After walking for more than half an hour in the morning, the ground began to gradually become moist. Lakes and streams abounded in this area, and there were more puddles connected to each other. After walking for more than ten minutes, the ground began to become wet. Extremely ***** many places are already overflowing with water.
The abundant water source also allows the plants here to grow extremely vigorously.
Not to mention the towering woods that are almost inserted into the sky. Even the water plants on the ground have grown two to three meters high. Walking among them, it is difficult for people to distinguish between east, west, north and south.
These aquatic plants were full of insects, snakes, and poisonous substances. Luo Yuan could barely take a few steps before he was attacked. Luo Yuan's knife never stopped along the way.
If these were just minor troubles on the road, then groups of mutated insects occupying several kilometers in radius, with long spear-like tail needles, flying around in groups, simply made Luo Yuan confused. I'm so annoyed.
Each of these mutated insects is only the size of a millstone, and most of their strength is only dark blue. However, they act collectively and have the same social nature as bees. If you kill one, then well, next, you will face a group of mutated insects. The entire insect swarm launched an overwhelming attack that was absolutely relentless.
Although it was not dangerous to Luo Yuan, it was enough to make people sick.
Of course, if he keeps releasing his momentum, these troubles will naturally not be a problem, but momentum does not come out of thin air. What it dissipates is people's spiritual energy, perception and will. No matter how strong his will and perception are, he cannot withstand it. Consumption along the way.
He reluctantly walked for a while, and finally had to imitate the mutants and jump on the trees.
He has walked on trees several times before, but after all, he is not as skilled as the mutants who survive in the jungle. At first, he was a little twisted and his movements seemed a bit jerky, but he is astonishingly agile and has minute control over his body. No matter how difficult it is, The movements can be learned immediately, and he gets used to them within a short time. After a few minutes, his movements are already more flexible and smooth than those of mutants.
Luo Yuan discovered that there were many bird nests here, and almost every tree was filled with nests.
He and the mutants set out before dawn. At this time, it was just getting dark. It was just when the mutant birds were about to come out to look for food. Before it was completely bright, the entire jungle had begun to become noisy.
Along the way, various bird sounds, either sharp, noisy, or melodious, came and went.
At this time, a shadow above his head suddenly fell. Luo Yuan's face turned dark. He quickly stepped down and jumped to another big tree as quickly as a phantom. Even if he didn't look back, he knew what the fallen thing was. .
As long as you look ahead, you will see a large amount of bird droppings dropped from the sky as densely as biochemical bombs along the way. If you are not careful, you may be hit.
These mutant birds are not the petite and exquisite birds before the end of the world. Even the smallest mutant bird is the size of an adult. If its wings are spread out, it is six to seven meters wide. As for the big ones, it is five to six meters tall with its bare body and nearly three to four tons. The weight abounds here.
If the excrement dropped by a mutated bird of this size were to hit someone, even if it didn't drown a person, it would be enough to cover the person's head and face and allow him to take a bath at the same time.
However, both the mutant and Luo Yuan were extremely alert and did not let that tragedy happen.
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As we move forward, more and more water accumulates on the ground. From the original wetland, it gradually turns into a swamp. Finally, it gradually develops like a lake. If there is really a lake ahead, then this lake, then I'm afraid it's incredibly big.
You must know that at the speed of the two of them, they have been walking for nearly half an hour since the water accumulated, and the distance is more than a hundred kilometers, and this is only the periphery.
In the past two days, Luo Yuan hurriedly traveled all the way across Sichuan and Shu, and even passed through most of Guizhou, and was about to enter Guangxi. Because he had a compass to determine the direction and the satellite map to determine the terrain, he had never had this happen before. Lost. Judging from the satellite map in my memory, there is no trace of this lake ahead.
Luo Yuan estimated that the lake may have just formed, or the lake may be too shallow to submerge the trees. It is obscured from sight and cannot be seen on the satellite map.
Since the end of the world, first the temperature has risen, then the sea level has risen, the climate has changed drastically, coupled with various earthquakes and volcanoes, the terrain has changed too much. Some of the original rivers and lakes have disappeared, and new rivers and lakes have also appeared.
