As dusk approached, the group finally passed through a large lush forest and arrived at Sunset Town as shown on the map.
If the city of ashes experienced by Ji Thrush half a month ago was weird, then this sunset town can only be described as tragic.
The whole town was in a mess, with signs of violent destruction visible to the naked eye.
It was as if a large group of wild boars had broken into the town. The doors, windows and even the walls of many wooden buildings were damaged. Whether it was in the house or on the street, it was like a typhoon passing through everywhere, and blood stains could be found everywhere. .
But, no corpse.
They walked around the town while it was still dark.
"No one alive, no dead body."
In the bedroom of a two-storey villa on the corner of the street, the pot-headed fat man pointed to the blood on a bed, shrugged his shoulders, and turned to look at his captain, "What do you think this means?"
The red-haired beauty stroked her chin, and her gaze carefully scanned the messy room.
There was a big hole in the window of this room and the wall. Judging from the size of the hole, it was enough for a brown bear to come in and out freely.
The bedside table and dressing table in the room were overturned on the ground, and there was a large pool of dried blood on the mattress and carpet. Based on the shocking amount of bleeding, even people with little medical knowledge could conclude that the injured were probably alive. It can't be done.
"Look there."
Rose raised her chin towards the hole in the wall, "There are marks of sharp claws on the foot of the bed and the window sill, and the bloodstains extend from the room to the outside, it seems that the corpse should be dragged away by something. "
When everyone heard the words, they all raised their heads reflexively, and followed her instructions to look out.
Sure enough, I saw a long bloodstain, extending from the hole in the wall to the back garden of the house.
The owner of this room is a lover of flowers and green plants. The backyard is full of vegetation, and the luxuriant flowers and trees at different heights extend to the outside of the fence, almost indistinguishable from the mountains and forests farther away.
The red-haired beauty came to a conclusion, "I guess the 'murderer' hid in the woods with the body."
"alright."
An indigenous soldier who belonged to this "world" poked his head in from the door, and just heard what their captain said, so he squeezed into the room with a gun in his hand, and followed the bloodstains all the way out, "Let me see what kind of beast is so It's so ferocious that it can even take away the entire town..."
"return!"
Rose stopped drinking, "It's getting late, don't you still want to explore the jungle at night!?"
The special soldier who had just touched the edge of the yard stopped, not daring to disobey the leader's wishes, so he could only turn his head in resentment.
Unlike the soldiers who don't know where they are, the participants present count one by one, but they have all seen the trailer. Naturally, they know that it is not wild boars or bears that are roaming in Sunset Town, but wild animals. Some terrible monsters that don't even have a prototype.
Although it is only a matter of time before they come to town now that they are confronted with those monsters, none of the participants intends to take the initiative to provoke those monsters that have not yet shown up, especially when they have asked themselves When fully prepared.
"Everyone, take a look at this."
Suddenly, the voice of the thrush came from another room.
Rose led her team members to the study next door, and saw a curly-haired baby-faced and muscular handsome man standing by an armchair, while the unbelievably handsome long-haired man was squatting beside the desk, bending over and stretching out his hands, Pick up something from the ground.
"what happened?"
The study room was a bit narrow and couldn't hold all the participants. The red-haired beauty lined up a few teammates and squeezed to Ji Thrush's side.
Ren Jianmo, who was squatting on the ground, stood up and handed something to Rose.
The red-haired female officer took it over and found that it was a piece of gray-black rock the size of half a palm. The tentacles were hard and cold, and the edges were uneven. There are two or three centimeters, but the thinnest part is only a few millimeters.
"What is this?"
she asked suspiciously.
"do not know."
Ji Thrush pointed to the armchair, "There are many more here."
In fact, there is no need for him to point it out. Rose has already noticed that the desks, chairs and carpets in the study are covered with large and small gray and black gravels. The largest ones are about the size of her palm, and the smallest ones are smaller than hers. The fingernails are even smaller.
"... This, looks like a broken clay pottery?"
The red-haired beauty turned her head to look at Ji Thrush and the others, "Is this related to our current situation?"
