Chapter 40: The Deadly Statue

Everyone held their breath and raised their attention to the limit, carefully feeling the slight movement around them.

ACE's [Reaper] team is equipped with night vision goggles, but from their current angle, they can't fully see the inside of the corner, only a small piece of black and swarthy things are exposed.

Xia Feng picked up the dim light with trembling fingers, to be honest, he didn't look too closely because he was too nervous just now.

At first, he just thought that the silhouette of the dark shadow in the corner looked like a person, but when he brought the glimmer closer, he seemed to see a human face, because the spirit was so tight, he instinctively screamed, and the lamp fell to the ground.

Now everyone surrounded him, one by one, as if he were facing a great enemy, which made him wonder if he was dazzled just now, maybe it was a statue or something.

Vina stared at the dark corner, her voice full of undisguised murder.

"Whoever you are, come out for me right away, I'll count to three."

"One."

"Two."

"Three."

There was no movement.

..........

Kate looked at Vina.

"What to do? I'm going to get him out? ”

Vina shook her head.

"I can't feel any living things, it's probably something inhuman."

One second, two seconds, three seconds.......... Time passed slowly in silence.

The stalemate lasted for about 30 seconds, and for some reason, the atmosphere was a little delicate.

ACE sighed, then put away his shield and said in a deep voice.

"Stay where you are, I'll go and see it alone."

Vina also felt that such a stalemate was not the way to go.

"Kate, you go over with Big Brother Ace, and if you find danger, you will immediately retreat."

"Yes."

The two of them walked one after the other, slowly walking towards the corner, Kate clenched the battle axe with a serious face, while ACE looked calm, looking as if he already knew that there was no danger in the corner.

Xia Feng took the turtle's hand and nervously watched the backs of the two slowly lean towards the corner.

.......

.......

After a while, ACE's deep shouts came.

"Not an enemy, danger lifted!"

Hearing ACE's words, everyone's tense spirits instantly relaxed, and they let out a burst of boos, and the uniform appearance was like watching a football game when a certain striker passed the ball all the way, and when he even threw the goalkeeper behind him, he kicked the ball to the door frame.

"Cut, what the hell."

"Xia Feng, my sister of the day."

Xia Feng looked embarrassed, and could only touch his head and squeeze out an apologetic smile.

"I'm sorry, I'm a little too nervous about the gloomy stuff around here, hehe, I'm sorry guys."

Vena finally breathed a sigh of relief, and she gently lowered her arm holding the warhammer and said to the crowd.

"Let's continue to rest, Xia Feng, come with me and have a look."

"Oh."

Xia Feng was also a little curious, what was that black shadow he saw just now?

After settling the turtle, Xia Feng followed Vina with a glimmer and walked towards ACE and them.

When he got closer, he saw Kate pointing to a black thing in the corner of the wall.

"It's not an enemy, Xia Feng, this should be what you saw just now."

Xia Feng looked fixedly.

When he saw the outline of this thing clearly, he couldn't help but feel a little hairy in his heart.

To be precise, he was not wrong just now, this thing is indeed a "person" from the appearance, this "person" is about 1.6 meters tall, it should be a woman, she is black, her clothes and skin can no longer be distinguished, the eye sockets on her face are sunken, her face is hideous, and she looks very shocking.

Xia Feng carefully discerned it and said with some uncertainty.

"Is this a statue?"

This is the square of Mandel City, to be honest, it is common to have humanoid statues in the square, but Xia Feng can't understand why he would put a statue with such a terrifying shape in the corner?

With that, Xia Feng stretched out his hand and wanted to touch the surface of this statue to see what material it was.

"Smack!"

Vena next to her opened Xia Feng's hand.

"Don't touch it!"

Xia Feng covered the back of his hand that was beaten and was painful, looking puzzled.

"What's wrong? Isn't this a statue? ”

"It's not."

"Huh? So what is it? ”

Vina leaned down to pick up a piece of rubble and scratched it lightly on the "statue's" arm.

"Huh!"

Seeing that the gravel easily broke the skin of the statue, as if it had been cut on a foam board, Xia Feng approached the shimmer lamp and found that the inside of the "statue" was actually glowing with a pale yellow shimmer.

"It's ......"

Vina threw away the gravel in her hand and dragged him five meters away from the statue by the collar of Xia Feng, just when Vina cut the "statue", Kate and ACE were already far away.

Vina looked at the hideous-looking "statue" and said in a deep voice.

"This is the corpse of an infected."

"Damn."

Hearing Vena's words, Xia Feng felt a thrill all over his body, and he was afraid for a while.

He knew very well that the number of infected people in the world of Terra was very large, and although the ore disease would cause their organs to fail and cause pain, it was not very contagious, even if ordinary people traveled and worked together with the infected, as long as there was no too close physical contact, they would not be infected.

However, when the infected person is killed, the situation becomes more difficult, and the body of the infected person will quickly merge with the source stone material in the blood, emitting an extremely volatile gas, and in just a few days, the body of the infected person will become a highly transmissible source of ore disease infection, which will continue to exist for years if not treated in time.

.........

This black thing in front of him turned out to be the corpse of an infected person!

Xia Feng took two steps back, forcibly controlled himself to calm down, he wore a mask and took medicine to suppress the infection, even if he was unfortunately infected, he still had a syringe on his body.

Since he chose to venture to Mandel City with Vina and the others, he can't be so nervous all the time, he must prepare for the worst and be aware of all the consequences.

Taking a deep breath, Xia Feng stared at the black corpse and asked.

"Why, 27 years have passed, and the Usas authorities have not disposed of the bodies of the infected? Just leave it in the abandoned city without asking? ”

Vina shook her head.

"I can't figure it out, it stands to reason that even if this place becomes a dead city, the bodies of the infected must be disposed of in time, otherwise it may cause unpredictable consequences, but the appearance of this corpse is a little strange."

Hearing Vina's words, Xia Feng also felt a sense of disobedience.

He was nervous just now, but now it seems that there is a most strange place about this corpse.

That is, why is it standing?

There are many forms of natural disasters, such as meteorite rain, fire storms, lightning attacks, corrosive poisonous fog, etc., no matter which of the above situations, it is impossible for people to stand in place and die intact, even if the surviving residents after the natural disaster are unfortunately infected with ore diseases, it is impossible to stand in the city and die.

This method of death is more like the appearance of an infected person being fixed in place by some means while they are alive, and slowly dying in pain.

At this moment, Vena next to her let out an exclamation.

"Xia Feng, look over here!"

Xia Feng shook his whole body when he was shouted, and immediately turned around and held a glimmer to look at Vina's gaze.

Less than three or four meters away from him, there was a corpse of an infected person who was exactly the same as just now!

"This ........."

Is there more than one corpse like this?

Xia Feng felt a chill down his spine, and unconsciously leaned towards Vina.

Looking at the surrounding environment, he just wanted to pull Vina back to the team quickly, but suddenly found that Vina's expression was a little unnatural.

"Vina, what's wrong with you?"

"Yes........... A lot. ”

Vina frowned.

As a member of the Aslan clan, Vina's eyesight at night is naturally much higher than that of the summer breeze, and although she can't accurately distinguish the colors, she can still see the general outline.

She saw it.

In addition to the two corpses beside him, there were many, many standing corpses scattered in the square in the distance, these corpses had different postures and hideous expressions, which were extremely strange in the square at night.