Luo Yuan stood on a branch and looked up at the sky, lost in thought for a long time.
However, nothing could be seen in the sky except for the stars. Everything he saw tonight had a huge impact on his soul, and everything seemed like a dream.
After a while, he came back to his senses, numbly walked back to the cave, and moved the boulder away. Master Wang was still sleeping, snoring softly. He had not slept all night, but there was no sleepiness on his face at all. Looking at Master Wang, he sat blankly on the bearskin,
He felt that he needed some quiet time.
What is the purpose of extraterrestrial civilizations coming to Earth
Whether it is a purely scientific research investigation or preparation to conquer the earth, whether it is a strange visitor who comes without warning or a pure enemy, and whether the crazy mutations of animals and plants in the past few years are related to this, nothing is known.
Luo Yuan didn't know whether the reconstruction area or the only remaining civilized forces in mankind had noticed this group of extraterrestrial forces, but the possibility was slim.
This place is more than 600 kilometers away from the reconstruction area. It is completely within the sphere of influence of the mutant beasts and is a restricted area for human activities. Even high-altitude unmanned reconnaissance aircraft rarely appear. What's more, the behavior of this unknown extraterrestrial civilization appears to be quite cautious. It was late at night, and the chance of discovery was pitiful. If Luo Yuan hadn't stayed away from the reconstruction area in search of the wisdom tree and happened to pass by here, he might still have been unaware.
As for the spacecraft that may exist in space, in the vast space, finding it is no more simple than finding a specific piece of fine sand in the sea, hiding behind the moon, or stationed in the planetary belt. With human technology, Couldn't find it at all.
What's more, the strength shown by this extraterrestrial civilization is far stronger than that of the earth. Just like the radar in World War II, it has no solution to the current stealth aircraft. Even if the spacecraft appears openly in the earth's outer atmosphere, it may be difficult to detect it. .
Today's reconstruction area is very powerful. The explosion of science and technology has made the reconstruction area's strength grow by leaps and bounds. Although the population is now less than one-tenth of what it was before the end of the world, the conventional military force is more than ten times stronger than before the end of the world. However, In fact, the battle between humans and mutant beasts has always been in a stalemate, falling into a certain balance. The mutant beasts are unable to advance, and humans are also unable to regain their homeland.
The battle is not only on the front line, but also goes deep into the hinterland. This is an all-round war, in the sky, on land, underground, from mutant beasts as big as mountains to flies, mosquitoes and bacteria that breed in the city. The entire reconstruction area is like an isolated island in the sea, with huge waves outside and torrential rain inside. Once a certain balance is broken, like dominoes, it will immediately fall into a crisis of overturning.
However, now there are more extraterrestrial civilizations with unknown enemies and friends...
The more he thought about it, the more pessimistic Luo Yuan became, and the future of mankind seemed to be cast into a shadow.
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The sky was gradually getting brighter. Luo Yuan rubbed his face vigorously and exhaled a breath. Seventeen Points of Will allowed him to quickly control his negative emotions. No matter what the future holds, life will continue.
"Brother Luo, get up." Master Wang woke up, sat up and stretched.
"Well, have something to eat. After breakfast, we'll set off." Luo Yuan said, looking at Master Wang's sleepy and ignorant look. Ignorance is blessing, at least he doesn't have to bear such heavy pressure.
There was still some leftover from last night's dinner, except that the barbecue was as hard as a rock and the insect eggs were still edible. The two had a simple breakfast and hit the road again.
The slightly cool morning is the rare and most comfortable time of the day. At this time, the high temperature has dropped, and the breeze blows on my body. It feels like my whole pores are breathing. Because of the fog last night, the ground seems a little damp. Walking in the forest, I feel like breathing from time to time. There were water drops dripping down.
However, before the water droplets fell, they were suspended in the air by an invisible force. After a day's rest, Master Wang was in high spirits. He had fully recovered from last night's fatigue. As he hurried on, he still had the energy to control the water droplets and entertain himself. happy.
The air here has gradually taken on a salty and humid smell, and the sea is not far from here. Half an hour later, concrete remains covered with moss and vines can be seen from time to time on the road. However, other than these, there are no human beings. Traces of civilization.
The layer of dead leaves several meters thick on the ground covered everything up. If the coordinates hadn't shown that this was Mushi County, it would have been hard to believe that this primeval forest had a population of more than 200,000 a few years ago. city of.
