Chapter 119: The Way of Life
The sky was no longer lit, and under the dark night, the wind sent the roar of monsters in the distance.
A small pickup truck did not even dare to turn on the headlights and drove cautiously on the road.
The carriage was covered with several layers of thick canvas and had hand-welded metal railings on both sides, and a foul smell permeated the car, which came from a stack of plastic bags of kraft paper wrapped in the corner, from which blood slowly seeped out.
A young stranger glanced at the paper bag in disgust, he touched his empty stomach, and asked in a tangled voice, "Uncle Ma, is the news you inquired about correct?" Can you eat cooked food in the military base? ”
"Look at what you said, can there be fewer people in the country? Don't worry about those who don't have fire-based abilities......"
Uncle Zhao is a dark-skinned middle-aged man, very much like a living body, with rough palms and thick calluses, he is like the leader of this group, with a smile on his face, but he is squatting in the safest position in the pickup.
The Adepts, who were too bumpy, sat near the vents and the rear of the car.
They were more or less clothed, even the girls were unkempt, and there were a few mud marks on their cheeks, and they all looked like frightened birds, holding sharp objects in their hands.
Some are knives, some are small half steel bars, and some even have a bottle opener.
They were separated from each other by some distance, and this was the lesson that the experience of the forsaken world had taught them to survive in a difficult way, to be close to others, and to be both of them finished if they were attacked.
The world of forgiveness is full of dangers, and in order to survive, people are forced to rely on the power of the group, but people are more terrible than monsters, and the supernatural ones are wary of each other, and they can't sleep with one eye open.
For most of the supernaturals, there are no relatives, no friends, no trusted acquaintances in this world—living alone, like primitive people who drink blood.
"On the side of the army, there are not only fire-type abilities, but also water-based abilities!"
Cooked food, clean water, the ability to lie on a soft bed without fear of being attacked by monsters, and paradise on earth is nothing more than that.
The paranormal people on the pickup truck all looked at each other with longing eyes, hoping that the rumors were true, but fearing that the truth would not match them.
"When we went with Uncle Ma, didn't there still be people who didn't believe it, saying that the army had guns in their hands, and no matter how much material reserves they had, they couldn't bring it in, and the soldiers' own rations were not enough, so they didn't care if we lived or died."
Uncle Ma snorted from his nose: "There is no conclusive news, I dare to take you on the highway for most of the day, and run to Haicheng at the risk of being eaten by monsters?" ”
"You're always looking ...... the road"
"Put away your crepe words. I can't talk about foresight or anything, but I just saw that group of supernatural people went to Haicheng...... You've seen the guys with the black badges. ”
"Black Abyss?" The crowd was amazed.
The abandoned world has been around for a long time, and all kinds of gangs and mutual aid associations have sprung up faster than mushrooms after a rain, but as long as these organizations are a little larger, they will encounter people who "come to the door". Wearing a gold-edged black-background badge, they are of different ages, but they have in common that they know monsters very well, and they can also get some confidential information, which is very popular with small groups of supernatural people.
There are also people who try to impersonate the "Black Abyss", which is usually quickly exposed, and the Black Abyss is tightly organized, and everyone who wants to enter the Black Abyss needs a referral and a guò assessment. Even if you join the black abyss, you are still on the periphery, and you don't have the qualifications to wear a badge, so it's hard to find out any secrets.
There is also gossip that Hei Yuan has a big background.
"Let's hope that when the forsaken world is over, the people of the army won't take us away."
This is what the supernatural people are most afraid of, and when they return to reality, they will be imprisoned, how to face their parents and friends?
Uncle Ma had a small cigarette butt in his mouth, and he let out a long sigh: "Didn't you inquire? Someone entered the abandoned world a few days ago and stayed in this damn place for a whole month. Haicheng is full of monsters, and we are weak, how many days can we hold on? ”
At this moment, the wheel seemed to have been crushed against something, and it jumped up suddenly.
The stranger in the car was nervous, looking at the dark sky outside in horror.
