"And if you think about it more closely, the same goes for the black rocks we found in the canyon earlier; they don't seem to have any vegetation at all."
After hearing what Su Xi said, the other three realized that this was indeed the case.
"It's really strange." Su Xi walked around the mine but didn't find a single plant. Even the flower buds that had appeared on the dead wood were gone.
At this point, Lu Wuyai checked the time and urged the others to hurry up and move the stones.
At noon, Lu Wuyai told the three women to go back and rest first, while he lay down outside the mine, lifting his clothes over his stomach to let the sun shine directly on him.
Since discovering the secret of his wound yesterday, Lu Wuyai has decided to use sunlight to heal his wound in a short time.
Although there was no cold air during that hour at noon, Lu Wuyai still felt the itch in his wound. After sunbathing, the wound on his abdomen was smaller than yesterday.
"At this rate, my injuries might be completely healed in a few days." Lu Wuyai breathed a sigh of relief, feeling extremely relaxed all over. He tried jumping on the spot, and his body leaped to a height of more than ten meters.
That feeling is always incredible, so fresh.
"I really don't know what I'll become if this continues." Lu Wuyai leaped up, looked into the distance, and discovered that the withered forest had transformed into a shallow green ocean. As far as the eye could see, it stretched endlessly, so extraordinary.
You should cherish the time you have now.
Lu Wuyai felt himself starting to sweat, so he stopped, went into the mine, and continued digging for stones.
But an hour later, Lu Wuyai came out of the mine, looked at the passage in front of him, and frowned.
"It's been almost two hours, why haven't they arrived yet?"
Lu Wuyai was worried that something might happen to the women, so he took off his gloves and left the deadwood forest along the passage.
As a result, he found a clear tire track at the entrance, but it did not enter the deadwood forest. Instead, it followed the outer edge of the forest and disappeared without a trace.
"Who cares?" Lu Wuyai thought to himself. It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and it would be dark in three hours at most.
Soon, Lu Wuyai grabbed a shovel and ran forward. He was very fast; he could cover hundreds of meters in just a few breaths. But even so, after more than ten minutes, he still couldn't find the vehicle.
Just then, a cloud of mist drifted out from the nearby withered woods. The suffocating feeling made it hard for Lu Wuyai to breathe, so he simply charged forward, leaping directly out of the mist.
But in the end, Lu Wuyai was shocked to find that a huge snake head emerged from the mist and almost swallowed him whole.
It was a gigantic serpent with eyes that gleamed purple. The moment Lu Wuyai leaped out of the mist, it raised its head, but ultimately it couldn't reach Lu Wuyai's height.
Finally, the snake's head slammed helplessly to the ground. After getting ashore, Lu Wuyai ran straight into the withered forest. What he had just witnessed was truly terrifying.
Hissing sound.
The long snake spat out a message, the friction-like sound making it hard to breathe.
Click, click.
The continuous sound was the crunch of bodies crushing dead wood. Lu Wuyai dared not stop and continued to flee deeper into the forest of dead trees.
"Why is this giant snake here?" Lu Wuyai asked nervously. Wasn't this the terrifying creature that had destroyed the cowshed and appeared nearby several times before?
Lu Wuyai felt a chill run down his spine every time he thought about it. Since he had already encountered it, he had no intention of resisting and might as well run away first.
"Did Su Xi and the others encounter something unexpected?"
Thinking of the missing women, Lu Wuyai's mood became heavy again, but he knew that he was no match for this giant snake, even though his physical abilities were far superior to those of ordinary people.
After moving forward for a while, Lu Wuyai noticed that the movement behind him seemed to be getting weaker, so he stopped and prepared to wait where he was.
Early the next morning, Lu Wuyai led Su Xi and Song Xiaoyou away from the place where the savages gathered and headed towards the mountain range opposite.
"Are you sure this is the direction?" Lu Wuyai asked.
Song Xiaoyou nodded and pointed to her brain: "It's all here, don't worry."
