Volume II: Snow Day Blood Red Chapter 40. Beacon smoke in the foothills

As soon as Lu Yuan sacrificed the grenade, the wolves subconsciously cringed, they had already seen how much damage this little thing could cause, even Lu Yuan's deterrent air twisting canister was enough to make them retreat. In particular, the failure of the wolf attack was suddenly hit hard, which made the wolves hesitate.

Lu Yuan calmly reloaded, took advantage of the wolf's short hesitation to cross the most dangerous firepower gap, and almost didn't want to turn around and shoot a rapid fire, the canopy of the cedar tree immediately burst into flames, and a thin snow wolf hidden in it fell down, fell to the ground and limped out after falling to death.

Lu Yuan also let it leave, keeping the muzzle of the gun pointing upward, pulling the steel cable of the cart, and continued to walk towards the outside of the cedar forest under the resentful but helpless gaze of the wolves. Five or six kilometers wide, no matter how slow and slow, you can leave before nightfall, when the advantage of the wolves will be weakened in the open field.

But the wolves pursued this part, how could Lu Yuan be allowed to retreat like this, not only could the probe ball find that the wolves were following him, but he himself could see the wolf with blood-stained fur behind the cedar tree with his own eyes alone. They were dragging their wounded companions along, and the strong smell of blood penetrated Lu Yuan's nose through the snow wind, making him a little uneasy. During this period of time, Lu Yuan had seen too many top predators in the wasteland, and he was even worried that the wolves would make the same move as if they had sacrificed themselves before to encourage other clans to hunt down and kill their enemies.

Lu Yuan could only comfort himself on the grounds that the wolves had been hit one after another, and there were many ethnic groups. Let yourself be settled. After crossing the cedar forest, there is an even more severe test of crossing the snowy mountains, and he will always need psychological hints again and again.

He will cross this mountain, this mountain, and go far away.

But the difficulties of the trip to the cedar forest cannot be underestimated. After a short break, the wolves launched a small-scale harassment again, but their target was not directly aimed at Lu Yuan, but on the board car. While Lu Yuan was steadily advancing, he operated a probe ball to blend into the wolf pack, but he also stopped a lot of attacks in advance.

Probably because Lu Yuan operated too often, the detection ball that manually followed the signal collided with a wolf lying on the root of the tree. When it touched the fluffy wolf fur outside its wolf claws, the snow wolf raised its head vigilantly, and before Lu Yuan carefully withdrew the detection ball, the snow wolf lowered his head and seemed to move the ball with slight curiosity. But for wild animals, curiosity is either a luxury or a disguise. Without thinking, the wolf immediately picked up the probe ball and put it in its mouth, and "rattle" and bit it.

Lu Yuan said depressedly, this is the last detection ball that he can use normally, and the other ones are all faulty with the pressure sensitors. Now that he had lost all his means of detection, he could only pray that the wolves would still be frightened until he broke out of the woods.

Lu Yuan gradually pulled out the speed, his heart raised his throat and eyes, and his eyes turned extremely fast, the passive detection of the exoskeleton was based on energy, and in the eyes of the recognizer, the wolf's energy overflow was not much stronger than a dead tree.

Walking like this, all his thoughts were on the wolves, Lu Yuan didn't realize that the cedar forest was dim and the air was particularly heavy, he stopped in a ghostly way, standing in front of an extraordinarily slender tree, he stretched out his hand to touch the bark of the somewhat brown and red spots, he smelled a faint smell of sulfur.

Hot? Is there geothermal heat?

Lu Yuan was not good at judging, he turned his hand into a knife, and cut a piece of rough skin that seemed to be smoking, he smelled a strong smell of sulfur, and then, he saw a distinct three-paw mark under the bark, the darkness seemed to be around his body and Lu Yuan didn't know anything, he suddenly woke up, only to find that the sky was dark, and the wolves behind him hesitated outside the boundary between light and darkness in the forest. This junction line can be seen, and the line between light and darkness is light.

The air filter of the exoskeleton seemed to be overwhelmed suddenly, Lu Yuan instinctively felt the air heavy, he stepped over this cedar tree that had been breathing for a long time, stepped on it, and the humus shallow past his ankles, he thought it was a thick paste like fallen leaves, but it was just dirt, a kind of soft collapse sludge with rust red, which was dragging Lu Yuan into it step by step. But he can still pull out his feet.

The wolves collectively guarded outside the dividing line, lined up side by side, silently watching Lu Yuan go farther and farther, their blue pupils were so far apart, they became dark blue, the wolves grasped the scale very well, take one more step, they will be drenched in the dim sun, take one more step, they can't say that they send Lu Yuan to the last meter.

Lu Yuan was retreating in his heart, and he threw out several damaged detection balls, intending to forcibly scout the forest, but without exception, the signal was lost. The compass also seems to be disturbed and is dripping and turning. The strange and huge sinister aura was urging Lu Yuan to get away quickly, but every time Lu Yuan wanted to stay away, the wolves would howl, no matter how Lu Yuan moved, the wolves just cut Lu Yuan's retreat.

