Chapter 389 388. Inside the Ruins [Two in One]

The ruins in front of us do not cover a large area. Standing at the highest point and looking down, the total area is only two acres.

The exposed top of the building and the barely visible corners are all made of weathered and decayed concrete, reinforced concrete and masonry.

"No wonder Brother Zhou Qian didn't want to come over. It seems like he really couldn't find anything..."

Huaiyu saw it for the first time and couldn’t help but murmur.

Finally, she asked Lin Xuefeng, "How do the general guards find this kind of ruins? Use instruments to scan them piece by piece, or use your skills to explore them piece by piece?"

Lin Xuefeng said honestly: "I usually just scan it roughly once and then give up."

He took Huaiyu and looked around: "Mutated plants have occupied this land, and there are other unknown creatures that are either cooperating or hostile to them. The ravines and corners in these man-made buildings are very suitable for the growth of some mutant creatures that are not easy to detect. It will cost us a lot to explore them."

"Also, look at the roots spreading all over the ruins. If we use earth-related abilities to stir the earth, this already fragile crust will collapse and crack again, and the plants' territories will be invaded and destroyed. We will face even more obstacles in the wasteland."

This is the understanding gained after accumulating countless damages in the early stage.

This is also because Huaiyu has never seen any ruins along the way, because where there are ruins, even passing by would feel that it is a waste of resources.

"So, if you want to explore, you can use your powers to move plants and animals slightly, but it will be more difficult to go deeper underground."

Huai Yu seemed to understand but not quite.

Then, she carefully stepped over the tree roots and branches that were spreading on the ground, pointed to the sloping roof of a building with the largest exposed area in front of her and asked, "Can I go take a look there?"

"Can."

Lin Xuefeng took her over without saying a word, and a thin curtain of water rose silently in front of her, but it was flat and smooth, without the rippling waves from before.

It's like there's a piece of glass between us.

But Huaiyu knew that this should be used as a shield for her.

She did not rely on her special abilities to act recklessly. On the way back to Lin Xuefeng, although the plants did not actively attack her, other mutant creatures did.

Huaiyu knows how to protect himself.

This structure seemed to be the top of a certain building. At this moment, only a part of the top one or two floors were exposed on the ground. The glass on the windows had long disappeared, and even the window frames were tattered, with only a small gap left due to the tree roots that had spread in.

Huaiyu gestured at the small crack, a little hesitant: "I can't seem to crawl in... Can you get these tree roots to move a little?"

Lin Xuefeng shook his head: "Let's do it from this side, open an opening in the wall, so as not to disturb the things inside with too much noise."

After he finished speaking, he did not take any action. Instead, he looked at Huaiyu and said, "You come. After all, my water-based abilities are not suitable for such impact and destructive actions."

Huaiyu looked at him with some suspicion: "But when you drew that line with your finger," she also gestured in the air: "you drew a circle on that brick and hollowed it out."

Can't I draw another big circle now? Lin Xuefeng smiled and shook his head: "Xiao Yu, you forgot, I'm not well yet."

Huaiyu didn't believe it! "You ran really fast when you carried me on your back just now..."

But she grumbled but did not refuse, instead she stroked the tree roots on one side. With a slight thought, the thick and winding tree roots sprouted a new root at the other end, and in an instant, it directly broke through the wall on the side!

Then it was quickly taken back in the flying dust.

What appeared in front of the two was the messy top of the building.

But Huaiyu only looked over, then sighed and looked away: "Lin Xuefeng, there is someone inside."

Lin Xuefeng responded, his expression unchanged: "Are you scared?"

The last thing missing in such ruins is the dead. What Huaiyu saw were seven or eight corpses piled up at the edge due to the tilted angle.

The suit jackets they were wearing were torn, and the scattered bones wrapped in the clothes were torn apart by the rapidly growing and expanding tree roots, and were incomplete. There were obvious signs of damage and dents on the bones, and Huaiyu walked carefully along the tree roots and saw a dark and deep gemstone cufflink in a corner.

Huaiyu took the cufflinks in his hand in a daze, and then asked: "Will they be afraid when they die?"

