Xishu boundary.

Two C-class psionics from Deep Sea Base City walked all the way.

And as they walked, they saw countless things that surprised them.

The closer you get to the interior of Xishu, the higher the temperature.

At the same time, the snow melts in many places, and streams and rivers slowly converge.

The ground has green shoots of grass with shallow sharp corners, as well as saplings that have regrown from the roots of trees that have frozen to death in the nuclear winter.

At this moment, everything in Xishu is recovering.

Along the way, looking at the grass tips and small saplings that slowly regrew around him, Lu Yinglun was already amazed.

"Where is this nuclear winter, at best, this is the scene of the cold winter passing and spring."

"Yes, to be able to cause this kind of scene, it must be the result of the long-term maintenance of powerful mutated creatures that can change the heavens."

He Tiesheng squatted beside the stream, and at the same time took a sip of water in his hand.

"We guess it's not far from our destination, so let's pay more attention anyway." Lu Yinglun looked around and reminded.

"Hmm."

"I'll take a look around."

With that, He Tiesheng stood up and jumped on the top of the branch of a dry tree more than six meters high with a slight leap.

Looking into the distance, there is a green 'grassland' all around.

To the east of their present position was a hilly hill that obstructed the view, and to the west, south, and north was an open plain.

Looking into the distance, soon when He Tiesheng looked south, a ruin appeared a few kilometers away in the distance.

Looking at the outline, it should be the ruins of a city abandoned by humans in the last days.

After watching carefully for a while, He Tiesheng jumped off the tree.

"How?" Lu Yinglun asked.

"There's an abandoned city to the south, let's go and take a look, and we won't find anything."

"Okay."

With that, the two of them trotted straight up.

And just as the two of them were heading towards the ruined county town, at this time, a bus from Qiucheng had stopped here half an hour earlier.

The people on the double-decker bus were all former natives of the city.

After settling down in Xishu, there are not a few 'trips' that return to their hometowns like this to find their past memories and mourn the deceased.

However, for the sake of completeness, at this stage this kind of activity is carried out only within a radius of 100 kilometers from the four cities.

This is a ritual that was established under the symbol of the humanization of the forest country.

Each bus will be equipped with two D-class peak psionic awakeners, and there will also be a C-rank guardian spirit beast in the sky to observe the surroundings.

There will only be five buses in each city every week, that is, only a small number of queues will be registered.

Inside the ruins of Lexian County.

Near a collapsed residential building, several Akishiro residents were kneeling here at this time.

In front of them there was burning paper and burning incense candles.

"Dad, Mom, my son is not filial, and my son has come back to see you."

At this time, a man in his thirties, kneeling in front of the ruins and weeping, kept holding the fire paper in his hand and slowly added it to the burning pile of fire paper.

"It's been six years, and my son not only didn't collect the corpse for you before, but he never came back to see you, my son is really unfilial,.......。"

The man was sobbing lowly, but as the memories went deeper, he couldn't hold back his howls anymore.

At this time, not only this man, but almost all the men and women in the vicinity were like this, and the sad atmosphere infected all the people around.

The worship sacrifice was gradual, and everyone gathered together for protection.

At this time, there were nearly 100 people nearby, including all men, women and children, looking at the few people who were crying heart-rending during the worship, many of the people around were rolling with tears in their eyes.

"Hey, I hope it won't happen again."

At this time, a short-haired soldier in charge of security in the outer part of the forest, Akishiro sighed.

"yes, it's terrible to see too much since I was transferred to take over this job." Another middle-aged soldier said.

"But fortunately, our forest country is now developing steadily and steadily, and with the support of the World Tree, I believe that sooner or later we will be able to regain our original living space in the true sense of the word."

"Yes, this is thanks to Lord World Tree, and also to our lovely guardian spirit beasts." The short-haired soldier laughed.

"Indeed."

Thinking of the jokes caused by the childlike personalities of the guardian spirit beasts over the years, both of them couldn't help but smile.

The guardian spirit beasts are very responsible, and at the same time, their hearts are much simpler than humans, so during the guardian work, the relationship between the guardian spirit beasts and the humans of the forest country is still full of fun.

At this time, the C-level spirit bird mutant sparrow, who was standing on the edge of the roof of a tall building and was looking at the worship position, was looking around with smart eyes.

"These humans are really strange enough, why are they so sad when their relatives have been dead for so long?"

The mutated red sparrow, which has a wingspan of more than four meters, obviously cannot understand the feelings and sensibilities of human beings, and although it has been in contact with humans for a long time and has learned a lot of human knowledge, the mutant sparrows that have not formed perceptual concepts have never been able to understand the feelings of human beings.

