This is area 32.
Not long ago, the "Fire Rat Gang" to which Mia belonged had a fierce battle with the "Iron Hands Gang". The "Fire Rats Gang" paid a heavy price and finally drove the "Iron Hands Gang" out of Area 32 temporarily.
But the Iron Hand Gang has always been eyeing the Fire Rat Gang's territory. They have every reason to launch a boomerang and wait for the Fire Rat Gang to relax their vigilance before they come back.
In addition, recently, there has been credible news coming from the outer edge of Area 32 that there are signs of "Dark Night Judge" activities nearby.
The "Judges of the Night" are extreme believers in the "Lady of the Night" and are also a group of complete lunatics.
This made the already tense "Fire Rat Gang" even more frightened, sending elites to patrol the passages and the surface day and night.
Mia is in charge of today's duty.
She had thought that tonight would be an uneventful night.
She could live one more day.
until……
She watched helplessly as a "birdman" fluttering devil's wings swaggered into Area 32.
…
Zheng Xiu smiled.
At this moment, he didn't know that the reason why he made the other party so nervous was because of his elegant and arrogant "bird-man" posture when he flew down into the clouds.
His wings were folded when he landed.
Facing the dark muzzle of the gun, he slowly raised his hands, trying his best to show that he was harmless.
"Meow……"
The orange cat curled up in Zheng Xiu's arms, letting Zheng Xiu shield it from the wind and rain. Zheng Xiu's actions made the orange cat grunt dissatisfied, and its meowing words became another meaning in Zheng Xiu's ears: "Stupid" There is nothing more human than pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?"
In her opinion, Zheng Xiu's behavior was undoubtedly "pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger."
It's inferior "human nature" that's at work.
Zheng Xiu didn't bother to explain to the orange cat. He raised his hands and looked at the other person quickly.
The local who pointed the gun at herself was wearing a thick black protective suit. The fitted protective suit did not make her look bloated, but instead gave her the feeling of being armed to the teeth. She was wearing a protective mask that looked familiar to Zheng Xiu. The round filter protruded from the mask, and the wide frog glasses had a hole in the face, leaking air. She used a piece of transparent cross-shaped tape to cover the hole. , this was dealt with urgently.
"Huh...huh...huh..."
Through her filter, the sound of long, rough breathing came out as she tried her best to appear calm.
"She", yes, Zheng Xiu still couldn't understand the other party's words at this moment, but from the ups and downs of the voice and the protective clothing, Zheng Xiu thought that this should be the "woman" of this world - if this doomsday civilization only has two genders if.
The woman was holding a strange gun in her hand. To Zheng Xiu's unprofessional eyes, the other party's gun... did not look like a product from a military factory, but more like a "local thing" made from junk. There were several "cans" on his waist, presumably some improvised explosives. On the woman's wrist, there is an eye-catching counter with a slight green light.
"Zizzizi..."
At this time, the sound of electricity from the walkie-talkie came from the woman's body, and there was an intermittent voice with a poor signal muttering inside.
The woman replied quietly.
The woman responded to the voice on the walkie-talkie, pointing her gun at Zheng Xiu from time to time and asking something.
The woman didn't notice that Zheng Xiu's lips were trembling at a high speed that was indistinguishable to the naked eye. Analyze, extract words, combine... In just a few sentences, Zheng Xiu analyzed and learned the language here at a speed that ordinary people could not imagine.
High speed divine words.
Since Zheng Xiu worked hard for ten years to repair the loopholes, achieve the Trinity, and consolidate the [correction] authority, he became a god. What is God? Although in a broad sense, gods are beings who are extremely partial to science in a certain field. But Zheng Xiu didn't need to deliberately understand the basic things, he could easily master them.
For example, stamping people's seals, translating languages, learning abilities that are far beyond human beings, how to use spiritual thoughts, and punching people's souls out of the body with a slap. These are the basic skills of God, and Orange Cat can learn them with a little explanation. .
"what are you?"
After a while, Zheng Xiu understood what the other party said.
The woman raised her gun steadily and asked loudly.
what?
Zheng Xiu smiled and shook his head, deciding to remain silent.
The woman's breathing stagnated slightly, and the voice coming out of the filter was a bit colder. She pressed her index finger lightly on the trigger and became nervous: "Distortion?"
"no."
Zheng Xiu replied.
"So you are...humanoid?"
Zheng Xiu thought for a moment and "admitted" generously: "Yes, Miss Mia."
"Mia", that's what the simple walkie-talkie called her.
"Why come to Area 32?"
When Mia heard Zheng Xiu admitting his "identity", her eyes were cold behind the cute tape-covered goggles. She raised the butt of the gun and questioned Zheng Xiu, as if she was about to shoot if she disagreed.
"I'm lost."
Zheng Xiu spread his hands and said sincerely.
