When Zero saw it, his mood was indescribably complicated.
It is Lampez State University, where Zero and Ben met that day, where their fates intersected. Not wanting to be separated by nearly half a year, Zero set foot in this university town again, as if an inadvertent turning point of fate brought Zero back to this place.
Coming to University City was not accidental, but the result of backward deduction after observing the route of the living corpses. The living corpses started from here, crossed the complicated and broken city roads, and finally arrived at Remut, becoming a part of the huge sea of corpses.
This is the lair of living corpses, but the number of living corpses going to Remut is far from continuous. In fact, when Zero and the others arrived in the University City in the evening, almost no living corpses had emerged from the University City.
They are now on the roof of an abandoned factory building near the University City. Looking from this direction, there are still living corpses active in the University City, but they have stopped sending new forces to Remut. It's just strange, where did these living corpses in the university town come from
At the same time, there are still a series of problems.
The reason for the gathering of living corpses? The purpose of attacking Remut? And, there is the most important question. Where is the intelligent life hidden behind this series of events
Agatha opened her eyes.
The blond beauty has been standing on the edge of the rooftop with her eyes closed since just now, facing the direction of the University City and activating one of the suggester's abilities, "Life Perception". This ability is similar to Anthony's mental scan, but not quite. A mental scan is to mentally scan an area and then model the area in your mind.
Although life perception also uses mental power to scan the entire area, the difference is that this ability is mainly used to determine the number of lives in the area and their positions.
When Agatha opened her eyes, several glances fell on her. Agatha found an indifferent gaze in it, and then saw Zero.
"How about it?"
"Not very optimistic." Agatha stretched out her hand, and gently pinned her wind-blown hair behind her ear: "There are about two thousand life reactions in the university city, but the life level is very ordinary, and no intelligent life appears. proper reaction."
"This is normal." Zero looked at the university city: "If it is an intelligent life, it should know how dangerous it is to be discovered. So if they really exist in this school, then they must put Hide yourself."
"In that case, we have no choice but to use the most stupid method." Feng stretched his waist and yawned.
Zero nodded, and looked at the blond beauty: "Captain Agatha, it seems that we have to separate temporarily. We will search from east and west directions separately, and if we find intelligent life, we can communicate with the communicator. Remember, don't take it lightly. provoking it."
"I see." Just as Agatha said this, there was a sudden explosion on a street to the northeast behind them.
In the cloud and smoke of the explosion, there are electric snakes lingering. From a distance, hundreds of living corpses suddenly sprang up near the explosion site, including a butcher and two bomb corpses. Like bees seeing honey, they quickly gathered towards the explosion site.
"It seems that our Captain Berrien still has a lot of work to do." Agatha smiled softly, with a clear smile, and Johnny and Jonah were stunned at the same time.
"Leave him alone, I hope to complete the task ahead of time before he arrives." Zero gestured to leave, so Feng and the others began to take action. Zero looked at Agatha again, and said lightly: "Take care."
Zero left, leaving only Agatha's team on the rooftop. Those simple and sincere words were still lingering in her ears. Agatha smiled and returned her attention to the present: "Then, let's act too. This time, let everyone know that we are not idle scouts."
The clenched slender fist explained Agatha's determination from another aspect.
When Agatha also left the rooftop, the sky gradually dimmed.
it's dark.
Night comes, but the world is not pure black. The faint red skylight under the radiant clouds sprinkled on the ground of the wilderness, replacing the moonlight of the old age. The wilderness is not as quiet as usual. Some small mutant beasts are gradually leaving the university city and the urban area where Remut is located. This place has become a battlefield between the living and the dead, no matter which side's breath makes the mutant beasts living in the ruins feel uneasy, even fearful.
Driven by instinct, they chose to leave. Especially near Remut, the smell of living corpses and the smell of gunpowder on the battlefield drove away all the mutant beasts nearby, making the species here change from the original rich species to the current single one.
On the battlefield in front of Remut, it was obviously not as lively as during the day.
In just one afternoon of fighting, the corpses of 5,000 living corpses and the wreckage of thousands of soldiers were left on the battlefield.
This was a fierce offensive and defensive battle. The two sides in the battle had reversed their strengths and weaknesses several times, but in the end, the living corpses temporarily retreated, allowing Remut to repay the initial victory.
Now, cheers are ringing in the Remut base, but it is the residents of Remut who are celebrating their first victory in the past few days.
But Avenott, who was sitting in the command vehicle, seemed preoccupied. A video was playing on the tactical board in front of the commander. The content of the video is the whole process of the battle in the afternoon, which was shot by dozens or even more surveillance cameras. During the period, it was professionally edited so that Avenott could watch the fierce battle from an overall perspective.
In the first two hours of this battle, humans were in an absolute advantage. The power of missile armored vehicles and artillery tanks almost covered the entire battlefield, causing countless living corpses to die continuously. But with the lack of ammunition, this advantage was quietly lost. Just when the two extremely powerful chariots stopped bombing, the vanguard composed of dozens of butchers made a powerful impact on the human defense line for the first time!
