148 Chapter 148

Chapter 148

With the official leadership, some of the people who followed the official footsteps down the mountain responded.

The rest are still waiting and watching.

Going out to harvest food in the secret realm is definitely dangerous, but they don’t know the extent of the danger yet, so they need to wait and see.

As for those who responded immediately, they were relatives or had some connections with those people with special abilities. The people with special abilities put some attention on themselves, so they could be sure that at the critical moment, they had a great chance of being rescued.

It is not surprising that they would respond after confirming that their safety is guaranteed to a certain extent. The remaining small group simply wants to take risks.

There are no special people in their family, and they are all ordinary people. It is already difficult for them to maintain their lives in the base. The reason they can come to the new base at the foot of the mountain this time is because they built an underground passage all the way here and never went back, so they had this opportunity.

Now that there are ordinary people to go with them, it’s time for those with special abilities to get busy.

Before bringing ordinary people into the secret realm, they will clean up the area designated for harvest to make sure that there are no mutant animals or plants with attack power that can threaten ordinary people, and only then will they bring ordinary people in.

"We've finished the inspection. Wait for the deputy captain and his men to come in. They'll take care of the ordinary people while we go find the resources."

Tang Ji threw the last mutant animal in his hand, which seemed to have some attack power but was obviously no match for him, two miles away.

This mutant animal has a relatively mild temperament and likes to eat plants, but if it gets angry with people, it will not be afraid to eat humans.

There were so many of them and the secret realm was open for a limited time, so Tang Ji was too lazy to kill them one by one and simply drove them all away.

"Okay, just watch it and throw it far away, otherwise if you run back and cause trouble for the deputy captain and the others, they'll probably give you trouble when they get back."

Zhuang Dun pulled up a ferocious mutant plant by its roots, and then stuffed it into the space.

These mutated plants were originally plants, and after the mutation, some of them have better medicinal effects. This is also the kind that he put in the group bar space.

Since it's all cleaning, it doesn't matter where he puts it after cleaning.

"I know."

After hearing what Zhuang Dun said, Tang Ji quickly threw the other one farther.

"Let's go, let's go about our business. Someone's coming in over there."

Captain Dai saw that Tang Ji and the others had almost finished packing, and just then he received a message from the deputy captain, so he walked over and took Tang Ji and the others away.

"You can only move within the area marked by our green flags. If you accidentally stray outside, don't go beyond the yellow flags. If you go there, you may lose your life."

The deputy captain looked at the group of ordinary people in front of him and repeated what he had said many times on the road before.

Since it was a matter of life and death, the others were not impatient at all and were listening attentively.

Before entering the secret realm, they were afraid that these ordinary people would be sent into a mess by the secret realm gate when they entered for the first time, so they specially found Ying Huai and asked their godmother to find a way to bring them in together.

Otherwise, given the nature of some secret realms that like to throw people around, ordinary people would probably die as soon as they entered.

"Alright, you guys just be careful later on. Find the area you've been assigned and start harvesting."

The deputy captain was sure that he had given enough reminders, and now it all depended on how these people would carry out the instructions.

These ordinary people were entering the secret realm for the first time. When they first came in, they were amazed at everything they saw. They were pulled away to remind them of safety issues and didn't have time to finish looking around. Now they were looking for their own plots of land, which meant they had seen enough.

Speaking of the scenery in this secret realm, it is definitely superb. It is even better than some of the top scenic spots before the changes in heaven and earth.

There are similar landscapes, but they lack the spiritual energy of the secret realm.

"The spiritual energy in this secret realm must be very abundant. I feel my body is more comfortable."

When looking for their own plot, some plots that are close to each other will get together to talk.

"Well, our physical fitness was forcibly improved after the mutation, so we should have a certain degree of adaptation to spiritual energy. It is normal to feel comfortable when we encounter a place with abundant spiritual energy."

The other person wasn't too surprised.

They are just ordinary people who cannot use spiritual energy or abilities, but they have no problem with their brains and have paid special attention to everything they need to know on the Internet.

"No wonder we have to come in specifically to harvest."

After working hard at harvesting for a while, a man stood up and slowly tightened his waist, which was beginning to ache. He looked at the large area of unharvested grain around him and sighed.

The people with special abilities who entered the secret realm to sow seeds were in a hurry before, and there were so many mutant animals living in it, so although these crops grew in a large area, they were sparse when you looked closely, and people could not bring in equipment to harvest them on a large scale.

"Yes, if specialized machines were brought in, not to mention the noise, the terrain within this secret realm wouldn't allow them to be used."

The other man tied up the full bag of grain in his hand and took the time to reply to the person who was speaking on another plot in front.

