Chapter 608, Contaminated Zone 6 (Thirty-two)
Not long after the armored vehicle left Qingshan Town, everyone sensed an increase in the surrounding dark matter.
Yun Zhao raised his hand to support the barrier.
The sentries instantly felt much more comfortable.
Fu Yan was in charge of driving. She handed the map back to Yun Zhao, saying, "Follow the map Uncle He gave us, keep driving east, and you'll reach the place where he found the stone."
He Guanghai sat in the back seat, his gaze shifting from the weapon racks on either side to the ammunition boxes piled to the top. He nodded upon hearing this: "That place... I haven't been close to it since I regained my senses. I only remember the general direction."
Fu Qian's voice came through: "I understand."
Nobody wants to become a mindless monster.
He Guanghai himself didn't understand what was going on, so just in case, he certainly wouldn't get close again.
Yun Zhao sat in the back of the driver's seat and reached out to take the map.
The drawings were very detailed, and the winding route was very long, which showed that Red Eyes' territory was indeed very large.
Xie Tu sat next to her and whispered, "Do you remember?"
Yun Zhao shook his head: "I remember some scenes, but I don't remember the route."
She was too young then.
They have no concept of contaminated areas at all.
Driving a toy car recklessly, how could they possibly remember the route?
"There are no road signs along the way, so we can only head east in a general direction," Fu Heng said.
Jiang Mu sat in the passenger seat, his hand resting on the window sill. "It's okay, just keep driving."
“The area near Qingshan Town retains its original topography, so this road is definitely the right one,” He Guanghai couldn’t help but say.
Fu Yu nodded.
Outside the car window lay a desolate wasteland.
loess.
The boundless loess soil.
There were no road signs, no vegetation, not even ruins.
Jiang Mu, unafraid of being overheard by the red-eyed man, asked Yun Zhao, "Is it still watching you?"
Yun Zhao carefully sensed it for a moment, then silently replied, "Yes."
It wasn't as intense as it had been at the beginning; it was more like watching her from a dark corner.
Even if she gets angry, she can't force it out.
"It seems it doesn't want to fight you."
Fu Yu's words were strange; she used "and you" instead of "we".
Jiang Mu agreed: "The monster that impersonated Xia Mingang before was targeting me. It separated us all, probably wanting to see you alone."
The implication is...
Once Yun Zhao is alone, Red Eyes might come out on his own.
"etc!"
Xia Mingang, who was admiring the scenery through the observation window, turned around and interrupted him, raising his voice eight octaves, "What do you mean by a monster impersonating me?"
How come he didn't know?
Jiang Mu slowly turned around, "Didn't we tell you? In the tent area, there's a monster that looks like you, and it came to meet up with me and Yun Zhao."
"...Why didn't you say so sooner!"
Xia Mingang's expression froze, his tone full of offended displeasure, "Which blind monster is this? Can it imitate even a tenth of my style?"
Jiang Mu: "Don't even mention one-tenth, it's one hundred percent, even I couldn't tell."
Xia Mingang: "...Damn it!"
Yun Zhao was still thinking about Fu Mo's words, his thoughts kept being interrupted by them, so he simply turned his back, pressed his forehead against the cold glass window, and looked out of the car.
The parched earth resembled a torn piece of skin, its hideous cracks exposed to the scorching sun.
When the wheels roll over it, they don't stir up dust, but rather a sticky, almost gelatinous substance that adheres to the car window, slowly sliding off and leaving murky marks.
A few twisted vines occasionally flashed by in the distance.
The stems are a sickly purplish-black color, covered with nodular protrusions that pulsate slightly like the blood vessels of some kind of organism.
Further away, the horizon was shrouded in a layer of grayish-yellow haze, indistinguishable as either sand or some kind of suspended pollutant.
It's described as a primitive landscape, yet it has an inexplicably eerie feel to it.
It's so obvious at a glance that this is a contaminated area.
Yun Zhao continued his thoughts.
This wasn't the first time she had sensed the gatekeeper.
In the two previous contaminated areas, Xiao Yunzhao also sensed the gatekeeper's movements.
They lurk in every inch of air, their malicious compound eyes waiting for an opportunity to devour her... as if she were some kind of Tang Monk's flesh.
But red eyes are different.
It did nothing but spy on her every move.
You've changed a lot.
Why associate with inferior races...?
Inferior race?
Yun Zhao reasonably suspected that she and the red-eyed girl might come from the same place.
In its eyes, humans are like ants, inferior beings.
It is different from other gatekeepers.
It's not that it lacked malice, but rather that its malice concealed a deeper obsession—a twisted "concern" that wanted to drag her back from humanity.
The car drove through the wasteland for three hours.
The view outside the window gradually transitioned from barren loess to a strange temperate ecosystem.
The air became damp and sticky, carrying a rotten, sweet, and fishy smell.
On the distant horizon, the twisted silhouettes of the trees resembled deformed giants, their branches gnarled and their bark covered with dark green moss, like festering skin.
What's most unsettling are those vines.
The vines along the way became more and more numerous, slowly wriggling across the ground like snakes.
The leaves change color with the environment. When they roll over a dry riverbed, they turn yellowish-brown; when they climb over a depression filled with humus, they turn a dirty dark brown, almost blending into the broken road surface.
"Tsk, there are more and more of these weird things." Jiang Mu closed the car window.
Yun Zhao glanced at the van following closely behind the car, a little worried about an accident. "Just in case, let someone get on the roof of the van."
Seven sentries were sitting in the van behind them.
Two other people were watching the road from the roof of the armored vehicle.
Yun Zhao was worried that if the Biyi Teng suddenly launched an attack, they wouldn't be able to handle it.
"Who's going?" Xia Mingang asked, turning around to look into the car.
Fu Qi was driving, and Jiang Mu was sitting in the passenger seat.
There were four people sitting in the back seat.
He Guanghai is a mutant and an elder, and Yun Zhao is the guide, so the only people left to do the work are him and Xie Tu.
Xie Tu glanced at Xia Mingang, then stood up and said, "I'll go."
"I'll go too."
Yun Zhao stood up and said to He Guanghai, "Uncle, you stay in the car. Xie Tu and I will go up and take a look."
He Guanghai nodded. "Be careful."
Xia Mingang watched as Xie Tu deftly opened the sunroof of the car, then, holding Yun Zhao, nimbly climbed up, leaving only a dull thud as the window closed.
Logically speaking, it should be a good thing that someone volunteered and is happy to be on their own.
Xia Mingang felt a sudden, inexplicable unease.
It makes it seem like he's deliberately slacking off.
He glanced at the empty seat opposite him, then looked at Jiang Mu's nonchalant profile in the passenger seat.
—Those who are truly lazy feel at ease.
Xia Mingang was furious. He was about to speak when he saw Jiang Mu suddenly sit up straight.
Something's up!
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