107 Chapter 107
Chapter 107
"Then let's go take a look. If we can't find anything, we'll have to wait for the higher-ups to send in frontline investigators. Hopefully, there's nothing wrong with them."
My friend lowered his head and continued to fiddle with the communicator for a while. By the time he finished speaking, he had basically finished fiddling with it as well.
"Let's go, Xiao Lan. Didn't you say before that you stayed in this town for a while? Take us there."
As the friend spoke, he gestured for Uncle Xiao to walk in front.
"Okay, but there was an earthquake in this town a while ago, and there have been some changes. I guess there are some places I'm not very familiar with."
Uncle Xiao nodded in agreement, turned around and walked ahead to lead the way for his friends.
"You just sent a message to your superiors. What did it mean?"
Uncle Xiao was walking in front. Thinking of what he had just reported to his superiors, he couldn't resist his anxiety and asked.
"I thought you could hold it in for a long time, but you can't hold it in for even a short time."
Hearing Uncle Xiao's question, his friend chuckled.
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and speak." Uncle Xiao glanced at his friend and urged him to speak quickly.
"Okay, okay, right away."
Seeing that Uncle Xiao was really getting anxious, his friend began to speak calmly.
"What the higher-ups mean is that we should first investigate around those people to make sure we don't have enough manpower. If we can't confirm, they will send someone over.
However, it will take a few days for someone from above to come over, so we have to come on our own during these few days."
As the friend spoke, he put the communicator away and took out the necessary exploration equipment from the bag on his back.
"Let's divide the work. Xiao Lan and I will be in the front, and you two will watch us from behind and observe any details we haven't noticed."
As the friend spoke, he turned around to look at the remaining two first-line friends who had been following behind them without saying much.
The four of them met after working on front-line investigations. From then on, whenever they cooperated, they would depend on each other's lives and deaths and act together. This kind of friendship cannot be simply described.
Not to mention the friends themselves, even the two people behind them who didn't say much were rescued by Uncle Xiao.
Back then in the mine in Sangshan, no one before the two of them knew that such a strange place would appear in this mutated world.
If Uncle Xiao had not disregarded his own safety and insisted on going in to investigate, and had not taken rescue measures on them after seeing the two people, the two would not have been able to wait for the rescue, let alone survive until now.
"Okay, don't worry."
The two agreed in unison.
They were used to this process. When they teamed up to complete a task before, the four of them stood like this.
Knowing that Xiao Lan and the other man were taking care of them, it would be safer for them to stand at the back.
"It should be ahead. The town here is pretty good. The normal residential area was gone because of the earthquake, but the police station where people are detained is still there. There is nothing wrong with it.
Later, it was strengthened by the esper of the defense team, and now even esper can be imprisoned."
Uncle Xiao said this as he led his friend through the numerous ruins and headed towards their destination.
"arrive."
As he spoke, Uncle Xiao and his friends stood at the gate of a building among the ruins.
"Hello, we are invited by Mayor Xiao. Can we go in and investigate now?"
Uncle Xiao looked at the defense team members standing guard at the door of the building and explained softly.
"The mayor told us, please go in, someone will greet you inside."
The members of the defense team on duty had been fed up with the stupid people in the town these days. When they heard Uncle Xiao's purpose, and since Mayor Xiao had informed them in advance, they didn't have any objections and turned around to signal them to go in directly.
"I'm sorry to bother you."
Uncle Xiao smiled at the two people at the door and said something polite.
"Well, this isn't a problem. It's the people inside who are the real trouble."
The guards on duty waved their hands repeatedly, complained, and watched Uncle Xiao and his companions go in.
After they could no longer see anyone, the two men continued to stand guard, but their attention was still a little distracted.
"Do you think they can find the reason?"
After looking around and making sure there were no suspicious people, one of them asked his colleague who was standing guard with him.
"I'm not sure, but I heard this person was specially invited by the mayor. He came from such a long distance, so he must be quite capable, right? I'm really fed up with those who attack us."
Hearing the question from his colleague next to him, another guard replied softly.
Although most of the people who attacked them were ordinary people, even if some of them knew more and could make weapons, although those weapons had been eliminated from the battlefield market for a long time before the mutation, the damage they could cause to those who awakened their abilities after the mutation was limited.
