Chapter 35: Limb Dismemberment

It was raining heavily. A man stepped on the stinking mud pit with a messy step. He opened his mouth and breathed deeply. His bloodshot eyes were filled with fear and panic. His fair cheeks were scratched by some sharp weapon. The blood slid down his collar with the raindrops. The flesh around the wound was white and rotten. Coupled with the man's terrified expression, he looked like a monster.

The man's lips were white and his throat could not shout any sound. He was extremely tired. His two legs continued to run forward mechanically. From time to time, he looked back, as if something was chasing him.

There seemed to be some faint sounds of conversation coming from the end of the path, and the man breathed a sigh of relief, a trace of joy of escaping death flashed across his eyes, but the next second, his chest felt a little cold, as if something was missing, he looked down, and saw his warm and beating heart being held in the palm of a clean white hand, and bright red blood stained his white shirt red...

"Huh?"

Jiang Yunqi seemed to sense something, he raised his eyes and looked at the lush green trees, a gust of wind blew, the leaves rustled, there was nothing, but there was a faint smell of blood in the air.

"What's wrong?"

Breakfast was a pot of instant noodles. Gu Bingchen saw Jiang Yunqi holding a chopstick of noodles and standing there in a daze, a little confused, "Is it not delicious? I can't cook rice, but I can cook instant noodles."

He ate the instant noodles in the bowl in big mouthfuls, eating them with a fragrant smell, causing the people around him to swallow their saliva frequently.

"Do you smell the smell of blood?" Jiang Yunqi put down his chopsticks. Gu Bingchen's

nostrils twitched: "No."

In addition to the tempting aroma of instant noodles, there was the smell of soil and grass after the rain.

"It's getting cold, you should eat quickly." Gu Bingchen looked at the instant noodles in Jiang Yunqi's bowl and urged.

Jiang Yunqi always felt a faint smell of blood and rotten meat lingering around his nose, which made him lose his appetite.

Xie Er handed over a green cucumber: "Eat this."

Gu Bingchen was thoughtful and took out a small orange from the space: "Eat this."

Looking at the two fruits and vegetables in front of him, Jiang Yunqi shook his head: "No, you guys eat it."

Then he lowered his head and slowly finished the noodles in the bowl that had already become a little cold.

"Cucumber? I want to eat it!" Long Yilan saw the cucumber in Xie Er's hand as soon as she came back, and quickly reached out to pick it up and took a bite, "Delicious!"

Xie Er opened his mouth, but the words of resistance were not spoken.

Long Yilan tilted her head: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, you eat it."

Gu Bingchen's lips curled slightly, and his fingers carefully tore off the orange string on the flesh, and when Jiang Yunqi was not paying attention, he stuffed it directly into his mouth.

The sweet juice of the flesh burst in his mouth unexpectedly.

Jiang Yunqi lowered his eyes and looked at Gu Bingchen's fingertips that had turned yellow from peeling orange peels.

"Is it sweet?" Gu Bingchen said, and handed over another orange segment.

Jiang Yunqi hurriedly took it: "I'll do it myself, thank you."

Gu Bingchen didn't force it, and put the peeled orange in Jiang Yunqi's palm, smiling: "You haven't told me yet, is it sweet?"

"Sweet."

"Hiss, do you feel that they..." Long Yilan narrowed her eyes slightly, chewed the cucumber, and muttered, "They seem a little...what's the word, yes, ambiguous."

Xie Er retracted his gaze, expressionless: "Really? Your illusion."

"Have you finished eating? We have to pack up and leave."

His tone was a little anxious and cold.

Long Yilan closed her eyes and watched his busy but unknown back.

Angry? Why?

"Ah!"

Just as they packed up and prepared to leave, a scream was heard.

It was Tan Ling.

She was seen staggering down the mountain, her body covered in mud, as if she had rolled in a mud pit.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing this, someone hurried forward to support her.

Tan Ling was shaking all over, her face was pale, her mouth was open, and she was breathing heavily.

She gasped, raised her hand, pointed her finger at the mountain, and her voice trembled: "There are... corpses up there... so... scary."

The person who supported her was puzzled. In this day and age, there are all kinds of corpses everywhere, how could she be so scared?

Lin Jinnan stepped forward, frowned, and asked: "Which specific location? I'll take people up to have a look."

Tan Ling said hoarsely: "Go up this path for 50 meters, see a big rock, and then walk to the left for more than 100 meters. It's not far. In fact, we can see it if we look up."

She was still a little dazed. She looked up, looked at the tallest tree, and said: "The location is probably near that tree."

After getting the specific location, Lin Jinnan immediately took the other two team members. Long Yilan was curious and followed.

They didn't go for long and came back in less than ten minutes.

Lin Jinnan, who was walking in the front, had an ugly face. The two team members understood why Tan Ling was so terrified.

Anyone who saw the cruel and bloody scene of taking a gun would feel disgusted and shivered.

Uh...except for the tall girl who was 1.8 meters tall.

After Long Yilan came back, she described the scene she saw in vivid detail.

A few minutes ago.

The straight line distance from the building where they were to the big tree was indeed not far, but it was winding, and the roadside was full of weeds and thorns. The muddy path after the rain was also very slippery, so it took two or three minutes to climb the mountain.

