She was determined that no matter what alien species she encountered next, she would not be surprised.

After walking for a whole morning, Tu Ran still hadn't gotten out of the dense forest.

The portable kettle had very little water and it was all gone.

The surrounding scenery remains unchanged green.

Everywhere you look there are towering trees.

It felt like she was trapped here forever.

Tu Ran licked her dry lips and sat down under a tree to rest.

Aren't there many springs in the Threshold? Why can't she find one? She is dying of thirst.

After resting for fifteen minutes, Tu Ran stood up and walked forward again.

God helps those who work hard. After walking for an hour, she finally heard the sound of gurgling water.

Very crisp.

Tu Ran seemed to have seen the scene of clear and cold stream water flowing through her body.

She couldn't help but speed up.

Spring water, here I come!

However, just as the sound of flowing water became louder and louder, Tu Ran heard the chirping of birds mixed in with it.

If she heard such lively bird calls in her hometown, Tu Ran would definitely sigh: Nature is so wonderful.

However, now she is in a world full of mutant species.

Any of these species could kill her.

The sudden sound of birds chirping sounded like a dangerous signal to Tu Ran.

She wanted to turn around and leave.

But she was very thirsty.

Tu Ran stood there, hesitated for a second, and then walked downstream with determination.

It's okay for her to drink the leftover water.

Water will become clear after flowing a hundred steps.

Tu Ran listened to the sound of flowing water and kept a distance from it that was neither too far nor too close.

Finally, they reached a place where they could no longer hear the birds singing, and Tu Ran approached the water cautiously.

A very small stream.

It's almost to the point of being cut off.

Although I don’t know what the flock of birds upstream are doing, the stream flowing before my eyes is very clear.

Tu Ran was not in a hurry to drink it. She first took out the trace element detector and soaked it in water for a while.

Mineral concentrations are within the acceptable range for the human body.

Tu Ran took out a portable kettle without hesitation, filled it with half a pot of water, and drank it all in one gulp.

Then she put the kettle back in, filled it up again, screwed the lid on tightly and hung it on her body.

Because there is no map and no goal, Tu Ran always chooses the direction he wants.

Go in whatever direction you want.

Tu Ran actually wanted to encounter some lone alien species that she could defeat.

Because she wanted to obtain their inner elixir.

Their super powers fascinate her.

From the hook snake's memory, she learned that only a very small number of alien species can form inner elixirs and gain superpowers.

The federal government has captured some of the alien species, but so far there has been no news of them having superpowers.

One possibility is that the federal government was unlucky and the alien specimens they captured were all ordinary alien species, so even if the people from the research institute sliced ​​the alien species, they could not find the inner elixir.

Another possibility is that the federal government already knows about superpowers, but is worried about causing competition and riots among the people, so it has not made it public and is conducting a secret investigation instead.

Tu Ran carefully recalled the policies recently issued by the federal government and the questions that Xie Xu asked her on the last night.

He was curious about how she could tell that there was an infectious alien entity in the little girl's body.

This means he doesn't know anything about superpowers.

Given his position in the institute, he had no idea about this, and the likelihood that the federal government knew about it was also low.

Therefore, the second possibility can be basically ruled out.

But how long can the first possibility last?

If eating the inner elixir of an alien species could gain a special power, would the Federation still allow these pioneers to enter the Threshold? Would the top tycoons behind them be willing to give them such a good thing?

Absolutely not.

They will try every possible means to seize these inner elixirs for themselves, preventing ordinary people from ever having access to them in their lifetime.

So she doesn't have much time left.

She couldn't shrink back any longer.

Realizing this, Tu Ran began to try to move upstream.

She had to check to see if the chirping birds were still there.

She had to find a way to fight for it.

While I am still in the Threshold, I should acquire a few more superpowers.

As we walked up, the birdsong became louder and louder.

The birds were chirping happily, perhaps playing in the water? Tu Ran approached slowly with light steps.

He half-crouched in a small bush near them and hid his body behind it.

Tu Ran gently opened a crack and looked through the gap to see what was going on inside.

Seven or eight pheasant-like birds were scattered on both sides of the stream, pecking at the two fish in the stream.

The fish was still alive, twisting its body and dodging everywhere.

But there were too many pheasants in the group and they couldn't dodge.

The fish are red like carp. Pioneers once saw them in the water and named them Henggong fish.

This fish has not been found to be aggressive so far and is relatively mild compared to other species.

Those seven or eight pheasants did not look strange, except that the feathers on their necks were very thick and long, like drooping wings, almost covering their entire bodies.

Compared with the giant two-headed monsters seen before, their size is relatively small, almost reaching Tu Ran's shoulders.

There were no other foes around, so Tu Ran thought she could handle them. But she had to deal with the camera bracelet first.

Tu Ran found a black bag containing various medicines in her backpack, took out the cloth bag, tore it into thin strips, and wrapped the bracelet around it.

This is how she will deal with it for now. When she gets the chance, she will throw away this bracelet as well.

Picking up the machine gun, she aimed at the pheasant monster and started shooting.

