In southern Yunnan.

The armored car walked in the mud, which had almost collapsed, and drove very slowly.

After entering southern Yunnan, because the border had undergone a wave of cleaning, many deep pits had been formed, and the car could not pass at all.

But now the road is not easy to walk, many roads have been blocked, many vehicles have been crashed together, and you can still see blood all over the ground.

Fortunately, my hometown of southern Yunnan is also a remote area in China, and there are many old roads and mountain roads with little traffic to detour.

When passing through a mountain road, Gu Chaoge saw that there was a "Manzhu Shahua" in full bloom, blooming bright and weird.

Even, Gu Chaoge discovered that there were some prehistoric herbivorous beasts that were actually feeding on "Manzhu Shahua".

Those herbivorous beasts were far more powerful than those of the saber-toothed tiger, and he could feel that there was a more active vitality flowing in those beasts.

This discovery surprised him, could it be that this mysterious plant "Manju Sahua" has some kind of connection with the vitality?

Secondly, could it be that the "Manzhu Sawah" originally grew in the invisible dimensional space of the earth, and these herbivorous beasts have always been feeding on the "Manzhu Sawah"?

Gu Chaoge knew that the researchers who came out of the forbidden area base at that time, Sister Wang and the others who were alive, were now studying the "Manzhu Shahua" and some prehistoric beast corpses that suddenly appeared in Rongcheng.

Hopefully, they can draw some truth from it.

He passed through a city, which was once a famous tourist encounter in southern Yunnan, but now, the excitement of the past is gone, he looks far away from the high on the highway, holding a military telescope to observe, the ancient city and the new city are silent, there are dead corpses everywhere, and zombies invaded by corpse insects roaming the streets.

These dead people are all people who have not been able to escape after the end of the world, and there are no people who can wait for the army to rescue.

Some parts of the city have become habitats for wild beasts, and on the open-air rooftop of a certain bar, there are large eagles perched on the rooftop, nests have been built, and there are uneaten corpses.

The river that flowed through the ancient city had become a pool of blood, piled up with corpses, almost depleted, and used by some wild beasts as a place to store food.

Gu Chaoge couldn't bear to look at it anymore and drove away.

And on the way, he also saw some strange bugs flying all over the sky.

Obviously, the cleaning of the missiles has not completely eliminated these insects, and a small number of insects have survived, but they can no longer constitute a large-scale insect swarm.

Bugs rushed at the armored car, crackling and smashing against the bulletproof glass windows.

These insects are very tenacious and will not die easily, launching wave after wave of impacts, and in the end, even Gu Chaoge feels that the bulletproof windows can no longer withstand this kind of impact after another.

He had already planned to stop and find a way to clear the swarm with a heat weapon, but at this moment, the insects gave up again and flew into the sky in patches.

Is this a kind of unwarranted alertness?

Gu Chaoge hesitated, but he didn't think much about it, maybe it was just a coincidence.

Along the way, Gu Chaoge found no trace of Wang Bin and others, there are many mountain roads in southern Yunnan, and Wang Bin and others may have chosen a completely different road from him to detour.

When the car drove down the mountain road, Gu Chaoge was a little excited that could not be concealed.

It's not far from Nanzhao City.

He's finally back here.

In the past, it only took less than twelve hours to drive from Rongcheng to Nanzhao, but now the roads are too difficult to walk, and there are wild beasts blocking the road from time to time, and it took him more than twice as long to clear these "roadblocks".

Moreover, after entering the territory of southern Yunnan, the communication network failed again, and it had no effect except for being able to see the time.

There was an error or omission in the information on the Internet, and the missile did not clean Nanzhao City, but cleaned the mountains around Nanzhao.

At this moment, Gu Chaoge's car was parked in place and could not drive into Nanzhao City.

Because the road ahead was equivalent to being broken, it was deeply sunk, a pit several meters deep, and the car could not get out of it at all.

There is another way to go, but it is directly bypassing Nanzhao City and leading to the capital of southern Yunnan.

The provincial capital of southern Yunnan was the place where the army was assembled, and it was from there that the large army of southern Yunnan migrated to Zhaoxiong County, on the border of the two provinces.

Gu Chaoge got out of the car, planning to park the car in place and walk into the city to inspect it by himself.

