Chapter 71: Rush Forward
Zhang Le and Jesse continued on the road, and in addition to the caterpillar, there were three more friends, African bison. With a body length of more than five meters, a height of two meters, and a weight of about ten tons, these mutated African bison are out-and-out strongmen, not only can they bear weight, but also can be used as mounts, and they are docile and peaceful, and they are vegetarians, easy to raise and use. As for the lion, Zhang Le drove it away, because Zhang Le felt that compared to the African bison, the lion was useless, and the more critical problem was that he could not afford to raise a meat-eating guy.
After two days of torture, Zhang Le missed Rock Town a little, and with comparison, he was able to discover how valuable it was to have a place to sleep with peace of mind.
After discussing with Jesse, Zhang Le sped up his pace.
Strictly speaking, of course, it speeds up the caterpillar. Zhang Le can now directly issue instructions to the caterpillar, although occasionally, under the caterpillar's fierce resistance, it will be discounted, but it can basically be commanded.
The caterpillar has changed from a muscular caterpillar to a large caterpillar pattern, running wild north on a parallel course about a kilometer from the railroad tracks.
Zhang Le sits on the head of the caterpillar, one purpose is to play the role of a driver and grasp the direction of progress, and the other purpose is to clear the roadblock and clear the obstacles for the caterpillar's advance.
"The speed is seventy miles, the mood is free, and I hope the end is the Aegean ......" Zhang Le stood on the head of the caterpillar, fine-tuning the caterpillar's direction while humming his favorite song.
The upper part of the body of the enlarged caterpillar is 1.8 meters wide, and there are 30 centimeter-high protrusions on both sides, like a protective baffle, and the body is soft and elastic, which is simply a natural Chase Bed Simmons. However, this is only a slow-crawling caterpillar state. When the caterpillar starts racing, the Simmons bed becomes the back of a bison in a bull riding competition, and how long the cowboy can hold on it depends entirely on his character.
Jesse, who wanted to rest for a while, was turned upside down, so he had no choice but to run near the head of the insect and hug Zhang Le to stabilize his body. The head of the bug moves parallel to the ground, and although it moves like a novice driver, constantly swapping one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake, it finally does not have to go up and down.
Three African bison fell at the tail of the group, following the path carved out by the caterpillar.
In the first two hours or so of dark, the caterpillar had covered two hundred and fifty kilometers, more than double the distance of the previous two days combined. But it doesn't come without a price. Along the way, countless animals are alarmed, including powerful mutated creatures. A mutant creature like a caterpillar with a super large size and high defensive power is very rare to be able to fight against it with pure physical strength. But creatures with sharp attacks, such as mutant wild bees, crocodiles, rhinos, poisonous scorpions, and venomous snakes, are still a threat.
When it was time to rest at night, the caterpillar lay there with a face full of grievances, looking at his scars with tears in his eyes. Along the way, let's not talk about the scratches, just take a break. But the bulging wounds of a poisonous bee sting, the flesh bitten off by a crocodile, the long wound punctured by a rhinoceros horn, the black wound of a poisonous scorpion sting, the red wound of a poisonous snake's bite, and so on, there are no less than twenty fatal wounds on the whole body. This is still the result of Zhang Le's pre-elimination of some threats along the way, otherwise it would have been worse.
It is said that scars are the glory of men, but the caterpillar is just a baby, although it does not cry, but the silent cry of shaking and shaking makes Ms. Jesse's heart break.
"Can't you just let me sleep on you for a while?" Jesse dragged his body, which was almost tossed apart by the "novice driver", and yelled at the caterpillar.
Zhang Le exerted all his skills, used white light to remove toxins and decaying cells, and used some wild fruits to make some juice to heal wounds, and it took more than an hour to completely complete the treatment work. Sure enough, Yiduo is not pressing, if it weren't for the experience of being a doctor in Rock Town, I really don't know how to deal with such a complex trauma.
The caterpillar who had healed the wound regained the image of a muscle caterpillar, and followed Zhang Le and Jesse to the edge of the railroad tracks in a state of despair. Relatively speaking, Shangdao is still much safer, and there are no mutant creatures that threaten huge beings, Zhang Le has to admit this, and he no longer underestimates the efforts made by the Super Human Alliance for the safety of Shangdao.
Zhang Le cleaned up a relatively flat place and set up a tent. The caterpillar encircled one side, three bison encircled the other, and in the middle was a tent and a bonfire. Without Zhang Le's command, the caterpillar had already controlled the nearby insects and drove away the small mutated creatures near the trade road.