Luo Yuan flew into the air, checked it out, and continued walking forward.
Yaozi Mountain is thirty or forty kilometers away from Mushi County. People are extremely rare. There are no human habitations for miles around. Before the end of the world, there were no roads except a dirt road that could lead to it. Now there are even no roads. You can only distinguish it with the naked eye. .
The name Yaozi Mountain cannot be found on the map. It is just an inconspicuous peak among the rolling mountains. No one except the locals knows it.
Compared with before the end of the world, this place was basically barren mountains with sparse plants, or even bare hills. Nowadays, plants are everywhere and huge. Plants that can move up to a hundred meters high will undoubtedly greatly increase the difficulty. Take a look at this nearby area. Most of them are mountain peaks with a height of only a few hundred meters. As the name suggests, it is undoubtedly fanciful to find a mountain top similar to the waist.
If you want to find it, you can only follow the waterfall to find it.
This is not difficult. Luo Yuan's keen ears have already heard the rumbling sound of the waterfall. However, the migration that the wanderer mentioned was half a year ago, when the sea level had just begun to rise, and this place was still in a dry zone.
But now, judging from the salty smell in the air, this place has become a coastal place with a humid climate and abundant rainfall. In addition, it is a mountainous area with huge terrain differences. Waterfalls are no longer rare, and they are all beautiful. There are seven or eight waterfalls that can be heard in the distance.
Fortunately, it only takes a while.
Luo Yuan searched everywhere, and when it was close to noon, he came to the fifth mountain with a waterfall. Just looking at it, Luo Yuan's eyes lit up. This mountain is not high, with a drop of about three to four hundred meters. The strange thing is In terms of shape, there are actually some slight depressions on the mountainside. If the plants were removed and the body was slimmed down, it would look exactly like what wanderers call "Yinzi Mountain" from a distance.
A waterfall sloped down from near the bottom of the mountain and fell with a crash. It was a waterfall formed by the interruption of an underground river. The amount of water in the waterfall was not abundant, and the height was not high. The waterfalls nearby were not eye-catching, so that even now Luo Yuan just found this place.
Luo Yuan left Wang Shishi where he was. After all, the front was not safe. Those who could scare the Hui people into fleeing in panic and move their entire clan were at least level six creatures. Level six creatures were not bad, and he could easily deal with them. The most fearful thing What's more important is that when encountering such a huge thing at level 7, even a single attack or jump can cause large-scale destruction. Once encountered, even he will only go all out, and he can no longer take Wang Shishi into consideration during the battle.
He carried his sword and walked lightly on the road. The mountain road here was rugged and extremely steep. Several man-eating vines that looked like living creatures spread quietly like snakes. They tried to attack, but Luo Yuan cut them off one by one with a swing of his sword.
Several huge piranha flowers bloomed in the shade of the trees, with colorful colors and bursts of sweet fragrance. There were piles of dead bones nearby.
Not far away, a giant plant with a height of 100 meters was moving slowly. With every step it took, roots as thick as a python would pull out of the ground or penetrate into the ground, causing the earth to shake and the trunk to be covered with cracks. The "old" bark combines to form a huge fuzzy human face, and as it moves around, its expression changes slightly.
Most of the plants here seem to have turned into animals. Three rare tree men were discovered in just a few kilometers.
Luo Yuan swatted a bloodthirsty mosquito away, and as he listened to the increasingly louder waterfall, his speed suddenly increased.
After a few minutes, Luo Yuan lightly jumped onto a boulder, and there was already a waterfall in front of him.
The terrain here is relatively flat, and the ground is covered with large and small oval stones. The drop of the waterfall is only a dozen meters, and it falls into a deep pool at the bottom, eventually forming a river more than ten meters wide, winding along this stone beach. Into the valley floor.
Strangely, the plants here are quite sparse and much smaller in size. At first glance, there are only a few scattered trees growing on this rocky beach. In addition, there are very few vines and weeds with strong vitality.
And the strange plant that is fifty or sixty meters high near the pond clearly stands out among the low "shrubs".
The globular tree roots, knobs like sarcoma, sparse leaves, extremely twisted towel-shaped trunks, and the fruits the size of a baby's head all indicate its identity.
"wisdom Tree"
Luo Yuan's eyes lit up and his breathing became short.
This wisdom tree is much larger and thicker than the one found before, and its color has also changed. The previous one had a yellow and purple trunk, but this one is completely purple, and even has some hair. Black, seems to be filled with corrupt blood.
