Half an hour later, on the rocky hill, Lu Wuyai and Yu Mengrou were drinking beer and quietly enjoying the night view.
"You scumbag."
Hearing this, Lu Wuyai's face darkened. Yu Mengrou's cursing as soon as she opened her mouth made him want to hit her.
However, seeing Yu Mengrou's somewhat intoxicated look, Lu Wuyai secretly thought that she was probably drunk.
"You scumbag, I never thought you'd have a child." Gu Yuxin took a sip of her drink, her face turning red.
"..."
"So much time has passed that I've forgotten how we survived on that deserted island." Gu Yuxin's words also triggered Lu Wuyai's memories.
"It was too difficult at first," Lu Wuyai said with a smile. At that time, he and Gu Yuxin had just arrived on the deserted island and experienced a lot.
Lu Wuyai then remembered that the person he had spent the most time with from the very beginning was actually Gu Yuxin.
Why?
A strange sigh rose from the depths of Gu Yuxin's heart. Looking at the increasingly resolute man before her, an indescribable emotion stirred within her.
“Let’s go back,” Lu Wuyai said. They had been sitting outside for a long time, and the cold air of the night was spreading, with frost already appearing in many places.
Gu Yuxin nodded and followed Lu Wuyai back to the cave.
Perhaps because of the large temperature difference between indoors and outdoors, the two of them felt drowsy for a while, so after they separated, they went to bed and fell asleep quickly.
The next morning, everyone gradually got out of bed. Lu Wuyai looked at the outside environment through the periscope as usual. As a result, a venomous snake crawled out of the periscope tube, startling him.
But he reacted quickly, reaching out to grab the snake's head and tearing it off.
He threw the dead snake on the ground and crushed its head to pieces.
Meanwhile, traces of venomous snakes were also found in different parts of the cave.
"Turn on the lights, be careful!" Gu Yuxin shouted from the lab.
Soon, lights came on one by one, instantly brightening the pitch-black cave. While night vision was possible, the light provided a sense of security.
Lu Wuyai looked at the venomous snakes roaming the ground. Many of them looked very strange. Just seeing them gave him a chill down his spine.
"Don't get bitten by these things." Lu Wuyai didn't fire. A gun was probably less effective than the shovel in his hand.
It's broken.
A venomous snake was beaten to death by Lu Wuyai. The immense force of the blow, accompanied by the echoing of the shovel, was terrifying.
Lu Wuyai's eyebrows furrowed into a deep frown as he wondered to himself where these venomous snakes had come from.
Soon, Gu Yuxin emerged from the laboratory, reeking of a pungent odor. He held some purplish-yellow powder in his hand and tossed it into the air.
Suddenly, a pungent smell shot straight down from the nose and into the brain. Almost no one was spared; everyone was coughing.
"This is outrageous!" Lu Wuyai covered his nose, almost bursting into tears. No one knew what Moroi had taken.
After the smoke cleared, everyone noticed that the venomous snakes that had been crawling on the ground were still there, seemingly lost in thought. But when they picked them up and examined them closely, they found that the snakes were completely dead.
"What just happened?" Lu Wuyai asked Gu Yuxin while wiping away his tears.
"It's a mixture of sulfur-infused powder, dried balsam powder, and other things," Gu Yuxin said quickly. Even she herself couldn't stand the smell.
Although the powder had settled, the smell in the air was too strong.
Fortunately, Su Xi and Rou Rou stayed in the lab and turned on the fan, otherwise they would have been in trouble too.
"Why were there so many venomous snakes?" Su Xi was terrified. Although the snakes were all dead now, the psychological trauma they had suffered was amplified.
Lu Wuyai's expression was serious. So many venomous snakes had suddenly appeared. Clearly, something was happening in the outside world.
“Everyone should take this.” Gu Yuxin handed out several transparent boxes to everyone. The palm-sized boxes contained the powder from before.
Lu Wuyai nodded, and then led the women to inspect every underground space, discovering more traces of venomous snakes.
Using this powder, a large number of venomous snakes were killed, but no one showed much surprise.
