Chapter 172: Sea Level

Under Zhou Yicheng's repeated reprimands, the soldiers reluctantly sat back in place, but they were still staring at the cauldron, and their eyes radiated a green light.

Zhou Yicheng's old face was a little swollen, and he said, "These rabbit cubs ......"

Luo Yuan smiled: "It seems that you are indeed hungry, but let's wait a little longer, there is still food to cook, and everyone can also take advantage of this time to tidy up." ”

Zhou Yicheng quickly understood what Luo Yuan meant, looked at the images of the other party, and then looked at himself and the others. It's a beggar rolling in a mud puddle, not to mention the stench that still exudes from his body, and even if it were him, he wouldn't be able to eat with such a person.

Next, boil water and take a bath without mentioning!

During this period, Chen Xianfeng came back again, threw down the two small mutant beasts, and shrank in the corner, with a pair of fierce eyes, secretly looking at this qiē, but except for those vigilant soldiers, no one paid attention to him, after all, it was like this every day, and he was used to it.

Luo Yuan said before that there is rice, and there is indeed rice, of course, not rice or flour or anything.

This pre-apocalyptic food is now almost gone, either consumed or rotting in the corners.

Luo Yuan said that this is a mutant plant, and I don't know what kind of plant it is, but no one cares, it looks like a basketball-sized ball, wrapped in a layer of hard shell and thick and dense roots, in fact, this state is still in the juvenile stage, and when it grows to a certain stage, this shell will crack, and it only takes overnight to quickly grow into a small tree more than five meters tall.

Survival of the fittest, which is an evolutionary miracle produced by plants in a hostile environment for the continuation of the race.

It can make a tree more than five meters tall grow overnight, so such a round ball contains a lot of coagulated starch, vitamins and various trace elements, but the basketball-sized ball weighs about fifteen kilograms, excluding the shell, one is enough for Luo Yuan and others to eat for five or six days, if it is not deteriorating, it can even be eaten for a week.

In addition, the taste is also good, the entrance is smooth and sticky, and it tastes fragrant, so it was stored in large quantities by Luo Yuan as soon as it was discovered. But unfortunately, this kind of thing is very rare, and it is difficult to find, he searched for many, but only found twelve.

The meal was quickly prepared, and the next eating scene could only be described as unbearable to witness, if it weren't for the limited amount, Luo Yuan doubted that these people would survive to death, in just a few minutes, not only rice or meat, or the soup in the pot, there was nothing left, even if it was a wounded, the combat effectiveness was not bad at all.

He only ate one bowl of rice at noon, and looking at Luo Yuan's depressed expression, several women snickered.

As soon as these people finished eating, their faces began to turn red and smoke as if they were drunk, followed by yawning and drowsiness. This is the effect of high-level food, their body is in deficit, and their body has already been in an emergency, if it were not for the support of their will, they may have already collapsed, and high-level food, for their already exhausted body, is just like a long drought and rain, and the effect of the medicine will be exerted all of a sudden, and it is extremely violent.

Zhou Yicheng and others didn't know why, they just thought that they and others had been lacking sleep for a long time, and as soon as they relaxed, they were sleepy, and there were a few soldiers, who had just finished eating, and they were sitting on the table while sitting, and they were already asleep.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Luo Yuan asked people to vacate two tents and arrange for the soldiers to rest, while he himself took a food brick and walked out of the subway station.

There was a long whistle, the ground shook, and the monitor lizard soon appeared in front of Luo Yuan.

He threw the brick, and the monitor lizard seemed to be slightly stunned, but the next moment, it suddenly jumped, stretched its neck, and caught the brick accurately, and didn't chew it, it swallowed it directly, it looked quite excited, and its head kept rubbing Luo Yuan's chest, pushing Luo Yuan backwards again and again.

Luo Yuan showed a smile, quickly jumped on the monitor lizard, and under his guidance, the monitor lizard ran wildly into the distance.

While eating bricks is precious, time is obviously even more precious.

The task requirement is one week, and the time is not relaxed, although the road is only one hundred and ten kilometers, not to mention that these soldiers still need to recuperate, the two giant beasts also need time to recover, and the monitor lizard is a little better, and has a certain combat effectiveness, although it is not as good as the period of total victory, but it also has six or seven percent strength. But Lao Huang is still seriously injured, and he is still trembling when he walks, with such an injury, at least for two or three days, I am afraid that he will not be able to travel far.

