"There's a severed hand in this room, so it can't be another severed hand on the other side, right?"

"Maybe there's a poor creature there's a dismembered corpse hiding there. ”

The two pretended to be relaxed and teased each other, and at the same time, Erica raised her hand cannon at the room over there, squinted her eyes, and pressed the trigger with her fingers, and the barrel-shaped muzzle suddenly spewed out a cloud of highly compressed air.

Boom ——!

The air cannon was like a rippling balloon of water, leaving a turbulent wind along the way, pouring straight into the open door on the opposite side. Then the whole room seemed to burst from within, and the shockwave sprayed out through the door like a flood, blowing dust everywhere.

Bang——!

The Beholder and Erica were also hit by the gray shockwave, as if they were really submerged in the flood, and their feet flew upside down three or four meters from the ground before falling to the ground. At this time, the long-term targeted training helped them again, and the two of them landed on the ground and rolled over for a while, and immediately jumped up after unloading their strength.

"Is it over?"

The Eye Demon covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and slowly approached the opposite room with the high-temperature dissolving pistol in both hands.

"If it's similar to the monster before, then it's definitely dead now. ”

Erica replied in an uncertain tone, following her teammates step by step, guarding against the blind spots behind her, and slowly approached the smoky room.

"I'll go first, your highness. ”

The Eye Demon entered the room first, and due to the backlight of an air cannon, it was filled with smoke and only a faint outline could be seen. A thin stream of fire poured in, becoming the only light in the room. Although they had been mentally prepared for a long time, when they stepped in, they were still affected by terrible emotions. The invisible pressure is like a poisonous gas, permeating this small space.

Tick ——!

A drop of cold liquid suddenly dripped from the top of her head onto the Eye Demon's neck, and she hurriedly wiped it, but she felt that the liquid on her hand was sticky and slippery. Even if you don't deliberately sniff it, you can still smell a pungent smell of blood.

Bang——!

Without thinking, the Eye Demon raised his gun and fired, and a dark red ray flew out, releasing thousands of degrees of heat when it hit the ceiling, burning all the furnishings on the top of the room.

“......”

Then she looked up, her pupils dilated, reflecting a fat face full of bloated sarcoma.

Erica saw that she suddenly raised her gun to shoot, and then the whole person froze there as if she had suffered a huge blow, and suddenly panicked in her heart, and shouted anxiously:

"Lilith, what's going on?"

"It's okay, solved a disgusting monster. ”

The Eye Demon came to his senses and shot at the ceiling again, before he re-mounted his weapon and groped his way into the dimly lit room.

"Be careful. ”

Erica relaxed a little, and followed her into the room, looking up to see a scorched face that took up the entire ceiling, the outline of which was as disgusting as a rotten giant, and the Eye Demon had scorched it and had a facelift.

She swallowed, glanced at the strange face above her in fear, and raised her torch and waved it twice. After making sure that the other party was completely finished, he put down the torch and kept up with the slow movement of the Eye Demon.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Erica instinctively turned her head and her instinct told her that something was standing behind her at the moment. However, the field of vision was still those dim outlines, and there was only the sound of the wind in the ears, and it didn't seem to change.

One by one, one by one

The two of them walked around the ominous room, and when they walked to the bed, they faintly felt an unprecedented depression, and had a premonition that something bad was about to happen.

“......”

“......”

The Eye Demon and Erica looked at each other, raising their guns as they prepared to shoot, when suddenly the sound of fingernails scratching the planks echoed faintly in the silent villa, and the chilling sound came from behind them.

"Something, by sure!"

Erica's whole body began to tremble inexplicably, and her instincts told her that something terrible was happening behind her, and if she turned back now, she would probably be killed by cutting her throat.

The Eye Demon also felt that something was wrong, she always felt that her shadow was moving, but in reality she was not moving at all now.

What the hell is going on?

She frowned, raised her pistol slightly to the side, and through the smooth silver body, she could see that her shadow was slowly growing. Under the gaze of the Eye Demon, a strange shadow appeared beside her, and it was constantly wriggling, and soon it coincided with her own shadow.