"I sense something's about to happen." Everyone scrambled out of the holes in the containers. The mooing of the cows in the barn was particularly piercing. Two cows had just been bitten to death by venomous snakes, and the rest were clearly terrified.
Before leaving the cowshed, Lu Wuyai sprinkled the medicinal powder evenly on his body inside to prevent the cows from being poisoned again.
On the way back to the cave, the forest was completely silent.
Although the journey was short, everyone was on tenterhooks, fearing that there might be venomous snakes nearby.
Finally, they arrived at the entrance to the cave. Just as Su Xi was about to go in, Lu Wuyai grabbed her arm and pulled her back.
“Listen.” Lu Wuyai raised his chin and looked up at the entrance. Su Xi looked ahead, but found nothing for a long time.
Lu Wuyai picked up a piece of dead wood from the roadside and thrust it into the ground. As a result, a yellowish-brown triangular venomous snake quickly crawled along the dead wood, opened its mouth wide, and tried to bite him.
As it turned out, Song Xiaoyou was even faster, knocking the venomous snake away with a single slash, preventing it from harming Lu Wuyai.
Upon seeing this, Su Xi immediately patted her chest, feeling cold sweat breaking out on her forehead.
"Come in quickly," Lu Wuyai urged. The nearby forest looked cold, and that feeling was unpleasant.
Everyone ran into the tomb, closed the doors, and sprinkled powder at all the entrances and exits. It is unclear how long this effect will last.
"This may be the source of the venomous snakes."
Lu Wuyai noticed a rather large gap in the iron door at the entrance to the basement, which had been broken open by a group of survivors last time.
After using some supplies to plug the gap, they went to the orchard, which used to be a haunt of poisonous snakes.
Upon entering the orchard, a strong, pungent odor assaulted their senses once more. Everyone noticed that Gu Yuxin was sprinkling snake repellent powder inside, and their vision became somewhat blurred.
"Don't break up, come out quickly!" Lu Wuyai shouted loudly, enduring the stinging in his eyes.
When Gu Yuxin ran back, everyone noticed she was wearing a mask. No wonder there was no reaction.
"Couldn't this be a little softer?" Su Xi complained.
"Of course not. Do you think snakes and insects can be driven away so easily?" Gu Yuxin closed the orchard gate, took off her gas mask, and hung it on a nearby hook.
"Check again carefully. If we leave one of us in the hole, we might all die."
Gu Yuxin's words drew everyone's attention. Upon returning, they searched the box and found several venomous snakes hidden in the bedding.
After finishing their meal, everyone searched several more times to make sure there were no venomous snakes before preparing to go to sleep.
But no one slept well that night, especially Lu Wuyai, who stayed awake almost the entire night.
It wasn't that there were poisonous snakes in the cave, but rather that there was always a rustling sound coming from the rocky mountain.
He used the periscope to observe and found it was blocked by something, which persisted for a long time. When he finally managed to pry the periscope out of the hole, he saw many venomous snakes of varying sizes in the pitch-black night.
It felt like ants moving before a storm, only this time they were replaced by a swarm of snakes.
At that moment, Lu Wuyai got goosebumps all over his body, feeling as if all the venomous snakes from the deserted island had come here.
After blocking the vent, Lu Wuyai touched his forehead, which was covered in cold sweat.
Early the next morning, everyone emerged from the cave and saw the same deserted island as before. Everything that had happened the day before seemed like an illusion.
So everyone took a walk in the early morning and headed towards the deadwood forest.
As a result, they saw two crushed cars plunging down a gentle slope. The accident scene was horrific, with some areas showing strange, large holes, as if something had cut them open.
“These things didn’t seem to be there yesterday,” Lu Wuyai said, puzzled. He had only been back for two days, and too many strange things had happened.
The car was completely deformed by the pressure, and the people inside were turned into mincemeat due to the immense pressure.
Lu Wuyai walked over and tried to open the trunk of the car.
With a bang.
Lu Wuyai stepped onto the horizontal bar and pulled with all his might. The metal trunk was opened directly, revealing several knives inside.
