271 City of the Dead (Thirteen)
◎Zhu Yao boarded the Yongsheng Pharmaceutical helicopter◎
Pei Shu lit a cigarette. The ball of yarn in his hand had long been flattened. He regained his memory. This polluted area was truly the most magical one he had ever experienced. He lost it bit by bit and then came back bit by bit.
The contaminated spores flew towards one location, leaving not even a speck of rotten flesh behind. He could probably imagine the state of Area 103 after having previously gone through its purification process, but seeing it with his own eyes was still a bit shocking.
Zhu Ning is truly a standard pollutant purifier.
Lin Xiaofeng's final state was that of a six-year-old. She was constantly experiencing terror and in the later stages she couldn't help but scream.
After losing memory, a person's condition is uncontrollable.
After Zhu Ning swallowed it completely, Pei Shu put out his cigarette and jumped out of the car. The air was clean. Pei Shu opened the pollution concentration test table, and the pollution concentration showed 0.
The true face of Blackbird City was exposed. The high mountain that you could never fly away from was actually just a very low hill, and the top could be seen at a glance.
Blackbird City is small, with dilapidated streets and an old-world style, but there are indeed old bloodstains and some skeletons in front of the shops and near the school.
That is not an illusion of the contaminated area. It may have existed before. There really was a zombie crisis here.
But they hadn't gone far at all. Behind them was a tall safety wall. If this was a long journey, they would have encountered danger before even reaching the first supply station.
Pei Shu walked into the classroom. Zhu Ning was sitting against the table, looking out the window. She looked particularly tall. She took off her helmet, revealing her profile. She seemed to be in a good mood.
There is a strange black cube on the table. The surface is very smooth and has a very strange sense of technology.
Bai Cheng was still carrying a body bag, and the other Bai Cheng seemed to have limited movement time. She was wearing a raincoat but no protective clothing.
Lin Xiaofeng was in a transparent form, standing obediently beside Zhu Ning. Pei Shu couldn't see her, but he knew she was there.
The team that went out of the wall has all arrived, and they are just waiting for him. They should do a review.
Zhu Ning looked at Bai Cheng and asked, "Was your first order placed by Zhu Yao?"
Lin Xiaofeng has already told Zhu Ning that Bai Cheng admitted it himself.
This is not a problem that the young Zhu Ning needs to deal with, but it is something that the adult Zhu Ning must solve.
Bai Cheng knew he couldn't hide, so he stared at Zhu Ning and said mechanically, "Yes."
Zhu Ning was not surprised and asked, "When?"
Bai Cheng: “Eight months ago.”
Zhu Ning frowned. The doomsday crisis in District 103 had occurred six months ago, and Zhu Yao had placed the order with Bai Cheng eight months ago? She seemed to know that Zhu Ning would definitely survive the apocalypse and would definitely leave the wall to find Prometheus.
At that time, in addition to the Kingdom of God and Area 103, there was another pair of eyes watching Zhu Ning, and that was Zhu Yao's eyes.
Prometheus's algorithm was not accurate, and the one who calculated further than him should be Zhu Yao.
Zhu Ning thought of the snow-white mycelium he found behind the office computer. It was most likely "broadcast" through Prometheus. Are Zhu Yao and Prometheus in a cooperative relationship?
Zhu Ning: "Is there any reason?"
Bai Cheng: "No, the price was right. I spent a lot of time choosing to take the Huo Wenxi line."
Bai Cheng did thorough research. She had known Huo Wenxi for a long time, so Huo Wenxi, who was an intuitive person, didn't even suspect anything.
Even with intuition, she could only feel that this person approached me for a purpose, but anyone who approached Huo Wenxi had a purpose. She couldn't distinguish them carefully, and even felt that Bai Cheng was useful.
Bai Cheng is very smart. She knows that she cannot contact the devil Zhu Ning, but must contact Zhu Ning's commander.
Zhu Ning asked, "Did Zhu Yao leave any questions for you?"
The words Zhu Ning used were missing from the topic. In her opinion, this was a maze set up by Zhu Yao, and Bai Cheng was placed there as a hook to lure Zhu Ning in.
Bai Cheng replied expressionlessly, "She told me about the characteristics of the contaminated area and said I would be a good fit. I only accepted the order after I assessed it as safe."
