Chapter 67 (Three in One)
Zhao Qing thought hard and finally shook his head: "I don't know, I remember someone asked me to take something away."
"Is it the big guy who's locked up?"
Zhao Qing shook his head again: "No, it's not big, I can hug it, it's round."
Wu Jian was confused by Zhao Qing's description.
Round?
"Then where are my friends? We are just passing through, not your enemies."
"Your friend...why should I tell you? Someone said that I can only go home after I stop everyone who breaks in here. My sister is still waiting for me at home. Yes, my sister!"
Wu Jian and Tang Keke looked at each other, and Tang Keke nodded at Wu Jian.
The next second, Tang Keke swung the hammer and hit Zhao Qing on the head.
But Zhao Qing said at this time: "This is also your friend's body, are you sure you want to do this?"
Tang Keke stopped abruptly and even spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Keke." Wu Jian went up to help Tang Keke but was stopped by her.
Tang Keke wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and asked, "How do you want to leave his body?"
"I want to find my sister, please help me find her."
Wu Jian asked doubtfully, "But we don't even have a photo of your sister. How can we find her?"
Zhao Qing said: "It's very simple."
Wu Jian:?
Zhao Qing waved his hand, and Wu Jian felt as if all the walls were collapsing towards him. The world was spinning around him, and he heard someone calling him.
"Brother, you said you would stay with me."
"Brother, you don't keep your word. I hate you!"
"Brother, when will Mom and Dad have dinner with us? They are so busy. I haven't seen them in three years."
"Brother, are you going to leave me too?"
Wu Jian felt like he was watching a black and white movie, in which there was only a little girl with pigtails who kept talking to him.
She is cute, with a small black mole on the corner of her chin and sky blue eyes, looking like a Barbie doll.
Soon, the scene changed and Wu Jian fell to the corner and retched.
Wu Jian cursed inwardly, wondering if he could let him know before moving to another location next time. It was so uncomfortable.
Zhao Qing looked at them anxiously.
"Did you see that?"
Wu Jian nodded: "I see."
"As long as you help me find my sister, your friend's body, I will
I will return it to you exactly as it was.”
Wu Jian said slowly, "Could your sister have already left with the main force? The natives of Insect Island haven't returned for many years. What if she..."
"She won't leave. On the day of the energy explosion, I asked her to wait for me at home. I accepted the mission and took her away immediately! I don't know if she is still alive, but I believe she must be waiting for me there."
“Number 2…”
"Help me find my sister, and I'll take you out now."
At this time, all the walls turned back into a stone forest. When Zhao Jian and others heard the movement and turned around, they saw Wu Jian.
"Little dragon!"
Zhao Qing waved his hand, and the stone forest became a stone wall again.
Wu Jian asked doubtfully, "You are so capable, you can definitely go find your sister by yourself, right?"
"I can't leave here."
"Why?"
"If I leave here, the things in the stone forest will come out."
"Then why do you ask us to help you find someone?"
"It's not you, it's her." Zhao Qing pointed at Tang Keke.
Wu Jian asked curiously, "Why Coco?"
"She is the only one who can give everything for the person in this body."
Wu Jian didn’t understand what No. 2 meant by this sentence?
Just when he was about to ask again, No. 2 waved his hand and sent himself and Tang Keke out of the stone forest.
The wall automatically moved away, leaving a passage through which I could see the dense forest outside and a big, round moon in the sky.
Where the moonlight shines is the exit.
Wu Jian thought he would be able to see He Nuo and the others after passing the stone forest, but he didn't. No one showed up except him and Tang Keke.
Wu Jian looked at No. 2 and asked, "Where are the others? We've already promised to find your sister, so shouldn't we let our friends go?"
Number 2, wearing Zhao Qing's shell, said coldly, "I've already explained that I'm staying here to prevent the things in the stone forest from coming out. Your friends have already crossed my territory. Whether they live or die is not my responsibility."
"Don't you control the Stone Forest? You're cheating!"
Number 2 explained, "I only have half control, and your friends are in another realm. If you don't want to die, then leave now and find my sister. But if you want to die, I won't stop you."
