Chapter 461 Desert Scorpions

Li Yuanhong will not be confused by the calmness in front of him. Any survivor who will only be confused by the illusion in front of him will basically be dead at the beginning of the apocalypse.

It was noon now, which was a good opportunity to eliminate the zombies. Li Yuanhong quickly led a special advance team to land and began to search the seaport city.

The city of Hurghada has a short history. It only began to develop in the 1980s. Due to catching up with the wave of human globalization and driven by tourism, this bustling waterway near the Red Sea has Rising rapidly, taking advantage of its geographical and environmental advantages, it has become a famous holiday destination.

However, when Li Yuanhong boarded the seaport, he saw abandoned cars on the road and houses with smashed windows. Although there were no blood stains on the streets, occasionally, bones could still be seen in some street corners. , obviously these survivors who did not escape became victims of the zombies.

Li Yuanhong led the soldiers to clean up the rooms one by one. The zombies in the desert became very lazy during the day. Even if humans walked in front of them, they would not react much, so they continued to kill them without much risk. .

Of course, Li Yuanhong came here just to explore the way. He would not think that just twenty or so people in the early stage could clean up the zombies in such a huge city. The zombies near the seaside are ordinary zombies. You know, zombies are afraid of water. Especially sea water, so high-level zombies will be concentrated in the center of the city, and there will be clean fresh water there, which is what zombies need.

Li Yuanhong boarded a hotel near the bay. There were quite a lot of zombies here. Obviously, when the apocalypse came, most people in the hotel failed to escape. You know, before the apocalypse came, it was still late at night here, and many people were there. They turned into zombies in their sleep, and many people were bitten by zombies without knowing what happened, and then became one of the zombies without knowing what happened.

Li Yuanhong stood on the roof of this hotel. Although this hotel near the seaside only has more than a dozen floors, in Africa, this is considered a high-rise building. In the entire city, the tallest buildings are just a few hotels. It only has less than twenty floors. If placed in pre-apocalyptic China, such a city could be regarded as a county-level city, and it would have to be a remote county-level city.

Looking at a building dominated by earthy yellow tones, Li Yuanhong felt an exotic style coming towards him. This was the second foreign country that Li Yuanhong came to. The first was Russia. The Russian architectural style always made Li Yuanhong feel... It feels like a fairy tale world, and these African buildings are rough, yes, unmodified and rough, of course, those high-end hotels are different.

Now Li Yuanhong has focused his attention on a hotel not far from the seaside, which is the Hilton Hotel in Hurghada. As a world-renowned hotel chain, he is not missing from this tourist attraction, but at this time Li Yuanhong is paying attention What was surprising was that zombies were disappearing and appearing in the hotel window, because Li Yuanhong found the shadows of mutated zombies and giant zombies among them.

This is because Li Yuanhong has the help of the True Eye, which allows Li Yuanhong to see so far. However, when he saw a black zombie next to the giant zombie, Li Yuanhong frowned. As soon as he came to Africa, he encountered a different zombie. .

However, Li Yuanhong took a look at the buildings in the entire city. Most of them are relatively low bungalows. The city area is not very large. It is estimated that the population is only a few hundred thousand. Even if the foreign tourist population is included, it will not exceed 200,000. Only then did Li Yuanhong breathe a sigh of relief.

"I just don't know if this black zombie is powerful or not?" Li Yuanhong said to himself.

While Li Yuanhong was observing the zombies, dust and smoke suddenly rose in the depths of the desert outside the city, and it seemed that thousands of troops were hidden in the smoke. At first, Li Yuanhong didn't notice it, but as the smoke and dust approached the city, it finally caught Li Yuanhong's attention, so Li Yuanhong quickly pointed the telescope into the sand and dust in the desert.

There seemed to be something hidden in the sand and dust, but due to the cover of the sand and dust, Li Yuanhong couldn't tell what was hidden inside. Just as Li Yuanhong was staring at the things in the dust, suddenly the zombies in the building in the distance ran out of the building.

The zombies who ran out of the building actually swarmed towards the edge of the town, completely ignoring the noon sun. Moreover, looking at these zombies, they were in a prepared posture. The situation was like facing a formidable enemy.

Soon, the smoke finally reached the edge of the city. Although the smoke was still very large, most of the smoke was blocked by the houses in the city. The figures hidden in the smoke were finally revealed, and they turned out to be huge scorpions.

There are two types of scorpions. One is smaller red scorpions. These red scorpions are only over half a meter long, and the tall scorpions have tails over one meter high. The black scorpion at the back of the team is more than one meter long, and has a 1.5-meter scorpion tail, which is like a sharp spear, shining brightly in the sun.

