Volume 2 The Return of the Stars Chapter 52 The Elements

"What's that?"

Jiang Luo clung to the broken walls of the building, gasping in horror.

Just now, a black shadow more than ten meters long and four or five meters wide suddenly came out of the ground, and the soldiers on the truck decisively pulled Jiang Luo to abandon the car and flee.

It was a huge gray monster, I saw it spit out some liquid at the truck, and after touching the truck, it made a sizzling sound, it should be some kind of strong acidic liquid, and the most frightening thing is that the liquid not only corroded the metal surface, the whole truck was like burning plastic, and in just a few minutes, it melted into a nest of iron.

If it weren't for their timely evacuation, the fate could have been imagined. Luckily, the monster didn't chase them after killing the truck, but instead burrowed back into the hole where they came.

It was a pitch-black fissure six meters wide, bottomless, and the entire road was cut off and impassable.

"Whew! Fortunately, I met a burrowing worm, which is already a great luck in misfortune! The captain of this team sighed.

Jiang Luo felt that after he came out of Lake City, the world outside seemed to have changed, becoming strange and bizarre, and the people outside seemed to be strange, only he didn't know anything.

Indeed, after he woke up, he learned some information through the captain. It's still 18 years now, and he hasn't traveled to the future or any day in the past, and everything he has experienced in Lake City is illusory. But according to the captain's account, after Lake City lost contact with the Blood Moon Incident, the large army stationed there also disappeared into the light curtain. Now no one except Jiang Luo knows what is going on inside, and the expedition team sent out by Jinling two months ago has also lost contact, and they are here for this.

The expedition to gather information was dispatched two months ago! What Jiang Luo saw at the edge of Lake City was also a phantom, and the old Fu who looked exactly like the madman was already dead before Jiang Lu entered Lake City!

The voice in his consciousness kept reminding him to get out of Lake City, which was no longer part of human territory. Jiang Lu couldn't explain to this group of people why they couldn't turn back to Lake City, and now that they were all right, the way back and the car were gone.

"Have you ever seen a monster like this?"

"Well, we don't know where it came from, but we know a little bit about it. It only attacks the first target it catches, so it's perfectly safe for us to abandon the car, it only attacks the truck, it doesn't come after us. The captain explained.

"This kind of monster, a lot?" What's wrong with the outside world, Jiang Luo feels like a mountain man who has just been electrified.

"I don't know about other places, but on the outskirts of Jinling, there are indeed quite a few. At first, it caused us a lot of damage, but now that we have figured out its habits, it will definitely not be able to break into the war zone. The captain said helplessly.

There was a serious sense of disconnection, but Jiang Luo knew that he should go to Jinling now, and the mysterious badge that suddenly appeared in his trouser pocket seemed to tell him that as long as he arrived in Jinling and found the mysterious organization, he could solve many mysteries.

"We can only go back to the last ruined city now to find a new car!"

It's more than 50 kilometers from Jinling, and walking back on foot is long and unsafe. According to the captain, after they brought back the dispatch team (the key is the information collected), these abandoned areas would soon be cleaned up from above, as for how to clean it up, he didn't say, but Jiang Luo could vaguely guess something, but it was hard to believe.

In just two months, it seems like the world has been turned upside down on the outside. A large number of people have disappeared or died in various disasters, or a huge infestation of bugs, such as Sioux City; Or the tide of alienated monsters and beasts, such as Yicheng around Lake City, the mutant dog that attacked Jiangluo before was from Yicheng. And the magic capital, it is said that it has now completely turned into a pitch-black primeval forest, with countless tall black strange trees all over the city, and I don't know what happened to those who didn't have time to escape. All in all, the whole land of China and the rest of the world were not having a good time, and after a short communication, it was learned that almost every region had suffered the same situation, and all kinds of strange and terrifying creatures had sprung up like mushrooms. The eerie Blood Moon seems to be just the beginning, and then a series of things are slowly breaking through the Earth.

In the end of the day, Jiang Luo had never felt that these two were so real. The rain of fire from the sky is not a sudden natural disaster, there are more catastrophes to come, and human beings are only now discovering their powerlessness and weakness.

The world will not return to its original state, and the earth will be shaped into a new shape under one disaster after another.

Walking along the scarred highway with seven soldiers, it was past ten o'clock in the morning, but the sky was still dark.

It was as if the blue sky had been completely torn apart, Jiang Luo could clearly see the stars in the sky when he looked up, but these stars seemed to be moving all the time, moving in a particular direction and position.

The captain said that after several days of thunderstorms, darkness has fallen on the earth again, and it has not cleared up until now. This darkness is not absolute blackness, it feels like someone is blocking the sun with a black cloth, so the sunlight becomes a black light, and what shines on the earth and is received by human beings is the pitch-black sky, but it is not the invisible darkness of the night, just a kind of dimness.

