262 City of the Dead (IV)
◎What ate his brain?◎
The sun was getting hotter and hotter, and the zombies in the city were moving slower and slower, like animals exposed to the sun.
Pei Shu jumped off the flying car, with a burning street behind him. The zombies nearby rushed over as if awakened, and under the influence of fire power, they seemed to be burning the corpses, and thick black smoke drifted in the city.
Most of the shops along the street were still open, so it was better to walk under cover than to barge through the streets. Pei Shu bent down and slipped through the shutters of a snack shop. There were dozens of white lunch boxes scattered on the ground, truly plastic waste; they hadn't decomposed after all these years.
The snack bar was pitch black. Pei Shu entered the kitchen. The ceiling and walls were blackened and yellowed by smoke, and the broken light bulb kept shaking.
Pei Shu glanced at the light bulb, and the next moment, a dark shadow suddenly jumped out from behind the door curtain and pounced on his back.
Pei Shu knocked him down quickly and efficiently. He had fought so many zombies along the way that he was almost experienced. Zombies only bite people. As long as they don't gather in groups, it won't be difficult for a fully armed investigator to deal with them.
It will definitely be difficult for zombies to spread in the cities of the Federation. As soon as the first case appears, it will be locked by big data, and artificial intelligence will immediately send demon hunters to provide support. They can even open the weapons depot in the defense wall and accurately lock on to the target. Prometheus can clear the entire city in half an hour.
Pei Shu carefully placed the corpse on the ground. The zombie was still twitching after death. He was worried and shot it again in the middle of the eyebrows.
Pei Shu walked out of the snack bar, and a cold mechanical light flashed on the telephone pole at the door.
I couldn't see it clearly in the feedback device before, but now I take it down and take a closer look, it turns out to be a pollution shield, and the last time it was activated was half a year ago.
The main page requires a password. The outside investigator is familiar with all types of devices. He opened the back cover and reset the device to manual mode.
Pei Shu hardly used his brain when doing this, just like playing with a Rubik's Cube with his eyes closed, but he was stunned after he completely reset it. It was as if he had pulled a silk thread invisibly, and after pulling it apart, he found that it was connected to an entire network.
The blocker in his hand restarted, emitting a red light, and actually connected with other telephone poles, like a defensive wall.
It is a shield, somewhat similar to the protective cover of a Class A program. When opened, the invisible cover protects the interior and completely isolates it from the outside world.
Now half of the defensive wall has been destroyed, leaving only ruins, but the facts can still be determined.
What does this mean? Someone is raising zombies here?
No wonder Blackbird City was so peaceful when he passed by before. He probably just passed by the zombie owner's "manor" at that time. It would be easy for the "manor owner" not to let him see it.
This jammer is very old and not a cutting-edge product. It was eliminated ten years ago, but it has been specially modified by someone. It is a genius's recycling of garbage. Ordinary psychics don't have the brains to modify it. Why does this unknown genius raise zombies?
Wait, if there was a protective shield here before, and it was closed half a year ago, the zombies would have merged with other polluted areas, and it would have been easy for a completely new species to evolve.
What species evolved?
The jammer has an automatic shooting function, and the memory card inside may record the truth, but this time the password is not so easy to open, so he has to find a place to study it carefully.
There were already zombies wandering around at the street corner, and it was time for him to evacuate.
Pei Shu took the blocker in his hand and wanted to tell Zhu Ning the news immediately after putting it away. The investigator's instinct was to pass on information.
Pei Shu glanced at the sky and saw a flying car floating in the sky. His original intention was to give Lin Xiaofeng a secret signal and ask her to come down to pick him up.
But when Pei Shu raised his head, he suddenly saw the dazzling sunlight, his eyes felt a little dry, and the whole world seemed to become dizzy.
Pei Shu was distracted for a moment. In no more than a second, the hovering car disappeared. He only saw the blue sky, white clouds, and an overly hot sun.
How is that possible? It's a big car, not a fly.
Lin Xiaofeng is invisible. She can make the entire flying car transparent. Pei Shu has seen this before, but why did Lin Xiaofeng suddenly want to make the flying car invisible? What danger did she encounter? What kind of danger could there be in the car? Wait... Bai Cheng?
Pei Shu thought of Bai Cheng, carrying a body bag and saying expressionlessly that Zhu Ning was seeking death.