When the zombies in the city saw the scorpions running wildly in the desert, they roared, and the whole group of zombies rushed towards the scorpions, and the two sides collided with each other.

When the zombies saw the scorpion, they bit and smashed it. The red scorpion clamped it directly with its pliers and stabbed it with its tail. Both sides soon became bloody. What surprised Li Yuanhong the most was that although the two sides fought, many zombie corpses and scorpion corpses were killed. The zombies and scorpions behind were dragged away.

However, although the battle between the two sides was fierce, the main forces at the rear of both sides did not move, as if the bloody battle ahead had nothing to do with them.

Soon the ordinary zombies and red scorpions participating in the battle in the front were almost dead. Even if they were not dead, they were almost lying on the ground motionless. At this moment, the main force in the rear moved, but the two sides were not fighting. Black The scorpions directly dragged away the zombie corpses and the zombies that were not dead, and the loss also dragged away the red scorpions. The two sides had a tacit understanding and there was no conflict.

An even more surprising scene happened. After the two sides dragged their respective bodies away and dragged them back to their camps, they began to dismember the bodies of the other party as if they were distributing spoils of war.

In less than half an hour, both sides finished eating the dead zombies and scorpion corpses, but the giant zombie did not move. Soon, several zombies came to the giant zombie holding a handful of crystal cores, and the giant zombie emerged from the crystal core. After picking it up, he took out a few crystal nuclei, threw them directly into his mouth and started chewing them, and then threw the remaining crystal nuclei to his men.

After both parties finished eating, the Black Scorpion actually turned around and began to return to the depths of the desert. The billowing smoke quickly disappeared into the depths of the desert, and the zombies also turned around and returned to their respective houses, as if the battle just now was not there at all. occur.

Li Yuanhong looked at all this with his mouth wide open, and he couldn't believe his eyes. Could it be that the zombies in this city knew that he was coming and were putting on a show for him with the scorpions in the desert? Or is he suffering from heat stroke and hallucinating?

Li Yuanhong shook his head vigorously, and then fixed his gaze on the edge of the city again. Those dense white bones and red scorpion shells were still piled on the edge of the city. All of this told Li Yuanhong that everything he just saw was reality, and Not illusion.

"It seems there are weird things here. The scorpions in the desert and the zombies in this city are definitely not just mortal enemies." Li Yuanhong said to himself again.

"Let's go back to the ship first." Li Yuanhong ordered the soldiers next to him.

Now Li Yuanhong is very puzzled by the strange phenomena in the city. In the situation just now, it was like two forces sending food to each other, and the loss on one side was the reward for the other. Logically speaking, this situation is not good for zombies. After all, zombies cannot reproduce. If one of them dies, one of them will be missing. Once they are almost dead, aren't they waiting to be destroyed by scorpions?

Li Yuanhong returned to the ship and recalled what he had seen during the day. At this time, a soldier came over and said, "Report to the Commander-in-Chief, we videotaped the battle between zombies and scorpions today. Do you need it?"

"Okay, that's great. I just can't figure out some details, so I can use that as a reference." Li Yuanhong didn't expect that his subordinates would become more and more attentive.

Soon, the video was shown, and Li Yuanhong began to watch it carefully.

When the scorpions emerged from the sand, Li Yuanhong suddenly discovered a phenomenon. At the moment when these zombies rushed up, the number of zombies and the number of red scorpions were almost the same. Moreover, at the beginning of the battle between the two sides, they were also the first pair. , only after one party defeats the other party does it turn around and participate in other battles.

"These zombies and scorpions seem to be gladiators? No, if they are gladiators, then the audience watching the battle will not kill even the gladiators who are not dead!" When he saw the last ones who were dragged away and were not dead, When the zombies and Hong were resting, Li Yuanhong suddenly thought of a conclusion that made him feel horrified: eating the food after changing the child.

There is almost no food in this desert. Those scorpions obviously have big appetites. Those little lizards in the desert are probably not enough to fill their teeth.

The biggest problem with zombies is that they can evolve by eating the nuclei of their own kind.

This is the experience that Li Yuanhong has accumulated from long-term battles with zombies. Even if a zombie encounters a dead zombie, it will not eat the opponent's crystal core. Of course, Li Yuanhong doesn't know the specific reason, but there seems to be some taboo here.

And eating crystal nuclei is the fastest way to evolve. In other words, zombies have a need to eat crystal nuclei, while scorpions have a pure need for food. It seems reasonable for the two parties to exchange with each other.

But this exchange is based on mutual fairness. That is to say, you give me a thousand children, and I give you a thousand lowest zombies. If the transaction between the two parties is unfair, the consequences will be difficult to predict. .