"At our current speed, we will arrive there before dusk and enter the tribe at night to search for the animal skin cloak."
And so the three quickened their pace. They had to make sure they reached the tribe safely before nightfall.
Along the way, as the team leader, Lu Wuyai always moved very fast, because the forest was not safe and he had to eliminate any possible dangers in advance.
"There are so many animals in this mountain range," Lu Wuyai said with a sigh. Just on the outskirts of the mountain range, in just one hour, they encountered several waves of ferocious beasts.
This place is home not only to fierce carnivores such as lions and tigers, but also to herds of herbivores.
At that moment, a herd of antelopes completely blocked their path.
These vigorous antelopes stood densely packed on the hillside ahead, making it impossible for the others to find a foothold. That's good. Lu Wuyai had tried to walk over before, but found the antelopes' fur was stiffer than steel. If you forced yourself to go, you would have to shave off at least a layer of skin.
Is this considered a mutation?
"Tyrannosaurus Rex can't bite them."
Lu Wuyai took a breath. The herd of antelopes possessed a formidable and highly resilient defensive system. They would shift into an offensive posture as soon as they approached their opponent's safe zone.
“There’s nothing we can do about it,” Su Xi said.
There was a cliff on one side of the mountain. Lu Wuyai originally planned to jump down directly, but after careful observation, he discovered that there was actually a riverbed below the cliff, which was densely packed with crocodiles the size of small boats.
The key point is that these crocodiles are also mutated; their tails resemble snake heads. Even from thousands of meters away, they coldly stare at the creatures on the cliff.
“There are quite a few mutated creatures.” Song Xiaoyou opened her eagle-like eyes and carefully looked at the surroundings.
At this moment, Lu Wuyai's eyes became incredibly clear. He had previously thought he also had eagle eyes, but after communicating with Song Xiaoyou, he discovered that his eyes seemed to have a wider range of vision than eagle eyes could see. Although it didn't have a 360-degree field of vision and no blind spots, it wasn't that different.
Antelopes blocked their way, so they could only wait.
And so, a full hour passed before the other side finally began to move, and the hillside in front gradually became deserted.
After wasting that little bit of time, Lu Wuyai and the others quickly made up for it, so their speed increased rapidly after that.
Song Xiaoyou has a detailed map of every trip in her mind, so the general direction is always correct.
So at dusk, in an open area at the foot of the mountain, they saw the long-lost savage tribe.
However, the tribe is now much more complex than before. The humans who have occupied it have completely renovated it, and it looks more like a base for human habitation.
“There really is a tower at the entrance.” Lu Wuyai looked across the street. Even though it was getting dark, his vision remained unobstructed.
It was clear that someone was standing on the tower opposite with a gun. However, the tower didn't look very sturdy. It was made entirely of wood, held together only by bark, so it wasn't very tall, only three meters long. Listen.
The low tower was destined to have limited visibility, and as darkness was about to fall completely, Lu Wuyai and the others began to move.
Outside the tower, rainbow grass is still everywhere, shimmering with seven colors in the twilight.
Before long, night fell, and the humans without night vision lit bonfires in the base.
However, Lu Wuyai noticed that a curtain had been drawn outside the base, seemingly blocking the light from leaking out.
At eight o'clock, the three of them walked around the grassland and came to the opposite mountain.
From here, you can reach the former savage tribe, which is near Bone Mountain.
For some reason, these humans did not destroy the bone mountain, but left it outside the base.
"Is the rope ready?" Lu Wuyai asked.
Soon, Su Xi and Song Xiaoyou slowly lowered the ropes they had carried down from the mountaintop. At the same time, after confirming that no one was below, Lu Wuyai quickly slid down the rope. The entire process was completely silent.
Later, Su Xi followed, leaving only Song Xiaoyou on the mountaintop. Her task was to observe the situation of the entire camp.
White Bone Mountain remains unchanged.
At this moment, Lu Wuyai was certain that this was the world of tranquility.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Wuyai and Su Xi exchanged a glance before entering the base from the Bone Mountain.
