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Someone is coming
It was indeed a temple. When I looked closer, I found that the roof was not black, but was covered with densely packed birds.
These birds are obviously mutated, with black bodies. Without spreading their wings, they are estimated to be about three to five meters long. Their appearance clearly does not conform to the characteristics of birds. Normal birds usually only have two claws, but they have six, and three of their toes are in the shape of human fingers.
As if it were pieced together from scraps when God created living things, the mutant birds were sleeping as the flying car approached. The head of the closest one drooped over the edge of the temple eaves, as if it would wake up at any moment.
Such a large group of creatures looks very oppressive.
Pei Shu: "There's actually a shelter here. You've chosen this path."
This road was planned by Bai Cheng. Bai Cheng looks like a ghost and the road he takes is not an ordinary one.
Zhu Ning: "Shelters are built in places like this?"
Pei Shu: "Some of the shelters were built by religious figures. If you got lost outside the wall and came across a temple or church, there was a 50% chance it was a shelter."
Bai Cheng: "Be careful, don't wake them up."
Pei Shu asked, "Will it attack people?"
Bai Cheng: "Be careful."
That's what I mean, but it's dangerous outside the wall, and living near the mutant birds is a kind of protection to some extent.
There is a plaque hanging on the temple with the words "Songshan Temple" written in tattered characters.
Lin Xiaofeng originally thought of parking the car in front of the temple, but Bai Cheng told them to drive straight in. The temple gate was not closed. It was originally vermilion, but now it has faded and is almost completely destroyed. Only a palm-sized piece of wood remains.
The car drove carefully through the temple gate, and there was actually an incense stand with hundreds of incense sticks stuck on it, as if everyone who came to take refuge would worship.
Lin Xiaofeng had never been to a temple. In her time, most orthodox religions were no longer popular, but cults were prevalent.
The last time Zhu Ning saw a temple in this world was when she picked up the investigator's notes in a deserted village. Zhu Ning still hasn't figured out what's wrong with the notes. She brought the notes with her when she came out, and they're still in her backpack.
If there were no pollutants, this would definitely be a spectacular tourist attraction. The largest main hall houses a 30-meter-tall Buddha statue, the gold paint on the surface of which has been scraped off and the Buddha's hands have been broken off.
It is conceivable that someone once climbed on the Buddha statue and took away valuables bit by bit. As a result, the Buddha statue seemed to have been tortured, cut into pieces, and the Buddha's face was covered with scars.
In addition to the big Buddha, there are countless small Buddha statues on both sides of the main hall, living in the shrines. Some are empty, some have only half a leg left, and some have been splashed with black liquid and dried up.
This is not a temple at all; it looks like a massacre scene of gods and Buddhas.
Pollution has set in, land has been abandoned, and traditional religions are dead.
With a slight bang, Lin Xiaofeng stopped the car at Bai Cheng's instruction. They went to the open space behind the main hall. On the hillside behind them was a Buddhist temple where many monks used to live.
After Lin Xiaofeng stopped, he was afraid of disturbing the birds on the roof. Since they came in, there were more mutated strange birds.
Bai Cheng jumped down and pressed a button next to a wishing well. The well dried up, the coins inside were long gone, and only a dead turtle shell remained.
After Bai Cheng operated, a mechanical panel popped up. She clicked it twice, and the bricks under the place where the flying car was parked moved, and a passage was opened.
The car continued to dive, and the true appearance of the shelter appeared before his eyes. It was Zhu Ning's first time to enter the shelter.
This was built before the land was polluted. It has a practical feel and no sense of technology. It is surrounded by super thick cement walls and a large cellar with a simple toilet built inside.
Their car had to be parked in a disinfection channel, and Bai Cheng got out and operated it manually.
[The oxygen concentrator is on and the decontamination equipment is operating normally.]
A cold mechanical sound was heard inside the shelter. Zhu Ning initially thought it was artificial intelligence, but later found out that it was just a very common button prompt sound. There was no way the machine outside the wall could be that intelligent.
After waiting for ten minutes and going through the disinfection process, they actually walked into the shelter.
Pei Shu made a gesture, and Zhu Ning knew that she could take off her helmet. She took off the helmet and smelled a musty smell.
When she was in the zombie world, the human cities still had the smell of human beings at first, but later they were filled with this musty and rotten smell.