"It's another one! Didn't the air cannon kill as powerful?"

Her heart sank, and the muscles of her whole body tensed.

The Eye Demon knew very well at this time that the other party was just waiting for an opportunity, waiting for himself to reveal his flaws and then waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack. At this time, I happened to see Erica's expression, and the moment the two met their eyes, they immediately understood the message they wanted to convey to each other.

“......”

The Eye Demon held his breath and turned backwards like lightning, followed by a blur in his vision. With the chill coming to his face, something sharp suddenly slashed his throat, and the heart-eating fear suddenly covered his whole body.

Quack ——!

The laughter in my ears was like a fingernail scraping across a blackboard, and it was frighteningly sharp.

Boom ——!

The laughter came to an abrupt end, a powerful air current whistled by, and the room was once again covered in the roar of artillery.

"Whew...... Whew......"

Erica narrowed her beautiful eyes, panting and holding her cannon, the muzzle of the cannon pointed at the air in front of the Eye Demon, as if she had lost her strength - only she knew how dangerous it was just now, and if she slowed down or fast, her companions would die at the hands of monsters.

"You're doing well, you're fine...... It's all right. ”

The Eye Demon who lived for the rest of her life after the catastrophe didn't see the situation clearly at all, but was not as nervous as her companions, but comforted her softly.

"Are you alright?"

Erica shook her head dejectedly, a bitter smile curled up at the corner of her lips, and her eyes fell on the bed beside her.

The Eye Demon followed her line of sight, and there were more than a dozen bloody corpses stuffed under the bed, some of them were highly decomposed, and some of them were just beginning to show corpse spots. Moreover, the clothing and equipment of these people are obviously out of place in this world, and they are very close to the qualified ones in appearance. One of the corpses even had a polymer cutting dagger on it, which was the same model as the Dagger of the Beholder.

"Is that why we haven't been able to find a teammate?" Erica saw this scene, hanging her hands weakly, and her emotions were a little broken.

"Calm down, the Iron Hand Knights, they won't die so easily!You and I are far inferior to the Iron Hands, haven't you survived until now?" explained the Eye Demon in a tone that he couldn't even believe.

"You're right...... We can't just give up......"

Erica regained her composure by raising her hand cannon and tapping her head, and when her eyes returned to the corpses, she suddenly found a newspaper in the arms of one of the corpses.

"Look, there's a newspaper in the corpse's arms!" she pointed out at once.

In this case, there is also the mood to carry a newspaper, which certainly will not be for the sake of reading the news. Whatever the reason, at least in the eyes of the deceased, this newspaper must have been quite important.

The Eye Demon apparently understood this as well, and immediately held back the stench and picked the dead man's arm open with a stick. Then he reached out and pinched the corner of the newspaper and pulled it out of the arms of the highly decomposed corpse.

The two of them spread out the newspaper and looked at it, and they were immediately surprised and happy, happy to finally see their teammates, and surprised that they actually appeared in the newspaper. The newspaper was headlined, "Incredible Extreme Sports," and on the right side was a black-and-white photograph of Evan performing a handstand on a lightning rod in a 60-story building.

"What's going on!?"

After Erica read the contents of the newspaper carefully, she only felt that her consciousness was sucked into a huge bottomless whirlpool, sinking deeper and deeper in a whirlwind.

"This is the clue that the captain left us! Do you remember the password?"

The Eye Demon quickly read what Evan and the others said in the interview, and broke it down and reorganized them one by one according to the way they knew it by heart, and soon understood what the three of them really wanted to reveal:

"Walk through the spiral pillar of light emitted by the lighthouse, that's the way to the past!"

"Walk through the spiral pillar of light emitted by the lighthouse, that's the way to the past?"

Erica chewed on this sentence silently, and quickly remembered the lighthouse standing on the mountain peak, and then her mind suddenly brightened - it seemed that the lighthouse did shine, but she just missed it last time.

"Whatever the 'past' means, it's definitely a place to reunite with them!" she almost jumped with excitement.

