I am immortal with scientific thinking

Lost contact?

In such a situation, losing contact is almost the same as death.

"Exoskeleton armor, plasma pistols, short-range flight devices, quantum radars, cloning incubators... Although I know that the dangers in this city are beyond ordinary, but with such top-notch weapons and equipment, they were killed so silently..." Lin Chen's eyes revealed a trace of fear, and said, "It is indeed beyond my expectations."

"Then Achen, what should we do now?" Su Mu also frowned and asked.

"Where is their last satellite location? I want to go find them myself. After all, they are my followers. I can't let them die in obscurity." Lin Chen's expression was cold.

"It would be dangerous to do this. The three of them have already trapped us. If we force them further, I'm afraid..." Su Mu reminded.

"No venture, no gain." Lin Chen looked at the corridor below and said, "And we are just going to investigate, we don't have to really trigger the taboos of this city. We must now collect enough intelligence information, we can't just sit there and wait without doing anything."

"Okay then..." Su Mu nodded after hearing this, then hesitated for a moment, looked at the doors on both sides, and whispered, "Then what about our relatives in this life...what should we do?"

"Did you notice any problem last night?" Lin Chen asked back.

"No..." Su Mu hesitated for a moment before continuing, "But I can't guarantee whether they are monsters in disguise."

"Then don't worry about it for now." Lin Chen said calmly, "If they have no problems, then they have lived in this city for so long, which means they haven't violated any taboos. There is no need to drag them into danger."

"If there is a problem, then we must not bring him with us. If he stabs us in the back at a critical moment, then I will be in big trouble."

"...Yes, in that case, let's go!" Su Mu no longer hesitated after hearing this.

The two of them took action immediately.

The nanoscale exoskeleton armor quickly covered the entire body, disguising the body part as ordinary clothes. Even the smart helmet on the head became transparent, leaving only a light blue light visible inside. The portable energy shield was able to be activated at any time with the help of the AI ​​assistant.

In such a fully armed situation, even the use of anti-material heavy sniper rifles and Barretts would be unable to penetrate their existing defenses.

In addition, it has various functions such as filtering poison gas, preventing microbial infection, and resisting radiation. It can be regarded as the most advanced individual defense weapon of mankind.

Soon, the two left the residential building and rushed to the last location where the satellite phone was left.

At this moment, it is just dawn.

Even though the vegetation is lush, the air still carries the chill of winter.

But at this moment, the community is already full of people.

Retired elderly people who are out for a run, middle-aged white-collar workers who are walking in a hurry, children who are bouncing around, and young students who are taking a leisurely walk in the morning...

The breakfast shop was bustling with people, the playground was filled with people running, the elderly were happily playing with their children in the cold wind, and the middle-aged were rushing out...

Everywhere is bustling with people, yet the times are peaceful.

"Achen, I will immediately lock onto the other party's last position..."

As he was speaking, Sumu was about to take out the satellite phone.

But at this moment, Lin Chen suddenly reached out and grabbed his arm tightly:
"Wait a minute!"

"Hmm?" Feeling the huge force coming from his arm, Su Mu paused, "What's wrong?"

"Don't you think something is..." Lin Chen looked at the people around him, his expression turned cold, "Isn't it a little strange?"

"Something's wrong?" Su Mu was stunned when he heard that. He looked carefully at the people around him and didn't find anything strange. "Something's wrong. What do you think is wrong?"

"The time and number of people are not right." Lin Chen glanced around, his expression becoming a little serious, and said, "Take a look, what time in the morning is it now?"

"Seven o'clock, what's wrong?" Su Mu looked at the time on his mobile phone and asked puzzledly.

"So what day of the week will we be entering the city that night?" Lin Chen asked expressionlessly.

"Friday..." Su Mu just said this answer, and suddenly he figured something out, and his expression changed slightly.

They had come into town on a Friday, and after a night out, it was now seven o'clock on a winter Saturday morning.

It’s seven o’clock in the morning on a holiday, and it’s a cold winter morning. Outside... why are there so many people coming and going?
On weekends, no matter young or middle-aged, anyone who works almost always sleeps until eight or nine in the morning before waking up from home.

Even though some companies now implement the 996 system and have to work on Saturday morning, you should go to the company in a hurry instead of getting up early to go for a run.

Even the elderly and children who have nothing to do would not get up so early in the morning to blow in the cold wind in winter, unless they wanted to die.

So now, it is reasonable and logical that this community should not have people coming and going, and should not be filled with people everywhere!
Damn...

Su Mu couldn't help but grit his teeth secretly, goose bumps suddenly appeared all over his body, and he felt a sense of horror as cold sweat slowly seeped through his back.

Everything has been like this since entering the city. On the surface, there seems to be no problem, but any slight mishap can make people feel an indescribable weirdness.

This weirdness is hidden very deeply. If it is not discovered in the first time, you will unknowingly fall into an unknown and strange net, and eventually be completely swallowed up by the indescribable horror.

"So what should we do now?!" After realizing something was wrong, Su Mu immediately used a transparent smart helmet to make a channel call.

Lin Chen did not answer at the first moment, but silently glanced at the people around him.

The crowd nearby was increasing unnoticed, and more or less of them were walking towards them or following them.

Even though there were no very obvious traces, even though it was daytime with the sun gradually getting brighter, Lin Chen could vaguely feel that there seemed to be a lot of strange gazes in the dark, who were casually locking onto the movement of the two of them.

It feels like there are countless monsters in the shadows, coveting the lives of living people.

But, why don't they take action?
"These things are watching us, and they are all monsters..."

