Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 16 Interlude (recommendation ticket)

Long Yuehong was taken aback, instinctively grabbed the “Berserker” assault rifle next to him and jumped up.

Just when he was hesitating whether to throw away the lunch box he was holding in his other hand, Jiang Baiman looked around calmly:

“Nothing happened… 鈥?#8221;

She immediately laughed to Long Yuehong:

“Don鈥檛 be nervous, isn鈥檛 it really close yet?

“Sit down, sit down, wait The canned food can be eaten hot. “

While speaking, the grenade gun nicknamed “Tyrant” she patted beside her.

On the other side of the bonfire, Bai Chen carefully observed for a while, and then returned his attention It鈥檚 on the food.

“But, leader, something is approaching us! Don鈥檛 you worry about being attacked suddenly? “Long Yuehong couldn’t understand Jiang Baiman’s attitude.

Jiang Baiman stared at the open cans and said:

“Isn’t there Shang Jianyao to guard against this situation?”

“If the thing has not been close, don’t we have to eat and wait for it? I really have to be hungry and tired, which will affect our performance.”

She gradually smiled:

“In short, as long as the sky hasn’t fallen down, it won’t affect us to fill our stomachs.”

Long Yuehong sat down suspiciously, looking up from time to time Shang Jianyao glanced at him, afraid that he would make mistakes, and failed to spot the enemy who had entered the danger zone.

While the flame is swaying, the juice in the can melts, and the strong fragrance of hard to describe keeps escaping all around.

This is the taste of pork, soybeans, salt, and spices mixed through a complex process. It makes everyone present as if they stretched out a hand in their stomachs, uncontrollably drilled through their throats. Reach the mouth.

“Okay.” Jiang Baiman said sincerely with a smile.

At this moment, at the top of the collapsed building complex, where the green vines were entwined, a black shadow rushed out and went straight to Long Yuehong by the bonfire.

While the fire was swaying, Shang Jianyao and others finally saw the appearance of the dark shadow:

She is a female human, with ragged clothes, revealing dirty skin with dense hair. , Her hair drooped in a mess, greasy, and condensed into a knot.

Her nails are long and pointed, flashing cold light, and her eyes are bloodshot and muddy, like wild beasts.

She bends her body very fast, just like an ape swung over by the vine.

Boom!

Shang Jianyao just raised the assault rifle in his hand when he heard a gunshot.

Cang Dang! The incoming black shadow fell heavily to the ground.

Her face was facing upwards, and an exaggerated, hideous blood hole appeared from the left chest to the shoulder, and she couldn’t find a good place.

After two twitches, this female human lost her life.

Jiang Baiman retracted the “United 202” pistol, and said calmly:

“A’unintentional’.”

“The unintentional”…Long Yuehong again Surprised and curiously looked at the corpse.

This is a noun that everyone who studies the history of the earth cannot bypass, and it is also something that the internal teaching material of “Pangu Biology” describes in great detail.

“The unintentional” is also called “the unintentional”, which refers to humans suffering from “intentional disease”-this disease is also called “veterinary disease” and “returning ancestor disease”. It means that sick humans will lose all their intellect, thoughts, and feelings and become creatures similar to wild beasts, leaving only the predatory instinct, the survival instinct, and the instinct to use simple tools.

They are unable to communicate and will actively attack normal humans, treating each other as prey.

When “innocent disease” first appeared in the old world annihilation, a large number of humans in a city and a city became “unintentional” in a short period of time, and more unsuspecting people died. In the hands of “the unintentional”.

Since the “unintentional” need to eat to survive, just like the real wild beast, they quickly die in large numbers after the human order collapses and the great famine comes. , Only less than one percent of the original amount remains.

According to the observations of many historical researchers on earth, in addition to hunting humans, “unintentional people” will also prey on wild beasts, dig roots, pick fruits, catch mutated and unmutated mice and eat them when they are hungry. , They will attack each other.

Such “recipes” and living environment make “unintentional people” rarely survive 30 years old, but they have the instinct to reproduce and have a large number of offspring.

After the first generation, the “unintentional” will have a little more wisdom and a stronger hunting ability.

Logically speaking, when human beings restore a certain order and master enough firepower, it is not too difficult to deal with the “unintentional” who are closer to the wild beast, but it is not the case.

On the one hand, although the “unintentional” does not know how to dismantle and maintain weapons, they can use it, as if they have this instinct-the farther away from the original “unintentional”, this aspect The stronger the instincts, and the “unintentional” have human nature, will be polluted and deformed. This will cause a large number of “unintentional” to die in pain and at the same time create a batch of top hunters.

Of course, no matter how good the “unintentional” are at using weapons, they don鈥檛 understand scientific research, they don鈥檛 know how to organize production, and they don鈥檛 know how to maintain and maintain them, even if they become top hunters, they are in full firepower. The human army cannot cause too much trouble. After all, human beings possess the technology of “inducing mutations and genetic modification”. Even if they are not so mature and have a low success rate, they can still crush the “unintentional” who watch the sky.

On the other hand, human beings have never found out the pathogenesis and transmission law of “unintentional disease”, and do not know how to prevent this disease, which makes soldiers unwilling to gather “unintentional” The area is afraid of being infected. Therefore, after the major forces have eliminated the “unintentional” around themselves, they are unwilling to deal with those entrenched in the ruins of the old world city.

