"How could this happen?" Tang Xiaoquan muttered to himself, and Tang Xiaoquan's strange behavior also attracted Xu Renjie's attention.
Xu Renjie stopped walking downstairs, turned around, and leaned towards Tang Xiaoquan again.
He stayed close, patted the latter's shoulder with his hand, and asked in a low voice: "What's the matter? Xiao Tang, have you noticed anything?"
Tang Xiaoquan was still silent in his thoughts, and he subconsciously replied: "Something is not right."
"Oh?" As soon as these words came out, Xu Renjie was immediately alerted. He quickly raised the telescope in his hand to look around, and at the same time asked helplessly: "Where is it? What's the situation?"
After regaining consciousness, Tang Xiaoquan did not rush to reply. Instead, he raised his arm and pointed around, and then asked: "Old Xu, don't you feel anything?"
"What do you feel?" Xu Renjie's suspicion became more serious now. He immediately turned around and stared into the young man's eyes.
In response, Tang Xiaoquan replied calmly: "Jing, it's too quiet here! I took a look, not only here, but not a single zombie was seen around the big turntable in front. This feeling... this feeling is like... …”
As if he thought of something, Tang Xiaoquan's face suddenly became solemn, which made Xu Renjie become nervous and couldn't help asking: "What does it feel like?"
"Similar to the situation we encountered in the gym before!"
"Buzz!" There was a buzz in his head, as if it was exploding. Undoubtedly, the tragedy at Yuhuan Stadium was Xu Renjie's worst nightmare.
He raised the telescope in his hand in a daze, looked around as the young man said, and immediately froze there.
Sure enough, just as Tang Xiaoquan said, there was not a single zombie visible around the entire main road.
Such an abnormal situation immediately alerted Xu Renjie.
"I suspect that these disappearing zombies were attracted by Liu Yunpeng's father's factory."
This is the result that Tang Xiaoquan came to after a short period of thinking.
After all, the only area with human activity around here is Liu Fugui's food processing factory.
In addition, it is not difficult to analyze the so-called "attempts to rescue Liu Yunpeng, but ultimately to no avail" in Lenovo's radio waves. It is precisely the result of the zombie siege.
Xu Renjie nodded indifferently. He had stabilized from the initial shock.
Considering the current situation, leaving immediately is undoubtedly the safest choice.
But Xu Renjie did not intend to do this, at least he did not intend to leave before confirming the actual situation of the factory.
The reason is the same. The base's reserves are running low. Moreover, we have been preparing for this operation for so long, and the target location is right in front of us.
It would be hard to reconcile yourself to returning home based on just one inference.
So Xu Renjie's reply was: "Let's find a higher place to confirm again. If the factory is really surrounded by zombies, we will find another way."
Tang Xiaoquan didn't have much objection to this. There were no zombies nearby anyway, so it might be a good idea to stay a little longer and check the situation.
With this in mind, the two of them immediately raised their telescopes and began to look around for the "commanding heights."
Logically speaking, it should be easy to find a "commanding heights" in a county town, but it was more embarrassing for the current action team.
The location they were currently in was still on the outskirts of DZ County. Looking from the rooftops of the houses where they were standing, they could see low bungalows and green belts overgrown with weeds. There were no buildings higher than 2 stories at all.
Even though he is a local, Tang Xiaoquan also secretly laments the construction of his hometown, why it is still stuck in the same place after so many years.
So much so that they couldn't even find a taller building for observation.
Finally, in desperation, Tang Xiaoquan had no choice but to give up the regular route and set his sights on a bronze statue in the center of the big turntable.
"Old Xu, do you think that bronze statue can be used for observation?"
Following the direction of Tang Xiaoquan's finger, Xu Renjie looked up.
The bronze statue is located just in the center of the circular turntable. This is one of the landmark buildings originally built by the DZ County government. However, due to the invasion of time, the surface of the bronze statue has been "" ruined and its original appearance cannot be distinguished.
Xu Renjie was not in the mood to find out who the owner of this bronze statue was, but his majestic figure of nearly 7 meters tall was an element that matched the "commanding heights".
In addition, through observation, Xu Renjie also discovered that some design decorations and naturally carved potholes on the bronze statue can be used as footholds for climbing.
So as long as he uses these factors properly, it won't be a problem to climb to the top of the bronze statue.
Xu Renjie, who was worried, immediately responded in the affirmative: "Yes, that bronze statue can be used as an observation point!"
But it's okay, but if Xu Renjie really wants to climb up with bare hands, it's not as easy as it seems from a distance.
At least in Tang Xiaoquan's view, the time it takes to climb is a problem.
Of course, this is not because he doubts Xu Renjie's ability, but after all, the bronze statue is not a drainage pipe that goes straight up and down, so it will definitely take a long time to climb to the top. In addition, the bronze statue is in the center of a circular crossing, with nothing but extreme surroundings. If you quickly isolate the fence, there will be no other obstruction.
To put it bluntly, as long as Xu Renjie climbed onto the bronze statue, he would be exposed to the surrounding view. Once discovered by zombies, the consequences would be disastrous.
Tang Xiaoquan visually measured the distance between them and the bronze statue. It was not very far, about a hundred or ten meters.
It wouldn't take even a minute to drive there, but that would obviously be inappropriate.
Because, although there is no movement of any living creatures at the big turntable ahead, who can guarantee that the buzzing engine of the urban management vehicle will not cause some restlessness!
Walking can reduce the risk caused by noise, but the safety factor is too low. Thinking about the terrifying speed of the "Runner", Tang Xiaoquan felt his scalp numb.
"What should we do? How can we get to the bronze statue safely and quickly?" Wang Xinquan held his chin in his hand and tapped his face rhythmically with his fingertips.
His thoughts made Wang Qiang, who had been waiting quietly in the car for a while, unable to sit still.
You know, he and Li Huiru were not on the right track to begin with, and now that they were in the car, the atmosphere was extremely awkward.
Therefore, after Wang Qiang secretly cursed "What a fucking ink", he opened the door and walked out.
"Damn! Are you okay? How long has it been since this happened? If it doesn't work, let's go back! Don't make ink marks!" After saying this, Wang Qiang casually moved a pebble in front of him, and then shot angrily.
Good guy, the pebbles rolled all the way and accurately hit an empty can in the corner. It made a crisp "dang" sound and then bounced away. (To be continued.)
