Chapter 240: Infinitely Weird
"He went in."
"Damn, I'm really not afraid of death." Jiang Fatzi scolded, "Get all the drones we brought out, monitor every exit of the city, and the fat grandfather will trap him." ”
The city is not too big, after all, it is dependent on nuclear . The facilities were set up.
"Luckily, I was prepared and brought a radiation detector."
"Gan, it's over-the-top."
Jiang Fatzi glanced at the index on the display.
The horrible over-the-top multiplier scared him into a cold sweat.
"It's been 200 years, why is there such a strong radiation?" The team was puzzled.
"Who the hell knows, quickly retreat and retreat to a safe place."
The crowd drove back five hundred meters, away from the confines of the city.
More than thirty micro-drones hovered over the city, observing the target's every move.
The whole city is in full view.
"He stopped, he was in an abandoned amusement park, he was smoking, and he looked up at us, how arrogant."
"This is knowing that we are afraid to go in, so he is waiting."
"Wait for an extreme weather, preferably a sandstorm, the overwhelming yellow sand will affect the observation, and we must also take shelter, so that he has a chance to escape."
Extreme weather is common in no-man's land.
The man should have been well prepared before escaping, carrying enough dry food and water to sustain him for several days.
These days, the possibility of extreme weather is quite high.
"It's a pity that the drones brought this time are all for observation, and they don't carry weapons, otherwise they must beat that guy to the head."
"So it seems...... Lu Wen can only go in. ”
Everyone's eyes were focused on Lu Wen.
As a mechanical being, his advantages are simply too great.
"Are you sure?" Xia Chuluo looked at him.
"As long as you don't encounter an accident, it's not difficult to kill him."
It's not big, indeed.
And after the other party entered the city, he relaxed and was not vigilant.
"Actually, there's no need to let Lu Wen take risks, we just need to surround here for a few days, that guy's life will be over, and he will not let him go with all kinds of cancers and lesions in the rest of his life." Lu Yang said.
"But look at his arrogant appearance, I really can't bear this breath." Jiang Fatzi pointed to the monitoring screen.
"It's okay, there are no accidents."
Lu Wen reassured everyone.
He looked at the city in the distance.
The wind and sand swept by, and the eyes were desolate.
The ruins always have a different kind of beauty, mutilated, dilapidated.
Lu Wen drove the vehicle and slowly drove into this city where the radiation was seriously exceeded.
Scattered cement slabs and bricks create a shattered silence.
These ruins silently tell the story of another era, which is most popular with painters and poets.
"Click......"
Wheels run over rotten street signs.
Time has eroded these metal objects to the point that only black-brown rust remains, crushing them over, leaving debris in their wakes and scattered in the wind.
Not every metal or machine can survive the long years like the main body of Zero.
There are signs of life in the city.
The center of the city, where it was bombarded by nuclear weapons, is now a small lake, surrounded by greenery.
The interweaving of withered yellow and verdant green heralds the death and rebirth of the city.
This city is different from the ruined cities that Lu Wen has seen before.
In the past, although those cities experienced the baptism of war, most of them were able to maintain their original appearance, and there were not too many collapsed buildings, and the reason why they were abandoned was only because they were uninhabitable.
And the city ...... It was almost completely broken.
As far as the eye can see, there are only a few buildings that can be called complete.
Not long after entering the city, Lu Wen stopped the car.
He heard something different.
"Huh...... ......"
A more high-pitched scream.
From beneath the ruins.
Lu Wen lifted up a cement slab, which was very heavy, but fortunately, his strength was far beyond ordinary people.
Underneath that was a creature that had never been seen before.
【Match Failure】
[Preliminarily judged to be a lepidium creature]
Unsurprisingly, Azure's bio database failed again.
The strange creature was no bigger than a basketball, covered in black scales with sharp bumps and pointed lips.
It's kind of like a pangolin, but the scales of a pangolin aren't like that.
This little guy is very fierce and grinning at Lu Wen.
"The presence of such creatures shows that the city has a whole ecosystem."
Lu Wen put down the cement slab.
The little guy prefers to stay in a dark corner, before lifting the cement slab, the sunlight makes it very uncomfortable, and makes it feel that its territory has been violated.
"Where there is water, there is life."
Lu Wen chose to move forward on foot.
The target wasn't hiding, it was in the center of the city, next to the lake, a former playground.
I walked for a long time towards the center.
During this period, Lu Wen encountered strange creatures several times.
There was an ugly strange bird with three eyes, and a slender snake regrown four legs to crawl on the ground......
The further you go inside, the more vegetation you can see.
The fine crumbled stones, the rotten cement slabs, began to spread dark red moss.
These mosses seem to be alive.
Together.
It is moving slowly on the ground at a speed that is almost indestructible to the naked eye, and it is furry to the touch.
