Armored vehicle.

"Congratulations, we will be back at the base in 15 hours."

Lu Xun said, "How is the base?"

"The distortion has caused widespread panic and chaos. A precision instrument has stopped working. I hope the artificial magnetic poles can operate normally."

"Does the distortion occur when the magnetic poles fail?"

"Yes."

Lu Xun said, "These few survivors of ours live in a magnetite mine cave, and there is no distortion there."

"Because of the magnetic field, the magnetic field can resist distortion to a certain extent." The doctor said: "At that time, the lighthouse fell into chaos. We held on to the last glimmer of hope to exchange all the research results with the underground city base, but we got nothing. All their research is based on biological genes."

"Then, I violated the rules again and accessed the communication channel with the research institute."

Lu Xun raised his eyebrows slightly.

"After discussing together, combined with some clues, such as the time when the distortion appeared, we thought that all this might be related to the magnetic field, so we temporarily increased the strength of the artificial magnetic pole." The doctor said: "It is temporarily effective, which has won a little time to survive."

The doctor leaned back in the seat in the car: "But according to the prediction, the distortion will gradually increase, and then defeat us within three months."

He paused, looking at the gray mist rising in the distance and the brown eagle circling in the sky, he said: "However, knowing that all the efforts made by mankind for survival from ancient times to the present are in vain, and becoming a witness to the complete extinction of mankind is actually an unimaginable honor."

He looked back at Lu Xun: "To be honest, you are calmer than I thought."

"Why, are you shocked?" He said again: "I don't know what kind of creature Anzhe is, it's so slippery that it can escape even with such strict defense of the base. It's normal that we can't catch it. Even if we catch it, we can't keep it. Don't worry too much."

Lu Xun didn't say anything.

He stretched out his hand.

A soft, snow-white thing rolled out from his sleeves, and the white and soft hyphae entangled his fingers affectionately.

He looked at him.

Strangely, a soft thought filled his heart. He seemed to have returned to a certain moment, when An Zhe leaned quietly against his chest.

Those were the most memorable moments in his life.

The doctor was stunned: "You got it back? You can actually get it back?"

Lu Xun: "Yeah."

"What about An Zhe?" The doctor spoke very quickly and asked: "Did you kill him?"

The spore seemed to be frightened by the man's sudden loud voice, shrank, and drilled back into Lu Xun's sleeves.

But after a while, he appeared at his collar again and rubbed his neck affectionately.

Lu Xun said calmly: "He left."

"How could you bear to let him go? What exactly is he?" The doctor widened his eyes and said: "He... can he protect himself?"

Lu Xun touched the soft mycelium of the spores with his fingers and did not answer. In the dim light, his profile was a quiet and lonely silhouette.

The doctor looked at him, but suddenly frowned: "Where is your gun?"

*

Rooftop.

Watching the convoy disappear into the distance, An Zhe stretched his stiff body and stood up from behind the flowerbed. The heavy rain yesterday filled the flowerbed with water. At this time, some thread-like creatures were twisting in the water. They were born yesterday.

But after the weather clears up, the accumulated water will soon be dried up. After a short rebirth, they will face eternal death.

This is the case for all creatures.

Will his spores live longer than these creatures that are born and die in a day? He hopes so.

An Zhe waited patiently for the opportunity. When the eagle landed to rest, he climbed onto its back. The eagle ignored him, perhaps because he was too light and had too little nutrition. An Zhe found a place on the wide back of the eagle to stay. The eagle's body was not covered with feathers but with scales. In the gaps between the scales grew some translucent tentacles that intertwined with each other. The eagle looked for food everywhere in the city. After swallowing a vine with a texture similar to meat and fighting with a huge monster with bat wings for half an hour, it was defeated and left this place.

An Zhe marked the direction of flight on the map of the North Pole. After finding that the track had deviated, he quietly slipped away, rooted in the soil and absorbed nutrients overnight. After hesitating for a long time, he took out a black gun and a dozen bullets from his backpack.

The gun belonged to Lu Xun, but he found it in his backpack after Lu Xun left. The colonel often took his belongings, including the backpack, for granted. An Zhe guessed that this caused him to drop the gun.

He successfully attracted a monster with butterfly wings as a means of transportation with the sound of the gun.

Three days later, he landed again. While looking for the next target to ride, Anzhe encountered an extremely ugly monster with a centipede-like body. This monster had many characteristics of ant-like arthropod monsters and fed on mushrooms. Anzhe wanted to escape, but his body was already very poor. When he was almost eaten completely, Lu Xun's gun protected him. He accidentally hit the monster's soft abdomen and took advantage of the brief pause to roll into a muddy stream and escape. It

was cold, and the animals who were afraid of the cold began to walk south. Of course, they also preyed on each other in the process. Sometimes, there was no trace of life on the endless plains, and only one or two extremely huge winners could be encountered. Sometimes, the social creatures were like a black torrent, migrating southward. An Zhe mixed in with them and went downstream.

Ten days later, he finally got a bird that was heading south without hesitation. After more than ten days, he saw a long, huge shadow on the horizon on the soft back of the bird, like a scar on this world.

According to humans, the core of the abyss is a long and narrow fault zone caused by an 8.0 magnitude earthquake during the catastrophe. The ground radiation is extremely abnormal, and countless terrible monsters have been bred because of it. This core fault zone extends outward. To the north of the abyss is a vast plain covered with dense forests, various mushrooms, and countless monsters. To the south is a huge, undulating highland and vein.

The bird came to the edge of the abyss, and when it was tired of flying, it found a huge dead tree and rested on its branches.

The branches suddenly trembled, the bird's feathers exploded, and it flapped its wings with a sharp cry -

dense black vines had appeared on the dead tree at some point, and had already tightly entangled the bird's feet - with the sound of flapping wings, the snow-white bird was grabbed and dragged to the center of the densely branched tree, its beautiful neck raised high, its long and pointed beak stretched towards the gray sky, a posture of struggling, but the vines entangled its neck, and the next moment the soft vines broke, and a mouthpart with sharp fangs bit off its neck.

A splash of blood splashed out, and the five or six-meter-long bird's body broke into two pieces, and its tiny feathers and down were scattered all over the ground.

An Zhe hugged his backpack, and the feathers fell to the ground with him. He stood up, stepped on the rotten ground with black water flowing, and after stumbling a few steps, he looked up and saw that the bird was eaten by tens of thousands of vines.

The vines dispersed haphazardly.

The dense forest, the vines in the forest, and the huge mushrooms blocked the light and the sound of the fight.

This is the abyss, a place where people are eaten without spitting out bones. There are no rodents or arthropods here, because they are too weak. Those creatures that are a hundred times stronger than them are not invincible either - the soil of the Abyss is rich in nutrients because it is soaked in blood and flesh, which may be the reason why the mushrooms are so lush.

An Zhe walked into this place with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The ground covered with moss, dead branches, and fallen leaves is too soft and close to a swamp, so creatures can walk on it without making any sound.

He clearly felt that the atmosphere of the Abyss has changed. In the past, killings and fights happened all the time, and powerful monsters often strolled in the dense forest to patrol their territory, but today he only encountered a python that shuttled silently along the way.

They all seemed to be crouching.

But An Zhe had no intention of paying attention to the comings and goings of monsters.

He stared blankly at the endless land where not even the sunlight could penetrate.