To the east of New Rome is a precipitous mountainous area. The mountains here are undulating, the low ones are only 200 meters high, the high ones can reach thousands, and a mountain in the east is as high as 1,700 meters. The peak of the mountain is so sharp that it pierces the sky like a sharp blade. Looking from a distance, it almost touches the dense radiation clouds in the sky, with an endless sense of bleakness.
That mountain is known as the peak of doom.
Behind the Peak of Doom is a barren forest with towering ancient trees. However, unlike the virgin forests of the old days, the ancient trees here are intertwined and intertwined, and it looks like distorted faces growing on the trees. They are distributed randomly, making this forest a natural maze. It was winter now, and the entire forest was covered with a layer of hoarfrost, and even the low shrubs bowed to the radiant snow.
But if anyone underestimates these shrubs, he is obviously wrong. In this era of evolution of all things, old trees and shrubs are no longer as harmless as before. Even every plant and tree in this forest cannot be underestimated. Some scholars believe that today's forests already have something similar to the will of the group. If the soil of the forest is dug up, people will find that in the depths of the ground, the roots of the plants are almost all connected to each other.
This state is like the online mode of the brain hub array, which enables the plants in the forest to share each other's feelings, and also promotes the emergence of collective will.
Therefore, the entire forest is like a huge monster. They dormant quietly, and at the same time, they hunt quietly.
This forest is also called the Black Forest because both the old trees and the shrubs are dark brown.
Behind the black forest, there are ruins of an old city. It is now dilapidated, but you can still roughly see the outline of the city. Most of the dense buildings and tall buildings have been demolished. Either it was destroyed on the day of the catastrophe, or it collapsed after years of wind and snow erosion. Many buildings were broken down the middle, exposing the complex space like a honeycomb in the building.
Occasionally, some strange figures can be seen moving in the building. The tall buildings are no longer owned by humans, and they have been occupied by some new age life.
Highways are broken and broken. They barely connect the city, but this transportation network has long since collapsed.
To the east, a patch of ground has long since collapsed, exposing the subway tracks below. Under the cover of a large piece of rubble, a section of the subway car was exposed. The carriage was closed, and a dead body could be seen lying inside through the window. It was the corpse of a boy, and the moisture in the corpse had completely disappeared, but time had frozen the frightened expression on the boy's face forever.
On the other side of the city, connecting the outside world is a steel bridge. The bridge has been broken from it, and the fracture surface has traces of high-temperature burning, and it is not known that it has suffered all kinds of damage. The broken bridge turned the city into an isolated city.
It can be said that the entire vast eastern land is basically no man's land, and only certain mutant beasts will appear here.
For example, this horned eagle is soaring over the dark forest now.
Horned eagles are close relatives of vultures, and closely resemble their relatives. It's just that there is a single horn on the head of the horned eagle, like the sharp horn of the legendary unicorn, but now it grows on an eagle, which is also the origin of the horned eagle's name. The horned eagle is a mutated creature. In order to adapt to the environment of the new era, its body is much larger than that of the vulture, and its wings are up to five meters long.
Its claws are strong and powerful, and it can easily catch prey weighing several tons, and it can also tear open the extremely tough bark of old trees. But its biggest weapon is actually the single horn on its head, this sharp horn is actually not long, less than ten centimeters. But its root is as thick as a child's fist, and although the top is pointed, if you look closely, you will find that it is not sharp.
The tip is actually a round convex structure, composed of three pieces of bone. This makes the horn not easy to break, and the thick root is more conducive to exerting force. It's just that the attack method of this unicorn is somewhat similar to that of a wasp's tail needle. It shoots the unicorn through a jet organ on the horned eagle's forehead. The instantaneous kinetic energy is comparable to that of a sniper bullet, and it can easily penetrate the armor, leaving fatal injuries on the prey.
The horned eagle was circling in the sky. There was a heavy snowfall not long ago, and the whole land and forest were white. However, the horned eagle's vision has been digitally enhanced, and they can capture the smallest changes on the ground, and no prey can escape its eyes. If there is prey.
Winter is the season when food is the poorest. Larger mutant beasts will spend this season in the form of hibernation. They will eat desperately in autumn to gain weight and fat, and then burn their own fat at the cost of hibernating. Against the cold winter. It has to be said that some instincts left over from the creatures of the old age are still quite useful.
It's a pity that the horned eagle doesn't know this skill, so it can only come out to hunt when the next snow hasn't arrived, but such actions are not always rewarding. Most of the time, they return empty-handed, so many horned eagles cannot survive the winter. In order to reproduce, these species usually enter the body in summer and give birth in autumn. Then in case no food is found in winter, their dead bodies can also become food for their offspring after death.
After all, horned eagles, like vultures, are scavengers. Through this, they ensure that their populations can survive and thrive.
After the horned eagle flew over half of the forest, it finally found a dead body in the southwest corner of the forest. It was a man's body, lying on the ground with his back to the sky. It seemed that it had been dead for a long time, but the horned eagle did not fly down in a hurry, it circled in the sky to observe the corpse. In this year of great evolution of life, even animals have evolved considerable wisdom.
