The mechanic.

Zhang Xun panted and followed behind the agile hunters. Without the heavy luggage, the walk was much easier, but after lack of sleep and continuous trekking all night, he was exhausted after all.

Finding a thumb-sized mark among the dense foliage is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but hunters clearly have their own way of searching.They look for traces of broken branches and leaves, for footprints that ordinary people can't recognize at all, and they can always find the next sign when the clue seems to have been broken.Thankfully, no blood has been seen so far, which means James is at least not hurt.Having the opportunity to leave these marks also means that he has a high probability of not becoming a prisoner.

That being the case, why not return to Paradise Lost?Why leave these marks?

When the mark was first discovered, it was not very far from Reindeer Bay, but it has deviated a lot now, and it continues to spread northward.

Originally, the population of Canada was small, and the population has dropped sharply in the past 200 years, so that many towns in the Northern Rockies have gradually become deserted and turned into ghost towns.Sometimes hunters will spend the night resting in these lost towns that are gradually being swallowed up by wild smoke and creepers, searching for usable supplies.However, since people often take valuables with them when they move out, the waste and old things picked up are often thrown into the garbage treatment plant and no one cares about them.

They searched for signs and found such a small town in the wild mountains.The asphalt road that was originally used for vehicles has cracked like a tortoise shell, and the gaps are covered with vigorous weeds.About one kilometer outside the town, on a billboard that has long been rusted and crumbling, there are still faintly recognizable mottled words: Welcome to Meishan Town.

Apparently the town was originally developed by mining coal mines.But with the rapid depletion of over-exploitation and energy, coal mines were gradually abandoned.There are countless abandoned coal mines hidden in the towering mountains and the vast sea of ​​trees, with huge black mouths open, in which are buried the souls of countless coal miners who have been forgotten by the world for many years.The small town at the foot of the mountain is still the same as it was 200 years ago. More than half of the roofs of the rows of single-family wooden houses show signs of collapse. The wooden boards are moldy and rotten, breeding countless insects and ants.Grocery stores, breakfast shops, vegetable butcher shops, expressionless models in the window, motorcycle shops that have been looted, mailboxes that are still intact on street corners... everything seems to be usable, but it has long been submerged by time. an illusion of order.

This desolate scene always makes people feel chills, as if seeing the end of the human world.

Why did James bring them here?

A group of 18 people walked cautiously on the potholed streets with weeds. Anyone with a gun in his hand had the bullets loaded and the insurance removed, guarding against unknown dangers that might rush out from any corner.Zhang Xun walked in the middle of the team, monitoring the images sent back by the bugs moving within a range of 400 to [-] meters around them.

Adam looked around and said, "The last family in this town moved out three years ago in 120. At that time, his family of five had lived in this empty town for more than 30 years, and they didn't leave until their parents passed away. .There are fewer and fewer natural history museums like this that existed before the Third World War."

"You think it's a pity?" Ganon sneered, "None of us think it's a pity."

"I'm not sure what you mean by pity," Adam replied honestly.

"I think this town is empty, there is no one there." The group leader He Yuxin stopped in front of an old Wendys restaurant, and said to everyone, "Here for an hour, Ganon, Barry, you two and I Look around to see if there are any new signs and supplies."

So the group enters a chain restaurant overrun by dust and overgrown moss.

The hunters were in the kitchen, banging behind the counter, picking up the colander for French fries and the large iron pot for cooking soup to make a duel.They are all grown men, but they still look childish when they play.It's probably because I don't know whether I will be alive tomorrow, so I will take pleasure in bitterness.

Adam stood in front of a jukebox studying, fumbling buttons.

"The power here has been cut off a long time ago. It can't be ringing." Zhang Xun sat on a nearby chair, kneading his sore calves.

Adam stroked his chin and thought for a while, then suddenly opened a metal plate on the mechanical arm of his right hand, turned to the back of the jukebox and started tinkering.After a while, the jukebox that had long been scrapped suddenly made a strange noise like that of an asthmatic patient, and then a vinyl record was lifted by the metal bracket and placed under the probe.

In the next moment, bluesy slow rock music with a touch of 80s came out from the speakers, wandering in the entire restaurant.The female singer's hoarse and lazy voice is accompanied by the same lazy but clear rhythm, which immediately revives the dead restaurant.

Several team members whistled, jumped up excitedly, and swayed wildly to the music.

Zhang Xun was stunned, stood up and turned to the jukebox, only to see Adam tear off the plug and directly connect the metal wire to the circuit in his arm.

"Are you crazy? If there is a short circuit, your hand will be useless!" Zhang Xun immediately wanted to pull Adam away, but was stopped by Adam's left hand.

"Axun, although I'm not very skilled in being a human being, you can rest assured that it has something to do with electricity." Adam stood up and looked at his hands with satisfaction, "The mechanical arm you made can ingest Solar energy and make full use of the energy generated by the body's own metabolism, even without charging, can also be used as a power source. Such a technology is very valuable."