Closing the door of the tent, Zhang Le and Jesse lay down, but the two of them didn't have any energy to do anything, and in less than a minute, they all fell asleep.
As soon as it was dawn, Zhang Le woke up first. It was the caterpillar that took the initiative to wake him up: "A human is coming." ”
Zhang Le came out of the tent and heard the sound of shouting dozens of meters away. It was a caravan going south, quite a few people, twenty or so people, both white and black, black in the majority, and the vehicles were all rickshaws, probably a combination of several small caravans. When these people saw the huge caterpillar and the bison, they did not dare to come, as if they were discussing countermeasures, and they might have been waiting for the patrol officers to come.
When Zhang Le, a human, walked out of the pile of animals, the caravan on the opposite side let out a cheer. Zhang Le looked at himself curiously, looked at the other side again, and always felt that this caravan was a little neurotic, unlike a normal team of field merchants.
Soon, a middle-aged, short, fat white man wearing glasses walked over, and he slowly moved towards Zhang Le while carefully looking at the caterpillar and posing as if he was running away at any time.
"Excuse me, dear sir, can we go this way?" Humpty Dumpty asked cautiously.
"This is the business of the alliance, anyone can go, don't have to ask me. However, I have a question, where are you from? Zhang Le is particularly curious about this question now.
"We are residents of a nearby town, and we want to send this shipment to the town in the south, and we all know that this track is very safe, so we often use this track, and we also know that this is an exclusive road for the organization, so we rush early in the morning every time. I haven't met anyone resting on the road before, so ......" Humpty Dumpty babbled for a while, and Zhang Le understood.
These people are actually scattered human gathering points, and more importantly, these people are not only simple to survive, but also have trade with nearby gathering points, which is obviously not too bad. And judging from the looks of these people, they are all normal human looks, and it seems that human beings are stronger than they imagined.
"Okay, since you're in a hurry, you can go over first, and I'll accompany you for a while." Humpty Dumpty thanked him for his kindness, and thought that the group of people in the distance shouted something that Zhang Le didn't understand, and those people pushed and pulled the cart over the railroad tracks.
Leaning closer, Zhang Le found three special points, the first point is that these people are all ordinary people, but they are relatively strong.
The second point is that in Zhang Le's induction field, the vitality of these people's brains is very high, and just now Zhang Le also discovered the special features of Humpty Dumpty's brain, but he didn't expect a group of people to be like this, which is a bit strange. The vitality of the brain proves that the brain may be very intelligent, it may be very numeracy, or maybe there are other differences, the human brain is the most evolved part of the human body, and no one has fully understood it. These fluctuations in vitality are very similar to, but not exactly, the fluctuations in the physical vitality of the mutants of the Super Human Alliance.
Thirdly, these people are very rude, laughing and laughing at themselves, saying things they don't understand, and not greeting themselves.
"Could it be that these people are mutated with brains? But judging by their appearance and demeanor, these people don't seem to have become more intelligent and smart? Zhang Lexin said.
Zhang Le greeted Jesse and told her that he was going to send the group on a journey.
When these men found out that there was actually a woman here, they immediately became in a commotion, and while walking, they enthusiastically communicated quickly in a language that Zhang Le did not understand. In Zhang Le's induction field, these people's brains became extremely active, and their vitality value was terrifyingly high, and Zhang Le was even worried that if he didn't control it again, these people's brains might explode.
The middle-aged Humpty Dumpty also seemed to have noticed that something was wrong, and shouted a long note at the group of overexcited guys: "Uh-huh......" This um-tail note is extremely long, and it took a minute and a half to stop, and even Zhang Le's brain became calm as water in this long tail.
Zhang Le pulled the Humpty Dumpty middle-aged white man to take a step back, lowered his voice and asked, "How do I feel that you are the only normal person, what is going on with these people?" Never seen a woman? ”
Humpty Dumpty's face was a little unnatural, and he smiled awkwardly: "You can also see that I am a normal person?" ”
"I thought you were normal, but when you asked, I didn't think it was normal again?" Zhang Le joked.
Humpty Dumpty's face changed, and he said in horror, "Could it be that I have also been deceived?" Impossible, impossible! After saying that, Humpty Dumpty quickly followed the gang, no longer bothered Zhang Le, and just ran away.
Zhang Le was bored, he was kind enough to give them away, but these people didn't appreciate it, what was the situation?