In fact, Zheng Xiu understood one thing when he saw that the other party was wearing protective clothing and even the holes in the goggles were covered with tape. No matter how I defend myself, I can't explain why I can move freely without any "protection" when exposed to the harsh environment of the outside world.
Obviously, the external environment is not suitable for human beings to survive normally.
This also explains why Zheng Xiu saw no one anywhere.
After Mia learned that Zheng Xiu was a "lost humanoid", she did not dare to move her gun and communicated with her family in a low voice.
After a while, Zheng Xiu and Mia's posture became that Zheng Xiu was walking in front, and Mia was walking in front with the butt of her gun against Zheng Xiu's vest.
In the desolate and silent world, strange sounds are heard from time to time in the dark night. It seemed like some kind of creature was screaming, or it was like the sound made by the howling cold wind passing through the narrow hole.
With the reminder from the orange cat in front of him, Zheng Xiu did not rashly release his spiritual thoughts to check.
Mia pointed her gun at Zheng Xiu, not daring to let down her guard. She scanned the surroundings keenly. From time to time she would find something, and she would loudly warn Zheng Xiu not to move. She would squat there, dig around, and pick up something. .
As he walked in the direction directed by Mia, Zheng Xiu saw frozen blood stains on the ground from time to time, as well as corpses wearing protective clothing and gas masks. Mia picked up some bullets, filters, goggles, compressed biscuits and other daily necessities from them. , carefully placed in the backpack.
"Your gun is pointed crookedly."
Sometimes Mia would be so excited about the scavenging harvest that she would forget to point the gun at Zheng Xiu. Every time Zheng Xiu reminded Mia to point more accurately, Mia would look frightened and warn: "Don't move! I'm watching!" "
Although Mia didn't say anything, Zheng Xiu's several "friendly" reminders during the short journey of less than one kilometer made Mia vaguely aware that the tall and majestic "humanoid" in front of her seemed to have no ill intentions towards her. .
After Mia changed the third filter, they entered an abandoned building.
The physical structure of the building had long since collapsed, but after the collapse, the abandoned building formed a unique passage. Zheng Xiu walked through the hidden cracks in the ruined walls, walked through the gaps in the floors, and walked along the steel bars. This climb actually gave Zheng Xiu a fresh feeling of scavenging for survival in a doomsday world.
So touching.
There is a secret lookout point by the window on the second floor, with a sleeping bag and an old pair of telescopes on it. It seems that before going down to ambush "humanoid Zheng Xiu", Mia squatted at this lookout point and discovered the birdman with its wings spread.
Mia recovered the supplies left at the lookout point.
In Zheng Xiu's emotion, Mia took Zheng Xiu to the basement of the building. After Mia struggled to unscrew a rusty manhole cover, she held up the butt of her gun and motioned for Zheng Xiu to climb down.
Looking at the dark sewer entrance, Zheng Xiu was silent for a moment and asked with a strange expression: "You... live in the sewer?"
Mia was stunned by Zheng Xiu's question, and it took her a while to answer: "...otherwise?"
Mia still didn't relax her vigilance against Zheng Xiu. She pointed a gun at Zheng Xiu and asked Zheng Xiu to enter the sewer before climbing down.
The humid air was filled with a rancid smell, but the air underground was actually cleaner than the air on the ground.
"Zhizhizhi——"
The news that the two entered the sewer alerted the "other residents" in the sewer. The rats with red eyes made sharp screams and were ready to move in the darkness.
"It's the Rat Pack!"
Mia quickly took out the lighter and opened it with a snap. The bright firelight caused the rats that were about to move in the darkness to retreat into deeper darkness.
"Huh?"
"Meow?"
Zheng Xiu and the orange cat in his arms let out soft calls at the same time. The rats in the darkness gave Zheng Xiu and the orange cat a strange "sense of disobedience" at the same time.
"Did you feel it?"
"It's interesting, it tastes weird, meow."
Zheng Xiu and the orange cat were communicating in a low voice. Mia, who was holding the lighter with one hand and struggling to maintain the aiming position with the other hand, suddenly became nervous: "What is hidden in your clothes!"
"Bo~" The orange cat came out and looked down at Mia with a arrogant expression: "Meow!"
"Meat!" Mia looked at the orange cat in shock: "You, you, you actually have spare food! No, how did your spare food survive!"
Prepare, spare food?
The orange cat was dumbfounded.
Zheng Xiu felt that the cat's crotch was hardened, its tail was straightened, and it felt hard inside the clothes.
"Ahem, Annie, stay calm and put the overall situation first. I believe she has no ill intentions."
"I'm going to kill her."
"As a great tsundere, your supreme and immortal 'elegance' only has this bit of magnanimity?"
"Meow! How dare this despicable and inferior being say that I am food! Food!"