The level of this wisdom tree is obviously higher than the original one!
But although he was anxious, Luo Yuan did not act rashly. He looked around carefully and found that there was no living creature nearby. Even the ordinary sounds of insects and birds in the forest seemed to have disappeared. This was extremely abnormal.
Feeling carefully, there seemed to be a faint sense of depression remaining in the air, which made Luo Yuan frown slightly.
He hesitated for a moment, then pressed the handle of the knife and moved forward slowly. At the same time, his senses expanded to the limit, and he carefully searched for nearby movements. However, he did not feel anything wrong at all. As he walked in step by step, he soon felt that Zhi then has covered the pool.
I originally thought that the mutated beast was in the pool, but it turned out that I didn't find it at all.
The pool is not deep, only three or four meters, and the radius is only a few hundred meters. There are no dark holes at the bottom. There is nothing except a group of "small fish" several meters long swimming in the water.
In the last days, a creature of this size can only be called a small fish.
Luo Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. It looked like it was a false alarm. The mutant beasts that were here might be dead or have left this place. In the jungle, the law of the jungle preys on the strong. It is extremely cruel. No matter how powerful the mutant beast is, you will encounter it if you are not careful. Unexpected.
However, the bones under the Wisdom Tree were a little weird. He didn't notice it when he looked at it from a distance, but now he felt weird when he was nearby. Luo Yuan found that each of these bones was extremely huge, and even one of the thigh bones lying on the ground was actually long. It was about ten meters long and one and a half meters thick, like a huge stone pillar, leaning against the skeleton. It was several times larger than the soul-eating beast Luo Yuan had seen before, and there were many such smaller skeletons nearby. yes.
One or two is fine, but here are all such skeletons, piled up like a mountain near the Wisdom Tree. The entire sea of bones is forty to fifty meters thick and covers tens of thousands of square meters. Luo Yuan noticed that the bones underground have melted. It is gray-white bone powder, and there is no telling how many powerful mutated beasts are buried in it.
He suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart. This sea of bones could not be caused by the Hui people. With the bones here, even any mutant beast could wipe out the Hui people.
At this time, he vaguely smelled the traces of blood. He sniffed it gently and looked keenly at somewhere in the sea of bones. His face suddenly changed. Countless translucent filaments grew from the trunk of the wisdom tree, like silkworm cocoons. Usually wrap one of them tightly.
The body was obviously quite "fresh", having been placed there not long ago, or perhaps even yesterday.
His heart became heavier and heavier. This mutated beast did not leave at all. Instead, it went to hunt far away. With its own efforts, it formed a sea of bones that contained quite a few of the seventh-level mutated beasts. It was definitely not an ordinary seventh-level mutant beast. Level mutant beast, possibly even level eight.
He glanced at the Wisdom Tree not far away, hesitated for a moment, then moved, jumped a few times, and stood next to the tree trunk, not daring to drag it any further. God knows when this terrifying creature will come back.
He drew out his sword, and the one-meter-and-a-half-meter-long blade flew fiercely in the air. The light of the sword flashed like a rainbow through the sun, and then he retreated with a loud bang, and the huge tree trunk fell. Below, the thick tree trunk began to roll violently like a turning python.
A large number of bones were flying in the air, and the fierce wind blew the nearby trees down one after another. Like ice-cold dripping into boiling oil, the sea of bones was turned into a pot of thick porridge, and a series of explosions occurred, like rolling thunder. These tree trunks were half a meter in size and one or two meters in thickness, and they numbered in the thousands. Under the fierce rolling and shaking, even the sky was obscured. The movement of the Wisdom Tree before it died was comparable to that of a violent seventh-level mutant beast.
Time passed by, Luo Yuan was walking around in the distance, looking anxious in his heart, but he could only wait patiently.
The fruit of wisdom is basically useless to him, what is useful is the "heart of wisdom".
However, the conditions for the formation of the "Heart of Wisdom" are quite harsh. Only when the tree of wisdom suffers irreversible damage will most of the nutrients shrink from the trunk to a certain core in the tree.
This is equivalent to a seed. After the crisis is over, this seed will take root and sprout on the original corpse again through the gathered nutrients, and will be rejuvenated. This is the wisdom tree's means of survival.
But this will take some time. No matter how anxious Luo Yuan is, he can only wait patiently for it to automatically activate this protection mechanism.