Epoch of Twilight

Chapter 222: Salt ore

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Such a loud movement naturally woke everyone up.

Everyone was running towards this side with weapons in hand, with a trace of nervousness on their faces. No matter who saw a vicious giant bird hovering above their heads, it seemed that it would choose people to eat at any time, and they could not keep their composure on their faces.

"What's wrong?" Huang Jiahui quickly glanced at the hovering giant bird in the sky and asked with some fear.

"There's some trouble. I'll kill its companion." Luo Yuan had nothing to hide from Huang Jiahui. He said with a gloomy face: "Be careful these days. I'm worried that this strange bird has already set its sights on us." ”

With the giant bird circling regularly, the sun is blocked by the wings of the giant bird from time to time, causing the light and dark below to change, and the strong wind continues, making people feel great pressure.

Especially the screams that sounded like blood, everyone looked ugly, and the atmosphere was depressing.

"Boss Luo, don't you have any solution?" Huo Dong asked carefully.

"I can deal with it. The key is that as long as it stays in the sky, there's nothing I can do." After saying this, Luo Yuan paused and continued: "Unless you lure it down."

Perhaps, after circling for a long time, the strange bird lost its last patience. It circled a few times, and suddenly its body was pressed down from mid-air. Its wings flapped violently, causing a strong wind. Within a radius of one kilometer, it seemed as if it was instantly blown up. A typhoon of magnitude 7 or 8 suddenly blew up sand and rocks, and filled the sky with smoke and dust, making it impossible to open one's eyes.

Just when Luo Yuan thought that the opponent was about to attack, it suddenly flapped its wings and flew high. After a few breaths, it turned into a small dot that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and then disappeared without a trace.

"Finally let's go!" Cao Lin sighed and relaxed immediately.

"It's not that simple. As Boss Luo said just now, many mutant beasts are very vindictive. After being injured, although they ran away at the time, they would come back to take revenge as soon as they recovered from the injury.

What's more serious is that there seems to be a mysterious connection between some high-level mutant beasts. By then, we may have to deal with not just one mutant bird, but a group of them. These days are critical. We must be careful. Don't be careless! " Captain Xia said with a darkened face, as if he had thought of something bad.

Although his individual strength is not good, as a soldier on the front line against mutant beasts, his war experience is undoubtedly richer than Luo Yuan's.

Luo Yuan nodded and said: "That's right. Although the possibility is very low, we must prepare for the worst. For the next few days, everyone should not go out for the time being. Reserve enough water and food first."

Luo Yuan has never dared to underestimate the intelligence of mutant creatures. They can often do things that are unbelievable to humans, not to mention the existence of special plants like wisdom trees. Luo Yuan no longer dares to be confident that human intelligence can completely defeat mutant beasts. .

Although this giant bird has a wingspan of more than thirty meters, when it hovers in the sky, it is like a huge curtain, blocking out the sky and the sun, which is extremely terrifying. However, it only weighs one or two tons, not much heavier than a giant. This is also a natural disadvantage of birds compared to land creatures. There is only a trade-off between weight and flight speed.

After the giant bird was dismembered by Luo Yuan, it was taken away one by one, and all its feathers were collected and used for other purposes.

Luo Yuan had just identified it, and it was a light green-level creature. This was the first time he had collected such high-level bird feathers, which were extremely precious.

However, it is difficult for a creature of this level to attract the attention of the system. There was not even a prompt from the system before.

There was a wry smile on his face, and he found that it was becoming more and more difficult to level up.

Everyone's face was full of exhaustion and their eyes were bloodshot, but everyone knew that the stakes were high. Living in this primitive forest, any risk could lead to heavy casualties.

After everyone brought the body of the giant bird back to the body, they took a large amount of water from the pool and poured it into a pit in the middle of the grotto. This pit was originally a pit dug by the giant, and there were also A lot of clean water, but it saved a lot of effort.

As for the wood, there is no shortage at all. The wood cut by the giant is still piled up like a hill next to the fire pit. Moreover, after being roasted by the nearby high temperature day and night, the wood has been completely dried, cracked, and has become extremely dry and flammable. As long as it is not The extravagant use of lighting a big torch like a giant, and just cooking food, may not be used up in a lifetime.

In just two hours, all the survival supplies were ready, enough for everyone to survive for ten days and a half without leaving home. The group of people have all come from the apocalypse, and everyone is familiar with this method of storing food for the winter, like squirrels, and they have rich experience.