When resting, Jiang Luo would secretly absorb the free qi in the air, and from the outside, it looked like he was closing his eyes to recuperate. After Jiang Luo was rescued from under the zombie dog by the captain yesterday, the thunderstorm ended, and the strange thing is that the air in the air did not disappear with it.

Previously, Jiang Luo could only feel these special breaths under thunderstorms, but now there is almost a one-third chance of catching this kind of breath in the air.

"Hey, brother, what are you doing?" The captain handed Jiang Luo a compressed biscuit and a bottle of water.

Jiang Luo said thank you and asked the captain to call him when he left. In fact, Jiang Luo is now the most valuable person in the team, because he is equivalent to the information output of the entire expedition, and only he knows what is happening in Lake City.

The captain glanced at Jiang Luo, who continued to close his eyes and recuperate, and said with a smile: "Are you cultivating?" ”

"Cultivation?" Jiang Luo was taken aback, and then thought he was joking, so he explained: "I'm a little tired and want to rest." ”

The captain smiled: "Big brother, you don't come." I can feel the air around you, you're absorbing the elements, right? ”

"Elements? What is it? Jiang Luo felt that there seemed to be something extraordinary, and he didn't know anything about it.

"Elementals, that's the kind of thing you absorb. I don't know exactly what it is, but according to the scientists, it's something that didn't exist on Earth, something like an aura, right? I remember feeling it like I felt it after those thunderstorms......."

I also felt the breath called "elemental" during the thunderstorm in Lake City, could it be that this captain is also a mutant? The captain continued to ask, "What are your special abilities?" ”

The other party obviously knows much more than himself, and it seems that mutants are not uncommon in Jinling? Aren't you an outlier?

Thinking of this, Jiang Luo was a little relieved, according to the routine of general online articles, it should be like this, but he was not sure what his situation was, he clearly remembered that there was something in his heart that did not belong to him! And his mutation ability seems to be brought by it!

"I don't know, it's probably just a little faster....... "He didn't say anything about the recovery ability after all, because it might involve something in the body, but the reaction speed is not a special ability.

"That's it......" The captain thought that Jiang Luo was afraid of something, and refused to confess to himself, this is also normal, when he first appeared abnormal, he was also cautious, for fear of being treated as a monster and sent to the scientist's laboratory to be sliced.

"My ability is to perceive, and it's useless, but the perception of anomalies is much more sensitive than ordinary people." This also explains why the captain was able to quickly make them abandon the car and run away before, it turns out that before the monster worms broke through the ground and attacked them, the captain had already sensed the danger underground!

And it was his perceptual ability that allowed him to discover Jiang Luo's abnormality.

"But don't worry, the war zone has special treatment for us anomalies. There are not a few humans who are abnormal now, and as far as I know, there are at least a thousand! The captain comforted Jiang Luo.

After hearing the huge number of anomalies, Jiang Luo was even more relieved, but in the dark, he had a strange thought, does the appearance of anomalies mean the replacement of human civilization? Adepts replace technological weapons?

The captain also seemed to have guessed Jiang Luo's thoughts, and said, "I thought so at first, but then I found out that it was still too difficult to really apply the anomaly. It's okay for me to have this sensing ability, as long as I usually store enough elements, I can use this ability, but if I don't have the elements in my body, I can't use it, but at least I still have some use. Some are fire powers, and the fire generated by absorbing the elements can light a cigarette or something, which is useless at all. ”

In Jiang Luo's understanding, the breath called an element by scientists should be a substance similar to the aura in the online text, which originally did not exist on the earth, but because of special changes, it suddenly appeared on the earth. And there should be many different types of elements, not just one, because Jiang Luo's description of the elemental induction through the captain and the induction of other mutants are different, and the same element cannot cause so many people to have different anomalies.

But Jiang Luo himself knows how terrifying the abilities brought by that unknown meat cone are, which has simply turned him from a powerless scholar to a superhero in the Marvel world.

Could it be that the ability of those mutants is generally weak, is it due to the lack of quality and quantity of absorbed elements? Or is it the wrong way to use the elements? According to common sense, since it can be used, it should be enhanced. Jiang Luo understands this, those scientists can't think of it, so to give them special treatment for mutants, on the one hand, is for research, and on the other hand, they are also wait-and-see. Jiang Luo even suspected that there were already some anomalies that were as incredible as himself or even more incredible than himself! He remembered what the clown had said before, this world has its own many unknown things, and the anomaly seems to have existed from the beginning, but it is little known, and the arrival of the end seems to have turned this anomaly into the ordinary, and more anomalies appeared.

Jiang Luo touched the badge in his trouser pocket, he knew that this thing could explain a lot of his questions.