Wu Jian glanced at Tang Keke and said, "Keke
, you go to the next area first, I will go find them."
Tang Keke hesitated.
Wu Jian glanced at No. 2 and said, "Zhao Qing is still waiting for you to save him."
Tang Keke gritted her teeth and said, "Be careful when you're alone. I'm leaving."
Wu Jian nodded.
He stood there and watched Zhao Jian's back gradually disappear. He turned his head and looked at No. 2: "Where are my friends?"
Number 2 kindly helped him open a passage, "I can only help you get here. The things over there are very dangerous. Few people have ever walked into its territory."
Wu Jian asked, "Is that dangerous thing the one I asked you to bring out?"
Number 2 nodded: "That's it."
Wu Jian: "I understand, thank you."
Wu Jian followed the route given by No. 2. Unlike No. 2, this was not a maze, but a group of stone men arranged in an orderly manner.
Wu Jian suddenly stopped as he flew through the crowd of stone people.
The eyes of these stone men are different. They seem to be staring at me?
Wu Jian took a look around and found nothing unusual, so he spread his wings and took off.
The next second, an accident happened.
When he turned around, one of the stone men actually moved and hugged him tightly with both hands.
Wu Jian was shocked and immediately twisted his body to try to shake off the stone statue that was stuck to him.
The flame flashed, and after being subjected to high temperature, the stone automatically broke into several pieces and fell to the ground.
Wu Jian dealt with a stone statue and turned around to see many stone men appearing behind him.
Adhering to the idea of running away if you can't win, Wu Jian turned around and ran without thinking.
Waves of dust rose up in the stone forest. Wu Jian led the stone people and rushed around in the forest. Many weathered stones were smashed into pieces by the stone people. From a distance, one could see dust floating above the stone forest.
The stone man was not a fool. After realizing that he could not catch Wu Jian, he automatically chose to give up and returned to the forest of stone statues, becoming a lifeless stone man.
Wu Jian stuck his head out from behind a rock that could cover his body to check the situation outside. When he found that the stone man outside was no longer chasing him, he continued to fly deeper into the stone forest.
Halfway through the flight, he heard the sound of fighting in the distance. He quickly found the source of the fighting and was overjoyed to find Zhao Jian and the other two.
The three of them cooperated very well, and the giant scorpion that attacked them had no place to attack. But it was not a good idea to continue wasting time like this. It was only a matter of time before their physical strength was exhausted.
Find a way to deal with the giant scorpion in front of you.
Her crimson eyes rolled around, and suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to her mind.
Wu Jian did not go forward to help, but turned and flew towards the stone statue Lin behind him.
No one approaches the statues in the Stone Forest. They are very quiet, as still as real statues should be. But they are not as harmless as they appear; they are very dangerous and no one approaches them.
But there happened to be a dragon cub who was not afraid of death and was very willing to provoke them.
Wu Jian threw a small silver ball into the forest of stone statues, and the explosion destroyed many of the stone statues.
His action instantly stirred up a hornet's nest!
The stone men were angry, and all the stone men came to life and chased in the direction Wu Jian fled.
Wu Jian flew for a while, and continued to throw a small silver ball to excite the stone man. Then, he turned around and flew forward.
"Come on, come on, come and catch me, you bunch of trash."
Stone People: Bullying the stones is too much!
Wu Jian successfully attracted the anger of the stone people.
Zhao Jian and the other two who were dealing with the giant scorpion heard a deafening sound and the ground shaking violently. They looked up and saw a group of stone men chasing the little dragon cub running in front!
"Little dragon?"
Wu Jian shouted, "Get out of the way!"
When the three heard this, they quickly moved aside.
The giant scorpion didn't understand what people were saying, and didn't understand why the three people who had just been attacking it suddenly stopped and made way. It thought this was a good opportunity to attack, and attacked the three people on the spot.
However, the next second.
A group of stone men rushed over and crushed the giant scorpion directly.
One stone man is okay, the strength can be sustained, but so many stone men together weigh several tons.
