Chapter 261 Covering the Sky and the Sun
Xiao·Little Idiot·Choujue squatted on the ground and counted stones.
Time passes by every second.
Just when everyone was at a loss, Qi Chi covered his injured arm and walked through the forest.
He stumbled in, his face pale, and the moment he stepped into the orchard, he collapsed to the ground due to excessive fatigue.
Pei Chuan's face was gloomy as he helped the extremely weak man in. "Were all these injuries on you caused by Luo Yuanting?"
"It's not him." Qi Chi gasped for breath every time he spoke. He had severe asthma symptoms.
The skin on the back of the hand appears bluish purple.
Mo Lian frowned. "He must have consumed too much stardust. Stardust is extracted from zombie crystal cores and possesses powerful energy and toxins. Typical symptoms are asthma and cyanosis of the skin. If consumed excessively, there's a chance of turning into a zombie."
Someone in City E once developed stardust. Although it was eventually banned, a few people are still researching it in secret.
A green fluttering moth plucked a few leaves from the Tree of Life, flew to Qi Chi, and placed the leaves on his forehead.
Black smoke continued to overflow from Qi Chi's eyes, finally dyeing the leaves black.
After using dozens of pills, I finally felt better.
"I was indeed locked up by Luo Yuanting. He may not even know it himself. There is a large amount of stardust stored in that laboratory. It should have been left behind by someone who had done research before." Qi Chi said weakly.
"By the time he arrived, many psychics who had ingested too much stardust had already turned into zombies. I took advantage of the chaos to escape, cough cough cough."
Qi Chi coughed up a pool of black blood.
"Luo Yunjin should be imprisoned somewhere here. The chips of the monitoring equipment and instruments in my room were taken away by Luo Yuanting. They should be in this area."
Lin Xi looked at the pavilion, the orchard, and the cobblestone path.
He seemed to have thought of something, walked to the side of the path, picked up all the stones one by one and examined them.
The others followed suit.
Just as one of the stones was turned, the ground shook and a black underground passage soon appeared.
Cold air and dust rushed out from the exit of the passage.
Lin Xi jumped in directly, skipping the step of slowly bending over and walking up the stairs.
Inside the underground tunnel, the stone walls were covered in frost. Not far away, on a door gleaming with silver luster, a five-colored crystal core was embedded in a hexagonal wheel.
"I need a fingerprint..." Qi Chi had just finished speaking when he saw Lin Xi punch him.
Suddenly the tunnel shook and the ground trembled.
Xiao Choujue fell down accidentally.
There was a fist mark on the iron gate in front of me.
Behind the door, Luo Yunjin, who was locked in a golden cage, was awakened by a stumble.
She also had a bunch of snack bags on hand.
She fell asleep after eating and drinking without paying attention to anything else. When she opened her eyes, she saw on the screen a group of people knocking and banging on the door.
The vibrations grew louder and louder, and powder began to fall off the walls.
The curtain on the left screen slowly slid down, revealing a strange pattern painted in red paint on the wall.
The power supply in the entire warehouse also became unstable.
Finally, the moment the door was knocked crooked, all electrical equipment lost power.
In the darkness, one could only see circles of purple lightning flashing.
At this moment, the ventilation pipe suddenly exploded, and countless blue stardust flew into the air.
Luo Yunjin grabbed the blanket and covered his mouth and nose.
Several people worked together to remove the golden cage, and Cheng Yuanfeng used brute force to tear the railings apart.
Lin Xi carried the confused girl out.
Before the stardust spread completely, a group of people ran out of the underground tunnel and quickly sealed the passage.
"Are you okay?" Xuan Hongyan was a little worried about Luo Yunjin's health. She felt that the girl was looking dazed.
"I'm fine. I just took a nap and then you came...Bullfrog." Luo Yunjin pushed Lin Xi and stood up by himself.
She felt a little embarrassed.
So many people made such a fuss just to find her.
"I'm fine. It's a pity that I didn't have time to put away those snacks before you came." Luo Yunjin rubbed his fingers and found that Qi Chi was in a mess with blood stains on his sleeves. He casually handed him two recovery fruits.
"Didn't he hurt you?" Lin Xi's eyes were always on the girl.
"You mean my cheap big brother? No, he has a lot of good food and drinks, and he sleeps very well. But I guess there is something wrong with the underground warehouse just now, and he himself doesn't know it."
Luo Yunjin brushed off the dust on his clothes and took out a small bottle filled with blue stardust from his pocket.