Lu Wuyai narrowed his eyes slightly, noticing that the style of the knife looked somewhat familiar. As he carefully recalled recent events, his pupils suddenly contracted.
"Aren't these the weapons used to chase down Wu Jiujiu's group?" Lu Wuyai felt a slight ache in his back teeth, then picked up the knives from the trunk.
Back in the Deadwood Forest, Lu Wuyai had always envied his opponent's weapon, which was as sharp as iron.
Yang insisted on using a knife to slash, and when he hit the car, the impact area was immediately cut open.
"What a sharp knife!" The women were stunned. Then they tried it one by one, and the effect was amazing.
"Put these knives away first, be careful," Lu Wuyai said, because one wrong move and you might really get hurt.
The women stepped forward, each taking a knife. Upon closer inspection, they discovered that the blade had a special coating in the sunlight, which was what made the blade so tough.
The blade also shimmered with a faint light, like ripples on water.
Putting the knife away, Lu Wuyai went back to the driver's seat and looked at the corpse that had been crushed into a meat patty. There was a putrid smell in the air.
Lu Wuyai couldn't help but wonder what these people had encountered before they died.
"And Wu Jiujiu, since all these company people are here, is she nearby too?" Lu Wuyai looked at the withered forest opposite him and fell into deep thought.
After walking for a while without finding any poisonous insects or wild animals, everyone went back to the cowshed to check on the safe cows. It seemed nothing unexpected had happened last night.
However, the smell in the cowshed was really unpleasant.
"I'm going to the puddle to get some water to purify myself." After saying that, Lu Wuyai turned and left.
During this time, seemingly due to rising temperatures, the freshwater level at the bottom of the pool began to rise again. They no longer needed to go to very deep places; they could simply stand on the rocky hill to fetch water.
A few minutes later, the water tank in the cowshed was filled with clean water, and the women put down their knives and began to clean.
During this time, Lu Wuyai looked around in the forest again.
“These trees seem to be much taller,” Lu Wuyai said.
After the ice storm, everyone thought the forest vegetation would drastically decrease, but in fact, it grew considerably. Now that the temperature has risen, the seeds Lu Wuyai planted five days ago have also sprouted. Even Gu Yuxin finds it difficult to give a suitable explanation for such a rapid growth.
Moreover, Gu Yuxin also told Lu Wuyai that even with the help of the Black Stone, such a growth rate was still very abnormal.
Lu Wuyai walked into the forest and looked at the cows grazing opposite him. He wasn't sure if he was hallucinating. He felt that these cows seemed much stronger than before.
Especially those four cow legs, which were made of beef tendon and meat. Lu Wuyai suspected that if they showed their strength, they might be able to kick down a nearby tree.
"I have a feeling that everything changed after this ice storm." Lu Wuyai rubbed his eyes, beginning to wonder if it was his problem.
As night fell, the cowshed was cleaned up, and a group of people were preparing to return to the cave when they felt a slight tremor on the calm ground.
Lu Wuyai looked suspiciously into the depths of the forest and asked, "Did you feel the tremor?"
"All right."
"I felt it too, did you?"
"Me too, what happened?"
Everyone looked at each other in surprise, not expecting that everyone else had sensed it except themselves.
After a short while, the vibrations grew closer, and some nearby stones and sand began to vibrate.
Song Xiaoyou saw something approaching them from the bushes not far away.
"Hurry up," Lu Wuyai urged. He also felt something was wrong. This tremor wasn't an earthquake, but rather something seemed to be rushing towards them.
As a result, in just a few breaths, one after another, the saplings as thick as arms nearby snapped, and then a wild boar as big as a mountain rushed out.
It was a wild boar with long black hair. What truly chilled everyone was its body, which resembled a small mountain. It suddenly rose from the ground and continued to crush everyone.
"Damn, how could there be such a huge wild boar?" Everyone was stunned, and then their scalps went numb. Lu Wuyai rallied everyone to run towards the tomb chamber.
"They've gone mad."
