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Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin didn't say a word, they waited quietly for the passage of time.

The expressions of the two were more serious than ever before.

As night fell, there were chirping birds from the trees on the side of the road, and other than that, there was only the sound of zombies struggling.Occasionally, there were zombies struggling to crawl out of the field, and they were all headshot by Feng Lin with an ax one by one, and they were dealt with cleanly and silently.

About 10 minutes later, Yang Yiqin suddenly said, "It appeared."

Feng Lin immediately turned his gaze to the junction of the two zombies.

I saw a thin layer of white membranes growing out of the wounds on their hands and feet, and they were tightly intertwined.If this trend continues, the connection between their wounds will be as inseparable as the cavity.

After confirming his guess, Yang Yiqin stood up and kicked another zombie in the stomach of the cavity zombie.He controlled the strength to test how much strength is needed to separate the wounds of the zombies.

As expected, the film is very resilient, and it can't be separated by just beating it - at least the zombies can't separate each other with their current strength.Therefore, the two zombies fell down countless times and were still tightly connected.

They really discovered a new way of zombie evolution.

Seeing Yang Yiqin finish the experiment, Feng Lin raised his axe: "Is it solved?"

Yang Yiqin thought for a moment: "Kill it."

He wanted to keep an experimental subject, but the current situation didn't allow it, it was too late.However, in the zombies they dissected, films were basically found under the rotting flesh, and there should be no shortage of experimental subjects.

Feng Lin's movements were crisp and quick, and he chopped off the heads of two zombies in the blink of an eye, and then took out a piece of paper to wipe the ax body.

Yang Yiqin looked around and made sure there were no other zombies, so he said, "It's getting late, let's go back. On the way back, I will use the intercom to contact Han Wenliang and explain to him what happened today."

"Okay." Feng Lin put away the axe, "I'm driving the helicopter."

"Thanks a lot."

On the way back, Yang Yiqin immediately contacted Han Wenliang and told him everything that happened to them tonight.

Han Wenliang was silent for a long time after listening.

After a long time, he said, "I understand. I will immediately go to Comrade Shi and tell the scientific researchers of the Beishi Base Laboratory the news."

"Well, good." Yang Yiqin reminded, "You should be more careful at ordinary times, and pay attention to guarding against such zombies."

"I get it, and so do you."

When the communication was disconnected, the helicopter was about to fly to the village.

Because of the zombies, they were delayed for a while, and it was completely dark at this time.Occasionally, clouds drift by in the dark blue night, covering the already dim moonlight, and stars are also looming under the clouds.

Looking down at the village from a high place, there are few houses with lights on. Most of the villagers will try their best to finish all the work of the day before dark, so as to save kerosene, candles and batteries.The only light that can be seen is the flashlight in the hands of the night watchmen in the village. They are often accompanied by one or two big geese and wolf green dogs.

However, the scope of the villagers' night patrol is only in the village, and they don't specifically visit the fields outside the village.

Therefore, when Yang Yiqin's gaze fell outside the second iron fence wall in Qiancun and saw a large lump of strange-shaped unknown objects rolling towards the iron fence wall, he was stunned for two or three seconds.

A row of poplar trees were planted on both sides of the provincial road. When spring came, they were covered with new shoots, covering the black shadow indistinctly.Yang Yiqin looked carefully at the car for several seconds before saying to Feng Lin, "Driving in front of Qiancun, there seems to be something there."

Feng Lin nodded: "Okay."

That clump must have come from the south.

Although Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin took the small road, the helicopter had a wide field of view from the high altitude, and the two were vigilant. If such a huge unknown object existed on the national highway, they should have discovered it long ago.

The night and vegetation blocked the sight of the two of them.

At first Yang Yiqin thought it was some kind of strange animal, but when the helicopter descended and approached, and the light hit the unidentified object, he was surprised to find that it turned out to be a group of zombies.The reason why it is said to be a mass is because they are the same as the zombies they met just now, all the rotten wounds on their bodies have grown together.

It may be that there are a lot of them. There are five or six zombie heads, so the way they intertwine looks disgusting. I can't tell which arm is from whose body, and I can't tell the difference between their two arms. number of legs.

Yang Yiqin's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously checked the iron mesh wall of the village.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he found that the iron fence wall was intact.

Feng Lin frowned, looked at the bunch of unknown creatures scratching the iron net, his eyes were cold: "They were originally mutilated zombies, that's why they grow together like this."

"That's right." Yang Yiqin calmly analyzed the cause of the unknown creature, "There are five or six zombies based on the head, it seems that there are only seven or eight legs, and the number of arms is not right. The shoulders, chest, and buttocks are all bitten. Because they were bitten too badly during their lifetime, as long as they are close to each other, the wounds will definitely stick together."

