Unfortunately, after receiving a few radio programs from the Eastern War Zone intermittently that day, no signal was received again, and the radio station fell into meaningless noise again.
Same thing tonight.
After Shen Cong read dozens of pages of radiation-related information, the radio station still didn't receive any signal.
Wash and sleep.
The next day, Shen Cong started driving towards Pukou District. He drove very slowly. When the expedition team from the camp came to Pukou District, they encountered nuclear fallout and mutated toads before they even arrived, nearly wiping out their entire army. In view of this, Shen Cong did not dare to advance easily.
The nuclear fallout may have dissipated, after all, it has been so long, and there was light rain for a few days some time ago.
But the evolved beast may not go away.
Driving slowly to the area of Longfu Mountain Tea Farm, Shen Cong once again launched the drone into the air for eye-inserting operations, and conducted steady observation at an altitude of 150m. In a few minutes, the Pukou District was basically detected clearly.
Pukou District is completely deserted, with no signs of human activity and no activity areas left by survivors. There were no traces of large evolved beasts, and it looked very desolate, even quieter than the nesting areas Shen Cong had experienced, such as his hometown in Wuwei County.
Nothing but ruins.
The King Kong slowly drove into Pukou District. The road was very difficult to walk because there was no sign of human activity and the road was full of sand and gravel ruins.
"That's not right. Chuzhou City was basically plowed by missiles, but there are no traces of fighting here in Pukou District?"
Walking on the street, Donkey Kong had to climb over many potholes and rubble. Fortunately, the tire was two meters in diameter and sixty centimeters wide, so it was not easy to get stuck in. He barely kept his posture tilted to the right and climbed hard. Shen Cong rarely uses the diesel engine now. He always turns on the electric motor, which has relatively low power.
In Pukou District, you can occasionally see the remains of buildings with a few meters of height remaining, leaving a few load-bearing walls or half of floor slabs.
Seeing that Pukou District was no longer worth exploring, Shen Cong was about to drive forward to see if the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was broken. Just at this moment, he saw a small black dot flash past in the camera image on the right.
When I looked closer, nothing on the screen was the same.
"wrong."
Shen Cong was quite confident in his eyesight and insight. After all, his physical fitness was at stake, so he immediately switched the camera image to the home screen and started playback.
After replaying it, the little black dot that flashed by was indeed not an illusion.
"Zoom in a little bit."
The picture was enlarged and slightly blurry, but Shen Cong could still see clearly that it was a person!
A man with no clothes and a bare head emerged from the ruins. After seeing Donkey Kong, he immediately shrank back.
"survivor!"
Seeing the survivors, Shen Cong thought quickly, then immediately turned the car around and drove in the direction where the survivors appeared. Everything here is in ruins. Even if there is a survivor organization, it is a very weak organization and should not be able to cause harm to Donkey Kong. The current Donkey Kong is no longer an existence that can be shaken easily.
It is said to be a car, but it is actually a mobile fortress.
Soon they arrived at the ruins where the survivors appeared. Shen Cong also saw a cave diagonally downwards in the ruins. This should be the place where the survivors took shelter.
The cave is not very big and can only accommodate one person.
Shen Cong is now 1.9 meters tall. He is more than two meters tall wearing a semi-activated armor. The armor is very wide, and he can't even fit into this cave.
Even if he could, he wouldn't drill. This is not his home court.
Need to be careful at all times.
Because he originally wanted to find survivors, and it was difficult for Donkey Kong to hide, Shen Cong did not hide anything. He directly turned on Donkey Kong's external speaker and shouted into the cave: "Is there anyone in there?"
There was no answer from the cave.
Shen Cong shouted again: "Survivors, please answer."
Still no answer.
"I have discovered you, please come out and meet."
Still no answer.
Shen Cong frowned, found his remote control toy car, then put it out and commanded the toy car to drive into the cave. The front of the toy car is equipped with a flashlight and camera, which can transmit the picture in real time, and there is also a walkie-talkie tied to it.
The toy car entered the cave, and the real-time picture immediately showed the structure inside the cave, which looked like a subway station. However, a lot of gravel and yellow sand were poured into the entrance, half-burying the subway station.
The tunnels on the left and right sides of the platform have collapsed.
Only the middle area was a small shelter. The toy car turned in a direction, and the shaking camera quickly captured the survivors.
Shen Cong immediately freezes the toy car, adjusts the camera and lights, and focuses on the survivors.
Not one person, but a group of survivors. There were six people in total, huddled in the corner, all staring blankly at the camera. Some were trembling, while others were in a daze.
Under the light, Shen Cong could see their appearance clearly.
They are all male, naked and unclothed, with bald heads, skin ulcers, muscle atrophy, and body deformities.
"Sick people!"
The term suddenly popped into Shen Cong's mind. Pathogen is the name given to humans who failed to mutate in New Hefei. Although normal mutation will change the appearance and appear active core, it is still a beneficial mutation in general. It can enhance the physique and become a mutant or half-orc.
Iron Man's mutation is even more beneficial.
But not every mutation will be beneficial, and there are also many mutations that fail.
The reason why the creatures that exist now are basically successful mutations is because those that failed have been eliminated by the end of the world. Only humans and a group of sick people still exist. In the new Hefei field hospital, there is a dedicated patient treatment center for studying failed mutations.
Shen Cong has seen those sick people whose body functions did not develop active cores due to active infection. The consequences were various functional disorders, malaise, and various morbid signs.
The active core is the regulatory hub for variation. Without the active core to regulate body activity, pathological changes will occur.
Of course, there are exceptions. The evolver Ran Tai who was killed by Shen Cong in Grape Forest Camp did not have an active core. His disease is that his body keeps growing and becomes a giant. Strictly speaking, Ran Tai is not an evolver but a diseased person, but Ran Tai's disease is relatively benign. After all, he is quite strong when he grows into a giant.
But if he was not killed by Shen Cong, he would one day die from organ failure because his internal organs could not keep up with the load on his body because he had grown too big.
Seeing this, Shen Cong used the walkie-talkie to say to the sick man hiding in the cave: "You can come out now. I need to ask you some questions. In return, I can pay you some living supplies."
Several sick people looked at each other nervously, and then one of the sick people, covered in pus, opened his mouth and responded.
His vocal cords must be diseased, and his voice is as harsh and unpleasant as a crow: "You... are not from the Rat Catching Team?" (To be continued.)