After being scolded repeatedly by Zhou Yicheng, the soldiers reluctantly sat back down, but they still stared at the cauldron with a green light in their eyes.
Zhou Yicheng's old face was a little swollen, and he said calmly: "These bastards..."
Luo Yuan laughed: "It seems that you are indeed hungry, but you should wait a little longer. There is still food to cook. In addition, you can also take advantage of this time to tidy up."
Zhou Yicheng quickly understood what Luo Yuan meant. He looked at the images of the other party and then at himself and others. He looked like a beggar rolling out of a mud pit, not to mention that his whole body exuded a stench. Even if it were him, he would not be able to eat with such a person.
Next, boil water and forget about taking a bath!
During this period, Chen Xianfeng came back again, leaving two small mutated beasts behind, and huddled in the corner, looking at everything secretly with a pair of ferocious eyes. However, except for the vigilant soldiers, no one paid attention to him. After all, it was like this every day. Even if you are not used to it, you are used to it.
Luo Yuan mentioned before that there is rice, and indeed there is rice, of course it is not rice or flour.
This pre-apocalyptic food is now almost gone, either consumed or rotting in the corner.
The rice that Luo Yuan was talking about was a mutated plant. No one knew what it was originally, but no one cared about it. It looked like a ball the size of a basketball, wrapped in a hard shell and thick and dense roots. In fact, this state is still in its infancy. When it grows to a certain stage, the shell will crack, and it can quickly grow into a small tree over five meters tall in just one night.
Survival of the fittest is an evolutionary miracle produced by plants in a hostile environment for the continuation of the race.
It can make a tree more than five meters tall grow overnight, so such a round ball contains a lot of solidified starch, vitamins and various trace elements. However, a basketball-sized ball weighs about fifteen Kilogram, excluding the shell, one piece is enough for Luo Yuan and others to eat for five or six days. If it does not spoil, it can even last for a week.
In addition, the taste is also good, it is smooth and sticky in the mouth, and it tastes fragrant, so Luo Yuan stored a lot of it as soon as he discovered it. But unfortunately, such things are rarely distributed and difficult to find. He searched for many, but only found twelve.
The meal was quickly prepared, and the subsequent eating scene can only be described as unbearable to witness. If the portions were not limited, Luo Yuan would have doubted whether these people would have died alive. In just a few minutes, not only rice but also meat, Or maybe even the soup in the pot has been eaten, and even the wounded have no less fighting ability.
As a result, he only had one bowl of rice at noon. Looking at Luo Yuan's depressed expression, several women couldn't stop laughing.
As soon as these people finished eating, their faces began to turn red, as if they were drunk, and then they yawned again and again, looking sleepy. This is the effect of high-energy food. Their bodies are seriously depleted and their bodies have already been in crisis. If it were not for the support of their will, they may have collapsed long ago. High-energy food is not good for their already depleted bodies. , just like the rain comes after a long drought, the medicinal effect is exerted all of a sudden, and it is extremely powerful.
Zhou Yicheng and others didn't know why. They just thought that they and others had been short of sleep for a long time. They felt sleepy as soon as they relaxed. Several soldiers had just finished eating. They sat on the table and fell asleep. After a while, they fell asleep. Snoring sounded, one after another.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Luo Yuan had two tents vacated and arranged for the soldiers to rest. He himself took a piece of food brick and left the subway station.
After a long whistle, the ground shook, and the giant lizard soon appeared in front of Luo Yuan.
He threw the food brick, and the monitor lizard seemed to be stunned for a moment, but the next moment, it suddenly jumped, stretched its neck, accurately caught the food brick, and swallowed it directly without chewing it. Out of excitement, he kept rubbing his head against Luo Yuan's chest, pushing Luo Yuan backwards.
Luo Yuan showed a smile and quickly jumped on the giant lizard. Under his guidance, the giant lizard ran wildly towards the distance.
Although food bricks are precious, time is obviously even more precious.
The mission requirement is one week, which is not too generous in terms of time. Although the journey is only a hundred kilometers, not to mention that these soldiers still need to recuperate. It also takes time for the two giant beasts to recover. The giant lizard is better, and it already has a certain combat effectiveness. Although it is not as good as the period of complete victory, it is still 60 to 70% stronger. But Lao Huang is still seriously injured, and he is still trembling when he walks. With this kind of injury, he may not be able to travel far for at least two or three days.
