Arknights is too real, right?

Everyone held their breath, raised their attention to the limit, and carefully felt the slight movements around them.

ACE's [Reaper] team is equipped with night vision goggles, but from their current angle, they cannot completely see the inside of the corner, and can only see a small piece of black stuff exposed.

Xia Feng picked up the low-light lamp with trembling fingers. To be honest, he didn't look too carefully because he was too nervous just now.

At first, he just thought that the outline of the black figure in the corner looked very human. When he brought the dim light closer, he seemed to see a human face. Because his mind was too tense, he instinctively screamed, and the light It also fell to the ground.

Now everyone surrounded him, and they all felt like they were facing a formidable enemy. This made him wonder if he was dazzled just now, maybe it was just a statue or something like that.

Wei Na stared closely at the dark corner, her voice filled with undisguised murderous intent.

"Whoever you are, come out right away and I'll count to three."

"one."

"two."

"three."

There was no movement.

Kate looked at Vina.

"What should I do? Should I go over and find him?"

Vina shook her head.

"I can't feel the breath of any living thing. It might be something inhuman."

One second, two seconds, three seconds. Time passed slowly in silence.

The stalemate lasted for about 30 seconds, and for some reason, the atmosphere became a little subtle.

ACE sighed, then put away his shield and said in a deep voice.

"You stay where you are, I'll go over and take a look alone."

Wei Na also felt that continuing this stalemate was not an option.

"Kate, you and Brother ACE go there together and get back immediately if you find danger."

"yes."

The two of them walked slowly towards the corner, one behind the other. Kate was holding the battle ax tightly with a serious look on her face, while ACE had a calm look on his face, as if he already knew that what was in the corner was not dangerous.

Xia Feng held Guigui's hand and watched nervously as their backs slowly moved towards the corner.

After a while, ACE's deep shout came.

"Not an enemy, the danger is over!"

Hearing ACE's words, everyone's tense minds relaxed instantly, and they all booed together. They looked like a forward who was watching a football match and dribbling the ball past the goalkeeper. When he threw it behind him, he actually kicked the ball into the door frame.

"Tch, what the hell?"

"Xia Feng, I am your sister."

Xia Feng looked embarrassed and could only touch his head and squeeze out an apologetic smile.

"I'm sorry, I'm a little too nervous because of the spooky surroundings. Hehe, I'm sorry, everyone."

Wei Na finally breathed a sigh of relief. She gently put down the arm holding the war hammer and said to everyone.

"Everyone, please continue to rest, Xia Feng, come with me to have a look."

"oh."

Xia Feng was also a little curious. What was the black shadow he saw just now?

After settling down Turtle, Xia Feng held up a low-light lamp and followed Wei Na towards ACE and the others.

After getting closer, I saw Kate pointing at a dark thing in the corner and saying.

"It's not an enemy. This should be what you saw just now, Xia Feng."

Xia Feng looked intently.

When he saw the outline of this thing clearly, he couldn't help but feel a little scared.

To be precise, he was not mistaken just now. From the appearance, this thing is indeed a "person". This "person" is about 1.6 meters tall. She should be a woman. She is covered in black, and her clothes and skin have become... It was impossible to tell. The eye sockets on his face were sunken and his face was ferocious. It looked very shocking.

Xia Feng carefully identified it and said with some uncertainty.

"Is this a statue?"

This is the square of Mandel City. To be honest, it is very common to see humanoid statues in the square, but Xia Feng can't figure out why there is such a scary statue in the corner?

Having said that, Xia Feng reached out and wanted to touch the surface of the statue to see what material it was made of.

"Snapped!"

Wei Na next to her opened Xia Feng's hand.

"Don't touch it!"

Xia Feng covered the sore back of his hand with a look of confusion on his face.

"What's wrong? Isn't this a statue?"

"no."

"Huh? Then what is this?"

Vina bent down, picked up a piece of gravel, and lightly scratched the "statue"'s arm.

"Uh-huh!"

The gravel easily broke open the statue's surface, as if it had been cut on a piece of foam board. Xia Feng brought the low light closer and found that the cut inside of the "statue" was actually glowing with a light yellow light.

"This is."

Wei Na threw away the gravel in her hand, pulled Xia Feng by the collar and dragged him to a position five meters away from the statue. Just when Wei Na cut the "statue" open, Kate and ACE were already far away. Far away.

Wei Na looked at the ferocious-looking "statue" and said in a deep voice.

"This is the body of an infected person."

"Depend on."

Hearing Wei Na's words, Xia Feng's whole body trembled, and he felt a sense of fear in his heart.

He knew very well that there were a very large number of infected people in the world of Terra. Although ore disease would cause them to suffer from organ failure and pain, it was not highly contagious. Even if ordinary people traveled and worked together with infected people, As long as you don't have too close physical contact, you won't be infected.

However, when the infected person is killed, the situation becomes difficult. The infected person's body will quickly fuse with the Originium material in the blood, emitting a highly volatile gas, and in just a few days, Within a short period of time, the corpse of the infected person will become a highly contagious source of ore disease infection. If not dealt with in time, the existence of this source of infection will continue for several years.

The dark thing in front of me turned out to be the corpse of an infected person!

Xia Feng took two steps back and forced himself to calm down. He wore a mask and took medicine to suppress the infection. Even if he was unfortunately infected, he still had a syringe on him.

Since he had chosen to venture to Mandel City with Vina and the others, he couldn't be so nervous all the time. He had to be prepared for the worst and be aware of all the consequences.

Taking a deep breath, Xia Feng stared at the dark corpse and asked questions.

"Why haven't Ursus officials disposed of the bodies of infected people after 27 years? Just leave them in the abandoned city without asking any questions?"

Vina shook her head.

"I can't figure it out. Logically speaking, even if this place becomes a dead city, the corpses of infected people still need to be disposed of in time, otherwise it may cause unpredictable consequences. However, the appearance of this corpse is a bit strange."

Hearing Wei Na's words, Xia Feng also felt a sense of disobedience.

He was nervous looking at it just now, but now it seems that there is the weirdest thing about this corpse.

That is, why is it standing?

There are many forms of natural disasters, such as meteorite rain, fire storms, lightning attacks, corrosive poisonous fog, etc. No matter which of the above situations, people cannot die standing intact, even if the surviving residents after the natural disaster are unfortunately infected. It is impossible to die standing in the city if you suffer from ore disease.

This method of death is more like the infected person being fixed in place by some means while alive, and slowly dying in pain.

At this moment, an exclamation came from Vina next to her.

"Xia Feng, look here!"

Xia Feng trembled when he was shouted, and immediately turned around and looked at Wei Na's eyes with a low-light lamp.

Less than three or four meters away from him, there was an infected body that looked exactly like the one before!

"this"

There is more than one such corpse?

Xia Feng felt a chill down his spine and leaned towards Wei Na unconsciously.

Looking at the gloomy environment around him, he was about to pull Weina back to the team quickly, but suddenly he found that Weina's expression was a little unnatural.

"Vina, what's wrong with you?"

"There are many."

Vina frowned.

As a member of the Aslan tribe, Weina's vision at night is naturally much better than Xia Feng's. Although she cannot accurately distinguish colors, she can still see the general outline.

She saw it.

In addition to the two corpses around him, there are many more standing corpses scattered in the square in the distance. These corpses have different postures and ferocious expressions, which look extremely weird in the square at night.

Thanks to everyone for your rewards and recommendation votes, Fengfeng bows to all the readers. Today there will be a PC version recommendation position, which is also the first recommendation position for this book. I hope everyone will support it. I will leave the recommendation votes to Fengfeng in the past few days, please. (λ_)