Chapter 68 Inspection (Ask for Recommendation Votes)
The desolate and hoarse roar was still echoing, and similar sounds sounded in different parts of the ruins of the city.
They are not that huge, but they are one after another and are equally scalp-tingling.
And the most terrifying thing was that Shang Jianyao and the others were connected by countless roars a hundred meters away.
At this time, the high-altitude clouds seemed to have been shaken by this movement, and the yellowish moon briefly revealed half of its face.
The bright brilliance scattered and shone on the buildings at the end of the street that were dozens or hundreds of meters high.
The windows on one side reflected the moonlight in the rich night, revealing countless figures.
Their appearance could not be seen clearly at all, the only thing that was certain was that they seemed to be looking at Shang Jianyao, Jiang Baimian and others, and their bodies were slightly rickety.
Shang Jianyao and the others reacted almost subconsciously, each taking different actions and finding obstacles nearby to block them, even Long Yuehong, because he had experienced similar things several times, did not slow down much, and fully exerted the effect of training.
The clouds moved quickly, the moon was blocked for most of it, and the buildings at the end of the street were once again submerged in deep darkness, and only the outline could be vaguely seen.
After a while, seeing that no attack had occurred, Qiao Chu, who was wearing an exoskeleton device, left the hiding place first.
However, he did not go back to the middle of the road, but went directly to the left side of the street paved with dark red stone bricks, where trees with leaves far from falling off obstructed the view from high places, making it impossible to aim at the shots that might come at the end of the street.
Similarly, Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen also approached Qiao Chu one after another.
Shang Jianyao looked up at the sky, saw that the moonlight and starlight were getting weaker and weaker, so he suddenly jumped out of the hiding place, rolled two times in a row, and came to Wu Shoushi's side.
Then, he dragged the corpse, bent over, and quickly entered an open room on the left side of the street.
The sign of this room hangs diagonally and is half broken, and only the four gray clay inscriptions of "Snack Group" can be seen.
Inside the house, rectangular tables were lined up in two rows, dusty and dusty.
Shang Jianyao didn't care whether it was dirty or not, so he put Wu Shoushi on one of the tables, and according to the first aid knowledge taught by Jiang Baimian, he unbuttoned the other party's shirt and started pressing it.
"It seems useless......" Jiang Baimian had followed in at some point, watching Shang Jianyao finish the process.
Without giving Shang Jianyao a chance to speak, she habitually ordered:
"Check his body to see if there are any clues."
Qiao Chu, wearing an exoskeleton device, walked to the open door, pursed his lips tightly, and looked at it for two seconds:
"No need, go to your destination as soon as possible."
Jiang Baimian looked back at Qiao Chu and said sincerely:
"If we can figure out what happened to this relic hunter and find out the real reason why he slept on the street, we should be able to avoid a lot of danger in the follow-up operation.
"It's really weird here, the monsters are more terrifying than I imagined.
"Also, the number of 'mindless people', what do they survive by eating?"
Although the "heartless" group has the instinct to reproduce and will not gradually disappear due to the death of individuals, they are also creatures and need enough food - in the ruins of cities that have lost the support of agriculture and industry, they cannot maintain such a large scale by preying on their own kind, rats and insects.
The ecological environment will gradually balance.
"Maybe the city's material reserves are very sufficient...... and the 'heartless' have a survival instinct and will take the initiative to look for these things." Bai Chen also entered the house and guessed the reason.
As for whether the food stored has expired for so many years and whether it will deteriorate, the "heartless people" will not think so much, they are almost equivalent to having no brains.
"Maybe." Jiang Baimian did not deny it.
After all, she didn't know where this city ruin belonged in the old world, what if there was a grain reserve found in other ruins?
Moreover, after the reproduction of "heartless people" from generation to generation, it is entirely possible to evolve the ability to eat rice and flour at birth.
Long Yuehong listened to the discussion between the two ladies and couldn't help but speak:
"There are many 'heartless people' here, and the situation is strange, let's retreat, shall we?
"Moving anything on the way out can be called a bumper harvest!"
When he spoke, his eyes were looking at Qiao Chu.
Qiao Chu ignored him, but just urged Shang Jianyao to say:
"Hurry up."
He seemed to accept Jiang Baimian's statement just now and felt that it was necessary to investigate what happened to Wu Shoushi, otherwise, it would also be more dangerous for him.
After saying that, Qiao Chu seriously slapped the dust on his body.
Shang Jianyao took the flashlight and checked it again, but found no obvious damage on Wu Shoushi, but the other party's face was distorted, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying, or encountered something extremely terrible.
This is very similar to the bald hunter Harris. Brown described the strange deaths north of Yuelu Station.
Combined with Qiao Chu's statement, Shang Jianyao could preliminarily judge that this was because he was attacked by a nightmare horse and died.
As for where the monster was and how far it was from here, he had no way of knowing.
He immediately stripped off Wu Shoushi's clothes and looked for inconspicuous traces.
"There is a circle of skin on my wrist that is whiter than the surrounding part, indicating that I used to wear a watch, but now it may have fallen somewhere...... There are no recent injection needle holes...... Unfortunately, there is no blood test here, and it is difficult to determine whether there is inhalation of anesthetic gas......" Jiang Baimian leaned over and helped Shang Jianyao quickly complete the examination.
