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Lu Ze hadn't fully scouted the situation in the west area of ​​the old city before, but he only had a general understanding of the distribution of forces here from Ghost's description. When he was resting, he dug out a map of the old city from his backpack and spread it out. On the ground, I squinted my eyes for a while, pointed to one of the areas and said, "Our current position should be here. But the biggest problem now is how to draw the boundaries between the areas."

Chen Xin took a bite of the compressed biscuit, and said vaguely: "I remember you said earlier that the old city is now divided into three spheres of influence."

Lu Ze's gaze was thoughtful, and he touched his chin: "To be precise, it should be four."

He stroked his finger roughly on the map while talking: "If the center point on the map is used as the axis, then apart from the most severely damaged eastern part, from the north of this line is Lindsay's territory; she is facing The area belonging to the person surnamed Wei; and the west side between the two sides, the upper part belongs to Jacques, that is, the person who captured Wu Zhuo; the lower part belongs to Ghost."

Looking at the map, Chen Xin couldn't believe it: "With such a large area in the western city, Ghost alone occupies half of it? The other three parties didn't make any moves? Especially the one named Jacques. This is equivalent to the territory in front of the house. One piece."

Lu Ze frowned slightly: "This is also where I suspect. And look," he pointed to a certain place on the map: "The location of the Army Institute of Biology is also in the lower part of Xicheng District."

Chen Xin moved his gaze over: "Is it possible... that there is something more terrifying than a living corpse in the research institute, so the other three parties deliberately avoided it?"

Lu Ze shook his head: "Before entering the research institute, everything is possible. In short, we still have to be careful."

"So we're going to the Upper West Side first tonight?"

Lu Ze glanced slowly across the west side of the map, pondered for a while and then said, "Go to that Ghost's residence first, and then walk up the street over there. After all, we don't know the details of these forces. The demarcation of the power of the country, coupled with the earthquake... If there is any change, it will probably be in the past few days."

After all, he looked outside——

The rain still showed no signs of abating, and the sky within sight was as black as a curtain.

"This kind of weather... is really an excellent hunting opportunity for some things."

Chen Xin followed his gaze to the outside, with a serious expression on his face.

Lu Ze has a keen sense of direction that is almost terrifying. Although Ghost only brought him here once, after looking at the map, he quickly led Chen Xin to find the villa area.

Under the rain in the night, this low-rise villa was dead silent. Lu Ze and Chen Xinyin stood beside a broken wall across the street, silently watching the darkness.

"It seems that this residential area did not receive any serious damage during the earthquake." Chen Xin's eyes fell on the buildings in front of him through the night vision goggles.

Indeed, the average floor height of this area of ​​houses is only three floors, and there are no collapsed buildings within the range visible to the naked eye. At most, there are some cracks on the outer wall.

Lu Ze squinted his eyes, and his eyes quickly locked on a small building at the back: the square building was completely dark, and it seemed that there was nothing remarkable about it, but somehow it gave him a feeling similar to A feeling of peace of mind.

It was an emotion he had never experienced before.

Since the end of the world, he has almost no leisure time to think about some things.Life on base is constant, especially for them.In addition to performing tasks, it is training and leading newcomers.In other words, he blocked some of his feelings to some extent, forcing himself not to think about some people and things.

In the early stage of the establishment of the base, almost every time a mission was carried out, there would be comrades who died. The psychologist assigned by the team was worried about his state at first, and asked him for an appointment almost every week. He gave up, but made a separate report to his superior—the former Colonel Shen Jianfeng, now the general.

"General, he's a man, not a machine. There's nothing wrong with Colonel Land in action, he's doing his best to do the right thing in every way, but I can't see it in him. Show some of the emotions that a 'normal person' should have. If he keeps pressing those negative emotions in his heart without a proper way to resolve them, sooner or later he will collapse."

These are the words of a psychiatrist.

At that time, he was sitting in the cubicle of General Shen's office. After seeing off the psychiatrist, the general opened the door to let him out and lit a cigarette: "Tell me."

For the first time, Lu Ze avoided the general's eyes and remained silent without answering.

Deep down in his heart, he still couldn't forget the look in the eyes of that man in the old city on the day of evacuation. Even though he convinced himself that this was an option with no room for choice, deep in his heart he still faintly doubted whether this was the only solution to the matter.

But they are already the last sharp edge.

Soldiers, stop fighting.As a "weapon", it is most taboo to bring personal feelings into actions.

He knows the responsibilities he bears, their mission, and has never regretted it, so he has come to today step by step.

