From the black crew cut to the short hair that reached the shoulders, the black hair on the mountaintop gradually lengthened, and when it became a long black hair falling towards them, the team leader's face turned black.
"Get out of the way." Seeing the black creature rushing towards them, the others immediately jumped to both sides without the team leader shouting.
Soon, a sand pit appeared where they were originally. The sand became finer and softer, like sea sand. But it made everyone feel panic.
"Captain, my shoes are broken."
"Mine too."
"Mine too."
Everyone shouted.
The blackness slowly dissipated from the ground, like a thick fog slowly dissipating and evaporating, leaving behind a vast expanse of yellow sand beneath their feet.
“It’s oil.”
A professor looked at the shoes under his feet and knocked the sand off the shoes. Like everyone else, his insoles were gone, and he was left standing there with only a pair of insoles.
Most of the people around had their entire shoes gone, and some only had two shoelaces on their feet.
"What does this have to do with oil?" Han Xiaoxiao looked at his bare feet curiously. He felt a strange feeling when stepping on the sand.
"Petroleum is extremely important. It's not just used in cars as you know it, but also in all sorts of chemical products. Just like the shoes you wear, the raw materials are related to petroleum." The professor who mentioned petroleum sighed. "I'm so lucky to encounter such an amazing creature in my lifetime."
The young professor was completely different from the subordinate next to him. With a thick head of black hair, his age suddenly dropped by more than ten years.
"Is there no one living here?" Han Xiaoxiao looked at the surrounding area curiously. Those rooms covered with plants must be uninhabitable.
Duomu shook his head. "This place has been deserted since the beginning. When the accident happened, the town was celebrating a festival, and people from other places just happened to come here. That day, almost everyone in the town turned into zombies. Even those who were not in trouble could not leave here."
"How do you know so clearly?"
Han Xiaoxiao asked him curiously, and Xu Xuening also turned to look at Duomu. The young man had an optimistic look on his face, as if he had endless happiness.
"I, at that time, was escorted out by my entire family of 30 people. I was the only living person in Sanshuifu Town."
As he narrated calmly, those living beings seemed to be following him, silently guarding the only survivor.
The atmosphere fell silent for a moment.
The tall captain looked around coldly, "The tent is still there, and the iron hasn't been corroded. However, the tent base is gone."
"It's okay. I have a lot of pure cotton sheets and quilts. It should be no problem to put them underneath."
"It gets dark early here. Professors and experimenters, please hurry up and everyone else assist them. Meeting dismissed."
The captain shouted "Sub-zero" and everyone else started moving.
Xu Xuening brought a few people with her and began to take things out of her space. She felt distressed for a long time before she took out anything.
She had collected these things along the way.
"Do you think there is really no one here?" Looking at Duomu's back as he left, Xu Xuening looked towards the tall man.
The tall captain standing next to them had an expression as unchanged as a straight poplar tree. He watched everyone's actions seriously, as if he didn't hear what Xu Xuening, who was standing next to him, had just said.
Just as Xu Xuening turned to leave, she heard a voice behind her say, "It doesn't matter whether there are people here or not. The key is whether there is a threat to us."
"Hmm?" Xu Xuening was stunned for a moment, then thought about what he said and nodded in agreement, "You're right."
She looked at the fine sand before her. The large rock she had just seen was already turning into sand. Soon, this one-cubic-meter rock might disappear. If desertification were to become so severe, would there still be room for human survival?
She looked around. The vegetation that had nearly killed them suddenly gave her a sense of hope. Perhaps, environmental improvements could really depend on them.
However, when she thought of those prickly leaves, she felt like she should be wrapped in a layer of iron armor.
It hurts so much to be pricked by those leaves.
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