Chapter 269: Lost Direction
The cold wind howled outside the wooden house all night, and the heavy snow froze the wooden door.
The next day, when Xu Yang wanted to open the door again, he could no longer push it. It was only when Zhuang Moxing used his fire power to melt the nearly two-meter-high snow outside that he was able to go out.
"Shuyao, don't go so far. If you go too far, no one will be able to hear anything that happens!" Xu Wei's slightly panting voice came from behind, and Xu Shuyao finally stopped.
"It's not far. If you need anything, just shout loudly so Sister Yu and the others can hear you. Xia Huai needs to rest. Since we have a day to rest, let's make good use of it. We will definitely be able to find our way again."
As she spoke, she looked excitedly toward the black forest on her right. "And aren't you curious, Weiwei? All our equipment is insensitive and we've lost our bearings. And there just so happen to be these strange black trees in the woods near the cabin. Maybe there's a connection!"
Xu Wei rubbed her frozen hands vigorously while paying attention to her surroundings. When they hurriedly hid in the wooden house on the shady slope of the mountain last night, they did not notice that the road they came from was broken by the earthquake.
It was not until the morning when they pushed open the door blocked by more than a meter of snow and climbed out that they suddenly realized that their retreat was blocked.
They now have to find another way. The terrain here is completely different from the one on the map. They have to grope for direction again, otherwise they will never reach City B.
So the Spark Team left Xia Huai aside and split into several groups, each group exploring in one direction. She and Xu Shuyao were assigned to the path that was closest to the wooden house and also seemed to be the safest.
But they didn't expect that if they continued walking in this direction and turned a corner in the mountain stream, they would find themselves in a dark forest filled with strange black plants that the two of them could not recognize.
The most eye-catching thing among them is the black tree with lush branches and leaves. The trunk of the tree looks almost like charcoal, as if it had been burned by fire.
But its height is not very high, only about two meters, with extremely lush branches and leaves, and a round and large crown, which catches most of the snow falling from the sky, so that only a thin layer of white accumulates in the forest, which is very different from the nearly two-meter-high snow outside.
This strange scene attracted the curious Xu Shuyao so much that she couldn't help but explore inside, but the cautious Xu Wei felt inexplicably nervous.
Under Xu Wei's advice, Xu Shuyao agreed to only explore the edge of the black forest and not go deeper, and then go back to discuss with everyone before taking action together.
However, just as they walked around the edge of the dark forest for a few minutes, several eyes in the forest quietly stared at them.
Xu Shuyao took the map in her hand and repeatedly compared the details of the black forest. After careful investigation, she felt that the geographical location of this black forest was somewhat similar to a place on the map.
There is a national forest reserve in the northern part of the suburbs of City A marked in the picture. Many of the vegetation inside are rare species. The plants in the black forest in front of you are very novel.
Could this be the protected area on the map?
If so, they have found their direction again, and they only need to go through this forest and walk a few hundred kilometers to reach City B. They are about to reach their destination!
"Hey, Xu Wei, does this strange black forest look like the protected area marked on the map?"
Xu Wei took the map from her and looked at it carefully. She was indeed a little confused. There was indeed a landform similar to the mountain stream they had just passed by on the edge of the protected area in the map, but there was no continuous mountain range near the wooden house.
"Let's go back and show Sister Yu first. They do look a bit like each other."
"Great! We found the way!"
Just when the two were overjoyed and wanted to run back to find Liu Yu, a sound suddenly came from the dense black forest behind them. It was not the voice of an animal, but a human voice!
Xu Shuyao and the other person stopped in their tracks.
In this situation, meeting a person is no safer than meeting a wild beast.
Thinking of their previous encounters with people, Xu Shuyao and Xu Wei immediately grabbed the big knives at their waists, leaned sideways and leaned behind a thick black tree, and cautiously peeked into the forest.
The morning sunlight was mostly blocked by the dense branches and leaves of the dark forest, but the place where Xu Shuyao and the other person were standing was very bright, with a sense of "darkness under the light".
With the help of some light reflected from the snow, Xu Shuyao and Xu Wei stared at the depths of the dark forest with their hearts pounding, and unexpectedly saw a woman staggering out of it.
The woman was limping, wrapped only in a tattered down jacket, and her bare feet were blue and frozen.
She was walking barefoot in the snow, her long black hair stuck to her cheeks and neck. Her black down jacket only covered the part above her thighs, while the rest of her body was exposed and covered with bruises. She looked extremely miserable.
Xu Wei and Xu Shuyao were shocked, and could not imagine how this woman survived in such extreme weather.
But neither of them said anything, and Xu Shuyao even condensed supernatural energy in her hands, ready to attack at any time.
In the end times, everyone is extremely wary of strangers, and they have seen many vicious people along the way.
Xu Shuyao and Xu Wei are instinctively wary of this apocalypse, and subconsciously find it difficult to trust anyone except their teammates.
So even though the woman who was walking towards them in a panic looked very pitiful and seemed like she would fall down at any moment, they did not dare to take it lightly.
The woman approached Xu Shuyao and the other person step by step, her pale face filled with endless longing: "Save me, save me..."
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