The last emperor

Chapter 153
For the sake of safety, Zhang Jin strengthened the guards at Jiandaomen. After the banquet, except for the soldiers who returned to the village to rest, the rest stayed in the mountain to rest.

The appearance of the dead sheep gave Zhang Jin a premonition that the tide of corpses was coming. Judging from the sentinel's tracing skills, the possibility of mutant beasts was unlikely, and most of them were mutant zombies. This also heralded the arrival of the first wave of mutant zombies.

And this is also accompanied by the arrival of the first wave of corpses. After the tide of corpses, mutant zombies will appear more frequently, and the threat to humans will also increase.

At dawn in the morning, he and Chen Lie led the soldiers to the paddock. The idiot led the men to guard the workers, and he and Chen Lie led the team to search in the forest.

Carpet-like progress of more than 300 meters, no one found any abnormalities, because the ground is mainly gravel, the felled trees were trampled in a mess recently, and the sheep-eating monster did not leave any traces.

Further to the east is a forest that no one has ever been to. Chen Lie led people to search for it and returned. Everyone gathered in front of the pile of graves.

"It's strange, obviously there were sheep killed, and some sentries saw the shadow of fleeing, why there is no trace?" Chen Lie got nothing and was very depressed.

Zhang Jin opened the eyes of the corpse and searched around, when suddenly a trace on a tree caught his attention.

He walked over and took a closer look. There were very slight scratches on the tree trunk, as wide as a child's palm. The marks were not deep, and a piece of bark had been scraped off.

"Monkey? Monkeys are not so clumsy, we don't have monkeys here." Zhang Hu stared at the traces.

Chen Lie touched it with his hand, waited for the marks, looked at the fallen bark and said, "The nails of wild beasts are very sharp, this one looks like human hands, but ordinary people who can scrape out marks can't. Can't do it."

Zhang Jin observed the trees. He found traces appearing in a zigzag shape on nearby trees. He frowned and said, "This monster can jump vertically among the trees. It must be moving very fast. It must have entered a pile of random graves."

"Your eyesight is invincible. If you hadn't pointed it out, we wouldn't have been able to find it." Chen Lie looked at the almost unrecognizable traces on the tree and shook his head for a while. His strength was simply a monster. How did we find these traces.

Zhang Jin looked at the pile of graves and said, "Let's go in and search, be careful."

Everyone nodded, and followed Zhang Jin into the pile of graves with full vigilance.

Since I came in early, the fog was still heavy, and it was a bit colder in this messy grave, and many people shivered.

Suddenly Chen Lie raised his hand, and Zhang Jin walked over. He found a grave that had obvious marks of being gouged by claws. There were four pits in total. The upper ones looked like scratch marks, while the lower ones looked like small footprints.

"Human?" Chen Lie gestured to the foothold below and his face changed, "If it's a human, it's probably a half-grown child."

Suddenly Zhang Hu screamed, and the two hurriedly looked over, only to see a thin figure flashing out from behind the graveyard in the distance, jumping into another graveyard and disappearing.

Everyone rushed over to search, but there was nothing behind the grave.

Chen Lie helped Zhang Hu up from the ground and said, "Are you injured?"

Zhang Hu shook his head and said: "I just turned around the mound, and found that there seemed to be a child curled up sleeping on it, with tattered clothes, I was about to go over to check, when he suddenly turned around, bared his teeth and yelled at me... "

"Its appearance is scary, its skin looks dry and wrinkled like a beast, its eyes are red and piercing, its teeth are broken but sharp like knives..." Zhang Hu said with some fear, trying to describe the appearance the scene that arrived.

"Human or monkey?" Chen Lie asked.

"Like a human...but also like a beast. He is wearing clothes, and his feet..." Zhang Hu tried hard to recall: "The feet look like humans, but they feel like a beast with a layer of hard armor."

"Castle Master." Chen Lie looked at Zhang Jin. He couldn't figure out what it was, but it felt unusual.

