After saying that, he saw that he no longer walked back, but walked in the direction where the gunfire came from.
"Eh……?"
Seeing Lin Cheng's actions, Bai Lington was stunned and quickly stopped him, "Where are you going? Didn't you just agree to go back?"
Hearing Bai Ling's inquiry, Lin Cheng stopped, turned around and explained to her: "It would be fine if we didn't meet any survivors, but didn't we just happen to meet each other? We are new here, and if nothing else, at least we have to
Let’s first find out what the strength level of the espers in this country is, right? Otherwise, what will we do if we encounter emergencies in the future?”
"That's...okay!"
Hearing Lin Cheng's explanation, Bai Ling frowned, thought for a moment and then nodded, saying: "Although I don't really agree with meeting those ability users now, intelligence collection is indeed necessary for us, so as you can
Just do what you say!"
After that, he no longer hesitated, raised his steps and followed Lin Cheng.
Slowly approaching the location where the gunfire came from along the sidewalk, Lin Cheng was wary of the movements around him and whispered to Bai Ling: "I just want to find out what the strength of the survivors in this city is and how strong it is.
It’s just why this abnormal phenomenon occurs. It doesn’t mean that I must have contact with them. You just need to do what I say for a while, and don’t act without authorization. Do you understand?”
"clear!"
Hearing this, Bai Ling nodded slightly. The two had been cooperating for a while, and she knew what to do without having to explain many things explicitly.
A few minutes later, as Lin Cheng waved his arm, Bai Ling and Coke stopped at the same time, standing beside him without saying a word, waiting for the next instruction.
Looking up at the dilapidated residential building in front of him, Lin Cheng thought for a while. After a moment, he saw a determined look on his face and said to Bai Ling: "The gunfire should have come from this residential building. You and Coke
First find a hidden place nearby to hide, and I will go in to investigate the situation."
After saying that, without waiting for Bai Ling to speak, Lin Cheng walked to the door and tried to push it. After finding that it could not be pushed, he stretched out his right hand and put it on the door, controlling a stream of ice to travel up the door lock behind the door.
Get moving.
"Click——"
A few seconds later, with a crisp sound of unlocking, the door that was locked from the inside was pushed open by Lin Cheng with ice!
"Go ahead and call me via code if anything happens."
After pushing open the door, Lin Cheng turned around and whispered to Bai Ling and Coke, then walked into the building and locked the door again.
As soon as he walked into the building, Lin Cheng immediately felt that the temperature around him had risen a lot. The wind whistling in his ears and the snowflakes hitting his face also disappeared at the same time, making him breathe a sigh of relief.
The light inside the building is very dim. Because the building itself is quite old, and this residential building is located in a more prosperous area of Baikal City, the surrounding buildings are much denser than other places, which makes the building originally illuminating.
The lower floors of the weaker residential buildings are almost entirely in darkness.
Wrinkling his nose, Lin Cheng felt that the air quality in this building was not much better than the light. It seemed to be to avoid the cold and keep warm. All the windows that Lin Cheng could see were closed tightly, and the air in the building was basically closed.
As long as there is no circulation, he estimates that the current air quality here should be no better than the smog.
After a moment of adaptation, and when he felt he could clearly see the furnishings inside the building, Lin Cheng picked up his feet and continued walking deeper.
Because it is an old-fashioned building, the first floor of this residential building can also be occupied. Lin Cheng walked slowly along the corridor and tried to gently push the doors on both sides of the corridor. Finally, he discovered that these doors
Although they were not locked, the furniture and supplies inside had already been swept away.
The walls on both sides of the corridor were extremely mottled, and the spider webs in the corners were knotted layer by layer. Even the spider webs on the roof had reached where Lin Cheng could reach them. If it weren't for the current temperature being too low, Lin Cheng would have estimated that
I should have all kinds of cockroaches and spiders crawling all over my head by now.
However, it was not that Lin Cheng had never been in places with worse conditions than this, so he didn't care much. After reaching the stairs at the end of the corridor, he did not go upstairs directly, but squatted down and took out something from his pocket.
I used a mini flashlight to look at the dust on the ground carefully.
It has been almost a year since the end of the world. Without the cleaning workers and the residents stepping back and forth, a thick layer of dust has accumulated on the ground of this corridor. Even though Lin Cheng moved very lightly when walking, he was still swaying.
A layer of misty dust arose, choking him so much that he almost coughed.
After squatting on the ground and checking for a while, Lin Cheng nodded slightly, stood up muttering something, and walked upstairs.
Although the dust on the ground is a bit choking, it has another more important function, which is to prove whether there are any survivors in this building.
Even an ability user of Lin Cheng's level would not consume his energy for no reason on weekdays, so most of the time if he wanted to go out, he would choose to take the stairs instead of flying down from upstairs or something like that.
The messy footprints in the center of the corridor also proved that there were indeed people living in this residential building. Looking at the signs of these footprints, Lin Cheng speculated that it should not be more than half a day old, and that the number of people should be about three to four.
Slowly walking up the stairs, I don't know if it was an illusion or something. The more Lin Cheng walked up, the more he felt something was wrong. He always felt that this dilapidated residential building was full of weirdness.
After reaching the second floor, Lin Cheng let go of his six senses and searched quickly. After learning that no one was on this floor, he continued to climb up the stairs to the third floor.
This residential building is divided into nine floors. Since the gunshots were heard from a long distance before, Lin Cheng couldn't tell which floor the gunshots came from, so he could only investigate one floor at a time.
After a while, Lin Cheng, who climbed to the sixth floor, suddenly felt that his field of vision was much clearer. When he looked carefully, he discovered that the light from outside could already shine through the windows unobstructed from the sixth floor onwards.
The snow outside is still falling slowly, just like Lin Cheng and the others' journey this time, and they don't know when the day will come to an end.
In order to hide his traces below, Lin Cheng never used a flashlight except to check the footprints, so he didn't know the details inside the building very clearly. Now with the light shining on him, all the situations in this residential building were revealed.
It was clearly displayed in front of him.
The layout of the corridors in this residential building is very similar to the Tongzi Building in China in the 1980s and 1990s. A corridor runs through the entire floor from west to east. There are wooden doors on both sides of the corridor. Due to disrepair, most of these doors are
It is already very mottled and worn, as if it could fall apart with just a gentle push. (To be continued)