The scene of butchers attacking in groups is moving. They are like biological tanks. In the absence of heavy fire suppression, they braved the attack of rapid-fire guns and crossed the human blockade, destroying them with crude but crude weapons. Looking at the fortifications that the soldiers had just built.
The fortifications quickly built with liquid gel technology can hardly withstand the destruction of a powerful monster like the Butcher. Fortunately, Avenott made a decisive decision and sent out all the remaining Doomhammer teams in the base, and let Dawn The butchers' attack was only repelled with the assistance of light-type ability users from a sub-unit of the shield. But the next wave of attack by the living corpses dispatched hundreds of bomb corpses.
These free-moving biological bombs pose a deadly threat to human soldiers. If it weren't for their limited number, the newly established defense line could be completely disintegrated under the suicide attacks of these new living corpses.
In the next two hours, the battle situation remained stalemate. The number of living corpses made up for their lack of firepower. There were a few times when the sea of corpses almost broke the defense line. It was the soldiers who filled the gap in the defense line at the cost of their lives, giving the companions behind them a chance to repel the living corpses.
During those two bloody hours, soldiers were dying every minute. The battle situation tested everyone's nerves and will. Fortunately, the soldiers of Asgard survived this test after all, but left hundreds of dead soldiers behind.
By the last hour, the zombies had become frenzied and violent. They also changed their tactics, and the butchers or tearers threw the living corpses from the air to the human positions one by one, although most of these living corpses were intercepted by volley. But occasionally there will be some fish that slip through the net. The threat of living corpses to capable users is infinitely close to zero, but they are just ordinary people's servants. Once they are approached by these fast-moving monsters that are not afraid of death, they will also pose a huge threat.
Under this weird style of play, there was a little confusion in the human position. And when the living corpses began to build a human wall, the chaos continued to expand.
Perhaps it felt that this tactic was too inefficient. The living corpses were no longer thrown by high-level monsters. They directly built a human wall and rushed towards the fortifications like huge waves. Under such circumstances, even if the living corpses below were killed, the dead on the human wall would fall from the air, rolling into the human formation one after another like waves splashing off the rocks.
Faced with this weird tactic, Avenott sacrificed the lives of hundreds of soldiers before repelling the living corpses again. But after this time, the zombies stopped attacking. Under some unknown constraint, although they were unwilling, they all retreated, hiding in the ruins of the distant city, waiting for the order to attack again.
After watching the video for the third time, Avenot closed his eyes. Judging from the behavior of the living corpses, Avenott has already confirmed that there is definitely a guy in charge of the overall situation hidden behind them. The first few rounds of attacks were nothing more than the last round of the human wall attack, definitely not an attack that a monster with low intelligence like a living corpse could rely on instinct to launch.
What worries Avenott more is the type of living corpse. Since bomb corpses can appear in living corpses, is it possible for flying zombies used for low-altitude attacks to evolve? If the answer is yes, then the sudden evolution of the living corpse is no longer in the category of nature, but is like a modulation when a capable person advances.
The adjustable evolution means that the living corpse has stepped into the ranks of biological weapons from a simple mutant creature!
Thinking of this, Avenott suddenly opened his eyes. The hairs all over his body stood on end, because he thought of how terrible a disaster it would be for human beings if a biochemical kingdom with different divisions of labor and different arms emerged from the living corpses.
Now, we can only rely on them. Avenot said silently in his heart.
They, of course, refer to Zero Three teams.
A light appeared in the darkness.
When it first appeared, it was so faint, like a firefly. But in an instant, the light suddenly expanded, appearing in its eyes like a bolt of lightning across the sky.
The next moment, its world poured from different directions on the left and right.
The tie-wearing corpse didn't know that its head had been neatly cut in half and hung in different directions.
Zero kicked it away, and the bare teeth danced in his hands. Another light flashed in the darkness, leaving a turning track in the air. On the other side of the knife light, the upper half of the head of the living corpse flew up.
After killing the second living corpse, a male living corpse dressed as a worker rushed forward, tightly hugging Zero's hand holding the knife.
Zero snorted, the bare teeth bounced in his hand and fell into the palm of his left hand.
Grabbing Guangya, he stabbed the living corpse into the eye socket. The light knife effortlessly pierced through the weak skull, then above Zero's palm, then vertically upward, and finally broke through the top of the living corpse's head, bringing out a pool of dark red corpse blood.
The living corpse died immediately, and the hand holding Ling was loosened.
At this moment, the last living corpse came straight towards Zero from the darkness.
Zero jumped up on the spot, leaving the living corpse empty. One rolled in mid-air, and Zero fell vertically. His legs were bent, and he knelt on the shoulders of the living corpse. Clamping the head of the living corpse between his legs, Zero turned around sharply. There was only a clicking sound, and the vertebrae in the neck of the living corpse were turned to zero. A white bone even pierced the skin with blood, and with a kick from Zero, the lifeless corpse flew obliquely into a dark gate.
