"They're looking for us!" Sham looked at those swaying figures and said with a shudder, "Could it be that they've smelled us? That can't be possible. We're so far away..."
Dudian's eyes were gloomy. He stared closely at these wandering figures and thought, "They probably haven't detected us yet. Otherwise, they wouldn't be moving so slowly. If it's about the smell we left behind, there were so many people with Scott, and the smell they left should be much stronger than ours. Unless there are far more than those dozen or so walking corpses that came from there, there could be many more..."
Mekin immediately looked at him and said, "Dian, what should we do now? They're getting close to the downstairs. If this goes on, they'll definitely detect us."
"Don't panic." Dudian frowned tightly, recalling everything that had happened before. Suddenly, he thought of a neglected problem. "If these walking corpses have no awareness of dodging and can even do stupid things like jumping off a building, it shows that they have no concept of death at all and can't realize what danger is. Since that's the case, what do they rely on to catch their prey?"
"Scott said before that they would track the smell of blood. But if that's the case, the smell of blood emanating from the several corpses that were bitten by that female walking corpse earlier should have been enough to attract all of them. Even if those corpses have been completely eaten, after they bit the corpses, there would still be blood stains on their mouths and hands. If other walking corpses are really bloodthirsty and crazy for blood, they would definitely bite the claws and mouths of their companions."
"However, in fact, that didn't happen. Those walking corpses chased after us as soon as they saw us and completely ignored the corpses on the ground."
"This can only show that although blood can attract them, there is something that they desire and are even more crazy about than blood!"
There was a deep black luster shining in Dudian's eyes, as if he could see through everything. "The female walking corpse earlier abandoned the corpse and chased after that guy named Aaron when she heard his running sound. Later, when I lured them away with a stone, it's very likely that what really attracted them away wasn't the blood on the stone, but... the sound?"
After inferring this conclusion, Dudian didn't feel happy. Instead, he frowned slightly. He always felt that he had still overlooked a very important piece of information. He continued to search through the memories in his mind. Scenes after arriving in Area 8 flashed by quickly, and the appearances of countless hunted corpses he had seen during scavenging... Suddenly, he realized that it was wrong. It wasn't the sound!
Or rather, like blood, the sound could attract their attention, but... it was definitely not what they desired the most, nor was it the main way they tracked their prey!
The real reason was on Dudian and the others.
That was "heat"!
Yes, this was the main way Dudian thought they caught their prey, which was to sense the heat on their prey. In simple terms, they were equivalent to having thermal sensing vision! However, it couldn't be called "vision" because the eyes of some walking corpses were pierced, and the eyes of some were protruding and broken. Dudian guessed that their brains might have mutated to have a mysterious tissue that could automatically sense the surrounding heat.
Any warm-blooded animal would appear in their sensing network.
Although he couldn't be completely sure of this speculation, Dudian felt that this was the most likely one deduced from the information he had obtained so far. Looking at the group of walking corpses that were gradually approaching the downstairs, he immediately had an idea. He said to Mekin and the other two, "Mekin, find something hard and throw it to another place to see if you can lure them away with the sound. Zach, light a fire immediately and make a torch."
The three of them were taken aback and their eyes immediately lit up. Although they didn't know what the torch was for, luring the walking corpses away with sound was a good idea.
"Leave it to me." Mekin immediately ran to search in the room. He broke off several pieces of bricks that were like mud from the wall of the bedroom and went to the previous kitchen to throw them towards the vicinity of the building.
With a bang, the bricks fell to the ground and turned into powder.
The sound spread in the quiet residential area, and those swaying walking corpses were immediately attracted. Seeing that the method was effective, Mekin became excited and continued to throw them non-stop, and he threw them farther and farther, so that the walking corpses could be lured away far.
Dudian let out a sigh of relief when he saw that luring them with sound was effective. Seeing that Zach had also used a flint to light the clothes found in the room and made a torch, he immediately said, "Throw the torch out and see."
Zach was taken aback for a moment and couldn't figure out what Dudian was thinking, but he still followed his words and threw the torch out. The flames rolled in the air and fell to the ground, almost going out.
Dudian immediately stared closely. He saw that the sound of the torch falling to the ground made several walking corpses running behind turn their heads. But Mekin happened to throw out another brick at this moment, and the huge sound attracted these walking corpses again. Soon, they left the residential area and came to the place where the bricks landed outside the street.
Dudian was immediately puzzled. Had he guessed wrong? He frowned and looked at those walking corpses that were lured away by the sound. After thinking for a moment, he thought that even if he was wrong, it was okay as long as he could lure the walking corpses away.
At this time, the distance that Mekin threw the stones had reached the limit. Those walking corpses circled around the place where the stones fell. After wandering for a while, they suddenly swayed and wandered back towards the residential area.
Dudian and the other three, who had just let out a sigh of relief, immediately widened their eyes and almost cursed.
What was going on?
Dudian was a bit stunned. They had been lured away, so why were they still so persistent in coming into this residential area? And looking at their direction, they were still heading towards this building. The only difference between this building and the other buildings was that there were four of them on it.
"How could this be..." Sham said blankly.
Sham immediately said, "Keep throwing quickly."
Mekin reacted and immediately ran to the wall to pick off bricks and continued to throw them. Soon, those wandering walking corpses were attracted away again, which made the few of them feel a little relieved, but they couldn't be happy at all. Luring the walking corpses with sound all the time wasn't a long-term solution, and if it went on for a long time, it might even attract walking corpses from other places.
Dudian frowned tightly. What was it about them that attracted these walking corpses?
"Wait a minute. If it's about heat... Could it be that they can distinguish the difference between the heat of a flame and the heat inside a living organism?" Dudian suddenly thought of this and his face couldn't help but change slightly. If that was the case, there was no other way except to reduce the heat in their bodies.
However, to reduce the heat, they could only take off their clothes.
However, the nuclear radiation in the air was intense. If they took off their clothes, the radiation level in their bodies would increase rapidly.
Dudian lowered his head and thought deeply. Mekin and the other two took turns throwing bricks. Whenever the walking corpses were about to return to the residential area, they would throw out a brick and control the rhythm very steadily without throwing randomly.
After a while, Dudian made a decision and said to Mekin and the other two, "Which one of you is willing to go downstairs with me and carry a walking corpse up?"
Hearing this, Mekin and the other three were greatly surprised and asked in disbelief, "Carry a walking corpse up? A dead one or a live one? What do you want to do?"
"Just the three that were just killed by the fall." Dudian said seriously, "I want to dissect them."
The fastest way to understand something is to see it clearly from the inside out. Although Dudian didn't have much medical experience and didn't know much about human body knowledge, in such a harsh environment at the moment, there were limited methods he could try. This was the only way he could think of to understand the walking corpses as soon as possible.
"Dissect?!" Mekin and the other three widened their eyes and looked at him as if he were a monster.