Chapter 887: Falling to Death
“After discussing it, we split into two groups, but we were captured by the zombies there before we even got close to investigate,” Ai Ping looked embarrassed.
"Caught means... they didn't hurt you?" Qin Jin asked directly.
The zombies did not hurt anyone, but instead imprisoned the two men. This was really strange, especially since they had been observing Wei Minglang for so many days and found that he had so many zombies in his hands. But in fact, there were no zombies patrolling the entire city, and they were just staring at the mutated banyan tree.
The contractual relationship allows Wei Minglang to completely control the entire city, and the zombies here are more like neighbors than his subordinates, or reserve food that he may feed to the mutant banyan tree or eat at any time.
"No," Ai Ping recalled the situation carefully, "They gave me a feeling of puppets, not like they had their own consciousness," he said and glanced at Qin Jin, "Completely different from you, and we can't communicate."
"What do you mean?" Lu Xiao's frown could kill a fly.
"At first, since they didn't attack us, we thought we could communicate with them, so we kept talking to try to provoke their reaction, but they had no expression at all, more like a machine." Ai Ping's memory was still a little confused. He said that he needed to keep rubbing his eyebrows to relieve the discomfort. "I don't know what happened in the middle. Several zombies suddenly became out of control, ready to attack us ferociously, and then suddenly fainted. Then other zombies dragged them away."
"We were imprisoned in the cave we saw today. There was a side opening near the entrance, and we were inside it at the time. Our superpowers were suppressed, and when we were discussing how to leave..." Ai Ping looked up at Han Fei, "They were also caught."
Han Fei hadn't remembered these things yet, and he was more surprised than those who heard it for the first time, "No, a group of zombies caught us and let us go without doing anything? Do they have nothing to do?"
After he finished speaking, his face changed, and he thought of his tampered memory. He looked at Lu Weiyi, trying not to be so nervous, but the smile he forced out was still a little stiff, "Did we leak some information?"
If the two SSS crystal cores he obtained this time were lost because of their leak, Han Fei felt that he might not be able to pay them back in the next eight or ten years.
"Master Lu, no, Base Commander, please let me remember it. I can't remember it and my heart is pounding."
"Are you sure? After a while, the effect of the supernatural power will decrease, and you will naturally remember it."
"Sure, come on, let's hurry up."
"I, let me come too," Meng Huan smiled bitterly, "I hope I don't feel sorry for you."
Seeing Ai Ping in so much pain, Lu Weiyi originally thought that there was no need to let them all experience this feeling. But when he saw that they were so persistent, he finally looked at Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao nodded and patted the two of them on the shoulders.
"It's okay, just for a moment," Ai Ping encouraged.
As he said, it is true, it's just that the senses deep in the consciousness are more sensitive.
"How were you caught?" someone asked Han Fei anxiously.
Han Fei tried hard to sort out his confused memories, "When I was leading my men back, we were suddenly attacked by zombies."
He smiled bitterly and said, "I was caught directly."
"Given your ability level, your team is not small. How could you be caught without even a little resistance?" Lu Xiao gritted his teeth, looking as if he thought they would be in trouble if they couldn't explain clearly.
"Captain, this is unfair. This is really not our fault. Can you imagine zombies using equipment that suppresses their superpowers?"
"The thing they used was not the supernatural jammer we used. It was something we had never seen before. The effect was stronger than what we used. After suppressing it, we couldn't feel any supernatural power at all." Han Fei stretched out his hand and gestured, the size of his palm, "I didn't see clearly how to open it at the time, and then we were caught."
"What happened next? Did anyone do anything to you?" Lu Xiao was also worried that this accident was caused by the situation here.
Han Fei shook his head and looked at Ai Ping.
Ai Ping: "I'm not sure. It seemed like someone did something to us. We all fell asleep and woke up not far from there. I remember I had checked there and there was no need to go there again."
"Can you tell what tricks they used?" Lu Xiao asked Lu Weiyi, who knew the most about mental power.
“I can’t tell. Even if their memories are explored, the information they know is limited. It shouldn’t have any impact.” The battle plan had not been deployed at that time. As for the preparations for battle, anyone with an eye can see it.
"Then why did they send people back?"
"Maybe... it's to avoid alerting the enemy," the golden eagle suddenly said, "The cave is not very large. Judging from their life trajectories, there are no more than three people living there. I mean... people who can think and act." He did not count the unconscious zombies.
"With such a small number of people, the other side should be unwilling to confront us. If something happens to Ai Ping and the others, the team will definitely send people to investigate the cause. They cannot afford this result."
This guess does have some truth to it, but it still made the group feel extremely annoyed when they found out that the crystal core they had obtained was gone.
"So what is their purpose? A few people living around zombies and controlling them?" Lu Xiao frowned.