Zhang Jin looked at the woods in front of him and said: "No matter what it is, it must be unusual. It fled into the mountains, where the trees are dense and not safe. Zhang Hu led the team back, and instructor Chen and I went in to search."

Zhang Hu responded and the team members turned back, and Chen Lie followed Zhang Jin to continue walking inside.

The monster moved extremely quickly, and it had long since disappeared in the forest. Zhang Jin could only find a trace through the eyes of the corpse, and followed him to find it.

For the "monster" Zhang Jin can already guess what kind of mutant zombies are. Although there are many kinds of zombies after evolution and mutation, there are probably several categories. This one is only described as a child and a monkey. It should be a predator.

The mutant zombies in the category of predators are all thin and flexible, their bodies are stooped and they move like monkeys, and they can climb and jump.

This kind of mutant zombies usually act alone, attacking single humans or animals, and sometimes sneaking in among corpses. They like to bite cheeks and throats. Grab the person's face, and then bite the body with a fatal blow.

Because it is very stealthy and rarely makes a sound when it moves, and can jump and move quickly, it usually attacks humans condescendingly, making it hard to guard against. It is a mutant zombie that is very dreadful when going out to find supplies.

Those ordinary soldiers didn't have enough reflexes, and they were extremely vulnerable in the mountains and forests, so he didn't let the soldiers take risks, and it was not difficult to find Chen Lie by relying on the corpse's eyes.

"Bastard!" Chen Lie, who was looking forward at another place, cursed.

Zhang Jin looked for it, and the iron spear was still dangling on the tree pole.

Chen Lie pulled out his iron gun and looked at the tree in front of him, saying: "This bastard moved too fast. He just dodged it when he found out that I was throwing the gun. It seems that the skeleton is not too small. Somehow, he can jump on a tree several meters high. Jumping back and forth on the pole, the body is long and hairless, it is definitely not a beast."

Zhang Jin looked at it with his corpse eyes, and the predator left traces of jumping on the tree pole, and slipped into the deep mountains. This thing's IQ can be compared with that of ordinary beasts, and it slips quickly when it encounters danger.

"This thing is not simple. When it appeared, it was only discovered when we were alone nearby. It probably ran into Fuhu Mountain."

Chen Lie said: "Could it be that the zombies have become like this? They look too human."

Zhang Jin nodded and said: "It is very possible that the appearance of Fury and Roshan proves that zombies can mutate, and we will know when we catch them. Go into the mountain."

"It's getting more and more interesting." Chen Lie smiled wryly, raised his iron gun and followed Zhang Jin to catch up.

There was no sign of the predator along the way, and if it weren't for some broken twigs and leaves that could still guide the way, they couldn't be sure that the monster fled in.

Going deeper and deeper, the trees cover the clouds and the sun is extremely dark, and the terrain is also changeable. Stepping on the thick leaves and weeds exuding a rotten smell, you can't even hear a bird call.

"It's good to have a gun, otherwise even if you find it in this dense forest, it will be difficult to catch it." Chen Lie frowned as he observed the forest.

Zhang Jin observed the surroundings with the eyes of the corpse, and found chaotic traces. He could guess that this was the area where the predator was active. He picked up a rabbit that had been bitten off its head and started to rot from the pile of rotten grass, and said: "This The rabbit has been dead for a few days, and the monster fled back here, and most of them hid nearby. Our sentries were not attacked last night, which means that the monster has not bitten anyone, and it was testing us along the way."

"The zombie's brain is broken, why does it sound so smart?" Chen Lie frowned looking at the rabbit corpse. This monster seemed to like eating heads and sucking blood.

"Let's go, let's go to the tree house to rest." Zhang Jin said as he walked: "The theory of evolution is always correct, no one is smart in wild beasts, but some of their hunting abilities are unmatched by humans. Bloodthirsty and hunger are the evolution of species. The roots of these zombies have the desire to eat, and it is normal to evolve some variants."

Chen Lie nodded and said with a smile: "But it sounds like you have a deep understanding of the end times, and nothing can make it difficult for you."

(End of this chapter)