Ji Thrush honestly shook his head, "I don't know."
As he spoke, he showed the watch on his wrist to Rose, "However, the hands on our watch turned white..."
"Fuck!"
Rose cursed angrily, and casually threw down the black gravel that she didn't know what it was, turned her head and walked out of the room, shouting as she walked:
"Everyone has it, don't dawdle!"
She was very anxious, "Look for a safe overnight place nearby!"
Just kidding, the color of the hands of the watch has now changed from green to white, which means that the "safety time" for the participants has passed, and they may encounter some sudden danger at any time.
Rather than looking for clues aimlessly in the town, the red-haired beauty felt that their top priority should be to find a place as safe as possible to settle down first, and at least get through the night.
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Most of the buildings in the town are made of wood, which looks very weak at first glance, making people feel particularly insecure.
From the map, only the northernmost church and a small clinic in the west of the town are brick structures.
Without even thinking about it, Rose decided to use the clinic as a base for overnight stays.
However, when a group of them rushed to the small clinic before the sun went down, they did not feel any comfort.
This two-storey clinic was even more messy than most of the rooms they had inspected.
Almost all the window glass on the first floor was broken, the tables and chairs were tilted here and there, and the furnishings in the house were in a mess. Broken glass, broken wood, and all kinds of broken pieces were mixed together, and every step I took, I could step on crunching sundries .
The door panel of the main entrance was also almost destroyed, the hinge on the upper part was broken, and only half of it was barely able to hold on.
Anyone can see that staying overnight in such a house has nothing to do with "safety" or "safety".
But now the entire town's buildings have been ruined by unknown monsters, and everyone can't find a single survivor here. At least it can prove that there is no so-called "safe zone" in this place, so no matter what they do at night It doesn't really make much difference where you plan to stay.
"The first rule of survival in horror movies is absolutely not to be left alone!"
Rose gathered everyone in the front hall of the clinic and gave an order:
"Before dawn, form a team, no matter what you do, make sure you have at least two companions by your side!"
Most of the ten native soldiers laughed.
They all admired their leader's sense of humor and found her metaphors particularly vivid.
But obviously, because they had powerful weapons in their hands, these people were very confident, and they didn't take this order seriously at all.
Only a few participants know that what Rose said is indeed the truth that can keep them alive.
The space inside the small clinic is not big, and it is impossible for everyone to gather together.
So everyone found a few relatively undamaged rooms in the northeast corner of the second floor, and formed groups of three or four, taking turns to stay overnight.
Ji Thrush, Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen naturally lived in the same room.
The red-haired beauty brought two guns full of magazines from the soldier's spare equipment, and threw them to Ji Thrush and Ren Jianmo, who were not equipped with guns, "Gather at six o'clock tomorrow, I'm next door, and I can hear you if something happens." .”
She paused, then added: "However, the premise is that we can all live until tomorrow without incident."
Ji Thrush thought to himself, this is another person who likes Crow's Mouth to set up flags for his own people, but he still thanked the other party for their kindness in sending them guns.
After Rose left, Ji Thrush closed the door, then reached out and touched the wall by the door.
He found the light switch and pressed it.
The round ceiling lamp in the room flashed twice and turned on.
"call!"
Ji Thrush heaved a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, there is no power outage."
After speaking, he took out a Swiss Army knife from his pocket, walked half a circle around the base of the wall, found a white square floor socket, sat down on the floor, and immediately began to pry the PC cover of the socket.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
Teacher Dagen was puzzled by Ji Xiaoniao's behavior.
Ji Thrush looked hopeless, and replied dryly: "Charge."
Mo Tiangen: "???"
Ji Thrush disassembled the socket with unskilled movements, exposing the copper piece inside, then took a deep breath, raised his right hand, stretched out two fingers like a fork, and was about to poke towards the copper piece.
Mo Tiangen: "!!!"
He was a little far away, and it took at least two steps to get to the opponent's side. When it was too late to stop Ji Xiaoniao's suicide, Ji Thrush's fingers barely stopped before touching the copper piece.