He himself wanted to go back to Nanzhao City, although there was news that Shen Hui should have picked up his parents, but he was afraid that there was a 1 in 10,000 chance that his parents would stay in Nanzhao City forever.

He had to go in and make sure for himself, and he believed that if his parents were really picked up, even if they might not be needed, they would definitely leave him a message at home.

Because they knew that their son would come to them as long as he was alive, and they couldn't let his son worry.

In order to prevent the car from being destroyed by wild beasts, he also deliberately parked the car in seclusion and placed mines around it.

After doing all this, he was relieved to go to Nanzhao.

Gu Chaoge's speed of running was very fast, far exceeding the time when he had just stepped into the Crossing Netherworld, reaching a speed that ordinary humans could not achieve in their lifetime.

He himself felt incredible, if the realm continued to improve, one day, it was difficult for him to imagine that at that time, as long as he had enough stamina, he would not even have to drive the car, and his own speed would be comparable to the speed of the car.

He only ran for a few minutes to reach this distance of about five kilometers, and he didn't even breathe.

After entering Nanzhao City, Gu Chaoge felt surprised, although there were many dead bodies on the road, he didn't see any beasts nesting in the city, and he didn't even see a single zombie.

It's so strange, it's a completely different scene from the previous city.

He ran all the way to the Erhe River, there was something that made him frown even more, now the whole Erhe River seemed to stop flowing, and it was calm, but compared to before, the lake seemed to be darker, and even the shallow places on the shore could not see the aquatic plants.

Gu Chaoge's house is on the edge of the Erhe River.

When he came here, he felt a lot, remembering that he still had nearly ten years of outstanding mortgage payments, but now it seems that he should not have to pay it back......

This is probably the good news that comes to mind after the apocalypse......

He walked into the complex, where there was blood in the security room and broken windows.

Then, he looked up, and almost every building had most of the windows of the occupants with broken windows, and depending on the situation, basically the occupants with broken windows should have died as long as there were people at the time.

It was a scene that he was familiar with, and it was clear that it had been smashed by those strange bugs, and almost all of the dead died from the plague.

But then it occurred to him that if this was the case, it would be even more bizarre.

Because now he is in the city, and he doesn't even see a single bug......

Obviously, outside Nanzhao City, he was still attacked by those bugs, but in the place where the bugs attacked at the beginning, there was not even a single bug left?

He remembers that on the train, Wang Bin told him that the top brass planned to use a batch of ordinary missiles to clean the insect-plagued area, and Nanzhao City was among them.

But here, Nanzhao City has not undergone a cleansing, but the mountains and forests outside the city have been devastated.

He also thought that the news leaking out of the Internet was wrong, but it didn't seem to be, obviously Nanzhao City did suffer a great insect plague at the beginning.

But why did the missile purge take place outside Nanzhao City?

"Could it be ......" Gu Chaoge hesitated and muttered to himself: "Before the purge began, a large number of insects flew away from Nanzhao City and gathered in the nearby mountains and forests, so the location of the missile purge was temporarily changed to avoid a blow to the entire Nanzhao City......

He remembered that the swarm that had attacked him at that time flew away when it almost smashed the window glass, and then he went down the mountain road and saw Nanzhao City, which was surrounded by mountains.

"The swarm doesn't want to stay in Nanzhao City? Or is there something in Nanzhao City that makes the insect swarm feel afraid, so the insect swarm only collectively flew away from Nanzhao City at the beginning, and when I approached Nanzhao City just now, the insect swarm flew away immediately? ”

He thought of such a possibility, but he couldn't figure it out, and now there seemed to be nothing in the entire Nanzhao City, except for him, let alone the living, not even zombies.

If this idea is the truth, then what is the swarm of worms that can turn almost entire provinces into a dead and dead land fear?

For a moment, he couldn't think of an answer at all.

Walking into the building, he climbed all the way to the seventeenth floor, the elevator had stopped running, and the power supply system of the entire city should have been paralyzed.

He easily pulled out a spare key from the potted soil he had planted in the doorway and walked into the house.

The familiar smell came to the face, but the house was in shambles, many appliances were smashed and fell to the ground, shards of window glass were scattered all over the floor, and a breeze blew in, blowing the curtains high.