Coupled with the risks along the way, unpredictable circumstances, and any delay, the mission may fail.

On the other hand, if the strength of the two giant beasts is stronger, the risk will be reduced by one point, and the safer it will be, of course he knows this kind of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I can't say, all the food bricks can't be saved this time.

However, I have to mention that after this period of time has been fed with food bricks, the loyalty of the monitor lizard has exploded, and it has reached an unprecedented 85, although these are illusory and may change at any time, but the monitor lizard has been much more well-behaved during this time, but it is true.

The monitor lizard galloped all the way, and there were no mutant beasts that threatened it in this city, it could run wildly as much as it wanted, rampage all the way, roaring again and again, instinctively swearing the sovereignty here, until it was slapped a few times by Luo Yuan, and then closed its mouth aggrievedly.

The fortifications of the sea-crossing bridge are thirty or forty kilometers away from the center of Jiaping, but under the wild galloping of the monitor lizard, after ten minutes, it is already in sight.

At this time, Luo Yuan felt that the speed of the monitor lizard gradually slowed down, and his steps seemed a little hesitant.

Luo Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then became vigilant.

Only then did he notice that when he arrived here, he clearly felt that the wind was strong, the air had a damp and salty smell, faintly with a hint of fish, the ground seemed to be a little damp, and there seemed to be traces of water in some places.

"Water trails!"

Luo Yuan's heart sank, there has been no rain recently, how can there be traces of water?

He patted the monitor lizard, and the monitor lizard quickly stopped.

Luo Yuan turned over and went down, the cement floor was full of mud and gravel, and if you looked closely, there seemed to be a layer of white-gray solid on the surface.

"It's sea salt!" He licked slightly.

He walked slowly, and as time went on, his face became more and more ugly, and in the distance some shell-like creatures gradually appeared, some of which were large and some of which were small, as large as a house, and as small as a fingernail, and some of which were bright and smooth as jade, and some of which were inconspicuous and shaped like rocks, not only in the highways, but also in the nearby fields and woods.

As we move forward, there are more and more of these marine creatures.

Suddenly, there was a sound of "rubbing" and "rubbing" near the highway, and three huge crabs the size of a water tank and with a hideous shape rushed out from the corner and rushed towards Luo Yuan, eight limbs like steel sickles were quickly staggered, dancing into a group of afterimages, it traveled extremely fast, just one breath, these crabs rushed to Luo Yuan.

Before Luo Yuan could draw his knife, a gust of wind blew behind him, and a behemoth suddenly jumped high from behind Luo Yuan, and the next moment it pounced heavily on the path that several crabs had to pass.

These crabs obviously have limited intelligence, and they didn't even look around and started attacking, and it was too late to react.

As soon as it landed, the monitor lizard opened its mouth and bit one of the crabs into its mouth, and the upper and lower jaws were gently closed, and the hard crab shell was crushed by the bite, and then the shell and meat were swallowed in one bite. The other two saw that the momentum was not right, and they tried to escape, but they were held down by the front paws of the monitor lizard, and the huge difference in weight made this crab have no chance to struggle at all, and it was directly crushed.

Finally, as it was about to run off the highway, the monitor lizard raised its head, opened its mouth, and shook its throat, and the next moment, a slender flame suddenly erupted like a missile.

There was a loud "boom", flames splashed, a mushroom cloud rose, and a big hole suddenly appeared in the ground, the fire was blazing, and the poor crab was already crushed to pieces, and the corpse was gone.

Although the monitor lizard was good, Luo Yuan's brows furrowed.

has always been inseparable from monitor lizards, and he has long had a general understanding of monitor lizards' behavior.

A few crabs that are just light blue to blue levels, if the monitor lizard uses an ordinary attack, it is okay, but the flame attack is the least commonly used attack of the monitor lizard, because the attack power is strong, so the consumption is also large, it can't be used a few times at all, every time it is used, it takes a few days to recover, it is not a big enemy, and it will never be used lightly.

This is so abnormal!

It seems to be a little agitated, so it seems to be extremely irritable and irritable. The only explanation for this behavior is that there is something unsettling ahead for the monitor lizard!

