In front of them is a dark, dark forest. A pine forest stands on the vast snow field. They grow extraordinarily tall, and the tower-shaped canopy seems to hold up the sky above.
"There are still plants." Dong Linhai exclaimed.
"It's not as cold as Antarctica, and many evergreen trees can still survive." Lin Hangzhi quickly opened the helmet mask before vomiting, but fortunately he didn't vomit in the helmet, he vomited a few times. After cleaning the filth in his mouth, he raised his hand to wipe his mouth, and said, "Are you going to come out now?"
"Come out, the ball can't roll in the woods." Dong Zheng said, pressing hard on the recognizer on the inner wall of the ball, the verification passed with a beep, and the protective cover opened automatically.
Everyone also came out of the protective ball, and everyone rolled over and was injured. The number of insects in the woods was much less visible to the naked eye. There were only many small insects that were not aggressive, lying on the ground quietly, only when people approached. crawled away to avoid it.
Ellen: "Don't worms eat trees?"
"They can survive until now, there must be some way to resist the insects." Dong Zheng said, a pool of sticky pine branches dripped from behind him and fell on the snow with a slap.
Dong Zheng squatted down and dipped some with his fingers, opened the mask and put it on his nose to sniff. In addition to the strong smell of rosin, there was also a faint stench.
Wang Que also came over to smell it, and immediately turned his face away from the smoke, and his whole face was wrinkled.
"There may be a smell in the rosin that bugs don't like." Dong Zheng threw away the frozen rosin and said, "We can collect some and take it with us."
They split up and collected rosin nearby. Cui Zuojing picked up three pieces and put them in his waist pocket. It happened that Dong Linhai was next to him, and he took the opportunity to ask, "What's going on in the underground garage?"
Dong Linhai peeled off a layer of snow, bowed and picked up a large piece of honey-colored rosin, and gave it to the little bird, saying: "Uncle said that there is a rather large creature there, with a lot of pustules, it seems to be able to control the creature. Mind, because he kept hearing a voice telling him to come closer as he went deeper."
Dong Linhai paused, frowned, and seemed to listen carefully to Victor's words in the space. After a few seconds, he said to Cui Zuojing, "Uncle asked me to tell you that J also came in and was in the parking lot just now."
really. Cui Zuojing took a deep breath, and he guessed right.
Seeing Cui Zuojing's solemn expression, Dong Linhai asked in confusion, "Who is J?"
"It's not very safe here. I'll tell you everything when I get out of the box."
If the former Dong Linhai heard Cui Zuojing's answer, he would definitely be dissatisfied, and felt that Cui Zuojing was deliberately hiding it from him, but now, Linhai just sighed and stopped asking.
Cui Zuojing stood there, snowflakes falling on his helmet and shoulders, he frowned, thinking silently.
There is no doubt that J's target is him, so in the following journey, he is likely to face J directly.
To be honest, Cui Zuojing doesn't have the confidence to win. At his peak, he can be on par with J, or he can win by a narrow margin, but his strength has not fully recovered yet, even with the auxiliary bonus of Dong Zheng's core ability, it is very good. Difficult to do.
If there is any danger, it will be difficult for him to escape by returning to the prisoner's space in this box, because once this happens, the protective clothing and many weapons he is wearing now will be difficult to get back into his hands.
Wearing thin sportswear and staying in an environment of nearly minus ten degrees for a long time without protective clothing, Cui Zuojing can't do it. In that case, many difficulties in the future can only rely on Dong Zheng and the others. Spent.
So if it wasn't for the last resort, he couldn't easily go back to the prisoner's space, which is why Cui Zuojing agreed to let Victor explore the underground garage instead of going there in person.
Cui Zuojing thought about it a lot, and finally sighed heavily, thinking about it.
Well, let's talk about it later.
Everyone took three or four pieces of rosin and put them on their bodies, and Victor came out again to help everyone heal the bumps on their lower bodies.
Dong Zheng confirmed the location again, everyone packed up, and then embarked on the journey to the Institute of Biochemistry again.
There were no insects with fluorescent tails in the woods, and everyone's headlights became the only light source once again. Cui Zuojing looked back and saw that Wanda's Twin Towers were four kilometers away. The honeycomb in the middle is like a cradle, giving birth to countless lives.
When he turned around again, the others were not far away. Cui Zuojing put on his mask and ran after him.
I don't know how many years this pine forest has existed. Standing majestically in the snow, there are still 58 hours before the end of the mission. The group walked with difficulty in the pine forest and snow. Dong Zheng was a little afraid that Wang Que would be caught in the supermarket by that The giant worm will leave after-effects when controlling his mind, and ask: "When you fainted, did you notice that it was wrong?"
Wang Que frowned and thought for a while, then replied, "I felt very tired at the time, I didn't want to move, I wanted to sleep somewhere."
Dong Linhai said: "I have the same idea."
