Chapter 4: The Fantasy Forest
Ling Feixue's style was as vigorous as her ability, and after Yan Hua swallowed the last bite of the paste made from the gray potato, Ling Feixue had already finished her meal, and after carrying the life support cabin that Yan Hua had lived in before, she walked towards the outside of the cave and motioned for Yan Hua to follow.
Yan Hua glanced around and was already occupied by an unknown glowing vine man, except for the broken glassware in the corner of the wall, he could no longer tell that it was the cave of the previous laboratory, and after thinking about it, he finally stood up from the ground and followed Ling Feixue to the outside of the cave.
"What is this?" Yan Hua looked at the white Pi Lian stretching across the entire sky and the strange tall vegetation in front of him, and he no longer had the slightest doubt in his heart about what Ling Feixue had said.
Ling Feixue stood at the entrance of the cave, looked up at the sky through the colorful things that seemed to be snowflakes in Yan Hua's eyes, and said casually: "The earth ring, the ring of broken ice and planets formed by the condensation of water vapor scattered from the earth into space 10,000 years ago, although these broken ice destroyed all the satellites of mankind and made human eyes have to return to the earth itself, but it also makes up for the lack of part of the ozone layer, blocks a large number of ultraviolet rays, and plays a certain positive significance for the continuation of life." Don't look at it, you'll get used to it later. β
After Ling Feixue said this, she raised her feet and walked outside, and Yan Hua had to follow closely behind the other party when she saw this, asking new questions one after another along the way.
"What's going on with these plants? I don't think there's ever been such a glowing tree in my memory. β
Yan Hua looked at Ling Feixue, who was still walking in front of him with a light weight in the life support cabin behind him, and held on to a big tree beside him that emitted a faint light in the gray sky and gasped and asked, Yan Hua felt the touch on his hand, cool and slightly rough.
Ling Feixue knew that Yan Hua really couldn't go on, so she didn't say anything, just stopped and leaned slightly on a tree in front of Yan Hua and said lightly: "Cambrian, in addition to the rapid evolution of animals, all plants, which are the lowest and most basic of the food chain, have also undergone great changes.
On the one hand, these plants shine because they absorb a large amount of minerals that rise with the movement of the earth, and on the other hand, they become more lush and vigorous because of the abundance of minerals, far exceeding all vegetation in the past. β
Ling Feixue pointed to the colorful "snowflakes" that fell leisurely in the sky and said, "These spores are the same, the reason why they have such rich colors is due to various minerals. β
Only then did Yan Hua know that the things he had mistaken for "snowflakes" were actually spores of plants, so he couldn't help but reach out and catch the two flowers and take a closer look, and found that there was no sign of melting, and it was indeed a collection of some small spores as Ling Feixue said.
And because he was close enough, Yan Hua seemed to smell a familiar pungent smell on these spores.
"These spores are poisonous?" Yan Hua's first reaction after smelling this smell was to quickly shake off the spores in his hand, then wiped his hands again, looked at Ling Feixue and asked nervously.
Ling Feixue's expression was relatively calm, but she didn't stop Yan Hua's move, but instead reached out to catch a few spores just like Yan Hua had done before.
Ling Feixue stuffed the spores in her hand into her mouth under Yan Hua's surprised gaze, chewed and swallowed them before explaining: "These spores are not poisonous, but carry a lot of water, and they are the source of a large part of the fresh water on the earth today, and the water I used to cook gray potatoes before was extracted from these spores. β
"I see." Yan Hua said that he understood, and at the same time, a question in his heart was answered, "No wonder those mushes have that smell, I thought that gray potatoes were that smell, or the person who cooks it......"
As for Ling Feixue, the person who cooks gray potatoes, Yan Hua naturally couldn't say it, but Yan Hua soon found that he was still too naΓ―ve, or it should be said that Yan Hua's understanding of Ling Feixue was still too little.
"Well, why don't you let me try it?" Yan Hua watched Ling Feixue once again scorch the rhizome of the gray potato that seemed to be more ginseng than a potato, and couldn't help but weakly suggest.
When Ling Feixue heard Yan Hua's words, her eyebrows couldn't help but raise, as if she wanted to say something, but after looking at the black indescribable object in her hand and Yan Hua's aggrieved little eyes, although she still had an iceberg face that would not melt for thousands of years, she also nodded and said, "Okay!"
Yan Hua finally breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, even if he was just a bystander, Yan Hua felt that watching Ling Feixue cook was a kind of torture, let alone eating those foods after watching the other party's cooking process.
Yan Hua took the cooking utensils in Ling Feixue's hand and finally cooked a pot of normal-looking food.
After distributing the food in Ling Feixue's slightly surprised eyes, Yan Hua held his share and turned his back to Ling Feixue, not daring to let the other party see the tears falling from his eyes.
Yan Hua gulped down the food in front of him that tasted very similar to the mashed potatoes he had eaten before, and while he had a better understanding of the name of gray potato, he felt that his bold move just now was as great as saving the world.
"I didn't expect you to be able to cook, so I'll leave the cooking on the road to you in the future."
Just when Yan Hua was savoring the sweet and mellow delicacy and couldn't help licking the leaves, Ling Feixue's cold voice came from behind, almost making Yan Hua bite half of the "rice bowl".
"Ahh Good! Yan Hua cautiously turned around, hid the leaves behind him that were cleaner than the poison, and looked at Ling Feixue and nodded.
Ling Feixue saw that Yan Hua had accepted it, and she also nodded with a cold face, but when she moved her gaze to Yan Hua's back, her eyes suddenly burst into a stunning look.
