The night is like water, *xshuotxt/com

A group of mutated insects the size of a fist like fireflies hide in the hazy mist, moving as the mist moves, and the light on their bodies flickers and fades, attracting countless light-seeking flying insects to approach.

But as much as they attracted food, they also attracted the attention of predators, a colorful creature resembling a toad, quietly hiding in the shadows of the woods, its purple eyes like light bulbs staring closely at the glowing mist, cold and greedy.

Just as it was about to try, a rapid, slight sound came from a distance.

At first, the voice was still very weak, if there was nothing, but it was just a breath, it seemed to be close to the ear, the "toad" body trembled slightly, quickly shrunk into the shadows, and at the same time the limbs moved quickly, and soon buried most of the body into the soil, leaving only the layers of multicolored pus on the back, constantly bulging and contracting.

As soon as the "toad" had done all this, the fog was stirred up by the agitated air, and all the "fireflies" scattered in all directions, and faintly, a vague figure flickered by.

The sound of hurried footsteps grew softer and softer as the figure moved away, and soon it was no longer heard.

Five minutes later, the "toad" crawled out of the mud puddle, carefully watching the surroundings, as if sensing that the terrible monster was far away, it tilted its neck slightly, and walked slowly into the distance in four directions, looking like a king patrolling his territory.

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Luo Yuan set off in the evening, when it was completely dark.

He didn't know how far he was from his goal, only that he had already climbed over three mountains, crossed five streams, and crossed the territory of seven powerful mutant beasts that even Luo Yuan had to be careful to avoid, and only time could roughly deduce how far he had run.

However, it was meaningless to deduce the distance, the steepness of the mountain peaks and the complexity of the road were far beyond his previous imagination, maybe the distance in a straight line was only a hundred kilometers, but the specific distance needed to run five or six hundred kilometers, and sometimes he had to take a detour when passing through some powerful mutant beast territory for safety or to avoid trouble.

Catalpa means that he needs to run more and spend longer.

What's more serious is that the direction he is moving forward is only his own visual observation, even after nightfall, using the constellations in the night sky instead of the direction coordinates, not to deviate, it is only a general direction, and errors are inevitable!

The so-called miss is a thousand miles, the short distance is fine, maybe the error is not large, but the farther the distance, the gap will be sharply enlarged, and even in the end, it may deviate by hundreds of kilometers, which is not impossible.

What's more, he didn't know where the giant bird's nest was, and the only clue was those huge cobblestones, but this clue was too rough, once the nest was not nearby, then the only thing he could do was to wait there, waiting for the rabbit, which took a lot of time and energy, and the success rate was extremely low.

Luo Yuan already had some bad premonitions in his heart.

He quickened his pace, and a few minutes later, he stopped at the top of one of the highest peaks nearby.

He gasped violently, looked down at his watch, and saw that he had been running unconsciously for almost three hours.

Even with his physique, it was already a bit difficult to run down for such a long time.

A few minutes later, when he was breathing a little, he rolled over and jumped onto a boulder near his left, looking into the distance to observe the terrain.

His eyes glow in the dark with a faint feline-like glow, and his powerful shimmering vision, even at night, is almost indistinguishable from day!

"Huh!" At this time, Luo Yuan's expression was slightly surprised.

He found that dozens of kilometers ahead, there seemed to be a huge lake, the surface of the lake reflected the sparkling light in the moonlight, and this direction was the place he was about to go.

There was a hint of joy on his face, maybe the goose soft stone came from there!

He had also encountered several streams on his previous journey, which had been washed over countless years, and there were not a lot of soft stones there, but they were either of the wrong size or color and material.

The goose soft stones thrown by the giant bird, each weighing about four or five tons, were all white in color, similar to limestone, and similar goose soft stones had basically not been seen in the streams encountered before.

He was shaken, no? Ready to rest, his legs bent slightly, and the next moment his legs suddenly exerted force, and he jumped up directly from the boulder, the hillside was steep, the slope was close to seventy degrees, this jump, let him jump directly into the air, and quickly fell with gravity.

There are big trees everywhere below, the branches are intertwined, forming a huge network, and when he is about to crash into the branches, his body stagnates out of thin air, and there is a temporary stagnation, and the next moment, he struggles to step on a bowl thick branch under him, under the huge momentum, the branches only make contact, and they immediately collapse, and the figure has already used the force of this recoil to jump into the air again.

He jumped over a distance of more than 100 meters, and after a dozen repeated jumps, he had already landed at the foot of the mountain.

In the past three days, his curse has long been broken by his own will, not only has he recovered as before, but his will has faintly advanced under the tempering of the curse, and at the same time, the use of his will has become more free, completely reaching the point where his heart moves at will!

