Chapter 165: Wandering Survivors
The highest mountain in Star Shoal City was Feng Mountain, which was also a mountain that many people would go to. So Zhang Can’er couldn’t guarantee whether there were many or few Mutants inside.
If they alerted the enemy, it would be over.
They were still a little far from Star Shoal City now, so they couldn’t see the situation inside clearly.
After sleeping for a while, the few of them got up. The fog in the early morning was very thick. Even Zhang Can’er didn’t dare to go down the mountain at this time.
Of course, they didn’t need to go down the mountain either. After putting on their aircraft and eating a carrot, they flew directly into the sky.
After circling around Star Shoal City for a long time, they didn’t see any sign of a Transmutant. Zhang Can’er thought that there were only two possibilities.
One was that the wizards had moved the Transmutant away, and the other was that they were using the Transmutant as bait to attract them in again, just like before.
But with the bug of the carrot, there shouldn’t be too much of a problem, right?
To be on the safe side, Zhang Can’er had Ke Yajun’s mechanical bird scout Star Shoal City first. After seeing that there were no problems, they would go in and take a look.
After upgrading to the gold level, Ke Yajun could make this kind of mechanical bird indefinitely. As long as she had the materials, she could make it.
But it was a bit of a pity that she still couldn’t make anything with lethal power. Maybe this skill was just like this.
Zhang Can’er stood on a leaf and looked at the dozens of mechanical birds in the sky. She was a little speechless. “Are you afraid that others can’t see them?”
“Um, I made too many. Then I’ll let them disperse a little. It just so happens that they can be our eyes,” Ke Yajun said with an embarrassed smile.
The scouting speed of the mechanical bird was much faster than before, and the image was also much clearer. Anyway, it was much more convenient than before.
Looking at the shooting video transmitted from the tablet, Zhang Can’er’s sharp eyes saw that there was a team of people in a small house inside.
The specific number was not clear. In order not to alert the enemy, Zhang Can’er did not let the mechanical bird stop.
After the mechanical bird in Star Shoal City came back, the few of them went directly to find that small team.
Besides the Mutants in the town, there was no sign of a Transmutant. It might be that the wizards had moved it away. This was a bit difficult to handle.
She didn’t know how it was moved. Such a big thing, it probably couldn’t walk fast.
The four of them’s invisibility effect had not yet ended, so they quietly sneaked into that small house.
There were about ten people inside, and the ratio of men to women was about the same. In broad daylight, they were all huddled in such a small house.
Zhang Can’er was very curious. How did these people survive under the hands of the Transmutant? Or rather, how did they survive under the eyes of those wizards?
The four of them stood in a corner. Just as they were about to whisper something, they heard the door not far away being opened, and a person in a black robe quickly walked in.
After coming in, she immediately closed the door. And after she took off her black robe, her gaze swept to Zhang Can’er and the others, and she was instantly stunned.
The few of them were all old hands. It was obvious that the woman had discovered them.
Zhuang Jiayuan threw an illusion ball over without a trace of hesitation.
Zhang Can’er didn’t have any good control vegetables in her hand. She was afraid that the Ice Cabbage would freeze the ordinary people to death, so Zhuang Jiayuan’s Sweet Illusion was their best control tool now.
It neither hurt people nor the body. At most, it would just consume a little mental power.
After tying everyone up, Ke Yajun arranged a few small robots to stand guard around, and also placed the previous mechanical bird in the sky to patrol. They were very high from the ground, and only in patrol mode.
This way, they had no worries. Now the entire Star Shoal City was under their eyes.
Zhang Can’er had never interrogated anyone before, so this matter was left to Wan Feng to do.
After the effect of the illusion had passed, the people who had been tied up could only whimper, all of them in a panic.
Wan Feng sat on a stool, holding an ordinary machete in her hand, looking like a cold-faced warrior. She glanced at the woman who had just come in and asked coldly, “Who are you?”
The woman pointed at her own mouth, indicating that she couldn’t speak.
Zhang Can’er untied her mouth. The woman gasped for breath and said warily, “Shouldn’t I be the one asking you this question? Who are you?”
“You’re not qualified, nor do you have the ability to ask us. Answer obediently. Otherwise, for every minute that passes, I’ll kill one person,” Wan Feng said and grabbed a delicate woman next to her, the cold knife resting on her neck.
Wan Feng had no patience at all. It was okay to just kill them if the interrogation didn’t work. As long as her ability was strong enough, she could find out anything. At most, it would just take a little more time.
This was the idea that Wan Feng had always held. But when she saw Zhang Can’er’s furrowed brow, she couldn’t maintain this ruthlessness at all.
Just as she was hesitating whether to kill or not, the woman spoke, “We are just wandering survivors. Many of them are ordinary people. They are innocent. She is only seventeen years old. If you have anything, come at me!”
The woman’s lips trembled, suppressing her extreme panic, for fear that Wan Feng would kill the girl with one slash.
“Say what you’re asked. As long as you cooperate, I won’t make a move. How long have you been here? Are you from Star Shoal City?”
“We’re not from Star Shoal City. We’ve been wandering outside. We only came to this town yesterday. Because we didn’t see that tall thing, we came in.”
Wan Feng squinted her eyes and continued to ask, “When did you come yesterday?”
“In the afternoon.”
“Why have you been wandering? What skills do you rely on? The military is clearly still recruiting survivors. Why didn’t you go?”
The woman hesitated for a moment, but still spoke, “Because I have an invisibility skill. I can help everyone become invisible together. As long as the commotion is not too big, the Mutants won’t find us. As for why we didn’t go to the military base, it’s because we’ve been there. The military base said that they don’t recruit children or disabled people.”
Zhang Can’er had Ke Yajun scan each of them. Indeed, everyone’s body had a bad condition. Some had a bad foot, some had a bad hand, and some had a bad ear. Anyway, no one was complete, except for the woman.
Wan Feng put down her knife and put the girl on the ground. She looked at Zhang Can’er and asked, “Does Can’er believe what she said?”
Zhang Can’er didn’t dare to believe it. Outside, these people were actually time bombs. They didn’t even dare to send them to the Federation. The woman’s skill was a bug. Unless the Federation could invent glasses that could see invisible people.
“I don’t dare to believe it. I’ve checked the black robe she’s wearing. It’s not the kind of the wizards, so she shouldn’t be from the wizards’ side.”
Thinking about it, it shouldn’t be. To use such a team to win their sympathy and thus gain their trust? As long as one was not a fool, one would not have any trust in such strangers outside.
Anyway, it was definitely impossible in the short term.