Gu Chaoge didn't have time to feel sorry for these household appliances, so he hurriedly walked into his house, which was also a mess, but he still didn't see a single insect.

In the same way, there was no news left by the parents.

He wasn't depressed, it was expected, and he planned to visit his parents' house again.

Gu Chaoge walked out of the room, looked at the living room and sighed, and walked to the balcony, the seventeenth floor is not high, but it is enough to see half of Nanzhao City on this side of the Erhe River.

"Don't leave ...... yesterday," he sighed.

Suddenly, his eyes rolled and his eyebrows raised, just now, he seemed to see that there was a sign of the flow of the Erhe River, or rather, in the Erhe River, which was now dark and invisible, something seemed to swim past.

At first, he thought he was wrong, because just now he ran all the way along the Erhe River, and the whole Erhe River was like dead, without the slightest ripple, as if it was a pool of water in a bathtub.

This is a strange thing in the first place, because in the past, although it was slow, it was obvious that the river was flowing, but now the river is darker and darker, as if it no longer flows.

But now, the Erhe River seems to flow for a moment.

He squinted his eyes and looked, now his eyesight is excellent, and sure enough, he is not wrong, and the Erhe River, which was originally as calm as a pool of stagnant water, has a faint wave and a layer of ripples.

There are no huge creatures in the Erhe River, only small fish and shrimp, which is almost a consensus.

And the creatures that can blur the surface of the water with a layer of ripples are definitely not small.

"What's ...... in the Erhe River?" Gu Chaoge frowned, staring straight at the Erhe River, wanting to see clearly.

But like a fleeting landscape, the Erhe River no longer moved, and returned to the state just now.

"Could it be that there is some kind of creature in the Erhe River that has come out of another dimensional space of the earth......?"

He thought of prehistoric whales, and many huge aquatic creatures.

But now I can't be sure of anything, so I can only go to my parents' house to find clues first.

Gu Chaoge's parents' house was in the lower reaches of the Erhe River, four or five kilometers away, but it was not far for him, and he soon ran there.

When he arrived here, it made Gu Chaoge feel emotional, because there was his alma mater here.

It's a pity that now, even the streets next to the school are stained with blood, and some students in school uniforms are dying on the road.

But there are relatively few dead people here, and only one or two corpses can be seen from a long distance.

To get to his parents' house, he needed to cross a bridge and walk to the other side of the Erhe River, and soon he saw the familiar bridge, the Black Dragon Bridge.

Heilong Bridge is the oldest bridge in Nanzhao City, which was originally a stone bridge and was later rebuilt into a reinforced concrete bridge.

When walking on the bridge, Gu Chaoge was suddenly stunned.

He actually saw the corpse of the insect on the Black Dragon Bridge!

He rushed over in a few steps and picked up the insect corpse directly.

The insect has a black shell with curled wings, about the thickness of a thumb and a few centimeters long, and looks a bit like a ladybug.

He looked around, there were a lot of insect corpses on the bridge, and it was dark little by little, almost covering most of the bridge.

"What's going on...... this?"

Could it be that this is the reason why the bugs are leaving Nanzhao City?

But how did these bugs die......

The worms' bodies appeared intact, as if they were flying, then died without warning, and then all fell to the bridge deck.

Suddenly, Gu Chaoge remembered a legend.

He can now be said to be extremely sensitive to ancient legends, and this legend is related to the Black Dragon Bridge.

Legend has it that in ancient times, a black dragon used to lie on the Er River, blocking the outlet of the seawater, causing the sea to rise and flood, flooding the villages and land along the river, causing the people to suffer terribly.

But later, a small yellow dragon defeated the black dragon in order to save the people in the flood, and the people built this bridge to suppress the black dragon under the Erhe River.

For this reason, the bridge is called the "Black Dragon Bridge".

Gu Chaoge swallowed his saliva, and his back suddenly felt a little cold.

He stood on the bridge, looking left and right at the river below the bridge.

He remembered the huge creatures he had just seen that seemed to be swimming at the bottom of the river.

Then, he thought of the "falling dragon incident" mentioned by Li Yu when he was in Xijing, as well as the blurry photos taken by someone on the Internet......

Could it be, the legend is true?

At the bottom of the Erhe River, there was once a black dragon......

Now, because the end is coming, or because the vibrations of the dimensions coincide......

It's reappeared?