"It's a good thing we still have time to make a move, otherwise we wouldn't know where to find a job that can directly earn us a living."

Although no one in the base will starve to death due to state control, a considerable number of people are still in poor condition.

Either there are few people in the family who can earn food, or for various reasons, they are unable to directly put in the effort to earn the hard labor money.

Of course, the most important point is that apart from the fixed monthly food supply in the base, it is extremely difficult to buy food at other times. Not to mention the high price, the state is in charge, so the price can't be much higher.

The most frustrating thing is that there is not enough food and you can’t buy it. If you don’t have any connections or are not well-informed, it will be difficult or impossible to buy food in the base.

In this context, it is no wonder that they came without hesitation when they heard that they could enter the secret realm to collect food, and that they could take some of the food home.

The deputy captain and his men watched the people brought in harvest food in this secret territory, and were on guard against attacks from mutated animals and plants that might appear in the secret territory at any time.

As for Captain Dai and his team, they have now reached the border area that they explored last time.

When they first came in, they could only roughly explore the specific size and scope of the secret realm, as well as the strength of the monsters and mutated plants and animals in the secret realm, plus whether those cultivators appeared in this secret realm.

After confirming those, they entered the secret realm and focused their main attention on collecting resources.

Collecting resources is a meticulous job. Even though they come in to collect every time the secret realm opens, the overall speed is still slow due to the large area and abundant available resources.

Fortunately, the harvest was very good.

As long as they take Zhuang Dun into the secret realm, the harvest from the secret realm will be enough for the people with special abilities in their base to use for a period of time.

Therefore, every time I enter the secret realm and rush back and forth, it is worth it.

After Captain Dai and his team had collected almost all the resources, they simply calculated the time it would take to enter the secret realm. After confirming that the secret realm was about to close, they began to retreat towards the exit of the secret realm with their teammates.

When they were heading towards the exit of the secret realm, the deputy captain and his men had already gone in and out of the secret realm many times with the people who had entered the secret realm to harvest.

"You're finally back. The researchers and observers outside have calculated that the secret realm will be closed earlier this time. We need to get out early so we don't get stuck."

When the deputy captain was speaking to Captain Dai and the others, his eyes never left the people he was supposed to protect.

Although they protected us when we entered the secret realm this time, some people were still injured.

There are so many mutated animals and plants in the secret realm. Even if they have cleared them out, some mutated animals and plants that are weaker than those they have cleared out are still missed, and then affect the people who come to harvest them.

Fortunately, the people who were attacked were living next to each other. They formed their own defense in the first time and launched a counterattack against the mutant animals, so that they could hold on until someone with special abilities came to rescue them.

The end of the incident was that part of the mutant animal that attacked the people could be used as medicine, which was recovered by the base, and a considerable amount of money was given to the people who were attacked and fought back at the time to buy it.

The direct consequence of this is that there are more people in the base who are willing to enter the secret realm.

Of course, there are also more ordinary people practicing their fighting skills.

It is uncertain what kind of dangers may arise after entering the secret realm. Since they have decided to enter the secret realm to gain additional protection for themselves and their families, how to ensure that they can return home alive becomes the first thing they need to consider.

As the first batch of secret grain was stored in the warehouse, except for a portion of grain seeds specially reserved by the Agricultural Research Institute, the rest were ordered by the top leaders of the base to flow into the market in batches, so that other people in the base could also taste the new secret grain.

There are many people in the base, but the amount of food that can be provided to each person is actually not much. However, that little bit of food still provides some comfort to the people in the base who can only live in that small cave in the high temperature environment.

In such a high temperature environment, when only one in ten plants outside survives, they can still eat the new food of the year. How can this not be an affirmation of the future?

"This year's new grain seems to taste better than the mutant grain distributed previously?"

Looking down at the thin rice porridge in his bowl, Village Chief Wu spoke with a hint of doubt.

"Well, not only does it taste better, but the spiritual energy inside is also stronger than what we grow ourselves."

In response to Village Chief Wu’s doubts, Grandma Shitou, who was sitting next to him, gave a positive answer.

Grandma Shitou has her own abilities, especially in the field of plants, so her perception is naturally more acute than that of Village Chief Wu and the others.

"Then won't we have to sow our seeds into that secret realm every time we grow crops in the future?"

Looking down at the porridge in his bowl, Village Chief Wu raised his head to see the covered entrance to the cave above his head.

The temperature outside is so high that it would be like being put in an oven, so their current range of activities is forced to be limited to the cave.

The underground cave they dug is relatively large, after all, they have to accommodate so many people. For this reason, their house has more air vents than other houses.

