It was difficult for Chen Yan to describe his feelings at the moment.
Although he had already gone down the mountain with the others, he was now continuing north.
But what lingered in his mind was the scene of the tide of corpses he had just seen from the top of the mountain.
The whole mountain was black!
While completely submerging the last city skyline of Qindao's core area, even the wreckage of many high-rise buildings was crawling with various mutant creatures with powerful climbing abilities!
Since he has been promoted to a level five awakener, Chen Yan's five senses are much more acute than those of the other people in the small group who are still at the level four awakening.
The advantage of visual ability is relatively more obvious and direct, allowing Chen Yan to clearly see many scenes that other people in the small group cannot see clearly when looking far away!
Before today, Chen Yan had never imagined that there would be so many types of mutant creatures!
Although the most important component of the zombie tide is actually a large number of low-level zombies, this is also the fundamental reason why the "zombie tide" is named "zombie tide".
But the zombie tide is not composed entirely of zombies of various levels. A large number of strange and mutated creatures are also the main force of the zombie tide.
Spiders the size of a double bed, beetles as big as B-class cars, earthworms that have grown sharp mouthparts and look like giant forest pythons, and mice with scarlet eyes and completely keratinized bodies!
All the insects and small animals that Chen Yan could see in his own time and space appeared in the tide of corpses in completely new appearances.
Their images are varied but they share several common characteristics.
For example, gigantism! For example, the alienated body is all extending in the direction of increasing aggressiveness!
As we all know, insects have very peculiar body structures.
That unique body composition gives insects excellent reproductive and survival abilities!
Mammals like humans basically have a structure of flesh wrapped around bones. The bones mainly serve as a framework and support, while the flesh wrapped around the bones serves as a buffer and helps adapt to the environment.
However, the surface of most insect life forms is covered with a hard exoskeleton!
This exoskeleton not only provides protection but also prevents water loss.
As the bottom species in the huge food chain, insects have had to evolve amazing reproductive capabilities in order to continue their population.
Originally, this evolution was natural selection, which could balance the cyclical operation of the entire ecosystem.
But with the outbreak of the Cataclysm, the entire world entered the wasteland era, and the constantly alienated insect life immediately felt a bit like "serfs becoming masters."
The giant body combined with the unique body structure of insect life gives these insect mutants terrifying combat power. Compared with other types of mutant creatures, their advantages are quite obvious!
In addition to the terrifying large number of mutant creatures on the ground, there were also clusters of mutant creatures in the air.
However, compared to the corpse tide scene on the ground that resembles the great migration of African animals, there are not many mutant creatures flying in the air.
And it seems that the mutant creatures flying in the air are not "hunting north" with the tide of corpses. Instead, they seem to be waiting for an opportunity. While the "tide of corpses" on the ground are only thinking about escaping, they will seize the opportunity and swoop down from time to time to get their prey!
It is understandable that such a situation would occur.
Those amphibious mutant creatures that emerged from the ocean onto land cannot fly.
They only squeezed the land living space in the core urban area, and had almost no impact on the living environment of the mutated creatures in the air!
Perhaps in the eyes of those flying mutants, this 'tide of corpses' wasn't a defeat, but a gift from heaven...
The only thing they need to be careful about is to avoid being killed in the process of hunting. If they move fast enough, the 'tide of corpses' will be an inexhaustible feast for them!
"What are you thinking about?"
Qin Yourong, who had been following Chen Yan, noticed that Chen Yan's mental state seemed a little dazed, and asked with concern.
Chen Yan came back to his senses and forced a smile, saying, "Nothing, I was just a little frightened by the zombie tide. I don't really understand. Judging from the scale of the zombie tide, the number of zombies and mutants living in the core area of Qin Island is extremely large.
If that's the case, why are they so willing to stay in the core area of the city, and almost never leave there or actively expand outward? If it weren't for the invasion of marine life this time, the zombie tide wouldn't have formed at all, right? "
Qin Yourong shrugged and said, "We don't know much about this. According to Grandpa Fei's explanation, both zombies and mutants have a strong sense of territory, and... they seem to have inherited certain characteristics of humans.
For example, humans' obsession with their homeland, the feeling of being unable to leave it, also applies to zombies and mutants. Therefore, unless encountering special circumstances like this, it is basically rare to see large-scale migration of different species.
Of course, these are just Grandpa Fei's own speculations. Our strength wasn't strong enough before, so we didn't have the time to research things that had little to do with survival. Therefore, no one can say for sure whether this is the reason.
Li Fengnian, who was standing nearby, overheard the exchange and interjected with a smile, "According to Life Oasis's research, a strong sense of territory is the primary reason. As for the so-called obsession with leaving one's homeland, I think this is an incorrect interpretation."
The truth is simple: this wasteland is not only extremely dangerous for us human survivors, but also for those zombies and mutant creatures. In fact, relatively speaking, from the perspective of individuals, their survival is even more difficult.
So, in a familiar environment, they can still feel safe. Once they go to a completely unfamiliar place, the risks they need to take will increase exponentially. So it's not that they are reluctant to leave their homeland, but that they can live longer in a familiar place.
Chen Yan was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly realized that he had always been standing on the human perspective, viewing zombies and mutant creatures as a threatening whole.
But in fact, the relationship between zombies and mutant creatures must be extremely complicated!
Because the main source of food for zombies and mutant creatures is actually each other, not the human survivors who have been barely surviving since the outbreak of the catastrophe!
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