After careful observation, Lin Chen soon discovered that the people coming and going around them all had a faint blood line running through their heads, or a hole stained with dark red blood. And on the entire street, a faint stench of corpses could be smelled.

Is there something wrong with my brain?
"Then what should I do? We are being targeted now. Should we break out?" Su Mu asked in a deep voice.

Lin Chen was silent for a moment, then used the radar to scan the number of people around him. At a glance, there were densely packed light spots everywhere, at least tens of thousands of people.

"No, since they are surrounding us but not attacking us, it means they haven't triggered the killing rules of these monsters, or the taboos of the city. If we forcefully attack them, it would be equivalent to confronting them head-on, which would be very disadvantageous for our next actions."

Lin Chen weighed the pros and cons and said,
"There are at least millions of people in this city. If they all turn into monsters, it is definitely not a good option for us to resist them head-on. After all, the weapons and energy we have are limited and can only be used at critical moments."

"But I think we should at least get rid of the prying eyes of these monsters. Otherwise, as their numbers continue to gather, something bad will happen sooner or later," Su Mu suggested.

"Okay." Lin Chen agreed to the decision.

Then the two of them took one step after another. The flexibility of their bodies, the assistance of the exoskeleton armor, the force exerted by the joint structure... eventually their speed increased visibly.

In just a few seconds, they crossed a hundred meters, and in the end they even turned into two afterimages. The crowd blocking their way was slipped through the gaps with their great flexibility, and even the walls of the buildings were no longer an obstacle in front of them.

With the help of exoskeleton armor, even an ordinary person can be like the warriors in martial arts novels, flying over eaves and walls, crossing the river with a reed, and performing all kinds of miracles that are impossible for mortal bodies!

Just a moment later, the two of them broke away from the crowd and disappeared from the place.

What Lin Chen and the others didn't know was that the moment after they left, the people rushing to and fro on the street suddenly stopped and stood still, as if they were frozen.

Click——!
The sound of broken cervical vertebrae could be heard in unison on the street, and at this moment, everyone's faces were looking in the direction where Lin Chen had left.

Everyone was motionless, their faces dull and stiff, like lifelike statues in a wax museum.

"Are they human?"

Suddenly, from among the dense crowd, an unknown voice floated.

The sound was erratic, sometimes far away, sometimes near, and it was impossible to determine its location or source.

But among the crowd of people standing motionless, suddenly a strange man opened his mouth very stiffly and asked this question which was neither a question nor a question.

Then the next moment, a woman about ten meters away from him also opened her mouth:
"Are they human?"

The fourth tone is that of a very young child:
"Are they human?"

The voice was transmitted among these people whose lives and deaths were unknown, and various different tones echoed around. Countless voices and tones rose and fell one after another, as if there was an extremely strange existence moving among these corpses that were already faintly smelling of decay.

Each of them, one voice after another, one sentence after another, in the end, became a unanimous echo, with a numbness and despair that penetrated deep into the bone marrow:
"Are they human?"

"Are they human?"

"Are they human?!"

The next moment, all the sounds disappeared abruptly.

Everything was calm again.

Everyone fell silent, without making any sound. The scene fell into deathly silence. Only a strange curve appeared at the corners of their mouths.

It was like the greed and...joy that ran deep into one's bones when looking at its prey.

……

"Um?!"

Lin Chen, who was running at full speed, suddenly paused and lost control of his body. After he reacted, he had to use the help of various buildings and trees around him to offset the inertia brought by the rapid sprint.

"Achen, what's wrong?!"

Su Mu, who was also driving fast, immediately noticed this. His expression changed slightly, and he also braked suddenly and turned back.

"I have a strange feeling of palpitations. It seems that we are being targeted."

Lin Chen adjusted himself, stood up, and looked behind him with a gloomy expression.

"Targeted?" Su Mu's expression darkened when he heard that. He carefully observed the surroundings. This was a remote corner of the park. There was no one around. He couldn't help but feel a little confused. "There's nothing wrong around here. Achen, are you overthinking it?"

"When creatures face predators at a higher level than themselves, they will feel nervous and palpitating. This is the body's instinctive reaction for survival. Some people call it the sixth sense, and some people call it a whim, but no matter which one it is, this kind of thing will never be an illusion." Lin Chen was not moved by Su Mu's words, "So I can be sure that we have been targeted."

"But we have clearly escaped their surveillance..." Su Mu did not doubt Lin Chen and obviously trusted him very much.

"Yes, this is what I am confused about." Lin Chen was also puzzled. "Since we entered the city and just walked out of the community onto the street, the other party has only been spying on us at most, and it didn't give me the feeling that they were staring at us completely."

"But when we left their sight, they started to target us. The difference is... because we used exoskeleton armor."

"What you mean is that when we used technology, it allowed these monsters to determine something and thus completely target us?" Su Mu asked.

"That's right, but the intelligence information is not enough now, so I can't analyze it." Lin Chen held the satellite phone and looked at a place not far away. That was the end point on the screen navigation. "So we still need further intelligence. At least we need to know how the three special forces who followed us into the city died?"

Su Mu followed Lin Chen's gaze and looked where the navigation ended, about a hundred meters away from where they were. This was the place where they had completely lost contact with the three special forces soldiers who had entered the city with them.

There was supposed to be a hotel there, but at this moment, it has become a ruin.

Their final destination has become like this, so it goes without saying what happened to them.

"It seems that they really had an accident, and it was not the influence of the signal jammer..." Su Mu's face turned ugly.

"Not only that, this place has become a ruin, but the satellite phone is not damaged. Instead, it has been under the ruins, providing us with positioning." Lin Chen looked at this scene and sneered, "So is this a coincidence, or... a trap?" (End of this chapter)