"This thing has the characteristic of 'absorbing heat', which proves that my previous speculation is correct. These walking corpses were probably influenced by it and sensed our body temperature, so they gradually gathered here. Their way of hunting is not to track the smell of blood, but to track heat!" Dudian thought to himself, "There were a large number of people with Scott. The heat generated when they gathered together was even more astonishing, and it should have attracted more walking corpses. That is to say, there are an extremely large number of walking corpses in this Eighth District. This is definitely not due to the hunters' negligence. It is very likely... that they moved here from other areas!"
Thinking of this, Dudian frowned. He had glanced at Scott's map before and remembered that there was a gray area near the Eighth District, which was an uncleaned area. In addition, there were several green and blue areas, which were the hunting areas of other consortia.
After thinking for a while, Dudian said to Mekin and Zach, "With this thing to help us lower our body temperature, we can get rid of the tracking of these walking corpses later. However, we still can't get too close to them. Currently, there are only three of these things, and Sham doesn't have one yet. We need to find a way to hunt a walking corpse and dig out the cold sphere in its brain so that we can get out of the sensing range of the group of walking corpses outside."
Mekin said in surprise and doubt, "With this thing, we can get out of their sensing range?"
"How can we hunt them? They are too strong, and we are no match for them at all." Zach asked.
Dudian smiled slightly and said, "The strongest thing about us humans is not fighting, but intelligence. We can't confront them head-on naturally, but we can take advantage of the fact that they have no intelligence to kill them easily."
"Easily?" Zach and Mekin looked at each other, a bit stunned.
The three years of training taught the scavengers how to search for prey in the wilderness and how to find food and survive in various environments, but it didn't teach them how to hunt, because that was the job of the hunters. So, although they had been trained, when faced with a problem like this, Mekin and Zach were completely at a loss. However, compared with other ordinary children, they didn't panic or break down, which was already very remarkable.
"The simplest way is to use fire." Dudian smiled slightly and said, "You go and find some fabric first. As long as it's fabric that can be ignited, the more the better. I'll go and replace Sham. By the way, I'll lead them to a certain place. I'll give you ten minutes to gather the fabric you find downstairs."
When Mekin and Zach heard this, their eyes lit up, and they immediately guessed what Dudian was going to do. Without saying a word, they quickly left the room and split up to search for combustibles on each floor.
Dudian went back upstairs and saw that Sham was still tirelessly throwing stones. He immediately said, "You take a rest first. I'll do it."
Sham quickly said, "No need. I can do this kind of physical work that doesn't require much brainpower. Whether we can get out of here depends on you."
Dudian smiled and said, "Mekin and Zach have already gone to do it. We'll be able to leave here soon. Now everything is ready, and all we need is the final step."
"What do you mean?" Sham asked blankly.
Dudian suddenly realized and shook his head with a smile. He said, "It's nothing. Things are already prepared. I'll do the remaining finishing work. You go upstairs and find some stones. Don't empty out this floor, or it might collapse." With that, he picked up the gravel on the ground and looked at the walking corpses wandering at the entrance of the residential area. He immediately found that the number of these walking corpses had increased by a few more. At the street entrance in the distance, it seemed that a lone walking corpse was swaying over.
Dudian immediately picked up the stones and threw them to another place, leading these walking corpses to the other side of the building.
Ten minutes later, Mekin and Zach gathered the combustibles that could be ignited on the open ground at the bottom of the building and formed a circle. At this time, Dudian kept throwing stones or glass onto the open ground in the center of the circle of clothes and wood. The intense noise immediately attracted the attention of the group of walking corpses, who immediately swayed over and entered the center of the circle.
At this time, Mekin, who had received Dudian's instructions in advance, saw this and immediately threw the lit torches down from the second floor. Four or five torches rolled in the air and landed on the combustibles. Due to the short distance, only one of the five torches missed, and the other four all fell on the clothes. Suddenly, the flames burned along the clothes and quickly ignited the entire circle. The clothes and the rotted wooden furniture burned together into a raging fire.
The walking corpses in the center of the burning circle seemed to have an instinctive awareness to avoid the flames. When the flames burned, they immediately ran towards the outside of the circle.
Seeing this, Dudian's face changed slightly. He immediately continued to throw stones and glass, using the intense noise to attract these walking corpses. However, these walking corpses' fear of fire was extremely strong, and the sound couldn't attract them.
Dudian's face changed, and he quickly shouted downstairs, "Set them on fire!"
Mekin, Zach, and Sham were taken aback for a moment and then immediately reacted. They began to execute the second backup plan prepared by Dudian, which was to set the walking corpses on fire! This plan was originally prepared in case the burning circle didn't reach the walking corpses inside. Now it happened to be useful.
The three of them quickly picked up some bed sheets and other clothes on the ground and threw them at the walking corpses in the burning circle downstairs. Soon, some walking corpses were hit by the clothes. Although they weren't injured, when they ran out of the burning circle covered with bed sheets and quilts, they were ignited by the fire, and soon their whole bodies were on fire.
Dudian let out a sigh of relief and watched quietly. After a while, the flames went out. There were seven or eight charred corpses lying in the burning circle. The other walking corpses, some fell outside the burning circle, and some whose bodies weren't ignited escaped hundreds of meters away and then continued to sway and approach here again.
Dudian immediately threw stones to lead them away. Then he asked Sham to come and replace him and continue to lure them away with sound. He himself went downstairs. Just as he was about to tell Mekin and Zach to go down and collect the corpses, he suddenly saw that the arm of one of the walking corpses seemed to lift slightly. He was shocked. Could it be that the flames hadn't destroyed them?
"Their bodies are all charred. Can the deep blue sphere in their heads still control them..." Dudian's face changed. He told Mekin and Zach to continue throwing the combustibles down to cover these walking corpses and make the fire burn more vigorously.
After burning for seven or eight minutes, Dudian observed these walking corpses carefully for a while. He threw stones into the middle of them and didn't see any reaction. Only then did he let out a sigh of relief and told Mekin and Zach to go down and collect the corpses.
The three of them went downstairs. While Sham lured away the other walking corpses, they immediately used fabric to wrap their gloves and dragged these charred corpses downstairs and cut off their heads.
After seeing Dudian do it several times, Mekin and Zach gradually became bolder and tried to cut off the heads of the charred corpses.
Soon, the heads of these charred corpses were all cut off, a total of eight.
Dudian directly cut open their heads and immediately saw that the tissue inside their skulls had already softened. However, to Dudian's astonishment, the deep blue sphere inside their skulls was also melting. At the moment, it had melted from the size of a thumb to the size of a soybean, and the melted liquid was a translucent color like water. Only when it gathered together could one see that it had a bit of a deep blue color.
"Is this deep blue sphere afraid of high temperatures?" Dudian was stunned.