"However—" Feng Lin changed the subject, "According to our experiment just now, even if the wounds grow together, it will take about 10 minutes. Generally speaking, it is difficult for zombies to be in close contact for such a long time."

Yang Yiqin closed his eyes and pondered: "That's right."

The two zombies were able to grow together before, mainly because one of the zombies was a cavity, and the entire abdomen was eaten by other zombies, and the other zombie was accidentally stuck in its abdomen. All have wounds.

But the chances of a coincidence like this are too small.

Furthermore, although the evolution of zombies is bad news, judging from the current situation, fused zombies are better to deal with than single zombies-their actions are more clumsy, their postures are difficult to unify, and the biting head is often killed by the body. hindered.

There are few redeeming qualities other than nausea and size.

The first time they saw the fused zombies, Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin were indeed surprised, and they were even silent for a few seconds, but after the results of the experiment came out, they were not so nervous because they found that they were easy to deal with.

As early as when they confirmed the evolution of the zombies, they were prepared to face all bad news, and they were still bearing this level of bad news.

Hearing the movement of the helicopter, the group of zombies below became excited as usual.

Yang Yiqin took out his bow and arrow, opened his bow and assumed an attacking posture, but did not shoot for the time being, because he still wanted to determine where the zombie came from.Although he and Feng Lin flew over from the north, they had flown a helicopter to check the situation around the village before heading to the Xinzhong City safety zone.

It stands to reason that even if there are groups of zombies around, it is impossible to get here so quickly.

"Now I have two questions." Yang Yiqin pointed at the group of zombies waving their arms towards the sky, and said, "One, why they can fuse together; two, why they move so fast here."

While driving the helicopter steadily, Feng Lin took a few glances at the group of zombies from the corner of his eye: "They are covered with mud and leaves... Maybe they fell into a pit."

"In a narrow pit? It's possible." Yang Yiqin's eyes were excellent, and his eyes fell on the wide asphalt road, "But there may be an even more crazy reason."

"crazy?"

"For example, being squeezed together in a crowd of zombies."

If this is the case, it must be a considerable number of zombies to be crowded enough to crush these zombies together for a long time until they are inseparable.

Feng Lin's eyes darkened: "It's not impossible."

After witnessing the fusion of two different novelty hunting methods, he will not be surprised by any unthinkable things.

Yang Yiqin hooked the corners of his lips, but there was no smile in his eyes, instead, he was as calm as a pool of cold alpine snow water.

"But after that, I have even crazier ideas."

"What is it?" Feng Lin asked, "About their speed?"

The limbs of this group of zombies were extremely uncoordinated. They limped and fell from the road into the field ridge. They were immediately made difficult by the corn stalks and weeds in the field ridge.

It's hard to imagine them galloping.

Yang Yiqin finally shot an arrow, headshot one of the zombies, hitched the second arrow, and then said slowly: "Generally speaking, judging from the speed and IQ of zombies, even if they run at human speed , and cannot reach our village in a short time..."

Having said that, he paused.

"But what if they rolled along the flat road after they synthesized the ball?"

Zombies are not afraid of pain, and don't have to worry about the dry and hard cement grinding away the skin. After grinding, it may make them more tightly fused.As long as they accidentally roll over once, they are likely to roll over smoothly all the way, and that speed must be much faster than ordinary walking and running speeds.

Feng Lin's eyes darkened a little.

Yang Yiqin shot the second arrow and the third arrow one after another... killing the group of zombies one by one.

Afterwards, Feng Lin said, "You can take a look along the road."

"Okay." Yang Yiqin said seriously, "If they really rolled over, there should be traces left on the national highway, and we will trace the source along the traces."

Feng Lin drove the helicopter and flew south along the provincial road.

Yang Yiqin saw the clue at a glance: "There is a string of minced meat on the road, which should be left over from their actions."

Feng Lin narrowed his eyes and saw the distinctive traces.

"Your guess just now may be all right."

"If you are all right..." Yang Yiqin smiled wryly, "But it will be difficult."

If Yang Yiqin's guesses are all correct——

The reason why this group of zombies merged was because there was a huge group of zombies. The group of zombies squeezed each other like the subway in the morning and evening rush hours, allowing the wounds of these zombies to grow together.And the reason why they were able to run to the direction of the village so quickly was because they accidentally got through the "Second Channel of Ren and Du" and rolled over all the way.

The injustice indicates that there is a group of zombies on an unprecedented scale in the south.