"Hey… "
Ji Thrush raised his head and looked at Ren Jianmo pitifully, "This... the voltage should be 220 volts, right? It's the standard voltage, right?"
That voice sounded more hesitant and hesitant.
Ren Jianmo tilted his head, and replied perfunctorily, "Probably."
Ji Thrush: "..."
- You're so angry, but keep smiling!
Mo Tiangen at the side finally understood: "So, this is your ability?"
"To be precise," Ji Thrush continued, "This is the pre-preparation for my ability."
After he finished speaking, he took another deep breath, summoned up his courage, raised his finger, and poked at the metal piece.
—Anyway, if they really got an electric shock, they wouldn't be desperate to save them!
—If the rescue is timely, he should not die... right
When the skin of the fingertips touched the copper sheet, a numb itching was transmitted before the coldness of the metal.
It's just that the feeling of the electric current flowing into the body is not as painful as imagined.
He felt that what he touched was not a piece of live metal whose voltage could kill people, but a newborn, fluffy little hedgehog covered in soft thorns.
— Thank goodness to the gods and gods, this is indeed standard voltage!
Although I know that this is my own ability, but because it is limited to be used in the "world", there is no way to get familiar with it in advance in Taohuayuan, so this is also the first time for a big girl to get on a sedan chair. Not only is she inexperienced, but she is also very nervous No bottom.
The ability triggered by Ji Thrush is called "Ordinary Charging Treasure", and it is really, "Power Treasure".
He can store electrical energy in his body and release it when necessary.
Although this ability sounds like a low-profile yellow-haired electric mouse, which seems quite handsome, it is actually not the case at all.
First of all, when he is charging, he must directly touch the charged object with his skin, such as a wire, socket or other similar things, as he does now, and the rechargeable voltage is limited to the standard civilian 110 volts or 220 volts.
In other words, if Ji Xiaoniao dared to grab the high-tension line with his bare hands, he would turn into a roasted bird on the spot.
What's even worse is that the electricity stored in his body will be gradually lost with the passage of time no matter whether he uses it or not.
In other words, if you want to charge up the battery in "World A" and save it for "World B" to use this shortcut, you don't have to even think about it—if you want to be a supernatural person, Ji Thrush can only be like this, Find a place to fully charge the battery every time.
"Fuck, what kind of broken ability is this? It's too troublesome! If you encounter a 'world' with a medieval background, wouldn't it be completely abolished!"
After listening to Ji Thrush's explanation, Mr. Dagen felt both happy and helpless.
"Also, how long will it take for your battery to be fully charged? I think you have been poking with your two fingers for ten minutes, right?"
Ji Thrush said that he was so tired that he didn't want to say anything:
"Judging from the current progress, it will take another hour..."
"Okay, then you stay here and charge first."
Mo Tiangen rolled his eyes, lost interest in his stupid ability, turned his head and left shamelessly, "I'll go and rest for a while, wake me up when you're finished, and I'll continue to watch the night."
In view of Mr. Dagen's performance in the last "world", Ji Thrush actually had no hope for his "night vigil" and waved him to go.
He was at the foot of the wall, pulling his head hair that was bristling into a ball due to static electricity with one hand. While waiting for the battery to be fully charged, he was thinking about what Mo Tiangen said just now.
Indeed, Mr. Dagen is right.
During the preparatory period of more than ten days, he did do some homework, knowing that the era background of each "world" is not fixed. Maybe this time it is still a modern city with a smartphone, and next time it will become a primitive tribe whose communication basically depends on roaring.
Not to mention the "world" without electricity, even if it is a little troublesome to charge, his abilities will be disabled directly, which is really useless.
But it's too late to say anything now.
It is not easy to activate such things as supernatural powers, and many people die without asking for them!
Moreover, once the abilities in the body are activated, they cannot be easily changed unless there is a great opportunity, and it is difficult to have more than one ability at the same time...
— So, what else to say? Make do with it!
Ji Xiaoniao can only comfort herself in this way.