Zhang Xun panted behind the quick-moving hunters. With less heavy luggage, it was much easier to walk, but after a long night of sleep deprivation, he was exhausted.
Finding a thumb-sized mark among the lush foliage is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but hunters clearly have their own way of searching. They looked for signs of broken branches, looked for footprints that the average person would not recognize, and always found the next mark when the clue seemed to be broken. Thankfully, no blood has been seen so far, which means James is at least not injured. Having the opportunity to leave these marks also means that he has a high probability of not becoming a prisoner.
If so, why not return to Paradise Lost? Why leave these marks
When the mark was first discovered, it was not very far from Reindeer Bay, but now it has deviated a lot and continues to spread to the north.
The population of Canada was originally small, and the population has declined sharply in the past two hundred years, so that many towns in the North Rocky Mountains have gradually become deserted and become ghost towns. Sometimes hunters spend the night in these deserted towns, engulfed by overgrown vegetation, searching for available supplies. However, because people often take away valuable items when they move out, the collected waste is often thrown into the garbage disposal plant and no one cares.
They searched for the mark and found such a small town in the wild mountains. The asphalt road that was originally used for vehicles has cracked like a tortoise shell, and the gaps are full of vigorous weeds. About a kilometer outside the town, on a rusted and crumbling billboard, there are faintly recognizable mottled words: Welcome to Meishan Town.
Apparently the town was originally developed by mining coal. But with overexploitation and the rapid depletion of energy, coal mines are gradually being abandoned. There are many abandoned coal mines hidden in the majestic mountains and the vast sea of trees. There are huge pitch-black mouths, which are buried with the souls of countless coal miners who have been forgotten by the world for many years. The town at the foot of the mountain is still the same as it was 200 years ago. The roofs of more than half of the single-family wooden houses show signs of collapse. The wooden boards are moldy and decayed, and there are countless insects and ants. Grocery stores, breakfast shops, butcher shops, expressionless models in the windows, motorcycle shops that have been ransacked, mailboxes on street corners that are still in good condition... Everything seems to be still usable, but it has long been overwhelmed by time, and there is only one kind left. There is still the illusion of order.
This desolate scene is always chilling, as if seeing the end of the human world.
Why did James bring them here
A group of 18 people walked cautiously on the streets full of weeds and potholes. Anyone with a gun in their hands was loaded with bullets and insurance, to guard against unknown dangers that might rush out from any corner. Zhang Xun walked in the middle of the team, monitoring the images sent back by the insects moving within a range of 200 to 400 meters around them.
Adam looked around and said, "The last family in this town moved out one hundred and twenty-three years ago. At that time, their family of five had been living in this empty town for more than thirty years. He didn't leave until his parents died. There are fewer and fewer natural history museums like this that existed before the Third World War."
"Do you think it's a pity?" Cannon sneered, "None of us feel pity."
"I'm not sure what you mean by pity," Adam answered honestly.
"I think this town is empty and no one is there." He Yuxin, the head of the regiment, stopped in front of an old Wendys restaurant and said to everyone, "Finish here for an hour, Ganon, Barry, you two and me. Look around and see if there are any new signs and supplies."
So the group entered a chain restaurant overrun by dust and overgrown moss.
Hunters banged around in the kitchen and behind counters, picking up colanders for french fries and large iron pots for soup in a duel. Obviously they are adult men, but they are still childish when they play. Probably because I don't know if I can still live tomorrow, so I'm extraordinarily rejoicing in misery.
Adam was standing in front of a jukebox studying, pressing buttons haphazardly.
"There's been a power outage here. There's no way it's going to ring." Zhang Xun sat on a nearby chair, kneading his sore calves.
Adam rubbed his chin and thought for a while, then suddenly opened a metal plate on his right mechanical arm, turned to the back of the jukebox and started fiddling. After a while, the long-defunct jukebox suddenly made a strange sound like an asthmatic patient, and then a vinyl record was lifted by a metal stand and placed under the probe.
In the next moment, the blues slow-rock music with a touch of the 1980s slowly dripped out of the speakers and roamed the entire restaurant. The female singer's hoarse and languid voice, accompanied by the same languid but distinct rhythm, instantly resurrected the dead restaurant.
Several team members whistled, jumped up excitedly, and swayed randomly to the music.
Zhang Xun was stunned. After standing up and turning to the jukebox, he saw Adam pulled off the plug and directly connected the metal wire to the line in his arm.
"Are you crazy? If you short-circuit your hand, you will lose your hand!" Zhang Xun immediately wanted to pull Adam away, but was stopped by Adam's left hand.
"Xun, although I'm not very skilled in being a human being, but it has something to do with electricity, you can rest assured." Adam stood up and looked at his hand with satisfaction, "The robotic arm you made can absorb Solar energy can make full use of the energy generated by the body's own metabolism, and it can also be used as a power source without charging. Such a technology is very valuable."
