The two set out in the early morning, and it was almost dusk before they knew it.
Mushi County is nearly 700 kilometers away from the reconstruction area in a straight line. If Luo Yuan were alone, at his speed, he could naturally go back and forth in one day. However, he brought Wang Shishi with him, and his telekinesis power could not last long, so he stopped and stopped along the way. The speed was greatly slowed down.
Fortunately, this place is less than a hundred kilometers away from Mushi County. It is already in sight. It will take less than an hour to reach the destination. However, seeing Master Wang's face looking tired and struggling to hold on, Luo Yuan still stopped and secretly thought in his heart. Self-blame: He was also impatient. If the Wisdom Tree was really there, it wouldn't have disappeared after a day's delay. He said, "It's getting dark. That's it for today. Please be alert and I'll go look for it nearby." Where to stay!”
This place is in a mountainous area, with undulating mountains and rivers, and is steep and steep. Luo Yuan found a cave near a cliff. The dense vines outside covered the cave tightly. If Luo Yuan had not had sharp eyesight, he would have noticed the nearby withered trees. The traces of leaf movement are not visible at all.
He pulled the vines apart with force and gently covered his nose. There was a strong smell coming from inside. After walking a few steps, a creature that looked like a giant bear rushed towards him with the fishy wind. It came quickly. , went away quickly, and as soon as they met, Luo Yuan punched him hard in the head. With a crisp sound like a bone cracking, the giant bear flew backwards for several meters, and fell to the ground neatly.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble caused by the smell of blood, Luo Yuan was obviously more civilized this time and was no longer so bloody.
Now we even have dinner for today.
"Pfft!"
At this time, Luo Yuan frowned again and chopped hard with his feet. A beetle that was swaggering and trying to crawl under his feet was immediately crushed by his feet. Looking at this cave where insects, ants and mutated beasts coexist harmoniously, his aura suddenly emitted, and the air was shaken. Countless insects and ants froze before they could escape in a hurry, and they could no longer die.
After a while, Master Wang also came in. He didn't care about the filth in the cave and sat down on the rock. He looked exhausted and didn't want to move.
"Do you regret it?" Luo Yuan said with a smile.
"It's just that I'm not used to it. I'll recover after taking a break." Master Wang pursed his lips and said harshly.
Luo Yuan smiled and did not provoke her any more: "Please pay attention to your safety, I will go find some delicious food."
"come back earlier!"
After Luo Yuan left, he re-covered the vines at the entrance of the cave and began to search in the forest. For a jungle expert with identification skills, as long as he searched carefully, there was food everywhere, whether it was starch-rich plant tubers or Delicious and juicy fungi are everywhere here. When it comes to the abundance of food, no one in the redevelopment area can match it.
Luo Yuan sniffed, walked a few steps nearby, and determined the location. He peeled off the dead leaves and soon saw a pile of eggs, snow-white and crowded one by one. It was extremely gratifying, and each one was delicious. They are the size of goose eggs and round as balls. There are hundreds of them, piled up into a hill.
Obviously, these are definitely not bird eggs, but eggs laid by insects, but they are still edible, and the texture is more tender and delicious than bird eggs.
Luo Yuan picked five and left. As for the rest of the eggs, he smashed them all. This was a habit he only developed in the reconstruction area. As long as the mutated creatures can be seen, they will be picked up immediately. Eliminate them to avoid causing hidden dangers.
Luo Yuan was lucky. Before he went back, he found a wild fruit. It looked like a hawthorn, but it was hundreds of times bigger. Each one was the size of a football. The outer shell was very hard and covered with thorns. Barbed spikes.
However, after cracking the hard shell, there was a fruit pulp that exuded a strong aroma. Luo Yuan ate one. It did not have the unique sourness of hawthorn, but instead had a slightly alcoholic frankincense. The taste was soft and waxy, and the flavor was very unique.
The entire tree was a giant tree dozens of meters high, but it only had eight fruits. Luo Yuan picked all the fruits and wrapped them in a large leaf several meters wide. Even if you can't finish it this time, you can take it back to give Huang Jiahui and Zhao Yali a taste.
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The embers of the campfire gradually extinguished, leaving only a faint red light in the darkness.