And Ghost was the first companion who made him feel evenly matched.

It's not that he doesn't trust his comrades, for his team, he is the backbone, he can't go down. Ghost is different. For the first time, he feels that he can let go of his identity in front of this person, without the responsibility of life and death, and is just a simple companion fighting side by side.

This feeling made him feel at ease.

After a few seconds of silence, he straightened his raincoat: "Let's go, look north."

Chen Xin nodded. Just as he was about to take a step, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a distorted shadow lying on the wall in the back right, and his pupils constricted suddenly—"Be careful!"

At the same time as the voice fell, he had already aimed the gun and pulled the trigger, and the whole action was done in one go.

Lu Ze was taken aback, quickly calmed down, and walked in front of the living corpse.

The thing's limbs were still twitching slightly, and Chen Xin's bullet pierced a bloody hole in the middle of its head. After a few seconds, its body gradually stopped.

Lu Ze squatted down cautiously, picked up a cut iron bar on the ground beside him, and moved the corpse in front of him. His eyes fell on its hands and feet, and he frowned slightly: "Chen Xin, come here look."

Chen Xin walked over after making sure that there were no living corpses around, and then squatted down: "What's wrong?"

Lu Ze pressed the palm of the living corpse with an iron bar, and through the night vision goggles, he could see a thick layer of calluses formed on the palm under the faint reflection of the rain.

Lu Ze moved its two feet silently: the same thick calluses.

"I remember when I was on a mission at the base...it seems that I have never seen such a situation."

Lu Ze's gaze sank: "No indeed. The living corpses that Ghost and I met in the mountains were basically climbing on trees. I didn't think about it at the time. Now it seems that those things should be the same as the one in front of me. Same."

"You mean...they have evolved some gecko-like ability to climb walls?" Chen Xin's tone was hesitant.

Lu Ze's tone was a bit cold: "Whether it's natural 'evolution' or someone did it deliberately, it's not yet possible to judge."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a faint roar of the engine from the direction behind him, which was especially obvious amidst the sound of rain, and several bright yellow rays of light shot from behind them through the rain curtain.

The two exchanged a tacit look, and hid behind the broken wall.

There were 6 cars in the entire convoy, all of which were pickups. In the compartments of the leading two cars stood a few shirtless infected people, all with guns in their hands.Jacques was in the second car, looking sullen.Both hands were covered in sleeves, and the exposed skin was faintly pale.

A square object was carried on the carriages of the cars behind, covered with a layer of black cloth, it was hard to see what it was.

After the last car drove out for about 500 meters, Lu Ze said in a low voice: "Go, follow and have a look."

Due to the rain and poor road conditions, the convoy was moving very slowly. Lu Ze and Chen Xin had been taking a leisurely pace at a position about 5 to 600 meters behind the rear car, following them with ease.

After walking for nearly an hour, Lu Ze could only judge that the direction was heading south based on the vague direction.By the time the convoy stopped at a fork, it was almost midnight.

Lu Ze looked around. On the left was the ruins of a hospital. Most of the ten-story building had collapsed, leaving only the 4-story building above the ground. A faded red cross sign hung precariously at the entrance. place.

He gestured to the other side, Chen Xin understood, and the two quickly came out of the hiding place and hid in the darkness of the door.

Because the time nodes are more sensitive these days, Ghost did not leave the camp for too long that night.He has a separate tent on Lindsay's side. Near midnight, Wei Junting came over again, and was a little surprised to see that his side was still lit: "Professor, why don't you rest at this late hour?"

Ghost smiled faintly: "Aren't you the same?"

A rare gentle smile appeared on Wei Junting's face: "I just came back from patrolling the perimeter."

Ghost raised his eyes and put his fingertips on his chin: "Looks like tonight will be another sleepless night."

Wei Junting didn't take it seriously: "The lessons from the past tell me that the enemy will always attack when it is least expected, so it is best to remain vigilant at all times."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Bai at Ghost's feet seemed to have heard something, stood up abruptly from the ground, took a few steps on the spot and turned to Ghost, with a low warning cry from his throat.

Ghost looked serious, listened intently for a while, stood up and walked to the door of the tent.

Wei Junting saw some clues from his face: "Come?"

Ghost nodded: "Here we come."

At about the same time, Lindsay's tent was also opened. Seeing Wei Junting and Ghost at the entrance of the tent next to her, she was stunned for a second, then smiled, tilted her head towards the entrance of the camp, and said in a low voice, "Let's go!" .”