And just as the mutant sparrow kept looking at the crying crowd below, Lu Yinglun and He Tiesheng, who hurriedly hid in a ruined house from the west, were quietly watching this scene.

Looking at the crowd, and looking at the bus on the side of the crowd, Lu Yinglun and He Tiesheng's expressions were slightly dignified.

"Sure enough."

"It seems that we are not far from this human gathering place in Xishu." Lu Yinglun said in a low voice.

"Hmm."

He Tiesheng nodded cautiously, and at the same time, through observation, he found two soldiers of the Forest Country wearing silver and blue uniforms, each carrying an automatic rifle and a sword behind their backs.

Of course, he also saw several weeping humans on one side of the crowd who were sacrificing the dead.

Looking at the scene in front of him, He Tiesheng couldn't help but think of his parents, wife and daughter in his hometown.

However, He Tiesheng has no way of knowing their current situation.

And most likely, they are all gone.

Thinking of all this, He Tiesheng's expression kept changing, and the sadness on his face was undoubtedly revealed.

Looking at the sadness on He Tiesheng's face that appeared in the distance, Lu Yinglun didn't know how to comfort him.

Because his situation is similar to He Tiesheng.

As soldiers, as warriors who protect the people, they have always suppressed this emotion.

But after all, they are human beings, not machines without emotions, so at this time, the mood and mood of the two of them looking at the crying people are inevitably affected.

"Perhaps the gathering forces that exist in Xishu are ruling more clearly than we imagined."

He Tiesheng looked at the crowd with a wistful expression, and muttered in a low voice.

Hearing He Tiesheng's exclamation and muttering, Lu Yinglun on the side couldn't help but nodded.

Just from the scene in front of me, you can already see a lot of problems.

The humans who appeared in front of him obviously would not be relatives of high-ranking personnel in Xishu, which was the case in terms of clothing and protection.

However, in terms of the strength of protection, it is obvious that the other party can do this degree of humanity.

At least, from the faces of these people, Lu Yinglun can see that these people are not short of food and clothing.

Retracting his emotions slightly, Lu Yinglun looked at the mutated red sparrow on the top of the building in front of him and said in a low voice: "Although the bird upstairs is different from the red birds we saw a few years ago, judging from the color of its feathers, it may be a subordinate of the unknown mutated creature." ”

He Tiesheng retracted his gaze, and at the same time nodded after a moment of silence: "Well, in short, for now, this force is definitely the force where humans and beasts coexist, and the only one who can do this is the force to which the unknown mutant creature we saw a few years ago belongs." ”

"How? Go straight to it, or just wait? ”

He Tiesheng looked at Lu Yinglun.

Lu Yinglun pondered for a moment.

"Go straight ahead."

"It's easy to misunderstand if we're caught peeping here, and no matter what kind of force the other side is, I don't think our safety will be a big problem based on what we've seen so far."

"After all, we don't have any malicious intentions ourselves, as long as we understand things, I think we shouldn't be embarrassed."

Lu Yinglun chose a bolder approach.

To be honest, based on what he has seen after entering Xishu so far, Lu Yinglun is almost 100% sure that the forces that exist in Xishu now are made by that unknown creature back then.

Knowing this, then thinking back to the previous contact with the other party, Lu Yinglun definitely better for the two of them to be more open, after all, it is not what it was then.

And with the other party's current pro-people sacrifice measures, Lu Yinglun felt that maybe the hope of mankind really needed to rely on the other party.

However, He Tiesheng shook his head slightly: "I don't think it's appropriate, although it seems that everything is clear at the moment, but after all, the exploration mission of our trip cannot be missed, I think we should observe it again?" ”

"Uh..."

Lu Yinglun was slightly stunned, but immediately smiled.

"That's right, maybe everything I saw along the way made me nervous a little relaxed, so listen to you this time, let's observe it again."

And just when the two discussed and confirmed, the sharp gaze of the red sparrow, which was originally on top of the tall building, suddenly froze.

Because it found the corner of the clothes accidentally exposed by the window in the ruined building where Lu Yinglun and the two were located.

The red sparrow, which clawed at the edge of the building, flew up the next moment.

"Whoop!"

Accompanied by a somewhat bizarre birdsong, everyone below suddenly looked up at the mutant sparrow.

And Lu Yinglun and He Tiesheng's faces changed suddenly at this time.

"Now it seems that we can't continue to observe, and others can find us."

Glancing at the mutant sparrow outside the window that was swooping here, Lu Yinglun shrugged with a smile.

"Well, it seems that we have to be honest and straightforward."

“.......。”

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