Zhu Ning's memory of the zombie world was evoked through her sense of smell. Zhu Ning suddenly thought that her memory might really be transplanted. Zhu Yao was quite amazing as a researcher and could even think of details like sense of smell.
Pei Shu thought Zhu Ning was disgusted and said, "This is pretty much the condition of the shelter."
Zhu Ning: "Is the oxygen concentrator still usable?"
Mechanical sounds were heard in the room, and the noise was particularly obvious.
Pei Shu: "If all else fails, we can still generate oxygen manually."
Federal talents rely on technology. Outside the wall, the more mechanical and primitive the equipment, the more life-saving it is. This shelter still has surplus energy.
Pei Shu: "There's a restroom over there, you can use it if you want to clean up."
The inside of the protective suit can be used for excretion and cleaning the human body, but as humans, we definitely still prefer traditional washing methods.
Pei Shu was checking for supplies when he came across a weapons box and started picking through it. All the good stuff had been taken.
There were some established etiquette outside the wall. If you had something on you, you could leave it in the shelter for people who came after you, and you had to put something back in if someone took something away. However, most people did not follow it.
Resources are scarce for everyone, and only a psychopath would give roses to others but not have the fragrance linger on their hands.
Zhu Ning walked into the so-called bathroom and took a look. It was full of rust, the walls were yellowed, the water pipes were leaking, and there was a clump of hair blocking the sewer. Zhu Ning commented that it was a perfect bathroom for haunting.
Lin Xiaofeng spread out the sleeping bag, Pei Shu looked for supplies, and Bai Chenggang put down the body bag and opened the bag to let his other self breathe. A white head was exposed in the black body bag, which looked weird no matter how you looked at it.
They planned to rest here today. Zhu Ning said she would keep watch first, and Bai Cheng would be next.
Zhu Ning is the team leader. She said that keeping watch at night is actually very safe. After all, not everyone has the opportunity to be watched over by a demon.
The few of them had not rested since they walked out of the wall and went to bed very early. Lin Xiaofeng set up a tent and went in. Pei Shu's sleeping bag was outside. Bai Cheng didn't need a sleeping bag, so he fell asleep against the wall holding the black body bag. It was quite warm with their heads touching each other.
There was no base station signal in this shelter, so Zhu Ning couldn't contact Huo Wenxi. She had wanted to exchange information with Huo Wenxi.
After everyone else fell asleep, Zhu Ning stood up, closed the bathroom door, and opened her protective suit in front of the mirror. Her body was covered with scars, big and small, some of which Zhu Ning had forgotten how they came about.
Without turning on the lights, the contaminated spores on Zhu Ning's chest were the only source of light, making the lower half of her face red.
After making sure no one was awake, Zhu Ning tore off her tank top, exposing her chest. The skin on her chest looked strange, with red lines spreading from her heart, as if she had been poisoned.
Zhu Ning discovered it when she swallowed the underground pollutants in Area 103. After the wound healed, a new abnormality appeared on the surface of her skin. At first it was a very small dot, and she thought it was a red mole.
But something seemed increasingly wrong. The red mole grew larger, radiating from a single red dot. The pattern took on a tree-branch shape, and the lines on it seemed alive. Under Zhu Ning's gaze, the red lines would twitch slightly.
It was not an illusion. Now that Zhu Ning was absorbing the pollutants from the zombie city, the red line had become longer, about one centimeter longer, and spread to three inches below her right breast.
Zhu Ning swallowed up the huge amount of pollutants, but she always felt that with her current physical condition, it would be easy for her to be swallowed back.
Zhu Ning never mentioned this to Lin Xiaofeng, and only Huo Wenxi knew her true condition.
Zhu Ning opened her backpack and found the black device. There was definitely some contaminant inside. The touch felt very... familiar. She didn't know how to describe the feeling.
There were faint sounds coming from inside, and it was unclear whether it was Zhu Ning's hallucination or the black device was really speaking.
It seemed to be looking forward to Zhu Ning putting it in its body.
How to put it? Cut open the brain?
S-ha-ha
Something soft inside the black box was rolling and mumbling, very similar to the mumbling in the dream, and it was getting louder and louder, as if it would break out of the body at any time.
