Chapter 19 Tracking

Chen Ke put the gun back into the holster and turned to look at the bodies on the ground.

The three bodies were in pieces, but even so, not a drop of blood flowed out, as if they had no blood on them. And on one of the bodies, a white light spot slowly condensed.

"Holy object?"

Unlike the white light ball condensed by the human-faced dog corpse, the light spots condensed by these three monsters were not that big, and they were light spots in the true sense of the word.

Chen Ke reached out to hold the light spot in his palm, and at this moment, several visual fragments suddenly passed by his eyes...

Chen Ke's consciousness seemed to be attached to another man.

In front of Chen Ke, a 4-year-old child wearing a tattered blue sweater was held in the arms of a middle-aged woman. They sat in a small nest made of corrugated cardboard boxes.

The woman had a haggard face, dull eyes, and a pair of hands that looked like withered. The child in her arms was also very thin, but a little stronger than her mother.

"Dad, I'm hungry..."

The child was talking to himself, his voice was very soft, and he seemed to have no strength.

"Dad will go find something to eat... You and Mom will occupy the sleeping place here..."

The sky was gloomy, and Chen Ke saw himself rubbing his hands, which were a pair of bony hands.

"Please... Please..."

Squatting on the street, stretching out his hands to the empty street, as if begging to God. Opportunity City, no opportunities. After the wave of factory closures, everyone in the downtown area was busy with their own affairs.

...

In front of a bakery, a man stared at the bread in the window in a daze. He hesitated for a long time before he mustered up the courage to walk in.

"Welcome... Sir, please go out."

The female clerk who thought she was welcoming a customer showed a disgusted expression after seeing him and ordered him to leave.

"Give me one... no, half a loaf of bread... My child is hungry..." the man begged.

"Please leave sir... or I will call the police." The female clerk said.

"Please... Just give me the expired bread... My child hasn't eaten for a long time..."

"Hey! You're so annoying!" The female clerk was a little impatient. At this time, a tall black man came out of the door.

"What's going on?"

"Manager, it's a homeless man."

The black man took out a large piece of bread from the window and handed it to the man.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you very much! I will definitely repay you..." The man took the bread and cried with joy, turned around and ran out of the bakery.

...

The man held the bread tightly in his hand and kept running towards "home", his heart beating violently.

Shuttled through the alleys between the buildings, the man gasped for breath, and suddenly, he fell to the ground.

Too hungry... I haven't eaten for many days, plus the intense running just now...

"No... I need to rest..."

The eyes slowly closed, and the hands fell down...

...

"I overslept... I want to go back!"

The man opened his eyes suddenly, it was already night. He didn't realize that the bread in his hand had molded.

I suddenly felt like I had endless energy. It felt good.

"I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry!" The man said with surprise and astonishment.

He rushed to the street and met many passers-by. The passers-by looked at him as if they had seen a ghost.

"Fuck! What is this! Oh my God!" The passer-by screamed in fear and turned around and ran.

Other pedestrians were attracted by the shouting and looked at me. Suddenly, the streets were in chaos, everyone screamed and ran in different directions.

"What's wrong with these people? Am I too dirty?" The man was surprised.

Regardless of so much, the man continued to run towards "home", passing vehicles and newsstands, running fast on the wall, and jumping across the road with a light jump. The speed was very fast, and the body was very light, as if the whole world had no weight.

"George! Adela! I'm back!"

The man ran back to the place where he was camping, and his wife and son were lying in a corrugated cardboard box hugging each other.

"George, Daddy has brought you bread. Rona, you and your son each have half."

The man happily came to his wife and children.

"Don't sleep Rona, George, wake up too..."

The man pushed the two corpses, took out the moldy and blackened bread, and stuffed it into the little boy's mouth.

"Eat it quickly, you can survive if you eat it, eat it quickly..."

"Why are you sleeping so soundly..."

"Who are you anyway...?"

...

Under the night, the man wandered alone in the dark alley, constantly asking himself a question.

"Who am I... Who am I...?"

...

A dazzling white flash brought Chen Ke back to reality, but in just five or six seconds, Chen Ke felt as if a long time had passed. It turned out that these monsters were transformed from people who died of starvation...

It seems that things are not simple. Those deformed diners cannot become such monsters.

Through the memory light spot, Chen Ke also roughly understood some things. He guessed that the human-faced dog and the skeleton were two completely different types of monsters. The holy object could only be obtained from the monsters in the spiritual explosion space...

He stood up, and in front of him, a faint red outline was stumbling and running more than 60 meters away from him. The female diner had not run far.

Running more than 60 meters in five or six seconds is already quite fast for a woman. Following that woman, maybe he can find out the truth of the matter.

Chen Ke followed all the way. With the help of the murderous radar, he could move parallel to the female diner across a building, and it was almost impossible to lose the target.

The female diner deliberately shuttled through various alleys, turned around, looked behind her, and did not find Chen Ke's trace, so she was relieved. Little did she know that Chen Ke was standing on the same line with her across a building.

Although she thought she had gotten rid of Chen Ke, the female diner was still very cautious. She deliberately took some remote routes, avoiding the crowd and the main road, and finally came to a dilapidated residential building.

The female diner observed around for a while before opening the door and walking in.

Chen Ke walked out of a small shop on the corner and looked up at the residential building that the female diner had just entered. It was a large building that was half demolished, with a total of six floors. The dilapidated wall had cracks, and a large hole was demolished on the right side of the building, but for some unknown reason, the demolition was stopped.

It seems that this is also a wasteland bought by Psychic Enterprise.

There seemed to be some kind of tacit understanding between the enterprises and the Administration. The behavior of the psychic enterprises directly squeezed the development space of other industries. Enterprises that could have provided a large number of job opportunities could no longer buy land in the lower city of Opportunity City, resulting in a large number of local residents being unable to find jobs.

More and more abandoned buildings will also provide nests for monsters affected by psychic energy and transformed. The lower city of Opportunity City will become less and less suitable for living in the future. By then, the entire lower city may be full of black boxes and become a hunting ground for investigators.

Maybe this is what those psychic capitals want, and it is also tacitly approved by the Administration.

The windows on the first and second floors were nailed shut with wooden boards, and the double-opening apartment door was tightly closed. Chen Ke pushed it and locked it. It seems that another way to get in is needed.

He wandered around the building and finally found a window with a not-so-strong wooden board on the back of the apartment building. After prying open the wooden board with a bloodletting dagger, he jumped and got in.