February 9, 2091, the morning of August 6, the fifth year of the new era.

The sky was bright, and Tian Chen, who was in charge of patrolling outside the West City, got up early, wearing the standard uniform of the city wall patrol team leader, walking on the streets sprinkled with red cannon clothes.

The dew was very heavy in the early morning, and the street was shrouded in a layer of mist, Tian Chen walked on the street, and he didn't feel very cold with the strong strength of the Four Locks Realm, but it was really not a beautiful thing to crawl out of the quilt early in the morning when the New Year was about to begin.

Wanting a beautiful wife at home, Tian Chen's heart was a little hotter, and his pace couldn't help but speed up.

"Captain Tian!"

A simple man's voice suddenly came out of the mist on the side of the street, and then a stout man with a height of one meter nine walked out from the direction from which the voice came.

Tian Chen glanced at the man's burly figure and responded eagerly.

"Tie Niu, you came out so early, did you eat breakfast?"

Tie Niu is the nickname of this burly man, and since he hasn't called Tie Niu's real name for too long, Tian Chen really forgot his real name. As the only defensive evolver in the entire seven-man patrol team, Iron Bull's role in battle may be a few points more important than that of his captain, so every time he sees Iron Bull, his attitude is always more easy-going.

Tie Niu patted his slightly bulging belly, and said nonchalantly: "Captain, you don't know, how can ordinary food fill my stomach, I just hope that I will be lucky when I patrol today, and I can catch a wild boar or beast or something, otherwise I have to buy nutrition injections at a cost." ”

"It's not easy to catch strange beasts, the Yanshan Mountains are full of strange beasts, and they are screaming waiting for you to catch them."

The two men joked and walked side by side in the direction of the city gate.

There was not a single figure in sight of the two men along the way, only the red lanterns burning with fire swaying gently in the cold wind blowing in the street.

There is still more than a week before the Spring Festival, and the factories and companies of the Hongjing base have taken a holiday, and most of the residents of the base have prepared their New Year's goods, lying comfortably in the heated room, enjoying a rare comfortable time all year round.

"If you really want to catch a few strange beasts, you can ask the fourth child for help." Seeing Tie Niu shaking his head again and again, Tian Chen groaned slightly and said like this.

"The fourth brother's concealment ability is so powerful, I have already looked for him, but the strength of the fourth child is only a three-lock high-level, and the use time of the concealment ability is limited. What's more, the high-level alien beasts in the Yanshan Mountain Range are piled up, and you have to find a lone one to catch the strange beast first, but how can the lone strange beast be so easy to encounter. ”

Tie Niu looked indignant, because his body was too burly and tall, his food consumption was far beyond that of an evolutionary of the same level, and the old man Zhang of the material department gave him the roast meat of the alien beast every month in less than a week to let him eat it, and if he wanted to fill his stomach, he could only find a way to catch some alien beasts by himself.

The two of them chatted and walked, and gradually walked to the gate of the city, and the five patrol members who had been waiting at the gate for a long time saw the captain coming, and hurriedly greeted him.

"Captain!"

After the team members said hello, Tian Chen took the team to the outside of the city, and the team members did not see each other all night, so it was inevitable to chat a few words when they met in the morning. After walking out of the city for a few minutes, everyone gradually stopped talking and looked around with serious expressions.

The patrol route of the squad is not long, just walking from the abandoned urban area outside the West City Gate to the edge of the Yanshan Mountain Range in the northwest, and walking for four or five hours in a row can complete the basic patrol tasks of the day. The patrol walked unhurriedly along the abandoned streets, in the same fixed formation.

The Iron Bull dragged his hungry stomach and stood at the front of the line, walking, not knowing if he was hallucinating, but he saw the green streaks of the jelly beast behind the gray glass of a building. He stared at it, and he couldn't see the green streaks anymore.

"Underneath that cement slab."

Captain Tian Chen reminded him in a whisper.

Iron Bull looked at a broken gray cement slab next to the building, and sure enough, he saw a green pattern belonging to the jelly beast in the gap of the cement slab. At this time, he was only a few dozen meters away from the cement slab, so Tie Niu took his broad war knife and rushed straight towards the jelly beast.

The distance of dozens of meters was not far, and the iron bull, driven by hunger, was even faster than usual, and appeared above the cement slab with a "swish", and slashed at the jelly beast that was hiding.

"Boom!"

The thick and sharp alloy war knife instantly cut through the cement plate dozens of centimeters thick, cutting the jelly beast hiding below in two, and the turquoise blood gushed out from below, soaking a small piece of dirt.

Iron Bull couldn't help but smile brightly, he lifted the cement slab a little, and with his other hand magically touched two round green beast corpses from below.

Jelly Beast is a common one-lock beast found in the ruins of the city, its only ability is the jelly skin that can absorb attacks, and it also has a large amount of white flower coordination muscle on its chest, so it is one of the favorite delicacies of many mercenaries who go on missions outside.

After catching the jelly beast, Iron Bull quickly returned to the patrol formation, a piece of white beast meat had been taken out by him and put into the backpack behind his back, only the two pieces of corpses thrown in place silently proved the previous scene.

An hour later, the patrol team stopped under an abandoned hospital that had long been cleaned up, and they walked up the stairs to the top sixth floor, where they continued without hesitation until they came to a clean ward with pots and pans.

The members of the patrol team quickly checked whether there were any suspicious traces in the room, and only after confirming that it was safe did they each take out some canned food and dry food from their backpacks to cook together.

As the leader of the patrol team, Tian Chen naturally didn't have to work with the team members, he leaned against the window, and cautiously observed the street outside.

It was already past six o'clock in the morning, and the sky was already bright, and the sun was shining on the streets full of rusty cars, giving a warm hue to this miserable world.

Tian Chen lit a cigarette and squinted at the sky, his face a little puzzled.

Somehow, he just felt that the sun seemed to rise earlier and faster than usual, and it was not yet half past six, and the golden sun had already climbed to the treetops, and the speed of the climb was almost visible to the naked eye.

"Captain! Time to eat! ”

Most of the food brought by the team members was instant food, which only needed to be easily heated to eat, so it was ready to eat after a few minutes. As for the pressure cooker where the jelly beast meat was boiled, it was already steaming hot, and it looked like it would be edible in a few minutes.

Tian Chen, who was looking at the sky and was a little distracted, was called by his teammates, and immediately came back to his senses, he finally took a puff of the cigarette in his hand, and just as he was about to walk over to eat, the tactical watch he wore in his hand automatically released a piece of colored light, and the colored light flickered a few times before it stabilized and became a holographic projection.

The same scene happened on the tactical watches on the wrists of the other patrol members, and everyone was stunned for a moment, and their relaxed faces quickly became serious, and they looked carefully at the picture in the holographic projection one by one.

The automatic start of the tactical watch means that something big has happened that may affect the entire Hongjing base, and in such a ghost world, big things are usually bad things.

Tian Chen guessed in his heart whether it was the beast tide of the Yanshan Mountain Range that had erupted, but what he saw in the holographic projection was only the dark and deep outer space. In a black background, the golden sun was unusually conspicuous, and he carefully observed the dazzling sun, and before he knew it, a layer of fine cold sweat appeared on his brow.

The sun is getting bigger!