Chapter 140: The Bridge Across the Sea
This tree is not big, seven or eight meters high, no more than half a meter thick, bare, very developed. What caught Luo Yuan's attention was that the bark of the tree was smooth and ruddy, like human skin, giving people an extremely strange feeling.
Although he didn't feel any danger, he remained cautious, and he pressed the hilt of his sword, and his whole body loomed in impossibility.
However, until Luo Yuan approached, this strange big tree showed no signs of moving.
"It seems that although this tree has been affected by nuclear radiation, it is still an ordinary big tree!"
Luo Yuan thought to himself, his expression relaxed, he jumped a branch, jumped lightly on the spot, and when he jumped into the air, suddenly the sword flashed, and the branch fell.
At this time, Luo Yuan felt the big tree, as if he felt a sharp pain, and his body trembled obviously, but then he regained his calm.
Luo Yuan jumped down and looked at it carefully for a while.
The big tree was motionless, like a normal plant, and if it weren't for the falling branch still twisting and twisting like a snake, it would have really been tricked by it.
This is actually very normal, the nature of the creature is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, although Luo Yuan did not show his strength, but the aura he exuded, compared to a dark blue-level creature, a tree with a strength of no more than a light blue level, unless he is looking for death, how can he provoke such a humanoid mutant beast, if it perceives stronger, I am afraid that there is a genuine dark blue-level monitor lizard nearby, which is already the overlord-level existence among most mutant creatures.
This is also the reason why Luo Yuan has been extremely quiet all the way, otherwise no matter how rare the creatures in the Radiant Land are, they will not spend all the way without danger.
"I didn't expect plants to have the skill of playing dead!" Luo Yuan secretly said in his heart, he looked at it for a while, and he didn't want to make a difference, so he let it go.
As soon as he picked up the branch, the branch was stimulated and wanted to wrap around the back of his hand, Luo Yuan snorted coldly, shook it hard, and the branch suddenly spasmed like a cervical vertebrae. Luo Yuan performed an identification technique, and the information in his mind couldn't help but make his eyes light up.
"Branches of the Radiant Tree;"
"Rarity: Light Blue;"
"Weight: 3kg."
"Additional Ability: Absorbs Radiation;"
"Evaluation: Radiation trees generally live in areas of nuclear radiation, high concentration of radiation, so that trees have undergone adaptive evolution, they feed on radiation, and occasionally eat mutated organisms, it is extremely aggressive, but its sap is the best raw material for anti-radiation agents, mostly used for medical treatment."
Now that everyone was exposed to radiation, Luo Yuan didn't dare to hesitate and quickly returned.
"This branch can't be poisonous." Master Wang looked at the branch that was still twitching, and said with a disgusted expression.
"Don't worry, it's not poisonous, I'll squeeze it into juice later, and everyone will be fine if you drink it." Luo Yuan said.
"It's so scary, you don't want plants to move." Cao Lin said with some fear.
"Hehe, this thing should be the most popular among women." Huo Dong couldn't control his mouth, and said a meat joke.
Several men laughed in understanding, and even Luo Yuan laughed.
Not only did Huang Jiahui and Cao Lin, who had experienced this kind of battle, blush, but even girls like Wang Shishi blushed. Huang Jiahui glared at him fiercely: "You are not allowed to make such jokes in the future!" ”
The other women also didn't give her a good face.
Huo Dong closed his mouth in mockery, he couldn't afford to offend this group of women, and apologized again and again.
Next, Luo Yuan took the branch, asked Huang Jiahui to take out a few wooden bowls, and twisted the branch with both hands like squeezing a sheet, and soon squeezed out a large bowl of red blood-like juice, and then everyone drank a small bowl, even Luo Yuan was worried that his physique could not withstand nuclear radiation, so he also drank a bowl.
The sap is not unpleasant as imagined, there is a hint of sweetness in the bitterness, and there is a fragrance of herbs and trees.
The effect was immediate, Wang Xiaguang's spirit quickly improved a lot, and those with milder symptoms were even better.
In order to avoid the incomplete expulsion of nuclear radiation in his body, Luo Yuan went to cut a few branches back, put them in the package, and then climbed on the monitor lizard and quickly left the place.
Because of the existence of the nuclear radiation area, several people walked dozens of kilometers more than the wrong road, but the monitor lizard is huge, it can take four or five distances with each step, and its agility is as high as fifteen points, even if it is just walking in the dense jungle, the speed can reach twenty or thirty meters per second, which is still the reason why Luo Yuan is worried that if it is too fast, everyone will fall and let it slow down.
So despite a long detour, by two o'clock in the afternoon, we were back on the highway.
It is already dozens of kilometers away from the area of the Tianzhu Tree, and the road surface has not been damaged.
Everyone walked onto the highway and looked behind them, a volcano several hundred meters high was already standing in the distance, the crater was still emitting thick smoke, there were no buildings in a radius of more than ten kilometers nearby, and all the areas were covered by solidified volcanic rock.
It even includes half of Hedong City.
The vicissitudes of life, the extinction of living things, the greatness of nature, in any language to describe it seems to be weak.