But no matter how limited it is, it is really annoying to have them come every day, especially when they have finished work and are about to go home to rest.
If the higher-ups hadn't been watching closely and not allowing them to actually kill those people, they might have gone to great lengths to kill them.
They are not saints. People are here to save their lives. How could they easily get around them?
If the higher-ups can't find out anything this time, even if the defense team members don't say anything, I believe Mayor Xiao will give them an explanation.
It's because these people are so ungrateful that even Mayor Xiao is targeting them.
Now, anyone in this town who has a bit of common sense looks down on those people and says they have a brain problem.
These days, ordinary people in the town can still live so peacefully without any danger to their lives. As far as they know, firstly, the Flower-Growing Country is still there and has strict control from above; secondly, Mayor Xiao is in charge and can transfer supplies from outside. When there is a shortage of food, he even goes to the mountains to plant crops to meet the living needs of the town’s residents; thirdly, the members of the defense team work tirelessly. A team is divided into several groups to defend the town, which ensures the town’s public security and keeps ordinary people within a safe range to prevent them from being attacked by the mutated animals and plants outside.
If the Flower Country fell apart like other countries outside, ordinary people like them would not know what would become of them. Could they still live such a stable life?
How can we blame the defense forces for all the casualties caused by natural disasters like earthquakes?
Besides, when the outer defense wall has been collapsed and mutant animals and plants emerge from everywhere to attack people at any time, if all the defense team members really have to dig people out from the rubble, what will happen to the ordinary people in the town who are still outside helping to rescue survivors? What will happen to the survivors who are rescued and urgently resettled and cannot move?
If a mutant animal or plant sneaks in, a bunch of people will die.
While the two people outside were talking about the people imprisoned in the building, Uncle Xiao and his companions had already met the person in charge who was guarding those people inside.
"They're right inside. They have some evil minds and won't listen to anything we say. It's like they have a lump. We talked them over for a long time and finally convinced them to get rid of the lump. But after a while, the lump grew back."
The person in charge was speechless when he mentioned the people locked up inside. He couldn't understand how they could have such different ideas when they ate in the same cafeteria and the same food every day.
Not to mention those people with special abilities and official personnel, even the survivors who barely managed to survive the earthquake have all experienced life and death ordeals, but none of them have experienced anything like this!
"Okay, it's okay. We are just watching and not planning to do anything."
When Uncle Xiao heard the person in charge's complaints, he smiled and tried to comfort him.
"Okay, you guys work here, I'll wait outside."
The person in charge saw that Uncle Xiao and his team had already taken out the equipment and were ready to work, so he didn't stand there and block their work.
After saying this, he turned and walked outside. He stopped when he was in a position where he felt he could see inside without disturbing anyone.
Uncle Xiao and the others didn't mind being watched. After making sure that no one would come up to disturb them, they took out some equipment from their backpacks and began to investigate the tied-up people inside.
"What are you doing?"
The group of people tied up inside were all silent when they saw someone coming in. But when they saw Uncle Xiao and the others looking so strange, they couldn't help but feel uneasy. One of them couldn't hold back and started asking.
"I'm just curious about what you guys think, so I wanted to come and take a look."
Uncle Xiao did not choose to ignore these people's questions, but answered them instead.
The answer came in a gentle voice, without any arrogance of someone who had a slightly higher social status than these people.
The tone and expression are very comfortable.
"What else can I think? Those defense team members are eating the taxes we pay, but they didn't take action at the critical moment. If they had taken action at that time, my family would not be buried alive in the ground!"
After hearing Uncle Xiao's question and seeing that Uncle Xiao and his group just came in and took the equipment, the group of people who were tied up inexplicably felt that Uncle Xiao and his group were just ordinary people.
Therefore, they were not very hostile towards Uncle Xiao and his companions, and at this time they could actually have a relatively kind attitude towards Uncle Xiao and his companions.
What they say at this time is basically what is in their hearts.
However, how much of these inner thoughts are what they want to express subjectively, or whether something amplifies their thoughts, forcing them to focus all their energy on it and develop hatred towards the outside world, this remains to be considered.
Watching Uncle Xiao chatting with these people, his friend lowered his head to check the data on the instrument, and the remaining two looked at the data while observing the micro-expressions of those people when they were talking, trying to see something on their faces.
