Like Longcheng, Liaodu also developed and built on it with a whole low-concave basin as the foundation building surface. In fact, compared with Longcheng, the terrain occupied by Liaodu is more conducive to urban development. The surrounding terrain surrounded by mountains on three sides makes the microclimate in the basin much warmer than ordinary plains. The two rivers flowing through the city also provide abundant water for the residents here. In addition, there are various mineral resources with rich storage around the city hills, and everything makes Liaodu an extremely important position in the Dragon tribe. As an important town to the west of the ethnic group, Tianxiang naturally will not take it lightly.

In addition to setting up city defense equipment for Liaodu, he also ordered the military to station two regiments here, with nearly 10,000 people. Even the most powerful weapon of the tribe, the high-power particle cannon, Liaodu has equipped twelve gates. Because, after all, this is a big city that feeds 500,000 people in the tribe. The city manager of Liaodu is named Yang Yigang, a hunter who has been following Tianxiang since Liu Rui's old tribe. In summary, he is also an old subordinate and old tribe. Tianxiang has always been relieved to such people. After all, they have already proved their incomparable sincerity with themselves with practical actions.

Seeing the team leader and his group of people walking into the conference hall, Yang Yigang and other major managers of Liaodu hurriedly came up.

"Give some water to the soldiers first." Tianxiang waved his hand and stopped everyone who was about to pay tribute. Jing Zhi walked to the round conference table, took the cup of water and sucked it hard. After feeling clear-headed, he started to ask. There was a water supply point along the way. Unfortunately, it was already dry. It was almost a day, and Tianxiang hadn't even drunk a drop of water.

"Tell me! What's going on?" After drinking enough cold water, he grabbed a plate of dew-cake biscuits from the table. While swallowing the remaining water in the cup, he turned to others and asked vaguely. "We don't know what the specific situation is." Yang Yigang smiled bitterly: "Although I went to the field to investigate, to be honest, I probably know the specific situation. The specific situation is not more than others..." Lijiatang Farm is a farm reclamation area located 80 kilometers northwest of Liaodu. The permanent population of the entire venue is 67. All of them are prisoners of war who were recruited by the conquered tribes. For the hidden tribes, Tianxiang usually uses medicine to mainly work hard. Usually, he is mobilized to mobilize him around major major cities.

Reclaim large cultivated land and rule by semi-slave means. In addition to leaving necessary living needs, the rest of the income will be handed over to the city public warehouse. After five years of labor, the prisoners can be judged as formal members by urban managers based on their daily performance and enjoy the same treatment as all members of the tribe. Local farms can also choose to be handed over to the city management or operated by themselves. In this way, there is no need for too much effort from the ethnic group, and prisoners of war usually voluntarily accept such resettlement methods. After all, they have seen the wealthy life of the dragon people and various rights and interests that foreign hunters cannot imagine. Especially for those hunters who once had enough food to eat, such a happy life is like a dream.

Therefore, although five years of labor was quite hard, no one complained about it. Even some small tribes in other places sent people to contact major dragon cities and voluntarily accept such labor methods in order to become formal dragon members. Lijiatang Farm is such a labor farm. The sixty-seven hunters there were prisoners in the battle to conquer nearby tribes three years ago. They were also half-slaves who could become formal tribes in two years.

However, these people are no longer able to contact them. Except for twenty-six of them confirmed deaths, the other forty-one people have completely lost their traces, as if they are directly evaporated into the air. The mutation was discovered a week ago. According to convention, urban management usually does not set up a force guard on the labor farm. This is done, on the one hand, to save manpower, and on the other hand, to test the loyalty of the laborer. After all, if force is supervised, such a surrender may not be much credible and it is difficult to guarantee that other changes will occur in the future. Therefore, all labor farms will have a wireless telegram for contact with the city to report all the situations and daily work that happened that day, etc. The city will also use this to judge the quality of the farm's operating conditions. However, Lijiatang Farm has not sent a telegram for two consecutive days. This is the first time among all farms managed by Liaodu. Because this may only mean two situations.

1. All the laborers on the farm defected.

2. A major accident occurred on the farm. So much so that no one could send a telephone to report an alarm. Of course, there is a third situation - the other party's wireless telegraph was damaged, which made the telegram unable to be sent.

