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Chapter 542 The Disappearing Bone Tree

in the dark.

A strong wind blew up on the flat ground, startling dozens of strange birds singing and flying to the dark sky.

There are ferocious beasts running rapidly among the ruins.

The slightly shorter obstacle leaped over and encountered the towering ruins of the building. Although it was in a collapsed state, it was still almost a [-]-degree steep slope. It did not avoid it at all. The terrifying power of the knotted muscles that erupts all the time makes it feel like walking on the ground even on this "cliff".

When you zoom in, you can find that there seems to be a person sitting on the back of this terrifying beast.

On the saddle cushion made of gravel, Zhu Jue sat cross-legged, with the crescent moon sword horizontally on his knees, leaning on the cushion with his back, the whistling air flow was completely dissipated before it reached him, so even if the wind chime ran No matter how fast it was, he still sat extremely firmly on it.

The distance from the settlement to the polluted area is not far. Although there are various obstacles along the way, at the speed of the wind chime, after only two or three minutes, Zhu Jue saw the dilapidated signboard of North 3 District appearing on the side of the street.

"Fengling, slow down!"

Bending down and patting Fengling's forehead, the surrounding scenery gradually returned to its original state.

Hey~
Approaching the side of the street, Feng Ling swung his head and roared in excitement, while the three flexible tails behind him flicked wildly, flying the nearby gravel.

Recently, Fengling has been keeping a petite figure by Zhu Jue's side. She has long wanted to find a chance to stretch her muscles and bones. Therefore, after leaving the settlement, it replaced the job of a scavenger and returned to its original strong body. Following Zhu Jue, he made rapid progress all the way.

Lifting his foot sideways, the scavenger immediately extended a platform on the left side, held Zhu Jue's sole in the air, and carried him down.

The wind chime didn't change back immediately, but lingered next to Zhu Jue, and Zhu Jue let it go. Anyway, as long as it hides well in this environment, no one will be able to find it, and it will be later. He still wants to go back.

Observing the surrounding environment through camera glasses, compared with the neat street plan of No. 37 Community, No. 40 Community is undoubtedly much more messy, and the map stored in the audio-visual stick is only marked with rough icons, because there is no Internet. Zhu Jue couldn't check his real-time location, so he could only rely on his intuition to find the location of the polluted area.

Fortunately, it was not completely clueless, the air was filled with a disgusting stench, and the same smell was also smelled in Zhujue No. 37 community.

The polluted area is nearby.

"Fengling, can you find the source of the smell?"

When it comes to the sense of smell, Fengling is undoubtedly more sensitive than Zhu Jue.

woo~
Holding his head up and smelling the smell, the T-shaped black sinuses swelled, and after a while he whimpered a little aggrieved, apparently disgusted by the smell, turned his head around and put it on Zhu Jue's shoulder, twisted twice, waited The latter hugged and rubbed it for a while before retracting again, flicking his tail and walking forward.

Walking forward for a few minutes, Zhu Jue suddenly saw a small Ferris wheel standing in the middle of the road, about tens of meters high, and several completely scrapped mechanical dolls could be seen in the nearby ruins, with their limbs drooping and their faces torn apart , revealing the dusty parts in it, from its obvious slender shape and the scattered lace skirts scattered around it that were mostly crushed by stones, it is not difficult to see that this place should have been a commercial street with a small playground.

Spread out the perception, approach the polluted area, and have to guard against the infected bodies hiding in the dark. However, to Zhu Jue's surprise, he still didn't detect the existence of any infected bodies or even life forms until he walked through most of the street.

In fact, from the moment he entered the North 3rd district until now, he had never even seen the corpse of an infected body.

This is not like the phenomenon that should exist in the polluted area.

Feng Ling put his head on Zhu Jue's waist from behind, urging him to go forward, and then ran around the latter to the viaduct in front of him, as if he had found something, Zhu Jue quickly raised his heels.

Boarding the escalator that has long been out of use, and stepping on the fence on the side of the overpass, the smell became more and more intense. Zhu Jue took out a telescope with night vision function from the space ring.

"Finally found it!"

The palms holding the binoculars tightened, and he whispered to himself.

About a hundred meters away, among the ruins of three high-rise buildings arranged in a zigzag shape, a black-purple infection layer spread among them, covering the buildings and the street, slowly and strangely squirming.