The group of zombies caught up with the evolved Shunfeng truck, and under the high-intensity squeeze, many of them were connected into strange, terrifying and disgusting appearances... and the direction of their collective migration was the direction of the Sancun safe zone.

They kept flying south, and saw many groups of zombies along the way. They were scattered in various sections of the road, and they were heading north at a relatively slow speed.The two didn't stop because of this, but continued to fly southward, until they were about to approach the neighboring city, and finally found the huge batch of zombies.

No.

That is no longer a huge number.

Looking around, densely packed zombies are crowded and moving slowly on the national highway, and Yang Yiqin rarely feels the impact of the large number of zombies.Most of them are miserable with missing arms and legs, and the disfigured faces and scars are the minimum configuration. Some of them can only crawl on the ground, and then they are trampled into flesh by other ignorant zombies.

If patients with intensive phobia come here, I am afraid that they will die on the spot

Feng Lin used the helicopter's bright lights to shine down, and the black and rotten arm danced excitedly. The scene is more than "spectacular" can describe clearly.

"We talked about hot weapons before, and said that unless it is a large-scale zombie wave, we can't use weapons with great firepower." Yang Yiqin murmured, "Who would have thought that we will see the so-called 'large-scale zombie wave' now... "

Feng Lin said: "For a zombie wave of this scale, dropping a nuclear bomb is not an exaggeration."

"That can't be done, there will definitely be radiation." Yang Yiqin said helplessly, "Survivors who have received radiation will not become superhumans, but zombies who have received radiation are likely to become monsters."

Feng Lin said, "They are already on the way to become monsters."

"Forget it, let's not talk about this, why not go back to the source first." Yang Yiqin doubted his memory, "The day when the end of the world broke out...was it a Saturday with heavy rain?"

"Yes."

Feng Lin was decisive, he will never forget that day.

Forget the day when I was forced to separate from Yang Yiqin and completely lost contact.

"If this is the case, shouldn't all the zombies be trapped in the room?" Yang Yiqin was very puzzled, "And we have been to the neighboring city to find a safe area nearby. I remember that the streets of the entire neighboring city were not like this at that time." Lots of zombies."

The safety zone of the neighboring city is in a county middle school further south, which is far away from their village.The pair visited them several times last winter to get their search range north of the neighboring city.

"Maybe he ran out." Feng Lin guessed, "Maybe the neighboring city is in trouble."

"In that case, let's fly south." Yang Yiqin remained calm, "Look at what happened in the neighboring city."

Feng Lin nodded: "Okay."

Before leaving, Yang Yiqin threw a self-made bomb into the empty field beside him.

In the quiet evening, the sound of the explosion was particularly loud, successfully attracting the attention of the zombies and causing them to scramble towards the open space.Zombies don't know what civility is. Their movements are rough and irregular. They only know to keep pulling the zombies around them.

In the end, some zombies fell to the ground and were trampled into muddy flesh.

Afterwards, the two ignored the group of zombies.

After all, there are too many of them, and they cannot be dealt with with simple weapons at all.Fortunately, they haven't come close to the Sancun safe area yet, and they may go to other desolate places with a flick of their heads, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous.

Even so, after they understand the cause and effect, they must return to the village to formulate a "combat plan".

As soon as they saw the buildings in the neighboring city, the two discovered the reason for the large number of zombies.

— because many buildings here have collapsed.

The situation in neighboring cities and Xinzhong City is almost the same. They are both small cities that are not well-known in the country. The pace of life is slow, and the degree of modernization is far less than that of such a big city.Many buildings are old buildings more than ten years ago. Only residential buildings are high-rise in newly-built buildings, and even hotels and hospitals are low-rise buildings.

Now, those old buildings have collapsed a lot.

Some buildings only cracked a few gaps, making it easier for zombies to squeeze out of the room; some buildings collapsed entirely, with lime and cement crumbling, exposing the strong steel bars inside.Even two or three residential buildings with more than 20 floors collapsed, leaving crushed corpses and ruined walls everywhere on the ground.

Many zombies were crushed under the ruins, even if they dragged only half of their bodies, they still had to crawl towards places where there were more zombies.

If it weren't for the reinforced concrete blocking the zombies, there would only be more zombies gathered together now.

"The leak in the house coincided with the continuous night rain..." Yang Yiqin frowned, "At the time when the zombies evolved, there was a large-scale collapse and so many zombies came out."

Feng Lin looked down: "The key is the reason for the collapse. It doesn't look like the building is aging."

Yang Yiqin agrees with him.

"Even if there are a few older buildings that have become uninhabitable and dangerous, the whole city will not be turned into ruins, and those few buildings are obviously new buildings. If it is an earthquake... our village has no Feeling the earthquake, even if there is an earthquake, it is probably two or three magnitudes, and it should not cause such a large-scale collapse."