The vicissitudes of life are nothing more than this!
Sure enough, next, the water surface began to get deeper and deeper, and the weeds and shrubs on the ground gradually disappeared, replaced by aquatic plants with ribbon-like leaves drifting in the water, and groups of mutant fish swarmed among the aquatic plants. Traveling endlessly,
Near noon, the dazzling light shines through the layers of leaves, casting a patch of light and dark on the water, changing into misty colors as the water ripples.
At this time, a water mark was like an arrow, coming towards this side at high speed. The water on both sides was separated by an invisible force, raising a wave half a meter high.
The mutant panted heavily and desperately chased Luo Yuan's back in front of her. She did not have such abnormal physical strength as Luo Yuan. She followed Luo Yuan for thousands of miles yesterday. This high-intensity exercise had already exhausted her. Used all my strength.
Coupled with the unfamiliar environment last night, she couldn't sleep well all night. She had only run for a few hours today and she was already almost unable to hold on.
Her exhausted body and distracted spirit made her less vigilant than before, and she didn't even notice the changes in the water surface for a while.
Just as she was jumping from one branch to another, while her body was still in the air, she heard a loud boom!
The water spray rose up to more than ten meters, and in this snow-white water mist, murderous intent suddenly appeared!
A fierce mutant fish that was more than ten meters long and had a mouth full of sharp teeth suddenly jumped into the air and bit into the mutant!
It happened so suddenly. When the murderous intention came, the strong fear made her pupils shrink suddenly and her body became stiff. Other than that, she didn't react at all.
Seeing that the mutant was about to be swallowed by the mutant fish, at the critical moment, a burst of short spears or simply a randomly broken branch roared in and hit the head of the mutant fish heavily, directly blowing the fish's head into pieces. A lump of minced meat.
The remaining kinetic energy moved the mutated beast's headless body laterally for more than ten meters before plopping back into the water.
The next moment, the lake water suddenly surged with undercurrents, and a whirlpool suddenly appeared. Soon, blood surged up and water splashed everywhere.
In just a few seconds, this mutated fish that was so fierce before was reduced to a skeleton.
"Are you okay?" Luo Yuan quickly landed next to the mutant and asked whether she understood or not.
She didn't react at all. Her body was tightly hugging a branch, shivering like a frightened mouse. The scene where she narrowly escaped death had clearly frightened her.
Luo Yuan touched her head comfortingly. As soon as he touched it, she was immediately frightened. She quickly climbed to the top of another branch using her hands and feet, hid behind the leaves, and looked at Luo Yuan warily.
Luo Yuan retracted his hand in embarrassment, seeing that she was frightened and frightened, and her breathing was heavy. She looked extremely tired. It was obvious that she could no longer go on the road. Compared with yesterday when she had enough energy, her physical strength had dropped significantly.
We must find a way to solve it. A person's lonely journey is quite difficult. A fragile mentality can drive people crazy. Naturally, his strong will will not be so unbearable. However, with the existence of this mutant who can be called half a human, at least not It would be so boring, Luo Yuan thought to himself.
"You wait here, I'll come as soon as I can." Luo Yuan said, and then walked away.
But after he took a few steps, the mutant followed him again. Luo Yuan quickly gestured for her to stop and rest.
Mutants have much higher IQs than mutant beasts. After a few times, she finally understood and stopped following Luo Yuan.
But her face seemed a little lost, her head lowered, and she squatted listlessly on a tree branch, like an abandoned kitten.
As time passed, her mood became more and more depressed. She ran to the branches and looked in the direction Luo Yuan left, as if she wanted to find a certain figure, but the leaves here were all over the place, layer upon layer, like a dense green network, what? Didn't see it either.
She looked in the direction she came from before!
The familiar bad environment is no longer there, and the nearest mountain here is also extremely strange in her eyes. She doesn't know how far she has run along the way. She only knows that from yesterday to now, she has been running again and again... Eat full He runs when he is sick and runs when he wakes up.