"..." Why does Adam always praise him at such inappropriate times... Zhang Xun rolled his eyes. But seeing that Adam seemed to be fine, he no longer insisted on disconnecting the other party. But just as he was about to turn around and go back to the sofa seat to rest his legs and feet, he heard Adam calling him.
"A Xun." Adam's smile at this time was just right, even mature and attractive, obviously an expression that was practiced according to the information in his database. He bowed slightly like a gentleman, and stretched out his right hand, which was connected to the wire of the jukebox, "Let's dance with me."
Zhang Xun inexplicably remembered that just after his trance, he used the same gesture to invite Adam, who didn't know how to use a human body, to practice walking...
"Boring..." Zhang Xun didn't want to go crazy with Adam.
Adam changed his expression again, and put on the pitiful expression that he was best at and tried many times for Zhang Xun, "Come on."
Zhang Xun shook the goosebumps on his arms, but when he turned his head, he saw that the hunters over there were still dancing with enthusiasm, and there were people over there imitating singers, holding a wine glass and lovingly lip-syncing to the music. The corners of Zhang Xun's mouth were a little loose. After all, this scene was really funny.
While he was in a flash, Adam suddenly stretched his left hand around Zhang Xun's waist and took him into his arms, while the other mechanical right hand grabbed Zhang Xun's right hand.
"Tsk! You're not finished yet?"
Adam didn't speak, looked at him with a smile, and began to shake his body gently with the music, moving his feet lightly. However, Zhang Xun couldn't dance, and his feet were broken and messy. After a while, he had stepped on Adam at least five feet.
"I said I can't dance!"
"I think you dance very well."
"Don't cry if your foot is broken into a bone!"
"Relax, relax." Adam whispered close to his ear, "You don't have to be nervous in front of me."
Zhang Xun was still stiff, and after stepping on Adam's feet again, he couldn't help but burst out laughing. The two of them couldn't stop laughing while fighting on their feet, but they didn't let go of their hands.
Zhang Xun suddenly became confused for a moment, as if they were in a normal world, as if Adam was a human from the beginning, as if they just met in an ordinary tavern.
The next moment, the door that was kicked open suddenly broke the illusion just now. He Yuxin shouted loudly, "Get down! Get down! Turn off the music!"
Accompanied by his roar, a loud noise suddenly burst out in the air, like a thunder, but a little different. At the same time, a violent wind swept in from nowhere and poured into every broken window. Adam immediately ripped off the wire from his arm, and the music stopped abruptly. Everyone immediately fell to the ground without any explanation, only to feel a heavy pressure descending into the sky, the wind was so strong that people could not breathe, and there was a sound of electric current beeping in the air.
The only remaining glass windows shattered one after another. Everyone only felt a buzzing sound in their ears and a dull pain in their skulls.
Zhang Xun reluctantly raised his head and looked at the sky outside the window.
He saw that in the originally clear sky, one second was empty, and the next second, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared. Like a huge strange bird, with its majestic wings emitting a strange red light, it whistled past the top of the restaurant.
It was an aircraft, something Zhang Xun had never seen before.
Aircraft that can be completely invisible or even block sound from the naked eye.
Moreover, the aircraft was covered with rows of bone-like protrusions, and there were many strange materials filled with oily light, which seemed to be a strange design from aliens.
It is slowing down and flying towards the mine.
"Feathered Snake City... It's the people of Feathered Snake City!" Cannon shouted, "It turns out that they have been hiding in the mines!"
"That's why James drew the markers all the way here, he found their lair!"
"But what about the James?"
"What now? Their weapons are much more advanced than ours! We have nothing in our hands now!"
As soon as everyone got up from the ground, they fried the pot, obviously affected by the terrible feeling of oppression just now. Zhang Xun didn't understand why an aircraft could give people such a strong psychological pressure, as if they were not seeing an aircraft, but a monster.
Has any new technology been applied
"If James was here, he wouldn't have come out to see us." Zhang Xun looked anxiously in the direction of the mine, "but he didn't return to Paradise Lost..."
Did it fall into the hands of the people in Feathered Serpent City
What are these people doing in those abandoned mines, deep in the dark mountains where there are only undead
He Yuxin pondered for a moment and said, "I'll pick four people and go to the mine with me to see what the hell are those people doing. The rest of you should hide in this town first, wait for our news, and don't act rashly. . We will be back tomorrow morning at the latest."
At present, this is the only way.
They moved to another convenience store and made do with resting between the shelves for the night. But in fact, no one slept very much, half of it was to wait for the five people who went to inquire about the news, and the other was to worry about the sudden appearance of those mysterious and terrifying people from Feathered Serpent City.
However, in the afternoon of the next day, the five explorers, including He Yuxin, still did not return.
The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~: Qi Mingfei, Xia Ran Xia Ran 1;