If it was when he first became a night walker, Tianyang would have entered the house to explore when he heard the cry for help.
But now, he is no longer a rookie, and naturally knows that the world of rebellion is full of dangers.
One of them is like now, the cry for help you heard may not be from humans, but may be from black people, just like the black people who were found in the "Metropolis" and could send distress signals.
Perhaps, the evil people in this world also have similar methods.
Tianyang communicated with the black fog, extended his thoughts, and quietly explored the house.
A moment later, he 'saw' a man in protective clothing sitting in the open space in the house. He was hugging himself, with a Xingsu rifle beside him.
The man looked very scared. He kept shaking and cried for help intermittently: "Help me... Is there anyone, is there anyone who can help me..."
Tianyang frowned slightly. It seemed that they were members of the previous Thunder Council exploration team.
Of course, he wouldn't just barge into the house like that.
He broke off a piece of fluorescent stick and waved it, causing the light in the room to change.
If it were a normal person, he would have noticed this change by now and would have looked outside.
But.
The man in the room didn't move at all. He was still hugging himself and making intermittent cries for help.
Something is wrong...
Tianyang looked at the man sitting alone in the dark, thought for a moment, and threw the glow stick at him.
The moment the light stick fell nearby, the person on the ground "melted", and the ground "boiled". Suddenly, a huge "flower" protruded from the ground, and the fat, mucus-covered "flower buds" quickly closed and swallowed the light stick thrown by Tianyang.
On those 'petals', strange eyeballs suddenly opened up, searching everywhere, and only closed again after finding nothing.
Then the 'petals' gradually unfolded and returned to the ground, the color changed, and after a moment, it became the same as the ground.
On the ground, another mass of things began to wriggle. It gradually took on new colors and shapes. In the blink of an eye, a person in protective clothing appeared in the room again.
He still hugged his legs, lowered his head, and cried for help.
Tianyang watched this scene quietly in the darkness and left quietly.
The black fog surged, and Tianyang and his companions continued to explore forward. They walked under the curved street lights, passed by houses with "human skin" monsters hanging on them, and saw strange statues with heads held in their hands...
Walking in this small town with floating dust, Tianyang's recorder has already drawn half of the town map.
When he came out of a street, he saw a small square. The ground on the square was broken and undulating, with a small slope on one side. The black withered trees around it were like tall and strange people, standing in the square, standing in the black surging fog, letting the twisted and strange branches pile up with ashes.
A bloody smell wafted through the square. Where there should have been a fountain, a statue had fallen to the ground, and its head had already fallen to the ground and rolled away.
Blood flowed from the fountain, outward and past the statue. The blood had solidified into a dark plasma with gray-white broken bones and shattered limbs floating on it.
In the fountain, there were some of the hunchbacked creatures that Tianyang had seen outside the mill.
Those creatures with long arms and legs picked up human corpses at random in the fountain.
They twisted the corpse's limbs, twisted the corpse's head, and then made a "ho-ho-ho" sound, and the horrible laughter echoed in the square.
Human corpses are like novel toys in their eyes. These hunchbacked monsters try to place the corpses on the ground, or tear off the hands or feet of the corpses and install them on other corpses, trying to piece together other shapes.
If they keep trying without success, they will roar angrily and smash the corpse into a pulp, with fragments and blood flying everywhere, just like a child throwing toys to vent his temper.
At this moment, a roar was heard, and a tall figure walked out from the thick fog.
It was very similar to those hunchback monsters, also bent over with a hump arched high on its back, but this creature had bone armor growing in many places, and was obviously an elite species among these hunchback monsters.
Coming near the fountain, this elite species with bony outer armor swept away several hunchback monsters in the fountain with a big hand, then picked up a human corpse, opened its mouth suddenly and bit it, and blood immediately dripped from the corners of its mouth.
Seeing this, other monsters followed suit and grabbed the corpses to eat them, thus a feast of blood and flesh was staged in the square.
Tianyang did not alarm these things. He took Xingluo into a house, came out from the back window, and left the square.
After spending several hours, Tianyang had roughly drawn a map of the town with the help of instruments.
Judging from the map, the town is an irregular quadrilateral with three main streets, all leading to the small square where the hunchback monster is wandering.
Many alleys extend from these three main streets, forming the town’s transportation network.
Now, there is only a blank area left on the map, which is the only place in the town that Tianyang has not explored yet.
