Darkness has taken over half of the planet, and neither the walls nor the walls are immune to the cycle of the sun and the moon.

For those in the human alliance's circle of survival, day and night, this vast land beyond the walls, which had belonged to humans many years ago, has long been placed in eternal darkness.

Walking in the middle of the forest, which was not much different from the inside of the wall, it seemed only denser, and the cold current of winter blew around the two people sitting on crooked and broad backs, blowing the white mist into the depths of the abyssal forest.

Butterfly is not a martial artist, even if she changes into a mink coat, she can't stand the cold, and the whole person is nestled in crooked white long hair, like a huntress crawling in the snow.

Han Xu sat in front of him, looking at the dark forest without squinting, his ears listening intently to all the movements around him, his solemn color was like a ray of light suppressing the darkness in front of him, and everything around him was invisible in his consciousness.

They don't have the innate bloodline power like the Evil Spirit Divine Doctor, and they can see the whereabouts of the rest of the monsters, so they can't be sloppy in the slightest.

Weak monsters usually haunt groups, and lone monsters are powerful and invincible, so any encounter with these terrible creatures may be a life-and-death battle for him and the butterfly.

No one knows where in this dark forest will be the cliffs that will break people's bones if they are not careful.

In this way, they maintained the tension until a leaf brushed their body surface, and before they knew it, it was past midnight, and they officially entered the year 299 of the human alliance.

On January 1, the year 299 of the Federation, the weather inside the walls was no different from any previous winter, and outside the walls, a land that had nothing to do with humans for three hundred years, there was no concept of New Year's Eve, and its time stopped in the year when the cataclysm raged.

Two young people with an average age of no more than 20 years old, walking on this land where time stands still, their lifeline seems to be constantly accelerating towards the end.

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Everything is going according to plan.

The route of travel is to Gangxiang City, starting from the back of the wall, and Crooked is also moving in the planned direction under the traction of the cold continuation.

The march in the dark night was not smooth, and Han Xu deliberately slowed down the speed of progress to improve safety, but fortunately the night was safe. It was only at dawn that the view of the vast forest appeared in front of them in the gray light, and in the forest they could faintly see houses of a certain size that had been buried in the mud, apparently once a village, but now reduced to waste buried in the forest and dust.

The survival class in the night school has taught a lot of survival skills, which is also one of the compulsory subjects in their college entrance examination, and a lot of the content in the survival class is about how to survive in the extreme environment infested with monsters;

"The wood has just been eaten by the bobtail rat, and the exposed parts are still fresh, so they should only be about a week. The Bobtail Demon Rat is a decomposer of monsters, specializing in eating carrion and dead bark, etc., which proves that the ecosystem here has just completed a cycle, and the place where they appeared will not be left for more than a month, plus it is winter, and the danger level of our area will be much less now. ”

After four days of driving in the forest, except for the corpses of a few monsters, I haven't seen any other existences directly related to monsters, and the existence in front of me at this moment is the closest contact between them and living monsters. Han continued to caress the black mountain tree whose entire bark had been gnawed away, the brown trunk inside was pitted, extremely ugly, and the fangs and sharp mouths of those demon rats caused distressing mutilation to these natural plants.

Yesterday, I saw the corpse of the flying green ape on the road and scared out of a cold sweat butterfly, seeing these victim trees that are small in comparison, there is no big reaction, but the ugly appearance of these trees is destroyed makes the powerful underground queen of Wanyu City feel a little uncomfortable, riding on the crooked back, her whole person is buried in the crooked hair, her eyes are evasively glanced to the side, and asked: "No danger is a good thing, I hope there will be no danger in the future." ”

Beyond the city walls, there is no human forbidden, no human population, no communication signal, and all modern equipment can only wait quietly for the electricity to run out, and then turn into scrap metal. No matter how tenacious humans want to survive here, even if they don't get sick, they can only rely on luck and experience to survive, and they have to pray that they will never run into monsters.

Here, like the world inside the walls, there is the air necessary for survival and formlessness, but it only makes people feel as if they are under the sea, and even if they can hold their breath, they are actually just waiting to suffocate.

Time passed almost in a counting way, minute by minute, and four days were spent on thin ice, both of them were the first to climb the city wall, and they spent four days in fear. The danger level near the city wall is the lowest in the world outside the wall, and with cold monsters and survival knowledge, they have bypassed the much less danger of the outer world, and the journey is safe, but the feeling of being swallowed by darkness has not disappeared from his body for a second since they jumped over the wall and landed outside the wall.

"I really admire the soldiers who are on an expedition outside the wall, and the sense of danger outside the wall is really maddening. The butterflies pouted and lowered their throats, they couldn't speak loudly, and they had to hold their breath, because any trace of a human would attract the attention of nearby monsters.

"I really admire the people who built the walls back then, if it weren't for the two ancestral emperors back then, I would have grown up in such a forest. ”

"You won't grow up, because your ancestors haven't grown up yet, and they're going to be a meal for monsters. Han Xu shook his head, replied nonchalantly, and then rolled over and returned to his crooked back. The snow dog took advantage of the bright sky and turned into a galloping white stream, leading them to the port that was important in the Han Dynasty three hundred years ago and is of great significance to the world today.

"You're right. Butterfly shrugged her shoulders to relax as much as possible, looking at the back of her head with cold black hair spreading, "I was lucky a few days ago, will there be any danger in the future?"

"There won't be any danger in the back. Han Xu glanced at the electronic map, "The speed of the crooked march in the wilderness is much faster than that of a car, we are starting from the northeast, and the army of Emperor Shenxuan is starting from the middle, according to calculations, it should be able to catch up with their tail tomorrow."

