The mutant pigs roaring behind him were about to rush out from the encirclement of the convoy, but Zhang Mu soon disappeared as well, disappearing in the wreckage of the vehicle. The obsidian worms in the sky were trying to fly as high as they could.
Seeing that it was difficult to catch these two preys, the mutant pigs in the lead had a hint of hesitation in their bloodthirsty eyes. Then they growled twice in the direction where Zhang Mu ran away, turned around, jumped back into the encirclement of the convoy and continued to sleep.
Flying too hard and too high, the Obsidian soon began to weaken and slowly landed on the road. Zhang Mu helped the pale-faced Yuan Rui get off the Obsidian's carapace and let the exhausted Obsidian return to his shoulder to rest.
Yuan Rui, who had just vomited, was pulled up again on the Obsidian Worm. Zhang Mu was afraid that those mutant pigs might have the ability to attack from a distance, so he commanded the Obsidian Worm to fly to a high enough altitude before letting it slow down.
Yuan Rui looked at Zhang Mu apologetically and said in a low voice, "Uncle, I didn't mean to do that. I just couldn't help it, so I vomited like that."
She felt as if she had brought trouble to Zhang Mu. Even Xiao Hei, who had been so lively just now, looked sick. She was a little afraid that Zhang Mu would blame her.
Zhang Mu just laughed, touched Yuan Rui's head and said, "It's okay, it's okay. Look, we are fine now, aren't we? You have been very careful. The smell is really bad, so disgusting that even a rough man like me can hardly stand it. Look, didn't Xiao Hei also take shelter in my clothes? You have been holding on, it's nothing. Who would have thought that those mutant black pigs would have such a keen sense of smell? Don't take it to heart.
In fact, even if they surrounded us, Xiao Hei and I are capable of dealing with them, but it is too troublesome and I am afraid of wasting time and energy, so I chose to take a detour. "
This was what Zhang Mu said in order not to make Yuan Rui worry. In fact, he knew clearly that it would be almost impossible for him and the Obsidian to escape unscathed. But he couldn't let a little girl like Yuan Rui fall into self-blame. In fact, it was also because Zhang Mu's plan was not thorough. He only considered how to deal with the zombies, but ignored the fact that mutant beasts might also appear on the highway, and they would be in groups.
So this time
However, Zhang Mu felt a sense of crisis. Thinking about it carefully, apart from his agile body and some skills in his hands, at most he had some physical instincts that were deliberately trained in the future. As such, he had no advantage at all in the apocalypse.
It's okay to bully the unintelligent zombies, but if he encounters a group of mutant beasts with initial intelligence, he has no choice but to escape. This is why it is so difficult for the evolvers who have not awakened their superpowers in later generations.
Moreover, the slight advantage that Zhang Mu had in the early stage of the apocalypse would slowly disappear in front of those evolvers who slowly developed their potential for superpowers.
As they were thinking, Zhang Mu and his partner had already walked out of the highway toll booth.
“It’s finally out!”
Zhang Mu looked back at the dilapidated toll station that was getting farther and farther away from him and his companions. He felt a little unbelievable. Who could have thought that all the zombies on the highway were taken over by a group of mutant pigs? As a result, they hardly encountered any zombies along the way.
Therefore, their progress was very easy, which was different from what Zhang Mu had originally expected. Therefore, except for a little delay at Zhan Hong's place, Zhang Mu and his companions hardly stopped at all, which saved a lot of time.
Zhang Mu didn't know whether he was lucky or unlucky. He did shorten their time, but at the same time, if he didn't dodge in time when those mutant pigs woke up, he would probably have been digested into a part of the fat on the pigs' stomachs.
It was getting late, the sun was setting, and the temperature was getting colder.
As soon as he got off the highway, Zhang Mu quickly transformed the Obsidian Bug, which had been lazy for a long time, back to its normal state, and drove Yuan Rui straight to their destination this time, the Longmen Grottoes.
The Longmen Grottoes were excavated during the time of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, a long time ago, but almost all Chinese people have heard of it. It is one kilometer long from north to south and has more than 100,000 statues.
Zhang Mu looked at the Longmen Grottoes in the distance, and his heart was filled with emotion. It had already been severely damaged by human beings before the end of the world. In the future, people could not even ensure their own lives. No one had the energy to protect these cultural heritages with historical value. They were wantonly destroyed by mutant beasts that came down from the mountains. Until a chance opportunity came,
It was only then that an evolver discovered the shocking secret hidden in the cave.
“Uncle, now that we are here, you can tell us what is going on, right?” Yuan Rui saw Zhang Mu staring at the scenic spot in the distance in a daze, and interrupted Zhang Mu’s thoughts.
"Well, I don't know. I just feel that there might be treasures here. Maybe this is also a kind of evolutionary ability of mine." Zhang Mu couldn't tell Yuan Rui that he was reborn from the future, which would definitely scare Yuan Rui. He had to vaguely attribute his prophetic ability to evolutionary awakening.
After hearing this, Yuan Rui understood. After witnessing this supernatural energy in her body and the dragon scales that Zhan Hong had just revealed, Yuan Rui has now become almost immune to any incredible things.
"Uncle, it turns out that you can not only tame Xiao Hei, but also predict the future. That's amazing!"
Seeing that Yuan Rui's eyes were almost full of stars, Zhang Mu shamelessly admitted it again. Otherwise, it would be so embarrassing to directly tell a little girl that he had no evolutionary ability and was not even as good as her.
However, this time, it was an opportunity, an opportunity to change Zhang Mu's foothold.
Therefore, he must get it at all costs.
"Let's go, get on Xiao Hei's back armor, and we're off now!"
.......Because it was the off-season, there were not many people around the grottoes, most of them were local residents, so there were only a few dozen zombies wandering around in groups of three or two outside the scenic area. Zhang Mu knew that these were nothing at all. The reason why the secrets of Longmen Grottoes had not been discovered by the evolvers for a long time was because they could not enter at all, and even dared not to enter.
Because the mutant beasts here are extremely difficult to deal with.
There is a huge group of mutant monkeys in Longmen Grottoes, roaming around. Compared with other mutant beasts, Zhang Mu is most troubled by these mutants with high intelligence and being constantly stimulated to evolve. Because their imitation ability will be quickly developed to a terrifying level by the evolutionary factors in their bodies.
For humans, the end of the world is a catastrophe, but also a wave of evolution full of opportunities. However, the beneficiaries of the wave of evolution are not only humans. Therefore, the status of human world hegemony has been shaken again and again.
(End of this chapter)