An Zhe did not accept this evaluation. Lu Xun thought that he did not have the strength to infect the entire Garden of Eden. He felt that Lu Xun was emphasizing his weakness again. This was not the first time this person said this.

Although what the colonel said was true, he really could not cause the infection of the entire Garden of Eden. He could not even infect one person.

But he did not accept that his lies were exposed because of his weakness, not because his lies were not good enough. He tried to comfort himself that maybe Lu Xun did not believe his words. Maybe

Lu Xun was hateful.

He said, "You are not allowed to sleep here."

"Huh?" Lu Xun said.

An Zhe said sullenly, "No."

Lu Xun: "Why?"

An Zhe turned his back to him and buried himself in his coat. He originally wanted to say nothing and resolutely expel the colonel from his territory, but after struggling for a while, he still explained the reason seriously: "But it can be infected without contact."

"Oh." Lu Xun said in a low voice: "Bees are alive."

An Zhe: "..."

Then he heard Lu Xun say: "If they are alive, why are they unconscious?"

This time, even if An Zhe died, he would not speak. Lu Xun is a person who will guess the situation clearly if you reveal any information to him.

But the colonel didn't make it difficult for him tonight. The colonel said, "I'll keep watch."

An Zhe whispered "Hmm" and asked again, "Are you cold?"

Lu Xun said, "No."

An Zhe closed his eyes this time. He was a little emotional tonight. He held the badge, curled up, and fell asleep very quickly.

But he was awakened by the cold halfway through his sleep. The

magnetic field accidents in the past few days have caused solar winds to rage, the atmosphere has become thinner, and the temperature difference between day and night is so large that it is terrifying.

An Zhe felt cold all over. He opened his eyes, sat up, and subconsciously looked around for Lu Xun's shadow.

He could easily see the colonel not far away. Lu Xun was leaning against a stone that had been eroded by the wind and had branches of shrubs arranged regularly in front of him, forming a pyramid.

An Zhe rubbed his eyes and walked over to him holding Lu Xun's coat. The colonel gave him the coat as a pillow, and his upper body was covered with his uniform lining.

He handed the coat over and asked again, "Are you cold?"

Lu Xun was playing with a lighter in his pocket.

"Put it on yourself," he said, "I thought you would sleep a little longer."

An Zhe: "...Ah?"

Lu Xun threw the lighter into his arms: "Come with me to pick up firewood."

So the colonel knew that he might be awakened by the cold, and he tried to make a fire.

And he said, I thought you would sleep a little longer - An Zhe translated the colonel's rare euphemism, and finally concluded that what the colonel really wanted to say was: "How come you are more coquettish than I thought."

An Zhe: "."

For a moment, the air was filled with the sound of their footsteps, the sound of the wind, and the faint howling of monsters in the distance. They walked out. There were some shrubs growing scattered on the wilderness. Under the attack of the sun and wind, they all died and became very dry, suitable for burning.

An Zhe asked, "Have you been looking for branches?"

"No," Lu Xun said lightly, "There are monsters, I won't leave too far."

An Zhe said "Oh" softly. He wanted to tell Lu Xun that many monsters were not interested in him as a mushroom, but he immediately realized that Lu Xun was protecting him, and he felt a little subtle happiness.

He followed the colonel.

Suddenly, Lu Xun's footsteps stopped.

An Zhe also stopped immediately.

——He heard it too.

In the silent wilderness, a sound suddenly rang out.

"Rustle."

"Rustle."

"Rustle."

The creepy sound reverberated irregularly in the wilderness, very low, but very clear, as if it was ringing in my ears. The first two times were very long, and the last time was very short.

"Rustle."

When the sound rang again, Lu Xun pushed An Zhe's shoulder down, and the two of them lay on the sand, hiding behind a layer of bushes.

"Rustle."

Under the aurora, a huge black shadow appeared at the edge of the undulating sand dunes. It was roughly an elliptical shape, with a vague body structure and a rugged surface, like a piece of rotten meat that was roughly pinched together. In the middle of its body bulged a smooth tumor, and the surface was covered with large and small eyeballs. This was the head. Under the huge body of this black shadow grew countless limbs, some thick and some thin, some like the hind legs of reptiles, some like the chelicerae of insects, and some like human arms.

——The limbs surged, supporting it to walk heavily on the rugged ground, leaving a wave-like trace more than five meters wide on the gravel-covered ground. It came to the wreckage of the crashed plane in a strange posture. Every time it moved a certain distance, a "rustling" sound came from its body surface, spreading evenly outward. That might be its vocal organ.

An Zhe held his breath and watched a gap appear in the middle of the body of the indescribable and indescribable monster, revealing the dense thorns and fangs inside.

"Crack--"

A harsh metal friction sound rang out, followed by a chaotic sound of metal collision, breaking, chewing, and swallowing.

It was eating the pile of debris. Even though he had lived in the abyss for so long, An Zhe had never known that there were monsters that could feed on metal. There were armored vehicles that had lost their owners in the abyss, as well as broken parts of guns, but no monster would care about them. Or perhaps, the monster in front of him was not after metal, but the bodies of the two pilots in the ruins. It can be imagined that for a strange creature that chewed and swallowed alloy materials, human flesh and bones were as soft and easy to chew as a pool of rotten mud.

But it did not bury its head in enjoying the huge explosion and the burning debris. It ate less than five bites.

"Rustle."

When the mouth closed, the sound came out again. It turned in another direction. A hundred meters ahead was the still sleeping black bee.

Click.

The whole head of the black bee disappeared into its body. An Zhe watched one end of its body stretch out, and a pair of translucent, metallic wings drooped down, vibrating a few times, making the sound of leaves shaking in the autumn wind.

"Rustle."

The next second, all the eyes on its head looked in the direction of An Zhe and Lu Xun.