Chapter 32 Gene Crystallization

After chopping open the closet and lighting a fire upstairs, Lin Qi warmed up briefly, then went downstairs and headed towards the central street.

It was hard to find survivors in the city, but there were always survivors wandering around the central street. Some wanted federal rescue and help and went to the isolated safe zone, while others had other purposes.

Following the footsteps of his predecessors, Lin Qi felt a lot more relaxed than before. When he arrived at a hotel, the snow cleared at the door made Lin Qi stop.

At this time, to judge whether there was anyone in the building, just look at the traces of snow in front of the door.

But as he kept getting closer, no one came out of the hotel, not even a guard.

"Did everyone here leave?"

Lin Qi thought of the troop carrier he had just seen, and maybe it was the people in this hotel who were taken away, but he still opened the iron gate of the hotel and walked inside.

"No, the temperature here is a bit abnormal!"

As soon as he entered the lobby, Lin Qi felt that the temperature here was several degrees higher than outside, and even felt warm.

With a sense of vigilance, he slowly pulled out the pistol from his waist and hid it in his sleeve.

This hotel is one size larger than Zhao Tuantuan's, but it is also an isolation point, with iron bars installed at the door.

"Is anyone there?"

Lin Qi shouted, standing next to the pillar in the lobby, covering half of his body.

After a few seconds, he didn't hear any response, so he leaned out and searched inside.

Passing through the front hall, the snow in the backyard had been cleared to create a passage leading directly to the guest room area behind.

"Is anyone there?"

Lin Qi asked again, but still got no response.

He walked forward a few steps, and a familiar smell made Lin Qi frown.

It was a fresh bloody smell, mixed with a strange stench.

Pushing open the door of the guest room building, the stench of blood became stronger, and the temperature here was higher than that of the lobby in front.

Lin Qi touched the radiator in the corner of the wall and found that it was still a little warm.

"Is there a boiler here?"

This kind of big hotel usually has separate heating. Lin Qi then noticed that the snow in a corner of the backyard had already melted.

The stairs seemed to be covered with red carpet, extending to the corner, leading to the other side of the corridor, but as Lin Qi slowly approached, he could see that it was not a carpet at all, but a blood-stained ground.

The bloodstains were dense, as if they were footprints left by some animal, which made Lin Qi subconsciously think of the mutant rats he had seen a few days ago!

"Why are there such things everywhere!"

In fact, if you want to be serious, the number of rats in a city is far more than the number of humans in the city. They just hide in sewers or hidden places all the time, and rarely appear during the day.

Seeing these dense footprints, Lin Qi subconsciously wanted to leave here. After all, as he saw a few days ago, mutant rats would come out to look for food during the day.

Just as Lin Qi took a step back and was about to leave this dangerous place, there was a sound at the corner of the stairs, and a gray head poked out.

Sure enough, a fat mutant rat slowly climbed down the stairs. Its body, not counting its tail, took up three steps!

When the scarlet eyes saw Lin Qi, they immediately showed a crazy look, squeaked, and rushed up directly!

"Fuck!"

If it was before the end of the world, even the biggest rats would flee in panic after seeing humans. That was the natural crushing of large creatures over small creatures.

But this guy was a little special. His fear of humans had disappeared. He had already regarded Lin Qi as prey!

Lin Qi quickly retracted his pistol, grabbed the wooden bow on his back and shot at it. The mutant rat just pounced on it, and the arrow broke through the air!

It instantly pierced its head and rolled to the ground.

"This rat is bigger than a cat!"

The fur of this mutant rat was very smooth, and its long tail was like a steel needle, and even had a metallic reflective luster. It struggled on the ground for a few times, and then stood still, but the tail was still rolling.

Lin Qi stepped forward with the arrow and quickly came to the nearest room, closed the door, took out the dagger and began to dissect.

After a series of operations, the whole mutant mouse was dismembered into pieces, and even the head was cut in half, but the existence of evolution crystals was still not found.

"In the posts I read before, there are evolution crystals in the brains of mutant mice, but the probability is less than one percent. Could it be that such a large mutant mouse is just an ordinary kid?"

Lin Qi was not disappointed. Even if he found evolution crystals in the brain of this mutant mouse, he didn't dare to use it. After all, he felt psychologically resistant and always felt that this creature was not clean.

Walking out of the door again, Lin Qi was more alert. Since a mutant mouse could climb down from the upstairs, it proved that there were other similar ones.

The survivors in this hotel were probably all attacked by the mutant rats. No wonder it was silent.

Carefully went up to the second floor. The blood on the stairs felt sticky and stringy under his feet, which made people very uncomfortable. Lin Qi slowed down his pace and didn't dare to make a sound.

When I came to the corridor on the second floor, the bloody smell became stronger, accompanied by the stench of mutant rats. Under the heating, it was as if I had fallen into a cesspool.

Looking into the corridor, there were several bloody skeletons lying in the corridor, and there were several small rats crawling around on them, gnawing at the residue on them.

Sensing the breath of a stranger, the little mice immediately stood up alertly, staring at the newcomer with a pair of scarlet eyes, as if driving him away.

These little mice are of normal size, but they are still different from ordinary mice, giving people a very aggressive feeling.

"Squeak! Squeak!"

A mouse cry, with a chain reaction, the remaining mice screamed wildly, even throwing away the minced meat in their mouths, and quickly rushed towards Lin Qi.

"There are only a dozen, no problem!"

As Lin Qi used the bow and arrow more and more times, his understanding of this cold weapon became more and more profound. He quickly drew the arrow with his right hand, and the action of shooting the arrow was almost coherent.

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!"

The arrows broke through the air, and the mutant mice were nailed to the ground before they got within three meters of Lin Qi, screaming miserably.

"The vitality is really tenacious!"

Even if some mutant mice were shot through the head, they were not completely dead for a while, and they could still struggle a few times.

After taking back the arrow, Lin Qi had no interest in dissecting the small mutant rat until he found a different one among the corpses.

It was a mutant rat with all its hair gone. It was not as big as the one on the stairs before, but it was obviously mutated in a special way. Its limbs had tight muscles, like an elite rat that had been trained.

Its head was the size of a fist. When Lin Qi pulled out the arrow, he clearly saw a crystal red crystal in its skull.

"Is this the gene crystal?"

He picked out the gene crystal, which was covered with blood vessel-like filaments.

This gene crystal was only the size of a soybean, like a ruby, giving people an inexplicable attraction.

Lin Qi crushed it with his feet to remove the remaining mucus and filaments on it, and then picked it up and examined it carefully.