"What's the matter, didn't I let you go along the mushroom bush?"
"Yes...... But, Uncle Ma, look at both sides of the road. ”
Of course, there were trees on both sides of the road, because of the monster attack, the railings on the highway were damaged, the street lights seemed to be gone, the visibility was very low, and the trunks of the trees were connected with their shadows.
Uncle Ma can't drive, and in the middle of the night, he can't see his surroundings clearly, and he only feels a palpitation, which is what kind of monster is it like to be targeted-
"That's not a tree!" One of the Avatars in the pickup screamed.
How can there be trees more than ten meters high on both sides of the highway, and if you encounter a curve, you won't block your view?
In a panic, the driver turned on the headlights, illuminating the road ahead, and the mushrooms standing silently on the side of the road!
The faces of the crowd turned pale and they were dumbfounded.
At some point, they drove into the mushroom base camp, and the road ran through the mushroom jungle, like a safe passage specially opened by someone, and the huge mushroom canopies propped up on both sides of the road were as high as five floors.
Some of them were mushrooms with the withered arms and bodies of the monsters hanging on tops, which were terrifying to see in the dark.
As if stimulated by the light, the front side of the fungus cap slowly turned, and the mycelium protruding extended towards the pickup. The mycelium of the giant mushroom is as thick as a rope, and it is like a whip that can tear a car apart.
"Ahhh The driver stepped on the gas pedal with his eyes closed.
"Calm down, you idiot!"
The mycelium formed several "roadblocks", forcing the car to slow down, and the lasso-like "ropes" were thrown at the car one by one, and finally the body of the pickup truck was suspended in the air, and the whole thing was hoisted, and the wheels were frantically idling.
The Adepts grabbed the cabin board in panic, and their bodies involuntarily leaned with the body.
The mycelium unceremoniously lifted the roof covered by the thick cloth, and the snake swam into the car and "searched" the car domineeringly. Sniffing the blood-soaked oil paper packets carefully, and finding that these were the leftover scum that "himself" had eaten, the mushroom immediately lost interest and shifted his focus to the Adept.
Although they have all been in close contact with mushrooms and have been bound by mycelium, there is a big difference between mycelium and mycelium! Thinner than a hair, can be ignored, noodles are so wide, people's hearts are hairy, and when this thing with the thickness of the bowl in front of them appears, the legs of the people who are almost able to bear it are weak.
Fortunately, they were all killed in the monster pile, and they didn't faint on the spot.
In the middle of the panic, the sound of car horns came from the road behind.
"What's the situation, why is the front blocked?"
“…… Don't come here, there's mushrooms! The voices of the people in the car trembled.
"Of course there are mushrooms, and there are mushroom territories for several kilometers around here!" The person in the car behind said angrily.
Otherwise, the Red Dragon Base has gathered so many supernatural people, wouldn't it be a fragrant Manchu and Han table in the eyes of the monster?
"Huh? Haicheng's license, who are you and what are you doing here? ”
The modified roof behind the pickup truck was lifted off, and several of the strangers turned white, and Mu Ran watched as the mycelium tied up the off-road vehicle behind him and hoisted it parallel to them.
The hyphae "searched" them indiscriminately.
Compared to the dead and alive here, the people on the off-road vehicle seemed much more relaxed, leaning on the seat and letting the mycelium entangle and examine, looking like they were used to it.
"Black, black badge." The female powerhouse next to Uncle Ma saw the sign of the black abyss.
Dai Badge is a young man, with a smile and eight teeth, which sets off his ordinary appearance with a bit of characteristics, which makes Uncle Ma and them care that everyone else in the car is wearing camouflage uniforms.
"We want to go...... We've heard that there's a base around here, and the army is stationed. ”
Looking at those pairs of eager eyes, the young man from the black abyss nodded, and asked in a long tone, "Have your identity information been registered?" ”
"Huh?"
"I mean, as a supernatural being, have you registered your identity with the state?"