Lin Xiaofeng is a ten-year-old girl, and Bai Cheng is a famous lunatic outside the wall. She has been staring at Lin Xiaofeng from the beginning. Why is Bai Cheng looking at Lin Xiaofeng?
Pei Shu was a little panicked for no reason. He knew that Zhu Ning valued this little girl very much. If Lin Xiaofeng died, Zhu Ning would definitely tear Pei Shu to pieces. Wouldn't it be safer for him to run back into the wall now?
Pei Shu turned on the communicator on his wrist and pulled out the antenna. Ensuring smooth communication in a small area outside the wall relied on a very ancient device, but he was stunned after turning on the communication device.
Tick-tick-tick
The yellow light on the communicator continued to flash, making a slight ticking sound, as if an invisible mold had grown into the brain, contaminating a small area in the brain responsible for storing memories.
Pei Shu was stunned after turning on the device. What was he planning to do just now?
…
The abandoned Blackbird No. 1 Middle School.
Zhu Ning kept taking a step forward. What was she trying to do just now?
She tried hard to recall, but as she did so, the pollution eroded deeper and deeper, as if there was a greedy snake in her brain, gradually eating away Zhu Ning's memory units.
Why is she here?
Zhu Ning's pupils contracted. She recognized that the thing downstairs was a zombie, her old friend. Zhu Ning's first reaction was to step back silently and return to the chemistry laboratory.
She was a little confused for a rare time. Her last memory was that they picked up Bai Cheng outside the wall. It was a rare rainstorm that day. Then they walked out of the wall for the first time. This was the world outside the wall.
There are zombies outside the wall?
Is it some form of contaminant? If there are zombies, is Zhu Yao also nearby?
Zhu Ning was very aware that she must have lost some memory. She deduced her behavior through some clues. She might have seen a zombie and thought there was a clue there, so she temporarily stopped to look for traces of Zhu Yao.
There are no other teammates around Zhu Ning, and the remaining three people should be together. None of the teammates are old partners. This is Zhu Ning's private matter. With her personality, she will choose to explore alone without involving others. She must have agreed on a time to meet with her teammates. What time?
Zhu Ning touched his pocket and found a piece of paper. The message on the note was very simple: My name is Zhu Ning, and my mother's name is Zhu Yao.
Such a straightforward statement, proving that the seriousness of the matter was beyond imagination, and she might even have forgotten this basic fact.
You have to know that even when the first generation Zhu Ning was restarted, she didn't forget the existence of Zhu Yao.
There was another sentence on it: Corpses, three rows in total.
What does this mean? What corpse?
Tick-tick-tick-tick-
There was a sound of dripping water from the faucet, but she couldn't find the source at all, and she just felt very annoyed.
This information was most likely about the location of the body. Zhu Ning quickly came to the third row. The space under the green table was empty, with no body.
Did you remember it wrong?
Zhu Ning searched the laboratory, three rows in front, three rows in back, and checked every empty space. He felt that the body might be curled up under a table, but to his disappointment, there were only rows of green laboratory tables, and there was not even a drop of blood in the space between the tables.
The body wasn't in this room at all? Or... the body disappeared?
Zhu Ning couldn't tell which of the two pieces of information terrified him more. Besides the note, there was also a student ID card of a strange female student in his pocket, with a photo attached.
It's quite strange. Zhu Ning's previous school ID cards all had one-inch bareheaded photos, with the bottom of the photo paper stuck above the elbow, revealing at most the chest, but this school's student ID card actually had a full-body photo.
In the yellowed photo, a female student is wearing a red sports-style school uniform with two decorative white lines on the shoulder and trouser lines. The photo was taken while the female student is standing in front of a blue curtain.
Her name is An Shi. She has thick bangs that cover half of her eyes. The smile on her face is particularly exaggerated. She looks straight at the camera, as if looking at Zhu Ning through an old student ID card.
hiss--
Zhu Ning couldn't help but gasp. If this was a student ID photo, was this student's smile too... joyful? It felt as if someone was tugging at both sides of her lips, gently pulling them upwards. Zhu Ning didn't know how to describe her smile. It sent chills down her spine, the chill seeping through her student ID card as if it could penetrate her protective clothing.