Luo Yuan and Wang Shishi fell asleep hugging each other, listening quietly to the cries of ghosts and howls of mutant beasts outside. They were used to the peaceful life in the reconstruction area, and they could no longer adapt to the wild life. Any slightest movement could wake them up.
"Go to sleep, I'm here!" Luo Yuan said.
Wang Shishi said "En" obediently, and felt relieved. The fatigue of the day finally suppressed the worries of the night. Her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and she soon fell asleep. After an unknown amount of time, Luo Yuan gently broke away from Wang Shishi, I looked at the time and found that it was already one o'clock in the morning. Feeling the slight coolness in the forest late at night, I got up and prepared to light the bonfire again.
Suddenly a faint blue light swept across the entrance of the cave, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye. He walked out of the cave curiously and found that the blue light came from three or four kilometers away and was still shaking. Luo Yuan hesitated for a moment, and the curiosity in his heart made him quickly decide Going over to take a look, he scanned the area and soon found a pile of boulders.
Then, he struggled to push the boulder to block the entrance of the cave, and followed Wang Shishi, who was exhausted from running for a day, and fell into a deep sleep without waking her up at all.
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The fog has risen in the forest late at night, like countless evil spirits, sticking to the ground with their fangs and claws waving, giving people an eerie and terrifying feeling. The various beasts roaring like sirens one after another make people feel like they have arrived in the prehistoric times.
The next moment, a figure quietly passed through the forest, and the mist was torn to pieces by him in an instant.
After a while, Luo Yuan began to slow down and his steps became light and silent. He hunched over and completely submerged his body in the mist. Then he stopped and lay quietly on a hillside. He was motionless, his face as solemn as water.
He discovered that the glowing thing was not a mutated creature, but a technological object that could be seen at a glance.
This is a round ball about half a meter in diameter, with a milky white body and an extremely smooth surface. The head is a small concave arc, a fist-sized crystal, suspended above the concave arc without any support. The blue light is emitted from the crystal.
There seemed to be text and icons on its smooth surface, but apart from the geometric icons, Luo Yuan could not recognize any of the text. It was said that the text was more like some kind of twisted wave.
This ball is floating in the forest, and the blue light is constantly scanning the surroundings. Plants, animals, and even small insects are not spared at all. This blue light is obviously not lethal. The blue light sweeps, these Mutated creatures should do whatever they want.
This ball moves erratically and at a very fast speed. When it turns, there is almost no stagnation in the flowing clouds and flowing water. It flies up and down from time to time, obviously very busy. However, even the branches in the forest are as dense as a net, and they swim like a fish in the water. No hindrance at all.
Luo Yuan's face was solemn. After the end of the world, human beings have made rapid progress in science and technology under the pressure of life and death. In just two or three years, science and technology has made leaps and bounds. Although there has been no improvement in the civilian field, there has been a major setback, but in the military field , but large-scale changes have already occurred.
New high-explosives, soon-to-be-applied exoskeleton armor, nuclear-powered electromagnetic guns, and even nuclear fusion power generation have recently made breakthrough progress. Of course, Luo Yuan didn't know, but he also had a share of the credit for this, room-temperature superconductivity. The emergence of materials has led to key breakthroughs in many fields.
However, no matter how much technological breakthroughs are made, there are always traces to follow and cannot be achieved overnight.
The technological content of this small ball, even just its ability to fly, shocked Luo Yuan.
Anti-gravity and advanced intelligence are just what can be seen. As for the blue light, I don’t know what it does at all, and the smooth and sci-fi appearance is obviously not the rough style of the end of the world that pursues maximum production.
His heart is getting heavier and heavier. Today's human beings have no leisure and interest in crafting. Even if they can produce such an item, in order to reduce the process and improve efficiency, the surface will definitely be mottled with the marks left by the machine tool blade. There are even ridges and metal burrs, just like a defective product. It will never be as exquisite as a work of art.
…
At this time, the ball seemed to have discovered something. It suddenly flashed and turned into an afterimage, disappearing in front of it.
Luo Yuan's heart tightened, and he quickly got up to follow. After running for more than ten minutes, Luo Yuan hid again.
In the distance is a huge monster four or five stories high. At this time, it lowers its head and makes a warning sound. It is obviously quite violent. When any mutant beast is eating, a strange round ball of unknown what it is, big It dares to move up and down around it, emitting blue light from its body, and it will also get angry. What's more, it is also the top predator in this area, and its temper is as explosive as fire.
