After listening to Li Xuanyuan's analysis, Hou Ying discovered Su Fenghe's suspicious point.
With Li Xuanyuan's eyesight, he could tell from the amount of sweat and muscle condition of the other party that Su Fenghe was far from the limit of his physical strength.
It can be seen that Su Fenghe did not work as hard as he said. Both Hou Ying and Li Xuanyuan suspected that he had supernatural powers. But he didn't use this to win the privilege to live in the inner city, instead he hid his head and shrunk to hide it. There must be a mystery in it! Reminiscent of Su Fenghe's warning expression when he talked about the disappearance and murder, both of them knew that there must be a lot of meaning in it.
After thinking about it, Hou Ying and Li Xuanyuan decided to act separately. He worked on the inner city wall at night as a person with hearing abilities, while Li Xuanyuan went up the city wall during the day, and the two worked together to find Wang Hehe and the others.
After all, Hou Ying went to the management office and successfully obtained management permission with her hearing ability. But it's a pity that he can only join the defense team. He is sentry at a specific place on the city wall and cannot walk around at will. He is still not eligible to live in the inner city unless he has paid twenty-five catties of food or accumulated work points.
In addition, the administrators also gave him a seat in the refuge camp because he joined the defense team, but they ignored their request to let Li Xuanyuan also change seats. Seeing that she couldn't win any more, Hou Ying had no choice but to give up the seat she had exchanged for. After saying a lot of good things and promising two days of meals for the supernatural beings, the administrator reluctantly helped the two of them change to a middle-level seat.
Although it wasn't a good place, it was still cleaner and more spacious than the original bottom-class seat.
The next day, when the supernatural beings and ordinary people were changing shifts, the two people who met exchanged a look. Hou Ying shook her head slightly to show that she had returned without success.
The crowd gathered firewood and the flames were high. More than 20,000 people worked day and night to build and with the blessing of earth-type supernatural beings. On the third day after Hou Ying arrived in Yecheng, the inner city wall was basically completed.
During these three days, he still couldn't find Wang Hehe and Ji Yao, and he didn't even get any information about them. After repeated searches to no avail, he felt negative emotions and became very flustered.
After the inner city wall was built, the management of Yecheng Refuge was not in a hurry to build the outer city wall. Not building the city wall will not only mean that ordinary people outside the city will not be exposed to zombies, but also mean that they will lose their jobs to obtain food. This makes the ordinary survivors' emotions intense, and several protests and riots have occurred in succession.
Soon, the management of Yecheng issued a recruitment announcement: A person with supernatural powers will lead a team out of Yecheng to collect supplies. Ordinary people who are interested can go to the management office to sign up. However, all participants will be paid 50 catties of food and water, and half of the salary will be paid before departure. .
Hou Ying saw that it didn't even mention the pensions for the victims. Fifty catties of grain would have to be sacrificed, which is really a waste of human life.
And Yecheng, a national granary, really doesn't have enough food reserves to feed these 30,000 people? Is it really necessary to rush to collect supplies at this moment? ...is nothing more than management's way of playing with power.
But ordinary people who already had a clear understanding of the end times accepted such unfair employment numbly. Even if they all know that this trip will never return, if they unfortunately die outside, the remaining half of the food will be in vain, but in order to have a bite of food, they can only bite the bullet and fight for their lives! Especially for those with families, they have no choice.
Hou Ying and Li Xuanyuan waited outside the management office where they signed up before dawn. There was already a team of ordinary people sitting scattered on the ground waiting for the management office to open.
They stared at everyone, and Hou Ying unabashedly stimulated his abilities to hear if the familiar voice existed. But when the sun was high and the bustling crowd dispersed and poured in again, he still couldn't find the person he was looking for.
A terrible thought came to mind, Hou Ying clenched her fists to suppress herself, Li Xuanyuan patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "I will find it."
A realistic person like him would offer comfort, presumably in his heart, he already believed that Hou Ying's relatives were either dead or turned into zombies, so they would give a little comfort. In fact, they have screened nearly 20,000 people in the past three days, and seeing the supernatural beings have no feeling for the names of Wang Hehe and Ji Yao, it can be seen that they are not the kind who nest in the inner city of Yecheng. people in the management.
Li Xuanyuan already felt that the possibility of them being killed or turning into zombies was more than 95%.
Hou Ying gave a wry smile, did not answer, and continued to search.
The mixed voices in the ears are clearly divided, there are low curses, cries, begging, scolding, old people, adults, children, men and women... Excessive power consumption makes Hou Ying's face turned pale, but later, he clearly felt that the range of his hearing had expanded a little.
Even so, when the registration office announced to come back tomorrow, he still found nothing. Hou Ying collapsed to the ground, feeling a pain like a thorn in her head. Even without the ability to manipulate, sounds from far or near kept pouring into her ears, causing a burst of tinnitus.
Li Xuanyuan felt sorry for him, pulled him up, saw that he could not walk anymore, he condescendingly picked him up and left.
"Wait a little longer."
Hou Ying was indescribably sad and vulnerable.
Li Xuanyuan didn't stop walking, and told him: "Come back tomorrow."
When they returned to the mid-level seats where they live now, like most people, they could only be hungry today, and drank a few sips of drinking water distributed by the shelter to satisfy their hunger.
