“This box contains samples collected in the western forest 20 years ago. We don’t have the corresponding equipment, so we have never opened it. You can check it and decide whether to take it back.
“These are some of the information I have recorded over the years. My brain is not working well now, so I can only write them down in a notebook. I didn’t intend to show them to other people, so they are a bit sloppy.
"I should have a nameplate to prove my identity, but I couldn't find it. Maybe I lost it along the way. My memory is a bit fuzzy, so I'm not sure."
Jinmo nodded slightly, indicating that he had remembered everything.
“Another thing, when I went on the mission, my son was only ten years old, but he already had super powers.
"He doesn't have strong abilities, I hope he can be obedient and not show off.
"His name is Zhang Wangyang. Do you know him?"
"I know him. His code name is 'Blind Eyes'. He is currently working in the logistics team. He is very safe."
Zhang Tong smiled and sighed, and as Jin Mo raised his fingertips, he leaned back a little bit:
"The logistics are good, the logistics are good..."
The room fell silent again. Looking at the gray and withered corpses that showed some plant features, the beast group was the first to suppress their sadness and asked:
"Captain, now we should..."
Jinmo didn't look back, his fingers tapped the table rhythmically:
"How long does it take to walk from here to the camp?"
"If you don't care about anything else, three minutes."
"Okay, take these things and evacuate. My ability will be activated in three minutes."
Her fingers tapped the tabletop lightly, at the standard one-second interval.
Upon hearing this, the few people trembled instinctively. They put away the boxes and notes, took some things that could prove their identity from the few people, and then, led by Mercury, opened the gate and walked towards the camp.
The guard at the door wanted to ask something, but was scared back by the beasts' appearance that they were not to be trifled with.
A few people returned to the camp and began to look at the direction of the square from afar. Many outsiders in the village were still waiting for the so-called news. It was a pity that perhaps even they themselves did not know what they were made of.
A dozen seconds later, the invisible field enveloped the entire swamp settlement, making the sky dim.
Under the invisible force, the so-called "humans" fell silently one after another, while the rest of the lives seemed to be unaffected.
Death came to this settlement. Amidst everyone's fear and helplessness, Jin Mo walked out of the room expressionlessly and walked towards the camp step by step.
Looking at the people falling one by one in the distance, Jinmo's teammates already understood what had happened.
Seeing the captain strolling towards them with an expressionless face, they swallowed instinctively.
"Captain, why are you..."
Mercury knew what was happening, but he couldn't really understand it, and he was the only one who dared to ask the question directly.
"Take your stuff with you, our exploration is over."
"No more going forward?"
"No need. We have gained enough. We can't be too greedy. This is irresponsible."
Everyone packed up their things silently. Suddenly, Manic-Depressive put down the work at hand and looked at the captain:
"Captain, I remember... two teams headed to the forest west of Hope City from different directions..."
"Yes, we have to rescue quickly..."
Shuiyin was halfway through her words when she met Jinmo's eyes.
For some reason, the second half of the words got stuck in his throat and he couldn't speak or swallow them.
"I said, go back to Hope City."
Jin Mo repeated his order again.
“I know there are two teams in the forest to the west, and you may be friends with some of them, but so what?
“Who can locate them? Who can confirm that they are still safe? Since nothing can be done, we should just pack up and wait for the next opportunity to explore.”
Everyone stopped talking and after checking the exploration equipment and the items given by Zhang Tong, they looked back at the lifeless swamp settlement and began their return journey towards Hope City.
Standing on the flat-bottomed boat made of mercury, Jin Mo looked into the distance, and his thoughts were not as calm as they seemed.
In fact, her problems are no less than those of others, but as the captain, she cannot pursue excitement and cannot put the lives of her teammates on an uncertain scale.
They had to speed up their return journey. If the swamp settlement performed that kind of mysterious sacrificial ceremony every night and some unknown existence could really sense it, then yesterday's destruction might have made Him realize that something was wrong.
A new beast tide may be brewing.
Looking at the water surface where bubbles occasionally appeared, Jin Mo began to combine some unreasonable places in the swamp settlement with his own inferences.
For a swamp settlement that has no air defense capabilities, a stronger third-level flying beast can eat its fill here, but why has it not been attacked for so many years?
According to Zhang Tong and others, this is because this place is close to Hope City, and the third-level beasts always follow the large group, so they will automatically ignore this tiny place and choose to go to a real large settlement like Hope City.
But if we look at it now with hindsight, there may be other reasons for this incident.
If the Supreme Will has already ordered to ignore this settlement, and if the alien beasts that have reached a certain strength are able to see the difference of this settlement, then they will naturally choose to give up attacking here.
Another very suspicious thing is the crops that people eat.
If the so-called survivors did not exist in the first place, then where did the crops they ate come from?
If the answer to this question is that it is a disguise of mycelium life, then it is not a big deal. If not, then it is really scary to think about it...
Thinking of this, Jinmo clenched his fists slightly. Mercury, who was stepped on by everyone, didn't know what happened, but still slid the oars hard to increase the speed, looking like a stranded fish trying to return to the sea.
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One hundred and fifty kilometers north of Hope City.
The five people on the surface and the man and cat hiding in the dark were all amazed by the wonder before them.
Metal pillars tens of meters high were inserted diagonally into the ground. The soil in front was slightly raised by the impact, and a deep ditch was plowed out in the back.
The main body of the metal column was placed on a mutated tree that had already taken a "Y" shape.
Although no one knew how much time had passed, and although vegetation and decay had buried most of the traces, the changes in the terrain still showed the tremendous impact that the area had once experienced.
Looking at the gray-white metal shell and streamlined shape, as well as the obvious nozzle shape at the rear, Lin Qingliu, who was far away in Hope City, was briefly surprised and blurted out:
"Rocket!"
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