long night fire

"Not many teams have this kind of bomb, not even some big forces." Bai Chen tried to calm himself down and replied simply.

Although she is an experienced former wilderness wanderer, she is used to fighting and killing, but this is the first time she has witnessed this kind of thing that directly slaughtered a town and a settlement.

The corpses and broken flesh all over the floor, even if they belonged to subhumans, were full of unspeakable shock and terror.

In any case, the residents of Black Rat Town are almost indistinguishable from normal humans except for their height, nails and body hair.

——Bai Chen actually saw massacred settlements, but that was long after the tragedy happened, except for a few remaining bones and uninhabited dilapidated houses, other traces have long since disappeared.

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"Take out the flashlight and look for clues separately.

"Maybe, maybe there are still a few survivors?"

Shang Jianyao immediately took off the flashlight and the standard "Ice Moss" pistol from the armed belt, and walked towards the edge with the light in one hand and the gun in the other.

He doesn't think there will be any survivors in or around the center of the explosion.

After examining the corpses one by one, Shang Jianyao saw a woman curled up with her back turned to him.

She still had some clothes left, and her hands and feet were gathered together, as if she was hugging something tightly and pressing it under her body.

The back of the corpse can be vaguely seen with thick black hair, and there are wounds with congealed dark red blood. It can be seen that someone has been shot.

Shang Jianyao, who was already bent over, squatted down, using a flashlight as a stick, and turned the corpse of the townsman of Black Rat Town over.

While the beam of light was shaking, Shang Jianyao saw a little girl.

She was wearing a very old but partially clean white dress, and was hugged tightly between the chest and abdomen by the adult woman. At first glance, she was not hurt at all.

Shang Jianyao put the flashlight on the ground and tried to check the little girl's condition, but he couldn't break the adult woman's hand.

After giving up this instinctive attempt, Shang Jianyao saw that the little girl's face was cyanotic, and there were traces of dark red blood flowing out of the place close to the adult woman's chest and abdomen.

He then measured the other person's breath with his fingers and felt his body temperature.

A few seconds passed, and he slowly withdrew his palm.

Because the two tightly hugged corpses turned over, Shang Jianyao quickly used the light of the flashlight to find that where they had fallen, there was a depression extending deep at the junction of the cave wall and the ground , with obvious nail digging marks remaining on it.

Witnessing this depression, Shang Jianyao seemed to see the scene at that time:

During the enemy's attack, a female townsman in Black Rat Town was anxiously using her excavation talent to create a refuge space for her children.

Too bad it didn't go faster than the bomb.

Shang Jian Yao reached out his hand to touch the depression, and found that there was a small natural cavity there, and there seemed to be something cold and unknown in the cavity.

He took it out, and by the light of the flashlight, he found that it was a rectangular black object a little higher than his middle finger.

There is a tiny LCD-like display on the top of the item, a few buttons in the middle, and a speaker covered by a grid below.

Shang Jianyao studied electronics in college, so it was not difficult to tell what this tattered, outdated thing was.

This is a voice recorder from the old world, a voice recorder that was repaired and modified by the townspeople of Black Rat Town.

Perhaps it fell into the hollow of the depression ahead of time, or it was quite far away from the center of the explosion, and was blocked by a human body, but there was no sign of damage to the electronic equipment.

Shang Jian Yao squatted on one knee, did some research, and pressed a certain button:

Amidst the bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang guns

"Mom, mother, why did they kill us?"

A slightly hoarse and trembling voice replied:

"Because we are subhumans."

The childish voice asked:

"What is a second person?"

The slightly hoarse voice was silent for a few seconds before answering:

"That's right, it's a sick person."

The immature voice became more and more puzzled:

"But, Mother, are they going to kill us just because we're sick?

"I, I can fix electronics, I'm useful..."

The sound of gunshots suddenly became closer, as if they had reached the entrance of the cave, followed by the sound of falling objects, and the recording stopped abruptly.

After Shang Jianyao listened in silence, he turned his attention to the two corpses again:

Whether it is the adult woman or the little girl, there is no thick black hair on the face, and there are obvious shaved marks on the face, which looks clean.

This is the same as many female employees of "Pangaea".

