Chapter 237 Snow Bear Pack
Chapter 237 Snow Bear Pack
When Gu Nanfeng returned to the control hall, he saw three serious-looking people in front of the control panel. They didn't even notice Gu Nanfeng's arrival. Everyone was staring intently at the large screen, closely watching every subtle activity below.
"How is it?" Gu Nanfeng walked to Ji Lang's side and looked at the group of bears below the spaceship. Since they appeared, they had only surrounded the spaceship and had not made any other moves.
“Some of these animals are zombified, but none of them are the leader.” Ji Lang had been observing for a while. He had encountered several animal group attacks in the wild before, and each time a zombified animal would lead the attack. But in the bear pack now, there was no leader.
“Bears aren’t social animals to begin with. So many bears are either being controlled by humans or by zombies.” Gu Nanfeng was also looking around on the giant screen, hoping to find the one in charge.
“It was zombies last time too!” Yang Xiao recalled that when they were still in G City, at Gu Nanfeng’s exclusive theme park, at first they couldn’t see a single animal, and then they found that all the animals were controlled by zombies.
"Zombies controlling animals might just be instinct," Lin Yun thought. He also guessed that unlike the wood-type zombies he had encountered before that could control vines, controlling animals was something that all zombies could do.
“There are quite a few large animals here, which may be the reason why the North China base is being relocated.” Gu Nanfeng also mentioned the situation he had thought of from the beginning.
"So? Shall we just fly away?" Pei Sihao and Lu Yuan returned after refueling and saw the four of them staring at the giant screen discussing.
"Flying away directly is the best option." Lin Yun nodded. Although they were safe in the spaceship now, the number of bears was not small, and this was a retired spaceship. He was not very sure about the spaceship's safety.
"I'm afraid that's not an option for now," Ji Lang said, pointing to the far left corner of the large screen.
"Someone's there?" Gu Nanfeng immediately caught the direction Ji Lang was pointing. In just a few seconds, he saw the figures he had just seen disappear into the vast white snow.
"Are you sure it's people?" Lin Yun asked, turning back to confirm as he didn't see the figures Ji Lang and Gu Nanfeng had mentioned.
"They should be people, they're all fully armed." Ji Lang was pretty sure they were people. After all, in the current post-apocalyptic environment, even superhumans couldn't be as clean and tidy as the two level-nine zombies they had encountered before, running around all dressed up.
"Should we save them?" Yang Xiao asked.
"Let's see first." It was unusual for Ji Lang not to immediately offer to help. After all, they were currently at the border between the two countries, and he wasn't sure if these people were Chinese or from E country. Although it wasn't appropriate to concern himself with the other party's nationality at this time, their spaceship was already considered top secret, and they couldn't just let people from other countries know about it. More importantly, they didn't know how many people were on the other side.
When Lin Yun finally caught sight of the fully armed figures again, they had somehow escaped the bear pack and were now in a snowdrift beneath the left wing of the spaceship.
There were probably seven or eight of them. Their figures moved so fast that Lin Yun wasn't quite sure what they were wearing. They seemed to be wearing astronauts' spacesuits, which were white and plump, making it impossible to tell whether they were men, women, old or young.
"We can only estimate there are about eight people," Lin Yun said, rubbing his eyes and turning to Ji Lang.
"You guys have become more cautious." Pei Sihao didn't go over to look at the figures; he just kept an eye on the bears. He was somewhat surprised to hear Ji Lang and Lin Yun's conversation, since the two soldiers always believed in saving as many as possible.
“There are already seven or eight of them here, and I’m not sure if there are more. In such a harsh environment, the fact that they can survive means there might be an E country base nearby.” Ji Lang analyzed calmly. Based on his experience at the Beijing base last time, Ji Lang believed that many superhumans knew that killing other superhumans could also yield crystals to upgrade their superhuman abilities. They would even kill people of the same nationality, let alone this place, which is the border of E country and is also very close to a state of M country.
“Let’s just go.” Lu Yuan stood behind them. He didn’t need to get close to the giant screen to observe. His mecha’s eye was already equipped with a tracking panel that was tracking the group of people below. His view was much clearer than Gu Nanfeng’s and the others. So he continued, “They are all foreigners. We can’t control them.”
Hearing Lu Yuan's words, Gu Nanfeng nodded, found the ignition button on the control panel, and looked at Ji Lang beside him. Ji Lang didn't struggle much, nodded, and then saw Gu Nanfeng press the ignition button, and the spaceship began to vibrate slightly.
Of course, the slight tremor mentioned here refers to Lu Yuan and his group on the spaceship. For the bears on the ground and the eight people in the snowdrift, the tremor was quite noticeable.
Provoked, the bears went berserk, ignoring their own kind and lashing out with their paws in all directions. Lu Yuan even saw in the tracking footage that the bears' indiscriminate attacks hit the spaceship several times, and the people in the snowdrift were also discovered and engaged in a fight with the bears.
As the spaceship gradually lifted off the ground, Yang Xiao was still enjoying watching the bear pack's frenzy on the giant screen when he keenly heard a strange noise.
What was that sound?
“I heard it too.” Pei Sihao, who was standing next to Yang Xiao, was also stunned. He immediately focused his attention to listen to the source of the sound.
"Warning! Warning! The spaceship has been severely damaged by an unknown creature and cannot be started! The spaceship has been severely damaged by an unknown creature and cannot be started!" The alarm sounded in real time, resolving the doubts of the seven people.
As soon as the alarm sounded on the spaceship, Lu Yuan's tracking perspective spotted the so-called unidentified creature, which turned out to be an enormous polar bear.
The giant screen on the spaceship quickly revealed the enormous polar bear, which was almost as tall as the spaceship itself. It couldn't possibly be a normal creature. But what kind of viral mutation could turn an ordinary polar bear into such a large size? Not only Lu Yuan and his group, but even Gu Nanfeng couldn't figure it out.
"Roar!" With an incredibly loud roar, Lu Yuan felt the spaceship shake. Then came a slap that landed squarely on the right wing of the spaceship. Although the right wing wasn't broken off, it was clearly severely damaged.
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