On the first day after leaving Ou Ming's safe house, nothing unexpected happened. Gu Zhuo had always chosen a small road to drive in order to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Along the way, the two of them talked a lot.
Since the apocalypse, the only person Gu Zhuo has encountered with special abilities, apart from himself, is Chao Ying. It seems that people with mutant abilities are very few.
Gu Zhuo placed the war machine next to his e-sports computer so that when he was not using it, it looked like a figurine.
Chaoying promised him that if he finds better materials in the future, he can help him upgrade the war machine to make it closer to the powerful existence in the Iron Man movie.
The two of them drove all the way and arrived at a small city called Jinqiao.
It was already half past five in the evening when we arrived at Jinqiao.
Jinqiao is still a long way from Qingshui. Before the end of the world, this place was not a tourist or industrial city, it was just an ordinary city. It was so ordinary that there was not even a single tourist attraction.
Now that it has been devastated by the doomsday, the place looks even more depressed and dilapidated. But what is strange is that at the entrance of Jinqiao, before fully entering the city center, Gu Zhuo saw many broken buildings with many black
Red cloth strips.
The strips of cloth were hung at various high places and could be seen everywhere. From the sky, they looked like countless flying flags.
"What it is?"
Gu Zhuo slowed down the car, looked at the banners hanging on the buildings on both sides of the car, and asked Chaoying.
Chaoying looked carefully at the pattern on the cloth strip, and saw a red eye surrounded by a triangle on the pure black cloth strip. There were double pupils in the eye, which looked like something religious.
Tissue pattern.
"It's the symbol of some religious organization, but I've never seen this symbol before. It's definitely not a mainstream religion."
Hearing this, Gu Zhuo's heart skipped a beat and he said:
"It's not some evil cult, is it?"
"possible."
Chaoying nodded and said noncommittally.
Anything can happen in the apocalypse, and it is not unusual for people to have their original beliefs shattered and believe in new "gods." It's just unclear whether they believe in gods or people with ulterior motives behind them.
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"Damn it, if this is really a cult that only appeared after the end of the world, what else can those believers believe in? Believe in those monsters? What the hell."
Gu Zhuo muttered something, obviously he couldn't understand this behavior.
He subconsciously disliked this place, so he increased the speed of the Doomsday Fortress and wanted to leave here as soon as possible. However, when he drove to the center of Jinqiao, Chaoying suddenly called out to him.
"Gu Zhuo, look what's over there!?"
Chaoying pointed at a building that had gradually disappeared into the shadows. That building gave people a gloomy feeling, and there seemed to be something hidden inside that Gu Zhuo could not detect.
Following the direction Chao Ying pointed, Gu Zhuo looked carefully, but saw nothing. Just when he was about to ask Chao Ying what was there, suddenly, a black shadow rushed past the front of the building.
That black shadow is definitely not a monster, but a human being!
Wearing a black robe, he rushed out from the middle of the building, ran straight to the back of the building, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Gu Zhuo didn't know what that person was going to do, but he had a strong intuition in his heart that that person was not a good person!
Thinking of this, Gu Zhuo's eyes darkened. He looked at the thermal imaging display and saw many red dots appearing densely on the screen at some point. These red dots were gradually approaching him.
"Fuck, there can't be any fraud!"
Gu Zhuo didn't want to stay here for a long time, so he drove quickly and left in the direction where there were no red dots.
The two of them drove forward for less than half an hour. Unexpectedly, there was another accident ahead, and Gu Zhuo had to force the Doomsday Fortress to stop.
I saw that in the city square in front of me, the originally empty space was now filled with a huge crescent moon.
The crescent moon arc looks like a newly built building, and the workmanship is a bit rough, but it is blood red all over, and the corner close to the ground is particularly sharp, like the blade of a sharp knife.
"What is this?"
The two of them were blocked by this huge crescent arc. Gu Zhuo could conclude that there had never been such a building in Jinqiao before, and it must have been built after the end of the world.
He couldn't imagine that after the end of the world, there would be absolutely sub-zero ice cold, and there would be all kinds of strange attacks from monsters. How could these guys build such a weird and evil building? I'm afraid they would have to pay dozens of times what they spent before the end.
effort.
Moreover, I have no idea what this building is used for. It can’t be built just for show, right?
The two were silent for a while, observing the building at the same time.
A few minutes later, Chaoying took the lead in breaking the silence and suggested:
"Shall we go around here?"
After hearing this, Gu Zhuo pondered for a moment and said:
"How about we stay here all night? I want to see who these guys are and what this thing is used for."
Gu Zhuo was sure that these guys couldn't hurt him, and he must figure out what happened here.
The two drove around the arc of the moon and parked behind a building that was originally a shopping mall. Gu Zhuo turned off the car and quietly observed in the direction of the square.
Time passed by, and when night fell, Gu Zhuo noticed that a group of people in black robes had gathered unknowingly in the center of the square.
The group of people wearing black robes all wore broad hats. The hats blocked their faces, leaving their faces in shadow. Behind their black robes, there were paintings like the ones I saw today.
Cloth strip-like pattern:
A red eye with double pupils surrounded by a triangle.
At this time, they had gathered together like ants, like black sand, and the eyes behind the black robes were densely stacked together. The scene was very strange.
"Gu Zhuo, have you noticed something?"
Chaoying on the side asked abruptly.
"What?"
Gu Zhuo was staring at the group of black-robed men with all his attention at this time, not knowing what Chao Ying was referring to.
"It's obviously already night, but so many unarmed people gathered together without even seeing a monster. Isn't this too strange?"
After being reminded by Chaoying, Gu Zhuo realized that it was already past seven-thirty, which is the time when monsters appear, but he didn't even see the shadow of the monster.
"It's strange, I really didn't see any monsters. Do those guys still have hidden firepower?"
Gu Zhuo frowned. If these guys still have hidden arsenals, then they are not simply evil cultists.
However, their next actions left Gu Zhuo and Gu Zhuo even more confused.
I saw a group of men in black robes slowly taking a few steps back, gradually forming a circle in the middle, surrounding Yue Hu and a man in black robes.
"What is this all about?"
Seeing this scene, Gu Zhuo could conclude that this was a cult organization and they must be performing some kind of religious ceremony.
"Those who are riding horses, I really want to blast them with a cannon."
Gu Zhuo hated these cult rituals the most, as they were often harmful to people. Just when he couldn't help but rush out of the Fortress of Doom, something strange happened to the group of men in black robes again.
I saw the group of people in black robes surrounding the back gradually dispersed to both sides, forming a road for two people to walk side by side. Then, three people were blindfolded with black cloth and their hands were tied behind them.
, were escorted by six men in black robes two by two and sent to the center of the venue.
After the three people were escorted to the center of the field, they were forced to kneel on the ground and could not move no matter how hard they struggled.
Then, the sound of the wheels hitting the ground was heard, accompanied by the roars of monsters.
I saw a wooden prison car that looked like an ancient prison car, pulled by three men in black robes, and appeared on the road. What was being held in the prison car was none other than a restless monster.
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The monster was tied to the prison cart by iron chains, and could not break free no matter what, it could only keep roaring.
Seeing this, both Gu Zhuo and Chao Ying took a deep breath.
"They were able to capture monsters alive, how on earth did they do it!?"
Gu Zhuo couldn't help but marvel. While he was surprised, he also had an extremely bad premonition in his heart.
The monster being held in the prison car and the three people who were forced to kneel on the ground. When these two things were connected, a thought suddenly flashed through Gu Zhuo's mind:
"Fuck, they are probably going to perform religious sacrifices!"