She continued: "Then after I fell asleep, I seemed to have a dream."
"Dream?"
"Well, I forgot the specifics, but the dream is very peaceful, like sleeping at home."
"It's fine if there are no other problems." Dong Zheng was relieved. "Before we came in, we didn't think that there would be so many bugs here. Although this box is for you to exercise your abilities, you should do it step by step."
Allen turned back and said, "Quieer did successfully order the worms when they were in the warehouse. I saw the swarm obviously stopped for a while."
Wang Que was stunned: "Really?"
"Really, didn't you notice it yourself? If you hadn't bought time, how could Cui Er smashed the window so quickly to let us out."
Wang Que stopped talking, she pursed her lips, but couldn't hide her excitement.
At that time, her heart was still in the peace that she had just woken up from a dream, without much disgust and resistance, she just wanted to let these annoying bugs go away.
She tried her best before, but she was only able to order a few bugs. Now it seems that the key to using the ability is to be calm.
They chatted about their guesses about the box next to each other, kept silent most of the time, and hurried as fast as possible. The snow made the forward speed much slower than normal walking, and it went on for more than four hours. , only successfully passed through the pine forest and saw the rolling mountains on the other side of the forest.
The biochemical base is in the depths of these snow-capped mountains.
There aren't many bugs in the pine forest, which is probably the safest place, and they took the time to rest before heading into the mountains. Until now, J has no signs of appearing again, which makes Cui Zuojing a little anxious.
Although the link between the emotions of the two had been closed, Dong Zheng was still keenly aware of the boy's irritability. He turned off the headset of all channels, opened the mask and whispered to Cui Zuojing: "Don't worry, it will be alright. ."
"You don't know how strong J is." After two months of growth, Cui Zuojing's once immature outline was obviously much taller and taller, but he still looked like an eighteen or nine-year-old. juvenile.
What annoyed him the most was that after his regrowth, his height never broke through the 175 mark, and he was still half a head shorter than Dong Zheng.
"Although I said on the surface that I told everyone not to worry, but if I really meet him, I have no certainty at all."
Dong Zheng was silent for a moment: "That person's goal should only be the two of us, and the others will be fine."
"For a lunatic, there's not much difference between killing two people and killing six people." Cui Zuojing sighed, "Forget it, let's not talk about frustration, it's good that my strength has not recovered to the peak period, but now I have time. The ability is close to the body, and it is uncertain who wins and who loses."
"It's right to think so." Dong Zheng smiled slightly, "Don't give up hope at any time, don't you need me to teach you?"
Cui Zuojing shrugged: "I'm just better able to recognize reality."
After resting for half an hour, everyone entered the mountainous area. After three thousand years of ice age, the rolling mountains should have been covered with snow to the point that they could not climb at all. But when they got to the foot of the mountain, they found a tortuous trail. The path leads quietly to the mountains.
It was obviously the road that Box had prepared for them. Relatively speaking, Alan and Dong Linhai, who had the best physical strength, took turns to lead the way, followed by Lin Hangzhi and Wang Que, and Cui Zuojing and Dong Zheng to take care of them.
After entering the box, each of them carries a wristband with a permission card. It stands to reason that with the technological level that can create a large spaceship, this wristband should also have the function of a terminal, but under the limitation of the difficulty of the box, then It's really just a wristband that opens the door.
Originally, Dong Zheng was still worried that they didn't have any electronic equipment with them. It was easy to get lost when they walked around in the mountains. Now that the box gave the way, there was no need to worry.
The box only gave them a one-person-wide path, which was crawling along the winding mountain. Walking in it, there were majestic snow-capped mountains on both sides. A head, the snow is piled up, maintaining a delicate balance.
Traveling in the snowy mountains is most afraid of avalanches. After entering the mountains, no one dares to speak aloud. Gravity wants to pull down the thick snow all the time, and the cohesion between the snows keeps them in place, just a little bit. A small external force can instantly break the wrestling between the two, causing a terrifying avalanche.
The path provided by the box is even better than the pine forest. Cui Zuojing estimates that they can reach their destination in four or five hours.
When they reached the second hill, a black snake whizzed past Dong Linhai, and the headlamp only found a thin tip of its tail.
After walking in the vast snow for so long, the unchanging scene around can easily make people mentally fatigued. Dong Linhai was stunned for a while before saying in the whole channel: "I saw one just now—"
"what--"
A loud shout resounded in the ears of everyone, echoing in the mountains, and everyone subconsciously raised their heads and looked in the direction of the sound.
The next moment, everyone's faces changed.
The delicate balance between gravity and cohesion was instantly disrupted, a crack appeared on the ridge, and with a rumbling thunderous muffled sound, the white wave rushed down.
Cui Zuojing's pupils shrank sharply, he pulled Lin Hangzhi who was closest to him with one hand, and roared, "Get down!"