stop fighting

When Ghost and Xiaobai came back, it was just past 7 o'clock, and the sky was already bright outside. Lu Ze and Chen Xin almost searched the shops on the whole street, and barely pieced together a radio transmitter with the few parts.

When Ghost entered the door, he heard a humming noise coming from the crude machine.

"It's useless. The magnetic field isn't right here," he said, setting a kettle on a nearby table.

"Magnetic field interference?" Chen Xin frowned.

"I guess so." Ghost shrugged: "I have tried it before, in different directions. The conclusion is that, with the center of the old city on the map as the center, there is a magnetic field within a radius of [-] kilometers around the radiation. interference."

Chen Xin and Lu Ze glanced at each other, before they could speak, Ghost looked at Chen Xin, his voice was always indifferent: "It seems that you have almost recovered, if you can go, go out of the city now, I will let Xiaobai take you with you." You, just go 10 kilometers away from the core radiation zone and you can get it back."

Chen Xin glanced at Lu Ze, nodded silently, and when he got up, he reached out to fist bump Lu Ze, and said in a low voice, "Waiting for you outside the city."

Lu Ze stretched out his fist to touch him, looked at him with deep eyes, finally said nothing, and patted him on the shoulder.

Xiaobai seemed to understand what they meant. After seeing Chen Xin standing up, he wagged his tail, lowered his head and arched at Ghost's calf, and walked out of the door half a step ahead of Chen Xin with a feeling of reluctance.

Ghost's eyes kept falling on Lu Ze, watching him watch the two figures outside the door disappear into the corner of the street, leaning against the door with folded arms, waiting for Lu Ze to speak first.

Lu Ze didn't seem to notice his gaze on him. After a moment of silence, he turned to Ghost: "Let's go."

The eyes behind Ghost's mask narrowed slightly: In just a few minutes, Lu Ze felt like a different person, whether it was the carelessness of the first meeting, the clean and neat fighting with the "herd", and the crisis. His composure, his gentleness when he treated Xiao Bai, and his current sharpness, all these seemed to be just a small aspect of this person.Just like the jigsaw puzzles he played before, there were a bunch of scattered clues in front of him, but now he had the urge to put these pieces together, to see what this person would look like in the end.

"?" Lu Ze had already stood up and was about to go out. Seeing that Ghost was still standing there without any response, he was a little puzzled: "What's wrong?"

Ghost was almost taken aback, and pulled himself out of his thoughts about this person: "It's nothing, let's go."

Lu Ze took him straight back to the place where Chen Xin and Wu Zhuo had an accident yesterday.

The abandoned parking lot was still empty. Although it was still morning, the hot summer sun shone directly on the white ground, making it hard for people to see clearly.

Ghost followed Lu Ze a few steps behind. The two came to the place where Xiaobai and Chen Xin were found yesterday. Lu Ze first squatted down and looked at the ground carefully. Before he could say anything, Ghost also discovered the problem——

The ground is so clean.

Yesterday, both Xiaobai and Chen Xin were injured and saw blood, and the open space in front of them was clean, not to mention bloodstains, not even stains.

Lu Ze frowned, he looked up and looked around, and finally his eyes fell on the building in front of the two of them.

Although most of the building has been cracked, from the outside, this community should belong to the so-called "retro style" that was popular at that time before the virus broke out.All the exteriors of the buildings are painted light yellow, with only 8 storeys in height. There are two households in one staircase, each with an open concrete hollow balcony, and all the external window frames are painted in a darker red.This kind of house Lu Ze has only seen on video materials.

But at this time, retro also reflects the benefits of retro - at least the structure of the building is simple, and it can save a lot of time if you really want to search it.

"Go in and have a look." Lu Ze said and walked forward first.

As soon as you step into the door opening of the unit, you can clearly feel a cold breath rushing around your head. The black boundary seems to divide the inside and outside of the door into two completely different worlds.

The walls on the first floor are still relatively well preserved. Above the three steps, there is a house on the left and right sides. The door panel of the house on the left is missing, and some vague outlines of furniture can be seen through the skylight.The one on the right looks a little better. The dark anti-theft door is covered by a crack, so you can't see clearly what's going on inside.

"I'm on the left." After speaking, Ghost passed Lu Ze and walked into the door of the house on the left.

Lu Ze touched the bridge of his nose, gave a low laugh, and turned to the door on the right.

