Embers Ad Infinitum

Startled, Long Yuehong instinctively grabbed the "Berserker" assault rifle next to her and jumped up.

Just when he was hesitating whether to throw away the lunch box held in the other hand, Jiang Baimian looked around calmly:

"There is no movement..."

She immediately smiled at Long Yuehong:

"Don't be nervous, isn't this really close yet?

"Sit down, sit down, wait for the can to heat up and eat."

While speaking, she patted the grenade gun nicknamed "Tyrant" beside her.

On the other side of the bonfire, Bai Chen observed carefully for a while, then turned his attention back to the food.

"But, team leader, there are things approaching us! Aren't you worried about being attacked suddenly?" Long Yuehong couldn't understand Jiang Baimian's attitude.

Jiang Baimian stared at the cans that had already been opened and said:

"Isn't there Shang Jian Yao who is prepared for this situation?

"If that thing doesn't come close all the time, don't we just stop eating and wait for it here? If we're really hungry and exhausted, it will affect our performance instead."

She gradually smiled:

"In short, as long as the sky hasn't fallen, it won't affect our filling our stomachs."

Long Yuehong sat down suspiciously, and looked up at Shang Jianyao from time to time, fearing that he might make a mistake and fail to find the enemy who had entered the dangerous range.

As the flame flickered, the juice in the can melted, and the indescribable aroma continued to spread around.

This is the taste of pork, soybeans, salt, and spices mixed through complex processes, making everyone present seem to have a hand stretched out of their stomachs, uncontrollably drilled through their throats and reached their mouths.

"Okay." Jiang Baimian smiled sincerely.

At this moment, on the top of the collapsed buildings, where the green vines were entwined, a black figure rushed out and went straight to Long Yuehong beside the campfire.

While the flames were shaking, Shang Jianyao and others finally saw the black shadow clearly:

She is a female human, with ragged clothes, revealing dirty skin with thicker hair, and her hair hangs down in a mess, greasy, condensed into strands and strands.

Her nails were long and sharp, shining coldly, her eyes were bloodshot and cloudy, like a beast.

Her body was bent, and her speed was extremely fast, like an ape swinging from a vine.

boom!

Shang Jianyao just raised the assault rifle in his hand when he heard a gunshot.

bang! The incoming black shadow fell heavily to the ground.

Her face was facing up, and there was an exaggerated, hideous blood hole from her left chest to her shoulder, and no intact place could be found.

After two twitches, the female human lost her life.

Jiang Baimian took back the "United 202" pistol and said calmly:

"A 'mindless one'."

"Unintentional"... Long Yuehong looked at the corpse in surprise and curiosity.

This is a noun that everyone who studies the history of gray soil cannot bypass, and it is also a thing described in the internal textbooks of "Pangaea".

"Innocent" is also called "unintentional", referring to human beings who suffer from "unintentional disease" - this disease is also known as "veterinary disease" and "atavism", which means that the sick human beings will lose All rationality, thoughts, and emotions have turned into beast-like creatures, leaving only the instinct of predation, survival, and the instinct of using simple tools.

They cannot communicate, and will actively attack normal humans, treating each other as prey.

The earliest appearance of "unintentional disease" was when the old world was destroyed. A large number of human beings in a city became "unintentional people" in a short period of time, and more unsuspecting people died at the hands of "unintentional people".

Since the "unintentional people" need to eat to survive, just like real beasts, after the collapse of the human order and the advent of the Great Famine, they quickly died in large numbers after consuming all the "food stocks" in the city, leaving less than a hundred one-fifth of the amount.

According to the observations of many historical researchers on the dusty soil, in addition to hunting and killing humans, the "unintentional ones" also prey on wild animals, dig tree roots, pick fruits, catch mutated and non-mutated mice to eat, and when they are most hungry, they will attack each other.

With such a "recipe" and living environment, the "unintentional people" rarely live beyond the age of thirty, but they have the instinct to reproduce and have a large number of offspring.

And the "unintentional ones" after the first generation will have a little more wisdom and stronger hunting ability.

It stands to reason that when humans restore a certain order and have enough firepower, it is not too difficult to deal with the "unintentional people" who are closer to the beasts, but it is not the case.

On the one hand, although the "unintentional people" don't know how to disassemble and maintain weapons, they will use them, as if they have the instinct in this area - the farther away from the "intentional ones" of the first generation, the stronger the instinct in this area, and, " The unintentional ones have the essence of human beings, and they will be polluted and deformed. While causing a large number of unintentional ones to die painfully, they also created a group of top hunters.

Of course, no matter how good the "unintentional people" are at using weapons, they don't know scientific research, they don't know how to organize production, and they don't know how to maintain and maintain them. Too much trouble. After all, humans have the technology of "inducing mutations and genetic modification". Even if they are not so mature and have a low success rate, they can still crush the "unintentional people" who watch the sky and eat.

On the other hand, human beings have never found out the pathogenesis and transmission rules of "unintentional disease", and do not know how to prevent this disease, which makes soldiers unwilling to go to areas where "unintentional people" gather for fear of being infected. Therefore, after the major forces have eliminated the "unintentional people" around them, they are unwilling to deal with those entrenched in the ruins of the old world cities.

