Cheng Lin put down the water glass, looked at the environment outside, and changed into normal clothes.
Then he opened the door and walked out.
"Woooo..."
The moment he set foot in this post-nuclear wasteland, Cheng Lin couldn't help but frown.
The wind is blowing outside.
The wind carried warm air currents and blew against his cheeks.
Look around.
This place is indeed a wasteland. The wind blows from nowhere and brings a lot of sand.
So the ground was also covered with sand and dust.
The air was very dry. When I looked up, the entire sky was dull, and there was no clear blue sky at all.
The view here is quite good. Looking as far as the eye can see, you can see hills in the distance.
There are also some very strange trees and plants, not many of them, growing in clusters.
In the distance, there seems to be a city.
However, the wind and sand were very strong and his vision was blurry, so he could not see clearly for the time being.
"This... is the Western Hemisphere?"
Cheng Lin couldn't help but frown and asked.
According to the previous information, there is no sunshine in the Eastern Hemisphere and the temperature is freezing. This should not be the case.
[You stand in this desolate world, not knowing where this place is. After thinking for a while, you remember that this is the area where day and night intersect to the west of the "lifeline"]
[According to the regional division of the old era thirty years ago, this area is located in Sudan. However, according to the division of this era, this area belongs to the territory ruled by the powerful "Shawang" of the Earth Emperor Realm, and is administratively classified as the ninth-level powerful "
The subordinate areas of the main city of "Sahara" controlled by "Butcher"]
Hearing these messy names, Cheng Lin had a headache.
Fortunately, he still heard a familiar word.
"Sahara? Sahara Desert?"
Cheng Lin tried hard to recall the knowledge about geography in his mind.
Well, a magazine introducing Sanmao that I read a long time ago seemed to mention the Sahara Desert.
It is said that it borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the east, so it should be west of Sudan.
[The global lockdown brought long-term winds, and the wind blew across the Sahara, so the wind was dyed khaki]
"No wonder the landforms here are like this."
Cheng Lin nodded, finally having a more correct understanding of where he was.
But speaking of it, the area next to the desert is not fertile soil in the first place. It seems that even if humans migrate here, the living conditions will still be poor.
No wonder practitioners can take power. The worse the natural environment, the greater their individual advantages.
Cheng Lin stopped thinking and started walking along the road signs on the ground.
The mission in the fifth paragraph is to find the bodies of the reconnaissance team, but I don’t know what that means.
Cheng Lin walked forward in silence for about five minutes. When he climbed over a mound, he finally saw the end of the road sign.
"Huh?"
Standing on the mound, Cheng Lin saw two brown-painted jeeps not far away, parked there.
Next to the jeep, there seemed to be several bodies lying upside down.
Cheng Lin walked closer and saw the specific scene clearly.
There were four corpses in total, wearing some kind of strange military uniforms.
One body fell outside the jeep. There was some blood on the clothes. There were huge wounds on the shoulders and neck. The bones were deeply visible. However, there was not much blood in the exposed wounds.
A body was sitting in the driver's seat of a jeep. The front windshield of the car was broken.
It seemed that he had been attacked, and there was blood on the broken glass.
Another one was on top of another jeep, lying on a machine gun.
The last one fell to the ground more than 100 meters away from the vehicle and seemed to have tried to escape.
All four corpses were wearing similar uniforms and had similar wounds.
The common feature is that their faces are extremely pale and shriveled, and there is almost no blood in the wounds, as if their blood has been sucked away.
Among them, the one who escaped was the worst. There were almost no good pieces of meat left on his body, and the wounds were densely covered, which was very tragic.
Except these four people and the car.
Then there were several bat-like corpses.
The reason why it is said to be similar is because this bat is very different from the one Cheng Lin has seen online.
First of all, they are very huge. With their wings spread out, they can almost cover half of Cheng Lin's body.
This kind of bat looks very ugly and ferocious, with fangs and extremely thick claws.
It was covered in blue and black, and it looked like about a dozen dead animals.
Several were obviously killed by machine gun fire.
The others were a bunch of people who died next to the person who was running away.
"Practitioner?"
Cheng Lin squatted down, Ninja was disgusted, and looked at the group of bats and the man who was torn apart extremely tragically.
He saw wounds that were obviously caused by flames.
There are also faint spiritual energy fluctuations in the air.
The spiritual energy that escapes from a practitioner's body after death can be sensed by other practitioners within a certain period of time.
"It seems that he is a practitioner of the elemental system. He should not be of a very high level... These bats are not simple either, and they also have spiritual energy fluctuations. Could this be the so-called beasts that have been mutated by the influence of spiritual radiation?"
Cheng Lin frowned and thought.
[You discovered a small battle scene. Not long ago, there seemed to be a battle here. There were corpses of "vampire bats" on the ground. It seems that this investigation team was attacked by a large number of vampire bats]
[Out of the corner of your eye, you suddenly see something stuffed in the jacket pocket of the corpse on the ground. You hold back your nausea and take it out]
Jacket pockets?
Cheng Lin frowned, and sure enough he saw a white corner peeking out of the pocket of the military uniform.
He pinched it out with two fingers.
It's a folded piece of paper.
Cheng Lin unfolded it and saw printed English on it.
Thanks to the experience of playing those foreign stand-alone games, although Cheng Lin was once a poor student, his English is passable.
He read the English title.
"Order?"