After Uncle Xiao and these people had nothing to say and kept repeating the same words over and over again, his friend nodded towards Uncle Xiao.
"Thank you for talking to me today. I will discuss what you said with the higher-ups. As for the possible consequences, I don't know. After all, I'm just a nobody."
Uncle Xiao said this as he said goodbye to the group of people tied up inside.
After they came out, the person in charge who had been watching the whole process outside came forward, closed the door, and locked it carefully.
Then he looked at Uncle Xiao and the others with confusion in his eyes.
He also knew that this was how other people worked, and since he was not clear about the details of the work, he would not ask inappropriate questions.
"Confused? Ever since the mutation, you've basically been relying on your abilities to guard against those mutated plants and animals and protect the people. You probably don't know much about the things mentioned above."
Uncle Xiao saw the confusion of the person in charge and spoke with a smile.
"At first, we were also confused. Why, after so many people with special abilities emerged, some of them were even more inclined towards the exploration category? Those special abilities could completely replace us frontline explorers. Why didn't they just replace us directly, but instead retained the ordinary people in the frontline exploration category?"
Uncle Xiao did not hide anything from the people under his nephew. After all, what he said was not a secret in front of his superiors or people who were more informed, and there was nothing he couldn't say.
"Because ordinary people also have their own advantages. For example, those with special abilities, if they want to explore more carefully, they need to upgrade their abilities. After the ability is upgraded, the pressure of the ability will be higher, and many mutant plants and animals will not buy into it."
"Ordinary people are different. Ordinary people appear quite harmless when placed in the outside environment. Advanced mutant plants and animals focus on improving themselves, and most of the time they don't want to bother with ordinary people whose spiritual energy content is not very high.
In this way, if you want to survive outside, you just need to make sure you don't get killed and used as food by medium or low-level mutant plants and animals who are always thinking about getting stronger.
The saying 'pick the weak and pick the weak' also applies to the wild today. Between ordinary people who are good at hunting and those with special abilities, the priority is definitely ordinary people. This is the time for them to naturally find those mutated animals and plants, record them, understand them, and explore them.
"Then this time..."
After listening to Uncle Xiao say so much, the person in charge who followed them still had some confusion.
"It's very simple, this time it really is the mutants that are causing trouble.
I just don’t know what kind of mutant creatures are out there.
For now, the most likely one is one that has never been included in the material so far.
The other party's strength is not among the top ones, so they target ordinary people for use. Ordinary people are easier to control than those with special abilities, and those with special abilities are also quite constrained by their responsibilities in front of ordinary people."
"They were able to target ordinary people so quickly, so they clearly still have their brains. They're not some mutant that mutated and lost their brains. I just don't know why they're so hostile to humans."
Uncle Xiao spoke with confusion in his eyes. As for the mutant creatures they had collected so far, as long as they had brains, their hatred for humans would only last for a period of time. After they were sure that the object of their hatred was dead, they would choose to live in areas far away from human life.
The rest have basically lost their brains after mutation, and their attacks on humans are basically instincts left in their bodies.
This was the first time that Uncle Xiao and the others encountered someone with brains, but whose hatred towards humans was too intense and who had no clear target.
Uncle Xiao and his friends were sent to the door by the person in charge. After saying goodbye, Uncle Xiao took his friends to go somewhere else.
"I've rarely been around this town, and after the earthquake, I'm not familiar with much of what's left. Luckily, there are fewer buildings now, so it's easier to remember. Let's split up and gather information from all around, focusing on the ordinary people."
Uncle Xiao said this, looking down at the distribution map of the town on the communicator.
Since the mutant creature can change the thoughts of ordinary people so accurately, it should not be far away from ordinary people, but should be relatively close. It should be in a place where it can influence ordinary people without being discovered.
The town is not big, and the previous earthquake has automatically reduced people's original activity area. Now the remaining areas where people can move around are basically surrounded by the protective walls rebuilt behind the defense team.
It shouldn't be easy to get in under the noses of so many people with special abilities in the defense team, and it shouldn't be possible to come in from outside and influence ordinary people.
Most likely, the mutant itself is within the safe confines of the town.
Thinking of this possibility, Uncle Xiao and the others looked at each other, unable to laugh.
"Is your nephew capable?"