No matter how powerful the giant scorpion is, it will die if it is weighed down by several tons of weight.
Looking at the giant scorpion with only debris left on the ground, Wu Jian observed three seconds of silence for it and took away the energy stone from its body with peace of mind.
Zhao Jian and the other two followed Wu Jian and ran wildly.
"Little dragon, where did you go to provoke all these stone men?"
Wu Jian said, "It's a long story. Let's just run for our lives. I'll tell you in detail once we're safe."
After saying that, he turned sideways and flew around the stone forest without touching the energy in the sky. In case that power was still there, if he rushed forward now, he would be bounced back and fall into the crowd of stone men, which would be tantamount to suicide.
The stone statues pursued Wu Jian and his companions relentlessly, following them around and around in the stone forest until it was dark, at which point the group of stone statues stopped chasing them.
Wu Jian found that the stone statues were no longer chasing him, so he fell to the ground and gasped for breath.
Fortunately they stopped chasing me, otherwise I would be the one who fell.
"Oh, finally they stopped chasing us. Why did these stone men chase us for so long as if they had a grudge against us?"
"I don't have any grudge against you. I was the one who blew up their nest."
While Wu Jian was explaining, he stuffed a piece of eggshell into his mouth to regain his strength.
Ryan gasped, "It still has to be you, little dragon cub."
"By the way, little dragon, where are the others?" Ankur asked.
Wu Jian told everyone else what had just happened.
After hearing Wu Jian's narration, Zhao Jian and the other two looked at each other in surprise.
"Zhao Qing was parasitized. How could this happen?"
Wu Jian said, "Keke is heading to the next place now. Let's find He Nuo and the others and follow Tang Keke's signs. Hey, isn't Lu Yang with you?"
Mentioning this, the three sighed.
Zhao Jian explained, "He initially followed us on missions, but later left on his own. As for Mr. He Nuo and Mr. Chaos, we haven't encountered them yet."
Ryan boldly speculated, "Could they no longer be in the Stone Forest?"
Wu Jian was not sure, but if He Nuo and Chaos were together, nothing would happen. On the contrary, they were in big trouble now.
Lu Yang is lost, and we have to find him.
Wu Jian asked in confusion, "Why did Lu Yang leave alone?"
Before Zhao Jian could say anything, Ankur immediately said, "What else could it be? He doesn't trust us and decided to act alone."
"Ankur!" Zhao Jian called Ankur and gave him a warning look.
Ankur turns his face away.
"Ankur spoke directly, he didn't mean anything else." Zhao Jian finally explained: "Lu Yang's expression was a little strange when he left, but we were thinking about how to get out of the stone forest at the time and didn't notice when he disappeared."
"Where did he go?"
"Inside the Stone Forest."
Wu Jian thought for a moment and asked, "Did he say anything before he left?"
Zhao Jian thought carefully for a while and nodded: "Yes, he told us to be careful of the wall."
Wu Jian thought of the small mirror he had picked up.
There was also a reminder behind the small mirror for him to be careful of the wall.
"Be careful of the wall. Does this wall also include the stones in the stone forest?"
Wu Jian felt that Lu Yang must have discovered something, but it was very dangerous, so he decided to act alone.
"We have to find Lu Yang as soon as possible. He must have discovered something and is worried about implicating you, so he went alone!"
Zhao Jian and the other two thought about it and felt that what Wu Jian said made sense, so they decided to follow Wu Jian to find Lu Yang.
As the sky darkened, the stone forest became silent, with only the breathing and footsteps of Wu Jian and others.
Wu Jian searched for a long time but didn't see Lu Yang, and felt a little anxious.
That's when Ryan discovered the traces.
A string of Chinese characters on a smooth stone.
"I have arrived at the heart of the stone forest. The master of this stone forest is good at disguise. Those who come later should be careful."
"Lu Yang must have discovered something. This is the message he left for us. The master of the Stone Forest is good at discovering things. It's probably some mutated insect. Let's be careful on the road ahead."
Everyone nodded.
At this moment, Wu Jian felt something cool licking his face. He reached out to touch it, but felt nothing.