Before he could continue to work hard to identify it, information appeared in his mind.
[You read this paper and then understand the cause and effect. These people are the military reconnaissance team affiliated with the "Sahara" city.
There are many outposts near Sahara City,
Personnel stationed at the outpost carry out tasks such as reconnaissance and guard material transfer,
However, contact personnel from Sahara City and various outposts discovered that
Its southwest outpost, namely "Shajiao City", has failed to communicate according to the prescribed time many times.
And there was no response to radio inquiries from Sahara City.
So the local governor dispatched a reconnaissance team to "Sand Point City" for investigation]
"Shajiao City?" Cheng Lin raised his head and looked at the hazy building complex in the distance, guessing it was probably there.
"So these scouts were attacked by vampire bats here, and then the whole army was wiped out."
He roughly understood the situation.
[Congratulations on completing the fifth phase of the task]
[Mission (Part 6): The Shajiao City outpost was attacked by a large number of vampire bats the day before yesterday. The vampire bats surrounded the entire city. The people inside the outpost suffered heavy casualties. Many attempts to break through failed, and now only a few people can be left.
Relying on buildings to survive, please rush to Shajiao City to meet them and understand the situation]
…
Rushing to Sand Point City?
understand situation?
What else do you know? Haven’t you already made it very clear...
Cheng Lin complained.
Ready to leave immediately.
But when he was about to take a step, he suddenly thought of a question.
That is, the clothes he is wearing seem to be too inconsistent with the environment.
"If I go there wearing these clothes, people will know that there is something wrong with me."
Cheng Lin thought for a while, his eyes lingered on the corpses, and he came up with an idea.
I quickly compared the four people. Not to mention, these four people were quite interesting. Judging from their appearance, they seemed to come from different places.
There are white people, black people, and Asian faces. They look like a motley crew.
"It seems that the layout of the Wasteland Era is indeed different, and the forces are obviously more chaotic."
Thinking to himself, Cheng Lin chose the clothes of the man sitting in the driving seat.
Only this person's clothes were basically intact.
The body shape is similar to him.
…
After changing into the man's clothes, Cheng Lin returned to the safe house, looked in the mirror, and felt there was nothing wrong before he came out again.
It was quite far from Shajiao City. Cheng Lin thought about it and decided to drive forward.
Both jeeps are still drivable, but the difference is that one has a mounted machine gun on the roof.
There was a strange device on the roof of another car, which looked like some kind of radar device.
After some hesitation, Cheng Lin chose the latter.
He knew how to drive, turned the key, and turned on the ignition. Cheng Lin took hold of the steering wheel and started heading towards the city ahead.
There are no roads in the wilderness, but there are roads everywhere.
Cheng Lin was momentarily infected by this rough and arrogant style, stepped on the accelerator, and the rough-looking brown-green jeep rumbled forward at full speed.
The tires rolled over the sand, raising a plume of smoke.
As it got closer, Cheng Lin finally saw what the city looked like.
The first thing you see is the city wall.
Yes, this Shajiao City actually has walls.
In Cheng Lin's opinion, things like city walls were standard features of ancient cities.
In modern times, there are basically no such things as city walls.
Unexpectedly, thirty years of nuclear war would not only lead to changes in social structure.
Even the layout of urban buildings has "degraded".
The appearance of the city wall is very strange.
It is not boxy. From this angle, it seems to have a certain arc.
But it's not round either.
A ring of city walls outside the entire city presents an irregular geometric shape.
Unfortunately, Cheng Lin's perspective limited his observation.
Can't see the overall picture.
The city wall is very dilapidated and has collapsed in many places. The buildings in the city can be seen through the fractures.
It was obviously an abandoned building complex.
The entire building complex has a very regular and featureless feel.
It doesn't look like it was thirty years ago, but more like a city that was built, renovated, and then abandoned in the past few decades.
Broken walls and ruins are scattered around, and the empty and dilapidated houses give off a sense of being uninhabited for a long time.
"It seems that this place has been abandoned for a long time. No wonder it can only be used as a sentry. There are probably only a few sentries living here in the entire city."
Cheng Lin thought secretly.
At this time, the jeep finally found a buried and dilapidated road.
Along this road, you can enter the urban building complex not far ahead.
However, at this moment, Cheng Lin suddenly braked and stopped forcefully.
Since the city was already surrounded by those kind of vampire bats, it was really unreasonable for him to drive in directly.
Even though he has immortality.
"It's better to go in and take a look at the situation."
Cheng Lin thought about it and jumped out of the car.
The car was parked on the road entering the city. There was a tall cross standing about ten meters away from the road.
It seems to be a steel structure, crooked like a road sign.
Or to use a more specific description, it seems to be a sculpture, a metal sculpture.
Its main body is a steel cross, and on the cross, a body hanging upside down is cast from metal.
It seems to be punishing sinners.
Cheng Lin was curious for a moment, took a second look, and found that there was a metal sign under the sculpture, which seemed to have words on it.
"What kind of strange sculpture is this?"
He walked closer curiously and looked at the rusty sign.
There is a line of symbols engraved on it.
It seemed to be some kind of writing that Cheng Lin didn't recognize.
Fortunately, the information in my mind was translated in time:
[You looked at the text on the metal plate in confusion, wondering what it meant. After a moment, you suddenly understood its content]
[The translation is as follows: The human traitor "Cheng Lin" will be imprisoned on the cross forever until the end of the world]