Feng Lin glanced at the time, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

They've been busy all day, and it seems that every moment they encounter all kinds of new problems, and when they are examined, they will find a bigger mystery behind them.

"It's getting late, and Aunt Yang and Uncle Yang may be worried if they go back too late."

"Yes, and there are zombies heading towards the Sancun safe zone, we must tell everyone as soon as possible."

Feng Lin suggested: "In this case, we might as well go directly to the person in charge of the safety zone in the neighboring city, ask him if he knows about the collapse of the building here, and return to the village quickly after getting the news."

Yang Yiqin nodded: "Just do as you say."

Next, they flew non-stop to the safety zone of the neighboring city, found the person in charge of the safety zone, and communicated with the other party about the situation of the city.

Unexpectedly, the person in charge said that the reason why the building collapsed was indeed because a small earthquake occurred here two days ago.However, the magnitude of the earthquake was not large, and the houses in their safe zone were all intact. For some reason, the buildings in the city, no matter how old they were, collapsed.

The person in charge of the neighboring city originally planned to investigate this matter, but when they found that all the zombies trapped in the building had escaped, they immediately organized people to strengthen the walls of the safe zone.

They are not far from the city.

In case a group of zombies attacked their village, judging from their huge number, as long as they persevere in pushing the wall, it can be said that it would be a breeze to knock down the wall.

The person in charge said with a wry smile: "The firepower in our safety zone is not enough to face such a large number of zombies, so I have already contacted the Beishi Survivor Base, hoping to get help from there."

Yang Yiqin asked, "What was the result?"

"They also encountered a building collapse there, although the scale was not large." The person in charge replied, "They are investigating the cause of the incident and promised to assign staff as soon as possible to find a way to support us."

Hearing this, Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin's eyes met.

Shi Shiming just said that the Beishi Survivor Base is mobilizing the strength of the whole base to speed up the production of zombie virus serum, and try to send the serum to every safe area in the future.

Now, they have encountered a new problem, and there is a high probability that the walls of the safe zone will need to be strengthened.

There must be more people in the Beishi base than when they left. Even so, it should be difficult to get busy.

The person in charge said with a haggard face: "I didn't even know that those zombies were actually running towards you. If you need help, we will try our best to help you deal with the zombies, but as you can see, we can't help ourselves now." , I'm afraid there won't be many people to spare..."

Yang Yiqin only said: "You can just go about your own business, and we will think of a way."

"Thank you for your understanding." The person in charge said again, "There should be no building collapses in Xinzhong City, right?"

"Not for a while, not forever." Yang Yiqin did not dare to take it lightly, "This news must also be told to the people in the Xinzhong City Safety Zone."

Afterwards, the three of them communicated a few more words before saying goodbye in a hurry.

On the way back, Yang Yiqin first contacted Han Wenliang again and told him the new bad news.Then, from time to time, they threw homemade bombs in directions that deviated from the two safe areas, and while blowing up a few zombies, they attracted other zombies to run away from the two safe areas.

Compared with the large number of zombies rushing from the neighboring city, this approach has little effect, but it is better than doing nothing.

As soon as the two returned home, they were surrounded by Yang's father and Yang's mother.

"Why did you come back so late?" Mother Yang's kind eyes were full of anxiety, "Your father and I thought you met... Bah, bah, it's definitely going to be okay!"

Father Yang didn't show his emotions, but the worry in his eyes couldn't deceive anyone: "Did you get delayed by something? For example, you met a new evolved zombie, so you stopped the helicopter at the door and came down to observe for a long time?"

Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin looked at each other.

"Dad, you are the great prophet." Yang Yiqin smiled and held out his thumb, "Next time we go out, why don't you give us a fortune?"

"Okay." Father Yang said seriously, "Even if you smile brightly, I can tell that you must have something on your mind."

Hearing this, Yang Yiqin withdrew the smile on his face.

He sighed softly, his clear eyes were a bit tired, and he recounted in detail the twists and turns during the return journey.From the two fused zombies, to the tumbling zombies that merged into one ball, to the army of zombies and ruined walls in the neighboring city.

Mother Yang let out a long and short sigh, the dimples in the corners of her eyes deepened, and she became extremely sad.

"The house collapsed?" Father Yang stroked his stubble thoughtfully, "I think I might know the reason."

The other three couldn't hide their surprise.

Yang Yiqin hurriedly asked, "What's the reason?"

Father Yang pointed to a clump of green shoots emerging from the cracks in the courtyard wall: "It's because of this vigorous vine, which just grew in our courtyard, and I'm trying to get rid of it."

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