The volume of this recording is not low, Jiang Baimian who was walking deep and Bai Chen on the other side could hear it fairly clearly.

They also became extremely silent, and no one spoke or moved for a long time.

After a while, Jiang Baimian exhaled slowly:

"Continue to search for clues."

Shang Jianyao solemnly put the recording pen in his pocket, then, took the flashlight, bent down and stood up again.

While the beam of light was moving, he saw some writing on the rock wall of the cave.

These words belonged to the gray earth language, which had obviously existed for many years, and many places had long been blurred, obviously not left behind when the townspeople of Black Rat Town were attacked.

Shang Jianyao moved the flashlight over and carefully distinguished for ten seconds, and finally recognized a few of the words:

"……A visit……"

"... Jin and... Le will never be separated..."

At this time, Jiang Baimian seemed to have seen something similar, shaking the flashlight, and said with some emotion:

"This seems to be a scenic spot before the destruction of the old world? It's so short, who wants to come?"

After speaking, she stared at the rock wall for a long time.

After a while, she finally looked away, searching for possible clues.

Ten minutes later, the three met again in a place with natural light near the entrance of the cave.

Jiang Baimian said regretfully:

"The people in Black Rat Town have dug out two prepared escape routes before. Unfortunately, thermobaric bombs or other similar bombs came too fast."

"And the attacker left no clues." Bai Chen responded.

Jiang Baimian shook his head:

"It's not that they didn't stay, but that after the battle was resolved, they deliberately took the time to deal with it."

Chapter 50 Clues

Shang Jian Yao heard the words, and said as if thinking:

"Vicious, neat, clean, is this a premeditated revenge?"

In his opinion, it may not be revenge, but it must be premeditated and targeted.

Jiang Baimian looked at the entrance of the cave with a clear sky and thought for a moment:

"uncertain.

"It's also possible that the residents of Black Rat Town were exposed because of certain things, and this cave was discovered by someone. Regardless of their subhuman identities, or the weapons and ammunition they exchanged from the company, and the winter food they stored, it is enough to attract attention. Come strong malice.

"The attackers probably didn't think about concealing their identities and eliminating traces at first, because having thermobaric bombs is a relatively obvious feature. Perhaps, they discovered the wireless telegraph when the battle was over and they were searching for supplies. Only then did he suspect that Black Rat Town had established a connection with a certain big force and became a vassal, and then, in order not to be retaliated, he hurriedly cleaned up the battlefield."

Bai Chen couldn't tell whether this incident was premeditated or happened by accident, so he could only draw some relatively obvious conclusions from his own perspective:

"Leaving aside the motivation, what can be barely confirmed now are:

"First, the raider team has a level of order, otherwise it would be impossible to clean up the battlefield so cleanly, and leave us almost no clues. This can basically rule out the possibility that they are a few bandit groups improvised.

"Second, being able to have thermobaric bombs and individual combat weapons shows that the strength of the attacker team is also above the standard, and the reputation will not be too small."

Seeing Shang Jianyao seemed a bit puzzled, Bai Chen added and explained:

"On the gray soil, there are very few teams that hide their strength. Only by fully demonstrating their own strength can they deter followers and surrounding enemies and occupy sufficient resources.

"In this regard, perhaps only the big forces, lone walkers, and small teams of a few people can be exceptions. However, most of the former were established with one shot at a time and worked hard. It's just that the strength has reached a certain level. After reaching the higher level, some strategic concealment was done, and as for the latter two, most of them did not hide their strength when fighting, but there were fewer witnesses and they could be effectively controlled."

Jiang Baimian let out a "hmm":

"In addition, the current situation can also infer a detail:

"There are at least 30, no, more than [-] attackers. Otherwise, we won't be able to deal with the guards on the outskirts of Black Rat Town so cleanly, and it's impossible for the townspeople of Black Rat Town to actively shrink in their caves without trying to counterattack. Only consider evacuating via alternate routes."

Shang Jian Yao couldn't help but nodded his head.

This kind of reasoning seems so simple, but he didn't think of it just now:

If there were few attackers, with the size of two to three hundred people in Black Rat Town and the various weapons provided by "Panguan Creatures", even if the opponent's equipment was stronger, they could still be pushed back.