Then, she straightened up and looked at Qiao Chu, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong with a slightly solemn expression:
"There is a high probability that they were forced to fall asleep by abilities similar to Nightmare Horse.
"What is not certain is whether this was done by the Nightmare Horse or some other monster."
"It's not a nightmare horse." Qiao Chu said very affirmatively.
Jiang Baimian nodded:
"Hmm...... Do you know what the roar of the Nightmare Horse looks like?"
Qiao Chu opened his mouth, as if he wanted to simulate, but he felt too ashamed and finally gave up on this plan.
At this time, Shang Jianyao also stood up straight.
He held the flashlight and asked seriously:
"Is that so?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he learned the loudest and most terrifying roar just now, without any embarrassment at all.
This time, of course, he has volume control.
"No." Qiao Chu shook his head in denial without hesitation.
Jiang Baimian frowned slightly:
"It seems that the most terrifying monster in the ruins of this city is not the Nightmare Horse."
This is what she wanted to be sure of in the question just now - whether the nightmare horse made a huge roar and attracted bursts of responses.
"Is that so?" Shang Jianyao continuously imitated the various roars he had heard before.
"None of them." Qiao Chu, who was wearing a helmet, couldn't help but ask, "Can't you just learn to bark like a horse? The roar of a nightmare horse is the same as that of a normal horse, but it is slightly different."
Shang Jianyao glanced at Qiao Chu:
"I have never seen a horse."
After saying that, he turned around, bent down, and checked Wu Shoushi's clothing pocket.
The first thing he dug out was a brass-colored badge, with a face relief with blurred facial features on the front, a knife and a gun, and a small chip inlaid on the back.
Shang Jianyao had seen something similar before, and knew that this was the badge of the "Hunter Guild", so he handed it to Jiang Baimian.
Jiang Baimian didn't read the contents of the chip, so he put it away directly.
——The tasks Wu Shoushi completed before have almost nothing to do with the encounters in this exploration.
The second item Shang Jianyao found was a blue and white handkerchief.
The handkerchief looks old and has a slightly pilled surface, but it folds neatly.
Shang Jianyao shook off the handkerchief and found no clues, so he folded it back as it was and stuffed it into Wu Shoushi's chest pocket.
The third item he found was half a piece of dark chocolate wrapped in tin foil.
The chocolate had obvious signs of melting and resolidification, but there was no bite to be found.
When Shang Jianyao was looking at this piece of chocolate over and over again, Bai Chen suddenly spoke:
"It should be that if you want to eat it, just lick it, or put it in your mouth."
What she said was very plain, and it seemed that similar things had long been commonplace.
Shang Jianyao nodded slightly when he heard this, and replied:
"Do you want it?"
"In this city ruins, there is no need." Bai Chen shook his head.
There must be a lot of supplies that can be found here.
Shang Jianyao didn't ask anyone else anymore and continued to search Wu Shoushi's clothes.
The fourth item he found was a piece of paper that was also neatly folded.
The text on the paper is quite neat:
"I owe Ruxiang a canned beef;
"I owe Ah Gang two remuneration, folding a large bag of compressed biscuits;
"I owe Zhang Cripple half a bowl of oil;
"I owe Oronk a pistol and ten bullets;
"I owe Xiaoguang a meal of meat;
"Lacking a flower like fragrance......
Shang Jianyao quickly finished reading, folded the paper again, and put it in his pocket.
"You won't, you want to help him pay it back, right?" Jiang Baimian was a little surprised.
However, she would not be too surprised if Shang Jianyao did anything.
Shang Jianyao replied expressionlessly:
"If you meet his companions, give them this paper and the hunter's badge."
Jiang Baimian nodded slowly and didn't say more.
The fifth "item" item found by Shang Jianyao was twelve coins in Wu Shoushi's trouser pocket.
Judging by their patterns and shapes, they should belong to the old world.
"Can old world coins still be used?" Long Yuehong glanced at it and asked in surprise.
"Yes, but don't look at the face value, just look at what kind of metal it is and how much it weighs." Bai Chen explained simply.
Among the twelve coins, seven were silver-white and five were gold, and Shang Jianyao looked at them for a while and put them in the small compartment of the camouflage backpack.
Next, removing his clothes, pants and shoes, he only found Wu Shoushi's black pistol.
"Wubei 7, there are still five bullets." Shang Jianyao made a slight recognition and hung the gun on his belt.
The bullet was 7.62 mm, which was different from the ones they had prepared when they set out.
As for the automatic rifle that Wu Shoushi was carrying when he first met them, he didn't know where he went.
After the search, Shang Jianyao put his clothes back on Wu Shoushi.
"Let's go." Qiao Chujian didn't get any clues, so he urged impatiently.
Jiang Baimian and others did not object, and followed him out of the house on the street.
Shang Jianyao walked last, looked up, suddenly jumped up, and pulled down the door made of metal.
In the sound of the crash, the house was closed.
"What's the use of this? The 'heartless' will open the door, and when the time comes, this will be their food." Qiao Chu couldn't help but say, and then said in a deep voice, "Keep up!"
Shang Jianyao didn't behave any further, followed the team, continued to hold the gun, and trotted towards somewhere in the ruins of the city in the deep night.
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