Chapter 613: Fukang Town
“This…this…this…”
Zhou He pointed at the picture on the screen and looked at Zhuang Mingxu in disbelief. He saw Zhuang Mingxu putting one hand on the edge of the goggles and tapping the area next to it.
At this moment, the screen was showing a scene of a huge energy ball swallowing up another smaller energy ball. The superposition of the two energy balls made the displayed energy ball suddenly expand by more than twice.
Normally they often used energy detectors to determine whether there were any mutant animals around, and they knew the corresponding levels of the energy groups displayed by their sizes. But at this moment, looking at the energy group on the display screen that was more than twice as big as theirs, everyone even breathed a little quieter.
"It had a mutant plant in its claws and just ate it," Zhuang Mingxu said at the right time.
The modified goggles were adjusted to telescope mode, so Zhuang Mingxu could clearly see the situation thousands of meters above the ground. Naturally, he could also see that after the giant bird swallowed the mutated plants, the mutated plants did not die as expected, but continued to struggle and surge, trying to kill it back.
From a distance, it looks like a beautiful giant bird spreading its wings to fly, but in fact, its wings are partially tied up by the roots and branches of the mutated plants and are being torn and struggled.
This was the first time in reality that a mutant animal was seen devouring a mutant plant. Zhuang Mingxu wished he could record every frame of the scene for the psychics in the base to watch and study.
Just at this moment, the giant bird in the air seemed to have sensed something and its gaze suddenly looked over here. Although they were thousands of meters apart and blocked by layers of branches, Zhuang Mingxu had the illusion that the eyes of a man and an animal were intersecting.
A cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back and he immediately looked away, "Change direction, we leave immediately."
"Now? Aren't we going to see that mutant plant?" Zhou He asked.
"That might be what it ate," Zhuang Mingxu said, re-identifying the direction and decisively giving the order, "Go to Fukang Town."
Seeing how anxious he was, Zhou He didn't hesitate any more and immediately led his men to change direction and leave in a hurry.
When turning around the ridge and leaving, Zhuang Mingxu couldn't help but look back at the sky. He saw that the place where the giant bird was just now was filled with a huge fireball, covering the entire bird. Sharp cries were heard again, and it was impossible to tell what had happened for a while.
While waiting for a break, everyone was still discussing the giant bird.
"It can't be that the myth is really resurrected. If the phoenix appears, does that mean that dragons may appear in the future?"
"Isn't it said that dragons are cultivated from snakes? That should be about the same."
"Please stop your feudal superstition, we believe in science."
"cut……"
Amid the chatter, Zhou He looked at Zhuang Mingxu, who had been silent the whole time, and asked, "Old Zhuang, did you see what that was?"
"A...peacock," Zhuang Mingxu replied, "a green peacock whose size has increased several times after mutation."
"ah?"
“No way…”
Several people who were working enthusiastically immediately felt disappointed, which made Zhou He laugh and scold a few of them. Seeing that Zhuang Mingxu still had a serious look on his face, Zhou He couldn't help but ask him in a low voice what was wrong.
"I suspect... it saw us." Zhuang Mingxu told him what happened and his own guesses, and asked him, "Do you remember Xiaoyi once said that high-level creatures are very sensitive to crystal cores. Even high-level zombies without consciousness know how to attack the crystal cores of mutants, not to mention animals with intelligence."
Lu Weiyi's many reminders about the superpowers were taken to heart by Zhou He and his group. When they heard him say this, they immediately became serious and asked, "Are you worried that it will come after us?"
"It's not impossible." Zhuang Mingxu looked at Zhou He, and his gaze turned to the group of psychics around him. "After all... your abilities are much stronger than that mutant plant."
"..." Zhou He's expression changed.
He stood up in an instant and said to the group of people who were still resting, "Everyone, hurry up, let's eat something and set off immediately. We will still go underground from now on. People with wood-type abilities, please be careful along the way and try to avoid the territories of mutant plants."
"receive!"
"clear!"
Knowing the seriousness of the situation, everyone acted quickly. After a short while, they changed direction and drove quickly.
When traveling underground, apart from the need to avoid mutated plants, they will basically not be attacked by any other means, except for some consumption of earth-type mutants. Fortunately, they brought many earth-type mutants with them on this trip.
They had already looked at two-thirds of the three mutant plants, and there was no sign of the mission being completed. This made Zhou He lose hope for the rest of the journey.
After three days of peaceful journey, they finally found the Fukang Town mentioned by Song Huai at dawn the next day.
This place is already on the other side of Laoshan Mountain. According to the geographical location before the end of the world, it is already two provinces away from their temporary base.
With the protection of the Laoshan ridge, the temperature here is even relatively higher than other places.
The town was relatively well preserved. Apart from being covered by dense jungle and becoming the territory of various giant animals, there were no signs of serious damage.
The ground was covered with a thick layer of snow, dazzlingly white in the sun, and the footprints of various animals left clear marks on it.
After checking, everyone found no large beasts and headed towards the village.
