Darkness is Coming

  Golden Peacock Hotel, Wan Jie, the vice-captain of the adjudication team, walked to the door of Xu Le's suite and rang the doorbell.

"Team Xu, I have already bought the cigarettes, and I brought you a copy." Wan Jie shouted at the door. Although the Golden Peacock is a first-class hotel in Malawi, its hardware and software facilities are all the same as those of the real five. There is a big gap between star-rated hotels. For example, the sound insulation effect of the door and the wall is not satisfactory, and the captain Xu inside can be heard by shouting through the door.

   But there was no reply from the door.

"Maybe taking a shower in the bathroom?" Wan Jie bent down and put the packaging bag in his hand by the door, took out the communicator and called Xu Le: "Team Xu, are you here? I also brought you a top-quality hand-rolled cigarette and put it on the door. It's outside, so if there's nothing else, I'll go back to rest first?"

   Still no reply.

  Wan Jie frowned, his right eyelid twitched inexplicably. According to regulations, when going out to perform a mission, he must carry a communication device with him throughout the journey until the end of the mission and return to the base.

   then called several times, but still no response, Wan Jie began to feel uneasy, hurried down the lobby and demanded to check the surveillance video, and found that twenty minutes ago, Xu Le left the hotel alone.

   Team Xu will never leave his room without special circumstances. If there is any need, he will only call his subordinates and leave the hotel alone without any notification. This is not right.

  Wanjie immediately turned on the communicator and entered his own exclusive code, ready to apply for the location of Xu Le.

   But half of the number was written, Wan Jie suddenly changed his mind and took out the satellite phone to call an acquaintance at the domestic headquarters.

   "Lao Li, are you awake?" Wan Jie looked at his watch. At 12:05 in the morning, when Malawi was in the East Second District, it should be 6:05 in the morning.

"I didn't sleep. President Yang took a vacation the day before yesterday, and I have to make it up today." The man's voice sounded tired, "I want to calm down or downgrade to President Zhou after a while. The intensity of the work is really scary, and my old bone can't take it."

Wan Jie didn't answer the question, and went straight to the topic and asked, "Lao Li, I have a situation here. Captain Xu left the hotel 20 minutes ago, and he hasn't come back yet, nor has he replied to me. My level is not enough, so I can't check Captain Xu. The location of the communicator, do me a favor and check the location."

"The operation in Malawi is in charge of the 19th Bureau and the Change Control Center, which is inconvenient for me." Lao Li did not immediately agree, "In this way, if you report the code and submit the application directly, it will definitely pass, after all, Xu Le's mental condition... …”

Wan Jie interrupted him: "No, I can't be sure why Team Xu left the hotel right now. What if it was a personal matter? It's not easy for me to apply directly. In case of embarrassing Captain Xu, even if Captain Xu doesn't I know, others will know about it, and it will inevitably spread out. It will be difficult for me to be a human being, and my impression of me will not be good. Lao Li, please help me once, please!"

  Lao Li understood now, why did Xu Le leave the hotel alone? Maybe go to some special places to vent negative emotions in a special way? Of course, this kind of "private matter" cannot be investigated with public instruments.

   "Okay, wait a moment, I'll check it right away."

   After a while, Lao Li sent back a message: "Xiao Wan, something has happened! The communication device is located at the Golden Peacock Hotel! I'll report it right away, hurry up and find Xu Le!"

  ………………

   Across the distance, Xu Le could smell the unique smell of mutants.

   This kind of smell that cannot be washed away, Xu Le does not have a nose as sensitive as a dog, but he is very sensitive to this smell. From a block away, he can be sure that his trip was not in vain.

  Why are there other variants hidden in the capital of Malawi?

  Why would someone choose to find Xu Le instead of calling the police after discovering the variant? And why can find him Xu Le?

   Xu Le had thought about these issues, and could sense that there was a conspiracy in them, but Xu Le didn't care.

   As long as you know where the mutants are, you must kill them all. This is what Xu Le cares about.

   Hatred can make people paranoid. People like Xu Le who use hatred as their driving force will not change even if they realize their paranoia.

   If this is really a trap, it means that there must be a bait, Xu Le thought, as long as there is a bait.

   It was precisely because he realized that this was probably a trap that Xu Le deliberately did not bring a communication device. First, Xu Le didn't want anyone to disturb him, and second, because he might fall into a trap, Xu Le couldn't carry anything that could prove his identity.

   Approaching the dilapidated house, Xu Le took a deep breath of the nearby air full of decay and blood. The smell was strange, but Xu Le smiled contentedly. I didn't expect to find dessert after dinner.

  After entering the door, Xu Le saw the old man and children hugging around the house for warmth at first sight. They were all thin and dry, and their eyes were filled with a gray of despair and numbness. Strangely, their stomachs were all bulging, and they looked like they had just had a full meal.

   Xu Le was not interested in taking another look at them, and went straight to the direction where the smell of blood came from. Xu Le was excited by the sound of chewing from there.

   Crossed the front hall and walked into the courtyard. The scene inside made Xu Le stunned.

  The ground was full of corpses, and the blood flowed into rivers. A black girl stood in the middle of the broken corpse, with a sharp knife in her hand hanging down to her feet, and blood slid from the blade to the ground.

   tick, tick.

   A tape recorder next to him is still playing the sound of chewing flesh and blood. The two sounds are mixed together to create a weird and terrifying atmosphere of terror.

   "I'm sorry." The inexplicable black girl apologized to Xu Le in poor Mandarin, and then suddenly fell to her knees, raised the short knife in her hand, turned the blade, and stabbed her left chest suddenly.

   Xu Le didn't have time to stop her, because the mutant hiding on the roof launched a surprise attack on Xu Le.

  The sound can be camouflaged, but the smell cannot. Since Xu Le smells the odor of the mutant, it means that there is indeed a mutant here.

   So this inexplicable scene in front of him did not make Xu Le relax his vigilance. After being attacked, Xu Le pulled away and quickly retreated, opened the chain on his forehead, and took the battle calmly.

   Behind him, the sound of sharp tools piercing into the flesh rang out one after another, and the old, the weak, the sick and the sick in the front hall of the house fell one by one under the butcher's knife.

   In the face of the siege, Xu Le had no time to take care of the situation behind him. When Xu Le finally slashed the three mutants that besieged him and the mutants who were wantonly massacred in the front hall, there was no second living person in the dilapidated house.

   "嘁." Xu Le dropped the knife in his hand and looked up at the roof. Through the big hole punched by the mutant's raid, he could see a mini drone hanging in the air.