I just said it, and right after that something comes to play a trick on me. Could it be that this thing is nearby?
So, are they not far from Lu Yang?
While flying, Wu Jian observed the surrounding situation.
The stones in the stone forest are piled up in a disorderly manner, and it is indeed a bit difficult to find different things from these stones.
Suddenly, Wu Jian stopped and saw that a stone was actually moving. He just threw the small silver ball out, and the stone exploded and something quickly rushed into the stone forest.
As the thing rushed out, it arrogantly stepped on Ankur's shoulder.
Ankur touched his shoulder and frowned, "What hit me?"
Wu Jian looked at Zhao Jian and asked, "Did you see that just now?"
Zhao Jian nodded: "Indeed, there was something, it jumped over Ankur's shoulder."
After standing there for a while, several people were hit by the invisible object.
Just when Wu Jian was adjusting his flying direction, a very heavy object jumped up and stuck to his back. A slight pain spread through his wings, and he spun quickly to shake off the object.
The thing was thrown off Wu Jian's body and hit the stone.
In just a few seconds, Wu Jian saw clearly what kind of insect it was.
"Chameleon?"
When Wu Jian wanted to take another look, the chameleon had disappeared.
"Is it really a chameleon?" Zhao Jian asked.
Wu Jian said, "It really does look like one. It must be a chameleon. It can camouflage itself and is very difficult to catch."
"Since it's been exposed once, it will be exposed again. Let's keep going and catch it slowly."
Wu Jian shook his head.
"Don't you think it's teasing us? Let's be careful. We don't know what abilities this mutated chameleon has."
Zhao Jian nodded in agreement.
"That's right, let's be careful. I'll cover your retreat."
After they had walked away for a while, the thing finally couldn't help but come forward again.
Chen Huo threw a small silver ball out and hit the monster.
Only a pool of blood remained on the ground, and the things next to it gradually revealed their original appearance.
It is indeed a chameleon, but its appearance is very strange. Its face looks like some kind of spiral texture, and if you look at it for a long time, you will feel dizzy.
"Don't look at it!"
Lu Yang, covered in wounds, suddenly emerged from the nearby stone forest.
At this moment, the chameleon suddenly opened its colorful spiral vortex, and the eyes of Ankur and Zhao Jian who were close to it turned into spiral patterns.
Wu Jian stood far away and only felt that Ankur and Zhao Jian in front of him were not moving. Lian pulled out the mud wall to block the Chameleon and the three people.
The next second, Ryan was strangled by Ankur.
"Hurry, they, they've been hit."
Wu Jian just threw out the small silver ball, but thinking that Zhao Jian and Ankur were friendly forces, the small silver ball could not be used. He could only throw the small silver ball into the space and dive down to disrupt Ankur who was about to hit Ryan on the head.
Only then did he see that Zhao Jian and Ankur's eyes looked very strange, and had turned into rainbow-colored spiral patterns.
Puff!
A drop of blood splashes on Ankur’s body.
Wu Jian turned his head and saw Lu Yang pull out a long knife and stab it hard into a nearby stone, and blood splattered from the wall.
The chameleon's abdomen was pierced by a long knife and was fixed firmly on the stone.
It struggled a few times, and then its limbs went limp.
The two people who were hit immediately rolled their eyes and fainted.
“Cough cough cough!”
Ryan knelt on the ground,
He coughed violently, spitting out a mouthful of bloody phlegm from his throat.
Snap!
The long sword fell to the ground, and Lu Yang closed his eyes and fell towards Wu Jian.
Wu Jian quickly put Ankur down and caught Lu Yang.
"Lu Yang..."
Wu Jian felt a claw of blood.
A long wound appeared on Lu Yang's back. It was so deep that you could see the bones inside.
Seeing this, Wu Jian quickly poured the healing agent in his space into Lu Yang's mouth.
The unconscious Lu Yang woke up at this time and stopped Wu Jian from using the healing agent on him.
"No, I can hold on for a while." He said in a hoarse voice.
Wu Jian was a little angry, "It's already like this, why do you care about saving money?"