"We definitely have to plant over there. It's so hot outside, we can't possibly go out and plant in the fields at night, right? Not to mention the germination rate, we don't even know if the seeds will be sunburned to death."

Boss Wu gulped down the porridge in his bowl, said this, and prepared to lie down.

Although their Daxi Village was slightly better off than other places because they had their godmother to take care of them, Ali and the others would occasionally get some food from the secret place in the mountains behind them.

But the reality is that they are unable to plant crops on the land outside themselves and have temporarily lost a sense of control over their future.

Not only the elderly, but even the younger generation who had not suffered much before the changes in the world are living frugally, for fear that one day they will really starve when they really have no source of food.

Now they stayed in the cave all day and didn't do much activity, so they decided together to eat less and save some food for emergencies.

As for today's new grain, if Mayor Xiao hadn't specially asked someone with special abilities to deliver it so that the villagers could taste it, they would have been reluctant to eat such good food that could still be stored so quickly.

"Hey, even though we still have some mutant plants left in the village, it's because our godmother is here to protect them and help lower the temperature. Otherwise, those mutant plants would have disappeared by now."

Village Chief Wu wanted to sigh when he talked about those plants.

Although the grain seeds they are planting now are modified mutants, the improvement is limited. They can only be arranged to weaken and reduce their attack power to facilitate farmers' sowing and harvesting. When faced with such severe weather, they do not have such strong drought resistance.

It is worth mentioning that the temperature on the mountain now is the temperature after the godmother has blocked it with a layer of spiritual protection shield.

Even so, it was still so hot in their mountains that they couldn't grow crops in the fields.

"Get another ice cube out of the freezer. It's too hot."

Wu Laosan looked at the ice cubes that were almost melted in the basin, said this, and then stood up to get them himself.

"Take it easy, the water in the freezer probably isn't frozen solid yet."

Boss Wu was lying there with a fan blowing next to him. After seeing what Boss Wu was doing, he quickly spoke up to stop him.

They have a lot of frozen food stored in their refrigerators and freezers, so the appliances cannot be turned off. Therefore, when there is a power shortage in the mountains, they won’t even turn on the air conditioner. At most, they will get some ice cubes to cool down.

Right now, the power generation equipment that Mayor Xiao had installed has been broken for some time, so the family relies on the power in the battery to keep the freezer and refrigerator running, so they dare not consume electricity at will.

It was so hot in Village Chief Wu's house that they were even thinking about how and when to take the ice cubes out of the freezer. However, Tang Rufeng's family was much more harmonious.

Although they were still staying in the same cave, the cave in Tang Rufeng's house was much cooler than those in other houses.

The main reason is that there are so many ghosts hanging around in the cave in Tang Rufeng's house because of him. If it is not cool, it would be a shame for Captain Qingzhi and the others to work so hard to emit ghost energy.

"When will this awful weather pass?"

Feeling that the temperature had been weakened by his godmother and was only transmitted to the cave after being separated by a layer of ground, Tangtang complained sweatily.

"I'll eat another mushroom and get some ice for the house."

Listening to Tang Tang's words, the senior student looked at the other people around her, reached out and touched her son's forehead which was also sweaty after he fell asleep, and made a suggestion.

"No, Senior, we can still hold on for a while. Move the ice over to the kids. We don't have many ice mushrooms left now. If we don't use them sparingly, what if it's still this hot later and we don't have enough?"

The weather is hot and dry now, and even the mushrooms in the caves don’t grow much. If it continues like this, the senior sister’s ability will definitely be greatly limited. What if she encounters danger?

Thinking of this, Tang Tang became more excited to stop him.

Others also took this into consideration and tried to dissuade him.

Seeing that everyone else had the same attitude, the senior student also knew the seriousness of the matter and gave up.

At least the temperature is bearable now.

The weather outside is hot, but it's okay as they are not exposed to the sun directly. They have enough water and food, so they can stay in the cave for a while without going out.

But everyone knows that this is not a long-term solution.

"Among the secret realms that have just been opened and closed this round, which ones have cultivators appearing in them?"

The leaders of the central base looked at the data that had been uploaded to them, as well as the resource statistics they brought back from this mission, and couldn't help but think of the worry that was giving them a headache.

"Leader, it's marked on the back pages."

After hearing what the leader said, the person reporting gave the answer without thinking.

What the leaders are concerned about is also the key work of those under them. How could they not check it carefully?

Ever since those people with special abilities discovered that there were cultivators in those secret realms, they simply gave up on bringing food from the people there.

The food in those secret realms this time was harvested by people with special abilities while they were collecting resources.

