pork, soybeans, salt, and spices, making everyone present feel as if a hand has reached out in their stomachs, uncontrollably penetrating their throats and reaching their mouths.
"Okay." Jiang Baimian smiled sincerely.
At this moment, on the top of the collapsed building complex, where green vines were intertwined, a black shadow rushed out and went straight to Long Yuehong next to the campfire.
In the swaying firelight, Shang Jianyao and others finally saw the appearance of this black shadow clearly:
She was a female human, ragged clothes, revealing thick and dirty skin, her hair hanging down in a mess, greasy, and condensed into a tangle.
Her nails were long and pointed, shining with cold light, and her eyes were bloodshot and cloudy, like beasts.
Her body was bent and extremely fast, like an ape grabbing a vine.
Bang!
As soon as Shang Jianyao raised the assault rifle in his hand, he heard a gunshot.
Bang! The incoming black shadow fell heavily to the ground.
Her face was facing up, and an exaggerated, hideous blood hole appeared from her left chest to her shoulder, and she couldn't find a good place.
After two twitches, the female human lost her life.
Jiang Baimian took back the "United 202" pistol and said calmly:
"A 'heartless person'."
"The Heartless"...... Long Yuehong looked at the corpse in surprise and curiosity.
This is a term that everyone who studies the history of gray soil cannot bypass, and it is also something that is strongly described in the internal textbook of "Pangu Biology".
"Mindless people" are also called "heartless people", which refers to humans suffering from "heartless diseases" - this disease is also known as "bestiality disease" and "atavistic disease", which means that sick humans will lose all their reason, thoughts, and feelings, and become beast-like creatures, leaving only the instinct to prey, the instinct to survive, and the instinct to use simple tools.
They cannot communicate and will actively attack normal humans, treating each other as prey.
The earliest appearance of "heartless disease" was when the old world was destroyed, and a large number of humans in one city after city turned into "heartless people" in a very short period of time, and more unsuspecting people died at the hands of "heartless people".
Since the "heartless ones" need to eat to survive, like real beasts, after the collapse of human order and the great famine, they quickly died in large numbers after consuming the city's "food storage", leaving less than one percent of the original number.
According to many historical researchers on the gray soil, in addition to hunting humans, the "heartless ones" will also hunt wild beasts, dig up tree roots, pick fruits, catch mutated and unmutated rats to eat, and when they are most hungry, they will attack each other.
Such "recipes" and living environments make "heartless people" rarely live past the age of thirty, but they have the instinct to reproduce and have a large number of offspring.
The "heartless ones" after the first generation will have a little more wisdom and stronger hunting ability.
It stands to reason that when humans restore a certain order and master enough firepower, it is not too difficult to deal with the "heartless ones" who are closer to the beasts, but this is not the case.
On the one hand, although the "mindless" do not know how to disassemble and maintain weapons, they will use them, as if they have this instinct - the farther away they are from the original "heartless people", the stronger this instinct is, and the "heartless" have a human nature, which will be polluted and aberration, which will cause a large number of "heartless people" to die painfully, but also create a group of top hunters.
Of course, no matter how good the "heartless people" are at using weapons, they don't know how to do scientific research, don't know how to organize production, and don't know how to maintain and maintain, even if they become top hunters, they can't cause much trouble in front of the human army with abundant firepower.
On the other hand, human beings have never found out the pathogenesis and transmission law of "heartless disease", and do not know how to prevent this disease, which leads to soldiers being unwilling to go to the area where "heartless people" gather, for fear of being infected.
To this day, "heartless disease" is still a shadow hanging over human heads.
Because even those who have not directly come into contact with the "mindless people" and live well in the settlement may lose their rationality and wisdom and become "beasts" after sleeping.
Their relatives and friends were completely fine and showed no signs of infection at all - this was the conclusion after long-term isolation observation.
In the early years, there was a high-ranking powerful person who was afraid of "heartless disease" to the extreme, slept in an isolation room, wore a gas mask and chemical protection clothing when going in and out, and as a result, he became a "heartless person" one day.
Fortunately, since the new calendar, the average incidence of "heartless disease" has not been too high, otherwise humans may have collapsed.
The tragic situation of the corpse made Long Yuehong's throat sore when he saw a similar picture for the first time, and he subconsciously turned his head and didn't dare to look at it again.