Without waiting for Lu Yang to react, Wu Jian poured the healing agent directly into his mouth.
Less than two hours after taking the healing agent, the wound on his back had scabbed over, and Lu Yang's complexion also looked much better.
After resting for a while, Lu Yang felt better. He staggered to his feet and said, "Let's leave here. That thing will come back again."
"He will come again? Wasn't he killed by you?" Wu Jian asked in confusion.
Lu Yang shook his head. "It can't be killed. That thing is very strange."
Wu Jian said, "Could it be another clone of that thing deep in the Insect Island?"
"It's possible." Lu Yang said again: "Let's go, I found the exit, let's get out quickly."
Wu Jian helped Lian An wake up Zhao Jian and Ankur, and then asked Lu Yang, "Lu Yang, have you seen He Nuo and Chaos?"
Lu Yang shook his head, "No."
Wu Jian felt a little worried.
Lu Yang added, "Mr. He and Mr. Chaos are stronger than us. They can travel back and forth across the Insect Island and shouldn't be in danger. But if that thing comes again, we might not be able to get out at all."
At this moment, Zhao Jian and Ankur had already woken up. When they heard Lu Yang's words, they quickly got up.
Following Lu Yang's footsteps, they changed a new route and left the stone forest. From here, they could see the entire face of the stone forest, which was actually shaped like a skull face.
Wu Jian couldn't help but complain, "What kind of aesthetic sense does this lizard have?"
The others were surprised that they actually came out of the stone forest.
After coming out of the stone forest, Lu Yang couldn't help but lean on a rock to rest.
Zhao Jian reached out and touched Lu Yang's forehead, frowning and saying, "He has a fever."
"Fever?" Wu Jian put his hand on Lu Yang's forehead.
I checked it and it was hot enough to fry an egg.
Wu Jian wanted to give Lu Yang the healing potion, but Lu Yang, who was sober, refused to drink it no matter what.
Zhao Jian patted Wu Jian on the shoulder.
"Little Dragon, I know you want Lu Yang to get better quickly, but don't be too anxious, okay? Healing agents are only effective for external injuries, and you just gave him some. Continuing to drink them will have the opposite effect. Just let him cool down now, and he'll be fine."
Wu Jian took a bucket of water from his own space, and Lian helped Zhao Jian cool down Lu Yang and bandage his wounds.
Ankur took Wu Jian to light a fire.
The small fire lit up the surroundings, making it less eerie.
The stone forest at night looks much more eerie from the camp than it does at night.
Wu Jian sat on a rock and looked at the stone forest. They should be in a small woods where Area C and Area D meet, but this small woods is a bit high, near the mountainside, so they can overlook the stone forest below.
I don’t know if Tang Keke has found No. 2’s sister.
Wu Jian sat on a rock and thought for a while before returning to the camp.
Ankur, who was holding a bowl of rice, saw Wu Jian coming back and immediately asked him, "Little dragon, do you want some?"
Wu Jian shook his head, took out the eggshell from his mouth and took a bite.
Ankur slapped his head and smiled apologetically, “I forgot, you can’t eat now.”
Wu Jian went to see Lu Yang.
Lu Yang's wounds have been bandaged and he is now resting.
Zhao Jian took the noodles handed to him by Ankur and started eating them in big mouthfuls.
They wasted too much time with the giant scorpion, and were chased by the stone man for a while, and then encountered the chameleon. If it weren't for their spiritual support, they would have collapsed long ago.
"That chameleon can actually confuse people. Fortunately, we have Lu Yang. Otherwise, it would be a question whether we can escape."
Wu Jian said: "I don't know what he went through, there are so many wounds on his body."
Speaking of Lu Yang's wounds, Zhao Jian couldn't help but frown and said, "His wounds are very strange. In addition to the fatal wound on his back, there is also a fatal wound on his stomach. That cut is different from the other wounds, as if he had cut it himself."
"Did he cut it himself? That's impossible. Lu Yang is not the kind of person who would hurt himself?" Wu Jian asked doubtfully.
