Xia Lunong didn't know how his elder brother Xinian persuaded him, but his brother finally agreed to take him out with him.

That night, the two brothers went out to have a meeting with someone with flashlights.

After returning, they told the sleepy Xia Lunong that they would set out for Qingluo Bay the next day.

Xia Lunong listened, meowed in a half-awake state to show that he understood, and soon fell asleep again.

The next day, his brother woke up very early, fetched water, prepared food, packed the bags, got him up at dawn to eat, and then carried him out.

Yan Xinian, covered in morning dew and carrying a big bag, was waiting for them outside the door. Seeing the sleepy kitten in Xia Huoqu's arm, he touched the cat's chin in a mean way, "Why are you so sleepy all day long?" "

Meow." The kitten stretched out its claws to touch him, but missed.

Yan Xinian found it interesting and opened his arms, "Let me hold it."

Xia Huoqu looked at the kitten helplessly and warned Yan Xinian, "Xiao Nong's claws are hard, you should be quiet."

Yan Xinian smiled and took his hand back.

The two people and the cat carried backpacks to the main road of the base to meet up with other team members.

There was a truck parked there. This time they were going to find a generator set. The size and weight of the unit were very large, and it might not be possible to carry it even with a beast shape, so they drove the truck out.

When Xia Huoqu and the others arrived in front of the truck, the driver's seat and the co-driver's seat were already occupied, and they had to go to the rear tractor.

There were two people sitting cross-legged in the tractor, one of whom was Liao Quannan, whom Xia Lunong had met when she was doing a mission at the base.

"Meow!" Xia Lunong poked out her cat head from her brother's arms, looking at Liao Quannan with sparkling emerald eyes, and waved her cat paw to greet him.

Liao Quannan smiled, "Xiao Nong, Deputy Captain Xia, Captain Yan, good morning."

Xia Huoqu said indifferently, "Good morning."

There was another person in the car fight, wearing a sports suit, with fair skin, delicate appearance, and a scholarly temperament.

Compared with his appearance, what made him look more like a scholar was that even in this car fight with poor lighting, he was holding a foreign book and reading it. Only when they got in the car did he take a look at them and casually said, "Good morning."

Xia Lunong looked at him curiously, leaning his head and stretching his neck.

The man felt his gaze, looked up and saw it was a kitten. His expression softened a little and he introduced himself with a smile: "My name is Conglan, Cong as in grass, and Lianyi as in ripple."

"Meow." Xia Lunong tapped the cat's head.

His brother introduced him, "This is my brother Xia Lunong, Xia for summer, Lu for dew, and Nong for thick."

Cong Lin's eyes froze on Xia Lunong's cat head for a second, and he smiled and said, "I've heard a lot about you."

While they were chatting, someone in the driver's seat knocked on the car wall and reminded in a rough voice, "Are you ready? Let's go if you're ready."

Yan Xinian raised his voice slightly, "Let's go."

"Okay." As soon as

the voice fell, everyone in the car shook, the truck started, and slowly drove out of the base.

Xia Lunong immediately turned around and looked out of the car from the back.

In order to take care of him, his brother moved outward so that the curious cat could see the outside scene to the greatest extent.

The kitten sat in his brother's hood with his hands in his pockets, not blinking.

The blue sky, white clouds, green trees and green grass were all reflected in his clear cat eyes.

Xia Maomao was concentrating on looking outside, and Conglin was concentrating on reading.

The other three leaned against the wall of the car with their eyes closed to rest.

The truck drove forward all the way, shaking most of the time, making people want to sleep.

The driver in front turned on the music at some point, and Xia Lunong was very surprised to accompany the popular songs before the disaster, gently shaking her head to the rhythm while listening to the song and looking at the scenery.

After leaving the base, it didn't take long to turn onto a road that Xia Lunong was completely unfamiliar with.

The truck performed well, and the wheels crushed the sparse weeds and vines on the road as it moved forward.

There used to be fields on both sides of the road, but now they are all abandoned, covered with grass and vines. A huge green carpet stretches from one end of the mountain to the other. The scenery is actually quite beautiful.

Xia Lunong kept looking out, and when he got tired, he curled up in his brother's hood to take a nap, and then continued to look after waking up.

Their car drove from morning to afternoon without stopping.

When the sun was about to set in the afternoon, they finally walked along the scattered villages and towns on the road to Qingluo Bay.

The Qingluo Bay Hydropower Station is on the mountain, and at the foot of the mountain there is a ruined village with only a few dozen households.

The ruins were covered with weeds and vines. Some houses that were destroyed but not completely collapsed stood in the sunset, with huge black mouths opened, which made people feel terrified.

This village ruins was different from the ruins Xia Lunong had visited before.

It was too desolate, as if no one had ever been here after the catastrophe.

With a "squeak", the vehicle stopped.

Soon, two people got out of the cockpit.

A tall and strong man with a gun hanging on his chest and waist, a bow and quiver on his back, wearing boots and a long combat uniform walked in front.

He had a handsome face and a fierce air, and he laughed heartily.

From the conversation, Xia Lunong soon knew that the man was called Baniu, the driver who played the love song halfway.

