Chapter 268 Route 4218
Sun Hang suddenly remembered something, and he quickly ran outside and checked the corpses of the "citizens" on the street one by one.
Sure enough, everyone has a similar "hole" in their body - either somewhere in the esophagus, or directly in the stomach...
For these "townies", all the food they eat will leak out of these holes... No matter how much they eat, they can't relieve their physical hunger...
But if that's the case, why do these monsters, including the shop owner, fight over food? The middle-aged woman even wanted to snatch the piece of bait, even if she wanted to offend the shopkeeper who had the ability to kill her instantly.
Sun Hang couldn't help but think of a limerick on the Internet: "Asking you how much sorrow you can have is like a group of eunuchs going to a brothel."
For them, food is like the woman held in the arms of the eunuchs. They can see and touch it, but they cannot have any substantial relationship with it.
Ever since entering this town, Sun Hang felt that these "people" were not normal.
They all have an almost fanatical paranoia about "food", and they personally explain what it means to "die for food" - literally "die for food".
But they couldn't digest the food, which made their crazy behavior meaningless. From the perspective of Sun Hang, a bystander, it was both ridiculous and sad.
"That old woman... shouldn't be a citizen of Maoyun Town, right?" Sun Hang thought.
She was too generous... She gave precious food as she asked, and the fifty cents she gave to Sun Hang was a huge sum of money...
If this old woman also lives in Maoyun Town, then she must be a rich man, right?
Sun Hang raised his head and looked around. He found that all the shops that were open were now closed, and even the originally bright windows on both sides of the street were much less... However, not only did the brightness on the street not drop, Instead it became brighter.
A bright white full moon hung in the sky without knowing when.
The moon is so big that it feels very close to you, as if you can reach out and touch it.
"The moon?" Sun Hang frowned and asked, "Will there be a moon during the eternal night?"
He took out the mirror.
The street reflected in the mirror was also very bright, but what was different from what Sun Hang saw with his naked eyes was that the entire street was shrouded in a strange red light.
Sun Hang adjusted the angle of the mirror and pointed it at the moon in the sky.
The full moon was as red as blood, exuding a strange and ominous aura.
"Oh, it's the blood moon, so that's not surprising." Sun Hang closed the mirror.
Today happens to be the 16th, the day when the moon is the fullest in the month.
In an area shrouded in eternal night, as long as it is a full moon night, the blood moon will inevitably appear - in Shuzhou now, once it enters the middle of the month, the Investigation Bureau and the Public Security Bureau will become nervous... During this period, measures will be taken There is a strict curfew system, and even public servants are strictly prohibited from going out without permission unless they have a mission.
What you need to guard against is the blood moon that appears on time every full moon night.
"I don't know if Lao Wang will be affected by the blood moon now..." Sun Hang muttered softly and returned to the house.
He used a mirror to examine the rags sold by the "shopkeeper" one by one. These things looked almost the same as what he saw with the naked eye. The only difference was that they were more or less stained with dried blood.
As for the broken rattle that once appeared in the little girl's hand, it was completely stained with blood, as if it had been soaked in a blood pool... Sun Hang was not sure whether the blood stains were originally on it. Yes, it comes from the "deceased" "shopkeeper".
Like the townspeople outside on the street, the body of the "shopkeeper" also began to decay and degrade rapidly - this is in line with Sun Hang's basic understanding of strange objects: after most of the memes in the body disappear, the body also It will quickly degrade... The remains of a huge monster like Tai Sui will eventually degrade until only a pile of fragments are left, not much bigger than an egg shell, and the whole process only took less than a week.
Song Yarong and Sun Hang said that the power to support the monster's body that can ignore the laws of physics all comes from memes. After losing memes, this kind of body that should not exist in the world will naturally collapse quickly.