"Did you bring back the things there? Let me see what's there." Lu Weiyi stood up and asked the golden eagle.
"No, I was worried about damaging the scene, so I had people protect the place after investigation."
"Then I'll go over and take a look."
Lu Xiao also wanted to go, but Ning Yuan, Qin Jin and his group had not returned yet, and the battlefield where the battle had just ended needed to be cleaned up, so they couldn't leave without the person in charge.
He could only look at Han Fei, Ai Ping and the other two, "How do you feel? Can we go together?"
Han Fei stood up and said, "I can."
Ai Ping had also recovered and stood behind Lu Weiyi.
"What about me?" Meng Huan pointed at himself. His memory had not yet been restored, so it seemed useless for him to go. "Find a psychic to help me recover?"
"No need, just go with me and be an errand boy." If the situation allowed, Lu Xiao didn't want his teammates to suffer.
The group made some corrections and set off quickly. It wasn't long before they reached the destination on the two-kilometer journey at full speed.
The area was surrounded by people with special abilities. This place had not been cleaned up, and some mutant animals had already taken root here. Their coming was tantamount to intruding into the other party's territory, and the mutant animals kept attacking them.
In addition to the strong smell of blood in the air, there were piles of mutant animals beside each psychic. Seeing the golden eagle returning from afar, Sun Kai urged it in a vague voice.
"Finally I've waited for you guys. The attacks have never stopped. I almost suspected that I was becoming a popular commodity." He nodded towards Lu Weiyi, "Hello, Base Commander."
"Thank you for your hard work. Please hold on a little longer. I will check it as soon as possible." He had been walking for so long that he naturally knew the attraction of humans outside to mutant creatures. He was often exhausted even with the help of zombies like Qin Jin along the way, not to mention that it was not surprising that this group of people gathered here and attracted high-level mutant animals.
"It's okay. This little time doesn't matter," Sun Kai said carelessly. The golden eagle waved his hand to let the people who were traveling with him take their places, and Sun Kai led a few people inside.
"This is where we saw zombies patrolling before," Ai Ping pointed to the flat area on the cliff. It was covered with short shrubs as long as calves, and the height difference from other places around it, which were often more than a person tall, was extremely obvious.
"It should have been cleaned up and regrown," the golden eagle explained, pulling aside a patch of grass, "There is a very regular track of their movements here."
He pointed to the trampled paths and said, "It's very regular. Even for me, unless I do it on purpose, there will definitely be some deviations, but there are none here."
He compared several walking paths to Lu Weiyi and said, "If he hadn't said it was the path that the zombies took, I would have thought it was a program set by a machine."
Who says zombies can’t be programmed?
Lu Weiyi thought of the small chip installed in the zombie's brain that was used to control the zombies, and he had a guess in his mind about the people here.
Following the golden eagle forward, there is a cliff. On the steep wall there is a downward staircase. It is a metal staircase that was dismantled from somewhere. After several years of wind and sun, it looks tattered. The place where you step on it is rusted and damaged. When the wind blows in the valley, metal fragments will fall off.
The golden eagle took the lead and stepped on it, causing a creaking sound. The entire staircase began to shake and looked like it would fall down at any time.
He didn't notice someone following him, so he turned around and saw Lu Weiyi staring at the stairs under his feet.
The golden eagle laughed, "Don't worry, it's been reinforced. We just thought it didn't need to make it look too good, so we didn't modify it. It will definitely not fall offq...q...u——".
As his echo got closer and farther away, his whole body was falling towards the valley. The relaxed smile on the golden eagle's face turned into panic after a moment of confusion.
"Deputy Captain!"
"Golden Eagle!"
Someone immediately shouted around and wanted to go forward to save people, but then the golden eagle's voice came again, "No—super—powers!"
Sun Kai stretched out his hand to feel the empty body, his eyes red, "Superpower? Who else has superpowers? Save him quickly." At the end of his words, his voice was filled with tears.
"My powers disappeared."
"Me neither."
"I... I have a rope in my space, I..."
"I can't open my space."
"Base Commander?"
"Base Commander, do you have any solution?" Sun Kai stretched out his hand and grabbed Lu Weiyi's arm with such force that it seemed as if he could break his arm.
Lu Weiyi looked at the person in front of him, seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then shook his head, "My supernatural powers have also been suppressed and completely gone."
"Help—my life—" came the frightened voice of the golden eagle.
"Deputy Captain...Deputy Captain..."
"What should I do?"
After all the arguing, they could only watch the golden eagle falling from the valley dozens of meters high. Thanks to the strengthening of their bodies by their supernatural powers, this height allowed them to clearly see the golden eagle's wide-open eyes after it landed, as well as the bloodstains beneath its body that were gradually getting wet.
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