Lu Wuyai's expression was very serious: "No matter what, we must take precautions. These two oxen must die."
There's absolutely no luck involved in this kind of thing. It was the filming choice Lu Wuyai made before.
Two more gunshots rang out, and two more bodies lay on the ground. Lu Wuyai went into the cave, got some diesel fuel, poured it on the bodies, and then set them on fire, watching them turn into a pile of grayish-black bones.
“You can’t drink the milk, throw it away,” Lu Wuyai said.
Song Xiaoyou and Gu Yuxin exchanged a glance, and finally walked to the cowshed and poured all the milk they had collected that day onto the grass.
"Don't come here to graze alone these next few days." Lu Wuyai looked towards the cowshed. There were dozens of cows and goats inside. If they were really infected, it would be hard to guarantee that the infection wouldn't spread among the animals.
“We know.” Gu Yuxin and Song Xiaoyou nodded seriously.
"Then let's go back together."
Half an hour later, after cleaning up the area around the cowshed, the three of them returned to the cave together.
When they heard that the cows were likely to be infected, everyone panicked a little.
“Don’t get excited,” Gu Yuxin said. “The sixth phase of the herbal medicine will be completed soon. We will test it a few times. If there are no problems, we will…”
Human injection
Lu Wuyai and the others seemed thoughtful and somewhat worried. After all, the production of any drug requires a large amount of data verification. Injecting it into the human body after only a few tests was a bit chilling.
"Don't worry, these things are not toxic. Even if we were to test them on humans, I would be the first person to do so," Gu Yuxin said nonchalantly.
The next day, Lu Wuyai arrived at the cowshed early and carefully observed the condition of each cow and goat.
Fortunately, there are currently no more infected animals in the barn.
However, no one dared to get too close to the animals while they were grazing. After all, the cause of the disease was still unknown.
"How did you get infected?" Lu Wuyai frowned, looking at the cows grazing on the hillside. "Could it be from the grass?"
Around noon, Gu Yuxin brought some fifth-stage herbal medicine and poured it into the trough where the cows usually drank.
"Don't you feel sad?" Lu Wuyai asked in surprise. It takes several months to manufacture these five stages of herbal medicine at once.
Gu Yuxin rolled her eyes and said, "It's better than a dead cow."
Gu Yuxin also has her own troubles.
While so-called herbal medicines can enhance a person's physical condition, no one knows whether they can prevent genetic viruses.
For example, the cows, Gu Yuxin had given them the second stage of herbal medicine, but they still got infected.
Currently, Gu Yuxin is bleeding heavily and continues to administer the fifth stage of herbal medicine to the cows. This is also to verify that the medicine can indeed prevent viral infections.
After leaving the cowshed, Lu Wuyai drove directly to the Deadwood Forest. As Gu Yuxin began a new round of herbal medicine production, Lu Wuyai and the others also needed to store black stones.
In the deadwood forest, with continuous clearing, the path has become wide enough for cars to move forward.
After Lu Wuyai drove the car into the deadwood forest, the car slowed down significantly. He frowned and saw a lot of animal droppings in the passage, which looked like wolf droppings.
"In this forest of dead trees, the number of animals is increasing."
"
Soon, Lu Wuyai parked the car and saw a large pit more than a meter deep in front of him, with black stones covering the ground.
"The black stone veins here are beyond imagination. Why haven't they been discovered before?" Lu Wuyai shook his head and sighed.
But it's not too late yet. Lu Wuyai took out a generator and drill bit from the car and immediately began drilling holes in the ground.
He was temporarily alone in the deadwood forest, the sound of the electric drill extremely jarring. However, Lu Wuyai plugged in the earphones Gu Yuxin had given him. They were very effective at blocking out the noise.
After digging for half an hour, Lu Wuyai breathed a sigh of relief, put down the electric drill, stretched his arms, and loosened his muscles.
I've been working intensely just now, now I can relax a bit.
A few minutes later, Lu Wuyai heard footsteps coming from the dead wood forest, and knew that another woman had arrived.
