Chapter 12: Baptism
"Water, the rain can fall if you say it, you see that there is lava all around here, and the temperature is also hot and dry, even if there is rain, it will be evaporated in mid-air."
"Yes, these fruits and vegetables still sprout in winter, which shows that the temperature here is only suitable for the growth of plants, not for their normal breeding, water, we don't have many seeds left, but we can't waste them here."
"Go out and plant in the ruins."
"I agree!"
Two days after Zhong and Lei's group left, Water's group of three also left Lava Village. Zhong's group had only left the lava village less than ten kilometers away. The road is too difficult to walk,
"Zhong, the last time we came out, the road to the ruins was not so difficult to walk, and now it is like walking in the oil field. It's easy to pull out when you step on it, and those discarded synthetic metals have become crispy, and they will be powdered when you touch them. ”
"yes, it's only been a few months, and this place has changed a lot. In fact, those steel bars that have been around for a long time and the synthetic metal rods that have been in place for so many years should also reach the limit, and it is normal for them to corrode and weathering into powder. ”
"That's right, the big crack destroyed the ring height, and the damage to the ring height led to changes in the surrounding environment. These are all interlocking evolutions. The ruins we passed by just now have grown small seedlings, although we can't tell what kind of plants they are, but it is enough to show that the earth is recovering, and the soil is gradually suitable for the growth of plants. It's early summer, and it's time for plants to sprout and grow. Clock, and only in the lava village where we live, the change of the seasons is ignored. It's another world out there. ”
"Tree, you're right, we're confined to the lava village. They should all come out and cultivate vegetation in a wider world. ”
"Zhong, tree, look over there, the color of the air over there is different." The worm climbed up a mound of lava and called out in one direction.
"Worm, didn't you tell you to follow me, how did you climb up to that by yourself?"
"Tree, you only have worms in your eyes, didn't we come up with you?" The two people who walked with the worm teased.
"Oh, the first time I've heard that air has colors." Zhong, the tree also climbed up to the mound in a few steps.
"Yes, we don't know how to describe that direction, originally we left the lava village and stayed away from the lava eruption, the space gradually brightened, no longer reddish-brown, but, you two look at that direction, isn't the space a little lighter, faintly a little green?"
"What a green glow, it sounds a bit like a graveyard. Bells, trees, it must be the color of vegetation over there, why don't we go over and have a look. ”
"Just take a look, just off our track, far from the glowing lava mountain."
"It's an adventure to come out, maybe there's any adventure."
"Adventures are not necessarily, accidents are very certain, and after the catastrophe, none of the things we have experienced are accidents."
"Okay, it's just that everyone has to calculate and drink water, insects can be summoned at any time, and water sources can be encountered." The bell is poured.
"Zhong, you don't look like ten heads, you look like an old woman, it's too nagging, do you talk about it when you have a son and become a father." Bugs joked.
"Isn't it so envious, I'll do a happy event for you and the tree when I go back, and I will be a parent sooner."
"Who's going to marry him, he's too big." The insect is shy,
"It's okay, I'll let you, be gentle at most."
"Tree, are you ashamed. I can't listen to it anymore. ”
"Zhen, can you purify your heart, it's too dirty to think."
"What did I think? What did you say? There are really no dogs here, so there is no shortage of food. ”
A few people talked about it and jumped away in the direction of the green light. As a result, it didn't look far, but I hadn't reached it after walking for most of the day, and it was already dark.
"It's really the distance of the mountain running a dead horse, why haven't you reached the place yet?" The worm is not calm.
"It's not that we haven't gotten there yet, it's that we're already in it and don't know it. Don't you feel that the temperature is very low and the air is cool? ”
"yes, Zhong, isn't that what you say, hey, it seems to be cloudy, I don't think I'll say anything, it's going to rain."
"Tree, you used to be a crow's mouth, a good spirit but not a bad spirit, I hope you are right this time, if it really rains, it will be better to drink some rain, and your throat will smoke again."
"It's over, it's getting corrupt, when I used to drink solid water, I wasn't so thirsty, why don't I get hungry and thirsty now if I don't replenish water for a while."
"What kind of corruption, that was the word of a thousand years ago, we have gone from simply satisfying the essential water of the human body to really needing liquid. This is the original human reaction coming back. ”
"Is it progress or regression?"
"Silly, of course it's progress. Didn't you see that children can be conceived and born, this is a big step for mankind after a few hundred years. ”
"Hey, isn't it raining, and the air is cold."
"It's raining, and the air is full of moisture, so we should find a place to shelter from the rain."
