Looking down from a high place, a city with densely packed and uneven buildings is surrounded by continuous mountains - Shanhai City.
The late spring chill in March made his cheeks hurt. Shen Lanzhou squinted his eyes and buried his face in Lily's arms, using the little guy who had been lazy all the way as a mount to block the wind.
Lily's face was blown red, and she said coquettishly: "It's so cold, sister~"
"Isn't it good to be cold? Don't you like cold the most?" Shen Lanzhou was unmoved.
Along the way, she has become immune to the affectation of a certain fake loli who is good at disguising herself.
"Although [we] like cold environments very much, [Lily] will be frozen to death." Lily stretched out her cold hand and reached into Shen Lanzhou's neck, trying to see the other party's ugly appearance of shivering and screaming.
“…”
Shen Lanzhou stared at her expressionlessly, saying nothing more.
Lily withdrew her hand angrily.
After the red light doomsday breaks out, the global climate no longer follows the cycle of the four seasons. It may be sunny a few days ago, but when you wake up the next day, it will be snowing heavily.
Winter can linger in a region for as long as a decade, turning a tropical island where people once wore short sleeves into a land of snow.
The scorching summer may stay in the polar regions forever, melting the ice and snow and scorching the earth until it cracks. The sea level will rise and even huge waves will be set off to submerge coastal cities.
In short, after the apocalypse, everything is possible.
It is cold in Shanhai City in March, which is normal cold.
His soul had long been accustomed to the capricious climate of the apocalyptic era. Shen Lanzhou tugged at the worn-out backpack behind him and began to head towards the city at the foot of the mountain.
Countless towering trees broke through the road surface, swallowing up the asphalt road that was winding around the mountains and forests like a long snake.
The way down the mountain is not safe. Snakes, insects, rats and ants hidden among the dense branches and dead leaves, jackals, tigers and leopards groping towards them following the scent of humans, and even seemingly harmless trees are all sources of danger.
A seemingly harmless willow tree suddenly burst out with branches, and the soft twigs broke through the air with a sharp hissing sound.
"Alas!"
Lily was thrown out of the willow tree's attack range and dangled from the top of a tall pine or cypress tree. It was hard not to think that this was revenge for the little guy's previous prank.
Shen Lanzhou cut off the willow branch with a knife, and before his head and face were sprayed with scarlet sap, he turned into a ball of shadow tentacles and strangled the roots of the willow tree.
Sensing the danger to its life, the willow tree's thousands of branches moved with the wind, breaking the air and pulling towards the shadow.
But Shen Lanzhou had already sneaked into the shadow world at this moment. The willow branch hit the air, and the shadow blade connected with scales slid across the roots of the willow tree like a hot knife cutting butter, silkily.
The trunk fell, revealing a smooth cross-section.
The scarlet sap gushed out like an orange cut by a live-streamer, and at the same time, the tentacles that were waving like a tentacle monster suddenly lost their strength and drooped down.
Whomping Willow
A carnivorous mutant plant. Upon finding prey, it whips it with countless barbed willow branches, draining its essence and blood. Prey typically doesn't die immediately, but is whipped for a long time, reduced to rotten flesh that loses even a single drop of juice, before dying in excruciating pain. It's a truly vile monster.
It is worth mentioning that the rhizome of the whomping willow can be dried and ground into powder and used as a high-quality trauma medicine.
Chen Lanzhou dug up the soil and found a scarlet fist-sized crystal core in the center of the plant's rhizome. He took the crystal core and the best rhizome in the center and put them in his backpack, then looked up at the shadow on one side.
"Would you like to come out on your own, or should I invite you out?"
"roar……"
With the dull roar of a beast, a burly figure emerged from the shadows.
It was a brown bear that stood upright, three meters tall, blocking the sunlight and standing in front of Shen Lanzhou like a small mountain.
The beast lowered its head, its furry face covered in scars. Its long snout, studded with sharp fangs, moved, and a hoarse, deep female voice emanated from it: "We mean no harm. We were simply passing by and happened to see you hunting."
Behind her, the white wolf, also walking upright in a windbreaker and shorts, stared warily at Shen Lanzhou, who had just finished a hunt but whose clothes were not even dirty.
Three months into the apocalypse, White Wolf, who had extensive combat experience, had seen many monsters that pretended to be pigs but were the real tigers.
What's more, the girl in front of him only looks innocent and harmless, but in fact she is able to hunt down the dangerous D-rank monster [Whomping Willow] alone.
"Good afternoon, Ms. Brown Bear and Mr. White Wolf."
Despite the murderous intent still lingering within him, Shen Lanzhou displayed the demeanor of a well-educated and polite child. "My name is Shen Lanzhou. I'm heading to the Shanhai City base with my sister. I'm not familiar with the route, so could you two come with me?"
She stepped aside, revealing the roots of the Whomping Willow behind her. "As payment, these are yours."
"You don't seem surprised by our appearance? Outsiders." Miss Brown Bear's semicircular furry ears on her head moved, and she looked deeply at the person in front of her.
Shen Lanzhou tilted her neck, revealing her tightly packed black scales: "We are the same, sister."
Seeing the scales growing on Shen Lanzhou's neck, Miss Brown Bear's expression relaxed and she let down her guard a little.
"My name is Helan, and he is my younger brother Hebei."
The white wolf's mouth moved, and a cold male voice uttered from its mouth, coolly greeting: "Hello."
Shen Lanzhou raised his hand and plucked a little creature dangling from the southeastern branch and held it in his arms: "She is Lily, my sister."
Encrypted call [Don't parasitize them. 】
Lily, who was envious of the two strong Fury bodies, was unhappy and asked aggrievedly, "Why?"
Shen Lanzhou pinched the little guy's face nonchalantly. "Killing anyone you see will turn you into a completely irrational monster. Don't you remember my warning to you?"
Lily: [But they are not human, sister.]
【To have a human heart is to be a human being. 】
「Hmm…Okay…」
The little fellow smiled sweetly and said to the bear and wolf siblings, "Hello, sister! Hello, brother!"
Miss Helan, the brown bear with her hair standing on end, stared at Lily with a little caution. Her beast instinct told her that the human cub in Shen Lanzhou's arms was very dangerous.
Although they appear harmless, none of those who have survived the past three months of the apocalypse are any good.
The broad bear paw easily pulled out the willow roots weighing three or four hundred pounds from the ground, and with a light shake, it shook off the mud stuck on them.
Helan threw the tree root in his hand to the white wolf Hebei to keep.
The tall and majestic Miss Brown Bear's hoarse and deep voice carried a strange magnetism:
"Thank you for your generosity. Our guidance is not enough to justify such a generous reward. In return, you can pay us a certain amount of commission based on our guidance after we return to the mountain."
"Need not."
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