No matter which situation is, it is enough to arouse the alertness of the Liaodu management. What's more, the radio wave search results from the city's wireless monitoring station showed that the telegraph machine of Lijiatang Farm was completely connected and was not blocked at all. Therefore, Yang Yigang inferred that there could only be two other extremely bad events in the farm. At that moment, he sent a 100-man armed team to set off from the city and rushed to the farm as quickly as possible to find out.

"As a result, only twenty-six corpses were found?" Hearing this, (the fastest update www.piaotian.com.com     Yang Yigang nodded: "The search team searched all the ten miles around the farm and finally found some broken corpses. As for the others, there was no news at all."

"Are these laborers equipped with weapons?" Tianxiang asked again after thinking for a while.

"Yes, according to the "Temporary Regulations on the Resettlement of Prisoners of War", they are the third year normal workers. Since one year ago, they have been issued five m5g43 assault rifles and three hundred bullets."

"What about these weapons? Have they been missing from them?" Tianxiang frowned. No, it was strange that all weapons, including guns, were placed in the daily life area of ​​the farm. There was no trace of being used to take them out. Even they had not been taken off the gun stand. Speaking of this, Yang Yigang paused for a moment, but there was only one exception. It was the rifle of the alerter on the farm observation tower. When we arrived there, there was only a piece of blood that had long been solidified and empty shells all over the ground.

"In other words, among the owners of the farm, only the sentry had used rifles to shoot." Tianxiang touched his chin and asked thoughtfully. "It's true."

"Did you transport those corpses back?" After squinting his eyes and thinking for a long time, Tianxiang turned to Yang Yitian and asked.

"All of them have been shipped back, and now they are all placed in the cold storage of the city hospital."

"Take me to see." As a major city, Liaodu has six hospitals scattered around the city. People who have received computer medical training from Base No. 2 also play the role of doctors and nurses. Although their experience is not very rich, they are not so unfamiliar with this strange and special industry due to the keen perception ability of hunters and the result of strong memory of knowledge after computer training.

At least, he is fully qualified. The twenty-six bodies transported from Lijiatang Farm are currently parked in the cold storage in the basement of Liaodu Second Hospital.

Speaking of which, building a hospital cold storage was still a sudden idea of ​​Tianxiang. If he hadn't seen many detective book boxes in the library and received the influence, he would probably not have had such an idea. After all, it would be better to use these materials to build a warehouse for storing food than to build a room that specializes in refrigeration of corpses. However, Computer No. 2 agrees with this idea quite well. Because, according to the ancients' viewpoint, instead of finding the source of the disease in living people for no reason, it would be better to study a corpse that died of illness. At least, doing so can save several more people.

Now, Tianxiang and a group of people were standing in the cold morgue, looking at the row of dead bodies lying in front of them. "The causes of death were all caused by trauma." Yang Yitian, wearing a mask, pointed to the corpse with eyes opened in front of him and said to Tianxiang: "We carefully examined each wound. We found that the cause of death was a cleft from the throat. Eleven of the dead were wounds with smooth cuts. The other ten seemed to have been killed with quite dull and bald knives. Because, compared with the former, their wounds were larger and they were torn quite seriously."

"What's going on with these small wounds?" Tianxiang pointed to the numerous ripples on the body and asked: "Did it happen when it was discovered? Or was it caused during transportation?" "It already existed when it was discovered." Yang Yitian quickly explained: "To be honest, I have also had questions about this kind of wound. But I didn't go into it in depth."

Tianxiang carefully looked at the corpse in front of him. This was a strong man about thirty-five or six years old. Although the wound on the throat was extremely large, this was still not the most noteworthy part of the deceased. Because in comparison, that face, the deceased's face, obviously, attracts the observer's eyes more than the hideous wound. Fear, frightened, and fear.

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This kind of words is never too much to use on him. From the dead to the present, the tense muscles that have been stretched to the extreme, and the mixed blood vessels that have been highlighted under the cortex and have been condensed. Everything is clearly telling the person who saw him how fear he had encountered before he died... There are so many things worth fearing in the dark world. As a hunter who must run for food every day, even though he is afraid, he has to suppress his inner fear and face it for a piece of food that fills his stomach.

