Chapter 27

If Xiang Haoyu had not explained it in advance, people who came here for the first time probably would not have thought that there was a valley behind this "line of sky".

Gu Qi, who had followed in stealth, got down from the roof of the car and quietly came to the narrow entrance. He keenly smelled a very faint fragrance and couldn't help but frowned slightly.

This faint and imperceptible fragrance had a confusing and attractive effect, but her mental strength was high so she was not affected at all.

It is precisely because of her high mental power and sharper five senses that she was able to detect it. If it were anyone else, they would probably not be able to detect it at all, unless they were a person with an olfactory ability of at least level three.

Thinking of this, Gu Qi quietly separated a few strands of spiritual energy and attached them to Gu Yuan and the others, and warned them in a voice transmission: "Brother, be careful of the smell."

Gu Yuan paused as he got out of the car, trying hard to control his gaze from searching for his sister. He then turned to his teammates and said, "Check if you've left anything behind, especially Yi Shen. Don't let him drop a dagger in the car like before and not notice it."

Dai Yishen quickly reacted and feigned dissatisfaction, saying, "We agreed not to bring up this dark history again. Captain Gu, you're not keeping your word!"

As he spoke, he pulled up his left sleeve to reveal the dagger strapped to his arm, then patted it. "Look, I tied it there on purpose. It won't fall off."

Gu Yuan nodded, "That's good."

Seeing him nod, everyone understood.

After Gu Yuan got off the car, Dai Yishen followed closely behind.

"This place..." Dai Yishen looked around, raised his hand to touch his chin as if thinking, and his index finger passed across his nose calmly.

Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Xiang Haoyu and the others looked at him nervously.

"What's wrong with this place? Have you found anything?" Xiang Haoyu asked in a gentle voice.

"Hmm..." Dai Yishen paused for a moment before affirming, "I was thinking there wasn't a valley around the base. This was formed during the earthquake, and some traces are still fresh."

"I think so." Xiang Haoyu nodded perfunctorily, feeling a little relieved.

Thinking of his plan, he reminded: "There is no time to lose, let's go in and find Xiaoqi."

After making sure that the team members were quietly ready, Gu Yuan nodded anxiously, "Yes, yes, let's go in quickly."

As he said that, he took the lead and walked towards the somewhat narrow entrance.

Liu Yun quickly supported Xiang Haoyu and chased after him, saying, "Let's go ahead. It's very dangerous in here. After all, we've been in there once, so we probably know the safer way."

"That's right. For safety reasons, Brother Yuan, you guys should go behind." Xiang Haoyu also spoke.

Gu Yuan's burning gaze swept across the two men's faces.

Just as Xiang Haoyu couldn't help but worry whether he had noticed something, he heard Gu Yuan's voice of agreement.

While feeling relieved, Xiang Haoyu quietly pinched Liu Yun's hand, suggesting that she remember to act according to the plan.

Gu Qi, who was hiding in front of everyone using the art of stealth, noticed Xiang Haoyu's little movement. His eyes swept over Liu Yun and finally stopped at her other hand which was covered by her sleeve.

There are faint energy fluctuations there.

Not long after they left, something suddenly fell to the ground from Liu Yun's body.

However, Liu Yun didn't seem to notice it at first. She only realized it after she took two steps and heard Zhang Lie's reminder.

"Ayun, your bracelet fell off." Zhang Lie reminded in a hoarse voice.

"Ah?" Liu Yun was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously raised her left wrist and found that it was indeed bald. She quickly looked in the direction Zhang Lie pointed.

There was a thin silver bracelet on the ground.

Liu Yun quickly bent down to pick up the silver bracelet, carefully washed it with her special ability, and put it away properly before standing up.

Liu Yun said to Zhang Lie gratefully, "Thanks to you for noticing it. Otherwise, if I had discovered it myself, it would have been difficult to find such a thin bracelet."

After that, he gave Gu Yuan and the others an apologetic smile and said, "I'm sorry to have delayed everyone. This is the only birthday gift my mother gave me. I was afraid that I would accidentally damage it by washing it too hard, so I only dared to wash it slowly."

Gu Yuan looked at them gravely, and after a while he said calmly, "Keep going, and be careful not to drop anything."

Liu Yun, who was a little nervous, finally felt relieved. She was worried that the other party would notice something, so she didn't dare to look at the floor where the water marks were left when she washed the hand chain.

But even if she had looked, she would not have noticed that the tiny powder mixed with the soil was carried away by an unnoticed "breeze" and fell silently on them.

Gu Qi had no idea what the powder mixed in the water condensed by Liu Yun was, but she knew it couldn't be anything good, otherwise Liu Yun and the others wouldn't have risked being discovered and deliberately walked past before taking action, obviously because they were worried that they would get contaminated.

After giving them a cold look, Gu Qi quietly and quickly advanced into the valley, leaving only a trace of his mental energy to pay attention to the situation here, alerting Haoyu, Liu Yun and others to any other small actions like the one just now.

But in the blink of an eye, Gu Qi passed through the narrow gap and reached the valley.

What comes into view is a pleasing sea of blue flowers. The entire valley is full of short blue wild flowers, and bees are flying among the flowers, diligently collecting nectar.

Whether it is the blue wildflowers or the bees, they are all of their normal size before the apocalypse, and it seems that nothing has changed. This valley gives people a very peaceful and tranquil feeling, as if the apocalypse has not yet come.

It's just as if.

A closer look reveals that this valley was indeed formed not long ago as Dai Yishen said, and the end of the world has only been coming for about two months.

Could ordinary wildflowers cover such a large valley in just two months? And grow so lushly without a single flower withering?

This is obviously unlikely.