The pheasant monsters were so busy eating the delicacies in the stream that they didn't notice there were people lurking around them and were caught off guard.

The bullet entered from the back of the head, and immediately the two pheasant monsters fell forward and fell into the water with a splash, and the blood flowed down the stream.

The rest of the pheasants panicked and scattered in all directions, chattering. They didn't know where the bullet came from, or even what a bullet was. They only knew that their companion fell to the ground and bled after a loud bang.

There was a pheasant monster that kept pecking at the body of its fallen companion, trying to wake it up, but its companion refused to move.

It chirped sadly, flapped its wings, and the thick feathers on its neck fluttered together, making it look like a furry egg.

Tu Ran couldn't bear to see it continue to be sad, so he pointed the gun at the back of its head and fired.

A gunshot rang out.

It fell "plop" onto the body of its companion.

The other pheasant monsters flapped their wings and flew upwards, but their heavy bodies prevented them from flying very high and their speed was very slow. In addition, their huge size made them very good living targets.

Tu Ran didn't even come out from behind the bushes. He just stayed there, aiming at the sky and firing more than a dozen shots.

The pheasant monsters' bulky bodies fell from the air one by one.

Smash it to the ground.

It hit the stream, splashing a lot of water.

Tu Ran walked out of the bushes and put the machine gun behind his back.

She walked up to a pheasant monster that was still breathing its last breath and stopped.

When the pheasant monster saw the monster walking on two legs, its beak opened wide in shock and its little eyes were full of shock.

Seeing Tu Ran squatting down, he tried to dodge backwards in fear, but the round belly pressed him so hard that he couldn't move.

Tu Ran's hand touched the fluffy feathers on its neck.

Just as she was about to speak, Tu Ran paused and frowned deeply when she remembered that the holographic bracelet would record her voice.

As long as she is in the threshold, she cannot escape the surveillance and monitoring of the bracelet.

This would prevent her from doing many things and cost her more energy.

She needs to make a decision.

Is to continue to cover up like this.

Still swaggering.

To keep hiding it means that many of her actions will be restricted and she will lose the chance to obtain the inner elixir.

If she acted arrogantly, she would have to be prepared to become an enemy of the Federation.

Of course, there is a third way, which is that she finds a way to remove the bracelet inside the threshold and then keep the bracelet inside the threshold forever.

That way the federal government wouldn't know what happened to her.

After weighing the pros and cons, Tu Ran chose the second option.

She doesn't have to hide it.

She would take advantage of the time she was in the Threshold to eat as many inner elixirs as possible and gain enough supernatural powers. This way, even if the federal government was wanted for her, she would not die so soon.

Tu Ran looked at the pheasant monster and asked, "Do you have an inner elixir?"

Whenever she asked an alien species whether it had an inner elixir, images related to the inner elixir would appear in the alien species' memory.

This way she wouldn't have to spend energy searching through the alien's head for memories about the inner elixir like turning the pages of a book.

Sure enough, after she asked this question, she saw the location of the inner elixir.

The inner elixir is not in the body of this pheasant monster, but in the body of the leader of their pheasant race.

The fat pheasant monster in front of him and the few pheasant monsters just now are all errand chickens that find food for the pheasant leader.

The pheasant leader wanted to eat black carp today, so they half flew and half walked for the whole morning and finally found two black carp.

"Do you want to live?" Tu Ran looked at its eyes as big as soybeans and suddenly spoke.

She has to bribe one of her men.

Judging from the memory I just read, this guy is not very smart.

It was originally a free-spirited wild crane in this dense forest. It would live wherever there was food, eating ten meals a day. After showing off, it would look for the next place.

The reason why he became the pheasant leader's subordinate was because the pheasant leader promised that if he followed him, he would have endless delicious food.

The idiot believed it.

I didn't expect that since I followed a pheasant leader, I had to go hungry for nine meals in three days. After finally finding some delicious game, I had to present it to the pheasant leader.

It wanted to escape, but wherever it went the pheasant leader would assign it a few companions, under the pretext of helping it, but in reality they were just afraid that it would run away.

After staying in the Pheasant Tribe for three months, it had become somewhat thinner.

After reading about its experience, I can sum it up in three words: easy to control.

Using it as an insider, catching the pheasant monster leader will be much smoother.

"Chichichi"

"I don't understand," Tu Ran stood up, "Can you speak human language?"

"Chichichichichichi"

It was a pheasant, how could it possibly speak human language? However, it knew how to make Tu Ran understand what it said.

"Chichichichichichi"

It pointed its wings at the two fish in the stream and glanced over there with its round eyes.

Tu Ran looked in the direction it indicated.

Because there were many corpses of pheasant monsters lying in the stream, the stream was blocked, and the two male fish were still struggling in the river.

"Chichichichichi"

Those two fish contain inner elixirs. If you eat them, you will gain their special powers and be able to understand our language.

Although Tu Ran didn't know what it was talking about, she really didn't want to let go of those two fish.

After all, it is an alien species. Let’s go and see if it has any inner elixir.

Tu Ran put down the chubby pheasant monster and walked towards the stream.

(End of this chapter)