Bai Cheng is simply a killer in Black Bird City. Zombies won't eat her, and she won't even lose her memory. As long as Bai Cheng wants to go out, she can go out anytime.
The only lethality in Black Bird City is the constant loss of memory. As soon as you find a clue, you lose your memory. It's just a vicious cycle. Every time An Shi appears, the memory loss accelerates.
But as long as we cooperate with Bai Cheng and get her assistance, this problem can be solved quickly.
So Zhu Ning found the source of the pollution only after finding Bai Cheng. She remembered that Huo Wenxi said Bai Cheng was useful. If she understood correctly, this should be its use.
Maybe this was one of Zhu Yao's arrangements, inserting a plug-in to prevent the situation from getting out of control.
So what exactly does Zhu Yao want to do?
Zhu Ning was silent for a moment and had no more questions to ask Bai Cheng. She picked up Pei Shu's investigation notebook, which had a black sheepskin cover and one-third of it had been filled in.
Zhu Ning asked, "Why didn't you just stay where you are and wait for orders, but instead took action on your own?"
Zhu Ning said to get off the car and take a look, and come to pick me up in two hours. The others should stay on standby. If Pei Shu stayed in the car, the others would remind each other when he lost his memory for the first time.
They will quickly spot problems, look for isolated teammates, and communicate information directly.
As long as there are enough people, and without Bai Cheng, the team is united and trusts each other, the man-made contaminated area will not be in such a mess.
But they wasted a lot of time looking for their teammates and even fought each other.
Pei Shu felt that Zhu Ning's gaze was very oppressive. He couldn't say that it was because he didn't trust Zhu Ning. In his opinion, Zhu Ning was a newbie and it was his first time to cheat. Pei Shu naturally thought that he had to collect clues for Zhu Ning so that he wouldn't be fooled.
I didn't expect that I would be the one being fooled.
Pei Shu, an old investigator, experienced for the first time what it meant to stumble. He fell down just as he climbed over the wall. He never expected that the contaminated area would be so strange.
To put it bluntly, it was an internal conflict within the team. They had never cooperated and no one trusted each other. If they had really encountered a more powerful pollution area, they would have died hundreds of times.
Pei Shu: "I won't do that next time."
He will not avoid problems, but will admit his mistakes directly. Only by uniting and trusting each other outside the wall can they live longer.
Zhu Ning didn't ask further questions. A team needs time to get used to each other. If it doesn't work this time, they can try again next time. Zhu Ning turned to a page in the investigation notes. There was a vortex on it. He asked, "Where is this?"
Pei Shu: "It should be the exit, on the street across from the school."
Pei Shu had said before that the polluted area outside the wall was not necessarily completely closed. If the source of pollution could not be found, a way out had to be found, and that was where the pollution was least severe.
As investigators, they usually look for a way out, because purification is not the first goal, but finding more clues is.
Pei Shu felt it was very strange when he passed by. There was a street across from him, and zombies were wandering around in the school, but the street was empty. He saw a black vortex and drew it on his investigation notes. When he looked up again, the vortex disappeared. He had lost his memory and completely forgot what he was doing there.
Later, he walked into the teaching building according to the previous hints in the notes, hoping to find some clues there. He saw Zhu Ning and went to Zhu Yao's office, and they almost killed each other.
In the state of continuous amnesia, thinking is not continuous, resulting in a very simple situation that cannot be avoided.
This contaminated area was definitely man-made. Zhu Ning even suspected that this so-called way out was set up opposite the school to facilitate the researchers' escape.
Zhu Ning's hand caressed the black device. The surface felt slippery, like the surface of some cold-blooded animal. What on earth was this? Another system?
A replacement part for the Alpha series experiment? But she had no idea how to use it. Was she supposed to cut open her own brain and stuff it in?
A lot of information in the office was soaked by water, resulting in very little usable information. Zhu Ning found more clues about An Shi in it. It seemed that she had been in zombie form for a long time.
Zhu Ning was not very interested in An Shi. It was obvious that An Shi was different from the pollution sources he encountered inside the wall. She was like an appetite-driven creature that only fed on memories and killing.