Everyone was shocked in their hearts, and they couldn't come back to their senses for a long time.
"Will it erupt again?" Huang Jiahui looked at the thick smoke like a pillar of smoke and suddenly asked.
"It's an active volcano, but after venting this time, if you want to erupt again, I'm afraid it will take a long time, but maybe it's not surprising that it will erupt in the next moment." Luo Yuan said.
"If the volcano erupts again, wouldn't Hedong City be dangerous, in addition to the survivors, there are still hundreds of thousands of people living in the underground base." Huang Jiahui said, her face a little pale.
"Sister Huang, life and death depend on fate, we can't protect ourselves, what are we doing so much?" Cao Lin said that when she mentioned the underground base, she was a little resistant in her heart, she was going to go to the underground base, but she was crowded without even seeing the gate, and she didn't have a good impression of the people in the underground base.
Not only Cao Lin, but others also looked unimpressed.
"My daughter could be in there!" Huang Jiahui was silent for a while, and said with a gloomy face: "I thought she would be safe, but I didn't expect that even the underground base was not insured." ”
Her ex-husband is the leader of the armed police squadron, and he is in a priority order, both as a guard and in his position. She let her daughter follow her ex-husband because it was safer for her.
The crowd looked silent.
Huo Dong's face flashed with a trace of sadness, his eight-year-old son was also squeezed out in the crowd, he had long lost much hope for this, with the chaotic scene at that time, such a young child had no hope of surviving at all, but sometimes he hoped that he could survive.
"In the last days, no one knows when they will die, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, we are the same, so don't think about it, at least now they are much safer than following us!" Luo Yuan hugged Huang Jiahui and said in a deep voice: "Your daughter will be fine, let's go!" ”
Huang Jiahui nodded, but still looked behind her from time to time, her face blank.
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After walking on the high speed, the monitor lizard's walking speed suddenly increased, and the attribute of high agility was brought into full play, and the speed directly reached hundreds of yards.
The surrounding scenery quickly receded backwards, and the wind was blowing in front of it.
Everyone clung to the blanket under them, their faces were nervous, and Master Wang grabbed Luo Yuan's arm tightly, for fear of being thrown out.
Before dark, we finally arrived at the sea-crossing bridge.
Luo Yuan stopped the monitor lizard, frowned and looked into the distance, his face was ugly: "Damn, you still can't go here, it seems that you can only make a detour." ”
I saw that the bridge that used to be as long as a dragon is now broken in many places and has become twisted and twisted. Thick steel cables hung messily on the viaduct, several huge cement slabs hung in the air, and even the huge stone piers, which were the pillars of the viaduct, were knocked out and lay in the tidal flats.
Now is the time of low tide, except for a few low-lying areas with seawater, the rest of the place has almost become an alluvial plain, looking down from the bridge across the sea, the bottom is already overgrown with sparse plants, if it takes a little longer, I am afraid that a sea of forests will form here.
And what made Luo Yuan's heart even heavier was that there were huge footprints on the tidal flats, even if he looked at them from a distance, he could feel the huge size of those footprints, which were obviously left by marine creatures.
However, these creatures must have left at low tide, at least he didn't see these huge creatures at a glance.
"If we take a detour, we can only take the provincial road, which is probably a few hundred kilometers more, and we have to pass through a forest, and I don't know if there is a road there." Huang Jiahui's face was ugly: "Can we walk over from below." ”
"The tidal flats are too soft, and I'm worried that I'll run into a swamp, and if I sink it, it will be dangerous." Luo Yuan hesitated, he was not afraid of anything else, he was afraid of running into a swamp, once he accidentally fell in, no matter how strong his computing power was, it would be useless.
"Don't think about it yet, it's getting dark, let's wait until tomorrow." Luo Yuan looked at the sky and continued.
Because the bridge spans the sea and is more dangerous than the land, the defense force here is far more severe than the highway in front, and on both sides of the entrance of the bridge, two symmetrical fortifications covering an area of thousands of square meters are arranged.
Three armored vehicles were parked rusty at the door, and when they entered, two MLRS were placed inside. More than three meters long, dense honeycomb-like rocket artillery are densely packed together, giving people a huge deterrent.
Coupled with the guns of more than a dozen machine guns on the fortifications, the firepower is powerful, and Luo Yuan guessed that even if he encountered the beast tide, he was afraid that it would be enough to resist.
Luo Yuan let the monitor lizard stop at the door and walked into the fortifications, the first floor was the control center, which was very messy, the ground was sprinkled with documents and cigarette butts, it seemed that the retreat here was in a hurry, and he noticed that on a desk, even personal items such as photo frames were not taken.
Luo Yuan turned the corner and pushed open an office, greeted by a rotting stench.
It seemed to be disturbed by Luo Yuan, and countless black beetles rushed to leave here in fear.
In front of the office, a white skeleton in a major's uniform was lying on his back on a seat, his skull had fallen to the ground, there was a circular hole in his temple, and a pistol had fallen from the place where his hand bones were hanging, apparently suicidal.
What seems to have happened here?