Although this kind of progress is not large, and it is not reflected in the data of the system, it can be regarded as an unexpected joy, and the will has reached his level, and every step is extremely difficult, requiring a lot of time and special opportunities, unless valuable attribute points are exchanged.

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After running for nearly half an hour, Luo Yuan's speed gradually slowed down.

It is estimated that the reason why the water source is nearby, the density of mutant beasts here is extremely high, and most of them are powerful, not to mention the abounding of light green-level mutant beasts, but they can also be seen from time to time, and there are even some more powerful existences, hidden in them.

The struggle here is extremely fierce, and the oozing screams have never stopped since Luo Yuan entered this area, so that there is a strong smell of blood here all the time, which makes people faintly disgusting.

On the way, he even saw with his own eyes that the two behemoths seemed to come out of mythology, biting each other, colliding, and fighting fiercely, causing the entire ground to shake slightly, and countless trees collapsed one after another under the impact, and viscous blood almost stained the earth.

However, Luo Yuan didn't dare to take a closer look, the terrifying coercion emitted during the battle almost made him breathless, these two creatures, at least have a green level.

The drought has been going on for seven or eight days, and most of the streams along the way have dried up, or are close to dry, under the scorching heat, and some small insects and mutants can still survive on dew, but for those large mutants, not being able to find water means death.

Every day, there are countless powerful mutant beasts, following the water vapor in the air, rushing here, for water and territory, inevitably fighting with the "natives" here, using fangs and claws to decide who is the overlord here, and then continue to meet the next wave of challengers.

The battles here are so fierce and frequent, that Luo Yuan feels that the ground all the way is sticky, which makes people feel creepy and a little shocked, this is simply a killing field for mutant beasts, and the weak and the strong are vividly embodied.

No wonder, along the way, there are not many powerful creatures encountered, and it turns out that most of them have arrived here.

Due to the shield of the "Green Hidden Man's Horn", he barely emitted any aura from his body, and sometimes had to pass under the noses of various powerful mutated creatures, without attracting the attention of any powerful creatures.

After all, even if you see Luo Yuan, in the eyes of those mutated creatures, human beings are too small, and that "little bit" of meat is estimated to not even be enough to feed hunger, and it can't arouse much interest.

However, Luo Yuan didn't dare to be careless, he was cautious all the way, even if he was now vulnerable to the light green-level creatures, he tried to avoid them, in this place full of powerful mutant beasts, he tried to avoid fighting as much as possible.

Frightened all the way, after walking for nearly an hour, he finally saw a lake, this lake is very large, maybe because of the fog, Luo Yuan can't see the edge at a glance.

At this time, countless mutant beasts gathered on the beach and were queuing up to drink water.

However, what surprised Luo Yuan was that the atmosphere here seemed quiet and serene, although killings also happened from time to time, but they were not frequent, and they seemed to be maintaining restraint, most of the creatures silently turned around and left after drinking the water, and the woods before, as if they were two worlds.

At this time, a light green-level mutant beast that had been injured in the battle roared all the way and forcibly squeezed away the low-level mutant beast in front of it, and walked tremblingly to the surface of the lake.

Blood trickled down the injured thigh, quickly staining the nearby lake red.

As if attracted by the blood, the lake gradually rippled slightly, perhaps because it was too thirsty, or maybe it didn't care at all, just glanced at the restless water, and lowered its head and gulped down the water.

Some of the mutant beasts behind it retreated, away from here, but it remained unaware.

Suddenly, the upheaval happened, the lake water was violently agitated, and almost at the same time, countless strange fish about several meters long similar to sea snakes and seemed to be earthworms, like a rain of swords, pierced the water surface, and went to the wound of the mutant beast.

These creatures, extremely fast, completely surpass the ability of ordinary people to capture their vision. In just an instant, Luo Yuan had already seen no less than a dozen strange fish burrowing into the wound.

The strange fish was too small for the mutant beast, and it was burrowed into the wound that was already in sharp pain, and the abnormality of its body was not very obvious, and it did not feel that something was wrong until a few seconds passed, and it raised its head uneasily.

But it was too late, during this time, Luo Yuan saw hundreds of strange fish burrowing into its body, and desperately drilled inside, a few seconds later, a bulge gradually appeared on the surface of the skin, swimming around quickly, making people's scalp tingle.

The mutant beast began to roar wildly, and the strong sound waves seemed to turn into substance, making the water surface seem to boil, and the water splashed violently. However, these strange fish, apparently have extremely strong vitality, and they have returned to normal with just a slight pause.

Even taking advantage of the gaps opened by the other party, dozens of strange fish shot into its open mouth, nostrils, ears, and anywhere it could get into.

There are more strange fish, densely packed into a shadow, wandering towards here.

At this time, it finally remembered to escape, but it was too late, and before it took a step, it felt a sense of weakness, its body shook a few times, and its huge body fell heavily into the water, splashing a huge wave.

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