The news coming back from the northwest was slower because of the distance. Wu Chengyue had just learned that Sikong Chen was leading people to retreat. Lin Qiao was already halfway back with his troops.
A lightly modified convoy was still traveling at high speed on the road, except that the last car had a big mushroom growing on its roof. It was blown by the wind, but it still stood firmly on top.
"Awwww~~" A half-sized tiger fluttered by the window in Lin Qiao's car, roaring outside from time to time.
Lin Qiao sat in the passenger seat and turned around and said to him: "Can you be quieter? I won't be able to run for long if I let you go out. If you're not tired, I'm still tired!"
This little tiger is not slow in running, but it is too small and lacks endurance. If you let it go and run behind the convoy, it will only run for half an hour at most before it collapses. That mushroom really liked running, but after running for a few hours, it jumped onto the roof of the car and refused to move.
Only Erwang and Dahei were following them leisurely in the woods on the roadside, because they had level six physical abilities and could run for days and nights without stopping, and the car was not very fast. To them it's like jogging.
In fact, the mushroom is the same, but it seems to be tired of running and doesn't want to run away...
"Ouch!" After Lin Qiao said this, the little tiger turned around and roared at her. Then he lay down on the seat and flicked his tail to the left and right.
"When do you think Lan Lu will bring you the eighth-level energy core?" Duan Juan asked her while driving and looking at the road ahead.
"It shouldn't take long, haven't you noticed? After the second virus outbreak, the strength of those mutant beasts and mutant plants increased, and they upgraded faster. Otherwise, where would we see two eighth-level mutant beasts? What about scenes that appear together? Level 6 and level 7 appear a lot now." Lin Qiao said calmly as he looked out the car window.
"It seems to be the case." Duan Juan thought for a while and found that it seemed to be the case.
"However, the upgrade speed of human superpowers has slowed down, while the zombies have accelerated." Lin Qiao continued, and suddenly she looked at the road in front of her and said: "Stop the car."
"Squeak—" Duan Juan braked suddenly, stared ahead in confusion, and then turned to look at her: "What's wrong?"
"Woooooooo-" At this moment, the little tiger behind suddenly made a low warning sound.
Duan Juan looked in the rearview mirror and saw that it began to shrink, its back was hunched, its limbs were tucked under its body, and its tail was curled under its belly. The teeth were bared, the two round little ears on the head were pressed down, and the eyes seemed to have seen something terrible, showing a somewhat panicked look.
"There is something ahead." Lin Qiao opened the car door and got out with a serious expression, stood next to the car and began to carefully observe the surrounding environment.
They were originally on a highway, with mountains on both sides, and there were no towns or anything nearby. It was a bit remote.
Lin Qiao felt a familiar and uneasy aura looming, gradually approaching them.
But she couldn't feel the source of this breath.
She smelled the surrounding smell with her nose, but there was nothing unusual. But she could still feel something approaching.
"What is it?" Duan Juan also got out of the car, walked to her side and looked around carefully and asked.
Lin Qiao raised his hand and directly put the little tiger and the car into the space, and then shouted to the people behind him: "Be careful!"
After everyone got out of the car, Lin Qiao took several cars into the space one by one, leaving only people outside.
After hearing Lin Qiao's shout, everyone immediately focused their attention and observed the surroundings cautiously.
At this moment, the ground on the highway began to tremble slightly.
"Underground..." Li Kui looked down at the ground and said aloud.
Everyone has felt the vibration coming from the ground. It is coming from the ground, not the ground.
Lin Qiao frowned, and suddenly a bad feeling flashed through her heart.
"Be careful, the things coming out of the ground may be of the same type as those multi-eyed monsters!" She reminded everyone, and then she jumped to the top of a tall mutant tree in the woods not far away. superior. Standing tall, ready for whatever is beneath the ground to appear.
Seeing her move, everyone followed suit and found some tall trees and jumped up.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the ground on the road began to shake violently, and then cracks began to appear on the road surface. Moreover, the cracks are slowly opening wider and wider, and a dangerous and disgusting smell is pouring out of the cracks along with a strong black gas.
"What is that?" Shui Mingjun frowned and asked in confusion.
Mo, who was standing on the same tree trunk as him and on the branch on the other side, said expressionlessly: "I don't know, it's probably not a good thing. The smell is really disgusting!"
As she spoke, she frowned and moved her nose, and finally couldn't help but pinch it with her hands.
Looking at the others, all the zombies covered their noses with their hands.
Shui Mingjun smelled it strangely, and then said: "Why do you all seem to smell a very bad smell? Why can't I smell it?"
Mo glanced at him and said in a nasal voice: "Because you are not a zombie, do you want to try becoming like us?"
Shui Mingjun shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no, no need."
Lin Qiao also covered her nose. It was a strange smell that was very offensive to her. It smells bad, is very irritating to their noses, and is disgusting!
"Woof woof woof! Woof woof!!!" Erwang was also jumping left and right on the side of the road, shouting at the cracks with teeth cracking.
Only the mushroom tree and the big black snake slipped into the forest and disappeared. I don't know where they went. Apparently they thought this place was too dangerous and they didn't dare to stay any longer if they couldn't handle it.
"Could it be the kind of thing you saw before?" Duan Juan stood on the same tree as Lin Qiao, but her position was shorter than Lin Qiao's. She squatted on the branch of a tree and looked down at the situation on the other side of the road.
Lin Qiao shook his head, staring at the cracks on the road with a hint of wariness in his eyes and said: "No, the breath is different. And the energy in this black air is also different, it doesn't seem to be of the same species. "
The shaking on the ground is still continuing, and the cracks are getting bigger and bigger. The black air that surged out of the ground began to spread around.
Lin Qiao carefully stared at the grass and trees that the black energy came into contact with, and sure enough, the same situation as she saw on the multi-eyed monster appeared.
The vegetation instantly lost its vitality and withered, but the surrounding area did not turn into darkness like the area around the multi-eyed monster.
But... it's all dim. After the vegetation withered, they turned into yellow sand and dust in an instant.
The air quality in this area plummeted instantly.