After resting for an hour, Hou Ying came back slowly, and said to Li Xuanyuan: "I'm going to go out and have a look, how about you?" When they first arrived, they devoted themselves to building the city wall, and Li Xuanyuan had never been active in the shelter at night. , Knowing that he was planning to go out to try his luck, and worried that he was alone, so he acted together.
The two escaped the patrol team a few times, and explored all the way from the last-class shelter in D-zone to the top-class B-zone, only at this time did a few strange voices come.
Hou Ying was obviously taken aback, Li Xuanyuan stopped to look at him, Hou Ying said: "It seems that Su Fenghe is asking for help, let's go and have a look."
It was Su Fenghe's voice full of fear that Hou Ying couldn't ignore.
The closer you got, the more Hou Ying could hear what Su Fenghe was crying was: "Brothers, I really don't have supernatural powers! You made a mistake! Please forgive me, I'm really just an ordinary person. man, let me go..."
There were also the footsteps of nearly ten people. Hou Ying and Li Xuanyuan hid in the dark and saw that there were indeed ten people in a line of five or five, with the logo of the patrol team on their coats. Su Fenghe was tied up by five flowers, and was being escorted by the two leaders, his face was bloated, and his face was full of slap marks. Now his chin twisted and drooped, and it was obvious that these people were impatient and took his chin off.
The actions of the defense team were blatant, and no one in the tents passing by came out to check the situation, let alone save people.
Hou Ying and Li Xuanyuan also cultivated some tacit understanding in the past two days. They looked at each other, nodded, and agreed to follow up to find out.
The patrol team grabbed the Su Feng River and brought them all the way to the junction of the refuge camps in Area A and Area B, next to the inner city wall. The two saw from a distance that they removed the manhole cover of the sewer. A light from the manhole cover swept across the faces of the two leaders of the defense team, as if to confirm their identities. After the light disappeared, one of them jumped into the river with Su Feng. Go down, followed by another person.
After a while, the two patrols came up, followed the others to leave, and continued to patrol.
The two watched for a while, but did not see any more movement.
The horror of Su Fenghe's denial that he was a supernatural person made both of them understand the seriousness of the matter. More than one person like Su Fenghe was arrested, maybe...Hou Ying's relatives were among them.
And, very likely.
In order to prevent people with hearing abilities like Hou Ying from being around, the two communicated with each other with eyes and gestures. Li Xuanyuan made a gesture of "I'll go down and you stay where you are", Hou Ying shook her head resolutely. Li Xuanyuan had no choice but to give in, and made a gesture that I would go first, and then inspired a vine to nod Hou Ying, indicating that he would not follow until he notified.
Li Xuanyuan had roughly judged the depth under the manhole cover from the sound of them landing on the ground. After arming himself with vines, he jumped into it silently with the help of vines.
After landing, he didn't rush to move, but listened to the sound quietly for a while. In the dark environment where you can't see your fingers, there is no sound of water in the sewer, only the faint sound of wind flowing from the front.
Li Xuanyuan felt the direction of the wind, and was basically sure that although the place had been remodeled, the original structure of the sewer was still preserved. After waiting for a while to make sure there were no guards nearby, he took out the lighter in his pocket. Taking advantage of the weak light to look around, he saw that it was consistent with his guess, so he sent a vine up to pick Hou Ying up, and restored the manhole cover to its original state, and the two moved forward.
Hou Ying could hear even more voices. He pointed in a direction, indicating that there were footsteps over there, and the two of them chased after them lightly.
The underground sewer in the urban area of Yecheng is a whole system, and there are many forks in the diversion. If the footsteps of the people in front are not leading the way, they must go around a lot in it, and the possibility of being discovered is very high. After walking for more than ten minutes, Hou Ying grabbed Li Xuanyuan, signaling that the other party had stopped.
There was the sound of the electric door sliding open, and then there were more footsteps and voices ahead, and Su Fenghe's struggling whimpers became louder and louder.
"Oh, it's not easy to hide a power user." A woman's voice said.
It was quiet for a while, it was supposed to be examining Su Fenghe, and then the woman's voice was still there: "Give him an injection to make him calm down, you go and send the news up, and see who the higher-ups will assign him to."
"Okay," a man replied.
Then Su Fenghe's whimpering stopped.
Hou Ying's face was solemn, seeing Li Xuanyuan winking at him and asking him what to do next, she made a sign to leave.
Li Xuanyuan led him back and turned into a place where he could talk. Hou Ying then spoke in the lowest voice of what she had heard, and then said: "Looking at the situation, this place should be a laboratory, and the door is also made of sound-proof materials." It’s done, I can’t hear what’s going on inside after it’s closed. However, it’s impossible for them to use such drastic means just to subdue the supernatural beings for their own use, and I’m afraid there are ulterior secrets.”
"I can see it." Li Xuanyuan's expression was a little cold, and he was very disgusted with the behavior of these people, "What do you want to do next?"
"It's not too late, I want to strike before they are prepared." Hou Ying first said her thoughts, and then said: "It's just that there should be a lot of supernatural beings among them, as well as tranquilizers. There are only two of us... If you just sneak in to see if there is anyone I'm looking for, are you sure?"
Li Xuanyuan thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "It's impossible to confront directly, and there must be surveillance inside, and the success rate of sneaking in is very small. Unless I'm used as a bait—"
"no!"
Hou Ying refused without thinking.