Be careful.
The moment he took that step, Lu Wuyai suddenly stopped and reached out to stop Su Xi.
"What's wrong?" Su Xi asked, only to see Lu Wuyai's eyebrows twitching.
“There’s a trap.” Lu Wuyai stared ahead with a serious expression.
"Bombs or landmines."
“It should just be a regular trap.” Lu Wuyai didn’t continue forward, but retreated because he noticed the patrolmen were approaching.
Hiding in the bone mountain, observing the outside world through the cracks.
After the other party left, Lu Wuyai and Su Xi reappeared at the border.
"jump over."
After saying that, Lu Wuyai jumped up and landed steadily in the cemetery, followed closely by Su Xi. The two of them took refuge in the nearest tent one after another.
Who is it?
Everyone in the tent was awake, and Lu Wuyai reacted immediately as soon as he entered.
Unfortunately, before the other party could even speak, Lu Wuyai had already knocked him unconscious.
"Nobody's here." Su Xi stood guard at the door, both nervous and excited.
There was only one person in the tent. Lu Wuyai looked around and found that the supplies were simple, with nothing else of value.
Before leaving, Tang Xin injected the other party with an anesthetic, which would at least make him drowsy.
There weren't many patrols. Lu Wuyai and Su Xi wandered around the nearby tents. All the humans they encountered had been knocked unconscious.
Two hours later, they entered the depths of the base, and the number of people nearby gradually increased.
There was a campfire there, and the nights in the world of meditation were not cold.
The current season should be at the transition between summer and autumn, and the temperature is neither too hot nor too cold, making it very comfortable.
Inside a tent, Su Xi was making new anesthetics, as Lu Wuyai had brought a lot, and he was preparing to deal with some large creatures.
“We need to hurry,” Lu Wuyai said.
Although it was nighttime and a person who had fainted inside a tent would not be discovered, it was hard to guarantee that nothing bad would happen if this went on for too long.
So far, neither of them has found any trace of the animal skin cloak.
This is the central location of the base, with ample firelight.
I checked the time and realized there was only an hour left until midnight. By now, everyone except the patrolmen should be asleep.
Even Lu Wuyai wanted to deal with the patrolling people, but no matter how strong he was, it was impossible for him to silence so many people at the same time.
“We have plenty of time,” Su Xi said.
Lu Wuyai nodded and pulled Su Xi to continue sneaking into other tents, searching for traces of the animal skin cloak.
Each patrol takes ten minutes to patrol the camp, and the two teams patrol every five minutes, so there is enough time between them for Lu Wuyai and Su Xi to search.
Another hour passed, and the night grew even darker. Several iron barrels in the camp, because they hadn't been replenished with wood in time, had all darkened to varying degrees.
Inside a tent, Lu Wuyai and Su Xi were quietly moving supplies. Because it was filled with a large number of daily necessities, it looked like one of the few warehouses in the camp.
“These things are extremely rare in the outside world.” Su Xi held a box in her hand, which contained various kinds of medicine. The box was also labeled with the model and quantity.
However, the most important thing to them was the animal skin cloak.
In the unseen radiation channel, Su Xi and Gu Yuxin walked a long way along the thin rope.
Because they cannot communicate through sound, they can only continue to rely on handwriting to convey their inner changes.
Gu Yuxin reached out and grabbed a handful of food to the side. The moment his fingertips touched Su Xi's body, he suddenly felt his panicked heart calm down a lot.
As for Su Xi, she breathed a sigh of relief when she sensed Gu Yuxin.
Su Xi: "It should be soon, let's hang in there a little longer."
Gu Yuxin: "I wonder if Lu Wuyai has found Su Xi and Song Xiaoyou yet."
Su Xi: "Don't worry, their luck won't be that bad."
Gu Yuxin: "Yes, we have survived since the beginning of the disaster."
After that, there was another long silence as the two women walked hand in hand.
This time, however, they quickly felt the temperature in the air gradually rising and the air pressure increasing.