It was already noon, and the sun's rays were very strong, even in the ancient, withered forest. Moreover, because there were no branches or leaves, it was actually a bit hotter than other places.
Soon, several women came out. Su Xi handed Lu Wuyai a lunchbox and a dozen or so military rations, telling him to go to the car to eat first, as they were preparing to move the Black Stone over.
"Thank you for your hard work." Lu Wuyai smiled as he got into the car, opened his lunchbox, and began to eat.
Outside the car, four women—Su Xi, Su Xi, Song Xiaoyou, and Yu Mengrou—began to lift the black stone.
But shortly after we started moving, the accident happened.
Dozens of golden cats suddenly emerged from the forest and appeared silently beside Su Xi and the others.
"Let's go." Su Xi took out a baton from her pocket and swung it around.
Meow!
The golden cat shrieked and leaped up to dodge Su Xi's attack. Afterward, it continued to approach the four women with graceful steps.
“These cats and dogs are so annoying,” Su Xi said, even pulling out a pistol as if to fire.
However, Song Xiaoyou next to her was faster.
A lot of unexpected things have happened recently. Song Xiaoyou made a small crossbow for everyone, similar to a pistol, except it fires crossbow bolts instead of bullets.
"Speak it out."
An arrow became a black shadow, only slightly slower than a bullet.
The next second, the cat's meows suddenly stopped, and an iron arrow was stuck in the head of a cat-like beast.
"Xiao You," Su Xi exclaimed, "I didn't expect your crossbow to be so powerful!"
Everyone else was stunned when the crossbow was fired.
"It's alright, but the clip is too small; it can't hold that many bullets," said Song Xiaoyou.
Meow!
Suddenly, a golden cat leaped out of the forest, moving so fast that it was just a shadow. By the time the women reacted, the cat was already in front of them.
Su Xi screamed in fright, "Don't come any closer!"
In the chaos, the four were forced to separate. Suddenly, golden cats from the forest rushed out in groups of four or five, completely scattering them.
"Su Xi, be careful behind you," Yu Mengrou called out.
Su Xi swung the baton backward, clearly feeling the resistance, but still managed to dodge the opponent's attack.
Then, Su Xi shouted at the car, "Lu Wuyai, come out quickly."
In the driver's seat, Lu Wuyai had indeed witnessed four women being surrounded by Jinmao, but they escaped unharmed; Jinmao wasn't that bold. Su Xi's baton struck one of the women, and Jinmao immediately ran away.
After finishing the rest of his meal in a few bites, Lu Wuyai took his pistol and went outside.
"Lu Wuyai, kill them quickly!" Su Xi was a little unhappy; her pants had been scratched in several places by the golden cat.
Lu Wuyai smiled and shot several cat-beasts that were about to move. But to Lu Wuyai's surprise, several golden cats were still staring at them, looking somewhat different.
“Come on over, all of you,” Lu Wuyai said, instinctively sensing a hint of danger.
The women immediately approached Lu Wuyai, realizing something was amiss. The remaining felines seemed completely unafraid of humans. They appeared to be only slightly larger than ordinary house cats, but their imposing presence gave off an air of dominance.
Lu Wuyai first examined the eyes of these cat-beasts. When he found that there were no blood vessels in their eyes, his previous suspicion that they were infected with a virus immediately disappeared.
“It’s not just a matter of being infected by the virus,” Lu Wuyai thought to himself.
However, these felines were indeed very ferocious. Even as Lu Wuyai continued to attack, they were still looking for an opportunity to strike.
"Such a fast pace." Lu Wuyai withdrew his hand and noticed two bloody marks on the back of his hand. The stinging sensation made a few drops of cold sweat appear on his forehead.
That's too fast.
Lu Wuyai revealed a cautious expression. These cat-beasts have a strong ability to sense danger, and coupled with their high-speed movement, there is no way to hit them unless you shoot them with a machine gun.
"Let's get back to the car and forget about this for today." Lu Wuyai looked helpless. The bullets couldn't hit the cat-beasts, so there was no point in them staying.
"Wait a minute," said Song Xiaoyou.
