Next to this dark camp, a somewhat bizarre scene occurred.
A group of dead people with various injuries on their bodies, who looked a little frightened in the dim light and the cold wind in the wilderness, were all very enthusiastic, even a little excited, surrounding Lu Xin, and walked lively towards the tent in the distance.
Along the way, Lu Xin saw traces of fierce fighting and blood stains everywhere.
Even on the tent, there were large splatters of blood, and some severed limbs and pieces of meat were scattered around.
"Mr. Shanbing, please sit down."
The captain originally wanted to invite Lu Xin into the tent, but Lu Xin refused with a smile.
So, he diligently took out a portable canvas seat and placed it outside the tent for Lu Xin.
Under the chair, there was a severed hand.
Lu Xin glanced at it and kicked the severed hand aside calmly.
After sitting down, a circle of people gathered around Lu Xin.
Each of them had shocking wounds on their bodies. Some had a broken arm with jagged flesh stubble, and some had a broken leg with sticky blood dripping from the break. Only by putting their arms on the shoulders of their teammates could they barely stand up straight.
Because they had bled too much, their faces all looked pale, and some even showed a livid complexion.
This kind of skin color gave their warm smiles an indescribable sense of gloom.
"What's wrong with you?"
Lu Xin was silent for a while, then asked the man with a broken leg with a smile.
The other party seemed a little confused and cast a confused look at Lu Xin.
His eyes had become dry and dim, so Lu Xin observed this micro-expression from the movement of his chin slightly raised.
Lu Xin gave him a caring smile and said, "I see that you have difficulty walking and almost fall down."
"Ah..."
The other party seemed a little embarrassed after hearing this, and looked down at his broken leg, which was only half broken.
The people around him laughed and said, "This guy was running around in the middle of the night and accidentally sprained his foot."
Lu Xin nodded slowly.
In other words, they really don't realize that they are dead now, and they don't even understand the extent of their injuries.
The one who broke his leg said he sprained his foot, and the one who lost his hand said he sprained his arm?
The one who lost half of his head must have accidentally knocked it.
His intestines are already leaking out. He may feel like he has a little diarrhea...
His eyes slowly swept across the group of dead people, and Lu Xin's face suddenly became serious:
"Tell me what is going on at that observation point first."
"..."
Seeing that Lu Xin became serious, these armed soldiers were also surprised and subconsciously stood still.
The captain said, "Report to Mr. Lu, when we arrived here, those colleagues at the observation point..."
His Adam's apple moved slightly and his voice lowered before he continued, "They are already dead. Faced with our panic at that time, they seemed a little scared and asked us what happened. This made us aware of something strange and confirmed that they had not discovered the fact that they were dead at this time. We don't know what type of pollution this is, and we dare not investigate directly."
"After discussion, we did not expose them or have direct contact with them, but immediately withdrew the observation point for surveillance."
"..."
There was no direct contact, and no telling of the fact that they were dead to those at the observation point.
Lu Xin recorded what he said in his mind, nodded slightly, and said, "Did anything happen during your surveillance?"
The captain was startled for a moment and showed an expression of hard thinking.
Then he slowly shook his head. "No."
There must be some...
Lu Xin sighed secretly.
How could they all die if that didn't happen?
Judging from their wounds, some were gunshot wounds and some were knife wounds. There must have been an extremely brutal battle just now.
But, have they forgotten?
In the expectant eyes of these dead soldiers, Lu Xin remained calm and stood up slowly.
He did not rush to tell the answer, but walked around the camp first.
These dead people were a little afraid of him and didn't dare to disturb him.
After going around in a circle, Lu Xin came up with an answer. These people should have killed each other.
Although he has not systematically studied trace science, he can still make general judgments.
It had just rained slightly, and the ground was slippery and soft, but there were only ruts of their jeep around, and nothing else could be seen. This meant that no outsiders came to fight with them. Moreover, the scattered shell casings, fragments of bombs, the style of the grenade tabs, and the daggers inserted on their bodies could all be seen to be from the same batch of weapons, ruling out the possibility of outsiders.
But why, at this time, the simpler things are, the heavier my heart feels?
"Zizzi..."
Suddenly, a chaotic sound of electricity came from the temple of the left spectacle frame.
Then, a somewhat nervous voice sounded, "Shan... Mr. Shan Bing, can you receive the signal?"
Lu Xin adjusted the frame and said softly, "Okay."
The other person's voice was that of the researcher just now. He seemed very nervous. "How are you now?"
"I'm fine."
Lu Xin replied softly, glanced at the surrounding armed soldiers, and said, "They are very enthusiastic and cooperative."
The researcher choked and didn't seem to know how to answer.
After a slight pause, he subconsciously lowered his voice. "Can they hear me talking now?"
Lu Xin looked at the armed soldier who was also three meters away recently, shook his head slightly and said, "If you can't hear me, you can say it."
The researcher took a breath and lowered his voice and said, "We didn't dare to join most of the teams. We need to prevent the possibility of being contaminated even though we were so close just now. If we rashly come into contact with most of the teams, we are likely to pass the contamination to them, so now... now we try to find a safe place as much as possible. For now, wait a moment, just now..."
When he said this, his voice couldn't help but tremble slightly, and he tried to speak out, "Just now... was what we saw an illusion?"
Lu Xin shook his head slightly, glanced at the wounds on the armed soldiers, and said, "Probably not!"
"Hiss..."
The researcher took a breath and said, "In other words, they had the same thing happened to the people at the observation point?"