The friend turned to look at Uncle Xiao and asked softly.
"Yes, he has the ability. I still don't understand his ability, but he said that he could see the light on that person on the mountain. How could he not see that a killer star had appeared on his territory below the mountain?"
When Uncle Xiao heard his friend's question, he gritted his teeth thinking about the ability of his unfortunate nephew.
No need to think about it, it must be because his ability itself is auxiliary, and there are too many things to deal with in the town, so the idiot put the improvement of his ability aside, otherwise he would not have been fooled by a killer for so long!
This is killing me! Right under my nose, my nephew's ability is improving normally, and he should be able to see it. But because Xiao Changdong gave up on improving his ability, things have turned out like this. In the end, they have to come and see it. After that, they can't handle the abnormality they have detected and have to wait for the leaders to dispatch people to deal with it!
"This... Although the higher-ups don't really consider special abilities when it comes to job promotions, having one more will definitely add a lot of points. Talk to your younger generation about it and ask them to pay some attention to it."
After listening to Xiao Lan's words, several friends nearby were also speechless.
These people want to have abilities but cannot awaken them. Xiao Changdong has the abilities, but he thinks they are just auxiliary and puts improving his abilities after government affairs, thus delaying the improvement of his abilities. I am really impressed.
"I'm sure I'll tell you what I said."
Listening to his friends' words, Uncle Xiao nodded, but he would not tell Xiao Changdong directly, but turned to talk to the old man at home.
He was too lazy to teach the kid a lesson, and the words of the elders in the family were more powerful.
"Let's go, let's go check first. If we can't find anything, we'll just watch and wait for the dispatchers to come over. If that doesn't work, we'll go up the mountain and ask the boss to come."
As Uncle Xiao was speaking, he couldn't help but think of the man on the mountain when he encountered difficulties he couldn't solve. He reached out and touched the locust leaf he was wearing, and felt a little relieved.
"We're already at the foot of the mountain, that person shouldn't just ignore it, right..."
Muttering something under his breath, Uncle Xiao turned around and separated from his friends.
After all, they are ordinary people. Even though they carry the most advanced equipment developed by the research institute, they still cannot detect the mutant creature that can cause trouble under the noses of so many people with special abilities.
Helplessly, Uncle Xiao could only give the information he had found to Mayor Xiao, while they waited in the town for the front-line investigation and first-line ability teams dispatched by the leaders above to help.
Because this time they dispatched a team of first-line capable people with strong abilities who arrived quickly, Uncle Xiao and the others only had to wait in the town for two days before they arrived.
Looking at the person coming, he looks familiar.
"I'm sorry to bother you again. We sensed something was amiss in this town when my nephew said something was wrong. We didn't expect that the mutant creature was more capable of hiding than we thought."
Uncle Xiao spoke with a hint of familiarity, and couldn't help but think of what happened in the past two days.
Just in the past two days, they saw two groups of people attacking the defense team's ability users.
This has caused the defense team to feel irritated these days when they patrol and defend areas where ordinary people gather.
Although the members of the defense team are all people with special abilities and will not be killed, those people always launch sneak attacks on them when they are off duty, and use human wave tactics in between.
The defense force cannot harm ordinary people's lives, so injuries are common.
The defense team's ability users felt uncomfortable and annoyed when they thought about having to consider others and suffer injuries that they shouldn't have suffered.
The timeline has been stretched so long that the defense team's patience with ordinary people has been almost exhausted.
If it drags on for a few more days, not to mention Uncle Xiao, even Mayor Xiao cannot guarantee how long he can suppress the violent emotions of the defense team's ability users.
In some respects, it has to be said that the mutant creature was very successful, but by hiding for a period of time, it was able to directly split humanity into two factions.
If we don't find it, there's no guarantee that they won't start killing each other.
"We came here directly after seeing the dispatch mission here. We didn't really know the specific situation at first."
After hearing what Uncle Xiao said, Captain Dai explained softly.
Every team has some bias when doing tasks. Just like their team, except for very urgent tasks, they will choose locations close to their homes for the remaining tasks.
"And now?"
Knowing that the other party hadn't finished speaking, Uncle Xiao took the rare opportunity to act as the supporting actor.
"Now we know. We have almost figured out this mission on the way."
Captain Dai chuckled softly, his voice steady and inexplicably reassuring.