Lin Xuefeng was stunned.

After a while, his voice rang out in this dark space: "It shouldn't be that scary."

"Because at the time of the catastrophe, all the changes happened in a flash... It's very likely that they just felt a swaying around them, and then..."

A smashed skull, a sunken sternum, and numerous fractures...

With such a powerful earth-shaking movement, many people would have died in an instant, but perhaps there were still some people alive and struggling.

At this moment, Lin Xuefeng didn't want to say it.

"Oh." Huaiyu responded without saying whether he believed it or not. He just slid down to the bottom carefully, and then looked at the scattered corpses and became worried: "If I go down from the safe passage in this corner, will there be such a thing again?"

"If there are too many, I won't be able to handle it."

Lin Xuefeng had already swiftly stepped on the tree roots to come to her side, and now held her hand: "It's okay, we'll be together."

This floor was probably where the top executives of a certain group had their offices, so if they carefully checked inside, they should be able to find something. But considering that there were many floors below, the two of them did not stay for long.

Lin Xuefeng gently pushed open the door of the safety passage that had fallen halfway.

There was a slight buzzing sound behind the door; it was a huge beehive.

But Huaiyu was instantly surprised: "It's a bee!"

She instantly forgot her previous worries about the corpses, and asked in surprise, "If we don't touch them now, can we take them with us when we leave later?"

She said in a distressed tone, "I don't know if it's because the rose corridor is too fierce. There is a large bamboo forest where I live, but there are no bamboo rats. There are so many vegetable fields, but no bees come. There are only butterflies and moths flying around to pollinate..."

"White sugar is very expensive now, and I still can't find honey."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Lin Xuefeng hopefully again: "It's winter now, and the bees are not active. Can we take them all home?"

Lin Xuefeng couldn't help laughing: "Okay - I've done this before."

When exercising water-related abilities, weave them into a sufficiently dense water net, and then cover nests of spiders, bees, etc. The finer and stronger the net is, the more it can ensure your own safety.

Otherwise...

He didn't say anything more, but looked at the dark stairs: "Do you want to go down and take a look?"

“Yes.”

but……

"It's so dark!" Huaiyu hesitated slightly. When she was groping her way in the underground river before, she had experienced such darkness. Now, although she said she could go on, her feet seemed to have taken root and she could not take a step forward.

The next moment, Lin Xuefeng held her hand again and took out a small flashlight from his pocket.

“Bang!”

The lights illuminated the seemingly endless stairs ahead.

…

Zhou Qian was checking under the car.

The closer you get to the center of the wilderness, the harder it is to walk on the road. Sometimes there is no road at all, and you have to rely on the chainsaws on both sides, strong enough horsepower, and a high chassis to make your way through.

Therefore, every time you walk for a while, you have to check carefully. Otherwise, if you carry so many belongings and something breaks down during the journey, it will delay you for a long time.

The garrison's vehicles used a lot of new technologies, and he had only half-understood them by referring to the manual, so his inspection work was naturally done slowly and cautiously.

Zhou Qian waited until it was getting dark and the headlights were no longer enough to illuminate him, then he slowly crawled out from under the car.

Who knew that just as I stood firm and was brushing off the stains and dust on my body, I heard some slight noise coming from the woods.

"Xiao Yu?" Zhou Qian was a little surprised: "You're back so soon?"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

I looked at the communicator on my wrist again and it was only 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

Huaiyu's cheeks were flushed, and her eyes were full of joy: "Brother Zhou Qian, we have gained a lot!"

Looking behind her, she saw a huge, dense water net shimmering in the dim skylight, suspended in the air and covering an equally huge beehive, slowly floating towards her.

The hive was built in an abandoned storage cabinet. Its nest-building habits were completely different from those of the hornets encountered before. There were also one or two small wild bees inside that were forced to wake up in the winter and were buzzing around.

Zhou Qian quickly reacted: "Is it a bee?"

"Um!"

Huaiyu is so happy!

"Let's keep them on the upper level later, and shake the honey when we get back, otherwise I'm afraid they'll all be scared away."

