The convoy took more than an hour to arrive in Putuo City and went directly to Nancheng Square without stopping.
According to the previous deployment, what needs to be done now is to establish the most basic defense capabilities first. The top-floor restaurant in the main shopping mall has a very good view, and a lookout point can be established.
But Iger is not going to build a four-corner stronghold, he has his own plans.
Besides, passive defense is only the last option, and taking the initiative is the most important thing.
Before taking the initiative to attack, all field team members need to replenish their equipment.
In the last joint field operation, close-fitting fitness clothes and helmets saved many lives. They greatly prevented infected people from biting field team members, and also blocked new blood epidemic infections.
When preparing supplies before departure, the team members reported to Iger that the number of fitness clothes in Jixi Town was insufficient.
Forget it, there should be more of them in Nancheng Building. Iger remembers that there was an entire floor selling various fitness products.
Just looking at these customers waiting to buy fitness products, people who don’t know the actual situation would never imagine that America is the country with the most obese people. Of course, it may be because there are so many obese people that people are crazy about buying and hoarding fitness products.
Nowadays, due to the blood epidemic, fat people are almost invisible. They have either been eliminated by the blood epidemic, or they have already lost weight due to hunger.
As soon as the car stopped, the team naturally divided into four small teams to guard the perimeter of the mall, while the rest of the large force entered the mall.
"Wow!"
As soon as he entered the mall, even the experienced Iger couldn't help but take three steps back.
Throughout the mall, the strong rancid smell was almost visible to the naked eye.
That day, everyone went on a killing spree in the shopping mall building and then left. The remains of those affected by the blood plague, whether they were infected or survivors, decayed ten times faster than supernatural decay.
Due to a major power outage, the ventilation equipment in the mall had long stopped, and it had been fermenting in this closed environment for several days. It has to be said that this kind of environment requires a lot of people's endurance, and Iger was not able to meet some of it.
Egger took a few steps back and stepped out, and Nicholas, who walked in second, also escaped.
Originally, Nicholas wanted to prove his endurance, but it turns out that this thing exists objectively after all, and it is a bit difficult to overcome it by willpower alone.
Of course, other team members also expressed that they could not accept this challenge.
Faced with such a difficult situation, Egger had to announce that he would temporarily add a task, a general cleaning.
The corpses of these infected people must be cleaned up first, and they must find a way to use something to deodorize, otherwise people will not be able to stay at all.
Nicholas remembered that there was a dental clinic nearby, so he ran to look for it.
After a while, Nicholas brought back a large box of unopened N95 masks. It seemed that the daily working environment of dentists was also extremely difficult.
After all team members put on masks, everyone entered the mall again.
In order to prevent everyone's mood and morale from being too affected, we must first arm everyone.
Egg led the team to first find a large amount of equipment from the underground supermarket. All team members wore raincoats and rain boots, and then put on hoods and rubber gloves. After covering themselves from top to bottom, they began to clean up.
Allen brought the professional tools he found from the Ross Town auto repair shop to the seventh floor.
The windows on the seventh floor had been opened, and the strong wind blew in and dispersed a lot of the stench.
The field team members are throwing the bodies of the infected people directly out of the windows. When they are all thrown out, everyone will clean up together. Although the scene downstairs will definitely be a bit sad, it saves a lot of manpower and time.
The passage from the 7th floor to the 8th floor has not yet been opened, and many infected people are still trapped in the compartments. As soon as they heard a noise outside the door, the infected people were banging on the fire door desperately.
Iger is very curious about how the perpetual motion machine like zombies works. Is there any scientist who can study the energy behind this? Maybe bionuclear batteries can rely on them as a technological breakthrough.
The infected man's body was quickly dragged away. Allen confidently took out his tool box.
It has to be said that Allen, who was holding a sharp weapon, made very smooth progress. In just a few minutes, he had already loosened the door bolt. Then Allen held the fire door with both hands and lifted it up hard. He only heard a rattling sound.
The gate was lifted bit by bit.
When the fire door was raised to knee height, Allen let go of his hands, stretched out his hand and knocked hard on the door.
The fire door will not slide down just because you let go. It needs to be driven by power to raise and lower it, otherwise it will get stuck there.
As Allen knocked, the trapped infected people bent down and crawled out from the crack in the door. A team member came over with a steel knife, one by one.
The action of this field team member chopping up the infected person was really ruthless and neat, without any sloppiness, and looking at the back, she was a female team member.
Are all women today so strong?
When Iger took a closer look, it turned out to be Joanna.