From the sky, this is a tall man. The body hasn't grown any plaques yet, so it should have just died. A series of footprints in the snow behind him showed that he tried to cross the forest, but unfortunately died on the way. There was a backpack next to the man, and some food cans fell out of it.
After circling for ten minutes, the horned eagle was basically sure that the man was dead. Under its sharp eyes, the man's body did not move for ten minutes. No one can lie still for ten minutes in radiated snow, except corpses. The horned eagle's rich experience made it make this judgment. It let out a joyful cry, folded its wings and rushed towards the corpse.
However, when it was one or two meters away from the corpse, it instinctively felt the danger. Then, seeing the corpse suddenly reach out to catch it, the horned eagle was startled and fluttered its wings. But an invisible energy force field emerged from the corpse's palm, firmly gripping it and dragging it down.
The horned eagle screamed and flapped its wings repeatedly, but it couldn't stop itself from sinking to the ground. In the end, it screamed in despair, lowered its head and sprayed out its horn, hoping to win a chance to escape. However, the unicorn, which was comparable to the kinetic energy of a sniper bullet, was easily held by the other hand of the corpse, and then casually threw it into the snow. Then the body turned completely over, revealing a serious face.
Finally, the horned eagle landed. The man held its claws with one hand, pulled out a dagger with the other hand, plunged into its abdomen in an instant, and then tore it up. The horned eagle screamed, blood and intestines flowed out from the wound, and it finally lost all its strength.
Half an hour later, it was chopped off and plucked, and turned into a big turkey, it was strung on a branch by the man and roasted over the fire.
Watching the horned eagle gradually being roasted golden brown on the fire, Signe had a very calm expression. However, in the past few days, what happened to him has nothing to do with peace at all. Since escaping from Rome, Signe has been on the run for the past few days. The man hiding in Sauron's palace followed suit. He didn't seem to be in a hurry to kill Signe, but he always forced Signe to flee to the east.
That man was terrible, and Signe had used every method he knew. But whether it was a frontal attack or a sneak attack from behind, it couldn't stop this man even for a moment. During this escape, the food that Signe brought had already been eaten up, so he could only slaughter some mutant beasts for food along the way. When the situation was most tense, he could only eat it raw.
But even so, because of winter, there is less and less food. Sometimes Signe even had to dig deep into the ground to occasionally find a nest of hibernating snow rabbits. A horned eagle as big as it is now is a very precious food. Signe decided to roast it and eat half of it in one go. The stored energy should be enough for him for three days.
Then cut the remaining eagle meat into strips, and keep it fresh in ice and snow to take away. As for the radiation in the snow, it was completely out of Signe's consideration. Even if he ate a mouthful of radiation snow, it didn't matter at all to a high level like him.
Soon, the horned eagle was cooked. The golden roasted meat exudes a tempting meat aroma. Signe tore off a piece of eagle meat that was still dripping with oil and put it in his mouth, then crushed the meat with his two rows of teeth. The eagle meat smells delicious, but the muscle fibers of the horned eagle are very rough, so it doesn't taste good. But it can bring heat and nutrients, and Signe has nothing to ask for.
After all, he is now on the run, not enjoying the treatment of a regiment leader in Rome.
Just after eating an eagle leg, Signe's heart skipped a beat. He let out a low sigh, and before he even had time to pack his things, he saw a purple-black line first appearing from a distance. Then the ray of light flashed, as if slowing down. Signe threw himself directly on the ground, and the light passed over his back, past the stretches of ancient trees one after another, and finally flew into the light, obliquely sinking into the top of a distant hill before disappearing.
Then, countless ancient trees in the forest fell in all directions, and there was a booming sound. As for the hill where the light did not penetrate, the mountain dislocated and slid down, turning into tons of gravel and rolling all the way to the ground, raising a cloud of smoke mixed with stone dust and snow powder.
Signe stood up, frowned, and looked at Gaia approaching from a distance. The silver-haired man came slowly, in fact, he has maintained such a speed. Not fast, not slow, but unstoppable!
When he came to Signe, he finally stood still. This was the first time Gaia had stopped since chasing Signe. Then his eyes fell on the barbecue in Signe's hands, and the latter said in surprise, "Do you want some?"
"If you don't mind." Gaia smiled.
Signe tore off an eagle leg and threw it to him. Gaia took it, put down the long sword, sat down like a tree stump, and ate slowly. Signe was also polite, sitting on the stone on the other side and continuing to eat the unfinished barbecue. This scene is very strange, but no one speaks, everyone eats their own food. After eating all the eagle legs, Gaia clapped his hands. Even though he was holding a greasy eagle leg just now, his fingers were still clean, as if the oil could not leave any traces on it.
Signe, on the contrary, ate until his hands and mouth were stained with oil, which made Gaia frown slightly. Then I saw Signe tearing off the leftover half of the roast meat, and putting it on the snow, it rolled in the radiation snow. The low temperature of the snow collided with the temperature of the barbecue itself, producing bursts of white smoke. When Signe took off the snow powder again, the barbecue had been frozen so that it could keep fresh for a few days.
Seeing Signe put the meat in the bag, Gaia smiled and said, "It looks like you can escape from me?"