Zhu Ning rummaged through her backpack and found a dagger. She faced the mirror and pointed the tip of the knife at her forehead.
She had done this in Blackbird City, but that was to carve information into the helmet, and now there was no helmet blocking it.
Zhu Ning's face in the mirror was extremely cold. The dagger shone with a cold light. He pressed it down slightly, and the tip of the dagger pierced the skin on the surface. A thin column of blood flowed down from above his forehead.
Pei Shu is mentally ill, and Zhu Ning's brain doesn't seem to be normal either.
The red lines on Zhu Ning's chest twitched faster, almost like a little snake wriggling, and the black mucus on the back of her neck was like a burning pot of boiling black water.
Buzz——
The black box trembled slightly on the sink counter, and the pollutants around it were agitated.
Zhu Ning felt a pang of hunger, which was not relieved at all by the pollutants she had just eaten.
She held the dagger in her hand, her movements steady, without even a trace of trembling.
Zhu Ning took a deep breath. If she used a little more force and cut open her head, she would be able to see clearly what she was.
Just one more time——
"Zhu Ning?" She was interrupted.
The bathroom door was frosted, revealing a very faint shadow, just an outline. Lin Xiaofeng manipulated the transparency to allow people to see his protective suit.
She was a little girl, only 1.53 meters tall, and she called Zhu Ning's name in a very soft voice.
Zhu Ning stopped the knife in her hand and glanced at the frosted glass door. The blood on her forehead flowed down her nose, as if she was cut in half.
Lin Xiaofeng stood at the door. Zhu Ning had been in there for a long time, but there was no movement.
Lin Xiaofeng was wondering if something had happened to Zhu Ning when, with a click, the bathroom door was opened from the inside.
Zhu Ning changed into a loose grey sweatshirt, with water still dripping from the ends of his hair, probably because he had just taken a shower.
Zhu Ning rubbed Lin Xiaofeng's head and asked in a relaxed tone, "What's wrong?"
Without turning on the lights, Lin Xiaofeng couldn't see what Zhu Ning was asking, so he said, "I want to go to the bathroom."
Zhu Ning turned sideways and said, "Go ahead."
Lin Xiaofeng looked back and saw Zhu Ning holding a black box in her hand. Why did she bring this when taking a bath?
Lin Xiaofeng didn't ask and went into the bathroom. Zhu Ning stood against the wall, opened a bottle of decontamination agent and held it in his mouth.
Zhu Ning had just finished one cigarette and was about to open another when he suddenly narrowed his eyes, knocked on the bathroom door, and said in a low voice, "Xiaofeng, come out."
As soon as she finished speaking, Bai Cheng, who was sleeping against the wall, opened his eyes. Two heads opened four eyes and looked up coldly.
Pei Shu touched the weapon under the pillow and turned over. Now even Lin Xiaofeng could hear the strange cry of a bird suddenly coming from the sky above the shelter. The strange bird was large in size and its cry was loud and clear, penetrating the thick walls of the shelter.
The mutant bird flapped its wings, making a huge sound of wind, and a burst of gunfire broke out outside.
Someone is coming.
Lin Xiaofeng walked out of the bathroom quickly, maintaining transparency, and had entered combat mode. Zhu Ning put away the black device and casually placed it in the storage bag behind him. He opened the God's perspective and saw human figures within a range of 30 meters. They jumped off the flying car with heavy guns in hand, and were in flames.
One, two, three... Zhu Ning nodded and raised one hand to signal to Pei Shu, a total of five people.
Wait, there was a new face in Zhu Ning's perspective. At first glance, he looked very handsome, with delicate eyebrows, peach blossom eyes, narrow nose, and thin lips. Zhu Ning thought it was just one person at first, but he pointed with one finger, meaning six people.
Zhu Ning's raised finger quickly paused, and his complete appearance emerged from the darkness. It turned out to be the body of a German Shepherd, and his drooping tail shook. His face was too delicate, and his body and habits were completely canine. The contrast was visually impactful, and even Zhu Ning, a devil, got goose bumps.
Pei Shu held the gun and watched Zhu Ning making gestures. She originally extended an index finger. Pei Shu thought there was one more person, but Zhu Ning's outstretched finger bent again.
Pei Shu: “?”
What does that mean? An extra person? Or a eunuch?
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