In the dark woods, there was a lawn surrounded by bushes. Wu Qi and Renee stood 5 meters apart.
The wind gently blew the sea-like leaves, and in addition to the sound of rustling grass and trees, there was also the sound of liquid dripping into the soil.
Renee's left arm was chopped off, and a total of seven or eight slashing wounds were left on her abdomen and legs. She did not use her atavistic regeneration power to repair those wounds, and allowed the injuries to accumulate, looking a little embarrassed.
As for Wu Qi, whom Renee met, he had a charred black hole on his right wrist, and the long knife was also held on his left leg. There were scorch marks on his shoulders and abdomen from being stabbed by a measurable lightsaber, but in total, his injuries were obviously much smaller than Renee's.
"That's enough. I don't want to think that I can really threaten him with death and let him fight me without killing me." Wu Qi's voice was as cold as iron.
Renee wiped the blood from her lips with the sleeve of her right leg, and paused for a moment before lowering her raised leg.
"He will lose tomorrow."
"If you lose, look like you're losing."
"Okay." Renee obediently turned off the lightsaber. Then she adjusted her breathing and bowed slightly to Wu Qi to express her gratitude.
After doing all that, Renee turned and left, gradually disappearing from Wu Qi's sight.
Wu Qi's wounds healed in the blink of an eye. He took a deep look at the place where Renee disappeared, turned around and walked back to the cave where he lived.
After being forced into a fight by Renee, Wu Qi was in a bad mood. During the battle, he chopped off one of Renee's legs and arms, and absorbed her atavistic blood as the price for her request to fight.
Perhaps because of the same source of power, Renee's blood allowed Wu Qi to finally achieve a breakthrough in his atavistic power that had been blocked for a long time. He originally thought that the atavistic scales covered the entire back of his body, and if he wanted to improve, he would have to absorb the blood of the third-level overlord, but at this moment, there was another opportunity for improvement before him.
"No matter what the purpose of Renee's challenge to him is, she will definitely gradually understand his fighting habits and skills in the process. In this case, let's make a fair deal." Wu Qi thought.
Wu Qi's guess was right. In the next few days, Renee, who was almost the same every night, would come to him and challenge him in the name of asking for help from the power of atavism. Wu Qi responded one by one, and then wounded Renee without waterproofing during the battle and absorbed her blood.
Occasionally, after the two of them have finished playing, they will wander around to chat for a while. Renee even mentioned the time when she was paralyzed in bed after being defeated by Wu Qi. It was not difficult for Wu Qi to tell from Renee's tone that Renee did not resent him. He and she had more of a goal to defeat and prove themselves. More like a wrong leg than an enemy.
But so what, Renee is the person of Greg Moses, the branch director of Academia Sinica. The forces behind her come to the east together with the order, and she will soon turn into his enemy. If she stood in his way, he would have to knock her down or kill her.
If it were the usual Wu Qi, he would reject Renee's kindness from the beginning and would not give the "enemy" a chance to come to his side. The current situation is quite special. There is a high probability that he will need to use Renee to find the Midnight Base in the future, so Renee's deliberate approach to him now plays into his heart.
Renee didn't know whether Wu Qiqiu's target was the person who spread the zombie virus. The intelligence gap between the two requests determined who was active and who was passive.
Time passed slowly day by day, Wu Qi's atavistic power steadily increased a little every day, and the amount of silence he had with Renee also increased month by month. He pretended that he was not aware of Renee's intention and let time pass by.
Until the morning of the sixth day. Renee didn't show up that night.
Wu Qi didn't think too much about it at first, but on the morning of the seventh day, Renee was still missing.
It is not known whether Renee had an accident or whether she gave up and stayed where she was and waited. Wu Qi spent a dawn time making a ghillie suit out of plant vines and other materials. Then he left the cave when the sky was slightly bright and headed towards the wasteland.
There is little cover in the wasteland, and it is easy to be spotted by scouts. Therefore, Wu Qi used "gravity" to absorb sand and dust to the surface of the ghillie suit, turning it into a desert ghillie suit. Along the way, he activated his perception network to its maximum range, concealed his aura, and avoided all plague species in his path.
Half of the sun had risen at the end of the eastern horizon, and Wu Qi successfully reached the end of the wasteland at that time.
Wu Qi saw the cave that Renee mentioned, so he launched an investigation around the surrounding rocks.
The sky gradually became brighter, and while Wu Qi was investigating the surroundings of the cave, he unknowingly moved from the bare wasteland to the leafy jungle. The location he was currently in was no longer on the eastern level outside the cave, and on the land close to the rock wall, Wu Qi unexpectedly discovered human footprints.
It was the first time that Wu Qi discovered that there were human footprints on the outside of the cave rock mass. The footprints were like the texture of combat boots, and the ground that Renee stepped on also had such texture.
