Free Web NovelChapter 555: Chapter 98: Underwater Crisis, Wilderness Tactics
Are there infected bodies hidden in the White Water River?
Cheng Ye’s heart sank.
Last time when exploring Dapo Town, he only hurriedly figured out the terrain, and both rivers were flooding at that time, so standing at the dock he couldn’t even put down a fishing rod, let alone have the opportunity to explore the situation underwater.
Moreover, it was his first time into the Wilderness, and when Jiang Chuan wanted to go into the water to catch the Fish King, he stopped him.
Thinking about it, even if the surface of White Water River was calm, he would never have entertained such a dangerous thought without any water-related skills.
"What type of infected body is it?" he asked in a deep voice.
Luokuke shook his head, with a serious expression: "If it wasn’t during an assessment and we weren’t competitors, I could tell you the specific type and countermeasures, but now, you must investigate for yourself. Well, becoming a High-level Inspector requires going through this process — dangers in the Wilderness can never be reliably informed by others." frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
He paused for a moment, then shifted his tone to be more relaxed: "Besides, no one at the checkpoint openly says it, but everyone adheres to a tacit rule: the faction struggle is only valid within the Buffer Zone. Once outside the city, all Inspectors are people of Happiness City, our fates are intertwined. I hope Inspector Cheng can temporarily set aside his conflict with Garcia, and address any issues when back at the Buffer Zone."
No wonder Garcia is so well-behaved, he was following this tacit rule? freēwebnovel.com
Cheng Ye nodded slowly, simultaneously sensing Luokuke’s implied meaning, "It sounds like the situation is somewhat serious?"
"Whether it’s serious depends on our situation." Luokuke frowned slightly, "If it’s just me alone, staying in Dapo Town for ten days to half a month wouldn’t be a problem. But now, with over a thousand people gathered here, too many people and mixed auras, Inspector Cheng surely wouldn’t want to wake up tomorrow morning and find hundreds of people missing, right?"
"Yes, it’s always the same saying, safety first, competition second." Cheng Ye smirked.
"Then I’m relieved."
Luokuke breathed a sigh of relief. When dealing with infection sources in the wild, one fears god-like opponents but dreads teammate-like pigs.
If Cheng Ye spawned two or three hundred infected bodies here, no matter how capable he is, he could only drop everything and run away.
After all, unlike those High-level Inspectors famed for combat within the checkpoint, newly appointed Inspectors now place more emphasis on business capabilities, no longer frequently requiring combat like during the era of expansion.
And Cheng Ye’s combat ability, remembering their previous confrontation and just now shooting down the Thorn Bird leader.
Before turning to leave, Luokuke couldn’t help but add, "You can first go to the riverside to check the situation; I need to prepare some disinfection and repellent drugs, the corpses must be dealt with quickly, or tonight more monsters will come ashore."
When he said "monsters," he deliberately stressed these words.
Clearly, what hides in the water is more than just ordinary infected bodies; there are more troublesome things.
Watching Luokuke’s figure disappear in the direction of the Red Zone, the calmness on Cheng Ye’s face faded completely, and his expression gradually turned grim.
Staying at the checkpoint, he only needed to deal with infected scavengers, and he had been on duty for four months without seeing a single wild infected body directly storming into the checkpoint.
Those infected bodies wouldn’t wander near Happiness City before being cleaned up by the patrolling Blood Dragon Corps or the Hundred Ghosts Gang entrenched in the Ruins of Chuan City.
But stepping out into the Wilderness, arriving at an old era town abandoned for years like Dapo Town, wild infection sources and infected bodies become unavoidable enemies, hiding is impossible.
And S4 infected bodies are entirely different entities compared to S1 zombies, the most notable difference being survival time.
S1 zombies, unable to find food, lose combat ability within a month, and later even ordinary people with functional limbs could handle two or three with cold weapons.
S4 infected bodies, however, are entirely different, having been granted a special biological mode by the infection source; they’ve long departed human nature, merely wearing human skin. Their thinking ability, behavior pattern, and energy supplement mode are all revolutionary.
Just like infected bodies and Fusion Bodies formed by Stand-In Starfish, they can quickly recover injuries by eating meat.
This was unheard of in the previous natural world, no biological entity ever had such powerful digestive ability, nor such immediate energy conversion repairing ability.
And water-affiliated infection sources produced infected bodies are similar.
They mostly have the ability to move freely underwater, some even like monsters in the winter infection tide, are in a state of deep hibernation except awakening in specific seasons.
Now gathering over a thousand people in Dapo Town, the life aura emitted from their bodies, the activity noise, will absolutely awaken these "sleeping dangers" ahead of time.
A flash in his mind recalled manual records, Firewood Communication materials, and descriptions from books he had read before.
Cheng Ye took a deep breath, not hastening to check riverside conditions, but first calming everyone’s concerns.
With gunshots firing all around without a sight of Thorn Bird flocks, anyone knew what was happening.
Sure enough, as he returned near the supermarket, he saw many people had stopped their tasks, gathered together whispering, eyes full of unease.
Liu Jianjun was shouting hoarsely for everybody not to panic, while Li Jie led the patrol team giving up perimeter patrol, gathering twenty people around the residents, but couldn’t suppress the restless hearts.
It was broad daylight presently, sunny and bright, how could what they fear be infected bodies emergent now, but rather those hiding in the water ready to stealth attack when night falls.
Seeing Cheng Ye come over, the crowd instantly quieted, yet the fear on their faces couldn’t be concealed.