Until today, “no heart disease” is still a shadow over human heads.

Because even if you haven’t directly contacted the “unintentional”, people who live well in the settlements may lose their rationality and wisdom and become “wild beasts” after a nap.

And their relatives and friends are completely fine, there is no sign of infection at all-this is the conclusion drawn after long-term isolation and observation.

In the early years, there was a high-ranking power who was afraid of “intentional illness” to the extreme. He slept in an isolation room and had to wear gas masks and chemical protective suits. “The unintentional”.

Fortunately, since the new calendar, the average incidence of “no-heart disease” is not too high, otherwise humans may have collapsed.

The tragic condition of the corpse made Long Yuehong’s throat sour when he saw a similar scene for the first time, and he turned his head subconsciously and dared not look at it again.

“It looks like the first generation.” Bai Chen recalled just now and made a judgment.

“From the degree of clothes tattered, the onset has not been more than a year.” Jiang Baiman looked at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong, “Need me to tell you the knowledge of the’unintentional’ again?”

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Shang Jianyao did not answer, suddenly opened the mouth and said:

“This is not the dark shadow I saw just now.

“The dark shadow should be shorter . “

Jiang Baiman nodded gently:

“You two search for the corpse to see if there are any valuable items, then carry the corpse outside and bury it, don鈥檛 leave the fire light. Bright place. “

She thought for a while, walked to the jeep, took out four dark things, and threw them to Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:

“Intercom, effective range Two kilometers, the open area will be farther.

“If you have any situation, please inform me immediately. You guys should know how to use it?”

“I can fix it.” Shang Jianyao answered the question.

Both he and Long Yuehong graduated from the Department of Electronics.

Long Yuehong hung up the walkie-talkie and walked hesitantly to the body of the “unintentional”.

The smell of blood mixed with the stench of hard to describe churns upwards, making Long Yuehong, who was afraid to look at the corpse, almost vomited.

Shang Jianyao walked over, took the initiative to conduct a search, and then stood on the head of the corpse, which is the side with the gunshot wound.

“Do you need me to recite?” he said to Long Yuehong.

“Uh…” Long Yuehong wanted to say that it would not be good for Shang Jianyao to carry the body by himself.

“I mean, do you need me to carry you?” Shang Jianyao explained without expression.

Long Yuehong chuckled dryly:

“No, no.”

He bent down and grabbed the corpse’s feet.

Shang Jianyao put his arms through the armpit of the unintentional person.

The blood dripped little by little, and the two of them carried the corpse and walked out of the clearing. At the edge of the fire, they dug a hole and buried the corpse in it.

This somewhat affected Long Yuehong’s appetite, so he only ate a compressed biscuit and half a canned roasted pork with soybeans.

The sky is getting darker and darker, Jiang Baiman is about to arrange the night-time order for tonight, suddenly a roar comes from a distance:

“ao wu!”

The voice resounded through the sky, rough and desolate, like a nightmare at night.

As soon as it fell, one after another roars resounded in different places in Great Swamp, reverberating endlessly.

Long Yuehong was so heartbroken that he couldn’t help but ask:

“Is this a wolf pack?”

“Have you seen different distributions? Are there wolves in this place?” Jiang Baiman said with a laugh.

“Is it common to have wild beast roar sounds everywhere on Great Swamp?” Long Yuehong asked nervously.

Jiang Baiman shook the head, with the same smile:

“Uncommon.”

“This, what can I do?” Long Yuehong blurted out .

Jiang Baiman gave him a funny look:

“This is indeed abnormal, indicating that something may have happened deep in Great Swamp.

“But Look at the general area and direction, and there is no intersection with our route and destination, so don’t worry about it. “

“Don’t worry?” “Long Yuehong looked at Shang Jianyao next to him and found that he was not afraid at all.

Bai Chen, who was in charge of guarding all around, said calmly:

“On the black marsh wilderness, There will be an abnormality or accident every few days. How can it be managed?

“In such a large wilderness, the possibility of those things affecting you is very low.”

“But what if it affects you?” Long Yuehong asked.

Shang Jianyao stared at the bonfire and said:

“That can only show that your name is not good.”

“…also, what about bad life? I can’t escape, and I can’t meet my fate.” Long Yuehong gritted his teeth nodded.

Jiang Baiman couldn鈥檛 understand the conversation between the two of them, and he also asked sorryly, so he had to say with a smile:

“We are far away from the place where the incident happened, and we don鈥檛 know the specific situation. It鈥檚 impossible to prepare in advance.

“Without withdrawing the company, the only option is to go around that place and go a little farther, and our route is like this. “

“This makes more sense than it sounds like just now…” Long Yuehong thought carefully and found that two expressions of the same meaning actually have completely different effects.

Jiang Baiman hearing this said with a smile:

“So, learn to grasp the essence of things.

“At this point, Shang Jianyao is much better than you, you see, he has not been nervous.”

Shang Jianyao slightly nodded:

” I’m just considering whether to participate.”

“Huh?” Jiang Baiman, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen all looked puzzled.

Shang Jianyao opened his mouth and made a sound:

“ao wu!”

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(End of this chapter)