Walking on the wet and muddy ground, breathing the filtered air with a slight alkaline smell from the mask, a group of people lined up in a row with two to three meters between them, walking towards the sunset, on the green belt on the left side of the Highway 94 ruins.
Everything here is very quiet, with only the white noise of nature around.
Since the northern regions of North America, Central America, and South America, formerly part of Country M, were incorporated into the Human Community four years ago, the American continent is no longer as dangerous as it once was. After "that," satellite observations and calculations by scientists revealed that the metropolitan area's leaders, through satellite observations, determined that the remaining population on this continent was approximately 25 million, primarily concentrated along the western coast. Therefore, the majority of the industrial support provided by the Community to the people of this region over the past four years has been concentrated along the continent's western coast.
They helped build four large settlements and related supporting facilities on that narrow strip of terrain, so the people living there now can basically be said to have made the initial entry into modernization.
Of course, in other words, other people who live away from the city have retreated to a nearly primitive life.
Jiang Ling naturally knew this information which was not highly confidential. In addition, there were unmanned reconnaissance aircraft flying in the sky, so she walked in front fearlessly to lead the way for everyone.
Perhaps they were too lucky, as they didn't meet anyone the whole morning. As a result, around noon, Comrade Xiao Wang took advantage of the sun that finally showed up and test-fired a few coil gun rounds at an abandoned building in the distance.
His movements were noisy, the sonic boom created by the bullet's exit from the muzzle nearly knocking out small animals within a two-kilometer radius. Unfortunately, his accuracy wasn't great, and after a few shots, he wasted energy and ammunition with no success. He attributed his poor performance to the weapon's primitive construction. In his opinion, real-world firearms should be similar to those in virtual space, each one possessing atomic-level precision and absolute rigidity.
Jiang Ling didn't mind him slacking off at this time. In fact, if a person is always tense, he will soon become a madman.
After a brief rest, the group set out again. The afternoon sun vanished once more, replaced by a long downpour. The rain washed away the remaining human artifacts on the ground and obscured the senses of all animals. It was around 2:00 PM, in the drowsy state, that they encountered their first emergency.
Don't be nervous, it's just a pile of dead bodies for now.
Jiang Ling had always relied on her sensory ability to determine the degree of danger of the creatures around her. The pile of dead bodies were lifeless things, so she instinctively ignored them. Instead, it was the non-psychic people following behind who first noticed the danger.
"Everyone on alert!" Gu Chen almost immediately used the intercom to stop the others and asked them to keep their bodies down.
"Hmm?" Jiang Ling paused, turned, and in the process, she saw the pile of corpses. Most of the bodies piled into a pyramid were incomplete: some missing limbs, some missing heads, and still others had been gutted and eviscerated. This reminded her of the ancient records of the "Jingguan" (Jingguan).
Gu Chen asked nervously on the communication frequency agreed upon before departure: "Did you see it? Did you all see it?"
"I see it now." Jiang Ling replied calmly.
"What do you think? Should we keep going?"
"They're fresh." Jiang Ling thought for a moment and continued, "There are no enemies or mutants around. I think they might be territory landmarks. Don't be afraid, they can't make any waves in front of me."
"I hope we don't meet them." Gu Chen was silent for a while before speaking.
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