It seems like a fuss, but in everyone's eyes it's normal. People in peace cannot understand the psychology of people in the last days. To use a vivid metaphor, it is a frightened bird. This is an extremely insecure psychological state.

If there is a slight disturbance, no matter whether there is danger or not, he will save himself first and not wait and see in advance. This behavior has almost been integrated into the bone marrow, with few exceptions.

Because most people who don’t have this mentality have already died in the apocalypse.

… …

Only then did Luo Yuan have the leisure to look at the newly occupied camp carefully with a victor's attitude.

This grotto is very large, and because there are giants living in it, it seems very empty to everyone.

This is the largest of all the grottoes. The giants living here (a large number of giants live in each grotto) are obviously of high status, and there are probably tribal leaders among them.

It is about six meters high and covers an area of several thousand square meters. The entire space is supported by twenty-four huge stone pillars that are three to four meters thick. It looks primitive and majestic.

There are still traces of ax and chisel carvings around the wall. It is hard to believe that a giant who was born less than two years ago could dig out such a magnificent building.

There are still some simple graffiti on the wall, maybe they are murals, or maybe they are original texts. Because they are too rough and crude, he can't tell what the paintings are. Instead, they are some patterns similar to spheres or crescent moons. He had some guesses, but he didn't have the leisure or interest to guess the meaning.

In addition, he also found a large number of primitive tools, most of which were made of wood and stone, as well as some animal teeth. Due to the giant's limited strength, most of these materials were not of high grade, at most only light green grade, and were of no use to him. How attractive.

The exploration ends here. For human beings, the shallow foundation of this simple civilization is almost clear at a glance, and there is no secret at all.

"Hey, come here and see what this is?" Wang Xiaguang suddenly said in surprise.

Luo Yuan deliberately adjusted the frequency of his steps and walked over "slowly", but his speed was still faster than ordinary people.

This is a gray-white rock nearly half a meter high, with dense cluster-like particles on its surface. One side seems to have been rubbed frequently, making it extremely smooth.

Before Luo Yuan could identify it, Wang Xiuguang had already picked up a gray-black particle the size of a marble with a dagger. Under Luo Yuan's surprised eyes, he stretched out his pink tongue and licked it gently, and then unexpectedly Put it in your mouth.

"Spit it out quickly, you're going to die!" Luo Yuan's face changed slightly, he stood up suddenly, pinched her mouth like lightning, and tried to make her spit it out.

"Let go... me, you hurt me, it's salty, it's salty, it's salt!" Wang Xiaguang danced and pushed hard with both hands, but she didn't vomit. Luo Yuan was afraid of hurting her, so he didn't. Dare to use force, but she broke free and said loudly.

"What? Salt!"

Luo Yuan quickly squatted down and used an identification technique.

"Salt ore is also called rock salt"

"Material: 70% sodium chloride; 15% magnesium chloride, 11% calcium chloride, 3% calcium carbonate

"Rarity: Gray."

"Weight: 355kg."

"Attributes: None."

“Evaluation: This is a piece of rock salt with lots of impurities!”

When Luo Yuan made an appraisal, everyone had already gathered around him.

"Salty, indeed salt!"

"Such a big piece of salt!"

Taking advantage of this gap, some people couldn't wait to dig out a piece and stuff it into their mouths.

When Luo Yuan stood up, he didn't know what to say when he saw this scene. Not only Wang Xiuguang and others, but also Huang Jiahui, who was usually the most cautious, took a piece and put it in his mouth, which made him want to grab it. Come and taste it together, what does it taste like

The salt deficiency has lasted for nearly a week. Normally, you can drink a lot of mutated blood to replenish salt, but these days, with the sharp rise in temperature, the human body is sweating almost all the time, and sweat causes a large amount of salt loss. Drinking blood to replenish salt has become a drop in the bucket. As the concentration of body fluids continues to decrease, some people have begun to experience mild symptoms of dehydration and weakness, and are extremely hungry for salt.

When I see such a big piece of salt now, I feel like a beggar whose eyes are green with hunger after not eating for several days. How can he continue to turn a blind eye when he suddenly finds a piece of steamed bun.

That is to say, Luo Yuan, who usually doesn't sweat much, can still maintain basic composure.

PS: There should be another chapter tonight, please recommend it.