As the sun set, "Nian" finally fell from the sky.
Looking at the "quicksand" that had followed him for the entire day, the captain felt a little guilty.
How can you fly up there and let your teammates follow you down there?
But there is nothing that can be done about it. My own abilities are limited, and I cannot treat living things as arbitrarily as I would treat objects.
The combination of these two reasons resulted in them not being able to advance very far today.
"Captain, you should have a good rest. I can keep watch alone."
"That's not necessary. We didn't go far today. I can watch over you for half the night. You can choose the first or second half."
Upon hearing this, "Liusha" did not hesitate to be polite with his captain. He thought for a moment and said:
"I'm really a little tired. Traveling every day and opening up a safe zone has consumed a lot of my abilities and physical strength."
"Okay, then I'll be on duty for the first half of the night, and I'll call you then."
The two completed the division of labor and gathered together again to begin studying the flint.
With the help of the object control ability of "mind", the two quickly started a fire.
After eating the warm nutritional paste, "Nian" began to keep vigil.
This was his first time keeping watch in the first half of the night, and it felt a bit novel.
He wasted time watching the moon rise slowly from the horizon.
Using his ability to pull out some of the dry and yellow grass around him, "Nian" finally waited until the midnight shift change.
After confirming that the "quicksand" was in correct condition and that he was awake enough, he finally crawled into his sleeping bag with satisfaction.
The moment he closed his eyes and turned sideways, he instinctively felt the touch of something hard on his chest.
Reluctantly taking out the notebook, Nian was slightly stunned, as if he sensed some discord around him.
But a strong sense of sleepiness had already come over him like a tide, and his thinking speed kept decreasing, finally solidifying at one point.
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Nose, my nose is a little itchy.
A slight numbing feeling awakened "Nian". He opened his eyes and saw a vibrant red sun diagonally above him, while the withered tall grass was blown by the breeze, scratching his body bit by bit.
"Am I... falling asleep?"
"Nian" shook his head, trying to get rid of the stagnation in his mind. Looking at the tall grass around him, he felt scared for falling asleep so easily last night.
He wanted to move, but found that his whole body was now wrapped in the sleeping bag.
The sudden strange premonition made "Nian" frown.
I must have fallen asleep because I was exhausted. How could I have fallen asleep in the sleeping bag?
He tried to recall his memory of the night before, and indeed all he could think of was himself floating on the wind above the tall grass.
The scenes were all the same, like a videotape with no end in sight, playing slowly in his mind, bringing about a strong hypnotic effect.
He quickly shook off the feeling and forced himself to remember his mission.
What is your mission?
"Nian"'s expression froze, and he found that he seemed to have forgotten something important.
He suddenly became a little flustered, looking around at the tall grass and began to turn around in place.
He even shouted from time to time, as if to confirm his own survival, but the only response he got was the grass swaying in the wind.
The hysterical outbursts and speechless silence cycled over and over again, consuming his sanity again and again.
"What is it? What is the mission?
"Where is this place? Me, who am I?"
"Nian" staggered back and forth holding his head, and suddenly a hardcover notebook fell out from the chest of his combat suit.
"This is……"
He reached for the notebook tremblingly, as if looking for a life-saving straw. He touched the familiar metal Eternal Pen and found the blank page.
He gently turned the first few pages, forced himself to calm down and looked at the records he had written.
“According to this, today is September 19th, and I am… I am a superpower, and I want, what should I do?
"Oh, yes. I want to go north and explore all the way north. This is my mission. Yes, that's right..."
Finally I remembered everything and started crying and laughing, and finally I found the meaning of life again.
After venting his fear, he regained his sanity.
Picking up the metal pen from the ground, he turned to a new page and wrote down carefully:
[Superpower team, continue north. ]
Closing the notebook, "Nian" seemed to instantly understand all the thoughts in his mind. He looked at the equipment scattered around him, including sample cans, nutritional paste, sleeping bags, lighters, adrenaline...
After sorting out the important items, he gave up some of the burdens that might drag him down, looked back to the south where Hope City was located, and the ability of this super-powered man was instantly activated.
Passing through a two-meter-thick dry yellow grass, "Nian" looked towards the north with a firm expression, and then flew towards that direction with an indomitable determination.
On the ground behind him, a hardcover notebook and a metal pen were lying quietly with a pile of other items.
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City of Hope, September 19th.
Today is the day the exploration team returns, but only a few people in the inner and outer city areas know about this.
After all, this is the first exploration in more than 20 years, and no one knows what will happen.
If the team encounters danger outside, they might come back late or even never come back.
Under such uncertain circumstances, if the scheduled return time is told to the ignorant public, it may only lead to another unnecessary crisis of trust.
But as time passed, the faces of the people waiting in the joint command room of the research institute and the General Staff became increasingly gloomy.
The monitoring device has been ineffective since four days ago, which means that even the specially enhanced equipment made by the institute cannot break through the blockade of the unknown force and transmit the information back.
From the beginning to the end, the only audio files that Hope City got were from the daytime of the first day. Excluding the worthless part near Hope City, there were actually only four or five hours that were truly worth studying.
And in these four or five hours of audio files, there is a word that is mentioned repeatedly, that is "grass".
The word appears so many times that it is impossible for anyone who has listened to the audio to ignore it.
After several days of research and combining some of the existing information, "dead grass" is now equated with the "thick fog" of twenty years ago, and has become a very dangerous and crucial precaution.
"How many of these strange things are there? We hope that the city can't withstand..."
"Something's happening!"
A monitor's speech interrupted the whispering of several senior executives.
"What's going on? Tell me."
"Unusual movement was detected three kilometers outside the north gate of the outer city. It should be human."
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