"Run, don't stop."
Lu Wuyai let out a strange scream, and the wild boar behind him pushed them towards them like a bulldozer, its speed increasing rapidly.
In those few hundred meters, everyone felt like they were racing against death. If they were even a fraction slower, they would be crushed to pieces.
Finally, they returned to the tomb and immediately closed the iron gate.
Lu Wuyai leaned against the iron gate. Just as he steadied himself, a tremendous force struck him directly from the other end of the gate.
Although I was mentally prepared, I was still thrown by the brute force and crashed directly onto the concrete floor of the cave.
"Lu Wuyai".
The women rushed over and helped Lu Wuyai up from the ground. However, the next second, the iron gate behind them was smashed open and crashed to the ground with a clatter.
The basement immediately fell silent.
Lu Wuyai quickly stood up, picked up a long knife he had just taken from the ground, and rushed towards the cave entrance.
The wild boar was too big to fit into the cave, but the iron gate was indeed pushed open by its opponent, demonstrating its immense brute strength.
"uh-huh."
The wild boar kept rooting around the cave, making a piercing noise, which attracted the people inside to rush over.
"Oh my god." Yuri took a deep breath, her legs spinning.
At this point, Lu Wuyai brandished his knife and looked around. Sensing danger, the wild boar ran away. But when Lu Wuyai retreated, it launched another attack, and the two sides were temporarily locked in a stalemate.
It wasn't until Song Xiaoyou and the others realized what was happening that they pulled out their guns and fired them out of the cave.
Gunshots rang out, bullets pierced the wild boar's body, but no one saw it fall to the ground.
Soon, the wild boar turned around and ran into the forest opposite, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Inside the tomb, many people felt exhausted. After regaining their senses, they began to deal with the mess outside the burial site and to cover the entrance.
Lu Wuyai walked over and picked up the iron gate from the ground. He found that the smooth iron plate had been dented by the wild boar and was no longer usable.
"Are you alright?" Su Xi walked over. She had just heard that Lu Wuyai had been beaten up.
Lu Wuyai shook his head, sighed, and told Su Xi not to worry. He needed to get the entrance to the tomb sorted out before dinner.
The card reader was also damaged, and now the iron gate can only be closed simply, without any security measures.
Lu Wuyai went on a trip and returned with a new iron plate in his hand. It was square. He had taken many of these during the last supply transport mission. They weren't very useful then, so he carried them casually. There were some.
After blocking the entrance to the cave, Lu Wuyai didn't take any further action for the time being. He would think about it all night and make a plan tomorrow.
During the meal, everyone was still discussing the big wild boar they had just seen.
"It was terrifying just now," Jin Xilu said, her heart pounding. She took a deep breath, her chest trembling, while Lu Wuyai couldn't open his eyes.
"There are poisonous snakes and wild boars; the forest is too unsafe."
"There were too many bushes, and we didn't see the wild boars until they got close."
"I don't know what he ate to grow up, but he's grown so big..."
"But if you die, you can have a good meal." They chatted for a while, and soon dinner was over.
Before going to sleep, Lu Wuyai moved his bed to the basement, where he would rest until the security issues at the entrance were completely resolved.
“Good night,” he said to Yuri, telling her to get a good night’s sleep.
There were many things and fragments in the cave. Moreover, it was very close to the orchard, so the smell of soil was indeed very strong.
That night, Lu Wuyai was deep in thought. When he woke up the next day, he felt a little tired.
Opening the iron plate at the entrance, golden sunlight streamed into the cave, creating a special warmth.
Lu Wuyai wasn't in a hurry to close the door, as there was no immediate danger from the outside. Letting the air in the cave circulate was also a good idea.
Unfortunately, after thinking about it all night, he couldn't figure out how to rearrange the entrance to the tomb.
"Never mind." Lu Wuyai stood outside, thinking that in the worst-case scenario, he would sleep in the tomb chamber. As for the daytime, he would lock the tomb chamber from the inside.
This way, although it's very inconvenient, at least there's no risk of being broken into.
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