The man standing next to Baniu was relatively inconspicuous, with an average build, average height, and average looks. The only special thing about him was his particularly long and straight legs.

This man was called Luo Congqin.

Baniu, with a gun on his back, twisted his waist before the car race, and his waist bones made a slight creaking sound. He stretched his body as much as he could, put his hands on his waist and sighed, "This place is really far away, my old waist is broken."

"Thank you for your hard work." Yan Xinian smiled and gave up his seat for him to get on the car. "Once we find all the generator sets, we don't have to go to other bases to charge."

"Hey, that's it." Baniu took a long step and jumped directly onto the car race.

After getting on, he turned around and stretched out his hand to gently pull Luo Congqin behind him.

Xia Lunong didn't know whether it was because he was too strong or because Luo Congqin was too light, she just watched helplessly as he dragged Luo Congqin up, just like dragging a paper man, lightly and without any effort at all.

Luo Congqin thanked him after being lifted up, and sat down in the back of the car in a good mood.

Ba Niu looked at Xia Lunong's eyes, stretched out his big palm like a palm leaf fan, and gently and friendly touched the kitten's head, laughing: "Hello, Xiao Nong, you can hide in my arms when I clean up later."

"Meow?"

Xia Lunong's eyes were full of confusion.

Ba Niu laughed, "I am the only one in this group who can't transform into a beast, it's more convenient for you to follow me." Xia

Lunong turned his head to look at his brother.

His brother nodded, took out the lunch box from his backpack, and gave Ba Niu a box, "I'll trouble you later."

"It's okay, cooperation is a win-win situation. Deputy Captain Xia, don't worry, as long as I'm still alive, I won't let Xiao Nong get into trouble!"

Everyone ate and drank water to accumulate energy.

More than ten minutes later, Yan Xinian, Xia Huoqu and Luo Congqin, who had particularly long legs, took off their clothes and jumped out of the car.

Yan Xinian turned into a giant tiger, Xia Huoqu turned into a giant wolf, and to Xia Lunong's surprise, Luo Congqin turned into a wild goose, flapped his wings and flew into the sky, circling in the air.

Ba Niu handed the pistol on his waist to the scholar-like Cong Lin, adjusted the small backpack on his chest again, and got out of the car.

Xia Lunong was inside the backpack, curled up, and looked around intently.

Liao Quannan, holding a long knife in his hand, walked to the left of Ba Niu and got out of the car with him.

Baniu looked around vigilantly and warned, "Be careful, this is a small village that has never been opened up. Anything could happen inside."

The men on the left and right nodded solemnly when they heard what he said.

The giant tiger and the giant wolf had already cleared the way in front, and the wild geese were circling overhead. The three people and the cat walked behind, looking in all directions.

Soon, the mutant creatures in the ruins could not help but take the lead in launching an attack.

"Ah--" Yan Xinian, who was running in the front, waved his huge and thick tiger claws and took the lead in slapping away a green vine shadow that was rushing towards him.

Their arrival seemed to have startled everything under the shadow of the ruins.

Soon, vines, grass stems, branches and all other plants that Xia Lunong thought could not move appeared frequently and began to attack them.

When these plants attacked or were cut, they often exuded strange-smelling liquids, which mixed with the original smell of the ruins, making Xia Lunong, who had an extremely sensitive sense of smell, dizzy.

"Jie——" The wild geese above their heads cried loudly, reminding them that there were other dangerous creatures coming.

Yan Xinian and Xia Huoqu immediately turned around to protect them, surrounding the three people and the cat.

Xia Lunong suddenly smelled a fishy smell at the tip of his nose. He raised his head and loudly "meowed" at Ba Niu, and at the same time, the cat's paw pointed in a certain direction.

Ba Niu pulled the bow in his hand, and shot an arrow in his hand, almost at the same time shooting an arrow in that direction.

The arrow broke through the air with a "whoosh" sound, and soon pierced a black shadow that jumped in their direction. The impact of the arrow pinned it over and fell heavily to the ground.

Xia Lunong looked carefully and saw that the arrow was pinned on the head of a mutant orange cat as big as a puppy.

The orange cat was covered with dense pink cysts. Even though its head was pierced by an arrow, its pair of yellow eyes still stared at them ferociously and madly, with yellowish saliva flowing from its mouth and threatening "hissing" from its mouth.

When Xia Lunong saw this, a chill spread from his tailbone to his crown, and his claws froze.

His brother had said before that when a beastly person meets a real animal outside, it will never make a mistake.

Looking at those eyes, he once again deeply realized why it was impossible to make a mistake.

The polluted animal's eyes had completely lost the spirituality that is unique to living things, and people could feel it at a glance.

Xia Lunong was in the shape of a cat, and the polluted beast lying on the ground was also in the shape of a cat.

He stared at the cat, feeling an indescribable discomfort, and for the first time clearly realized that the great disaster had not passed, but was still continuing.

He whimpered softly, "Meow--"

Baniu had already pulled out another arrow and put it on the bow. Hearing him whimper, he gently rubbed the cat's head with his warm palm like a palm leaf fan, stared at the front, and whispered: "Don't be afraid, you're doing well, you have a good talent."

"Meow." Xia Lunong cheered up and continued to check the surrounding situation.