The two sides were deadlocked, but it was clear that the cat-like creatures were getting impatient. A few minutes later, the golden cats that had been watching them eagerly went into the woods.
Just then, Lu Wuyai saw an opportunity and shot a golden cat dead.
After pulling the corpse out of the forest, Lu Wuyai finally killed one of the guys with a smile on his face.
“Take it back to Gu Yuxin. I feel like this golden cat is different from before,” Lu Wuyai said, and the others felt the same way. When facing the golden cat, they had the illusion of facing a tiger.
Afterwards, everyone continued mining ore. Lu Wuyai was so fast that even the four women couldn't keep up.
Gradually, more and more stones appeared in the mine, and Lu Wuyai continued to venture deeper into the deadwood forest. In the entire afternoon, he dug out another mine shaft the size of a basketball.
In the one-meter-deep mine shaft, Lu Wuyai glanced at the lights in the west and then drove the car back to Shishan.
The sunset is infinitely beautiful, but it is already dusk.
That evening, after returning to Shiqiu, Lu Wuyai brought the golden cat to the laboratory and told him what had happened in the Deadwood Forest.
Gu Yuxin was clearly very interested. He put the golden cat's body into a box, which was then placed in a plastic bucket filled with ice.
As a result, that very night, Gu Yuxin found Lu Wuyai, who was about to go to sleep, and told him that she had discovered the secret of these golden cats.
"These golden cats seem to have many mysterious substances in their cells. Take a look for yourself."
On the microscope screen, Lu Wuyai saw closely connected cells, and as the resolution improved, more and more things gradually became clear.
They are tiny black dots. I don't know what they are, but they keep bumping against the cell walls.
During the collision, some black dots failed, while others successfully entered the cell.
Once the successful black dots entered the cells, they clearly integrated with the cells, but Lu Wuyai was completely baffled and didn't know what this meant.
“I don’t know the specific details, but those golden cats must have eaten something that made them different from the other golden cats.”
Gu Yuxin decided to go to the Deadwood Forest with Lu Wuyai and the others tomorrow; perhaps they could find something there.
The next morning, Lu Wuyai brought Gu Yuxin, Yu Mengrou, and Song Xiaoyou to the mine early.
Not seeing the golden cat yet, Lu Wuyai and the others continued mining. The vein was enormous. Lu Wuyai had already mined many areas, controlling the mine's depth to around one meter.
With this depth, getting in and out is relatively convenient, and it's also easy to carry things. Moreover, Lu Wuyai made a few steps on the side for easy access.
Around noon, the golden cat appeared faintly in the deadwood forest.
"Follow them." Gu Yuxin took four land patrol robots from the car, two of which were solar-powered and could continue to drive in the sun.
“Be careful, especially with those solar panels; it would be a real shame to lose them,” Morroy warned repeatedly.
Soon, the four people were controlling the land patrol robot, following Golden Cat at a distance.
Some golden cats noticed the mine and were shot dead by Lu Wuyai. Unfortunately, there were no golden cats as powerful as tigers and leopards.
"The paths are so narrow where these golden cats have walked," Gu Yuxin remarked, adding that cats are indeed "liquid" creatures.
Fortunately, the Land Cruiser is also very small and has not encountered any obstacles so far.
An hour later, the two charging land patrol robots ran out of power, leaving only the two solar-powered robots still in operation.
Lu Wuyai and Song Xiaoyou were very careful, afraid that the two machines would break in the dead wood.
Their solar panels are really limited, and they're needed for many things, so losing even one means losing one less.
"These golden cats have been gone for two hours," Lu Wuyai said, his fingers getting a little numb as he gripped the handle.
As for Song Xiaoyou, she has been replaced three times, and the screen is now filled with static.
A dozen minutes later, Lu Wuyai finally saw that the golden cat that had been moving forward had stopped at this moment, and a cave appeared in the dense, withered forest.
The four people looked at each other, their surprise evident.
"There's actually a cave here." Lu Wuyai was taken aback and full of doubt. What was even stranger was that many golden cats hesitated and dared not go forward, and only a very few golden cats chose to enter.
