After seeing Atesa, Zero also saw Moni. It's just that Mo Ni seems to be injured. She is lying flat on the sand with a bandage on her left calf. A slight blush melted on the white bandage. Lala was beside Moni, and the little beast gently rubbed against Moni with its own body.
Perhaps because it was too dry, Zero licked his lips. Then his face changed, and there was a faint smell of rust from his lips. He knew very well that it was blood, and it was human blood. Then, there seemed to be something left on the wall of the cavity in his mouth, he stirred it with his tongue, and the tip of his tongue touched a crumb of meat. It's just a simple contact, but a lot of data flows into Zero's mind. So he knew that, like blood, this piece of meat also came from human body tissue.
Looking at Moni's injured left leg suddenly, Zero seemed to know something.
Atesa, who was a few meters away, clearly felt the high temperature exuding from Zero's body. The scorching air even swirled around him slightly, making his jet-black hair flutter gently.
But at this moment, there is not even a breath of wind on Death Mountain.
After a while, the airflow and heat wave disappeared. Zero silently walked to Moni and sat down. Lala glanced at him, then flapped her fat wings and flew to Zero's shoulder.
Zero got down on his stomach and brought himself closer to Moni's face. He leaned against Moni's ear and moved his lips lightly.
No one knows what he said.
At night, Moni also woke up. The face that was pale due to blood loss had a touch of blood in the bonfire raised by Atesa. After eating the mutated rabbit meat roasted by Atesa, a smile appeared on Moni's face.
Seeming to have gained some strength, Monnie began to talk, sometimes praising Atesa for her good workmanship, and sometimes telling a bad joke or two from those drunken people in Fury Reef. Zero occasionally interjected a sentence or two, but most of the time, he was as quiet as Atesa.
After finishing a piece of breast meat, Zero said he was full. There seemed to be some kind of tacit understanding among the three. No one mentioned Zero and Mo Ni's injury, as if it was a wound they didn't want to touch. Although this wound will always heal later, it will never disappear.
"After a 10-minute break, let's go on our way. Too much time has been left, so we have to hurry up." Zero said.
Atesa said quietly: "I have no problem, but you two?"
"I've almost recovered, even if I fight with people now, there is no problem at all." Zero is very clear about his body, and he will not force himself to do something beyond the limit, unless it is quite necessary. But now he was just on his way, not to mention that he still had some time to rest after arriving in the downstream area, so he could fully adjust to his best condition before the Parkland killer appeared.
Mo Ni also raised her hand and said, "I'm fine, but I may need a crutch."
Atesa said without raising her head: "No need, let me go behind your back, so hurry up."
So the matter was settled. After eating and drinking enough, the remaining rabbit meat was carefully preserved by Atesa. Such herbivorous mutant beasts are rare, and even Atesa, who grew up on Death Ridge, hasn't seen many of them in a year. The meat of the herbivore is fragrant and delicious, which is a rare delicacy. Naturally, Atesa would not waste it. Although there were many mutant beasts on Death God Mountain, there were very few of them that could be eaten. If the leftover rabbit meat is eaten sparingly, it can last for about two days.
After packing up their luggage and cleaning up the traces of the bonfire, the three of them started on the road.
Because it is close to the Lamassen River, the land here is already relatively humid. That is because the roots of various plants hidden deep in the ground are constantly asking for water from the Lamasan River. When the plants have absorbed enough water, the excess is expelled, and the water makes the otherwise dry ground slightly damp.
The three of them walked through the downhill wetland, directly entered the forest at the foot of the mountain, and then came to the river. But they didn't dare to get too close. There was no extra cover on the beach on the river bank, and there were only a few bushes here and there on the edge of the unstable river bed. In fact, the vicinity of the Lamason River is not suitable for the growth of plants. The megalodon will use these plants to sharpen their teeth, and the triangular jaw will rub their huge bodies against the plants to grind off the dirt on them. The mutated beasts in the Lamason River make mutated plants shy away, let alone those ordinary trees.
So within ten meters near the Lamason River, Zero can hardly see a decent plant. On the contrary, megalodons jump out of the water in groups, and scenes of triangular jaws biting each other in the water often occur.
Try to lean on the river bank, but choose to advance at the edge of the forest. In this way, when the time came to around midnight, Zero and the others had reached the downstream area. The river in this area is over a thousand meters wide, and the river rushing from the upstream reaches here and beats on the towering and sharp reefs, making a loud booming sound.
Downstream, the river flows rapidly, and from time to time, waves of ten meters high rise into the sky, and then wet the sand within a hundred meters of the river bank.
There are no mutant beasts here, neither the giant toothed fish nor the horned crocodile will approach this water area. All because further forward, there is a big crack across Death God Ridge. The water of the Lamassen River will flow down like a waterfall when it reaches there, and after entering the bottomless abyss a thousand meters below, it will flow into the boundless polluted sea outside the coastline through the underground river.
It is not without reason that Zero chose this place as a sniper position. First of all, the geographical environment here is very complicated. Not to mention the vast woods behind the river beach, those chaotic boulders in this area that are more than ten meters high have become natural Cover; secondly, the all-weather uninterrupted impact of the river water makes the whole area roar again and again, the sound of water waves will interfere with the Parkland killer's judgment, and also provide an excellent cover for Zero's sniping.
Zero's plan is very simple, first let Atesa ambush in a certain corner, and fight with the killer when he appears; as for Zero himself, choose a commanding height to wait for an opportunity to kill. This was exactly the method the killer used on Zero when he was in Phoenix City. He used the ability users in the combat domain to stalk the prey close to him, and then used sniping to find the right opportunity to kill him with one blow.
This method is not suitable for dealing with more than a plurality of prey, but if the opponent is alone, it can often achieve miraculous results. Especially if the other party doesn't know that Zero has Atesa as a helper, the chance of success will be very high.
However, to the surprise of a few people, Parkland's killer did not appear within the time they expected. It wasn't until sunset on the second day after Zero reached the downstream area that Atesa saw from a distance a piece of raft that was almost torn apart floating from the distance of the Lamassen River, and was approaching the river bank under the control of a man on the raft.
The prey has finally arrived!