Zhao Jian explained: "I don't know Lu Yang very well, but judging from his style of doing things, he won't do anything self-harming unless he has to. When he wakes up,
, and then ask him the reason."
Wu Jian nodded.
Everyone gathered around the fire and discussed the night watch.
This time Wu Jian insisted on keeping watch. Zhao Jian had no choice but to agree to Wu Jian and let him and Lian An keep watch for half the night.
After Zhao Jian and Ankur went to rest, Wu Jian and Lian An sat by the fire and talked.
Ryan reached out to add some firewood to the fire, and looked at the moon in the sky, which was several times larger than the blue star, and couldn't help but sigh.
"Except for the larger insects, this place is actually no different from Blue Planet."
Wu Jian agreed with Ryan's words very much.
"This place really does look like Blue Star."
Lian An said, "By the way, little dragon cub, do you think Tang Keke can find the little girl before the energy explosion? How many years have passed?"
Wu Jian didn't know whether Tang Ke could be found, but now Zhao Qing was in No. 2's hands. Unless he found the little girl, he didn't know how to force him out of Zhao Qing's body.
He Nuo and the others are not here now. If they were here, they would definitely know how to solve the problem.
"I hope everything goes well for Tang Keke."
Wu Jian thought so too.
"Ah! Ryan!"
Zhao Jian suddenly climbed out of the sleeping bag and shouted.
Lian An and Wu Jian looked back and found that Zhao Jian's mouth was bleeding. At this time, her face was pale and she was crawling on the ground in pain.
"team leader!"
"Zhao Jian, what's wrong with you?"
Zhao Jian was held by Lian An. She covered her stomach and said, "There's something in my stomach!"
"Something? What?"
Ryan lifted up Zhao Jian's abdomen with abdominal muscles and took a look, and found that something inside the abdomen bulged from time to time.
"What is that thing?" Wu Jian touched it, and the thing was rolling inside through a layer of skin and flesh.
Beads of sweat the size of beans dripped down Zhao Jian's forehead, and the veins on his temples bulged.
"Go see Ankur." She couldn't bear the pain, but she still cared about her teammates.
Wu Jian flew to Ankur's side and found that there was something in his stomach as well, but he had fainted from the pain.
Just when Wu Jian was at a loss, Lu Yang, who was sleeping beside him, woke up at some point and walked up to pat Wu Jian on the shoulder.
"Let me do it."
Lu Yang took out a dagger from the air, disinfected it carefully, and gently scratched the unconscious Ankur's stomach, causing blood to ooze out.
Lu Yang used tweezers to pull something out of Ankur's stomach. A few minutes later, a worm as long as a chopstick and as big as an egg was wriggling on the tweezers.
Lu Yang threw the insects into the fire.
The insect made a sound like a mouse, and then the oil sprayed from its body easily ignited and quickly burned into a piece of charcoal.
Wu Jian asked, "What kind of bug is that?"
Lu Yang wiped the sweat from his head and continued to search inside Ankur's body, taking advantage of the free time to answer Wu Jian's questions.
"This is a parasitic insect. Anyone who has the chameleon hallucination will be parasitized by this insect."
Wu Jian was shocked and said, "Wow, one look can make you pregnant. Isn't this mutated chameleon too abnormal?"
Lu Yang found several parasites in Ankur's body and finally sutured his wounds.
After dealing with the worms in Ankur's stomach, help Zhao Jian.
Lu Yang said to Zhao Jian, "I don't have any anesthesia, so I can only knock you out." Zhao Jian shook his head, "No, just do it. I can hold on."
Lu Yang didn't say anything else and simply cut a hole in Zhao Jian's stomach.
Zhao Jian was shaking with pain but she didn't say a word.
A hint of surprise flashed in Lu Yang's eyes.
With occasional popping sounds coming from the fire, the parasites in Zhao Jian's stomach were finally cleared out.
Lu Yang disinfected the knife again and put it into the space.
Wu Jian saw that the matter was resolved, and his nervous heart calmed down.
"Lu Yang, is the wound on your stomach also infested by insects?"
Lu Yang nodded.