Not to mention that Gu Qi also noticed some weak but real energy near the roots of these wild flowers, and the bees too, with similar weak energy fluctuations. Whether it was the wild flowers all over the valley or the bees collecting nectar everywhere, they were clearly mutant creatures.

After looking around for a while, Gu Qi tapped his toes lightly, like a breeze blowing by.

The wild flowers swayed slightly, and the bee was a little dizzy from the wind. After flying around twice and finding nothing unusual, it went back to continue collecting honey.

Gu Qi came to the center of the valley, which was also the center of the sea of flowers.

Compared to the increasingly strong floral fragrance when we first entered the valley, there was no smell here and not a single bee came, even though the wild flowers here seemed to be in full bloom.

The color of the wild flowers in the valley gradually darkens from the outside to the inside, and the sea of flowers presents a gradient color. Before the end of the world, this would definitely become a check-in spot for internet celebrities, a dating spot for couples, etc. However, this is the end of the world, and such a place would only make ordinary people dare not approach.

Gu Qi lowered his eyes and looked at the dark purple wild flowers under his feet, and extended his mental power without hesitation.

"Submit or die?" Gu Qi gave the mutated wild flower two choices.

Feeling the extremely oppressive mental force and the threat next to the crystal core that could strangle her at any time, the fourth-level mutant Wild Flower quickly made a choice.

"Hello, Master! Master, why did you come to see me just now? Master, do you like to drink honey?"

Hearing the mutant wild flower's somewhat servile answer, Gu Qi's mouth twitched slightly: "..."

I didn't expect that this fourth-level mutant wild flower would be so... well, so unique. It's not at all like the warlike most mutant creatures in the apocalypse.

Regardless of whether they can win or not, they will fight first when threatened. This is the case for most mutant creatures. They will not willingly surrender to humans. This is a well-known fact in the previous life and has been studied by many researchers.

People initially thought about whether they could tame mutated creatures for their own use. However, the fact is that even pets that were very close to each other before the apocalypse have a high probability of devouring their owners after mutation, not to mention other mutated creatures.

The main reason is that apart from those with corresponding superpowers, no one else has a way to control the mutated creatures.

Of course, this is not a problem for Gu Qi.

Quickly imprint a mental mark on the crystal core of the mutant wild flower. This way, it doesn't matter whether the mutant wild flower is pretending to submit or really submitting. Once it is branded, it will never be able to disobey Gu Qi's request unless it becomes stronger than Gu Qi.

If there were a market for Beast Taming Spirit Ropes in the apocalypse, wouldn't it? Gu Qi stroked her chin. Unfortunately, she hadn't yet encountered the materials needed to refine Beast Taming Spirit Ropes, nor did she have any substitutes.

After being mentally branded, the mutant wild flower felt that it could not resist this suddenly appearing human, so it silently suppressed the little thoughts it had hidden.

After a moment of silence, the mutant wild flower gently tugged at Gu Qi's trouser leg and asked, "Master, someone is about to enter the valley. Do you want Lan Lan to help you catch them?"

The words expressed by the mutant wild flower Lanlan came into Gu Qi's mind as a light and ethereal voice that was difficult to distinguish between male and female. The ending tone was slightly rising, and there was a hint of flattery.

"Need not."

"Can you sense anything unusual about them?"

Lan Lan carefully explored the roots, and after a moment, she replied with some surprise: "A few of them smell like my younger brother. They seem a little familiar."

After a pause of one second, Lan Lan angrily said, "It's the humans who killed many of my brothers last time. Damn it, I'm going to stab them to death!"

As it said this, it wanted to wave its roots and call on its brothers to stab those guys to death together.

"Wait a minute." Gu Qi stopped it, "Wait for them to come in first. Didn't you notice that those people weren't mesmerized by your floral scent?"

"Eh, it seems so. How did they do it? Not a single one of them was fooled." Lan Lan was puzzled, then changed the subject and said, "As expected of the master, you discovered the secret of the flower fragrance so quickly. You are amazing."

Gu Qi: “…”

"Try to see if you can absorb this and level up."

Gu Qi took out a small piece of spiritual chalcedony and handed it to the mutant wild flower. Unlike the previous ones, the color of this spiritual chalcedony was more mellow and it felt slightly warm, unlike the previous ones that were slightly cold.

This was something she had buried in the pure land of the cave for a while as an experiment. After Jiu Cang reminded her, this small piece had been purified and no longer had that violent energy.

"Wow! It smells so good and looks so delicious, and it's even prettier than those stinky monsters!" Lan Lan carefully took the spiritual jade marrow, and then exclaimed again, "Master is so amazing, he actually has such a good thing, so much comfortable energy."

However, it did not immediately absorb the energy of the spiritual jade. Instead, it asked uncertainly: "Master, are you really going to give this to me? This thing should be very useful to you, Master. Lanlan, don't be in a hurry. Why don't you keep it for yourself?"

Gu Qi: "I'm anxious."

The mutant wild flower is not far from breaking through to level five. It is definitely enough to absorb this small piece of spiritual jade marrow. Level four to level five is a watershed. Once the mutant wild flower reaches level five, its strength will be qualitatively improved.

The most crucial thing is that the fourth-level mutant wild flowers are still unable to completely confuse Xiang Haoyu, Liu Yun and others. Only the fifth-level ones can do that.

Plus, her mental strength is enough to create an illusion for them... Gu Qi's lips curled slightly, thinking that she should be able to see a satisfactory show, right?

Gu Qi felt that it was a waste of time and energy to let her slowly weaken the obstacles and then take revenge.

Thinking of some speculations, Gu Qi's eyes darkened slightly. She thought that she couldn't directly cause serious injuries to Xiang Haoyu. What about Liu Yun, who was Xiang Haoyu's "official match"?