Luo Yuan patted the monitor lizard on the back, calmed it for a while, and finally let the monitor lizard stay in place.

The strength of the monitor lizard has not yet fully recovered, at best it is only the strength of the ordinary dark blue level, and it is useless. If there is a real problem, it will startle the snake.

Luo Yuan retracted his breath, quickened his pace, and ran forward.

His movements are light and fast, with a peculiar sense of rhythm, like a smart cheetah.

From time to time, he avoided the harmless-looking shells and strange creatures.

The mutated shells are no longer in the pre-apocalyptic state of being slaughtered, they are not slow to act, and with their armor-like defenses, they are very tricky to deal with, and some of them have unique methods, one of which will spew corrosive acid.

Others, the shells on their backs are just a disguise, and there is a greater danger hidden in them.

Luo Yuan saw with his own eyes that one of the shells suddenly lifted up its heavy shell, and a colorful and poisonous sea snake drilled out.

Although these things are not a threat to Luo Yuan, they are not willing to delay time for this, and more is better than less.

The further you go, the stronger the wind becomes, and the sound of the tide becomes more pronounced.

His face became more and more ugly, if I remember correctly, there was no tidal sound here a few days ago, and the few saltwater lakes under the bridge could not have set up a tidal wave, and the humidity was far less noticeable.

The ground began to pothole, small pools appeared from time to time, and mutated seaweed was everywhere.

Ten minutes later, he finally walked to the fortifications, he glanced at it and breathed a sigh of relief. The foundation of this fortification is high, and the water is obviously not poured into it, otherwise, the weapons inside are probably useless, and it will be fine.

He didn't just walk in, but kept running.

A few minutes later, he finally stood on the edge of the sea-crossing bridge, which was even more severely damaged than a few days ago, and the entire part of the sea was almost shattered, except for a few lonely piers that were still standing tenaciously, but the scene in front of him made him completely ignore this.

It's an ocean, almost endless.

The scene on the other side of the shore looked confused and twisted under the steaming of the water vapor, like a mirage, this bay that had been dry a few days ago was now full of sea water and the waves were raging.

At this time, a huge whirlpool suddenly appeared in front of him, and then, an indescribable huge shadow quietly crossed the water, revealing a row of beautiful bone spurs, and the water surface was agitated, stirring up a huge splash, making a loud noise.

He subconsciously took a few steps back, and when he came back to his senses, the giant beast in the sea had disappeared without a trace, and he touched his forehead, which was already full of sweat.

Although it was only a glimpse, the oppressive breath still made his heart beat violently and palpitate.

He didn't dare to approach any longer, and hundreds of meters back, he held on to the metal bridge, and couldn't help but look under the bridge with curiosity. At this time, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, if I remember correctly, this place should have been a large area of saline land before, but now it has not only become the sea, but the sea is less than three meters from the bridge level. Luo Yuan estimated it and was shocked to find that the entire coastline had advanced back by seven or eight kilometers.

Even a few villages and restaurants in memory were flooded by the sea.

You must know that before the end of the world, this bay was in a dry state for most of the time, and only a few months during the flood season will there be seawater, but it is only a shallow layer of cover, and it is impossible to achieve the current situation.

What's more, according to the date, the flood season has not fully started yet, how can this situation occur?

Don't?

At this time, Luo Yuan suddenly remembered something, and his face changed drastically.

"Sea level, it's sea level rising, damn it!" Luo Yuan muttered.

Global change, climate warming, first affecting living things, then the glaciers of the Arctic and Antarctica, after such a long period of melting, the entire sea level has probably risen by more than one meter or two meters, and over time, it will rise further until the glaciers and air temperatures form a new equilibrium.

Rising sea levels will inevitably have extremely severe consequences, and a large number of coastal areas will be submerged by the sea and become part of the ocean. The average altitude of Jiangnan Province is five to six meters, which is still counting the mountainous and hilly areas, and if it is a plain, it will be even lower. In a few years, the entire Jiangnan Province may become an ocean and a series of scattered islands.

And Hucheng is an alluvial plain, the altitude is lower, the average is four meters, except for Dajin Mountain, most of the area is less than four meters, I am afraid that it will not be long before it exists.