Chapter 51
"Yihong, did you find anything?"
In the quiet night, Zhou Xiaohua suddenly whispered.
A gust of cold wind blew against the back of her neck, and Xiao Yihong shivered. She looked around carefully: "I just feel a little cold, but I don't see anything else. Is there something wrong?"
Although she has healing abilities, she has also done extensive research in danger detection, so she shouldn't have been unaware of it.
Zhou Xiaohua frowned: "Are you sure?"
Xiao Yihong hesitated: "Yes... yes."
Zhou Xiaohua's deep pupils were still staring at the surroundings, not missing any movement. Was he being too suspicious?
Xiao Yihong felt a little creepy when he looked at her strangely, so she slowed down her pace and formed a team of two with Li Meng behind her.
At this time, Li Meng had a gloomy face, and the cold wind blew again, making Xiao Yihong get goose bumps all over her body.
Thinking of Zhou Xiaohua's abnormality, she hugged her arms again, her voice trembling slightly: "Meng, what's wrong with you?"
Li Meng seemed to be immersed in his own thoughts and did not answer.
Xiao Yihong poked her with her elbow and asked softly again, "Meng, are you okay?"
Li Meng woke up as if from a dream. Seeing Xiao Yihong beside her, she complained angrily, "I'm so annoyed. I don't know what good and evil that person stole the food in my backpack. Why did he steal my food? He even dared to steal Sister Meng's things. He's so bold!"
Xiao Yihong finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it wasn't a big deal. "There are still people who can get things from you. You must have forgotten where you put it!"
Li Meng muttered, "How is that possible? I'm very particular about food. I remember every detail clearly. It must have been stolen."
The two continued to patrol forward, and suddenly they stopped in tacit understanding, and moved their heads stiffly to look at each other.
The night light on the protective shield shone down from above, and the faces were half in shadow and half bright. Combined with the two people's eyes wide open in surprise, there was an inexplicable sense of horror.
Li Meng took a step back, stroking her pounding heart, and said plaintively, "Sister Yihong, don't scare me."
Now was not the time to worry about these things. Xiao Yihong pulled her forward quickly, saying in a hurried tone, "Let's go, let's go report to the captain."
This was the first time they were able to steal something from the Flying Tigers, so it could only mean they had extremely high powers, so they were in trouble.
Zhou Xiaohua felt the same way. He summoned a patrol team and issued an emergency notice: "Patrol in groups of two, extend outward 100 meters, and report any danger immediately."
His expression was serious, and everyone's heart skipped a beat, but they all tacitly agreed not to ask. Now they were in the dangerous forest, danger was everywhere, and they had already prepared for a fight.
Everyone was highly focused and patrolled carefully, but only two level 3 monsters appeared throughout the night. They were not dangerous and the patrol team eliminated them effortlessly.
Even as the sky gradually brightened, the worry on Zhou Xiaohua's face did not disappear. His illusion last night was not false, and the level of danger was definitely beyond his expectations, so why was he so calm?
He couldn't help but frown, and couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he thought.
At this time, Xiao Yihong walked up to him and handed him a cup of hot water: "Captain, maybe you are nervous. Drink some water first to calm down."
Zhou Xiaohua thanked him, lifted the glass mask of the radiation helmet, quickly drank the water, and then put the mask back on.
The hot water comes from the water dispenser in Taoyuan Shelter. The owner said that it comes from natural, unpolluted spring water in the mountains. The spring water is sweet and delicious, and after being heated, it brings endless warmth to people when they drink it.
After drinking a glass of warm water, Zhou Xiaohua felt much clearer.
Maybe he was really nervous.
The camp began to come back to life and everyone came out of their tents to prepare for the day.
There is a big battle to be fought today, and this is when we need to replenish our calories for the day, so the food distributed today is extra large.
A barbecued pork bun, a vermicelli pork bun, a white flour steamed bun, a fried dough stick, an egg and a bottle of soy milk. After eating, each person pocketed a Snickers bar.
After eating, they prepared to set off. There are now 40 people left, divided into two teams, led by Zhou Xiaohua and Zhu Ke respectively.
The two teams are not far apart, so that if one team encounters difficulties that cannot be solved, the other team can rescue it in time.
Each mutant beast in the dangerous forest has its own territory. The higher the level, the larger the territory.
As veterans who have been in and out of dangerous forests for many years, each team can infer the level of the strange beast based on the hair dropped on the nearby land, the depth of the footprints, and the feces excreted by the strange beast.
Find out the level of the monster and decide whether to fight it based on your own situation.
Each team has a large number of intermediate psychics, so dealing with level 3 monsters is no problem at all. Dealing with level 4 monsters may take some effort, and dealing with level 5 monsters will be a bit difficult.
However, everyone bought a lot of satisfactory weapons at the weapon shop, which made them more powerful when fighting against strange beasts.
Everyone gained a lot on the first day. At 6 pm, the team returned to the camp and gathered in the center of the camp to count the supplies.
Among the 25 people in Zhu Ke’s team, there was a low-level space ability user, and his space was almost full.
He placed all the supplies on the ground, and someone was responsible for counting them. Only after the counting was completed were they put back into Wang Xing's space.