Everyone put on raincoats and boots, as well as hoods, masks, and gloves. Even Egg didn't recognize Joanna. No wonder that knife was so beautiful.
After Joanna slashed her head with a knife, other field team members grabbed the arms and dragged the headless body away. Then, other infected people crawled out again, and so on.
Even though Joanna is pretty and likes fashion and beauty, she is actually a child from a poor family and grew up in hardship.
When Joanna turned 16, she was finally able to support herself by working and had money to dress herself up. Only then did Joanna transform from an ugly duckling to a white swan.
In terms of doing whatever they encounter, many adults have a different mentality than hers.
After cutting up all the vegetables of the infected people in the compartment, Allen grabbed the fire door with both hands and lifted it up with force.
This gate would be very heavy without a noose. Although Allen is not as fit and flexible as Nicholas, he is as strong and strong as Vance.
Relying on brute force, Allen lifted the gate alone. Then he clapped his hands and picked up the tools to open the next gate.
Allen wants to prove to everyone that I have brute strength and skills.
After working all day, everyone finally cleaned up the Nancheng Building. Then the air freshener was sprinkled all over the floor like water. The air was filled with a stench mixed with a rich fragrance, which was still disgusting.
Since there was not enough water for cleaning, all the raincoats, rain boots and gloves were thrown on the pile of corpses as fire-supporting materials. The field team poured fuel on the huge pile of corpses and then set the pile on fire.
As the sun sets, if the fuel hadn't been too curious, everyone might have held some kind of nighttime activity around this huge bonfire.
Since there is no electricity, it is necessary to seize all the time during the day.
Before sunset, all the team members had completed rearming. After a simple dinner, the afterglow of the sunset disappeared, leaving only the last bit of white light in the west.
After arranging the personnel on duty, all the team members retreated to the Furniture City to rest. After a tiring day, everyone soon fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, a scream suddenly sounded from downstairs of Nancheng Building.
Everyone was awakened from their dreams.
Egger woke up instantly, completing the 0-second transition from dreaming to waking up.
After hearing the screams so many times, Egger "understood" it for the first time.
The last time he fought against the wave of infected people, Egger led a field team scurrying around the red zone. At that time, he had a sudden idea and found a recording device, which was a mobile phone, and recorded the scream of a screamer at close range.
After returning to the camp, Iger called everyone together, and then he solemnly turned on the playback function on his mobile phone.
After a blank period of tens of seconds, a sharp roar suddenly sounded from the mobile phone. Many people who heard the scream for the first time were startled.
Everyone was prepared to resist the negative effects of the blood plague. As a result, after a long time, no one was affected by the blood plague because of hearing the scream.
Then Iger played it repeatedly many times, and practice proved that it really didn't work.
The scream sound cannot be played back through recording.
Now Iger finally understands what's going on.
After connecting with the Blood Plague Heart that day, Egg's body seemed to have activated a certain function. To put it simply, his ability to sense infected people was stronger, so just now, Egg really "heard" the scream.
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What the Screamer actually activates is not a scream, but a signal that I don't know what to call. Let's call it psychic fluctuations.
What really triggers the blood plague is this kind of spiritual energy fluctuation, which will not attenuate because of the obstruction of buildings.
Everyone heard the cry of the screamer before and mistakenly thought that this unpleasant cry was the cause of the blood plague.
The relationship between screams and psychic energy fluctuations is like gunshots and bullets. What people hear is the gunshot, but it is the bullets that cause the damage.
So everyone has never understood why blocking the ears against the screaming doesn't work.
As for why the Screamer makes a screaming sound when emitting psychic energy fluctuations.
The reason is very simple, just like shouting loudly before turning on the power. You don't need to shout to help, because some things will not come out.
Through today's perception, Egger's conjecture has been confirmed from another aspect. The mutated part of the screamer is the brain. Or should it be more appropriate for the screamer to be renamed a psyker?
The dizziness caused by the blood plague interrupted Egger's thinking. He took out a small bottle, poured out a piece of medicine, threw it into his mouth, and swallowed it with saliva.
Erica discovered that tranquilizers seemed to have a certain inhibitory effect on blood plague infections. Now every field team member carries a few tranquilizers with them. This is the gospel team's special medicine to fight the blood plague.
Not to mention, after taking these pills, the morale of all the team members has increased a lot.
Sincerity leads to spiritual success, this is the reassurance.
After swallowing the sedative, Egg fell asleep in the drowsiness caused by the blood plague, and then slept until dawn.
