Chapter 85

"Scavenger." The four of them cleared room by room. When they reached the seventh floor, Taohuayan patted Scavenger's shoulder and pointed to the computer in his hand. At this point, with more and more cameras installed, the computer screen was divided into many small frames, each showing different scenes, making it dizzying to look at.

Fortunately, there was recognition software to help. Otherwise, with hundreds of cameras transmitting different images every second, unless humans had compound eyes like flies, it would be difficult to lock onto the information they needed from hundreds of surveillance images.

His fingers lightly tapped the enter key twice, and one of the small frames was brought up. From the image, a group of monsters could be seen moving. Among them, the leader was a zombie. Unlike other zombies whose bodies looked like they had rotted and been soaked in water, making them disgusting, this zombie had perfectly intact limbs and facial features, almost like a human. If not for his grayish-white eyes and the fact that he seemed to be giving orders to the other monsters without being attacked, he might have looked like a player with the Mutant profession.

"Is this just a minor leader? The boss we're looking for shouldn't be him, right?" Scavenger glanced at the image and asked, "How much of the mission area have we monitored?"

"Three-quarters. This building is the tallest in the area. After we go up and install cameras around, we can basically monitor the entire area." Comparing the total area of all the surveillance images with the mission area where they needed to find and clear the boss, Taohuayan quickly came to a conclusion.

"There are more than twenty monsters, just a small group. They're not here to surround us. They're not heading this way. Adjust the view to the direction they're moving in and see." Scavenger rubbed his chin and said.

Papapapa, Taohuayan quickly entered a few numbers on the computer, bringing up the surveillance images from the surrounding areas where the monster group was heading. He then eliminated them one by one. Finally, the image locked onto a ruin about 300 meters away from the monster group.

It was the ruins of a collapsed three-story building. The second and third floors had collapsed to the ground, and only a few concrete pillars in the corners of the first floor were barely standing, supporting a small roof that could barely shelter from the wind and rain.

The camera zoomed in on the image, making it clearer. In the corner of the wall with some cover, a little girl was curled up, sleeping.

"It's her. Find the werewolf." Seeing this scene, Scavenger was startled and shouted.

Taohuayan quickly typed on the keyboard, inputting an image of a werewolf monster into the computer to start a comparison with the recognition software. Five seconds later, about 200 meters away from where the little girl was lying, a werewolf was seen holding fruit and heading towards where the little girl was hiding.

Unlike other monsters that could walk freely in the ruins, this werewolf, like Scavenger and his team who were secretly clearing monsters and installing cameras, was walking cautiously, observing the surroundings, avoiding monsters when encountered, and quickly killing those that couldn't be avoided.

"Monsters can kill other monsters?" Taohuayan exclaimed as he watched the werewolf place the fruit in a hidden spot, quickly kill a mutated wolf dog, hide the corpse, and then pick up the fruit and continue moving cautiously.

"Are these monsters surrounding the little girl?" Scavenger frowned, looking at the two images.

"Wait a moment." Taohuayan said, quickly bringing up the images around the little girl. It turned out that four groups of monsters were surrounding the place where the little girl was hiding. One of the groups seemed to have noticed the werewolf and was quietly following behind.

"We just came from this place, how did we not find her?" At this point, Kantu and Leigong also came over. The camera could capture the little girl, but they hadn't noticed her when they passed by. Kantu was very puzzled.

"The camera angles are not fixed; some can rotate 360 degrees. When we came, we only took one path and installed cameras from a high point. We haven't been to all the areas covered by the surveillance. For example, after we went up to the roof of this building and installed cameras around, we could monitor everything within a 500-meter radius, but we only walked through the entrance. We haven't been to other places." Leigong, who installed the cameras, explained.

"Should we save this little girl? She seems to be related to the main mission. But we are farther away from her than those monster groups."

"863 meters in a straight line." Taohuayan tapped the keyboard, and the distance between the group and the little girl was marked.

"This little girl and the werewolf are strange. They seem to be enemies of the monsters and also of the players. It's confusing. But since they are related to the main mission, we can't let them run away. Instead of clearing room by room, we will only clear the monsters near the stairwell and then rush to the balcony on the tenth floor. From there, we can snipe the monster groups and create a gap in the encirclement, allowing the werewolf to bring the little girl over. We'll deal with the rest when they get here."

