Chapter 1323 Dry City
The air in the swamp area is particularly humid and hot, and the area is too large, so staying in the hot air balloon for a long time gradually makes people feel suffocated.
At this time, on the simple map, Xu Huo was not yet a quarter from point A of the Twin Cities.
After Cao Qinglin was poisoned, the antidote could only last for half an hour. Every half an hour later, she had to take another antidote. The toxin was added with internal injuries, and there was no good resting environment. Her condition was worse than on the train.
Fortunately, after three hours, the hot air balloon finally broke away from the swamp area. Without the obstruction of fog, the view ahead suddenly became wider, so at a glance, you could see an abandoned city not far away.
"I finally saw the city. I don't know if there are any people inside." Qiu Ming said.
If you get closer, you can see clearly that the city is covered with iron fences.
The fences that are dozens of meters high are covered with sharp blades, and there are three layers of iron nets inside and outside. However, many places are damaged and no corpses are seen. There are some animal teeth and nails stuck on them and they have not been cleaned, with old traces.
"Has this been broken by alien species?" Cao Qinglin looked down. At this time, the hot air balloon was approaching the edge of the city. From this location, you can see the dilapidated appearance of the city. Because there is no vegetation around and the climate is not suitable for plant growth, even the greening turns into rows of dilapidated dead grass. Occasionally, the wind swept by, and the dead branches and leaves shattered like long-standing paper.
The whole city looks gray, and whether it is buildings, vehicles or other parked on the ground, they are covered with sand and dust. Not to mention people, they don’t even see a mutant animal.
The hot air balloon crossed the iron net and walked along the avenue in the middle of the city. However, at this time, a leaky sound came from the hot air balloon, and the glass house hanging below also shaking.
"The props have failed and are going to go down." Before the hot air balloon fell completely, Xu Huo collected the props, used the strings to pause in the air for a brief time, and then landed smoothly on the ground.
Qiu Ming hugged Cao Qinglin. The two of them used a parachute prop, which was a little slower and only landed beside Xu Huo after a few seconds. Qiu Ming looked around with alert, "I didn't find anyone else."
Xu Huo said that he had no gains either.
Cao Qinglin said: "Maybe it was the interference instruments arranged in the city before. In order to prevent air strikes by foreign players, some districts simply blocked the air. Although the city was abandoned, the instruments may not fail."
"The place looks quite small, so it may be a bit difficult to find interference instruments." Qiu Ming looked around for a week.
"Don't bother, hike over." Xu Huo looked at the crooked vehicle on the side, "If you are lucky, you may find a useful car."
So the three of them walked along the main street and left three strings of footprints on the dusty ground.
The dust in the air fluttered like fine snow, and it seemed that after a short while, the fresh footprints were covered with a lighter layer.
The three of them didn't walk fast, Qiu Ming said, "Be careful not to step into the random copy."
The entrance to the random copy has no fixed shape. Sometimes it may be an item, sometimes it is simply a demarcated area. Many times it is difficult to capture even the instrument because the entrance to some random copy is not always open.
However, for Xu Huo, who already controls the power of space, he can identify some special items, and the items representing random entrances often have different spatial rays from the surrounding things, which are very conspicuous - when he came down, he checked the nearby area, and there was no suspicious existence.
At least not on the surface.
The battle marks on the street are already very old. Many places have a sank of dust, but no corpses or corpses of alien species are seen. This is a city that has been attacked by alien species. Whether it is alien species or people have cleaned up the corpses on the iron net outside, the city streets should not be so "clean".
"There is a parking lot below." Qiu Ming discovered an underground passage, and the door was blocked by an iron fence covered with strips. As soon as he lifted the iron fence, his shriveled head suddenly fell from the mess!
Qiu Ming was startled and subconsciously kicked the body that was falling toward him. The thing had been dried up by the wind. It was covered with scum on the ground without rolling out three meters away.
"I said why can't I see the body? It turned out that someone had moved to a place to hide from people." He asked for himself for repair, "I thought it was a living person!"
"It should be because I was afraid of attracting alien species to be brought in." Cao Qinglin said without a doubt: "It's dry and hot here, and the corpse is dry quickly."
"But isn't it a bit strange?" Qiu Ming had already walked into the underground passage and said in confusion: "Since someone has cleared the streets, it means that the people in this city should not have died. If there are a large number of people moving, why are there so many cars left on the street?"
"It may be a transfer from the government organization, and people transported by large-scale transportation." The underground passage was pitch black. Cao Qinglin turned on the light and saw Xu Huo breaking the iron door at the end of the passage, and couldn't help but push the light over.
With a dull sound, the chain on the iron door was broken. As soon as Xu Huo pushed the door, half of his head fell down from his head and half of his body hung on it, just hanging upside down in front of him.
For a moment, he reached out to push the corpse away, turned around and said to the two behind him, "Be careful."
Cao Qinglin and Qiu Ming looked at each other and followed him into the parking lot.
However, after entering, the two of them were a little stunned because compared to the tidy outside, it seemed that they had been attacked by aliens. A large number of damaged vehicles were crowded together in a mess, and the scattered bodies were everywhere, with scratching marks and stains on the stone pillars and the ceiling. I can imagine how miserable the situation was at that time.
"Did it from the alien species?" Qiu Ming stopped in front of a female corpse holding a child.
"The people in this city have changed." Xu Huo looked around, "Most of them died of killing each other, and some corpses can be seen, and the finger bones and teeth have different degrees of damage, but there are no animal characteristics and the change lasts not long."
"Are they locked up here?" Cao Qinglin was a little surprised, and paused and said, "A iron door cannot close so many evolved people, 80% of them were made by players."
"There are too many people," Qiu Ming said: "I haven't seen any partition with such a large number of changes in one breath."
Generally, if attacked by alien species, the number of deaths will definitely exceed the number of infected people. Only when a large area of evolution or special infection can so many people degenerate at the same time.
"I have heard that in some places, in order to quickly increase the number of players, ordinary people are deceived into injecting the blood of evolvers by vaccinating them. If this is the case, all people in half of the city can start to evolve in one or two days."
Cao Qinglin said.
Chapter completed!