"Yes." Bai Chen glanced at the area not illuminated by the flashlight, "Judging from the gunshot wound marks on some of the corpses, the weapons of the attacker team are also quite complicated, which can almost rule out the possibility of a large force army. The purpose of refilling guns is to create such traces, but the army of the big forces is not afraid of being retaliated at all, so there is no need to do so."

Shang Jianyao gradually got used to such discussions and began to join in:

"You can also exclude the 'slave catchers'. For them, the most valuable thing is the population. It is not in their style to slaughter the entire Black Rat Town."

"That's right, even subhumans can dig mines, especially the townspeople of Black Rat Town, who are even better at this. Even if they can't pass the psychological test, and are afraid of being infected with diseases and appearing deformed, they can still be separated from them." Ordinary mine slaves are separated, form a separate formation, and supervise the long-range weapons." Jiang Baimian said casually, without paying attention to grammar.

She immediately asked:

"do you have anything else?"

Shang Jian Yao thought for a while and said:

"The Raiders team may not really have more than 30 people, I mean the core members.

"They can completely coerce dozens of foreign vassals with seven or eight core members. Anyway, on the surface, it seems that they have a lot of momentum.

"When the battle is over, the battlefield is cleaned up, and the traces are dealt with, the seven or eight core members will do it themselves or supervise the work. This can also achieve very good results."

Jiang Baimian nodded in satisfaction:

"That possibility cannot be ruled out.

"Based on what was said above, and considering the dialogue in the recorder, we can initially outline some characteristics of the attacker team:

"In the first case, the human team has a number of more than [-], has a good reputation, is ruthless, has rich experience, has relatively powerful equipment such as thermobaric bombs and individual combat weapons, and does not belong to or be attached to a major force. There is not too much lack of food yet.

"In the second case, there are less than ten core members, and there are a large number of vassals or cooperative teams."

After summing up, the corners of Jiang Baimian's mouth turned up slightly, but he said without the slightest smile:

"In the first case, although there are quite a few similar teams on the dusty soil, there are definitely not many. The ones located nearby and those who have recently come to the vicinity can be counted. As long as you join forces with the surrounding wilderness wanderers and relic hunters Contact should quickly screen out the main suspects, and then investigate one by one.

"In the second case, there are vassals and cooperative teams, which means that many things cannot be truly kept secret. There are too many people talking about it, and it is definitely not just talking. In addition, the materials harvested by those people, in addition to their own use, will also be traded. Go out partly, these are all clues.

"By the way, I will carefully search the area around this hill later. If it is the second case, it is not ruled out that the seven or eight core members will kill the vassals and collaborators for the sake of confidentiality after the matter is completed."

While talking, Jiang Baimian walked towards the entrance of the cave and muttered:

"Really, why don't you go outside to discuss? Isn't it uncomfortable to bend over and knees to talk here?"

Shang Jianyao was still a little immersed in the shock of being slaughtered in Black Rat Town, but he didn't expect that the team leader had basically returned to normal, at least on the surface, so he had to follow up quickly.

After coming outside and informing Long Yuehong of the general situation, Shang Jianyao took the initiative to ask:

"Team leader, what should we do next? Apart from searching the surrounding area to see if there are any traces of murder."

Jiang Baimian looked back at the cave:

"This is a major incident. Isn't there an emergency flare on the car? Launch it to let the company know that something is wrong here. Well, you have to go to a higher place, so that even if the company's peripheral guards don't find it because they are too far away, they will A vassal force located in a different place saw it and sent a telegram to inform it."

"This will attract many wilderness wanderers, bandits, and relic hunters..." Bai Chen looked worriedly at the entrance of Black Rat Town.

Jiang Baimian nodded lightly:

"That's right. For those guys who want to store food for the winter, this is good meat. Wash it, pickle it, and let it dry, it will be a good harvest."

"Team leader, what you said is terrible..." Long Yuehong couldn't help taking a breath.

Jiang Baimian glanced at him:

"I said this on purpose, in order to let you and Shang Jianyao adapt as soon as possible, lest when you see a similar scene with your own eyes, you will not be able to recover after a while.