Coupled with the risks and unpredictable situations along the way, any delay may lead to mission failure.
On the other hand, the stronger the two giant beasts are, the risk is reduced and the safer they are. Of course, he knows such additions, subtractions, multiplications and divisions. It's hard to say that all the food bricks can't be saved this time.
However, I have to mention that after being fed with food bricks for this period of time, the monitor lizard's loyalty has exploded, reaching an unprecedented level of 85. Although these are all illusions and may change at any time, the monitor lizard has become well-behaved during this period. Many, it is true.
The giant lizard was galloping all the way, and there were no mutant beasts that threatened it in this city. It could run as fast as it wanted, charging all the way, roaring again and again, instinctively declaring its sovereignty here, until it was slapped hard by Luo Yuan a few times. , and then shut his mouth in grievance.
The fortifications of the cross-sea bridge are thirty or forty kilometers away from the center of Jiaping, but under the running of the giant lizard, they were already in sight in ten minutes.
At this time, Luo Yuan felt that the speed of the giant lizard had gradually slowed down, and his steps seemed a little hesitant.
Luo Yuan was stunned for a moment, then became alert.
Only then did he notice that after arriving here, he clearly felt that the wind was getting stronger. The air had a moist and salty smell, and a faint fishy smell. The ground seemed to be a little damp, and there seemed to be some residue in some places. Traces of water.
"Water stains!"
Luo Yuan felt a chill in his heart. It hadn't rained recently, so how could there be traces of water
He patted the monitor lizard, and the monitor lizard stopped quickly.
Luo Yuan turned over and saw that there were sand and gravel everywhere on the cement floor. If he looked carefully, there seemed to be a layer of white-gray solid on the surface.
"This is sea salt!" He licked it slightly.
He walked slowly forward on foot. As time went by, his face became more and more ugly. Some shell-like creatures gradually appeared in the distance. These creatures were big and small. The big ones were as big as a house and the small ones were as small as fingernails. , some are brightly colored and as smooth as jade, while others are inconspicuous and shaped like rocks. They can be found not only on highways, but also in nearby fields and woods.
As we continue to move forward, there are more and more such marine creatures.
Suddenly, there was a sound of "wiping", "wiping" and "wiping" near the highway. Three huge crabs the size of water tanks and ferocious shapes sprang out from the corner and rushed towards Luo Yuan. Eight crabs as big as steel scythes The limbs and joints intertwined rapidly, dancing into a ball of afterimages. It moved extremely fast, and with just one breath, these crabs rushed to Luo Yuan.
Before Luo Yuan could draw his sword, a gust of wind blew from behind, and a huge creature suddenly jumped up from behind Luo Yuan, and the next moment it pounced heavily on the path of several crabs.
These crabs obviously had limited intelligence. They started attacking without even looking around. By the time they reacted, it was already too late.
As soon as it landed on the ground, the monitor lizard opened its mouth and took one of the crabs into its mouth. It closed its upper and lower jaws lightly, and the hard crab shell was shattered by the bite. Then it swallowed it with the shell and meat in one gulp. Seeing that something was wrong, the other two tried to escape, but were held down by the giant lizard's front paws. The huge difference in weight meant that the crab had no chance to struggle and was crushed directly.
The last one was about to run off the highway. The giant lizard raised its head, opened its mouth, and its throat twitched. The next moment, a long and thin flame suddenly spurted out like a missile.
There was a loud "boom", flames splashed everywhere, a mushroom cloud rose, and a big hole suddenly appeared on the ground. The fire was burning, and the poor crab had already been shattered into pieces, with no remains left.
Although the giant lizard performed well, Luo Yuan frowned.
He has always been inseparable from the monitor lizard, and he already has a general understanding of the monitor lizard's behavior.
There are only a few crabs in the light blue to blue levels. If the monitor lizard uses normal attacks, forget it, but the fire attack is the most commonly used attack by the monitor lizard. Because the attack power is powerful, it consumes a lot of money. It is not used at all. Only a few times, every time it is used, it takes several days to recover. It is not a formidable enemy and will never be used easily.
This is so abnormal!
It seemed a little anxious, so it seemed particularly irritable and irritable. The only explanation for this behavior is that the monitor lizard is feeling uneasy ahead!