"But after this, all the espers in this town will need special training."
Although it was a mutant creature that had never appeared before, considering that the mutant creature had been causing trouble in their territory for so long and they had not discovered any trace of it, special training was necessary.
"You guys go back and wait, we'll go find it."
Captain Dai took his men to the place where Uncle Xiao and his team had determined that mutant creatures were most likely to exist.
"Mo Shan, listen, is there any movement over here?"
When they arrived at the place, Captain Dai first asked Mo Shan to use his ability to listen to the movements around him.
Mo Shan's abilities have been growing since he found the spirit stone vein in Sangshan, which provided more resources for frontline people to improve their abilities.
If we say that Mo Shan's ability before was that he could connect to electronic products and get in touch with people through electronic products, and later he could directly connect with the person out of thin air, but now, he can find people who can be contacted within a certain range, and he can also quickly screen out the most capable ones among these people.
This ability would only be useful at other times when their team felt the mission was difficult and was ready to call for help from a team with strength comparable to theirs.
But at this time, it was like directly naming the mutant creature.
"There's movement here, but I don't think it's what we're looking for."
After receiving Captain Dai's instructions, Mo Shan listened quietly for a while, and after making a judgment, he turned to Captain Dai and shook his head.
"Okay, let's change places." Without any doubt about Mo Shan's words, Captain Dai took the team members away directly.
After changing several places, and almost finishing the places that Uncle Xiao and his team had found before, Mo Shan still didn't sense any signal suspected of the mutant creature.
"Change it again. If we still can't find it, we'll have to search for it ourselves and lock onto the mutant creature."
Hearing the negative answer again, Captain Dai shook his head slightly. Just as they made the decision, Mo Shan sensed something unusual in the next place Captain Dai mentioned.
"It's over there, but there are too many people over there."
Looking at the lively scene ahead, Captain Dai also frowned.
"There are indeed a lot of people. Go find Mayor Xiao and ask him to send people to evacuate them." Captain Dai turned around and gave the order.
"Okay, right away."
Tang Ji had been following Captain Dai. When he heard his order, he turned around and left, obviously heading towards the government office.
"It's really convenient to have a collective cafeteria here. It just happened to be convenient for that mutant to attack. They really know how to choose a place."
Mo Shan spoke softly while sensing the direction of the mutant creature's signal.
He cannot sense a specific location. His ability is to connect two different locations to achieve the purpose of communication. If he can locate the specific location, there will be no need for communication.
After a while, Mo Shan came close to Captain Dai and others, pointing his finger slightly in one direction.
"It's over there. The exact location needs to be determined. Deputy Captain, Luo Sui, I leave it to you."
Mo Shan said, nodding in the direction of the deputy captain.
"Don't worry, as long as the deputy captain can expose its energy field, I can lock it."
Mo Shan's words perked up Luo Sui. He looked around, as if ready to lock onto the mutant creature at any time.
The deputy captain who was called out by both sides said nothing, with a slight smile on his lips. He waited for Mayor Xiao to bring people to evacuate those ordinary people. After seeing Mo Shan nod, he confirmed that the thing was still in that direction and had not moved because the crowd had left. Only then did he feel at ease to release his ability.
The explosive power exploded in this area, causing the entire space to tremble for a moment.
At this trembling moment, Luo Sui locked onto a very strong energy fluctuation in that space.
"Found it! He ran away."
Luo Sui had just seen the energy area that suddenly appeared, and had just used his ability to lock it. Before he could see clearly whether he had locked it, he saw the energy area disappear in an instant.
When the deputy captain launched another attack in that area, trying to force it out again, there was no energy fluctuation.
This mutant creature that appeared and disappeared in an instant made everyone present a little disappointed.
Luo Sui felt a little uncomfortable. He had almost locked onto the location of that thing just now, but how could he have missed it...
"Huh?! It seems... it didn't fail!"
Disappointment gathered, Luo Sui was unwilling to give up, but there was nothing he could do. He sensed the power he had just thrown out and wanted to take it back.
Only after this sensation did he discover that the power that had been lost and motionless before was now slowly moving towards the mountain.
【Author’s words】
I want to update monthly this month and try to update as frequently as possible. This book has been delayed for a long time, so hugs to my dears~ [heart]
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