"Hours, there's nothing but us here, and the nearest lava mountain is far away. There are no trees and no caves, and there are only baptized points. ”
The heavy rain came soon, and several people were drenched like chickens in soup, although they brought tents when they came, but the heavy rain came too quickly. What's even worse is that it is accompanied by a sound of spring thunder. It was a loud noise, and it reverberated in the wilderness for a long time.
"Damn, it's time to take a bath, Zhong, it's strange to say, I used to be uncomfortable not bathing for a day, but now it's been like this for a few months. People are still the most adaptable to the environment. ”
"Trees, in the face of life, everything is a floating cloud. Now that there is hope for the continuation of life, those things that must be done will follow. ”
"If this tent can't be set up, it won't be of much use." A few people said that they still got into the tent, after all, it was warmer than outside.
The cloudy night came earlier, and everyone sat in the tent and listened to the heavy rain outside, and gradually became sleepy. I fell asleep as the cold wind blew the tent from side to side.
"Tree, wake up, you heard that there was a lot of water outside, right?" It was about the middle of the night when the tree was woken up by a bell.
"It's a big flood, Zhong, you're dreaming, if it's really a big flood, it's still a good thing." When the tree spoke in a daze, the other people did too.
"What sound?"
"Who's taking a bath, right?"
"You dreamed, who can bathe in this weather, and wash in the wilderness. It's really the sound of running water. ”
"It's not just the sound of running water, who's banging on the tent. Not good, here we go again. ”
The sound of rushing water is easy to guess, there must be a water source nearby, but what is it that has been beaten in two tents?
"Zhong, it can't be a zombie in the water, right?"
"No, it's still raining, let's go out and have a look when the rain clears. But I don't think there are so many zombies, and it doesn't sound like it, otherwise, our tent wouldn't have been lifted up a long time ago. ”
Time passed in the anxiety of a few people, and the rain outside was still falling, and there was no intention of stopping.
"Well, you say, this is the first time we've had a lot of rain. Why is it that the environment is high and the climate of the earth has changed. I don't remember such a baptism of heavy rain. ”
"Yes, at most, it's drizzle, it just means that it's raining. This meeting really felt what the sky was leaking, what was the downpour, what was the lightning and thunder..."
As he spoke, there was another thunderclap, Kara! There are echoes in the real tent. Kala, kala. Really human eardrums hurt.
"Good girl, it's almost as noisy as a super noise, just a few more sounds, I'm afraid people will be shaken apart."
Crackling, knocking... There was another dense sound of tents being beaten, then a loud raindrop, and then silence. The heavy rain suddenly stopped, causing several people to react for a while before the rain stopped. After a long time, a few people walked out of the tent, still sighing in their hearts that the advanced covering materials and the strong bracket metal had resisted the ravages of the storm.
"Huh? What are they? Woooo
"Ahh These are the things that are beating on our tents. The insects that followed the trees screamed.
On the ground outside the tent was a layer of living creatures who didn't know what they were, and some of them were still shaking their modest bodies. Some are round, some are long, some have tentacle whiskers, and some are slender ones that can see the head and tail... The big one is no more than the thickness of the chopsticks, and the small one is the shape of a ball. The long ones are only twenty or thirty centimeters, and the short ones are about the same as small shrimps.
"These should all be in the water. Oh my God, we discovered the rhythm of rivers, lakes and seas. Ahh Zhong deduced excitedly.
"yes, there must be a big, big body of water around here. God, what a great creation has come to us. Whew---" Zhen said with a long tail note.
"Hey, archaeologist, you didn't expect it in the tent, and you didn't believe it when we said it."
"Trees, archaeology also has to be based on, not guesses, you know. Bell, the rain has stopped, which direction should we rush to find water? ”
"The direction remains the same, and now think that the green area must be reflected by the water source. And it won't be far from here, so we'll pack up our tents and we'll go. ”
A few people were busy folding their tents into their backpacks, and they were busy drinking a few sips of the rain water among the little things that were now all dead.
"Come and see, the water here is so clear." The insect looked at the water in his palm and was pleasantly surprised.
"yes, that's a hundred times better than the water stored in our lava village. This is the purest water in the world, right? ”
"Trees, there is no such thing as a metaphor, it can only be said that the water source here has not been polluted, and there are so many aquatic creatures filtered and washed, it is no problem for humans to drink it directly."
"Zhong, this water is so sweet, the aquatic creatures over there can drink it, and we can drink it even more, but are those fish?"
"Count, I originally thought that the water source was polluted and the aquatic life was extinct, but I didn't expect that they would still be there for hundreds of years."
"Or maybe they've never been wiped out."
A few people were talking as they walked, and suddenly an endless thick green appeared in front of them.