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"There are indeed fresh blood stains and leather shoe prints nearby. In addition to traces of human actions, I also found many fresh footprints of adult encyclopedia scavengers. I can roughly judge that the number of scavengers operating here is less than ten."

In Ulaanbaatar County, the spotlights provided by four armed dune motorcycles shone on the bones of scavengers halfway up the ruins of the hill. Four people in cloaks gathered next to them, conducting a preliminary search after a brief search. Summary of information.

"I found this in a rock shelter about 200 meters away from this location." A girl provided her discovery. In the palm of her hand, lay a black bow hair accessory.

Everyone focused their attention on the hair accessories.

"According to the information provided by the hotel owner, among the two new archeology students who checked into the suite yesterday, there was indeed a blond alien with a black bow."

"Could it be that something unexpected happened to them..."

"Yi Jin, don't rush to a conclusion yet."

This group of people was none other than Yuan Xilong and others who had just received a temporary mission from the border the day before yesterday and went to Dead Rock Town to perform it.

Yuan Xilong had been looking at the corpse of the scavenger that was nailed into the pile of rocks with a hammer.

This scavenger was first killed by a hammer, and then eaten by his companions. His body, which should have been intact, was almost torn into a set of bones, leaving only a pool of radioactive blood traces and a pile of mess. footprints.

If its skull hadn't been nailed to the pile of rocks, it would have been possible that all the skeletons would have been removed.

This is the habit of encyclopedia scavengers. They like to collect bones and fill their caves with bones.

This kind of scavenger is a relatively rare phenomenon in Zerg society.

The conditions for their birth are very random and magical. They are also conceived from the body of a female insect, but except for the fact that their smell is consistent with that of this nest of insects, they are not actually insects at all.

It is precisely because of the same smell that other bugs may only think it is a deformity and will not think it is another species at all.

During its childhood, it lives with its "brothers and sisters" and will integrate into the habits of the Zerg and become a real bug.

Until it reached adulthood, it seemed as if its racial talent had been activated, and it began to secretly kill the mature bugs with high status in the tribe, taking the opportunity to usurp the political power in the bug nest.

During this period, it will gradually approach the mother insect until it imprisons the mother insect beside itself, and then completes the takeover of the entire insect nest.

Except for weak bugs that have no fighting power, it will not let any bugs get close to the mother bug. After that, it will start to enter asexual reproduction and give birth to its own offspring. After they are born, they will be handed over to the nursery of this nest of bugs, and through the weak bugs Feeding.

The strong adults working in the lower levels have no idea that their mothers have been kidnapped. They continue to hunt and find the resources and food they return. Generally, more than half of the resources and food they find will be divided by the scavengers. Once the appetite of the scavengers cannot be satisfied, they will They will attack the insects.

However, this kind of scavenger has a huge appetite, which gets worse as it reaches adulthood. After seizing the kingship and sitting back and thinking, it will eat endlessly and without restraint.

Although the reproductive capacity of scavengers is not high, being able to give birth to two to three offspring in a year is considered a high yield. However, if one more guy with such a big appetite is added to a group, the resource pressure will go up to a higher level.

This results in the more scavengers raised in a bug nest, the faster the resources in an area are lost. If resources are scarce, the scavengers must kill bugs to satisfy their hunger.

Therefore, almost all Zerg races parasitized by scavengers will have difficulty escaping the fate of rapid annihilation.Of course, the scavengers have lost their host, and without the adult insects to help them prey, they will soon starve to death.

After all, too many days of getting something for nothing will lead to degeneration. Most scavengers will become photophobic, only travel at night, lose most of their hunting ability, and live in the same insect nest all year round. The smell of this nest of insects is already refreshing. It enters the bone marrow and prevents them from re-employing in other worm nests.

The scavengers here must have been forced to hunt on the ground at the end of their host life.

It just so happened that the two archeology students were unlucky enough to encounter hungry scavengers. For them, this was not emergency food from the sky.

"They should have been rescued." Yuan Xilong summarized the clues provided by everyone and simulated the general direction of the matter in his mind.

"The last place they escaped to is at our feet. There are still traces of human blood here, and in front of this place are the wheel marks we first saw." Yuan Xilong pointed to an obvious road not far in front of him. Brake marks "Judging from the marks, the car made an extreme U-turn here, perhaps to meet the two students parked here."

"The car renter who sent the two students over did not mention that they were carrying such a big hammer." Yuan Xilong looked back at the hammer. "The handle of the hammer is obviously facing the direction of the car mark. I think this hammer is from another car." Someone threw it out to save the two of them."

When Yuan Xilong said this, everyone else thought of the same thing.

On their way here, they once saved a skinny guy who was dying at an abandoned foothold.

He lay down at the mouth of the well where he fetched water and licked the wet mud beside the well to get water bit by bit, but this was really a drop in the bucket. If Yuan Xilong and his group hadn't happened to pass by and spotted him, within half an hour, he would have been there. Will definitely die there.

Fujisai Etsuya, who has a good memory, immediately discovered that this person turned out to be one of the people who took advantage of the gun in the old Mag's Tavern yesterday.

In order to get information from him, they fed this hateful guy some food and fresh water, and dragged him back from the brink of death.

According to the half-dead skinny man, he was knocked unconscious last night, and when he woke up, he was packed and loaded into the car.

He couldn't see anything, didn't know anything, and when he heard the sound disappear, he wanted to use the small file he had with him to try to release the restraints.

Who knows, another living person got into the car, causing him to not dare to move around at will.

As the car drove all the way, he pretended to be dead. This journey was not pleasant, but fortunately, the living person who had been watching over him all the way couldn't bear it any longer. He knocked on the door for help, and the car stopped smoothly, and he also Finally got a chance and quietly cut the rope trapped on his body.

Just before he died of heat and thirst, he waited for the opportunity to stop the car before he dared to secretly get out of the car. He couldn't climb far and hid under the car very shrewdly. Fortunately, he was not caught, and he met him not long after. When they arrived at Yuan Xilong and the others.

The thin man didn't see the other person's face from beginning to end, nor did he hear any important information, but he saw about three people's legs under the car, two big and one small. Judging from the size of the boots, they should be two. Female with a minor child.

Of course, handling the kidnapping case is the responsibility of the local security agency. The thin man has regained his strength and can use his optical brain to contact the town of Dead Rock. Yuan Xilong and his party continue to pursue Urbato County, looking for the two An archeology student who ran away from the academy.

Up to this point, everyone agreed that if someone would take Shui Qingyi and the others away in a place like this, the most likely person would be the suspected team that kidnapped Shouzi and the other three villains.

Two big ones and one small one, this weird 'lineup'.