At this point, the four living corpses located in the corridor on the fifth floor of the student dormitory were killed in the darkness by Zero Quietly.
Zero put away his bare teeth and moved on.
In this dormitory building, there have been more than 30 living corpses left. They had broken cervical vertebrae or cracked heads, and died in a variety of ways, but they didn't have a single gunshot wound. Although Zero is not a master in close combat, but with his bare teeth and some common fighting skills, with the blessing of his two-level strength, he is also enough to kill these ordinary living corpses.
When Ling stepped onto the roof of the dormitory building, in his mind, the building had already been marked with a big cross sign, which represented the absence of intelligent life in the dormitory building.
Three hours have passed, with zero stop-and-go during the period. There were battles and rests, but there was no trace of intelligent life, which made his brows become more and more serious. If there were no intelligent life, then where did the invisible constraints come from between the actions of the living corpses? If there is no commanding node, what drives the living corpse to carry out regular behavior
instinct? This possibility has long been thrown out of Zero's mind, and the beast-like instincts of the living corpses are not enough to allow them to carry out such complicated behaviors.
At this moment, the communicator of the tactical uniform rang a series of voices, but it was because Zero had told Feng and the others to make a report every half an hour before the operation. Like Zero, Feng and the others found nothing, except that they searched all the way and killed hundreds of living corpses.
Standing on the rooftop, the night wind blows Ling's hair. In the darkness, the golden flame in the right eye burned endlessly, just like Zero's determination, without any intention of giving up.
At this moment, Agatha's voice appeared on Zero's communication channel: "Captain Zero, where are you now?"
Zero cheered up, and immediately responded: "I'm in the dormitory area of the school, Captain Agatha, have you discovered intelligent life?"
"Sorry, I found nothing. However, I found something suspicious, maybe you should come and take a look."
Then, Agatha reported a coordinate. Zero immediately notified the others to go together, and the location of Agatha's team was the school's library roof. On the way to the rooftop, Zero saw the corpses of some living corpses. Like Zero, Agatha's team used close combat methods to eliminate the living corpses encountered on the road in order not to disturb the living corpses in the school.
Among these corpses, many corpses showed signs of being killed by sharp weapons, but a small number of corpses showed strange scars. Most of the injuries on these corpses were body parts shattered by blunt force, rather than being wounded by a sword. Seeing these corpses, Zero believed that they were the masterpiece of fighting master Johnny.
When they came to the rooftop, the night wind was strong. The eight servants of the hinter team were on guard. Apart from herself and the two suitors, Agatha's team had the same lowest-level servants as Hukchev. Servants have limited combat power, but they can accomplish some trivial things, and vigilance is one of them.
Zero went up to the rooftop, and saw Agatha standing upright under the night sky. She was on the edge of the roof, and if she took one more step forward, Agatha would fall off the library. The night wind blew her long golden hair flying in the air like graceful arcs. Hearing the sound behind her, Agatha half turned her face. The wind ruffled her hair, and the hair gently covered half of her face, softening the somewhat rigid face.
"Did you find anything? Captain Agatha." Zero was slightly surprised to find that Agatha was holding an electronic telescope. If an ability user like Agatha in the Perception Domain also needs to hold a telescope, then the distance she can observe is usually measured in kilometers.
Throwing the binoculars to Zero, Agatha pointed to a place outside the University City to the south, somewhere under the ruins of the city in the distance, and said, "Look there."
Zero suspiciously picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction of Agatha's finger. The binoculars had been switched to night vision mode. In the red picture, what Zero saw was an empty street with many cracks on the road surface, and a few cars parked messily on the street. Some of the cars were seriously damaged, and some were left with nothing but an empty frame, like a rotting corpse.
A collapsed building in the middle section dumped tons of huge stones on the street, forming a natural partition. A few street lamps fell on the ground in all directions, making the road environment that was already obstructed everywhere more complicated.
In this complicated environment, a group of living corpses came from that direction. They crossed the streets on the ruins of the city. If the direction of the living corpses remained the same, they would eventually reach the University City. In the binoculars, Zero saw that the group of living corpses numbered hundreds. Besides most of the ordinary living corpses, there were also five Butchers and eight Rippers.
They look like guards, because in the middle of this team, there is a strange living corpse.
This living corpse looks like a fat man, but it is a big fat man with a height of nearly five meters. It was like a moving mountain of meat. Under the short-haired head was a chubby body. The vibration when it moved made the fat on the fat man appear in waves. The fat man has two disproportionately small hands, and because of the angle, Zero can hardly see the feet hidden under the fat body.
Just judging from the vibration of the flesh layer, it seems that this living corpse has not only two legs, but multiple legs like a caterpillar.
Another new type of living corpse that has never been seen before! Zero frowned.