Finally, the beast's intense anger turned into reality. It stopped eating, and its entire body burned. A layer of light blue flames, like a coquettish light, beat violently on its body.
Luo Yuan noticed that the terrible high temperature caused the nearby air to twist violently, and the vision ahead became blurry and jumping. The trees not far away could not withstand the high temperature, turned yellow in the blink of an eye, and then started to burn.
The black night sky suddenly lit up with red light. In the flames, the ball seemed not to be affected at all. It still faithfully performed its inexplicable mission. Occasionally, it even flew close to the blue flames on the giant beast. The terrifying high temperature was there. The ball seemed not to exist at all in front of it, and even the color of the surface did not change at all.
A few seconds later, the ball finished scanning and began to fly away. The crystal in its head was still scanning the surroundings, completely ignoring the rage of the giant beast that had left.
Before the ball flew a few meters away, the giant beast suddenly moved. For such a short distance, there was no need to move at all for the huge size of the giant beast. It suddenly thrust out its big mouth, and the carnivore moved at the moment of preying. The fastest, in an instant, he stretched out his head like lightning, swallowed the ball into his stomach, and then retracted it. The whole process took only 0.001 seconds, and even Luo Yuan could barely see it clearly for a while.
Luo Yuan looked serious, still lying on the ground, motionless. There was a faint expectation in his heart. He didn't believe that such a sci-fi-like object could be destroyed so easily.
Perhaps this suspected seventh-level giant beast could chew it into pieces with its terrifying bite force, but this ignorant mutant beast regarded it as a living creature and thought of digesting it with gastric juice. This was undoubtedly fanciful.
Luo Yuan was not asked to wait long, just a second.
A ray of white light instantly broke through the thick armor-like skin of the giant beast, and then the beams became more and more numerous. One of the beams hit a nearby rock. Silently, the rock turned into magma and flowed down. . Luo Yuan vaguely felt a more powerful energy, which was still erupting faintly.
Luo Yuan's face changed drastically, and he quickly retreated on his knees. Before he had retreated a few meters, he heard a loud "boom" and a heat wave rolled in, making Luo Yuan's hair fly. Luo Yuan raised his head and realized in horror This powerful mutated beast was now torn into pieces and was extremely miserable. Even its originally bright red flesh and blood had become charred black, and it was so dead that it could no longer die.
In the curling green smoke, a round ball slowly floated up, and the originally transparent crystal above the head was still faintly emitting red light.
It circled in place and then flew to another place.
At this time, he was 100% sure that it was definitely the product of an extraterrestrial civilization. With such technology, humans would not be forced to this point and linger.
Through the battle between the ball and the mutated beast just now and the ball's code of conduct of only self-defense, he was completely sure to cut it in half before it attacked, but he did not have any thoughts of attacking.
He cannot guarantee that there is only one such intelligent robot, nor can he guarantee the possible terrible consequences of killing this intelligent robot. After all, even the earth's technology can reach the point of real-time video recording. Maybe just after killing it, an attack from space will occur the next moment. Will attack, or directly explode.
Whether the aliens silenced themselves in order to hide themselves or just retaliated casually, he couldn't afford to bet. He knew nothing about extraterrestrial civilization, but when he thought about it, the earth could already destroy an area of tens of kilometers in radius, let alone Extraterrestrial civilizations that have traveled thousands of miles to get here.
His own powerful strength seemed so insignificant in front of this devastating attack.
Luo Yuan continued to follow him from a distance, cautiously. Fortunately, the ball's activity area was not large, and it basically circled around. When it was close to four o'clock in the morning, it suddenly stopped its mission. As the concave arc cracked like chrysanthemum patterns, the suspended The crystal quickly retracted into the sphere and closed.
An invisible force spread out, and the surrounding grass fell for an instant. The next moment, it roared up, like an afterimage, instantly breaking through the dense forest, smashing the surrounding branches into pieces, forming a three-four-square-meter circle. The hole of 3 meters disappeared. Luo Yuan quickly flew out of the jungle and looked up at the sky. There was only an insignificant dot left in the ball, and soon it was completely lost.