Powerful opponents. Therefore, although fear is a normal physiological expression for them, an old hunter who has lived in the dark world for more than 30 years must have experienced too many strange things that three generations of human beings cannot imagine. Think about it, what else is there in this world that he is so terrified? Not only him, but all the 26 corpses parked in front of Tianxiang showed the same horror. Their hands, feet, and facial expressions all showed an exaggerated distortion. It made people feel extremely uncomfortable to see it. Moreover, it was quite strange.

At first glance, the faces that were twisted to the extreme were almost impossible to tell whether it was a face or something else. After all, the facial muscles that were entangled together had changed their facial features to their original position. Death? It is possible, but it is not entirely true. After all, all hunters face unknown death almost every day. There are too many things that can kill them. Therefore, this is not a good but reasonable explanation.

Enemies? There is also this possibility. But what kind of enemy is it, who can make them so scary? In fact, as early as when he heard Yang Yigang introduce the situation, Tianxiang had already had two old opponents in his mind. Humanoids - Corpse Man. After all, for many years, the alien creatures that have dealt with the dragon tribe the most. They are the ones. Humanoids are very likely to be. After being created and destroyed by ancient humans, they became tools for gods to deal with humans. They were born with a deep hatred for human makers. Therefore, if it is humanoids

Tianxiang didn't find it strange at all to create this bloody case. Because, although the large-scale land-like population disappeared a few years ago, and the humanoid settlements that could be found were destroyed not long ago. No one could guarantee that there would be no remaining humanoid on this vast earth. There was absolutely no guarantee that it would not reproduce again into a new ethnic group. Therefore, if it was unprepared and had no time to pick up the gun, the agile humanoid could definitely kill all the laborers on the farm in a very short time. After all, it was the food they depend on for their living.

However, from the wounds on the deceased, it does not seem like a humanoid approach. Their attack method is very clear, and it can only be smashing, grabbing, and sweeping a few simple actions. When sharp claws sweep across the human body, at least three blood marks will be left. The wounds of all corpses are broken in one bite. There is only one explanation for this - the humanoid who starts to have only one claw tip. This explanation is obviously too absurd. Moreover, the attack method of humanoid is quite barbaric. They often like to tear people directly into pieces and take them away as food. Leaving a large number of corpses on the scene like this is obviously not their usual practice.

So, could it be a corpse? Tianxiang can be said to be both familiar and unfamiliar with the corpse. It is because he has looked through the test questions stored in the cold storage many times, and keeps every tiny detail in mind. It is because he has never seen a real corpse. He dares to rashly transport the corpse in the cold storage outside to see if he will really be resurrected... What's more, from the mouths of those who have been hunted by corpse people, Tianxiang has long understood how terrible destructive power this strange creature has. Corpse is synonymous with undead creatures. The only way to kill them is to completely destroy their bodies. Even those who have been infected by him must not let go. Because, as long as time goes by, these infected people will evolve into new corpse people again.

None of the victims found in Lijiatang Farm showed signs of being infected. Based on this point, Tianxiang could conclude that this tragedy was not done by the corpse.

So, what exactly caused so many dead people? And, where are the forty-one missing laborers?

There are not many clues left for yourself to find...

"After discovering the situation, I immediately sent two battalions of troops to search repeatedly at the site of the incident and around the city. However, no suspicious clues were found. We even used the smell to search for insects, but there was still no harvest..." Looking at Yang Yigang, who had a somewhat desolate expression, Tianxiang gently patted his shoulder. Because if even the smell worms could not find, it would be extremely difficult for humans to find. You must know that the kind of small beetle that has been specially trained and has a sensitive sense of smell is far better than the ancient dog search experts!

"Are there any abnormal findings after the autopsy?" Tianxiang asked again after pondering for a moment.

"No," Yang Yigang shook his head: "Apart from normal internal bleeding and bone fractures, no doubts were found." "What about the heart?" Tianxiang pointed to the deceased face distorted by fear.

"There is no problem with the heart. Although the degree of contraction has exceeded the normal standard, it is not fatal."

"In other words, although they were seriously frightened before their death, the fatal cause was still these wounds?" Tianxiang said solemnly.
Chapter completed!