dawn effect

Chapter 164 Salt Mine Hospital
After the reconnaissance, Tangning confirmed the safety of the area, returned to the container truck, opened the stored food to replenish energy, and asked Xiaozhi to report the reconnaissance situation to Han'an and Weiyuan.

Not surprisingly, Zhang Qiuyi asked Tangning to keep the aquatic mutant safe and bring it back to Han'an City as a research object.

There was no refrigerator or freezer here, so Xiaozhi finally figured out a way to ask Tangning to take out the spare combat uniform and put it on the mutant.

The combat uniform has its own air conditioner. By changing the control module, it can be lowered to five degrees, which is close to the temperature of refrigeration. After that, wrap the mutant in tin foil and put it in a foam box. A temporary freezer is enough.

After finishing these tasks, it was already dark, so Tangning opened the roof of the container truck in the dark, hoisted the drone out of the compartment, and assembled the slide rails.

After everything was ready, Tangning called out, "Xiaozhi."

The slit-shaped ion jet at the tail of the drone began to emit blue light, and then began to move, drawing a beautiful arc along the slide rail, and boarded the slide rail at a very high speed.

The end of the slideway is facing the bridge, directly above is the dense tree canopy, and above the front is the starry night sky.

The drone shot into the sky with a roar.

Tang Ning walked onto the bridge in the dark and installed spring steel wires across the bridge. The bridge deck was the landing field, and the steel wires were used to intercept the drone on its return journey.

Back in the eco-chamber behind the car, the drone image had already started to transmit back. Five minutes later, the drone entered the range of Jiazhou Skynet, and the signal was interrupted.

Laimu, Weiyuan, and Han'an were all under surveillance, and the first phase of the mission had just ended.

In order to prevent the signal transmission from being discovered, Tangning and the two said they were safe and cut off the communication.

"Xiaozhi, imitate me, I'll go to town and have a look."

"Okay Dad, be careful."

In the law of living in the wilderness, what Tangning hated most was the word accident. The quietness in Jingyan's direction was undoubtedly an accident, which made Tangning feel very bad.

Laimu is the junction of Jingyan and Rong County. Within the address range of Tianwang, Jingyan belongs to Jiazhou, and Rongxian belongs to Yandu. The United Council sent a small team to seize Jingyan last year. In fact, it is not for geographical occupation, but for the purpose of Snatch the Skynet resources of Jiazhou and Yandu.

And the first manifestation of all the deserted town forces taking refuge in the United Council is to hand over the Skynet resources in their hands, and the United Council will convert them into corresponding contribution values ​​and arrange the positions of defectors.

The Huang family refused to do so, so they were defined as warlords and punished by the joint council.

Although after the humane elimination of Skynet resource owners and their heirs, those resource owners will be managed by Skynet for 15 years, and then the ownership will be open to the first discoverer, but as long as they do not fall into opposition In the hands of the opponents, for the joint council, it can be regarded as the second choice besides the best.

After all, Skynet also serves humanity.

"dad."

"Well, Xiaozhi."

"It's close to the address range of Yandu Skynet, you have to be careful." Xiaozhi reminded Tangning again.

"Understood." Tangning said, "I won't go too deep."

Laimu Town belongs to the southeast of Jingyan, and belongs to the Yandu Skynet. Skynet resources now include both the part owned by the Huang family and the part owned by the council.

I don't know if the Huang family sent someone to lurk in Jingyan to monitor the traces of the military's activities there through the Yandu Skynet.

If there is, once Tangning enters the address range of Yandu Skynet, if the shielding is not good, Yandu Skynet will immediately allocate temporary basic resources to Tangning.

This process will definitely attract the attention of the monitoring personnel of the Huang family who are lurking in the Yandu Skynet, and the Huang family, which has a lot of Yandu Skynet resources, will take care of the lonely Tangning, and it will be a matter of minutes.

The town of Laimu is not completely dark, and some street lights with solar photovoltaic panels can still function, basically illuminating the entire town.

Tangning's advantage lies in invisibility, but invisibility has a huge disadvantage, that is, she will no longer be able to get help from Xiaozhi.

Laimu is a beautiful name, Lai is wheat, and Mou is barley. In the ancient poems, there is a verse of "Let me come to Mou, and the emperor will lead the education".

Moreover, this is the earliest hometown of salt wells. By the same period, there were already several large and small salt factories here.

The residents of the town mainly engaged in characteristic agriculture, tea and salt production in the Datong era.

Laimu Town has not been cleaned up, and there is no big river flowing through it. Although it is surrounded by forests, the town is still the original ecology after Datong, full of undead, mutants and mutant beasts.

Tangning closed his pores and activated his supernatural powers. Now his body is full of supernatural powers. After being covered by the leather armor painted with cold stiff wood powder, he looks like a low-level mutant beast.