For so many years, human beings have been preparing for war with monsters, especially the Eastern Army, which has many special tactics and weapons and the means of the rest of the factions, which are tailored for monsters, plus the 100,000 army of Emperor Shenxuan and the strong men around him, although it is impossible to take humans to open up the territory, but it should be no problem to rampage out a way. Keep up with their ass and use them as our talisman. ”

"Will you be able to catch up tomorrow?" the butterfly blinked in surprise, her long black eyelashes fluttering in the cold wind on her talkative eyes.

"Hmm. Han continued to nod firmly, "At the current rate, it will be tomorrow if nothing happens." ”

Thinking of the imminent encounter with the mighty army of Emperor Shenxuan, or the tail, the butterfly restrained her breathing. She grew up in Wanyu City, except for the identity of wizards and members of the underground secret organization, there is no difference between ordinary people, and she has never dared to think about such a thing as being able to meet the emperor since she was a child, but she didn't expect that it would become a reality in this land far more vast than the survival circle......

The butterfly let out a long breath after half a sound, looking at the rapidly regressing scenery around her, as if it was a curtain falling on her side on both sides, she squinted her eyes and said, "When you keep up with Emperor Shenxuan's ass, what are you going to do?"

"According to the map information of the defectors, Emperor Shenxuan's army is determined to pass through the Sword Fu Province, if it arrives in the Sword Fu Province tomorrow and does not find any traces of the Shenxuan Emperor's military horses, it means that it is indeed a plan. Gradually, he found the rhythm of running, and the speed of the crooked gallop became faster and faster, and Han Xu's voice was carried farther and farther away by the wind, and he had to turn sideways to get the voice into the butterfly's ears.

"Wait until tomorrow when we reach the Sword Rune Province, and then we'll make a decision. ”

The butterfly completely buried her face in her crooked hair, so as not to let the wind that did not know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade hurt her day and night maintenance and the harmony of yin and yang to maintain her beautiful cheeks.

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Snow dogs are born with strong endurance, and after a day and a night of travel, there is still no rest along the way, according to the endurance of snow dogs, it is conservatively estimated that the cold can maintain such a gallop for three days.

Sharpening the knife and cutting wood, the cold lasted for a few days and waited until the crooked arrival, and the speed increase it produced far exceeded the limit of what the cold continued could do in those five days itself.

The next day, when the butterfly woke up again, it was already dawn, the surrounding scenery was calm, Crooked was not galloping as fast as when she disappeared consciousness, but walking slowly, and there was no back of the man who could give her a sense of security in such a dangerous and harsh environment in front of her, and when she raised her head in a panic and shouted, she saw that Han Xu was behind her, slowly following the pace of the snow dog, observing the blades of grass around her.

Han Xu raised his finger and made a silent gesture to the swishing butterfly, and then carefully observed the blades of grass around him. The butterfly, which had calmed down, followed Han Xu's gaze and noticed that the surrounding land had all been trampled.

This is the domain of monsters, and it is common to be trampled on, but the footprints outlined by the soft soil have faithfully recorded the lines and outlines of military boots, telling the two of them that it is not monsters that pass by here, but humans.

The butterfly was stunned, took a deep breath, rolled over from her crooked back, and came to the side of Han Xu.

Han Xu picked up a cloth belt from the ground.

There was a little mud on the cloth belt, which had been stained with a little frost last night, as if it was chalk ash sprinkled on it, and the blue-green color on the cloth bag indicated that it belonged to the regular army of the Union.

"The cloth belt is quite clean, and it should be yesterday. Just right. Han Xu threw the cloth tape to the ground, turned his head to the butterfly and said, "This should be a small team, which spreads out on the side during the march to guard the side." ”

"What do you say now?" Butterfly asked.

"Find the big army first. With a squad here, the large army will not be too far away, and the message sent by the officers to the goddess should not be false, and the destination of Emperor Shenxuan should be Gangxiang City. ”

Han Xu and the butterfly returned to the crooked back, causing the crooked to slow down and explore forward. Now that they have caught up with the large army, the probability of encountering monsters will be much lower, and the period of dangerous exploration between the two is considered to be in the past, but the thing to worry about is that they may be discovered by the soldiers walking in front at any time.

"Do you think we're too lucky, too good to be weird?" asked curiously, as they walked forward for two hours, without encountering a single monster, not even a poisonous miasma, and the butterfly applied homemade insect bite relief ointment to its exposed skin, as she asked curiously.

"I think. Han Xu frowned and said empathetically, "I haven't been out of the wall of the survival circle, but the danger of going out of the wall is far lighter than I expected. ”

"It shouldn't be. ”

"Yes, it shouldn't be. Han Xu nodded, "I deliberately checked the documents before going out of the wall, for nearly three hundred years, every time humans go out of the wall, there are casualties, the best luck is that we only encountered a high-grade monster once in three days after going out of the wall, we have been out of the wall until today, it is the fifth day, we have not encountered the federal forces before, still have not encountered any monsters, and have not encountered any danger." ”

"Is it possible that you were too lucky?"

"I don't rule it out. Han continued to bow his head, "After all, no one can say for sure about such a thing as luck." ”

In the face of greater crises and pressures, even Han Xu wouldn't think too deeply about why their luck was so good, his mind was full of all about Emperor Shenxuan's actions, as well as hypothetical various crisis situations, such as what he should do after encountering Emperor Shenxuan's troops head-on, and how he should destroy it if Emperor Shenxuan wanted to turn on the soul.

"I don't understand why they all choose to walk instead of flying equipment, which is faster and safer. ”

Han continued to deny: "No, flying is more dangerous, because flying means that the position is exposed, and this kind of exposure of the position at high altitude, high-profile to the extreme, will make powerful birds, or some monsters that humans can't compete with at all, target you." ”