It was very quiet all around, except for the occasional rustling sound of leaves blowing in the wind and causing a layer of snow to fall off, not even the sound of birds could be heard.
In this situation, everyone lowered their voices unconsciously. "Are there no mutant birds nearby?"
"Yes," a lower voice came, "three hundred meters northwest there is a mutant... leopard? I don't know if it's a cat, it's been standing there for a long time. About five hundred meters southeast, a giant wolfhound is also staring at us... There are several mutant animals in other directions, the smallest of which is bigger than a pig before the apocalypse..."
This statement successfully made everyone swallow their saliva silently, and then Taotao dropped another piece of news, "There is a plant there."
"Yes, it is one." Zhuang Mingxu corrected himself reflexively and stopped abruptly. "Where is it?"
Taotao struggled to stretch her hand out from Zhou He's arms and pointed to a place not far from them, "Its feet are there."
"It's roots. The feet of plants are called roots," Zhuang Mingxu said and looked at Qu Zhu.
Qu Zhu was also looking in the direction Taotao pointed out at this time, frowned and shook his head, "I didn't feel it."
He looked at his teammate who was holding an energy detector on the other side and said, "There are quite a lot of small mutant creatures around here, I'm not sure if there are any."
He handed the detector screen to a few people, and saw dozens of sparse small dots surrounding them.
"There aren't many mutant creatures around here. Haven't we sprayed drugs here to inhibit the reproduction of mutant animals?" Yun Bai still held his scimitar in his hand. The sharp blade flashed coldly in the sun. He killed countless mutant animals along the way without leaving any blood.
"This is the result after setting the amount," the person in charge of detecting the energy instrument looked at him sympathetically, "I set it to display mutant creatures with energy reaching level A. If the ones below are all displayed, then we will be surrounded by dense crowds."
"..." Yun Bai was silent and tightened his grip on the scimitar.
"How far is it approximately? Let me take some people over to take a look first." Considering that Taotao had easily entered and exited the roots of the mutant plant and grabbed the crystal core before, Qu Zhu did not underestimate his words and said immediately.
"So... far?" Taotao stretched out her white fingers to measure the distance and looked at Qu Zhu with a puzzled tone.
Qu Zhu looked at Zhuang Mingxu helplessly, hoping that he could translate it for him, but saw Zhuang Mingxu also shaking his head - he really didn't know the range that Taotao could sense.
"No need to investigate," Zhou He, who was observing his surroundings with a telescope, said in a complicated way, "Have you noticed that the plants near us look exactly the same."
"No, those are cypress trees, and those are willow trees and locust trees..."
Zhou He glanced at the person who was speaking, and a flame appeared at his fingertips, brushing across the ground around the group of people like a burning whip. The snow melted with a crackling sound, revealing the emerald green leaves underneath.
"This is……"
"Orchid!" Qu Zhu took a step forward and said in an affirmative tone. He reached out and carefully touched the leaves of the mutated plant. As everyone held their breath, he stood up after a while and said, "Captain, this is the mutated orchid I mentioned before."
"You didn't mean it..."
"It said that it ran away when it saw something trying to eat it," Qu Zhu said uncertainly.
Taotao struggled to get down from Zhou He's arms, stepped forward and grabbed the stems and leaves that Qu Zhu had just carefully touched. She saw that the plants that were originally no different from ordinary plants immediately struggled. The silence around them seemed to be disturbed by something. The snow layer began to tremble, and the animals hiding in the dark fled like crazy. Countless stems and leaves that had not been seen before crawled back from everyone's side, as if running for their lives, and disappeared from sight in an instant, leaving Taotao with her little hands holding a few broken leaves in a daze.
"Little ancestor, what have you done?" Qu Zhu had cooperated with this mutant orchid before and felt that the other party was easy to get along with, so he placed the possibility of a contract here. But when he saw the other party disappear as if escaping for his life, he looked at Tao Tao with a sense of despair.
"Taotao...Taotao wants to ask it what's wrong?" Taotao looked innocent, even aggrieved. She hugged Zhuang Mingxu's thigh with her mouth pursed, and buried her whole head in his legs.
He is at the age when he likes to play with cats and dogs. He is interested in everything. Although he may not be able to describe it clearly, it does not affect his enthusiasm at all.
Zhuang Mingxu picked him up with amusement, and Zhou He also walked forward and patted his head, "Did you find out the answer?"
"It said there was a flying fireball coming to catch it."
There was too little information, and after thinking for a while, several people were unable to determine what had happened. Fortunately, the movement of the mutant orchid just now alarmed the mutant animals around it. At this time, most of the animals shown on the thermal imager were gone, allowing the group to proceed much more smoothly.
The town’s government office is either located in the newly developed area or in the town center. Fukang Town belongs to the latter.
After walking cautiously for fifteen minutes, a plaque covered with vines appeared in my sight, with mottled handwriting reading - Fukang Town Government.
Following the line of sight, in the yard next to it, a cherry tree two people tall was swaying in the wind.
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