"Why not?" Signe asked back.
"Confidence is a good thing, but too much self-confidence is arrogance." Gaia stretched out a finger and said, "For the sake of inviting me to barbecue just now, let me ask you again."
"Think about it, it's a good choice to be my companion."
Signe didn't even think about it, and said lightly: "I refuse."
"What a stubborn guy." Gaia didn't seem to be too surprised. He held the overgrown sword and said, "Well, I'll give you another discount. It's also the last discount. I'll give you enough Time to prepare, as long as you can block me for a minute, then I will stay here for three days. During these three days, you can go wherever you want."
"You are so generous." Signe said.
Gaia nodded and said, "This is a thank you for your barbecue. I'm not used to accepting favors from others, especially a guy who is dying."
"Then you won't attack Luo until I'm ready?"
"certainly."
Signe suddenly smiled and said, "Thank you so much."
He stretched out his hand, with sterile gauze wrapped around his right index finger. Signe took off the gauze, and there was a slight wound on his finger. He squeezed the wound with his thumb and picked it apart with his nails, and blood began to drip from the wound.
Gaia looked at him with great interest, but saw that the blood dripping from Signe's fingers rolled to the ground and didn't disperse. Instead, it desperately absorbed the nearby snow powder, and then formed a wriggling snowball. After the snowball grew to the size of a fist, it began to settle down from a soft shape, and the surface was actually coated with a layer of metallic luster. Then a row of sharp jointed limbs popped out from both sides, propping up the body like a spider.
An eyeball was rolled up in the carapace-shaped place, and the surroundings of the eyeball were covered with bloodshot eyes, like the eyeballs of extremely biological creatures. Then there was a slit at the front end, and when the slit was opened, two rows of staggered sharp teeth emerged. These little monsters opened and closed their mouths, and their sharp teeth hit each other, making the sound of metallic clinking.
"What is this?" Gaia asked.
"I call them biters. Their mouth structure is similar to that of piranhas, and they can exert a huge bite force. And what they like most is to bite things. They bite everything they see...including you." Signe said lightly.
"Oh, that's interesting, let's get started." Gaia was about to reach for the hilt of his sword.
"No, not yet." Signe stretched out his hand and said, "I'm not ready yet."
"Tsk, I can't tell, you're still a greedy guy."
"Greedy?" Signe smiled and said, "I don't think so, but since you gave me such a good discount, it would be a pity not to take advantage of it. Of course, you can regret it if you want."
"Repentance is not in my dictionary. It doesn't matter, you are ready. I also want to see, as the creator, what kind of biological army can you create?" Gaia even stepped back. He took two steps to show his sincerity.
"Then I won't be polite."
Next, some strange-looking creatures were created in Signe's hands. His ability is somewhat similar to Dr. Curd's Substance Z, except that Dr. Curd's Z Substance directly uses blood to form biological weapons, while Signe combines blood with substances in the surrounding environment to form biological weapons one by one.
His blood seemed to be able to combine with any substance. Apart from the initial biter, Signe created several biological weapons. Combined with the nearby rocks, a humanoid weapon similar to a stone puppet appears; combined with an ancient tree, the tree shakes continuously, and then the branches and leaves fall off, and the bark cracks. Walking out of it were ancient tree guards holding up wooden shields.
There are even some nano-weapons that are as fine as dust and number in the tens of thousands.
Looking at the weird biological army in front of him, Gaia finally lost his smile. After making the last biological weapon, Signe was so tired that he was out of breath, and his face paled a lot. But he forced a smile and said, "Now we can start."
"That's really good, I just don't have patience." Gaia said coldly, clenched the hilt of the sword, and then looked coldly at the army of creatures rushing towards him.
The long sword was unsheathed, and a purple-black ray of light across the sky and the earth was cut into the biological army, and a large area of biological weapons was harvested immediately. But there were too many biological weapons, and when they charged together, the entire Black Forest trembled. And Gaia's figure was submerged in countless creatures like this.
The battle ended quickly, and after 1 minute and 15 seconds, Gaia put away the long sword. At his feet lay a large body of biological weapons, but Signe had long since disappeared. There was only a rag torn from his clothes nailed to the ground, with the words "Remember your promise" written on it. Gaia smiled, and the scabbard touched the piece of cloth, and the piece of cloth was immediately blown to pieces.
He closed his eyes, propped his sword on the ground, and stood like a statue.
Gaia didn't open her eyes until three days later. The moment he opened his eyes, he changed from a statue to a person again, and the transformation of his breath was full of drama. It's a pity that no one saw it, otherwise it would be regarded as a miracle.
Gaia looked around, the corpse of the biological weapon had been submerged in a piece of radiation snow. Even his head and shoulders were covered with snow powder. It seemed that there had been a snowfall in the past two days. Snow covered Signe's footprints, and the wind blew away his scent. But it didn't matter, Gaia could feel his presence, no matter how long he left or how far he went, he would always die by his sword.
Feet poked out of the snowdrift, Gaia began to walk forward. Every step was precise, and at a constant speed, Gaia walked eastwards of the Black Forest.