"I was in the stone forest and discovered something was amiss with the rocks. Two forces were battling it out, one gentle and the other fierce. I went from the gentle side to the fierce side and discovered that a chameleon was controlling half of the stone forest. While searching for an exit, I was caught in the chameleon's hallucination. After finally breaking free, I discovered that my stomach was infested with parasites. I cut open my stomach and took the parasites out. After that, I passed out. When I woke up again, I heard your voices and realized I had been unconscious for who knows how long."
"The insects on Insect Island are all kinds of strange. This kind of insect that can make you pregnant just by looking at it is the first time I've seen it." Zhao Jian couldn't help but sigh.
"By the way, where are Tang Keke and the others?" Lu Yang asked casually after cleaning the blood off his body.
"he
We..." Wu Jian once again recounted his encounter with No. 2.
Lu Yang paused, "If my guess is correct, that chameleon is most likely an experimental subject."
"Experimental subject?"
Lu Yang said, "Along the way, I've noticed that whether it's eels, centipedes, or now chameleons, they all have very strange markings on their bodies. At the time, I thought they were tattoos and didn't pay much attention to them. But the appearance of identical tattoos in the same place, plus the numbers and names you mentioned, makes me think they're more like experimental subjects emerging from a laboratory. The depths of Insect Island are likely a large laboratory. However, whether the energy explosion is related to the laboratory is still unknown."
Wu Jian asked, "What did the indigenous people here research? Why did the energy explosion occur?"
"Perhaps we can only get the answers to these questions if we go deep into the Insect Island." Lu Yang glanced at the position of the moon and said, "It's almost dawn, let's catch up on some sleep. After dawn, we should set off for the next area."
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The next day, at daybreak, Wu Jian and the others had already entered Area D, which was also the last area. As long as they passed through this area, they would reach the depths of the Insect Island, where the answers to all their questions lay!
However, when they saw the abandoned city, they looked at each other in confusion.
Wu Jian asked, "Is District D a city? Could it be where that group of people live?"
"This place has been abandoned for too long. There is a high possibility of mutant bugs. Everyone, be careful when you go in."
"The city looks quite wealthy. They even have hovercars. The technology here is really advanced!"
Listening to everyone's sighs, Wu Jian looked at the city wrapped in plants. The streets were filled with parked hovercrafts, a mess. Every household had its doors open, showing how chaotic the departure had been.
Wu Jian looked at the pitch-black hovercraft, touched it, and felt dust on his claws.
Looking at the dust on his fingers, Wu Jian looked at the control room again, reached out and opened the car door. It was dusty outside, but very clean inside. The energy equipment was not damaged at all.
Wu Jian's eyes lit up: "Can we take them away?"
"Uh..." Zhao Jian pondered for a moment and said, "It seems that it is not impossible. The rules don't say that you can't take the things inside."
That's fine.
Wu Jian waved his hand and put all the hovercrafts into the space.
The once cluttered streets are now deserted.
Wu Jian patted the dust off his paws and said, "Let's go to the next place.
Recycling garbage... oh no, it should be recycling scrapped cars."
A group of people walked into the city.
The cities here are similar to cyberpunk cities, a fusion of mechanization and human life.
There is just a bottomless cliff behind the street, and the city on the other side is more luxurious, like the pigeon-cage houses forming a stark contrast with the high-end villas.
"Let's look for clues here first, and then go to the other side to take a look later." Zhao Jian suggested.
No one had any objection.
They entered a crowded pigeon house, and when they pushed open the door, a skeleton fell out from behind it.
The bones fell to the ground, creating a lot of dust. Fist-sized cockroaches crawled out from the bones, spread their wings and attacked everyone.
Lu Yang solved it with one kick.
"There are still people who haven't left?"
Wu Jian and the others walked around the bones and entered the room. A musty smell mixed with an unpleasant odor hit their noses.
Everyone covered their noses as they searched the house. The room was a mess, and there were many insects crawling along the walls. Besides the skeleton outside, there was another skeleton lying on the bed, but this one was smaller and had a larger pelvis, so it must be a female.
There were only two skeletons in the house, and a lot of red, green and yellow liquids on the table.