There weren't many, and a lot of food was left behind. Thinking about the current situation of the residents in the base outside, no one would not feel sad. But what can we do? We can't sacrifice our lives for those foods.

They're not there yet.

"Well, if you weren't discovered by those people when you went in, just follow them out."

The leader took a close look at the person who reported and said he understood.

Ever since they learned that powerful cultivators with unknown abilities would appear in those secret realms, they have been trying to find ways to prevent those cultivators from coming out of the gate of their world.

For now, their flower-growing family has done a good job of blocking them, and there has been no news of any cultivator coming out of their secret realm.

Later, after they planted the branches of their godmother at the entrance to the secret realm, they no longer had to worry about those monks leaving the secret realm without them noticing.

"Leader, we have collected some information from outside and suspect it is related to the monks in the secret realm."

Since the leader has talked about this, the information department attending the meeting reported and spoke directly after the leader finished speaking.

"Hmm? What's going on?"

Earlier, it was said that the monks had not come out of the secret realm, and later someone said that traces of the monks were found during information collection, which made the leader have a bad feeling.

"Report to the leader, this is the information we compiled here. This information is not compiled from our domestic database, but compiled and analyzed from the external network."

Seeing that the leader seemed to have some misunderstanding, the information department that had just reported hurriedly signaled the assistant they brought with them to distribute the information to the leader and others.

Although many places abroad have been torn apart by internal strife, they still have a technological foundation. When those people have recovered a little, the first thing they do is to restore the network in their location, and then search for their location and what to do next on the Internet.

Their own technological strength is quite good, which allows them to find usable technological resources in the constant reconstruction and destruction.

Previously, the Information Department of China used the sporadic information from abroad to judge the situation there, establish certain contact with them, and remind them.

But now looking at the results of the analysis, it seems that those people did not take their warnings seriously and even provoked a powerful enemy back to Blue Star.

"Looking at the information and the accounts of those who were attacked, that person wasn't a good person."

At least, for now, the people with special abilities in their country have not encountered any cultivators in the secret realm who would suck blood and cultivation to strengthen their own strength.

"Yes. This file also contains several photos taken by others using telephoto equipment. The people at the center can't see them clearly, but what they did is clearly visible."

The corpses scattered all over the ground could only be compared with the bodies they had collected from the earthquake-stricken area after the earthquake.

Just looking at this information and what the person in it did was enough to make them feel creepy and send chills down their spines in this hot weather.

It can be said that those foreign countries have provoked an evil cultivator who is stereotyped by the flower-growing people.

He has no humanity and regards human life as worthless. He massacres cities and refines souls in order to improve his own strength.

"Can we now locate that person's current location?"

After reading the information in his hand, the leader pondered for a while and asked about the whereabouts of the evil cultivator.

"We can't be sure. We've searched the internet carefully, and the last place the evil cultivator appeared was a small country across the strait. Now that small country is almost dead, and the evil cultivator has disappeared."

In response to the leader's inquiries, the Information Department checked on themselves and others and revealed everything they knew.

"There's no other way. Let's go find our godmother and ask her how to deal with it."

After listening to this, the leader thought about his country's current talent pool and the combat power of those people with special abilities, and found that they seemed no match for that evil cultivator.

No matter what external means that evil cultivator uses, the ultimate effect he will achieve is to leave foreign bases littered with corpses, with few survivors left. What's the difference between this and destroying a country?

The evil cultivator can cause such great damage, and the attack methods he possesses are amazing. The people with special abilities in the Flower-Growing Family are not yet at this level.

If we really come face to face with it, we won't be able to resist much.

That's why the leader would simply ask Ying Huai to find a solution, or in other words, help! Protection!

"good!"

With the direction, the information department responded quickly.

And what about the current situation of the evil cultivators that were specifically discussed at the meeting by the upper echelons of the Flower Country?

That person is now hiding in a mountain abroad.

The temperature on Blue Star is now unbearable even for the evil cultivators who have increased their strength through practicing evil methods.

He could use array plates, magic energy and other methods to lower the temperature around him, but this was not a solution. The spiritual energy on Blue Star was not as much as in the world of immortal cultivation. Even though he was busy absorbing and transforming it, it was still not enough to catch up with the magic energy that he could use to cool himself down in a day.

The reason why he went to massacre the city was because he didn't want to practice hard to transform his spiritual energy. He was not impatient to practice hard to enrich his dantian and improve his strength by directly massacring the city.

However, after he massacred the city several times, he found that although the laws of nature in this world did not care about him for some reason, they did affect the environment around him in some way.

Even though he was staying in a cave in the mountains, he still felt hotter than other places.

If he didn't know what place he had chosen, he would have thought he was hiding in volcanic lava.