Lu Xin nodded slightly. "Yes."
The researcher's voice was a little difficult. "So, Mr. Shan Bing, do you have an idea for the investigation now?"
"Not yet."
Lu Xin said softly, "I can only see now that they should have killed each other, which led to this result..."
"You can give me some advice!"
"..."
"Okay..."
The researcher seemed to be trying hard to stay calm before whispering:
"If the cause of their death can be determined, then there are two questions that need to be clarified now:"
"First, what is the force that makes them kill each other?"
"Second, what causes them to be dead but still walking around like living people and even working..."
"Mr. Single Soldier, be careful, in case they are just pretending..."
"..."
"It's okay, I know what's going on."
Lu Xin replied softly, then interrupted the conversation and walked forward.
Those armed soldiers also seemed to find Lu Xin a bit mysterious, and they did not dare to approach him when he was talking.
It wasn't until he was sure that Lu Xin had ended the call that he slowly walked forward.
There was a hint of hope on the face as stiff as a death...
... a hopeful look like a living person.
They really regard themselves as hope, thinking that if they come, all problems can be solved.
"I'll go check out the observation point first!"
Lu Xin said softly, turned around and walked towards the tent at the observation point.
These armed soldiers suddenly felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy and followed him nervously.
The observation point is located to the west of their tent, about a hundred meters away. There are lights on inside and there are people waiting outside the tent.
When Lu Xin walked over on the slippery ground, the people sitting outside the tent noticed him and hurriedly knocked on the tent.
The people inside also walked out, looking at Lu Xin and others with some embarrassment and worry.
Lu Xin looked at them carefully, feeling something strange in his heart.
There are seven people in this observation point, and it seems that they are indeed dead.
Moreover, he had been dead for longer than this group of armed soldiers whose wounds were still fresh.
Some people have corpse spots on their bodies, one after another.
Someone's body was rotten and there were maggots crawling inside. He scratched it from time to time, as if he thought it was ringworm.
Some people's heads were swollen, and their skin was stretched into a translucent film.
The strong smell of corpses floated next to their tent, and the dim light illuminated their eyes green.
The group of armed soldiers behind them had stopped.
Although none of them directly raised their guns, it was obvious that they were afraid of the people at this observation point.
Dead people are afraid of dead people.
"What on earth... happened?"
There was a person at the observation point who couldn't help but asked Lu Xin in a low voice.
It seems that from their perspective, these colleagues who came over to interact with them are very strange.
When the people in the car that came earlier saw them, they immediately backed away as if they had seen a ghost. Then, no matter what they said, they did not dare to get close at all. They retreated to a hundred meters away before stopping and refusing to move.
Later, people like him heard the shooting and wanted to go see it, but they yelled back.
Now, a man in casual clothes came, and he didn't say anything. He just looked at people like himself.
Does this treat us as contaminated people?
There is something really wrong. If it is contaminated, how can our thinking be so clear?
"It's okay."
Lu Xin replied softly, with a reassuring smile on his face, and said, "Don't be anxious now."
For them, there is no point in worrying now.
After Lu Xin appeased them, he whispered to the channel next to the eye stand:
"No obvious Pollution Source or Mental Monster was found, and there are no particularly obvious clues. What should we do now?"
This is the first time I have encountered this kind of thing, so Lu Xin trusts the advice of professional researchers.
The researcher seemed to have calmed down a lot and whispered:
"What needs to be ruled out now is whether we were affected in some way, so we saw such a weird scene."
"Maybe they were still alive, but some force affected our judgment..."
"So, Mr. Shanbing can collect some samples from them first, and then bring them back for testing to determine their status."
"Then..."
After a pause, he whispered, "There are two things that need to be done."
"The first is to ensure they don't spread."
"Second, you can use logic or other methods to try to make them understand..."
"What?... Um..."
"..."
Hearing this, before the researcher could finish his sentence, his voice suddenly became panicked.
There was a muffled sound, followed by noise coming from the channel.
This was followed by two faint "click" and "chuck" sounds, and a faint "puff" sound could be heard.
There was a sharp gunshot and the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.
After that, there was a long silence, with the wind whimpering faintly.
Lu Xin sat quietly without making a sound or rushing to ask what happened.
He waited silently for a long time. For about thirty seconds, there was the sound of the microphone being picked up, and the researcher's voice sounded:
"... Well, where did you just talk?"
"Yes, there are other ways to try to make them understand..."
He said as seriously and cautiously as before, "Let's see the reaction to the fact that they are dead."
The researcher still seemed so calm and serious when he spoke.
And it sounds like he is also very serious about helping Lu Xin analyze the situation that may happen now, and try his best to give answers. Without the noise in the middle, this would all sound perfectly normal. But unfortunately, the more normal the tone and content of his words appear now, the more indescribably depressing it sounds to Lu Xin.
He was silent for a long time, until the other person gave him a worried sound, and then sighed softly.
"Are you okay over there?"
Lu Xin said softly, "I just heard a little chaos over there."
The researcher opposite was stunned for a moment and whispered, "It's okay. What did you hear? Don't scare me."
Lu Xin took a low breath and said, "It's nothing. I'm very curious about your suggestion. Why should you tell them?"
The researcher's tone became serious and he whispered:
"Because now we don't know exactly what type of pollution we are facing, how big the pollution area is, or even how this pollution spreads. As for those who are polluted, they may not know that they are polluted at all."
Listening to his words, Lu Xin felt sad.
He lowered his voice as softly as possible and continued to ask, "Then what?"