"..." Why does Adam always praise him at such inappropriate times... Zhang Xun rolled his eyes.But seeing that Adam seemed to be fine, he no longer insisted on disconnecting the other party.But just as he was about to turn around and continue to rest his legs on the sofa seat, he heard Adam calling him.

"Axun." Adam's smile at this time was just right, even mature and attractive, obviously based on the expressions he practiced based on the information in his database.He bowed slightly like a gentleman, and stretched out his right hand connected to the wires of the jukebox, "Dance with me."

Zhang Xun inexplicably remembered that just after the seance, he used the same action to invite Adam, who was not yet able to use a human body, to practice walking...

"Boring..." Zhang Xun didn't want to go crazy with Adam.

Adam changed his expression again, and put on his best, pitiful expression that has been tried and tested with Zhang Xun, "Come on."

Zhang Xun shook the goosebumps on his arms, but when he turned his head, he saw the hunters over there were still dancing in full swing, and someone was imitating a singer over there, holding a wine glass and lip-syncing affectionately to the music.The corners of Zhang Xun's mouth are a little loose, after all, this scene is really a bit funny.

Suddenly, Adam stretched his left hand around Zhang Xun's waist and brought him into his arms. The other mechanical right hand grabbed Zhang Xun's right hand.

"Tsk! Are you done yet?"

Adam didn't speak, just looked at him with a smile, and began to shake his body lightly with the music, moving his feet lightly.However, Zhang Xun didn't know how to dance, and his footsteps were broken and messy. After a while, he stepped on Adam's at least five feet.

"I told you I can't dance!"

"I think you dance very well."

"Don't cry when your foot is broken!"

"Relax, relax." Adam leaned into his ear and whispered, "You don't have to be nervous in front of me."

Zhang Xun was still stiff, and after stepping on Adam's foot again, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.The two couldn't stop laughing while fighting with their feet, but they didn't let go of their hands.

Zhang Xun suddenly became confused for a moment, as if they were in a normal world, as if Adam was a human being from the beginning, as if they just met in an ordinary tavern.

The next moment, the door was suddenly kicked open, breaking the illusion just now.He Yuxin yelled loudly, "Get down! Get down! Turn off the music!"

Accompanied by his roar, a loud noise burst out suddenly in the air, like thunder, but it was a little different.At the same time, a violent wind swept in from nowhere, pouring into every broken window.Adam immediately ripped the wire from his arm, and the music stopped abruptly.Everyone couldn't help but lie down on the ground immediately, only to feel a heavy pressure descending from the sky, the wind was so strong that it was hard to breathe, and there was the sound of electric current beeping in the air.

Crashing, the remaining glass windows shattered one after another.Everyone only felt a buzzing in their ears and a dull pain in their skulls.

Zhang Xun barely raised his head and looked at the sky outside the window.

He saw that in the originally clear sky, there was nothing in the first second, and a huge black shadow suddenly appeared in the next second.Like a huge strange bird, stretching its majestic wings exuding a strange red light, whizzing past the top of the restaurant.

It was an aircraft, one that Zhang Xun had never seen before.

An aircraft that can be completely invisible to the naked eye and even block sound.

Moreover, the aircraft is covered with rows of bone-like protrusions, and there are many strange materials that are filled with oily luster, which seems to be a strange design from an alien.

It is slowing down and flying in the direction of the mine.

"Feathered Snake City...it's the people of Feather Snake City!" Ganon shouted, "So they've been hiding in the mine all along!"

"That's why James drew the marker all the way here, he found their lair!"

"But what about the Jamesians?"

"What should we do now? Their weapons are much more advanced than ours! We have nothing in our hands now!"

Everyone exploded as soon as they got up from the ground, obviously they were all affected by the terrible oppressive feeling just now.Zhang Xun didn't understand why an aircraft could give people such a strong psychological pressure, as if what they saw was not an aircraft, but a monster.

Has any new technology been applied?

"If James is here, he won't come out to see us." Zhang Xun anxiously looked in the direction of the mine, "but he hasn't returned to Paradise Lost..."

Did it fall into the hands of the people of Feather Snake City?

What are these people doing in that abandoned mine, deep in the dark mountain where there are only undead?

He Yuxin pondered for a moment, and said, "I'll pick four people, and go to the mine with me to see what the hell are those people doing. The rest of you hide in this town first, wait for our news, don't act rashly .We'll be back tomorrow morning at the latest."

At present, this is the only way.

They changed to a convenience store and took a makeshift rest overnight between the shelves.But in fact, everyone didn't close their eyes very much, partly because they were waiting for the five people who were going to find out the news, and partly because they were worried about the sudden appearance of those mysterious and frightening people from Feathered Snake City.

However, in the afternoon of the second day, the five pathfinders including He Yuxin still did not come back.

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw the landmines~~: Qi Mingfei, Xia Ran Xia Ran 1;