Section III. Vanishing Fourth Zone

The two of them heard someone talking behind them, and they looked back.

I saw more than 30 people not far behind him, each wearing a vest and shorts, with dark skin, and I don't know if they were tanned or born with dark skin, and if you look closely, they have different burn marks on their bodies.

"Who are you? How come to the beach at this time, don't want to live! One of the people in the group who seemed to be in charge asked Ling and Zhuge Xun.

"Excuse me, do you know where the original Fourth Civilian District has been moved?" Ling asked.

"You're looking for the Fourth Civilian Zone? Do what? Who are you? When the man heard that Ling was looking for the fourth district, he immediately aimed the weapon in his hand like a fishing fork at Ling, and the others followed suit.

"Don't get me wrong." Ling raised her hands to show that she had no ill intentions.

"I'm a friend of Herman, the manager of the Fourth Civilian District, my name is Ling, and this is my friend's name Kaoru, and I happened to be passing by here, so I wanted to go and see him, but I can't find the entrance to the Fourth District, are you from the Fourth District?" Ling asked.

"You're a friend of the Boss? Are you sure? The man asked, skeptically.

"If you're also from the 4th arrondissement, take me to meet him, he knows me. Otherwise, his son Heiheze, or his wife Neel, they all know me. Ling continued.

The man looked at Ling and Zhuge Xun suspiciously. "You're from the Hunters' Guild? Or someone from the world government? ”

"I ...... I just lived in the old 3rd district, and after that incident, Haleman helped me. ”

"Oh. So, you're a good person? ”

"Good guys? It should be......" Ling didn't know how to answer.

"You're late, our boss Hellman and Heiheze are already ......," the man glanced at the corpse on the shore.

"They're dead? What happened to you? What do you call it? Can you take me to the 4th arrondissement? Ling and Zhuge Xun looked at each other.

"My name is Sammy. The boss has been missing for more than half a year, and although the body has not been found, there is almost no chance of survival.

And Brother Heize, that's him. Sammy pointed to a half-cut corpse on the shore and said to Ling.

"We found his body yesterday evening, and based on the tattoos on his body, we were sure it was him, but because the sun had already set, we decided to dispose of his body today, but we didn't expect you to be here."

"What are you going to do with the bodies?" Ling asked.

"Throw them into the 'entrance to hell' because they were killed by monsters in the sea, and we don't know if there will be any germs, so it's safe for us to burn them."

"What is the monster in the sea? What happened in the 4th arrondissement? Ling asked.

"You go back with us, I'll tell you slowly, Aunt Neil has not only lost her boss, but now she has lost Brother Haize, she is sad, if you are her friend, you can comfort her."

Sami had others carry the bodies of three mangled people off the shore on a single frame.

"You two come with me, I'm going to burn these people first, and then I'll take you home." Sammy instructed the others to carry the body carefully.

Ling and Zhuge Xun followed behind the group and walked towards the active volcano in the distance.

Because Ling is electric, he is still acceptable to high temperatures, but Zhuge Xun is not used to the hot weather here, the sun here seems to be very big, and the evaporation of seawater also makes the air humid and warm.

"Otherwise, you can go back to the main building, and I'll go to the fourth district alone." Ling saw Zhuge Xun's physical discomfort.

"Are we going to the top of that volcano?" Zhuge Xun looked up and saw that there was still a mountain far away.

"The place he said should be there." Ling wiped the sweat from her head.

"Ask me how long we have to walk, my companion thinks it's too hot and unwell." Ling asked Sammy, who was walking in front of the crowd.

"Just go out of this wood, we're halfway there, we don't have to go up the mountain, there's a magma lake on the other side of the woods." Sammy turned back to Ling.

"But you and your friends have to keep coming with us, because the fourth district is behind the lake."

"I'm fine, let's keep walking." Zhuge Xun said.

After walking for about thirty minutes, the group had already seen the open area in front of them through the woods, but the temperature was getting warmer and warmer.

"If your friend is not feeling well, let him wait here, the lake will be hotter. We'll be back here in a moment anyway. Sammy said to Ling.

"I'm fine, I want to see what that magma lake you guys are talking about." Zhuge Xun said.

"Okay." Hearing Zhuge Xun say this, Sami didn't say anything.

Away from the woods, there is a large plain, with geysers that occasionally spew some hot air from the ground.

"You two have to follow us, you don't have to walk at will, if you are sprayed directly on your body by the heat, you will lose your skin if you don't die." Sammy reminded Ling and Zhuge Kaoru.

The two nodded in agreement.

Everyone walked cautiously in the plains, walked for about twenty minutes, and then came to a sunken lake in the center of the plains.

The shape of the lake is an irregular oval, the edge of the lake is made of some cool lava piled up above the ground, and the size of the lake can be about six or seven hundred meters from this side to that side, and on both sides of the lake are steep stone mountains, which seem to break a continuous mountain range in the middle.

Zhuge Xun looked around the terrain here, feeling as if he had seen it somewhere, and then found that this should be a crater, because it was relatively close to that volcano, so this magma lake was formed. The vegetation on both sides of the mountain is relatively small due to the temperature, and everywhere you can see is the rocks of the mountain.

The closer you get to the lake, the more you can feel the heat wave, when you stand on the edge of the lake and look down, although the lake is very deep under the mouth of the lake, but the skin of the body can also directly feel the burning breath, the lake below is fiery red magma, from time to time to turn bubbles, occasionally drop something, immediately burn on the surface of the magma, carefully see that the magma below is flowing.

Sammy had his men throw the corpses they had brought back from the shore into the lava lake, where they burned and emitted a pungent smell as soon as they touched the lake.

Ling and Zhuge Xun were not used to the temperature here, so they left the lake and returned to the shade of the tree when they came.

"Was it that hot here before? It's not easy for people to live here, why did the 4th arrondissement choose such a place? Zhuge Xun asked Ling after relieving himself.

"Pretty much. Didn't I tell you? Also known as the 'Hot Land', this 4th arrondissement is literally hot. But the people who live here are used to this temperature, and it is not difficult for them to live here.

Sector 4 was the last to be found to be included in the numbered civilian area, and then it was designated as Sector 4 according to the location of the five civilian districts.

I heard that Herman, the boss of the original Fourth District, said that the people here survived the "war", and although the original "Fourth District" was also the battlefield of "that war", the damage was not particularly serious, perhaps because it was not a particularly prosperous city.

Therefore, even if it is a war, the civilization and technology here are still relatively high.

When the alien erupted, people found that the high temperature and magma have a certain hindrance effect on the alien, especially the cooled magma stone, the alien seems to be very afraid of it, it should be the radiation carried by the stone, so the people in the fourth district rebuilt the original fourth area, and built a wall with cooled magma stone, and people can live safely by taking advantage of the high temperature here.

The perimeter of the wall is very long, there are fields and water sources within the wall, and with the last remaining pre-war technology, people's lives have not been affected much, at least when I came a year ago, but I don't know why it was only a year ago, and the fourth arrondissement was ...... It seems that if you want to know what is going on, you can only go and see. ”