Assuming that these townspeople were all victims in the occupied area, then it stands to reason that their corpses should have turned into white bones long ago... It was under the influence of memes that they could survive in the form of flesh and blood monsters, and now Memes die, and the ending that awaits them is ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Sun Hang searched the "shopkeeper's" house. The second floor was the living room, but both the wardrobe and the bed had not been used for a long time. They were covered with a thick layer of dust. In the drawer of the desk, Sun Hang Hang found some pennies with small denominations. The total amount of zero and zero was only two or three cents.
Sun Hang put these coins into his pocket, and then he found a notebook in the innermost corner of the drawer.
This is an account book, which records the purchase and sale of goods. Most of the ink has been smudged. From the few words that can still be read, we can know that the owner of this account book once seemed to be It was a timber business. Judging from the standards of that era, although it was not considered rich, it was at least a well-off family.
There is also a yellowed old photo in the ledger, which shows a family of five - the host, the hostess and three children.
It's just that the faces of the hostess and the three children have been blurred into a ball, and only the face of the male host can barely be seen clearly.
This is a man who looks honest and honest, with his hands on the child's shoulders and a slightly reserved smile on his face... I don't know why, in this man's eyes, Sun Hang seems to be able to see something called "Hope" thing.
He should have taken this family photo during the happiest period of his life, right?
Sun Hang went downstairs with the photo. He looked at the remains of the strange thing lying in the corner, and then looked at the photo in his hand.
He didn't say anything more, but stuffed the photo into Wrath's arms.
For a moment, he seemed to smile when he saw the wreckage... But he soon realized that the mouth of the other party's organ that could barely be called a "brain" might not be able to make a smile...
Even if it could laugh, its terrifying appearance would not make people think it was smiling.
"Maybe it's a psychological effect?" Sun Hang muttered. He straightened up and looked back at the Buddha statue that was shattered by his own shot - or in other words, the mutilated skeleton.
The remaining memes in the fragments have disappeared. They no longer squirm, but lie quietly on the table and on the floor.
Only the candles inserted at the corners of the table were still burning, and the flames were swaying slightly.
Sun Hang recalled what the "shopkeeper" said to himself before his death - "They are the food raised by the mayor's family." In other words, those two white and fat little girls... are the mayor of Maoyun Town. A long "food reserve"?
So who is this mayor?
Ah, you said it wrong, it should be something weird.
The townspeople at the bottom are fighting for a piece of carrion turned into bait, but the mayor can enjoy such "meat"... Not only that, just because he mentioned it, the owner of this shop suffered a sudden disaster... Look at it this way Come on, the mayor seems to have absolute control over Maoyun Town.
It's just that Sun Hang has a problem that he can't figure out - in this case, why doesn't the other party do something to him?
Different from being cautious at the beginning, since Sun Hang entered the town, he has become more and more courageous, and he has done no less "offensive" things - but the other party did not take any restraint or punishment on him. Instead, the anger was directed at the "innocent" "shopkeeper".
"Is it possible...are you afraid of me?" Sun Hang muttered.
Although he has lost all his abilities, there may still be a part of the aura of the three apes in his body... Sun Hang himself can't feel this aura, but it doesn't mean that the mayor can't feel it... Maybe the other party was affected by this. Scared by the remaining breath?
"What kind of fox is pretending to be powerful..."
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Shuzhou, southwest border, Hengduan Mountains.
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Highway 4218 is a highway that crosses the Hengduan Mountains and connects Shuzhou and Yunnan. This highway is 135 kilometers long and took four years to build. Eighty-two percent of the entire highway is viaducts. And the tunnel... It can be said that the Xiazhou Federation invested a huge amount of resources in order to build this highway and interrupt the traffic lifeline between Yun and Shu. But later, with the fall of the Yunnan and Dian areas, this highway was permanently blocked and no private vehicles were allowed to enter.
Border Post 198 is located at the entrance to this road.
At this time, the entire outpost seemed to have been burned by flames. The walls that were originally painted white with lime were scorched black, the wooden beams were broken, the entire roof collapsed, and the facilities inside the outpost were burned to a complete mess.
