"I found something." Shang Jianyao took the long white hair and walked back quickly to the living room area.
In order to let Qiao Chu, Jiang Baimian and the others see clearly, he turned the flashlight and shone it on his hand.
The yellowish pillar of light spread out slightly, reflecting Shang Jianyao's face was extremely eerie, and Long Yuehong was so frightened that he almost jumped up and shot him.
"Look at my hands." Shang Jianyao seemed to have expected Long Yuehong's reaction for a long time, but it wasn't until this time that he added.
Long Yuehong exhaled slowly, moved her gaze, and looked over.
In the yellowish pillar of light, fine dust flew and white hair swayed gently.
"Where did you find it?" Jiang Baimian asked.
Shang Jianyao pointed to the wall where the LCD screen was hung:
"On the pillow in this bedroom."
"Only one?" Jiang Baimian asked.
"Theoretically, it is, unless it can devour its companions and evolve itself." Shang Jianyao replied seriously.
"Learn this kind of thing in basic courses now?" Jiang Baimian said casually, as if he was distracted by various possibilities.
Bai Chen, who was listening quietly, pulled the old scarf around his neck and said:
"Left behind when the old world was destroyed?"
Hair is not so perishable in a similar environment.
"It makes no sense to leave only such one." Jiang Baimian expressed his doubts, "Moreover, don't we have a preliminary judgment? The city regularly undergoes some level of "maintenance". Some situations in this room also confirm this, just like just now, we found traces of rat activity in the dining room and kitchen, but they left nothing but bite marks and scratches."
"The more you listen to this, the more terrifying it becomes......" Long Yuehong couldn't help but mutter.
A city that has long since died is still regularly cleaning up clutter and "maintaining" itself!
Without knowing why, this is even scarier than a ghost story on a radio show!
"The rats may have been eaten by the 'heartless people' who are active here, and they also need food." Bai Chen expressed his guess.
Jiang Baimian said "hmm":
"It's possible. But will the "heartless one" clean up the rats? They only have survival instincts."
"What's impossible? Aren't they all singing?" Shang Jianyao turned off the flashlight in his hand and said seriously.
"......" Jiang Baimian gave him a blank look, "Do you care about that kind of roar and singing? Besides, even if they still have a certain instinct to clean up the environment, although I haven't seen it in 'mindless people' elsewhere, but let's assume that they have it, in short, they should also 'maintain' it often, rather than doing it every other time, after all, they don't have too much thinking ability, they will only act according to their instincts."
Judging from the situation on the streets, buildings, and rooms, it has not been maintained for a long time.
Shang Jianyao argued based on "reason":
"Humans have an instinct to be lazy.
"How often do you usually clean your room?"
Jiang Baimian was speechless for a while, looked at Qiao Chu and said:
"I am more casual when I am on a mission in the wilderness, which is a manifestation of gregariousness.
"When I was in the company, if I cooked by myself, I would clean it every day, more than once, and if I ate in the cafeteria, I would clean it every three days and clean it once a month."
Qiao Chu, who had not spoken since their discussion, suddenly asked:
"Are you 'Pangu Bio', or 'United Industries', 'Orange' Company, and 'Future Intelligence'?"
"We are 'Pangu creatures'." Jiang Baimian replied truthfully.
Qiao Chu touched the silver rifle lying on his lap, nodded slightly and said:
"No need to discuss that hair, it's not a big deal.
"Eat, rest, and wait for the early morning."
"Okay." Shang Jianyao and the others gave up discussing, each found a seat and sat down, and ate food such as compressed biscuits and energy bars with the purified water in the water bag.
After filling his stomach, Jiang Baimian stood up, walked to the window in the restaurant area, and looked at the overgrown lawn below.
She was going to express her needs directly, but after glancing at Qiao Chu, she became a little embarrassed again:
"I, go down, it's convenient."
"The toilet here can be solved directly." Shang Jianyao looked eager to try, as if he wanted to share the method he had discovered with his companions.
"No need...... It affects rest." Jiang Baimian politely declined his kindness.
Qiao Chu, who was sitting on the chair, seemed to be closing his eyes to recuperate, opened his eyes and said:
"You can go to the corner of 601."
Jiang Baimian shook his head instinctively:
"It's better to be careful in this kind of weird place.