Like a ghost.

Going up directly like in community 37 is definitely not enough. A battle just broke out in community 39 above. Now the Ouroboros organization must be on guard. Zhu Jue doesn't want to startle the snake.

Now that the infected area has been confirmed, the location of its core bone tree naturally becomes the next target to be observed.

It stands to reason that surrounded by square-shaped buildings, the space in the center is undoubtedly the best place to place the bone tree. It is covered on three sides, leaving only one space, and it is easy to defend. However, standing on the bridge and looking through the binoculars for a few minutes, I wish you the best of luck. Jue has never seen the existence of the bone tree.

Is it behind the building?

The height of the flyover is less than 10 meters, so obviously you can't see the situation behind the building, and the Ferris wheel behind it becomes the best observation deck at this time.

It took some time to stand on the top of the Ferris wheel and have a panoramic view of the polluted area in the distance.

Looking beyond the building, Zhu Jue was surprised that he still didn't find the bone tree!

As the core of the infected area, the bone tree must be in the center. The coverage of the contaminated area in front of you may be larger than the contaminated area in No. 37 community, but it is limited to this. You must know that the height of the bone tree is at least about 6 meters , it is impossible to hide in the building, such an obvious target should be visible at a glance under normal circumstances.

jingle bell~
The phone rings.

"Hey?"

The scavenger took out his mobile phone from his pocket, put it to Zhu Jue's ear after connecting it.

"Zhu Jue, we have contacted the Rangers. They are in the settlement and there are a lot of them. The situation is a bit strange. They seem to be preparing for a large-scale battle."

In the alleyway full of sundries, Suzi and Gu Yinxing stood behind several plastic boxes, observing the people on the street outside who were adjusting weapons and carrying ammunition.

When they were walking in the settlement before, they accidentally saw the dense flames here. After getting closer, Gu Yinxing recognized the marks painted on their weapons.

"fighting?"

Turning the binoculars, Zhu Jue thought for a while, then said,

"Are they planning to attack the infected area, shouldn't they be so stupid?"

"No, not attacking, but defending. They are building fortifications. There are machine guns in the windows of houses on both sides of the street."

Gu Yinxing held the box with both hands and turned her head to see as much as possible on the street.

Dang bang~
Perhaps because of impatience, Gu Yinxing subconsciously increased the weight with both hands, which caused the already loose plastic box to bend, and the empty bottle inside fell to the ground, making a few crisp sounds when rolling.

"Who's there!"

People who are in the state of battle are highly nervous, and the sudden noise does not attract attention unexpectedly.

"Sorry. What now?"

Turning her head, Gu Yinxing's face turned red because of embarrassment.

"Zhu Jue, I'm afraid we have to contact the Rangers in advance."

Suzi waved her hand, indicating that she would not retreat. They were not here to cause trouble. Leaving at this time would make the Rangers think that they had evil intentions.

"As long as it is safe, handle it yourself. There are some situations on my side, so I hang up first."

On the other end of the phone, Zhu Jue also discovered something special.

Since the Bone Tree hadn't been found for a long time, Zhu Jue wanted to find an infected body to follow him, and finally found where the Bone Tree was.

The infected bodies were not difficult to find. I turned up the magnification of the telescope and scanned the ruins of the three buildings. Zhu Jue quickly found their whereabouts.

Yes, they!
In the empty floor of the ruins of the building, roughly 20 infected bodies described as terrifying stood.

There are elongated infected bodies that look like mummies that I met in Community No. 37, black and purple pustules, and infected bodies with dozens of tentacles growing on both arms. There are also some that Zhu Jue has never seen before, and it is difficult to express in words monster.

They stood on the outer edge of the empty layer, crowded together, hidden in the darkness, motionless as if they had been ordered.

Zhu Jue had never seen such a situation before, and the bone tree was not there, so why did these infected bodies gather?
a moment.

The frontmost infected body suddenly leaned forward, and fell under the force of gravity, and its action was like a start signal, and other infected bodies around it also began to move forward, jumping out of the air layer, swinging in an ugly pose.

It was also at this time that Zhu Jue suddenly discovered that there were also infected bodies "jumping" in the other two buildings.
Apparently, the mass emergence of this eccentric behavior is not because they think they are too ugly to think about it.

Someone is controlling these infected bodies to gather!

(End of this chapter)