Leaving her safe nest, leaving her familiar bad environment, and coming to this uneasy water area, she squatted on a branch and looked at the water below with a fearful expression. There were countless terrifying monsters speeding around inside. When she swam, it seemed as if they would all jump up and swallow her up. The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. She quickly climbed to the highest branch and hid herself among the leaves.
Loneliness, fear, and loss all arose in her heart.
She suddenly wanted to go home. This was not the place she wanted to stay. Although the road was far away, as long as she followed the direction she came from, she would always find a familiar environment. That was her territory and her There is a corner in the reassuring nest, and there are many beautiful and shiny treasures she collects buried, just like the ones hanging around her neck!
At this time, there was a slight sound not far away, and her ears immediately stood up. Her body arched slightly, and her feet moved silently, hiding in the denser trees nearby. She could feel that the creature in the distance was moving. high speed.
From far to near, it only took her three blinks.
No, he's coming this way!
A trace of uneasiness flashed in the mutant's eyes, and her body quickly climbed towards the treetops with slender branches. This was her valuable experience in surviving in the jungle. The slender branches here can bear her light body, allowing larger bodies to Creatures stay away, even if they encounter hungry and unwilling ones, they can also use the elasticity of branches to jump farther away.
Unfortunately, before she could climb to the top of the treetop, a figure instantly appeared in front of her.
The strong wind hit her face, and she froze in fear. She hugged the branch and remained motionless. The next moment, she blinked!
The one who came was not an enemy, but that weird fellow who had left long ago.
The fear and uneasiness melted away from the face, and a kind of inner joy rose from the heart and spread throughout the body. The whole body seemed to become numb and numb, as if it was about to float.
She didn't know it was a surprise, a high-intensity joy, but it didn't affect her, she liked this feeling.
She noticed at a glance that he was holding flesh and blood in his hand. It turned out that this weird kindred spirit had not left, but had gone hunting. She looked through the leaves and looked at the sun that was about to reach above her head. Sure enough, it was this weird kindred spirit that was eating. Time is up.
"Go on!" Luo Yuan looked at the dumb mutants and threw an energy crystal core. He had no idea that she still had such complex psychological activities at this time, and he didn't realize that mutants also have human similarities. Structured brain.
The mutant subconsciously reached out and took it. She looked at it and smelled it. The fishy smell of the small stone made her instinctively want to swallow it, so she obeyed her instinct and swallowed it!
As if she was electrocuted, her pupils suddenly expanded, and then contracted rapidly. At the same time, her whole body quickly turned red, and her whole body was radiating high temperature.
This is a sixth-level energy crystal core, which comes from a mutant bird. It was killed by Luo Yuan in his lair under a sneak attack. Although the level is not high for him, in a hurry, he could only find this kind of energy crystal core. .
But judging from her performance, it should be very useful.
More than just being useful, the real change has just begun.
Unlike humans, mutants are genetically stable.
Since the gene of this creature was invaded by beast genes, it is like a hole has been opened and it has become extremely unstable. This makes her less human and also allows her to evolve easily like a mutant beast.
As her whole body turned red, the color of her scales gradually deepened at a speed visible to the naked eye. It didn't take long for new scales on top of these scales to fall off one after another.
The scales that just came out are red and tender, thinner and denser than the original scales, and there are no gaps. From a distance, you can't tell that she has scales, but it feels like normal human skin.
But soon the color of the scales quickly deepened, hardened, and soon turned light blue!
If the change in the scales only caused her a slight pain, then the next change made Luo Yuan feel a little painful. She could only hear the bones in her body creaking, and the pain made her scream repeatedly, revealing two sharp little tiger teeth. At the same time, his nails were tearing at the bark of the tree beneath him crazily.
Perhaps the energy crystal core made this evolution extraordinarily intense without any buffer, and at the same time, the lack of food supplements caused the evolution to be extremely hasty. During this evolution, not only did her body size not develop as huge as a mutated creature, but Instead, it shrinks itself and evolves toward miniaturization.
Her original height of nearly 1.7 meters continued to shrink, and soon became less than 1.6 meters. Half an hour later, when the final shape was reached, the height was only 1.5 meters. She looked petite and exquisite, just like Luo Yuangang The way he looked when he met Master Wang.