"Okay!" Zhou Qian also became happy! After 6 years of the disaster, who doesn't love a sweet taste?

Without Lin Xuefeng saying anything, he took the initiative to climb onto the carriage: "Wait a minute, I'll make room for them, and then cover this storage box a little thicker to keep out the cold."

However, as soon as he finished speaking, his eyes fell on Lin Xuefeng's back. He was holding a thick rattan in his hand, and the end of the rattan was like a huge luggage bag, which was bulging with various things.

Zhou Qian paused, and looked at General Lin Xuefeng, who seemed to be walking in the clouds. Seeing him holding the huge package, as leisurely and calm as if he was holding a puppy, he couldn't help but laugh:

"It looks like you found a lot of things."

Lin Xuefeng met his gaze and nodded: "Xiao Yu knows how to live well."

Huai Yu also came over happily: "Brother Zhou Qian! Lin Xuefeng is so strong! I wanted to come back and ask you to help move this, but he said he could... He has so much strength, why don't I have it?"

She felt a little lost.

But when he thought about not having to do it himself, he quickly became happy: "Quick, quick, quick! Let's sort out the supplies!"

She urged the branches with expectation, and asked curiously, "Are the sundries sold in Hongsheng Market also collected in this way?"

Lin Xuefeng couldn't answer this question, but Zhou Qian was very experienced:

"Yes. Some of it was from the ruins, but only a very small part. Some of it was scattered all over the wasteland, and some of it was found in existing cities."

"That's a lot to collect! Lin Xuefeng, why did you say you would give up the ruins at the beginning?"

Lin Xuefeng looked at the supplies scattered on the ground after losing the vines: "Are there a lot?"

Huaiyu wanted to say a lot, but when he turned around and looked at the crowd around him——

"Okay." She understood: "The effort and the reward are not proportional."

Although they brought back such a big bag, in fact, they went down four floors.

It’s not that we dare not go deeper, but that there is no more water.

That's right, the entire building was cut off at the fourth floor. The ruins they walked into only had the top four floors, and below were endless stones, soil and gravel.

If you want to explore deeper, you really have to use earth-related abilities as Lin Xuefeng said.

But in fact, it was not easy for them to walk through these four floors.

Everything went smoothly on the first layer. The bees were almost dormant in the winter and did not attack.

But the second floor has been occupied by a group of mutant rats - they are different from the cute Oda, their front teeth reflect a cold light in the flashlight, and the surrounding walls, furniture, etc. have all been gnawed into crumbs by them. There are even more rats lying in groups among these warm crumbs, trying to spend the whole winter in warmth and comfort.

When Huaiyu saw this scene, her scalp went numb instantly! Without her doing anything, the roots of the trees around her started to move, allowing her subconscious mind to use its power to create a dense net that covered them all on one side.

However, what was trapped was a group of rats.

Their incisors were sharp and tireless, and there were so many of them that after a series of hair-raising snapping sounds, many gaps appeared in the branches that had originally been woven into a dense web.

If Lin Xuefeng hadn't been waiting there and immediately condensed a curtain of water and threw it over, the rat would probably have been running around at this moment.

Huaiyu's scalp tingled whenever he thought of that scene.

But at this point, they were not so panicked anymore, so they continued walking towards the third floor.

Third floor...

The third floor was pitch black. Having been buried in the soil for so long, the entire space became somewhat damp. Even some green moss could be seen where the headlights shone.

And it was here that Huaiyu saw a giant snake coiled on the ceiling - it was very large and thick. Because it was coiled, its length could not be estimated for the time being, but its body was at least 80cm in diameter.

It has familiar markings on its body; this is a king snake.

In Huaiyu's understanding, it is also called rat snake.

The good news is that the other party is in hibernation and is not moving at the moment.

When I got the bad news, I was dazzled by the light of the headlights and the other person's body began to slowly move.

For a moment, Huaiyu felt her scalp go numb. But she was able to calmly turn her head around and trembled as she pulled the corner of her mouth at Lin Xuefeng:

"So...the rats on the second floor are the buffet it raised?"

Here we come! Good night!