Lu Wen cut off a piece with a short knife, and the whole piece of moss shrunk, as if feeling pain, and a dark red liquid flowed out of the place where it was cut.
Small crimson flowers swayed on the side of the street.
As soon as Lu Wen approached, these small flowers all closed and retracted into the ground.
A dark red lizard clings to the rubble on the side of the road, and on top of its head is a small crimson flower that seems to emerge from its skull.
The city's landmark is a clock tower, located in the southeast corner of the city, which is also home to the amusement park.
The bell tower had survived the war and had withstood the wear and tear of time, and the gray-black thick vines clinging to the surface of the bell tower, which from a distance looked like a building made of plants and vines.
The hands of the large clock on the top floor are still turning.
Those dark rhizomes wrap around the pointer, controlling its movement little by little.
There are fewer animals.
"Just now you could see some animals on the periphery, but now that we're close to the center, there are more and more plants."
It stands to reason that these animals should need to drink water, and the center is the water source.
Along the way, Lu Wen saw more than a dozen kinds of plants that he had never seen before, and there was no record in the Azure database.
He recorded it all.
These images are precious.
Almost no one wants to come to this kind of polluted place to explore, one is because they are afraid of death, and the other is that there is no economic value, and there is no need to customize special robots to explore.
It's a pity that Lu Wen doesn't have botanical friends.
[Attack intent detected]
[Attack intent detected]
【……】
The system keeps giving him this hint.
Normally, if someone is looking at Lu Wen behind his back for a long time, or approaching him quickly, the system will give this hint.
But now the whole city is silent.
Even the wind is quite quiet.
Lu Wen looked around, and there were indeed only plants here.
The animals may have been frightened by the sudden arrival of humans, hiding, or had not yet had time to move.
The flora of this place is rather strange and dominated by vines.
A wide variety of vines.
Lu Wen came to the bottom of a tree made of vines, and those vines were entwined, and there seemed to be some kind of fairly regular rhythm inside the twisted body.
"Heartbeat?"
He reached out and pressed his hand against the vine.
It's a lot like a heartbeat.
There was also the sound of fluid flowing inside the vines, like blood rushing through the blood vessels.
"Could it be that the plants here are predatory or parasitic, so the animals don't dare to come? But those animals have to drink water......"
Lu Wen came to the lake.
The surface of the lake is calm, with occasional waves rippling in circles.
He slowly crouched down.
The water of the lake is clear, with some dark red algae clinging to the rocks on the shore.
A fish slowly swam to the shore, gnawing at the red algae on the stones, and with each nibble, a red liquid overflowed and dissipated in the lake, as if it were the blood of those algae.
The fish doesn't look normal
There are dark red silk threads sticking out from between the scales and even in the eyes of this fish, and the tips of these silk threads are split, like tiny tentacles, and the lines on them are clearly visible, which should be a plant.
But there is a liquid flowing rapidly inside the thread.
Lu Wen slowly stood up.
From an outside point of view, everything here was a little weird, but nothing threatened his safety at this time.
So he headed for the amusement park in the southeast direction.
It was once a thriving place, and it is still the only place in the city that can be seen.
These rides have obviously collapsed.
But for some reason, in the years that followed, it was tied together little by little by those plant vines, and slowly became the original appearance.
The city's iconic clock tower should be like this.
After all, the city has been hit by nuclear weapons, and although the clock tower and amusement park are not the center, there is no chance that the buildings will be preserved.
In the park, the lonely Ferris wheel is still slowly spinning.
The thick vines supported the rotten metal brackets, and it can be said that those brackets and even the cockpit were being replaced by plants little by little.
"It's amazing, isn't it, these plants seem to have animal consciousness and slowly restore the city to its former appearance, this amusement park, that clock tower......" the man sat on a bench at the entrance of the amusement park.
The benches were originally made of wood, but they have since been corroded by the years.
The vines replaced the original material.
Even the colors are close.
These vines are earthy yellow, and if you don't pay attention to them, you will think that they are left over from the past.
The man was sitting on a chair made of vines.
His motorcycle was parked aside.
Lu Wen looked at this person's pale face and immediately understood.
"It turns out that you don't want to go, but you can't."
It was outside the city at the time.
Through the monitoring of drones.
Everyone saw this man parking his motorcycle next to the amusement park, smoking a cigarette, and looking up at them with an indifferent expression.
At that time, everyone thought that this man was resting.
But he couldn't help but rest for too long, and he didn't get up as soon as he sat down, as if he was provoking, as if he was asking the team outside the city through a drone if they had the courage to come in.
But everyone was wrong.
Perhaps he did want to rest for a while when he sat down at first.
But after sitting down, there was no chance to get up.
The withered yellow vines, when he was not paying attention, slowly wrapped around his legs and arms.
Blood was dripping slowly.
The vine-like plant was sucking his blood.