"The snake's scales are burning," Su Xi said in surprise, while she felt a distinct pressure coming from all directions.
Gradually, the two had to slow down.
In the dimly lit base, Lu Wuyai and Su Xi finally found two animal skin cloaks at the bottom of the pile of materials.
But two pieces are not enough; at least four pieces are needed.
Are you sure there are more?
Lu Wuyai shook his head: "I don't know, let's see."
The base is large, and so far, a third of the tents have not been searched.
Su Xi hid the two animal skin cloaks carefully, and then she followed Lu Wuyai as they continued to walk out.
At this moment, a bright moon broke through the shackles of the dark clouds and hung high in the sky, like a silver plate, and you could even clearly see the crater on it.
"So big." Su Xi couldn't help but sigh, then looked away.
The next second, Su Xi grabbed Lu Wuyai's clothes and said excitedly, "Listen!"
Following the direction Su Xi pointed, Lu Wuyai looked ahead, and there stood the base tower.
"What's wrong?" Lu Wuyai didn't understand Su Xi's meaning.
“Take a look at those two flags and see what they are.” Su Xi asked Lu Wuyai to take a look. After all, he had an eagle-like eye and probably knew better than she did what the two flags were.
Upon hearing this, Yang's eyes widened as he realized that the two flags were actually animal skin cloaks.
Because all the animal skin cloaks were pieced together, these two banners, both in terms of their patterns and the feeling they gave Lu Wuyai, were exactly the same as the animal skin cloaks he had obtained before.
However, Lu Wuyai did not go over immediately. Even if he obtained the national flag, each person would only have two cloaks. While this was the bare minimum, it was still not safe enough.
Soon, the two continued their search for animal skin cloaks in nearby tents.
And so, until late at night, the two of them emerged from a corner.
“There are four cloaks in total. If you include the people in the tower, each person has three cloaks,” Su Xi quickly said.
"That's about it."
Let's go together.
Soon, Lu Wuyai led Su Xi and rushed from the tent toward the base's tower.
Along the way, he also took the opportunity to extinguish the dim campfire, and the entire base was gradually swallowed by the night.
By the time the patrol officers noticed this, Lu Wuyai had already led Su Xi to the bottom of the tower.
"Your left, my right," Lu Wuyai said to Su Xi. "Once you have the flag, leave immediately."
This time, Lu Wuyai was prepared for a swift victory. Even if he exposed himself, it wouldn't matter once he obtained the cloak.
And so, the two of them quickly approached the top of the tower at top speed.
Night had fallen, and the night was quiet. The two men who had been on the watchtower were dozing off, completely unaware that someone was rapidly approaching them.
When the other party realized what was happening, Lu Wuyai and Su Xi almost simultaneously covered the night watchman's mouth and nose.
After a brief period of suffocation, the other party fell into a coma. Lu Wuyai and Su Xi quickly took off the animal hide, folded it neatly, and ran out of the base.
After half an hour, the two of them gradually slowed down.
"Three animal hide cloaks for each person should be no problem." Lu Wuyai took a long breath; this time they should be able to go back together.
After circling around, the two returned to the edge of the cliff and found Song Xiaoyou safe and sound, and their last worries were in vain.
With three hours to go before dawn, the three wasted no time and rushed toward the riverbank.
And so, from night to dawn, and then to dusk, after two days and two nights, Lu Wuyai saw a great river flowing from north to south in the distance.
"We've arrived."
Lu Wuyai let out a long sigh of relief, finally able to end this strange journey.
Ten minutes later, they reached the shore. Using the images from their memory, they quickly found the spot where they had first surfaced.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Wuyai also went into the water and found that the black hole was still there and had not disappeared.
On the shore, the two women who had received the news also began to change their clothes.
On the other hand, Lu Wuyai handed over his snake-scale armor to Song Xiaoyou, and he himself wore two layers of animal skins.
"Don't worry," Lu Wuyai said firmly to Su Xi.
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