"If the smell is not buried and is close to itself, it is likely to cause unnecessary trouble."
"It's okay." Qiao Chu insisted on his opinion.
Jiang Baimian didn't want to refute and chose to listen.
Bai Chen stood up:
"I'll go with you."
"Just help each other guard." Jiang Baimian nodded lightly and smiled, "Even if you don't want to go, I have to take you there."
Long Yuehong pinched her thighs, looked at Shang Jianyao and said:
"Let's go together later?"
"Okay." Shang Jianyao responded with a little regret, "Since Qiao Chu said it didn't matter, we can make it easier, for example, stand on the railing, open the window, and face the outside directly......"
"Stop!" Long Yuehong stopped his jumping thinking, or sudden whim.
After such an episode, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen each occupied one end of the sofa, curled up, ready to rest, Qiao Chu was still sitting on the chair, with his eyes closed, not knowing whether he was recuperating or asleep.
Shang Jianyao sat cross-legged on the railing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking in the direction of the tunnel, monitoring the movement in the dark city.
After a few minutes, a scream full of fear rang out somewhere in the city.
In this unusually quiet night, in this dead forest-like urban ruins, this scream spread far away, making Long Yuehong, who had not yet fallen asleep, feel numb and tremble when she heard it.
Immediately afterwards, the bang gunshots rang out one after another.
Bang bang bang bang, this series of movements was like firecrackers, which quickly burned out and fell silent.
After a while, Shang Jianyao saw a figure jumping out of a nearby alley through the faint starlight.
The figure was rickety, moving more like an ape than a human.
He was wearing some clothes in a mess and tied some fabrics, and quickly approached the building where Shang Jianyao and the others were.
Then, he ran along the street full of yellowed fallen leaves, running to the other end, skillfully climbing to high places from time to time, and jumping lightly.
Seeing such a scene, Shang Jianyao felt that even if he had done genetic improvement and received systematic training, it would be difficult to complete similar actions, after all, the main direction of improvement was not in this area.
At this time, the clouds in the sky moved, and the moonlight leaked out a little, allowing Shang Jianyao to barely see the figure clearly.
This should be a male, with a lot of black hair, messy and dirty, but not too long, not yet reaching the shoulders.
seemed to have noticed Shang Jianyao's gaze, and the figure suddenly turned his head and looked upstairs.
Shang Jianyao's eyes suddenly reflected a blank face.
"Mindless".
This is a "heartless person", a "heartless person" in the prime of his life.
Shang Jianyao did not dodge, opened his eyes, and looked at the "heartless one" from a long distance.
Finally, the "heartless one" withdrew his gaze and continued to walk towards the shadow of the high-rise building in the distance, disappearing there.
Shang Jianyao's face gradually showed a smile, as if he had won some decisive victory.
Suddenly, he saw another figure.
This figure was also hunched over, and his speed was much slower than that of the "heartless person" just now.
Shang Jianyao glanced at it and saw a shriveled face full of wrinkles and a messy long white hair.
This figure flashed past and drilled into the alley on the left - this was Shang Jianyao's blind spot.
In the next two hours, Shang Jianyao saw several "heartless people". Jiang Baimian also noticed this and expressed doubts about the number of "heartless people" here.
After that, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong woke up and took over their duties.
By the time Shang Jianyao was woken up by Long Yuehong from his dream, Qiao Chu had already left his chair and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.
"It's almost early in the morning." Qiao Chu said calmly.
He immediately withdrew his gaze from the dark ruins of the city, his eyes were indifferent, and his voice was gentle:
"Help me put on the exoskeleton device."
It didn't take long for him to put on the military exoskeleton device with the help of Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen and started the system.
After taking the silver rifle, Qiao Chu, whose body surface was covered with a black metal skeleton, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, pointed to a building a few blocks away, and said:
"That's where we go."
Shang Jianyao and the others looked in the direction he pointed and saw a building that was not a short distance from all the surrounding buildings.
It seems to have a large courtyard attached to it.
At this moment, it was standing quietly in the dark ruins of the city, with no light shining inside, as if it had long been dead.
A few seconds later, Qiao Chu turned his body and walked towards the door, saying in a deep voice:
"Let's go!"
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