"Before you came in, two waves of stardust were placed in the warehouse, but I hid in the space. These were all collected in the cage. I didn't expect there would be so much stardust. How many zombies would it take?"
Qi Chi took the small bottle and said, "These should all be stardust of low purity. Most of them are powders ground from crystal cores, not pure stardust extracted from a strictly frozen state."
The stardust, whose origin was unknown, silenced everyone.
"There's more!" Luo Yunjin switched pockets and pulled out another one. "If so much low-quality stardust gets mixed into the rainwater, it'll be really troublesome."
She suddenly saw the rain outside the screen.
There were blue dots of light mixed in with the rain, which looked beautiful at first glance, but soon the rain fell on the ground, and all the green vegetation began to grow rapidly under the influence of the stardust.
The vines spread and grew, gradually transforming into mutant plants.
A wave of zombies had been cleared out before, and there weren't many left in H City. Most of the zombies had settled in the circus or in the corners of the forest, under the unified management of the Zombie King.
However, this rain will cause those with special abilities to lose self-control and become sick and weak.
Luo Crow Mouth Yunjin shut up silently.
With the light screen condensed by the Tree of Life, the orchard and the villa were not greatly affected, but there were a lot of blue light powders scattered outside the light screen.
Waves of magnetic humming sounds came, and huge sound waves formed tangible ripples that continued to spread.
"Oh no, something must have happened to Ye Chao." Xuan Hongyan murmured.
As the blue light powder became denser and denser, all the vegetation in the forest outside mutated, and the vines climbing together were like giant snakes, surging outside.
The entire H city was covered by crazy vegetation.
Covering the sky and the sun.
The only light was blocked, and the outside world was pitch black.
The glory of the Tree of Life also dimmed a little.
After one minute, the humming sound disappeared.
Qi Chi took out the surveillance camera in the room and saw that the city in the picture was covered with vines, the houses on the streets were pierced by plants, and there were tall trees piled up on the street corners.
The survivors hid in the houses, and many were injured by sharp thorns.
The scene shifted to Ye Chao, where the originally magnificent city walls had completely collapsed, the technologically advanced houses and towers were all destroyed, and the streets were empty.
All the superpowered people hid in the air-raid shelter.
A steady stream of blue stardust was flying out of a pipe, and the entire Ye Dynasty was covered with blue stardust.
Many psychics who didn't have time to escape were covered in stardust, their blood vessels burst, and they turned into bloody monster zombies.
In the southern forest, the Zombie King and his few zombie minions hid in an abandoned plane.
People were in panic, and zombies and mutant animals all hid.
The once vibrant H City seemed to have turned into a dead city in a few moments.
At this time, the crack outside City A had spread to 300 meters away from City H, expanding towards City H at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The speed was beyond everyone's expectation.
The survivors who originally lived in the containers outside all ran away from H City.
Luo Yunjin looked at the black cracks on the surveillance screen in disbelief.
This was beyond her comprehension.
In fact, the original book does not describe City A and City H in much detail, nor does it explain the origin of the mysterious black crack.
"This crack has reached H City so quickly?" Xiao Wangba widened his eyes.
He had explored the remains of City A a month ago. City A was at least 100 kilometers away from City H, but now the cracks had appeared outside City H, which was outrageous.
Pei Chuan and Qi Chi pursed their lips and looked at the crack that was still expanding.
"We must leave here immediately!" Qi Chi said calmly, "At this rate, the rift will engulf the entire H City within ten days."
On the screen, black lightning splashed out from the cracks.
Countless black shadows emerged from the ground, like bloated insects, crawling and rolling on the ground.
Upon closer inspection, one could barely make out the outlines of the zombies. Their bodies were severely damaged and rotten, and they were running wildly on the road.
Outside H City, huge vines gradually spread out of the city wall, and broken wall stones were scattered all over the ground.
"My space can hold everything, but what about the Tree of Life?" Luo Yunjin looked at the flourishing tree.
There is already a seedling of the Tree of Life in the space.
"Take out the heart of the Tree of Life, just like before." Qi Chi was very straightforward and went straight to find a knife and an axe to prepare to saw the tree.
Three fruits were dangling on the treetop.
"Can we send this tree to the central base? Every time the core is taken, the tree's fruit-bearing potential will be weakened a little. If this tree is sent to the Lin family in the central base, it may receive the best care." Luo Yunjin said.
She also retains a bouncy ball that allows her to transfer the tree directly to the center base.
Qi Chi patted the tree, thinking that this was the best solution at the moment.