Before reaching the big tree, they smelled a strong smell of blood. After

pushing aside the human-like grass, even Lin Jinnan, who had seen too many corpses, couldn't help feeling a little disgusted.

Long Yilan glanced at their pale faces and couldn't help wondering. She squeezed Lin Jinnan aside and ran to the front.

All I could see was human organs and body parts scattered on the uneven muddy ground, with wounds on each part varying in size, as if they had been torn apart. The trunk

was cut open, and yellow-white liquid mixed with blood flowed on the ground. The scene was extremely bloody and terrifying.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound of leaves being stepped on in the bushes. Lin Jinnan tensed up and looked around vigilantly.

Suddenly, a head with eyes open rolled down the slope, gurgling, and finally stopped at his feet.

Long Yilan looked up, and only had time to see a pair of vertical pupils with green light.

"Vertical pupils? Green?"

Gu Bingchen thought with his chin on his hand: "Could it be an alien animal?"

"This mountain looks like there are a lot of wild animals living here."

"No." Jiang Yunqi squatted down to check the bite marks on the missing limbs, and said, "These bite marks are human."

Xie Er also took a stick and scratched the corpse twice, and found scratches on it. He stood up and patted the dirt on his hands: "At present, the possibility of it being an alien animal is relatively small."

Long Yilan put her hands on her hips: "But what I saw was really green vertical pupils."

"The world is so big that nothing is impossible." Gu Bingchen reached out and pulled up Jiang Yunqi who was squatting on the ground, and handed him a tissue, saying, "If it's not a mutant animal, then it can only be a zombie or... a survivor."

The 'nothing is impossible' he was talking about was not just referring to species. There were real examples of cannibalism during the famine decades ago, not to mention the apocalypse now. Xu

Kewen, who was hiding in the crowd, changed his expression slightly, and glanced at his companions beside him.

The thin and short girl received the meaning of Xu Kewen's eyes, lowered her eyes, shrank her body, and while the others were not paying attention, she dived into the dense grass.

"What should we do now?" Lin Jinnan asked Gu Bingchen consciously.

"Let's go, what else can we do?" Gu Bingchen put on sunglasses, shrugged his shoulders, and looked like it was none of his business.

Lin Jinnan: "Shouldn't we solve this hidden danger..."

He was interrupted by Mu Weixi before he finished speaking.

"Tsk, who said that we should go to the factory to rescue people earlier? Now you don't think the speed is slow? Don't forget that we have delayed a day... Well, if you insist on doing this, what about the people in the factory...? Our great saint Captain Lin~" Mu Weixi stretched out his tone, which was very weird.

Lin Jinnan was caught in a dilemma.

"We won't accompany you..." Gu Bingchen was about to get in the car and leave, and someone pulled the corner of his clothes twice.

Gu Bingchen seemed to understand something, tilted his head, and whispered: " Do you want to go and have a look?"

His hot breath sprayed on his earlobe. Jiang Yunqi moved his feet slightly and moved a little further away: "Well, do you want to join us?"

"You invited me, how can I refuse?" Gu Bingchen's eyes fell on Jiang Yunqi's red earlobe, and he suddenly felt a little dry in the mouth.

"But what Mu Weixi said just now is also right."

Jiang Yunqi didn't notice Gu Bingchen's deep eyes. After thinking it over again and again, he turned his head and said to Xie Er: "You and Alan go to the factory to save people."

Xie Er and Long Yilan were not surprised at all.

Gu Bingchen took out his own car, not the shabby car given by the base, and said casually: "Here are all the supplies given to you by the base."

"By the way, can you drive?" He was naturally asking Xie Er this question. He was not interested in Long Yilan's driving skills.

"Okay, thank you." Xie Er put away the items and opened the car door. Hearing this, he nodded, "Yes."

Long Yilan pouted, not happy with Gu Bingchen's denial of her driving skills.

"Brother Xie, Alan, be careful on the way." Jiang Yunqi thought for a while and reminded, "Everything is based on your own safety."

Xie Er raised a gentle smile on his handsome face: "Of course."

Lin Jinnan's eyes lit up. It was indeed a good idea to split the troops into two groups.

"Ayue, Xiaofeng, you two follow the Xuanbei team to the factory to rescue people." He glanced at Tan Ling, "Lingling, follow me."

The other two teams looked at each other and did not agree with Lin Jinnan's approach, but they were team members and knew that the captain's ideas could not be changed easily.

"Okay, we will complete the mission." The two drove the car behind Xie Er and the others.

"Boss, do we have to do this too?" The younger brother observed Mu Weixi's expression and asked carefully.

Mu Weixi said unhappily: "Idiot, do you think we have enough people?"

After that, he left without paying attention to the younger brother behind him.

"Are you here..." Lin Jinnan was about to ask about Xu Kewen's plan when he suddenly found that they were missing one person, "Where is that girl?"

His tone rose, and he seemed to be angry.

Xu Kewen also widened his eyes, looked around, and said in panic: "I don't know, have you seen where Xiaoxiao went?"

His companions were also anxious: "No, I didn't see her after I got up."

Lin Jinnan frowned and said firmly: "No, you are lying."