Wu Jian took a look at a green tube and asked, "Is this some kind of nutritional supplement?"
Lu Yang picked up one and took a look, then nodded. "Yes, this is a nutrient. They probably didn't leave and chose to stay. I didn't expect the energy explosion to be so fierce. They must have died on the day of the energy explosion."
Wu Jian put down the nutrient supplement.
Others went to open other rooms and found some scattered corpses and some decomposed corpses.
There should be no one living here, but there are quite a few giant insects.
Wu Jian threw a small silver ball out, hitting a large cockroach. He couldn't help but complain, "Why do I feel like there are more and more cockroaches?"
Others feel this way too.
When they came out of the room again, they saw countless cockroaches crawling outside the house and were stunned.
"This should be the cockroaches' territory. They think we are intruders."
"Shall we leave now?"
"Walk."
Everyone left in another direction.
Cockroaches followed closely behind.
Seeing cockroaches growing
As more and more people came, they all hid in a more spacious place.
Wu Jian saw the words covered by the garbage at a glance, and he pulled the garbage aside to see clearly what was written on the stone tablet.
"035." Wu Jian frowned and said, "Isn't this the address of No. 2's workplace?"
"Go in and take a look."
The door was locked with energy and needed energy to open. However, due to the energy explosion, everything here that required energy to operate had stopped functioning, so it only needed to be opened by force.
Ankur and Lu Yang opened the door together.
Inside the gate are small doors, many tables and chairs, and a holographic blackboard.
This should be a school.
"Strange, it's clearly a school, why is it given a numerical designation like 035?"
No one answered Wu Jian's question because they didn't know the reason either.
Opening each door, they were almost the same. They walked to the back of the school, where there were many more beds. One of them caught Wu Jian's attention.
【Enter the White Tower and meet my brother! 】
Wu Jian looked at the crooked and somewhat childish handwriting, but another question was on his mind. Could this be where sister number two went to school?
After I came out of the back door of the school, the cockroaches stopped chasing me.
Their pace also slowed down a lot.
After leaving the school, they arrived at the edge of the bottomless abyss. A bridge was built on both sides of the cliff. Due to the long time, the mechanical bridge had decayed and creaked in the cold wind.
"Let's use the rope to get across. The bridge might collapse if we step on it."
Finally, Wu Jian fixed the rope to one end of the cliff, and the others followed the rope to the other side of the cliff little by little.
Wu Jian was waiting for everyone to come over, then he looked down at the cliff. It was pitch black below, with fog floating around, and he couldn't see the situation clearly at all.
He couldn't help but sigh and said, "It's too deep down there, isn't it?"
As he sighed, everything came to him.
The buildings here are really different from those on the other side. They are tall, upscale, and where rich people live.
Compared to the house opposite where there were corpses that had turned into skeletons and had not left, it was completely different here. Not only was there not a single corpse to be seen, but the equipment in the house was also very complete.
For example, when Wu Jian and his friends entered the house, they found that the door actually had energy.
【Welcome to Xingfu Community.】
“These residential areas should have reserve energy.”
Everyone went in and took a look around. Wu Jian collected a lot of "junk". Although these devices were old, fortunately they were all usable.
Wu Jian threw them all into the space, and wherever they went, they were clean and nothing was left.
The others looked at the bracelet on Wu Jian's hand with complicated expressions.
Zhao Jian asked, "Little Dragon, how big is the space on your bracelet? I see it's filled with quite a lot of stuff. How much more can it hold?"
Wu Jian thought for a while and said, "I haven't calculated it, but I should be able to fit this much more."
I won’t say more, because if I say too much, it will only make me envious and jealous.
Wu Jian thought that he should take everything he could use with him and continue to clear out the rich area. If the gate could be taken away, he would have taken it away too.
"Do you think it's too quiet here?" Zhao Jian frowned.
Wu Jian nodded: "Yes, I haven't heard the sound of insects for a long time."
The next moment, the rustling sound of insects was heard.
Everyone: ...
"Little dragon, next time you'd better keep quiet."!
(End of this chapter)
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