Today, a total of 10 fifth-level exotic beasts, 100 fourth-level exotic beasts, and 200 third-level exotic beasts were captured. Not counting the useful items peeled off from the exotic beasts, the crystal cores alone are worth 220,000.
Including the sporadic captures during the journey in the past few days, the number of crystal cores is close to 300,000.
This is only the first day, and we didn’t expect to have such a great harvest. Everyone is very motivated. As long as we can hold on for a few more days, we can enjoy ourselves for a while when we go back.
"Thank you all for your hard work today. At the same time, we must remain vigilant, step up patrols, and never let our guard down."
"Roger that, Captain!"
Everyone responded in unison, then dispersed, each doing their own job without needing any instructions.
The second day in the dangerous forest also went smoothly. They only needed to work for one more day and then they could return. Everyone was extremely excited.
Stationed in the dangerous forest, with all kinds of supplies produced by the shelter, although the living and food conditions have been greatly improved, they are still not comparable to those in the shelter.
The tent was not as comfortable as the thick mattress in the shelter, and we couldn't wash up as we pleased. Several female compatriots kept complaining that they were almost smelly because they hadn't taken a shower for several days.
On the last day, everyone sat down to rest after breakfast.
Zhu Ke walked up to Zhou Xiaohua and asked, "Captain Zhou, it's the last day. Do you want to go there and take a look?"
Zhou Xiaohua thought for a moment and nodded: "Yeah, I have the same idea. I think it will be no problem if our two groups go together."
They discovered this place by chance during their hunting trip the next day. Judging from the traces of the strange beasts' activities, they preliminarily deduced that there were at least 10 level 5 strange beasts inside.
It was the first time for the captains to face off against so many strange beasts, so they were a bit conservative.
But judging from the situation in the past few days, everyone is in good physical condition, and some team members are showing signs of improvement. This trial may be an opportunity.
Everyone packed up everything in the camp and even put the garbage into Wang Xing's space.
Now, 30 years have passed since the radiation arrived, and the environmental conditions are getting worse and worse. They have a strong subconscious awareness of environmental protection and consciously take the garbage back to the shelter and put it in the trash can for decomposition.
A quarter of an hour after the main force left, a group of more than a dozen people appeared in the empty camp.
A skinny, short man hopped up and down, searching back and forth. He circled back to the leading man in the black hat and said angrily, "This little brat is so stingy. He didn't even leave a drop of soup."
The man in the black hat was very tall, but his expression could not be seen because his face was covered with a black cloth. He snorted and laughed, and the black cloth was lifted up by his domineering breath and then fell down quickly.
"No rush, let's just follow closely. There will always be a chance to strike. Thief, do you see who the space ability user is?"
The skinny man known as the master thief laughed twice, looking extremely proud: "Of course, I am a master thief!"
"As long as I take action, there's nothing I can't do. You don't know that I sneaked in several times without them noticing. I think their strength is just so-so! But those packets of food were really delicious, but the portions were too small. I only got one bite, slurp~"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone else was immersed in envy and beauty, and they all licked their lips unconsciously, as if the wonderful taste of the food that day was still before their eyes.
The black-hatted man looked at the saliva flowing from the corner of the skinny man's mouth with disdain and said unhappily, "Look at how useless you are. Don't worry. As long as we find a chance to capture that space ability user, then..."
The thief scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "We can eat as much as we want when the time comes, hehe~"
"You have no idea how big his space is. There are so many supplies. He just takes them in with a wave of his hand. Those little guys get a lot of food every day. They must be very well fed!"
The man in the black hat looked at the thief, who was drooling with envy, and snorted again in dissatisfaction, then turned his head and looked around for something.
"Where's Xiaochuan? Why hasn't he come back yet? Don't lose him."
As soon as he finished speaking, a scream came from far away.
"Report, report!"
The team's spy was a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old. He moved very quickly and rushed to the middle of the team in the blink of an eye, but he couldn't control the force and braked too hard.
With a sharp sound of shoes sliding on the ground, the spy turned around and returned to the man in the black hat.
The man in the black hat glanced down at the young boy and said in a cold voice, "Be more stable. You are not a child anymore."
The boy kept panting, probably because he had run back very quickly. Before he could rest, he said breathlessly: "Boss, it's not good, boss, it's not good, it's not good."
The thief slapped the boy hard: "You're cursing my boss, can you even speak?"
The boy quickly explained: "It's not the boss who's at fault, it's the group of people just now who's at fault. They went to the mutant spider."
"What?"
"Fuck!"
Everyone seemed to be unable to believe it and exclaimed in surprise.
The man in the black hat frowned when he heard this, and didn't know what to do for a moment.
The thief cautiously approached him and advised, "Boss, those spiders are level six monsters, and there's a huge group of them! You have to avoid them even when you walk, let alone them! I think they're definitely in big trouble this time, so why don't we just... forget it?"
As we all know, alien beasts are divided into five levels, level 1 to level 5, and the strength of each level varies greatly. This is the first time that a level 6 alien beast has appeared, so it's no wonder they are so frightened.
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