When he lifted his foot to kick the door open, his gun was already in his hand, and the door frame seemed to be overwhelmed with a broken groan.Lu Ze put his left toe against the door, and quickly scanned the room——

The internal structure of the house is also very simple, the entrance is the living room, the open balcony is connected to the right, and a narrow bathroom is on the left.Go inside through a narrow corridor, the kitchen and dining room are on the left, and there are three rooms on the right.

Lu Ze checked all the rooms quickly. The floor and all the remaining furniture were covered with a thick layer of dust, and it didn't look like there was any trace of activity.Except for the innermost bedroom: there were a few footprints in different shades on the floor, spreading from the open window to the door, and then disappeared completely.

Lu Ze's gaze scanned the surrounding walls with a thoughtful expression.

"Army—" Ghost's faint voice came through the two open doors: "You'd better come and have a look."

Lu Ze scanned the room for the last time, and strode out.

In contrast, the situation in the room opposite is much more chaotic. When entering the door, there is a sofa overturned on one side of the living room and broken glass all over the floor. The ground is covered with footprints of different sizes, and there are obvious signs of struggle. Mixed with a relatively shallow drag mark. Ghost squatted halfway in front of the sliding door leading to the balcony in the living room, and there was a dark pool in front of him.

Lu Ze walked up to him and squatted down, touched it with his gloved hand, and frowned: "Blood?"

Ghost also got some on his fingertips. He sniffed it and nodded, "It's blood, but I don't think it's your companion's blood."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand in front of Lu Ze, even if he didn't get close to Lu Ze, he could smell a faint rancid smell mixed in there.

"It looks like they should have gone out from this balcony." Ghost raised his chin outward.

The concrete hollowed-out balcony was originally only for decoration. The curved pillar at the lower part was knocked down by something, revealing an ugly gap. There was also a dark bloodstain on the gravel on the top, extending all the way to the garden inside the community. .

Lu Ze glanced at Ghost: "Follow me and have a look."

Ghost nodded silently, and walked out through the gap first.

The traces outside were not as obvious as in the room. Lu Ze followed Ghost all the way to a location near the center of the community along the sporadic bloodstains.

In front of them is a ring-shaped flower garden, in which the bright red roses are blooming luxuriantly, surrounded by a square gazebo in the middle, and a winding wooden flower shelf passage winding out from the rear.

Ghost didn't go any further, his eyes fell on a pillar in front of the gazebo.

Lu Ze followed his gaze, and saw a double-petalled rose engraved on the gray-white pillar, almost a little lower than his line of sight.

Seemingly wanting to confirm something, Ghost walked straight towards the pillar. Although Lu Ze was a little confused, he also followed.

The cutting technique on the periphery of the rose is very rough, but the engraving becomes more delicate as it gets closer to the middle, and the cluster of stamens is almost lifelike.

As if confirming something, Ghost took a breath, turned and leaned against the pillar, raised his hand and took off his mask.

To Lu Ze's surprise, there was a layer of mask under his mask. This layer of mask was so thin that it almost followed the outline of the facial features of a person, leaving only room for the eyes.

"Captain Lu, I probably know where your teammate is. With all due respect, it is impossible to bring him out with you alone, not to mention you are not even sure whether he is dead or alive now." His voice was very calm .

Lu Ze didn't speak, just stared at him and waited for him to continue.

"Of course, I promised you that I would help you, and I won't break my promise. It's just that there are some things that need to be clarified before that." Ghost looked at Lu Ze, showing no superfluous expression.

"If you want to save your teammate, the price you have to pay is the safety of your entire team. Will you take them to risk yourself?"

Lu Ze's tone was very light: "No one knows the result of some things until they have tried them."

Ghost smiled: "Captain Lu, have you always been so stubborn?"

The corner of Lu Ze's lips ticked: "If you call this 'stubborn opinion'. I just won't give up on anyone easily."

Ghost raised his hand: "Captain Lu, I don't mean anything else, but I'm used to confirming the bottom line before doing things. Since your attitude is so persistent, then I can plan my next move. Then—the last question." He paused and looked into Lu Ze's eyes: "How much trust can you have in me?"

This time the silent person became Lu Ze.

Ghost didn't rush him, just stood there, waiting patiently for his answer.

After a while, Lu Ze raised his finger and made a gesture.

Ghost didn't seem to expect this answer, a trace of astonishment flashed quickly in his eyes, and he paused before saying, "I see."

Lu Ze looked at him with interest: "Why, let you down?"

Ghost didn't answer. He took two steps forward, and when he brushed shoulders with Lu Ze, he said, "Let's go, I'll take you to meet someone first."

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Because I have to prepare for the application for the list next week, there will be updates today and tomorrow~