Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Radiation Zone
Earth, Southland.
At this time, Auston's heart was thinking about Iru was leisurely walking on a green mountain path, on both sides of the road grew unusually dense huge trees, the canopy of the trees was layered, completely covering the blazing sun, the breeze blew and sounded a pleasant rustle, the sun spilled on the ground through the gap between the leaves, and as far as the eye could see, the dark forest was illuminated by pillars of light, as if leading to a fairyland.
Iru was wearing a pair of plastic slippers, a pair of beach pants, and a floral shirt on his upper body, which looked like he was on vacation at the beach.
In fact, it is true, this is a small offshore island not far from the place where he was rescued by Mo Ran, and the clothes on his body were still given to him by Mu Yu. He turned to look behind him, and before he knew it, he was already halfway up the mountain, and he could still see a little sparkling sea in the distance, and if he listened closely, he could faintly hear the sound of the waves.
Not far away, on the slope of the mountain, about two or three hundred meters away from Iru, stood an old man, whose gray hair could no longer cover the top of his head, and his slightly thin and ericket body also showed that the owner of this body was no longer capable of the work of the mountain people.
The old man was carrying a pair of flat burdens, and Iru was still reminiscing about the word, and I have to say that even the lower civilizations had things to explore, their technology was backward, and their horizons were narrow, but they did give people a bright sense of surprise in the use of words, especially the thing called ancient poetry.
Iruho raised the straw hat in his hand, made a standard aristocratic salute to the old man, and then turned back and continued up the hillside, completely unconcerned about the worried look in the old man's eyes.
Just ten minutes ago, Iru had met the old man from the foot of the mountain, who was scolding at the branches of the trees above, and it took him a long time to find the little monkey hiding in the shade of the tree, and the monkey had a straw hat on his head.
The situation could not be more distinguishable, the mountain people who went up the mountain to collect herbs and fruits were accidentally stolen from their hats by the naughty monkeys, Iru looked funny, he stepped forward, and looked at the monkey's eyes flashed a blue light, the monkey who had been sitting on the tree and grinning his teeth below, suddenly fell silent, suddenly threw his hat down, and flew down the dense branches to climb into the distance, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Iru picked up the straw hat on the ground, dusted off the dust and grass clippings on it, and smiled at the old man: "Old man, a straw hat is just a straw hat, and it is not a big thing, so why be angry with a beast, if you anger it, it will not be worth the loss." ”
The old man of the mountain people patronized and scolded the monkey in the tree, and did not see Iru approaching, although it was strange how the monkey in the forest changed his temper today, and actually obediently returned the stolen things, but he did not expect that it would have something to do with this man.
The old man looked at Iru for a while before he spoke: "Ha, young man, you don't know, the monkeys in this forest, all of them are cowardly to death, and they only dare to sneak attack old men like me, if they are in the prime of life like you, they will not dare to do it." But these beasts are also very greedy, they have to tell you that they admit their bad luck and leave without saying a word, they will think that you are a bully, this way must follow behind and wait for the opportunity to start, more and more bold, I carry two baskets of medicinal materials, if you don't scare it, this road will not be peaceful, there is no way. ”
Iru looked down and saw that the two boxes in front of the old man were neatly stacked with all kinds of medicinal herbs, with mud at the roots and dew on the leaves, each of which was connected by roots and leaves, and was not damaged at all.
Iru talked to the old man with great interest while accompanying him down the mountain, and when he encountered an uneven road, he reached out to take the other party's flat burden, and the content of the conversation was everything from daily life to federal policy, but unfortunately the other party was just an ordinary mountain citizen, and he was really not a qualified intelligence provider.
Halfway through, the two expected Iru, Iru didn't answer positively, only said that he was bored and wanted to go to the top of the mountain to see the scenery, who knew that as soon as these words came out, the face of the old man who had always been pleasant changed greatly.
"Young man, this is not good, you can take a walk near the foot of the mountain at will, although there are many animals in this forest, they are all herbivore, and there will be no danger, but you must not go to the top of the mountain!"
Without waiting for Iru to ask, the old man explained to himself, but as soon as he heard it, he knew that nine out of ten of these words were rumors.
What a secret military experimental base, an abandoned mine full of deadly radiation, the old man even told a lot of terrifying legends about mountain people and tourists who disappeared after straying into the dense forest, in short, in his mouth, the top of the mountain has become a forbidden place in the vicinity.
The old man's mouth was dry and his throat was on fire, and the young man in front of him didn't seem to listen to a word, still smiling.
"It's okay, I'm just going up and walking, I'll come down right away when I'm in danger, after all, I haven't lived enough."
This was the last conversation between the two before they parted, and it wasn't until Iru waved goodbye to him that the old man realized that he hadn't taken his straw hat back......
Iru continued his slow progress up the hill, and he even had time to stop and take a closer look at the plants on the side of the road, and the occasional flash of squirrels between the branches would allow him to stop and watch for a long time.
It may seem counterintuitive that the woods get higher up, and although there is more light at higher altitudes, the rain will take away a lot of soil, leaving a sparse breeding ground for vegetation, but this is obviously not the case.
The road under your feet began to blur, which means that few people have been to the upward, after all, this kind of undeveloped place is based on people stepping on the way out, and plastic slippers are obviously not suitable mountaineering equipment.
However, Iru apparently didn't care at all, he simply took off his slippers and carried them in his hands, walking barefoot in the untouched primeval jungle.
There was no way to keep going, and many times Iru had to use his hands and feet to make his way forward, pulling on drooping vines or dry branches.
Finally, in this completely pristine landscape, man-made objects appeared.
It was a stretch of barbed wire.
It was covered with metal plaques with various warnings and patterns, and even if Iru didn't use the "heart net" to look up information and translate, he could understand the meaning of these metal plaques.
After all, skulls don't mean banquets and playgrounds.
In addition to the skulls, there are also some metal plaques depicted with a circular pattern, a smaller circle in the middle, surrounded by three evenly distributed fans, with a yellow background and a black pattern, which is very conspicuous.
The glint in Iru's eyes flickered again, and he couldn't help but laugh.
He stroked the barbed wire green rattan and muttered to himself, "Radiation? Acting also requires a lot of homework, how can there be such a dense jungle in the radiation area? ”
He looked behind the barbed wire, where the tallest trees disappeared and were replaced by a thick vine that not only covered the ground like pythons, but also completely enveloped a "hill" in the distance, even if it was nothing more than an immobile plant, it also gave a strong visual impact and psychological suggestion against the dim light.
But Iru is no ordinary person.
He looked at the wrapped "hill" with great interest, although most of it was wrapped in vines, but if he looked closely at the little part that was exposed, he could still detect traces of man-made objects.
It is an abandoned three-story building.
"Hmm... It's still a bit of a thing. Iru nodded, threw the plastic slippers over the barbed wire, and pushed his hands on the barbed wire, and flipped over.