Walking into the town, the undead and mutants in the town didn't seem to have any feelings for him. Only a few mutants glanced at him and howled at him, trying to summon him.

After Tang Ning sent out a mental threat to them through the crystal necklace, the mutants stopped moving.

With Tangning's current skills, he was able to freely enter and leave towns occupied by undead without triggering their siege. As long as he wasn't an overly high-end mutant, there was no threat to him.

The real threat is those mutant beasts whose evolution means cannot be guarded against.

The best building is the mine hospital in the town, Tangning decided to go there first.

There are the most undead people here. Judging from the temporary defense facilities at the entrance of the hospital, this hospital has become the last shelter for the residents of the town.

There are many human skeletons under the hospital building, all of which have fractures and other phenomena.

Tang Ning had seen this kind of scene many times. After the human nature was wiped out in despair, the most terrible enemy was her own companions.

These people were all thrown from a high place, even if they didn't mutate, they were still treated like this.

Tangning jumped over the bones and thought for a while. Instead of breaking the door lock, she grabbed the vines and prepared to climb to the top of the hospital, looking for a place to enter.

Just climbed to the second floor, "whoosh—" a small snake emerged from the vines, its head looked like a perfect leaf from above, its body and vines were integrated, it was extremely difficult to find .

But its ability exposed it. Tangning stretched out her finger and flicked it, just right on the little snake's neck, interrupting the half attack it had just made, and flicked it away.

There was a broken opening in the window on the seventh floor. Tangning used that opening to get in because of some kind of mutant creature's attack.

The night vision function of the helmet was turned on, and the scene inside was shocking.

It was obvious that there had been a fierce battle here, and there were several horrible scratches on the wall and on the hospital bed.

A steel wire bed was pulled by something so that the edge of the bed was deeply sunken, and it was seriously deformed.

There were two messy skeletons at the door of the room, there were dark blood stains on the wall, and there was a big hole in the door.

It was obvious that the intruders had wreaked havoc here, and after killing the fleeing refugees, they broke through the door and entered the hospital.

Coming out of the doorway, the aisle is also in a mess. The ominous beast has ravaged the entire building, and it seems to have an exceptionally good tracking ability. Wardrobes, ventilation ducts, storage rooms, they were found one by one, and killed in a brutal way.

In the entire building, Tangning did not see a complete corpse.

Tangning searched all the way to the monitoring room, wanting to see if the refugees had left any clues about the beast.

It turned out that the crystal storage in the monitoring room of the hospital had been taken away.

Tangning's mind suddenly became tense.

No matter what the raging beast is, it shouldn't have the intelligence to take away the crystal storage body. In other words, someone may have come here later and took away the crystal storage body that recorded the living pictures of the hospital survivors.

Furthermore, could the person who took away the memory be an accomplice of the beast, and that beast was even a pet of that person, just like glutinous rice balls and hair cakes?

If so, why did he drive fierce beasts to attack the survivors in the hospital and brutally kill them?
Thinking of this, Tangning searched the hospital more carefully, and even temporarily put aside her original plan of looking for a high place and observing the movement of the Longhan high speed in the distance.

After a search, it was found that the hospital building was tightly sealed by the survivors. After the perpetrator finished the killing, he got out from the hole on the seventh floor.

As a result, the hospital was not infested by undead and mutants. Apart from the bones everywhere, it was unusually "clean".

Tangning returned to the seventh floor and began to use the method of tracking the prey to find any clues about the beast and restore the events at that time.

He didn't dare to use the Yandu Skynet that he could contact here, so he could only faithfully record what he saw through the helmet into the crystal storage he carried with him, and analyze it when he returned to Han'an.

After several years of living independently in the jungle, Tangning had already trained himself to be a professional wilderness hunter. Soon, he found many clues.

On the wire springs of an overturned hospital bed, he found a few hairs.

That capillary and tough, does not belong to humans.

On the pool of dried blood, Tangning could vaguely see some palm-sized plum blossom-shaped footprints on it.

There are also claw marks on the wall. Through the comparison and analysis of the pictures, it can be seen that the matching degree of claws and footprints is quite perfect.

Judging from the human skeletons, most of them were fractured neck bones, and based on the bite marks collected from the victims, Tangning calculated the distance between the two upper canine teeth and the two lower canine teeth of this beast.

Another feature of the bite mark, which was left on the skeleton of a child, is the blood grooves on the canine teeth of this beast.

From the footprints, bite marks, and especially the blood grooves in the canine teeth, Tangning could already determine that the intruder was a large cat.

Judging from the intrusion floor, this beast is of medium size and should be a leopard.

And judging from its astonishing lethality, this leopard has probably mutated.

Because judging from the bite marks, under the same body size, ordinary cats cannot achieve such an amazing bite force.

(End of this chapter)