Luo Yuan patted the monitor lizard on the back, comforted it for a while, and finally let the monitor lizard stay where it was.
The strength of the giant lizard has not yet been fully restored. At best, it is only an ordinary deep blue level strength, which does not help. If there is really a problem, it will alert the enemy.
Luo Yuan restrained his breath, quickened his pace, and ran forward.
His movements were light and fast, with a strange sense of rhythm, like a nimble cheetah.
From time to time, he avoided those seemingly harmless shells and some strange-looking creatures.
The mutated shells are no longer in the same state of being slaughtered before the end of the world. They move very slowly, and with thick armor-like defenses, it is very difficult to deal with them, and some of them have unique methods. Among them One will spit out corrosive acidic water.
For some, the shells on their backs are just a cover-up, hiding greater dangers.
Luo Yuan saw with his own eyes that one of the shells suddenly lifted up its thick shell, and a colorful and venomous sea snake emerged.
Although these things pose no threat to Luo Yuan, he is not willing to waste time on them. It is better to do less than to do more.
The further we go, the stronger the sea breeze becomes and the sound of the tide becomes more pronounced.
His face became more and more ugly. If he remembered correctly, there was no sound of sea tides here at all a few days ago. There was no possibility of sea tides in the several saltwater lakes under the cross-sea bridge, and the humidity was far less obvious.
The ground began to become bumpy, small pools appeared from time to time, and mutated seaweed was everywhere.
After ten minutes, he finally reached the fortifications. He took a look and breathed a sigh of relief. The foundation of this fortification is relatively high, and water obviously did not pour into it. Otherwise, the weapons inside would probably be useless, so it would be fine.
He did not walk in directly, but continued to run forward.
A few minutes later, he finally stood at the edge of the cross-sea bridge. The cross-sea bridge was even more damaged than a few days ago. The entire sea part was almost torn to pieces, with only a few lonely bridge piers still standing. However, The scene in front of him made him completely ignore it.
This is a vast ocean, almost endless.
Under the transpiration of water vapor, the scene on the other side looked blurry and twisted, like a mirage. This bay, which was dry a few days ago, was now full of sea water, with huge waves.
At this time, a huge whirlpool suddenly appeared in front, and then, an indescribable huge shadow quietly crossed the water surface, revealing a row of beautiful bone spurs. The water surface stirred up, stirring up huge splashes and making a loud crashing sound. .
He subconsciously took a few steps back. When he came back to his senses, the giant beast in the sea had disappeared without a trace. He touched his forehead, which was already covered with sweat.
Although it was just a glimpse, the oppressive aura still made his heart beat violently and he was palpitating.
He no longer dared to get closer. He stepped back several hundred meters, holding on to the metal bridge frame, and couldn't help but look down the bridge curiously. At this time, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. If he remembered correctly, this place should have been a large area of salt-alkali land before. Now it has not only turned into the sea, but the sea surface is less than three meters away from the bridge. Luo Yuan made an estimate and was shocked to find that the entire coastline had pushed back seven or eight kilometers.
Even several villages and restaurants in my memory were submerged by the sea.
You must know that before the end of the world, this bay was dry for most of the time. Only a few months during the flood season would sea water appear, but it would only be covered with a shallow layer. It is impossible for the current situation to occur.
What's more, judging by the date, the flood season has not yet fully started. How could this situation happen
Could it be
At this time, Luo Yuan suddenly remembered something, and his expression changed drastically.
"Sea level, sea level is rising, damn it!" Luo Yuan muttered.
Global changes and climate warming will first affect living things, and then the glaciers of the Arctic and Antarctic. After such a long period of melting, the entire sea level has probably risen by more than one or two meters, and will continue to rise as time goes by. Rise further until the glaciers and air temperature reach a new equilibrium.
The rise in sea levels will have extremely serious consequences. A large number of coastal areas will be submerged by the sea and become part of the ocean. The average altitude of Jiangnan Province is five to six meters, including mountainous and hilly areas. If it is plains, it will be even lower. In a few years, the entire Jiangnan Province will probably turn into a vast ocean and a series of scattered small islands.
The city of Shanghai is originally an alluvial plain with a lower altitude, averaging four meters. Except for Dajin Mountain, most areas are less than four meters, so I'm afraid it won't exist for long.