Afterward, the two land patrol robots found their hiding places on either side of the cave, with their cameras pointing forward.
An hour later, the golden cat that had gone into the cave finally came out.
But to everyone's surprise, these golden cats that emerged from the cave one after another gave off an eerie feeling.
Although it was still a golden cat, the hesitant cat-beasts nearby were all retreating. They were clearly of the same kind, yet they were terrified.
"Do you remember what these golden cats looked like when they first entered the cave?" Lu Wuyai asked.
Gu Yuxin: "It's just an ordinary golden cat, but now... it's obvious that there must be something in this cave."
Lu Wuyai nodded, but observant people could still notice that while twenty golden cats had entered the cave earlier, only three cat-beasts had come out now.
"Could it be that all the other felines are dead?" Lu Wuyai took a breath and suddenly felt that this cave was a death cave. He didn't know what could change the way living things breathe.
"Let's take another look," said Song Xiaoyou.
But when the other cat-like creatures left, none of them came out.
At this moment, two land patrol robots began to drive towards the cave.
Soon, they arrived at the cave entrance, paused for a few seconds, and then continued forward.
But to Lu Wuyai's surprise, the temperature in the cave was extremely low. According to data obtained from the land patrol robot, the temperature here was only -3 degrees Celsius.
This is very unusual. You have to understand that it's winter now, and there's a place on a deserted island that's so cold.
Along this road, you can also see many dead golden cats. Their limbs are stiff, and there are no external injuries. They look as if they froze to death.
Lu Wuyai frowned, because the machine was malfunctioning in this environment. The screen looked like static, and the picture was unclear.
Finally, to prevent the robot from being destroyed, Lu Wuyai and the others withdrew from the land patrol and decided to go to the cave themselves to take a look.
Although the robot followed the golden cat for two hours, it didn't actually cover much distance.
Lu Wuyai and the others spent the entire afternoon cutting down dead trees by the roadside, and finally, as darkness fell, they were very close to the cave.
"Let's go back first," Gu Yuxin said. Actually, she felt that the cave was inexplicably dangerous, so she decided to come back and check it out during the day tomorrow.
Lu Wuyai nodded. He also felt that the cave not far away, covered by layers of withered branches, resembled a demon's cave. He didn't know what dangers awaited him inside.
Early the next morning, before the golden cat appeared, Lu Wuyai and his group arrived at the Deadwood Forest with down jackets, guns, and ammunition.
After spending half an hour cutting down all the dead trees in front of the cave entrance, a dark and deep cave appeared before them.
"I'll go in and take a look first. You guys wait for me at the cave entrance," Lu Wuyai said with a smile. He hadn't slept well last night because of his curiosity.
At the cave entrance, Lu Wuyai put on a down jacket and went straight inside.
"Be careful," Su Xi called out.
Lu Wuyai nodded and walked five meters straight into the cave without stopping. Suddenly, a cold sensation hit him.
"It's really cold." Lu Wuyai shivered. Looking at the countless golden cat corpses in front of him, he felt his scalp tingle and goosebumps rise all over his body.
Too many golden cats have died.
Lu Wuyai drew his pistol from his waist and began to walk deeper into the dark cave.
At the same time, wisps of cold white air appeared inside the cave, making it look unusually cold.
Lu Wuyai secretly thought that this cave was like an ice cave, and he had no idea what was inside.
Thinking this, Lu Wuyai went deeper and deeper, and soon reached the end of the cave.
Despite the darkness, Lu Wuyai's vision was not obstructed. He saw a puddle of water in front of him.
The pool was pitch black; there was nothing there except for it.
But to Lu Wuyai's surprise, the pool changed color as he continued to approach.
From a distance, the pond appeared black, as still as a mirror, without a single ripple. As we approached, the water turned a light blue, a thin mist appeared on the surface, and white vapor filled the air.
Lu Wuyai took a breath and thought to himself, this must be the so-called cold pool.
Around the icy pool, Lu Wuyai also saw several cat-like beasts lying on the ground, each of them stiff as a statue.
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