Chapter 136
Two ogres. One carries a Remington M870 shotgun and wields a machete to clear the way in front. The other carries a roll of barbed wire and holds a handful of steel wire. Crossbow followed. They seemed to be arguing about something, and they pushed each other from time to time.
Just as they were about to pass by, Jessie suddenly stood up from the bushes, followed by the ogre. Hearing the movement, he subconsciously looked at her.
The next moment, the crossbow in Jessie's hand was activated, and a crossbow arrow accurately shot into the cheek of the ogre closest to her.
The heavy tungsten steel arrow carried huge kinetic energy, easily penetrated the facial bones, shattered the cerebellum and brainstem, and continued unabated, passing through the back of the skull until most of the arrow shaft was exposed. .
The corpse fell heavily to the ground, and the other ogre roared, waving the machete in his hand and about to pounce on Jessie.
“piu”
With a soft sound, the 7.5MM hollow point bullet exploded with a power that was extremely inconsistent with the sound it made. After forming a huge cavity in its abdomen, And broke its spine.
The nerves in the lower body of this ogre were severed. Its legs weakened and it fell to the ground. However, it did not die immediately. It was still struggling to prop up its upper body and tried to attack people approaching it with the machete in its hand.
It was really fierce. Jack stepped forward and stepped on its right hand holding the knife.
"Hey, can you understand what I'm saying?"
He only responded with vague curses, which he couldn't understand at all.
“I can’t communicate.” He reached out and asked Jessie for the saber, stabbed it into the back of the ogre’s neck and severed its medulla oblongata.
Seeing that this thing was silent and dead, Jack wiped the sword back and forth on the guy's dirty coat and handed it back to Jessie.
Kicking the two corpses over, enduring the stench and strong visual impact, he made a general inspection,
The good news is that these guys are indeed human beings, not extraordinary creatures.
I don’t know if it’s caused by environmental factors, inbreeding, or a combination of both. These guys generally have congenital deformities such as cleft lip and palate, ear deformities, facial clefts, and widened eye distance.
Opening the clothes, you can see that there are various hemangiomas, abnormal bone development, and covered with pustules and skin hyperplasia that occurs after the pustules heal.
The bad news is that these guys seem to have inherited a certain degree of pain insensitivity, or are insensitive to pain. They have large and small scars all over their bodies, and they don’t know how they survived to adulthood.
No wonder a few who had been shot before ran away as if nothing was wrong, but Jack estimated that those ones wouldn't survive. Without specialized surgery, blood loss and infection alone could kill them. .
Watching him finish checking the two corpses, Jessie's face turned pale and her body was swaying a little precariously. She quickly held on to the tree trunk nearby.
"What kind of monsters are these?"
"Degenerated savages?"
Jack shrugged, the North American continent is vast and sparsely populated, with outstanding people, and trains derail at every turn. , chemical pollution, and the American government has a tradition of conducting radiation and biochemical experiments on its own citizens, it is not surprising that such a thing appears.
“Hurry up, we still have a long way to go.”
Jack held the barrel of the Remington M870 and smashed it directly on the ground. He also used a dogleg knife to cut off the crossbow wire, leaving only a bag of crossbow arrows. Then he threw all the garbage and the body into the bushes. Pulling Jessie forward.
Although the dirt road was dilapidated, it was still possible to drive. The round trip from the gas station to the place where the accident took place only took half an hour, but walking on the forest path was extremely difficult.
Jessie's physical fitness was quite good, but after two hours of arduous trekking, she finally couldn't hold on any longer and sat down on the ground.
Seeing the familiar river beach appear again in front of him, Jack took out a bottle of water and two chocolates from the hiking bag on his back.
“Eat something and replenish your strength. There are still two hours before dark, and we still have a long way to go.” Jessie drank half a bottle of water and handed it back to Jack. I opened the chocolate wrapper and ate it.
“Do you think we can find François?”
Jack drank the remaining half of the bottle of water in one gulp and looked at the boulder with large blood stains on it.
"Just look for it along the water source. There are quite a few of them and they will definitely leave a lot of traces of their activities nearby. It shouldn't be difficult, but"
"I know, I won't cry anymore If she dies, I just want to kill a few more monsters to avenge her and Evan.”
Jessie finished the chocolate in three mouthfuls, picked off a leaf next to her and wiped her hands. It seemed that the girl adapted quickly.
"It depends on the situation, they probably won't kill her right away." Jack expressed his guess.
Seeing her confusion, Jack explained again.
"The refrigerator is full, which means they have had a good harvest recently, and they may be able to raise people for the time being."
Jessie's expression was stagnant, and she didn't know what to say for a moment.
Jack carefully sensed the surroundings, confirmed that there was no movement, and gave instructions in a low voice.
"I'll leave a mark on the stone, please wait for me."
As he said that, he pulled out a crossbow arrow he got from the ogre and walked towards the river beach.
Evan's body has long since disappeared, but next to the boulder, a large pool of blood was left, as well as some scattered visceral fragments, which attracted a large group of mosquitoes and flies. He was probably dismembered on the spot. Then they were taken away in pieces.
Jack carefully observed the direction of the dripping blood and determined that it was going upstream. He pointed the arrow of the crossbow in the upstream direction and picked up two small stones to hold it down.
"Let's go, I hope we can find Francois before dark."
Jack returned to Jessie, stretched out his hand to pull her up, and led her along the edge of the river beach and woods toward the upper reaches of the creek.
The reason for not walking on the river beach is because the surrounding area is too open. Even with his super perception, there is no guarantee that the two of them will not become living targets.
After more than an hour of arduous trekking, and after climbing over several small mountain ridges, Jessie finally couldn’t hold on any longer. Even though she almost relied on Jack’s pulling for the second half of the journey, she was almost pulled away. Exhausted from exhaustion.
"How long do we have to walk?" She sat on the ground and gently tapped her sore calf.
"It shouldn't be far. I guess we should be able to find something after climbing over this hill." Jack squinted at a faint smoke rising not far away.
At this time, the sun has gradually set in the west, and the sunset scenery is extremely beautiful. It seems extremely ironic in correspondence with the sin and terror hidden in this forest.
This time Jack did not let the girl rest for too long. After dark, there were not only threats from ogres, but also predators in the forest.
Sure enough, when we climbed up the hill in front of us, an open space in the forest appeared at the foot of the mountain. Not far from the river beach, there was a dilapidated wooden house.
(End of this chapter)