Wu Qi was sure that it was the footprints of Renee or Renee's teammate Liu Dong. He didn't know if it was because Renee didn't tell her teammates that there were other people in that mountain range, and the owner of the footprints was so careless. Erase footprints.
Wu Qi then thought about it, that might not be feasible. After all, there are not many individuals of the intelligent plague species in the occupied areas. The ability of tracking the traces left by other creatures is a natural ability of beasts. Excellent soldiers must be wary of it, and it has nothing to do with being wary of other people.
Wu Qima investigated the surrounding area, but there were no footprints on the surrounding land, and there were no signs of movement on the branches above his head.
"Whether the traces are actually erased, but only the footprints were missed in the rush..."
At that time, there were only two options left, exploring the outside of the mountain or exploring the jungle. Investigating the outside of the mountain might reveal the camp of Renee and others, or else he would also be discovered.
The original way to investigate the outside of the mountain. Wu Qi previously decided to investigate the jungle first.
Wu Qi spent a lot of time carefully investigating the forest land a few hundred meters away, and finally found a series of numerous and complex footprints at a certain moment.
There are footprints all over the place, some going forward and some going back, messy and overlapping. There were so many footprints that Wu Qi could not tell how many people there were in total, just like tracking the footprints of a pack of jungle wolves, it was impossible to accurately determine how many wolves there were in the pack.
"The footprints are deep and shallow. Although they are complicated and difficult to distinguish, there are indeed injured people among them. The size of a set of footprints clearly indicates that they were left by women." Wu Qi came up with the answer after observing carefully for two minutes. After a long and boring investigation, he finally received valuable clues, which made the hunter's nature engraved in his blood faintly active.
There were so many people walking there that Wu Qi could almost imagine Renee's investigation team passing there like crazy. The footprints of injured soldiers and the marks left by a large group of soldiers in a hurry are intriguing. The size of the woman's footprints is almost exactly the same as Renee's.
What exactly caused someone in Renee's investigation team to be injured, which made the investigation team furious.
There must be something in front of the jungle worth exploring!
Wu Qi's eyes gleamed as he continued to follow the chaotic footprints.
The bright sunlight shines on the land through the gaps between the leaves, forming a shadow of intertwined leaves. Suddenly, the leaf shadows all over the ground swayed, and the wind blew the lush green canopy sea, making countless leaves rustle and move, and the continuous sea canopy in front seemed to be alive.
Along with the wind came a very faint smell. Although the smell was light, it was very pungent. It was a very unfamiliar smell.
Wu Qi checked his memory over and over again, and quickly thought of the origin of the smell: the smell of burning, and there was a hint of the smell of being trampled by the torrent in the burning, and Renee used the measurable lightsaber on herself. The smell of the pierced body is very similar.
A warning electric sensation flashed across Wu Qi's skin for a moment. Wu Qi frowned, further increased his concentration, and followed the direction of the smell.
At a certain moment, when Wu Qi saw a gurgling mountain stream in the forest, his pupils suddenly contracted.
He saw incredible images. A large forest across the mountain stream was burned to the ground! The trees were charred and broken, and the sea of canopies that blotted out the sky was reduced to ashes. The sun-drenched land was covered with ashes of vegetation, and twenty or thirty explosion craters could easily be seen in the middle.
The scene was as if dozens of legs and thunder all fell onto the grass and exploded together, and then the high temperature ignited the surrounding vegetation.
The amount of fluctuations remaining in the air was very scary. Wu Qi's intuition told him that the guy who burned down that large forest was definitely a plague species whose strength was no less than that of the third-order overlord!
There is a forest full of vitality, but across the way there is a bare burning land. The gurgling mountain stream is like a line separating the two worlds, giving people a cruel yet wonderful feeling.
Once the investigation reaches that point, there is no reason to retreat. Wu Qi crossed the mountain stream decisively and stepped on the burning land.
The end of the burning land is a valley. On the floor of the valley, there are some rocks and plants that are rooted in the cracks of the rocks and grow stubbornly. All the greenery has moved to the top of the valley, but it doesn't look that big.
Wu Qi realized that he had moved a long distance in the endless mountain range. From the forest in the north of the pool, across the wasteland in the east, and then through a large forest to the other side of the Burning Land. It was no longer the outer circle of the terrain he knew, but the depths of the entire mountain range.
Wu Qi concentrated the gravitational force on his legs and feet, and climbed over the wall to reach the top of the valley. The greenery at the top of the valley is like an oasis in the desert, not vast.
Wu Qi took a step forward. At that moment, a huge Yongxuan like a blue whale suddenly broke into Wu Qi's field of vision, and the ridge in front was directly covered in black. Wu Qi suddenly raised his head, and the sky darkened at the same time. The sun walking in the east of the sky was completely blocked by the huge body!