“......”

However, at this moment, the Eye Demon seemed to realize something, and his body shook slightly, and he turned his head to look at the highly decomposed corpse. Two lines of cold tears had already crossed his face, dripping silently to the ground.

One by one, one by one

Unknown Town, Day 3.

The three of Ivan walked side by side on a quiet forest path, surrounded by mottled shadows of trees, and some unknown birds were chasing the sun, quiet and peaceful. The air was filled with the faint scent of flowers, but no one was in the mood to enjoy the tranquility of the moment.

Because the entire town, including the indigenous and the qualified, is facing a sudden catastrophe.

Yesterday's rainstorm caused more damage than just killing a group of people. The rainwater mixed with the river wells and even further polluted the groundwater, completely destroying the city's water supply.

Water accounts for about 70% of the composition of the human body, and the average daily water consumed by the human body (through the respiratory tract, urine, skin, etc.) is about 2,500 ml. In addition to 300 ml of oxidizable raw water for the metabolism of substances in the body, at least 2200 ml should be supplemented from the diet every day to achieve balance.

A person can go days without food, but never for days without drinking water.

And now the whole town has fallen into chaos due to the lack of water, even if it can barely be supplied for a while with pure water and other beverages, but the natural thirst for water still makes most people panic.

If the natives are just chaotic and panicked, then the qualified are already going crazy. They just started stockpiling supplies, and they were still two-thirds away from the safe value, but the water source was cut off, which was a deliberate difficulty!

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that if there is a shortage of materials in the future, this improvised patchwork organization will definitely fall into internal friction. It's scary enough to turn into monsters in the rain, and it's even more terrifying that humans can't trust each other yet.

One-one-one-one

If you don't have water, you die......

Although this sentence is a simple statement of facts, it still gives Ivan a deeper understanding of life, and that nature only needs to make small changes to cause mass extinctions.

Life is too fragile.

It is no wonder that even the most virtuous emperors are willing to believe the nonsense of Fang Shi when faced with the question of life and death. In fact, how can those nonsense deceive them, it's just that they are subconsciously willing to believe that there is an immortal art in the world.

Even when Ivan walks on the vibrant forest path, he can still smell the smell of death. Because everything here is temporary, and in the future it will either become a monster or wither and wither.

If the first few trials made him brave to challenge dangers, then this trial is to make him realize the insignificance of life.

It was also from this moment that Evan suddenly envied those apostles very much—they transcended the fragile life forms, the life cycle of metabolism, and even the constraints of time, and became immortal witnesses of history.

"Captain, what are you thinking?" the seal said to him as he looked pensive, breaking the peace of the forest.

"Nothing. ”

He immediately suppressed his thoughts and looked around: "It's just a simple thought, but instead of these, we should care about our task of finding a water source." ”

"The rain is coming from west to east, so of course, the mountains in the east will be able to hold back the rain. In other words, if there is a water source here, there is a high chance that it will be clean and pollution-free. ”

The white bear narrowed his eyes and scanned the surroundings seriously: "I have a special sense, the iron hand is extremely sensitive to changes in the dryness and humidity of the air, if anyone can find a water source, it can only be the two of us." ”

"Hey, hey, hey, and me!" the seal was unhappy that he had been ignored.

"Your job is to heal me. ”

Evan patted him on the shoulder, pointed to the surrounding woods and said, "Pay close attention to the plants on the ground, if there is anything that can be used in medicine, remember to take it away, and heal the injury a day earlier, and our ability to resist risks will be stronger." ”

"You're talking about herbology, I'm sorry, I used to be a medic and I don't use herbs on the battlefield. The seal looked at him with a helpless expression, and then complained:

"Even if I know herbalism, do you dare to drink the medicine that comes out, and you're not afraid of becoming a monster?"

"If you can find me, you dare to drink it!"

Evan gave him a blank look, then closed his eyes, carefully discerning the humidity and dryness in the air. Faintly aware of a stream of water vapor, he followed the direction of the vapor transmission and walked towards the depths of the mountain.