Chapter 81 This is an empty city
Pollution Zone No. 28 is about 300 kilometers away from the Dawn Base.
Zero Team and its accompanying reinforcements arrived at a nearby outpost in the early hours of the morning.
Under the cover of night, the outpost's blurred outline presents a stark silhouette, with the massive signal tower in the center resembling a guiding light illuminating the path ahead in the darkness.
Upon arriving at the outpost, the reinforcement troops quickly and systematically carried out inspection work.
There were too many cars to get in, so all the vehicles were parked in the wilderness outside.
All members of Team Zero disembarked in turn.
After regaining their keen senses, as Xie Tu said, the whole team was somewhat unaccustomed to it.
They used all the mutants they encountered along the way as practice subjects.
Duan Xi muttered to himself, "I guess I'll have to block it a few more times before I can switch modes freely after I get used to it."
The feeling was like listening to soft, light music through headphones, and the moment the barrier was removed, you accidentally pressed a button and the soft music suddenly turned into heavy metal rock.
Thump thump thump—
All the surrounding sounds turned into annoying noise, relentlessly drilling into my mind.
Duan Xi's spiritual form, the peregrine falcon, was now swaying and lying on the hood of the car, as if it were drunk.
"None of us are quite used to it, so the captain must be even less comfortable, right?"
Tao Haohao secretly turned his head to look.
After Xie Tu got out of the car, he went to the rear to talk to the adjutant of the reinforcements. His face was normal and his expression was calm. There was no sign of anything unusual about him.
"That's strange, how could there be no reaction?" Tao Haohao was completely baffled.
Nobody knows.
Within Xie Tu's mental realm, the Fire Phoenix was incessantly howling and throwing a tantrum.
After just a few days of peace and quiet, we are now facing the onslaught of noise from all directions, with all sorts of negative, dark, and oppressive things coming at us like a tidal wave.
[It hurts, why am I not her spirit form?]
Why didn't you let Qingluan in when she was giving psychological counseling to others a few days ago?
A guide can't have two spirit forms? I want to be with Qingluan...
Xie Tu: "Shut up!"
Yun Zhao yawned and got out of the car. "Are we staying here tonight?"
She's been so tired from training lately that she goes to bed at 10 p.m. every night.
It's already past midnight.
“Yes.” Rabbit ran over and pulled her, “Sister Yun Zhao, let’s go reserve a room first.”
Suppressing his agitation, Xie Tu leaned against the military truck behind him and continued to communicate with his adjutant about the next deployment location.
Through the reflection in the car window, his eyes inadvertently caught sight of that slender figure slowly entering the sentry post.
Those eyes were clear and calm, with a hint of sleepiness, showing no sign of panic or unease.
She didn't seem afraid?
I'm not worried about the mission at all.
A contradictory guide... whose temperament is unpredictable.
The team leader took care of the rest. Everyone greeted the people at the sentry post and chose their own rooms to rest.
The environment at guard post number 28 was nice; the rooms were clean, and the beds were especially large.
After washing up, Yun Zhao lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.
*
8 a.m.
After having breakfast, all members of Team Zero gathered at the gate of the sentry post.
Yun Zhao quickly tidied herself up and put on her combat uniform. On her waist, she wore a waist knife on her left side and the Diamond Bird gun that Xie Tu had chosen for her on her right side.
The training results were not good. He could fire a gun, but he could never hit the target. He only carried a small amount of ammunition in his backpack.
Carrying a gun is just in case.
If the city is full of monsters like last time, maybe you could hit two of them even with your eyes closed?
When the model worker team leader saw her appear, he looked away and said, "Let's go."
The flow rate in the contaminated area varies over time, but there is actually not much difference whether you go in the morning or at night.
The sentry post is 60 kilometers away from the No. 28 contaminated area.
Hundreds of vehicles of reinforcement troops followed behind the armored vehicles.
Just like last time.
After driving for a while, a swirling gray fog appeared in the distance, churning and twisting like a living thing, constantly devouring the azure sky.
The reinforcements stopped here.
Watching the black armored off-road vehicle speed away into the gray fog amidst the swirling yellow sand, kicking up billowing clouds of dust.
Inside the car.
This time, the four people in the back seat moved to the front of the car, and the six people held onto each other.
In fact, after reviewing the report, the intelligence team had already instructed the logistics department to produce a connecting belt with a buckle design.
However, given the precedent of Yun Zhao disappearing from his arms last time, Xie Tu did not use this method.
Using buckles, people tied together in a pulling motion can easily get injured if the terrain changes.
Why not just hold hands?
The rear compartment of the vehicle was filled with supplies.
Yun Zhao was practically lying on the back of the passenger seat. Rabbit grabbed her left hand, and she instinctively reached her right hand toward the man sitting in the passenger seat.
The man paused for a second, then slowly raised his large hand and gently grasped her outstretched right hand.
His palms were slightly rough, and the warmth of his hands traveled through her skin. His fingers curled slightly, easily enveloping her hand in his palms.
Yun Zhao was momentarily dazed.
She thought of her uncles again, how they had led her into Qingshan Town in the same way they had done back then.
However, it seems a little different.
So what exactly is the difference?
"Get ready, stay alert, we're going in!"
Song Liang had barely finished speaking.
The vehicle was suddenly engulfed by an endless gray fog, which seized and enveloped the air in the space, gathering together as if it had a life force.
But in the blink of an eye, they quickly retreated.
Contaminated Zone 28 is opening its doors to Team Zero, as if to say, 'Welcome!'
*
Things are changing too fast.
Just as Yun Zhao came to his senses, the scenery around him had already changed.
The armored off-road vehicle seemed to have crossed an invisible boundary, suddenly driving into an empty city.
The sky here is gray-black, and a thick haze covers the entire city, making people feel extremely depressed.
However, people's vision is not obstructed.
Under the gray sky, it seemed to be shrouded in a faint glow.
The light was somewhat like moonlight, but there was no moon overhead.
A faint light filtered through the gray fog, softening and blurring the outlines of the surrounding buildings. The sharp edges and broken corners seemed to have been smoothed out, presenting a dreamlike texture.
It made the whole city seem even more gloomy and terrifying, like a ghost town forgotten by the world.
No one in the car made a sound.
The sentries are unleashing all their senses, probing everything around them.
The streets were littered with various discarded items—rusty car wrecks, overturned trash cans, broken glass, and scattered documents.
The buildings on both sides were riddled with holes, their walls covered with mottled marks, some blackened by smoke, others dented by unknown forces.
Almost none of the window panes are intact, and the colorful billboards have long since faded and been damaged, with the lettering blurred and illegible, only some remaining patterns and lines barely discernible.
The wide, eight-lane intersection was utterly silent.
It was extremely quiet all around, without any noise or human voices.
Occasionally, a gust of wind blows by, stirring up dust and trash from the ground. After swirling in the air for a moment, the trash slowly falls back to its original state.
"Is this a ghost town?"
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