Now, Tianyang and Xingluo are resting in a house.
During the break, Tianyang took out an electronic board and made marks on the map.
He marked several dangerous spots in the town.
For example, the mill with human skin monsters hanging on it, the house with strange flowers lurking in it, the bloody square with the humpback square, etc...
As these locations were marked, the map was improved, and Tianyang's plan against the Knights of the Church gradually took shape.
"The only worry now is that they won't come after us, but that's unlikely."
"I have already made arrangements in Lanshan Port. Guan Feng was transferred away. This was obviously arranged by the church headquarters."
"Guan Feng should be able to withstand the pressure from the headquarters, but after all, this is still an unauthorized operation, so the time that the East Continent Cardinals can act freely should not be long."
"For this reason, even if they knew it was a trap, they had no choice but to step into it."
Tianyang took out the food stick, took a bite, and then sighed: "Sure enough, no matter where the food sticks are from, they don't taste good."
Although it tasted like chewing wax, Tianyang still ate it. Xingluo was also eating, but she looked like a doll and no longer cared about the taste.
While eating, Tian Yang thought: "If I were the church, I would chase you, but I would hire people in the scavenger city and use them to eliminate the danger."
"Well, the church should not be short of money, and there are many desperate criminals in the scavenger city. So, I
We must find a way to get rid of the people hired by the church first..."
"In this way, the black people in the town will not touch them first. They will be my best helpers. But I have to try my best to understand the temperament of these helpers..."
Tianyang looked at the blank area on the map again, then ate the food bar in a few bites, drank a few sips of water, and stood up.
Set off!
Wrapped in the black fog, Tianyang and Xingluo walked through the streets and alleys of the town like ghosts, avoiding the places where the black people were entrenched, and silently came to the place that had not yet been explored.
Tianyang had sensed before that there was a relatively large building here, and now that he had arrived, he found that it was indeed the case.
This building, located deep in the town, looks like an auditorium and has three floors.
The architectural style is solemn and magnificent, with a symmetrical structure, a tower on each side and a towering pointed roof in the middle.
There is a square in front of the auditorium, paved with stone bricks and lined with statues.
In the square, hunchbacked red-skinned monsters with glowing backs were wandering aimlessly. Occasionally they would sit down to rest, but more often they would move around in the black fog.
On both sides of the auditorium and the square, there is a dead black forest. The black fog is thick in the forest and there are many tombstones that are either standing or tilted.
In that auditorium, Tianyang felt an unusually deep atmosphere, as if there were some extremely dark things existing there. Just in case, Tianyang opened the door of the crack and let Xingluo stay in the drifting town first, while he completed the rest of the exploration alone.
After sending Xing Luo away, Tian Yang, who was wrapped in black fog, passed through the square occupied by monsters with almost no hindrance under the effect of "Dark Breathing".
When he arrived at the door of the auditorium, he realized that although the building looked majestic from a distance, when he got closer he could see that it was actually in ruins.
The exquisite carvings on the outer walls had long since changed beyond recognition, the arches were covered with cracks, the stone pillars were incomplete, and several of them had collapsed, leaving only a few pillars struggling to support the porch.
The main door was ajar, and there were gaps everywhere on the wooden door, as if it could be pushed down with just a little force.
Tianyang squeezed in through the crack in the door, and inside was a hall covered with ash. On the ground, on the steps, and on the sculptures, there were piles of ash as thick as snow.
There are torches and lamps on the pillars around and on the dome. It is not difficult to imagine that there must have been frequent activities here before the town fell.
Tianyang threw out a few fluorescent sticks, letting the cold light illuminate part of the hall. Suddenly, he saw some corpses covered with ash in front of the hall.
He cleaned up one of the bodies and saw that only bones were left of the body, which was wearing strange clothes. Judging from the skeleton, it should be a human, but it was unknown how many years ago it had been dead. Tianyang just accidentally touched it, and the bones and clothes fell apart like ashes.
In front of these corpses, Tianyang saw an altar full of cracks. On the altar stood a statue. It was a statue of a woman with the face of someone from East Land or Central Land, which completely matched Tianyang's aesthetic standards.
She looked very young, like a girl. A youthful smile bloomed on her face and she spread her arms out as if to welcome or embrace something.
If you only look at the upper part of the statue, you will find that the statue is very normal, even without any theme, and you don’t know what it is trying to express. But when Tian Yang looked down, his eyes gradually became more solemn... ... .