"It looks like the first generation." Bai Chen recalled just now and made a judgment.
"Judging from the degree of tattered clothes, the onset of the disease does not exceed one year." Jiang Baimian looked at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong, "Do you need me to tell you the knowledge of 'heartless people' again?"
Shang saw that Yao did not answer, and suddenly spoke:
"This is not the black shadow I just saw.
"That black shadow is a little shorter."
Jiang Baimian nodded lightly and said:
"You two search the body to see if there are any valuable items, and then carry the body outside and bury it, don't leave the place illuminated by the fire."
She thought for a while, walked to the jeep, took out four black things, and threw them to Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong respectively:
"The walkie-talkie has an effective range of two kilometers, and the open area will be farther away.
"If there is any situation, notify me immediately, you should know how to use it, right?"
"I can repair." Shang Jianyao answered the question.
He and Long Yuehong both graduated from the Department of Electronics of the university.
Long Yuehong hung up the walkie-talkie and walked hesitantly to the body of the "heartless one".
The smell of blood mixed with an indescribable stench churned upwards, making Long Yuehong, who was afraid to look at the corpse, almost vomit.
Shang Jianyao walked over, took the initiative to search, and then stood at the head of the corpse, that is, the side with the gunshot wound.
"Do you need me to carry it?" He said to Long Yuehong.
"Uh......" Long Yuehong wanted to say that it was not very good for Shang Jianyao to carry the body himself.
"I mean, do you need me to carry you?" Shang Jianyao explained expressionlessly.
Long Yuehong laughed dryly:
"No, no."
He bent down and grabbed the corpse's feet.
Shang Jianyao passed his arms through the armpits of the heartless person.
The blood dripped little by little, and the two carried the body, walked out of the clearing, dug a pit on the edge of the fire, and buried the body inside.
This somewhat affected Long Yuehong's appetite, causing him to eat only a piece of compressed biscuit and half a canned soybean roast pork.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and Jiang Baimian was about to arrange the order of tonight's night watch when a roar suddenly came from the distance:
"Whoa!"
This voice resounded through the sky, rough and desolate, like a nightmare at night.
As soon as it fell, the roars of one after another echoed in different parts of the Everglades.
Long Yuehong was so heartbroken when she heard this, and couldn't help but ask:
"This is a pack of wolves?"
"Have you ever seen wolves scattered in different places?" Jiang Baimian laughed.
"Is it common for the Everglades to be full of wild beasts?" Long Yuehong asked apprehensively.
Jiang Baimian shook his head, his smile unchanged:
"Not common."
"This, what should I do?" Long Yuehong blurted out.
Jiang Baimian glanced at him amusedly:
"This is indeed something unusual, indicating that something may have happened deep in the Everglades.
"But looking at the general area, direction, and our route and destination have no intersection at all, so don't worry about it."
"Don't worry?" Long Yuehong looked at Shang Jianyao next to him and found that he was not afraid at all.
Bai Chen, who was in charge of guarding the surroundings, saw this and said calmly:
"In the Black Swamp Wilderness, there will be an abnormality or accident every few days, how can we control it?
"In such a big wilderness, the possibility of those things affecting you is very low."
"But what if it is affected?" Long Yuehong asked.
Shang Jianyao stared at the bonfire and said:
"That only means that your name is bad."
「…… Also, you can't avoid bad fate, and you can't meet good fate." Long Yuehong gritted her teeth and nodded.
Jiang Baimian couldn't understand the conversation between the two, and was embarrassed to ask, so he had to smile:
"We are far away from the place where the incident occurred, and we can't figure out the specific situation at all, so we can't prepare in advance.
"Without withdrawing the company, the only option is to go around that place, a little farther, and our route is like this."
"This makes a lot more sense than it sounded just now......" Long Yuehong thought carefully and found that two expressions with the same meaning had completely different effects.
Jiang Baimian smiled when he heard this:
"So, learn to grasp the essence of things.
"In this regard, Shang Jianyao is much stronger than you, you see, he has never been nervous."
Shang Jianyao nodded slightly and said:
"I'm just thinking about whether to participate."
"Huh?" Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen all looked puzzled.
Shang Jianyao opened his mouth and made a sound:
"Whoa!"
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