In Yan Hua's horrified eyes, the leaves used as the "rice bowl" in Ling Feixue's hand were instantly torn to pieces and turned into ashes in a piercing electric current chirp, and at the same time, a silver-white electric current came directly towards Yan Hua.
The sudden change caught Yan Hua by surprise, and the intense white light emitted by the current also made Yan Hua can't help but close his eyes, and Yan Hua, whose ears were completely filled with the noise generated by the current, felt numb.
Yan Hua thought that the leaves he was hiding behind were discovered by the other party, and then his first thought turned out to be: "You can't be so stingy, right?" Do you want to kill people and kill people? β
The sound of the electric current passing through the air like the chirping of a thousand birds gradually subsided, and Yan Hua found that he was not attacked as expected, and there was no smell of barbecue on his body.
Yan Hua opened his eyes boldly, and immediately checked his condition up and down, and after making sure that he was indeed okay and let out a sigh of relief, Ling Feixue's voice came from behind.
"Are you alright?"
Although it seems to be concerned, except for the weakness in the tone, it is as cold as ever.
"Huh? No, it's fine! Yan Hua turned around as he spoke, but was startled by what he saw, and asked, "What is this?" β
I saw that Ling Feixue was already standing behind Yan Hua at some point, except for her face being a little pale and sweating faintly on her forehead, there was nothing wrong with her body.
What made Yan Hua almost jump was the corpse that fell at Ling Feixue's feet.
Yan Hua roughly recognized from the outline of the corpse that was already pitch black on the outside that it should be some kind of reptilian animal, and judging from the long tongue that the other party drooped on the side of his mouth, it was likely to be a reptile like a gecko.
However, Yan Hua searched through his memories and couldn't connect the guy in front of him, who was larger than a crocodile and had razor-sharp fangs, with the geckos he knew before that could even be kept as pets by humans.
"Phantom Dragon!" Ling Feixue lightly kicked the dead corpse and introduced, "Evolved from chameleons, in addition to inheriting their previous genes and further developing a near-invisible optical camouflage, their bodies have also evolved, and they are now small predators in the middle and lower layers of the food chain. β
"What? Is this guy a chameleon? Rao is Yan Hua had been prepared, but he was still shocked, "And this head has caught up with a crocodile, or is it just a small predator?" β
"Crocodile?" Ling Feixue frowned, and then realized what kind of creature Yan Hua was talking about, and said, "You're talking about the Black Swamp Dragon, right?" Those guys are not the same as the Phantom Dragon, compared to them, the Phantom Dragon is just a nondescript joke, I can't describe the specifics, when you see it, you will know. β
Yan Hua was completely frightened by what Ling Feixue said, and even forgot the panic that Ling Feixue's sudden attack had brought to him just now, and the fear he felt when he saw the ghost dragon that was still a chameleon 10,000 years ago, but now his appearance has changed drastically.
Yan Hua was already trying hard in his mind to figure out what the Black Marsh Dragon in Ling Feixue's mouth was like.
Unlike Yan Hua, who was stunned in place and confirmed the Tyrannosaurus Rex in his mind with the former river overlord, Ling Feixue frowned slightly and looked at the corpse at his feet after introducing the Phantom Dragon and the more powerful Black Swamp Dragon, feeling a little uneasy in his heart.
"Although it is indeed very likely that the Phantom Dragon is a cold-blooded animal and will be attracted by the fire here, the route I took should have avoided the range of these predators, why did this guy suddenly appear here?" Ling Feixue secretly guessed in her heart, "Got lost and happened to bump into it?" Or was it driven by something? No matter what, you still have to hurry back to the Taoist Academy. β
"Gone!"
Ling Feixue glanced at Yan Hua beside him, didn't care about the corpse of the shadow dragon at his feet, walked straight past the other party, picked up the life support cabin again, raised his foot and stepped on the fire and said to Yan Hua.
Yan Hua had already imagined the Black Swamp Dragon to look like a dragon at this time, but he was suddenly interrupted by Ling Feixue.
Seeing that Ling Feixue was about to hurry again, although the rest time this time seemed to be much shorter than the previous ones, Yan Hua didn't say anything, hurriedly got up and answered, followed Ling Feixue's footsteps, and left this temporary camp.
A huge figure suddenly appeared on the empty camp, if Yan Hua was still there, he would definitely make a fuss and exclaim again, and Ling Feixue would definitely be able to confirm the guess in his heart, but unfortunately Ling Feixue and Yan Hua had been away for a long time, so naturally they couldn't see this huge figure more than three meters high.
This huge figure walked slowly around the camp, although its body looked relatively bulky, it did not make the slightest sound when it moved, and its vigorous body and the patterns on its body had a thrilling beauty, but as long as it met its cruel eyes unique to felines, even the most greedy humans could not have any distractions.
Finally, after observing the camp for a while, this figure was sure that there was no danger in the camp, and slowly came to the corpse of the Shadow Dragon that had been left behind by Ling Feixue before, first spewing out two thick air currents from his nose, and then he fell on top of the corpse of the Shadow Dragon, opening his mouth to enjoy this feast that fell from the sky.
Unfortunately, before the predator's mouth could be fully opened, the darkness around the body was already enveloped in darkness, as if the sky was closed, and a large mouth like a black hole with sharp blades was like eating a small snack, swallowing the lured predator and the corpse of the ghost dragon beneath him.
The last predator seemed to be not satisfied after eating this insignificant snack, but could not find other food nearby, so he had to let out a loud roar in the sky, and then disappeared around the camp with the groan of a tree, revealing only a huge back tens of meters high and a pair of indifferent, majestic golden vertical pupils from beginning to end.