Now Lu Yuan understood, no wonder the wolves refused to go all out in the forest, let him go deeper, they must have already sensed what great danger was hidden in this cedar forest, and even the wolves did not dare to pursue it, so they simply chased Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan is in a complete dilemma now, if he wants to retreat, he will inevitably be beaten by wolves, compared to the wolves who have the tendency to mourn, Lu Yuan is still willing to rush out of the forest in one go, the faster the better, in the end, five kilometers is just five kilometers, can there really be anything more terrifying than a black snake?

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan took a few long breaths of the not so cold air, ignored the smell of sulfur, and began to run hard, the board cart tied to his back simply moved to the front, and forced the huge force of the exoskeleton to push over, Lu Yuan ran more and more into the depths of the cedar forest, and the rusty sludge under his feet remained at the same depth.

Although Lu Yuan was trying to restrain his palpitations, when he ran to the foot of the mountain, this palpitation suddenly exploded, suddenly making Lu Yuan breathless, in the suffocating helmet, Lu Yuan looked around, like a pink mist spraying out of the soil, those cedar trees that had lost their inner lining leaned on each other obliquely, the branches and leaves were entangled, depressed and lifeless, a great sense of sadness and antiquity surged into Lu Yuan's heart, and he almost couldn't help but want to step into the quagmire.

Lu Yuan closed his eyes heavily, as if a golden rope was hooking his neck, slowly and slowly leading him into the depths of the warm silence, and he couldn't help but follow this feeling.

"Boom~" The steel rope trembled slightly, and the jingle bell suddenly woke up Lu Yuan, who was about to fall asleep and only subconsciously driven, he was busy pressing the exoskeleton to supply oxygen urgently, blinking his eyes wildly, and when he saw everything in front of him clearly, he was almost scared of his stupidity!

The so-called warmth and depths are clearly a "quagmire" crowded with slender black-skinned red-veined creatures like salamanders! At first glance, Lu Yuan's heart squeezed and loosened, and Lu Yuan hurriedly retreated a few meters, only then did he notice that the unknown gas alarm of the helmet had been going off for a long time, and these pink mist were either miasma or poisonous gas emitted by this "salamander" creature.

The point is that this gas, exoskeleton can't actually filter it out!

Lu Yuan controlled his mentality, slowed his breathing, and bit the root of his tongue, the pain spread but kept him awake more and more rarely. His helmet camera recorded the appearance of the "salamanders", their skin with a brass-like sheen, and many pustules that were about to burst grew on thin skin where the slowly flowing tissue viscera could be seen beneath. If you throw away the extraordinarily deformed red limbs, it is simply a thin strip of lean meat, and those pink glossy gases are expelled from the huge nostril-like black hole at the tip of the strip, although it is difficult to distinguish the difference between the eyes and the nostrils, in the end it is not much different from paramecium.

After such a long experience of surviving in the wasteland, where did Lu Yuan dare to underestimate this thing at will? But he didn't have time to study it carefully, and just looking at the "salamander" made his mind tend to be confused again.

Lu Yuan reluctantly took the smart grenade, skillfully blended it into an incendiary bomb, and caught a glimpse of a pack of cigarettes hidden in the deepest part of his eye, the desire to smoke could no longer be restrained, Lu Yuan adjusted the grenade charge ratio while looking around for a lighter to light a fire, but then bitterly found that it was impossible for him to take off his helmet.

Lu Yuan threw down the incendiary bomb in an uninteresting manner, and the flames that soared into the sky immediately rose, and countless "salamanders" were burned to the ground.

At the same time as the cigarette butt was lit, it couldn't withstand the flames, and the salamander continued to steam and crack one after another, and the pink mist that was enough to penetrate the exoskeleton helmet suddenly erupted at the same time, and the most terrible thing was that it quickly unfolded with the flame cyclone!

"Holy!" Lu Yuan scolded secretly, jumped up with the cigarette butt in place, pulled up the board car and turned around and ran, an extremely strong sweet and greasy feeling surged up to his throat, and the flames jumped out of the "salamander" pit, licking the hollowed-out cedar trees around him, and suddenly got up, but at this moment it was the noon when the sun was at its peak, and for a while Lu Yuan was actually running around by the forest fire in the middle of winter? !

The dark cedar forest that he had walked through before passed quickly, and the group of dead-brained snow wolves were still waiting at the dividing line, Lu Yuan scolded wildly in his heart, he stopped his pace, his brain was running rapidly, in front of him was a pack of wolves that had been in full swing, and behind him was a mist that was extremely confused, how should Nima's go?

Lu Yuan hadn't made a choice yet, but the wolves had made a choice first, the first wolf let out a howl, and the snow wolves scattered and ran towards Lu Yuan!

How else could Lu Yuan react? Immediately raised his gun and shot, easily overturned several snow wolves, he diverted, in a very short distance he had to withstand the impact of the wolves, but the expected snow wolf fierce bite was a missed appointment. Lu Yuan fixed his eyes and saw that the wolves were jumping over him, running frantically towards both sides of the pink mist, the speed was so fast, where it looked like an attack, it was clearly an escape!