"......" It's too late to hide this matter, and you take the initiative to report it to the police?
"If you don't have information, it's troublesome, because the identity and household registration information can only be queried in the real world, and the registration information of the supernatural has a special person handwritten and placed in the base, and if you don't have it, you can't enter the base, you can only live on the periphery. Oh, and the so-called periphery is inside a makeshift tent made of mushrooms. ”
Several of the adepts on the pickup stopped talking.
When the mushroom search was over, the mycelium slowly loosened and put the two cars back onto the road, holding the corpses of several monsters that had been turned out of the off-road vehicle, and left in a hurry.
"Hey, these guys are really sinful, they don't eat if they are not fresh." The young man of the black abyss complained in a low voice.
The mushroom extracts the power from the monster's body, not devouring flesh and blood, and the corpses that have been dead for a long time have dissipated, and of course they will not take another look.
"Aren't you in charge of this work?" The Red Dragon crew member who was driving teased, "The fire demon has spoken,
"I haven't fed mushrooms for several kilometers before, the outside is full, and the inside is still hungry!"
This young man from Heiyuan is Yang Chao, and he still has one thing in his heart, Li Fei recently hinted that he controls the scope and quantity of mushrooms.
It's not difficult to say this, it's not so easy to say it's simple, take the mushroom forest near the Red Dragon Base as an example, only there is food to eat at the edge, and the mycelium energy inside will naturally disappear when the energy is exhausted, and the mycelium separated by the mushrooms that are full outside extends back, and there is a reasonable cycle of rising and falling. The problem is that mushrooms are running around and can't be stopped, so that mushrooms don't open up new territory, it's harder than an addict to quit drugs.
"Keep up!"
Yang Chao greeted the pickup.
Surrounded by mushrooms, the group of adepts had no choice, and the driver shuddered behind the wheel and cautiously followed the off-road vehicle.
The road fades away, the road becomes more and more bumpy, and sometimes it twists and turns like a maze.
When bright lights appeared in front, none of the supernatural people on the pickup truck could tell where the Red Dragon base was, and they couldn't even tell the difference between southeast and northwest.
The warm light and the smell of barbecue wafting in the wind lifted their spirits.
When they approached the gate of the base, Uncle Ma and the others were surprised to find that there were a lot of cars parked here, and there were at least dozens of strangers gathered here, some people lined up to register, some people gathered around the cauldron where things were cooking, and there was a hammock sleeping under the mushroom handle, which was very lively.
The off-road vehicle drove straight into the heavily guarded base gate.
A two-person tall bronze sculpture with a strange shape similar to an hourglass stood erect in the doorway, and the newcomer did not understand, and asked others in a low voice.
"Timekeeping ......"
The mechanical swing arm of the bronze sculpture made a low crashing sound, everyone fell silent, the eating stopped moving, and the person who was talking and arguing straightened up, looking melancholy and lost.
The man in camouflage climbed up to the stilted building made of two mushrooms at the entrance of the base, and changed the hanging iron card from the number 7 to 8.
-- The entire Haicheng entered the eighth day of the forsaken world.
Vehicles came over at the gate of the base every once in a while, some of them were strangers like Uncle Ma who heard the news, and some members of the Red Dragon team came from other cities to deliver the news.
These cars were damaged, and there were seriously wounded people carried out of the cars, they ran for several days to reach Haicheng, and encountered countless dangers along the way, no matter how well prepared, there was always a time when the ammunition was used up, not to mention accidents everywhere.
The map hanging on the wall of Major Zhang's office is circled in red with a larger and larger range.
"The current policy is to hold the base, protect as many ordinary abilities as possible, and maintain external contact...... "Zhang Yaojin paused and looked at the people in the conference room, "This time the entire earth has entered the abandoned world, and the time in the original book is a year, which of you is going to tell the news of the Sù Flame Demon and the Devourer?" ”
Everyone brushed their heads and turned their heads to look at the thin man codenamed Albatross.
Zhao Wen: ......