The cave was dark and damp, filled with a cold atmosphere and a strong earthy smell, giving it an eerie feel.
After Lin Ruo appeared here, he took out a stove from his space and lit some smokeless charcoal inside.
The bright flames illuminated the entire cave, and A-Liu emerged from Lin Ruo's backpack. The willow branches kept touching things in the cave, seemingly familiarizing themselves with the environment.
The temperature inside the cave began to rise steadily, completely shutting out the wind and snow outside, with only occasional wisps of cool breeze blowing in through the ventilation openings.
Lin Ruo took out a few cushions from her spatial storage and placed them aside. Then she gave A Liu a lot of level-five flesh and blood to replenish her energy, while she herself took out a few crystal cores and sat on the cushions to begin recovering her supernatural abilities.
This flight only consumed 40% of her energy, but she still habitually restored her powers to their maximum value so that she could be prepared for any eventuality.
Inside the cave, the only sound was the crackling of burning smokeless charcoal. After an hour, Lin Ruo opened her eyes, stretched, and felt refreshed.
Seeing that Ah Liu's willow branches had completely covered the entire cave, she reached out and touched the tender green leaves on top of Ah Liu. "Ah Liu is so thoughtful."
A-Liu gently brushed her willow branch against Lin Ruo's face, then gestured with the branch in front of Lin Ruo. Lin Ruo nodded after seeing this, "I know, I'll make myself something to eat right away. It's already two o'clock in the afternoon, and I'm really a little hungry."
She took out a frying pan from her spatial dimension and placed it on the stove, along with some steamed dumplings that she had prepared and stored in the static space, intending to make herself some fried dumplings.
Before long, the cave was filled with the aroma of fried dumplings. Lin Ru ate dozens of them in one go and drank a large cup of hot milk produced in the space. She breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, by the light of the fire, she took out her tablet to look at the map. The more she looked, the more her brows furrowed. Outside, there was a plain with no specific landmarks. She didn't know their exact location, but she knew which direction they should fly in.
She can only estimate how much longer it will take them to arrive by judging from the time they left Baiyu Base and their speed.
At her speed, if she were to use her powers to the fullest, she should reach the vicinity of Hengshan before nightfall.
However, she also noticed that the closer she was to Hengshan, the stronger the wind became, which must be related to Hengshan.
She closed her eyes, her pupils rolled slightly, then opened them again, collected everything in the cave into her spatial storage, slung her backpack and Ah Liu over her shoulder, instantly activated her spatial domain, and the next instant she had teleported away.
After Lin Ruo left, the original hole was filled with soil again, as if it had never been dug up.
When Lin Ruo reappeared, she was already more than ten kilometers away in the sky. Immediately, a pair of ice and snow wings appeared on her body. The moment she appeared, the wings began to flap, carrying Lin Ruo and A Liu away at high speed.
For the rest of the journey, Lin Ruo flew against the strong winds. By the time she reached the foot of Hengshan Mountain, the surrounding winds had completely surpassed the intensity of a tornado. Under such intense exertion, her superpowers had been depleted by nearly 80%.
This Hengshan Mountain doesn't cover a large area, but it's the tallest, exceeding the highest point of Yanshan Mountain in City B by 800 meters!
The mountain was extremely steep, and the entire mountain was now enveloped by a fierce wind. The falling snow mixed with the wind, like a shield, completely obscuring Hengshan Mountain from view.
But Lin Ruo's mental scan revealed nothing of this. To her surprise, she discovered that the mutated plants that had been corroded by acid rain had begun to regrow beneath the snow, creating a lush green landscape.
Although it was just a small sprout, it was enough to amaze people.
Lin Ruo used teleportation to arrive at the foot of Hengshan Mountain. With a thought, the snow beneath her feet completely disappeared. As she fell, the strong wind caused her to take a step back.
The next second, ice spikes appeared beneath her feet, digging deep into the ground, which helped her regain her balance.
She crouched down slightly and scanned the exposed sprouts with her mental energy. The soil contained traces of energy, which explained why these mutated plants were able to revive so quickly.
She narrowed her eyes slightly, and her spatial domain instantly enveloped a 3-kilometer radius around her. Her hair, which had been blowing wildly in the wind, finally settled back down on Lin Ruo's head.
A Liu stretched out a branch from behind Lin Ruo, its aura growing heavier and heavier, seemingly harboring hostility towards something, or perhaps issuing a warning.
Lin Ruo patted A Liu reassuringly. From the very beginning, she had sensed that something was wrong with Hengshan. Even if it was during a blizzard and the wind was strong, it was unusual for such a strong wind to just circulate around Hengshan. There must be something going on.
Feeling her powers being depleted again, she extended her mental energy to find a place to recover.
Using her spatial abilities, she dug a cave in the cliff face of Hengshan Mountain. The snow outside the cave remained unmoved, while the stones inside were stored in her spatial storage. After the cave was dug, she teleported inside with A-Liu.
As soon as they entered, A-Liu jumped out of Lin Ruo's backpack and stretched out her branches to block the entire entrance to the cave.
Lin Ruo took out the stove and cushion from her space. The next second, she sat cross-legged on the cushion, holding several level 4 crystal cores in her hand, with white and blue light appearing alternately on her body.
Ah Liu remained motionless at the cave entrance. Upon closer inspection, one could see that Ah Liu's branches were still wriggling, and her aura was increasing rather than decreasing, revealing her peak condition. All her branches were in a state of high tension.
By the time Lin Ruo had absorbed all the energy into the crystal core, it was already late at night. She raised her wrist to check the time on the terminal; it was already past ten o'clock at night.
The stove in the cave had long since gone out, leaving only a damp and cold atmosphere.
She exhaled a breath of stale air, took out some smokeless charcoal from her spatial storage, and relit the stove. Only then did she realize that Ah Liu seemed a little off, perhaps a bit too nervous.
"Ah Liu, what's wrong?"
Although Lin Ruo's mental strength also detected something amiss, she was not as perceptive as these mutated plants and animals in certain situations. Judging from A Liu's condition, the things in Hengshan seemed to be extraordinary. She had never seen A Liu reveal her peak state since A Liu's upgrade.
Ah Liu gestured with her willow branch in the air a few times, then pointed downwards. Lin Ruo looked down following Ah Liu's gesture and understood.
Ah Liu means that there is something at the bottom of this mountain, and it is an extremely dangerous thing.
Lin Ruo was also very curious. A Liu's strength could be said to be at the forefront in this apocalypse, so why was she so nervous?
Her spiritual power extended downwards, and when it reached the depths of the earth, she felt a familiar energy. She had just absorbed this energy; it was the energy from the crystal core.
The energy grew stronger as it went down. Her mental power could cover eighteen kilometers, but she still couldn't find anything special or reach the core of this energy.
She frowned. How could it be so deep underground?
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