To this day, "Wuxin disease" is still a shadow hanging over human heads.

Because even if you have not had direct contact with the "unintentional people", people who live well in the settlements may lose their rationality and wisdom after a night of sleep and become "beasts".

But their relatives and friends are completely fine, and there is no sign of infection at all-this is the conclusion drawn after long-term isolation and observation.

In the early years, there was a high-ranking man who was extremely afraid of "unintentional disease", sleeping in an isolation room, wearing a gas mask and chemical protective clothing when going in and out, and as a result, he became an "unintentional person" one day.

Fortunately, since the new calendar, the average incidence rate of "no-heart disease" is not too high, otherwise human beings may have collapsed.

The horror of that corpse made Long Yuehong's throat ache when he saw a similar picture for the first time, and subconsciously turned his head away, not daring to look at it again.

"It looks like the first generation." Bai Chen recalled just now and made a judgment.

"Judging from the degree of tatters in the clothes, the onset of the disease did not exceed one year." Jiang Baimian looked at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong, "Do you need me to tell you about the 'unintentional' again?"

Seeing that Yao didn't answer, Shang suddenly said:

"This is not the shadow I just saw.

"That shadow is shorter."

Jiang Baimian nodded lightly and said:

"You two search the body to see if there are any valuable items, then carry the body outside and bury it. Don't leave the place illuminated by the fire."

She thought about it, walked to the jeep, took out four black things, and threw one to Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:

"The walkie-talkie has an effective range of two kilometers, and it will be farther in open areas.

"If there is any situation, let me know immediately, you guys should know how to use it?"

"I can fix it." Shang Jianyao answered irrelevantly.

Both he and Long Yuehong graduated from the electronics department of the university.

Long Yuehong hung up the walkie-talkie, and walked hesitantly to the body of the "unintentional person".

The smell of fresh blood mixed with an indescribable stench rolled upwards, making Long Yuehong, who was timid and afraid to look at the corpse, almost vomited.

Shang Jian Yao walked over, took the initiative to search, and then stood on the head of the corpse, that is, the side with the gunshot wound.

"Do you need me to recite it?" He said to Long Yuehong.

"Uh..." Long Yuehong wanted to say that it would not be good for Shang Jianyao to carry the corpse by himself.

"I mean, do you need me to carry you?" Shang Jianyao explained expressionlessly.

Long Yuehong gave a dry laugh:

"no, I'm fine."

He bent down and grabbed the corpse's feet.

Shang Jianyao put his arms through the armpits of the unintentional man.

Blood dripped little by little, and the two carried the corpse out of the open space, dug a hole at the edge of the fire, and buried the corpse in it.

This somewhat affected Long Yuehong's appetite, so he only ate a piece of compressed biscuit and half a can of roasted pork with soybeans.

The sky was getting darker and darker, Jiang Baimian was about to arrange the order of tonight's night duty, when a roar came from afar:

"Aww!"

The voice resounded through the sky, rough and desolate, like a nightmare at night.

As soon as it fell, one after another roared in different places in the big swamp, echoing endlessly.

Long Yuehong's heart trembled when she heard it, and she couldn't help asking:

"Is this a pack of wolves?"

"Have you ever seen wolves scattered in different places?" Jiang Baimian laughed.

"Is it common for wild beasts to roar everywhere in this big swamp?" Long Yuehong asked anxiously.

Jiang Baimian shook his head, his smile remained unchanged:

"Unusual."

"What, what should we do?" Long Yuehong asked blurted out.

Jiang Baimian gave him a funny look:

"This is indeed a bit unusual, indicating that something may have happened deep in the swamp.

"But looking at the general area and direction, there is no intersection with our route and destination at all, so don't worry about it."

"Don't worry about it?" Long Yuehong looked at Shang Jianyao next to him, and found that he was not afraid at all.

Seeing this, Bai Chen, who was in charge of guarding the surrounding area, calmly said:

"On the Black Marsh wilderness, there will be anomalies or accidents every few days, how can we manage it?

"With such a large wilderness, the possibility that those things will affect you is very low."

"But what if it is affected?" Long Yuehong asked.

Shang Jianyao stared at the bonfire and said:

"That only shows that your name is not good."

"...That's right, you can't avoid a bad fate, and you can't meet a good fate." Long Yuehong gritted her teeth and nodded.

Jiang Baimian couldn't understand the conversation between the two, and he was too embarrassed to ask, so he could only smile and say:

"We are far away from the place where the incident happened, and we don't know the specific situation at all, so we can't prepare in advance.

"Without withdrawing the company, the only option is to go around that place, go a little further, and that's our route."

"This is much more reasonable than it sounded just now..." Long Yuehong thought about it carefully, and found that the two ways of expressing the same meaning had completely different effects.

Jiang Baimian laughed and said:

"So, learn to grasp the essence of things.

"In this regard, Shang Jianyao is much better than you. You see, he has never been nervous."

Shang Jian Yao nodded slightly and said:

"I'm just thinking about getting involved."

"Ah?" Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen all looked puzzled.

Shang Jian Yao opened his mouth and made a sound:

"Aww!"

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