Chapter 57: Twisted Jungle
However, this is exactly the effect we want. Since the Brotherhood of Steel has been quite arrogant recently, as long as we act as arrogantly as them, we will definitely attract their attention.
Of course, we do not think that the arrogance of the "Brotherhood of Steel" means they are brainless. They were able to form a small-scale organization within a few months after the apocalypse. No matter how arrogant they are, they will probably test us.
So the plan Song Nanxing and I came up with was to pretend to have sufficient supplies to attract the Black Dragon Gang to rob us, and then deliberately create a big movement to attract the Brotherhood of Steel.
Even if there is no way to integrate the undercover agent into the organization, as long as we can connect with Jiang Wang and the others, this matter will be accomplished.
I discussed with Song Nanxing and we both decided to go to some places that are integrated with urban and rural areas.
The reason why the downtown area was not chosen is that the supplies in the downtown area have been almost looted to a large extent, and when the mutation came, the downtown area was the area with the highest number of infections and deaths. Now that several months have passed, the population will only become more sparse.
On the contrary, it is in the urban-rural fringe areas that there are most likely to be some scattered survivors gathering. At the same time, the information provided by the Investigation Bureau shows that the active places of the "Black Dragon Gang" are the urban-rural fringe areas.
The road was lifeless as we passed through a desolate dense forest. Some of the plants in the forest had withered, while others had grown very twisted vines and thick leaves.
I glanced at the plants that had been infected in a very strange way, and became silently alert.
This kind of thing can be difficult or easy to deal with, but I still don't want to confront infected plants unless it's absolutely necessary.
Plants are much more likely to be infected than animals, but infected plants are always more bizarre. What's more, in this jungle, there are things that are even more troublesome than plants - fungi.
Although I have never come into contact with infected plants and fungi, I have carefully read a lot of information in the Investigation Bureau's files before.
Fortunately, no plants attacked us along the way, and no emergencies occurred.
After walking for a while, I suddenly felt something strange. I stopped and looked up at the sky.
"What's wrong?" Song Nanxing saw me stop and looked at me with some confusion.
"Do you feel like we haven't made any progress?" I said with a frown.
"How can..."
The words had just reached Song Nanxing's lips when he swallowed them back. He glanced at the exit of the woods not far away and showed the same expression as me.
This forest is not very big, but we could vaguely see the edge of the woods from the beginning. Logically, it would take at most ten minutes to walk out, but after we walked for a while, the edge was still there and the distance did not shorten at all.
Could it be that this is a distorted space like the world in the mirror...
Thinking of this, I rolled up my sleeves, opened the eyes on my arms and looked around.
In the second vision, the forest was normal, without a distorted barrier like in the mirror, indicating that the space was normal.
If the problem is not in the space, then the problem is in the direction.
At this moment, I suddenly realized that these plants were not completely still, but were moving little by little silently.
Because the movement was so small, I hardly noticed it from my first perspective. It was not until I turned on my second vision that I noticed something.
Not only that, I found that the trees nearby moved more slowly than those in the distance. These plants were moving at a speed that we could not see at first glance, but was fast enough to trap us here.
It's as if they have their own thoughts.
"They are misleading us."
“These plants are moving.”
Song Nanxing and I spoke almost at the same time.
Song Nanxing glanced at me, then looked at the tree paths:
"You speak first."
"They are not completely stationary, and they are moving slowly at a speed that we cannot directly feel." I briefly repeated to him the results I had just observed.
Song Nanxing nodded: "No wonder, most people's subconscious minds tend to go in the direction of a wider field of vision, and these plants can actually use this to mislead people."
"But this is relatively easy. Although the red fog obscures the sun, there are still many ways to determine the direction."
As soon as I finished speaking, I heard a teeth-grinding noise, like the sound of wood rubbing against each other.
At the same time, the dead branches in the woods suddenly moved without wind, and branches kept breaking off. New buds sprouted from the broken branches, and buds made of flesh and blood bloomed.
My heart tightened. No way, what I said would happen?
A faint sound was heard not far away, accompanied by the friction of soil, and it was rapidly approaching our location.
Here we come!
I immediately drew my sword and slashed at the ground, cutting off a tree root that was approaching us at my feet.
The next second, more branches and vines spread towards us, and some of the flower buds above our heads began to slowly open.
A slippery, tongue-like object emerged from the bud and attacked us.
"careful!"
I turned my head and a vine suddenly appeared from the darkness and rushed straight towards my eyes. I dodged it nimbly the next second, raised my knife and chopped the vine into two pieces.
Song Nanxing was not idle either. He kept dodging the branches and vines that attacked him, while reaching into the bag behind him for something.
And in his bag, the corner of a bottle was sticking out.
I immediately understood, rushed to his side and quickly pulled out the bottle, which contained a bottle of kerosene.
I had some doubts that this little bit was not enough to burn, but in the face of the crisis, I didn't care about so much. Relying on my quickness, I quickly opened the bottle and sprinkled kerosene all over the area where we were fighting, and at the same time, I tried to sprinkle some on the bushes and tree trunks nearby.
However, there was not much kerosene in the bottle, and I soon emptied the bottle.
Song Nanxing took out a lighter and threw it to the ground.
The lighter exploded with a "bang", but failed to ignite the kerosene.
…
At this moment, I was speechless. Song Nanxing smiled at me inexplicably, then took out another windproof lighter and quickly threw it into the bushes next to him.
"boom--"
This time it did catch fire, and with the help of kerosene, the fire spread smoothly, but it was limited to a small area around us.
Fortunately, these plants seemed to be afraid of the high temperature and no longer attacked us, but slowly retreated to the surroundings.
Song Nanxing picked up a few sticks and vines that had just been cut off from the ground, tied them together to make two torches, and handed one to me, saying, "This kerosene can burn for a long time, but we have to hurry, otherwise we will both burn to death in it."
I took the torch and together with Song Nanxing, we lit up the branches of the bushes along the way one by one, and then walked quickly towards the edge of the woods.
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