The corner of Zheng Xiu's mouth twitched: "I'm very angry! I will make stupid humans pay the price later!"
The orange cat tilted his head: "Are you sure?"
"OK! At this moment, the overall situation is the most important thing!"
The orange cat was comforted glumly.
Mia didn't know that she had unintentionally offended a supreme master, a being above the gods.
Zheng Xiu tried hard to make his expression look like he was "holding back anger". In fact, he had a hard time holding back his laughter.
"She is my friend, Annie, and she seems to have...mutated."
Zheng Xiu and Mia exchanged a few words on the road, which gave Zheng Xiu a preliminary understanding of the background of this world. This ambiguous answer easily made Mia think about herself and reveal a look of sudden realization: "That's it!"
Mia used a lighter to drive away the rats, burned the spider webs in the passage, and then continued walking in the sewage.
Zheng Xiu reminded: "You forgot your gun."
Mia's face changed slightly, and she lifted up her goggles, revealing a pair of eyes as clear as sapphires. The vigilance in her eyes has now dissipated a lot: "As long as you don't move around, my bullets won't fall on you."
Perhaps because of Zheng Xiu's appearance, perhaps because of Zheng Xiu's temperament, or perhaps because of the courtesy of the gods, Mia gradually let go of her hostility towards Zheng Xiu.
According to legend, humanoids have all kinds of incredible abilities. Normal people will only die if they encounter malicious humanoids.
There is also something in Mia's behavioral logic that makes Zheng Xiu feel strange. What exactly is the humanoid race that Mia is talking about? Are they apostles of false gods? Or are they extraordinary beings with special abilities in this world?
Don't worry about the accomplices who contacted Mia, pretend to be friendly, enter their territory, and end up in trouble?
With doubts, Zheng Xiu followed Mia through the sewer.
After taking a few steps, Zheng Xiu discovered that the sewers in this world were not as small as he imagined. There are other caves in the underground world. After passing through a passage, they unexpectedly came to a tube similar to a subway. The tube was wide, and the long-abandoned train lay crookedly in the passage.
The underground world is as complex as a labyrinth. Without Mia to lead the way, Zheng Xiu would have to pass through the ruins, either by sending out his spiritual thoughts to explore, which of course might alarm the false gods lurking somewhere; or by using the "literati"'s power Explode and generate a nearby "three-dimensional map" of strange objects.
After traveling through the underground world for about half an hour, the two walked through the abandoned subway station and got out of a maintenance tunnel.
"There's movement."
Zheng Xiu listened carefully, and he gently called Mia: "It sounded like teeth grinding."
"What!"
After passing through the subway station, they came to the central sewer of the city. The terrain was spacious, but the view was extremely poor. Upon hearing this, Mia breathed quickly, put on the goggles with tape again, loaded the bullet quickly, and turned on the safety: "Did you hear that?"
"Yes." Zheng Xiu pointed to the depths of the bottomless sewer and said calmly: "Judging from the sound, it should be a four-legged reptile. It makes a very quiet walking sound, has claws, rubs against steel bars, and has sharp teeth. , the saliva dripped on the water pipe drop by drop, making a sizzling sound, which showed that their saliva may be corrosive. There are... one hundred and fifty-six of them in total, and they are sneaking towards this side from three directions. Ah... we are surrounded." Zheng Xiu opened his eyes and pointed to the top of his head: "There are their nests separated by two walls."
Zheng Xiu is still learning the language of this world. At first, his communication with Mia was only a few words or phrases, but at this moment, Zheng Xiu is like an indigenous resident of this world, speaking fluently and speaking a long series of sentences in one breath. .
Listening to Zheng Xiu's words, Mia's eyes widened: "It's 'crawlers'! Did you hear them? No... you don't know what crawlers are? One or fifty-six of them? Oh my God, these beasts What’s the difference between tide!”
Zheng Xiu's words made Mia suddenly discover several strange points. Needless to say, Zheng Xiu’s hearing was so terrible that he could see more clearly than his eyes. From Zheng Xiu’s description, it was obvious that only the crawler fit the description. But what surprised Mia even more was that Zheng Xiu’s description... He didn’t seem to know about crawling. Or this thing?
Where did this kind of people fly here from?
"coming!"
Zheng Xiu frowned, reached out and pushed Mia behind, with her back against the wall. He took a step forward, clenched his fists and began to move his muscles.
A monster as big as a monkey, with bones and dark red tendrils twisted together on its rotting body. Their eyes were red, and they pounced from the darkness on Zheng Xiu, who looked the fattest.
The reason why Zheng Xiu frowned was not because this "creeper" was difficult to deal with, but because like the rats he had seen before, the monster also gave Zheng Xiu a strange "sense of disobedience".
He seemed to be targeted by "something".
(End of chapter)
