Chang'an Base City.

I haven't seen a blue sky or white clouds for eight days.

Foggy skies hung over the sky, and tawny sand drifted over the city.

This is completely unthinkable in a post-cataclysmic world.

The environmental pollution and damage that humans once caused to the world have long since disappeared with the catastrophe.

Residents of Chang'an haven't seen this environment for several years.

"So it's absolutely not normal. Chen Xuehe shook his head and gently shook the glass bottle in his hand, which contained pale yellow granular gas.

"After my inspection, all of this is normal...... Sand. Chen Xuehe frowned.

"It's all normal sand?" The general standing in front of Chen Xuehe was stunned.

"However, there should be no sandstorms in the current environment. Another military researcher next to him disagreed with Chen's statement, "There must be something that hasn't been measured yet." ”

"Okay, if you don't believe me, then you can test it again. Chen Xuehe's face was calm and not angry.

In front of him, the researcher stared at Chen Xuehe for a few moments and snorted from his nose.

"How can I not believe the dignified Professor Chen, who in the entire military region does not know your name, Professor Chen. The researcher smirked.

Chen Xuehe's eyelids were raised, and his face was calm.

Then he slapped the researcher by the hair and pressed it to the ground!

"You don't give Lao Tzu yin and yang!"

After speaking, there was a burst of punches and kicks, "I've endured you for a long time, I really think Lao Tzu won't dare to beat you?!"

"Alas, Chen Xuehe, you are crazy! you dare to hit me......"

The generals on the side looked at their noses, their noses and mouths, and their mouths and hearts, completely pretending not to see.

A slightly younger soldier felt that this did not seem appropriate and wanted to step forward to stop it, but an older soldier next to him grabbed his arm and whispered, "Don't make do." ”

Just on the surrounding walls, on the ceiling, and under the desk, iron-toothed golden-backed horses crawled out from every corner......

Roughly swept away, there were at least ten of them, and these were all leader-level imperial beasts.

Ten minutes passed, and the researcher lying on the ground had a bruised nose and swollen face, his glasses had been knocked off, and his nosebleeds had been knocked out. "Do you know who my uncle is......"

"Professor Chen, you are impulsive, his uncle is also the deputy commander of the military region, and he happens to be in charge of the management of the laboratory. The general sighed: "But it's not that there is no solution, Commander Liu has always been enthusiastic, like this kind of thing..." Chen Xuehe interrupted him.

......

Ember Forest,

Today is another boring day.

Ever since the old man's death, Heiba has felt that every day has been boring and lonely.

In the deepest part of the forest, a huge giant black ape monster sat lazily on a thick branch, looking up at the sky.

The fluffy chin is covered with gray fluff, and from the outside, it looks like a black storm ape that has been magnified countless times.

"Hey. Heiba sighed.

The big hand scratched at the air irritably, but couldn't catch anything.

It's disgusting.

Heiba sneezed, the choking smell in the air making it a little impatient.

Standing up from the branches, the giant tree, which was more than two hundred meters high, shook violently, and the leaves fell.

Perhaps because of the fact that it is often sitting, the leaves on this giant tree are a little thin...... There's always a little bit of a bare feeling.

The guy from the west came over again, and Heiba could feel the choking smell on his body, even if it was dozens of kilometers away.

Since a week ago, the guy has been sneaking out of the Ember Forest, and sending a lot of yellow dust into the air.

Although I didn't perceive any major harm...... But it's still very uncomfortable to smell.

Heiba's face was gloomy, and his burly body exuded a dangerous aura like a black King Kong.

Boom, jumped from the branches and strode into the depths of the forest.

This area is the forbidden area of the Ember Forest, the core territory of the Lord of Ember, and it is strictly forbidden for any other monsters to run in.

Come in one, kill one.

Over time, no monster would dare to come in.

In the middle of the woods was a small wooden house, no taller than the navel of a black bar.

The wooden walls are old and covered with moss, the top is damaged by rain, and the top is covered with a wide leaf to cover the wooden house.

This is the wooden house of the forest rangers in the last century, and there is still a rusty axe hanging on the outer wall of the wooden house, which looks like it has long been abandoned without any traces of life, and I don't know how long it has been abandoned.

Heiba stared blankly at the wooden house, just sitting next to the wooden house, his hideous and terrifying face unconsciously became peaceful.

The familiar scenery around it makes it feel like it's back to 20 years ago.

At that time, it was just a young monkey of one year old, and it was unable to climb a tree to escape when it was wounded in the arm by a poacher with a shotgun in the woods, and it lay in the grass and watched the poacher's reflection in its pupils enlarge.

"Woohoo!"

The rangers came from the other side with their rangers to drive away the poachers.

It was an old man with gray hair, with a shimmering spirit and a swift walk, like the wisest old monkey king in the monkey group.

The old ranger took him back to the hut to heal and take care of it, bandaging it with gauze, applying herbs, taking care of it, and sometimes it felt that it was good to stay here for the rest of its life.

Later, it was sent back to the monkeys, and when he returned to the monkeys, he often sneaked out of the monkeys to play with the old ranger, and the old ranger was also very happy, and every time he came over, he would conjure delicious peanuts out of his pocket, and they became good friends.

Thirteen winters passed, and he went from a small monkey to the king of the whole pack.

But when it came early that morning, instead of seeing the old man dressed and going up the mountain to patrol the forest, as usual, it saw someone carrying the old ranger away on a stretcher.

Only then did the monkey realize that the old ranger was too old for him to patrol the mountains anymore.

Later, about how many years later, until one day, someone carried the coffin up the hill and buried it next to the cabin.

It smelled the scent of the old ranger.

Those people just buried the coffin and burned a few catties of paper and left in a hurry, just like when they carried the old ranger away on a stretcher.

When everyone was gone, the monkey came to the old ranger's grave and stared blankly at the grave.

It thought of something, and it burrowed through the window into the wooden house, where it found a roll of yellowed gauze and some shriveled herbs.

You used it to heal me when I was injured, can I use it to heal you?

The monkey was very happy and laughed like a fool.

"Whoa, whoa, whoop......" The low, helpless ape chirp echoed through the forest.

Heiba blinked, opened his eyes blankly, shook his somewhat confused head, and accidentally fell asleep again just now.

Next to the hut there was a small raised mound covered with shrubs and lush growth.

"Knock knock. ”

Heiba hammered his chest with his fist, this is the mountain forest you want to protect, I will help you protect it forever! This is Heiba's promise!