According to reports from the first troops to arrive at the post, none of the soldiers stationed at the post survived. As for the surveillance equipment and drones at the post, all were destroyed, leaving no image data of the attackers.
Wang Xiyi and Yang Qi stood among the ruins, looking around at the ruins.
The bodies of the fallen soldiers have been carried away, leaving only a dozen outlines circled in white chalk - it can be seen from these outlines that when the outpost was attacked, most of the soldiers had not yet reacted. Everything has been killed... This is consistent with what was mentioned in the on-site report: experts checked the remains of the alarm device in the outpost and found that the device had not been activated.
"Destroy the dead." Yang Qi murmured, "Thanks to the matter in the underground palace, the fact that Sun Hang obtained your dragon flame ability has not been reported yet... Otherwise, this will be a piece of evidence that is very unfavorable to him. ”
"This can't be done by Sun Hang." Wang Xiyi said firmly.
"Why?"
"If he had used my Dragon Flame, these ruins would not have existed at all." Wang Xiyi said, "The flames that attacked this post were far worse than my Dragon Flame."
"Then what if Sun Hang intends to control the intensity of the dragon flame?"
"You don't believe him either?" Wang Xiyi stared into Yang Qi's eyes and asked seriously.
"I believe in him, but I can't make others believe in him like I do." Yang Qi said, "The top priority is to get the person back."
"The fleet is ready and can set off at any time." Wang Xiyi looked in the direction of the highway.
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A total of eleven people participated in this operation, divided into three armored off-road vehicles and one multi-functional engineering vehicle - the team leader was Wang Xiyi, deputy team leaders Zhulong and Ye Jiu, in addition to Zhong Ling, Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu also took the initiative to sign up for this operation, and the rest were elite operators selected by Ye Jiu from the field department.
Yin Xiang originally wanted to participate, but was kicked out of the car by Wang Xiyi.
"Why don't you let me go! I'm different from before. I'm not afraid of death! I'm really not afraid!" Yin Xiang, who fell to the ground, shouted loudly to Wang Xiyi in the driver's seat.
Wang Xiyi rolled down the car window, pushed up the goggles on the bridge of her nose, and said to him: "Do you want to hear good words or bad words?"
"W-what do you mean?" Yin Xiang was stunned for a moment and asked.
"To put it nicely, I don't want you to lose your life in vain; to put it ugly... you are a burden, and taking you on the road will only hold us back."
"What about him? Why would you rather take a kid than me?" Yin Xiang asked, pointing to Ling Xiao in the back seat.
"He is a qualified candidate for the magic equipment. What are you?" Wang Xiyi asked directly.
"I...I..." Yin Xiang was suddenly speechless.
He suddenly realized that when he jumped from the roof of the research institute and his inner courage was defeated by fear and regret, he might never be able to be a person who could stand on the same front as Sun Hang and others in his life.
"You're right." Yin Xiang nodded, recognizing the fact. "I'm a burden. If I go with you, I will hold you back... maybe, as soon as the car enters the occupied area, I will start to regret that I shouldn't have done it for a while. Brain fever..."
"As long as you understand." Wang Xiyi nodded, "Although the words are unpleasant, there is no need to be sad...I think there is probably nothing in this world that makes people happier than living well."
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"I know, I will do what I can." Yin Xiang stood up and clenched his fists vigorously, "I'm waiting for you here. I hope you can bring that guy Sun Hang back intact. ! ”
Border Post No. 198 also needs people to stay behind. As a border post close to the occupied area, it can be said to be one of the most dangerous places in Shuzhou. No one is sure that if they stay here, what they will wait for in the end will be a convoy returning in triumph or a group of terrifying monsters pouring out of the occupied area.
On both sides of the road, a temporary outpost is being built - this is the first official human investigation operation into the occupied area after the end of the monster war... Although the operation is a bit hasty, its significance is extraordinary. .
(End of chapter)