Was this document retrieved from a missing body? This is the only clue we have so far, and it's very valuable.
Zhu Ning was still thinking about something when he suddenly felt darkness in front of his eyes. Because he was checking the body, Zhu Ning was standing very close to the window. His fist broke the frosted glass of the classroom. After a loud bang, a fist stretched out from behind the glass and Zhu Ning was almost grabbed away.
The zombies downstairs appeared unexpectedly, and both the front and back exits were blocked by zombies. Zhu Ning's expression was stern, and her reaction speed was faster than the zombies. She immediately pulled the trigger. Her movements were almost done in one go, as if it was an instinct engraved in her bones.
The zombies that just rushed in were shot in the head the next second. They were all students, wearing red school uniforms. At first glance, they looked all red, like some strange invading creatures.
Zhu Ning fired while retreating towards the window. She shot quickly, but the zombies downstairs were also running upwards quickly. She couldn't take the main route, so she should jump out immediately and walk along the outer wall of the laboratory building.
The laboratory was almost filled with corpses lying on the ground. Zhu Ning elbowed the laboratory glass and jumped out without hesitation. She had escaped in this way in her previous life, breaking the glass and jumping off the building, but in her previous life, she had the body of an ordinary person and had to rely on a rope.
Now that she has super powers, this matter is very simple for her. Zhu Ning landed easily, ran forward without looking back, and rushed into a teaching building. She closed the door with her backhand, and the zombies outside the door slammed into the door with a bang.
Zhu Ning held her knees and took a deep breath. This was really a physical job. Even though she had undergone genetic modification, she still felt very tired.
She looked up and found herself in an unfamiliar abandoned teaching building. She couldn't run in the open space, but that didn't mean it was safer inside the building. The first floor was gloomy and quiet.
Opposite Zhu Ning is the toilet. The toilets in this school are very simple. There are no doors in the men's and women's toilets. There are only half-person-high curtains hanging to cover them, with "Male" written on one side and "Female" written on the other.
Those were two blood-red words that had not faded after being washed for so long.
There is a man standing behind the curtain of the men's restroom. He is wearing trousers and has a fat body and big ears. He should be the director of the Academic Affairs Office.
The curtain became a barrier between them. Where Zhu Ning couldn't see, the director of the Academic Affairs Office smiled behind the curtain. That smile was very similar to the one on the student ID card.
Extremely happy and exaggerated.
The director suddenly rushed out of the curtain and attacked his target fiercely, bang——
A bullet spun through, entered between his eyebrows, and passed through the back of his head. The speed was so fast that his body was still rushing forward by inertia, but his head fell to the ground, causing him to fall in a strange posture, face down on the ground with his butt raised high.
Logically, Zhu Ning should have left immediately, as it would have been safer. She had already taken a step forward, ready to continue escaping, but then she turned back.
No, there is a problem.
Because this time they were dealing with a single zombie, it was particularly obvious in a quiet environment. Zhu Ning was an old gunslinger who had survived in the zombie world for a long time and had heard the sound of bullets passing through heads many times. The sound of the shot just now was wrong.
Zhu Ning squatted down. The male director's body was lying face down, with his fat belly squeezing out corpse oil.
He looked no different from an ordinary zombie. There was a bullet hole between his eyebrows, but no brain matter had flowed out. The edges were clean, but too clean, as if Zhu Ning had not smashed a brain, but had used an electric drill to drill a standard hole in the bottom of the vase.
Zhu Ning turned on the flashlight and peered into the hole in a person's head.
After seeing it clearly, Zhu Ning froze. This zombie's brain was actually empty?
She didn't believe in evil and didn't care if there were any zombies chasing her. She turned the body over and carefully examined the area around the head.
It was confirmed that apart from the two bullet holes in the front and back, he had no other external injuries on his body, and the inside of his head was especially clean.
It was like… like there had been a starving person living in his head, sucking the brains with big mouthfuls, eating them with relish, and in the final stage carefully licking the inner walls of the skull clean with a steamed bun dipped in the soup.
Is there something here that eats brains?
So that's why she lost a part of her memory? Zhu Ning couldn't help but imagine that the inside of her head had also become very clean. A large, wet, hot tongue, emitting a foul smell, stretched out from her ear hole and carefully licked every drop of brain matter.
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