Scavenger thought for a moment and made the decision. The group's clearing speed increased. Originally, they were clearing each room, not missing a single monster, partly because they were afraid the boss might be hiding in one of the rooms and partly because they wanted to use the building as a base, given its advantageous high ground. Now, since they were in a hurry, they could only abandon the monsters in the rooms and clear the monsters in the stairwell. They no longer needed to be stealthy, as the first seven floors were already clear of monsters, and the remaining three floors still had many monsters. But as long as Kantu held the light machine gun at the rear, no matter how many monsters there were, they couldn't rush up in a short time.

Scavenger led the way, Leigong installed cameras in some corners of the corridors, Taohuayan monitored the route they took to get there to ensure the battle wouldn't attract other monsters, and Kantu stood at the stairwell, continuously firing at the monsters rushing up from below.

"Fatso and Kantu guard the entrance, Leigong and I will clear the monsters." In less than two minutes, the three of them rushed from the seventh floor to the balcony on the tenth floor. Scavenger shouted to Taohuayan and Kantu, then drove the werewolf mech towards the monsters on the balcony.

The stairwell was easy to defend; they just needed to set up their guns and fire down. So Taohuayan sat comfortably beside, releasing his psychic weapon to help Scavenger and Leigong clear the monsters on the balcony. Soon, all the monsters on the balcony were killed.

After clearing the balcony, Leigong took over Kantu's position at the stairwell to save some bullets. After all, Leigong was more experienced in close combat. Scavenger took out his sniper rifle from the weapon space, and Kantu also took out his sniper rifle, lying down at the edge of the balcony and looking towards where the little girl was.

"When do we act?" The monster groups surrounding the little girl seemed to want to capture both the little girl and the werewolf, so they were moving slowly, gathering other wandering monsters to form a tight encirclement.

"Eleven o'clock direction, 913 meters. Do you see that gray-eyed zombie?" Scavenger first took out a telescope to observe, then locked onto the zombie acting as the commander. Although the zombie was facing away, Scavenger had seen his features in the surveillance images and could recognize him from behind.

"Got it." Kantu adjusted the angle of his sniper rifle and quickly locked onto the zombie. Although his eyes weren't as sharp as Scavenger's, the coordinates Scavenger provided only had one zombie, so there was no need to distinguish further.

"I'll snipe his back, you aim for the back of his head to take him out in one shot." Scavenger put down the telescope and picked up the sniper rifle beside him. The zombie was still moving and was strong. At this distance and angle, hitting his heart from behind would require not only accurate aim but also calculating the angle at which the bullet would penetrate his back and hit his heart. The exposed back of the zombie's head, which was clearly visible, was much easier to hit.

"Understood." Kantu gave Scavenger a ready gesture.

At this moment, the werewolf, who had gone to find food for the little girl, entered the ruins where she was hiding. He had just placed the fruit he had picked next to the sleeping little girl when he stood up and let out an angry roar. The four monster groups that had originally surrounded them, now with each group more than doubled in size, immediately surrounded them.

"Act now!" Seeing the werewolf realize he was surrounded, Scavenger decisively gave the order. With so many monsters, it would be very difficult for the werewolf to break through with the little girl. Scavenger needed to help the werewolf choose a direction to break through. This way, the werewolf could break through immediately without being entangled by the monsters behind.

Bang! Bang! Scavenger and Kantu almost simultaneously pulled the triggers. The gray-eyed zombie, who was commanding the monsters to surround the werewolf, had his brain explode and his heart pierced by a bullet. However, with his mutated body, he didn't die immediately. His grayish-white eyes, filled with disbelief, turned to look at Scavenger.

Bang! Another gunshot, and a bullet pierced the zombie's forehead, creating a third eye. The zombie's eyes, filled with disbelief, instantly lost their life, and he fell to the ground with a thud.

The monsters he had been commanding were momentarily stunned, looking around in confusion. Clearly, their alert range was limited, and they didn't see the enemy who had killed their leader. Without any hate value to guide them, they didn't know who to attack.

However, they soon had a target. The intelligent werewolf naturally heard the gunshots. Seeing the zombie fall, the werewolf picked up the little girl and placed her on his head, hesitating for a moment. But feeling the pressure from the monsters surrounding from the other three directions, the werewolf chose to break through in the direction where the zombie commander had died. The monsters, now leaderless, went crazy and pounced on the werewolf as he entered their territory.

"Go help Leigong clear the monsters at the stairwell. We need to go down to support them and can't be blocked by the monsters." Scavenger patted Kantu's shoulder, instructing him to help Leigong clear the monsters from the upper three floors.