Chapter 1273: Knocked Out and Taken Away

Clang!

On a burning building in the town, a signboard suddenly crashed down from above, landing heavily on the ground. Immediately after, several Zombies howled as they trampled over the still-smoking signboard.

A pair of eyes, hidden a hundred meters away, quietly watched them. Suddenly, the pupils contracted and shifted to look behind and below.

“I’ve found something,” Zhang Xincheng said as he quickly climbed down from the wall.

Just as Ling Mo had speculated in the hospital building, after setting the fire, they hid nearby to observe. With Zhang Xincheng able to climb to high places, no matter how complicated the situation on the street, he could see it all at a glance.

“Are those the Survivors here?” Mu Chen and the others waited at the corner of the wall. As soon as they heard Zhang Xincheng’s observation, everyone immediately gathered around.

“We’ll only know if we catch them.” Zhang Xincheng landed on the ground, his expression serious.

Ye Kai licked his lips, swiftly drew his Short Knife, and said, “In that case, let’s go!”

“Follow me.” Skinny Monkey got up from the ground, patted his ear, and said.

The group circled around most of the Zombies along the Alley, slowly approaching the other side of the burning building…

At the same time, not far from Mu Chen and the others, a fallen leaf was suddenly lifted, floated a couple of steps, and then slowly fell again…

“Wait a minute.” Skinny Monkey stopped just as they were about to reach their destination. He lay down to listen carefully, then looked up and said, “No good, we’re too close to the Zombie horde here. I can’t distinguish their exact position or numbers.”

Gu Shuangshuang glanced at him, then stepped forward and said, “Let me try.”

Seeing everyone turn to look at her, Gu Shuangshuang bit her lip and said, “I can give it a try… The captain taught me how to distinguish between humans and Zombies… He said this method doesn’t work on Senior Zombies, but at least it can tell Low-Level Zombies from humans…”

After speaking, her face flushed slightly as she stepped forward and closed her eyes.

“Look… human psychic activity is very active and regular, but Zombies are different. The lower the level of the Zombie, the more chaotic the psychic activity. If you see this kind of psychic activity, the person is either on drugs or has turned into a Zombie. Given the current state of the world, I think the latter is more likely… So, have you remembered?”

Gu Shuangshuang recalled Ling Mo’s three-minute crash course… Although these words were said in a rather unreliable state, she had already memorized them.

At this moment, her psychic energy slowly spread outward, quickly expanding to her current limit.

“Found them!” Gu Shuangshuang suddenly opened her eyes, a bit excited. “They’re moving! This way!” She pointed to a nearby Alley.

Zhang Xincheng nodded and said, “If they’re being forced to move by Zombies, it’s very likely they’d choose this path.”

Everyone exchanged glances and immediately gave chase.

However, after chasing for a while, Mu Chen frowned.

The targets were always within Gu Shuangshuang’s Sensing range… but they never actually saw anyone. And since the targets kept moving, Gu Shuangshuang could only sense one or two people at most.

Unable to confirm the number, and unable to catch up…

“What are they trying to do?” Mu Chen considered giving up and waiting for a change, but since they had to stay here for a while, not knowing who was secretly watching them felt too unsettling…

But now, it seemed the other side was deliberately leading them in circles. Were they testing them?

“What should we do? Should we try to cut them off?” Ye Kai, frustrated from the chase, came over and suggested.

Mu Chen thought for a moment, then nodded.

The two exchanged a glance, then tacitly split into two directions and quickly gave chase.

Soon, Mu Chen reached a corner. After getting Gu Shuangshuang’s confirmation, he took a deep breath, pressed himself against the wall, and suddenly charged out. ȓᴀꞐǒ𝔟ÈＳ

“Who?!”

Mu Chen shouted, then helplessly lowered his gun.

No one…

But just then, a sudden “thud” came from behind the wall.

“Mu Chen, over here!” Ye Kai’s voice came from inside the wall.

Mu Chen quickly leaped in, just in time to see Ye Kai crawling out of a bush, while a figure quickly disappeared into the residential area along a path.

A few Zombies, hearing the commotion, emerged from the building, and some followed the direction the person had disappeared. Mu Chen was about to give chase when Ye Kai grabbed his arm: “Forget it, he’s too fast, we can’t catch up. But I caught one.”

He led Mu Chen to part the bushes, but as soon as they looked in, their expressions changed.

“Dead…” Mu Chen frowned.

This person held a Pocket Knife in one hand, the tip accurately stabbed into his own heart. In addition, there was a bloody gash extending from his back to his waist, which seemed to have been caused by Ye Kai’s attack.

Ye Kai looked a bit grim. “I didn’t expect he had a knife but didn’t use it on me…”

Normally, a Survivor would make a last-ditch effort at a time like this. Such decisive suicide was truly rare…

“Who is this…” Mu Chen asked.

“Probably a mental ability user. When I ambushed him from behind, he turned to look at me. And before that, he was being carried on the back by that other person,” Ye Kai said.

“Then… did you see anything about that person?” Mu Chen asked again.

Ye Kai shook his head. “He dropped the guy and ran, I didn’t see anything clearly… But I think his behavior was really strange. After this dead guy saw me, he shouted something, and while I was attacking and calling you, the other guy just abandoned his injured companion and ran off.”

“It is strange… Feels like from the moment we discovered them to the fight, it was all intentional? Too bad, aside from that knife, there’s nothing on this guy.” Mu Chen said.

“Surely they didn’t come here just to die, right?” Ye Kai said.

“Sigh…” The two stared at the corpse, lost in thought.

Just then, a Zombie suddenly lifted its head and sniffed, then abruptly looked over.

“Let’s go.” Mu Chen said helplessly.

The two, still confused, climbed over the wall and entered the Alley again.

After regrouping and sharing what happened, everyone felt a bit baffled.

In the end, Zhang Xincheng sighed and said, “I think… they’re testing… or searching for something. If that’s the case, this might just be the beginning. We’d better be careful.”

“Yeah…” Everyone nodded. For now, that was all they could do…

But what Mu Chen’s group didn’t notice was that after they left the corpse, the Pocket Knife in the corpse’s hand suddenly trembled… and several pockets on the body moved eerily, then fell still again.

But more blood had already flowed out, and several Zombies had found the bush and began tearing at it…

Whoosh!

In a drainage ditch in the residential area, a figure pressed against one side let out a long breath. In his line of sight, several Zombies had just rushed past.

This was the person who had escaped right under Ye Kai and Mu Chen’s noses… He had just lost a companion, and now, hiding in the ditch, his expression was extremely calm.

After the Zombies had completely left, he waited two more seconds, glanced back outside a few times, then climbed out of the waist-deep, foul-smelling ditch. However, just as he was about to climb out completely, his head suddenly sank, as if something pressed it down, and it was shoved into the ditch.

He immediately struggled desperately, but just as he drew his dagger, a muffled sound suddenly rang out. His body instantly stiffened, then went limp.

A second later, he was slowly dragged out of the ditch and pulled into the nearby bushes. On the ground, only a pitch-black, wet drag mark was left…

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