Chapter 1001: Traces

In the spiral basin under the morning light, the fog is thicker, and there is a faint hint of rage.

The spiral basin is covered with uniform ravines or moats in the radial direction, so there are two kinds of roads, called yin and yang roads, and yang roads are to walk on the moats, but they are intermittent, and many places are very dangerous.

The yin road is to walk in the ravine, although it is not easy to slip, but it is muddy and difficult to walk, and there are many creatures encountered, and the line of sight is blocked, it is difficult to argue the direction, and it is easier to get lost. Due to the hurry, everyone can only choose the Yang Road, anyway, in the edge area, the ravine is not deep, and the danger of the Yang Road is not great.

The deeper you go into the basin, the more humid and muggy you feel. The vegetation here is dense, but it is dominated by mosses and fungi, and occasionally there is a grass or small shrub, but there are no trees.

As for parasitic bacteria, there are many species, most of them are the same as Cordyceps, the parasite is just a bunch of nutrients, and this kind of biological corpse covered with mycelium has encountered a lot on the road, some of which are said to be delicious ingredients, but everyone is afraid to try them.

Motile parasites that can hunt by physical movement are rarely seen, and due to slow movement, there are two types of active parasites, one hunts by camouflage and the other hunts by groups.

Parasites that are camouflaged are usually the same as ordinary ones, motionless, and will attack when prey is approached. The group hunting type is completely active, they can surround the prey according to the terrain, although it is generally not difficult for people to get rid of it, but in case of surrounding, it is also very dangerous.

According to the map, this place is less than 3 kilometers away from here in a straight line, but in fact, there are 7 kilometers to walk on the Yang Road, and 11 kilometers to walk on the Yin Road, and the road is slippery, so you can't run at all, and it takes an hour to walk. However, on this kind of road, the light Ye Wumeng walked very easily, no longer dragging his feet, but frequently ran to the front to tease everyone.

"Don't be scared, look at your feet when you have time!" Fu Bin couldn't help but admonish.

Now that the compass function on the mobile phone has failed, Fu Bin can only use his memory to build a map, so he has to write down every step, of course, he is not used to seeing such a leisurely night without dreams.

"Oh!" Before Ye Wumeng had time to be aggrieved, she heard a rustling sound under her feet, and she was so frightened that she hurriedly jumped back to the middle of the team, next to Fu Bin.

"It's almost summer, and we'd better go out before dark, otherwise it's going to be troublesome." ”

Fu Bin nodded again: "Well, but no matter what, you have to find Xiaoxue first." ”

Through the fog, you can see a series of creatures flashing in the ravine of about ten meters under your feet, but the form is not clear under the double cover of fog and vegetation.

At this time, the creatures below also noticed the people above, and two of them climbed up along the moat, but fell down halfway through, but this allowed Fu Bin and the others to see their appearance clearly. It is a group of black ants, the size of a cat, and their bodies appear to be smooth and unparasitized.

Shi Fa was about to use the arrow of order, but Feng Feng Sheng hurriedly stopped: "This is a scavenging fire ant, don't take the initiative to provoke them, they are not very good at attacking people, but they will swarm when they are angry, it's better not to recruit them if it's okay." ”

Ye Wumeng asked: "If you eat scavenging, you will eat scavenging, why are you called fire ants?" ”

"Because when they scaveng, they store some methane gas in their bodies, and they also have a gland that can eject chemicals that react with methane, and when the two substances are ejected together, they create flames, and they use this ability to defend themselves. Because of this, they are not easily parasitized by parasitic fungi that are afraid of fire, on the contrary, they often feed on parasitic bacteria. ”

The two scavenging fire ants looked at them and then turned their heads and fell back into the valley, listening to their rustling movements, there were about a hundred of them in this group, and it would be very troublesome to provoke them.

However, for Fu Bin, they do not pose a threat, last night he studied the information of the spiral basin, and already knew the existence of this creature, the spiral basin is filled with a flammable gas, but due to the high humidity of the environment, the balance has been reached, and it is not so easy to cause combustion explosions.

But this creature can disrupt this balance, and if it is annoyed, it is likely to cause flames, but the entropy transformation skill can erase or even exploit their abilities to a large extent, so this creature is easy for Fu Bin to deal with.

It rained on the road, but I finally found a lot of footprints, pointing in the direction of the pit, but it was getting more and more blurred, and the dirt left on the moss vegetation was also washed away, and only patches of fallen fungi showed traces of predecessors, indicating that many people had passed here. Judging from the form of vegetation restoration, the time is about one day, which is exactly the same as what the people at Base E said.