Luo Yunjin threw the golden ball of light onto the tree trunk, and soon the elastic ball wrapped around the tree and flew away.
Without the protection of the light screen, the vines outside began to spread into the orchard.
The fruits on the trees had just been picked and stored in the space, and the seeds for the fruit trees had also been prepared, so Luo Yunjin didn't feel sorry about it.
The fruit trees in the space are also growing luxuriantly, so there is no need to worry about having no fruits and vegetables to eat.
As the fruit trees in the yard were gradually assimilated into mutant plants.
Luo Yunjin had packed up all the supplies that could be taken away from home and put them into the space.
The remaining four off-road vehicles and sports cars in the underground garage were also taken in.
There are strange vines crowded together outside, and the car cannot drive out. There is also the possibility of being attacked by mutant plants.
Everyone chose to walk.
Holding an umbrella, I walked on the wet mud. The cold was pressing and my trouser legs were wet with rain.
There are also particles of stardust mixed in with the rain.
Everyone wore a gas mask made by Xuan Hongyan.
Lin Xi followed Luo Yunjin all the way as if she were his own child, fearing that she would fall.
The girl walked very fast. She had the ability to plant and was sensitive to plants full of life.
Now all the plants have been contaminated by stardust and their energy has mutated, but these plants will not harm the planting and water-based mutants, and almost all of them avoid them.
So they had a smooth journey.
Right in front, the abandoned plane was firmly tied up by several vines.
The breathing sounds of zombies and Li Xiaocai's hoarse cries for help could be heard from the plane.
As Luo Yunjin approached, the vines on the plane slowly retreated.
The cabin door opened and a bunch of zombies crowded inside.
They didn't dare to come out, and there were still a lot of stardust particles on the ground. If the zombies came into contact with them in large numbers, they would mutate again.
"I remember your plane can still fly. Why don't you move to another place? It's too dangerous here." Luo Yunjin persuaded the Zombie King who was squeezed in the innermost part.
The other party had long lost his exquisite attire. His original slicked-back hair had now turned into a mess, and he looked disheveled.
"We had this plan, but there are too many vines and we can't fly out." The Zombie King explained.
Among the crowded zombies, some zombies stepped on its feet and kicked its legs.
These zombies are all hyperactive.
"I'll watch them, you guys fly out, otherwise when the mutant plants mutate more rapidly, you won't be able to escape. Besides, the cracks in City A outside are expanding towards City H, so you'd better leave as soon as possible!" Luo Yunjin looked at the vines around him.
Suddenly, the trees linked together retreated quickly as if they had encountered a natural enemy, forming a cautious vacuum zone.
The Zombie King looked at the girl deeply, then gritted his teeth and left with the zombies.
The plane slowly took off and then flew north.
The vines growing on the trees wanted to sweep up, but were forced back by Luo Yunjin's gaze.
They passed by Ye Dynasty, which had been reduced to ruins.
Several bloody zombies smelled the human scent and ran over frantically with brown saliva flowing from their mouths.
They roared, and with every step they took, pieces of their organs and flesh fell off.
Luo Yunjin felt disgusted.
After Lin Xi electrocuted these zombies, he could smell a foul odor, which was unlike that of ordinary zombies.
These zombies are extremely smelly, like a sewer that has been fermenting for ten years.
There are still many survivors in the air-raid shelter.
But there was no sign of Luo Yuanting.
Luo Yunjin tried to contact through the walkie-talkie, but no one answered.
Although he was a little worried, Luo Yunjin still went with Lin Xi and the others.
Before leaving, he did not forget to tell the psychics in the air-raid shelter that this place would soon be swallowed by the crack.
All the survivors fled.
Many of them were secretly following them.
Many of the buildings on the streets of H City have been destroyed and are interspersed with various plants.
Qi Chi directly recorded the audio on the loudspeaker and played it in a loop, asking all the people with special abilities to evacuate quickly with supplies.
What's strange is that Gu Xixi's milk tea shop has disappeared.
The original shop was empty, even the decoration disappeared, and the store became an ordinary rough style.
"how so!?"
"I thought I could retire here! Who on earth did this? It's so wicked! My last base was destroyed by stardust!"
"I was still making pancakes yesterday, but when I looked over, my home was gone."
"If everyone leaves, will this place become a huge black hole like City A?"
Everyone became very anxious.
In the end times, everyone’s only requirement for life is a stable and harmonious place to live. Now that their home is gone again, everyone feels heavy and unwilling.
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