Chapter 1141 – Doubts on the Ground

“This car… just arrived a few days ago…” Ling Mo said.

The amount of dust was about the same, which meant this car hadn’t been parked for long. Otherwise, the underside should be cleaner than the outside.

This was a bit different from Ling Mo’s initial deduction… If this group of Survivors had really just appeared a few days ago, then the likelihood of them being local residents dropped sharply…

Ling Mo pondered as he quickly walked over, squatting down beside the car to examine it closely.

“And here…” Yuwen Xuan had basically crawled under the car, and now he made a new discovery.

“Damn fat Xiao Bai…” Ling Mo couldn’t help but complain about Xiao Bai’s size. It couldn’t even lower its head, let alone crawl under…

Following the direction of Yuwen Xuan’s finger, Ling Mo quickly spotted the suspicious area.

A small puddle…

Such depressions often appeared on long-used roads, but seeing one here now made Ling Mo’s ominous feeling deepen even further.

“Has it rained in the past few days?” Ling Mo asked.

Skinny Monkey immediately stepped forward to answer, “Yes, I heard rain at midnight, but it wasn’t heavy. As for whether it rained here, I can’t say. But even if it did, with this blazing sun, the ground would’ve dried up long ago.”

“That’s right, the sun can’t reach the center under the car, but even so, this puddle shouldn’t be here.” Yuwen Xuan said, producing a bullet in his hand. He placed it at the edge of the puddle, and under his and Ling Mo’s watchful eyes, the bullet slowly rolled toward Ling Mo.

After testing the other directions, it was the same.

In other words…

“Even if it rained here, the water wouldn’t flow into this puddle…” Ling Mo frowned.

“That’s just one aspect.” Yuwen Xuan ran his hand around, then continued, “With this weather, even under the car it’s quite hot. If this puddle had accumulated here some time ago, it should’ve evaporated by now.”

“So, based on this, this puddle… really only appeared in the last few days…” Ling Mo muttered.

Yuwen Xuan nodded, “That’s right!”

“This isn’t good news…” Mu Chen murmured.

Although they couldn’t pinpoint the exact timeframe, the concept of “the past few days” already meant a lot to them…

“What do you think… besides us and Niepan’s Big Boss, how likely is it that other non-local Survivors know about this granary?” Ling Mo stood up and asked.

Everyone fell silent…

Two seconds later, it was Xia Na who broke the silence: “So… maybe Niepan’s people have been here?”

She used the word “been here,” and Black Silk keenly picked up on it.

Although Ling Mo hadn’t told it about Xiao Bai’s actions, after Black Silk sniffed hard twice, it immediately showed a knowing look.

Clearly… there hadn’t been any Niepan people nearby… and Xiao Bai might’ve run into Zombies…

“Am I right?” Black Silk asked in Ling Mo’s mind.

“If you’re going to use the psychic link to talk to me, then stop analyzing and narrating in my head!” Ling Mo snapped, then frowned and replied, “That’s exactly what I can’t figure out. Whether it was Niepan’s people or not, why are there still Zombies around here?”

“Couldn’t beat them? That doesn’t make sense… These people aren’t locals. They drove here from somewhere else. No matter where they started… if they could swagger all the way here by car, how could they not deal with the Zombies here? That’s just not reasonable.” Ling Mo continued.

Black Silk and Xia Na exchanged a glance, then Black Silk crossed its arms maturely and said, “Maybe… by some fluke, there was an Advanced Zombie in the group? It’s not impossible. Who knows if there’s any genetically modified rice hidden in the granary?”

“Would there be?! Fine… even if there is… Zombies don’t eat rice!” With Black Silk’s interruption, Ling Mo actually calmed down a bit. “No, the Zombie situation should be fine… Xiao Bai already ran into them, and they’re all just common zombies. That also rules out the possibility of mutation beasts nearby… If there were, these Zombies would’ve been eaten clean…”

“So the problem comes back again…” Ling Mo looked at the car window, staring at the reflection inside, rubbing his brow as he thought, “The people who sat in this car, where did they come from… and where are they now…”

After finding clues under the car, Ling Mo couldn’t help but think… This must be the thorn stuck in his heart, right?

But thinking carefully, he fell silent again…

No… not this… it’s something even more dangerous…

Yet, he just couldn’t remember…

“Hoo…”

Ling Mo took a deep breath and finally calmed down.

When he turned around, he realized everyone was staring at him.

Yuwen Xuan had crawled out from under the car, pressing a water-soaked finger to his nose and sniffing hard, muttering, “Seems like it’s just ordinary rainwater…”

Ling Mo glanced over him, then looked at the others, giving a wry smile, “Looks like our luck isn’t so great.”

“So what, we’re already racing Niepan for time. We’ve taken the biggest one, so by any measure, we’ve won.” Ye Kai chuckled.

“We can’t be sure it’s Niepan yet…” Ling Mo organized his thoughts, then voiced his doubts. Of course, he “touched up” the part about Zombies a bit. Originally, it was Xiao Bai who did it, but he said it was the Tentacle.

At this moment, the super “Tentacle” was lurking outside the granary. Given its massive size, even though Ling Mo wanted it to search inside, he had to give up on the idea. After all, the granary couldn’t be damaged easily-if it got crushed, all that food would be wasted.

After hearing all this, everyone looked at each other in shock and suspicion.

“What kind of people would ignore Zombies?”

“But even if they ignore them, the Zombies wouldn’t let them go, right?”

“Yeah, even if they’ve already hidden in the granary, the Zombies would try every way to break in.”

“But according to the captain, when he found the Zombies, they were all wandering in the wild…”

“That’s not right, there’s something wrong here…”

Listening to the discussion, Ling Mo slowly turned to look at the quiet granary not far away.

“We’ll just have to go in and see for ourselves…”