When the group arrived at the location of the pit, it was beginning to rain. The pit was originally a fault zone, and it was often excavated, the vegetation was very thin, and the ground was full of mud, rich in humus, black and sticky, and turned into a gelatinous form when exposed to water. Therefore, it is necessary to find traces such as footprints while the rain is not heavy, otherwise it will be washed away by the water, and it is very likely that you will not see anything.

The pit is a long strip, less than 100 meters wide and nearly a kilometer long, close to the end of the wintering rift valley, which is actually caused by the latter.

The geological history data show that the entire spiral basin was a crater, and at the same time, due to the gap between the plates, it went east to the sea, creating a large rift valley. However, this pit is a small fault zone pulled out by the contraction of the Great Rift Valley in the subsequent geological evolution.

Even if there is a dense fog and rain screen, passing through the center of the pit can be seen in full view, and you can be sure that there is no one in the place where you walk. However, there are indeed a lot of messy footprints here, in all directions, from the depth and spacing, it can also be seen that some are produced by standing in place and digging hedrons, and some are produced by running quickly, but most of the footprints leave in the direction of pointing to the other side.

In the process of this observation, Fengyu Life dug up a bare spar, and no one else had the intention to collect it, and went directly to find the trace.

When the mine was halfway through, it seemed that someone was talking in front of him, Fu Bin hurriedly asked everyone to stop, turned on his domain ability, and finally heard their conversation clearly.

"It's so boring!"

"No way, who called the three of us the lowest. It's really not good, let's dig more spars and then go back to the base, and strive to cultivate to the third level as soon as possible, so we don't have to look at their faces. ”

"I said that the captain is also troublesome, and we have to chase those two women, otherwise we will almost be out of the basin."

"Yes, it's summer soon, and if you delay it for a day, this place will be dangerous."

"The main thing is that the guy from Base C has to chase after him, and Captain Gofan is afraid that he will make a mistake, so he has to follow."

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When Fu Bin heard this, he didn't care whether there was an ambush or not, and rushed over directly. When the three people who were digging hedrons in the fog heard someone coming, they immediately stopped and stood guard, and when they saw Fu Bin's face clearly, they immediately turned around and ran away.

Fu Bin didn't expect these two people to react so quickly and run so decisively, it seems that he had already guessed the arrival of himself and the others, but in this shocking glance, he had already admitted that two of them were put down by the law last time in the green state.

At that moment, he didn't shout nonsense such as "stop", and directly sent a flick in the direction of the two of them escaping, and this flick that only pursued speed flew out close to the ground, and there was a cry of pain immediately in front.

When Fu Bin continued to catch up, he found that one person was limping forward with one foot, and the other two were gone. The others caught up from behind, and this man couldn't run away, so he could only put on a desperate appearance.

This person is one of the two people who have been cleaned up by the interpretation of the law before, and when he sees the interpretation of the law, even his desperate posture is relaxed. Emperor Yan went up and knocked his weapon away with a sword, then kicked him down, and asked, "What are you running?" Say, did you do something bad? ”

"Bad things? What's the bad thing? The Eastern European said in blunt Chinese: "I'm just digging for spars, are you robbing us?" ”

Emperor Yan really didn't know how to ask questions, Fu Bin shook his head and said, "Where did the rest of your team go?" ”

"What does this have to do with you?"

"He's stalling for time!" Wind and rain life way.

Fu Bin nodded, turned around and said, "Which of you will use torture?" ”

"Don't! Other! Other! Who knew that this man was really cowardly, and before the others could react, he gave in. But also, he and Ge Fan and the others are just a temporary rabble, and they don't have much loyalty at all, so it is naturally impossible for them to suffer for the sake of the other party.

"At dawn, they chased the two women in the direction of the Great Rift Valley."

Fu Bin glared at him: "Leave the backpack behind, you can get out!" ”

This South American reluctantly threw down his backpack and stumbled back and forth, this person's strength is very average, and it is a bit difficult to return to the base on his own, and most of them have to die back.

Now that they didn't think about it so much, the team finally had a clear destination, and after looting more than 30 units of hedron and nutrient solution in this person's bag, they headed towards the Great Rift Valley at full speed. However, at this time, the rain is getting heavier, and the terrain of this section of the road is particularly difficult to walk, there are many small fault zones, although these fractures are not large, but they have a great impact on the walking route, and they need to go back and forth, and in a straight line, it can be described as turtle speed.

It's just that the road is difficult to walk, just a short distance out of the pit, the team found a strange creature, this is a fish, yes, a fish that can live on land, it looks like a big-headed snake with slime all over its body, and jumps and walks like a jumping fish, but it is actually a fish, the name is dry catfish, just because they look like catfish, and the genetic source should be the lungfish on the earth.