The beautiful mage was kidnapped by the contracted beast again

Several people came to where the patients were, a basement under the warehouse.

The location was very secluded, with the entrance covered with stone slabs, and a large amount of hay hung around it, further masking the smell of living people.

The entrance was very narrow. Jiang Liujing thought about it and decided to let only Chi and himself go down, while the others waited above.

Mo Ya was picking at the grass out of boredom. Turning back, he saw Wen Xun and Chu Zhou standing by like door gods.

He uttered a "huh": "Why are you two so serious?"

If you don’t know, you might think there is some devil sealed in here.

Wen Xun rolled his eyes at him, his expression as if to say, "Why don't you use your brain?" "You think the zombies won't just let people go, so how did they escape? Even if they ran away immediately, with the number of zombies we saw at the time, there's no reason they couldn't catch up with them."

Mo Ya was choked, "So you suspect..."

"Bait." Chu Zhou said.

He looked outside and saw that everyone in the convoy could actually leave, but they all stayed here tacitly.

"They probably have their own suspicions. They stayed to see if those people would wake up and provide more information."

Wen Xun continued Chu Zhou's words, "From what we can see now, it's a foregone conclusion that a group of zombies will possess intelligence, like the ones that could drive cars earlier."

Chu Zhou nodded: "If these people are clues deliberately left for us by the intelligent zombies, then they will definitely wake up again, at least to tell us where to go."

Mo Ya said "Oh", squatted down on the spot and continued playing with the grass.

Wen Xun: "...Do you understand?"

Mo Ya: "I understand."

He looked up with a puzzled expression. "Since you know they're bait, why don't you just not rescue them? They're from the Y City base anyway, and have nothing to do with us. If they need to rescue them, it's their own people who should do it."

Wen Xun and Chu Zhou were both silent.

Mo Ya: "Why aren't you talking?"

Wen Xun said: "You are so smart, I admire you a little bit."

Chu Zhou said: "Nothing, I'm just reflecting on myself."

They had lived too smoothly and well-mannered in the apocalypse, and even forgot not to accept field missions casually. When they thought that the fate of the mercenaries at the Y City base might be related to the appearance of intelligent zombies, they couldn't help but explore. In fact, they came out with only one purpose.

In the end, it was up to Mo Ya to remind them that they could actually just ignore it.

Wen Xun said admiringly: "So you are the most ruthless person among us. I underestimated you."

Mo Ya: "...it sounds like you are scolding me."

Before the two of them started fighting, Chu Zhou changed the subject in time and looked down: "They've been down there for over ten minutes, right? Why haven't they come up yet? Didn't they say they were just going to take a look?"

"Do you want us to go down and take a look too?" Before Wen Xun finished speaking, there was a noise at the entrance.

Several people looked over immediately and saw that Jiang Liujing and Chi crawled out from the open space.

Before Mo Ya could call out their names, he heard Jiang Liujing say, "Those patients have woken up."

"what?"

Chu Zhou reacted quickly: "I'll go call the people outside."

Jiang Liujing nodded and stood there without saying anything.

For some reason, Mo Ya felt that the aura around Jiang Liujing was a little different from what it was before he entered. The black-haired young man just stood there calmly, and the air around him seemed heavy.

Is he unhappy?

This thought suddenly popped up in Mo Ya's mind.

But when he looked at Chi who went down with Jiang Liujing, he felt that Chi's expression was normal, no different from before.

Mo Ya felt that he was overthinking it again.

Since Chi looks like this, nothing must have happened.

The people outside arrived very quickly. Several representatives entered one after another from the narrow entrance and came out soon with solemn expressions.

"Let's hold a meeting." Bai Ren said.

At the emergency meeting convened within ten minutes, Bai Ren spoke first, "I think everyone knows about the situation with the injured. We just asked them a series of questions, including how they determined who was abducted and the identities of the abducted individuals. They replied that they heard something. As they were escaping, a zombie chasing them told them they were taking their boss to Haicheng."

The mercenaries immediately started talking:

"Haicheng? Isn't that the location of our mission this time? What a coincidence?"

"No, no, no, shouldn't the weird thing be that zombies can speak? There's never been a zombie like this before."

"There's really no precedent," Andway said, "so there's only one possibility: the zombies have evolved again."

Everyone was silent for a moment.

As the end of the world approaches, most of those who have survived until now are optimists, but at this moment they cannot help but feel sincere despair in their hearts.

What they claim to be superior to zombies is their own civilization and wisdom. If one day zombies can evolve brains, then what is the point of their survival as a completely replaceable species?

Is it true, as some people say, that the end of the world is an evolutionary process, and humans are just the defective products eliminated in this process?

For those who are still alive, the news is too devastating.

However, compared to the future of mankind, what is more urgent at the moment is obviously their mission. The S-level mission, which is already full of dangers, has become even more daunting because of this news.

Everyone's face no longer had the confidence they had when they first set out a few days ago. They all frowned and looked very serious.

After a long while, one person said, "Can we give up this mission?"

Someone immediately looked at him in surprise: "Old Wang, are you crazy? Isn't it said that there is a doctor who knows the secret to stopping the zombies and is trapped inside? How can we end the apocalypse if we don't rescue him?"

Lao Wang said impatiently, "If he really knew, why would he ask us to rescue him? Shouldn't he have been able to get out on his own? What's more, the person who issued this mission is anonymous. Who knows if someone is deliberately trying to trick us?"

"you……"

"I'm not the only one who thinks so." Old Wang looked around and sneered, "After all, we're just scouts sent by the base to test the authenticity of the information. They didn't send any of their core troops, but only called in a bunch of disobedient mercenaries like us."

"They want us to die, but why should we? The people in the Y City base died as soon as they encountered the zombies. What's the use of adding us? I still have important people alive, and I must go back to see them alive-"

"It's noisy."

When the crowd was boiling with excitement, a cold voice suddenly interrupted Lao Wang's passionate narration.

How cold is that sound?

If everyone present were to describe it, it would probably be like falling into an icy lake that has been frozen for three months in winter.

Even if the voice was not directed at them, their bodies would involuntarily stiffen and straighten.

Everyone's eyes turned to the source of the voice, and when they saw the person, they had a feeling that "it was indeed him".

In the front row, a tall and handsome red-haired man sat coldly. His taciturn personality made many people around him ignore him involuntarily, but once he opened his mouth, his aura and presence were so strong that they could not be ignored.

Chi said coldly, "If you want to give up, you can just leave after the count of one, two, three. The mission doesn't need so many encumbrances anyway."

Lao Wang was furious: "You——"

Chi looked at him with a calm expression: "Do you have any objections?"