Zhu Ning hoped to find information about himself in it. It was very likely that Blackbird City was an experimental base for memory research, and Zhu Ning's personal information would be displayed in it.
But I don’t know whether it was destroyed on purpose or Zhu Ning was not bred here, so there is nothing.
There was no trace of Zhu Ning's past life, not even his name appeared, but she did find more clues about Zhu Yao's life.
Therefore, Zhu Yao controlled the evolutionary state of the polluted area, leaving Zhu Ning a way to survive. He took care of everything and specially arranged for Bai Cheng, who would not lose his memory, to come in.
This black square is placed in a very common place, and Zhu Ning will be able to get it as long as he can find the office.
Zhu Yao just sent equipment?
The child is about to leave, and Zhu Yao, as the main researcher, is giving him a travel gift? How kind!
Zhu Ning weighed the black block. It seemed like something was wriggling inside, or some strange liquid was flowing. It was not completely solid.
She had seen discarded experimental materials in the company copy of Area 103. Could this also be a tentacle when she opened it?
Or was it a blasting device that could control Zhu Ning's mind at any time, so that she, the experimental subject, would obey?
To be honest, after seeing the walls of heads, it wasn't surprising what Zhu Yao in this world did.
"Oh right," Pei Shu suddenly said, "I found the artificial device."
Although Pei Shu did not follow Zhu Ning's command, he found some clues.
He pulled out a mechanical object and tapped on it a few times, as if he were expertly disassembling a gun. "I've opened it before, and it creates a shielding net. It's very likely that when Ms. Zhu was around, the zombies were relatively simple in form. It was only after the shielding net was partially closed that the zombies evolved."
Pei Shu didn't know Zhu Yao, so he naturally called her Ms. Zhu, but Zhu Ning was silent for a moment when she heard these three words, because that was how she used to call Zhu Yao.
Zhu Ning always called her Ms. Zhu without any respect, which now sounds ironic.
Pei Shu clicked on it and entered a page. He threw it to Zhu Ning, "There is a monitoring function, but I didn't turn it on."
Pei Shu was not a professional at this kind of hacking, but Zhu Ning was. After she got the device, she removed the back panel, revealing the chip inside, and directly imported it into her body. Her eyes turned into a sea-blue data stream.
Zhu Ning viewed all this from a more intuitive perspective.
There is no concept of time outside the wall, so no one knows how long ago it happened. When Zhu Ning just opened it, she suddenly met a pair of eyes. She was stunned for a moment before realizing that it was a wandering zombie.
Zombies have no intelligence, and their gaze cannot even be called seeing. A passing lizard can almost capture the same scene.
Zhu Ning suddenly felt that this camera was like the perspective of animals in the animal world.
She sped up the video. This town had never had any outsiders entering it, so the scene was particularly boring. It was full of zombies wandering around, which was very similar to the world in Zhu Ning's life.
There are several red shielding lines on the street, which are always open.
Zhu Ning browsed very quickly. One day, a helicopter suddenly appeared. The sound of the helicopter's rotating propeller was very loud. The zombies all looked up at the sky and ran in one direction.
Zhu Ning's mind jumped, and he thought of the scene described by the first generation Zhu Ning, and felt that he was about to get closer to the truth.
Unfortunately, the viewing angle of this device is limited and it cannot capture the scene inside the school. It only captured the scene of the helicopter leaving. It took a long time for the helicopter to choose to leave. When it left, Zhu Ning heard a click, and the shielding device was controlled to shut down, and the video ended here.
It means that the pollution defense line is opened and enters the second stage. Before this, there were only simple zombies in Blackbird City, but after this, people began to lose their memories.
Although I don’t know how Zhu Yao did it, she did it.
The purpose of increasing the difficulty was to prevent someone from accidentally entering and taking away the items. Next, this contaminated area finally waited for her real guests, Zhu Ning's team.
Everything was arranged very well.
Zhu Ning reopened the video and watched carefully the last scene where the helicopter disappeared from the screen. She zoomed in on the video until the picture was a little blurry and all mosaics, but she could clearly see the logo engraved on the tail of the helicopter.
Yongsheng Pharmaceutical.
Zhu Yao boarded the Yongsheng Pharmaceutical helicopter.
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